Heathers The Musical:Genderbend Lyrics

Beautiful

[VINCENT:]
September 1st, 1989
Dear Diary:
I believe I'm a good person. You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but-here we are! First day of senior year!
And uh... I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself-what happened?

[KIDS:]
Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-eyes! Poser! Lard-ass!

[VINCENT:]
We were so tiny, happy and shiny
Playing tag and getting chased

[KIDS:]
Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus!

[VINCENT:]
Singing and clapping, laughing and napping
Baking cookies, eating paste

[KIDS:]
Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback!

[VINCENT:]
Then we got bigger, that was the trigger
Like the Huns invading Rome

Oh, Sorry!

Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school:
This is the Thunderdome

Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon

[KIDS:]
White trash!

[VINCENT:]
College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June!

But I know, I know, life can be beautiful
I pray, I pray for a better way
If we changed back then, we could change again
We can be beautiful...

[VINCENT:]
Just not today

Hey, are you okay?

[HIPSTER DORK:]
Get away, nerd

[VINCENT:]
Oh, okay

[KIDS:]
Freak! Slut! Cripple! Homo! Homo! Homo!

[VINCENT:]
Things will get better, soon as my letter
Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown
Wake from this coma, take my diploma
Then I can blow this town

Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés

[RACHEL:]
Watch it!

[VINCENT:]
Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze!

[RACHEL:]
Oops

[VINCENT:]
Rachek lSweeney. Third year as cheerleader and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge bitch

[RACHEL:]
What did you say to me, skank?

[VINCENT:]
Aah, nothing!

[VINCENT:] But I know, I know... [KIDS:] I know, I know...
[VINCENT:] Life can be beautiful [KIDS:] Beautiful
[VINCENT:] I pray, I pray [KIDS:] I pray, I pray
[VINCENT:] For a better way [KIDS:] For a better way
[VINCENT:] We were kind before; [KIDS:] Ooh...
[VINCENT:] We can be kind once more [KIDS:] Ooh...
[VINCENT:] We can be beautiful... [KIDS:] Ooh... Beautiful...