| Rent Soundtrack, Cast Recording
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| Over The Moon (The Lot)
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| MARK
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| Maureen’s performance
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| MAUREEN (in front of a microphone)
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| Last night I had a dream. |
| I found myself in a desert called Cyberland
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| It was hot. |
| My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty
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| Out of the abyss walked a cow -- Elsie
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| I asked if she had anything to drink
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| She said, «I'm forbidden to produce milk
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| In Cyberland, we only drink Diet Coke.»
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| She said, «Only thing to do is jump over the moon»
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| «They've closed everything real down … like barns, troughs, and
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| Performance spaces …
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| And replaced it all with lies and rules and virtual life
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| But there is a way out …
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| BACKUPS
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| Leap of faith, leap of faith
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| Leap of faith, leap of faith
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| MAUREEN
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| «Only thing to do is jump over the moon»
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| I gotta get out of here! |
| It’s like I’m being tied
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| To the hood of a yellow rental truck, being packed
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| In with fertilizer and fuel oil, pushed over a cliff
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| By a suicidal Mickey Mouse! |
| -- I’ve gotta find a way
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| MAUREEN
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| «To jump over the moon
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| Only thing to do is jump over the moon»
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| BACKUPS
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| Leap of faith, etc
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| MAUREEN
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| Then a little bulldog entered. |
| His name (we have learned) was Benny
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| And although he once had principles
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| He abandoned them to live as a lap dog to a wealthy daughter of the
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| Revolution
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| «That's bull,» he said
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| «Ever since the cat took up the fiddle, that cow’s been jumpy
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| And the dish and the spoon were evicted from the table -- and eloped
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| She’s had trouble with that milk and the moon ever since
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| Maybe it’s a female thing
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| 'Cause who’d want to leave Cyberland anyway…
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| Walls ain’t so bad
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| The dish and the spoon for instance
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| They were down on their luck — knocked on my doghouse door
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| I said, «Not in my backyard, utensils! |
| Go back to China!»
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| «The only way out is up,» Elsie whispered to me
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| «A leap of faith. |
| Still thirsty?» |
| she asked
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| Parched. |
| «Have some milk.»
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| I lowered myself beneath her and held my mouth to her swollen udder
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| And sucked the sweetest milk I’d ever tasted.»
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| (MAUREEN makes a slurping, sucking sound.)
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| «Climb on board,» she said
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| And as a harvest moon rose over Cyberland
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| We reared back and sprang into a gallop
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| Leaping out of orbit!!!
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| I awoke singing
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| BACKUPS
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| Leap of faith, etc
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| MAUREEN
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| Only thing to do
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| Only thing to do is jump
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| Only thing to do is jump over the moon
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| Only thing to do is jump over the moon
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| Over the moon -- over the
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| Moooooooo
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| Moooooooo
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| Moooooooo
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| Moooooooo
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| Moo with me
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| (MAUREEN encourages the audience to moo with her. She says
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| «C'mon, sir, moo with me,» etc. The audience responds. |
| When the
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| «moos» reach a crescendo, she cuts them off with a big sweep of her
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| Arms.)
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| Thank you
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| (Blackout.)
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| Over The Moon (The Lot) |