Beautiful lyrics

[VERONICA:]

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!

[VERONICA:]

We were so tiny, happy and shiny

Playing tag and getting chased

[KIDS:]

Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus!

[VERONICA:]

Singing and clapping, laughing and napping

Baking cookies, eating paste

[KIDS:]

Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback!

[VERONICA:]

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!

[VERONICA:]

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...

[VERONICA:]

Just not today

Hey, are you okay?

[HIPSTER DORK:]

Get away, nerd

[VERONICA:]

Oh, okay

[KIDS:]

Freak! Slut! Cripple! Homo! Homo! Homo!

[VERONICA:]

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

[RAM:]

Watch it!

[VERONICA:]

Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze!

[RAM:]

Ooooops

[VERONICA:]

Ram Sweeney. Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick

[RAM:]

What did you say to me, skank?

[VERONICA:]

Aah, nothing!

[VERONICA:] But I know, I know... [KIDS:] I know, I know...

[VERONICA:] Life can be beautiful [KIDS:] Beautiful

[VERONICA:] I pray, I pray [KIDS:] I pray, I pray

[VERONICA:] For a better way [KIDS:] For a better way

[VERONICA:] We were kind before; [KIDS:] Oooh...

[VERONICA:] We can be kind once more [KIDS:] Oooh...

[VERONICA:] We can be beautiful... [KIDS:] Oooh... Beautiful...

[VERONICA:]

Agh!... Hey Martha

[MARTHA:]

Hey

[VERONICA:]

Martha Dunnstock. My best friend since diapers

[MARTHA:]

We on for movie night?

[VERONICA:]

Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail

[MARTHA:]

I rented "The Princess Bride."

[VERONICA:]

Ho-ho-ho, again? Wait, don't you have it memorized by now?

[MARTHA:]

What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending

[KURT:]

Martha Dumptruck! Wide load! Honnnnnk!

[KURT:]

Hahaaa!

[VERONICA:]

Kurt Kelly. Quarterback. He is the smartest guy on the football team. Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf

[KURT:]

Haha! Alriiight!

[VERONICA:]

Hey! Pick that up! Right now!

[KURT:]

I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me?

[VERONICA:]

Yes, I am. I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend. You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. A future gas station attendant

[KURT:]

...You have a zit right there...

[VERONICA:]

Dear diary:

Why...

[HIPSTER DORK:]

Why do they hate me?

[REPUBLICAN GIRL:]

Why don't I fight back?

[KURT:]

Why do I act like such a creep?

[VERONICA:]

Why...

[MARTHA:]

Why won't he date me?

[RAM:]

Why did I hit him?

[STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING & BLOW-DRIED PREPPY:]

Why do I cry myself to sleep?

[VERONICA:]

Why...

[KIDS:]

Somebody hug me!

Somebody fix me!

Somebody save me!

[KIDS & VERONICA:]

Send me a sign, God!

Give me some hope, here!

Something to live for!

[KIDS:]

Ahh! Heather, Heather, and Heather!

[VERONICA:]

And then there's the Heathers. They float above it all

[KIDS:]

I love Heather, Heather, and Heather

[VERONICA:]

Heather McNamara, head cheerleader. Her dad is loaded—he sells engagement rings

[KIDS:]

I hate Heather, Heather, and Heather

[VERONICA:]

Heather Duke, runs the yearbook. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants

[KIDS:]

I want Heather, Heather, and Heather

[VERONICA:]

And Heather Chandler, the Almighty

She is a mythic bitch

[KIDS:]

I need Heather, Heather...

[VERONICA:]

They're solid Teflon—never bothered, never harassed

I would give anything to be like that

[KIDS:]

Mmmm...

[HIPSTER DORK:]

I'd like to be their boyfriend

[KIDS:]

That would be beautiful...

Mmmm...

[STONER CHICK:]

If I sat at their table, guys would notice me

[KIDS:]

So beautiful...

Ooooh...

[MARTHA:]

I'd like them to be nicer

[KIDS:]

That would be beautiful...

Ooooh...

[BELEAGUERED GEEK:]

I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse and leave her tied up for the rats

[HEATHER CHANDLER:]

Grow up, Heather. Bulimia is so '87.

[HEATHER MCNAMARA:]

Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather

[HEATHER DUKE:]

Yeah, Heather. Maybe I should

[MS. FLEMING:]

Ah, Heather and Heather

...and Heather. Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting. You're late for class

[HEATHER CHANDLER:]

Heather wasn't feeling well. We're helping her

[MS. FLEMING:]

Not without a hall pass, you're not. Week's detention

[VERONICA:]

Um, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. Yearbook committee

[MS. FLEMING:]

...I see you're all listed. Hurry up and get where you're going

[HEATHER CHANDLER:]

This is an excellent forgery. Who are you?

[VERONICA:]

Uh... Veronica Sawyer. I crave a boon

[HEATHER CHANDLER:]

What boon?

[VERONICA:]

Um. Let me sit at your table, at lunch. Just once. No talking necessary. If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone...

Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips, and absence notes

[HEATHER DUKE:]

How about prescriptions?

[HEATHER CHANDLER:]

Shut up, Heather

[HEATHER DUKE:]

Sorry, Heather

[HEATHER CHANDLER:]

For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure

[HEATHER MCNAMARA:]

And a symmetrical face. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. That's very important

[HEATHER DUKE:]

Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds

[HEATHER CHANDLER:]

And ya know, ya know, ya know?

This could be beautiful

Mascara, maybe some lip gloss

And we're on our way

Get this girl some blush;

And Heather, I need your brush

Let's make her beautiful

[HEATHER MCNAMARA:]

Let's make her beautiful...

[HEATHER DUKE:]

Let's make her beautiful...

[HEATHER CHANDLER:]

Make her beautiful...

Okay?

[VERONICA:]

Okay!

[KURT:]

Out of my way, geek!

[BELEAGUERED GEEK:]

I don't want trouble..

[RAM:]

You're gonna die at 3pm!

[REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL:]

Don't you dare touch me! Get away, pervert!

[BELEAGUERED GEEK:]

What did I ever do to them?

[KIDS:]

Who could survive this?

I can't escape this!

I think I'm dying!

[MS. FLEMING:]

Who's that with Heather?

[KIDS:]

Whoa

Heather, Heather, Heather...

[NEW WAVE GIRL:]

And someone!

[KIDS:]

Heather, Heather, Heather...

[GOWAN & COACH:]

And a babe!

[KIDS:]

Heather, Heather, Heather...

[MARTHA:]

Veronica?!

[KIDS:]

Veronica? Veronica? Veronica?!

[VERONICA:]

And you know, you know, you know

Life can be beautiful

([KIDS:] Aaahhh! Beautiful!)

You hope, you dream, you pray

And you get your way!

Ask me how it feels

([KIDS:] Beautiful!)

Lookin' like hell on wheels...

My God, it's beautiful!

([KIDS:] Aaahhh! Beautiful!)

I might be beautiful...

([KIDS:] Beautiful!)

And when you're beautiful...

It's a beautiful frickin' day!

[KIDS:]

Heather! Heather! Heather! Veronica!

Heather! Heather! Heather! Veronica!

Veronica! Veronica! Veronica!

Veronica!

• Artist:Heathers (Musical)