(Billie)You don't know who I am do you? Know me now? Yes! 'Tis l. 'Tis me. 'Tis she. Your
hostess for tonight Billie Tricks. And have I got a wonderful bag of tricks for you tonight.
Here in my night, Billie's night in this fabulous nightclub. Or if you're French-boite de nuit.
I made a movie once in Paris 'The Masturbation Of Race', I played Norway. My fjords were
stunning. Come with me my friends on a journey. And leave your inhibitions at the door. My night
is full of wonderful creatures. You will meet them all darlings and some of you will probably
have them. Why else would you be here? And of course tonight you 're in for an extra special
treat, oh yes. Because... We' re going to light up the night like fireworks. Flashing through
the sky like a satellite. A series of bangs, beautiful colours. Baby, tonight this is my night.
If you want to scream you can do it. Anything obscene you can do it. Put it to the test you can
do it. Mamma knows what's best you can do it. This is my night. Anything goes in fashion!
(Babes) This is my night (Billie) I'm in the throes of passion! (Babes) This is my night
(Billie) I planned it for me and you! (Babes) This is my night (Billie) And nothing is taboo!
(All) We're gonna light up the night like fireworks. Flashing through the sky like a satellite.
A series of bangs, beautiful colours. Baby, tonight this is my night. If you want to scream you
can do it. Anything obscene you can do it. Put it to the test you can do it. Mamma knows what's
best you can do it. This is my night. This is my night. This is my night. This is my night.
(Billie) Can you seethe colours? Can you sense the music? Look around you everybody. It's
beautiful. Everybody is so happy. I can see a sea horse. Oh come with me my friends on this
beautiful journey. Because I planned it for me and you and you and you and you. And nothing,
no, no, nothing is taboo!
2. Something special.
(Dave) What am I now? Another boy becoming man who wants to change, who's not afraid. I've had
to run from boring streets and bitter priests from smoking gun and stern parade. For when you're
living on your own, without a girlfriend or a home, people speculate but I'm much stronger than
them. I want to be something special. I want to be something special. Now I play the London
game. A hand to mouth existence. 'Til someone calls my name. I want it now. My chance has come
and I will grab it just to change the way I am. I understand the plans you make, the risks you
take, the way you can when you're a man. And if I sometimes have to do the things I've always
wanted to I won't shy away. Coz I'm much harder than that. I want to be something special. I
want to be something special. Now I play the London game. A hand to mouth existence. Til
someone calls my name. I want to be something special. I want to be something special.
3. Closer to Heaven.
(Shell) Give me hope. Give me all your love. Tell me now. My luck is in tonight. Is this real?
Can I learn to trust how I feel? Does darkness end in light? (Both) Never been closer to
Heaven. Never been closer to Heaven. (Dave) Suddenly, what was wrong seems right. Feels to
me I'm coming home tonight. I can't wait 'til we meet again. Is it fate?
Does darkness end in light? (Both) Never been closer to Heaven. Never been closer to Heaven.
4. In denial.
(Vie) In denial, no, my life's a trial. I'm not denying that every little bit hurts. It's a
problem that I'm not solving. Don't mind admitting I feel like quitting this job, for a while.
Getting away, before it gets any worse, today. (Shell) You're in denial.
And that is final. You're not admitting you should be quitting all this. Celebrating, it's
totally frustrating. I'm coming close to hating you and your whole attitude. To be crude, I'm
looking at you pissing your life away, day by day (Vie) Think I'm going mad. How d'you know if
you're going mad? (Shell) Look at me, I love you. (Vie) Look at me, I'm sad. I'm not denying, I
could betrying, a little harder, to deal with some of this stuff. (Shell) Know what I'm
thinking? Less drugs and drinking. No cigarettes and you'd feel a little less rough. (Vie) Is
that enough? My life is absurd, I'm living it upside down. Like a vampire, working at night,
sleeping all day. A dad with a girl who knows he's gay.
5. Call me old fashioned.
(Bob) I have to admit, I'm an absolute shit. At least you can't call me a hypocrite. I don't
want fame or the critics' acclaim. Take it from me that's a pointless game. I've got a minder,
chauffeur, a flunkey. I'm the organ grinder not the monkey. Call me old-fashioned. At least I
know what I like. Call me old-fashioned. If you're so wet, why don't you get on your bike? Call
me old-fashioned. At least I'm moving ahead. Call me old-fashioned. If I can't charm you, I'll
just strong-arm you to bed. The moment I see you with your trousers dropped will be as
rewarding as just having shopped all of the names that I've spent years collecting.
They're the only things that are worth respecting. Prada and Porsche and Philippe Starck,
the only little problem is where to park. Call me old-fashioned. You're all so quick to condemn.
Call me old-fashioned. Until you learn how much I earn and I spend. Call me old-fashioned.
And I've been called worse than muck. Call me old-fashioned. But understand, what I've got
planned won't be luck. 'Cos sex is fun and sex sells, honey. A shiny dream to make me money.
Where the sea is blue, the sky is sunny, love is hot and surprisingly old-fashioned. I'll make
love down the phone. Call me tomorrow. I'll give you breaks, I'll be as long as it takes to
your home. Call me old-fashioned. At least I'm moving ahead. Call me old-fashioned. If I can't
charm you, I'll just strong-arm you to bed. Where you can be old-fashioned with me.
6. Nine out of ten.
(Shell) This is great! (Dave) I'm straight! (Shell) Just great! I love the way you kiss, it's
bliss (Dave) How much bliss? (Shell) Will nine out of ten do? You used to be so shy. Now I
can't deny you satisfy. You're scoring high. Will nine out of ten do? (Dave) Leaves room for
improvement. (Shell) And how do I rate? (Dave) An eight! No wait. To score some more come on
explore. (Shell) Only an eight? (Dave) I'm one of those men who thinks he can surprise. (Shell)
So I realise when I close my eyes and feel your size. (Dave) Will nine out of ten do? (Shell)
Is that inches or centimetres? (Dave) Size isn't everything. Let's do it again and again. Until
we're scoring ten out of ten. (Shell) How does this compare with back then. Back when you used
to do it with men? (Dave) What men? (Shell) Did you never do it with men? (Dave) Don't you dare
go there to compare haven't you found boys fool around? (Shell) Oh so you don't deny it? (Dave)
Listen. I have spent months with you and loved each moment too. Just being with you has made me
new. (Shell) And just how new? (Dave) Will nine out of ten do? (Shell) I love you. (Dave) And
just how much. (Both) Will nine out of ten do?
7. It's just my little tribute to Caligula, darling!
(Billie) Do you like my new look? It's very classical don't you think? It's just my little
tribute to Caligula, darling! Haven't you seen the movie? It's a masterpiece. (Al!) that
history of sex. I love it. Caligula was a bastard like most important men. And over the years I've
known quite a few of them I wish I'd poisoned. As my little tribute to Caligula, darling! It's just
my little tribute to Caligula, darling! He was a Roman emperor which makes him almost certainly
bisexual, if not actually gay. But then so many men are that way inclined, don't you find? I
mean can you believe it, he's straight? It's just my little tribute to Caligula, darting!
Murder and mayhem in the eternal city. Poison and torture he knew no pity. Pain is always best
inflicted at home. Down in your dungeon lie back and think of Rome. It's just my little tribute
to Caligula, darling!
8. Hedonism
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9. Friendly fire
(Billie) An inspirational tirade against me, how to explain my life? Girls to the left of me,
boys to the right of me, neither husband nor wife. Though the days are filled with pain, there
is no-one who'll explain why I'm coming under friendly fire, shot in the fatal cause of
rock-and-roll. But there's no-one, really no-one, to say why I endure under force majeure,
slander without shame or tact. I who studied make-up, mime and Buddha who taught two
generations to react. About me the critics lied, I ignored them and survived, in spite of coming
under friendly fire, shot in the fatal cause of rock-and-roll. But there's nothing, really
nothing, to deny. When I look back my eyes are filled with tears, danger to mascara, applause to
my peers. When fame sustained me, arenas acclaimed me, I floated through life on a cloud of love
and insanity and pagan profanity before a worshipping crowd. Now my status is ill-defined, as an
icon I'm inclined to be coming under friendly fire, shot in the fatal cause of rock-and-roll.
But whatever dull or clever points they've scored I have never, oh no never, been ignored.
10. Shameless
(Bob) Champagne all round! (Vile Celebs) I know what you think, it's clear as mud in your
eyes... (hi). We're the plastic posers and prostitutes you've obviously come to despise. But
you don't know nothing. You're not hot enough to matter. You don't understand the glamorous life,
a dream that no-one can shatter. (All) We're shameless. We will do anything to get our fifteen
minutes of fame. We have no integrity. We're ready to crawl, to obtain celebrity we'll do
anything at all. (Soapy) I'm ambitious believe me I'm going to be big. (Page 3) I'm a slave to
glamour, applause and clamour. My make-up, my wardrobe, my wigs. (Footy) Don't call me
pathetic. I'm harder than you'll ever get (All) Relentlessly tough. 'Cos when the going gets
rough the tough get their picture in the press. We're shameless. We will do anything to get our
fifteen minutes of fame. We have no integrity. We're ready to crawl, to obtain celebrity we'll do
anything at all. We're shameless. We will do anything. To get our fifteen minutes of fame. We
have no integrity. We're ready to crawl, to obtain celebrity we'll 7do anything, with anyone,
go absolutely anywhere, for anything at all.
11. Vampires
(Vie) Brother it don't matter. Sister don't worry. Say what you like I'll do what you want me
to do. You're a vampire, I'm a vampire too. Sun in the kitchen. Boy you're still sleeping. When
you get hungry I'll do what you want me to do. You're a vampire, I'm a vampire too. You're a
vampire, I'm a vampire too. It's a reflex. Just a reflex like fear or sex. Night in the city.
New Orleans pretty. Do what you want and then can I do it to you? You're a vampire, I'm a
vampire too. You're a vampire, I'm a vampire too. (Billie) Whenever I've reached the end of
that dusty little dirt track called Relationship Street. I get off of my head big time, and it
helps and why does it help? Because you feel great. You feel you are the most fantastic thing on
the planet, in the cosmos, everywhere darting. And you think, I'm okay, I'll get by.
(Vie) Brother it don't matter. Sister don't worry. Brother it don't matter. Sister don't worry.
Brother don't matter. Sister don't worry. You're a vampire, I'm a vampire... Brother don't matter.
Sister don't worry. Brother don't matter. Sister don't, sister don't... worry. You're a vampire,
I'm a vampire too Brother don't matter. Sister don't worry. Brother don't matter. Sister don't
worry. Brother it don't matter. "Cos you're a vampire, I'm a vampire too
12. Closer to Heaven
(Dave) Why d'you need that money? (Lee) I lost Billie's drugs, didn't get paid. Now I'll lose
me kneecaps. (Dave) Shit, really? (Lee) I've always got some bastard after me. I'm easy to
hate. (Dave) You? But you're beautiful. (Lee) What? (Dave) But you are. (Lee) Blokes don't go
around calling other blokes beautiful. (Dave) Well fit then. (Lee) Shut up. So, you ain't seeing
that Shell no more then? (Dave) No. (Lee) Why not? (Dave) Why d'you think? (Lee) We're only
mucking about. (Dave) But it's the first time it's ever felt right for me. Oh I'll shut up.
(Lee) No. (Dave) What? (Lee) I like your accent. (Dave) Give me hope, give me one more kiss.
I've never felt a love as strong as this. You're so cool and so warm to touch. Since we met I've
wanted this so much. (Together) Never been closer to Heaven. Never been closer to Heaven.
(Dave) Has anyone ever loved you? (Lee) Where I grew up they had this picture of Jesus on
the wall. Hippy looking geezer with a beard. They told me he loved me. I thought, well that's
all right then init? When I die I'll meet him, I'm laughing. When they used to say "What d'you
wanna be when you grow up?" I'd go "Dead." No-one's ever told me they loved me. Not me mum, too
smacked off her nut. No-one in the homes. Not even someone e'd off their nut, you know.
They'd say it to everybody else but they'd never say it to me. Think there must be something
wrong with me. Listen mate give me time, this is all new to me. But I think we could learn
together you and me. It's good to kiss and do all that stuff. But I'll tell you this a hug would
be enough. (Together) Never been closer to Heaven. Never been closer to Heaven. (Dave) Look stay.
(Lee) I gotta go. (Dave) It's three in the morning. (Lee) I got business. I'm sorry mate.
13. Out of my system
(Girl #1) What's the matter with you, girl? (Girt #2) Haven't you heard? (Girl #1) No, what?
(Shell) Of all the boys in all the world, I had to chose this one, where'd he come from? Dumb
and deluded, young and confused, suddenly gay who'd be in my shoes? It had to be me who found
out the truth after catching him with the roughest youth. Now I've ripped away his mask don't
turn to me and ask... (Girls) What's the matter with you girl? (Shell) Isn't it obvious?
(Girls) What's the matter with you, girl? (Shell) Whaddaya mean what's the matter with me?
(Girls) We get the picture yes we see, what you're going through but what you gonna do? (Shell)
What d'you think I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do what's overdue. I'm gonna get him out of my system.
Get him out of my system. Get him out of my system. I'm getting him out of my system.
I'm gonna get him out of my system. Get him out of my system. Get him out of my system.
I'm getting him out of my system. (Girls) Uh-oh girlfriend, wounded pride. Your boyfriend
bats for the other side. Sure you're not gonna suddenly find tomorrow morning you change
your mind? (Shell) My decision is implacable because we're not compatible sexually, eventually
after three months sleeping in my bed. Every night, held me tight and this is what does
in my head. He runs off with his pride and joy, a young, drug dealing, East End boy!
(Girls) We get the picture yes, we see what you're going through but what you gonna do?
(Shell) What d'you think I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do what's overdue. I'm gonna get him out
of my system. Get him out of my system. Get him out of my system. I'm getting him out of my
system. I'm gonna get him out of my system. Get him out of my system. Get him out of my system.
I'm getting him out of my system. I'm gonna get him out of my system.
Get him out of my system. Get him out of my system. I'm getting him out of my system.
14. K-hole
(Billie) Run girl, run. Away from the sun. Napalm burns all over your body. Cameras roll,
photographers shoot. The western world would like to say sorry. A whore or a nun. What do you
want to be? Joan Of Arc on TV?
15. For all of us.
(Dave) There are people who think we lead a fabulous life. One endless party no pain or strife.
If only they knew the absolute truth. I hoped we had a future. The two of us together.Something
shared between us would change us both forever. He helped me recognise myself and set me on a
mission. To find there's more to life than following ambition. After all that we've been
through only tears can tell the truth. I'm not crying just for you. I'm crying for me.
Look around and see, I'm crying for all of us. For the impossibility of love in a world where
sex is a cruel, competitive sport for the love this world rejects. I mustn't be vindictive.
We shouldn't feel ashamed that no one tried to help him, so no-one can be blamed. Go back to
being fabulous. Ignore the pain inside. Find some compensation for all the love denied.
After all that we've been through only tears can tell the truth. I'm not crying just for you.
I'm crying for me. Look around and see, I'm crying for you, for me, forwhat we cannot be.
For you, for me. For all of us.
16. Closer to Heaven
(Dave) Give me hope. Give me all your love. Tell me now, I'm coming home tonight. Have some
faith, in the love we share. Is it fate? Does darkness end in light?
17. Positive role model
(Dave) Here I stand, where I planned given one more chance. Take it then start again. Time to
join the dance. All I've seen and all I've been led me here today. Forget the lies, the tears
I've cried, I'm doing it a different way. I want a positive role model. I want a positive role
model. I want a positive role model. I want a positive role model. Reinvention, my intention,
how to make the change? We're children then, boys to men, it doesn't feel so strange. Broken
heart for a start, new identity. Feel the love up above watching over me. I want a positive
role model. I want a positive role model. I want a positive role model. I want a positive role
model. My reflection on the street, is that the way I walk? Introspection as I speak, I need
to change the way I talk. In a changing world there's so much you could be. Why can't you choose
yourself like your enemy? Have you ever imagined a new you? I could be someone else.
The question is who? I want a positive role model. I want a positive role model.
I want a positive role model. I want a positive role model. Positive. Positive. Positive.
Positive. Give me hope. Give me all your love. Give me hope. Give me all your love. Give me hope.
Thanks to Sergey Boulanov for text scanning.
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