the ultimate heathers lyric starter meme ( act 2 )

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MY DEAD GAY SON

• _{❛  You wait just a minute, (name)!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  It’s ignorant, hateful talk like yours that makes this world a place that they could not live in.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  They were not dirty!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  They were not wrong!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  They were two lonely verses in the Lord’s great song.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Our boys were pansies, (name)!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Yes! My boys a homosexual, and that don’t scare me none.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I want the world to know, I love my dead, gay son.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ve been thinking. Praying. Reading some magazines.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  It’s time we opened our eyes.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Well, the good Lord created the universe.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  The Lord created man.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I believe it’s all a part of His gigantic plan.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I know God has a reason for each mountain and each flower, and why he chose to let our boys get busy in the shower!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I never cared for homos much until I reared me one.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  He loves his son.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Jesus says it’s cool!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  They just had flair!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  They were desperate to be free!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  They took a rebel stance, stripped to their underpants.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I can’t believe that you still refuse to get a clue after all that we’ve been through.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m talking you and me, in the summer of ‘83.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  That was one hell of a fishing trip.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Our jobs are now continuing the work that they begun.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  They were good men!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We’ll teach the world to love.  ❜}
  

SEVENTEEN

• _{❛  Fine, we’re damaged. Really damaged, but that does not make us wise.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We’re not special. We’re not different.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We don’t choose who lives and dies.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Let’s be normal. Watch bad movies, sneak a beer and watch TV.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Don’t you want a life with me?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Can’t we be seventeen? That’s all I want to do.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  If you could let me in, I could be good with you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  People hurt us, or they vanish, and you’re right, it really blows.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We let go, take a deep breath.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Don’t stop looking in my eyes.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Is that so hard to do?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Let us be seventeen, if we’ve still got the right.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  So what’s it gonna be?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I want to be with you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Yeah, we’re damaged. Badly damaged.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Your love’s too good to lose.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Hold me tighter. Even closer.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ll stay if I am what you choose.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You’re the one I choose.  ❜}
  

SHINE A LIGHT

• _{❛  Deep inside of everyone there’s a hot ball of shame.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  If we show the ugly parts that we hide away, they turn out to be beautiful by the light of day.  ❜}
• _{❛  Every day’s a battlefield when pride’s on the line.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I attack your weakness and pray you don’t see mine.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  If I share my ugly parts and you show me yours, our love can knock our walls down and unlock all our doors.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Who wants to share what’s in their heart?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  No volunteers? Fine, I’ll start.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I live alone. My husband left. My kids are grown.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  In the 60s love was free, that did not work out well for me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  The revolution came and went – tried to change the world, barely made a dent.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ve struggled with despair.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ve joined a cult.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I chant, I prayed but God’s not there.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  (name) I’m ending our affair!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I faked it every time.  ❜}

LIFEBOAT

• _{❛  I float in a boat in a raging black ocean, low in the water with no where to go.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  The people smell desperate.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We’ll sink any minute so someone must go.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Everyone’s pushing! Everyone’s fighting!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  There’s no where to hide.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  The captain is pointing. well who made her captain?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Still, the weakest must go.  ❜}
  

SHINE A LIGHT (REPRISE)

• _{❛  Aw look, (name) is gonna cry.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Stupid childproof caps!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Aw look, (name) is gonna whine all night.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You don’t deserve to live.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Why not kill yourself?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Here, have a sedative.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Whine, whine, whine like there’s no Santa Clause.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You’re pathetic because you whine!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You whine all night!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Your ass is off the team!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Go on and bitch and moan.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You don’t deserve the dream!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You’re gonna die alone.  ❜}
  

KINDERGARTEN BOYFRIEND

• _{❛  He was sweet, he said that I was smart.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  He was good at sports and people liked him.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  At nap time, once, we shared a mat.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I didn’t sleep, I sat and watched him breathing.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I watched him dream for almost half an hour. Then he woke up.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  He pulled a scab off one time playing kickball, kissed me quick and pressed it in my hand.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I took that scab and put it in a locket, all year long I wore it near my heart.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  He didn’t care if I was thin or pretty.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  He was mine until we hit first grade.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Last night I dreamed a horse with wings flew down into my home room.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Now we’re all grown up and we know better.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Now we recognize the way things are.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Certain boys are just for kindergarten.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Certain girls are meant to be alone.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I believe that any dream worth having, is a dream that should not have to end.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ll build a dream that I can live in, and this time I’m never waking up.  ❜}

YO GIRL

• _{❛  Oh my god, is she dead?  ❜}
• _{❛  Just another geek trying to imitate the popular people and failing miserably.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  keep it together.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I knew you would come far.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Smell how gangsta you are.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m so sorry.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Feel a bit punchy?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  She’s not looking so well.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You’ve earned that red scrunchie.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Come join (name) in hell.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Where have you been?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We’ve been worried sick!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Your friend, (name), stopped by.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  He told us everything.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  He’s got your hand writing down cold.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Please, honey, talk to us.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  No, you wouldn’t understand.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Guess who’s right down the block?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ve experienced everything you’re going through.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Guess who’s climbing the stairs?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Your problems seem like life and death, I promise they’re not.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Guess who’s picking your lock.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You don’t know what my world looks like!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Times up! Go say your prayers.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  (name)’s running on fumes now.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  (name)’s totally fried.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  (name)’s gotta be tripping on shrooms now.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  (name)’s done for, there’s no doubt now.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Notify next of kin.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Too late, he got in.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Sorry for coming in through the window, dreadful etiquette I know.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Get out of my house!  ❜}
  

MEANT TO BE YOURS

• _{❛  All is forgiven baby!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Come on, get dressed! You’re my date to the pep rally tonight!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You chucked me out like I was trash.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  For that, you should be dead.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Then it hit me like a flash: what if high school went away instead?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Those assholes are the key.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  They’re keeping you away from me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  They made you bling, messed up your mind.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I can set you free!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You left me and I fell apart.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I punched the wall and cried.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I found you changed my heart and set loose all that truthful shit inside.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  So, I built a bomb!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Tonight our school is Vietnam.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Let’s guarantee they never see their senior prom!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I was meant to be yours.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We were meant to be one.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Don’t give up on me now.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Finish what we’ve begun.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  In the rubble of their tomb, we’ll plant this not explaining why they died.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Our burned bodies may finally get through to you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Your society churns out slaves and blanks, no thanks.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We’ll watch the smoke pour out the doors.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Bring marshmallows, we’ll make s’mores.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We can smile and cuddle while the fire roars.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I can’t make it alone.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You were meant to be mine.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I am all that you need.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You carved open my heart, can’t just leave me to bleed.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Open the door please.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Can we not fight anymore?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  (Name), sure, you’re scared, I’ve been there.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  (Name), don’t make me come in there.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m gonna count to three. 1, 2, fuck it–  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Oh my god.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Please don’t leave me alone.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You were all I could trust.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I can’t do this alone, still, I will if I must.  ❜}
  

DEAD GIRL WALKING (REPRISE)

• _{❛  I wanted someone strong who could protect me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I let his anger fester and infect me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  His solution is a lie.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  No one here deserves to die, except for me and the monster I created.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Heads up (name).  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m a dead girl walking.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Can’t hide from me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  There’s your final bell.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  It’s one more dance and then farewell.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  (name) told me you just committed suicide?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Yeah, well, he’s wrong about a lot of things.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I through together a lovely tribute, especially considering the short notice.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  What’s under the gym?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  That’s it.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  What’s that sound?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Give a great big yell!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Step away from the bomb.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  This little thing? I’d hardly call it a bomb.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  This is just to trigger the packs of thermals upstairs –those are bombs.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I wish your mom had been a little stronger.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I wish she’d stayed around a little longer.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I wish your dad were good.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I wish grownups understood.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I wish we’d met before they convinced you life is war.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I wish you’d come with me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I wish I had more TNT!  ❜}

I AM DAMAGED

• _{❛  I am damaged. Far too damaged.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You’re not beyond repair.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Stick around here, make things better.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  You beat me fair and square.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Please stand back now.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Don’t know what this thing will do.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Hope you miss me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Wish you’d kiss me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ll trade my life for yours.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Wait, hold on!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Once I disappear, clean up the mess down here.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Not this way!  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Say hi to God.  ❜}

SEVENTEEN (REPRISE)

• _{❛  Listen up kids, war is over.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Brand new sheriff’s come to town.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We are done with acting evil.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We will lay our weapons down.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We’re all damaged, we’re all frightened, we’re all freaks but that’s alright.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We’ll endure it. We’ll survive it.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  (name) are you free tonight?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  High school may not ever end.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Still, I miss you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’d be honored, if you’d let me be your friend.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We can be seventeen.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  If nobody loves me now, someday somebody will.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  There’s still time to make things.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  One day we’ll change the world, but let’s kick back tonight.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  Let’s go be seventeen, take off our clothes and dance.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  This could be our final chance.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  We’ll make it beautiful.  ❜}