[ Featuring Original Broadway Cast of Lempicka ]
[TAMARA]
This can't be the end
The center will hold
This can't be the end
I will grow old here
In this place
Where I was always meant to be
Pari will always be Pari
But if Pari were not Pari
One, one bracelet
Replace three stones with glass
Papers to cross the border
Be ready for whatever comes to pass
One bracelet for passage
One little family of three
If we had to leavе tonight then
One bracelеt sets us free
But, no need to set us free it
Can't happen in Pari
If this might be the end
We'll fight with all that we are
In every taxi stand
And whiskey bar
We won't give in
To gangs of vicious men
Why should ugliness win again
But if they win again
One, one bracelet
Replace three stones with glass
Papers for Kizette and me
A little ink and we replace the past
My father's religion
Not Jew, but Christian
If we had to leave tonight then
One bracelet sets us free
But, no need to set us free it
Can't happen in Pari
Here it is, here it comes
Staring down the barrel of a gun
Will I stay? Will I run?
Will I stay, will I run
[ENSEMBLE]
Here it is, here it comes
Staring down the barrel of a gun
Will I stay? Will I run?
[TAMARA]
Is this the endgame of perfection?
No ideals here just destruction
This is not a revolution
[ENSEMBLE]
Destroy the past
Destroy convention
Anything that hinders our ascension
Revolution
[TAMARA]
The world spins
[ENSEMBLE]
Whoa-oh
[TAMARA]
Who lives who dies
[ENSEMBLE]
Whoa-oh
[TAMARA]
How will we know
Can we know
What to do to survive
[ENSEMBLE, overlapping]
Revolution!
Whoa-oh
[TAMARA]
When everything shatters
What matters
You and I
Why do I want to paint perfection?
Gleaming skin and steel
When all that matters
Is what is real
The heartbeat fluttering beneath her skin
The fingers curled around a glass of gin
The eyes accusing me
Of what? I don't know
Did she always know
I would have to go
Two bracelets
Replace three stones with glass
Papers for Rafaela
Be ready for whatever comes to pass
Two bracelets for passage
A dark time in Pari
But tonight
Tonight we're still free
[ENSEMBLE]
Here it is
Here it comes
Here it is
Here it comes
Here it is
Here it comes
Here it is
Here it comes
