Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)

I've heard there was a secret chord
that David played, and it pleased the Lord,
but you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth,
the minor fall, the major lift.
The baffled king composing Hallelujah!

Maybe I've been here before,
I know this room, I've walked this floor,
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch;
love is not a victory march,
it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah!

There was a time you let me know
what's really going on below,
but now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember when I moved in you
your holy dark was moving too
and every breath we drew was Hallelujah!

Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof;
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
She tied you to a kitchen chair,
she broke your throne, and she cut your hair,
and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah!

Maybe there's a God above,
and all I ever learned from love
was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.
It's not a complaint that you hear tonight,
it's not somebody who's seen the light,
it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah!

You say I took the name in vain,
I don't even know the name,
but if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word,
it doesn't matter which you heard:
the holy or the broken Hallelujah!

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch.
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong,
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah!

Mein Herr (Cabaret - John Kander and Frank Ebb)

[MS:Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames et Messieurs
Ladies and Gentlemen! it is almost midnight!
Husbands - you have only ten seconds in which to lose your wives!
Five - four- three - two - one!
Happy New Year!]

SALLY: You have to understand the way I am, mein Herr:
a tiger is a tiger, not a lamb, mein Herr.
You'll never turn the vinegar to jam, mein Herr,
So I do what I do; when I'm through, then I'm through.
And I'm through--
Toodle-oo.

Bye-bye, mein lieber Herr, farewell, mein lieber Herr,
it was a fine affair but now it's over!
And though I used to care, I need the open air,
you're better off without me, mein Herr.

Don't dab your eye, mein Herr, or wonder why, mein Herr,
I've always told you I was a rover.
You mustn't knit your brow, you should have known by now
you'd every cause to doubt me, mein Herr.

The continent of Europe is so wide, mein Herr:
not only up and down, but side to side, mein Herr.
I couldn't ever cross it if I tried, mein Herr
So I do what I can: inch by inch,
step by step, mile by mile--man by man.

Bye-bye, mein lieber Herr, farewell, mein lieber Herr,
it was a fine affair but now it's over.
And though I used to care, I need the open air,
you're better off without me, mein Herr.

Don't dab your eye, Mein Herr, or wonder why, Mein Herr,
I've always told you I was a rover.
You mustn't knit your brow, you should have known by now
you'd every cause to doubt me, Mein Herr.

Bye bye mein lieber Herr, aufwiedersehen, Mein Herr.
Es war sehr gut, mein Herr, und vorbei.
Du kennst mich wohl, mein Herr, ach, lebe wohl, mein Herr,
Du sollst mich niemehr sehen, mein Herr.

[MC:The final performance of Sally Bowles! Thank you, Sally!]

Champagne Taste (as performed by Eartha Kitt)

Wanna take me cruising on an ocean liner to places I long to see
Well, with my champagne taste and your beer bottle pocket
don’t forget to write me when you get there in your row boat
when you paddle cross the sea without me

Do you see us dining on caviar and pheasant with descendants of royalty
Well, with my champagne taste and your beer bottle pocket
I’ll be having pheasant while you’re dining with the peasants
Dunking donuts in a diner without me

You say you have ambition to make my dream come true
Well, brother you just keep right on wishing and all of my dreams will come true
Without you

Do you see me in a Jaguar with all of the accessories and one of the accessories is you
Take back your Jaguar and accessories etcetera
And drive off into your dreams without me

And if I wanted diamonds you’d offer me breakfast at Tiffany’s
Luncheon at Cartier’s you’d recommend
You will have to work on something better than a zircon
Because your diamonds are this girl’s worst friend

You said you’d promise me anything to make my life a feast
You didn’t give me anything, not even

And it wouldn’t surprise me if Lady like Godiva
Counted on you to bring her the stole
When she couldn’t get those dresses she just let down all her tresses
And forgot she was a lady after all

So if you want me to be part of your permanent employ
Before my champagne fizzles come up with the real McCoy
Show me you can separate the man from the boy
Bring me a constant life of champagne taste . . . joy!