To dance

No way to make a living, masochism
Pain, perfection
Muscle spasms, chiropractors
Short careers, eating disorders

To film

Adventure, tedium, no family
Boring locations
Dark rooms, perfect faces, egos
Money, hollywood, and sleaze

Music

Food of love, emotion, mathematics
Isolation
Rhythm, power, feeling, harmony
And heavy competition

Anarchy

Revolution, justice
Screaming for solutions
Forcing changes
Risk, and danger
Making noise and making pleas

To faggots, lezzies, dykes
Crossdressers, too

To me

To me

To me

To you, and you, and you, you, and you
To people living with, living with
Living with
Not dying from disease

Let he among us without sin
Be the first to condemn

La vie boheme
La vie boheme
La vie boheme

To anyone out of the mainstream
Is anyone in the mainstream?
To anyone alive with a sex drive
Tear down the wall! Aren't we all?
The opposite of war isn't peace
It's creation

Who

La vie boheme

Viva la vie boheme

Copyright: Universal Music Publishing Group
Writer(s): Jonathan Larson