Hear more musicRecorded on 08/15/08
Recorded by: Milburn & Vigoda
Written by: Milburn/Vigoda
Valerie Vigoda: vocal
Brendan Milburn: vocal & keyboards
CHARLES and HOPE have been dating for a few months. Here, as throughout the show, we jump forward in time as their relationship progresses.
Brendan Milburn: vocal & keyboards
CHARLES and HOPE have been dating for a few months. Here, as throughout the show, we jump forward in time as their relationship progresses.
Lyrics
They both reach under the pillows and grab a drawing.
CHARLES
This was such a horrible idea.
HOPE
I'll show you mine.
CHARLES
I especially don't want to see yours, I really really don't I can't draw and I'm sure I look like a mutant this is really embarrassing.
HOPE shows him the picture.
CHARLES (cont'd)
I do not look like that! That is not the face I make!
HOPE makes the face.
CHARLES (cont'd)
How can you have sex with me if that's what I look like?
HOPE
You're allowed to make those faces
And they're allowed to be funny
Now show me me
CHARLES
I can't.
HOPE
I want to see what I look like!
CHARLES shows her his drawing. Silence.
CHARLES
I tried to be funny but...
HOPE
I'm beautiful
CHARLES
That's what I see
HOPE smiles and takes the drawings.
CHARLES (cont'd)
Where are you going? Hope?
She exits out the door.
CHARLES (cont'd)
Hope?
HOPE comes back with a handful of dresses.
HOPE
Yeah?
CHARLES
Do you need a hand?
HOPE
No, this is it.
CHARLES
That's all?
HOPE
Just so I don't have to rush home in the morning--
HOPE puts the dresses in the closet.
CHARLES
But if you stayed for like the week or something--
HOPE
The week? I told you I'm not living with anyone until--
CHARLES
I know I know. I just thought--
HOPE
What?
CHARLES
How great it's been
Having you here
For weeks and months at a time
I can reach out
Touch you like this
CHARLES puts his hands on her breasts.
It's so completely sublime
Like holding your hand
Smoothing your hair
It's something you let me do
Nobody else
Gets to be here
Feeling the beauty of you
HOPE
Are you finished?
CHARLES
Never!
We could just stay
Right here like this
I'd never lift up my hands
What a wonderful thing
To be here with you
Your wishes are my commands
HOPE
Okay, then, why don't you [let me get back to...]
CHARLES
You'd go through your day
I'd follow you 'round
Steal the occasional kiss
We can eat, we can talk
No reason to stop
We could just live like this!
HOPE
You know I think you're right and nothing could be sweeter
Than getting closer all the time
Each morning cup of joe accompanied by Peter
CHARLES
Peter?
HOPE grabs CHARLES playfully by the balls.
HOPE
John Thomas
Free Willy
Don Johnson
Come on boy, get with the program
Dance break.
HOPE/CHARLES
Keep holding on
Never let go
Not when it's feeling so nice
Continue with life
Make all our plans
With just a little more spice
We'll go through the years
Forever entwined
In a state of continual bliss
In the bed, in the chair
Over here, over there
At a bar, at a play
At an outdoor cafe
We can come, we can go
Cheek to cheek, toe to toe
We could just live like this!
CHARLES
This was such a horrible idea.
HOPE
I'll show you mine.
CHARLES
I especially don't want to see yours, I really really don't I can't draw and I'm sure I look like a mutant this is really embarrassing.
HOPE shows him the picture.
CHARLES (cont'd)
I do not look like that! That is not the face I make!
HOPE makes the face.
CHARLES (cont'd)
How can you have sex with me if that's what I look like?
HOPE
You're allowed to make those faces
And they're allowed to be funny
Now show me me
CHARLES
I can't.
HOPE
I want to see what I look like!
CHARLES shows her his drawing. Silence.
CHARLES
I tried to be funny but...
HOPE
I'm beautiful
CHARLES
That's what I see
HOPE smiles and takes the drawings.
CHARLES (cont'd)
Where are you going? Hope?
She exits out the door.
CHARLES (cont'd)
Hope?
HOPE comes back with a handful of dresses.
HOPE
Yeah?
CHARLES
Do you need a hand?
HOPE
No, this is it.
CHARLES
That's all?
HOPE
Just so I don't have to rush home in the morning--
HOPE puts the dresses in the closet.
CHARLES
But if you stayed for like the week or something--
HOPE
The week? I told you I'm not living with anyone until--
CHARLES
I know I know. I just thought--
HOPE
What?
CHARLES
How great it's been
Having you here
For weeks and months at a time
I can reach out
Touch you like this
CHARLES puts his hands on her breasts.
It's so completely sublime
Like holding your hand
Smoothing your hair
It's something you let me do
Nobody else
Gets to be here
Feeling the beauty of you
HOPE
Are you finished?
CHARLES
Never!
We could just stay
Right here like this
I'd never lift up my hands
What a wonderful thing
To be here with you
Your wishes are my commands
HOPE
Okay, then, why don't you [let me get back to...]
CHARLES
You'd go through your day
I'd follow you 'round
Steal the occasional kiss
We can eat, we can talk
No reason to stop
We could just live like this!
HOPE
You know I think you're right and nothing could be sweeter
Than getting closer all the time
Each morning cup of joe accompanied by Peter
CHARLES
Peter?
HOPE grabs CHARLES playfully by the balls.
HOPE
John Thomas
Free Willy
Don Johnson
Come on boy, get with the program
Dance break.
HOPE/CHARLES
Keep holding on
Never let go
Not when it's feeling so nice
Continue with life
Make all our plans
With just a little more spice
We'll go through the years
Forever entwined
In a state of continual bliss
In the bed, in the chair
Over here, over there
At a bar, at a play
At an outdoor cafe
We can come, we can go
Cheek to cheek, toe to toe
We could just live like this!