Metro

Metro is a Polish musical with music by Janusz Stokłosa, lyrics by Agata and Maryna Miklaszewska, choreographed and directed by Janusz Józefowicz. In 1992 English version of the musical premiered on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre.

Song lyrics

• But not me: I won’t give in
  They can lead: but I will never follow
  Take it all: take all of it you can
  Have your fill of all they make you swallow

• But not me

• The days pass you by
  You’re running in place
  Tomorrow is wearing
  Your yesterday’s face

• But not me

• So many people so many different races
  So many tongues and religions came to be
  They couldn’t share the tower to the heavens
  They tore it down and let it crumble to the sea

• Babel

• Give me a cause that I can fight for
  Give me a wrong I can do right for
  Give me some laws that don’t abuse me
  Rules that won’t confuse me

• Bluzwis

• A deal is a deal; not a one that he calls off
  Question his ethics and he’ll cut your balls off
  All that he lives for is money

• Boogie

• How I crave you: your face is perfection
  But desire is mixed with dejection
  Though I’ve wooded you: obsessively pursued you
  It was not in my plan my lusting for a man

• In God we trust, Jan addressing Benjamin Franklin’s image on $100 banknote.

• Spanish are lazy; Russians are crazy
  Germans will beat you; after they lose
  Chinese will duck you; Frenchmen will f*** you
  Jews all have talent; too bad they’re Jews

• Labels

• Pale star of morning
  Unto your care
  My soul I offer
  Here my prayer
  Goddess of silver
  Please hear my plea
  Mistress of fortune
  Come to me

• Litany

• When you’re waiting at a station between here and there
  At a point between your dreams and your survival
  Tunnels cross; tracks can take you anywhere
  To change your life between departure and arrival

• Metro

• I’ve loved and seen love die
  Life goes on, people change, and I no longer cry
  Doors are closed, left behind
  Still I hold you in my mind

• Only in my dreams

• Behind a window, I stand and watch the people
  The kind of window that I can never break
  No matter how I try to push my heart against it
  It keeps on bending with every move I make
  Beyond the window, the world goes on without me
  Life goes by me while here I… stay

• Window

• The money, the money
  what I won’t do for the money
  for money, for money
  I’d gladly sell you my soul

• The wheel of Fortune