Urinetown Musicians act one finale

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Free!
People are free!
How can a fee
Enslave us?
How we can be
Free from the chains
He gave us!
We're suffering now
Such lives of sorrow
Don't give us tomorrow
Just give us today!
People are free!
How can a fee
Enslave us?
How we can be
Free from the chains
He gave us!
We're suffering now
Such lives of sorrow
Don't give us tomorrow
Just give us today!
From ev'ry hill
Ev'ry steeple
Ring out the anthem
Of the people
Making a new way
Breaking the clouds of gray
To sing of today!
Sing of today!
Sing of today
Sing today
Sing today
Sing today
(Dialogue)
So you want happy, Mister Strong?
Did you say happy, Mister Strong?
If they pee today I'm sure they'll be
As happy as a pup
With no rules and no more fees to pay
Things would be looking up!
But too bad the water that we share
Could fit inside a cup!
What of tomorrow, Mister Strong?
But what of today?!
But what of tomorrow, Mister Strong?!
Think of tomorrow, Mister Strong!
Our resources are as fragile
As a newborn baby's skull
With your actions
You would gut the child
And leave a lifeless hull!
Could it be you're so short-sighted
So insensitive, so dull?
Think of tomorrow, Mister Strong!
But what of today?!
You are wrong, Mister Strong
You and your socialistic throng
If the people pee for free
They'll push the system to the brink
If today there's spillage
Tell us how tomorrow will not stink!
If it's you and me, now, Mister Strong
Which one of us will blink?
I say it's you, Mister Strong
For on the subject of tomorrow
You are wrong!
(Dialogue)
Bobby, think!
You're standing on the brink!
You'll be arrested soon
Perhaps as soon as noon
And I could never bear
To see you taken where
The guilty pee-ers meet
The toilet judgement seat!
You said
To follow your heart
Here's where my heart leads
Now I'll do my part
To banish all needs
You made me to see
Fantastic'lly clear
When people pee free
We've nothing to fear
Give up now!
We'll find a way
Somehow
To help the people pee
Without a hefty fee
But if you must persist
Being an anarchist
My father's men will see
You're sent away from me!
You'll get Urinetown!
Bobby, you'll get Urinetown!
Off you'll go to Urinetown!
Urinetown!
Urinetown!
Your words
Were like seeds
At first they
Seemed mild
They grew into deeds
This riot's our child
Sing of today, not tomorrow!
End their lives of sorrow!
Today!
Today!
Sing of today!
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(Singing in the Round)
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