VERONICA [Spoken]:
September 1st, 1989. Dear Diary: I believe I'm a good person.
Ya know, I think there's good in everyone, but here we are first day of senior year.
I look around at all these kids I've known all my life and I ask myself: What happened?
KIDS:
Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-eyes! Poser! Lard-ass!
VERONICA:
We were so tiny, happy and shiny, playing tag and getting chased.
KIDS:
Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus!
VERONICA:
Singing and clapping,
laughing and napping,
baking cookies, eating paste.
KIDS:
Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback!
VERONICA:
Then we got bigger.
That was the trigger,
Like the Huns invading Rome -
[Spoken] Sorry!
Welcome to my school,
This ain't no high school:
This is the Thunderdome.
Hold your breath
and count the days,
we're graduating soon.
KIDS:
White trash!
VERONICA:
College will be paradise
If I'm not dead by June!
But I know, I know, life can be beautiful.
I pray, I pray for a better way.
If we changed back then,
we could change again.
We can be beautiful...
(A PREPPY STUD knocks a HIPSTER DORK to the floor.)
HIPSTER DORK [Spoken]:
Ow!
VERONICA:
Just not today.
[Spoken] Hey, are you okay?
HIPSTER DORK:
Get away, nerd.
KIDS:
Freak! Slut! Cripple! Homo! Homo! Homo!
VERONICA:
Things will get better
soon as my letter
comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown.
Wake from this coma,
take my diploma,
then I can blow this town.
Dream of my ivy-covered walls
and smoky French cafes...
(VERONICA jostles RAM SWEENEY.)
RAM [Spoken]:
Watch it!
VERONICA:
Fight the urge to strike a match and send this dump ablaze!
(RAM upends VERONICA'S lunch tray.)
RAM:
Ooooops.
VERONICA [Spoken]:
Ram Sweeney. Third year as linebacker.
And eighth year of smacking lunch trays and BEING A HUGE DICK.
RAM:
What did you say to me skank?
VERONICA:
... Nothing.
VERONICA & KIDS:
But I know, I know, I know...
Life can be beautiful.
I pray, I pray, I pray
For a better way.
We were kind before;
we can be kind once more.
We can be beautiful...
(MARTHA approaches.)
VERONICA:
Agh!... Hey Martha.
MARTHA:
Hey.
(MARTHA helps VERONICA pick up her tray.)
VERONICA:
Martha Dunnstock. My best friend since diapers.
MARTHA:
We on for movie night?
VERONICA:
Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail.
MARTHA:
I rented "The Princess Bride."
VERONICA:
Again? Don't you have it memorized by now?
MARTHA:
What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending.
KURT:
Martha Dumptruck! Wide load! Honnnnnk!
(KURT KELLY knocks the tray from MARTHA'S hands.)
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