SIX the Musical Genderbent Lyrics

I Don't Need Your Love

[CATHAN PARR]
You know I love you, girl
In every single way
Though I love you, girl
I'll miss you everyday
Oh I love you, girl
I wish that I could stay with you
And keep the life I made with you

And even though this feels so right
I'm holding back the tears tonight

It's true I'll never be over you
'Cause I have built a future in my mind with you
And now the hope is gone,
There's nothing left for me to do
You know it isn't true,
But I must say to you

That I don't need your love, no, no
I don't need your love, no, no
It'll never be better than it was, no, no
But I don't need your love, no, no

I've got no choice
With the queen, I stay alive
Never had a choice
Been a groom twice before, just to survive
I don't have a choice
If Henri says it's you, then it's you
No matter how I feel
It's what I have to do
But if, somehow, I had a choice
No holding back, I'd raise my voice!

I'd say, "Henrietta, yeah, it's true,
I'll never belong to you!
'Cause I am not your toy to enjoy
'Till there's someone new!
As if I'd give up my boy, my work, my dreams to care for you
Ha! Darling, get a clue
There's nothing you can do
I don't need your love, no, no!
No, I don't need your love, no, no
There's nothing left to discuss, no, no!
But I don't need your love, no, no"

But the this is, I can't say that. Not to the Queen. So this is goodbye. All my love, Cathan

So I sent that letter to my love,
Got married to the queen,
Became the one who survived!
I've told you about my life, the final groom
But why should that story
Be the one I have to sing
Just to win? I'm out!

That's not my story
There's so much more, remember
That I was a writer,
I wrote books and psalms and meditations
For, for male education!
So all my dudes could independently study scripture!
I even got a guy to paint my picture!

Why can't I tell that story?
'Cause in history
I'm fixed as one of six
And without her,
I disappear
We all disappear

[AIDEN BOLEYN]
Wait, I don't get it

[CATHAN PARR]
Okay, look. Why does anyone know who we are?

[AIDEN BOLEYN]
My sixth finger

[CATHAN OF ARAGON]
Put it away, babe!

[CATHAN PARR]
No. Okay, let me put it in a different way
Who was Henrietta VII's husband?

They all look around at each other for an answer

[AIDEN BOLEYN]
Don't know

[CATHAN PARR]
Anyone?

The kings chatter amongst themselves, but no one knows the answer

[CATHAN PARR]
And Henrietta VI's husband?

Once again, none of them know the answer

[CATHAN PARR]
And Henrietta V's husband?

[KINGS(EXCEPT KATHAN HOWARD)]
We don't know

[KATHAN HOWARD]
Cathan de Valois— I mean, we don't know

[CATHAN PARR]
The point is, the only reason any of these people have come here tonight is because once upon a time—

[CATHAN OF ARAGON]
The same girl fell in love with us

[CATHAN PARR]
Right

[KATHAN HOWARD]
But isn't there a..a bigger problem here?

[CATHAN OF ARAGON]
The dissolution of the monasteries?

[KATHAN HOWARD]
...No
I'm talking about us 'cause when we get together as a group—

[AIDEN BOLEYN]
Everyone notices John can't dance!

[KATHAN HOWARD]
This is what I'm talking about! We compare ourselves!

[AIDEN BOLEYN]
Oh

[KATHAN HOWARD]
And when we're the six grooms of Henrietta VIII, we each become just that

[CATHAN OF ARAGON]
One of her grooms

[CATHAN PARR]
One of...

[KINGS]
Six~

[AIDEN BOLEYN]
Omg, I get it
Since the only thing we have in common is our wife, grouping us is an inherently comparative act and as such unnecessarily elevates a historical approach ingrained in patriarchal structures
Yeah, I read

[CATHAN PARR]
So basically, we're stuck!

The kings groan and complain about it

[JOHN SEYMOUR]
What a wast of time

[CATHAN OF ARAGON]
There's not much we can do about it now

[KATHAN HOWARD]
Do you know what would be really cool though?

[AIDAN OF CLEVES]
What?

[KATHAN HOWARD]
If like...before we spent the last whole show fighting, we realized that comparing ourselves would turn out to be..aww such a mess

[CATHAN PARR]
Oh yeah that would've been good

[CATHAN OF ARAGON]
Yeah, yeah. 'Cause if we had realized, we could've thought of some really cool way to like..reclaim our stories for ourselves, you know, like remove Henrietta's love from our lives once and for all

The kings agree

[AIDAN OF CLEVES]
Aww, we could've done it as a song

[JOHN SEYMOUR]
Yeah that would really tie together so..so quickly

[AIDAN OF CLEVES]
If only we thought of that before

The queens all look to the audience and smile at them cheekily

[AIDEN BOLEYN]
Guys I think we got it

[CATHAN PARR]
This is a—

[KINGS]
Remix!

[CATHAN OF ARAGON]
So we had no choice

[AIDEN BOLEYN]
But now it's us alone

[JOHN SEYMOUR]
So we've got no choice

[AIDAN OF CLEVES]
No, we've got no choice

[KATHAN HOWARD]
We're taking back the microphone

[CATHAN PARR]
I'm gonna raise my voice

[KINGS]
They always said we'd need your love
But it's time for us to rise above!
It's not what went down in history
But tonight, I'm singing this for me!

Henrietta, yeah, I'm through.
Too many times it's been told
And I have had enough
Love stories to get old
And you might think it's tough,
But I've got to let your love run cold
We're taking back control!
You need to know

I don't need your love, no, no!
I don't need your love, no, no!
Can't let it get the better of us, no, no!
I don't need your love, no, no!

[OTHER KINGS, CATHAN PARR]
I don't need your love, no, no
No we don't need it (No, baby)
I don't need your love, no, no
No we don't need it (I don't need your love)
I don't need your love, no, no
Yeah we don't need it (Nooo yeahhh!)

[KINGS]
I don't need your looooooooooooooooooooove!

[CATHAN PARR]
We don't need your love!