Once More, with Feeling

Buffy:
Every single night, the same arrangements:
I go out and fight the fight.
Still I always feel the strange estrangement
Nothing here is real, nothing here is right.
I've been making shows of trading blows
Just hoping no one knows
That I've been going through the motions,
Walking through the part
Nothing seems to penetrate my heart.

I was always brave and kind of righteous
Now I find I'm wavering.
Crawl out of your grave,you find this fight
Just doesn't mean a thing.

Vampire:
She ain't got that swing.

(Whack!  Thump!)

Buffy:
Thanks for noticing.

Demons:
She does really well with fiends from hell
But lately we can tell
That she's just going through the motions

White haired demon:
Going through the motions

Demons:
Faking it somehow

White haired demon:
She's not even half the girl she - ow!

Buffy:
Will I stay this way forever?
Sleepwalk through my life's endeavour?

Blond hunk:
How can I repay -

Buffy:
Whatever.
I don't wanna be...
Going through the motions, losing all my drive.
I can't even see if this is really me
And I just want to be alive.

Xander: Respect the cruller. And tame the donut!

Buffy: Uh, so, did anybody ... uh ... last night, you know, did anybody, um ... burst into song?
Xander: Merciful Zeus!
Willow: We thought it was just us!
Giles: Well, I sang but I had my guitar at the hotel...
Tara: It was bizarre. We were talking and then it was like...
Buffy: Like you were in a musical!
Tara: Yeah!
Giles: That would explain the huge backing orchestra I couldn't see and the synchronized dancing from the room service chaps.
Willow: We did a whole duet about dish washing.
Anya: And we were arguing and, and then everything rhymed and there were harmonies and the dance with coconuts.
Willow: There was an entire verse about the couscous.
Xander: It was very disturbing.
Giles: What did you sing about?
Buffy: ...I don't remember.

Giles:
I've got a theory, that it's a demon,
A dancing demon - no, something isn't right there.

Willow:
I've got a theory, some kid is dreaming
And we're all stuck inside his wacky Broadway nightmare.

Xander:
I've got a theory we should work this out.

Willow, Tara, Anya, Xander:
It's getting eerie.  What's this cheery singing all about?

Xander:
It could be witches!  Some evil witches, which is ridiculous
cuz witches they were persecuted, Wicca good,
and love the earth, and women power, and I'll be over here.

Anya:
I've got a theory, it could be bunnies.

(Silence except for the chirping of crickets)

Tara:
I've got a -

Anya, interrupting:
Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes!
They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses!
And what's with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!!
... Or maybe midgets?

(Everyone stands agog and stares at Anya)

Willow:
I've got a theory we should work this fast.

Willow and Giles:
Because it clearly could get serious before it's past.

Buffy:
I've got a theory: it doesn't matter.
What can't we face if we're together?
What's in this place that we can't weather?
Apocalypse - we've all been there.
The same old tricks, why should we care?

All:
What can't we do if we get in it?
We'll work it through within a minute.
We have to try.  We'll pay the price.
It's do or die.

Buffy:
Hey, I've died twice.

All:
What can't we face if we're together?
(Giles: What can't we face)
What's in this place that we can't weather?
(Giles: We're together)
There's nothing we can't face.

Anya:
Except for bunnies.



Man who has been to the dry cleaners:
They GOT the MUSTARD out!!!


Tara: Oh my God, I'm cured! I want the boys!


Tara:
I lived my life in shadow, never the sun on my face.
It didn't seem so sad, though; I figured that was my place.
Now I'm bathed in light. Something just isn't right.
I'm under your spell.
How else could it be anyone would notice me?
It's magic, I can tell,
How you set me free, brought me out so easily.

I saw a world enchanted, spirits and charms in the air.
And I always took for granted I was the only one there.
But your powers shone brighter than any I've known.
I'm under your spell.
Nothing I can do - you just took my soul with you.
You worked your charm so well:
Finally I knew everything I dreamed was true.
You made me believe.

The moon to the tide, I can feel you inside.
I'm under your spell
Surging like the sea, drawn to you so helplessly.
I break with every swell,
Lost in ecstacy, spread beneath my Willow tree.
You made me complete.
You make me complete.

Anya: Will you still make me waffles when we're married?
Xander: No, I'll only make them for myself, but by California law, you will own half of them.

Anya:
The man that I plan to entangle, isn't he fine?
My claim to fame was to maim and to mangle, vengeance was mine.
Now I'm out of the biz.  The name I made I'll trade for his.
The only trouble is - I'll never tell.

Xander:
She is the one. She's such wonderful fun, such passion and grace.
Warm in the night when I'm right in her tight embrace, tight embrace!
I'll never let her go.  The love we've known can only grow.
There's just one thing that - No. I'll never tell.

Anya and Xander:
Because there's nothing to tell.

Anya:
He snores.

Xander:
She wheezes.

Anya:
Say 'housework' and he freezes.

Xander:
She eats these skeezy cheeses that I can't describe.

Anya:
I talk, he breezes.

Xander:
She doesn't know what "please" is.

Anya:
His penis got diseases from a Chumash tribe!

Xander and Anya:
The vibe gets kind of scary...

Xander:
Like she thinks I'm ordinary...

Anya:
Like it's all just temporary...

Xander:
Like, her toes are kind of hairy

Anya and Xander:
But it's all very well!
Because God knows I'll never tell.

Anya:
When things get rough he just hides behind his Buffy
Now look, he's getting huffy cuz he knows that I know.

Xander:
She clings, she's needy, she's also really greedy!
She never -

Anya, darting in from the right:
His eyes are beady!

Xander:
This is my verse! Hello?!
She -

Anya (spoken):
Hey, look at me! I'm dancin' crazy!

Anya and Xander:
You know...

Xander:
You're quite the charmer.

Anya:
My knight in armour.

Xander:
You're the cutest of the Scoobies, with your lips as red as rubies,
And your firm but supple - tight embrace!

Anya:
He's swell.

Xander:
She's sweller.

Anya:
He'll always be my feller.

Xander:
That's why I'll never tell her that I'm petrified.

Anya:
I've read this tale: there's wedding, then betrayal,
I know there'll come a day I'll want to run and hide.

Anya and Xander:
I lied, I said it's easy.
I tried, but there's these fears I can't quell.

Xander:
Is she looking for a pot of gold?

Anya:
Will I look good when I've gotten old?

Xander:
Will our life become too stressful if I'm never that successful?

Anya:
When I get so worn and wrinkly that I look like David Brinkley?

Xander:
Am I crazy?

Anya:
Am I dreamin'?

Xander:
Am I marrying a demon?

Xander and Anya:
We could really raise the beam in making marriage a hell!
So thank God I'll never tell!
I swear that I'll never tell!

Xander:
My lips are sealed!

Anya:
I take the fifth!

Xander:
Nothing to see, move it along!

Anya and Xander:
I'll never ... tell!

Woman receiving a parking ticket:
I've been having
A bad, bad day
C'mon won't you
Put that pad away?

I'm asking you, please, no!
It isn't right, it isn't fair.
There was no parking anywhere
I think that hydrant wasn't there.

Why can't you let it go?
I think I've paid more than my share.
I'm just a poor girl, don't you care?
Hey, I'm not wearing underwear...



Spike:
I died so many years ago, but you can make me feel like it isn't so.
But why you come to be with me I think I finally know.  Mmm.

You're scared, ashamed of what you feel.
And you can't tell the ones you love. You know they couldn't deal.
Whisper in a dead man's ear, that doesn't make it real.
That's great, but I don't want to play
Cuz being with you touches me more than I can say.
Since I'm only dead to you, I'm sayin' stay away
And let me rest in peace.

Let me rest in peace, let me get some sleep.
Let me take my love and bury it in a hole six foot deep.
I can lay my body down but I can't find my sweet release.
So let me rest in peace.

You know you got a willing slave
And you just love to play the thought that you might misbehave.
But til you do I'm telling you, stop visiting my grave
And let me rest in peace

I know I should go but I follow you like a man possessed
There's a traitor here beneath my breast
And it hurts me more than you've ever guessed
If my heart could beat, it would break my chest
But I can see you're unimpressed
So leave me be.

Let me rest in peace, let me get some sleep.
Let me take my love and bury it in a hole six foot deep.
I can lay my body down but I can't find my sweet release.
So let me rest in peace.
Why won't you let me rest in peace?

... So you're not staying, then?



Dawn's song:
Does anybody even notice?
Does anybody even care?



Sweet:
Why'd you run away?
Don't you like my style?
Why don't you come and play?
I guarantee you a great big smile.
I come from the imagination,
And I'm here strictly by your invocation.
So, whaddaya say?
Why don't we dance a while?

I'm the hottest fiend,
I'm the twisted child.
When you gotta sing,
When you gotta let it out...
You call me and I come a-running
I turn the music on; I bring the fun in!
Now, we're partying
That's what it's all about.

'Cause I know what you feel, girl
I know just what you feel, girl

Dawn (spoken):
Oh, so you're like a good demon? Bringing the fun in?

Sweet:
All these melodies, they go on too long...
Than that energy starts to come on way too strong!
All those hearts lie open; that must sting
Plus, some customer just died combusting.
That's the penalty when life is but a song!

You brought me down into this town,
So, when we blow this scene,
Back we will go to my kingdom below and you will be my queen.
Cuz I know what you feel, girl.

Dawn:
No, you see,
You and me
Wouldn't be very regal.

Sweet:
I'll make it real, girl

Dawn:
What I mean...
I'm fifteen...
So, this queen thing's illegal.
 
Sweet:
I can bring whole cities to ruin,
And still have time to get a soft-shoe in!

Dawn:
Well, that's great,
But I'm late.
And I'd hate to delay her...

Sweet:
Something's cooking, I'm at the griddle!
I bought Nero his very first fiddle!

Dawn:
She'll get pissed,
If I'm missed,
See, my sister's the Slayer...

Buffy: I'm just worried this whole session's gonna turn into some training montage from an eighties movie.
Giles: Ah. Well, if we hear any inspirational power chords, we'll just lie down until they go away.

Giles:
You're not ready for the world outside.
You keep pretending, but you just can't hide.
I know I said that I'd be standing by your side
But I...

Your path's unbeaten and it's all uphill
And you can meet it, but you never will.
And I'm the reason that you're standing still.
But I...

I wish I could say the right words to lead you through this land.
I wish I could play the father and take you by the hand.
I wish I could stay, but now I understand.
And I'm standing in the way.

The cries around you you don't hear at all
'Cause you know I'm here to take that call.
So you just lie there when you should be standing tall
But I...

I wish I could lay your arms down and let you rest at last.
I wish I could slay your demons but now that time is past.
I wish I could stay, your stalwart standing fast.
But I'm standing in the way.
I'm standing in the way.

Buffy (spoken):
Did you just say something?



Tara:
I'm under your spell.
God, how can this be? Playing with my memory.
You know I've been through hell.
Willow, don't you see there'll be nothing left of me?
You made me believe...

Giles:
Believe me, I don't want to go.

Giles and Tara:
And it'll grieve me 'cause I love you so.
We both know...

Giles:					Tara:
I wish I could say the right words	Wish I could trust that
To lead you through this land.		It was just this once.
I wish I could play the father		But I must do what I must
And take you by the hand.		I can't adjust to this
Wish I could stay...			Disgust. We're done.
					And I just wish I could stay...

Giles and Tara:
Wish I could stay...
Wish I could stay...
Wish I could stay...

Spike on Sweet's minion: Someday he'll be a real boy.
Buffy: So. Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday.

Giles: If I want your opinion, Spike, I'll... I'll never want your opinion.

Buffy:
I touch the fire and it freezes me.
I look into it and it's black.
Why can't I feel? My skin should crack and peel.
I want the fire back!

Now through the smoke she calls to me
To make my way across the flames,
To save the day, or maybe melt away -
I guess it's all the same!

So I will walk through the fire,
'Cuz where else can I turn?
I will walk through the fire,
And let it...

Spike:
The torch I bear, it's scorching me,
And Buffy's laughing, I've no doubt.
I hope she fries. I'm free if that bitch dies!
I better help her out.

Sweet:
'Cuz she is drawn to the fire.
Some people never learn.		Spike:
					She will never learn.

Spike and Sweet:
She will walk through the fire
And let it...

Giles:
Will this do a thing to change her?
Am I leaving Dawn in danger?
Is my Slayer too far gone to care?

Xander:
What if Buffy can't defeat it?

Anya:
Beady-eyes is right, we're needed!
Or we could just sit around and glare.

All:
We'll see it through, it's what we're always here to do
So we will walk through the fire.

Buffy:
So one by one they turn from me.		Tara:
I guess my friends can't face the cold.		What can't we face
But why I froze, not one among them knows
And never can be told				If we're together

Anya:		Sweet:
She came from the grave much graver		So one by one
						They turn from her
Spike:
First he'll kill her, then I'll save her
						The distant redness
Tara:						as their guide
Everything is turning out so dark	

Buffy:
Going through the motions

Spike:		That single flame
No, I'll save her, then I'll kill her
					Ain't what they had in mind
Willow:
I think this line's mostly filler
					It's what they have
Giles:			inside.
What's it going to take to strike a spark?

Buffy:
These endless days
Are finally ending in a blaze		She will come... to me...


All:
And we are caught in the fire,
The point of no return.
So we will walk through the fire,
And let it burn.
Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn.

Sweet (spoken):
Showtime.

Sweet: I love a good entrance.
Buffy: How are you with death scenes?

Buffy: You got a name?
Sweet: I've got a hundred.
Buffy: Well, I ought to know what to call you if you're gonna be my brother-in-law.

Sweet: What if I kill you?
Buffy: Trust me. Won't help.
Sweet: That's gloomy!
Buffy: That's life.
Sweet: Come now, is that what you really feel? Isn't life a miraculous thing?
Buffy: I think you already know that.

Buffy:
Life's a show, and we all play a part,
And when the music starts, we open up our hearts.
It's all right if some things come out wrong.
We'll sing a happy song, and you can sing along.

Where there's life, there's hope
Every day's a gift
Wishes can come true
Whistle while you work so hard all day
To be like other girls
To fit in in this glittering world.
Don't give me songs.

Giles (spoken):
She needs backup. Anya, Tara.

Buffy:
Don't give me songs.			Anya, Tara:
Give me something to sing about.	Ahhhhh.
I need something to sing about.		Ahhhhh.

Life's a song you don't get to rehearse,
And every single verse can make it that much worse.
Still my friends don't know why I ignore
The million things or more I should be dancing for.

All the joy life sends,
Family and friends,
All the twists and bends,
Knowing that it ends.
Well, that depends on if they let you go.
On if they know enough to know
That when you've bowed, you leave the crowd.

There was no pain, no fear, no doubt,
Til they pulled me out of heaven.
So that's my refrain: I live in hell
'Cuz I've been expelled from heaven.
I think I was in heaven.
So, give me something to sing about!
Please! Give me something!

Spike:
Life's not a song, life isn't bliss.
Life is just this: It's living.
You'll get along. The pain that you feel
You only can heal by living.
You've got to go on living.
So one of us is living.

Dawn (spoken):
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.

Sweet (spoken):
Now that was a show-stopping number.


Sweet:
What a lot of fun,
You guys have been real swell,
And there's not a one
Who can say this ended well.
All those secrets you've been concealing
Say you're happy now,
Once more with feeling.
Now I gotta run
See you all...  in hell!



Dawn:
Where do we go from here?

Buffy and Spike:
Where do we go from here?

Giles:
The battle's done, and we kind of won,

Giles and Tara:
So we sound our victory cheer.
Where do we go from here?

Anya and Xander:
Why is the path unclear
When we know home is near?

All:
Understand we'll go hand in hand,
But we'll walk alone in fear.
(Giles: Tell me.)
Where do we go from here?

All:
When does the end appear?
(Spike: Bugger this.)
When do the trumpets cheer?
The curtain's closed on a kiss, God knows.
We can tell the end is near.
Where do we go from here?

Spike: You should go back inside. Finish the big group sing. Get your kumbayayas out.
Buffy: I-I don't wanna.
Spike: The day you suss out what you do want, there'll probably be a parade. Seventy-six bloody trombones.

Buffy:						Spike:
I touch the fire and it freezes me.		I died
I look into it and it's black.			So many years ago
This isn't real, but I just want to feel.	You can make me feel...

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