We're a family. We're a family. And you're stuck with me. Like it or not.
Well I'm the dad, and this is my rap.
You better listen up. You better cut the crap.
Cause I'm the master of my domicile.
When I say jump, you better jump a mile.
Family. We're a family. And you're stuck with me. Like it or not.
Yo, I'm the mom, and I'm not foolin.'
I'm the one who's taken charge of your stress in schoolin.'
I can cook your food, and I can sew a stitch.
Don't you cross me up, cause I can be a .…. difficult person to get along with.
Leave me alone. She's your sister.
Leave me alone. Listen mister.
Leave me alone. Better hear me.
Leave me alone. Don't come near me.
Well I'm the older brother, and this is my groove.
You better watch your butt and bust a move.
You better hear the word and know it's true.
Cause I can kick your butt, 'cause I'm bigger than you.
Family. We're a family. And you're stuck with me. Like it or not.
We're a family. We're a family. And you're stuck with me. Like it or not.
Family....
Back Where We Belong
Back where we belong.
Bus! Bus! Bus! Bus, bus, bus, bus, bus, bus..............
Jump In The Fire
Somebody tell me, tell me why.
Let Me Be Your Friend
There is hurt. And there is anger.
(Play Ball!)
I Can Dream:
They call me foolish one.
Party over here! Room 302! Party over here! Room 302!
Sex Education
The film is only starting, and I'm already getting [censored].
When you're looking for some lunch,
My face looks like a pizza. These zits are a disgrace.
Do Not Care
Can you tell by the way I hold your hand, I do not care if people stop and stare?
I am a TV head. I watch it day and night.
You Be The Judge
Tell me that, tell me that, tell me that you like it.
Don't Make Me Give It Up
I got network TV. Basic cable, too. I got UHF. I get pay per view.
I want to be a rebel, like everyone else.
Welcome Back to the Roundhouse
Welcome back to the Roundhouse!
Only Want To Be Me
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart.
Don't need no jewelry (No), no diamonds (No),
I'm still waiting for love
No thin disguise
I'm still waiting
Written: Benny Hester, Marty Walsh
Lead: Dominic Lucero
Background: rest of cast
If what you want is what you're not, better stick with what you got.
Back where we belong.
The ones you trust, ones you know, maybe still I love you so.
Look good, break down. Tell me what is this is about.
Everyone looks perfect, but I know they just aren't right.
I've searched above and underground, I've even tried the lost and found.
Looking for a family, One that doesn't fuss and fight.
Back where we belong.
If what you want is what you're not, better stick with what you got.
Back where we belong.
The ones you trust, ones you know, maybe still I love you so.
Why am I trapped in this dream? Why don't they know what I mean?
Rush home, flop down. Watch my dad spin around.
Try to ask a question, and they send me to my room.
Brother, sister, what to do? And grandma makes a fool of you.
Mom can only referee. We're gonna need her soon.
Back where we belong.
If what you want is what you're not, better stick with what you got.
Back where we belong.
The ones you trust, ones you know, maybe still I love you so.
Back where we belong!The New Kid
Bus
Lead: Natalie Nucci
Background: Micki Duran, Seymour Green, Dominic Lucero, David Sidoni, Mark David, Crystal Lewis, Alfred J. Carr Jr., Ivan Dudynsky
Steal a lunch, throw a shoe. Make jokes about the kid who's new.
Strike a pose, punch a nose 'cause on the bus, anything goes.
No! No! No! Please don't make me go-go-go!
I don't wanna ride the big yellow…..
Hey fellow, what's the fuss? You're no better than the rest of us.
Learn to fight, learn to cuss. Sit down, shut up, and ride the bus!
NO!
Written: Bob Halligan, Felix Caveliere, Phil Galdston
Lead: Mark David, with Ivan Dudynsky, David Sidoni, Dominic Lucero
Background: rest of cast
Why I run so fast and fall so far behind.
Is it the headwind, or the way we're carrying?
Or are we racing, down a dead-end road?
Are you gonna tell me, that you're ok.?
You don't need to hear me preach all night and day.
Is it what your heart says, hiding in your fortress?
It loves to whisper things that we both know.
You gotta let go!
Jump in the fire! Run a little wild.
Dive into the danger. Don't you think twice.
Standing on the edge of life. Walking on a wire.
Jump in the fire. Jump in the fire tonight.
Tonight! (x4)
Jump in the fire. Run a little wild.
Dive into the danger. Don't you think twice.
If you wanna shine your light, you gotta go higher.
And jump in the fire. Jump in the fire tonight.
Written: Bob Halligan, Phil Galdston
Leads: Mark David, Crystal Lewis
Background: rest of cast
So much pain. Enough for all.
They're the bricks, and they're the concrete, in this wall.
It's like we all got together and found a way to stay up apart.
It's time that someone sent a message, heart to heart.
I can be your brother. Treat you like no other.
We can go no further, till you open up and let me be your friend.
(Let me be….) Let me be your friend.
(Let me be....)
Oh…..Come on and talk to me.
Come on and talk to me.
There's a step out of the darkness. The road is lit for all to see.
Oh, it may be long. It may be one day.
Come on walk with me.
You can be my brother. Treat me like no other.
We can go no further, till I open up and let you be me friend.
Let me be your friend.Sports
Flop Sweat
Written: Buddy Sheffield, Benny Hester
Lead: Dominic Lucero
Background: rest of cast
Flop sweat! You know it's taking control of me.
My butterflies, they feel like they're fighters.
Flop sweat! You know that there's no consoling me.
I'm champion of the fingernail biters.
You know if I don't make it, You're gonna be a wimp.)
You know if I don't make it, (You'll look like such a gimp.)
If I don't make it, I'll look like a wimp. (STRIKE!)
Flop sweat! You know I'm having a heart attack.
I think my toes have lost all their feeling.
Flop sweat! A thousand monkeys are on my back.
My nose is turning blue and I'm peeling.
You know if I don't make it, (it's never gonna work.)
If I don't make it, (Your dad will go berserk.)
If I don't make it, I'll look like a jerk.
The place is here. Your time has come.
Is it …………………?
It's not fair to make me look like a bum, standing out here all alone. (STRIKE!)
Flop sweat! The perspiration is drenching me.
It must look like I've been in a shower.
Flop sweat! Anticipation is wrenching me.
And every second seems like an hour....
You know if I don't make it, (Your life will be a lie.)
If I don't make it, (Can't look dad in the eye.)
If I don't make it.... I think I'll just die....
(Ay, yi yi yi………….)
STRIKE THREE! YOU'RE OUT!
Written: Benny Hester, Buddy Sheffield
Lead: Crystal Lewis
Background: rest of cast
For dreaming all the time of races I will never run.
But I wish I could tell them how my dreaming makes me feel.
It may be true. I can't win now. They say I never will.
But I can dream, and when I dream I run.
If I know that I can do it, it's as good as done.
And I know that things are never hopeless as they seem.
But it won't worry me, as long as I can dream.
Hey look I'm running now. I'm really getting fast, I'm moving like the wind.
I'm gonna run my race at last. I know that I can win.
Cause I can dream. And when I dream I run.
If I know that I can do it, it's as good as done.
And I know that things are never hopeless as they seem.
But it won't worry me, as long as I can dream.
(And now, receiving the medal for second place in the inner city track meet….. Angie.)
I accept this on behalf of the Fernwood Flash!
Oh, I can dream. And when I dream I run.
If I know that I can do it, it's as good as done.
And I know, things are never as hopeless as they seem.
But it won't worry me, as long as I can dream.
Yeah…..I can dream.School Daze
Substitution
Written: John Crane, James Raymond
Vocals: entire cast
Where's the party? Room 302! Party hard! We got a substitute!
Substitution. We got a substitution. Substitution. We got a substitution.
Listen up. You wanna get your kicks.
In room 302, somebody called in sick.
No need to study or be astute.
'Cause in 302 we got a substitute.
Come on in and join the club,
'Cause in 302 we got ourselves a sub.
Be on time. Don't be tardy.
When the cats away, the mice are gonna party.
No homework to hand in. We got ourselves a stand in.
We don't need to do a thing, but party with the second string.
We go to school, to get ahead.
We came to class, we got a sub instead!
(Sub in the house!)
Substitution. We got a substitution. Substitution. We got a substitution.
Written: Buddy Sheffield, Benny Hester, James Raymond
Vocals: Shawn Daywalt, Micki Duran, Ivan Dudynsky, Crystal Lewis,
Dominic Lucero, Natalie Nucci, David Sidoni
Is anybody looking? My hands are really sweating.
Sex education! Why does it make me feel so strange?
Sex education! Do my hormones really have to change?
Oh no they're taking off their [censored]!
I can't believe they show her [censored]!
And you can almost see his [censored]!
Is that how we're supposed to [censored]?
Sex education! Do the other kids feel it too?
Sex education! Is what the guys in the gym say really true?
And now they're going in the [censored]!
I can't believe he really [censored]!
Oh no, I can't believe she [censored]!
And are they really gonna [censored]?
Sex education! Do they know how this blows my mind?
Sex education! Can it be I'm really going blind?
Sex education! Why do they have to show this stuff?
Sex education! Why do they show enough and enough?
[censored]
Abusement Park
Road Kill
To feed your hungry bunch,
And you'd like to find a way to spread your bucks,
Try a great new source of protein,
And it's found on Highway 40.
Try a rabbit that's been flattened by a truck.Self Conscious
Written: Buddy Sheffield
Lead: Mark David, Natalie Nucci
Background: rest of cast
It looks like someone took a quesinart and used it on my face.
I'm self conscious! Self conscious!
Are all the other kids gonna laugh at my clothes?
And I have something really awful hanging out of my nose!
I'm self conscious! (He's a freak! No one else can see him!)
Self conscious! (By all the guys, except the ones who hate him.)
I think I'd be ok if my teeth were not so grey, and I had somebody else's head and neck.
(Dream on, dream on, dream on!)
My feet are much too big, and my nose looks like a pig,
and my body looks like it's been in a wreck.
(Dream on, dream on, dream on!)
My hair is much too kinky. My mouth is much too large.
My thighs look like two redwoods, and my butt looks like a barge.
Self conscious! (What a dog! Even frogs wouldn't dare to kiss her!)
Self conscious! (……………….Frankenstein! )
Self conscious! I'm self conscious!
Self conscious!
Written: Benny Hester, Brent Maher, Randy Goodrum
Lead: Crystal Lewis
Background: rest of cast
I doubt if they would understand a love so rare,
that was always there. But I do not care.
And if the world stops turning. And if the sun stops burning.
If you're there with me, then I would not be scared.
If I could live forever. And I was promised paradise,
that you are there. I do not care.
And if the world stops turning. And if the sun stops burning.
If you're there with me, then I would not be scared.
If I could live forever. And I was promised paradise,
I do not care.
Can you tell by the way I hold your hand,
I do not care if people stop and stare?
I do not care. No.... Do not care.
TV On Trial
TV Head
Written: Buddy Sheffield
Lead: Dominic Lucero
Background: Mark David, David Sidoni, Julene Renee, Crystal Lewis
And when I go to bed, I use it as a night light.
TV head. TV head. Watch it till my eyes turn red.
TV head. TV head. Please don't make me go to bed.
I am a TV head. I watch it night and day.
And with my VCR, I even get a replay.
TV head. TV head. Watch it till my eyes turn red.
TV head. TV head. Please don't make me go to bed.
I am a TV head. I watch it my room.
I watch it for so long, my head is like a vacuum.
TV head. TV head. Watch it till my eyes turn pink.
TV head. TV head. Please don't make me try to ... think.
Written: John Crane, Benny Hester, Marty Walsh
Vocals: John Crane, Mark David, Shawn Daywalt, Crystal Lewis, Dominic
Lucero, Natalie Nucci
You be the judge.
Tell me that, tell me that, tell me that you like it.
You be the judge.
Tell me that, tell me that, tell me, tell me that you like it.
You be the judge.
Tell me......that! Tell me that you like it.
Tell me that you like it, why don't you be the judge!
Written: John Crane, Benny Hester, Marty Walsh, James Raymond
Lead: John Crane, Seymour Green, Crystal Lewis, Shawn Daywalt
Background: rest of cast
And I get the Brady Bunch, Golden Girls, Facts of Life, A Different World.
Doogie Howser, Cosby Show, Letterman, Arsenio.
Gilligan, the Price is Right, 60 Minutes, Vanna White.
Thirtysomething, Wonder Years, MTV, Roseanne, and Cheers.
Full House, Seinfeld, Star Trek, the mind meld.
Don't make me give it up.
LA Law, and Jeopardy, Dallas, Coach, and Dynasty.
Murphy Brown, Happy Days, Jeffersons, and Growing Pains.
Andy Griffith, Weather Channel, Sally, Phil, and Oprah's panel.
Honeymooners, HBO, Cinemax, and 210.
News shows, talk shows, mini-series, game shows.
Don't make me give it up.
I don't usually like to gloat, but let me tell you about my remote.
I can turn it on, turn it off, turn it up, and turn it down.
Freeze the frame, back it up, stop the tape, mute the sound.
Channel up, channel down, crank it high, keep it low.
Show the date, set the time, monotone, and STEREO.
On the couch or in the bed, there's nothing like that inferred.
Don't make me give it up.
If you think it's good at night time, let me tell you 'bout the daytime.
Jimmy said that Sally died, but Betty knew that Jimmy lied.
Betty saw him on the street, arm in arm with Marguerite.
Lizzie had a baby boy. Named him after lover Roy.
But he's into quite a mess, cause the baby wasn't his.
Violence, love, and passion, dressed up in the latest fashion.
Don't make me give it up. Don't make me give it up.
Don't make me give it up. Don't make me give it up.First Date
Be A Rebel
Written: Buddy Sheffield
Lead: Dominic Lucero, Ivan Dudynsky, David Sidoni
Background: Natalie Nucci, Julene Renee, Micki Duran
I'm strictly on the level, like everyone else.
And I want to learn to talk like the rebels talk and walk the rebel walk,
Think like the rebels think and drink the rebel drink,
Laugh at the rebel jokes and smoke the rebel smokes.
And on, and on, and on, and....
....I wanna be a rebel like a wild, wild rebel....(repeat)
I want to be a rebel, like everyone else.
Be different as the devil, like everyone else.
Don't ask me what I think, cause I don't know, until I take a poll.
Got no philosophy, unless the guys agree.
Got no identity, but it don't bother me. Perhaps I'll find one on TV.
I want to be a rebel, like everyone else.
An independent rebel.
Like everyone else. Like everyone else. Like everyone else.
All together now. Like everyone else.
Vocals: Crystal Lewis, John Crane, Mark David, Shawn Daywalt, Natalie
Nucci, David Sidoni
Welcome back to the Roundhouse!
Welcome back to the Roundhouse!
Welcome back to the Roundhouse!
Welcome back. Welcome back- hey!
Back, back, back, back to ya!
Back, back, back, back to ya!
Yeah!
Written: Buddy Sheffield
Lead: Crystal Lewis
Background: Shawn Daywalt, Micki Duran, Natalie Nucci, Julene Renee
He said hello, there's something in your hair.
She said I know, but I don't really care.
It's not for show. I don't wanna glow. I only want to be me.
He said you're strange. Don't know what you're about.
If you could change, I'd like to take you out.
She said I doubt But you can figure out, I only want to be me.
What if you don't like the way I keep my hair,
What if you're not taken with the clothes I wear,
Doesn't have to mean there isn't someone there.
You can let me be, or you can learn to see. I only want to be me.
(dialogue between Mikey and The Girl)
I can run like a river on a downhill slide. I can fly (like a genie) on a carpet ride.
There's a light inside of me I just can't hide.
And if it should glow, you know it's not for show. Oh, no....
I only want to be me. That's all. Oh, I want to be me.Take Me Higher
Walked in the door, saw you standing there
Fell in love, what can I say?
All the guys around, were selling you the town
And she goes out there on display.
My love's a raging fire, and money is not my desire.
No limosines to pull me round,
Just let your love take me high, high, higher.
No cool clothes (No), no big shows (No),
No big shots to bring me down,
Just let your love take me high, high, higher.
Second verse, same as the first,
Could get better, but it's gonna get worse.
Don't need no jewelry (No), no diamonds (No),
No limosines to pull me round,
Just let your love take me high, high, higher.
No cool clothes (No), no big shows (No),
No big shots to bring me down,
Just let your love take me high, high, higher.Still Waiting For Love
All by myself
Alone in the night
No call for help
I gotta do right
I'm gonna be right somehow,
I'm not gonna cry no more
'Cause somewhere deep inside
I know what I'm here for.
I'm still looking for the meaning
I'm still waiting for love
Hold it up for something
To believe in
When I feel what is right
No compromise
I gotta get where I'm going
The world will keep turning round
I hope what I'm missing
Will soon be found
I'm still waiting
I'm still waiting for love
I'm still looking for the meaning
I'm still waiting for love
Hold it up for something
To believe in
I'm still waiting, for love.
