BUFFY: Life's a show
And we all play our parts
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.
(Giles, Anya, Xander, Willow, and Tara run in.)
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.

BUFFY: Give me something to sing about.

ANYA/TARA: Ahhhhh...

BUFFY: I need something to sing about.

ANYA/TARA: Ahhhhh...

BUFFY: 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
Till they pulled me out
Of Heaven.
So that's my refrain.
I live in Hell
'Cause I've been expelled
From Heaven
I think I was in Heaven
So give me something to sing about.
Please
Give me something...


(dances wildly, starts to burn up, till Spike arrives & stops her)

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 have to go one living
(with a little smile) So one of us is living.


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

• Buffy's Death & Revivification

written by: Joss Whedon; transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com). Action descriptions shortened by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/107oncemorewithfeeling.html