Metro

Metro is a Polish musical with music by Janusz Stokłosa, lyrics by Agata and Maryna Miklaszewska, choreographed and directed by Janusz Józefowicz. In 1992 English version of the musical premiered on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre.

Song lyrics
They can lead: but I will never follow Take it all: take all of it you can Have your fill of all they make you swallow
 * But not me: I won’t give in
 * But not me

You’re running in place Tomorrow is wearing Your yesterday’s face
 * The days pass you by
 * But not me

So many tongues and religions came to be They couldn’t share the tower to the heavens They tore it down and let it crumble to the sea
 * So many people so many different races
 * Babel

Give me a wrong I can do right for Give me some laws that don’t abuse me Rules that won’t confuse me
 * Give me a cause that I can fight for
 * Bluzwis

Question his ethics and he’ll cut your balls off All that he lives for is money
 * A deal is a deal; not a one that he calls off
 * Boogie

But desire is mixed with dejection Though I’ve wooded you: obsessively pursued you It was not in my plan my lusting for a man
 * How I crave you: your face is perfection
 * In God we trust, Jan addressing Benjamin Franklin’s image on $100 banknote.

Germans will beat you; after they lose Chinese will duck you; Frenchmen will f*** you Jews all have talent; too bad they’re Jews
 * Spanish are lazy; Russians are crazy
 * Labels

Unto your care My soul I offer Here my prayer Goddess of silver Please hear my plea Mistress of fortune Come to me
 * Pale star of morning
 * Litany

At a point between your dreams and your survival Tunnels cross; tracks can take you anywhere To change your life between departure and arrival
 * When you’re waiting at a station between here and there
 * Metro

Life goes on, people change, and I no longer cry Doors are closed, left behind Still I hold you in my mind
 * I’ve loved and seen love die
 * Only in my dreams

The kind of window that I can never break No matter how I try to push my heart against it It keeps on bending with every move I make Beyond the window, the world goes on without me Life goes by me while here I… stay
 * Behind a window, I stand and watch the people
 * Window

what I won’t do for the money for money, for money I’d gladly sell you my soul
 * The money, the money
 * The wheel of Fortune