People Like Us (Original Broadway Cast/2000)

Lyrics: Michael John La Chuisa Music: Michael John La Chuisa
Queenie This city. So many lights you can actually Pretend one of ‘em is shining on you.
I always wanted to see the lights of broadway I always wanted to hear the traffic roar I always wanted to be a part Of new york city’s great big heart And now I am. I couldn’t ask for
I was that girl I’m all of them Trapped in a room full of shadows and not enough Light And soon we will fade into this walls into the nothingness The end
Black People like us: we get through the day Surviving the city way better than most We go through the motions From nightcap to nightcap Here but not here. With the heart of a ghost people like us: we meet up some night In a room full of strangers who call themselves Friends It feels like a dream But it’s too hard to tell Where the dream begins And the real world ends And where ‘Where do we belong’ We might have to ask ourselves: Where ‘ Where do we belong’ People like us: Private stock. Where
Queenie People like us. We take lovers like pills Just hoping to cure what we know we can’t fix We’ll lay in their arms And we’ll say pretty things We'll be there but not there We’ll still get our kicks People like us we should get out kicks And we heal awful fast and we don’t even scar We are here but not here In a roomful of friends We could join the fray Or stay here where we are And where ‘ Where do we belong’ Do we need to ask ourselves Where ‘ Where do we belong’ People like us: Damaged goods Where Black We dance alone on a crowded floor Queenie We weren’t given much Black And we don’t expect much more Queenie ‘More’ Is not a word we use Black ‘More’ Would never be enough Both People like us: we slip through the cracks We’ll never be famous. So who’s gonna care Nobody needs us And everyone’s had us We’re here but not here: We’ve been there but not there And where ‘ Where do we belong’ We only have ourselves. Where ‘ Where do we belong’ Queenie People like us Lost Black And found Both Where Where