(Mimi’s apartment)
MIMI
What’s the time?
Well it’s gotta be close to midnight
My body’s talking to me
It says, “Time for danger”
It says “I wanna commit a crime
Wanna be the cause of a fight
Wanna put on a tight skirt and flirt
With a stranger”
I’ve had a knack from way back
At breaking the rules once I learn the games
Get up – life’s too quick
I know someplace sick
Where this chick’ll dance in the flames
We don’t need any money
I always get in for free
You can get in too
If you get in with me
Let’s go out tonight
I have to go out tonight
You wanna play?
Let’s run away
We won’t be back before it’s Christmas day
Take me out tonight (meow)
When I get a wink from the doorman
Do you know how lucky you’ll be?
That you’re on line with the feline of Avenue B
Let’s go out tonight
I have to go out tonight
You wanna prowl
Be my night owl?
Well take my hand we’re gonna howl
Out tonight
In the evening I’ve got to roam
Can’t sleep in the city of neon and chrome
Feels too damn much like home
When the Spanish babies cry
So let’s find a bar
So dark we forget who we are
And all the scars from the
Nevers and maybes die
Let’s go out tonight
Have to go out tonight
You’re sweet
Wanna hit the street?
Wanna wail at the moon like a cat in heat?
Just take me out tonight
(MIMI makes her way to ROGER’s door and ends the song in front of him.)
Please take me out tonight
Don’t forsake me — out tonight
I’ll let you make me — out tonight
Tonight — tonight — tonight
