Song Title:         Life's a Show
Music and Lyrics:   Joss Whedon
Source : TV Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Episode Title:      Once More With Feeling (AKA Buffy the Musical)
Season:             6, Episode: 7
Original Airdate:   November 6, 2001
Written,Directed by:Joss Whedon
Transcribed by: Jeff Burke the Bassoon Player <jeffbsn-nospam@bdkw.yi.org>
Thanks To: Jörg Plate  at  http://www.psyche.kn-bremen.de for the
             transcription script from which I gleaned the lyrics.

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Life's a Show
Joss Whedon

Tempo:120 bpm(verse), 90 bpm(chorus),105 bpm(bridge),
  (interlude 2) accel. from 120 to 160 bpm.
Key: C (verse);D (chorus); Bm (bridge)


{VERSE 1}
BUFFY:
|4/4   C                  |Gm           |C
         Life's a show and we all play a part
   |Gm             |F
And when the music starts,
  |Am          |G      |.
We open up our hearts


|C               |Gm                  |C
It's all right if some things come out wrong.
     |Gm          |F
We'll sing a happy song
    |Am            |Gsus G
And you can sing a-long.


|C                     G
Where's there's life,  There's hope.
|C         G
Everyday's A gift.
|C         G
Wishes can Come true.
|C           G
Whistle while You work.

|6/8   Cm      Em
       So hard  All day.


|4/4     Bb                |Dm
           To be like other girls
|Bb               | Dm        |C
*To fit in in this glittering world.

|Am           |G
Don't give me songs.

<GILES:She needs backup. Anya, Tara...>

|Am          |G
Don't give me songs.

{CHORUS}
|Dsus9              |Bb   Asus  |C Csus(2)(#4) | A7
Give me something to sing about_________.
                           Ah___________

|Dsus9              |Bb   Asus  |C Csus(2)(#4) | A
I need something to sing about.


{INTERLUDE 1}
|Em  Bm | Em Bm | Em Bm |


{VERSE 2}
|C
Life's a song
   |Gm             |C
You don't get to re-hearse.
    |Gm         |F
And every single verse
    |Am               |G
Can make it that much worse.

|C
Still my friends
     |Gm            |C
Don't know why I ig-nore
   |Gm               |F
The million things or more
  |Am              |Gsus G
I should be dancing for.


|C          G
All the joy Life sends.
|C     G
Family And friends.
|C             G
All the twists And bends
|C           |G
Knowing that It ends.

|6/8   Cm        Em
       Well that De-pends...


|4/4   Bb                 |Dm
        On if they let you go,

|Bb       |Dm             |C
On if they know enough to know

|Am           |G
That when you bow
|Am           |G
You leave the crowd.

{CHORUS-INTERLUDE}
|Dsus9      |Bb   Asus  |C Csus(2)(#4) |Csus(2)(#4)

{BRIDGE 1}
|Em           |Bm
 There was no pain,

|F#m
No fear, no doubt
     |Em
Till they pulled me
       |Bm  Bdim |Bdim
out Of  hea-ven.

|Em            |Bm
So that's my refrain.
|F#m
I live in hell
       |Em                    |Bm  Bdim |Bdim
'Cause I've been expelled from hea-ven.

                |Bm  Bdim |Bdim                 |
I think I was in hea-ven.

{CHORUS}
|Dsus9                  |Bb   Asus  |C Csus#4 | A
So give me something to sing about.

      |Dsus9           |Bb   Asus  |C Csus#4 | A
Please give me something.


{INTERLUDE 3}     <getting faster and faster>
|Em Bm|Em Bm|Em Bm|Em Bm|Em Bm|Em Bm
|Em Bm|Em Bm|Em Bm|Em Bm|Em Bm|Em ___


{BRIDGE 2}
SPIKE:
|Em          |Bm
Life's not a song.
|F#m
Life isn't bliss.
|Em
Life is just this.
    |Bm  Bdim |Bdim
It's living.

|Em        |Bm
You'll get along.
|F#m
The pain that you feel
|Em
Only can heal
    |Bm  Bdim |Bdim
By   liv-ing.
                 |Bm  Bdim |Bdim
You have to go on living.
                 |Bm  Bdim |Bdim
So that one of us is living.


{CODA}
DAWN:
|Bm  Bdim    |
<The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.>

|C Gm| Gm

|F  | F  ||

SWEET
<Now that was a show-stopping number. Not quite the
fireworks that I was looking for->



Source: Jeff Burke the Bassoon Player<jeffbsn-nospam@bdkw.yi.org>
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