[ Featuring Original Broadway Cast of Lempicka ]
[MARINETTI, spoken]
We fought a war that broke the world in two
The world has irrevocably changed
[MALE STUDENT 1, spoken]
Yes
[MALE STUDENT 2, spoken]
Yes
[MALE STUDENT 3, spoken]
Yes
[MARINETTI, spoken]
We can't go back
[MARINETTI]
Our innocence is gone
We are sober, broken creatures
And we need art that speaks where we live now
With the knowledge of the knife's edge
[MARINETTI, spoken]
But look at this
Trees! The river! And... trees!
[MARINETTI]
A streetlamp glowing down on wet cobblestones
How very Parisian!
It would make some bourgeois housewife happy
When she hangs it behind her couch
[MARINETTI, spoken]
And speaking of couch...
Ah, here we go!
A nude reclining
Why do we ever need to see another goddamn naked woman?!
There's a new beauty in the world today
[MARINETTI]
This is the age of the machine
Man now can dream of perfection
[MALE STUDENTS]
Ooh
[MARINETTI]
With speed and steel
Flame-spitting engine of the automobile
Machine perfection!
[MALE STUDENTS]
Ooh
[MARINETTI]
Destroy the past
Destroy convention
Everything that hinders our ascension
To perfection
[MALE STUDENTS]
Beauty, speed, the machine
[MARINETTI]
No more paintings of ballerinas
No more paintings of sad musicians
No more paintings of naked women
Or bowls of f*cking fruit
All must be smashed
Rules are meant to be broken
Glorious destruction — pave the way for truth!
[MALE STUDENTS]
In this new age of the machine
Man now can dream of perfection
Ooh
[MARINETTI & (MALE STUDENTS)]
With speed and steel
Flame-spitting engine of the automobile
Machine perfection
(Machine perfection)
(Ooh)
Destroy the past
(The speed, the machine)
Destroy convention
Everything that hinders our ascension
In this new age of the machine
Man now can dream of perfection
(Ooh)
[MARINETTI]
Beauty, speed, the machine
The future is barrelling down on us
Feel the rush
Feel the beauty of speed, the machine
The future's careening like a drunken thing
Hear it sing!
Feel the rush of the wind
While the pistons push
Hear the whoosh of the engines that pass you by
See the sky filling up
With machines
Each silver plane, a bird on the wing
The future's upon us!
What a glorious thing!
Can you feel it? This minute?
The future is here!
It's tomorrow now!