Song One — Vivienne Arquette’s Opening Number

My mother told me to be a lady, she said, To be sweet and dainty, she said. “Find a man who is rich and kind,” she said, “For your beauty won’t last forever,” she said. But I never wanted a man, said I, To be locked in a can, said I. There’s too much to taste and touch, said I, Too much in this world before I die. I am Vivienne Arquette, a woman of my time, With a passport full of cities and a heart full of rhyme. I dance with the girls who dance with the moon, And I live every night like the world ends soon.