Beautiful

[Veronica]
September 1st, 1989
Dear Diary: I believe I'm a good person
Ya know, I think there's good in everyone, but here we are first day of senior year
I look around at all these kids I've known all my life and
I ask myself: What happened?

[Students]
Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-Eyes! Poser! Lard Ass!

[Veronica]
We were so tiny, happy and shiny, playing tag and getting chased

[Students]
Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus!

[Veronica]
Singing and clapping
Laughing and napping
Baking cookies, eating paste

[Students]
Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback!

[Veronica]
Then we got bigger
That was the trigger
Like the Huns invading Rome

Sorry!

Welcome to my school
This ain't no high school
This is the Thunderdome
Hold your breath
And count the days
We're graduating soon

[Students]
White trash

[Veronica]
College will be paradise
If I'm not dead by June!
But I know, I know, life can be beautiful
I pray, I pray for a better way
If we changed back then
We could change again
We can be beautiful

[Geek]
Ow!

[Veronica]
Just not today
(Hey, are you okay?)

[Geek]
Get away, nerd

[Students]
Freak! Slut! Cripple! Homo! Homo! Homo!

[Veronica]
Things will get better
Soon as my letter
Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown
Awake from this coma
Take my diploma
Then I can blow this town
Dream of ivy-covered walls
And smoky French cafes

[Ram]
Watch it!

[Veronica]
Fight the urge to strike a match and send this dump ablaze!

RAM
Oops

[Veronica]
Ram Sweeney. Third year as linebacker
And eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a rude dick!

[Ram]
What did you say to me skank?

[Veronica]
Aaah, nothing!

[Veronica & Students]
But I know, I know, I know
Life can be beautiful
I pray, I pray
For a better way
We were kind before
We can be kind once more
We can be beautiful

[Veronica]
Ah! Hey Martha

[Martha]
Hey

[Veronica]
Martha Dumpstock. My best friend since diapers

[Martha]
Are we on for movie night?

[Veronica]
Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail

[Martha]
I rented The Princess Bride

[Veronica]
Wohoho, again? Wait don't you have it memorized by now?

[Martha]
What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending

[Kurt]
Martha Dumptruck! Wide load! Honnnnnk!

[Veronica]
Kurt Kelly. Quarterback. He is the smartest guy on the football team
Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf
Hey! Pick that up right now!

[Kurt]
I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me?

[Veronica]
Yeah, I am. I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend?
You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. A future gas station attendant

[Kurt]
You got a zit right there

[Veronica]
Dear Diary
Why

[Students]
Why do they hate me?
Why don't I fight back?
Why do I act like such a creep?

[Veronica]
Why

[Students]
Why won't he date me?
Why did I hit him?
Why do I cry myself to sleep?

[Veronica]
Why

Students
Somebody hug me!
Somebody fix me!
Somebody save me!
Send me a sign, God!
Give me some hope here!
Something to live for!

[Students]
Ah!Heather, Heather, and Heather!

[Veronica]
And then there's the Heathers. They float above it all

[Students]
I love Heather, Heather, and Heather

[Veronica]
Heather McNamara. Head cheerleader. Her dad is loaded - he sells engagement rings

[Students]
I want Heather, Heather, and Heather!

[Veronica]
Heather Duke. Runs the yearbook. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants

[Students]
I need Heather, Heather, and Heather!

[Veronica]
And Heather Chandler. The Almighty
She is a mythic bitch. They are solid Teflon - never bothered, never harassed
I would give anything to be like that

[Hipster]
I'd like to be their boyfriend

[Students]
That would be beautiful

[Girl]
If I sat at their table, guys would notice me

[Students]
So beautiful

[Martha]
I'd like them to be nicer

[Students]
That would be beautiful

[Geek]
I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse
And leave her tied up for the rats!

[Heather Chandler]
Grow up, Heather. Bulimia is so '87

[Heather McNamara]
Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather

[Heather Duke]
Yeah, Heather. Maybe I should

[Miss. Fleming]
Ah, Heather and Heather and Heather
Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting. You're late for class

[Heather Chandler]
Heather wasn't feeling well. We're helping her

[Miss. Fleming]
Not without a hall pass you're not. A week's detention

[Veronica]
Actually, Miss. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. Yearbook committee

[Miss. Fleming]
I see you're all listed. Hurry up and get where you're going

[Heather Chandler]
This is an excellent forgery. Who are you?

[Veronica]
Veronica Sawyer. I crave a boon

[Heather Chandler]
What boon?

[Veronica]
Let me sit at your table at lunch. Just once. No talking necessary
If people think you guys tolerate me, they'll leave me alone
Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips and absence notes

[Heather Duke]
How about prescriptions?

[Heather Chandler]
Shut up, Heather

[Heather Duke]
Sorry, Heather

[Heather Chandler]
For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure

[Heather McNamara]
And a symmetrical face. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull
I'd have matching halves. That's very important

[Heather Duke]
Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds

[Heather Chandler]
And ya know, ya know, ya know?
This could be beautiful
Mascara, maybe some lip gloss
And we're on our way
Get this girl some blush
And Heather, I need your brush
Let's make her beautiful

[Heather McNamara]
Let's make her beautiful

[Heather Duke]
Let's make her beautiful

[Heather Chandler]
Make her beautiful
Okay?

[Veronica]
Okay!

[Kurt]
Out of my way geek!

[Geek]
I don't want any trouble -

[Ram]
You're gonna die at 3pm!

[Girls]
Don't you dare touch me! Get away, pervert!

[Geek]
What'd I ever do to them?

[Students]
Who could survive this?
I can't escape this!
I think I'm dying!

[Girl]
Who's that with Heather?

[Students]
Whoa. Heather, Heather, Heather

[Girl]
And someone!

[Students]
Heather, Heather, Heather

[Ram and Kurt]
And a babe!

[Students]
Heather, Heather, Heather

[Martha]
Veronica?!

[Students]
Veronica, Veronica, Veronica

[Veronica & Students]
And ya know
Ya know, ya know
Life can be beautiful
You hope, you dream, you pray
And you get your way!
Ask me how it feels
Looking like hell on wheels
My God, it's beautiful!
I might be beautiful
And when you're beautiful
It's a beautiful frickin' day!

[Students]
Heather! Heather! Heather! Veronica!
Heather! Heather! Heather! Veronica! Veronica! Veronica! Veronica!