ANNOUNCER(Spoken)
Ladies and gentlemen, the Vickers Theatre,
Chicago's finest finest home of famile entertainment,
is proud to announce a first. The first time, anywhere,
there has been an act of this nature. Not only one
little lady but two! You've read about them in the papers
and now here they are- a double header! Chicago's own
killer dillers- those two scintillating sinners-
Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly.

ROXIE AND VELMA
You can like the life you're livin'
You can live the life you like
You can even marry Harry
But mess around wiht Ike
And that's
Good, isn't it?
Grand, isn't it?
Great, isn't it?
Swell, isn't it?
Fun, isn't it?
But nothing stays

In fifty years or so
It's gonna change, you know
But, oh, it's heaven
Nowadays

ANNOUNCER
Okay, you babes of jazz. Let's pick up the pace.
Let's shake the blues away. Let's make the parties longer.
Let's make the skirts shorter and shorter. Let's make
the music hotter. Let's go to hell in a fast car and
KEEP IT HOT!

Why you wanna make me cry
Aren't you tired of disappointing me
Don't you know that I deserve better
Than you ever gave to me
You know it's just the way
I give, you take, baby

Every time I'm up then you come around
And you try to bring me down, my soul
Keeps on telling me that I've gotta let you go
My soul, and with all your lies
Boy, you've tainted everything
My soul, I've gotta let you go, 'cause I know
You're poisoning my soul

Remember when you gave me strength
Baby, now you only make me weak
I pray somehow that I can break
The spell you put on me

I can't live with you, I can't live without your love
You keep telling me and when you come around I just break on down
'Cause I know you no good, I can't live without your love

Nowadays
I keep to myself
Everybody else can look some other way
Things I say
Seem to get me in the
Trouble that I've been through for too many days

Trouble is a friend of mine I'd like to leave behind
I like my friends more refined

Things I lose
Weighing on my heart
Every time I start to think maybe it's through
A little lie
Goes a long way
when you can't say quite for sure what's the truth

The truth is something no one really wants to hear you say
Just how ya doin', and have a nice day

Nowadays
You go for a walk
Better not stop and wave or say hello
Just as soon
People will spit
Give you s~~~ just for looking at them and walking too slow

Slowly and methodically I lock the world away
Haunted by our better days

Can't comprehend, dividends end friendships
Infinite kinships dismissed amidst dead presidents exist
Poor peeps is pissed, the rich benefit taxes
Passes all access lavish
Extracting cabbage from famished rabbits
Crime runnin' rampant attracting active young minds
Habit cash a magnet
Magnetising addicts havin' and who haven't ends
Back-stabbing friends
Women jockin' who got it, no Benz no yacht kid
Nah kid pockets get clocked kid before ya knock it, uh!
Nowadays we're raised to praise it, save it if phrase fits
Unappraised gaze enslaved by crave depraving shit
And yet we livin'
Sittin' within a world where greed has proceeded the act of
givin'
And it's a given

(chorus)
Nowadays it seems like we in the last phase, maybe it's me
Nowadays it seems like we in the last phase, could it be?

Sisters and brothers where's the love of one another
Discovering others of us dumber prejudice to colour, creed and
religion
Driven hate within innocent children
Stop the killin', instil goodwill, we all be chillin', building
then seal it
Surrealist revealing since the wheel hit, hearts conceal it
When death hits other men how many feel it?
Envy alive and rising, hatred has mankind declining
Keep in mind when time ends
If orange as fossil findings, why then unkind when combined?
Vibin' peacefully is needful, regal or not, people created
equal
Ain't no sequel
Believe to exist the positive needed
As evil retrieves negative energy and feeds it baby peep it

(chorus)

Life ain't twice a lifetime, dice rollin', survivin'
Confined in gunfire, crime thrivin', and babies whining
Narcotics, sirens, entwined Aids-related death findings
Eyeing lab mice with virus, mesmerising minds of science
Blood pressure rising, unwinding while sippin' what could be
blinding
Genocide's incog in spots we unlikely to find in
Combined with stress, sublime bottom line forming a hybrid
It's like, kid, you gotta fight it son
Weak lose and strong survive it
As pushers lure without a pause, what you diggin' digs in it's
claws
Dimes on corners offer draws, the score's uneven
Leavin' me feelin' someone's cheatin'
What we teachin' in schools been used for the wrong reasons,
defeating the purpose