Kopi Shop Rock!

Start the day at 6 o’clock
Hit the coffee, make it hot
On your feet and don’t you stop
We’ll rock this coffeeshop

Grab the chairs and tabletops
Don’t slow down now, chop chop chop
We’ll bop doo wop and lindy hop
And rock this coffeeshop

Walk this way
Everyday
We go he-ey (he-ey)
No time to wait
Or take a break
We go he-ey (he-ey)

Too busy for negativity
Koptiam philosophy
Say with me

Come to Lai Lai Kopitiam now
Original number one
30 years the best kopi-o
Hey hey kopi-o

Golden Rose’s, don’t be fooled now
Bright and fresh, new and improved
Other shops are too lousy-o
Hey hey kopi-o

Co – fee – shop – rock

KWAN: Special offer, 2 for the price of 1!

ROSE: Even more special offer, 3 for the price of 1!

KWAN: 4 for the price of 1!

ROSE: 5!

KWAN: Free coffee!

ROSE: You drink, we pay!

Come and try and don’t be shy
Kopi, toast, and teh or milo
We’ve got everything you need
Just come in, take a seat

Run from table to table
Keep your balance if you’re able
Work all day and we won’t stop
We’ll rock this coffeeshop

With You by My Side

(stanza)
We can live in a house on a street
With a view of the city and the world at our feet
And a garden out back stretching 90 feet wide
And with you by my side

We can buy us a dog, like a beagle
And a cat and a horse and a duck and an eagle
Or maybe I’ll just stay with me and my bride
With you by my side

(chorus)
I’ll wake up in the morning and the first thing that I’ll see
Before I brush my teeth or even have my morning coffee
Will be your smiling face as you are smiling down at me
Cos you and me
Eventually

(chorus)
When I crawl into my bed and I turn off the light
When I close my eyes and slowly slip into the night
I’ll hold on to the sound of you breathing by my side
Cos you and me
Eventually

(stanza)
Or we could travel all over the world
Through deserts and treetops, through the sky up above
We’ll walk down the beach as it fades from the light
With you by my side

Italy with its towers precarious
The walls up in China, or the bright lights of Paris
And learn how the people in Rome say goodnight
With you by my side

(chorus)
I’ll wake up in the morning and the first thing that I’ll see
Before I brush my teeth or even have my morning coffee
Will be your smiling face as you are smiling down at me
Cos you and me
Eventually

(chorus)
When I crawl into my bed and I turn off the light
When I close my eyes and slowly slip into the night
I’ll hold on to the sound of you breathing by my side
Cos you and me
Eventually

The Jade Dragon

You see the jade dragon you better understand
Is given to every leader of this clan
My father, his father, my father’s father’s father
Respect the jade dragon hor, ta ma de
And when my father left his one to me
He said “Boy ah, listen closely, hor
The jade dragon means you own this street
If they don’t listen, wah lau eh, beat ah”

Hei hei hei, hor hee
Don’t come and tell me le boh lui
Your kopitiam is on my street
You better come and pay money
Every time I come you say
You cannot pay

Hei hei hei, hor hee
Don’t come and think Ah-Long ham ji
I say you run you better run
I burn down your kopitiam
Everyone know how to say
That I’m towkay

All the girls here looking for
Ah-Long to make them his za bor
My Karen, Sharon, want me to take care them
Number one, number two, up until eleven
All of you better learn to listen to the man
Lim Ah-Long, leader of the Jade Dragon Clan
Le zo si mi, le kua si mi
Kua buay song, wa hor le si ah

Hei hei hei, hor hee
Ga wa gong wei mai ti ki
Don’t want me to be angry
You say right anot, Melody
Everybody in my gang
They understand

Hei hei hei, hor hee
Le gia si don’t mess with me
You think I don’t dare to beat
Never die before is it
See me better run away
When I say
When I say

Hey! Hey! Five-Foot Way!

SALLY

(prologue)
I’m just a simple girl
In a complicated world
Waking up so far away from home

These streets are so peculiar
I don’t know what to do here
Just waiting for the morning sun to rise

The stars up in the skies
Are all I recognise
I watch the world through unfamiliar eyes

ALLAN

(stanza)
Little thing I gotta say
Bout the place I’ve stayed
Since I was only five
There’s nowhere else we
Would rather be
Where the streets, they feel alive
Every corner of the curb
Of our little suburb
Stretching down of every lane
All the pretty girls and guys
Right before your eyes
And everyone they know your name

SENG

(stanza)
If you’re thirsty you can try
A ball of ice
From the uncle down the street
Eh, hello auntie
One bowl of kok kok mee
I buy for you to eat
And maybe if you want
We can watch the wayang
And the Chinese opera show
Or a movie, we can swing
To Capitol Building
Anywhere you want to go

ALLAN

(bridge)
Anything you want to do
You know I can take you
If you only ask me to
Show you everything
Everywhere I’ll bring you
Making all your dreams come true

ALLAN & SENG

(chorus1)
Hey don’t be afraid
Hey you’ll find it’s great
Here in your brand new home
Here you won’t be alone
Living life here by the five foot way

SALLY

(stanza)
Well maybe this street
Is pretty neat
It’s somewhere I could stay

SENG

Don’t worry bout a thing
You’ll fit right in
I’ll make sure you’re okay

SALLY

Let’s go get a bite
Or let’s go shopping
So many things that we could do

ALLAN

Relax slow down
Take a look around
We’ve got time to lose

SALLY

(bridge)
Suddenly the colours shine so brightly
Reds and yellows all around
Even all the sounds of the street delight me
Let’s go take this town

SALLY, ALLAN & SENG

(chorus2)
Hey let’s go and play
Hey all through the day
Here with the people talking
Here with the people rocking
Living life here by the five foot way

(chorus1)
Hey don’t be afraid
Hey you’ll find it’s great
Here in your brand new home
Here you won’t be alone
Living life here by the five foot way
Living life here by the five foot way
Living life here by the five foot way

Get Off of My Man

ELIZA

So listen when I tell you
Get off of my man
It shouldn’t be so hard for you to understand
He still lo-lo-loves me
And you’re just over-easy
Now don’t you mess with me
Get off of my man

ALLAN

Now listen when I tell you
Get off of my girl
You know that you don’t have no, no chance with her
The lady needs a man
Not a boy who thinks he can
Now go off, take a twirl
And get off of my girl

ELIZA

Back, back, back away
You think I’m gonna let you stay

ALLAN

Turn, turn, turn around
There’s no room for you in this town

ELIZA & ALLAN

Don’t make me have to make you understand

ELIZA

Get off of my man

ALLAN

Get off of my girl

MELODY

Are you done? Ok, my turn.

Don’t whine at me and tell me
“Get off of my man”
The boys keep falling for me, it’s just who I am
If you can’t keep your baby
Then don’t you come and blame me
So stop me if you can
And get off of my man

SENG

Who says you can tell me
To “get off of my girl”
She hasn’t chosen you yet, so don’t be so sure
You think you’re si beh shuai ah
But you’re just another buaya
Well I can be her guy and
Get off of my girl

MELODY

Back, back, back away
Things aren’t gonna go your way

SENG

Turn, turn, turn around
There’s no room for you in this town

ELIZA

Go, go, go away
I’ll make you regret this day

ALLAN

Take, take, take a hike
We both know which one she likes

ALL

Don’t make me have to make you understand
Get off of my man
Get off of my girl

Finding Your Way

JOSHUA

(stanza)
3 years I’ve spent now
Building a dream out
Of brick and stone

(stanza)
Only to find that
It was a sandcastle
On its own

(bridge)
Finding your way, I thought it would be easy
I had a plan all along
But what if I was wrong

MELODY

(stanza)
Life’s full of sometimes
Sometimes it rains and
Sometimes it shines

(stanza)
We all have our lifelines
Just give it hope and
Just give it time

(bridge)
Finding your way (finding my way), it isn’t always easy (What’s easy anymore)
Just keep your chin up and smile
It only rains for a while (It only rains for a while)

ELIZA

(chorus)
I’ve been walking through the dark
While the music plays the sound of breaking hearts
And I wish I could find an answer
But all I have is just a question mark



JOSHUA

(chorus 2)
It’s cold on your own
It cuts to the bone
And I don’t know if I’ll find my way

SALLY

(stanza)
Starting a new life
Here in a new place
Here on my own

Leaving old faces
And I just can’t help
But feel alone

ALLAN & SENG

(bridge)
Finding your way, it isn’t always easy (what’s easy anymore)
Should I fight for what’s mine
Or put a friend on the line

ROSE

(chorus)
I can’t make sense of life
Full of gangsters and fighting and strife

KWAN

I never though I’d find
That deep inside my heart you’re still alive

ROSE & KWAN

I’ve been walking down this road
That I didn’t know would lead me back to you
I don’t know if there’s still love
On this road that always leads me back to you

EVERYONE

(chorus 2)
The world passes by (It passes by)
But I’ll be alright (I’ll be alright)
And I know that I’ll find my way

(bridge 2)
And there’ll be
No more lies
No more fears
No more crying
No more tears
No regrets
No more pain
No forgetting
No more rain
No falling down
No turning back
No changing to
A different track
No more doubt
No more shame
No more shouting
Out your name

(chorus 2)
The world passes by (It passes by)
But I’ll be alright (I’ll be alright)
And I know that I’ll find my way

The Golden Rose

(Intro)
I still remember now
The silver walls
The golden lights
Of cabaret halls

(Intro)
I hear the people cheer
The piano play
As I step out
Onto the stage

(Stanza)
From near and far
They came to see me sing my songs
A superstar
No longer staying in my kampung

(Stanza)
And then there was
The Towkay Tays and Towkay Tans
They all say “Rose,
You look so pretty in your cheongsam”

(bridge)
It was so grand
Dancing and shopping everyday
So
I say hooray for cabaret

(Chorus)
I was a dream
A beauty queen
And all the men
Asked for my hand

But I said you
Don’t understand
The golden rose
Won’t lean on any man

夜来香我为你歌唱
夜来香我为你思量
矮啊我为你歌唱
我为你思量

那南风吹来清凉
那夜莺啼声凄唱
月下的花儿都入梦
只有那夜来香
吐露着芬芳
我爱这夜色茫茫
也爱这夜莺歌唱
更爱那花一般的梦
拥抱着夜来香
吻着夜来香

Rose, Rose I love you with an aching heart
What is your future, now we have to part
Standing on the jetty as the steamer moves away
Golden Rose of Gay World Cabaret

Make way, oh, make way for my Golden Rose
Men crowd in dozens everywhere she goes
In her rickshaw on the street or in a cabaret
"Please make way for Rose" you can hear them say

All my life I shall remember
Oriental music and you in my arms
Perfumed flowers in your tresses
Lotus-scented breezes and swaying palms

(Stanza)
Then suddenly
Sometime in 1963
Everybody
They only want to watch their “TV”

(Stanza)
No more crowds
Just whole day sit there gathering dust
Until the day
When cabaret closed down at last

(bridge)
So low class
TV screens in black and grey
So
I say hooray for cabaret

(Chorus)
But I moved on
I didn’t stop
I started up
My coffeeshop

I traded in
The golden lights
Just to work
From morning until night

(Outro)
Now
This is my life
Pots and pans
Debts and gangs

But
I can’t complain
Life’s given me
My family

So
I’m a dream
A beauty queen
Without a stage

But once
In a while
I say hooray for cabaret

Letting Go

ELIZA

(stanza)
Life’s like a movie
Up on this big screen
Every night

Beautiful dreaming
But in the end still
The movie stops

(bridge)
All that is left, is people crouched in darkness
Pretending life is a show
Pretending they’ll never go

(stanza)
I have been thinking
About a future
Over the seas

Almost saved up enough now
To buy my ticket
And then I’ll leave

(bridge)
I’ll find a school, with something new to teach me
About the world and its seas
The things that I haven’t seen

JOSHUA

(chorus)
You can fly if you desire
But when you come back I’ll be waiting here

ELIZA

I wish I could find an answer
But I don’t know if I’ll ever return

(chorus 2)
Josh, don’t you see
I’ve tried valiantly
But I can’t find a place for you and me

(chorus)
You will find somebody new
And she’ll deserve you more than I do
A girl who’ll stay here with you
And she’ll deserve you more than I do

JOSHUA

I, I know that it’s not true
This can’t be the road we have to choose
I can’t find the words to say
When the world I know is slipping away

JOSHUA & ELIZA

(chorus 2)
You’ll find happiness (You can’t just leave me)
In someone’s caress (Won’t you believe me)
In time you’ll see it’s for the best

(chorus 2)
You know we can’t last (Can’t be without you)
We’re on different paths (You know I love you)
And we’ll both just have to let go

This Old Heart

KWAN

(Intro)
It’s been so many years
Since she was here
But I can’t help
Remembering

(intro)
And I still see her face
In everything
The photo frames
The wedding ring

(Chorus)
And now I find
To my surprise
This old heart
Is still alive

KWAN & JOSHUA

The heart goes left
The mind turns right
To move along
Or if you should hold on

KWAN

We’ve spent
So many years
So very close
So very far

A narrow
Street between us
That time
Can’t seem to cross

I’ve
Been a child
Who’s been afraid
To speak out loud

But now
Now it’s time
To say the words I’ve never said

(chorus)
I’ve never said that you
Were my regret
The bravest soul
I’ve ever met

I’ve not apologised
For losing sight
For giving up
Without a fight

I’ve never asked you for
For one more chance
To make things right
For one last dance

ROSE: What are you trying to say?

KWAN

(modulated up)
I cannot give you much
No gold or diamonds
No promises
Of brighter times

And I know all I am
Is an old man
Who swears to love
You all he can

ROSE

(Outro)
30 years ago
I left you here
I walked away

KWAN

But I
Won’t fail again
This time I will
Ask you to stay

ROSE

Kwan
You’re a fool
You only ever
Had to ask

KWAN

I
I’m your fool
Who has your hand at last

The Beat of Your Heart

JOSHUA

(stanza)
I can close off my eyes when I see you
I can close off my ears to the sound of your voice
But there’s one thing I couldn’t close from the start
The beat of my heart

(stanza)
You’re asking if we have a future
If we were just fools, well, I can’t give an answer
But all that I ask is that you listen hard
To the beat of your heart

ELIZA

(bridge)
Why trust the heart
When the heart is a traitor
It whispers to stay
Just a little bit later
Pieces of beautiful lies

JOSHUA

(stanza)
Well maybe some day in the future
You’ll look back in time and remember this boy here
And even if we’re separated by miles
I hope that you’ll smile

(stanza)
Coz I know that if things don’t turn out right
If years later I never see you again
I’ll remember the time that we shared for a while
And I know that I’ll smile

ELIZA

(bridge)
If I had a choice
I’d end all this sorrow
I’d switch the paths that
We know we should follow
But everything’s out of our hands

JOSHUA

(chorus)
Maybe you or I will change our minds
Maybe I’ll decide that I’m not coffeeshop inclined
Maybe you’ll decide that you should stay
We’ll never know if we end this way

JOSHUA & ELIZA

(chorus)
If you should fly then I won’t hold you back (You won’t do that)
I’ll lumber on my way keeping your memory intact (I won’t forget)
But till that day arrives let’s hold on tight
To every second you’re by my side

(chorus 2)
If what we have is just a mistake of mine
Then I would gladly make it a thousand times
I won’t have no regrets
The now we have is perfect

(chorus 2)
So tell me
Do you love me (Of course I do)
What does your heart say (It beats for you)
So let’s hold on to what we have
Every moment that we can

Kopi Shop Rock!! (finale)

Hey now it’s a brand new day
Brand new beat to rock and sway
Start anew, take it from the top
And rock this coffeeshop

Make it spicy, make it hot
Make it sweet as a lollipop
Make it sharp like a lemondrop
And rock this coffeeshop

Sing out loud
Dance out proud
We go he-ey (he-ey)
Swing about
Twist and shout
We go he-ey (he-ey)

Smile a while and keep the frown away
Everything will be alright
Be okay

One two three, it’s time to party
Four five six, just take your pick
Seven eight, to celebrate and
Nine ten, start again

When you hear that sweet sound ringing
Tap your feet and start to sing
Every hour of the day-o
Hey hey kopi-o

Co – fee – shop – rock

Now I’m the boss of all I see (Kwan)
I’m the superstar of kopi (Rose)
I’m the hero for today (Allan & Seng)
Seng: Eh, it’s me ok
Allan: Me lah
Seng: Me lah

I’m the queen and I’m Miss Thang (Melody)
I’m a princess from Penang (Sally)
We’re still grooving, we won’t stop
We’ll rock this coffeeshop (Joshua & Eliza)

Black or blue
We’ll come through
We go he-ey (he-ey)
Standing strong
Marching on
We go he-ey (he-ey)

Smile a while and keep the frown away
Everything will be alright
Be okay

Two parts coffee, three parts fun
That’s what makes a kopitiam
Kopi milk and teh or milo
Hey hey kopi-o

So every morning when you wake
Don’t think twice, don’t hesitate
We’ll be here to start the day-o
Hey hey kopi
Hey hey kopi
Hey hey kopi-o