Scene 20: Looking For
Trade
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(Song: "Looking For Trade")
(NOTE: The bass line of this song is done twice before she sings. After the first bass line measure, SHOUT/sing:
"I can bring home the bacon..." - After the second bass line measure, ECHO/sing: "Just take those old records off
the shelf...")
(SHOUT: "What's your favorite Polanski film?")
Janet: I'm on a cull de sac
(SHOUT: "Don't talk about my sack that way")
And I gotta go back
(SHOUT: "This song was filmed in a pizza oven" in reference to the red halls)
So come on feet
(SHOUT: "Don't come on her feet")
We're gonna hit the streets
(SHOUT: "Like a hooker")
We've got it made
I'm looking for trade
(ECHO: "I wanna get laid")
Brad: I'm looking for love
(ECHO: "I want a big stud")
(SHOUT: "Why is Brad in a pizza oven?")
Janet: I'm looking for trade.
(ECHO: "I wanna get laid")
(SHOUT/sing: "In all the wrong places")
I need some young blood
(ECHO: "I need a young stud")
I need some young blood
(ECHO: "I need a hung stud")
I need it now.
(ECHO: "I need a cow")
I need some young blood
I need some young blood
(NOTE: same echos here as before)
Band & Janet: And were gonna get it somehow.
(Scene switches to billiard room where cast members surround a pool table. A man breaks the pool balls on the
table)Janet: I'm on a dead end street
(SHOUT: "Kid's got a sledgehammer break" - "Quit talkin', start chalkin'") or
(SHOUT: "How's your sex life?")
I'm like a dog in heat
(SHOUT: "Bitch")
I'm like a kid with no toys
(Scene shows a woman sitting at the corner pocket of the table)
(SHOUT: "Eight ball corner pocket") or
(SHOUT: "Eat ball center pocket")
I wanna get those boys
(A man shoots the cue ball into the pocket, where the girl sits. Another man's hand touches her thigh)
(SHOUT: "That's not an 8-ball" - "That's not a corner pocket, either")
Ooh I can't delay
I'm looking for trade.
(ECHO: "I wanna get laid")
Brad: I'm looking for love
(ECHO: "I want a big stud") or
(SHOUT: "Asshole back pocket" referring to Brad in a straightjacket on the pool table)
Janet: I'm looking for trade.
(ECHO: "I wanna get laid")
(The scene switches again to show an arcade, with cast members playing arcade games)
(SHOUT: "Welcome back to the eighties")
Oh were all living like there's no tomorrow
(SHOUT: "Are you a slut?")
and the way things are going that's probably true
(SHOUT OVER: "And now another Rocky Horror reference")
(Scene shows closeup briefly on arcade game, Space Invaders II)
(SHOUT: "Space Invaders 2…get it?")
But without you and me sis
The world would fall to pieces
(SHOUT OVER: "Say something we don't understand")
Vena Cava who's the rave?
(SHOUT: "What?")
Band: Our raving savior that's you
(SHOUT: "Oh") or
(SHOUT: "Gesundheit")
(Scene switches back to the red halls)
(SHOUT: "Red halls, red halls" - "Same hall, different color")
Janet: I'm on a primrose path
(SHOUT: "Why do you own a mirror?")
I'm looking for a li'l laugh
Remember its no fun
(SHOUT: "Sex with fill in the blank with fan name?") or
(SHOUT: "Pick a melody, please" in reference to her off-key note)
To be the chosen one
(AP: Raise hands in air and do the Arnold Horshack "ooh ooh ooh ooh" from Welcome Back Kotter")
There are games to be played
(SHOUT: "S & M, D & D") or
(SHOUT: "Stratego")
Looking for trade
(ECHO: "I wanna get laid")
(NOTE: during next chorus, repeat previous chorus echoes)
Brad: I'm looking for love
Janet: I'm looking for trade.
(SHOUT/sing: "Love is a battlefield")
(Scene changes to show side of building, where Janet walks the sidewalk, amongst cast members.)
I need some young blood
I need some young blood
(Janet walks full circle around a man in a white gangster outfit)
(SHOUT/sing: "What's love got to do, got to do with it") and/or
(SHOUT/sing: "Smooth Criminal")
I need it now
Oh, I need some young blood
I need some young blood
And I'm gonna get it somehow
I'm looking for trade.
(SHOUT: "Even Brad fell asleep at this point")
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