Montage: This Is The Way... / Miss Asp’s Song I / Mother Mother lyrics

[SUSANNAH]
She said that I was weirdo in the good way
Which I think is delinquent for "you're charismatic smart and sweet"
How to respond, oh, what’s the thing I should say?
I should say something clever
But instead I just say

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
Neat

[SUSANNAH]
And now my journey here will begin
How hard could it be to fit in?

[JUDITH]
This is the way we smoke our cigarettes

[YA-YA]
This is who we talk sh*t about in gym class

[RAT]
This is the way we pay outstanding debts

[JUDITH, YA-YA, RAT, DOROTHY, KITTY, SHEILA]
Cuz we're badass, cuz we're badass (woo!)
This is the way we smoke our cigarettes
This is who we talk sh*t about in gym class
This is the way we pay outstanding debts
Cuz we’re badass, cuz we're badass

[MISS ASP, spoken]
Mr. Rusk, as you know I am deeply honored that such an esteemed beacon of journalistic integrity would do a profile on my work at the reformatory. What do you mean the profile is actually about integration in the juvie hall system?! I don't want it to be about integration, I want it to be about me! Oh--M-Mr. Rusk, there will still be a photograph included with the? Oh, oh! Excellent, excellent!

/

[MISS ASP]
A picture that hangs on a plaid office wall
A family with baby dolls, apples and all
It's the life that I'd always imagined I'd live
Before I made mistakes that no man could forgive

But it turns out my tragedies weren't for naught
My one true calling was not what I thought
My duty is saving the next generations
So, they would not suffer their own degradations

And a wife in a picture, sublime and pristine
Or a photo of me in a Life magazine
These are the images people admire
American values that guide and inspire
I serve a purpose
And soon all shall see

(spoken)
Mister Rusk, yes, we'll see you next Sunday at three

[GIRLS GROUP I, MISS ASP]
This is the way we smoke our cigarettes / Aah!
This is who we talk sh*t about in gym class / Aah!

[GIRLS GROUP II, MISS ASP]
This is the way we repurpose a shot glass / Aah!
This is the way we hide our contraband (hide our contraband) / Aah!
Cuz we’re badass

[YA-YA]
Cuz we’re badas-(spoken) oh I said it one too many times didn't I?

/

[SUSANNAH]
He’s got no future
But he's got a past
His present is shaky as his cheap motorcycle
Which isn't built to last
Mother mother, I'ma love that boy
There’s no other, bring me that much joy
I ain't a-listenin' to what you say
I'm gonna luvah-luvah-luv, luvah-luv-luv-luv
That boy

Anyway-hey-ay, sha-boop, sha-boop, sha-boop sha-boop
Anyway-hey-ay, sha-boop, sha-boop, sha-boop sha-boop boop--

[SHEILA, spoken]
Private concert!

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
Uhh--uh, ju-just writing

[SHEILA, spoken]
I don't know about the "hey hey"s and "sha-boop sha-boop"s. (laughs)

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
Nonsense syllables are my favorite part. You're supposed to think of them as a foreign language or speaking in code. She can't say the words she really wants to, so she's just gotta say "hey-ey-ey."

[DOROTHY, KITTY, JUDITH, RAT, and YA-YA murmur to each other]

[JUDITH, spoken]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, the Gruesome Twosome. We interrupting something ladies?

[DOROTHY, KITTY, RAT, and YA-YA act scandalized]

[JUDITH, spoken]
Secret meeting commence

[INMATES, spoken]
Huh!

[JUDITH, spoken]
Tomorrow night. Little Miss Asp is gonna be off the premises, and we are gonna party!

[DOROTHY, KITTY, RAT, SHEILA, SUSANNAH, and YA-YA cheer]

[JUDITH, spoken]
We gotta incapacitate Buzz. Dorothy, flirt. Kitty, distract

[DOROTHY, spoken]
I'll cozy up to Buzz and get him to share a soda pop with me. And then--

[KITTY, spoken]
--And then you slip some castor oil into his drink while I distract him in a most glamorously flirtatious way!

[DOROTHY, spoken]
I'm the Flirt and you're just the Distraction

[KITTY, spoken]
Don't put me in a box, Dorothy!

[JUDITH, spoken]
Then, Rat, you bust into the confiscated booze case in the office!

[RAT, spoken]
Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

[JUDITH, spoken]
Ha, let's tear ass!

[INMATES]
Na na na na na na na na na na
La la la la la la la la la la la la
Ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra
Cuz we're badass

[INMATES cheer]

[INMATES]
Cuz we're badass, cuz we're badass
Cuz we're badass, cuz we're badass