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🎵 Counting on You

Practicing as TAYLOR · Scene 1: EAST HIGH SCHOOL - MONDAY, 7:45 A.M.

CHAD ♪ There's a choice that you have to make.
TAYLOR ♪ And it's pretty plain to see:
ZEKE ♪ You're either
MARTHA COX ♪ out or in, you either lose or win.
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ Are you gonna turn your back on history?
TAYLOR ♪ On the legend that you're a part of?
CHAD ♪ On the job that you were born to do?
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ Don't let us down; you gotta come through, 'cause we're counting on, counting on, counting on you!
GABRIELLA What history? (spoken)
TROY What legend? (spoken)
CHAD "Spider" Bill Natrine (spoken)
TAYLOR Harriet Tubman (spoken)
ZEKE Sam "Slamma-Jamma" Netletter (spoken)
MARTHA COX Madame Curie (spoken)
JOCK "Thunderclap" Hap Haddon (spoken)
KRATNOFF Eleanor Roosevelt (spoken)
CHAD Do you think these Wildcat legends won championships by worrying about some brainiac girl or auditioning for musicals? (spoken)
TAYLOR Do you think these paragons of education and accomplishment concerned themselves with jocks or auditioning for musicals? (spoken)
BRAINIACS, JOCKS I don't think so! (spoken)
JOCKS ♪ Check out the champions who came before, hail the hero that you could be.
BRAINIACS ♪ And put a way that dream, 'cause there's no "I" in "team,"
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ and the sacrifice is worth it, we all agree -
JOCKS ♪ You just have to keep your focus
BRAINIACS ♪ and forget about "you know who."
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ Don't let us down, you gotta come through, 'cause we're counting on, counting on, counting on you!
TROY That's my dad! (spoken)
GABRIELLA That's Troy! (spoken)
CHAD Heartbreak Bolton. Missed the last basket of the 1981 Championships. Do it for him, Troy. Give him the championship he always dreamed of. (spoken)
TAYLOR Heartbreak Bolton. Another lost-cause, bonehead jock. But you... you're the future of civilization. (spoken)
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ Now the pressure is way up high;
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ Which way are you gonna go? You gonna sing a song, or are you gonna be strong, trade your fantasies in for the thing you know: the destiny you've been handed, the only thing that you can do?
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ Don't let us down, you gotta come through, 'cause we're counting on you...
TROY If you guys don't know that I'll put one hundred and ten percent of my guts into that game, then you don't know me... at all! (spoken)
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ Yeah, we're counting on you...
GABRIELLA I thought you were my friends – win together, lose together... (spoken)
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ We're counting on you...
TROY I'm for the team. I've always been for the team. (spoken)
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ So don't let us down...
GABRIELLA How about what matters for me? (spoken)
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ You gotta come through!
TROY What do you want from me? (spoken)
BRAINIACS, JOCKS ♪ We're counting on, counting on, counting on, counting on...