Rent Rent Lyrics

Rent Lyrics

MARK

 How Do You Document Real Life

 When Real Life's Getting More

 Like Fiction Each Day

 Headlines - Bread-Lines

 Blow My Mind

 And Now This Deadline

 "Eviction - Or Pay"

 Rent

 ROGER

 How Do You Write A Song

 When The Chords Sound Wrong

 Though They Once Sounded Right And Rare

 When The Notes Are Sour

 Where Is The Power You Once Had To Ignite the Air

 

 MARK

 And We're Hungry And Frozen

 

 ROGER

 Some Life That We've Chosen

 

 TOGETHER

 How We Gonna Pay

 How We Gonna Pay

 How We Gonna Pay

 Last Year's Rent

 

 MARK

 We Light Candles

 

 ROGER

 How Do You Start A Fire

 When There's Nothing To Burn

 And It Feels Like Something's Stuck In

 Your Flue

 

 MARK

 How Can You Generate Heat

 When You Can't Feel Your Feet

 

 BOTH

 And They're Turning Blue!

 

 MARK

 You Light Up A Mean Blaze

 

 ROGER

 With Posters-

 

 MARK

 And Screenplays

 

 ROGER & MARK

 How We Gonna Pay

 How We Gonna Pay

 How We Gonna Pay

 Last Year's Rent

 

 JOANNE

 (On phone)

 Don't Screen, Maureen

 It's Me - Joanne

 Your Substitute Production Manager

 Hey Hey Hey! (Did You Eat)

 Don't Change The Subject Maureen

 But Darling - You Haven't Eatin All Day

 

 You Won't Throw Up

 You Won't Throw Up

 The Digital Delay--

 -Didn't Blow Up (Exactly)

 There May Have Been One Teeny Tiny Spark

 You're Not Calling Mark

 

 COLLINS

 How Do You Stay On Your Feet

 When On Every Street

 It's 'Trick Or Treat'

 (And Tonight It's 'Trick')

 'Welcome Back To Town'

 I Should Lie Down

 Everything's Brown

 And Uh - Oh

 I Feel Sick

 

 MARK

 Where Is He?

 

 COLLINS

 Getting Dizzy

 

 MARK & ROGER

 How We Gonna Pay

 How We Gonna Pay

 How We Gonna Pay

 Last Year's Rent

 

 BENNY

 (On cellular phone)

 Allison Baby - You Sound Sad

 I Don't Believe Those Two

 After Everything I've Done

 

 Ever Since Our Wedding

 I'm Dirt - They'll See

 I Can Help Them All Out In The Long Run

 

 Forces Are Gathering

 Forces Are Gathering

 Can't Turn Away

 Forces Are Gathering

 

 COLLINS

 Ughhhhh-

 Ughhhhh-

 Ughhhhhh- I Can't Think

 Ughhhhh-

 Ughhhhh-

 Ughhhhh- I Need A Drink

 

 MARK

 "The Music Ignites The Night With

 Passionate Fire"

 

 JOANNE

 Maureen - I'm Not A Theatre Person

 

 ROGER

 "The Narration Crackles And Pops With

 Incendiary Wit"

 

 JOANNE

 Could Never Be A Theatre Person

 

 MARK

 Zoom In As They Burn The Past To The

 Ground

 

 JOANNE

 Hello?

 

 MARK & ROGER

 And Feel The Heat Of The Future's

 Glow

 

 JOANNE

 Hello?

 

 MARK

 (On phone)

 Hello? Maureen?

 -Your Equipment Wont Work?

 Okay, All Right, I'll Go!

 

 MARK & HALF OF THE COMPANY

 How Do You Leave The Past Behind

 When It Keeps Finding Ways To Get To

 Your Heart

 It Reaches Way Down Deep And Tears

 You Inside Out

 Til You're Torn Apart

 Rent

 

 ROGER & OTHER HALF OF COMPANY

 How Can You Connect In An Age

 Where Strangers, Landlords, Lovers

 Your Own Blood Cells Betray

 

 ALL

 What Binds The Fabric Together

 When The Raging, Shifting Winds Of Change

 Keep Ripping Away

 

 BENNY

 Draw A Line In The Sand

 And Then Make A Stand

 

 ROGER

 Use Your Camera To Spar

 

 MARK

 Use Your Guitar

 

 ALL

 When They Act Tough - You Call Their

 Bluff

 

 MARK & ROGER

 We're Not Gonna Pay

 

 MARK & ROGER W/ HALF THE COMPANY

 We're Not Gonna Pay

 

 MARK & ROGER W/ OTHER HALF OF

 COMPANY

 We're Not Gonna Pay

 

 ALL

 Last Year's Rent

 This Year's Rent

 Next Year's Rent

 

 Rent Rent Rent Rent Rent

 We're Not Gonna Pay Rent

 

 ROGER & MARK

 'Cause Everything Is Rent