Rent movie - Rent lyrics
rate me<br>
[The COMPANY bursts into a flurry of movement.]<br>
[Then everyone except MARK and ROGER freezes in a group upstage.]<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
How do you document real life<br>
When real life is getting more<br>
Like fiction each day<br>
Headlines -- bread-lines<br>
Blow my mind<br>
And now this deadline<br>
"Eviction -- or pay"<br>
Rent!<br>
<br>
[ROGER]<br>
<br>
How do you write a song<br>
When the chords sound wrong<br>
Though they once sounded right and rare<br>
When the notes are sour<br>
Where is the power<br>
You once had to ignite the air<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
And we're hungry and frozen<br>
<br>
[ROGER]<br>
<br>
Some life that we've chosen<br>
<br>
[TOGETHER]<br>
<br>
How we gonna pay<br>
How we gonna pay<br>
How we gonna pay<br>
Last year's rent<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
We light candles<br>
<br>
[ROGER]<br>
<br>
How do you start a fire<br>
When there's nothing to burn<br>
And it feels like something's stuck in your flue<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
How can you generate heat<br>
When you can't feel your feet<br>
<br>
[BOTH]<br>
<br>
And they're turning blue!<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
You light up a mean blaze<br>
<br>
[ROGER grabs one of his own posters.]<br>
<br>
[ROGER]<br>
<br>
With posters --<br>
<br>
[MARK grabs old manuscripts.]<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
And screenplays<br>
<br>
[ROGER AND MARK]<br>
<br>
How we gonna pay<br>
How we gonna pay<br>
How we gonna pay<br>
Last year's rent<br>
<br>
[Lights go down on the loft and go up on JOANNE JEFFERSON,]<br>
[who's at the pay phone.]<br>
<br>
[JOANNE]<br>
<br>
[On phone]<br>
Don't screen, Maureen<br>
It's me -- Joanne<br>
Your substitute production manager<br>
Hey hey hey! (Did you eat?)<br>
Don't change the subject Maureen<br>
But darling -- you haven't eaten all day<br>
You won't throw up<br>
You won't throw up<br>
The digital delay ---<br>
Didn't blow up (exactly)<br>
There may have been one teeny tiny spark<br>
You're not calling Mark<br>
<br>
[COLLINS]<br>
<br>
How do you stay on your feet<br>
When on every street<br>
It's 'trick or treat'<br>
(And tonight it's 'trick')<br>
'Welcome back to town'<br>
Oh, I should lie down<br>
Everything's brown<br>
And uh -- oh<br>
I feel sick<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
[At the window]<br>
Where is he?<br>
<br>
[COLLINS]<br>
<br>
Getting dizzy<br>
[He collapses.]<br>
<br>
[MARK AND ROGER]<br>
<br>
How we gonna pay<br>
How we gonna pay<br>
How we gonna pay<br>
Last year's rent<br>
<br>
[MARK and ROGER stoke the fire. Crosscut to BENNY's Range Rover.]<br>
<br>
BENNY<br>
<br>
[On cellular phone]<br>
Alison baby -- you sound sad<br>
I don't believe those two after everything I've done<br>
Ever since our wedding I'm dirt -- They'll see<br>
I can help them all out in the long run<br>
<br>
[Three locales: JOANNE at the pay phone,]<br>
[MARK and ROGER in their loft, and COLLINS on the ground.]<br>
[The following is sung simultaneously.]<br>
<br>
[BENNY]<br>
<br>
Forces are gathering<br>
Forces are gathering<br>
Can't turn away<br>
Forces are gathering<br>
<br>
[COLLINS]<br>
<br>
Ughhhhh--<br>
Ughhhhh--<br>
Ughhhhh-- I can't think<br>
Ughhhhh--<br>
Ughhhhh--<br>
Ughhhhh-- I need a drink<br>
<br>
[MARK (reading from a script page)]<br>
<br>
"The music ignites the night with passionate fire"<br>
<br>
[JOANNE]<br>
<br>
Maureen -- I'm not a theatre person<br>
<br>
[ROGER]<br>
<br>
"The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit"<br>
<br>
[JOANNE]<br>
<br>
Could never be a theatre person<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground<br>
<br>
[JOANNE (realizing she's been cut off)]<br>
<br>
Hello?<br>
<br>
[MARK AND ROGER]<br>
<br>
And feel the heat of the future's glow<br>
<br>
[JOANNE]<br>
<br>
Hello?<br>
<br>
[The phone rings in the loft. MARK picks it up.]<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
[On phone]<br>
Hello? Maureen?<br>
--Your equipment won't work?<br>
Okay, all right, I'll go!<br>
<br>
[MARK AND HALF OF COMPANY]<br>
<br>
How do you leave the past behind<br>
When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart<br>
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out<br>
Till you're torn apart<br>
Rent!<br>
<br>
[ROGER AND OTHER HALF OF COMPANY]<br>
<br>
How can you connect in an age<br>
Where strangers, landlords, lovers<br>
Your own blood cells betray<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
<br>
What binds the fabric together<br>
When the raging, shifting winds of change<br>
Keep ripping away<br>
<br>
[BENNY]<br>
<br>
Draw a line in the sand<br>
And then make a stand<br>
<br>
[ROGER]<br>
<br>
Use your camera to spar<br>
<br>
[MARK]<br>
<br>
Use your guitar<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
<br>
When they act tough - you call their bluff<br>
<br>
[MARK AND ROGER]<br>
<br>
We're not gonna pay<br>
<br>
[MARK AND ROGER WITH HALF OF COMPANY]<br>
<br>
We're not gonna pay<br>
<br>
[MARK AND ROGER WITH OTHER HALF OF COMPANY]<br>
<br>
We're not gonna pay<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
<br>
Last year's rent<br>
This year's rent<br>
Next year's rent<br>
Rent rent rent rent rent<br>
We're not gonna pay rent<br>
<br>
[ROGER AND MARK]<br>
<br>
'Cause everything is rent<br>
<br>
