Rent - Rent The Musical

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Fight HSM bring back Rent to Broadway HSM will never have the effect of what rent had on the world This is the song rent from rent the musical ________________________________________ How do you document real life When real life is 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 grabs one of his own posters.] [ROGER] With posters -- [MARK grabs old manuscripts.] [MARK] And screenplays [ROGER AND MARK] How we gonna pay How we gonna pay How we gonna pay Last year's rent [Lights go down on the loft and go up on JOANNE JEFFERSON,] [who's at the pay phone.] [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 eaten 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' Oh, I should lie down Everything's brown And uh -- oh I feel sick [MARK] [At the window] Where is he? [COLLINS] Getting dizzy [He collapses.] [MARK AND ROGER] How we gonna pay How we gonna pay How we gonna pay Last year's rent [MARK and ROGER stoke the fire. Crosscut to BENNY's Range Rover.] BENNY [On cellular phone] Alison 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 [Three locales: JOANNE at the pay phone,] [MARK and ROGER in their loft, and COLLINS on the ground.] [The following is sung simultaneously.] [BENNY] Forces are gathering Forces are gathering Can't turn away Forces are gathering [COLLINS] Ughhhhh-- Ughhhhh-- Ughhhhh-- I can't think Ughhhhh-- Ughhhhh-- Ughhhhh-- I need a drink [MARK (reading from a script page)] "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 (realizing she's been cut off)] Hello? [MARK AND ROGER] And feel the heat of the future's glow [JOANNE] Hello? [The phone rings in the loft. MARK picks it up.] [MARK] [On phone] Hello? Maureen? --Your equipment won't work? Okay, all right, I'll go! [MARK AND HALF OF 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 Till you're torn apart Rent! [ROGER AND 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 AND ROGER] We're not gonna pay [MARK AND ROGER WITH HALF OF COMPANY] We're not gonna pay [MARK AND ROGER WITH 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 AND MARK] 'Cause everything is rent 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California 90232-3195 © 2006 layout and design Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. These DVDs are authorized for sale or Rent only in the country where originally sold (i.e., only in the U.S., or only in canada respectively). Unauthorized reproduction, distribution or exhibition violates federal laws with severe penalties and violates sony pictures home entertainment's standard terms of trade. printed in U.S.A.