Rent

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

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

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 with half the company：

We're Not Gonna Pay

Mark & 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

'Cause Everything Is Rent