Mark:

How do you document real life

When real life's getting more like fiction each day?

Headlines, breadlines, 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



Both:

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 if 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 turnin blue!



Mark:

You light up a mean blaze



Roger:

With posters



Mark:

And screen plays



Both:

How we gonna pay

How we gonna pay

How we gonna pay

Last year's Rent



Joanne:

Don't screen, Maureen, its me Joanne

Your substitute production manager

Hey hey hey! (did you eat?)

Don't change the subject maureen

But darling...you havn'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 its trick

Welcome back to town

I should lie down

Everything's brown

And uh oh

I feel sick!

-acapo