《Reading》歌词

[00:01:25] Various Artists

[00:01:25] Rent Soundtrack, Cast Recording

[00:01:25] Rent

[00:01:25] (The COMPANY bursts into a flurry of movement. Then everyone

[00:01:25] Except mark and roger freezes in a group upstage.)

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] How do you document real life

[00:01:25] When real life is getting more

[00:01:25] Like fiction each day

[00:01:25] Headlines -- bread-lines

[00:01:25] Blow my mind

[00:01:25] And now this deadline

[00:01:25] "Eviction -- or pay"

[00:01:25] Rent!

[00:01:25] ROGER

[00:01:25] How do you write a song

[00:01:25] When the chords sound wrong

[00:01:25] Though they once sounded right and rare

[00:01:25] When the notes are sour

[00:01:25] Where is the power

[00:01:25] You once had to ignite the air

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] And we're hungry and frozen

[00:01:25] ROGER

[00:01:25] Some life that we've chosen

[00:01:25] TOGETHER

[00:01:25] How we gonna pay

[00:01:25] How we gonna pay

[00:01:25] How we gonna pay

[00:01:25] Last year's rent

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] We light candles

[00:01:25] ROGER

[00:01:25] How do you start a fire

[00:01:25] When there's nothing to burn

[00:01:25] And it feels like something's stuck in your flue

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] How can you generate heat

[00:01:25] When you can't feel your feet

[00:01:25] BOTH

[00:01:25] And they're turning blue!

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] You light up a mean blaze

[00:01:25] (ROGER grabs one of his own posters.)

[00:01:25] ROGER

[00:01:25] With posters --

[00:01:25] (MARK grabs old manuscripts.)

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] And screenplays

[00:01:25] ROGER & MARK

[00:01:25] How we gonna pay

[00:01:25] How we gonna pay

[00:01:25] How we gonna pay

[00:01:25] Last year's rent

[00:01:25] (Lights go down on the loft and go up on JOANNE JEFFERSON,

[00:01:25] Who's at the pay phone.)

[00:01:25] JOANNE

[00:01:25] (On phone)

[00:01:25] Don't screen, Maureen

[00:01:25] It's me -- Joanne

[00:01:25] Your substitute production manager

[00:01:25] Hey hey hey! (Did you eat?)

[00:01:25] Don't change the subject Maureen

[00:01:25] But darling -- you haven't eaten all day

[00:01:25] You won't throw up

[00:01:25] You won't throw up

[00:01:25] The digital delay ---

[00:01:25] Didn't blow up (exactly)

[00:01:25] There may have been one teeny tiny spark

[00:01:25] You're not calling Mark

[00:01:25] COLLINS

[00:01:25] How do you stay on your feet

[00:01:25] When on every street

[00:01:25] It's 'trick or treat'

[00:01:25] (And tonight it's 'trick')

[00:01:25] 'Welcome back to town'

[00:01:25] Oh, I should lie down

[00:01:25] Everything's brown

[00:01:25] And uh -- oh

[00:01:25] I feel sick

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] (At the window)

[00:01:25] Where is he?

[00:01:25] COLLINS

[00:01:25] Getting dizzy

[00:01:25] (He collapses.)

[00:01:25] MARK & ROGER

[00:01:25] How we gonna pay

[00:01:25] How we gonna pay

[00:01:25] How we gonna pay

[00:01:25] Last year's rent

[00:01:25] (MARK and ROGER stoke the fire. Crosscut to BENNY's Range

[00:01:25] Rover.)

[00:01:25] BENNY

[00:01:25] Alison baby -- you sound sad

[00:01:25] I don't believe those two after everything I've done

[00:01:25] Ever since our wedding I'm dirt -- They'll see

[00:01:25] I can help them all out in the long run

[00:01:25] BENNY

[00:01:25] Forces are gathering

[00:01:25] Forces are gathering

[00:01:25] Can't turn away

[00:01:25] Forces are gathering

[00:01:25] COLLINS

[00:01:25] Ughhhhh--

[00:01:25] Ughhhhh--

[00:01:25] Ughhhhh-- I can't think

[00:01:25] Ughhhhh--

[00:01:25] Ughhhhh--

[00:01:25] Ughhhhh-- I need a drink

[00:01:25] MARK (reading from a script page)

[00:01:25] "The music ignites the night with passionate fire"

[00:01:25] JOANNE

[00:01:25] Maureen -- I'm not a theatre person

[00:01:25] ROGER

[00:01:25] "The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit"

[00:01:25] JOANNE

[00:01:25] Could never be a theatre person

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground

[00:01:25] JOANNE (realizing she's been cut off)

[00:01:25] Hello?

[00:01:25] MARK & ROGER

[00:01:25] And feel the heat of the future's glow

[00:01:25] JOANNE

[00:01:25] Hello?

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] Hello? Maureen?

[00:01:25] --Your equipment won't work?

[00:01:25] Okay, all right, I'll go!

[00:01:25] MARK & HALF THE COMPANY

[00:01:25] How do you leave the past behind

[00:01:25] When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart

[00:01:25] It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out

[00:01:25] Till you're torn apart

[00:01:25] Rent!

[00:01:25] ROGER & OTHER HALF OF COMPANY

[00:01:25] How can you connect in an age

[00:01:25] Where strangers, landlords, lovers

[00:01:25] Your own blood cells betray

[00:01:25] ALL

[00:01:25] What binds the fabric together

[00:01:25] When the raging, shifting winds of change

[00:01:25] Keep ripping away

[00:01:25] BENNY

[00:01:25] Draw a line in the sand

[00:01:25] And then make a stand

[00:01:25] ROGER

[00:01:25] Use your camera to spar

[00:01:25] MARK

[00:01:25] Use your guitar

[00:01:25] ALL

[00:01:25] When they act tough - you call their bluff

[00:01:25] MARK & ROGER

[00:01:25] We're not gonna pay

[00:01:25] MARK & ROGER W/HALF THE COMPANY

[00:01:25] We're not gonna pay

[00:01:25] MARK & ROGER W/OTHER HALF OF COMPANY

[00:01:25] We're not gonna pay

[00:01:25] ALL

[00:01:25] Last year's rent

[00:01:25] This year's rent

[00:01:25] Next year's rent

[00:01:25] Rent rent rent rent rent

[00:01:25] We're not gonna pay rent

[00:01:25] ROGER & MARK

[00:01:25] 'Cause everything is rent