《Rentman》歌词

[00:00:02] Various Artists

[00:00:02] Rent Soundtrack, Cast Recording

[00:00:04] Rent

[00:00:05] (The COMPANY bursts into a flurry of movement. Then everyone

[00:00:17] except MARK and ROGER freezes in a group upstage.)

[00:00:20] MARK

[00:00:23] How do you document real life

[00:00:24] When real life is getting more

[00:00:30] Like fiction each day

[00:00:31] Headlines --bread-lines

[00:00:32] Blow my mind

[00:00:32] And now this deadline

[00:00:34] "Eviction --or pay"

[00:00:35] Rent!

[00:00:35] ROGER

[00:00:35] How do you write a song

[00:00:37] When the chords sound wrong

[00:00:38] Though they once sounded right and rare

[00:00:39] When the notes are sour

[00:00:40] Where is the power

[00:00:41] You once had to ignite the air

[00:00:44] MARK

[00:00:44] And we're hungry and frozen

[00:00:46] ROGER

[00:00:46] Some life that we've chosen

[00:00:47] TOGETHER

[00:00:47] How we gonna pay

[00:00:48] How we gonna pay

[00:00:49] How we gonna pay

[00:00:51] Last year's rent

[00:00:52] MARK

[00:00:53] We light candles

[00:00:56] ROGER

[00:00:56] How do you start a fire

[00:00:57] When there's nothing to burn

[00:00:59] And it feels like something's stuck in your flue

[00:01:03] MARK

[00:01:03] How can you generate heat

[00:01:06] When you can't feel your feet

[00:01:06] BOTH

[00:01:06] And they're turning blue!

[00:01:07] MARK

[00:01:07] You light up a mean blaze

[00:01:09] (ROGER grabs one of his own posters.)

[00:01:10] ROGER

[00:01:10] With posters --

[00:01:14] (MARK grabs old manuscripts.)

[00:01:16] MARK

[00:01:16] And screenplays

[00:01:17] ROGER &MARK

[00:01:18] How we gonna pay

[00:01:20] How we gonna pay

[00:01:21] How we gonna pay

[00:01:21] Last year's rent

[00:01:22] (Lights go down on the loft and go up on JOANNE JEFFERSON,

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

[00:01:28] JOANNE

[00:01:28] (On phone)

[00:01:28] Don't screen, Maureen

[00:01:30] It's me --Joanne

[00:01:32] Your substitute production manager

[00:01:33] Hey hey hey!(Did you eat?)

[00:01:34] Don't change the subject Maureen

[00:01:35] But darling --you haven't eaten all day

[00:01:36] You won't throw up

[00:01:37] You won't throw up

[00:01:38] The digital delay ---

[00:01:39] Didn't blow up (exactly)

[00:01:40] There may have been one teeny tiny spark

[00:01:42] You're not calling Mark

[00:01:43] COLLINS

[00:01:43] How do you stay on your feet

[00:01:46] When on every street

[00:01:47] It's 'trick or treat'

[00:01:50] (And tonight it's 'trick')

[00:01:51] 'Welcome back to town'

[00:01:52] Oh, I should lie down

[00:01:53] Everything's brown

[00:02:04] And uh --oh

[00:02:05] I feel sick

[00:02:05] MARK

[00:02:05] (At the window)

[00:02:06] Where is he?

[00:02:06] COLLINS

[00:02:07] Getting dizzy

[00:02:08] (He collapses.)

[00:02:08] MARK &ROGER

[00:02:09] How we gonna pay

[00:02:11] How we gonna pay

[00:02:12] How we gonna pay

[00:02:12] Last year's rent

[00:02:13] (MARK and ROGER stoke the fire. Crosscut to BENNY's Range

[00:02:20] Rover.)

[00:02:20] BENNY

[00:02:21] Alison baby --you sound sad

[00:02:25] I don't believe those two after everything I've done

[00:02:27] Ever since our wedding I'm dirt --They'll see

[00:02:29] I can help them all out in the long run

[00:02:31] BENNY

[00:02:31] Forces are gathering

[00:02:32] Forces are gathering

[00:02:33] Can't turn away

[00:02:34] Forces are gathering

[00:02:35] COLLINS

[00:02:35] Ughhhhh--

[00:02:35] Ughhhhh--

[00:02:36] Ughhhhh--I can't think

[00:02:37] Ughhhhh--

[00:02:37] Ughhhhh--

[00:02:38] Ughhhhh--I need a drink

[00:02:39] MARK (reading from a script page)

[00:02:40] "The music ignites the night with passionate fire"

[00:02:43] JOANNE

[00:02:43] Maureen --I'm not a theatre person

[00:02:46] ROGER

[00:02:47] "The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit"

[00:02:50] JOANNE

[00:02:51] Could never be a theatre person

[00:02:53] MARK

[00:02:53] Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground

[00:02:55] JOANNE (realizing she's been cut off)

[00:02:56] Hello?

[00:02:56] MARK &ROGER

[00:02:57] And feel the heat of the future's glow

[00:02:58] JOANNE

[00:02:59] Hello?

[00:02:59] MARK

[00:02:59] Hello?Maureen?

[00:02:59] --Your equipment won't work?

[00:03:00] Okay, all right, I'll go!

[00:03:03] MARK &HALF THE COMPANY

[00:03:06] How do you leave the past behind

[00:03:08] When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart

[00:03:09] It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out

[00:03:10] Till you're torn apart

[00:03:11] Rent!

[00:03:11] ROGER &OTHER HALF OF COMPANY

[00:03:13] How can you connect in an age

[00:03:14] Where strangers, landlords, lovers

[00:03:16] Your own blood cells betray

[00:03:17] ALL

[00:03:17] What binds the fabric together

[00:03:18] When the raging, shifting winds of change

[00:03:20] Keep ripping away

[00:03:21] BENNY

[00:03:22] Draw a line in the sand

[00:03:22] And then make a stand

[00:03:23] ROGER

[00:03:24] Use your camera to spar

[00:03:24] MARK

[00:03:25] Use your guitar

[00:03:25] ALL

[00:03:26] When they act tough -you call their bluff

[00:03:29] MARK &ROGER

[00:03:29] We're not gonna pay

[00:03:30] MARK &ROGER W/HALF THE COMPANY

[00:03:31] We're not gonna pay

[00:03:32] MARK &ROGER W/OTHER HALF OF COMPANY

[00:03:35] We're not gonna pay

[00:03:36] ALL

[00:03:36] Last year's rent

[00:03:37] This year's rent

[00:03:37] Next year's rent

[00:03:38] Rent rent rent rent rent

[00:03:53] We're not gonna pay rent

[00:03:53] ROGER &MARK

[00:03:54] 'Cause everything is rent