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
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?
We're hungry and frozen, some life that we've chosen
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?
How do you start a fire when there's nothing to burn
And it feels like something's stuck in your flue?
How can you generate heat when you can't feel your feet?
And they're turning blue
You light up a mean blaze with posters and screenplays
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?
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
Where is he? Getting dizzy
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?
The music ignites the night with passionate fire
The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit
Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground
And feel the heat of the future's glow
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
How can you connect in an age
Where strangers, landlords, lovers
Your own blood cells betray?
What binds the fabric together
When the raging, shifting winds of change
Keep ripping away
Draw a line in the sand and then make a stand
Use your camera to spar, use your guitar
When they act tough, you call their bluff
We're not gonna pay, we're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay, 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
Rent
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Lyrics by RENT
(Reprise) Seasons Of Love Another Day Christmas Bells Contact Finale Finale A Finale B Goodbye Love Halloween Happy New Year Happy New Year B Huur I Should Tell You I'll Cover You I'll Cover You (Reprise) I'll Cover You-reprise I\'ll Cover You I\'ll Cover You-Reprise I'll Cover You I'll Cover You-reprise It's Beginning To Snow La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme B Life Support Light My Candle Love Heals No Day But Today On The Street One Song One Song Glory Out Tonight Over The Moon Prologue Rent Special Edition Mix Santa Fe Seasons Of Love Seasons Of Love B Take Me Or Leave Me Tango: Maureen Today 4 U Today 4 U (the Loft) Today For You Tune Up #1 Tune Up #2 Tune Up #3 Tune Up #3 (the Loft) U Make Me Wanna (Remix) Voice Mail #1 Voice Mail #2 Voice Mail #3 Voice Mail #4 Voice Mail #5 We're Okay We\'re Okay We're Okay What You Own Who Got Some Gangsta Shit? Will I Lose My Dignity Will I? Without You You Okay Honey? You Okay Honey? (the Street) You'll get over it You'll See You\'ll See You'll Get Over It You'll See Your Eyes
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