Rent

Rent - Rent Soundtrack

How do you document real life

When real life is 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

And 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

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'

Oh 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

Till you're torn apart

Rent

How can you connect in an age

Where strangers landlords lovers

Your own blood cells betray