Rent

**Song Title** : Rent

**Artist(s):** Cast of Rent


 * Year Released :** 2005

**Album Title:** Rent(Original Motion Picture)

**Genre of Music:** Show-tunes(rock opera)

**Song Review:** This is the cover song to both the Broadway musical and movie Rent. It tells a story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower east Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. This song expresses the characters frusturation with their lives, especially their overdue rent. I really like this song because of its funky beat, interesting sound and angsty lyrics.

**Similar Artist:** The Cast of Spring Awakening, Company

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**Song Lyrics

MARK 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 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

TOGETHER 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 It 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 Turning Blue!

MARK You Light Up A Mean Blaze

ROGER With Posters-

MARK And Screenplays

ROGER & MARK How We Gonna Pay How We Gonna Pay How We Gonna Pay Last Year's Rent

JOANNE (On phone) Don't Screen, Maureen It's Me - Joanne Your Substitute Production Manager Hey Hey Hey! (Did You Eat) Don't Change The Subject Maureen But Darling - You Haven't Eatin 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 It's 'Trick') 'Welcome Back To Town' I Should Lie Down Everything's Brown And Uh - Oh I Feel Sick

MARK Where Is He?

COLLINS Getting Dizzy

MARK & ROGER How We Gonna Pay How We Gonna Pay How We Gonna Pay Last Year's Rent

BENNY (On cellular phone) Allison Baby - You Sound Sad I Don't Believe Those Two After Everything I've Done

Ever Since Our Wedding I'm Dirt - They'll See I Can Help Them All Out In The Long Run

Forces Are Gathering Forces Are Gathering Can't Turn Away Forces Are Gathering

COLLINS Ughhhhh- Ughhhhh- Ughhhhhh- I Can't Think Ughhhhh- Ughhhhh- Ughhhhh- I Need A Drink

MARK "The Music Ignites The Night With Passionate Fire"

JOANNE Maureen - I'm Not A Theatre Person

ROGER "The Narration Crackles And Pops With Incendiary Wit"

JOANNE Could Never Be A Theatre Person

MARK Zoom In As They Burn The Past To The Ground

JOANNE Hello?

MARK & ROGER And Feel The Heat Of The Future's Glow

JOANNE Hello?

MARK (On phone) Hello? Maureen? -Your Equipment Wont Work? Okay, All Right, I'll Go!

MARK & HALF OF THE COMPANY 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

ROGER & OTHER HALF OF COMPANY How Can You Connect In An Age Where Strangers, Landlords, Lovers Your Own Blood Cells Betray

ALL What Binds The Fabric Together When The Raging, Shifting Winds Of Change Keep Ripping Away

BENNY Draw A Line In The Sand And Then Make A Stand

ROGER Use Your Camera To Spar

MARK Use Your Guitar

ALL When They Act Tough - You Call Their Bluff

MARK & ROGER We're Not Gonna Pay

MARK & ROGER W/ HALF THE COMPANY We're Not Gonna Pay

MARK & ROGER W/ OTHER HALF OF COMPANY We're Not Gonna Pay

ALL Last Year's Rent This Year's Rent Next Year's Rent

Rent Rent Rent Rent Rent We're Not Gonna Pay Rent

All 'Cause Everything Is Rent

By: Kayla Olson ** June 2, 2012