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 Both: How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay? Last year's rent 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 Both: How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay? Last year's rent 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 oh I feel sick Mark: Where is he? Collins: Getting dizzy Both: How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay? Last year's rent Mark: The music ignites the night with Passionate fire Roger: The narration crackles and pops with Incendiary wit Mark: Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground Both: And feel the heat of the future's glow Mark & others: How do you leave the past behind When it keep finding ways to get to your heart It reaches way down deep and tears You inside out 'Til you're torn apart Rent! Roger & others: 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 Both: We're not gonna pay All: 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! Both: 'Cause everything is rent
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