Rent

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.

We light candles.

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.

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 eaten 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.

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.