Karaoké Rent Rent (musical) (Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Jesse L. Martin, Fredi Walker & Taye Diggs)

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

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

Alison 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

Forces are gathering

Forces are gathering

Hello Maureen your equipment won't work

Okay all right I'll go

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

How can you connect in an age where strangers in an age where strangers

Landlords lovers

Landlords lovers your own blood cells betray your own blood cells betray

What binds the fabric together

What binds the fabric together when the raging shifting when the raging shifting

Winds of change

Winds of change keep ripping away 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

When they act tough you call their bluff you call their bluff

We're not gonna pay

We're not gonna pay

We're not gonna pay

We're not gonna pay last year's rent last year's rent

This year's rent

This year's rent

Next year's rent

Next year's rent

Rent rent rent rent rent

Rent rent rent rent rent we're not gonna pay rent we're not gonna pay rent

'Cos everything is rent

Rent