Seasons of Love

Rent

You'll See

One Song Glory

Light My Candle

Today 4 U

Tango: Maureen

Life Support

Out Tonight

Another Day

Will I

Santa Fe

I'll Cover You

Over The Moon

Five hundred twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty five thousand
moments so dear
Five hundred twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year

In daylight, in sunsets, in midnights,
in cups of coffee, In inches, in miles
in laughter in strife,

In Five hundred twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in the life

[Chorus:]
How about Love
how about love
how about love
measure in love
seasons of love
seasons of love

Five hundred twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty five thousand
journeys to plan
Five hundred twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
how do you measure the life of a woman
or a man

In truth that she learned
or in times that he cried
In the bridges he burned
or the way that she died

Its time now to sing out
though the story never ends
lets celebrate remember a year
in the life of friends

[Chorus]

[MARK]
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!

[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

[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 AND MARK]
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'
Oh, I should lie down
Everything's brown
And uh -- oh
I feel sick

[MARK]
Where is he?

[COLLINS]
Getting dizzy

[MARK AND ROGER]
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent

[MARK (reading from a script page)]
"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

[MARK AND ROGER]
And feel the heat of the future's glow

[MARK AND HALF OF 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
Till you're torn apart
Rent!

[ROGER AND 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 AND ROGER]
We're not gonna pay

[MARK AND ROGER WITH HALF OF COMPANY]
We're not gonna pay

[MARK AND ROGER WITH 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
'Cause everything is rent

[ROGER]
What happened to Benny
What happened to his heart
And the ideals he once pursued?

[BENNY]
Any owner of that lot next door
Has a right to do with it as he pleases

[ROGER]
Happy birthday, Jesus!

[BENNY]
The rent

[MARK]
You're wasting your time

[ROGER]
We're broke

[MARK]
And you broke your word -- this is absurd

[BENNY]
There is one way you won't have to pay

[ROGER]
I knew it!

[BENNY]
Next door, the home of Cyberarts, you see
And now that the block is re-zoned
Our dream can become a reality
You'll see boys
You'll see boys
A state of the art, digital, virtual interactive studio
I'll forego your rent and on paper guarantee
That you can stay here for free
If you do me one small favor

[MARK]
What?

[BENNY]
Convince Maureen to cancel her protest

[MARK]
Why not just get an injunction or call the cops

[BENNY]
Yeah, I did, and they're on stand by
But my investors would rather
I handle this quietly

[ROGER]
You can't quietly wipe out an entire tent city
Then watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' on TV!

[BENNY]
You want to produce films and write songs?
You need somewhere to do it!
It's what we used to dream about
Think twice before you poo-poo it
You'll see boys
You'll see boys
You'll see -- the beauty of a studio
That lets us do our work and get paid
With condos on the top
Whose rent keeps open our shop
Just stop the protest
And you'll have it made
You'll see -- or you'll pack

[ROGER]
One song
Glory
One song
Before I go
Glory
One song to leave behind
Find one song
One last refrain
Glory
From the pretty boy front man
Who wasted opportunity
One song
He had the world at his feet
Glory
In the eyes of a young girl
A young girl
Find glory
Beyond the cheap colored lights
One song
Before the sun sets
Glory -- on another empty life
Time flies -- time dies
Glory -- One blaze of glory
One blaze of glory -- glory
Find
Glory
In a song that rings true
Truth like a blazing fire
An eternal flame
Find
One song
A song about love
Glory
From the soul of a young man
A young man
Find
The one song
Before the virus takes hold
Glory
Like a sunset
One song
To redeem this empty life
Time flies
And then - no need to endure anymore
Time dies

[ROGER is interrupted by a sharp knock on the door.]

[It is MIMI MARQUEZ, a beautiful stranger from downstairs.]

The door

[ROGER]
What'd you forget?

[MIMI]
Got a light?

[ROGER]
I know you? -- You're --
You're shivering

[MIMI]
It's nothing
They turned off my heat
And I'm just a little
Weak on my feet
Would you light my candle?
What are you staring at?

[ROGER]
Nothing
Your hair in the moonlight
You look familiar
Can you make it?

[MIMI]
Just haven't eaten much today
At least the room stopped spinning.
Anyway. What?

[ROGER]
Nothing
Your smile reminded me of --

[MIMI]
I always remind people of -- who is she?

[ROGER]
She died. Her name was April

[MIMI]
It's out again
Sorry about your friend
Would you light my candle?

[ROGER]
Well --

[MIMI]
Yeah. Ow!

[ROGER]
Oh, the wax -- it's --

[MIMI]
Dripping! I like it -- between my --

[ROGER]
Fingers. I figured...
Oh, well. Goodnight.
It blew out again?

[MIMI]
No -- I think that I dropped my stash

[ROGER]
I know I've seen you out and about
When I used to go out
Your candle's out

[MIMI]
I'm illin' --
I had it when I walked in the door
It was pure --
Is it on the floor?

[ROGER]
The floor?

[MIMI]
They say I have the best ass below 14th street
Is it true?

[ROGER]
What?

[MIMI]
You're staring again.

[ROGER]
Oh no.
I mean you do -- have a nice --
I mean -- You look familiar

[MIMI]
Like your dead girlfriend?

[ROGER]
Only when you smile.
But I'm sure I've seen you somewhere else --

[MIMI]
Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club?
That's where I work - I dance

[ROGER]
Yes!
They used to tie you up --

[MIMI]
It's a living

[ROGER]
I didn't recognize you
Without the handcuffs

[MIMI]
We could light the candle
Oh won't you light the candle?

[ROGER]
Why don't you forget that stuff
You look like you're sixteen

[MIMI]
I'm nineteen -- but I'm old for my age
I'm just born to be bad

[ROGER]
I once was born to be bad
I used to shiver like that

[MIMI]
I have no heat -- I told you

[ROGER]
I used to sweat

[MIMI]
I got a cold

[ROGER]
Uh huh
I used to be a junkie

[MIMI]
But now and then I like to --

[ROGER]
Uh huh

[MIMI]
Feel good

[ROGER]
Oh here it

[MIMI]
What's that?

[ROGER]
uh - candy bar wrapper

[MIMI]
We could light the candle

[MIMI]
What'd you do with my candle?

[ROGER]
That was my last match

[MIMI]
Our eyes'll adjust, thank God for the moon

[ROGER]
Maybe it's not the moon at all
I hear Spike Lee's shooting down the street

[MIMI]
Bah humbug ... Bah humbug

[ROGER]
Cold hands

[MIMI]
Yours too.
Big. Like my father's
You wanna dance?

[ROGER]
With you?

[MIMI]
No -- with my father

[ROGER]
I'm Roger

[MIMI]
They call me
They call me Mimi

[COLLINS]
Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas Day
Whose charity is only matched by talent, I must say
A new member of the Alphabet City avant-garde
Angel Dumott Schunard!

[ANGEL]
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
Today for you -- tomorrow for me

[COLLINS]
And you should hear her beat!

[MARK]
You earned this on the street?

[ANGEL]
It was my lucky day today on Avenue A
When a lady in a limousine drove my way
She said, "Dahling -- be a dear -- haven't slept in a year
I need your help to make my neighbor's yappy dog disappear"
"This Akita-Evita just won't shut up
I believe if you play non-stop that pup
Will breathe its very last high-strung breath
I'm certain that cur will bark itself to death"
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
We agreed on a fee -- A thousand dollar guarantee
Tax-free -- and a bonus if I trim her tree
Now who could foretell that it would go so well
But sure as I am here that dog is now in doggy hell
After an hour -- Evita -- in all her glory
On the window ledge of that 23rd story
Like Thelma and Louise did when they got the blues
Swan dove into the courtyard of the Gracie Mews
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
Today for you -- tomorrow for me

Then back to the street where I met my sweet
Where he was moaning and groaning on the cold concrete
The nurse took him home for some mercurochrome
And I dressed his wounds and got him back on his feet
Sing it!
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
I said today for you -- tomorrow for me
Today for you -- tomorrow for me

[JOANNE]
The samples won't delay
But the cable --

[MARK]
There's another way
Say something -- anything

[JOANNE (into the mike)]
Test -- one, two three --

[MARK]
Anything but that

[JOANNE]
This is weird

[MARK]
It's weird

[JOANNE]
Very weird

[MARK]
Fuckin' weird

[JOANNE]
I'm so mad
That I don't know what to do
Fighting with microphones
Freezing down to my bones
And to top it all off
I'm with you

[MARK]
Feel like going insane?
Got a fire in your brain?
And you're thinking of drinking gasoline?

[JOANNE]
As a matter of fact --

[MARK]
Honey, I know this act
It's called the 'Tango Maureen'
The Tango Maureen
It's a dark, dizzy merry-go-round
As she keeps you dangling

[JOANNE]
You're wrong

[MARK]
Your heart she is mangling

[JOANNE]
It's different with me

[MARK]
And you toss and you turn
'Cause her cold eyes can burn
Yet you yearn and you churn and rebound

[JOANNE]
I think I know what you mean

[BOTH]
The Tango Maureen

[MARK]
Has she ever pouted her lips
And called you 'Pookie'

[JOANNE]
Never

[MARK]
Have you ever doubted a kiss or two?

[JOANNE]
This is spooky
Did you swoon when she walked through the door?

[MARK]
Every time -- so be cautious

[JOANNE]
Did she moon over other boys --?

[MARK]
More than moon --

[JOANNE]
I'm getting nauseous

[MARK]
Where'd you learn to tango?

[JOANNE]
With the French Ambassador's daughter in her dorm
room at Miss Porter's. And you?

[MARK]
With Nanette Himmelfarb. The Rabbi's daughter at the
Scarsdale Jewish Community Center.
It's hard to do this backwards.

[JOANNE]
You should try it in heels!
She cheated

[MARK]
She cheated

[JOANNE]
Maureen cheated

[MARK]
Fuckin' cheated

[JOANNE]
I'm defeated
I should give up right now

[MARK]
Gotta look on the bright side
With all of your might

[JOANNE]
I'd fall for her still anyhow

[BOTH]
When you're dancing her dance
You don't stand a chance
Her grip of romance
Make you fall

[MARK]
So you think, 'Might as well'

[JOANNE]
"Dance a tango to hell"

[BOTH]
'At least I'll have tangoed at all'
The Tango Maureen
Gotta dance till your diva is through
You pretend to believe her
Cause in the end -- you can't leave her
But the end it will come
Still you have to play dumb
Till you're glum and you bum
And turn blue

[MARK]
Why do we love when she's mean?

[JOANNE]
And she can be so obscene

[JOANNE]
My Maureen (reverb: een, een, een...)

[BOTH]
The Tango Maureen!

[ANGEL and COLLINS attend an AIDS Life Support group.
PAUL, the support leader, sits on the downstage railing above.
GORDON, one of the members of the group, is standing downstage left,
facing the audience. As the members enter, they introduce
themselves and form a semicircle. Note: The names of the support
group members should change every night and should honor
actual friends of the company who have died of AIDS.]

[STEVE]
Steve.

[GORDON]
Gordon.

[ALI]
Ali.

[PAM]
Pam.

[SUE]
Sue.

[ANGEL]
Hi, I'm Angel.

[COLLINS]
Tom. Collins.

[PAUL]
I'm Paul. Let's begin

[ALL]
There's only us
There's only this ...

[MARK blusters in noisily.]

[MARK]
Sorry ... Excuse me ... oops

[PAUL]
And you are?

[MARK]
Oh -- I'm not --
I'm just here to --
I don't have --
I'm here with --
Um -- Mark
Mark -- I'm Mark
Well -- this is quite an operation

[PAUL]
Sit down Mark
We'll continue the affirmation

[ALL]
Forget regret or life is yours to miss

[GORDON]
Excuse me Paul -- I'm having a problem with this
This credo -- My T-cells are low --
I regret that news, okay?

[PAUL]
Alright
But Gordon - How do you feel today?

[GORDON]
What do you mean?

[PAUL]
How do you feel today?

[GORDON]
Okay

[PAUL]
Is that all?

[GORDON]
Best I've felt all year

[PAUL]
Then why choose fear?

[GORDON]
I'm a New Yorker!
Fear's my life!
Look - I find some of what you teach suspect
Because I'm used to relying on intellect
But I try to open up to what I don't know

[GORDON AND ROGER (who sings from his loft)]
Because reason says I should have died
Three years ago

[ALL]
No other road
No other way
No day but today

[MIMI:]
What's the time?
Well it's gotta be close to midnight
My body's talking to me
It says,'Time for danger'

It says 'I wanna commit a crime
Wanna be the cause of a fight
I wanna put on a tight skirt and flirt
With a stranger'

I've had a knack from way back
At breaking the rules once I learn the games
Get up life's too quick

I know someplace sick
Where this chick'll dance in the flames
We don't need any money
I always get in for free
You can get in too
If you get in with me

Let's go out tonight
I have to go out tonight
You wanna play?
Let's run away
We wont be back
Before it's New Year's Day
Take me out tonight (meow)

When I get a wink from the doorman
Do you know how lucky you'll be?
That you're on line with the feline of
Avenue B

Let's go out tonight
I have to go out tonight
You wanna prowl
Be my night owl?
Well take my hand we're gonna howl
Out tonight

In the evening I've got to roam
Can't sleep in the city of neon and chrome
Feels too damn much like like home
When the spanish babies cry

So let's find a bar
So dark we forget who we are
Where all of the scars from the
Nevers and maybes die

Let's go out tonight
I have to go na na na out tonight
You're sweet
Wanna hit the street?
Wanna wail at the moon like a cat in
Heat?
Just take me out tonight

Please take me out tonight
Don't forsake me - out tonight
I'll let you make me - out tonight
Tonight - tonight - tonight

[ROGER]
Who do you think you are?
Barging in on me and my guitar
Little girl -- hey
The door is that way
You better go you know
The fire's out anyway
Take your powder -- take your candle
Your sweet whisper
I just can't handle
Well take your hair in the moonlight
Your brown eyes -- goodbye, goodnight
I should tell you I should tell you
I should tell you I should -- no!
Another time -- another place
Our temperature would climb
There'd be a long embrace
We'd do another dance
It'd be another play
Looking for romance?
Come back another day
Another day

[MIMI]
The heart may freeze or it can burn
The pain will ease if I can learn
There is no future
There is no past
I live this moment as my last
There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today

[ROGER]
Excuse me if I'm off track
But if you're so wise
Then tell me -- why do you need smack?
Take your needle
Take your fancy prayer
And don't forget
Get the moonlight out of your hair
Long ago -- you might've lit up my heart
But the fire's dead -- ain't never ever gonna start
Another time -- another place
The words would only rhyme
We'd be in outer space
It'd be another song
We'd sing another way
You wanna prove me wrong?
Come back another day
Another day

[MIMI]
There's only yes
Only tonight
We must let go
To know what's right
No other course
No other way
No day but today
(Lights slowly fade up on the Life Support group.)

[MIMI & OTHERS]
I can't control
My destiny
I trust my soul
My only goal is just
To be
There's only now
There's only here
Give in to love
Or live in fear
No other path
No other way
No day but today...

[ROGER]
Control your temper
She doesn't see
Who says that there's a soul?
Just let me be...
Who do you think you are?
Barging in on me and my guitar
Little girl, hey
The door is that way
The fire's out anyway

[ALL]
No day but today
No day but today
No day but today
No day but today
No day but today

[ROGER]
Take your powder; take your candle
Take your brown eyes, your pretty smile, your silhouette
Another time, another place
Another rhyme, a warm embrace
Another dance, another way
Another chance, another day

Will I lose my dignity
will someone care
will i wake tomorrow
from this nightmare

[Angel]
New York City.

[Mark]
Uh huh.

[Angel]
Center of the universe.

[Collins]
Sing it, girl.

[Angel]
Times are shitty
but I'm pretty sure they can't get worse.

[Collins]
I hear that.

[Angel]
It's a comfort to know
when you're singing the "hit-the-road blues"
That anywhere else you could possibly go after New York
would be a pleasure cruise.

[Collins]
Now you're talking. *chuckles*
Now I'm thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle
And I'm sick of grading papers that I know.
I'm shouting in my sleep,
I need a muzzle.
And all this misery
pays no salary.
So, let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe.
Sunny Santa Fe would be nice.
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe,
and leave this to the roaches and mice.
Woah, woah.

[Angel]
You teach?

[Collins]
Yeah I teach;
computer aids philosophy.
But my students would rather watch TV.

[Angel]
America.

[Collins, Mark, Roger]
America.

[Collins]
You're a sensitive asthete.
Brush the sauce onto the meat.
You can make a menu sparkle with rhyme.
You can drum a gentle drum.
I can see guests as they come.
Chanting not about Heidigger, but wine!
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe!

[ALL (In background)
(Aaaaaaah) Santa Fe!

[Collins]
Our labors would reap financial gains

(Gains gains gains)

[Collins]
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe!
And save from devastation,
our brains.

[All]
We'll pack up all our junk and fly so far away;
devote ourselves to projects that sell.
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe

[Collins]
We'll open up in..Santa Fe
Forget this cold Bohemian Hell.

[All]
Woah, woah.

[Collins]
Yeah, yeah.
Mmhmm.
Do you know the way to Santa Fe?
You know, tumbleweeds..prairie dogs..

[All]
Yeah.

[Angel]
Live in my house
I'll be your shelter
Just pay me back
With one thousand kisses
Be my lover - I'll cover you

[Collins]
Open your door
I'll be your tenant
Don't got much baggage
To lay at your feet
But sweet kisses I've got to spare
I'll be there - I'll cover you

[Both]
I think they meant it
When they said you can't buy love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are, my love,
On life - be my life

Just slip me on
I'll be your blanket
Wherever - whatever - I'll be your coat

[Angel]
You'll be my king
And I'll be your castle

[Cllins]
No you'll be my queen
And I'll be your moat

[Both]
I think they meant it
When they said you can't buy love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are, my love,
On life - all my life

I've longed to discover
Something as true as this is

[Collins & Angel]
So with a thousand
sweet kisses If you're cold
I'll cover you And you're lonely
With a thousand
sweet kisses
I'll cover you You've got one nickel only
With a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover you
When you're worn
out and tired With a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover you
When your heart has
expired

[Both]
Oh lover I'll cover you
Oh lover I'll cover you

Last night, I had a dream
I found myself in a desert called Cyberland
It was hot
My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty
Out of the obice walked a cow, Elsey
I asked if she had anything to drink she said
"I'm forbidden to produce milk
In Cyberland we only drink Diet Coke"
She said...
Only thing to do is just over the moon
They've closed everything real down
Like barns and trophs and...
Preformin' Spaces
And replaced it all with lies and rules and
Virtual Life... But there is a way out

OOOOOOO
Only thing to do is jump over the moon

I gotta get outta here
It's like i'm being tied to the hood of
a yellow rental truck being packed in with fertilizer
and fuel oil pushed over a cliff by a suicidal
mickey mouse
I gotta [18x] find a way...
to jump over the moon
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Then a little bulldog entered
His name we have learned was Benny
And although he once had principles
he abandonded to live as a lapdog to a wealthy daughter of the
revolution
1..2..3
That's bull he said
Ever since the cat took off with the fiddle that cows been jumpy
And the dish and the spoon were evicted from the table and eloped
And she had trouble with the milk
and the moon ever since maybe it was a female thing
But who'd wanna leave cyberland anyways!
Walls ain't so bad
The dish and the spoon for instance
their down on their luck they come knockin' on my doghouse door
and i said "Not in my backward utensils, go back to china!" (bideebong)
The only way out is up, elsey whispered to me
A leap of faith
"Still Thirsty??" Parched
"Have some milk"
As I lowered myself beneath her swollen udder
and sucked the sweetest milk,
i have ever tasted!
Climb on board she said
and as a harvest moon rose over cyberland
we reared back we sprang into a
gallop, leaping out of orbit i awoke singing
Oooh
Only thing to do
Only think to do is jump
Only thing to do is jump Over the moon
Only thing to do is jump Over the moon
Over the moon
Over the ...

Moo.
Moo.
Moo with me.

Please, sir, could you give me a moo?

(Everyone starts mooing)

Yes.
Yes!
Moo with me!

Yes! Moo with me!
Yes, it sounds beautiful!
Let me hear you moo, New York City!

The Best Of Rent
Rent (2005 Movie Soundtrack) Disc1
Rent (2005 Movie Soundtrack) Disc2
Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast) Disc1
Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast) Disc2