[00:00.000] 作词 : Jonathan Larson
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Jonathan Larson
[00:11.94]How do you document real life
[00:16.04]When real life's getting more like fiction each day?
[00:21.03]Headlines, bread-lines, Blow my mind
[00:23.55]And now this deadline, "Eviction or pay"
[00:28.65]Rent
[00:30.40]How do you write a song
[00:33.14]When the chords sound wrong
[00:34.76]Though they once sounded right and rare
[00:39.09]When the notes are sour
[00:40.15]Where is the power You once had to ignite the air
[00:46.18]We're hungry and frozen
[00:47.60]Some life that we've chosen
[00:48.62]How we gonna pay?
[00:51.34]How we gonna pay?
[00:54.08]How we gonna pay last year's rent?
[01:07.20]How do you start a fire
[01:10.77]When there's nothing to burn
[01:12.26]And it feels like something's stuck in your flue
[01:16.07]How can you generate heat
[01:19.00]When you can't feel your feet
[01:20.25]And they're turning blue
[01:23.37]You light up a mean blaze
[01:24.76]With posters
[01:25.46]And screenplays
[01:26.08]How we gonna pay?
[01:28.49]How we gonna pay?
[01:31.27]How we gonna pay last year's rent?
[01:38.54]Don't screen, Maureen
[01:39.89]It's me, Joanne
[01:40.92]Your substitute production manager
[01:42.93]Hey hey hey! Did you eat?
[01:44.50]Don't change the subject, Maureen
[01:46.49]But darling, you haven't eaten all day
[01:49.18]You won't throw up, you won't throw up
[01:51.92]The digital delay didn't blow up, exactly
[01:55.09]There may have been one teeny tiny spark
[01:57.74]You're not calling Mark!
[01:59.61]How do you stay on your feet
[02:03.05]When on every street, it's "trick or treat"
[02:05.49]And tonight its "trick"
[02:07.48]"Welcome back to town," I should lie down
[02:11.17]Everything's brown and, agh, I feel sick
[02:14.97]Where is he?
[02:16.94]Getting dizzy
[02:18.43]How we gonna pay?
[02:20.85]How we gonna pay?
[02:23.66]How we gonna pay last year's rent?
[02:41.45]Allison, baby, you sound sad
[02:44.41]I can't believe those two
[02:45.71]After everything I've done
[02:47.10]Ever since our wedding
[02:48.53]I'm dirt, they'll see
[02:49.74]I can help them all out in the long run
[02:52.38]"The music ignites the night with passionate fire"
[02:57.08]Maureen, I'm not a theatre person
[02:58.68]"The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit"
[03:02.36]Could never be a theatre person
[03:04.20]Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground
[03:07.21]Hello?
[03:07.70]And feel the heat of the future's glow
[03:09.74]Hello?
[03:10.23]Hello? Maureen?
[03:11.29]Your equipment won't work?
[03:13.32]Okay, all right, I'll go!
[03:14.68]How do you leave the past behind
[03:18.00]When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart
[03:22.86]It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out
[03:27.00]'Til you're torn apart
[03:29.56]Rent
[03:30.28]How can you connect in an age
[03:32.80]Where strangers, landlords, lovers
[03:35.06]Your own blood cells betray
[03:37.78]What binds the fabric together
[03:40.41]When the raging, shifting winds of change
[03:43.91]Keep ripping away
[03:46.52]Draw a line in the sand
[03:47.71]And then make a stand
[03:49.29]Use your camera to spar
[03:50.37]Use your guitar
[03:51.94]When they act tough, you call their bluff
[03:54.78]We're not gonna pay
[03:57.38]We're not gonna pay
[04:00.21]We're not gonna pay
[04:03.10]Last year's rent
[04:05.86]This year's rent
[04:08.48]Next year's rent
[04:11.38]Rent, rent, rent, rent, rent
[04:14.21]We're not gonna pay rent
[04:16.81]'Cause everything is rent