[00:00.00] 作词 : Jonathan Larson[00:01.00] 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