MARK
How Do You Document Real Life
When Real Life's 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


MARK
We Light Candles


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 & MARK

How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay

Last Year's Rent

JOANNE

(On phone)
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 Eatin 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


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'
I Should Lie Down
Everything's Brown
And Uh - Oh
I Feel Sick


MARK
Where Is He?

COLLINS

Getting Dizzy

MARK & ROGER
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay

How We Gonna Pay
Last Year's Rent

BENNY
(On cellular phone)
Allison Baby - You Sound Sad

I Don't Believe Those Two
After Everything I've Done

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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


COLLINS
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhhh- I Can't Think
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhh- I Need A Drink


MARK
"The Music Ignites The Night With
Passionate Fire"

JOANNE
Maureen - I'm Not A Theatre Person


ROGER
"The Narration Crackles And Pops With
Incendiary Wit"

JOANNE
Could Never Be A Theatre Person


MARK
Zoom In As They Burn The Past To The
Ground

JOANNE
Hello?

MARK & ROGER
And Feel The Heat Of The Future's
Glow

JOANNE
Hello?

MARK
(On phone)
Hello? Maureen?
-Your Equipment Wont Work?
Okay, All Right, I'll Go!

MARK & HALF OF THE 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
Til You're Torn Apart
Rent

ROGER & 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 & ROGER
We're Not Gonna Pay

MARK & ROGER W/ HALF THE COMPANY
We're Not Gonna Pay

MARK & ROGER W/ 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

All
'Cause Everything Is Rent