â°Â  â â â  RENT LYRIC STARTERS
SEASONS OF LOVE.
â Â letâs celebrate and remember a year in the life of friends. Â â
â Â remember the love. Â â
RENT.
â Â real life is getting more like fiction each day. Â â
â Â where is the power? Â â
â Â weâre hungry and frozen. Â â
â Â some life that weâve chosen. Â â
â Â how can you generate heat when you canât feel your feet and theyâre turning blue. Â â
â Â on every street itâs âtrick or treatâ and tonight itâs âtrick.â Â â
â Â welcome back to town. Â â
â Â oh, i should lie down. Â â
â Â everything is brown and uh-oh, i feel sick. Â â
â Â weâre not gonna pay rent. Â â
YOUâLL SEE.
â Â hey, you bum. get your ass off that range rover. Â â
â Â what happened to (name)? what happened to their heart and the ideals he once pursued? Â â
â Â youâre wasting your time. Â â
â Â you broke your word â this is absurd. Â â
â Â that boy could use some prozac. Â â
LIGHT MY CANDLE.
â Â whatâd you forget? Â â
â Â got a light? Â â
â Â youâre shivering. Â â
â Â they turned off my heat. Â â
â Â iâm just a little weak on my feet. Â â
â Â would you light my candle? Â â
â Â what are you staring at? Â â
â Â i always remind people of â who is she? Â â
â Â i think that i dropped my stash. Â â
â Â i know iâve seen you out and about when i used to go out. Â â
â Â they say that i have the best ass below 14th street. is it true? Â â
â Â i didnât recognize you without the handcuffs. Â â
â Â iâm just born to be bad. Â â
â Â our eyes will adjust. thank god for the moon. Â â
TODAY 4 U.
â Â today for you â tomorrow for me. Â â
â Â you earned this on the street? Â â
â Â darling, be a dear, i havenât slept for a year. Â â
â Â i need your help to make my neighborâs yappy dog disappear. Â â
â Â but sure as i am here that dog is now in doggy hell. Â â
TANGO: MAUREEN.
â Â this is weird. Â â
â Â fuckinâ weird. Â â
â Â iâm so mad that i donât know what to do. Â â
â Â feel like going insane? got a fire in your brain and youâre thinking of drinking gasoline? Â â
â Â honey, i know this act. Â â
â Â itâs a dark, dizzy merry-go-round. Â â
â Â as she keeps you dangling, your heart she is mangling. Â â
â Â itâs different with me. Â â
â Â her cold eyes can burn. Â â
â Â has she ever pouted her lips and called you pookie? Â â
â Â have you ever doubted a kiss or two? Â â
â Â this is spooky. Â â
â Â did you swoon when she walked through the door? Â â
â Â whereâd you learn to tango? Â â
â Â you pretend to believe her cause in the end you canât leave her. Â â
LIFE SUPPORT.
â Â i find some of what you teach suspect because iâm used to relying on intellect. Â â
â Â i try to open up to what i donât know. Â â
â Â reason says i should have died three years ago. Â â
â Â thereâs only us. thereâs only this. Â â
â Â forget regret or life is yours to miss. Â â
â Â no other road, no other way. no day but today. Â â
OUT TONIGHT.
â Â itâs gotta be close to midnight. Â â
â Â my bodyâs talking to me, it says âtime for danger.â Â â
â Â i wanna commit a crime, wanna be the cause of a fight. Â â
â Â i wanna put on a tight skirt and flirt with a stranger. Â â
â Â iâve had a knack from way back at breaking the rules once a i learn the game. Â â
â Â we donât need any money. i always get in for free. Â â
â Â letâs go out tonight. Â â
â Â in the evening, iâve got to roam. Â â
â Â letâs find a bar, so dark we forget how we are and all the scars from nevers and maybes die. Â â
ANOTHER DAY.
â Â who do you think you are? Â â
â Â little girl, the door is that way. Â â
â Â your sweet whisper, i just canât handle. Â â
â Â i should tell you, i should tell you â no! Â â
â Â another time, another place, our temperature would rise, thereâd be a warm in brace. Â â
â Â looking for romance? come back another day. Â â
â Â the heart may freeze or it can burn. Â â
â Â the pain will ease if i could learn. Â â
â Â there is no future. there is no past. i live in this moment as my last. Â â
â Â excuse me if iâm off track. Â â
â Â if your so wise then tell me, why do you need smack? Â â
â Â long ago, you mightâve lit up my heart, but the fireâs dead â ainât ever gonna start. Â â
IâLL COVER YOU.
â Â live in my house, iâll be your shelter. Â â
â Â just pay me back with a thousand kisses. Â â
â Â be my lover and iâll cover you. Â â
â Â donât got much baggage to lay at your feet, but sweet kisses iâve got to spare. Â â
â Â i think they meant it when they said you canât buy love. Â â
â Â you are my love, on life. be my life. Â â
â Â youâll be my king and iâll be your castle. Â â
â Â youâll be my queen and iâll be your moat. Â â
â Â a new lease you are my love on life, all my life. Â â
â Â iâve longed to discover something as true as this. Â â
â Â with a thousand kisses, iâll cover you. Â â
OVER THE MOON.
â Â out of the abyss walked a cow, elsie. i asked if she had anything to drink, she said, âiâm forbidden to produce milk. in cyberland, we only drink diet coke.â Â â
â Â the only thing to do is jump over the moon. Â â
â Â theyâve closed everything real down. Â â
â Â i gotta get out of here! Â â
â Â i gotta get out of here! itâs like 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. Â â
â Â and although he once had principals, he abandoned them. Â â
â  maybe itâs a⊠female thing.  â
â Â moo with me! Â â
LA VIE BOHEME.
â Â what am i? just a blur? Â â
â Â go to hell. Â â
â Â iâm surprised a bright and charming girl like you hangs out with these slackers. Â â
â Â do you really want a neighborhood where people piss on your stoop every night? Â â
â Â dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes. Â â
â Â to being an us for once, instead of a them. Â â
â Â hey mister, sheâs my sister. Â â
â Â dorothy and toto went over the rainbow to blow off auntie em. Â â
I SHOULD TELL YOU.
â Â i should tell you iâm a disaster. Â â
â Â letâs just make this part go faster â i have yet to be in it. Â â
â Â i should tell you i blew the candle out just to get back in. Â â
â Â iâd forgotten how to smile until your candle burned my skin. Â â
TAKE ME OR LEAVE ME.
â Â you were flirting with the woman in rubber! Â â
â Â there will always be women in rubber flirting with me. give me a break! Â â
â Â every single day i walk down the street, i hear people say âbaby, so sweet.â Â â
â Â ever since puberty everybody stares at me. boys, girls â i canât help it, baby. Â â
â Â be kind and donât lose your mind. Â â
â Â just remember that iâm your baby. Â â
â Â take me for what i am, who i was meant to be. Â â
â Â take me baby, or leave me. Â â
â Â this diva needs her stage! Â â
â Â baby, letâs have fun. Â â
â Â you are the one i choose. folks will kill to fill your shoes. Â â
â Â so be mine, but donât waste my time. Â â
â Â oh honey bear, are you still my baby? Â â
â Â no way can i be what iâm not, but hey, donât you want your girl hot?! Â â
â Â donât fight, donât lose your head. Â â
â Â every night, whoâs in your bed? Â â
â Â kiss pookie. Â â
â Â it wonât work! Â â
â Â i hate mess, but i love you. Â â
â Â so be wise cause this girl satisfies. Â â
â Â youâre one lucky baby. Â â
â Â take me for what i am. Â â
â Â thatâs it â the straw that breaks my back. Â â
â Â i quit unless you take it back. Â â
â Â women, what is it about them? canât live with them or without them. Â â
â Â guess iâm leaving. iâm gone. Â â
WITHOUT YOU.
â Â i die without you. Â â
â Â but i know blue, only blue, lonely blue, within me blue. Â â
â Â the mind churns, the heart yearns. Â â
â Â life goes on, but iâm gone. Â â
GOODBYE LOVE.
â Â itâs true your with this yuppy scum? Â â
â Â you said youâd never speak to him again. Â â
â Â who said you have any say in who she says things to at all? Â â
â Â who said you should stick your nose in other peopleâs business? Â â
â Â who said i was talking to you? Â â
â Â we used to have this fight each night â sheâd never admit i existed. Â â
â Â he was always run away, hit the road, donât commit. youâre full of shit! Â â
â Â your full of shit! Â â
â  you gave an inch when i gave a mile  â
â Â câmon guys, chill! Â â
â Â iâd be happy to die for a taste of what they had: someone to live for, unafraid to say i love you. Â â
â Â all your words are nice, but loveâs not a three-way street. Â â
â Â loveâs not a three-way street. Â â
â Â youâll never share real love until you love yourself. Â â
â  you said youâd be cool today, so please, for my sake⊠ â
â Â i canât believe this is goodbye. Â â
â Â how could you let her go? Â â
â Â are you insane? thereâs so much to care about. Â â
â Â who are you to tell me what i know? Â â
â Â you hid in your work from facing your failure, facing your loneliness, facing the fact you live a lie. Â â
â Â youâre always preaching not to be numb when thatâs how you thrive. Â â
â Â you pretend to create and observe when you really detach from being alive. Â â
â Â are you really jealous? Â â
â Â sheâs running out of time and youâre running out the door. Â â
â Â for someone whoâs always been let down, whoâs heading out of town? Â â
â Â iâll call. Â â
â Â i hate the fall. Â â
â Â you heard? Â â
â Â you donât want baggage without life time guarantees. you donât wanna see me die? Â â
â Â i just came to say goodbye love. Â â
â Â please donât touch me, understand iâm scared. Â â
YOUR EYES
â Â your eyes as we said our goodbyes â i canât get them out of my mind. Â â
â Â i find i canât hide from your eyes, the ones that took me by surprise, the night you came into my life. Â â
â Â thereâs moonlight i see in your eyes. Â â
â Â howâd i let you slip away when iâm longing so to hold you? Â â
â Â now iâd die for one more day âcause thereâs something i should have told you. Â â
â Â why does distance make us wise? Â â
â Â i should tell you i have always loved you. Â â
â Â i should tell you i have always loved you. you can see it in my eyes. Â â