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