Rent Workshop Lyrics Act II
1. VOICE MAIL #3 (phone rings) BENNY The funeral is today at 9 a.m. at the Meeting House on 11th Street in Avenue B. SECRETARY If Mimi Marquez is at this number, please call Dr. White at 338-4322. On Monday November 2nd between 3:00 and 3:15 your bloodwork is in and it’s vital you talk to the doctor. Also Mimi remember you also still owe $111.68 on your last bill, the new one will cost $238.31, making your October balance $349.99 - due immediately. If Mimi is not at this number, uh...Happy Halloween. 2. SEASONS OF LOVE COMPANY 525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life? How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love. Seasons of love. SOLOIST 1 525,600 minutes! 525,000 moments to plan. 525,600 minutes - how can you measure the life of a woman or man? SOLOIST 2 In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried. In bridges he burned, or the way that she died. COMPANY It’s time now to sing out, although it’s not the end. To celebrate remember a year in the life of a friend. Remember the love! Remember the love! Remember the love! Measure in love. Seasons of love! Seasons of love. 3. OUT TONIGHT MIMI What’s the time? Well it’s gotta be close to midnight! My body’s talking to me, it says time for danger. It says I wanna I wanna commit a crime, wanna be the cause of a fight. I wanna put on a tight skirt and pretend you’re a stranger! I’ve got an itch to be a bitch! I need to laugh like a child. C’mon (something) bought - I know a spot, where it’s hot not to go wild! We don’t need any money, I always get in for free! You can get in too if you get in with me! Let’s go out tonight! I hafta go out tonight! You wanna play, let’s run away! We wont be back till next Valentine’s Day! Take me out tonight! Meow. MAUREEN (Into phone) Forget me not? I can’t forget you Mark, it’s like forgetting a brother a friend - that too. Well, thanks for the - Mark stop crying! No this is not a phase I’m going through. MIMI I had a knack from way back of breaking the rules once I learned the games. Get up - life’s too quick! I know someplace sick! Where this chick will dance in the flames! When I get a wink from the doorman do you know how lucky you’ll be? That you’re on-line with the feline of Avenue B! Let’s go out tonight! I hafta go out tonight! You wanna prowl? Be my night owl? Well take my hand we’re gonna howl out tonight! ANGEL (In the background) He loves me - he loves me more - he loves me - he loves me more - etc. MAUREEN It’s me. JOANNE Traditional Chinese medicine offers a holistic approach - using acupuncture. MAUREEN Do I care? JOANNE Not if you don’t! MAUREEN Kiss? JOANNE No - I can’t take this! MIMI In the evening I’ve got to roam, can’t sleep in the city of neon and chrome. Feels to damn much like home when the Spanish babies cry! So let’s find a bar, so dark we forget who we are! And all the scars of the nevers and maybes die! Let’s go out tonight! I hafta go out tonight! You’re sweet, wanna hit the street? Wanna wail at the moon like a cat in heat! Just take me out tonight! Please take me out tonight! Don’t forsake me. Out tonight! I’ll let you make me out tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! 4. SEASONS OF LOVE #2 COMPANY In diapers, report cards, in spoked wheels, in speeding tickets. In contracts, dollars, in funerals, in births, in 525,600 minutes - how do you figure a last year on earth? Figure in love! Figure in love! Figure in love! Figure in love. Seasons of love, seasons of love. 5. VOICE MAIL #4 (phone rings once) MAUREEN April in the cruelest month. You can reach Joanne at 784-3321. Anyone but Mark - please leave a message. (Dial tone as Mark hangs up the phone) 6. WITHOUT YOU MAUREEN Without you, the ground falls, the grass grows. Without you, the seeds root, the flowers bloom, the children play. The stars gleam, the poets dream, the eagles fly, without you. The earth turns, the sun burns, but I die, without you. Without you, the breeze warms, the girl smiles, the cloud moves. Without you, the tides change, the boys run, the oceans crash. The crowds roar, the days soar, the babies cry, without you. The moon glows, the river flows, but I die, without you. MAUREEN & JOANNE The world revives, colors renew, but I know blue, only blue, lonely blue, within me blue. MAUREEN Without you. Without you the hand gropes, the ear hears, the pulse beats. BOTH Without you, the eyes gaze, the legs walk, the lungs breathe. JOANNE The mind churns! MAUREEN The mind churns! JOANNE The heart yearns! MAUREEN The heart yearns! BOTH The tears dry, without you. Life goes on, but I’m gone. MAUREEN Cause I die, without you. JOANNE Without you. BOTH Without you! 7. VOICE MAIL #5 (phone rings once) COLLINS We went to steal an air-conditioner. ANGEL We’ll be right back. STUDENT Um, professor Collins, um, I’ll be a freshman in your class this fall. Um, the summer reading list, um, the bookstore in Dayton didn’t have “The Story of O”. So I’m wondering - he said he was gonna steal an air-conditioner! Maybe this isn’t the right number. 8. CONTACT VARIOUS VOICES Um hmmm! You know that’s right! Oh yeah baby! Silky silky silky! Lord have mercy! etc. COMPANY Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet! wet-wet-wet-red-heat! Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet! Wet-wet- wet-red-heat! Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet! Wet-wet-wet-red-heat! Sticky-licky-trickle-tickle-steamy-creamy-soaking-stoking! COLLINS Touch! MAUREEN Taste! MIMI Deep! COLLINS Dark! MAUREEN Kiss! COLLINS Beg! MIMI Slap! COLLINS, MIMI & MAUREEN Fear! COLLINS Thick! COLLINS, MAUREEN & MIMI Red, red, red, red, red, red - please! MAUREEN Harder! ANGEL Faster! MAUREEN Wetter! MIMI Bastard! COLLINS You whore! MAUREEN You cannibal! ANGEL & MIMI More! MAUREEN You animal! COLLINS, MAUREEN & MIMI Fluid no fluid no contact yes no contact ALL Fire, fire, burn - burn yes! No latex rubber rubber! Fire latex rubber latex bummer lover bummer! ANGEL Take me! Take me! Take me! Take me! Take me! Oh! Take me! Take me! Take me! Take me! Today me! Today me! Tomorrow you! Today me! Tomorrow you! Take me! Tomorrow you love! You love! I love you! I love you! Oh! Take me! Take me! I love you! ROGER Um... JOANNE Wait! MIMI Slipped! COLLINS Shit. JOANNE Ow! ROGER Where’d it go? MIMI Safe. COLLINS Damn. MAUREEN I think I missed - don’t get pissed. ALL It was bad for me! Was it bad for you? MAUREEN Move over! JOANNE Move over! ROGER It’s over! MIMI It’s over! COLLINS It’s over. 9. I'LL COVER YOU #2 MIMI Angel was one of my closest friends. I knew we'd hit it off the moment we met. This skinhead was bothering her and she that she was more of a man he'd ever be and more of a woman then he'd ever get. MARK Then there was this time when he walked right up to this group of tourists and they were petrified because A, they were obviously lost and B, they had probably never spoken to a drag queen before in their lives. And he, she, offered to escort them out of Alphabet City and then let them take a picture of her and then said she'd help them find the ?Circle Line? MAUREEN You were so much more original then any of us. You'd find an old tablecloth on the street and turn it into a dress and sure enough next year they'd be mass producing them at The Gap. You always said how lucky you felt that we were all friends, but it was us wasn't it? We were the lucky ones. COLLINS Live in my house, I'll be your shelter. Just pay me back with 1,000 kisses. Be my lover, and I'll cover you. Open my door, I'll be your tenant, don't got much baggage to lay at your feet. But sweet kisses I've got to spare, I'll be there and I'll cover you. I think they meant it when they said you can't buy love, now I know you can rent it. A new lease you were my love, on life. All my life, I've longed to discover something as true as this is. SOLOIST #1 So with a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you. With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you. With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you. With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you. COLLINS If you're cold and you're lonely. You've got one nickel only. When you're worn out and tired. When your heart has expired. COMPANY 525,600 minutes. 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes. 525,600 - measure a year. ALL Oh lover! I'll cover you! (over and over) 10. GOODBYE LOVE MIMI You said you that you were leaving town last week. ROGER You said that Benny was the most disgusting yuppy scum of the earth. BENNY You said you'd never speak to him again. MIMI Not now! MAUREEN Who said that you have any say in who she says things to at all! JOANNE You said you'd stick to your own problems. MAUREEN You said you'd give me some space! JOANNE Maureen, we have this fight each night! Why can't you admit you need me? MARK Everyone! Please! MIMI He's the same way, he's always run away, hit the road, don't commit, you're full of shit! BENNY Mimi! JOANNE She's in denial! MIMI He's in denial! JOANNE You gave an inch when I gave a mile! MIMI I gave a mile! ROGER When you weren't trashed! BENNY & MARK C'mon guys! Chill! JOANNE & MIMI I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had! MAUREEN Don't give up Joanne! JOANNE & MIMI Someone to live for! MAUREEN I live for you! I do! JOANNE & MIMI Unafraid to say I love you! ROGER Oh, your words are nice Mimi, but love's not a one-way street! You'll never share real love until you love yourself - I should know! COLLINS You all said you'd be cool tonight - so please, for my sake! I can't believe he's gone, I can't believe you're going. ALL I can't believe this is goodbye. MARK I hear there are great restaurants out West. ROGER Some of the best. How could she? MARK How could you let her go? ROGER You just don't know. How could we lose Angel? MARK Maybe you'll see why if you face up to your pain, at least now if you try Angel's death wont be in vain. ROGER His death is in vain! MARK Use your right brain, there's so much to care about, there's me, there's Mimi. ROGER Mimi's got her baggage too. MARK So do you! ROGER I don't know what I am, what I know, what to do. MARK Who does? ROGER Oh God Mark! Don't you? MARK Mark has got his work, they say Mark lives for his work. And Mark's in love with his work, Mark hides in his work. ROGER From what? MARK From facing my failure, facing my loneliness, facing the fact I live a lie! ROGER You don't live a lie! Tell you why, you never finished your film cause the standards you set for yourself are too high! But the fact remains that you're the one of us with the talent and the drive. The fact remains Mark, you're the one to survive. MARK I know. I'm afraid the burden's gonna make me crack. ROGER If it does just let me know - I'll come back. MARK Why's it easier to return to a friend then to burn with a lover till the end? ROGER Not as much to lose! MARK Mimi still loves Roger, Mimi's just with Benny cause Mimi's getting weak. ROGER Mimi did look pale. MARK Mimi's gotten thin, Mimi's running out of time, Roger's running out the door! ROGER No more! Oh no, I've got to go! MARK Anything you need in Santa Fe? ROGER I'll be fine - make your film! MARK Okay. Love you! Call. ROGER Love you too. I hate the fall. (Mimi enters) ROGER You heard? MIMI Every word. You don't want baggage without lifetime guarantees, you don't want to watch me die. I just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love! Came to say goodbye love, goodbye! Just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love! Goodbye love, goodbye. ROGER Right brain - how do I find the right brain? I lost my map! MIMI Goodbye love! Goodbye love! Came to say goodbye love, goodbye! Just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love! Goodbye love, hello disease. 11. REAL ESTATE MINISTER Hey! I said I didn't want you on these premise and I meant it! What do you think? We give hand outs here? MARK Is that any way to send a boy to meet his maker? They should have known we couldn't pay the undertaker. BENNY What happened to rest in peace? MARK It's true! And they wouldn't even take an IOU. I give up! BENNY Don't worry about him! I'll take care of it. Alison make a note - church donation. MARK It must be nice to have money. BENNY It is. MARK I don't know why I do this anymore. I'm all alone, and my films no prize. But I've got the stuff, at least everybody says so. All my friends have flown or are dropping like flies. And if that's not enough I'm in love with a lezbo! My rent is due, my family's nuts, I haven't had sex in a millenium. I'm stuck with you! I hate your guts! And it's only ten am! BENNY Have you considered real estate? MARK Real estate? BENNY Real estate! Have you considered real estate as a career? Could you consider real estate? MARK Let me get this straight... BENNY Could be great! Cohen and Coffin - like Helmsley and Speare! I know it may it sound silly, it's a notion I've had for a while. Imagine us as affiliates, we could go to town! My savvy - your smile! There's art in every deal, create with bricks and steal. MARK Real estate... I don't know... ALISON What's with him? MARK I start work, I don't complete. Am I uninspired, or just a perfectionist? I'm such a jerk, I don't compete. I can't get hired as a PA or a projectionist. I hate my hair and my goatee, I talk in my sleep, but no one's there to listen. Why do I care about film or TV? What they ever do for me? BENNY Have you considered real estate? ALISON Real estate. BENNY Real estate! MARK I should consider real estate. My life is a dump. BENNY Do consider real estate! MARK Real estate! BENNY We'll collaborate! Any fool can do it, witness Donald Trump! MARK Maybe it's time to stop carousing, do something else more fulfilling. Couldn't we build low income housing? BENNY That's an idea! I mean it! Really! MARK It does have its appeal. BENNY Doing for the common deal! BENNY & MARK Real estate! ALISON Anyway, there ain't no money in documentary film! I said there ain't no money in documentary film! And I know there ain't no money cause folks get funny, they like things sunny, not truthful honey! There ain't no money in documentary films! Any idiot can turn on a camera and shoot hobo's! Developing property requires vision. Take that site over there! Last year empty lot - next year super store! Last year filthy bum MARK Person! ALISON Okay filthy person! Next year automatic double doors! Last year empty boxes filled with strangers - next year Might Morphin' Power Rangers! MARK I'm doomed forever to be poor. MARK, ALISON, & BENNY (done in a round - not all lyrics are here) There ain't no money in documentary films! There ain't no money in documentary films! There ain't no money cause folks get funny, they like things sunny, not truthful honey! There ain't no money in documentary films! BENNY Meet you back in Scarsdale! ALISON Last year crummy boho goon - next year corporate tycoon! BENNY A team like Snow White and a Dwarf! Like Edwin Coch and Steven Gorne! MARK I'll never have that kind of zeal and my expose will soon reveal! I'm just not cut out for... ALL THREE Real estate! 12. OPEN ROAD ROGER Open road, why does love erode? Get away, you can't stay away! Look away from the mirror now - look straight out ahead, that's how. But how can you let her go? Let her go. No, you can't her can't save the world, better save your heart. Start to close the door, look for open road. Open road, why can't I crack loves code? Time to fly, no time to say goodbye. Goodbye! Just try to forget her face, just get yourself in the race. There's a place that you have to go, have to go. No, you can't heal there pain, better heal your heart. Start your motor up, take up open road. There's a hit and run cat on the highway, another cat sits saying a prayer. I swear as I pass she's laughing my way. Where did my love go, cry her eyes! Where did my love go? OPERATOR The number you have reached 675-8304 has been disconnected. (dial tone) ROGER Where did my love go? No, you can't forget her eyes, you'll still protect your heart. As you start for home, breathe it in and slow. You don't have to go if your heart is open, your heart is open, your heart is open road! 13. VOICE MAIL #7 (phone rings) MARK & ROGER Speak! (beep!) ROGER'S MOM Roger! This is your mother! Roger honey, I don't get these postcards! Moving to Santa Fe, back in New York, moving to Brooklyn. Roger where are you? Roger where are you? Please call... MIMI'S MOM Mimi, chica, donde esta? Tu mama esta llamando. Donde estas Mimi call... MR. JEFFERSON Muffin, wherever are you? Call... MRS. COHEN Mark, are you there, are you there? I don't know if he's there! We're all here, wishing you were here too! Where are you Mark? Are you there are you where are you? Mark are you there? Are you there? I don't know if - please call your mother! 14. CHRISTMAS BELLS #4 HOMELESS PEOPLE Christmas bells are ringing! Christmas bells are ringing! Christmas bells are ringing! How time flies - when compassion dies! No stockings, no candy canes, no ginger bread, no safety net, no loose change, no change, no... HOMELESS MAN Santa Claus is coming! HOMELESS PEOPLE Cause Santa Claus aint coming! No room at the Holiday Inn again! Well maybe next year or when! 15. RENT #3 ROGER If I got a rope and hung myself, my face bright blue, my sneakers dangling in the air! MARK If I bought an AK47, shot myself, would anyone care? ROGER Light Quentin Tarantino! MARK Fuck, what does he know? BOTH How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay last years... 16. FINALE (Enter Collins) COLLINS Salutations! I had a little hunch, you could use a little flow. ROGER Tutoring again? COLLINS Negative! MARK Back at NYU? COLLINS No, no, no. I rewired the ATM at the Food Emporium, to provide an honorarium to anyone with the code. MARK & ROGER The code - well? COLLINS A - N - G - E - L Yet Robin Hooding isn't the solution. The powers that be must be undermined where they dwell. In a small exclusive gourmet institution, where we overcharge the wealthy clientele. We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe. MARK & ROGER Santa Fe! COLLINS With a private corner banquette all our own. MARK & ROGER All our own! COLLINS We'll make it yet we'll somehow get to Santa Fe. MARK & ROGER Santa Fe! ROGER In a car this time that makes it past (???) ALL THREE Oh...... (enter Benny) BENNY Espresso Alison, espresso Alison, and Sam Boom and Salukis closed (???) We are the world, we are the children. Hey, choo choo Charlie. ALL FOUR Off the Harley! BENNY No more fiction, this is an eviction! COLLINS We're already moving ROGER We hoo - ha hoo! (?) MARK Gang way Blockbuster! BENNY Blockbuster fell through! COLLINS You have a conscience? BENNY My wife... ROGER You suck! BENNY I'm cut off from the trust fund! MARK What about Mimi? BENNY You can stay if you pay! ROGER What about... BENNY Not so loud! MARK, ROGER, and COLLINS Mimi?!?! BENNY Hey! ROGER How do you work these? BENNY Don't be a jerk please! ROGER I'm a jerk? BENNY I didn't see you paying her blue cross! ROGER I don't make money by selling out to destitute. BENNY Out of my house you squatters! ROGER You slumlord! BENNY I dumped Mimi anyways. It was a drag! Things got queer! COLLINS, MARK & ROGER When? BENNY A week ago, more! MARK Where is she? BENNY I assumed...you mean she isn't here? ROGER Alison! BENNY Don't you do that! ROGER I just thought you might like to know... MAUREEN Mark! Roger! Anyone! Help! MARK Maureen? MAUREEN It's Mimi! I can't get her up the stairs! ROGER No! MAUREEN She was huddled in the park, in the dark, and she was freezing and begged to come here. ROGER Over here! My God! MIMI Got a light? I know you...you're shivering! JOANNE She was living on the street. ROGER We need some heat. MIMI I'm shivering! MARK We can buy some wood and something to eat. COLLINS I'm afraid she needs more than heat. MIMI I heard that! MAUREEN Collins will get you a doctor honey. MIMI Don't waste your money on Mimi, me, me. COLLINS (counting money) 15, 16.... MAUREEN There, there. MIMI Cold! Cold! Would you light my candle? MARK Wait I'll sell the camera! COLLINS Time to be on your way comrade, it's been 525,600 moments clad. We were nomads together in a no mans land! Where man's the only beast who pays rent. And if it's spent, at least he's got to stay afloat. And he's got to have a damn good coat. Which you were like an Angel! But it's over! Goodbye love! Goodbye love! Goodbye love, goodbye! Farewell Angel. MARK I finished the film. MAUREEN That's great. MARK It's called "Today for You - Proof Positive". MARK & MAUREEN God let her live! MIMI I should tell you, I should tell you. ROGER I should tell you, I should tell you. MIMI I should tell you Benny wasn't any... ROGER Sshh! I know. I should tell you why I left, it wasn't cause I didn't... MIMI Don't go! I should tell you. ROGER I should tell you. MIMI I should tell you. MIMI & ROGER I love you! Walking through fire without a burn. ROGER Clinging - a shoulder. MIMI A leap begins. ROGER Stinging and older. MIMI Asleep on pins. MIMI & ROGER So here we go, now we... ROGER Oh no. MIMI I know. ROGER Oh no. ROGER Who knows where? Who goes there? Who knows? Here goes. (Mimi collapses) ROGER Who do you think you are? Leaving me alone with my guitar. (plays Musetta's Waltz) ROGER Mimi! (Mimi jumps up) MIMI Moonstruck! The theme from Moonstruck! MARK Moonstruck? MIMI Moooooo! MARK I knew it sounded familiar MAUREEN She's drenched! MARK Her fever's breaking! MIMI There is no future, there is no past. ROGER Thank God this moments not the last! MIMI & ROGER There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret or life is yours to miss. ALL No other road, no other way, no day but today. WOMEN I can't control - my destiny! I trust my soul! My only goal is just to be! Without you - the hand gropes, the ear hears, the pulse beats. Life goes on, but I'm gone, cause I die, without you. I die without you. I die without you. No day but today. I die without you. MEN Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare? There's only now, there's only here, give into love or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today. No day but today. No day but today. No day but today. ALL No day but today! THE END