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I have always believed in the power and glory of Rock and Roll. A great pop or soul song has the ability to change your life. It is something that satisfies the soul in a variety of emotional
situations. You can play a great song when you are in a wonderful mood, and the music will lift your spirits even higher. The same piece of music can be played when you find yourself in
a dark, lonely place, and that song will become a dear friend, a welcome partner in sorrow. There are hundreds, thousands of these songs that come to mind: In My Life. Whats
Going On. Thunder Road. I Wanna Be Sedated. Lose Yourself. Fortunate Son. Redemption Song. Stuck In A Moment You Cant Get Out Of The list goes on forever,
comprised of songs that have made my life a much better place. Songs that I will go back to, time and time again. Songs that are rare and unique, that exist as living, breathing organisms,
infused with the blood and heart of the composer.
These are the songs of RENT. The songs of Jonathan Larson.
They are extremely complex, three or four minute symphonies, that work on a variety of emotional levels. Yet they are never pretentious. They celebrate life, with a glorious
sense of melody and hope. These songs have been swimming around in my head from the first moment I heard them, when I saw them performed by the original New York cast. The
Broadway recording became the soundtrack of my life for nearly a decade. Because of my love for those songs, I wanted to direct the film version of RENT.
To prepare for the shooting of this film, we needed to pre-record the entire album. This time around, the songs were recorded over several months, with much time and care. First, I
credit our producer, Rob Cavallo, with infusing a new energy and spirit into this music. All of the cuts on this album remain faithful to the Broadway origins, but Rob
has made them much richer and multi-layered. I also want to credit our amazingly talented cast. These eight voices will sear your very soul.
This has been the single most rewarding cinematic journey of my career. Every time I watch the film, or listen to this newly recorded album I find myself uttering the same four words
Thank you Jonathan Larson.
Chris Columbus
CAST:
Rosario Dawson
MIMI MARQUEZ
Jesse L. Martin
Taye Diggs
Anthony Rapp
Idina Menzel
MARK COHEN
MAUREEN JOHNSON
Tracie Thoms
Adam Pascal
JOANNE JEFFERSON
ANGEL SCHUNARD
ROGER DAVIS
RENT
Performed by Mark, Roger, Collins,
Benny & Tenants (including Mimi & Angel)
MARK
How do you document real life when real lifes getting more
like fiction each day? Headlines bread-lines blow my mind
And now this deadline Eviction or pay
Rent!
ROGER
SEASONS OF LOVE
Performed by Joanne, Collins & Cast of Rent
ALL
With posters
MARK
And screenplays
MARK
Getting dizzy
MIMI
YOULL SEE
Performed by Roger, Mark & Benny
ROGER
ROGER
Well
MIMI
BENNY
ROGER
BENNY
ROGER
The rent
MARK
Were broke
MARK
Yeah. Ow!
MIMI
Fingers. I figured
Oh, well. Goodnight
It blew out again?
MIMI
I knew it!
BENNY
What?
BENNY
MIMI
Performed by Roger
ROGER
ROGER
The floor?
LIGHT MY CANDLE
Performed by Roger & Mimi
MIMI
ROGER
ROGER
What?
MIMI
Got a light?
ROGER
MIMI
Oh no.
I mean you do have a nice
I mean you look familiar
MIMI
Its a living
ROGER
MIMI
I used to sweat
MIMI
I got a cold
ROGER
Uh huh
I used to be a junkie
MIMI
Uh huh
MIMI
ROGER
TANGO: MAUREEN
JOANNE
ROGER
MARK
Very weird
JOANNE
Fuckin weird
MARK
Cold hands
This is weird
MIMI
Yours too.
Big. Like my fathers
Do you wanna dance?
JOANNE
MARK
JOANNE
MARK
MARK
Its weird
ROGER
JOANNE
With you?
As a matter of fact
MIMI
MARK
No with my father
ROGER
Im Roger
MARK
MIMI
They call me
They call me Mimi
ANGEL
Feel good
ROGER
Oh, here it um
MIMI
Whats that?
ROGER
TODAY 4 U
Performed by Collins, Angel & Mark
COLLINS
JOANNE
Im getting nauseous
MARK
She cheated
JOANNE
Maureen cheated
MARK
Fuckin cheated
JOANNE
JOANNE
MARK
Youre wrong
MARK
JOANNE
JOANNE
BOTH
MARK
MARK
JOANNE
BOTH
BOTH
MARK
Never
MARK
This is spooky
Did you swoon when
She walked through the door?
MARK
MARK
ANOTHER DAY
Performed by Roger, Mimi, Collins, Mark & Angel
OUT TONIGHT
Performed by Mimi
LIFE SUPPORT
Performed by Gordon, Roger,
Steve & Cast of RENT
GORDON
Theres only us
Theres only this
Forget regret or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today
ROGER
MIMI/ANGEL/COLLINS/MARK
ROGER
I cant control
My destiny
I trust my soul
My only goal is just to be
Theres only now
Theres only here
Give in to love
Or live in fear
No other path
No other way
MIMI
MIMI/ANGEL/COLLINS/MARK
MIMI
ANGEL
You teach?
COLLINS
COLLINS
America
MARK/ANGEL/ROGER/COLLINS
America!
COLLINS
STEVE
SANTA FE
Performed by Roger,
Mark, Angel & Collins
ANGEL
Uh huh
ANGEL
COLLINS/ROGER/MARK/ANGEL
MARK
Sing it girl
ANGEL
I hear that
ANGEL
ANGEL
Ohoh oh oh
Performed by Steve,
Gordon & Cast of RENT
ROGER/MARK/ANGEL
WILL I
Yeah
BOTH
Youll be my king,
And Ill be your castle
COLLINS
No youll be my queen,
And Ill be your moat
BOTH
ANGEL
BOTH
ALL
Ever since the cat took up the fiddle that cows been jumpy
The dish and the spoon were evicted from the table
and eloped
Shes had trouble with her milk and that moon ever since.
Maybe its a female thing, cause whod wanna leave
Cyberland anyway? Walls aint so bad. The dish and the
spoon for instance, theyre down on their luck, they come
knockin
on my doghouse door.
I said not in my backyard, utensils!
Go back to China!
Ba De Bah!
The only way out is up Elsie whispered to me
A leap of faith. Still thirsty?
PARCHED (parched, parched, parched)
Have some milk
And I lowered myself beneath her swollen udder
and I sucked the sweetest milk I had ever tasted
Climb on board she said and as a harvest
moon rose over Cyberland
We reared back and sprang into a gallop
leaping out of orbit!
I awoke singing
Leap of faith, leap of faith
Leap of faith, leap of faith
Only thing to do
Only thing to do is jump
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Over the moon over the
Moooooooo
Moooooooo
Moooooooo
Moooooooo
Moo with me
Please sir would you give me a little Moo
Let me hear you New York City!
La vie Boheme,
La vie Boheme,
La vie Boheme,
La vie Boheme
MARK
To days of inspiration
Playing hookey, making
Something out of nothing
The need to express
To communicate,
To going against the grain,
Going insane, going mad
To loving tension, no pension
To more than one dimension,
To starving for attention,
Hating convention, hating pretension
Not to mention of course,
Hating dear old mom and dad
To riding your bike,
Midday past the three piece suits
To fruits - to no absolutes To Absolut - to choice To the Village Voice To any passing fad
To being an us for onceinstead of
athem!!
Who Died?
BENNY
Our Akita
ANGEL/ROGER/COLLINS
Evita
BENNY
MARK
COLLINS
To Sontag
ANGEL
To Sondheim
FOUR GIRLS
To anything taboo
COLLINS & ROGER
To the stage
BOHEMIANS
La vie Boheme
MR. GREY
Sisters?
Were close
MR. GREY
Ahhemm
Brothers!
MAUREEN
Eww
MIMI
MAUREEN
MARK
COLLINS
Mucho masturbation
ALL
LA VIE BOHEME
MARK
To hand-crafted beers
Made in local breweries
To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and
cheese
To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo
To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou
MAUREEN & COLLINS
MARK/ANGEL/MIMI
To marijuana
ALL
WaiterWaiterWaiterWaiter
ALL
La vie Boheme
COLLINS
LA VIE BOHEME B
ROGER
MARK
Baggage
ALL
AZT break
ROGER
You?
MIMI
Me. You?
ROGER
Mimi
ALL
MIMI
MIMI
ROGER
MIMI
ROGER
Oh no
ROGER
MIMI
I know
this something is, here goes
MIMI
Here goes
ROGER
Who knows
ROGER & MIMI
Oh no
MIMI
I know
ROGER
Oh no
ROGER & MIMI
Yeah!! To dance!
MIMI
Film!
MARK
Music!
ANGEL
Anarchy
COLLINS & MAUREEN
To me!
MARK
To me!
COLLINS & ANGEL
To me!
ALL
Oooooh
La vie Boheme
VIVA, la vie Boheme!!
SEASONS OF LOVE B
Performed by Cast of RENT
ALL
WITHOUT YOU
Performed by Mimi & Roger
MIMI
Without you, the ground thaws, the rain 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.
TAKE ME OR LEAVE ME
ROGER
MIMI
MAUREEN
Colors renew,
JOANNE
It wont work.
I look before I leap
I love margins and discipline
I make lists in my sleep
Baby whats my sin?
Never quit I follow through
I hate mess but I love you
What to do with my impromptu baby
So be wise cause this girl satisfies
Youve got a prize, but dont compromise
Youre one lucky baby
Take me for what I am
MAUREEN
JOANNE
A control freak
JOANNE
BOTH
Women
MAUREEN
MAUREEN
JOANNE
BOTH
MAUREEN
Thats it!
JOANNE
I quit
ROGER
Without you.
ROGER
Without you
ROGER & MIMI
Without you
MIMI
Hes in denial
JOANNE
ILL COVER
YOU
(REPRISE)
MARK
Guys, come on
MIMI
I gave a mile
COLLINS
ROGER
JOANNE
GOODBYE LOVE
COLLINS
HALLOWEEN
Performed by Mark
How did we get here?
How the hell
Pan left - close on the steeple of the church
How did I get here?
How the hell
Christmas, Christmas Eve last year
How could a night so frozen
Be so scalding hot?
How can a morning this mild
Be so raw?
Why are entire years strewn
On the cutting room floor of memory
When single frames from one magic night
Forever flicker in close-up
On the 3-D Imax of my mind
Thats poetic, thats pathetic
Why did Mimi knock on
Rogers door
And Collins choose that phone booth
Back where Angel set up his drums?
Why did Maureens equipment break down?
Why am I the witness?
And when I capture it on film
Will it mean that its the end
And Im alone?
Not now
MAUREEN
Yeah!
JOANNE
Calm down
Everyone please
MIMI
Mimi
JOANNE
Shes in denial
So do you
ROGER
A friend
ROGER
From what?
ROGER
ROGER
Glory
One blaze of
Glory
I have to find
MIMI
A rehab?
MIMI
BENNY
ROGER
MIMI
Poor baby
MARK
Ill pay
ROGER
Every word
You dont want baggage without lifetime
guarantees
You dont want to watch me die?
I just came to say goodbye love goodbye love
came to say goodbye love,
Goodbye
ROGER
Alexi Mark
Call me a hypocrite
I need to finish my own film
I quit!
Dying in America
At the end of the millennium
Were dying in America
To come into our own
And when youre dying in America
At the end of the millennium
Youre not alone
Im not alone
IM NOT ALONE!!
MARK
MARK
MARK
ROGER
MARK
ROGER
ROGER
ROGER
MARK
FINALE A
Performed by Mimi & Roger
MIMI
I should tell
Benny wasnt any
ROGER
Performed by Cast of
RENT
MARK
There is no future
There is no past
ROGER
YOUR EYES
Performed by Roger
Your eyes
As we said our goodbyes
Cant get them out of my mind
And I find I cant hide
From your eyes
The ones that took me by surprise
The night you came into my life
Where theres moonlight I see your eyes
Howd I let you slip away
When Im longing so to hold you
Now Id die for one more day
Cause theres something
I should have told you
Yes theres something
I should have told you
When I looked into your eyes
Why does distance make us wise?
You were the song all along
And before this song dies
I should tell you I should tell you
I have always loved you
You can see it in my eyes
Mimi!!!
Theres only us
Theres only this
Forget regret or
Life is yours to miss
ALL
I cant 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 Im gone
Cause I die
Without you
I die without you
I die without you
I die without you
I die without you
I die without you
NO DAY BUT TODAY!!
FINALE B
LOVE HEALS
(BONUS TRACK)
JOANNE
ANGEL
MAUREEN/JOANNE
MAUREEN
MAUREEN/BENNY
By JONATHAN LARSON
All songs 1996 Finster & Lucy Music Ltd. Co.
except Love Heals 1993 Finster & Lucy Music Ltd. Co.
All rights controlled and administered by EMI April Music Inc. (ASCAP)
Santa Fe contains an interpolation of Do You Know
The Way To San Jose written by Burt Bacharach and
Hal David, used permission of New Hidden Valley Music
and Casa David 1967 (Renewed 1995). All rights reserved.
International copyright secured. Used by permission.
Lyrics Reprinted by Permission.
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Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
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