Rent Cast of the Motion Picture 'Rent' (Ft. Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Jesse L. Martin, Rosario Dawson & Wilson Jermaine Heredia)

[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 & ROGER]
And we're hungry and frozen
Some life that we've chosen

[MARK & ROGER]
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent?

[ROGER & MARK, BOTH]
How do you start a fire when there's nothing to burn?
And it feels like something's stuck in your flue
How can you generate heat when you can't feel your feet
And they're turning blue!