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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

THOMAS B. TOM COLLINS

Anthony Rapp

BENJAMIN BENNY COFFIN III

Idina Menzel

MARK COHEN

Wilson Jermaine Heredia

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

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

And were hungry and frozen


ROGER

Some life that weve chosen


ROGER & MARK

How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?


How we gonna pay? Last years rent?
ROGER

SEASONS OF LOVE
Performed by Joanne, Collins & Cast of Rent
ALL

Five hundred twenty-five thousand


Six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred 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 five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred 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. Seasons of love
JOANNE

Five hundred twenty-five thousand


Six hundred minutes!
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Journeys to plan.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life
Of a woman or a man?

How do you start a fire when theres nothing to burn


and it feels like
somethings stuck in your flue?
MARK

How can you generate heat


When you cant feel your feet?
ROGER & MARK

And theyre turning blue!


MARK

You light up a mean blaze


ROGER
COLLINS

In truths that she learned,


Or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned,
Or the way that she died.
ALL

With posters
MARK

ROGER & MARK

How we gonna pay


TENANTS

How we gonna pay


How we gonna pay
ROGER, MARK & TENANTS

Last years rent


MARK

The music ignites the night with passionate fire


ROGER

The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit


MARK

Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground


ROGER & MARK

And feel the heat of the futures glow


How do you leave the past behind
When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out
Til youre torn apart
Rent!
ROGER, MARK & TENANTS

How can you connect in an age


Where strangers, landlords, lovers
Your own blood cells betray!
What binds the fabric together
When the raging, shifting winds of change
Keep ripping away!
BENNY

Draw a line in the sand


And then make a stand!
ROGER

And screenplays

Use your camera to spar

ROGER & MARK

MARK

How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay


How we gonna pay? Last years rent?

Its time now to sing out,


COLLINS
Tho the story never ends
How do you stay on your feet when on every street
Lets celebrate
Its trick or treat and tonight its trick
Remember a year in the life of friends
Welcome back to town I should lie down
Remember the love!
JOANNE
Everythings brown, and uh oh
Remember the love!
Oh you got to got to remember the love,
I feel sick
Remember the love
You know that love is a gift from up above
Measure in love
Share love, give love, spread love
MARK
Seasons of love!
Measure, measure your life in love.
Where is he?
Seasons of love.
COLLINS

Getting dizzy

Use your guitar


TENANTS

When they act tough you call their bluff


ROGER & MARK

Were not gonna pay


ROGER, MARK & TENANTS

Were not gonna pay


Were not gonna pay
Last years rent! This years rent!
Next years rent
Rent rent rent rent rent
Were not gonna pay rent!!
Cause everything is RENT!!!

MIMI

Its out again


Sorry about your friend
Would you light my candle?

YOULL SEE
Performed by Roger, Mark & Benny

ROGER
ROGER

Well

What happened to Benny


What happened to his heart
And the ideals he once pursued

You cant quietly wipe out an entire tent city


Then watch Its a Wonderful Life on TV!

MIMI

BENNY

ROGER

BENNY

You want to produce films and write songs?


You need somewhere to do it!
Its what we used to dream about
Think twice before you pooh-pooh it
Youll see boys
Youll see boys
Youll see the beauty of a studio
That lets us do our work and get paid
With condos on the top
Whose rent keeps open our shop
Just stop the protest
And youll have it made
Youll see or youll pack

Oh, the wax its

ROGER

And the owner of that lot next door


Has a right to do with it as he pleases
ROGER

Happy birthday, Jesus!


BENNY

The rent
MARK

Youre wasting your time


ROGER

Were broke
MARK

Yeah. Ow!

MIMI

Dripping! I like it between my


ROGER

Fingers. I figured
Oh, well. Goodnight
It blew out again?
MIMI

No I think that I dropped my


stash
ROGER

I know Ive seen you out and


about
When I used to go out,
Your candles out

And you broke your word this is absurd


BENNY

There is one way you wont have to pay


ROGER

I knew it!
BENNY

Next door, the home of Cyberarts, you see


And now that the block is re-zoned
Our dream can become a reality
Youll see boys
Youll see boys
A state of the art, digital, virtual interactive studio
Ill forego your rent and on paper guarantee
That you can stay here for free
If you do me one small favor
MARK

What?
BENNY

Convince Maureen to cancel her protest


MARK

Why not just get an injunction or call the cops


BENNY

Yeah, I did, and theyre on stand by but my


investors would rather I handle this quietly

MIMI

Performed by Roger

Im illin I had it when


I walked in the door
It was pure is it on the floor?

ROGER

ROGER

ONE SONG GLORY


One song. Glory. One song
Before I go, Glory
One song to leave behind,
Find one song, one last refrain, glory
From the pretty boy front man,
Who wasted opportunity.
One song, he had the world at his feet,
Glory
In the eyes of a young girl, a young girl
Find glory, beyond the cheap colored lights
One song, before the sun sets
Glory on another empty life
Time flies time dies,
Glory One blaze of glory
One blaze of glory Glory
Find, Glory, in a song that rings true
Truth like a blazing fire, an eternal flame
Find, one song, a song about love
Glory, from the soul of a young man
A young man
Find, the one song
Before the virus takes hold, glory
Like a sunset
One song
To redeem this empty life
Time flies
And then no need to endure anymore
Time dies

The floor?

LIGHT MY CANDLE
Performed by Roger & Mimi

MIMI

They say I have the best ass


Below 14th street. Is it true?

ROGER

ROGER

Whatd you forget?

What?

MIMI

Got a light?
ROGER

I know you youre youre shivering


MIMI

Its nothing they turned off my heat


And Im just a little weak on my feet
Would you light my candle?
What are you staring at?
ROGER

Nothing, your hair in the moonlight


You look familiar
Can you make it?
MIMI

Just havent eaten much today


At least the room stopped spinning
Anyway. What?
ROGER

Nothing, your smile reminded me of


MIMI

I always remind people of who is she?


ROGER

She died. Her name was April.

MIMI

Youre staring again.


ROGER

Oh no.
I mean you do have a nice
I mean you look familiar
MIMI

Like your dead girlfriend?


ROGER

Only when you smile.


But Im sure Ive seen you
Somewhere else
MIMI

Do you go to the Cat Scratch


Club?
Thats where I work I dance
ROGER

Yes! They used to tie you up


MIMI

Its a living
ROGER

I didnt recognize you,


Without the handcuffs

MIMI

We could light the candle


Oh wont you light the candle?
ROGER

Why dont you forget that stuff


You look like youre sixteen
MIMI

Im nineteen but Im old for my age


Im just born to be bad
ROGER

I once was born to be bad


I used to shiver like that
MIMI

I have no heat I told you


ROGER

I used to sweat
MIMI

I got a cold
ROGER

Uh huh
I used to be a junkie
MIMI

But now and then I like to


ROGER

Uh huh
MIMI

ROGER

TANGO: MAUREEN

That was my last match


MIMI

JOANNE

Our eyesll adjust, thank


God for the moon

Performed by Joanne & Mark

ROGER

Maybe its not the moon at all


I hear Spike Lees shooting
down the street
MIMI

Bah humbugBah humbug


ROGER

MARK

Very weird

JOANNE

Fuckin weird

MARK

Anything but that


JOANNE

Cold hands

This is weird

MIMI

Yours too.
Big. Like my fathers
Do you wanna dance?

JOANNE

Theres another way


Say something anything
Test one, two three

MARK
JOANNE

Im so mad that I dont know what to do


Fighting with microphones,
Freezing down to my bones
And to top it all off Im with you

MARK

MARK

Its weird

Feel like going insane?


Got a fire in your brain?
And youre thinking of drinking gasoline?

ROGER

JOANNE

With you?

As a matter of fact

MIMI

MARK

No with my father
ROGER

Im Roger

MARK

MIMI

You earned this on the street?

They call me
They call me Mimi

ANGEL

Feel good
ROGER

Oh, here it um
MIMI

Whats that?
ROGER

Candy bar wrapper


MIMI

We could light the candle


Oh, whatd you do with my candle?

TODAY 4 U
Performed by Collins, Angel & Mark
COLLINS

Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas Day


Whose charity is only matched by talent, I must say
A new member of the Alphabet City avant-garde
Angel Dumott Schunard!
ANGEL

Today for youtomorrow for me


Today for youtomorrow for me
COLLINS

And you should hear her beat!

It was my lucky day today on Avenue A


When a lady in a limousine drove my way
She said, Dahlingbe a dearhavent slept in a year
I need your help to make my neighbors yappy dog disappear
This Akita-Evita just wont shut up
I believe if you play non-stop that pup
Will breathe its very last high-strung breath
Im certain that cur will bark itself to death
Today for youtomorrow for me
Today for youtomorrow for me
We agreed on a fee
A thousand dollar guarantee
Tax-freeand a bonus if I trim her tree
Now who could foretell that it would go so well
But sure as I am here that dog is now in doggy hell
After an hour Evita in all her glory
On the window ledge of that 23rd story
Like Thelma and Louse did when they got the blues
Swan dove into the courtyard of the Gracie Mews
Today for youtomorrow for me
Today for youtomorrow for me
Back to the street where I met my sweet
Where he was moaning and groaning on the cold concrete
The nurse took him home for some mercurochrome
Then I dressed his wounds and got him back on his feet
Sing it!
Today for youtomorrow for me
Today for youtomorrow for me, I said
Today for youtomorrow for me
Today for youtomorrow
Whoa, ohhhhh for me!!!

JOANNE

Im getting nauseous

The sample wont delay, but the cable

Honey, I know this act


Its called the Tango Maureen
The Tango Maureen
Its a dark, dizzy merry-go-round
As she keeps you dangling

MARK

Whered you learn to tango?


JOANNE

With the French Ambassadors daughter


in her dorm room at Miss Porters. And you?
MARK

With Nanette Himmelfarb


The Rabbis daughter at the Scarsdale
Jewish Community Center
Its hard to do this backwards
JOANNE

You should try it in heels!


She cheated
MARK

She cheated
JOANNE

Maureen cheated
MARK

Fuckin cheated
JOANNE

Im defeated, I should give up right now

JOANNE

MARK

Youre wrong

Gotta look on the bright side


With all of your might

MARK

Your heart she is mangling

JOANNE

JOANNE

Id fall for her still anyhow

Its different with me

BOTH

MARK

When youre dancing her dance


You dont stand a chance
Her grip of romance makes you fall

And you toss and you turn


Cause her cold eyes can burn
Yet you yearn and you churn and rebound
JOANNE

MARK

So you think, might as well

I think I know what you mean

JOANNE

BOTH

dance a tango to hell

The Tango Maureen!

BOTH

MARK

At least Ill have tangoed at all


The Tango Maureen
Gotta dance til your diva is through
You pretend to believe her cause
in the end you cant leave her
But the end it will come
Still you have to play dumb
Til youre glum and you bum
And turn blue

Has she ever pouted her lips


And called you Pookie
JOANNE

Never
MARK

Have you ever doubted a kiss or two?


JOANNE

This is spooky
Did you swoon when
She walked through the door?
MARK

Every time so be cautious


JOANNE

Did she moon over other boys ?


MARK

More than moon

MARK

Why do we love when shes mean?


JOANNE

And she can be obscene


My Maureen
BOTH

The Tango Maureen!

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

Look I find some of what you teach suspect


Because Im used to relying in intellect
But I try to open up to what I dont know
ROGER & GORDON

Because reason says I should have died three years ago


ALL

Theres only us
Theres only this
Forget regret or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today

Whats the time


Well its gotta be close to midnight
My bodys talking to me
It says Time for danger
It says I wanna commit a crime
Wanna be the cause of a fight
Wanna put on a tight skirt and flirt
With a stranger
Ive had a knack from way back
Breaking the rules once
I learn the games
Get-up lifes too quick
I know someplace sick
Where this chickll dance in the flames
We dont need any money
I always get in for free
You can get in too if you get in with me
Lets go out tonight
I have to go out tonight
You wanna play? Lets run away
We wont be back
Before its New Years Day
Take me out tonight Meow!
When I get a wink from the doorman
Do you know how lucky youll be?
That youre on line with the feline of Avenue B
Lets go out tonight
I have to go out tonight
You wanna prowl
Be my night owl?
Well take my hand were gonna howl
Out tonight
In the evening Ive got to roam
Cant sleep in the city of neon and chrome
Feels too damn much like home
When the Spanish babies cry!
So lets find a bar
So dark we forget who we are
Where all the scars from the
Nevers and maybes die
Lets go out tonight uh-huh
I have to go out tonight
Youre 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
Dont forsake me out tonight
Ill let you make me out tonight
Tonight tonight tonight!

ROGER

MIMI/ANGEL/COLLINS/MARK

ROGER

Who do you think you are?


Barging in on me and my guitar?
Little girl hey, the door is that way
You better go you know
The fires out anyway
Take your powder take your candle
Your sweet whisper I just cant handle
Well take your hair in the moonlight
Your brown eyes goodbye, goodnight
I should tell you I should tell you
I should tell you I should no!
Another time another place
Our temperature would climb
Thered be a long embrace
Wed do another dance
Itd be another play
Looking for romance?
Come back another day
Another day

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

Control your temper


She doesnt see
Who says that theres a soul
Just let me be
Who do you think you are

MIMI

MIMI/ANGEL/COLLINS/MARK

The heart may freeze or it can burn


The pain will ease if I can learn
There is no future, there is no past
I live this moment as my last
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

Excuse me if Im off track,


But if youre so wise
Then tell me why do you need smack?
Take your needle,
Take your fancy prayer
And dont forget
Get the moonlight out of your hair
Long ago you mightve lit up my heart
But the fires dead aint never ever gonna start
Another time another place
The words would only rhyme
Wed be in outer space
Itd be another song
Wed sing another way
You wanna prove me wrong?
Come back another day
Another day
MIMI

Theres only us, only tonight


We must let go to know whats right
No other course, no other way
No day but today

Barging in on me and my guitar


Little girl hey, the door is that
way

MIMI

No day but today...


ROGER

The fires out anyway


MIMI/ANGEL/COLLINS/MARK

No day but today


ROGER

Take your powder, take your candle


No day but today
ROGER

Take your brown eyes, your pretty smile,


your silhouette
MIMI/ANGEL/COLLINS/MARK

No day but today


ROGER

Another time, another place,


Another rhyme, a warm embrace
MIMI/ANGEL/COLLINS/MARK

No day but today


ROGER

Another dance, another way


Another chance, another day
MIMI/ANGEL/COLLINS/MARK

No day but today

ANGEL

Its a comfort to know


When youre singing the hit the road blues
That anywhere else you could possibly go
After New York would bea pleasure cruise
COLLINS

Now youre talking


Well, Im thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle
And Im sick of grading papers that I know
And Im shouting in my sleep,
I need a muzzle
And all this misery pays no salary, so
Lets open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Sunny Santa Fe would be nice
Well open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
And leave this to the roaches and mice
Ohoh

You teach?

COLLINS

COLLINS

Open your door, Ill be your tenant


Dont got much baggage, to lay at your feet
But sweet kisses Ive got to spare
Ill be there and I'll cover you

Yeah I teach computer age philosophy


But my students would rather watch TV
ANGEL

America
MARK/ANGEL/ROGER/COLLINS

America!
COLLINS

STEVE

Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care?


Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?
ALL

Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care?


Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?
Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care?
Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?
Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care?
Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?
Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care?
Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?
Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care?
Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?

SANTA FE
Performed by Roger,
Mark, Angel & Collins
ANGEL

New York City

Youre a sensitive aesthete


Brush the sauce onto the meat
You could make the menu sparkle with rhyme
You could drum a gentle drum
I could seat guests as they come
Chatting not about Heidegger, but wine! ROGER/MARK/ANGEL
Ahhhhh, ohhhhh
Lets open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Our labors would reap financial gains
Ahhhhh, ohhhhh
ROGER/MARK
Santa Fe
Gains, gains, gains
COLLINS

Uh huh

Well open up a restaurant in Santa Fe


And save from devastation our brains

ANGEL

COLLINS/ROGER/MARK/ANGEL

MARK

Center of the universe


COLLINS

Sing it girl
ANGEL

Times are shitty


But Im pretty sure they cant get worse
ROGER

I hear that

ANGEL

ANGEL

Ohoh oh oh

Performed by Steve,
Gordon & Cast of RENT

Performed by Angel & Collins


Live in my house, Ill be your shelter
Just pay me back,
With one thousand kisses
Be my lover Ill cover you

ROGER/MARK/ANGEL

WILL I

ILL COVER YOU

Save our brains


Well pack up all our junk and fly so far away
Devote ourselves to projects that sell
Well open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Forget this cold Bohemian hell
Oh, Oh
Ohhhh, ohhhhh
Ohhhh, ohhhhh
Ohhhh, ohhhhh
COLLINS

Do you know the way to Santa Fe?


You know, tumbleweeds...prairie dogs...
COLLINS/ROGER/MARK/ANGEL

Yeah

BOTH

I think they meant it


When they said you cant buy love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are my love,
On life be my life
Just slip me on Ill be your blanket
Wherever whatever Ill be your coat
ANGEL

Youll be my king,
And Ill be your castle
COLLINS

No youll be my queen,
And Ill be your moat
BOTH

I think they meant it


When they said you cant buy love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are my love,
On life all my life
Ive longed to discover
Something as true as this is
COLLINS

So with a thousand sweet kisses


Ill cover you
With a thousand sweet kisses
Ill cover you
When youre worn
Out and tired
When your heart has expired

ANGEL

If youre cold and youre lonely


Youve got one nickel only
With a thousand sweet kisses
Ill cover you
With a thousand sweet kisses
Ill cover you

BOTH

Oh lover Ill cover you, yeahhhhhh


Oh lover Ill cover you

ALL

OVER THE MOON


Performed by Maureen
MAUREEN

Last night I had a dream.


I found myself in a desert called Cyberland. It was hot.
My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty.
Out of the abyss walked a cow Elsie. I asked if
she had anything to drink. She said, Im forbidden
to produce milk. She said In Cyberland,
we only drinkDiet Coke
(Diet Coke, Diet Coke, Diet Coke). She said,
Only thing to do is jump over the moon.
Theyve closed everything real downlike barns, troughs,
and performance spacesand replaced it all
with lies and rules and virtual life.
(Life, life, life, life, life)
But there is a way out ...
Leap of faith, leap of faith
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Leap of faith, leap of faith
I gotta get outta here
Its like Im 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.
Ive gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta
Gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta
Gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta
Find a way to jump over the moon
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Then a little bulldog entered.
His name (we have learned) was Benny.
And although he once had
Principles, he abandoned them to live as a lap dog
To a wealthy daughter of the revolution.
1, 2, 3, Thats bull, he said

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!!

Performed by Cast of RENT


ANGEL

Who Died?
BENNY

Our Akita
ANGEL/ROGER/COLLINS

Evita
BENNY

You make fun yet Im the one


Attempting to do some good
Or do you really want a neighborhood
Where people piss on your
Stoop every night?
Bohemia, Bohemia

MARK

Dearly beloved we gather here to say our


goodbyes

COLLINS

To Sontag
ANGEL

To Sondheim
FOUR GIRLS

To anything taboo
COLLINS & ROGER

Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage,


Lenny Bruce, Langston Hughes
MAUREEN

To the stage
BOHEMIANS

To Uta. To Buddha. Pablo Neruda, too


MARK & MIMI

Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow


To blow off Auntie Em
ALL

La vie Boheme
MR. GREY

Sisters?
Were close

MR. GREY

ANGEL & COLLINS

Ahhemm

Brothers!

MAUREEN

Hey Mister shes my sister


WAITER

So thats five miso soup, four seaweed salad


Three soy burger dinner, two tofu dog platter
And one pasta with meatless balls
ROGER

Eww

MIMI

If you close your eyes


WAITER

And thirteen orders of fries


Is that it here?
ALL

Wine and beer!

Dies irae - dies illa, Kyrie eleison


Yitgadal v yitkadash

MIMI & ANGEL

Here she lies, no one knew her worth


The late great daughter of mother earth
On these nights when we
Celebrate the birth
In that little town of Bethlehem
We raise our glass you bet your ass to
La vie Boheme

Compassion, to fashion, to passion when its new

MAUREEN

COLLINS & ROGER

MARK

MAUREEN & COLLINS

La vie Boheme, La vie Boheme

COLLINS

Its a fallacy in your head


This is Calcutta,
Bohemia is dead

Mucho masturbation

ALL

It tastes the same

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

Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion


Creation, vacation

MARK/ANGEL/MIMI

Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens,


Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men,
Pee Wee Herman
German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina Burana
ALL

To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy


Vaclav Havel - The Sex Pistols, 8BC,
To no shame - never playing the Fame Game
COLLINS

To marijuana
ALL

To sodomy, its between God and me


To S & M
BENNY

WaiterWaiterWaiterWaiter
ALL

La vie Boheme
COLLINS

In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromptu


salon will commence immediately following dinner
Maureen Johnson, just back from her spectacular
one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot,
will perform Native American tribal
chants backwards through her vocoder, while
accompanying herself on the electric cello
which she aint never studied.

LA VIE BOHEME B

ROGER

And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary


about his inability to hold an erection on high holy days.

Performed by Mimi, Mark, Angel,


Collins, Maureen, Joanne & Roger

MARK

And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will


perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance to
the sounds of iced tea being stirred.
And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song.
That doesnt remind us of Musettas Waltz
COLLINS

Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall


fashions from Paris while accompanying herself on the 10
gallon plastic pickle tub.
ANGEL

And Collins will recount his exploits as anarchist - including


the tale of the successful reprogramming of the M.I.T. virtual
reality equipment to self-destruct, as it broadcast the words
ALL

Actual reality - Act Up - Fight AIDS


MIMI

Excuse me - did I do something wrong?


I get invited - then ignored - all night long
ROGER

Ive been trying Im not lying


No ones perfect. Ive got baggage
MIMI

Lifes too short, babe, time is flying


Im looking for baggage that goes with mine
ROGER

I should tell you


MIMI

I got baggage too


ROGER

I should tell you


ROGER & MIMI

Baggage
ALL

Wine and beer!


MIMI

AZT break
ROGER

You?
MIMI

Me. You?
ROGER

Mimi

ALL

I SHOULD TELL YOU


Performed by Roger & Mimi
ROGER

MIMI

I should tell you Im disaster


I forget how to begin it

I should tell you

MIMI

I should tell you

Lets just make this part go faster


I have yet to be in it
I should tell you
ROGER

I should tell you


MIMI

I should tell you

ROGER
MIMI

I should tell you


ROGER & MIMI

I should tell you,


Well here we go
Now we
MIMI

ROGER

Oh no

I should tell you

ROGER

MIMI

I should tell I blew the candle out


just to get back in
ROGER

Id forgotten how to smile until


your candle burned my skin

I know
this something is, here goes
MIMI

Here goes
ROGER

Guess so, its starting to


Who knows
MIMI

Who knows
ROGER & MIMI

Who knows where?


Who goes there?
Who knows?
Here goes?
Trusting desire starting to learn
Walking through fire without a burn
Clinging a shoulder a leap begins
Stinging and older, asleep on pins
So here we go now we
ROGER

Oh no
MIMI

I know
ROGER

Oh no
ROGER & MIMI

Who knows where - who goes there?


Here goes
Here goes
Here goes
Here goes
Here goes
Here goes

Yeah!! To dance!
MIMI

No way to make a living, masochism, pain,


perfection
Muscle spasm, chiropractors, short-careers,
eating disorders
ALL

Film!
MARK

Adventure, Tedium. No family, boring locations,


Dark rooms, perfect faces, egos, money,
Hollywood and sleaze!
ALL

Music!
ANGEL

Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation,


Rhythm, power, feeling, harmony, and
heavy competition
ALL

Anarchy
COLLINS & MAUREEN

Revolution, justice, screaming for solutions,


Forcing changes, risk, and danger,
Making noise and making pleas
ALL

To faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross dressers too


MAUREEN

To me!
MARK

To me!
COLLINS & ANGEL

To me!
ALL

To you, and you and you, you and you


To people living with, living with, living with
Not dying from disease!
Let he among us without sin
Be the first to condemn
La vie Boheme, la vie Boheme
La vie Boheme, la vie Boheme
MARK

Anyone out of the mainstream


Is anyone in the mainstream?
Anyone alive with a sex drive
Tear down the wall
Arent we all
The opposite of war isnt peace...
Its creation
ALL

Oooooh
La vie Boheme
VIVA, la vie Boheme!!

SEASONS OF LOVE B
Performed by Cast of RENT
ALL

In diapers, report cards, in spoke wheels, in speeding tickets


In contracts, dollars, in funerals, in births.
In five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes how
do you figure a last year on earth?
Figure in love
Figure in love
Figure in love. Measure in love.
Seasons of love. Seasons of love.

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

The world revives,

Performed by Maureen & Joanne

MIMI
MAUREEN

Every single day, I walk down the street


I hear people say, Babys so sweet
Ever since puberty, everybody stares at
me,
Boys girls, I cant help it baby
So be kind, and dont lose your mind
Just remember that Im your baby
Take me for what I am
Who I was meant to be
And if you give a damn
Take me baby or leave me
Take me baby or leave me
A tiger in a cage can never see the sun
This diva needs her stage,
Baby lets have fun!
You are the one I choose
Folks would kill to fill your shoes
You love the limelight too, now baby
So be mine but dont waste my time
Cryin O Honeybear are you still my
my my baby?
JOANNE

Dont. You. Dare.


MAUREEN

Take me for what I am


Who I was meant to be
And if you give a damn
Take me baby or leave me
No way can I be what Im not
But hey dont you want your girl hot!
Dont fight dont lose your head
Cause every night whos in your bed?
Who, whos in your bed, baby?
Kiss, Pookie.

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

Unless you take it back

JOANNE

BOTH

Who I was meant to be

Women

MAUREEN

MAUREEN

A snob yet overattentive

What is it about them?

JOANNE

BOTH

And if you give a damn

Cant live with them or


without them!
Take me for what I am
Who I was meant to be
And if you give a damn
Take me baby or leave me
Take me baby
Or leave me
Guess Im leavin
Im GONE!

MAUREEN

A lovable, droll geek


JOANNE

Take me baby or leave me


MAUREEN

And anal retentive


BOTH

Thats it!
JOANNE

The straw that breaks my back


BOTH

I quit

ROGER & MIMI

But I know blue, only blue, lonely blue, within me blue.


MIMI

Without you. Without you the hand gropes,


the ear hears, the pulse beats.

ROGER

Without you, the eyes gaze,


the legs walk, the lungs
breathe.
The mind churns!
MIMI

The mind churns!


ROGER

The heart yearns!


MIMI

The heart yearns!


ROGER & MIMI

The tears dry, without you.


Life goes on, but Im gone.
Cause I die, without you.
MIMI

Without you.
ROGER

Without you
ROGER & MIMI

Without you

MIMI

Hes in denial
JOANNE

Didnt give an inch when I gave a mile

ILL COVER
YOU
(REPRISE)

MARK

Guys, come on

Performed by Collins, Joanne


& CAST OF RENT

MIMI

I gave a mile

COLLINS

ROGER

Live in my house. Ill be your shelter


Just pay me back with one thousand kisses
Be my lover, and Ill cover you
Open your door Ill be your tenant
Dont got much baggage to lay at your feet
But sweet kisses Ive got to spare
Ill be there and Ill cover you
I think they meant it
When they said you cant buy love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are, my love, on life
All my life Ive longed to discover
Something as true as this is yeah.

Gave a mile to who?


MARK & BENNY

Come on guys chill!


MIMI & JOANNE

Id be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had,


someone to live for unafraid to say I love you
ROGER

All your words are nice Mimi but loves not a


three way street
youll never share real love until you love yourself
I should know.
COLLINS

JOANNE

So with a thousand sweet kisses


Ill cover you

GOODBYE LOVE

COLLINS

If youre cold and youre lonely


JOANNE

With a thousand sweet kisses


Ill cover you
COLLINS

Youve got one nickel only


JOANNE

With a thousand sweet kisses


Ill cover you
COLLINS

When youre worn out and tired


CONGREGATION

With a thousand sweet kisses


Ill cover you
COLLINS

When your heart has expired


CONGREGATION & COLLINS

Oh lover Ill cover you


Oh lover Ill cover you
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six
hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
seasons of love
COLLINS

I will cover you

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?

Performed by Mimi, Roger, Benny,


Maureen, Joanne, Mark & Collins
MIMI

Its true you sold your guitar and bought a car?


ROGER

Its true Im leaving now for Santa Fe


Its true youre with this yuppie scum?
BENNY

You said youd never speak to him again


MIMI

Not now
MAUREEN

Who said that you have any say


in who she says things to at all?
ROGER

Yeah!
JOANNE

Who said that you should stick your nose in other


peoples
MAUREEN

Who said I was talking to you?


MARK

Calm down
Everyone please
MIMI

He was the same way he was always run away


hit the road dont commit youre full of shit
BENNY

Mimi
JOANNE

Shes in denial

You all said youd be cool today so please for my


sake
I cant believe hes gone
I cant believe your going
I cant believe this family must die
Angel helped us believe in love
I cant believe you disagree
ALL

I cant believe this is good-bye


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 dont knowhow could we lose Angel?
MARK

Maybe youll see why when you stop escaping


your pain at least now if you try
Angels death wont be in vain
ROGER

His death is in vain


MARK

Are you insane? Theres so much to care about


theres me theres MimiROGER

Mimis got her baggage too


MARK

So do you
ROGER

Who are you to tell me what I know.


What to do
MARK

A friend

WHAT YOU OWN

ROGER

But who Mark are you?


Mark has got his work they say
Mark lives for his work and
Marks in love with his work
Mark hides in his work
MARK

From what?
ROGER

From facing your failure,


Facing your loneliness, facing the fact
you live a lie
Yes, you live a lie tell you why youre always
preaching not to be numb
When thats how you thrive you pretend to
create and observe
When you really detach from
feeling alive
MARK

Performed by Roger & Mark


MARK
MIMI

ROGER

Just came to say


Goodbye love
Goodbye love
Goodbye love
Goodbye

Glory
One blaze of
Glory
I have to find

MIMI

Please dont touch me understand


Im scared I need to go away
MARK

I know a place, a clinic


BENNY

A rehab?
MIMI

Maybe could you?

Perhaps because Im the one of us


to survive

BENNY

ROGER

MIMI

Poor baby

Goodbye love, goodbye love came to


say goodbye love goodbye
just came to say goodbye love goodbye
love goodbye love
Hello disease.

MARK

Mimi still loves you


Are you really jealous or afraid that Mimis
weak?
ROGER

Ill pay

Dont breathe too deep.


Dont think all day
Dive into work,
Drive the other way
That drip of hurt.
That pint of shame
Goes away. Just play the game
Youre living in America
At the end of the millennium
Youre living in America
Leave your conscience at the tone
And when youre living in America
At the end of the millennium
Youre what you own

And the songwriter cannot hear


ROGER

Yet I see Mimi everywhere


MARK

Angels voice is in my ear


ROGER

Just tighten those shoulders


MARK

Mimis gotten thin


Mimis running out of time
And your running out the door

ROGER & MARK

ROGER

For someone who longs for a community of


his own,
Whos with his camera, alone?
Ill call, I hate the fall
You heard?
MIMI

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!

One song glory


Mimi
Your eyes

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

Hey for someone whos always been let down


whos heading out of town?

MARK

ROGER & MARK

ROGER

MARK

Mimi I see you I see it


I hear it I hear it
My song!

The filmmaker cannot see

Just clench your jaw til you frown

No more! Ive gotta go

ROGER

Angel I hear you I hear it


I see it I see it
My film!

ROGER

Mimi did look pale

ROGER

MARK

Just dont let go


Or you may drown
Youre living in America
At the end of the millennium
Youre living in America
Where its like the twilight zone
And when youre living in America
At the end of the millennium
Youre what you own
So I own not a notion
I escape and ape content
I dont own emotion I rent
MARK

What was it about that night


ROGER

What was it about that night


ROGER & MARK

Connection in an isolating age


For once the shadows gave way to light
ROGER & MARK

For once I didnt disengage

FINALE A
Performed by Mimi & Roger
MIMI

I should tell you,


I should tell you
ROGER

I should tell you,


I should tell you
MIMI

I should tell
Benny wasnt any
ROGER

ShhhI know. I should tell you


Why I left.
It wasnt cause I didnt
MIMI

I knowI should tell you


ROGER

I should tell you


MIMI

I should tell you, I love you.


ROGER

Who do you think you are,


Leaving me alone
With my guitar
Hold on theres something
You should hear.
It isnt much
But it took all year.

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!!!

Thank God this


Moments not the last
MIMI & ROGER

Theres only us
Theres only this
Forget regret or
Life is yours to miss
ALL

No other road no other way


No day but today
WOMEN MEN

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!!

Will I lose my dignity


Will someone care
Will I wake tomorrow
From this nightmare
Theres only now
Theres only here
Give in to 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
No day but today
No day but today

FINALE B

Jonathan wrote LOVE HEALS while working on RENT, to help in the


efforts of Love Heals the Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS education.
Alison was one of the first heterosexual women to contract AIDS from a
one night stand. He wanted to help her and the organization in the best
way he could: with music. Although not written for RENT, we have
included this bonus track as a tribute to Jonathan and to help further the
cause of AIDS education.

LOVE HEALS

(BONUS TRACK)

Performed by Cast of RENT


MAUREEN

JOANNE

Like a breath of midnight air


Like a lighthouse
Like a prayer

So if you fear the storm ahead

ANGEL

MAUREEN/JOANNE

Like the flicker and the flare the sky reveals


ANGEL/MAUREEN

Like a walk along the shore


That youve walked a thousand times before
Like the oceans roar
Love heals
JOANNE

There are those who shield their hearts


Those who quit before they start
ROGER

Whove frozen up the part of them that feels


JOANNE/ROGER

In the dark theyve lost their sight


Like a ship without a star in the night
But hold on tight
Love heals
Love heals
Love heals
Love heals

MAUREEN

As you lie awake in bed


And theres no one, no one to stroke your head
And your mind reels, your mind
Your mind reels.
MIMI

If your face is salty wet


If youre drowning in regret
Just dont forget
Dont forget
Dont forget
Dont forget
Dont forget
Its all right
Love heals
Love heals
Love heals
Love heals
Love heals

MAUREEN/BENNY

Love heals when pains too much to bear


When you reach out your hand
And only the wind is there
MIMI/MARK

When lifes unfair


When things like us are not to be
MAUREEN/BENNY

Love heals when you feel so small


Like a grain of sand
Like nothing at all
JOANNE/COLLINS

When you look out at sea


Thats where love will be
Thats where youll find me
Youll find me

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.

Book, Music and Lyrics by JONATHAN LARSON


Produced and Arranged by ROB CAVALLO
Recorded and Mixed by DOUG McKEAN
Recorded at EL DORADO STUDIOS and SKYWALKER SOUND
Additional Recording at RIGHT TRACK RECORDING,
TRACK RECORD, OCEAN WAY RECORDING and CAPITOL STUDIOS
Assistant Engineers: BRIAN COMETA, ELAN TRUJILLO and
DANN THOMPSON
Additional Protools: MATT BECKLEY and DAN CHASE
Mastered by TED JENSEN at STERLING SOUND
Production Coordinator: CHERYL JENETS
Musicians:
PAUL BUSHNELLBass
DORIAN CROZIERDrums, Percussion and Programming
JAMIE MUHOBERACKeyboards, Piano, Organ
TIM PIERCEElectric and Acoustic Guitars
GREG SURANElectric and Acoustic Guitars
GREG CURTISOrgan on Seasons Of Love
SUZIE KATAYAMAAccordion on Tango: Maureen;
Cello on Over The Moon
TIM WEIL Additional Piano on Ill Cover You (Reprise)

Thanks: Geoff Ammer, Jeanne Austin, Jeff Ayeroff, Susan Bailey-Lemansky,


Michael Barnathan, Robin Bechtel, Tom Biery, Jeff Blake, Brigette Boyle,
Pamela Bower, Monica Brautovich, Breea Burtch, Dwight Caines,
Andre Caraco, Valerie Caton, Amy Conley, Rona Cosgrove, Flavius Covrig,
Rachel Daniels, Sean Dudas, Paula DuPr Pesmen, Joe Epstein,
Daniel Ferleger, Brian Foyster, Aaron Gershman, Stuart Herriott, Lisa Jaime,
Lance Johnson, Leslie Ann Jones, Don Kennedy, Al & Nan Larson,
Julie Larson, Wendy Lightbourn, Bill Loper, Steven Lowy, Kathy Malloy,
Dianna Mannheim, Dylan McCollum, Matt McCollum, Marisa McGrath,
Rob Moore, Azizi Murray, Stephanie Napoli, Charles Newirth, Ely Orias,
Don Passman, Raul Perez, Eva Porter, Bonnie Pritzker, Orlando Puerta,
Diarmuid Quinn, Mark Radcliffe, Nancy Reid, Amy Reinhard, Jennifer Rick,
Joe Roth, Curtis Roush, Liz Rosenberg, Lata Ryan, Lydia Sarno, David Scherer,
Mark Sendroff, Gigi Semone, Brad Sexton, Tom Sherak, Rochelle Staab,
Erich Stratmann, Helen Stotler, Rob Strickland, Kirsten Stuart, Karen Swallow,
Ellen Wakayama, Tom Whalley, Amy Zaret

AARON LOHR and WAYNE WILCOX Steve and Gordon Vocals on


Will I and Life Support
String and Horn Arrangements by DAVID CAMPBELL
Love Heals
Produced by ROB CAVALLO
Arranged by ROB CAVALLO and TIM WEIL
Mixed by DOUG McKEAN and ANDREW SCHEPS
Additional Choir Arrangements by DAVID CAMPBELL

Jonathan Larson

Soundtrack Executive Producer: CHRIS COLUMBUS

February 4, 1960 - January 25, 1996

Executive in Charge of Music for Revolution Studios:


DENISE LUISO
Music Supervisor: MATT SULLIVAN
Vocal Conductor and Additional Arrangements by TIM WEIL
Soundtrack Album Coordinator: JUSTIN BUMPER REEVE
Business Affairs for Columbia Pictures: SHELLY BUNGE and
LARRY KOHORN
Business Affairs for Warner Bros. Records Inc.: SUSAN GENCO
and RAY GONZALEZ
Package Design: ORABOR

We each live in a number of overlapping communities: a


community of family, a community of friends, still another of
neighbors...the people in our school, our city or town, our country, and
ultimately the community of mankind.
Jonathan was passionate about living life, creating music, and
making a difference in each of the communities in which he lived particularly Broadway and musical theater. He chose the title RENT because it
means both what we pay to a landlord and a split in a fabric or group. This
show is his way of using words and music and humor to help repair the rifts
he saw in the communities we all share.

Motion Picture Photography 2005 Revolution Studios Distribution Company, LLC.


Motion Picture Artwork 2005 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
2005 Warner Bros. Records Inc. Made in U.S.A. 49455-2

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HALLOWEEN
GOODBYE LOVE
WHAT YOU OWN
FINALE A
YOUR EYES
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LOVE HEALS (BONUS TRACK)
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson

Produced and Arranged by Rob Cavallo


Recorded and Mixed by Doug McKean

Soundtrack Executive Produc


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Executive in Charge of Musi
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Music Supervisor: Matt Sull
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Distribution Company, LLC. Motion Picture Artwork 2005 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This compilation P2005 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for
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