Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway Page #9

Something as true as this is

So with a thousand sweet kisses

If you're cold and you're lonely

With a thousand sweet kisses

- You've got one nickel only

- I'll cover you

With a thousand sweet kisses

- When you're worn-out and tired

- I'll cover you

With a thousand sweet kisses

When your heart has expired

Oh, lover

- I'll cover you

- Yes, I will

- Yes, I will

- Yes, I will

Oh, yes, I will

Oh, lover

I'll cover you

Five hundred twenty-five thousand

Seasons of

- Love

- I will cover you

Hi, it's Mark Cohen.

Is Alexi there?

No need to bother her.

Just let her know I'm running

a little late for my appointment.

I'm at my...

Yes, I'll still be there.

Yes, I signed the contract.

Thanks.

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?

That's poetic

That's pathetic

Why did Mimi knock on Roger's door

And Collins choose that phone booth

Back where Angel set up his drums?

Why did Maureen's equipment

Break down?

Why am I the witness?

And when I capture it on film

Will it mean that it's the end

And I'm alone?

It's true you sold your guitar

And bought a car?

It's true

I'm leaving now for Santa Fe

It's true you're with

This yuppie scum?

You said you'd never

Speak to him again

- Not now

- Who said that you have any say

- In who she says things to at all?

- Yeah.

Who said that you should stick

Your nose in other people-?

Who said I was talking to you?

- We used to have this fight each night

- Calm down

- She'd never admit I existed

- Everyone, please

He was the same way

He was always

Run away, hit the road, don't commit

You're full of sh*t

- She's in denial

- He's in denial

Didn't give an inch

When I gave a mile

- I gave a mile

- Gave a mile to who?

- Don't you dare come at me.

- Come on, guys, chill.

I'd be happy to die

For a taste of what Angel had

- Someone to live for

- Someone to live for

- Unafraid to say, "I love you"

- Unafraid to say, "I love you"

All your words are nice, Mimi

But love's not a three-way street

You'll never share real love

Until you love yourself

I should know

You all said you'd be cool today

So please, for my sake

I can't believe he's gone

I can't believe you're going

I can't believe this family must die

Angel helped us believe in love

I can't believe you disagree

I can't believe this is

Goodbye

- Pookie.

- Honey bear.

- I missed you so much.

- I missed you.

- I missed your smell.

- I missed your mouth.

- What?

- Nothing, Pookie.

No. No, baby, you said, "Ow. "

What is it?

You bit my tongue.

- No, I didn't.

- Yes. It's bleeding.

I think I should know.

- Let me see. I was just try-

- She doesn't believe me.

Thomas B. Collins?

Coming.

I hear there are great restaurants

Out West

Some of the best

How could she?

How could you let her go?

You just don't know

How could we lose Angel?

Maybe you'll see why

When you stop escaping your pain

At least now if you try

Angel's death won't be in vain

His death is in vain

Are you insane?

There's so much to care about

There's me, there's Mimi

Mimi's got her baggage too

So do you

Who are you to tell me

What I know and what to do?

- A friend

- But who, Mark, are you?

"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

- From what?

From facing your failure

Facing your loneliness

Facing the fact you live a lie

Yes, you live a lie

Tell you why

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 feeling alive

Perhaps it's because

I'm the one of us to survive

Poor baby!

Mimi still loves Roger

Is Roger really jealous

Or afraid that Mimi's weak?

Mimi did look pale

Mimi's gotten thin

Mimi's running out of time

Roger's running out the door

No more

Oh, no, I gotta go

Hey, for someone

Who's always been let down

Who's heading out of town?

For someone who longs

For a community of his own

Who's with his camera, alone?

I'll call

I hate the fall

You heard?

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

- Glory

- Goodbye, love

- One blaze of glory

Came to say goodbye, love

- Goodbye

- I have to find

Please don't touch me

Understand

I'm scared

I need to go away

- I know a place, a clinic

- A rehab?

Maybe

Could you?

I'll pay

Goodbye, love

Goodbye, love

Came to say goodbye, love

Goodbye

Just came to say

Goodbye, love

Goodbye, love

Goodbye, love

Hello, disease

Off the premises now

We give no handouts here

- What happened to "rest in peace"?

- Off the premises, queer

That's no way to send a boy

To meet his maker

They had to know

We couldn't pay the undertaker

Don't you worry about him

Hey, I'll take care of it

- Must be nice to have money.

- No sh*t.

I think it only fair to tell you...

...you just paid for the funeral

of the person who killed your dog.

I know. I always hated that dog.

Let's pay him off and then get drunk.

I can't. I have a meeting.

- Punk. Let's go.

- Punk. Let's go.

Hi. Mark Cohen here for Buzzline.

Back to you, Alexi.

Coming up next, vampire

welfare queens...

...who are compulsive bowlers.

Oh, my God. What am I doing?

Don't breathe too deep

Don't think all day

Dive into work

Drive the other way

That drip of hurt

That pint of shame

Goes away

Just play the game

You're living in America

At the end of the millennium

You're living in America

Leave your conscience at the tone

And when you're living in America

At the end of the millennium

You're what you own

The filmmaker cannot see

And the songwriter cannot hear

Yet I see Mimi everywhere

Angel's voice is in my ear

Just tighten those shoulders

Just clench your jaw till you frown

Just don't let go

- Or you may drown

- Or you may drown

- You're living in America

- You're living in America

- At the end of the millennium

- At the end of the millennium

- You're living in America

- You're living in America

- Where it's like The Twilight Zone

- Where it's like The Twilight Zone

- And when you're living in America

- And when you're living in America

- At the end of the millennium

- At the end of the millennium

- You're what you own

- You're what you own

- So I own not a notion

- So I own not a notion

- I escape and ape content

- I escape and ape content

- I don't own emotion

- I don't own emotion

- I rent

- I rent

- What was it about that night?

- What was it about that night?

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