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ROGER:
How do you write a song
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 we're hungry and frozen
ROGER:
Some life that we've chosen
TOGETHER:
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent
MARK:
We light candles
ROGER:
How do you start a fire
When there's nothing to burn
And it feels like something's stuck in your flue
MARK:
How can you generate heat
When you can't feel your feet
BOTH:
And they're turning blue!
MARK:
You light up a mean blaze
(ROGER grabs one of his own posters)
ROGER:
With posters-
(MARK grabs old manuscripts)
MARK:
And screenplays
ROGER & MARK
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent
(Lights go down on the loft and go up on JOANNE JEFFERSON, who's
at the pay phone)
JOANNE:
(On phone)
Don't screen, Maureen
It's me -- Joanne
Your substitute production manager
Hey hey hey! (Did you eat?)
Don't change the subject Maureen
But darling -- you haven't eaten all day
You won't throw up
You won't throw up
Didn't blow up (exactly)
There may have been one teeny tiny spark
You're not calling Mark
COLLINS:
How do you stay on your feet
When on every street
It's 'trick or treat'
(And tonight it's 'trick')
'Welcome back to town'
Oh, I should lie down
Everything's brown
And uh -- oh
I feel sick
MARK:
(At the window)
Where is he?
COLLINS:
Getting dizzy
(He collapses.)
MARK & ROGER
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent
(MARK and ROGER stoke the fire. Crosscut to BENNY's Range Rover)
BENNY:
(On cellular phone)
Alison baby -- you sound sad
I don't believe those two after everything I've done
Ever since our wedding I'm dirt -- They'll see
I can help them all out in the long run
(Three locales:
JOANNE at the pay phone, MARK and ROGER in theirloft, and COLLINS on the ground. The following is sung simultaneously)
BENNY:
Forces are gathering
Forces are gathering
Can't turn away
Forces are gathering
COLLINS:
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh-- I can't think
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh-- I need a drink
MARK (reading from a script page)
"The music ignites the night with passionate fire"
JOANNE:
Maureen -- I'm not a theatre person
ROGER:
"The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit"
JOANNE:
Could never be a theatre person
MARK:
Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground
JOANNE (realizing she's been cut off)
Hello?
MARK & ROGER
And feel the heat of the future's glow
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