Various Artists - Rent [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

(Verse 1: 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!

(Verse 2: 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
We're hungry and frozen
Some life that we've chosen

(Chorus)
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent

(Verse 3: Mark&Roger)
How do you start a fire
When theres nothing to burn and
It feels like somethings stuck in your flue?
How can you generate heat
When you can't feel your feet
And they're turning blue?
You light up a mean blaze
With posters and screenplays

(Chorus)

(Verse 4: Collins)
How do you stay on your feet when on every street
It's trick or treat and tonight its trick
Welcome back to town
Oh I should lie down
Everything's brown
And uh-oh I feel sick
Where is he?
Getting dizzy

(Chorus)

(Verse 5: Mark & Roger)
The music ignites the night with passion and fire
The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit
Zoom in as they burn the past to ground
And feel the heat as the future's flow
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' you're torn apart
RENT

(Hook)
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

(Verse 6: Benny, Roger & Mark)
(Benny:)
Draw a line in the sand and then make a stand
(Roger:)
Use your camera to spar!
(Mark:)
Use your guitar

(Chorus 2:)
When they act tough you call their bluff
We're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay
Last year's rent, this year's rent, next year's rent
Rent, rent, rent, rent, rent
We're not gonna pay rent
Cause everything is
RENT