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Rent Lyrics - Light My Candle

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Ranked #6742 in Music, #162669 overall

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About Rent 

Rent is a rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS.

The musical was first seen in a limited two-week workshop run at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1994. This same New York City off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official January 25, 1996, opening. Tragically, the show's creator, Jonatha...

Light My Candle Lyrics 

Roger
What'd you forget?

Mimi enters, holding a candle and looking for a match

Mimi
Got a light?

Roger
I know you? -- You're --
You're shivering

Mimi
It's nothing
They turned off my heat
And I'm 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
[He lights her candle. MIMI starts to leave, but stumbles.]
Can you make it?

Mimi
Just haven't 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 blows out the candle.

Mimi
It's out again
Sorry about your friend
Would you light my candle?

[Roger lights the candle.]

Roger
Well --

Mimi
Yeah. Ow!

Roger
Oh, the wax -- it's --

Mimi
Dripping! I like it -- between my --

Roger
Fingers. I figured...
Oh, well. Goodnight.

Mimi exits. There is another knock.

It blew out again?

Mimi
No -- I think that I dropped my stash

Roger
I know I've seen you out and about
When I used to go out
Your candle's out

Mimi
I'm illin' --
I had it when I walked in the door
It was pure --
Is it on the floor?

Roger
The floor?

Mimi gets down on all fours and starts searching

Mimi
They say I have the best ass below 14th street
Is it true?

Roger
What?

Mimi
You're 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 I'm sure I've seen you somewhere else --

Mimi
Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club?
That's where I work - I dance - help me look

Roger
Yes!
They used to tie you up --

Mimi
It's a living

Mimi douses the flame again.

Roger
I didn't recognize you
Without the handcuffs

Mimi
We could light the candle
Oh won't you light the candle?

Roger lights it again.

Roger
Why don't you forget that stuff
You look like you're sixteen

Mimi
I'm nineteen -- but I'm old for my age
I'm 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
Feel good

Roger
Here it -- um --

Roger stoops and picks up Mimi's stash.

Mimi
What's that?

Roger
It's a candy bar wrapper

Roger puts it behind his back and into his pocket.

Mimi
We could light the candle

Roger blows out the candle.

Mimi
What'd you do with my candle?

Roger
That was my last match

Mimi
Our eyes'll adjust, thank God for the moon

Roger
Maybe it's not the moon at all
I hear Spike Lee's shooting down the street

Mimi
Bah humbug ... Bah humbug

Roger
Cold hands

Mimi
Yours too.
Big. Like my father's
You wanna dance?

Roger
With you?

Mimi
No -- with my father

Roger
I'm Roger

Mimi
They call me
They call me Mimi

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Rent - light my candle

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