Today 4 U

(album: Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - 1996)

[MARK & COLLINS:]
Bustelo Marlboro
Banana by the bunch
A box of Captain Crunch will taste so good

[COLLINS:]
And firewood

[MARK:]
Look, it's Santa Claus

[COLLINS:]
Hold your applause

[ROGER:]
Oh hi

[COLLINS:]
"Oh hi" after seven months?

[ROGER:]
Sorry

[COLLINS:]
This boy could use some Stoli

[COLLINS, MARK & ROGER:]
Oh holy night

[ROGER:]
Struck gold at MIT?

[COLLINS:]
They expelled me for my theory of Actual Reality
Which I'll soon impart to the couch potatoes at New York University
Still haven't left the house?

[ROGER:]
I was waiting for you, don't you know?

[COLLINS:]
Well, tonight's the night
Come to the Life Cafe after Maureen's show

[ROGER:]
No flow

[COLLINS:]
Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas Eve
Whose integrity is only matched by talent, I believe
A new member of the Alphabet City avant-garde
Angel Dumott Schunard

[ANGEL:]
Today 4 U
Tomorrow for me

Today 4 U
Tomorrow for me

[COLLINS:]
And you should hear her beat

[MARK:]
You earned this on the street?

[ANGEL:]
It was my lucky day today
On Avenue A
When a lady in a limousine
Drove my way
She said: "Darling be a dear
Haven't slept in a year
I need your help
To make my neighbor's yappy dog disappear"
"This Akita, Evita, just won't shut up
I believe if you play nonstop that pup
Will breathe its very last
High strung breath
I'm certain that cur
Will bark itself to death"

Today 4 U
Tomorrow for me

Today 4 U
Tomorrow for me

We agreed on a fee
A $1000 guarantee
Tax free
And 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 Louise did
When they got the blues
Swan dove into
The courtyard of the Gracie Mews

Today 4 U
Tomorrow for me

Today 4 U
Tomorrow for me

Back on 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
And I dressed his wounds
And got him back on his feet
Sing it!
Today 4 U
Tomorrow 4 me
Today 4 U
Tomorrow 4 me
I said Today 4 U
Tomorrow 4 me
Today 4 U
Tomorrow 4 me!