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CARLOS
How do you do objective research
When your world's getting less objective each day?
Strex is sordid, protests thwarted
Now this order: to keep your job, pay
Rent!
TAMIKA
How do you fight a war
When your troops are sore
And all your allies underground?
When the public support
Inclines to Strexcorp
How do you bring the scared around?
HANNAH
Almost emptied the freezer
LUCY
We can't let them seize 'er
CARLOS, LUCY, HANNAH
How we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, how we gonna pay
Strexcorp's rent?
CECIL
How do you share the news
When there's so much to lose
If you don't stick to the company line?
MAUREEN
How do you not lose your soul
When they've seized all control
CECIL, MAUREEN
And they own your time?
CECIL
Say it on the down-low
MAUREEN
With ciphers
CECIL
And Morse code
CECIL, MAUREEN
How we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, how we gonna pay
Strexcorp's rent?
STEVE
How do you let your kids go
Step away, although you just can't know
If they're coming back?
"Dad, leave me alone," oh gosh, how she's grown
Wait, what's that drone — they're coming — the attack!
JANICE
Where is Dad?
DELPHINE
This could be bad
DELPHINE, JANICE, STEVE, KIDS
How we gonna save what, how we gonna save what, how we gonna save what
Strexcorp's rent?
HANNAH
Look forward to our great service blowing your mind
LUCY
You're sure to hear our name a lot today on Yelp
HANNAH, LUCY
Come in as we leave the food gig behind
Find out what else our business can do
NIGHT VALE CITIZENS
How do you stand up for what's right
When they keep finding ways to get to your heart?
With threats or pay or death, they'll tear you inside-out till you're torn apart
Rent!
TAMIKA, CARLOS, SCIENTISTS, KIDS
How can you connect in an age
Where strangers, landlords, lovers, your own bloodstones betray?
ALL
What binds the fabric together
When the raging hands of corporate change keep ripping away?
TAMIKA
Draw a line in the sand
Night Vale, make a stand
CITIZEN #1
Don't stay out of the fight
CITIZEN #2
This ends tonight
ALL
They're not so tough in Desert Bluffs
CARLOS, SCIENTISTS
We're not gonna pay
NIGHT VALE CITIZENS
We're not gonna pay
ALL
We're not gonna pay Strexcorp's rent
This month's rent
Next month's rent
Rent, rent, rent, rent, rent
We're not gonna pay rent
'Cause everything is rent