Lent

(a filk of Rent)

Mark: How will we get through this years Lent? We gotta figure out how to fast in some way. Fish on Friday, resisting temptations, and it lasts 40 days! (Lent!)
Roger: It sounded so easy, and we swore we would do it when saying our prayers. But we're counting the hours. Where's the will power? And if we cheat, will anyone care?

Mark: We have to get through it.
Roger: But can we really do it?
Both: How we gonna save this years Lent?
Mark: We use handcuffs!

Roger: How do you give up ice cream when your freezer is full, and the Haugen-Daas is calling to you?
Mark: How can we sit still when it's Friday night
Both: And we've got nothing to do!
Mark: We're praying and praying.
Roger: Do we believe what we're saying?
Both: How we gonna save this year's Lent?

Johanne: Don't screen, Maureen, it's me, Johanne, your very own support group. Hey, hey, hey! ... What did you eat? Don't change the subject, Maureen. But darling, you can't have McDonalds today. Offer it up, offer it up ... What about Solitaire? Well, I didn't cheat exactly. I may have played one teeny, tiny game. Oh, this is insane!

Collins: How do you give up caffeine when it gets in your dreams and you're quitting cold-turkey after four cups per day? The withdrawal is bad. I think I'm going mad, and oh, I'm in pain!

Mark: Where is he?
Collins: Getting dizzy!
Mark and Roger: How we gonna save this year's Lent?

Benny: Alison, baby, you sound sad. Okay, how much chocolate have you had? It's always the hardest at first, you'll see. In a week it won't seem so bad.

Mark: We get through the nights with ice and specials on Fox.
Johanne: You'd better not go near it!
Mark: We're marking the calendar, one day at a time.
Johanne: I don't even want to hear it!
Collins: I need coffee!
Mark: Zoom in as we slowly lose our minds.
Johanne: Hello?
Mark: With 39 days left to go! ..... Hello? Maureen? You fell over again? OK, all right, I'll go!
Mark and half the company: How are we gonna make it count? We've got to do something that comes from our hearts. But can we make it till Easter without falling apart? (Lent!)
Roger and the other half: How can we survive 40 days when TV, friends, temptations try to lead us astray? We know we want to be honest but it's day one and our resolution's slipping away.

Benny: Chain the refrigerator door, but don't run for more.
Roger: Keep it out of your sight.
Mark: Go to mass Wednesday night.

All: When it tough, strength's not enough.

Mark and half the company: We'll just have to pray
Roger and other half: we'll just have to pray
All: we'll just have to pray through this year's Lent! ..... Lent, Lent, Lent, Lent, Lent. We are gonna save Lent!

Mark and Roger: Cuz every day is Lent!