"Light My Candle" lyrics

Adam Pascal & Daphne Rubin-Vega Lyrics

"Light My Candle"
(from "Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" soundtrack)

[Roger:]
What'd you forget?

[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
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:]
It's out again
Sorry about your friend
Would you light my 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
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:]
They say that 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

[Roger:]
I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs

[Mimi:]
We could light the candle
Oh, won't you light the candle?

[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:]
Oh, here it...

[Mimi:]
What's that?

[Roger:]
It's a candy bar wrapper

[Mimi:]
We could light the candle
Oh, 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
Do you wanna dance?

[Roger:]
With you?

[Mimi:]
No, with my father

[Roger:]
I'm Roger

[Mimi:]
They call me, they call me...
Mimi


Writer(s): Jonathan D. Larson
Mimi is introduced in this song when she comes to Roger and Mark's apartment and starts to flirt with Roger telling how her apartment has no heat and electricity and she needs him to light her candle which she constantly blow out in order to continue their talk.
Roger's former girlfriend is mentioned for the second time in the musical when he says in this song, "She died, her name was April". The first mention was in the song "Tune Up #3".