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I Should Tell You is the twenty-fourth song in the Broadway musical RENT, composed by Jonathan Larson. It is a duet sung by Roger Davis and Mimi Marquez.

Plot[]

Roger and Mimi each realize the other has AIDS, and also realize their reciprocated feelings.

Lyrics[]

ROGER
I should tell you I'm disaster
I forget how to begin it


MIMI
Let's just make this part go faster
I have yet -- to be in it
I should tell you


ROGER
I should tell you


MIMI
I should tell you


ROGER
I should tell you


MIMI
I should tell I blew the candle out
Just to get back in


ROGER
I'd forgotten how to smile
Until your candle burned my skin


MIMI
I should tell you


ROGER
I should tell you


MIMI
I should tell you


BOTH
I should tell
Well, here we go
Now we --


MIMI
Oh no


ROGER
I know -- this something is
Here goes --


MIMI
Here goes


ROGER
Guess so
It's starting to
--Who knows?


MIMI
Who knows


BOTH
Who knows where
Who goes there
Who knows
Here goes


Trusting desire -- starting to learn
Walking through fire without a burn
Clinging -- a shoulder, a leap begins
Stinging and older, asleep on pins
So here we go
Now we --


ROGER
Oh no


MIMI
I know


ROGER
Oh no


BOTH
Who knows where -- who goes there
Here goes -- here goes
Here goes -- here goes
Here goes -- here goes