STINE: You are some gumshoe You just don't think well Get this, dumb gumshoe, You come from my inkwell
Is your mouth lonely With one foot in there Stone, your brain only Holds thoughts i put in there
Just what you are i'll spell out You are a novel pain One speck of lint that fell out The last time that i picked my brain
STONE: You are so jealous Of my track record Tolstoy, do tell us Your feeble hack record
Your weak knees brand you Soft and unstable One small threat and you Fold like a card table
You drool at my adventures Your broads in bed are bored Go home and soak your dentures Your pen is no match for my sword
BOTH: You're nothing without me A no-one who'd go undefined You wouldn't exist You'd never be missed
STINE: I tell you you're out of my mind
BOTH: A show off, a blowhard You're equal parts hot air and gall And no one would doubt me Without me you're nothing at all
STINE: You're in my plot I'm still your creator I call each shot I'm your private dic-tator
STONE: You are so thick, you Eat, breathe, sleep fiction I'm your meal ticket Knee-deep in cheap fiction
STINE: You gloating ignoramus You haven't any shame
STONE: Hey, i'm a famous shamus And most people don't know your name
BOTH: You're nothing without me Without me you'd just disappear Right into thin air And no one would care Or notice you were there
A puppet, an upstart A loser who's destined to fall I'm everything you always wanted to be Let's deal with the issue: You wish you were me You're nothing without me Without me you're nothing ...
(To prove his dominance over STONE, STINE resumes typing, reactivating MUNOZ, who steps back into the light)
MUNOZ: (Spoken, to STONE) Let's go!
STONE: Manny, wait!
MUNOZ: I said, keep my name out of your mouth!
(MUNOZ punches STONE hard, in the stomach, sending STONE to his knees. STONE stares at STINE, a character betrayed)
STONE: You bastard!
(STINE, ignoring him, types four letters)
STINE: "Fade..." (Types three more letters) "Out." (And the LIGHTS do just that, on MUNOZ and STONE. Then:)
STINE: (Sings, triumphantly) You're nothing without me Without me you're nothing at all