You gotta memorize all the lines, and Brother Thespian, you'll be fine You gotta define your breath in beats With a graduation pen, use mind
Stage left, enter Maggie, looking hurried, She has a parcel in her arms Are you the leopard, or a virgin, Or the child in a grown man's beard Worn out of place and hanging off his face By the time the audience cheered?
And you were feeling pretty cocky On the day you became an actor, I know the thing I shouldn't say So I'll leave it at this: I hope you get what you're after And if when you're out you see the hundredth rose Fall from the sky, Brother, stick that thing in the ground and Say a heartfelt prayer for your safe arrival
I'd like to think that the actors never banded I'd like to throw this trumpet down and go empty handed The part of the virgin has been taken So let me throw this trumpet down and go empty handed If you're the virgin Then I'm the stand-in
I'd like to think the actors never banded I'd like to throw this trumpet down and go empty handed Go "ah-ah, ah-ah, ah