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
Were you the leopard or the 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?
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
Fallfrom 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 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
And go "Da da da-da da"