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SHAKESPEARE: |
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My days are so busy it's making me dizzy |
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There's so much I gotta do |
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There's lunches and meetings and poetry readings |
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And endless interviews |
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Gotta pose for a portrait |
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And how I deplore sitting there for eternity |
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Then it's off to the inn |
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Where my innkeeper friend |
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Wants to name a drink after me |
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Then it's back to my room, where I resume |
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My attempt to write a hit |
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Just me and my beer and the terrible fear |
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That I might be losing it |
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And it's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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SHAKESPEARE & MANSERVANTS: |
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It's really, really hard |
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So very very hard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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I make it look easy but honey believe me |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's so |
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SHAKESPEARE & MANSERVANTS: |
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Incredibly hard |
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So inconceivably, unbelievably hard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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It's hard to be the bard |
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Honestly, I don't know how I do it. There's only so much of me to go around |
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I've got so many fans |
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With so many demands |
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I can hardly go take a piss |
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MANSERVANTS: |
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He can't pee |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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Be it theater-freak or |
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The autograph-seeker |
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They all want a piece of this |
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MANSERVANTS: |
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Gimme, Gimme |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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It's a cross that I bear |
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I'm like Jesus, I swear |
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It's a burden but I suffer through it |
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MANSERVANTS: |
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He is suffering |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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It's all part of the game |
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The trappings of fame |
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But somebody's gotta do it |
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MANSERVANTS: |
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So he does it |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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And I know, I know, I gotta go |
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And get back to my pen and ink |
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Oh don't make me do it |
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Don't make me go through it |
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Can somebody get me a drink? |
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Cause it's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's really really hard |
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It's sexy but it's hard |
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This bar that I'm |
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Raising to be this amazing! |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's so |
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SHAKESPEARE & MANSERVANTS: |
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Annoyingly hard |
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So unavoidably, un-enjoyably hard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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It's hard to be the bard, baby |
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Ugh. I know writing made me famous, but being famous is just so much more fun. You see... |
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What people just don't understand |
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Is that writing's demanding |
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It's mentally challenging and it's a bore |
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It's such a chore |
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To sit in a room by yourself |
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Oh my god, I just hate it! |
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And you're trying to find |
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An opening line or a brilliant idea |
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And you're pacing the floor |
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And hoping for just a bit of divine intervention |
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That one little nugget that one little spark |
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Then Eureka! You find it you're ready to start |
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So now you can write, right? Wrong! |
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You're not even close, you remember that damn it |
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Your play's gotta be in iambic pentameter! |
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So you write down a word but it's not the right word |
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So you try a new word but you hate the new word |
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And you need a good word but you can't find the word |
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Oh where is it, what is it, what is it, where is it! |
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Blah-blah-blah, ha ha, ah-ha -UGHHHHHHHH! |
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VALET: |
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Sir |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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Hello |
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VALET: |
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You asked for information on what Nicholas Bottom is writing. Our spy is here with the news |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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Did he see me losing it? |
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VALET: |
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He's half blind, sir |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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Oh, good. Then he only saw half of it. You see what I did? Ha ha |
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VALET: |
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Oh, yes, yes, yes, wonderful |
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SHAKESPEARE |
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Speak, man. What news? |
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EYEPATCH MAN: |
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I saw Nick Bottom, I did. He paid a soothsayer to foresee what Shakespeare's greatest play would be |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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That sneaky little thief! Why doesn't he come up with his own ideas!? |
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It's hard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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No. It is, isn't it? |
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It's really the worst |
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It's hard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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Makes me wonder why I didn't think of that first |
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It's hard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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Hard to alleviate the pressure to create |
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It's hard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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Hard to do something as good as the last thing I did that was already great |
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It's hard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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It's hard |
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So hard that he is stealing from the bard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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Well I'll hoist him by his petard |
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All that I need is a clever disguise |
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Clever disguise |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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I'll make him pay for his devious lies |
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Devious lies |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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Let him do all the tedious stuff |
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The work that's terribly and unbearably hard |
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All right, Nick Bottom. I think Shakespeare needs to find out what Shakespeare's next big hit will be! |
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Cause it's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's totally hard |
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SHAKESPEARE & MANSERVANTS: |
| [03:46.48] |
It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's totally hard |
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SHAKESPEARE & MANSERVANTS: |
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It's hard |
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It's hard |
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It's totally hard |
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SHAKESPEARE: |
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I've got fortune and fame |
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Everyone knows my name |
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I can't help it it's still freaking hard |