Christian_Borle_Rotten_Ensemble_-_Hard_to_Be_the_Bard_(mp3.pm)
[00:05.16] My days are so busy it's making me dizzy
[00:05.92] There's so much I gotta do
[00:09.16] There's lunches and meetings and poetry readings
[00:11.66] And endless interviews
[00:13.66] Gotta pose for a portrait and how I deplore
[00:15.91] Sitting there for eternity
[00:17.94] Then it's off to the inn where my innkeeper friend
[00:19.94] Wants to name a drink after me
[00:22.43] Then it's back to my room, where I resume
[00:25.42] My attempt to write a hit
[00:26.91] Just me and my beer and the terrible fear
[00:28.91] That I might be losing it
[00:30.91] And it's hard (It's hard)
[00:31.93] It's hard (It's hard)
[00:33.17] It's really, really hard
[00:35.16] So very very hard
[00:37.67] I make it look easy but honey, believe me
[00:39.67] It's hard (It's hard)
[00:40.95] It's hard (It's hard)
[00:41.92] It's so
[00:43.20] Incredibly hard
[00:44.18] So inconceivably, unbelievably hard
[00:48.43] It's hard to be the bard
[00:52.91] Honestly, I don't know how I do it. There's only so much of me to go around
[00:59.66] I've got so many fans with so many demands
[01:01.66] I can hardly go take a piss
[01:03.16] (He can't pee)
[01:03.93] Be it theater freak or the autograph-seeker
[01:05.67] They all want a piece of this
[01:07.20] (Gimme, Gimme)
[01:08.41] It's a cross that I bear, I'm like Jesus, I swear
[01:11.16] It's a burden but I suffer through it
[01:13.67] (He is suffering)
[01:14.18] It's all part of the game, the trappings of fame
[01:15.66] But somebody's gotta do it
[01:16.66] (So he does it)
[01:17.17] And I know, I know, I gotta go
[01:18.91] And get back to my pen and ink
[01:20.92] Oh don't make me do it
[01:22.42] Don't make me go through it
[01:23.42] Can somebody get me a drink?
[01:24.94] 'Cause it's hard (It's hard)
[01:27.45] It's hard (It's hard)
[01:28.18] It's really really hard (it's really hard)
[01:29.92] It's sexy but it's hard
[01:32.16] This bar that I'm raising
[01:33.42] To be this amazing!
[01:34.17] It's hard (It's hard)
[01:35.42] It's hard (It's hard)
[01:36.42] It's so
[01:37.92] Annoyingly hard
[01:38.41] So unavoidably, un-enjoyably hard
[01:42.66] It's hard to be the bard, baby
[01:47.16] Ugh. I know writing made me famous, but being famous is just so much more fun. You see...
[01:53.92] What people just don't understand
[01:55.92] Is that writing's demanding
[01:56.91] It's mentally challenging and it's a bore
[01:58.42] It's such a chore
[02:00.18] To sit in a room by yourself
[02:01.67] Oh my god, I just hate it!
[02:02.93] And you're trying to find an opening line
[02:05.41] Or a brilliant idea and you're pacing the floor
[02:07.16] And hoping for just a bit of divine intervention
[02:10.16] That one little nugget, that one little spark
[02:13.41] Then Eureka! You find it, you're ready to start
[02:15.70] So now you can write, right? Wrong!
[02:18.18] You're not even close, you remember that damn it
[02:20.16] Your play's gotta be in iambic pentameter!
[02:22.67] So you write down a word but it's not the right word
[02:25.66] So you try a new word but you hate the new word
[02:27.67] And you need a good word but you can't find the word
[02:29.91] Oh where is it, what is it, what is it, where is it?
[02:32.16] Blah-blah-blah, ha ha, ah-ha -UGHHHHHHHH!
[02:36.41] Sir?
[02:36.92] Hello
[02:37.66] You asked for information on what Nicholas Bottom is writing. Our spy is here with the news
[02:41.66] Did he see me losing it?
[02:43.91] He's half blind, sir
[02:45.41] Oh, good. Then he only saw half of it. You see what I did? Ha ha...
[02:48.41] Oh, yes, yes, yes, wonderful
[02:49.94] Speak, man. What news?
[02:51.91] I saw Nick Bottom, I did. He paid a soothsayer to foresee what Shakespeare's greatest play would be
[02:56.93] That sneaky little thief! Why doesn't he come up with his own ideas!?
[03:01.66] (It's hard) No. It is, isn't it?
[03:05.42] It's really the worst
[03:06.66] (It's hard)
[03:07.67] Makes me wonder why I didn't think of that first
[03:11.16] (It's hard)
[03:12.17] Hard to alleviate the pressure to create
[03:14.93] (It's hard)
[03:16.17] Hard to do something as good as the last thing I did that was already great
[03:19.66] (It's hard) It's hard
[03:20.97] (So hard that he is stealing from the bard)
[03:23.66] Well I'll hoist him by his petard
[03:26.42] All that I need is a clever disguise (clever disguise)
[03:28.66] I'll make him pay for his devious lies (devious lies)
[03:30.66] Let him do all the tedious stuff
[03:32.66] The work that's terribly and unbearably hard (ooo hard)
[03:37.67] All right, Nick Bottom. I think Shakespeare needs to find out what Shakespeare's next big hit will be!
[03:43.41] 'Cause it's hard! (It's hard, it's totally hard)
[03:45.66] It's hard! (It's hard, it's totally hard)
[03:47.66] It's hard! (It's hard, it's totally hard)
[03:50.41] I've got fortune and fame
[03:51.19] Everyone knows my name
[03:52.16] I can't help it, it's still freaking hard
