No Shame Theatre Song

Writer's Block version

music by Jonathan Price

lyrics by Jeff Goode

When I woke up this morning
Not a song was in my head.
[If] I'd had to choose 'tween writing then
And dying, I'd be dead.

But I grabbed a piece of paper
And a pen, and then some scotch
And as for just what happened next...
...you'll have to sit and watch.

No Shame Theatre
Home-made plays from scratch
No Shame Theatre
[Let's] make/have another batch

I first came up with nothing and.
Then not much followed it.
Before too long the page was filled
With not a single whit

I quickly grabbed another sheet
And didn't write on that
And soon the room was overflowed
With diddly fucking squat

No Shame Theatre
[There's] Really not much to it.
No Shame Theatre
Anyone could do it.

At last my masterwork was
not just finished but complete.
If you'd have laid it end-to-end
it might have reached the street

I'd one more thing to do before
I brought it to the stage.
I lopped off several thousand words.
And cut it to one page.

No Shame Theatre
To shame we just say NO
No Shame Theatre
It's time to start the show. [And now it's time to go.]

"No Shame Theatre Song" IS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL AND MAY NOT BE DOWNLOADED, TRANSMITTED, PRINTED OR PERFORMED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR

"No Shame Theatre Song (Writer's Block version)" debuted May 2, 2003 at No Shame L.A.:
Jeff Goode [vocals]
Jonathan Price [piano]

q.v. No Shame Theatre Song by Jonathan Price

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