We gotta memorize our lines, and brother thespian we'll be fine Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh You gotta refine your breath and beats with a graduation pen, use mine Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Stage left, enter Maggie looking hurried, she has a parcel in her arms Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Were you the leopard, or the virgin, or the child in the grown man's beard All out of place and hanging off his face by the time the audience cheered? And you were feeling pretty co*ky 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, oh I'd like to think the actors never abandon 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, oh If you're the virgin, then I'm the stand-in And I'd like to think the actors never abandon And I'd like to throw this trumpet down and go empty handed And I'd like to think the actors never abandon And I'd like to throw this trumpet down and go empty handed Go la-da-da-da-da-da-da-oh-oh You go la-da-da-da-da-da-da-oh-oh La-da-da-da-da-da-da-oh-oh Go La-da-da-da-da-da-da-oh-oh