Intermission Song - Larry Owens/L Morgan Lee.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Michael R. Jackson
[00:00.226] 作曲 : Michael R. Jackson
[00:00.452]THOUGHTS, VARIOUSLY: Usher! Usher! Usher!
[00:37.570]USHER, spoken: Can I really write this?
[00:40.179]THOUGHTS: How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[00:42.774]Is that how the show should open?
[00:44.337]Should there even be a show?
[00:45.629]No, it should it start with what he's thinking
[00:47.222]Which is just a cursor blinking
[00:48.514]Cause of all of the directions
[00:49.818]That the narrative could go!
[00:51.389]USHER: He has to show what it's like to live up here
[00:56.085]And travel the world in a fat, black, queer body
[01:02.870]THOUGHTS: How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[01:05.213]No one cares about a writer
[01:06.774]Who is struggling to write!
[01:08.065]They'll say it's way too repetitious
[01:09.644]And it's overly ambitious
[01:10.953]Which, of course, makes them suspicious
[01:12.277]That you think you're fukking white!
[01:13.589]USHER: He has to fight for his right to live in a world
[01:18.580]That chews up and spits out black queers on the daily
[01:25.139]THOUGHTS: Blackness, queerness, fighting back to fill this cishet, all-white space
[01:30.352]With a portrait of a portrait of a portrait of a black, queer face
[01:36.099]And a choir full of black, queer voices, treble clef (and also bass!)
[01:41.855]That are casting spells to conjure up a-
[01:45.003]USHER: Big, black and queer-a*s American Broadway-
[01:47.861]THOUGHTS: Big, black and queer-a*s American Broadway-
[01:50.465]ALL: Big, black and queer-a*s American Broadway show!
[02:16.805]THOUGHTS: How many minutes 'til the end of intermission
[02:19.420]'Til he has to face the fact that he is really in a jam?
[02:22.027]He has no patrons he can call on
[02:23.593]Nor a backup plan to fall on
[02:25.140]Just a hamster wheel to crawl on
[02:26.465]And nobody gives a damn!
[02:27.775]USHER: He tries to scramble and dodge and extricate
[02:32.517]Still, his fate lies in wait, like a scavenging vulture
[02:38.548]All he wants is to subvert expectations, black and white
[02:43.807]From the left and the right, for the good of the culture!
[02:51.147]THOUGHTS: Usher, Usher! Usher, Usher!
[02:53.747]Usher, Usher! Usher, Usher!
[02:56.339]How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[02:58.679]You're a ball of black confusion
[03:00.248]That keeps hitting a plateau!
[03:01.569]You can't just flout every convention
[03:03.123]Then command complete attention
[03:04.694]Then a-
[03:04.954]USHER: Big, black and queer-a*s American Broadway show!
[03:08.113]THOUGHTS: How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[03:10.461]Some say "write from exploration,"
[03:11.751]Some say "just write what you know!"
[03:13.298]Either way, you keep careening
[03:14.863]So it's hard to find a meaning
[03:16.169]In your-
[03:16.431]USHER: Big, black and queer-a*s American Broadway show!
[03:19.286]THOUGHTS: How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[03:21.878]If you can't please the Caucasians
[03:23.160]You will never get the dough!
[03:24.452]'Cause critics clinically deny us
[03:26.269]Then deny implicit bias
[03:27.559]With their vanity supported
[03:29.127]By a system that's distorted
[03:30.440]Watch them write you off as lazy
[03:31.999]Not to mention, navel-gazey
[03:33.570]Lacking both in craft and rigor
[03:34.864]Cause you're just a fukking nig-
[03:36.157]ALL: Big, black and queer-a*s American Broadway
[03:38.791]Big, black and queer-a*s American Broadway
[03:41.650]Big, black and queer-a*s American Broadway-
[03:45.035]ALL, VARIOUSLY: Usher! Usher!
[03:45.933]How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[03:56.417]USHER, with above: Oh my God! Oh my God!
[04:16.735]USHER: Less than two!