[00:13.35][Featuring: Debra Messing & Christian Borle][00:14.28]A writer has the empty page[00:17.19]Where he can set the scene[00:20.43]He puts the actors on the stage[00:23.55]Or on the movie screen[00:26.16]The characters all say the words[00:29.76]The writer wants to hear[00:33.27]And then, my friend[00:37.11]A happy end[00:41.13]But when the writer steps outside[00:44.43]That room where he is king[00:47.49]He can't control when lives collide[00:50.73]Or what the lovers sing[00:54.03]And so he hides behind his words[00:57.30]The one place he belongs[01:01.17]And in black and white[01:06.39]He can rewrite the wrongs[01:15.57]Where he can find the strength to say[01:18.81]What those he loves should hear[01:22.41]And just erase mistakes she's made[01:25.53]Then make them disappear[01:30.03]Where he can change the plot[01:32.46]So he's a hero, not a louse[01:36.45]And when the curtain falls[01:39.00]There's not a dry eye in the house[01:45.33]A writer hopes to leave behind[01:48.36]A work no one forgets[01:51.27]And when he writes, "the end"[01:53.49]To find he has the right regrets[01:57.90]A writer has the empty page[02:00.84]Where he can use his pen[02:04.77]To mend his heart[02:21.39]And try to start[02:21.78]Again