As the Screw Turns

[00:00.15] But you want to tell us what you're writing, don't you?
[00:02.56] Aye, you know he does
[00:03.73] Go on
[00:04.05] Ah, come on, bard
[00:06.54] I'm getting old. And I have come to realize that
[00:10.82] I won't be around forever
[00:15.45] But my stories might be
[00:21.61] Picture it, if you'll abide
[00:27.10] Oxenfurt, my collegiate pride
[00:31.61] Uh, will the whole thing be in song?
[00:33.72] Yes, bitch
[00:35.23] My head was mending from an ache
[00:40.49] Anarietta gave my heart a break
[00:44.49] Not exactly how I remember our time in Oxenfurt
[00:47.08] Was on a stroll I oft would take
[01:04.75] It's funny how the world can feel
[01:07.61] The opposite of what is real
[01:10.14] My mood is grim, that is no lie
[01:12.44] Yet still, the sun hangs in the sky
[01:17.56] Yeah, I know this isn't your sort of thing
[01:19.89] But, you know, just sort of go with it
[01:22.68] I couldn't help but hear you're down
[01:25.01] Perhaps you'd like a reach around?
[01:27.80] I thank you, love, I shall abstain
[01:30.06] Unless the Witcher'd like a go?
[01:32.64] She's very good - just sayin'
[01:35.39] No
[01:37.60] As for what would fill my soul
[01:42.04] A distraction, hobby, or a goal
[01:47.50] Ladies and gentlemen, Valdo Marx
[01:50.66] There once was a man from Ebbing-
[01:53.29] Could that be my answer there?
[01:55.47] Where?
[01:56.59] -Who had a problem bed-wetting
[01:59.84] He'd lay down his head
[02:01.71] Asleep in his bed
[02:03.02] And awake to find piss in the bedding
[02:09.80] That lad may lack credentials
[02:12.82] But I cannot deny the potential
[02:22.33] My task is big, I must admit
[02:24.71] But first things first, the perfect fit
[02:27.24] Embellishments and finery
[02:29.75] The boy just needs refinery
[02:32.21] Show off what we've been up to
[02:35.02] I'm ready for my big debut
[02:42.32] Did I offend?
[02:44.85] You did, my friend
[02:47.12] We don't do velvet
[02:51.06] Burn this
[02:53.80] Besides, being a bard is about so much more
[02:58.29] Than the trappings of fashion
[03:01.15] Next is my style of performance-ship
[03:03.89] To craft a tale is truest wit
[03:06.29] For some, it may be clothes or hair
[03:09.05] Or how they dance on air
[03:15.14] To quote a dear friend
[03:17.64] "No"
[03:20.04] Pray tell me more, my hunger's deep
[03:22.24] How do you track which trends will keep?
[03:24.88] 'Tis here I keep my greatest works
[03:27.35] My precious dreams
[03:28.52] And unrealized cirques
[03:30.17] I'd be all right deprived of garbs
[03:33.03] Without these, I'd be cursed
[03:39.13] If hesitation strikes my bard
[03:42.25] Mm-hm, mm-hmm
[03:45.16] Do keep your own heart well on guard
[03:48.57] Mm-hmm, mm-mm-mm-mm-hm
[03:51.49] I'll understand, respect your choice
[03:55.58] Some songs could use a second voice
[04:05.62] Take this one about the chill
[04:07.72] Of winter's breath upon the hill
[04:10.38] What themes of loss
[04:12.19] What mighty quill
[04:13.41] I see in you a younger me
[04:16.41] You'll get there, pray, eventually
[04:24.86] God strike me down for carin'. What happened next?
[04:29.73] The fucker stole his songbook
[04:37.26] Whenever will this feeling end?
[04:42.53] Or are these symptoms of a trend?
[04:47.66] New dulcet tones from over there
[04:53.16] You think he'll wanna yank me hair?
[04:56.49] Consensually mind, yeah?
[04:58.48] Ladies and gentlemen, Valdo Marx!
[05:02.47] Around your house
[05:04.28] Do my eyes deceive?
[05:04.76] Now white with frost
[05:07.23] Are sparks of ice and floe
[05:08.62] Or is this true?
[05:11.36] Your longing eyes may grieve the loss
[05:12.75] A final turning of the screw
[05:15.58] But naught will change your woe
[05:17.76] This truly is perverse
[05:26.60] He took everything from me. Everything!
[05:28.42] Valdo! Valdo! Valdo! Valdo! Valdo!
[05:31.28] Let's go
[05:41.53] Val can keep
[05:44.29] His stolen songs
[05:47.15] Stay haunted in his devious wrongs
[05:52.93] But my whole life
[05:55.57] The things I've seen
[05:58.87] They are chronicled in binding seams
[06:04.36] It's this
[06:05.17] This is what I am meant to give
[06:10.76] These words and stories
[06:15.35] They'll outlive
[06:27.87] Bra-fucking-vo
[06:30.63] Let's take that fucker, Val
[06:32.99] That is but one chapter in what will one day be
[06:39.63] "Fifty years of poetry." I thank you very much
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