How Then Could a Maiden So Fair Be Ashamed of a Man Like Me?
ELLA: They say all's fair in love, but I'm wary this means war
If I say farewell to fair, will civil this remain?
With ease does fair so swiftly change our form but
"Call you me 'fair'? That 'fair' again unsay"
CLOUDY: Godspeed, fair Helena
Whither away?
To retreat: Call you me "fair"?
To delete: That "fair" again unsay
ELLA: I'd more quickly call you scary or terrifying display
CLOUDY: To compete: How you say, you're stultifying this play
ELLA: Who are you?
CLOUDY: Ah, ok
To make my entrée
I'm a deep-seated fan of any crew person
Who tries their hand being the in-view person
To give my congrats, I thought to save your debut
ELLA: What is it you want?
CLOUDY: That's what I'm asking you
What do you want?
ELLA: Well, uh, to explain
All the stage is my world and the players my problem
We're missing some props, I wanna know where they dropped 'em
To obtain: A couple swords, some boots, a mustáche
CLOUDY: To disdain: D'artagnan, you cheap piece of trash!
And to detain the thief you were saying their lines?
ELLA: To regain their props you gotta get in their minds
CLOUDY: To maintain
ELLA: Obligation
CLOUDY: To profane
ELLA: Through oration
CLOUDY: To lie in vain
ELLA: I was trying echolocation?
CLOUDY: What do you want?
I see a hunger
Hidden down under
I'm your confidante
You seem devoted
I want to know
What do you want?
CLOUDY: To compliment: Demetrius loves your fair
To drop laments: O happy fair!
To supplement: Your eyes are lodestars
And your tongue's sweet air
More tunable than lark to shepherd's ear
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear
ELLA: Sickness is catching
CLOUDY: O, were favor so!
Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go
ELLA: To infer: You're an actor
And of course you have thoughts
CLOUDY: You recognize me? Well, I must give you props
ELLA: To dignify: You all seem the same backstage
To FYI: You actors should start acting your age
But to identify: You have the room at the end
What kind of name is Cloudy? Not to offend
But comprehend: The props live by your room and TBH
I notice there's something tucked behind your waist, so
What do you want?
CLOUDY: Hah. To contend
If it's behind me and wasted, it's probably my time
They should have you committed
ELLA: Like you did to this crime?
CLOUDY: To pretend: Yes I steal, I'm a thief of bad acting
ELLA: To apprehend: You're under arrest for distracting!
But to defend your honor, you were all set to duel
CLOUDY: Lest you make amends, Robin, that might still be in view
ELLA: To resist
CLOUDY: All your crap
ELLA: To blacklist
CLOUDY: You'll never act
ELLA: To let this untwist
CLOUDY: You better stop to ask
BOTH: What do you want?
ELLA: You've got a secret, I can see it
CLOUDY: If you need a foil, I'll be it
BOTH: You're so nonchalant
CLOUDY: You've put on quite a show
ELLA: It's time to tell, I gotta know
BOTH: What do you want?
CLOUDY: To coalesce, I think that we've both been blindsided
So acquiesce to a gag order or find that
I add the S to wordplay and let things turn violent
ELLA: To... uché. I suppose I'll stay silent
But to insist you're entrapped, I enlist you to talk
It's for -ticing your prac-! You're a fighter at heart!
CLOUDY: To persist with this nonsense deserves no response
To dismiss with a laugh: Aha ha ha ha!
ELLA: Well I know how to be tough!
And you could teach me to act
CLOUDY: No I can't!
ELLA: Yes you can! You can fight!
CLOUDY: No I can't, it's not right
ELLA: Come on man, let's abandon stage fright
Take a stand, it's just us in this theatre tonight!
BOTH: What do you want?
ELLA: Come on, we'll do some sparring
CLOUDY: On the stage on which you're starring
BOTH: Let's start our détente
ELLA: I'll teach your staring daggers
CLOUDY: And I'll make you an actor!
ELLA: My ear should catch your voice
CLOUDY: My eye your eye
ELLA: My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody
CLOUDY: Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated
ELLA: The rest I'd give to be to you translated
CLOUDY: To be translated to me?
ELLA: Um, to translate to you!
To transfer my meaning, to transport my view
CLOUDY: To transform completely so I'd be like you
BOTH: That's what I want
If I say farewell to fair, will civil this remain?
With ease does fair so swiftly change our form but
"Call you me 'fair'? That 'fair' again unsay"
CLOUDY: Godspeed, fair Helena
Whither away?
To retreat: Call you me "fair"?
To delete: That "fair" again unsay
ELLA: I'd more quickly call you scary or terrifying display
CLOUDY: To compete: How you say, you're stultifying this play
ELLA: Who are you?
CLOUDY: Ah, ok
To make my entrée
I'm a deep-seated fan of any crew person
Who tries their hand being the in-view person
To give my congrats, I thought to save your debut
ELLA: What is it you want?
CLOUDY: That's what I'm asking you
What do you want?
ELLA: Well, uh, to explain
All the stage is my world and the players my problem
We're missing some props, I wanna know where they dropped 'em
To obtain: A couple swords, some boots, a mustáche
CLOUDY: To disdain: D'artagnan, you cheap piece of trash!
And to detain the thief you were saying their lines?
ELLA: To regain their props you gotta get in their minds
CLOUDY: To maintain
ELLA: Obligation
CLOUDY: To profane
ELLA: Through oration
CLOUDY: To lie in vain
ELLA: I was trying echolocation?
CLOUDY: What do you want?
I see a hunger
Hidden down under
I'm your confidante
You seem devoted
I want to know
What do you want?
CLOUDY: To compliment: Demetrius loves your fair
To drop laments: O happy fair!
To supplement: Your eyes are lodestars
And your tongue's sweet air
More tunable than lark to shepherd's ear
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear
ELLA: Sickness is catching
CLOUDY: O, were favor so!
Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go
ELLA: To infer: You're an actor
And of course you have thoughts
CLOUDY: You recognize me? Well, I must give you props
ELLA: To dignify: You all seem the same backstage
To FYI: You actors should start acting your age
But to identify: You have the room at the end
What kind of name is Cloudy? Not to offend
But comprehend: The props live by your room and TBH
I notice there's something tucked behind your waist, so
What do you want?
CLOUDY: Hah. To contend
If it's behind me and wasted, it's probably my time
They should have you committed
ELLA: Like you did to this crime?
CLOUDY: To pretend: Yes I steal, I'm a thief of bad acting
ELLA: To apprehend: You're under arrest for distracting!
But to defend your honor, you were all set to duel
CLOUDY: Lest you make amends, Robin, that might still be in view
ELLA: To resist
CLOUDY: All your crap
ELLA: To blacklist
CLOUDY: You'll never act
ELLA: To let this untwist
CLOUDY: You better stop to ask
BOTH: What do you want?
ELLA: You've got a secret, I can see it
CLOUDY: If you need a foil, I'll be it
BOTH: You're so nonchalant
CLOUDY: You've put on quite a show
ELLA: It's time to tell, I gotta know
BOTH: What do you want?
CLOUDY: To coalesce, I think that we've both been blindsided
So acquiesce to a gag order or find that
I add the S to wordplay and let things turn violent
ELLA: To... uché. I suppose I'll stay silent
But to insist you're entrapped, I enlist you to talk
It's for -ticing your prac-! You're a fighter at heart!
CLOUDY: To persist with this nonsense deserves no response
To dismiss with a laugh: Aha ha ha ha!
ELLA: Well I know how to be tough!
And you could teach me to act
CLOUDY: No I can't!
ELLA: Yes you can! You can fight!
CLOUDY: No I can't, it's not right
ELLA: Come on man, let's abandon stage fright
Take a stand, it's just us in this theatre tonight!
BOTH: What do you want?
ELLA: Come on, we'll do some sparring
CLOUDY: On the stage on which you're starring
BOTH: Let's start our détente
ELLA: I'll teach your staring daggers
CLOUDY: And I'll make you an actor!
ELLA: My ear should catch your voice
CLOUDY: My eye your eye
ELLA: My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody
CLOUDY: Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated
ELLA: The rest I'd give to be to you translated
CLOUDY: To be translated to me?
ELLA: Um, to translate to you!
To transfer my meaning, to transport my view
CLOUDY: To transform completely so I'd be like you
BOTH: That's what I want
Credits
Writer(s): Reid Libby
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- How Could Anything Compare To This?
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- How Then Could a Maiden So Fair Be Ashamed of a Man Like Me?
- And Gummy Joe, where would you be without the dental plan?
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- Do you think we'd be friends if we weren't, like, stuck together in the same town?
- I think all of life's problems ought to be solved with simple homilies, don't you?
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