Intermission Song - Jaquel Spivey/L Morgan Lee.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Michael R. Jackson
[00:00.539]Usher! Usher! Usher!
[00:39.113]Can I really write this?
[00:42.254]How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[00:44.777]Is that how the show should open?
[00:46.235]Should there even be a show?
[00:47.740]No, it should it start with what he's thinking
[00:49.250]Which is just a cursor blinking
[00:50.757]Cause of all of the directions
[00:52.399]That the narrative could go!
[00:53.991]He has to show what it's like to live up here
[00:59.076]And travel the world in a fat, black, queer body
[01:06.161]How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[01:08.821]No one cares about a writer
[01:10.415]Who is struggling to write!
[01:11.663]They'll say it's way too repetitious
[01:13.282]And it's overly ambitious
[01:14.913]Which, of course, makes them suspicious
[01:16.368]That you think you're ****ing white!
[01:17.743]He has to fight for his right to live in a world
[01:22.962]That chews up and spits out black queers on the daily
[01:30.229]Blackness, queerness, fighting back to fill this cishet, all-white space
[01:35.743]With a portrait of a portrait of a portrait of a black, queer face
[01:41.823]And a choir full of black, queer voices, treble clef (and also bass!)
[01:47.898]That are casting spells to conjure up a-
[01:51.190]Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway
[01:54.247]Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway
[01:57.219]Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway show!
[02:24.361]How many minutes 'til the end of intermission
[02:26.923]'Til he has to face the fact that he is really in a jam?
[02:29.769]He has no patrons he can call on
[02:31.416]Nor a backup plan to fall on
[02:32.831]Just a hamster wheel to crawl on
[02:34.553]And nobody gives a damn!
[02:35.562]He tries to scramble and dodge and extricate
[02:40.860]Still, his fate lies in wait, like a scavenging vulture
[02:47.131]All he wants is to subvert expectations, black and white
[02:52.973]From the left and the right, for the good of the culture!
[03:00.521]Usher, Usher! Usher, Usher!
[03:03.576]Usher, Usher! Usher, Usher!
[03:06.167]How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[03:08.882]You're a ball of black confusion
[03:10.453]That keeps hitting a plateau!
[03:11.864]You can't just flout every convention
[03:13.336]Then command complete attention
[03:14.678]Then a-
[03:15.260]Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway show!
[03:18.210]How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[03:20.884]Some say "write from exploration,"
[03:22.297]Some say "just write what you know!"
[03:23.735]Either way, you keep careening
[03:25.357]So it's hard to find a meaning
[03:26.902]In your-
[03:27.350]Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway show!
[03:30.275]How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[03:32.788]If you can't please the Caucasians
[03:34.366]You will never get the dough!
[03:35.516]'Cause critics clinically deny us
[03:37.113]Then deny implicit bias
[03:38.668]With their vanity supported
[03:40.022]By a system that's distorted
[03:41.776]Watch them write you off as lazy
[03:43.198]Not to mention, navel-gazey
[03:44.816]Lacking both in craft and rigor
[03:46.320]Cause you're just a ****ing nig-
[03:47.427]Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway
[03:50.476]Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway
[03:53.404]Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway
[03:56.351]How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[03:56.805]Usher! Usher!
[04:09.002]Oh my God! Oh my God!
[04:30.259]Less than two!