Intermission Song

[00:00.92] Usher, Usher!
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[00:05.69] Usher, Usher!
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[00:08.63] Usher, Usher!
[00:09.87] Usher, Usher!
[00:11.55] Usher, Usher! (Usher, Usher)
[00:14.32] Usher, Usher! (Usher, Usher)
[00:17.12] Usher, Usher! (Usher, Usher)
[00:19.98] Usher, Usher! (Usher, Usher)
[00:22.69] Usher, Usher! (Usher, Usher)
[00:25.70] Usher, Usher! (Usher, Usher)
[00:28.63] Usher, Usher! (Usher, Usher)
[00:31.66] Usher, Usher! (Usher, Usher)
[00:34.17] Usher, Usher! (Usher, Usher)
[00:37.69] Can I really write this?
[00:38.73] How many minutes till the end of intermission?
[00:42.68] Is that how the show should open?
[00:44.08] Should there even be a show?
[00:45.46] It should start with what he's thinking
[00:47.03] Which is just a cursor blinking
[00:48.13] 'Cause of all of the directions that the narrative could go
[00:51.24] He wants to show what it's like to live up here (Usher)
[00:55.87] And travel the world in a fat, black, queer body
[01:02.55] How many minutes till the end of intermission?
[01:05.19] No one cares about a writer who is struggling to write
[01:07.89] The story's way too repetitious
[01:09.23] Also overly ambitious
[01:10.76] Which of course makes them suspicious
[01:11.80] That you think you're fucking white
[01:13.67] He has to fight for his right (Usher)
[01:16.18] To live in a world that chews up
[01:19.51] And spits out
[01:20.97] Black queers on the daily
[01:24.60] Blackness, queerness
[01:26.35] Fighting back to fill this cis-het, all-white space
[01:30.54] With a portrait of a portrait of a portrait of a Black queer face
[01:36.05] And a choir full of Black queer voices
[01:39.07] Treble clef and also bass
[01:41.67] That are casting spells to conjure up a
[01:44.74] Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway
[01:47.57] Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway
[01:50.57] Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway show
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[02:17.39] How many minutes till the end of intermission?
[02:19.03] Till he has to face the fact that he is really in a jam?
[02:22.03] He has no patrons he can call on
[02:23.38] Nor a backup plan to fall on
[02:24.86] Just a hamster wheel to crawl on
[02:26.12] And nobody gives a damn
[02:27.87] He tries to scramble and dodge and extricate
[02:32.42] Still his fate lies in wait
[02:35.46] Like a scavenging vulture
[02:38.41] All he wants is to subvert expectations
[02:41.57] Black and white
[02:44.03] From the left and the right
[02:46.76] For the good of the culture
[02:50.16] Usher, Usher
[02:52.31] Usher, Usher
[02:53.89] Usher, Usher
[02:54.93] Usher, Usher
[02:56.22] How many minutes till the end of intermission?
[02:58.47] You're a ball of Black confusion
[03:00.12] That keeps hitting a plateau
[03:01.53] You can't just flout every convention
[03:02.84] Then command complete attention
[03:04.63] Then a
[03:04.99] Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway show
[03:08.39] How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[03:10.29] Some say "write from exploration,"
[03:11.76] Some say "just write what you know!"
[03:13.16] Either way, you keep careening
[03:14.53] So it's hard to find a meaning
[03:15.94] In your-
[03:16.54] Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway show!
[03:19.12] How many minutes 'til the end of intermission?
[03:21.67] If you can't please the Caucasians
[03:23.38] You will never get the dough!
[03:24.40] 'Cause critics clinically deny us
[03:25.94] Then deny implicit bias
[03:27.40] With their vanity supported
[03:28.97] By a system that's distorted
[03:30.36] Watch them write you off as lazy
[03:31.87] Not to mention, navel-gazey
[03:33.27] Lacking both in craft and rigor
[03:34.73] Cause you're just a fucking nig-
[03:36.20] Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway
[03:38.73] Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway
[03:41.30] Big, black and queer-ass American Broadway-
[03:45.22] Usher! Usher!
[03:46.13] Usher, Usher
[03:47.24] Usher, Usher (Usher, Usher)
[03:50.34] Usher, Usher (Usher, Usher)
[03:52.21] Usher, Usher (Usher, Usher)
[03:55.76] Usher, Usher (Usher, Usher) (Oh my God, oh my God)
[04:16.59] Less than two!
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