I Bounce The Green Ball

from Friday Night Freakshow by Lo Faber

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MERCURY:
So, I don’t think the plan was, ah, successful.

BECKY:
Ah, no….

DR. Ü:
Da plan is kaput! Boy is a dumbkopf! He is now regressing childhood, playing ball in the halls of the Tybus mansion….but even this is a sort of overbearing pompous rock opera type regression….

MERCURY:
Lord, what if he busts out with some 80’s style guitar solo halfway through the song?

DR. Ü:
I fear zis is all too possible, mein liebchen, ja.

BOY: (playing toy piano)
Hello, I am the Boy
I Bounce the Green Ball
I lean on the wall looking down.
Hello, I am the Boy
Out in the sunshine
I stand on the sideline, looking down.

Maybe there once was a reason
A trace of some other face
But I don’t know where
Now nobody’s there
And I just don’t care
About anybody else but me.
Really I’m fine
I’ve made up my mind
I just ain’t got time
For anybody else but me.

(he plays an 80’s style guitar solo with full orchestra)

Hello, I am the Boy
I crawl like a bug
I sleep on the rug in the hallway.
Hello, I am the reader
Of forgotten dead writers
And a breeder of spiders in the hallway.

Maybe there once was another
A soul to fill up this hole
But I don’t know where
Now nobody’s there
And I just don’t care
About anybody else but me.
Really I’m fine
I’ve made up my mind
I just ain’t got time
For anybody else but me.
Just ain’t no time for anybody else but meeeee……

CAST:
Stop it!
Stop!
Stop singing that note!
Get him!
Make him stop!
Get him!

(CAST attacks BOY; then the scene freezes)

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from Friday Night Freakshow, released May 23, 2018

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Lo Faber New Orleans, Louisiana

Eberhard L. Faber (aka Lo) is an American Musician, Composer, Author, and Guitar God. In another life Lo spent twelve years leading the New York rock band God Street Wine, as well as writing and recording two complete rock operas, Henry's House (2001)and Friday Night Freakshow (2003). Raised in New Jersey, he currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... more

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