作词:D. Zippel,C. Coleman
作曲:C. Coleman,D. Zippel
歌词
The Buddy System - Rene Auberjonois
作词:C. Coleman/D. Zippel
作曲:C. Coleman/D. Zippel
Movies are shadows
They're light
They're dark
They're faces ten feet high
Close up of him close up of her
Cut to close up of husband watching
Close up of her watching close up of him
You'll get it you'll see
Sweetheart nobody gets a hole
In one their first time at bat
There's people make a fortune writing
Movies and they don't know how
I mean no offense
Everybody and his brother writes books
But a screenplay
Now that's a ballgame of
a different color right
You know when buddy Fidler talks
You're not listening to someone else
I've got 12 nominations
a half dozen Oscars
Nine cars and three ex-wives to show
That in this business of refuse
And nephews I know my stuff
You're a literary creator
should've won a Pulitzer Prize
I would never cannibalize
Or impair a single hair or phrase
of your amazing opus
Still a lot of scribblers soon discover
What they write for the screen
Isn't always right for the screen
So I intervene
I zipped through your book and
the characters jumped
To life on the page
Now we're at the stage where
I bring them to life on the screen
Don't cling to the words
to which you gave birth
Remember how many a picture is worth
The odds are a thousand to
One so get used to it Stine
The book may be yours baby
Trust me the movie is mine
Ya learn from von Sternberg
Ya grow from von Stroheim
And so I'm the heir to their skill
This town has more nuts than Brazil
Let's face it I've been through da mill
Authors unprepared to take a stab
At this collaborative art
Must suppress their egos and part
With the notion that in motion pictures
Words are carved in marble
Donna darling get this on a pad
And type it up for next week
I have an engagement to speak
At the writer's guild
You wouldn't want to upset buddy
This is advice not a threat buddy
Let's see how tough things can get buddy
When things get rough it can get bloody
Baby nobody says no buddy
So buddy you better concede
Let buddy be buddy pure buddy
And he'll be your buddy
The buddy you need
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