Misc Musicals – Something Rotten - Hard To Be The Bard (Guitar)
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G G7 G
[Verse 1]
G My days are so busy, it's making me dizzy G There's so much I gotta do G There's lunches and meetings and poetry readings G And endless interviews G Gotta pose for a portrait and how I deplore G Sittin' there for eternity G Then it's off to the inn where my innkeeper friend G Wants to name a drink after me
[Pre-Chorus]
C Then it's back to my room, where I resume C7 My attempt to write a hit G Just me and my beer and the terrible fear
N.C.
That I might be losing it
[Chorus]
G And it's hard (it's hard) G It's hard (it's hard) G A D It's really, really hard D B/D# Em So very, very hard C Cm I make it look easy but honey, believe me G Gsus4 It's hard (it's hard) G Gsus4 It's hard (it's hard) G A D It's so incredibly hard D B/D# Em C So inconceivably, unbelievably hard
N.C. G G*
It's hard to be the bard
G G* Honestly, I don't know how I do it. G G* G G* There's only so much of me to go around
[Verse 2]
G I've got so many fans with so many demands G I can hardly go take a piss (he can't pee) G Be it theater freak or the autograph-seeker G They all want a piece of this (gimme, gimme) G It's a cross that I bear, I'm like Jesus, I swear G It's a burden but I suffer through it (he is suffering) G It's all part of the game, the trappings of fame G But somebody's gotta do it (so he does it)
[Pre-Chorus]
C And I know, I know, I gotta go C7 And get back to my pen and ink G Oh, don't make me do it, don't make me go through it
N.C.
Can somebody get me a drink?
[Chorus]
G Gsus4 And it's hard (it's hard) G Gsus4 It's hard (it's hard) G A D It's really, really hard D B/D# Em It's sexy but it's hard C This bar that I'm raising Cm To be this amazing! G Gsus4 It's hard (it's hard) G Gsus4 It's hard (it's hard) G A D It's so annoyingly hard D B/D# Em C So unavoidably, un-enjoyably hard
N.C. G G*
It's hard to be the bard, baby!
G G* Ugh. I know writing made me famous, G G* G G* But being famous is just so much more fun.
[Break]
F N.C. You see, what people just don't understand C Is that writing's demanding N.C. G Gsus4 It's mentally challenging and it's a bore G Gsus4 It's such a chore G Gsus4 To sit in a room by yourself G Gsus4 Oh my god, I just hate it! F N.C. F7 C And you're trying to find an opening line N.C. G Or a brilliant idea and you're pacing the floor Gsus4 G Gus4 G Gsus4 G G7 And hoping for just a bit of divine intervention F E That one little nugget, that one little spark Am D Then Eureka! You find it, you're ready to start A5 N.C. So now you can write, right? Wrong! G G#m You're not even close, you remember that, damn it A5 D Your play's gotta be in iambic pentameter! A5 E5 So you write down a word but it's not the right word A5 E5 So you try a new word but you hate the new word A5 E5 And you need a good word but you can't find the word A5 E5 Oh, where is it, what is it, what is it, where is it?
N.C.
Blah-blah-blah, blah-blah-blah, blah-blah-blah, blah-ah-ha-ha—
N.C
Sir? Halloou!
C C7 C C7 You asked for information on what Nicholas Bottom is writing. C C7 Our spy is here with the news C C7 Did he see me losing it? He's half blind, sir C C7 Oh, good. Then he only saw half of it. You see what I did? C C7 (Ha, ha)
Oh, yes, yes, yes, wonderful, ha ha
C C7 Speak, man. What news? C C7 G G* I saw Nick Bottom, I did. He paid a soothsayer to foresee G G* What Shakespeare's greatest play would be G G* G G* That sneaky little thief! Why doesn't he come up with his own ideas!? G7 It's hard. No, it is, isn't it? G7 It's really the worst (it's hard) G Makes me wonder why I didn't think of that first (it's hard) G7 Hard to alleviate the pressure to create (it's hard) D7 Hard to do something as good as the last thing I did that was already great!
[Chorus]
G G A D (It's hard) (so hard that he is stealing from the bard)
It's hard!
D B/D# Em Well I'll hoist him by his petard C G All that I need is a clever disguise (clever disguise) A5 Cm Em I'll make him pay for his devious lies (devious lies!) G Let him do all the tedious stuff D B/D# Em C The work that's terribly and unbearably hard (oh, hard)
[Break]
C7 All right, Nick Bottom. I think Shakespeare needs to find out D7 What Shakespeare's next big hit will be!
[Chorus]
G Gsus4 'Cause it's hard! (it's hard, it's totally hard) G Gsus4 It's hard! (it's hard, it's totally hard) G Gsus4 It's hard! (it's hard, it's totally hard)
N.C.
Fortune and fame, everyone knows my name
N.C. G
I can't help it, it's still freaking hard.