Dave Malloy
End Battle
[CORE]
Nehapwa!

Wizards, oh wizards!
Will you fight for our souls?
Wizards, oh wizards!
Roll the dice, play your roles!

And sing a sweet salvation battle cry for me
Wizards, will you lay down and die for me?

[CRIMINY]
Phase the First: Aesthetics

[CORE]
Aesthetics!

[BLUE]
Imma favor truth over beauty!

[BLACK]
Imma favor beauty over truth!

[CORE]
Woah ho ho
[BLUE & NIKKOLIA]
Imma favor truth over beauty!

[BLACK & CRIMINY]
Imma favor beauty over truth!

[CORE]
Woah ho ho

[BLUE & NIKKOLIA]
Nothing is so beautiful, so beautiful as truth!

[BLACK & CRIMINY]
But the truth is we love beauty!

[BLUE]
Philo sophia, philo sophia
I love the filo dough of Sophia Bulgaria

[CORE]
The love of wisdom, the love of truth!

[BLACK]
But the truth is so often ugly!
Just makes a man feel bad and cry
[BLUE]
So you call yourself a man?

[BLACK]
Yes

[BLUE]
Well the last thing that I heard was that your Mama pays your phonе bill!

[BLACK]
That is not-
That's not true!
Thank you though

[CRIMINY]
Come on, play the gamе, Black Wizard!

[NIKKOLIA]
Blue Wizard, play the game

[CORE]
The truth of beauty, the beauty of truth!

[BLUE]
One thing's certain, I am true-ty
[BLACK]
One thing's certain, that I am beautiful

[CRIMINY]
Watch it, Black!

[NIKKOLIA]
Watch it, Blue

[CORE]
Play it like you're supposed to!

[CRIMINY]
Phase the Second: Knowledge!

[CORE]
Knowledge!

[CRIMINY]
Black Wizard, go!

[BLACK]
Take me to the edge of knowledge
I want to see the edge of knowing
Just don't stop my brain...from growing!
Take me to the edge

[BLACK & CORE]
I wanna eat a piece of your wedge!

[BLACK]
I put a posit here, post a proposition there
And priori apropros pasta

[BLACK & CORE]
No basta, no basta

[BLACK]
I prove prove poof prove prove prove poof prove prove prove poof

[BLACK]
Tautology, biology, oncology, network connectivity, mathematical certainty, the elegance of three!

[CRIMINY]
Blue Wizard!
Rephrase this phase:
Rebuttal
Heart

[CORE]
Heart!

[BLUE]
Epistemology!
Epistemology!
Don't take a piss out of me

[BLUE & CORE]
Epistemology!
Epistemology!

[CORE]
Don't take a piss out of me!

[BLUE]
You talk about your wedge, you take it to the ledge
Though I prefer a wedge to a heel!

[CORE]
Ahh!

[BLUE & CORE]
The heart and soul don't enter your chatterings
Your weak arguments are merely pure scatterings
Such late patois, just so full of clatterings!
Argot I'm full of bon mot!
Scientific inquiry is fine, just so long as the heart don't come second to the mind!
The soul, the soul, the soul, the Sally Bowles
Lesse prix, lesse prix. I'm down on my knees!
I need my scroll dé
I need my sentimento, Sacramento Sacrilege
I take you to the ridge!
Time is a river and you are the boat-swain

[CORE]
Time is a river and you are the boat-swain

[BLUE]
So steer your ship well, or drown in a drain

[CORE]
So steer your ship well, or drown in a drain

[BLUE]
The heart has reasons of which reason knows nothing about!
Don't pout
My position has clout
I believe I won this bout!
I shout shout shout!
Get these word stains out!

[CRIMINY]
Noted. I hear you!

[CORE]
We hear you, let's move on now

[CRIMINY]
Phase the Third: Morals!

[CORE]
Morals, morals, morals!

[BLACK]
Morals are portals to restrained behavior!
Morals are portals to moaning and groaning!
You wanna live? Enjoy yourself!

[CORE]
Enjoy yourself!

[BLACK]
La la la la la la la la la!
La la la la la la la la la!

[BLACK, BLUE, & CORE]
La la la la la la la la la...

[CRIMINY]
Play the game, Black Wizard!

[NIKKOLIA]
Enough of these antics, play the game

[BLACK]
{Four bars of nonsense singing}

[CRIMINY]
Blue Wizard, you cannot join the Black Wizard's side!
Rebuttal!

[BLUE]
I rebutt the ass of the assumption
The assinine assumption!

[NIKKOLIA]
Blue Wizard, that's a derriere drawback

[BLUE & BLACK]
{More nonsense singing}

[NIKKOLIA]
Enough of these antics, play the game

[CRIMINY]
Phase the Fourth, go fourth
Governance! First responder, go hence!

[BLUE]
The polis

[BLACK]
The people

[BLUE & BLACK]
{More nonsense singing & dancing}

[CORE]
Wizards, o wizards, please play the game!
Wizards, o wizards...

[NIKKOLIA]
Behave, and stop this nonsense!

[CRIMINY]
Final volley. Final Phase

[NIKKOLIA]
Who will save your soul!?

[BLACK]
I'll be the mayor of your town. Don't frown!

[BLUE]
Philosopher kingpin, ça ç'est moi

[BLACK]
Je ne comprend pas

[BLUE]
Pas de deux. Pas de chat

[BLUE]
Pas de bourrée!

[BLACK]
Pas pas pas peureux!

[BLUE]
The soul, the soul, the Sally Bowles

[BLACK]
Salad bowl!

[BLUE]
Maybe this thyme

[BLACK]
Salad bowl!

[BLUE]
Rosemary's Baby

[BLACK]
Salad bowl!

[BLUE]
I am my own Bay Leaf

[BLACK]
Caesar is my palace!

[BLUE]
The basil asleep

[BLACK]
Hal is my king!

[BLUE]
Hold the vacant

[BLACK]
Garden is my house!

[BLUE]
Hold the sacrebleu cheese

[BLACK]
Salad bowl!

[BLUE]
Oreganono
Oreganono

[BLUE]
This charity case is pro bono-nono
Word circles trip you up!

[CRIMINY]
Word circles make the point

[BLACK]
Does this mean I get a point?

[BLUE]
I think you're missing the point

[NIKKOLIA]
Let's not enter into a semantic panic?

[CRIMINY]
We must avoid a hermeneutic spiral...
Oh no...

[CORE]
The Black Wizard fights for me!
And the Blue Wizard fights for me!
The Black Wizard fights for me!
And the Blue Wizard fights for me!

[CRIMINY & NIKKOLIA]
God, Science, Life, and Death!

[CORE]
God, Science, Life, and Death!

[CRIMINY & NIKKOLIA]
God, Science, Life, and Death!

[CORE]
Life and Death!

[BLUE]
That's a false dichotomy, a false dichotomy!

[CORE]
False dichotomy, a false dichotomy!

[BLUE]
There are infinite mysteries that can't be solved!

[CORE]
There are infinite mysteries that can't be solved!

[BLUE]
It's impossible to say!

[CORE]
It's impossible to say!

[BLUE]
And that proves the unknowable

[BLACK]
That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, doesn't mean we shouldn't pry

[BLUE]
Take your pliers elsewhere
Apply them to yourself

[BLACK]
I'll apply them to the world!
I will try my best, look for God on the subway!
I'll make a better day!

[BLUE]
In order to fix the world, you first must fix yourself
My heart is sick and sad, there's nothing more to say, olé

So, done squabble