Monica & Mark

[MAN ONE]
In the hospital
Waiting for Mark to get better
Arthur and I met his good friends Andy and Monica
Whom we had heard about for years

[MAN THREE]
Andy and Monica
Were in town to go to an opera with Mark
But Mark wasn't going anywhere

[MAN ONE]
So we sat in the lobby, incredibly slobby
And waited
We waited
For Mark to get better

[ALL MEN]
Monica was getting upsetter and upsetter

[MAN ONE]
And we said:
"Relax, Monica
Take a walk, Monica
Get some rest, Monica
That'd be best, Monica
Come on, we'll go with you"

[MAN TWO]
But before we were outside the door
My doctor, Stubbsy Forester, asked what we were waiting for
And I said, "We are waiting for our friend
We are waiting for our friend to get better"

[MAN THREE]
So he pulled Mark's chart and, bless his heart
Stubbsy sat down to explain

[ALL]
He explained that Mark had AIDS
He explained that AIDS was then fatal
Something we did not know at the time
So as a group we began to swoon

[MAN ONE]
He massaged our shoulder blades

[MAN THREE]
He said Mark would die that afternoon

[MAN TWO]
He suggested that we see him soon
Very soon

[MAN ONE]
Every Thanksgiving, Mark made his
All-male Thanksgiving dinner
Where men made the turkey
And men made the cranberries

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[MAN THREE]
So Mark died
And we became friends with Andy and Monica
When they adopted their second girl
They named her after Mark:

[ALL]
Zoe Thalen Feinstein-
Thalen was Mark's last name-
And they asked us to be her godparents
Which we gladly became, we became
Yes, we very gladly became

So we watched the angels grow
And torture each other
But really we fell in love
With Monica the mother

[MAN TWO]
Suddenly, out of the blue it happened?
Monica's losing her hair
Monica's losing too much weight too quickly
Sickly

[ALL]
She goes to the doctor says, "I'm dying."
He says, "You're overwrought."

[MAN ONE]
She says, "I'm angry as hell
But overwrought is what I'm not."

[ALL]
The boy said:
"Relax, Monica
That'd be best, Monica
You're just stressed, Monica
Get some rest, Monica."

[MAN ONE]
She said, "Aw, go fuck yourself"
And went to the movies

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[MAN THREE]
So she planned her funeral
And these were her wishes:
She wanted, I quote
That you'd sing a song you wrote
That'd make the people cry

[MAN ONE]
I'll write a new song
Wait I'm thinking
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I'll write a new song
And I'll play it
Told from her point of view
Maybe a mother singing to her daughters

[ALL]
Worked on the new song every minute
Minute the song was through
Monica called and said
"It's time you visit"

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This is the song I sang for Monica
This is the song I wrote