The Actress

[KATRINA]
She was an actress
She had some talent with a lyric
But her passion for the craft was unique

She had potential
Her approach was part satiric
With an honest, weird, yet sweet, yet goofy streak
Her prospects felt a little bleak

So she enrolled in a class where they told her she was really just too rough
She performed with heart and brains but that was simply not enough
Her package didn't fit into a mold
She'd work when she was sixty, she was told

She fought hеr instincts
Made herself a bit morе edible
Tried hard to not be classified as strange
Scored an audition
Some new director, super credible
He didn't ask her name, just her range

She could sense her formal training and her natural impulse melt
"I think it's worth a shot" is what she told herself she felt
And for the first time she attempted to belt

She sang loud and high and impressively
She sang loud and high and impressively
And she felt fake and weak and progressively
Off base

Still, she sang loud and high and impressively
She carried on so sleek and aggressively
Oh so loud and high and impressively
Yeah you should've heard the cheering in the place
The actress belted her face off
Which meant that she no longer had a face

Her skin was in mushy of blood of in the middle of the floor
She tried to pick it up, the director said "leave it
You don't need that face no more"
She was ushered off to a costume fitting
Won an Obie the next day
It's amazing how quick things can move when unique's not in the way
No, unique's not in the way

She don't have eyes now
So it's hard for her to see that the world she's living in is not her thing
She's got an unpaid intern working for her theatre arts degree
Who drags her all around the benefits to sing

And now she's climbing
She don't miss characteristics
That once distinguished her from all her peers
There's no more passion
She just sees it as logistics, sing an F and all the audience cheers
That's the shit that keeps them coming back for years

She sings loud and high and impressively
She sings loud and high and impressively
And she's got fans who shield so possessively
Embrace
By singing loud and high and impressively
Never weird or real, just aggressively
Oh so loud and high and impressively
A million dollar mouth without a face

[FAMILY]
Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing

[KATRINA / FAMILY]
Oh / Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Oh / Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Oh / Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Oh / Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Oh / Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Yeah / Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Yeah / Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Yeah / Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing
Sing bitch, fierce bitch, sing

[FAMILY]
Yaaas, queen

[KATRINA]
Then comes the day when
She's to headline her first show
She's ready for her fortune and fame
Then she's replaced by Jenna Elfman
Who the B&T crowd know
See, the star don't need a mouth
Just needs a name

So now the actress isn't anymore like anybody else
She's tainted goods and armor-chinked and through
Her stratospheric rise and fall is nothing new

In her apartment
She's fumbling and she's grasping
All the glory and the interns have all gone
She trips on her Obie
Now she's on the floor and gasping
Her back is broken and she just screams on and on
"Somebody help"
She just keeps crying on and on and on and on and

She screams loud and high and impressively
She screams loud and high and impressively
Scream bitch, fierce bitch, scream
Just as she always sang so excessively
There at her place

See, she was usually screaming anyway
So her yelling didn't cause dismay
No one checked on her for at least a day
And when they finally did the sight they saw was truly a disgrace
A dry and red
Contorted, dead
Mouth without a face

Here's the moral of the story
Said the neighbors from the downstairs
If all you do is just sing loud and high
When you die nobody cares