Trumpet Trumpet Toot! Toot!
Sunset Rubdown Lyrics

We gotta memorize our lines
We need to thoroughly learn and remember the dialogue for our performance

And Brother Thespian we'll be fine
As fellow actors, we will support and rely on each other during the play

You gotta refine your breath and beats
You must improve your timing and delivery of lines, paying attention to your breathing

With a graduation pen, use mine
Take my pen, which has experienced many performances, to make revisions and improvements

Stage left, enter Maggie looking hurried
Maggie enters from the left side of the stage, appearing rushed or anxious

She has a parcel in her arms
She carries a package or object in her embrace

Were you the leopard or the virgin?
Did you portray the character of the leopard or the innocence of the virgin?

Or the child in the grown man's beard
Or were you the representation of youth within the disguise of maturity?

All out of place
Feeling misplaced or out of context

And hanging off his face
And protruding from his face, not fitting in seamlessly

By the time the audience cheers?
Will it take until the audience applauds to feel accepted and in sync with the performance?

And you were feeling pretty cocky
You were feeling overconfident and self-assured

On the day you became an actor
When you officially started your acting career

I know the thing I shouldn't say
I am aware of an inappropriate remark I should refrain from expressing

So I'll leave it at this
Therefore, I will conclude my statement here

I hope you get what you're after
I wish for you to achieve your desired goals and aspirations

And if when you're out you see
And if, at some point, when you are outside of this context you encounter

The hundredth house fall from the sky
The unexpected event of witnessing a house falling from the sky

Another stick-flat thing in the ground
Yet another structure flattened and stuck in the earth

Say a heartfelt prayer for your safe arrival
Offer a sincere prayer for your well-being during your journey back to safety

I'd like to think the actors never panic
I prefer to believe that actors always maintain composure and never become overwhelmed

I'd like to throw this trumpet down and go empty-handed
I desire to discard this trumpet and abandon all material possessions

Part of the virgin has been taken
A portion of the virgin's purity or innocence has been compromised

So let me throw this trumpet down and go empty handed, oh
Allow me to relinquish my trumpet and embrace a state of simplicity and detachment

If you're the virgin, then I'm the stand-in
If you embody the purity, then I assume the role of substituting for that purity

And I'd like to think the actors never banded
Additionally, I wish to believe that actors never form alliances or unite

Go, 'la, la, la, la, la'
Proceed with vocalizations of 'la, la, la, la, la'

You go, 'la, la, la, la, la'
You continue with the vocalizations of 'la, la, la, la, la'

'La, la, la, la, la'
The repetitive repetition of 'la, la, la, la, la'

Go, 'la, la, la, la, la'
Proceed with the continued repetition of 'la, la, la, la, la'