Neil Patrick Harris - Strike! lyrics

[ALL] When you start negotiations With integrity and patience And they just cry “Battle stations!” What's to like? When you ask a small amount and Then encounter counter's counter And the deal is tantamount to “Take a hike” You can't sit around with your head in the sand You pull it out, you stand up and You strike When you hear their lawyers talking Saying our behavior's shocking It's convincing as a co*kney Dick Van Dyke When they leave the town unstable Then they come back to the table And say “Now we should able- Kidding ! Psych!” We ask them for bread and get “Let them eat cake” They figure a stomach ache will break The strike So strike For all the writers Strike For the living wage Until these wrongs are righted We won't write another page [JED] Wipe off that smile – The style is bile And rage is all the rage As the fall turns into winter There appears a bunch of splinter Groups who wonder what this Inter- Net is like While the tide is turning tepid And the town is feeling trepid- Atious time for us to step up To the mic We've got all these dynamite plots to use It's time to light the fuse or lose The strike [JOSS] And lose we did Impressively [ALL] Slunk back to our offices Declaring victory If you need your residual Why did you all agree I'm proud I walked the line With writers, fans and friends of mine But now I ask what was is finally about And years from now I'll tell my tyke Just what it feels like to strike Out