A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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This was an early version of "Invocation." Part of the lyric ran:

Let the comedy start

With the rumble of doom

Make it serious art

Give it glower and gloom.

Only one thing we ask—

When you've given it these,

Give it a happy ending, please.

Make the lovers' road rough,

Put them under a curse, 

If it isn't enough,

Make them suffer in verse.

Let the hero go mad,

Let the heroine freeze,

But give us a happy ending, please.