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I have been composing
a short opera.
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- Would you like to hear a song or two?
- No, thank you.
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Oh, you'll love it.
It's a comedy.
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It's called,
"The Torturer's Apprentice."
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Here's the overture.
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The curtain--
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The curtain rises on a typical
everyday torture chamber.
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Yosrick, the young apprentice,
sings of his joy in his job.
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A torturer's apprentice
went his merry way to work one day
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I bend and stretch and ply my trade
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Making people all afraid
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But things look black
Business is slack
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There's no one on the rack but me
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Act four
is set in an abattoir.
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I see a lot of slapstick.
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We begin with the arrival
of the eunuchs' chorus who sing...
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"Cut Off in My Prime."
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Cut off in my prime
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Surrounded
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By beautiful women
all the time
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A eunuch's life is hard
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And nothing else