Crescendo: Evil League of Evil Application

***LISTED ON THE "DR. HORRIBLE" DVD'S under "DISHONORABLE MENTION"!***
One Minor Mistake
From "Crescendo: Rise to Power," an Audition/Application for the Evil League of Evil™
Music and Lyrics ©2008 P.F. Bruns™. All rights reserved under the Creative Commons "Share-Alike Non-Commercial with Attribution" license, version 3.0.
Evil League of Evil™ © and ™ Mutant Enemy Productions.

When you're born with power
People always rush to judge you
When your voice moves mountains
People often fear to touch you
When you have no childhood
There is really not too much you
Get to keep or love or live to laugh about

When you save a city
Some assume you think they're worthless
They reject your pity
Though it's really just alertness
And they think they're witty
Though that doesn't make it hurt less
When they hold their ears and beg you not to shout

CHORUS
One minor mistake
And I've given up everything
One bad decision
And I blew it all
So many steps
It took me to struggle to the top
It just took one
To set me up to take a fall

You will love the good times
But you'll make some people jealous
You will make the headlines
But be labeled overzealous
If you stop, they'll still whine
So tell me what the Hell is
Left to do to make things right within a system gone insane?

So I met this woman
And I learned what I'd been missing
Finally I felt human
Because someone finally listened
But the problem loomin'
She hid from me by kissin'
Let's just say that most reporters don't act a thing like Lois Lane

CHORUS

BRIDGE
Everybody thinks they know me
From some sleazy magazine
They don't hesitate to show me
That they judge me by my genes
And their respect was phony
So I'll show them a side of me they've never seen

They made
One major mistake
When they all turned their backs on me
They think they no longer
Need me at all
I'll take this far beyond
Not speaking up to save them
I'll bring them to their knees
With just one word while I stand tall

I'm reversing my vocation
Join the League, bring down the nation
And I'll shake the world's foundations
As a means of compensation
For disrespect and degradation
With this musical application
I'll repay their last mistake and show them all

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Evil-League-of-Evil
• Dr.-Horrible
• spoof
• musical
• Dishonorable-Mention!

[AstorTim]

Love it! Did you write that?

[MikeBoomshadow]

I did indeed. I had originally wanted to cut a separate soundtrack and sing to that, matching my vocals to my own facial movements, but I just plain ran out of time. That's also why I am doing the "guy in front of camera" approach to the video, which is much more a propos for, say, political commentary. :)

[themaestroofmayhem]

I WILL DESTROY YOU, CRESCENDO. Let's do lunch.

love,

The Maestro of Mayhem