Strike! - The Writers

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 cockney

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

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

Strike!

And lose we did

Strike!

Impressively

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