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 [...]
-We lay down in the grass
+Have you seen this one yet?
-We lay down in the grass
-For Henry IV, Part 1
+Shakespeare makes me happy
-It feels so [...]
+Shakespeare makes me happy
+So happy, and I'm happy to be with you
+Shakespeare makes me happy
+Shakespeare makes me happy
+So happy, and I'm happy to be with you
+We may be garden-variety
+But we can step inside of his immortal mind
+We get a wider view, some universal truth
+And when we step inside, that's when we realize
+This is your life
+We laid down in the grass
+We laid down in the grass
+For ''Henry IV, Part 1''
+And it feels so lovely to laugh
+And it feels so lovely to cry
+Like a personal battle won
+Hamlet(?) makes me happy
+Falstaff makes me happy
+So happy, and I'm happy to be with you
+We may be quite ordinary
+But we can step inside of his immortal mind
+We gain some empathy, some perspicacity
+It happens every time, he makes me want to write
+This is your life, this is your life
+This is your life, on opening night
+[...]
 </poem>