Bottom's Gonna Be On Top

## Lyrics (Soundtrack)

[NICK BOTTOM]

No more Mr. Anonymous

No more world that is Nick Bottom-less

My name will be synonymous with being on the top

I can see it now

I'm the cat's meow

It's a hit, pow!

It's gonna be great, gonna be great

Everywhere I go

They will love me so

Hail my name

Oh, it's gonna be great, gonna be great

[ENSEMBLE]

Master Bottom, you're such a wonderful writer

[NICK]

You really think so?

[ENSEMBLE]

And your talent is talent beyond compare

[NICK]

Why thank you

[ENSEMBLE]

You're a star, you are, and you couldn't be brighter

[NICK]

Now you're just embarrassing me!

[ENSEMBLE]

You're a real visionary

[NICK]

Thank you Jesus and Hail Mary!

[ALL]

This Bottom's gonna be on top

This Bottom's gonna be on top

[NICK]

Man, I'm gonna sizzle

Man, I'm gonna pop

[ALL]

And this Bottom's gonna be on top

[NICK]

This is heaven sent

Feeling confident

Money well spent

It's gonna be great, gonna be great

Throw a big parade

Praises will be made

Compliments paid

It's gonna be great, gonna be great

[BEA]

Me and baby are so eternally grateful

[NICK]

You're who I'm doing it for

[BEA]

Thank you for our cottage in the woods

[NICK]

You deserve it!

[NIGEL]

If gratitude were a food I'd have a big plateful

[NICK]

Nice metaphor, bro

[LORD CLAPHAM]

You're the greatest

[SHYLOCK]

You're the man

[NICK]

I really shouldn't say it

But yes I am!

[ALL]

This Bottom's gonna be on top

This Bottom's gonna be on top

[NICK]

Once I get going, never gonna stop

[ALL]

Yeah, this Bottom's gonna be on top

[RENAISSANCE WRITERS]

We are the royalty of the Renaissance writers

Now we're handing down the crown to you

You were a nobody but then overnight you're someone better than the rest of us

Now you are the best of us

[WILL]

Not. So. Fast

[NICK]

Hello, Will. I knew you wouldn't go down without a fight

[WILL]

The top sir, nay, thou surely doth jest

I say on my honour here I doth protest

[NICK]

Yawn

Rhyming couplet? That is so 1580’s

[WILL]

Oh yeah?

Well

If you want to make it to the top

Then you're gonna have to go through me

'Cause on the top is where I live

And I will not be giving up that easily

So there

[NICK]

Oh, man, I have been waiting for this moment for so long

I'm gonna enjoy it when I knock you off your perch

[WILL]

Oh, no you won't

[NICK]

Oh, yes I will

[WILL]

Oh, no you won't

[NICK]

Oh, yes I will

[WILL]

Oh, no you won't

[NICK]

Oh, yes I will

[WILL]

Oh, no you won't

My accomplishments are much more accomplished than yours

[NICK]

In your dreams

I am the best

[WILL]

You can't be the best because I am the best

I have written 12 plays and each one is a testament to my great skill

I am the Will

And I wrote the Taming of the Shrew and Richard III and Richard II and Henry's IV, V, VI

And Titus Andronicus

And oh, did I forget Romeo and Juliet

[NICK]

Well I have just written the thing that the critics are calling the greatest thing they've ever seen

The people are loving it

Can't get enough of it

Everyone, even including the Queen

She recently invited me to her castle where she knighted me

And privately she told me that you're not any good, not any good, not any good, not any good

And she told me that all of your plays make her vomit

And none of them's as good as my musical Omelette

[WILL]

Wait a minute

You wrote Omelette?

[NICK]

Yes

[WILL]

I never thought that I would meet my equal

But I concede that I've been bested by the best

Maybe we could partner on a sequel

[NICK]

Oh, my, how the tide has turned

Let's review

What have we learned?

See, you were here

But now we've swapped

So kiss this Bottom

I'm on the top

[ALL]

He's on top

He's on top

Wah-wah-wah-wah

Yeah, this Bottom's gonna be on top

He's on top

He's on top

Wah-wah-wah-wah

Yeah, this Bottom's gonna be on top

Yeah, this Bottom's gonna be on top

Yeah, this Bottom's gonna be on top

[ALL]

Bottom's up

Yeah, this Bottom's gonna be on top

## Characters

* Nick Bottom
* Bea Bottom
* Nigel Bottom
* Shakespeare
* Lord Clapham
* Shylock