Mark From the Park

Lyrics

[Joe Schiappa & Julian Velard & both] They call me Mark Mark from the park They only know me as a dad But before my kid I had A certain spark I wrote 5 shows That no one knows A one-man musical of Jaws That overcame the movie's flaws I played the shark When will the world stop being mean to us And recognize our genius I've been patient, lemme tell ya I can't believe my face isn't on a stamp I spent two decades suffering for my art I put my heart on every page And watch it die up on the stage The audience is always in the dark I'm always Mark from the park They call me nuts Think I'm a putz All the moms make fun of me 'Cause I keep my mornings free I hate their guts I hate their guts Ugh, awful I'm choosing words And feeding birds While my son just runs around I keep him here at the playground Until it shuts We should be winning Grammy and Tony awards Instead of running for school boards They made me treasurer, can you believe it? They tried to make me vaccinate my kid I'm nearly middle aged with no success I'm gonna die in 20 years And then I'll be praised by my peers Make me a martyr just like Joan of Arc Instead of Mark from the park They call him Mark They call me lots of things, the children give me names Mark from the park They won't let me or my son play their stupid games They know only him as a dad But before his kid he had A certain spark I was the toast of Off-Off-Off-Broadway He wrote 5 shows You shoulda seen the amount of paper that it took That no one knows Nobody cares about the guy who wrote the book A one-man musical of Jaws That overcame the movie's flaws He played the shark We came in second place, two silver schmucks When you don't come first, second sucks We'll never get the gold So far away from hot, we're freezing cold I'm sure the world is full of guys like us We're never gonna win the fight It doesn't matter what we write I know each time I start a song I'll get the ending wrong And the bite of it is meaner than the bark Like the shark I give up Call me Mark from the park