Dedicated to my friend Viyanna and all lovers of the musical Elisabeth!
This is based on a dream I had of Death helping Rudolf with his homework! (Further proof of my deranged mind now that I've even turned it into a song?)... and also partly based on Maik Lohse & Bernie Blanks' s English version of Die Schatten Werden Länger (The Shades of Night).
The source of the fic writer's insanity can be traced back to the musical Elisabeth, which belongs to Kunze & Levay. If Elisabeth belonged to me, I would make sure the DVD coming out in December had decent English subtitles, to start with! ( grumble grumble... )
TOD (Death):
Now it is the right occasion
For a private tutor session.
You know me, yes you know me.
Since your childhood we're befriended,
And our friendship hasn't ended,
I promised not to leave you.
RUDOLF:
I call you in desperation
Every night this homework haunts me.
Soon I'll have examination...
TOD:
Mein Gott, why all this maths...!
BOTH:
The homework pile keeps growing
But I am/you are falling far behind!
My/your brain cells are complaining
And the calculator's not invented!
The homework pile keeps growing
It is five to twelve, we're running out of time!
RUDOLF:
See the mess in this graphs section,
I can't plot the real solution.
Dots are over the whole paper
It should be parabola!
TOD:
On this blackboard symbols mingle,
You can see they come to zero,
All you need is this equation...
RUDOLF:
It's driving me insane!
BOTH:
The homework pile keeps growing
Till it's n! meters high.
I/You thought I' d/you' d finish something,
Probability says otherwise!
The homework pile keeps growing
It is five to twelve, and Death is getting tired!
TOD:
Forget all this work!
This is a better trick...
Here take this match!
Light it and burn them!
RUDOLF:
Burn them?
BOTH:
The homework pile is burning,
Whether alpha, beta, lm or pi,
The working' s all the same thing,
Just round them up and let them fry!
The homework pile is burning,
There are better ways to show that I am/ you are bright!