Lyrics
[verse 1]
[heavy]
To be, or not to be: (To be, or not to be)
that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler
in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms
against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them? (And by opposing, end them?)
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[verse 2]
To die: to sleep; (To die: to sleep)
No more; and by a sleep
to say we end
The heart-ache and
the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,
'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.
To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream:
ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death
what dreams may come
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[verse 3]
When we have shuffled
Off this mortal coil, (When we have shuffled off this mortal coil)
Must give us pause:
there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear
the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong,
the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
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[verse 4]
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?
Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat
under a weary life,
But that the dread
of something after death,
The undiscover'd country
from whose bourn
No traveller returns,
puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear
those ills we have
Than fly to others
that we know not of?
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[verse 5]
Thus conscience does
make cowards of us all; (Thus conscience does make cowards of us all)
And thus the native hue
of resolution
Is sicklied o'er
with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises
of great pith and moment
With this regard
their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
[spoken words]
Soft you now!
[instrumental bridge]
The fair Ophelia!
[instrumental bridge]
Nymph, in thy orisons
[instrumental bridge]
Be all my sins remember'd.
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[heavy]
[outro]
Soft you now! (Soft you now!)
[instrumental bridge]
The fair Ophelia! (The fair Ophelia!)
[instrumental bridge]
Nymph, in thy orisons (Nymph, in thy orisons)
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Be all my sins remember'd. (Be all my sins remember'd.)
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