Video of myShakespeare | Macbeth 5.7 Song Summary Lyrics Well, the play is over. It's all said and done. The battle is lost and won. Fair is foul, and foul is fair. The whole play, it's been up in the air. Something might be right, or it might be wrong. It’s all in the way that you look at things. At the end of the play, Malcolm is king, which you could argue he was supposed to be all along. If you aim for the better, you might come out worse. What seems like a blessing might be a curse. And ambition might come at too high a cost. And as you can see, the penalty, as happens in a lot of these tragedies, is that everyone's lives were lost. Well, Duncan was killed while taking a nap. The servants were killed so they'd take the rap. Malcolm and his brother fled to avoid their blood being royally bled. Macbeth had Banquo's throat slit, too. He was worried that the rest of the prophecy was true. Because really, what else was he supposed to do? He started the thing. He's got to see it through. It's a downward spiral. That's the joke; in an ocean of blood, you start doing the backstroke. You've crossed the line, might as well go wild and kill Macduff's own wife and child. You can lose your mind when you're in so deep, this kind of thing that happens with a lack of sleep. Lady Macbeth found herself so repulsive, she apparently died an obsessive compulsive. And Macbeth got himself killed by Macduff, which nobody was expecting. But as it turned out, the big secret was Macduff mom had a c-section. Oh, Shakespeare! O Macbeth, Macbeth, it was such a tragic death. Your wife, she would have wept if she hadn't already killed herself. But Macbeth, Macbeth, you're my main man, Macbeth. You know, of all the Scottish kings that took the throne by questionable means, I always thought you were the best. But the play's got to come to an end sometime, and there's only so many words I can think of that rhyme with "Macbeth." Macbeth… death… most def… oh, let's just roll the credits.
