Crossword puzzle clue "johnny one note said to his fiancee lisa i'm composing a ballad to celebrate our wedding called 'the '"

Johnny One Note said to his fiancee, Lisa, "I'm composing a ballad to celebrate our wedding, called 'The ___.'"

"What should I do? This score is tearing me apart, Lisa!" Johnny cried. Exasperated, Lisa said, "Johnny, just ___."

He stared into a mirror. "___, handsome," said Lisa playfully. Inspired, Johnny raised the note by a semitone. "Awful!" he yelled.

"But I can't decide on the last note!" said Johnny, pointing at his score. "Everything I try sounds like it has a ___. It's not even close to being on target."

It's said that he said, "I never said most of the things I said"

Grammy-winner K.T. whose ode "80's Ladies" claims "We burned our bras / And we burned our dinners / And we burned our candles at both ends" haha sounds like us

"Maybe I'll add a bright, cheerful chord just before the last note," said Johnny, playing a C-E-G triad on the piano. He frowned. "Terrible! I'd be committing ___ with that E in there."

"I just can't get the right note," said Johnny. "Maybe I should scale back and make ___ by removing whole bars of music."