How odd of me to think singing would come into it at some point
No one's stoping you from singing the verbal components of the spell, and a bard has its own PrC for becoming more melee focused.
"It doesn't matter how much you struggle or strive,
You'll never get out of life alive,
So please kill yourself and save this land,
And your last mission is to spread my command,"
Slightly adapted quote from X-Fusion, Please Kill Yourself