1
("VISION" BY KLAUS WIESE PLAYING)
()
FAYE: I went through a period...
when sex had to be violent.
I was desperate to feel something real,.
Nothing felt real.
Every kiss felt like half
of what it should be.
You're just reaching for air.
("NEVER LE NKEMISE 2"
BY DIE ANTWOORD PLAYING)
Just because
The whole world's gone dwanky
Doesn't mean
We fuckin' gonna go out like that, too
Fuck the system
We have our own system
We make our own rules
We don't answer to no one
That's right
We keep it gangsta
We keep it Zef
We keep it pumping
Off its motherfucking face
One time
Vuilgeboosted warrior styles
Yo, DJ Hi-Tek
Gooi roof, homeboy...
(BEAT PULSES)
(SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(SONG FADING)
(FAST TECHNO SONG PLAYING)
BV: We have to sing.
Help people by lifting their heads.
Yeah, yeah..-
(SONG CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
(RAUCOUS CHEERING)
(CHEERING FADES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
It's not all real.
FAYE: I thought you had to know
the right people...
("SYMPHONY NO. 2, MOV. 3"
BY GUSTAV MAHLER PLAYING)
get close to them.
The ones who could give you
what you need...
()
to get through the fence.
("TAKE MY HEART" BY BLACK LIPS PLAYING)
(MUSIC FADES)
GIRL: Oh! He flying!
He went away!
FAYE: I wanted experience.
I told myself...
any experience is better
than no experience.
("FROM THE ABYSS"
BY ZBIGNIEW PREISNER PLAYING)
(CROWD SWELLS IN DISTANCE)
I wanted to live....
(crowd cheering and scattered whistles)
sing my song.
(MUSIC FADES WITH THE WIND)
("FOR OUR SAKE" BY GAL PALS PLAYING)
You going for a swim, Melissa?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
COOK: This is the Doctor.
Have a party for him every year.
Celebrate.
To the Doctor.
Eternity.
Don't be shy.
It's okay. It's a special thing.
It's a special thing.
- COOK: It's a special thing.
- Okay.
COOK: Do you like these people?
Why not? What have you got against them?
- I don't even know them.
- Well, get to know them.
You had to pick one.
There's one girl in a...
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Good Lord, now...
What's your name?
Oh, I've been changed
I said that
I... I...
Know I've been changed
Whoo, yeah..-
I know
Know I've been changed
Angels
Angels in Heaven
Done signed my name
Well...
Let's go from the top again,
just 'cause I want your tongue
to be three times the size it should be.
(MAN LAUGHING) Yes, Sir.
(HORNS PLAYING)
(HORNS FADE)
(BIRDS SINGING OUTSIDE)
FAYE: His hands were in everything.
The money, the fame.
I Thought he could help me.-...
if I paid my dues.
(FAYE LAUGHS)
You probably have a boyfriend, huh?
FAYE: He told me I was pretty.
What's his name?
BV: Just tell me a complete lie.
You could... you could
say anything you want to me.
That's the fun about me.
(CAR HORN HONKS)
("ROLLIN' AND TUMBLIN'"
BY ELMORE JAMES PLAYING)
I rolled and I tumbled
I cried the whole night long
Yes '
I roll and I tumble
I cried the whole night long...
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
FAYE: f lied to you.
(INSECTS WHIRRING)
(WOMAN THROUGH MICROPHONE) And, People,
you are the future!
You will decide what happens
to our world!
What happens to the birds of the air,
the fish in the sea,
the water that we drink.
You will decide what happens to our world.
You, people, you are the future!
And the future is now!
I think you should tell him...
about us.
COOK: We were together
before he even knew us.
(MUFFLED)
Right.
MAN: Are you looking?
MAN 2: Yes!
MAN 3: Oh, yeah!
That's old. That's been there.
(UPBEAT CLUB MUSIC PLAYING)
(CROWD CLAMORS)
Oh, I was there this summer.
What about a job? You working this year?
I have a few different jobs, you know?
You looking around?
- Yeah, I'm trying.
- Yeah?
You worry about me, Daddy?
I just wanna know what you're doing.
Am I prying too much?
There is someone, but...
I'm not really sure what's gonna happen.
Oh! Okay
But does he play out, like,
make money playing and stuff'?
- He does'?
- Mm-hmm.
So he's a working musician?
- Mm-hmm.
- All right, well, that's good to hear.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
You think I could meet him?
Maybe someday.
Do you trust this man?
You know, we never hear from you.
Your mom and I wanna come up
and visit together sometime.
She really misses you.
We just want you to be happy.
Whatever you're doing.
I know.
FAYE: Who am I?
I show apartments.
(GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING)
(TOY SQUEAKING)
A dog walker.
(TOY SQUEAKING, WHISTLING)
(FAYE GIGGLES)
I thought we could just roll and tumble.
Live from song to song.
Kiss to kiss.
("MA MERE I'OYE, MOV. IV"
BY MAURICE RAVEL PLAYING)
What's that for'?
"X" marks the spot.
FAYE: I love your soul.
Go, "Ah."
Ah...
Oh, no.
What's the matter?
Let me see.
(WHISPERING) Can you see my soul?
Is it still there?
(FAYE LAUGHS)
What's so funny?
How well do you know this guy?
And how come he's letting you
stay at his place?
(GUITAR STRUMMING)
(BV VOCALIZING)
You shouldn't trust him.
Why not?
I just think you should be careful.
(CROWD CHEERING IN DISTANCE)
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen...
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
BV: He said, "Trust me.
- COOK: We should make a record together.
- BV: And I did.
I know you do the live music thing
and everything else,
but don't you wanna make some money?
BV: Whatever I wanted,
he'd make it happen.
You've got talent.
You want one of those?
You wanna be me?
BV: Where do you get a jacket like this?
Makes you walk different.
Get you a hundred jackets like that.
How long you lived here?
About two weeks.
(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
I don't like it.
COOK: It's all for sale.
All of it...
honors, titles.
This, none of this exists.
What do you see?
Pool?
It's a stage show.
It's all just free fall.
(SPRINKLER SPUTTERING)
You have too much pride.
I thought pride was a good thing.
People aren't proud enough.
WOMAN: Selfish!
WOMAN: Arrogant! Conceited!
If you know what's good for you,
you will stay as far away
from this man as you possibly can!
FAYE: People changed around him.
They did things.
So did I.
COOK: He leaves us alone this way.
Because he wants to be free.
All his life, he's tried to get free.
He doesn't know how.
COOK: You aren't who you think you are.
He doesn't love you.
I like you this way.
FAYE: I wanted to be free the way he was.
(DISTORTED BREATHING, MOANING)
I went on seeing him.
I Let myself be smashed.
(CLUB MUSIC PLAYING)
COOK: You can't?
Well, why can't you?
Do you trust me to stick
your finger in here?
FAYE: He did everything.
He exhausted every poison.
He knew every form of love,
suffering, madness.
He said I had an important lesson in life:
Learn all the rules when you're young,
'cause that makes Mom and Dad happy.
And then throw the fucking
lot of them out the window.
MAN: And they want you to!
They want you to!
FAYE: So that he could reach the unknown.
He experimented.
(SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)
FAYE: They scare you with names.
Like wickedness.
You liked it; that I did what I liked.
(ENGINES HUMMING)
I pulled you down in the car.
PATTI SMITH: You realize that, um...
you know, it's like the sea.
Things come in and out.
We feel happy and ecstatic.
And then, you know, hours later,
you know, we feel
the deepest sorrows, or...
FAYE: I didn't believe enough in love.
Afraid it would burn me up.
PATTI SMITH: Be ready to suffer.
PATTI SMITH: Don't be afraid.
I saw my husband.
I saw this boy across the room.
And I loved... I...
I just...
loved him the first moment I saw him.
And we had a life.
And it was beautiful,
and it was difficult.
And I thought I would be
with him for the rest of my life.
But he died.
(CHILDREN SHOUTING GLEEFULLY)
(AIR HISSING)
FAYE: I wanted to escape from every tie.
Every hold.
To have fife at any price.
Not to settle.
To go up...
("ROLLIN' AND TUMBLIN'"
BY BOB DYLAN PLAYING)
Higher.-...
free.
(JET ENGINES WAILING)
I rolled and Humbled,
I cried the whole night long
I rolled and Humbled,
I cried the whole night long
Woke up this mornin',
I must've bet my money wrong...
(TOY SQUEAKING)
I got troubles so hard,
I can't stand the strain
I got troubles so hard..-
(MOCK SEABIRD NOISES)
Some young lazy slut
Has charmed away my brains
The landscape is glowing...
(FAYE LAUGHING)
(SEABIRDS SQUAWKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER AND LAUGHING)
ALL: "Ooh"
("SYMPHONY NO. 3, MOV. 2"
BY CAMILLE SAINT-SANS PLAYING)
(LAUGHS AND SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
FAYE: The birds said...
we'd love each other forever,.
Love never fails.
("SYMPHONY NO. 3, OP. 78" CONTINUES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
("REINA DE REINAS"
BY JESUS RAMIREZ HERRARA PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTS)
(WHOOPING AND LAUGHTER)
- Ay! (WHOOPS)
(HOWLS)
(SONG FADES)
(MEN CHEERING)
(PIANO PLAYING OLD-TIME, MID-TEMPO INTRO)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTS)
BV: Didn't seem like anything
could break us apart.
Oh '
Father
BV: Thought we'd build each other up...
Brother
make music together.
I believe
Let me tell you
Living just as fast as I can
Trying to understand
Brother...
(SONG FADES)
- BV: What do you mean?
- Let's make a fucking record.
BV: Huh'?
BV: How long have you known Faye?
She's a receptionist for me.
How long?
I guess she came to work for me...
when she was 17.
16, maybe.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(TRAFFIC RUMBLING IN DISTANCE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
COOK: Let's us decide what's right now.
(MOTORCYCLE PASSING)
(INDISTINCT SPANISH CONVERSATIONS)
(INDISTINCT SPANISH CONVERSATIONS)
(KISS)
BV: Cheers.
- COOK: What do you think of this world?
- BV: It's its own.
- COOK: There's no possessions, right?
- BV: No.
COOK: You know
I felt terrible about that.
COOK: Beer...
- M'dear?
- (FAYE CHUCKLES)
COOK: Why've you been a slut?
("GOD IS STANDING BY BY
SAM COOKE AND THE SOUL STIRRERS PLAYING)
Have troubles
Don't cry
Just remember
That he's standing nearby
And if
Disappointments come...
FAYE: That was the first time in my life
that I knew,.
But don't you worry...
FAYE: Everything came from that hour.
Don't cry...
(faint, distorted laughing)
()
FAYE: I wish that it could last forever.
(BIRDS CHIRPING, SINGING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING, BUGS WHIRRING)
COOK: They have a beauty in their life...
that makes me ugly,.
Ajay...
()
(MUSIC ENDS)
Everything okay?
Yes.
Don't leave.
- Help me. Help me.
- Let me put these down.
- (COUGHING)
- What can I get for you?
- I have a condition.
- Yes'?
Uh, I can't be left alone...
for more than five minutes.
Can I get you something else?
I'd like to hear you sing.
(LAUGHS)
(COUGHS, SNIFFS)
- Okay, I gotta...
- Elephant...
- I gotta check another table.
- Why'? Why?
- 'Cause my boss is watching.
- Which other table?
- You're gonna get me fired.
- Yep, that's the plan.
RHONDA: You...
What do you like to do'?
Well...
I was a teacher, but there's
not many jobs around here.
- What do you teach?
- Kindergarten.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
You like kids?
Yes, I do. It wouldn't be a very good job
- if I didn't like kids, would it'?
- No.
(ENGINE ROARING)
COOK: So you like physical things?
RHONDA: Yes.
(CLUB MUSIC PULSING)
(CROWD SHOUTING, CHEERING)
(CROWD CHEERING LOUDER)
(CROWD FADES)
(INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION)
RHONDA: I was shy.
(UNPLUGGED BASS LICK)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(INDISTINCT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
RHONDA: This concert.
COOK: Who's on first?
This concert! It's insane.
No, I said, I do a better Mick Jagger
than I do Iggy Pop.
'Okay!
'Okay?
I misunderstood.
RHONDA: I don't know
how I didn't hear you.
COOK: You don't listen to me.
(SONG ENDS)
(CHEERING)
RHONDA: I'll listen to everything.
(ROCK SONG BEGINS)
The record companies would sort of...
They did... they believed in artistry...
It's something they put in a
film to tweak the heartstrings
or to raise the adrenaline, you know.
Desperate to fuckin'...
drain the fuckin' chord and go, "Waah!"
And, "Fuck me!"
"Gimme!"
Yeah.
You know, uh, "Love me."
You know, these things.
Lived very near Claridge's, and, uh...
- Nice. Swanky.
- The latest.
I lived on Upper Brook Street,
and I had...
RHONDA: After Dad left...
you thought you were a failure.
Mama...
you gave us so much.
Your hands are so beautiful.
You should be wearing gloves.
MIRANDA: I wanted you
to have so much more.
I don't know where else we can go.
Remember, we have nothing.
Well, you need money for a lawyer.
The law's no help
for people who are ruined.
Ahh '
RHONDA: You have everything.
("THE TURN AROUND"
BY THEE OH SEES PLAYING)
Everything you want.
()
(cheering)
My heart...
(MUSIC FADES)
(WHISTLE BLOWS, CROWD CHEERS)
RHONDA: She likes the cheerleaders.
COOK: You do?
Were you ever a cheerleader?
(CROWD ROARING)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
(CHEERING FADES)
("DANSE MACABRE"
BY CAMILLE SAINT-SANS PLAYING)
RHONDA: Scare me. Come closer.
()
Marry me.
No.
()
()
RHONDA: You gave Mother a new house.
You said I could get out
whenever I wanted,
keep all you'd given us.
()
You wanted me to be free.
(MUSIC ENDS)
FAYE: Why do I owe you a Coke?
BV: You said I couldn't climb the tree.
FAYE: Don't have to.
What're you gonna do?
You're all the way up there.
(BV LAUGHING) How strong
do you think you are?
(BOTH LAUGHING)
BV: One, two, three, go.
BV: To the tree. Don't! You're running.
You're running. You're running.
(ICE CREAM TRUCK TUNE)
(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)
(LIGHTBULB HUMMING)
FAYE: I went along
like someone in a dream.
I knew I had to tell you.
(CHOIR SINGING GENTLY)
Come clean.
I didn't know how.
(FAYE AND BV LAUGHING)
(DISTORTED ELECTRONIC VOICE) Hove you,
Hove you, Hove you...
Say it like you mean it.
(RECORDED) Say it like you mean it.
Say it like you mean it.
(DEEPER) Say it like you mean it.
Say it like you mean it.
(DEEPEN SLOWER) Say it like you mean...
(GUITAR STRUMMING GENTLY)
BV: Do you lie to me?
I know you always wanna
know the truth, but...
but I don't.
Sometimes the truth
isn't the right thing to say.
- Mm-hmm.
- You can hurt someone more
' Saying it.
- (BV HUMMING AND PLAYING GUITAR)
- Mm, hmm, hmm
Mm, mm...
(PLUCKS GUITAR STRING)
- FAYE: This looks like a birthday card.
- Oh, isn't that pretty'?
"The life you live again.
Happy birthday.
BV: Do you ever think about leaving here?
("MA MERE I'OYE, MOV. 5"
BY MAURICE RAVEL PLAYING)
I don't know.
BV: Are you a good liar?
BV: Do you love me?
FAYE: Why do you ask that?
BV: I like to hear it.
You don't like to say it.
BV: I love you.
(FAYE NARRATING) I'm so scared sometimes.
We're Wanderers, you and I.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
FAYE: Like birds.
COOK: So you're saying
you wanna produce it as well.
So I'm suddenly feeling
a little bit out in the cold here.
- You know what I'm saying?
- Well, you wanna help produce it'?
I just feel like you're...
you're going ahead
on this thing by yourself.
Well, just look at the facts.
Take it out of your hands.
Why do you think it
can't work as a country song?
- It can.
- Maybe you...
As a... as a country...
Take your finger outta your ear.
Put it back up your ass.
You think you're better
than me, don't you?
(BV CHUCKLES)
You look down on me.
I gave you everything, man.
(BV CHUCKLES)
You sit on your high horse
looking down on me.
Look at your fingernails, man.
Where's the dirt?
(INDISTINCT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
You think you can get here
without getting your hands dirty at least?
Look at my batting average.
Look at it. Look at yours.
Who's helping who here?
(ROCK MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CROWD CHEERS)
BV: I wrote those songs.
I did the work.
How many people do you think
in this city alone are writing songs?
Huh?
Think your songs are that good?
(LAUGHS) Yeah, what is it, morals...
Taking credit for someone else's work.
I told you about that shit.
50-50. Equals.
Brothers.
- BV: Get outta here.
- Come on.
- You got a weird way of showing it.
- Come on.
- What'?
- We partners? Are we brothers?
Why'd you put the copyrights to my songs
in your name and your name only?
(CLUB MUSIC PLAYING IN DISTANCE)
Or did you think I didn't know about that?
No, maybe you thought,
"This guy's so stup..."
Don't put your hands on...
Don't put your hands on me.
Don't put your hands on me.
Maybe you thought, "This guy's so stupid,
he doesn't want a lawyer,
he trusted me."
(QUIET CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)
(OBJECT SHATTERS)
Should we make a scene? Huh?
COOK: I'll give you a record contract.
How's that make you feel?
That's what you want, right?
(BIRD CAWING)
FAYE: I love the pain.
It feels like life,.
Sometimes I admire what a hypocrite I am.
MAN: on!
(LAUGHTER)
FAYE: Strange what you get used to.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
You're skinny.
BROTHERS: You ever think
about coming home?
(BV SIGHS)
Okay.
(BV CHUCKLES)
Feel like I just got out.
Place felt like it was on fire.
Come and help put it out.
- I did my best.
- Did you?
BV: You sound like Dad.
(PIANO PLAYS CHORD)
BROTHERS: It's hard at home with Mom.
'Cause...
you don't wanna be there.
JUDY: I just feel like I keep...
sinking lower, and lower, and lower...
I think I'm just tired.
(BV NARRATING) I wanted all that pain
to be for something.
I'm okay.
BV: Ma, you're healthy, right?
You're a stone cold fox.
(BV WHISPERING) Turn it into something.
You've got... you got...
you got it in the bag.
I don't think that... I don't think
that takes care of everything, darling.
Have you seen your father?
- Have I seen him?
- Mm-hmm.
No.
I know, I gotta go.
I don't know.
(BV NARRATING) I haven't done anything.
Leave it there, leave it there
Leave it there..
BV: Does Dad even look at you?
He's so... strange.
We've... waited so long
to be free of that man,
and now... (CHUCKLES)
Do you think about forgiving him?
No, I don't.
- You pray for him?
- No, I don't.
Not anymore.
- Why?
- What's the point?
(PIANO CHORD RINGS)
(BV SINGING)
The world from you withholds
All its silver and its gold
And you have to get along
(BIRD SAWING)
With meager fare
Just remember, in his work
How he feeds the little birds
Take your burden
To the Lord
And leave it there
Take your burden
To the Lord
And leave it there
(PLAYS ENDING CHORDS)
(FINAL CHORD SUSTAINS)
FAYE: I met him
on the street today, and he, um...
said that he wanted to sign me.
(DISH CLANGS)
(FAUCET TURNS OFF)
Wow.
I didn't know what to tell him.
Why not? I mean,
this is... that's a good...
That's a good opportunity for you.
I mean, you know how I feel
about him, but that...
that shouldn't affect your...
that shouldn't affect you.
(DISHES CLANG)
You gotta do it.
("FROM THE ABYSS"
BY ZBIGNIEW PREISNER PLAYING)
(KISS)
(FAYE EXHALES)
Why are you crying?
Because I'm happy.
()
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(MUSIC ENDS)
FAYE: Your old girlfriend...
she asked you to go off with her.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Why didn't you?
Was it for me?
LYKKE: Do you ever
think of me when I'm not here?
- BV: Sure.
- LYKKE: Well, what do you think?
LYKKE: Why wake up next to someone
you don't even know
if you don't even know yourself anymore?
What happens then?
Do you think she'll be happy...
- living with ghosts, sadder?
- (CROWD CHEERING)
- BV: It's more complicated than that.
- No, it's not.
BV:
What's it feel like to be a girl?
Like I have special powers.
What don't I know?
How to feel.
How to be sick to your bones.
How to yearn.
Stay.
BV: You're casting spells.
LYKKE: Does it work?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah'?
BV: I don't even think
you know you're doing it.
LYKKE: I may.
BV: Just going around
casting spells on people.
What went wrong with our love
A love that was so strong
And as I still walk on
I think of
The things we've done together
While our hearts were young
I'm a-walkin' in the rain
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain
Wishin' you were here by me
To end this misery
- BV: Are you happy?
And I wonder...
LYKKE: I think I might have
misunderstood happiness, you know?
(CHUCKLES)
I dream about it and stuff, and...
I sing about it sometimes, but...
I don't...
No.
(BV SINGING)
While our hearts were young
I'm a-walking in the rain...
LYKKE: I mean, would you want more?
I could follow you around.
You'd give it all up?
I would.
If you'd ask me.
But you never do, you know?
(BIRD CAWING)
(CHORD RISING ON BV'S MIDI KEYBOARD)
(LYKKE SINGING INDISTINCTLY)
BOTH: You're so smart
LYKKE: Going around
Breaking lovers' hearts
You'll be defeated
BOTH: By your own weapon
LYKKE: I dream about being in love and...
being free and safe.
You know?
Can you have, uh... you think...
have it all?
That's one thing I know.
You can't have it all.
BV: You gonna miss me?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
Are you gonna miss me?
LYKKE: Do you want me to stay?
I can't ask you that.
(AIRPLANE SOARING)
Well, then I gotta go.
(AIRPLANE TAKING OFF)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(FEET WADING THROUGH WATER)
(THUNDER ROLLING)
FAYE: Foolish me.
(FOOTSTEPS)
Devil.
I need to talk to you.
COOK: I know.
(FAYE EXHALES, SNIFFLES)
I love him.
COOK: Of course you do.
(sighs)
Say it again.
Say what again?
(SIGHS)
I don't wanna do this anymore.
I want out.
Then go.
(SNIFFLES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
("I KNOW PLACES" BY LYKKE LI PLAYING)
I know places we can go, babe...
FAYE: I'm low.
I'm like mud.
I don't deserve you.
The high won't fade here, babe...
The shame of it,.
No, the high won't hurt here, babe
FAYE: Things changed.
I know places we can go...
You became suspicious.
I know places we can go, babe
Where the highs won't
Bring you down, babe
No, the highs won't
Hurt you there, babe
Don't ask me when
FAYE: Stupid girl.
Don't ask me how
But ask me where...
How long have you known?
I don't know, um...
I was a receptionist there
before I met you.
You know, I...
BV: He's after you.
I dreamed of having him help me
the same way he helped you.
BV: You don't have to, uh...
you know, hide anything.
We don't have to have
any secrets between us.
BV: Why is he after you
if he's not attracted to you?
(BV PLAYING GUITAR SOFTLY)
Did you ever sleep with him?
Yes.
You did?
Once.
How come you never told me?
Tell me about the teacher.
(INSECTS BUZZING)
Just tell me.
- Tell me what you did.
- I don't remember.
Try and remember.
- FAYE: I can't
- BV: Try and remember.
FAYE: It was dark. I don't know.
He told us what to do.
BV: Did you do it?
Yes.
You did what he told you to do?
(SOFT, AMBIENT MUSIC)
(DOOR SLIDES OPEN LOUDLY)
(SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE)
FAYE: I wanna live a good life.
(SOFT, DISSONANT STRINGS)
Hmm? How many times?
We had...
a sort of a romance, I guess.
No, it was more than once.
It was several times.
Why'd you just do that?
Do what?
Change your story.
I was trying it out to see how you'd do.
(MUSIC GROWS LOUDER)
(MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVS)
(MUSIC RISES)
(FAYE MOANING)
(SETS GLASS DOWN)
(SPOON CLANGING IN CUP)
FAYE: I'm a beast.
Still not unhappy about it.
(ROCK MUSIC IN DISTANCE)
I don't seem to bring people
happiness anymore.
I wasted your love.
(BIRDS CHIRPING, INSECTS BUZZING)
(BIRD CHIRPING)
("FROM THE ABYSS"
BY ZBIGNIEW PREISNER PLAYING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING, CAWING)
(SUSPENSEFUL STRINGS RISE)
I was wrong.
Will you forgive me?
()
BV: We broke up.
()
BV: I tried to be kind.
It only made me colder.
("MAKAMBO" BY GEOFFREY ORYEMA PLAYS)
()
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(MUSIC ENDS)
RHONDA: What part of me do you want?
(WHISPERING) Take what you want from me.
Let me untie them.
(COOK WHISPERING) Untie mine.
MAN: ...in our state
and even across our border.
MAN: We would express that generosity
not just in this moment or on this campus,
but as we have opportunity every day
throughout our community and our city,
around our state, even across our borders.
And we will be known as a generous people.
And we bless even as we have been blessed.
For we ask this in Your Son's name.
Amen.
(BABY BOTTLES THUDS LOUDLY)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
COOK: Gives you life.
Eat it.
I've tasted it.
Tried it.
This is dipped in God.
They've never been where we've been.
(FUMES HISSING)
COOK: Open your eyes.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Right here you know.
COOK: You won't die.
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(VOICE FADES WHILE DEEP STRINGS RISE)
COOK: Here I reign.
(MAN'S INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Kins?'
(VOICES FADE)
(MAN BEATS DRUM)
COOK: Who sees us?
(MAN BEATS DRUM)
(BIRDS CHIRP, INSECTS BUZZ)
(LOW, SUSPENSEFUL STRINGS)
The world wants to be deceived.
OFFICER: Think you'll be able to drive?
(COOK CHUCKLING)
- Taking that as a no.
- Our friend will pick us up.
All right. You need to move on.
MAN: We have a little fun right here.
Quite frankly, I don't know if you're
gonna come back. Careful with that.
MAN 2: You know that river?
MAN: This is a ticket around the world.
TRAIN CONDUCTOR: Last call...
(CONDUCTOR LISTING LOCATIONS INDISTINCTLY)
CONDUCTOR: Now leaving on track twelve.
Board!
(DISTORTED) Whoa! (COUGHS)
COOK: What are you afraid of?
(GASPS)
What do you wanna do'?
Are you afraid of me?
COOK: I was once like you.
I didn't know what I know now,.
To think what I once was...
what I am now.
- FAYE: ls this your dog?
- Yeah.
- Can I say hi?
- Yeah, of course.
- Hi there.
- Say hello.
What's your name?
Look at you.
Stuff like that.
You what? What?
- Like, uh, uh, house-sit.
- House-sit? Oh.
(WHISPERING) Hi.
ZOEY: ...very tired with the weather.
So I decided to move here.
FAYE: I don't know if I would
move here from Paris.
ZOEY: I wanted to experience it.
FAYE: Just let me know when I can
come over and take him out or...
- Anything. If you need me to feed him.
- ZOEY: Tomorrow... if fine?
- ZOEY: Where are you from?
- FAYE: From here.
Yeah, it's like the, um...
the skin, I like this idea of, um...
you know, losing your... your-your skin.
- And, like, the phoenix.
- Yeah.
You know, like...
- Starting over'?
- Start... starting over.
Dying and being reborn... (VOICE FADES)
The light is so beautiful on your face.
You have one part of your face
in the shadows
and one part in the light.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
- Are you scared?
- Mm-mm.
("MIS DOS PEQUEAS"
BY ORLANDO CACHAITO LPEZ PLAYING)
FAYE: You kissed me in public.
You held my hand.
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
("FROM THE ABYSS"
BY ZBIGNIEW PREISNER PLAYING)
(MOUTHING WORDS)
FAYE: Stay.
()
(MAN THROUGH MICROPHONE)
volunteer their time to make it so.
The very traditions
of the Bachelors of Austin
are the result of years of service
by dedicated individuals
and a solid and loyal membership.
This year, to help us usher in
and host a great social season,
I would especially like
to thank Layne Cricket
and his wife Susan for serving.-...
BV: You get used to drifting.
Waiting.
(QUIET CHATTER)
They say follow the light.
WOMAN: So happy to meet you.
("HAVANAISE, OP. 83"
BY CAMILLE SAINT-SANS PLAYING)
BV: Where do you find it?
When you're young, it's not always
easy to know what is the light.
- I don't understand either.
- Except for you.
- It's different.
- Sweet of you to say.
I hear you have songs on the radio
and you're meant for better things.
BV: It'd be awful to have these
good times and not have life itself.
I wanna meet you before you move on
- and leave us behind.
- Mm-hmm. No, thank you.
Uh, she was mixed up with a guy back East.
He was a very nice man, I understand.
Divorced, four kids, but... (VOICE FADES)
()
BV: I heard you just moved here.
Yeah, I've been back a couple of months.
Mind me asking why?
I was, uh, wondering.
I grew up there.
Oh, yeah?
No, I went... I went away to school.
Back East.
I think you've got a secret
you're not telling me.
(MUSIC FADES)
(LAUGHING) What is that?
It's a chicken.
Hold on, you gotta...
You're beautiful.
("LOVE OUT OF LUST" BY LYKKE LI PLAYING)
Rather die in your arms
than die lonesome...
BV: I hope I don't fall in love with you.
Nobody asked you to.
The higher that I climb
The deeper I fall down...
BV: What's the matter?
AMANDA: I'm scared.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
("SYMPHONY NO. 2, MOV. 3"
BY GUSTAV MAHLER PLAYING)
ZOEY: They play with sex.
They make it cheap,.
(WHISPERING) Maybe you need this world.
The falsehood, the show.
()
Maybe what stirs your blood
is having wild people around you.
(MUSIC FADES)
You might have to be a sinner.
Started crashing his head
against the locker
Started laughing hysterically
When suddenly
Johnny gets the feeling
He's being surrounded by
Horses, horses, horses, horses...
(LOUD, UP-TEMPO ROCK MUSIC STARTS PLAYING)
Can I take you down?
Come on outwith me...
(MUSIC ENDS)
FAYE: What if I don't become an artist?
Don't have one life,.
Don't have the other.
Running around, trying to be somebody.
Snatching at life.
I got some uranium!
I bought it off my mom.
(DISTORTED ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
MAN: The music's all about feeling free.
So you don't have
to do nothing to be free.
Why ain't I free'? Answer me that.
Baby, baby
We just went out to have some fun
Baby, baby
We can't go back 'cause now it's done
Baby, baby
Now I'm the one who has to pay
Baby, baby
Since the night they took you away
You pushed this guy
And he pushed you back
You knocked him
into the amplifier stack
The bouncers came
And dragged you both...
ZOEY: I feel like we are so...
connected.
And it's. ..
I can't really understand, it's like...
(WATER BURBLING)
(MUFFLED, BIRDS CHIRPING)
(MELODIC WHISTLING ECHOES)
FAYE: I forget everything,
but seeing you again...
("Rollin' and Tumblin'"
by Elmore James playing)
I rolled and I tumbled
I cried the whole night long...
FAYE: I never knew I had a soul.
I cried the whole night long
The word embarrassed me.
I got up this morning
Feeling that something going on wrong
I've always been afraid to be myself.
Please let me be
Yes, love me...
I thought there was no one there.
Please let me be
if you don't like my peaches
Please don't shake my tree
(MUSIC ENDS)
( HELICOPTER WHIRS IN DISTANCE)
I don't believe anything
that you're saying.
Yes, you do.
You know, but even the...
the sound of your voice and...
that upsets me.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
FAYE: I forget what I am.
Whose I am.
You're so far off.
I'll die if you don't come soon.
I don't like to see the birds in the sky,
because I miss you.
Because you saw them with me.
(LAWNMOWER IN DISTANCE)
Come.
Save me from my bad heart.
(BIRDS CAWING AND CHIRPING)
It won't let up
And I see them coming in,
Oh, I hear them coming in
I couldn't hear them before,
But I hear them now
It's a radar scope
It's all silver
And all platinum lights
Moving in like black ships
They were moving in, streams of them
And he put up his hands and he said
It's me, it's me
HI give you my eyes
Oh, take me up, oh, please, take me up
I am helium raven waiting for you
Please take me up, don't leave me here
The son, the sign, the sign
The true prophet, the true prophet
A tortured woman, the true sign
The cross is just the true sign
Of a tortured woman
Standing there in the doorway
Dreaming of, dreaming of the prophet
They don't want their presidents
They don't want
Their children to be presidents
But prophets, prophets
They're dreaming of their children
As prophets
They're gonna come in,
Run through the fields
Dreaming of animation
She said, oh, please, please, please
I'm gonna shoot 'em up like light
Like Mohammad Boxer
Oh, please take me up
Up, up, up...
Ahh
Ahh
To the belly of a ship
Let the ship slide open
And I'M go inside of it
Where we are not
Human
(FAYE WHISPERING) Touch me.
We are not human...
(SITS ON PIANO KEYS)
FAYE: Fallen so low.
I had to find my way out...
of you.
Where there was a desert
FAYE: To life.
The sun shone down...
(SLOW, PULSING BEAT)
(BIRD CHIRPING)
WOMAN: All right, our second course
will be our salad course,
which will consist of a salad...
(VOICE FADES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OF CHILDREN)
(ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYING FAINTLY)
(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)
FAYE: I revolted against goodness.
Thought it had deceived me.
WOMAN: Careful, Matthew.
FAYE: Thought!
Could do better than others.
Didn't need what made life sweet for them.
(ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYING FAINTLY)
Look at me.
(FAYE BREATHING HEAVILY)
I'm sor...
I'm sorry that you're not
as proud of me...
as you are...
with my sisters.
FAYE: I'm not who I thought I was.
Am I a good person?
You made so many...
so many sacrifices for me.
So that I could have a chance
to do the things that you couldn't do...
FAYE: Even want to be?
And I failed you.
FAYE: Or just seem like one
so people will like me.
Ow! '
Ah!
Ow! '
Ah! Ah!
Ah! Ah! Ahh!
Ah
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
I'm inside your DNA
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
I'm inside your DNA
You can't make me go away
I'm inside your DNA
You can't make me go away
I'm inside your DNA
You can't make me go away
AH you do is fuck and eat,
That's what we do too
Tough for you 'cause you're our meat
But we don't make the rules
Not only will we drink your blood
We're gonna suck your head
There isn't much to think about
'Cause soon you will be dead
my family.
Is now the time to tell you that?
(SIGHS)
(LAUGHTER)
I guess not.
- Is this a joke?
- She's kidding, ma.
- Oh.
- Oh, it was a joke.
Not very funny.
Cheers.
Excuse me for a second.
(CARS DRIVING BY)
You're unhappy-
I can see it.
Sorry about that.
What'd you do?
She's the wrong person for you.
I'm sorry?
It's wrong.
JUDY: Come on, honey. It's okay.
I don't understand it, but...
(LOUD, INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Can I walk with you?
- No.
BV: I don't know how to change.
I want to,.
How do you?
Will you take me somewhere?
BV: How do you get better?
("NOCTURNES: NUAGES" BY
BRT PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA PLAYING)
WOMAN: Gotta sacrifice something.
BV: How do you know
when you're lying to yourself?
()
BV: When you give somebody your word...
does it mean anything?
You can just take it back,.
()
I told her that Fm gonna do my best.
Do my best not to say things I don't mean.
(MUSIC FADES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(BEADS RATTLING AND DROPPING ON FLOOR)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER NEARBY)
(INSECTS TRILLING)
FAYE: The world built
a fence around you.
(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
How do you get through?
Connect?
(CHOIR SINGING WITH STRING ACCOMPANIMENT)
There's something else.
Something that wants us to find it,.
()
COOK: You're the part
that I don't know...
that you don't know yourself.
(SIGHING) I swear.
RHONDA: How long have
you been doing this?
(SIGHING) My dream was to be a teacher,
but this is kind of something I just...
I fell into after my fianc passed.
In memory for him, but...
like, this is not something
that people just choose to do,
so I'm trying... this is just
a means to an end for me.
(voice cracking) It was
so much better when he was around.
But, you know... (SNIFFLES)
God has a plan, and...
and I guess this is part of his plan.
You know, Shawn being gone
and me being in this situation
where I have no choice
but to do what I do, so...
Eventually, maybe he'll hear
my prayers and I'll be able to...
you know, move forward and do something...
valued with my life.
Something my dad
can be proud of, you know.
WOMAN: Make the money.
Don't let the money make you.
Create the illusion,
but don't let yourself
believe that illusion.
(VOICE FADING) Only make him believe it.
Don't let yourself get caught up in it.
WOMAN: I sell a fantasy, not my body.
I sell an illusion.
I sell, you know...
a daydream to these guys.
And I try to keep the cookie jar closed.
RHONDA: Is that me?
WOMAN: The cookie jar closed.
RHONDA: You burn me.
Who are you?
I can't take this world straight.
(MUSIC ENDS)
(CROWD CHEERING)
RHONDA: Big candy store out there.
- WOMAN: I think I get a little insecure
- COOK: What do you like to drink?
WOMAN: and... you know,
I just... I look for comfort...
- WOMAN: in places I shouldn't.
- COOK: You like to get high?
WOMAN: I don't know...
It's kind of...
I'm weird,.
- WOMAN: I'm just...
- COOK: What's your fantasy?
COOK: What turns you on?
WOMAN: I think just
being wanted turns me on.
COOK: Tell me what scares you.
I'm really scared of spiders.
Um, but most things don't scare me.
I think I have a thick skin.
I think I'm pretty strong.
No, but what really scares you?
I don't know my family.
No one's ever been there for me but me,.
RHONDA: You like those girls, don't you?
They know what you are.
When I was a girl,
I loved everyone.
You killed my love.
(INDISTINCT VOCALIZATIONS)
(SUSTAINED, SUSPENSEFUL RUMBLE)
(SUSTAINED RUMBLE GROWS LOUDER)
RHONDA: What did I say?
Do?
(INDISTINCT VOCALIZATIONS RISE, THEN FADE)
Mom, I'm afraid of myself.
(INDISTINCT VOCALIZATIONS RETURN)
A hatred in me.
(INDISTINCT VOCALIZATIONS CONTINUE)
Everything I could do to get free...
goes through my mind.
Makes me evil.
I used to think I could never be wicked,.
Wicked before.
A long way out for me.
(group) ...so much to seek
to be consoled
as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning...
Bang.
Bang.
Bang, may the blessings
of all those that you love
and those who love you...
(QUIET CHATTER, LAUGHTER)
(SUSTAINED ORGAN CHORD)
(WATER BURBLING)
(LAUGHTER)
(BIRDS CHIRPING, DISTANT CHATTER)
(SUSTAINED ORGAN CHORD)
(INDISTINCT VOCALIZATIONS)
(TIRES SCREECH)
RHONDA: Mama.
Where am I now?
Where are we?
(ELECTRICAL BUZZING)
RHONDA: I knew how destroyed... I was.
(SOBBING)
RHONDA: Forgive me.
(SOBBING CONTINUES)
(INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO CHATTER)
MAN: In that time, did she have
any medical history or medication?
About her mental health issues?
Had she ever had any Bang.
Or expressed any depression to you?
(RHYTHMIC CHANTING)
(CHAMBER CHOIR AND ORCHESTRAL MUSIC)
(CHANTING AND MUSIC SWELLS LOUDER)
(CHANTING AND MUSIC SWELL LOUDER)
(CHANTING REACHES CLIMAX, THEN FADES)
(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC SLOWLY FADES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(TRAFFIC RUMBLING IN DISTANCE)
(TRAFFIC RUMBLING FROM WINDOW)
You got food all over you.
(BV's VOICE BREAKING)
I just wanted to come...
come and sit next to you.
Things turned out a little different
than we thought they would, didn't they?
(TRAFFIC RUMBLING OUTSIDE)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
They like carrots and apples.
Every now and then,
I'll bring them one, but...
They're spoiled now.
(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY AND FADES)
These old guitars seem to have
a song ready-made for you.
They always have old songs...
loan... I can go on
for hours with one chord.
It's just one chord hammering.
Glory of a good man
Come on and they carry him home...
(DISTORTION FROM AMPLIFIED BASS)
PATTI SMITH: Can you see?
Yeah, she has a face... a face like yours.
(LOUD ROCK MUSIC PLAYING IN DISTANCE)
BV: I do... f don't know... I didn't know
why I was coming to this party.
Then I saw you,
and I thought, "That's why."
You got a boyfriend?
No.
I don't think so. Did we meet before?
- Did we?
- I've seen you before.
- Where?
- Lots of times.
BV: But I mean, I'm...
I'm not doing anything wrong, am I?
- By talking to you?
- No.
There's something on your face.
Did you get it?
- Huh?
- Did you get it?
Mm-mm.
Gotta come closer.
I got it.
FAYE: Thank you.
(INAUDIBLE)
Here we go.
- Okay, start from the beginning.
- Okay.
Does it start right there,
or does it have an intro'?
Do you want it to...?
But slower.
It's a love story.
(PIANO CONTINUES)
(INAUDIBLE)
(PIANO CONTINUES)
(BIRDS CHIRP)
(PIANO FADES)
(CAR ENGINE NEARBY)
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(BV CLICKING TONGUE)
Excuse... excuse me.
Hey.
Hi.
FAYE: Is this happening?
BV: Who was that girl
I saw you with at the hotel?
Just a girl.
A woman.
Why you smiling?
I don't know.
Wow.
I don't have to tell you
that kind of thing.
Oh, I didn't realize there
was something not to tell.
She was your girlfriend?
Mm-hmm.
What happened?
I went out with her,
and I never called her again.
Did you love her?
BV: I didn't realize it at the time.
FAYE: Mm-hmm.
BV: Don't smile.
BV: Well...
- You ready?
- Okay.
(BV CHUCKLING)
You gotta try harder than that.
FAYE: I wish I could
take back every wound.
BV: Guess that blue bug is back.
FAYE: Every doubt.
You found me,.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
You held out your hand.
(SERENE, ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
FAYE: I took sex.
A gift.
I played with it.
()
I played with the flame of life.
PATTI SMITH: I was married in 1980,
and I've been a widow since...
1994, but...
I still wear my ring
'cause he's still my husband.
You know, we didn't get divorced, so...
This is... this is my wedding ring,
and this I bought
for myself after he died.
It's what they gave runners
who didn't win a marathon
but finished the race.
PATTI SMITH: ...be an artist.
I never thought I would live long.
You know, I'd be an artist
and die young of tuberculosis or something
like Charlotte Bront, but, uh...
(FAYE GIGGLES)
PATTI SMITH: What bad thing did you do?
Just...
got involved with...
this man who I thought
could help me and...
You made a mistake, you know?
Do you look at it...
You'll do fine.
(ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYING)
I love you.
(WHISPERING) Thank you.
PATTI SMITH: ls that your fella?
(WHISPERING) Fight for him.
(CROWD CHEERING)
PATTI SMITH: Really love him.
Don't let him get away.
Boots that tramped from track to track
Worn down to the sole
One road was paved in gold
One road was just a road
Mercy has a human heart.
FAYE: "For Mercy has a human heart;
Pity, a human face;
And Love, the human form divine:
And Peace, the human dress.
Then every man, of every slime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form...
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
And all must love the human form,
In heathen, Turk, or Jew..."
Mercy...
(GUITAR STRUMMING)
(SILENT LAUGHING)
(MUSIC ENDS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
- Want him on your shoulder?
- Mm-hmm.
FAYE:
It was like a new paradise.
FAYE: Forgiveness.
BV: Think I gotta go home.
Dad's sick.
Mom's gone crazy.
Brother's up to no good.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
(SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
FAYE: I won't stop loving you.
I don't think I can.
()
FAYE: BV...
It's complicated.
FAYE: There you are.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(BIRDS CHIRP)
BV: I gotta go back and start over.
Like a kid.
I didn't have the right heart in me,.
You're the only one I love.
Even after all we've been through.
(SERENE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(WATER RUNNING)
FAYE: Mercy was a word.
I never thought I needed it.
Or not as much as other people do.
You asked me if I wanted to come out, too.
I've never been out West before.
I'll come find you.
(QUIET, INDISTINCT CHATTER)
MAN: Gonna have to pick your feet up.
If you don't, we will have
somebody to replace you.
I'm-I'm just tired of this.
MAN: So let's get up there
and lend a hand.
(WIND GUSTS VIOLENTLY)
(CREAKING AND CLANKING)
("FROM THE ABYSS"
BY ZBIGNIEW PREISNER PLAYING)
(INAUDIBLE)
()
FAYE: You wanna go back to a simple life.
I want the same,.
(WIND WHISTLING)
Let nothing come between us.
Ever.
()
(birds chirping, insects buzzing)
FAYE: This.
Only this.
(MUSIC FADES)
(INSECTS TRILLING)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
LYKKE: You should do it like this.
The drums should...
If we just build up so the third...
The third verse is a build.
Like, it's-It's on top.
And then we go into "it hurts"...
After he...
And then we stroke it back
and then it dies.
Breaks your heart
Then you'll be sad
And your teardrops start
Then you'll know how
it hurts to be alone
Just because
You think that you're so smart
Going around
Breaking lovers' hearts
Now you're defeated
By your own weapon
it hurts to be alone
Baby, it hurts
Baby, it hurts
Baby, it hurts
To be alone
Baby, it hurts
Baby, it hurts
Baby, it hurts
To be alone
LYKKE: That was cool, no?
Should we... Can we just-
We should listen to it,.
LUSHAN: I stepped in the water
(CHEERING)
And the wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-water was cold
You know the an...
CHOIR: Angels in Heaven...
LUSHAN: Yes, they have
CHOIR: ...done signed my name
LUSHAN: It chilled my body
But not my sou!
CHOIR: Angels in Heaven
Done signed my name
LUSHAN: Good Lord, now
CHOIR: I...
LUSHAN: Come on, church!
CHOIR: ...know I've been changed
LUSHAN: I said that I...
CHOIR: I...
LUSHAN: I know
CHOIR: ...know I've been changed
I...
know I've been changed
Angels in Heaven done...
LUSHAN: Wait a minute
CHOIR: ...signed my name
LUSHAN: Somebody said
how can a brown cow
Eat green grass
And give you white milk?
(CHUCKLES)
CHOIR: Angels in...
LUSHAN: Yes, sir
CHOIR: ...Heaven done...
LUSHAN: Come on, Zion.
CHOIR: ...signed my name
LUSHAN: Name
The angels in Heaven done
Signed
My name
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Yes, they did
Yes
CHOIR: Yes
(MUSIC FADES)