It Couldn't Happen Here (1987) - full transcript

J yesterday... j

j remember how clear it seemed? J

j in six-inch heels j

j' quoting magazines j

j go all the way j

j you knew you could &

jsofar.. J

j so good j

j someone asked j

j who do you think you are? J

j who pays your bills? &



j' how come you came this far? &

j shrugged him off j

j and lock the door j

j so good... j

j this far

j now... j

j it almost seems impossible j

j we've drunk too much
and woke up everyone j

j' I may be wrong j&

j I thought we said j

j it couldn't happen here j

J' I don't expect to
talk in terms of sense j

Neil: Comic postcards...

Ever since I was a child,



the comic and the hostile
seemed fo go hand-in-hand.

J mother's got her hairdo fo be done j

j she says they're too old for toys... js

what do you want?

Four postcards, please.

J" stood by the bus stop with a felf pen j

j in this suburban hell js

yeah...

That's when you got your decent family
type of holiday-maker down here.

Nowadays all you get is ya... hooligans...

And your bike gangs...

And your politicians.

Yes.

Your decent english holiday-maker...

Huh, they all go to Spain.

J in suburbia j

j break the window by the town hall js

j listen! A siren screams j!

J there in the distance j

j like a roll call
of all the suburban dreams j

Just your dredges come down here now.

J in suburbia j

and the worst of 'em all...

J run with the dogs tonight j

i8 your politicians.

They're the worst bunch of all, they are...

Pretending to go on conferences
and the like.

All they really want...

Is a week away from the wife.

Could I have a cup of tea as well, please?

Eh?

Ah...

Right...

'Ere...

You're not one of them... politicians,
are ya?

No.

Oh.

That's alright then.

J I only wanted something else fo do
but hang around j

Neil: Dear mum...

Remember when we were all thrown out
of auntie vi's boarding house

because I spat out my food?

Madness was never rar away,

what with uncle dredge and his terrible
jokes and his ventriloquist's dummy.

No wonder the audience wanted
their money back.

With that bloody dummy going on and on
about the nature of me.

Never know.

Those desperately neat little houses...

The desolate café and that boarding house.

Remember the paper-thin walls?

J I've got the brains,
you've got the looks j'

j' let's make lots of money j ♪

J you've got the brawn,
I've got the brains j'

j let's make lots of... j

j I've had enough of scheming
and messing around with jerks j

j my car is parked outside,
I'm afraid it doesn't work j

j' I'm looking for a partner,
someone who gets things fixed j

j ask yourself this question,
do you want to be rich? J

j I've got the brains,
you've got the looks j'

j' let's make lots of money j ♪

J you've got the brawn j

j I've got the brains j

j' let's make lots of money j ♪

J you can tell I'm educated j

j I studied at the sorbonne... &

would you like an 'and, sir?

Ha-ha! It's only a laugh, no 'arm done.

Good morning, everybody.
What a lovely day for a bit of fun.

Ha-ha-ha!
It's only a laugh, no 'arm done. Ha-ha.

Sir, allow me to give you a cigarette.

There we are, cop that.

Allow me.

Novelty salesman: Bang! Ha-ha!

It's only a laugh, no 'arm done.

Here, have a sniff of my flower, missus.

Ha-ha-ha!
It's only a laugh, no 'arm done. Ha-ha!

Good morning, vicar!

Crucifying, innit?

It's only a laugh, no 'arm done.

Do you know why I have such trouble
with my teeth in this cold weather?

They just won't stop chattering.

It's only a laugh, no 'arm done.

Good morning, missus.

Sit down, dredge!

Right.

(Organ plays "Jerusalem"

up!

Be upstanding!

Bless us, o lord.

Pardon? Ha-ha!

Bless us, o lord.

Sit!

Ha-ha! It's only a laugh,
no 'arm done.

Shut up, dredge!

Right.

Bless us, o lord for these things

and for what we are about to receive
from thy bounty

through Jesus Christ our lord, amen.

Amen.

Right! Come on everybody, eat up!

Oh, Chrissy darling,
I want you to eat everything up.

Yes, eat it all up, Chrissy baby.

Ooh, Chrissy darling,
I shall miss you so much.

Still, never mind.
We'll have a nice little cuddle tonight.

Lucifer's wind!

Ha-ha-ha! It's only a laugh,
no 'arm done.

- Dredge, sit down!
- Right.

Oh, Chrissy darling...

'Ere! You 'orrible little beast, you!

- Quite right.
- Landlady: No breeding,

the little guttersnipe!

Yes, if I were you,
I'd give him a right good trouncing.

Ha-ha! It's only a laugh, no 'arm done.

I've told you before, mr and mrs biggins,

if your ivor persists in spitting out
his breakfast at the table

I shall have to ask you to find
alternative accommodation.

That sort of behaviour might be alright
in Spain and your fancy seaside resorts...

But we get politicians here and foreigners,
a nicer kind of clientele altogether

and I don't want my other guest
being put off his appetite

by that sort of behaviour!

Oh! Ooh...

Here he goes.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

Chrissy darling, what have I done
to deserve this?

Ha-ha-ha! It's only a laugh,
no 'arm done!

Ha-ha-ha-ha!
Woah-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!

(Music: "It couldn't happen here"
by pet shop boys

j yesterday... j

j remember how clear it seemed? J

j in six-inch heels j

j' quoting magazines j

j go all the way j

j you knew you could &

jsofar.. J

j so good j

j someone asked j

j who do you think you are? J

j who pays your bills? &

j' how come you came this far? &

j shrugged him off j

j and locked the door j

j so good... j

j this far

j now it almost seems impossible j&

hey, dredge!

Bloody politicians!

J it couldn't happen here j

priest: "If thou wouldst see
god's laws with purest light..."

"Thine eyes on heaven fixed must be..."

"Whose settled course
the stars in peace doth bind".

"The sun's bright fire..."

"Stops not his sister's team..."

"Nor doth the northern bear desire..."

"Within the ocean's wave
to hide her beam".

Neil:
When [ Look back upon my life,

its always with a sense of shame.

[Ve always been the one to blame.

For everything / long fo ao,
no matter when or where or who...

Has one thing in common too...

I's a sin.

"The ocean..."

"Never touching".

J' but I thought we said j

j it couldn't happen here j

J now it almost seems impossible j&

j we've found ourselves
back where we started from j

&' I may be wrong... j

"the coming of the shady night..."

"And Lucifer before the day doth go".

"This mutual love courses eternal makes".

"And from the starry spheres above..."

"All cause of war..."

"And dangerous discord takes".

Fairground barker:
Roll up, roll up and welcome to dreamland.

Surrender your logic to madame Zara

and let the world roll by.

- It's only a laugh, no 'arm done.
- Boys!

Where are you, boys?

"Echoes fade and memories die".

"Autumn frosts have slain July".

"Still she moves me, phantom-wise..."

"Alice moving under skies..."

"Never seen by waking eyes".

Woman's voice:
"You sometimes dig for butter rolls..."

"Or set lime twigs for crabs".

"You sometimes search the grassy knolls..."

"For wheels of hansom-cabs".

"And that's the way he gave a wink..."

"By which you get your wealth".

"And very gladly will I drink..."

"Your honour's noble health".

Jltsa.itsa. Tsa. J

jitsasin dg

Jltsa.itsa. Tsa. J

jitsasin dg

& when I look back upon... j

priest: "The coming of the..."

I smell youth...

"Shady nights..."

"And... Lucifer".

"Before the day doth go".

J for everything I long to do j ♪

J no matter when or where or who j

j' has one thing in common too j&

jltsa.itsa. Tsa. J

jitsasin dg

jitsasin dg

this machine is not working.

Fairground barker:
Here, just behave yourselves up there.

No hanky-panky on the pier!

No footling on the Ferris wheel!

Priest: Boys!

Come here immediately, boys!

Boys! Boys!

Where are you, you heathens?

Fairground barker:
And now for your special pleasure...

Our lovely lady dancers are ready
for their next performance

in our very own madame Arlene's
theatre of delights.

Boys!

Jmtsa..it'sa..itsa.. J

jitsasin dg

jitsasin dg

j everything I've ever done j

j everything I ever do j

j every place I've ever been j

j everywhere I'm going to j

jitsasin dg

voices echo:
J father forgive me j&

jltriednottodoitd

> turned over a new leaf j

j' then tore right through it j

j whatever you taught me j

j I didn't believe it &

j' father you fought me &

j cos I didn't care j

j and I still don't understand j

j' so I look back upon my life j

j forever with a sense of shame &

j I've always been the one to blame j

J for every thing I long to do j

j no matter when or where or who j

- j there's one thing in common too j&
- Priest: Boys! Boys!

Jltsa.itsa. Tsa. J

jitsasin dg

jitsasin dg

j everything I've ever done j

j everything I ever do j

j every place I've ever been j&

j everywhere I'm going to j

jitsasin dg

Boys!

Jltsa.itsa. Tsa. J

jlitsasind

boys!

Tennant!

Lowel!

Boys!

Mmsa... it'sa... itsa.. J

- lowe! Tennant!
- Jlitsasind

boys!

Boys!

Boys!

Boys?

Who wants to leave the room?

Ah!

Tennant! Lowe!

Come, lowe tennant.

"About high heaven,
the ocean never touching..."

"The evening light
with certain course doth show..."

"The coming of the shady night."

Nun: Ah, "from him..."

"From him they rise,
flourish and spring..."

"He, as their law and judge,
decides their right."

Haul away!

Haul away!

Haul away!

Strain, my beauties.

Stretch those aching limbs.

Haul!

Neil: Father forgive me.

Whatever you taught me,
[Didn't believe it

father you fought me cos / didn't care
and I still don't understand.

"If thou didst see god's laws
with purest mind..."

"Thy sight on heaven fixed must be..."

"Whose settled course
the stars in peace doth bind."

Haul away!

"The falling rain doth
winter's moisture give..."

"These rules thus nourish and maintain..."

"All creatures
which we see on earth to live."

"And when they die..."

"These bring them to their end."

"While their creator sits on high..."

"Whose hand, the reins
of the whole world, doth bend."

"He as their king,
rules them with lordly might."

Haul away!

Neil: Dear mum...

Remember when dad bought his first car
with all the family savings?

That blue and cream Ford Zephyr...

And then arove us home like a lunatic

and how we had to pick up
everybody on the way?

Total strangers in the night.

We could have been hacked lo death!

- Hey you!
- Dude!

Call the police.
There's a madman around.

- Running down.
- Running down.

- Underground.
- You've got a heart of glass.

Or a heart of stone.

Just you wait until I get you home.

You got no future.
You got no past.

J in a west end town,
a dead-end world j

J in a west end town,
a dead end world j

j the east end boys
and west end girls &

j west end girls j'

J' too many shadows, whispering voices j

j faces on posters,
too many choices j

j if, when, why, what?
How much have you got? &

j have you got it? Do you get it?
If so, how often? &

j which do you choose,
a hard or a soft option? J ♪

Woman sings:
J how much do you need? J

j in a west end town, a dead end world j

j the east end boys
and west end girls &

j in a west end town,
a dead end world j

j the east end boys
and west end girls &

j west end girls j'

j west end girls j'

Woman sings:
J how much do you need? J

j in a west end town,
a dead end world j

j the east end boys
and west end girls &

j ooh, a west end town,
a dead end world &

j east end boys and west end girls j

j west end girls j'

j you got a heart of glass &

j or a heart of stone j

j just you wait til I get you home... j

salesman on pa:
Any test drive. One very careful lady owner

special credit arrangements
with long-term bonuses.

You win, we lose.

Every time.

The honeymoon special, sir!
One careful lady owner.

A nun, from our lady of
the sorrows convent.

You can phone and check for yourselves

but of course
she's vowed to silence.

How much?

Oh, I'm very glad you asked
that question, sir.

And is the pope a catholic?

I won't waste any more time, sir.

I can see that you two gentlemen
have the most discerning taste.

It's quality that counts with you, sir.

Not the cost.

Am I right?

Or do the brown bears live in the woods?

How much?

How much?

What a question.

To go so boldly where angels fear to tread.

How much?

Is it purely for social and domestic use?

Or do you wish to use the car for business?

"Soc and dom" or "biz"?

As we say in the trade.

A bit of both.

Oh, well, this automobile is most suitable
for that very purpose, sir.

Take a tip from an old war wound, guv.

Buy now or forever hold your peace.

How much?

How would you, uh...

Be intending to pay, sir?

A credit arrangement? A bankers draft?
A part exchange perhaps?

Lucky Jim credit cards,
green shield stamps...

A hostage exchange, postal orders...

Beads and necklaces?

Cash. How much?

Cash?

Cash? Cash?

Oh, well uh...

How about three grand?

- Five hundred.
- It's a deal.

Oi!

Oi, you!

Stop that!

What god has joined together,
let no man put asunder.

Jingle plays:
J" token bingo, play it now j

j" the more you win,
the bigger the prize j

j" they're falling down before your eyes j

j" token bingo, play it now j

Newsreader: Here is an urgent newsfiash.

Drivers in the region of the m40

should beware a stranger
wearing dark glasses,

a Fawn raincoat,
and carrying a battered suitcase.

A killer who has savagely hacked
to death three people

who each in turn stopped
to give him a lift

they were: A chief accountant,
a Morris dancer,

and a nun from our lady
of the sorrows convent

woman: I'm coming...
- Newsreader: 7he stranger has been known

fo masquerade as a priest
wearing high-heeled shoes.

Drivers are warned not fo stop
under any circumstances.

Hold on!

Yeah, come...

I smell youth.

Vintage youth.

You don't have any weapons
in there, do you?

Why? What do you need?

Where are you from?

Yes, where are you from?

I'm glad you asked me twice.

You see, I'm a bilingual.

I'm a bilingual illiterate.

I can't read in two languages.

I've just been fishing with Salvador dali.

He used a dotted line.

He caught every other fish.

Then we played poker with tarot cards.

I got a full house.

Four people died.

One of them...

Was a nun.

You're very full of yourself, aren't you?

Yes.

Some people do call me conceited.

I can't think why.

I'm just sad.

I've been up all night
trying to round off the infinite.

"And Lucifer before the day doth go..."

Don't we know you?

I don't know.

I used to be blind...

But then I started eating carrots.

I still can't see during the day.

Do you want a drink?

No thank you, that's very nice.

No, I'll get the waiter.

Ah!

I love the radio.

I had a girlfriend once
who used to sing on the radio.

Every time she walked under a bridge
you couldn't hear her sing.

Oh, she was a beautiful girl,
very beautiful.

When I first met her, she'd just been
to a psycho-analyst.

Yes, he didn't do her any good, she said.

I asked her why.

She said, "I'm a nymphomaniac,
you see...

And I only get turned on
by Jewish cowboys.

"I'm so sorry", I said.

"Let me introduce myself,
my name is bucky Goldstein!"

J maybe I didn't treat you... &

j ...Qquite as good as I should &

j maybe I didn't love you...8

j ...Quite as often as I could j

j little things I should
have said and done j

I didn't know you played the violin.

J I never took the time j

j you were always on my mind j

j you were always on my mind j

j maybe I didn't hold you &

j' all those lonely, lonely times j'

j and I guess I never told you j

j' I'm so happy that you're mine &

j if I made you feel second best &

j I'm so sorry I was blind j

j you were always on my mind j

j you were always on my mind j

j tell me...J

j' tell me that your
sweet love hasn't died &

j giveme... j

j' one more chance to keep you satisfied &

j satisfied j

I wrote a song myself once, you know.

But I can't read music...

So I don't know what it is.

I wonder... do you think it's this?

J little things I should
have said and done j

j I never took the time j

j you were always on my mind j

j you were always on my mind j

both: J tell me. J

both: J tell me that your
sweet love hasn't died &

j giveme... j

both: J ...One more chance
to keep you satisfied j

j you were always on my mind j

both:
J you were always on my mind &

j you were always on my mind j

j you were always on my mind j

j you were always on my mind j

j you were always on my mind j

he sings:
J you were always on my mind &

j you were always on my mind j

where are you going?

I'm going there.

But I like it here, wherever it is.

J maybe I didn't treat you... &

j ...Qquite as good as I should &

j maybe I didn't love you... j

j ...Quite as often as I could j

j maybe I didn't hold you... &

j ...All those lonely, lonely times &

j' I guess I never told you... j

j' I'm so happy that you're mine &

stop the car.

I'm getting out.

You are no longer here.

J maybe I didn't love you... j

Priest: Stop!

Go!

Go!

Go!

You went away.

It should make me feel better.

I don't know how I'm going to get through.

Ready to order, love?

Ready to order?

Right...

J live your life learning &

j' and working alone j

um, we'll start with the oysters...

And then, um, the fillet of sole belgique.

Fillet of sole belgique.

Anything to drink?

The chateau la tour, 1942.

The chateau la tour...

1942. Nice year.

J you can't stop falling j

divided by...

Zero!

J you can't stop falling j

j you can live a life of luxury &

j if that's what you want &

j taste forbidden pleasures j

j whatever you want &

j you can fly away... j

j... to the end of the world j

j' but where does it get you to? J

j 'cause just when you least expect it &

j' just what you least expect &

j love comes quickly,
whatever you do j

j you can't stop falling j

waitress: Ready to order, sir?

J love comes quickly,
whatever you do j

ready.

J ...Can't stop falling j ♪

Egg...

Beans...

And chips.

Two sausages...

One large, one small.

Toma...

Tomato.

Bacon.

A fried slice!

And...

Extra beans.

Anything to drink?

A cup...

Of tea.

The tea?

The tea.

The tea's nice.

Muffled voice: Let me out!

Let me out!

Come on, hurry up. Let me out of here!

If you don't let me out,
you're in deep trouble!

Hurry up, come on. Let me out!

Let me out of here.

Come on, move yourself!

Move yourself!

If you don't let me out,
ll call the police!

That's better.

Hurry up.

Thank you very much.

About time too.

Divided by...

Divided by...

Zero!

Oysters.

Thinly-sliced brown buttered bread.

Finger bowls.

1942 chateau la tour.

The oysters are on a silver platter
with crushed ice and seaweed trimmings.

Would you like to sample the wine, sir?

No, that'll be fine.

J ...With a felt pen j

j in this suburban hell j

j and in the distance,
a police car j!

J' to break the suburban spell j!

What are you staring at?

J let's take aride j

nothing.

- Nothing.
- That's alright then.

J ...In suburbia &

j you can't hide j

j' run with the dogs tonight j

j in suburbia j

j' break the window by the town hall &

eggs, beans, chips, two fried slice...

Sausages, one large one small, tomatoes.

J ...Distance, like a roll call j

the extra beans...

And the tea.

And!

Side order...

Of beans.

Got a long way to go, have you love?

Oh, yes. Yes.

We're playing...

- Scunthorpe.
- Oh, I see.

I hope you win.

She's got a nice pair of legs, ain't she?

Dummy: Got far to go, have ya?

Got far to go, have ya?

We're going to scunthorpe.

That is if baldy here doesn't die
of overeating first.

Oh, right.

Got the time have ya?

- Pardon?
- Time.

Have you got the time? Have you?

About half past one.

Oh.

Time.

Funny thing, time.

There are two ingredients to time.

One is the notion of
time as a logical space.

The other is the notion
of it being a logical space

used by us to represent relations
between events

and conceptional connections
between concepts.

But this just does not reflect

the content of our concept of time.

Arguably, an object is a teacup...

Only if it has been produced
by a conscience agent

with some general intention about its use
or possible use.

And... consequently...

In a world devoid
of conscious intending agents

while there might be things like teacups...

There would be no...

Teacups!

Dummy: However...

This just does not seem to apply
in the case of time.

Our conception of time is not su...

Not such that we would say of a possible
world devoid of conscious agents

that while there is something like time

there is literally no time...

On the grounds that no one was doing
any representing in that world.

One might wish to hold that a full grasp
of our concept of time

involves grasping the possibility

of using certain mathematical structures

in representing the temporal aspect
of things.

Dummy shouts: Someone who fails
to see this has failed to grasp

something about the full concept of time!

Man shouts: Shift seven, clear!

Shift seven, clear!

J you dress me up, I'm your puppet j'

j you buy me things, I love it &

j you bring me food, I need it &

j you give me love, I feed it &

j' and look at the two of us in sympathy j

j with everything we see j

j' I never want anything, it's easy j

j you buy whatever I need j

j' but look at my hopes,
look at my dreams j

j' the currency we've spent j

j I love you, you pay my rent j

j I love you, you pay my rent j

J you phone me in the evening on hearsay j

j' and bought me caviar j

j you took me to a
restaurant off Broadway j

j' to tell me who you are &

j we never ever argue, we never calculate &

j' the currency we've spent j

j I love you, you pay my rent j

j I love you, you pay my rent j

j I love you, you pay my rent j

j I'm your puppet &

jlloveitd

J I look at the two of us in sympathy j

j' and sometimes ecstasy j'

j words mean so little, and money less j

j when you're lying next to me &

j' but look at my hopes,
look at my dreams j

j' the currency we've spent j

j I love you, you pay my rent j

j I love you, you pay my rent j

j oh, I love you, you pay my rent &

"But in this sense..."

"There would be no time".

- "If there were no b..."
- Tannoy: Oysters.

Finger bowls.

Chateau la tour.

"If there were no beings
capable of reason”.

"It is the sense in which
there would be no food..."

"Were there no organisms..."

"And no teacups..."

"If there were no tea-drinkers".

I say, what an extraordinary idea.

A world with no teacups.

"There could be things that look like
what in our world teacups look like..."

Well, I'll be damned.

Tannoy:
The oysters are on a silver platter.

The dummy's a blasted existentialist!

"There could be things that could be used
to drink tea from..."

"Buckets, shells and so on..."

"But teacups are the things
that we use to drink tea..."

"And in that sense,
they are as much a cultural object..."

"As chess..."

"Or the polonaise”.

Well...

This puts things in a
jolly different light.

Tannoy:
Would you like to sample the wine?

Sir.

Crushed ice and seaweed trimmings.

Of course!

The thinly sliced buttered brown bread...

And finger bowls...

That's it...

I'll give them bloody seaweed fingerbowls!

Thinly sliced, crushed brown ice!

I'll give 'em bloody teacups!

Buckets and shells!

The silly buggers!

Numbers must add up!

Two and two is four.

Right! Let's restore some bloody logic!

Shells, buckets and teacups.

Silly buggers!

What about mowing the lawn?

Contact!

What about...

What about the mortgage?

Two and two is either four
or two up, two down

divided by, divided by, divided by...

Divided by, divided by...

Bandit in 52 Ford Zephyr.

They believe in buckets and spades!

Get 'em!

Divided by, divided by...

Let's hear it for acacia Avenue!

J let's not go home,
we'll catch the late train &

j I've got enough money
to pay all the way j

j when the postman calls,
he'll deliver the letter &

j I've explained everything,
it's better that way j

j' &

j I think they heard a rumour j&

j' &

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j' &

j it's better to go sooner j

j' &

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j tomorrow morning we'll be miles away j

j' on another continent and another day j

j' &

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j' &

j orcallitaday js

j' &

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j ...Ltoo old fo dream j

j oh ohs

j when I grow too old to dream... j

Neil's voice on radio:
"Maybe I didn't treat you..."

"Quite as good as I should have".

"Maybe [I didn't love you quite as often
as / could have"

"little things I should have
said and done...”

"Never took the time”

"but you were always on my mind".

"You were always on my mind".

"Maybe I didn't hold you all those lonely,
lonely times".

"And I guess I never fold you
I'm so happy that you're mine".

"If I made you feel second best...”

I'm so sorry..."

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j' &

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J' &

j let's fly away &

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j on a plane to New York
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j' &

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j' &

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j' &

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oysters!

Fillet of sole!

The 1942 chateau la tour!

I'll tell you what bloody day it is!

Divided by! Divided by!

Zero!

Zero!

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j' &

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j' &

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j' &

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j' &

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j' &

Eat up, love!

Ooh, I will miss you, chrissie baby.

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&' &

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j' &

j let's not go home j

j' &

j let's fly away &

Neil: Dear mum, everyone's been
very nice on the journey.

We're at acacia Avenue now,

next to the green before we moved.

Remember how dad hated his job

and used to leave in a flaming temper
every morning?

Blooaly frightening, he was.

Once I stole his car fo emigrate,
but the milkman caught me.

[Ve been meaning to call you, mum.

[Ve been meaning to call.

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- Hello!

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j how I'm gonna get through &

j how I'm gonna get through &

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j you leave home and you don't go back &

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someone told me Saturday j&

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j read it in a book or
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j wake up in the morning
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j' by the station called king's cross j'

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j you know it's only a matter of time j

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j I've been guilty of hanging around j

j someone told me Monday,
someone told me Saturday j&

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j read it in a book or
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j wake up in the morning
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j for the one who got away j

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j it takes more than a matter of time j

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someone told me Saturday j&

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j wake up in the morning
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j it takes more than a matter of time j

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j wait until tomorrow
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j read it in a book
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News vendor:
Scunthorpe train derailed!

Many dead.

Midget sought by police.

Scunthorpe train derailed.

Many dead.

Midget sought by police.

Scunthorpe train derailed.

Many dead. Midget sought by police.

Scunthorpe train derails.

Many dead. Midget sought by police.

Ah! Gentlemen.

"A voice like a violin.
The evening light doth play..."

"Upon the everlasting shadows".

"Cast no more aspersions here, young sirs,
your carriage awaiteth you".

"Henceforth, I shall convey you on the road
to your destiny".

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j in six-inch heels j

j' quoting magazines j

j go all the way j

j you knew you could &

jsofar.. J

j ..Sogood j

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j who pays your bills? &

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j shrugged him off j

j and locked the door j

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j this far

j now it almost seems impossible j&

j we've drunk too much
and woke up everyone j

j' I may be wrong j&

j I thought we said j

j it couldn't happen here j

"him the almighty power..."

"Hurled headlong,
flaming from the ethereal sky..."

"With hideous ruin and combustion..."

"Down to bottomless perdition”.

"There to dwell in adamantine chains..."

"And penal fire".

"Who durst defy the omnipotent..."

"Toarms".

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j we've found ourselves
back where we started from j

j' I may be wrong j&

j I thought we said j

j it couldn't happen here j

"so farewell hope..."

"And with hope, farewell fear".

"Farewell remorse..."

"All good to me is lost".

"Evil, be thou my good".

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j I thought we said j

j it couldn't happen here j

Neil: "The man at the back
of the queue was sent..."

"[O feel the smack of firm government'.

"Lingered by the fly poster for a fight..."

"I['s the same story every night'.

"Ve been hurt and we've been had”

"you leave home and you don't go back'.

"Someone fold me monaay,
someone fold me Saturday”.

"Wait until tomorrow
and there's still no way".

"Read it in a book
orwnte it in a letter...”

"Wake up in the morning
and there's still no guarantee”.

"Dead and wounded on either sige...”

"You know its only a matter of time".

"Good luck, bad luck waiting in a line..."

"If takes more than a matter of ime"

"Their lean and flashy songs..."

"Grate on their scrannel pipes
of wretched straw".

"The hungry sheep look up,
and are not fed".

"But, swole with wind
and the rank mists they draw..."

"Rot inwardly..."

"And foul contagion spreads".

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j strangers in overcoats
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j someone's been talking
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j push me in a corner
and I'll scream j

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j one more, one more chance j

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j' stupid fool, that was yours for keeps j

j push me in a corner
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j' give me one more,
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j give me one more chance j

j' one more chance tonight &

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j push mein a corner and I'll scream &

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j' one more chance tonight &

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jl don't mind j

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j' give me one more,
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j' give me one more chance,
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j just give me... j

dummy shouts: Oi! Off

got far fo go, have you?

Hmm...

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and I can tell you it's true j

j' I heard you've said
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j turn in my sleep, a bad dream is over j&

j think of you and shall I ever recover? &

j now I want to wake up j

j how I want to wake up j

j I stood at the kitchen sink,
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j ...Songs like "tainted love"
and "love is strange" j

j as I listened and the
words hit my ears j'

j I cried sudden tears j

j now, I want to wake up j

j how I want to wake up j

j wake up & - j &°