Sound & Fury (2019) - full transcript

A post-apocalyptic anime music film featuring Sturgill Simpson's album with the same name as its soundtrack.

[radio tuning] Does that mean you found...
In your face now...

[man 1] Ladies and gentlemen, there is an
overwhelming volume against the supports

and conspiracy with the global...

[man 2] The problem with this country is
consumption...

[music playing]

["Remember to Breathe" playing]

♪ Go out late at night
Just to see what I can find ♪

♪ Stayin' in the shadows
Where the light don't ever shine ♪

♪ Havin' one-way conversations
With the darkness in my mind ♪

♪ He does all the talking
'Cause I'm the quiet kind ♪

♪ Spend it all
Pull 'em down ♪



♪ Let me see it turn around ♪

♪ Just lay back, let it happen
Remember to breathe ♪

♪ Stayin' off the radar
Like a bomber on the run ♪

♪ Do another lap around
the target just for fun ♪

♪ Stayin' quiet, keepin' calm
Till I find the one ♪

♪ Feel the wave wash over me
When the deed is done ♪

♪ Spend it all, pull 'em down ♪

♪ Let me see it turn around ♪

♪ Just lay back, let it happen
Remember to breathe ♪

♪ Well, just lay back ♪

♪ Oh, just lay back ♪

♪ Oh, just lay back ♪

♪ Oh, just lay back ♪

♪ Oh, just lay back ♪



♪ Oh, just lay back, let it happen ♪

♪ Remember to breathe ♪

♪ Well, just lay back, now
Let it happen ♪

♪ Remember to breathe ♪

["Sing Along" playing]

♪ Words can stab as deep as night
And cut like a razored thorn ♪

♪ Bitter air and the winds of spite
Like the cold of a winter's scorn ♪

♪ Leaves may fall on sleeping ground
But the wind sweeps them away ♪

♪ Like hurt lovers in the final round
What once was is now decayed ♪

♪ I can't go on livin' alone
Now that you're gone ♪

♪ A single strand of spider's weave
is dancin' in the sun ♪

♪ Please don't turn around and leave
You are my only one ♪

♪ Compromise is made out of peace
But history's made out of violence ♪

♪ After the war of the worlds has ceased
All that's left is the deafenin' silence ♪

♪ I can't go on livin' alone
Now that you're gone ♪

♪ You done me wrong, So here's your song
Now sing along, baby ♪

♪ Well, I know you know
That you're killin' me ♪

♪ But it's worth it
Just to see you smile ♪

♪ Tell 'em to carve my name
in the barstool, baby ♪

♪ You know I'm gonna be here awhile ♪

♪ A single strand of spider's weave
Just dancin' in the sun ♪

♪ Please don't turn around and leave
You are my only one ♪

♪ I can't go on livin' alone
Now that you're gone ♪

♪ You done me wrong, so here's your song
Now sing along ♪

["A Good Look" playing]

♪ Star of David
Don't belong to David at all ♪

♪ He borrowed it from Peter
Just so he could pay off Paul ♪

♪ But Peter helped to rally the Star
Now he owns the plain ♪

♪ But a star is still a star
By any other name ♪

♪ Well, now everybody worried
'bout a good look ♪

♪ But they need to be worried
'bout a good hook ♪

♪ Instead of skipping straight
to the last page ♪

[unclear lyrics]

♪ I write my poems in the dirt
With an oily rag ♪

♪ I have to wear a gas mask
just so I don't gag ♪

♪ Got a SOCOM style
And 20 extra mags ♪

♪ And a couple severed heads
in my bugout bag ♪

♪ Well now everybody worried
'bout a good look ♪

♪ But they need to be worried
'bout a good hook ♪

♪ Instead of skipping straight
to the last page ♪

[unclear lyrics]

♪ Why you gettin' tense
'Cause you're getting discovered? ♪

♪ Are you talkin' all that shit
Just to get on the cover? ♪

♪ Well then how you gonna eat
When you bitin' the hand? ♪

♪ Well you know they don't like it
When you take a stand ♪

♪ So enjoy it while you can ♪

♪ And say hi to all the boys in the band ♪

♪ 'Cause it's all over now ♪

♪ Just a plan to sing your pain ♪

♪ And now everybody's worried
'bout a good look ♪

♪ But they need to be worried
'bout a good hook ♪

♪ Instead of skipping straight
To the last page ♪

[unclear lyrics]

["Make Art Not Friends" playing]

♪ Looking out the window
At a world on fire ♪

♪ It's plain to see the end is near ♪

♪ Seen all the sights
Tired of the lights ♪

♪ So you can let me off right here ♪

♪ This town's getting crowded
Truth's been shrowded ♪

♪ I think it's time
To change up the sound ♪

♪ Well, the wheels keep turning
And flames get higher ♪

♪ Another cycle goes around ♪

♪ Facing the mirror
All skin and bone ♪

♪ Bloodshot eyes and a heart of stone ♪

♪ Never again
Rather be alone ♪

♪ Think I'm gonna just stay home
To make art, not friends ♪

♪ I love saying no
To all the yes men ♪

♪ Just to see the look on their face ♪

♪ Love how everybody knows what's best ♪

♪ But nobody knows their place ♪

♪ A sucker every second
Stack 'em up to the sky ♪

♪ For every winner
There's a hundred bad guys ♪

♪ So you get yours
Stay out of mine ♪

♪ Here's to the memories
Where do I sign? ♪

♪ Facing the mirror
All skin and bone ♪

♪ Bloodshot eyes and a heart of stone ♪

♪ Never again
Rather be alone ♪

♪ Think I'm gona just stay home
To make art, not friends ♪

♪ Oh, it's getting hard
To find a good friend ♪

♪ So close the door behind me ♪

Before any more come in ♪

♪ Nobody writes, nobody calls ♪

♪ Nobody bother
'Cause I'm over it all ♪

♪ Facing the mirror
All skin and bone ♪

♪ Bloodshot eyes and a heart of stone ♪

♪ Never again
Rather be alone ♪

♪ Think I'm gonna just stay home
To make art, not friends ♪

[clock ticking]

["Best Clockmaker on Mars" playing]

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ Good worker, but damn
She's best clockmaker on Mars ♪

♪ Some days I hate everything I am ♪

♪ But your love holds a mirror to me ♪

♪ You showed me your love
But can't understand ♪

♪ The sins of the world I've seen ♪

♪ Good worker, but damn
She's best clockmaker on Mars ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

Till you say you're through ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ Good worker, but damn
She's the best clockmaker on Mars ♪

♪ Good worker, but damn
Be the best clockmaker on Mars ♪

["All Said and Done" playing]

♪ Spent the last year
Going out of my mind ♪

♪ Looking for reasons
I could never find ♪

♪ Until I put my finger on it
I saw every sign ♪

♪ Take all you can get
Keep your fingers off of mine ♪

♪ Sittin' in the tower
Without a clue or care ♪

♪ Angered by opportunities
hanging off of my head ♪

♪ Handing several lighters out
To anyone who dares ♪

♪ Climb my way up to the top
Just to get kicked down the stairs ♪

♪ Been put a million ways
all at the same time ♪

♪ It's enough to make anyone go insane ♪

♪ When you find yourself forgetting
all your own rhymes ♪

♪ Givin' up on dreams
Floathing 'round inside your brain ♪

♪ Been put a million ways
all at the same time ♪

♪ It's enough to make anyone go insane ♪

♪ When you find yourself forgetting
all the wrong rhymes ♪

♪ Givin' up on the dreams
Running around inside your brain ♪

♪ Keep starin' at the pages
Comin' up with the same lines ♪

♪ It's all been said and done by now
Two, three times ♪

["Last Man Standing" playing]

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ Either part of the solution
or your part of the problem ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ Time to turn on the heat
It's gettin' cold on the street ♪

♪ And, man, this shit will get you down ♪

♪ Fuck all the old season
Don't give me a reason ♪

♪ To watch your house burn to the ground ♪

♪ I remember drawing out the flames ♪

♪ I never learned how to play
So I blew up the game ♪

♪ Now I'm tipping the board
With an infinite sword ♪

♪ Walkin' 'round causing all the blames ♪

♪ I'm gonna ride off into sunset
While it all burns to hell behind me ♪

♪ Somewhere I haven't been yet
Somewhere they can't even see ♪

♪ Well, you know
Daddy likes his alone time ♪

♪ That's why he doesn't have any friends ♪

♪ Yeah, but watch and see
You'll be looking at me ♪

♪ The last man standing in the end ♪

♪ Books gettin' sticky
Got no time for gettin' picky ♪

♪ 'Bout the who, what or when
or the where ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ Girl, I'm not gonna say
It was a woman who said ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ Don't even try, because I already did it
Bullshit sells, don't you ever forget it ♪

♪ Goin' full speed
Is the greatest escape ♪

♪ Slammin' on the gas
And can't find the brake ♪

♪ I don't know how
or how much more I can take ♪

♪ Well I'm gonna keep going
till I find out ♪

♪ Well, your mama didn't raise
nobody's dumb law ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ Well, you know
Daddy needs his alone time ♪

♪ That's why he doesn't have any friends ♪

♪ Watch and see you'll be lucky to be
The last man standing in the end ♪

["Mercury in Retrograde" playing]

♪ I got a haircut in Norway ♪

♪ When all the waves
Started pulling me down ♪

♪ Smellin' like a waterlogged wet dog
Ain't no way to tell ♪

♪ But as soon as I chopped it all off ♪

♪ It just grew back thick and brown ♪

♪ I keep tugging on the thread ♪

♪ Hoping it all might come unraveled ♪

♪ I keep trying to pull it all the way
But it comes right back around ♪

♪ They come backstage and on my bus
Pretending to be my friend ♪

♪ Shakin' hands, un-grandstands
All wearin' the same old grin ♪

♪ Oh, but none of them bother knockin' ♪

♪ Oh, they all just come on in ♪

♪ Askin' me what all my songs mean ♪

♪ Wonderin' if they're all about them ♪

♪ Mercury must be in retrograde again ♪

♪ But at least it's not
just hanging around ♪

♪ Pretending to be my friend ♪

♪ Oh, the road to hell is paved
With cruel intentions ♪

♪ If it's not nuclear war ♪

♪ It's gonna be a divine intervention ♪

♪ Livin' the dream
Makes a man wanna scream ♪

♪ Light a match and burn it all down ♪

♪ Head back home to the mountain
Far away from all the bull ♪

♪ Oh, all the journalists and sycophants
Building their brands ♪

♪ And all the traveling trophies
and award-show stands ♪

♪ And all the haters
Wishin' they was in my band ♪

♪ Sorry, boys
The bus is plumb full ♪

♪ Mercury must be in retrograde again ♪

♪ At least it's not just hanging around
Pretending to be my friend ♪

♪ Oh, the road to hell is paved
With cruel intentions ♪

♪ If it's not nuclear war ♪

♪ It's gonna be a divine intervention ♪

♪ And there's nothing for me
Outside this hotel room ♪

♪ But another let-down, lonely day ♪

♪ The tour is almost over
And I'll be home soon ♪

♪ And it's all been done
Two, three times anyway ♪

♪ Mercury must be in retrograde again ♪

♪ But at least
It's not just hanging around ♪

♪ Pretending to be my friend ♪

♪ Oh, the road to hell is paved
With cruel intentions ♪

♪ If it's not nuclear war ♪

♪ It's gonna be a divine intervention ♪

["Fastest Horse in Town" playing]

♪ I've been wastin'
All my best days ♪

♪ I've been bested
On my worst ways ♪

♪ I've been thinking about all the plans ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ Instead of searching for words to say ♪

♪ All the words I can't find ♪

♪ Everybody's trying to be
like someone ♪

♪ Hell, is it me I'm trying to be? ♪

♪ Or something? ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ And keep this girl from fleas ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ [unclear lyrics] ♪

♪ You make him so he's all spent ♪

♪ By the time he gets back ♪

♪ Everybody's trying to be someone ♪

♪ Is it me I'm tryin' to be ♪

♪ Or something? ♪

♪ Is it me I'm tryin' to be ♪

♪ Or something? ♪

♪ Everybody's trying to be
like someone ♪

♪ Is it me I'm tryin' to be ♪

♪ Or something? ♪

♪ Is it me I'm tryin' to be ♪

♪ Or something? ♪

[radio static]

[man] Are y'all listening to me?
This is what I want.

I want a gift card from God.
You can keep it all.

I want a gift card from God.