20,000 Days on Earth Page #9

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You want some?

You wanna f*** with me? OK.

(THEY CHUCKLE)

You wanna play games? OK.

Come on.

OK. You wanna play rough? OK!

- Say hello to my little friend!

- Say hello to my little friend!

(GUNFIRE)

# Ya, ya, ya, ya!

# Ya, ya, ya, ya!

# Ya, ya, ya, ya!

# Ya, ya, ya, ya!

# Ya, ya, ya, ya! #

(CROWD CHEERING)

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Oh, no, no, no... #

(GUITAR STARTS UP)

# Well, in come the Devil

# Said, "I've come to take you down

Mr Stagger Lee"

# Well, those were the last words

that the Devil said

# Cos Stag put four holes

# In his mother...f***ing

# Head

# Ya, ya, ya, ya!

# Ya, ya, ya, ya!

# Ya, ya, ya, ya! #

(CROWD CHEER)

(CHEERING)

(CHEERING AND WHISTLING)

(CHEERING FADES)

(SEAGULLS CRY)

NICK:
The song is heroic,

because the song confronts death.

The song is immortal and bravely

stares down our own extinction.

The song emerges from the spirit world

with a true message.

One day, I will tell you

how to slay the dragon.

(CHEERING)

(CROWD CHEERS)

(SONG STARTS)

NICK:
All of our days are numbered.

We cannot afford to be idle.

To act on a bad idea

is better than to not act at all...

...because the worth of the idea

never becomes apparent until you do it.

Sometimes this idea can be

the smallest thing in the world,

a little flame that you hunch over

and cup with your hand

and pray will not be extinguished

by all the storm that howls about it.

If you can hold on to that flame,

great things can be constructed around it

that are massive and powerful

and world-changing...

...all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

- (MUSIC PLAYING)

- (CROWD CHEERS)

# The problem was

# She had a little black book

# And my name

# It was written

# On every page

# Well, a girl's got to make ends meet

# Especially down on Jubilee Street

# I ought to practise what I preach

# These days I go down town

# In my tie and tails

# I got a foetus

# On a leash

# I am alone now

# I am beyond recriminations

# The curtains are shut

# The furniture has gone

# I am transforming

# I am vibrating

# I am glowing

# Yeah, look at me now

# I'm transforming

# I'm vibrating

# Look at me now

# Yes, I am flying

# I'm vibrating

# Look at me now

# Yeah

# Yeah

# I'm transforming

# I'm vibrating

# Look at me now

# I am flying

# I'm vibrating

# Look at me now

# I am flying

# I am glowing

# Look at me now

# I'm transforming

# I'm vibrating

# Look at me now. #

(CHEERING)

NICK:
In the end, I'm not interested

in that which I fully understand.

The words I have written over the years

are just a veneer.

There are truths that lie

beneath the surface of the words...

truths that rise up without warning,

like the humps of a sea monster

and then disappear.

What performance and song is to me

is finding a way to tempt the monster

to the surface,

to create a space,

where the creature can break through

what is real and what is known to us.

This shimmering space,

where imagination and reality intersect...

...this is where all love

and tears and joy exist.

This is the place.

This is where we live.

(SONG ENDS)

Published 25/10/2014

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