23 Minutes to Sunrise

# This is the sweetest #

# This is the sweetest part

Your fragile features...#

# can only get you so far.

Your making model...#

# has it's share of defects.

Your lovely language #

# has it's share of suspects #

# l got you right where I want you.

I got you right were I want ya, you see #

# l love the lonely...#

# l love the lonely 'cause I love me. I love me #

#'Cause I love me. Love me.#

#'Cause I love me #

#'Cause I love me #

BNO need for speaking?

# We both know what to expect.

Hanging reservations ?

# Up with the coat, keys, and cigarettes #

# l got you right where I want ya.

I got you right where I want ya to see #

# l love the loney.

I love the loney. 'Cause I love me #

#'Cause I love me #

# You shake and shiver #

# From my lips, a lie is born.

To behave always...#

# To caress your naked form #

# The morning whimpers and crawls back in it's

dying skin till night comes knocking #

# That you know once again #

# l got ya right where I want ya #

# l love the lonely #

# l got you right where I want ya. I got you right

where I want ya to see I love the lonely #

# l love the loney. 'Cause I love me #

#'Cause I love me #

#'Cause I love me #

#'Cause I love me #

# l got you right where I want ya #

# l got you right where I want ya #

# l got you right where I want ya #

# l got you right where I want ya #

That's me. Eddie.

Two tours of duly

in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Honorably discharged,

decorated for bravery,

and ultimately discouraged

by the things I saw there.

I'm trying to finish my degree by taking online

courses from the local community college.

I guess I'm looking for

something better.

Knowing what that is and

where to find it-

that's the hard part.

Guess I'll keep searching.

But not right now,

because I'm late for work.

Hey.

Hey, I'm fixing to leave to work. Eddie is picking me up.

- Out of the way.

Hey, don't smoke that in the house.

- I'll smoke wherever I want.

This is my house.

Hey, leave me some money.

I work the graveyard shift here, at the diner.

Every night until the sun comes up.

I don't mind it so much.

Hell, most nights it's pretty quiet.

Sure there are your losers and freaks that

wander in here at this time of night.

You know, I've seen some really strange stuff.

And stuff you wouldn't believe.

It makes flipping burgers a lot more interesting.

Yeah, I like it.

I just, I just don't feel like I'm alive anymore.

I, I feel like I spent my whole life just watching.

I've never been to China.

I mean, does it exist?

You've never been there,

you've never seen it.

That's silly,

of course it exists.

How do you know?

You've never been there.

I don't understand what you're

trying to accomplish with all this.

I don't feel alive. I mean,

I don't Twitter, I don't Facebook.

I don't care about some disaster

in some godforsaken foreign country.

I don't text, I don't lPhone, I

don't even have a credit card.

I don't have a mortgage.

We don't own a home, we rent.

And you don't even

have a job right now.

That's, that's not the point.

What are you doing'!

Well, looks like the lovers

have worked it out

Ain't love wonderful?

They want whip cream with that?

- No whip.

Hi folks, just sit anywhere.

Two at seven.

Two at seven.

How ya'll doing tonight?

Good.

I didn't say I wanted coffee.

Just ignore him.

We're on the late-night menu.

So you can only order

what's on the back, Honey.

And if you're going to be trouble...

you don't get to order anything.

You look...

different.

Yeah? Well...

gotta change with the times.

That's funny.

I'm just gonna go in and grab some beer baby.

Be right back.

Thank you. Have a good day.

Will that be all for you?

And I'll take a couple of those scratchers.

You feeling lucky'?

Who me'!

Well, you're buying scratchers.

You must be feeling lucky.

Just keep it.

Who knows man.

Who knows.

Well you don't look so lucky.

Something happened in there.

F***ing Pig-

Don'! worry

Sh*t.

For the longest time,

I struggled with believing in God.

Than I realized that...

I didn't even know

what that meant.

Believing in God.

It's just...

when you've seen all the suffering that goes on

in this world. When you, when you see it up close...

it's easy to think that it's all really just one big lottery.

And when it's your time to die...

you're just gone.

- Gone'! Gone where?

Nothing.

No where.

Here.

Let me take those.

# You should know better by now #

Just coffee for now. Thanks.

Do you have any real cream?

Sure, I can get you some.

Oh, sorry.

No smoking Mister.

But that's just for tourists.

Ain't it?

You haven'! changed a bit.

No I haven't.

No I haven't.

Hey, Eddie.

That guy at table seven

is gonna be a problem.

I don't like him.

Steer clear of that guy.

Alright?

I know I'd seen him before.

But you know how it is.

You've been lots of places

you've seen lots of people.

And now there's some guy

you know you've seen...

and you can't remember where.

And it's not the place

it's supposed to be.

But there they are.

So I got plenty of time but, uh...

What do ya wanna talk about'?

You don't need me.

Well, that's not really the point.

I don't need anyone.

That's right. You don't need anyone.

So you certainly don't need me.

I was only seventeen.

Why are you being such a whiner?

Got what you wanted.

I didn't know any better.

You begged me for it.

You knew how it was going to tum out.

Oh, baby.

Come on.

On, Christ.

Check it out baby.

Got our winning tickets right here.

Come on.

What'!

Sh*t.

It's alright.

That's why I grabbed two.

I talk too much.

Hmm?

I talk too much.

I think you don't talk enough.

Well that's my opinion.

I can have an opinion.

Yeah, but what if your opinion is wrong? And then you

go and change your life based off a wrong opinion.

And then you just make everything worse

You know something?

I think that's one

of your biggest problems.

You have bad opinions.

You know I'm sorry I brought it up

Proves my point.

I talk too much.

Sh*t!

Sh*t!

I'm not a loser.

Baby, get back in the car.

Come on.

I'm not a loser.

Baby get back in the car. Please.

I'm not a loser.

I'm not a loser.

Look at me.

It's ok.

Baby I'm fine.

I'm fine.

Some people are afraid of death.

Sometimes, I think waking up

alive seems worse.

Whatcha doin?

Writing.

'Bout what?

Writing something

for my English class.

Hmm.

And you hope this will

lead you to what kind of job?

See, that's the thing.

I'm not searching for a job.

I already got one of those.

...searching for a life.

Ok.

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

- What's that mean?

What does that mean...

it means that if this is all I thought there was to life...

think I'd rather just put

a gun to my head right now.

So... no life is better than this life.

No. No, maybe not for everybody,

but I can't speak for everybody.

I can only speak for myself.

That's kinda sad, Eddie.

I never want to die.

Ever.

What I need you to do is tell me

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