Across The Universe Page #4

- This is Sadie.

Fabulous singer and future star,

if she's smart and signs with me.

Oh, look at this, pink punch.

Cheers.

- You're not listening.

- Your guitar sound is a little lazy.

- We need it tighter, not slick.

- This band gets behind me.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I give you Dr. Robert.

Time is not on our hands, people.

Time is slipping through them.

We gotta transcend the bullshit,

and fast.

But, hey, no point butting your heads

bucking the system.

Let them get all snarled up

in their dreary hive.

Never knock the way

another cat swings, man.

Hate to mess with your groove,

New York...

...but we're about two years

ahead of you on the coast.

We already graduated

from what's been going on...

...to where it's gone.

Amen.

Nice. Nice.

Love the people. Love the people.

We love the people.

Where are we?

I don't know.

And I don't know how we got here.

What is that place?

Headquarters of

the League of Spiritual Deliverance.

The home of Dr. Geary.

Another outlaw like myself.

We're navigators.

We're aviators. We're...

...eating taters.

Masturbating alligators.

Bombardiers, we got no fears,

won't shed no tears.

We're pushing the frontiers...

...of transcendental perception.

What's weird is we haven't met yet...

...on this or any other plane.

- Hey, doc.

- He says he won't see you, man.

- Why, is he sick?

He just said he's busy.

Did you tell that son of a b*tch...

...that we drove 3000 miles

to see him?

- All right, everybody back on the bus.

- What?

We're going home. California.

- Doc?

- We just got here.

- California isn't home to all of us.

- Yeah.

What can I say? You're either

on the bus or off the bus.

- Sayonara!

- Screw you!

Oh, well, that's just perfect.

My last blowout before the Army,

we're stuck in the middle of...

- Where are we, huh?

- It doesn't matter.

"I am me as you are he as you are

me and we are all together."

That is so right. That's right.

You know, and if nobody's everybody

then someone can be anybody, right?

Listen. Do you hear the music?

- Where are we going?

- We're going out of our minds.

Come on, this way.

- Where are you taking me?

- Down the rabbit hole.

- Oh, I wanna feed the cow.

- Let's go.

Oh, my God, Jude.

Now, that's big.

For the benefit of Mr. Kite

There will be a show tonight

On trampoline

The Hendersons will all be there

Late of Pablo Fanque's Fair

Have you seen it?

It's great, they got stuff.

Over men and horses

Hoops and garters

Lastly through a hogshead

Of real fire

In this way

Mr. K. Will challenge the world

With the blue people. They're great.

They're just chilled out.

I better heat you up.

Is that Prudence?

It is!

Prudence!

Hi, guys!

Oh, man, that was amazing.

That was bizarre, yo. That was...

- Look at you, sweet pea.

- It's good to see you.

- You too.

- Oh, I want you to meet Rita.

She's a contortionist.

Because the world is round

It turns me on

Because the wind is high

It blows my mind

Love is old, love is new

Love is all, love is you

Blood! Down! Down!

Down!

What time do you finish?

I don't know.

I love you.

Something in the way she moves

Attracts me like no other lover

Something in the way she woos me

I don't wanna leave her now

You know I believe, and how

You're asking me

Will my love grow

I don't know

I don't know

You stick around

Now it may show

Hey, you didn't get

my left nipple right.

Oh, is that so?

Well, you know,

you were lying on your side...

...and I was drawing from a distance.

So I couldn't see it properly.

What time is it?

- Eleven o'clock, I think.

- I gotta run.

You didn't get in till 2:30.

You know Columbia's top scientists are

working for the Defense Department?

I didn't, no.

There's gonna be this demonstration

on the campus to protest it.

Paco says we need to radicalize.

It's not enough

to just hand out leaflets...

...and lie down in the middle of the

street and give flowers to cops.

Well, will he give you time off

to go to Sadie's gig? Which is tonight.

I'll try.

Well, can you try harder?

I can't believe you're telling me this.

And the rest of the guys?

- I tried to tell you this a million times.

- So this is it?

Oh, darlin'

Please believe me

I'll never do you no harm

Believe me when I tell you

I'll never do you no harm

If you leave me

I'll never make it alone

I doubt that.

Oh, believe me when I beg you

Don't ever leave me alone

What is this?

When you told me

You didn't need me anymore

I don't believe this.

Hey, where you going?

Where were we?

Oh, yeah, that's right, baby.

I don't need you. I'm gonna show you.

What the hell happened, man?

Where'd Sadie go?

Solo, man. Way solo.

Hey, how's it going? Hope we're

not interrupting the creative flow.

Still life?

Yeah, yeah, it's...

I'm sorry, what's that doing here?

Well, you don't have one.

I had a spare.

Where should I put it?

Right here is fine for now.

They're transmitting

live from Vietnam now.

It's gonna make a difference.

Bringing the war

right in the people's living room.

Yeah, well, that's all well and good,

mate, but this isn't a living room.

This is where I work.

I'm sorry, he must really

be caught up with what he's doing.

There you go.

You should probably

try to get an outside antenna.

I gotta go. You'll be there later?

Yeah.

Saigon command disclosed

that 5000 more U.S. Troops...

... were committed to the war

last week...

... bringing American troop strength

to over half a million men.

The Vietcong assault

on South Vietnam cities...

... produced record casualties

last week.

Four hundred sixteen

Americans were killed...

... and 15,029 wounded...

... raising total U.S. Combat fatalities

in this country's longest war...

... to 30,057.

Well, I got a job.

You know, as in,

"We'll pay you to do it."

I thought you'd be pleased.

What job?

It's a logo

for Sadie's record company.

It's a strawberry.

You know, red, juicy, sexy.

Yeah, get it? No?

Why were you so rude

to Paco before?

It wouldn't have killed you

to talk to him. He's got a good mind.

He's committed,

he's involved, he's...

- A shagger.

- A what?

A shagger. A Don Juan.

A seducer

of young, vulnerable women.

Jude, you know nothing about him.

Every time I go to your place,

there's about 50 people there.

There's one bloke licking stamps

and the other 49 are...

- Oh, they're all female.

- Don't exaggerate.

Trust me, I'm not.

We're in the middle of a revolution.

What are you doing,

doodles and cartoons?

- I didn't mean it like that.

- No?

No? Well, what did you mean?

Sorry I'm not the man with

the megaphone, this is what I do.

You could at least hear

what he has to say.

I suppose you don't, because

you're never gonna be drafted.

Nor will you, Lucy.

I would lie down in front of a tank...

...if it would stop this war

and bring Max home.

Yeah? Well, it wouldn't.

What do you mean, it wouldn't?

You don't think that it's worth trying?

I didn't say that. I'm...

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