Across The Universe Page #5

Well, maybe when bombs

start going off here, people will listen.

You say you want a revolution

Well, you know

We all wanna change the world

Jude, what are you doing?

I can't do this right now.

You tell me that it's evolution

Well, you know

Yeah, we all wanna change the world

Jude, please. Please, don't.

But when you talk about destruction

Don't you know

That you can count me out?

- What are you doing here, friend?

- It's not the time. Not now.

Don't you know it's gonna be

All right

- Escort him to the door. Thank you.

- I'm sorry.

Come on, let's go.

I've never seen him like that.

I don't know.

You gotta leave, buddy. Come on.

- Jude!

- Who is this a**hole?

Jesus!

Are you okay?

Get this clown out of here now!

Get him out of here!

Don't hurt him! Don't hurt him!

All right! All right!

What is the matter with you?

Why would you do that?

On the edge of the balcony

he was shot.

We thought a firecracker

had gone on.

Most of us were downstairs

on the lower level.

Police have issued

an all-points bulletin...

... for a well-dressed white man

seen running from the scene.

We hold these truths

to be self-evident...

... that all men are created equal.

Memphis is a confused

and shocked city tonight.

No one can believe

what has happened.

It's been just a little over an hour...

... since Dr. Martin Luther King died

from an assassin's bullet.

Dr. King was rushed to St. Joseph's

Hospital emergency room.

He died from a gunshot wound

in the neck.

I'm sick and tired of violence.

I'm tired of the war in Vietnam.

I look at you all

See the love there that's sleeping

While my guitar gently weeps

I look at the floor

And I see it needs sweeping

Still my guitar gently weeps

Not now. What is this ridiculous

bullshit? He can't even play guitar.

The sound sucked out there.

How many times?

Get out there and tell Tony to fix it

or I don't go on tomorrow night.

Come on, Sadie,

it's the ratty end of the tour. Cool it.

Find me someone

who can play the guitar, man.

This new guy's

got no soul and no stank.

Do you wanna come up

for one more, Jo?

I ain't gonna find Sadie there, man.

You better go on up to Lucy.

Yeah.

Well, she's probably out

fighting for the cause, you know?

It look like you been

fighting for it too, huh?

I don't have one.

That's the problem.

Words are flowing out

Like endless rain into a paper cup

They slither while they pass

They slip away

Across the universe

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy

Are drifting through my open mind

Possessing and caressing me

Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light

Which dance before me

Like a million eyes

They call me on and on

Across the universe

Thoughts meander like a restless wind

Inside a letterbox

They tumble blindly as they

Make their way across the universe

Strike! Strike! Strike!

No! No!

Lucy!

- Jude!

- Lucy!

- Jude!

- Lucy!

- Jude!

- Lucy!

Die! Die!

You have a visitor.

What are you doing here?

I got a call from a friend of yours,

a girl.

Said that you were in trouble,

so I came down.

Are you all right?

I told the cops that I was a

U.S. Citizen and you were my son.

- What did they say?

- They wanted proof.

I didn't have any.

I talked the cops out of pressing

charges for the riot and stuff...

...but the bottom line,

this is an immigration issue.

Meaning they're

kicking me out of the country?

- I'm afraid so.

- Sh*t.

Thanks... Thanks for trying,

though, yeah?

Have you told your mother

you met me?

Not yet.

But... But l... But I will.

Look who's coming.

- How's it going, Jude?

- I'm okay, yeah.

So when did you and Phil hitch up?

About two weeks

after you stopped writing.

Oh, I'm pleased for you, though.

And a kid's on the way.

That's great.

- What was the name?

- Who?

The reason you stopped writing.

Her name was Lucy.

It was... It was good

for a while, you know.

It all seems a bit unreal.

Is this real enough for you?

Glad to be back?

Yeah. Yeah. I couldn't be happier.

She's not a girl

Who misses much

I'll be here same time next week,

okay?

I need a fix

'Cause I'm going down

Mother Superior jumped the gun

Happiness is a warm gun

When I hold you

In my arms

And when I feel

My finger on your trigger

Oh, don't you know

Nobody can do me no harm

Stop telling me this is a peaceful

march. It's much worse than that.

The dogs and the violence...

...and the people you're with are more

radical than you want me to believe.

They should be radical. You should

be radical. We should all be radical.

Daniel is dead

and Max is all f***ed up...

...and this war just keeps going

on and on and nobody's listening.

- I'm listening.

- No, you're not listening.

I just don't want

my beautiful daughter to get hurt.

Look, Mom. Don't cry.

Please don't cry.

Everything's really okay here,

I promise.

It's gonna be all right, I gotta go.

Close the door.

I thought it was the other side

who dropped bombs.

- Thanks, mate.

- Thanks.

Blackbird singing

In the dead of night

Take these broken wings

And learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting

For this moment to arise

Blackbird fly

Blackbird fly

Into the light of the dark black night

- Here, love.

- Thanks.

Last call, pal.

Hey, Jude

Don't make it bad

Take a sad song

And make it better

Remember

To let her into your heart

Then you can start

To make it better

Max!

You don't look too messed up.

Yeah, well, everything

below the neck works fine.

Does she know?

- You didn't tell her.

- Nope.

All right, good. Good.

Hey, this is your Cousin Brucie

at 720 WWEN...

... in a live broadcast

from the top of the world with...

- Is that Sadie?

- You got that right.

Sh*t, we're late.

Don't let me down

Nobody ever loved me like he does

And if somebody loved me

Like she do me

Ooh, she do me

Yes, she does

- Yeah!

- Hey, Prudence.

- How are you?

- Good. Welcome back.

Where's Lucy?

Don't know.

She should be on her way.

- Did you give her the right address?

- Yeah. I thought I saw her on the street.

Oh, sh*t.

Let's go.

Spread out.

That's it. Wrap it up. Let's go.

You have no permit. You're disturbing

the peace. Come on, off the roof.

- Come on.

- Thank you!

It's all over.

- Come on, let's go.

- Feels good to be back, baby.

Yeah!

Come on, we gotta clear the roof.

Let's go.

- Hey. Be nice, be nice.

- All right. Keep moving.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Joy. Happiness.

That's right.

Background singers, huh?

- Where did Jude go?

- I don't know. And where is my sister?

I'm sure I saw her, Max.

I don't understand

what the problem is.

Man, get your hands off me.

There's nothing you can do

That can't be done

Nothing you can sing

That can't be sung

What?

Nothing you can say

But you can

Learn how to play the game

Who the hell is that?

- Jude?

- It's Jude.

There's nothing you can make

That can't be made

No one you can save

That can't be saved

Nothing you can do but you can

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