Mystery Train Page #2

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Now you look a little happier.

Wait. Let me light it for you.

Thanks.

So now do you feel a little happier?

I feel the same.

I was already happy.

Don't you think you wear

too much lipstick?

What are you looking at?

Memphis.

Is it like Yokohama

with 60% of the buildings gone?

No, nothing like that.

This isn't Yokohama.

This is America.

What are you thinking about?

To be 18...

feels cool.

And so far from Yokohama.

It feels cool to be in Memphis.

Nothing on now.

Mitzuko.

Do women always worry

about their hairstyle?

What are you talking about?

In all the times we've made love -

and this is number 11-

I've never once

thought about my hairstyle.

Eleven?

And if that's what you're thinking,

try shaving first next time.

It hurts my face.

But I just shaved two days ago.

#... that cat called Domino #

# Domino, Domino #

# Well, Domino

Go, man, go #

# Domino, they love you so #

# Get out of the way

Here comes Domino #

# Domino, Domino ##

Thank you, Mel.

That's Mel, our engineer.

Just coffee, huh?

I love ya.

Well, yes, sir, that's another classic

from Mr. Roy Orbison...

along with the Roses - previously known

as the Teen Kings for you trivia fans -

with "Domino" here.

You're on the air until dawn.

It's 2:
17 right here in Memphis, Tennessee.

Right now, here's another one recorded

at Sun Studios, this time by the King himself.

That's right. Mr. Elvis Presley...

with one of my personal

early, early morning favorites...

"Blue Moon. "

# Blue moon #

Jun.

# You saw me standing alone #

# Without a dream in my heart #

Hold me.

# Without a love of my own #

# Blue moon #

# You knew just what

I was there for#

# You heard me say a prayer for #

# Someone I really could care for #

# Without a love of my own #

Damn.

You'd think they could get me a new uniform,

man. This one is shot to hell. Look at this.

Well, you should do like I do.

Should go over and buy

your own damn clothes...

over at Lansky's or somewhere like that.

I mean, you know, it's like they say -

"The clothes make the man. "

I mean, look at that damn hat

on your head.

You look like a damn

mosquito-legged chimpanzee.

I mean -

Mitzuko.

Wake up. It's morning.

The hotel is on fire.

Don't you want to go to Graceland?

Home of Elvis Presley.

Let me sleep.

It's my favorite thing - to sleep.

You sleep too much.

You spend half your life in your dreams.

Yeah.

But sleep is wonderful.

And when you're dead,

you don't get to sleep ever again.

Which means no more dreams.

Don't forget these.

Those? But they belong to the hotel.

In America, towels are included

in the price of the room.

Everyone knows that.

Well, they won't really fit in here.

That's because you have

a hundred T-shirts in there.

I only brought two shirts.

Get rid of some T-shirts.

No way! They're part of my collection.

We're not getting rid of any of these!

Never, never, never! Never!

Okay then. Go ahead.

But not both of them.

Pack the one I used.

- The one I used is drier.

- Yeah, but mine's cleaner.

You didn't take a bath.

Pack it neatly.

Was that a gun?

Probably. This is America.

That's everything, isn't it?

Did we forget anything?

...please pick up the white courtesy phone.

- The deceased is your husband?

- Si.

Can you sign right here, please?

And again here.

Please sign here.

Full boarding call, Flight 203.

And over here.

And here also.

And once more.

Thank you.

Otis Johnson.

Otis Johnson, please meet your party

at ticket counter -

Midwestern Air Flight 310,

with connections to Cleveland -

Hello! It's me!

In Memphis!

Memphis!

In the south of the United States,

in Tennessee!

We had a little trouble -

some stupid thing with the airplane! Yeah!

Yeah! A little problem!

Don't worry!

Tomorrow, we've got a connecting flight...

and we arrive in Rome

the day after tomorrow!

I don't know!

How should I know

where I'll stay tonight?

I'm okay!

That's just the way life is.

Ciao! Ciao!

...please pick up

the nearest white courtesy phone.

Please pick up the nearest

white courtesy phone.

- Thank you.

- You have a great day too.

Damn, baby!

Why you wanna do this to me?

Baby, I'll give you all the oil you need.

Just do the right thing.

Send a letter to the congressmen.

Get a petition goin' around.

Get on the phone and try to get

some real men in this government of ours.

Mickey Mantle.

Tim McCarver president. Sure.

Now you're talkin'. Now you're talkin'.

You can do it, Lester.

You could organize this thing.

You got some spare time,

you can change history.

You really think I could?

- Think I could get it done?

- Sure is.

Why don't I get it on and get out

and write some letters, telegrams.

- Go get on and do it.

- Let me give it a try.

- We'll get a petition -

- You can do it, Lester.

letters to senators and congressmen.

- Well, hello, doll.

- Hello.

- What can I do you for?

- I would like to buy this newspaper.

Well, now you should buy

this one here as well.

The Tri-State Defender.

No, thank you.

I think I need only this one.

Well, you know, you only need one leg

to get around on, if that's all you got.

But it sure helps having two.

Now, doesn't it?

Oh, well, yes.

- This one too.

- How about some magazines?

We got all kinds of beautiful

magazines here, you know.

No.

You know them people

who just buy a little paper or two?

They make it real hard for an honest man

to stay in business sometime.

Okay. Give it to me.

This one here has all those high fashions

from abroad...

from New York and everywhere.

Now just hold on a minute, sugar.

See what I got here now.

What do we got?

Movie magazine, home magazine...

muscle magazine, ladies magazine.

And this one here tells you

all about the United States.

No, thank you. No, no.

- We were supposed to meet.

- With me?

I'm not from here. I'm from Rome.

It's Rome. Right.

I'm here by accident.

No accident.

What do you want?

I know about you and the King.

- The king?

- Yeah. Graceland.

I don't understand.

I have a very important message

I'm supposed to deliver.

Okay.

It was almost a year ago this very night.

I was drivin' back to Memphis...

and all evening I kept passin' hitchhikers.

And the strangest thing -

this only dawned on me gradual -

was that they all looked like

the same person.

As I was approachin' Memphis,

I passed another one.

So I decided to stop and pick him up.

And right away, the door opened up,

and this hitchhiker got in.

And he was sittin' there next to me,

and all of a sudden he said...

"Thank you kindly, sir, for picking me up. "

When I heard that voice, real polite-like...

it struck me somewhere

real deep inside.

'Cause I recognized that voice.

Couldn't place it though.

So we're comin' in to Memphis, I tell him

I'll drop him anywhere he wants.

Then he asked me

if I knew where Graceland was.

Of course I knew where Graceland was.

Everyone knows where Graceland is.

And he said I could drop him off

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