The Decline of Western Civilization Page #5

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Holding you by the neck

Your legs between my knees

Your minute eyelashes

Flicker incessantly

While funny pip-squeak sounds

Come from your rosy lips

I pull on your prom dress

Until it rips apart

While someone on the bus

Pukes on an old lady

Pukes on an old lady

"Dissolve and die,

lie through your teeth,

"accepting the fact

that these masses,

"these perpetual bourgeois

never leave

"their happy homes

in the suburbs

"and refuse to learn new ideas,

they still disgust me.

"Do I belong?

You see them laugh.

"They laugh at themselves

and call it comedy.

"They laugh at each other

and call it satire.

They laugh at cripples

and call it cruelty.

" Mass middle class laughter

permeating every conversation.

"They keep themselves

in stitches

and think they're happy.

Do not fear the new.

Must not let this bourgeois

control the factors

of your life.

Bum the books of poetry

for they encourage hope.

Do not give them purpose

for existence.

Now listen to the fervent cry

of the bourgeois

self-destruction.

"Watch them. Watch them drain

their hope and mission.

"Death and destruction.

"I have respect

for the middle class.

"I have respect for the mundane.

"I respect the middle class.

I know l am one of them

"and they never

let you scream."

-[DRUMSTICKS TAPPING]

- One, two, three, four.

[PUNK ROCK PLAYING]

[PUNK ROCK PLAYING]

[THE UNHEARD MUSIC PLAYING]

Friends warehouse pain

Attack their own kind

A thousand kids

Bury their parents

There's laughing outside

We're locked out

of the public eyes

Some smooth chords

on the car radio

No hard chords

on the car radio

We set the trash on fire

And watch outside the door

Men come up the pavement

Under the marquee

There's laughing inside

We're locked out

of the public eyes

Some smooth chords

on the car radio

No hard chords

on the car radio

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

Oh, okay-

Yeah. Chain from each one,

chain from this.

And a chain from the heart

to an eight ball.

PENELOPE:
Did you think a long time

about what kind of tattoo

you were gonna get?

If you don't, you're a fool.

Yeah, yeah. I just didn't

want to write, you know, like,

f*** between my knuckles

or some bullshit

like that. I mean, I'll be

wanting to get...

MAN:
That's what

I was going to get.

[LAUGHING]

No, well...

Yeah!

I mean, if I'm going

to get a tattoo,

I want it to be cool, you know?

You give a lot of thought

about what you're gonna have

'cause you wanna have

something stupid

but after you get that thing

done, then it stands.

PENELOPE:
You can

look back and say,

"Well, at least l had fun

in those times, huh?"

Well, but its not fun.

At least, I had that time.

I can remember that time.

And hopefully,

we're together enough

to rem ember when we got it.

[LAUGHING]

I'm going to wake up

with another funny

haircut and more tattoos.

- Are you going to get a tattoo?

- No.

- Why?

- I don't want a tattoo.

How come?

Um...

I don't know.

I just don't want one.

Don't wanna be too trendy.

Two dozen pink roses

from The Whiskey.

PENELOPE:
For what?

Um...

- MAN:
For being so...

- For being cute.

'Cause we do a good job

whenever we play there

'cause when we play there,

they do better business

than anybody else.

They're real happy with us.

They come backstage and talk

to us and everything.

They like us, you know?

Anyway, it was real cool

when we came in there,

it was just this mass of roses.

PENELOPE:
Do they

do that for everyone?

No! Of course not.

PENELOPE:
Where do they come from?

The Whiskey, but I don't know

where they got them.

- No, but...

-[HISSES]

PENELOPE:
Where did the song

Beyond and Back come from?

Beyond and Back is about

sleeping on the couch.

And the word "Beyond"...

The title, Beyond and Back

comes from a Bible pamphlet.

There was one called,

Beyond and Back

which is what I felt like,

to, like, reach this hideous

state but then return to

normal, you know,

normal situations.

PENELOPE:
And that's what you...

Sleeping on the bed in

the master, the master bedroom.

PENELOPE:
Do you get a lot of

trouble about how you look

when you walk down the street?

Sometimes. Not so much.

What do you do about it?

- Kill them.

- MAN:
Pulls out his knife.

Pass on by unless

I'm in a bad mood.

PENELOPE:
And if you're in a bad

mood, what do you do?

Then I turn around

and look at somebody

with the expression that Jimmy

taught me, which is,

"You're gonna die

or you're gonna walk away."

[LAUGHING]

And usually they walk away.

I haven't had to...

PENELOPE:
Kill anyone yet...

Do you think your songs look

on the dark side of things?

They look on the realistic

side of things.

Realism is dark and they're on

the dark side of things.

PENELOPE:
How long

have you been playing?

- Guitar?

- Yeah.

- Ever since I was six.

- Right.

Before that I just played

piano and violin and accordion.

PENELOPE:
Why do you stand

like that on stage?

Like what?

With your legs apart.

I wondered, do you know?

I think because he's so sexy,

I don't know.

- BILLY:
I don't.

- I think it's real sexy.

I guess that he's just one

of the last...

Maybe his style.

The last people left

that are just

like have lots of style

and lots of like sex appeal

and can just... And don't

give a sh*t, you know,

about being that way

and that's not like...

-[INDISTINCT]

-...punk or anything.

-It's just like this...

4 know, I know.

Everybody's got their style.

That just be Billy's style.

He just stands there

and he's cool.

And he doesn't need

to do anything else

'cause he's already cool enough.

Is my make up okay?

PENELOPE:
Why do you collect those

little pamphlets?

Because they're cool.

And because they say...

They're really ridiculous.

They say the most insane things.

And you cannot believe that

society's gotten to the state

where there are these things

you find in the gutter that say,

"The activities of homosexuals

and lesbians,

"a detailed expose

of the activities

"of these depraved humans

would be so revolting that

"it might 'cause

a sane person to vomit.

"If you wish the sordid details,

consult sexual pathology,

"pathology or sexual pathology

"or the dictionary book

for some information.

"Shalom, Israel,

the everlasting nation."

But they said that...

- Where does that come from?

- This is so gross.

If you want to find out more,

here you can find it.

[HICCUPING] I found that

on Hollywood Boulevard...

- Do you have the hiccups?

- Mmm.

And this one's real good,

"What to do to go to hell?"

And you open it up

and it's empty.

[LAUGHING]

Did you know that here

in this city of LA...

Uh, uh, uh. No.

Wait, there's one thing

about public schools.

I think it's on the back

of this.

Oh, yeah.

"The product of a public school

wanders aimlessly asking,

"'Where did I come from? Why am

I here and where am I going?

"Public education makes leeches

and sends people to hell."

[HICCUPS]

[CHUCKLES]

I don't understand this.

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