The Decline of Western Civilization Page #6

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Isn't it so weird that people

could say that?

"Public education

makes leeches."

[HICCUPING]

Anyway, suppose it is true

after all. What then?

Yeah. You don't wanna die

and you're just this cripple,

you're just this idiot

and you can't believe

that everything's gonna...

BAND MEMBER:
Hey, what the f***

is going on in there?

Shut up, you bastard!

[HICCUPING]

PENELOPE:
Where did you guys meet?

We met in Venice.

Venice, California.

- EXENE:
In a lovely paradise...

- How long ago?

- That's not even possible.

- EXENE:
No!

- Three years ago.

- PENELOPE:
Yeah.

And you just started doing...

No, there was six months

of very bad, bad times.

- Yeah. What was that?

- Between she and me.

Just not getting along

and not really...

- PENELOPE:
And then you did?

- Yeah.

[SINGING TOGETHER]

Yeah.

We played in our little

apartment in Venice

where all the winos lived

and went to sleep at 8 o'clock.

- Tell 'em about the wine bottle.

- We couldn't wake him up.

Yes, I lived in an apartment

in Venice, California

where a throat cancer

patient had died.

In his refrigerator, he left all

his throat cancer medicine,

six bottles of beer,

and a half empty

bottle of red port.

We drank all the beer.

And decided that we were gonna

drink the rest of that red port.

And we knew that

we were like f***ed up.

I mean, we're drinking throat

cancer red port, man.

[WHOOPING]

Come on.

-[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

-[IMITATES ENGINE REVVING]

Yeah!

Pick an ear.

- Now, I see one ear.

- Okay.

- One up, one down. Together?

- One down, three up.

- Right ear moving. Left ear.

- Right on.

How did you learn

how to do that?

I don't remember.

[CHUCKLES]

PENELOPE:
And do you get letters

from people

in various places

other than in Los Angeles?

EXENE:
Yes.

JOHN:
Yeah, we had

a fan club ad in Slash once.

And we got letters from

North Carolina, Pennsylvania,

- Ontario.

-They called from County Jail.

Right, Chuck called us

from the County Jail.

I called there once from jail

and you weren't home,

you a**hole.

[ALL LAUGHING]

Why are you on the floor, Exene?

Mmm.

Well, you know why.

'Cause that guy there,

the filmer

moved our chair and I'm gonna

be sitting here.

- No, no I didn't.

- Look the cock knocker moved it.

[INDISTINCT TALKING]

PENELOPE:
W m does

the FUN stand for'?

MAN:
F*** the World.

Insane.

Order from people for each sign.

It's not dark enough.

[WHISTLING]

Notice this?

They're there on the front.

They're there on the sides.

[MIMICKING AMBULANCE

ALARM BLARI NG]

[LOUD CLATTERING]

All lights are bright.

- One small story about--

- How Jimmy couldn't get a life.

Come on, Johnny.

About when Darby Crash came

over and tried to stuff

all these little cars in his

mouth, I hear Exene scream,

"Don't eat the car.

You'll kill yourself!"

PENELOPE:
Are you a happier

person now, do you think?

PENELOPE:
Are you a happier

person now, do you think?

No? Yes?

I don't think of myself

as a happy person

but I had fun tonight.

[HICCUPING]

[PLAYING BEYOND AND BACK]

HI go somewhere else

H! move to the couch

ifs darker in the dark

ifs darker in the day

I forgot you were a liar

Now it's five to twelve

Shut up and smoke

And HI go somewhere else

No more orange nightgowns

One o'clock and then it ends

One o'clock and then it ends

One o'clock and then it ends

This is no place

This is no place

To be a victim of a class

Ever get to go

Don't you want me to make it

I took as long as you took

You take a Sot from me

I forgot you were a thief

I want to be like her instead

I stay nowhere marked

Down in the basement

Lousy at the bottom

A life of intermission

A life of intermission

A life of intermission

This is no place

This is no place

To be addicted to another piece

HI go somewhere else

H! move to the couch

ifs darker in the dark

ifs darker in the day

I forgot you were a liar

Right now ifs five to twelve

Shut up and smoke

And HI go somewhere else

No more orange nightgowns

One O'clock and then it ends

One o'clock and then it ends

One o'clock and then it ends

[some ENDS]

[CLAPPING]

JOHN:
Exene wrote the line,

Johnny hit and run Pauline.

I wrote the song around it.

PENELOPE:
Mmm-hmm.

JOHN:
Uh, basically

a fantasy, wish.

The whole idea of the line,

that she was still awake,

is that,

you know, yeah...

there's this rape

but it's son of a seduction.

It's every man's, like,

dream to be able to be

so potent that they can

have sex like that.

- EXENE:
John.

- If you could have sex once...

lf l can have sex once an hour

for 24 hours, I would do it.

[PLAYING JOHNNY HI AND RUN PAULENE]

He bought a sterilized hypo

To shoot a sex machine drug

He got twenty four hours

To shoot old Pauline

Between the legs

Ninety six tears

Through twenty four hours

Sex once every hour

Johnny hit and run Paulene

Johnny hit and run Paulene

Johnny hit and run Paulene

Johnny hit and run Paulene

LA bus doors open

Kicking both doors open

When it rested on 6th Street

That's when he drug

a girl inside

He was spreading her legs

And didn't understand dying

She was still awake

Johnny hit and run Paulene

Johnny hit and run Paulene

Johnny hit and run Paulene

Johnny hit and run Paulene

When he was waking up

Beside the bed

He found clumps of hair

The last, Paulene

wouldn't cooperate

She wasn't what you call

living really

She was still awake

Johnny hit and run Pauline

Johnny hit and run Pauline

Johnny hit and run Pauline

Johnny hit and run Pauline

Oh!

[AUDIENCE CHEERING]

Could you turn the monitors

down some, Scott.

[WHISTLING AND APPLAUDING]

BOY-

I guess your mama

didn't know what hot was

until she got up under

some lights.

Man.

Ye-ouch!

We're desperate, um...

John wrote that song.

PENELOPE:
Yeah!

When he lived in Venice,

he wrote it for me to sing.

And it's really weird because

at one point! started thinking,

there's gonna come a point

when we keep performing

this song.

People are gonna be going,

Sure they're desperate.

I just paid six dollars

to see this band,

you know,

they 're not desperate.

There's worse ways of being

desperate than being poor.

PENELOPE:
But you don't have money

right new?

- And so...

- Well, we're not rich

- We got enough to pay our rent.

- JOHN:
We got six dollars.

You know, we bought the ink

and the pins.

[JOHN LAUGHING]

One, two...

One, two, three, four.

[PLAYING WE 'RE DESPERATE]

Desperate

Get used to it

We're desperate

Get used to it

We're desperate

Get used to it

We're desperate

Get used to it

We're desperate

Get used to it

Well, get used to it

Get used to it

We're desperate

Get used to it

We're desperate

Get used to it

JOHN:
Hey, woah, hey...

Altamont, all rig ht!

Summer of '68, all right.

Give them a flea bath, quick.

There's a fine line between

There's a fine line between

pogo dancing and fighting.

And the fact that if you see

somebody you know...

Come up, come here Dutch.

If you see some, somebody

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