The Last Five Years Page #5

and these people, they ask me

the same things every time.

"How did you and Jamie meet?

What's Jamie like?"

Baby, I'm so sorry they ask you

the same questions.

No one would notice if I didn't go.

You beg me to go and you abandon me

and I stand by the bar all night

and I'm drinking!

I'm holding my purse and I'm waiting

for somebody to come talk to me.

- You certainly don't talk to me!

- Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!

God, just stop and listen to me!

Can we just, for, like, two minutes,

have a conversation without you

contradicting everything I say?

Two minutes!

And then fine, you can

say whatever you want.

OK, look, there are people...

And they are publishing my book.

And there's a party

that they are throwing.

And while you've made it very

clear that you're not going,

I will be going.

And that's done.

But what's it really about?

Is it really about a party, Cathy?

Can we please,

for a minute, stop blaming

And say what you feel?

Is it just that you're disappointed

To be going again to Ohio?

Did you think

this would all be much easier

Than it's turned out to be?

Well, then talk to me, Cathy

Talk to me

If I didn't believe in you

We'd never have gotten this far

If I didn't believe in you

And all of the 10, 000 women you are

If I didn't think you could do

Anything you ever wanted to

If I wasn't certain

that you'd come through somehow

The fact of the matter is, Cathy

I wouldn't be standing here now

If I didn't believe in you

We wouldn't be having this fight

If I didn't believe in you

I'd walk out the door

and say, "Cathy, you're right"

But I never could let that go

Knowing the things about you I know

Things, when I met you four years ago

I knew

It never took much convincing

To make me believe in you

Don't we get to be happy, Cathy?

At some point down the line

Don't we get to relax

Without some new tsuris

To push me yet further from you?

And if I'm cheering on your side, Cathy

Why can't you support mine?

Why do I have to feel

I've committed some felony

Doing what I always swore I would do?

I don't want you to hurt

Hey, hey.

I don't want you to sink

But you know what I think?

I think you'll be fine

Just hang on and you'll see

But don't make me wait till you do

to be happy with you

Will you listen to me?

No one can give you courage

No one can thicken your skin

I will not fail

so you can be comfortable, Cathy

I will not lose because you can't win

If I didn't believe in you

And, and here's where

the travelogue ends

If I didn't believe in you

I couldn't have stood

before all of our friends

And said "This is the life I choose

This is the thing I can't bear to lose

Trip us or trap us

but we refuse to fall"

That's what I thought we agreed on

Cathy

If I hadn't believed in you

I wouldn't have loved you at all

Baby...

Baby, just... just

please, put on your dress,

and we'll go to this stupid party.

And we... Can you just do

that for me, Cathy, please?

Cathy? Where are you going?

Cathy? Cathy?!

Cathy! Stop!

Uh, you know they're gonna love me.

I'm sure they will.

Come on.

Hello, Mr. Hiatt.

Uh, may I please have pre-marital sex

with your daughter? Thank you.

Oh, my God!

My best friend had a little situation

At the end of our senior year

And like a shot she and Mitchell

got married that summer

Carol Ann getting bigger every minute

Thinking "What am I doing here?"

While Mitchell's out every night

being a heavy-metal drummer

They got a little cute house

on a little cute street

With a crucifix on the door

Mitchell got a job

at a record store in the mall

Just the typical facts of a typical life

In a town on the Eastern Shore

I thought about what I wanted

It wasn't like that at all

Made Carol Ann a cute baby sweater

Thinking I can do better than that

- Ow!

- Please just drive. Please just drive!

In a year or so I moved to the city

Thinking "What have I got to lose?"

Got a room, got a cat

and got 20 pounds thinner

Met a guy in a class I was taking

with some very well placed tattoos

He wouldn't leave me alone

'less I went with him to dinner

And I guess he was cute

and I guess he was sweet

And I guess he was good in bed

I gave up my life

for a better part of a year

So I'm starting to think

that this maybe might work

And the second it entered my head

He needed to take some time off

Focus on his career

He blew me off with a heartfelt letter

I thought, "I can do better than that"

You don't have to get a haircut

You don't have to change your shoes

You don't have to like Duran Duran

Just one song!

Just love me

You don't have to put the seat down

You don't have to watch the news

You don't have to learn to tango

You don't have to eat prosciutto

You don't have to change a thing

Just stay with me

I want you and you and nothing but you

Miles and piles of you

Finally, I'll have something worthwhile

To think of each morning

You and you and nothing but you

No substitution will do

Nothing but fresh undiluted and pure

Top of the line

And totally mine

I don't need any lifetime commitments

I don't need to get hitched tonight

I don't want you to throw up

all your walls and defenses

I don't mean to put on any pressure

But I know when a thing is right

And I spend every day

reconfiguring my senses

When we get to my house

take a look at that town

Take a look at how far I've gone

I will never go back

Never look back anymore

And it feels like my life

led right to your side

And will keep me there from now on

Think about what you wanted

Think about what could be

Think about how I love you

And say you'll move in with me

Think of what's great about me and you

Think of the bullshit

we've both been through

Think of what's past

because we can do better

We can do better

We can do better than that

We can do better than that

Hey, kid

Good morning

You look like an angel

I don't remember

When we fell asleep

We should get up, kid

Cathy is waiting

Look at us, lying here

Dreaming, pretending

I made a promise

And I took a vow

I wrote a story

And we changed the ending

Cathy, just look at me now

Hold on

Facts are facts

Just relax

Lay low

All right

The panic recedes

Nobody needs

To know

Put on my armor

I'm off to Ohio

Back into battle

Till I don't know when

Swearing to her that I

Never was with you

And praying

I'll hold you again

Hold on

Clip these wings

Things get out of hand

All right

It's over It's done

No one will understand

No one will understand

We build a tree house

I keep it from shaking

Little more glue

every time that it breaks

Perfectly balanced

And then I start making

The conscious

Deliberate mistakes

All that I ask for

Is one little corner

One private room

At the back of my heart

Tell her I found one

She sends out battalions

To claim it

And blow it apart

I grip and she grips

And faster we're sliding

Sliding and spilling

And what can I do?

Come back to bed, kid

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