We Are Kings Page #2

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me

for the both of us.

God

dammit don't you say

no damn prayer for me,

that's the last thing I need.

Well open mike

at the bowling alley.

I'll be back tomorrow

to clean out.

Um Mr. King,

I have to go to lunch.

But Mr. Berman will be

right back and get you.

You're going out to lunch?

What am I supposed to

do, just wait here?

Mr. Berman

is very busy today.

I know it's one of his

really busy days, sorry.

Alright, I'll just wait.

Mr.?

What do you want?

I'm IB King, we

had an appointment.

We talked three days ago and

you told me to come on down.

Who did

you say you were?

IB King.

Ok good,

nice to meet you.

You saw us play

in Moon Mississippi

at the Bucket.

You told me to come on down.

Well have a seat.

Thank you.

Tell

me what you got.

I need a deal to

be honest with you.

I need a good record deal

and I got lots of songs.

I'm just trying to get

Excuse

me one second please.

Hello Berman, I

can't do that now.

Can't talk now, bye.

Some people just don't give up.

Ok.

Alright

so what do you got?

Let me hear something.

I got some original

songs, got plenty of 'em.

No not that

one, I don't like that.

That's not commercial

enough anymore.

I got other songs you know.

Let me go back.

Well it's

What?

What else you got?

How about a

little slower one?

Berman here,

Ok hold on a second.

Excuse me IB, I need

to take this call.

Can you got out in

the waiting room

for a couple of minutes?

And I'll get right back to you.

Hit me again.

Ok listen,

come on old boy.

You give me one mo'?

No, no that's it.

you're

completely sloshed.

This is America,

this is America.

You're a danger

to society, alright now.

Announcer in Green

Our next act is

a young girl with a bruiser

of a name, Layla Knuckles.

Let's hear it for Layla.

Lordy Lordy, I'm out of gas.

Oh my Lord.

Announcer in Green

I don't know where

this next guy comes from.

But he says he's

from way down south

and after listening to him talk,

he made a believer out of me!

Let's hear it for Dustin Ladue.

Alright.

So, think I'm

like the only one here

in El Paso who

doesn't have a car.

That makes two of us.

Wait, what

happened to your car?

Doesn't everybody

here have like a car?

Well I came

up here from Louisiana

to work with my uncle

and he was letting me

borrow his car but

he got all in my face

and yelled at me

and he fired me.

I guess it just wasn't

my destiny you know?

Hm, your destiny,

what do you mean by that?

I listen pretty

carefully to the man upstairs

and he usually has a

pretty good plan for me.

But without a home,

it's gonna be hard.

Wait, so

you're like homeless?

I guess I am.

Me too.

Hell I give up.

I'm just gonna die.

This must be what it feel like.

You just fall asleep.

Sing it baby!

Amazing!

Why'd you have

to leave Lilly?

Why'd you have to

leave me like this?

Right down here.

It's freezing out here.

Hey, do you hear that?

Is there

another club out here?

No there's not.

Wait a minute, are you

sure you don't hear that?

Am I going crazy?

People laughing and

blues music, it's loud.

Really, I

don't hear anything.

Something

wrong with your ears?

No

Maybe something's

wrong with my ears.

Let's go towards the music.

We might be able to find a ride.

Why'd you have

to leave Lilly?

Why'd you have to

leave me like this?

What makes you

think I've gone anywhere?

'Bout to die, go away!

Do you really

want to freeze to death

and just die out here?

Hell no, what choice I got?

You have the

choice between believing

in something as opposed

to believing in nothing.

The last gig is in Moon with me.

At our place.

Holy cow!

It's somebody.

Sure is!

Oh my gosh

I think it's dead.

It's a he

and he's alive.

And dead drunk too we gotta

get him out of this cold.

He's gonna freeze to death.

He's got a guitar too.

Come on sir, gotta

get 'cha out of this cold.

Wow, I'm worn to

a frazzle and he's heavy!

He's out and

snores like a truck.

He must be really uncomfortable

with his leg like that.

I can't believe this.

I lost my job,

can't use the car,

had to walk to town,

then we walked down here.

I hear this music

coming out of nowhere,

that you can't even hear.

I don't know about you, but

I gotta see who this guy is.

What do you think ?

You want to stay here?

Well, why not?

We can't leave the

guy here alone.

Besides Layla, do you

really wanna go back home

to your serial killer

step father any way?

No way.

Oh God, these

guitars come from?

That ain't mine,

what's going on here?

Hands up, I got a weapon here!

Hey Hey Hey Hey!

Calm down, we saved

your butt last night!

You're lying to me kid!

You were gonna

freeze out there!

We saved your life.

You were sitting out

there just drunk.

We thought you were

dead, we drug you in here

and then we crashed.

Aw naw, that's not

true, where are we?

Illinois.

What do you want money?

You didn't take any

of my money did you?

No, we want a ride

and we saw that you only

had two dollars in there.

Well, where you

want a ride up the road?

That would be no problem.

I play music too,

we could play together.

You a musician?

Last thing in the world I need!

Here's 50 dollars.

I don't know.

I'll take it!

What about you Goldilocks?

I'm going to

my aunt's in Missouri.

I can't have no young

thang running away now.

I'm 21 actually.

21 you look like you 15.

Here's 20 bucks for gas.

I don't usually

take money from minors

but you

can ride, alright!

Knuckles, we

should write a song

about our experiences

on the road.

So I got this old

swamp groove in A

that we used to

play on the front

porches down in the Delta.

It's gonna be a A and it's

gonna groove from that.

And it's gonna go G to

be B, and then the chorus

section is gonna be B

back to A, B back to A.

And it's just.

Can you feel that?

Yeah.

sing it

from the heart, here we go.

This thing's loud!

And it shakes like one of those

vibrating beds my

uncle used to have.

That's alright, don't

talk about the bucket man.

It's been well

preserved, we babied it.

And everything works.

My uncle's got the gout.

Do you have the gout?

Do I have gout?

What kind of question that?

You gone ask me if I have gout!

He's got those

big feet like you.

Huge, what size

shoe do you wear?

A plank and a half.

Hey, what's this?

Don't touch that!

That's a complicated

piece of equipment.

Don't ever touch that

without my permission,

not ever!

I was just curious.

Speaking of which, what

are we gonna do for dinner?

We!

I gotta feed you and

Goldilocks back there?

I ain't worrying about her

but from the looks of you

I got to worry about you though.

You should too,

'cause I eat like a tank!

Well you better buy

your own bullets then.

You know that little

bit of money you two

gave me gone run out.

It's only gonna get about

another hundred miles.

I got to do something

gotta get gas and food.

Thought I'd never

have to do this again!

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