Xanadu

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Ah, what the hell. Guys like

me shouldn't dream anyway

I'm alive

And the world shines for me today

I'm alive

Suddenly I am here today

Seems like forever from today

Thought I could never feel this way

Is this really me

I'm alive

I'm alive

I'm alive

And the dawn breaks across the sky

I'm alive

And the sun rises up so high

Lost in another world far away

Never another world from today

But what can I say

I'm alive

I'm alive

Suddenly came the dawn from the night

Suddenly I was born unto light

How can it be real I'm alive

I'm alive

I'm alive

I'm alive

And the world shines for me today

I'm alive

Suddenly I am here today

Seems like forever from today

Thought I could never feel this way

Is this really me

I'm alive

I'm alive

I'm alive

I'm alive

I'm alive

I'm alive

What the...

Hey, Sonny... Never thought

we'd see you back here again

I'm not exactly thrilled about it

You said this place made you crazy

I decided I'd rather

be crazy than hungry

"The calculation is sensitive to

the time you plan to own your house

The factor increases if you pay

off your mortgage in five years"

Five years?

He'd be lucky if he

paid off the movers

Who could pay off a

house in only five years?

Rock stars don't even need

that long. They pay cash

A million dollars, man? See

my manager. I'm busy, you know?

- Last one in, first one home

- Hey, it's Sonny

It's Michelangelo Malone

Michelangelo,

the ceiling needs painting

All right, that's enough

The great Sonny Malone

returns to AirFlo Records

welcomed by cheering

throngs of thousands

Art world fails to suffer.

News at 11:
00

Cut it out. You know I wouldn't

come back unless I had to

- We were all really pulling for you

- Yeah, like one of us breaking away

Really doing it

Yeah, no paint by numbers, no

assembly line art. What happened?

It's what didn't happen. No bread

- I fought it, that's for sure

- Don't worry

I spend my whole life paintin'

what other people want

I paint his van...

I paint somebody else's mural...

I paint Simpson's album covers

Then when I finally

quit to freelance

not only do I almost starve to death

but I can't figure

out what I wanna do

- You can try again

- You will, won't you?

Ah, look who decided to drop in.

Where's your white flag?

You have a way with words,

Simpson. You know that?

Same old wiseass attitude. I thought

we discussed this on the phone

when I decided to take you back

We did. But I have one question...

Why the hell did you take me back?

Simple. You're good. And you're

the fastest painter around

But this time no more artsy-craftsy

Sonny Malone touches, huh?

Just enlarge the album cover

the way I give it to you

Am I coming in loud and clear?

- Yeah

- Good. Here

You're on your way to your

next masterpiece. Get started

That's great, isn't it? Picasso

only gets to be called a genius

I get to be called the

fastest painter around

Hey, Sonny, I have this

terrific friend. You interested?

Not right now. Hey

Ooh, she's great lookin'

I think that's this crazy

girl. I just ran into

- Yeah?

- I was walkin' through the park

She nearly ran over me.

Then she kissed me

Let's hear the X-rated version

- What did you do?

- Nothing. She took off

She took off? Come on! Is

this the same Sonny Malone

that drives women crazy?

I'm gonna find out who she is

- You mean right now?

- You're gonna be a successful artist

- You're nuts!

- Simpson's gonna kill him

Listen, Sonny, I told ya.

I don't know who she is

She never filed a W-2

and she never got a cheque

If I never paid her,

she doesn't exist

What do you mean? I'm lookin' at

her. She's on the Nine Sisters' album

Not if I didn't pay her she isn't!

Down here at me.

Now look to your right

Yeah, that's good. Listen,

Sonny, I don't know who she is

How can you not know?

You took the picture

Listen, this sounds strange

but there wasn't supposed

to be a model on this cover

I snapped maybe 100 shots

In one of them this girl

just jumped into frame

The next time I saw her

was on the contact sheets

I liked it, so I used it.

That's the whole story

- She just appeared?

- No, appeared then disappeared

Don't go spreading this around.

This is one of my best covers

Why do you want to know

who she is, anyway?

I like her

Hey, Lou...

You seen her around here?

No. Pretty Hey, you're single, right?

Let me show you my daughters

That's great. I'm gonna go look

where. I saw her this morning

Get a balloon

Seventy-five cents

- I'll meet you later

- All right

- Hi I'll take one, please

- Hi

- There you go

- See ya

All right, come on now

Hey, mister. What are

you doin' up there?

Hope you don't mind a

little noontime music, kid

A little lunchtime serenade?

I don't mind. It's kinda nice

I'm just wondering where

they laid out the body

I mean, you got something

a little more upbeat?

Sure

- Better?

- At least it's faster

- Here, give me a hand

- Sure

Boy, they sure don't make

rocks like they used to

- Want some popcorn?

- Yeah, thanks

- You work around here, kid?

- Pretty near. I'm at AirFlo Records

You in the music business? Are you

a record producer? A sound engineer?

No. I'm sort of a painter

You, you paint at a record business?

Not exactly. What I do is a...

I duplicate record covers

Why?

I make album covers bigger

so you can hang them

outside of record stores

Promotion. Sounds like

an interesting job, huh?

Yeah. Sounds like you should

take real long lunch hours

- You got it

- I used to be in the music business

Now I'm retired

It's a refined name for "bum"

I don't believe it

Hey, wait a minute!

- Hey, kid, wait up!

Where are you goin'?

Hey you!

Come on! Hold on!

I gotta borrow this.

I'll bring it back

- Sure

- If you bring it back in person

You got it

Hey!

Hey, wait a minute!

Where are you going?

Take that bike off the pier!

Holy sh*t!

Whoo!

You're a real Errol Flynn, kid

What other stunts do you do?

Man, this whole thing

is screwin' me up

- What whole thing?

- Ah, nothin'

Come on, have a cup of coffee

Sometimes the best person

to tell something to is a stranger

Go on. What's on your mind?

Okay

I run into this girl this morning.

Never saw her before in my life

She kisses me and disappears

- So what's so weird about that?

- What's weird about that is

ten minutes later I see her on an

album cover I'm supposed to paint

I mean, that's crazy, right?

If I said it sounded crazy,

would you stop looking for her?

- No

- Then why ask?

So I'll keep lookin' for her

Okay, but take a tip from me

What's that?

Don't look underwater any more

Thanks a lot

- Hey, Al, where you goin'?

- Sonny,

- it's good to see you, man

- How you doin'?

How could I go wrong with

the paint job you did on my van?

And the chicks love it

It's one of the finer

examples of my work

- It's beautiful, man

- Where you headed?

- Eas. Where you goin'?

- West

- I'll give you a ride

- No, that's cool

- Forget it. I owe you one

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