Matt and Mara (2024) Movie Script

1
[Indistinct conversations]
[Bustling chatter, indistinct]
[Man] Yeah, last weekend.
[Woman talking, indistinct]
[Man] Mara!
Hey.
[Mara] Hi!
What's up?
What are you... What are
you doing here? [Laughs]
I-I came to see you.
This is not a coincidence.
Like, I didn't just
see you, and then...
I didn't just follow you here.
I was waiting over there with your...
with your students, is that what this is?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. This
is... This is my class.
Uh, how long... how
long are you in town?
A few weeks. Like,
I'm-I'm gonna be around.
Okay. I'll, uh, I'll
email you, all right?
Yeah, okay.
Great.
Uh, everyone can, uh,
come into the class now.
Have a good class.
[Student chatter, indistinct]
Sorry.
[Lights clicking on]
[Casual chatter, indistinct]
[Mara] Okay, so we're continuing
our unit on poetic grammar.
So...
prose is governed
differently than poetry...
by the rules of grammar.
Pardon me.
Um... [shuffling her notes]
but I find, uh,
whether or not you...
uh, intend to be a
professional poet, um...
the reading of
poetry can sensiti...
sensitize you, uh, to
the reading of prose.
And just as how,
when you look at
paintings in a museum,
and you re-enter
onto the street,
and you have a more heightened
awareness of, maybe, the ways
that the buildings intersect...
um...
when you're reading prose,
suddenly you'll be aware of
the choices in the grammar,
uh, that the writer's making.
[Mara] So you don't know
how long you're in town for?
[Traffic droning nearby]
I mean, I told
myself I would, like,
- finish the draft before I left.
- Mm-hmm.
I still have my
apartment in New York.
How often are you writing?
- Every day. When I'm not...
- Yeah?
Yeah... Wasting time,
walking around with people.
I have a whole cycle
of past friends,
old girlfriends,
who I'll just see.
I literally don't know
what it would feel like
to have that kind of arrogance
to think that I know
anything about what a...
another person's thinking.
Why is it arrogance,
and not just, like,
creative... imagination?
So you admit you're
imagining it...
you don't actually know?
- That's different. If you...
- I'm letting my imagination
reach my stupidity,
so it becomes reality.
What?
I'm letting my imagination
reach right to the level
of my own stupidity,
which makes it my reality.
Okay, well...
I don't think you
actually care about...
[Sighs] Ah, no.
It's... I'm trying to figure out
who's making who self-conscious.
Are you gonna even ask
about what I'm writing,
or is that totally
irrelevant to the...
I'm just trying to be...
I was being polite.
That's why I didn't ask.
Well, don't ask out
of politeness...
- I'm saying...
- Ask if you're interested.
I was not asking
out of politeness,
because it's quite rude
when somebody hasn't published
something for a while,
to be, like, "So what
are you writing?"
Haven't you read Wonder Boys?
I don't actually
feel embarrassed
that I haven't been publishing
- in a while.
- I'm not trying to push, but...
- Do you not want to know?
- Badly!
You keep backing
off really easily.
Because you are made of glass!
I'm not made o...
Please.
Are you going to be
extremely gentle and careful?
I'm gonna hold it
like a Faberg egg.
- Okay.
- With white gloves.
- Okay.
- And I'm a servant, so I know...
in Singapore,
where I know that if even, like,
the shadow touches
it, they'll behead me.
Okay.
So...
I think
the thing that I'm
really interested in
is...
like, a...
a person who...
[Quiet background music plays]
truly believes, um,
that they know nothing
about themselves.
Um, and that
all of their desires
are complete secrets from them,
and that these desires
could be revealed
at any moment
and ruin her life.
She feels as though her identity
could be radically
transformed beyond her control
without her having
any say in it?
Yes, exactly.
Like, I'm understanding
what you're saying.
Exactly.
This sounds great,
and it also sounds
very contemporary.
Like, people are gonna
be, like, "Oh, wow."
But the problem is
that it's, like...
[Background music volume
increases sharply]
it's just an idea,
like, I don't know how to...
like, I don't know
how to write that.
You'd have to get the audience
to understand what's happening.
No, not how to get the
audience to understand it...
like, literally... is the...
[Loudly] Is the music... is
the music getting louder?
Quite a bit. Quite a bit.
It's getting loud, yes.
[Mara, to staff] Excuse me?
[Rock music thumping]
Closed?
[Matt] Oh, you're closed.
Yeah, we're closed.
- Okay.
- Sorry.
Thanks for coming.
[Mara] Okay, you
could've just told us.
[Barista] Well, I mean,
it's the end of the day.
I like to put on some music. You
know, it's... Most people get it.
- Uh-huh.
- [Guitar rock thrashing]
Okay. Uh...
[Matt, quickly] We're going.
We're going. We're going.
[Barista] No, I mean, did
you guys want anything else?
I can get you another drink?
I mean, I don't
really know anyone
who drinks coffee after five.
The machine is... I mean,
I did kinda close it.
Look, we weren't meaning
to cause personal offense.
We were just having
a conversation...
- Oh no, no, no!
- And then you started...
It's fine, it's totally fine...
if you guys wanna hang out.
I mean, you guys were
having a conversation,
- I get it.
- Okay.
[Barista] It sounded
deep and important.
[Offended] Whoa...
We're so... We're so sorry.
No, it's fine. I mean,
just... I mean, most people...
If it was me, I'm thinking,
"Oh, I don't wanna bug this guy,
he's probably
working a double..."
All you had to say
was, "We're closing."
That's all you had to say.
I did. When I posted the sign.
And now this is... you're
being so aggressive.
You didn't even say,
"We're closing."
It's so unnecessary. Yeah, you
never said it. You just came...
I think I said it when
I flipped the sign.
- Now they're open again.
- Oh, is that how I did it?
Yeah.
[Mockingly] This is
you drinking coffee.
This is you drinking coffee. "Oh,
did you read my books? I'm so smart!"
Let's go. Let's go.
[Barista] Try
working for a living!
Yeah... okay. Oh,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Rock music thrashing]
[Barista] Bye... Karen.
[Strumming softly]
[]
[Door opens]
Hey.
What are you guys doing?
Uh, playing guitar.
Avery?
Is she playing?
She's, uh... trying to.
[Mara laughing]
- [Coos]
- No?
[Avery grunts]
Where'd it go?
[Strums]
Ding!
Usually, when people
say "family band,"
they don't mean "one
guitar, three people."
[Laughs]
[Avery] Fow!
"Four"?
- Fa...
- "Five."
- Six.
- "Six."
- Seven.
- "Seven."
[Bass line thumping]
[]
[Band jamming]
[]
[]
This is saying it's
a full hour longer
to cross through the
border at Kingston
than Niagara Falls.
[Dishes clatter in kitchen]
Samir?
This says it's a
full hour longer
if we were to cross
through Kingston
rather than Niagara Falls,
to get to Ithaca.
[Dishes continue clattering]
Can you hear me?
[Traffic rumbling in distance]
["Masquerade" by
Michaela Slinger plays]
In a hotel near a theme park
Since then I never
saw you the same
You broke down on
the cheap duvet
I knew you were afraid
But you used your anger
to cover up your fear
Just like a masquerade
Hey
Just little bit...
like, over the ear.
Hey, like a masquerade
Hey, like a masquerade...
[Shutter clicks]
Little bit up with
your chin. Yeah.
[Shutter clicks]
[Snapping]
[Snapping]
Leave it.
Little bit...
Little bit... yeah.
[Snapping]
[]
[Student] "Reality,
realness, fact,
proven in repetition,
with care, and with
kindness, passion,
and pure jubilation.
Love for what is real,
from your head to your heart,
with butterflies and with ease.
Step lightly, step forward,
in step and in time.
'Cause when love
fills the streets
with its bounty and its passion,
it colours our world."
There's an amazing, like,
drive behind that poem.
- Yeah.
- Like, an amazing force.
Um, when you say something
like "going deeper,"
maybe what that can mean is...
just look at, like,
really concrete examples.
Even just, like, in your... if
you're thinking about your poem,
and thinking about, like,
the movements of your day,
um, and how...
uh, this idea of love being
everything that
you're talking about
is... is present in
those... in those movements.
[Sighing]
[Sizzling]
- It's hot, eh?
- It's really hot.
Anyway, so...
they found out about each
other being cheated on
mid-air...
in the plane.
Mm!
Isn't that crazy?
Imagine just getting off a plane
and your entire life
is completely changed.
- [Spoon clinking]
- They're both...
Who are these people
that you know?
I don't know them. They're
friends of friends.
There's just this
Paul Mooney joke...
I don't know why it came
to my head. I'll let it go.
No, no, what is it?
He said that, um...
he said that, uh,
like, White people
would rather kill each other
than break up with
their partners.
[Both laughing]
Like, it just makes
me think of that.
It's, like, after seven years, you don't
think that you should just maybe say
that you don't wanna get married
to this person? Like, come on.
Hmm.
[Sizzling]
Have you ever, like,
known two people
that were such good friends
that they're basically
known for being friends?
Like, they're...
they're always together.
It's basically...
Uh, like high-school stuff?
Yeah. It's basically
their most remarkable quality
is that they're friends
with each other.
Mm-hmm.
- And then...
- [Laughs] That's kind of an insult.
[Laughs] No, because, like,
a friendship like
that is remarkable.
True.
- You know?
- Yeah.
- So...
- Yeah, what is it?
So, then...
one day, they're just
not friends anymore.
Don't you feel like...
then it's kind of like
each of those people...
Mm-hmm?
Is sort of a fraud?
Like, there's something...
That they drifted apart?
No.
Sure.
But, I mean...
more what I mean
is, like, how can...
how can it have been the case
that they were these
friends and, like, not...
not even necessarily for
these reasons that you say,
of, like, something
super-honest,
or something super-shared
between them,
but they just are
really good friends,
and then, just as mysteriously,
they're not really as
good friends anymore?
Is that what...
are you thinking about that 'cause
of the story I just told you?
Like, why did that pop into your
mind after I told you the story?
Okay, sweetie.
I'll be back really soon, okay?
[Avery whimpers,
then starts crying]
No, it's okay. Shh. Thanks.
[Bawling]
All right, I'd better slip out
before this gets much worse.
[Samir] All right.
[Avery shrieks]
[Crying]
[Mara] See you soon.
[Mara] So, I was invited
to the literary conference
in Ithaca...
to, like, host
one of the panels.
Like, I guess they asked
me to do it because I...
I don't know, I
think it's about...
like, theatrical adaptation,
or something like that.
- Uh-huh.
- And...
Anyways, they asked
me to ho... [coughs]
host it.
And I'm kind of, like...
I don't understand
how this... like,
these, sort of social writer...
- Yeah.
- Events work.
I don't know. To me...
I would rather, like...
I would rather eat this
fork than go to one...
[Laughing]
I think, at this point, but
it's because I've, like...
Why? Because you've
gone to so many?
I've gone to a bunch already,
so it's, like, kind of, like,
I don't feel, like,
curiosity or excitement
about the experience.
It's always, like, a bit...
sad, and a bit,
maybe, horny also.
Like... because I
think everyone's, like,
so excited to be
out of the house.
Do people really have
affairs at those things?
100 percent!
I heard that people have
affairs at, um, residencies.
Oh, my god! That's, like,
90% of what they're for...
I think, for other people.
[Laughing]
Yeah.
Just because it's, like,
you're away from home.
Mm-hmm.
You spend... like...
like you're saying, like,
- I think writing is...
- You can justify it
because you're having
such a deep, invested,
artistic experience.
Yeah! You're spending
late nights at the bar
talking about your... you know,
the areas of your expertise
with people who give a shit
and who aren't, like,
your family, or whatever.
Mm-hmm.
And so, there's...
there's a real, like...
"what happens in
Vegas" kind of energy,
except that it's
not... it's not...
"What happens at MacDowell..."
Yeah, exactly!
"Stays in the forest
of New Hampshire."
Isn't that...?
It's less glamorous,
because you're all, like...
you know, when you turn the
lights on, everyone's a poet.
Like, it's not... [laughing]
It's not very sexy.
[Student] So I thought, "why don't I
just pivot and try a personal narrative
with all these themes combined,
and see where it goes?"
So that's when I
came up with this.
Mm-hmm. No, I think
it really works.
And...
And I think, um, not
having to say everything
and allowing there
to be gaps in time...
I really... I really
like the ellipsis.
- [Knocking at door]
- [Calls out] Uh, yep?
H-Hey.
- [Off-guard] Hi.
- Sorry, I didn't, uh...
Yeah, no, I'm just
with a student.
Yeah. Shou...
Should I come back?
I just...
Uh... yeah, no. Sure.
I'll wait outside.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- [Door thuds]
- Sorry about that interruption.
Um, we could always
reschedule if...
No, no, no. Um...
you...
you had a question
for me, though?
Yes, I did.
So, you know, I wrote this
as stream of consciousness,
and I noticed
that I don't write in compound
and complex sentences...
Very brave!
You think it's dirty?
I wouldn't do that in New York.
Wh... Oh! You
completely cleared it!
There was no contact.
Like... you didn't
get wet at all.
That was amazing.
We're gonna practice
your charm, all right?
Smile at everybody
who passes us.
Okay.
In a way that you're trying
to get them to smile back.
- Okay.
- Ready? This lady here.
- Okay.
- Even with the mask.
- No.
- That was it.
She smiled back at me!
Is that all it takes?
Yep.
I'm gonna do it again.
Try this one here.
Look at that.
Nah, she looked away.
[Chuckles] Like that.
Mm... that's too "surfer."
Okay, you're being funny. No.
- No? Okay.
- If that...
That was... Yeah!
That's pleasant.
- Yeah?
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
The top teeth.
See, when we smile together,
we give off a, um...
Jesuit priest...
or, like, like, door-to-door
"Bible salesman" vibe.
We are... It has to
be one person smiling.
Okay.
Let's try.
Hello. Hi.
How are you? Oh, you
have the tape on you!
- Oh, no, watch out.
- Oh, it got you.
[Laughing]
[Woman] Now do we go?
Oh, please. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah? All right, thank
you! Have a good day.
Bye.
[Chuckling]
See, that's how
you get the smiles.
- [Traffic droning]
- [Passersby chatting]
[Laughs]
[Matt] Obviously, yeah.
Up straight...
a little more forward.
- Sure.
- Thank you.
- [Shopkeeper] Okay.
- [Matt] Hold on one second.
Is this actually gonna
go on your passport...
the photo you take right
now? I'm asking you for real.
[Mara] Why would
I be doing this?
Okay.
Well, then, come on,
let's do it right.
We don't want you getting
turned away at the border.
Okay.
- [Snapping]
- Great.
Okay.
[Shopkeeper] Good.
May I ask you... where
are you heading to?
Once you-you get your passport?
Um...
Mexico.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
Wonderful.
Have you been there before?
- Uh, no.
- No?
- Mm.
- Is this, uh, correct?
- No.
- You like this?
Uh...
Which one you like...
this... or this?
Well, yeah, the one
with the eyes...
- Oh, okay.
- Do I get to pick?
- [Mara] Can we do his now?
- [Shopkeeper] What?
[Mara] Can we do his now?
Well, if he wants
to go to Mexico...
- [Laughing]
- As long as...
okay, now.
- Great!
- Take those off.
- One, two...
- Mara!
You know, I'm trying
to take this seriously.
- I see.
- Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Uh, okay, one, two...
- [Snickering]
- No. Please...
[Matt] Can she...
can you move her?
- Uh...
- Can she go somewhere else?
Yes.
Okay, one, two...
- [Snapping]
- Great!
There it is!
No, no, no, the one
before, the one before.
There. Look at that.
That's a dust jacket!
- No, no.
- No, no, no, no.
Don't be ridiculous,
that's me looking...
- Mara.
- No.
[Matt] That is... that's...
that's celebrity status.
[Mara] No, it's to
identify yourself.
- It needs to be square on.
- Hold on.
[Matt] Mm-hmm. I'll be right
back, I'll be right back.
- Okay.
- I'm good with any of them!
[Door bell jangles]
Um... maybe I'll do
one more for myself.
[Shopkeeper] Yeah, okay. Sure.
Does he work too much?
[Mara] Um...
he takes himself a-a
bit too seriously.
[Shopkeeper] Mm.
He's a writer.
- Oh, that's why...
- Yeah.
He has a lot of
imagine... imagination.
Yeah.
Okay, one, two...
three...
May I ask, uh, how long have
you been married with him?
[Mara] It's, uh,
seven years now, yeah.
Seven years.
Oh.
Yeah, your relationship
seems young.
Mm.
Yeah.
- Okay.
- [Snapping]
[Bell jingles]
What'd I miss?
[Shopkeeper] You wife says
that you don't like photos.
Who says?
Your wife.
She said I don't like photos?
That you don't like photos.
I don't... I don't know.
- I'll talk to her about that.
- Yeah.
I'll talk to her.
Honey...
why are you telling
this nice man
that I don't, uh, like photos?
He called me your wife and
I just went along with it.
You went with it.
Yeah.
Don't get upset.
Do I seem upset?
How long did you say
we're married for?
Seven years.
Oh, so since undergrad?
- Mm.
- Uh-huh.
So it's, like, we
graduated, got married.
[Shopkeeper] Photos are ready.
Ah. Thank you.
[Matt] Thanks a lot, man.
[Shopkeeper] Yeah. Have a
good trip. Yeah, take care.
There was this guy
that was at a show
we played in Leipzig,
the night before,
and would stand
directly in front of me
and was just, like,
blowing smoke in my face.
- Really?
- And who do... Yeah.
- Do you remember?
- I'm... I'm telling you...
I can't believe that you
don't remember all this stuff
that is, like,
burned into my mind.
- [Laughter]
- Yeah, I don't...
This guy was such
a piece of shit,
and was doing all these sort of
weird, like, kinda performative,
like... like, macho stuff,
and it was, like, he was only
doing it to Amanda and I.
- Hmm.
- And then...
but then, after the show,
was, like, "You are
amazing. I love your band."
- I do remember this guy.
- [Laughter]
And then followed us to
the next show in Halle,
- and then...
- What?
[Friend] For "cellular chaos,"
this band that played
after us, that was, like,
a punk band with this,
like, frontwoman...
he kept trying to
do the same thing,
and then she just literally
beat the shit out of him.
- What?
- Like, during her set!
- Whoa.
- You don't remember any of that?
- Wow.
- Yeah, I don't know...
Samir was having a
tough time on that tour.
Yeah. Yes, I was.
- Yeah.
- I was really sick, yeah.
Have you guys... Have you guys
seen anything good lately?
- No.
- I feel like
I don't really see you
guys at shows that often.
No, I haven't really
seen anything in a while.
I don't really listen to music.
- Really?
- No!
[Laughter]
But it's not like you avoid it.
It's not, like...
Like, I don't ever...
You're, like, in a shop and you're,
like, "Turn it off," kind of thing?
[Mara] Like, I feel
like I don't have
an intellectual
response to music.
- Hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
But I think it's supposed
to be an emotional one.
[Mara] Mm-hmm.
I mean, like, you get
it from other stuff.
Mm-hmm.
Like, it's not for a lack of...
like, you know, you... you
have a full life, right?
[Laughter]
[Mara] Yeah. I mean,
I can hear music.
- Sure.
- Like, when it's playing.
Yeah, yeah.
So, you know how,
like, when you...
when you watch a musical...
Mm-hmm.
And you're, like,
"That's crazy. That
doesn't make any sense..."
Mm-hmm.
When they break out into song?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm.
That's how I feel
about all music.
[Laughs] Like, they
broke out deliberately?
[Laughter]
What are we all
doing here? Let's...
- Ouch!
- Yeah, yeah.
[Mara] No, I don't
think it's, like,
a spiritual deficit
or something.
- Right.
- Sure, sure.
- Of course not. Of course not.
- Or a spiritual deficiency.
- No.
- There is a blockage.
So, there must... like, if
something doesn't, like...
if you don't listen to, uh...
I don't know, like,
just a hit track
that, like, works for you...
But why does it
make me deficient
that I can't feel it for music?
Mm, because I think
that sound is...
like, that music produces
is part of, like,
your everyday life.
Like, you know?
I mean, so is
language, so is images.
- Yeah, I'm not...
- Music is pre-language.
You know, like, I think that's
kind of partially what it is...
it's, like, music is so...
yeah, before language...
[Mara] So you guys
think that language...
music is more elemental...
- Yes.
- More fundamental?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
That was the word I was thinking.
It was, like... it's elemental.
It's like the sun on your face.
- Mm.
- Yeah.
Like, do you not like
the sun on your face?
- [Laughter]
- I... yeah, I hate... I hate sun.
I hate sun.
I'm not saying they
were being nasty,
but it was a little bit intense,
all of their inquiries
being directed toward me
and me having to figure
out how to explain myself.
Or when Andrew was, like,
"It's kinda weird that
you're married to him
when you don't like
music." You know?
Yeah, but that
kinda makes sense.
You think I don't like music?
Uh...
Well, I'm sorry that I
ruined your good time.
You don't have to apologize.
Or fake apologize.
[Keys clacking]
- Is it good?
- Mm-hmm.
Bye.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
[Smooch]
Why don't we begin, um...
by...
someone sharing, uh,
a line of the poem
or a part of the poem
that affected them the most?
The poem... it does
a good job at...
kind of embodying, in words,
the true nature of love,
'cause it's not rational.
I really like the part that...
where you said something
along the lines of,
like, um, "Does it
make you shiver?"
And then you asked
again, "Does it?"
Like, really
questioning the reader,
and really, like...
I don't know.
Just really pushing them
and, like, really
making them think
about the questions
you're asking.
It could be interesting
for you, um, to try,
um, some different
styles of line break
with the poem that you have,
and maybe see how
that makes you, uh...
rediscover it or rethink, uh,
different parts of
what you're saying.
Okay.
Um, and maybe it'll return,
and this will be, um,
the version that makes
the most sense for you.
But it would be... it might be an
interesting exercise to try that out.
[Door creaking]
No, that's definitely
not too tight.
If you were to go a size
up, it'd be way too big.
But I like the color on you.
It's pretty.
It's not too bunched
up down here?
Mm... maybe try tucking it in?
[Store music plays
faintly in background]
Yeah.
Yeah, I like that.
[]
[Woman] Hi, Mara.
- Hi, how are you?
- I'm good. How are you doing?
- Good. Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you too.
Why don't you help yourself?
Maybe I will.
- There's not much left, though.
- Dig in.
[Indistinct background chatter]
That's Spikeball.
That's Spikeball.
I know pickleball
well... I love it.
Those are nice sunglasses.
[Chuckles]
[Matt] This looks cool.
Who are you?
Congratulations, Sean.
- Thank you. Thanks for coming.
- Yeah. No, my pleasure.
Hi.
- Hi.
- How are you?
I'm good. How are you?
Um... I might have done
something a little bit unwise,
where I brought Matt
with me to the party.
Where is he?
I think he's talking
to Professor Burke
in the hot tub.
Oh, my god. Oh, no! [Chuckles]
I think she started
the day in there.
Like, when I arrived,
she looked comfortable,
and also...
completely dehydrated.
[Laughing]
I don't know if she
has any, like...
moisture left in her body.
Hi, Catherine.
Oh, your ears must
have been burning.
Mara, hi.
[Chuckling]
We just... we were
just talking about you.
- [Mara] How are you?
- I'm fine. I see you brought a friend.
She dragged our whole story
out of me within seconds.
I hope Matt was a...
was a steel trap.
I was ever the diplomat.
I was ever the diplomat.
Mm.
She was asking what
makes you laugh,
and I was, like, "Oh, lots,
she's got the soul of a child.
A lot makes her laugh."
Uh...
um, it's a really
beautiful home.
Thank you. I hope you're
enjoying the party.
It was about time we had all
these wonderful people here
to celebrate the day today.
[Mara] Um, and
celebrate Sean's paper.
It sounds really interesting.
It's on-on Chaucer,
on religious
iconography in Chaucer.
- It sounds riveting.
- Um...
[Matt] I'm here to celebrate
the paper, too, yeah.
- Mm. Really...
- Let's find him.
- Let's read it.
- Really incredible.
- Let's... yeah, let's get it.
- Yeah.
- Let's find it.
- You might learn something.
Good to see you.
[Matt] Thank you.
[Quietly] Okay,
who is that woman?
[Hushed] She's the
head of the department!
Don't pretend you don't
know who she is...
you made a beeline for her
as soon as you got here.
Oh, you're crazy. Oh, my gosh!
I went... she's in a hot tub.
I had no idea who she was.
What are you talking about?
You told her I have
"the soul of a child"?
No, she said, what
makes you laugh?
Oh, oh, oh, oh. No,
you... I was... she was...
Why are you telling her I
have "the soul of a child"?
- That's not...
- You... You...
Like, she's not
gonna understand...
- Excuse me.
- Hi, sorry.
That makes me sound
fucking insane.
That makes me sound insane.
Mar, she was grill...
You're going on... You're
going on... Don't, okay...
I don't have "M" s.
You don't have "M" s?
I don't have "M"s on my palms. I'm the
only person I know that doesn't have "M"s.
I... I don't actually...
I don't actually know
what you're talking about.
Wow, your palms are hectic.
"Hectic"?
Look at this chaos.
- Oh, whoa.
- Oh, no...
There's a lot going on in there!
Trouble. That's scary!
Are you both... Is
this a woman thing?
- Yeah, it's a woman thing.
- Well, you know what I mean.
- Look at this.
- You girls get together
and you... it's like witchcraft.
Yeah, we start "divining."
Yeah. Yeah, that's it.
- Yeah, yeah.
- You know what?
This little Italian
lady told me a trick...
when you get a gold necklace,
you have your hand open,
you dip it three times.
Let it swing. Let it stand.
If it swings back and
forth, that means "boy."
Circular, that means "a girl,"
and you keep doing it
until it actually stops,
but it has to be
a gold necklace.
This happen to you?
Yeah. She was dead-on.
It worked?
Two boys, and then it stopped.
Factory's closed.
Everybody's laid off.
[Laughter]
Does anyone have a gold chain?
You wanna do it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can we use it?
Sure.
Ooh...
[Mara] This is how we'll
find out if it's true,
- 'cause I have a daughter.
- Hold the palm very flat.
Good. Nice.
[Everyone] One...
Two...
Three...
- It started spinning!
- Yeah!
- Oh, it's a circle!
- Wow...
And I have... no, I have a girl!
Ooh.
Okay, that's a little spooky.
[Matt] Okay, now the second one.
[All] One...
Two...
Three...
[Matt] Okay, it's going
straight back and forth.
"Boy."
Okay, there's a boy coming, Mar.
Okay.
- Ready?
- Do it again.
[Matt] One...
[Others joining in] Two...
Three...
That's it.
- Dang.
- Whoa!
There you have it.
Can we burn the necklaces?
- [Laughter]
- Thank you.
- Who else wants to try it?
- That's a great party trick.
Matt?
You have not met him,
and you're not even gonna
admit that you've not met him.
- If you'd ever met...
- I know he's short!
Had met him... You are actually
able to remember someone
differently than they
are. Y-You like to...
You like to, kind
of, in your memory,
take a man and-and...
and distort him.
I'm not distorting
this guy, because,
the only thing I
remember about this guy
is that he was a short musician
with shoes so small,
I thought you were taking
care of your nephew.
I couldn't believe it.
I thought... you know
what I was worried about?
His balance!
Until I saw him.
And I thought, "Okay,
it makes sense."
You've never seen him.
His, um, center of gravity
is a foot and a half
above... above the ground.
His center of gravity!
I know
that you hate handsome men.
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
And so...
Okay!
And so, this is a thing
that you need to do.
[Matt snickering]
You need to kind of, like,
weirdly distort other
men in your mind...
My memory's true.
Because you find male beauty,
like, very disturbing.
I remember this about you.
It gets tangled up in gender.
Like, no, I remember,
every time you encounter,
like, a really beautiful man,
you need to, like, say
that he has a freakish jaw,
or you need to say
that he has, like,
deeply-set eye sockets.
Like, you come up...
or you're, like...
I just... I just
say it's a waste.
Or, no! Remember that guy that
I thought was really handsome,
that you just kept
telling me he had a limp?
He did!
He didn't have a limp!
But you just had to
say that he had a limp.
He had a limp.
You're remembering
these handsome men
through rose-colored glasses.
You've done the same
with your husband.
You've stretched him
out like Silly Putty.
Was he still growing?
Is that what's going on?
Like, was he so young
that he hadn't fully
gone through puberty?
Now he's... he's... he's
evened out at-at a 5'5"?
I remember him trying to touch my face,
and this is what it looked like...
this is his arm extended,
and he was just trying
to touch my face.
You've never met him!
Mara, he met me, and he said,
"Oh, you're growing
a bit of a beard."
He reached up... the full
extension of his arm.
And this is him...
and his fingers were
brushing my chin, like this.
I'm serious.
This book, to me,
is so emblematic
of, like, a particular
time in Canadian literature
that gives me, like,
a rash to think about.
[Laughing]
Just, like, when
everyone was, like...
losing their minds
over the idea that, like...
like, a man could feel bad
about the times that he
hurt someone's feelings.
- Like...
- Yeah.
And then write about it...
that that was, like,
the most insight
that you could get out of,
like, any literature at all.
That it was like...
you know, everyone had to,
like, trip over their dicks
to be, like, "This is the
smartest person alive,
and the most empathetic."
Okay. I mean...
like, as I say, we
weren't all duped.
He is a very charismatic person
and he's also a very
generous person.
- Mm-hmm.
- And...
I don't know.
He real... he really,
like, engages young people.
And is... and very...
candid, you know?
He doesn't place
himself at a, kind of...
uh, distance from them...
like, he gets excited.
Okay, the one thing I
will say about that...
and I don't think that
this necessarily means
that you, like, shouldn't
bring him to your class...
but it's something
to think about...
which is the fact that,
like, when he comes in there,
and when you're, like,
"This is my friend,
this is, like, my peer,
this is... "whatever,
you do become kind
of responsible
for him and for his behaviour.
Yeah.
And I feel, like, just
given what we know about him
as, like, a public
figure, about the...
the themes that he's
interested in...
the stuff that you're
saying even about,
like, how he wants
to kind of, like,
"shake people out of
their complacency,"
or whatever... like...
I do actually understand
what you're saying
about that being, like,
an invigorating thing,
or whatever, but...
and I've had that experience,
too, of just, like...
you know, when
you're with somebody
who's, like, so
different from you,
and who maybe just, like,
injects, like, an
energy into your life,
that you feel excited by it.
But... they go away...
and then you still have
to live your own life.
And, like, I feel
like, in the classroom,
what that is is, like...
you know, he comes in, and
he says a bunch of shit,
and stirs things up,
and makes it crazy,
and then, he leaves,
and everyone's looking at you,
and you have to kind
of answer for it.
[Mara] So, we'll go down by
the adult learning center,
into the DVP,
across the bridge, to
go to this nature path?
[Samir] Okay.
I'm gonna time the run.
- Okay.
- All right.
Can we keep together
on the run, though?
Yeah.
Because when you run
just ahead of me,
it feels like you're
pushing me to go faster.
- Okay.
- Do you know what I mean?
Mm-hmm.
I mean, what's the point of running
together if we're not keeping together?
Okay, fair enough.
[Feet pounding asphalt]
[Traffic droning in distance]
Hey, Dad.
I brought a guest.
[Mara] Hi.
[Matt] You remember my
friend, Mara, from school?
[Mara] It's good to see you.
Yeah, so, no...
yeah, so, normally, I
come here, and, uh...
I'll hang out in this chair.
I'll show you all my
little techniques.
[Shuffles chair toward bed]
So I can control his, uh...
bed with this thing.
They taught me how to do it.
[Whirring]
See? Like this.
I sit here, and I
contemplate my next moves.
Is he, um...
like, cog... cognizant?
Sometimes.
All he's talking about
is that it's currently
a seller's market
in real estate,
and that he wants to get
a real estate license
so he can get in
on the big boom.
[Mara laughs]
I'm being a 100% serious.
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
Nurses say that he's, uh,
doing good, and that...
maybe... actually,
what am I saying?
They're all so friendly,
they just smile.
And it's so obvious they
know that he's toast.
I think I'm the only
person visiting.
When you put your
feet up like this,
it's very easy to
sleep in this place.
[Mara] I don't...
I don't... I don't feel...
I don't feel comfortable, um...
- Relaxing?
- Relaxing.
Well, I'm just showing you, this is what
I... this is how I sleep when I'm here.
- Yeah. Okay.
- Okay. Okay, all right.
Want me to close
it? Watch your leg.
[Father groans groggily]
I'm okay.
I know.
I know, I'm just saying this...
He had a good life.
Loved wine. Loved cigars.
My mom would always say,
"You gotta stop
drinking and smoking."
And I was, like, "Why?
He's, like, enjoying this."
I'm really sorry.
Let's go. Let's...
- [Sniffling]
- Let's not stay.
No, it's good.
I brought you here to
say hi for one second!
No, no, it's okay. Just
stay a little while.
Here, you... you
sit on the chair.
It's okay. It's okay.
What do you do? What do
you do when you're here?
I sit here and I read him
old "Sir Lancelot" stories.
[Laughs] No, you don't.
Yeah, that's true.
I got a printout of one...
of the same one that
he use to read to me.
Sit.
Okay.
Thanks for coming.
Bedroom.
Uh, bathroom's down there.
Uh, this is gonna be,
like, writer's room.
Wow.
Someone likes you
better than I do.
Pretty good, eh?
Got a chin-up bar.
[Tapping the bar]
Ever used one of these before?
[Grunts]
I do it with my
legs out, like this.
- [Grunting]
- You're not counting.
Four. Five.
Six.
Seven.
- Oh, oh, oh!
- Eight...
That was a mistake.
That was a mistake.
- Oh, my god.
- Are you actually hurt?
I can't take this.
Don't look at me.
Are you actually hurt, Matt?
- Don't laugh. Don't laugh.
- Matt...
I didn't hurt myself...
and if you make me laugh,
it's gonna be so much worse.
Where does it hurt?
Right where my hand is.
Whoa.
Am I gonna make it, Doc?
I think so.
Sorry if I'm sweaty.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, I'm-I'm gonna run
hot water over this,
so it doesn't swell.
I mean, I'll be
two seconds, okay?
Matt?
Be out in one sec.
[Chuckles]
Don't go.
I'll be back in one second.
[Door shuts]
[Shower running]
[Shower continues running]
[Shower running]
The wipers on the bus
Go swish, swish, swish
Swish, swish swish
Swish, swish, swish
The wipers on the bus
go swish, swish, swish
All through the town
De, de, de, de, de...
The door.
Door.
...Go open and shut
- Open and...
- [Babbling]
[Avery giggling]
Round and round
Round and round
The wheels on the bus
go round and round
All through the town
Wah-wah-wah
[Giggling]
Wah-wah-wah
The babies on the bus go...
Owl, owl, owl!
[Samir] Owl?
Owl. Owl, owl!
[Matt] I think
you can be so much...
[exhales]
more... I don't wanna use
the word "controversial,"
because that is so, um...
I-I mean, I'm only saying this
because of this...
[Stammers] ...Like,
unfortunate reality
of the publishing world,
which is that you need
to stand out so starkly
from the crowd,
and, in order to do that,
you need to be doing things
that nobody else
is willing to do,
because, otherwise,
you sanitize yourself,
and that's, I guess, what I'm,
uh, trying to say to avoid,
is this kind of sanitization,
which I actually think
is people worrying
about an audience.
Every single time
I've seen somebody
write honestly,
it's never humiliating at all.
I've seen people admit
the most disgusting,
dastardly, evil,
criminal things in
their writing...
nobody thinks that it's true,
everybody just thinks
it's brilliant writing.
Every single time.
Every single time.
Right? And so, I encourage
you to explore that,
at the very least, as
a therapeutic technique
for writing the things
that you dare not say.
Because there is a
distancing effect
between art and
the creator of it,
where, for whatever reason...
I mean, you don't need to
look any further than...
who's that guy who wrote
Portnoy's Complaint?
W... You guys ever
read that book?
It's insane!
- It's Philip Roth.
- Yeah, Philip Roth!
It's a book about him
basically, like, sleeping with
and raping half of
New York City, and...
Okay, let's...
[Chuckles nervously]
The point is,
nobody's knocking on
Philip Roth's door,
being, like, "Excuse me, sir.
You admitted to bad
things in your writing,
now you're going to jail."
No, they gave him
the Pulitzer Prize.
Sorry. Anyway...
[Playing a solo]
[Mara] It sounded really good.
- You actually liked it?
- [Laughs] Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's going good.
We're gonna extend
the recording,
and, uh... probably
by another week.
Okay.
So I'm not gonna be able to
drive you to Ithaca anymore.
Okay.
Which, I know, screws
up your plans, but...
I mean...
I'm sure we can someone to
drive... to drive for you.
'Cause we have the car.
Yeah.
Sorry, I mean...
Yeah, I'm sorry. I would've
driven, but it's...
It's ultimately fine. I just
have to wrap my head around it.
Do you know anyone
that can drive, or...?
You always date women
that look a bit like
Jewel, actually.
Yeah, 'cause I like
people whose teeth
are a little bit messed up.
I have... I have, like, one...
No, I know.
- I know all about your teeth.
- Little tooth here...
Yeah. Mara, I know all... Yeah.
That someone told me is cute.
Why do you think I'm
so interested in you?
I've been... I got my eye
on that tooth, don't worry.
I've been keep... I've been
keeping track of that tooth.
Hmm.
Dream...
Um, so we keep going on
this for quite a long time.
But until what? What
am I looking for?
Until we get to Rainbow Road.
We cross at Rainbow Bridge?
Yeah, we're crossing
at Rainbow Bridge...
- Oh...
- To New York State.
Then I know what we gotta do.
[Falls thundering]
[Laughing]
Wow.
[Both giggling]
Great!
The power!
- "The power!"
- [Laughing]
The power!
We just totally interrupted
their family photo.
[Snap]
[Falls thundering]
[Shouting] Holy shit!
[Dryer blowing]
[Dryer shuts off]
[Matt] I got this. I got this.
[Mara] I got...
No, I'm your
chaperone. Remember?
I'm in charge.
[trunk thuds]
Not in charge, sorry.
In charge of your bags. Mm.
- I'm, like...
- I'm in charge.
Yeah. You're Miss Daisy.
- Hello.
- Hi there. Welcome.
- Are you here for a check-in?
- Yes.
Uh, yeah. I have two rooms.
Uh, one for Matt Johnson,
one for Mara Walsh.
Mm-hmm.
What have you got in here?
Why is this so heavy?
Do you wanna not bang my
laptop against the counter?
Wha... No problem.
311 for you... that's that way.
125 is for you... it's this way.
[Mara] Ah, really far
away from each other.
Thank you.
- Did you plan that?
- [Laughs]
Uh, I think I should rest
up before I go give my talk.
Oh, you want me
to come with you?
- Uh, I'm just...
- To check out that side,
and then we'll go
see the other side?
I'm just gonna go take a nap...
- [Indistinct ruckus]
- It's a party.
Okay.
Then you wanna meet downstairs?
We'll go get something to eat?
- After the talk?
- Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I'll meet you back here?
Oh, Matt!
- Your bag.
- I thought you were, like,
"Oh, I've got something
to tell you, Matt." Okay.
Come to the talk, please?
No, don't come to the talk.
- Bye!
- Bye.
[Rustling]
- Hi.
- Hello.
Um, Mara Walsh.
Mara Walsh?
Um, you can just sign in there.
Here you are.
There's tea, coffee,
snacks... just help yourself.
And, uh, you get one of these.
Um...
[Conference bustle and din]
[Event host] Non-fiction,
radio plays, libretti,
and graphic novels.
Her current areas of research
include symbolism
in romantic poetry,
and the topic of
today's panel...
theatrical adaptation.
Please welcome to
the stage Mara Walsh.
[Applauding]
[Applause ends]
[Laughs] Hi.
What the hell is this?
Are you coming in?
Yeah!
What are you doing here?
I was, uh, at the conference.
What are... What
are you doing here?
I didn't see you on the program.
[Music carries in
distance, indistinct]
[Traffic droning]
[Clicking]
[Whoosh]
[Whoosh]
[Laptop keyboard clacking]
[Matt, muffled] I aced it!
[Car door shuts, muffled]
[Woman] Wow! Amazing.
[Laughing and
chatting, indistinct]
[Traffic droning in distance]
Could you open the trunk?
[Matt] What? What?
[Snaps] Can you open the trunk?
Yeah.
Thanks.
Cool.
Hmm?
Nice.
I went to dinner with
this girl yesterday.
That's why... [stammering]...that's
who I was with when I texted you.
Just someone that you...
She's from Toronto.
She's a writer from the...
from the conference.
Her name's... Maeve.
You went to dinner
with Maeve Palanko?
Yeah.
But I-I-I-I've been on
a few dates with her
in the city, too.
- Like, our agents...
- You didn't mention that!
[Chuckles]
It was... It wasn't...
It wasn't a...
It's very superficial,
I'll just say.
Like, we don't have a
ton in common, but, um...
yeah.
I know... I know
of her work, yeah.
I think it's really interesting
that you narrow in
on the most famous
person available.
[Matt snickers]
No, it's all right. I kind of...
I've understood
that's your priority
for a little while, so...
Oh, my god! You're upset.
Why is this bothering you?
Why do you care? Why do you care
that she left an
earring in the car?
Because you're trying to do...
you're trying to...
I'm trying to what?
You're trying to... I know
what you're trying to do.
Okay. So what is it?
You are trying to make
it seem like I care.
- Like, you're doing...
- And how 'bout this?
- You're doing...
- How 'bout this?
I'll do whatever you want.
- You are the one...
- I'll do anything you want, Mara.
That left a woman's
earring in my car!
I didn't leave
her earring there!
- To send some...
- I didn't do that to...
To manipulate you!
- I don't give a fuck about her.
- Yes, you did!
- No, I didn't!
- Why are you taking my car?
Why are you putting
another person in my car?
Think of what would
need to happen for me
to be, like, "Hey, Maeve.
Give me that fucking earring,
I'm gonna leave it right here."
And her and I are giggling
away, being like, "Oh..."
I'm not saying that
you planted it there.
I'm saying
that it's a little insensitive
for you to not cover
your tracks at all
if you're going to take
people off in my car.
- And then, I'll be able...
- We had plans to have dinner!
And I come down,
and I wait in the lobby,
and you're not even there,
and then I find out, like,
what, you've gone out to
dinner with someone else?
Like, how is that
not... I mean, what...
I texted you. I texted you!
I said, "Come to the
restaurant with us."
You texted me when you were
already out at a restaurant
with someone, and, like...
it's like we have this, like...
what was the word that you used?
Like a... like a complicity.
Like a... like a
complicity together.
And then... and then you...
then you act like it's
absolutely nothing!
We didn't have a time
that we were set...
- No, you...
- I went to get a drink
- with somebody...
- What you want...
Then it turned into dinner.
What you want is
me to feel silly
that I thought we were
gonna have dinner together.
- You're insane.
- Like, and even now,
even now, like, you're
making me feel stupid
for having even...
even thought that.
Mar, we didn't have a set time.
You said, "Meet me in
the lobby after my talk."
I said, "Let me come
to your room with you."
Okay, the last...
And you went, "No,
no, no, no, no.
"I'd rather take a nap. Oh,
how 'bout I meet you..."
- Matt, I had...
- "...At some unspecified time
- for dinner?"
- Matt, I had
30 minutes before my talk.
Uh-huh.
How long was the talk?
Therefore, after it, when?
When was I supposed to be in the
lobby? I didn't know any of this shit.
Okay, this is beside the
point. This is you...
- This is the whole point!
- Excusing...
No, this is you excusing...
No, no, no.
You do not get to get
by on a technicality.
I'm not trying to get
by. I'm not in trouble!
You know that I
can't be, like...
I know...
"Yes, come with... come
have a nap with me."
- Like, I'm not...
- Oh, please, as if I know.
You rewrite the rules every day!
These are always your rules!
And then, I'm going...
I'm going along with it.
I-I'm... I'm
playing... I'm there.
I'm there, I'm there,
and then, you go,
"Oh, I'm not playing."
Or just... no, you just...
I love you.
- No, shush. Shush, shush, shush.
- Yeah, yeah, I'll admit it.
- I love you.
- That's not true.
You-You do what you want.
You do what you want with that,
and you can... you
say anything you want.
Don't tell me that
you want this now
when you literally
didn't want it yesterday.
Don't pretend
you don't do this thing
where you make a joke
and see if I'll go for it.
I can't go for it, because if
I did go for it, you would...
- Then what?
- You would pretend
that you hadn't made
the offer at all.
No, how is this even...
How is that even a word
you're throwing around?
You're not even allowed
to throw that word around!
I kind of like the way
that it looks fake.
Yeah, it looks like
it's covered in velvet.
It's funny that...
like, how did they get
photographs that were that long?
True.
I hadn't thought of that.
Maybe they took two photos
and stitched it together.
How?
- [Phone ringing]
- I don't know. Like...
[Ringing]
Be right back.
Hang on just one second.
What's going on?
Shit, Matt. I'm so sorry.
[Matt] He-he just
looked the same.
- Yeah.
- He just looked the same,
and, uh, they had all these...
I had to sign a bunch of forms.
Like, I realized that, uh...
I knew this was coming,
so why did I wait?
- Yeah.
- Um...
Yeah, but all of that...
but all of that...
there... it's just things
that have to get done,
and you do them, like, it's...
I'll help you.
I'd appreciate it.
Yeah. Um...
yeah, we'll figure...
we'll figure it out, Matt.
Who was that?
Have I mentioned my friend,
Matt, to you before?
No.
His dad died.
Really?
I'm sorry. What happened?
Um...
I mean, he's been
sick for a long time,
but he got a call
from the hospital,
saying that he passed.
I'm sorry.
I feel like that's
really disturbing.
You just get, like, a phone
call with that information.
Hey!
Hey.
I'm sorry I'm late. I was...
Hi!
Hi.
Thanks for coming.
Oh.
[Matt] Oh, I don't
wanna do this.
I wanna just skip to the end.
Yeah, yeah.
Hi. Good afternoon.
- Yeah. How are ya?
- I'm fine, thank you.
We're trying to get
this suit altered.
Okay, this was my dad's suit,
and I need it to fit me.
Okay. Try this on, please.
Okay.
What am I supposed
to say at this thing?
Like, what do I say?
Am I supposed to go up and talk?
Like, who does this?
Who's in charge of this?
Very good. Perfect.
[Mara] I mean, did your mom say
that you're the one
that's supposed to speak?
Nobody said anything.
- Nobody's told me anything.
- Okay. Okay.
Well, think about it.
[Tailor] You can
take it off now, sir.
And, uh, give it back to me.
[Rustling]
- Uh, name, please?
- Uh, Matt.
Matt, okay.
- And, uh...
- Phone number?
- My number...
- Your number.
Uh, 647...
647...
637...
[Matt] Put-put down... put
down your name, too, Mar.
- Sure.
- Mar... okay.
And... Mara.
[Mara] Okay.
[Tailor] Thank you.
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That looks great. Thank you.
How long until, uh...?
I think it'll be another
30 minutes, maybe.
It looks really good, Matt.
It looks really, really nice.
Oh, this is really nice.
Where is he in that?
[Matt] I have no idea.
[Mara] It looks like maybe Asia.
[Matt] Wait. This is Hyde park.
Oh.
Is this cross ridiculous?
What do you mean?
My dad would... My
dad's an atheist.
I think you won't... I think
people won't notice it.
It's sort of... it's just
kind of part of the...
part of the wall.
Won't notice that?
Yes, they will.
It's the whole wall.
It's 5'8"!
I mean...
Okay, then we can see if...
- What are you doing?
- I mean,
I'm just trying to see if
it's mounted on the wall.
- If it isn't...
- Mar...
- I could...
- No, don't touch it.
Don't, don't, don't,
don't, don't, don't.
This feels like a heist.
I don't know how
I'm supposed to...
Don't. Who cares,
who cares, who cares?
It doesn't matter. Just
leave it. It doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
- [Mara, calling out] Excuse me?
- [Matt] Oh, my god.
Is this, um... Is this
nailed onto the wall?
Uh, no, it's up on a hook.
Oh, it is? It's on a hook.
We can...
Would be a trouble if we...
if we wanted to take it down?
Just... not for us.
We both think it's great.
It's my dad, uh, who didn't...
he didn't agree
with a lot of this.
Ready?
Yeah. Okay.
- Whoa-kay.
- Where's this going?
Um...
let's just leave
it here for now.
I'll... I'll take care of it.
We're putting this
on the ground?
Just for now, yeah.
Then I'll grab a trolley
and I'll take care of it.
Thank you.
Haven't seen one of these
on the floor like that.
Makes me feel like we've
done something wrong.
I think we have.
Yeah, okay.
Dad?
The cross is gone.
Thank you.
[Keys clicking]
[Door creaking]
[Keys clicking]
Sorry.
Hey.
What's up?
Is it weird that I'm home?
No. Why?
I don't know. I'm not usually
here in the afternoon.
That's okay. What are you doing?
Uh, I don't know.
Am I interrupting?
No, come sit down.
What are you working on?
Um...
just a song that I've
been working on for a bit.
It's almost done.
Hmm.
- Do you wanna hear it?
- Sure.
It might get loud after
a little bit, so...
Hmm.
[Quiet electronic intro rises]
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After some time
Loving was easy
But it didn't matter
I couldn't believe
I could've been this way
Inside
Playing this game
And this lesson
Would bring the sky my way
And time would take me
As it slipped
Forgive me once more
I wasn't easy
I've done this before
We couldn't have known
It would end this way
And after all that
All that's left in me
Is our...