One You touch my face,
Three You wake me up.
One We love this city, it raised us up,
Two Told us to brace ourselves against the flood.
Three It taught us all we
Two Know,
One And this is all we came to
Two Show –
Three That times are strange,
Two As all times are,
Three Our minds are strained,
Two Our eyes
Three Wine dark,
One Our lives are played like dice or cards,
Three But our hearts are good, and wear their scars.
Two We look up, but there’s no
One Stars,
Two Just streetlights burning down on broken cars
One And in us, churning guts,
Three Unspoken
Two Trust,
One Closed eyes with our minds
Two Opened up –
One The old mantra learned that soaks us up –
Three It’s best if you don’t hope for much. Scene Five Charlotte is sitting in the park, looking at Tony’s tree. Danny walks up, sees her. She’s swigging from a bottle of whisky, he’s carrying a can of K ci der. 33 It’s late afternoon.
Danny Charlotte?
Charlotte Alright, Dan.
Danny What you doing here? I thought you was
Charlotte I come to say goodbye.
Danny What time’s the flight?
Charlotte I missed it.
Danny What?
Charlotte It leaves in an hour.
Danny So, you ain’t going?
Charlotte No. I ain’t.
Danny That’s great Charlotte. How come? Starts rolling a joint.
Charlotte Loads of reasons. Mainly coz I’m fucked, and the idea of customs was making me wanna be sick. Honestly, I feel like my face is doing interpretive dance.
Danny It’s ballet.
Charlotte What, The Nutcrackhead?
Danny No, ballet. Lighting the joint.
Charlotte I ain’t been here all year, you know?
Danny No?
Charlotte No.
Danny He wouldn’t mind.
Charlotte And I was thinking, the best thing I can do to celebrate his memory, is make something of my life. Know what I mean, Dan?
Danny Yeah, for real. Definitely.
Charlotte I’m gonna go back to school and teach. Properly. Coz I love them kids. And they deserve so much more. They really do. Last thing they need is another person walking out on them. I’m gonna put all my energy into it, Dan. I’m gonna be a teacher. A really fuckin’ good one.
Danny Yeah, you should do that, Charlotte. Taking out some coke and doing a bump 34 off the corner of a card. He offers one to Charlotte . She goes for it.
Charlotte Or something. I don’t know. Something.
Danny Yeah. I think you’re right. And like, I know what you mean, coz, I been thinking too, I’m gonna do it you know? With the band, and all that, I’m gonna fuckin’ do it. It’s gonna be huge.
Charlotte Yeah?
Danny Yeah. Hard work, innit. Just gotta keep working at it.
Charlotte That’s right, yeah.
Danny Practice innit, six hours a day. Straight. And I’m thinking about a martial art too. For the discipline.
Charlotte Oh yeah?
Danny Yeah, the breathing and that, the posture. I think I might start training.