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Charlotte Yeah, you should. That’d be good for you.

Danny Yeah. Or yoga or something.

Charlotte Yeah?

Danny Yeah. Might start going classes.

Charlotte Yoga, yeah? He passes the joint. Swigs from his can. Lines up another bump. And one for her.

Danny And I’m gonna cut down on the sniff35 and that. Cut down on all of it. Stop wasting my time. Know what I mean? Get my shit together.

Charlotte Yeah. Me too.

Danny And you reckon, if you’re sticking around, could I, like, another time maybe, take you out? Like, we could take things slow, couldn’t we? If you’re staying, there’s no hurry is there. Next week, the week after?

Charlotte I don’t think so, Dan.

Danny Coz, you know, I’m changing things. I am. I’ll show you, Charlotte, I’m sorting myself out.

Charlotte Yeah, I am too, Dan. I am.

Danny Does make you think though don’t it, day like today.

Charlotte Yeah. It does.

Danny I do mean it, I am, I’m sorting myself out.

Charlotte Me too, Dan. Definitely.

Danny (surprised) Fuck.

Charlotte What?

Danny I feel fucked, you know.

Charlotte (happy) Me too, fuckin’ wasted. They have another bump each. Swig some whisky. Danny puts his arm around her.

Chorus Five

One How many times you dreamed of

Two and Three Something,

Three Then told yourself your dreams ain’t

One and Two Nothing?

Two The thing is though, your dreams are

One and Three More

One Than just something that came before you shook them off,

Three Your dreams are worth pursuing,

Two Mate,

Three You do deserve everything you dare to want,

One But you’ll never

One and Two Fly

Two ’Til you’re prepared to

Two and Three Jump.

One So here’s the thing then –

Three Here’s the closing –

One Once,

Two That breaking wave was just a frozen raindrop

Three Waiting for its cloud to open and let it fall,

One So let it call your name –

Two That thing inside you screaming,

Three There is

All More

Two To you than your routine.

One We came here to share the feeling

Three That until you live the things you’re dreaming

Two They’ll stay

One Private, behind

Two Eyelids –

Three That’s the point – we came to speak it –

One All the things you hope in secret you could be –

All You are –

Two We mean it.

Three Whatever moves you – you must chase it –

One Stand before it – mate – embrace it

Two Life wants you – it beckons – makes itself immense –

Three Respect it – take it in your arms,

One Connect and face it.

Three Your life is for

All Much more

One Than getting

All Wasted.

We see projections of supermarket aisles, pubs, people in a party, then riots, revolts, soldiers, burning cars etc ., interspersed with the three characters, buying cigarettes, lying on the floor of their flat, watching telly, time-lapse footage of London, pizza boxes, traffic jams, market stalls, queue in the bank, then Ted , in IKEA, pushing a trolley loaded up with loads of massive flat pack boxes, struggling, Egypt after the revolution, Tony’s tree, kids in a classroom, visuals flicker