The Great Gig In The Sky
SCENE 7: EXTERIOR. STONY PATH.
EMILY I'm not ready.
I'm studying for my big moment.
EMILY I'm doing ‘Great Thinkers'
But they're not great at thinking the same thing.
Did we start off good and couldn't keep it up?
Or start off bad and this is as far as we've got learning to be good?
BOY I heard a bell dinging.
There must be people.
EMILY Soldiers,look.
BOY They've got guns
EMILY Holy moly, what happened here?
The whole floor of the valley looks like a disaster came through.
BOY Yeah...like a boneyard or something.
EMILY There's something moving over there, past the firelight.
BOY Dogs...feeding on something dead...dead cow...dogs and crows...
EMILY Someone coming.
BOY I see him.
FAT MAN Toto, I've feeling we're notin Kansas any more.
EMILY a fat man,ooh he's fat.
FAT MAN It's the pictures that got small.
Hello there! Do you care for the flickers?
EMILY The flickers?
BOY Where is everybody?
FAT MAN There's a gathering.
BOY We just got here.
FAT MAN Overloaded life-raft or sacrificed for organ transplants?
BOY Runaway train.I was the one on the other track
FAT MAN Bad luck.A leaky hot-air balloon did for me, someone had to go over the side... fattest first,
saved the lives of three thin balloonists,bastards.
EMILY You mean everyone here was a thought experiment?
FAT MAN That's funny.There's a plane dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.
EMILY There ain't no anything, not a blade of grass!
BOY Why's nothing growing?
FAT MAN It's a tragedy.
The whole valley was common land,
first-class grazing and plenty for everyone,
share and share alike,
with a stream running down the middle to dip a bucket in and enough water behind the dam to turn a wheel in the sluice-
you could slip an extra cow or two into your herd with no one any the wiser,
or take a little channel off the stream for your tomato patch.
I wasn't the first, believe you me!
EMILY You mean you cheated?
FAT MAN I had to. Look at it my way.
Either there's others cheating or there's nobody cheating.
If there's others cheating.I'd be a fool to stick to what was agreed.
For all I know I'd be the only one!
-So it's best for me to cheat along, that's obvious.
And if there's nobody cheating,
my little bit of cheating makes no difference,
so that's best for me too.
Whatever the others are doing, it's best for me to cheat.
The tragedy was that everyone else was thinking the same thing.
So the common was bound to be overgrazed,
and the stream was bound to fail.
Nothing could have stopped the common from being ruined for us all.
EMILY Yes, it could! You could have decided not to cheat,
whatever else the others were doing
FAT MAN It wouldn't have made any difference, me not cheating on my own.
EMILY You wouldn't be on your own if everybody was thinking the same!
In the end you gained nothing by cheating,
so you might as well have played fair.
BOY Yes!You cracked it, Emily!
FAT MAN Emily? Aren't you nobody? Emily?
EMILY No, I'm not a bloody thought experiment, I'm Emily McCoy.
FAT MAN Emily McCoy? Everybody's waiting for you! Emily McCoy?
You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
SCENE 8: INTERIOR. STONE CORRIDOR
EMILY(panicked) I'm not ready!
BOY This is not a drill.
This is it.
EMILY I need time to think
BOY No, it came in like a bird through a window and out,
it's done.
EMILY But I have to find the words
BOY Hold the thought like holding your breath till you can't hold it any more,
then hold it more till you think you're going to die,
and let it go,
a thought wave, sound waves of pure thought!
Voice in the underscore: ‘...not frightened of dying, any time will do...’
EMILY And I'm getting voices-
BOY Thought waves. You can do that.
Take a breath, hold it.
Emily sucks in her breath and holds it.
FX: atmosphere opens into arena and crowd murmur Underscore continues.
FAT MAN Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world,
she walks into mine
Crowd murmu goes to silence.
BOY Go, girl.
Emily lets go her breath into GREAT GIG vocal.
Sporadically individual voices are overdubbed as in a revivalist church congregation, assenting, endorsing, ‘Yeah yeah!' ‘That's right!', ‘That's the truth！’... At 2.32(1.24 into the vocal) Emily's speaking voice comes in like an overdub.
EMILY (sing-song)
So woe to you
So woe to you and me
and woe to all of us
EMILY(speak-song)
But we can save the earth
from turning to dust and bones
dust and bones
from fire and flood
EMILY(speaks)
Here's the thing.Here's what I'm saying.
The earth is a common.
You can't save it for yourself
but you can save it for others,
and the others will save it for you.
The other is us, and we are the other.
We are of a kind,
we are natural born to kindness,
which means to act as to our kind,
as kin to kin, as kindred,
which is to act kindly.
What is the Good？
It is nothing but a contest of kindness.
To be unkind is against nature,
and it makes us feel bad.
To be selfish is against nature
because it is against our kindness.
We are as natural-born to unselfishness as a mother to her baby.
Her milk is the milk of human kin and kindness.
But when we live for trickery and gain,
we turn against nature,
and nature will turn against us.
We will be lords of dust and bones.
Vocal fading
WITCH FINDER
Are you with the witch, boy?
BOY What?
WITCH FINDER Are you with the witch?
Boy What witch?Suspend album.
EMILY(amplified) Thank you,ladies and gentlemen.for your attention. Crowd moans, weeps.
WITCH FINDER That witch.
BOY Who are you?
WITCH FINDER I'm the Witch Finder.
BOY The Witch Finder?
She's not a witch.It was me showed her.
WITCH FINDER You bewitched her?
EMILY(arriving) What happened?
BOY They heard you!
WITCH FINDER They were bewitched.
EMILY Dr Antrobus！
BOY He says he's the Witch Finder
EMILY Dr Antrobus,It's me-Emily!
WITCH FINDER Don't be afraid,
I am here to help you.
FX: a heavy door slams shut, echoing.
The Great Gig In The SkyLRC歌词
[00:00.00]
[00:01.570]SCENE 7: EXTERIOR. STONY PATH.
[00:05.480]EMILY I'm not ready.
[00:08.010]I'm studying for my big moment.
[00:09.470]EMILY I'm doing ‘Great Thinkers'
[00:13.840]But they're not great at thinking the same thing.
[00:16.350]Did we start off good and couldn't keep it up?
[00:17.610]Or start off bad and this is as far as we've got learning to be good?
[00:22.540]BOY I heard a bell dinging.
[00:24.780]There must be people.
[00:26.770]EMILY Soldiers,look.
[00:28.520]BOY They've got guns
[00:31.740]EMILY Holy moly, what happened here?
[00:34.220]The whole floor of the valley looks like a disaster came through.
[00:37.150]BOY Yeah...like a boneyard or something.
[00:41.430]EMILY There's something moving over there, past the firelight.
[00:44.470]BOY Dogs...feeding on something dead...dead cow...dogs and crows...
[00:51.760]EMILY Someone coming.
[01:00.558]BOY I see him.
[01:03.488]FAT MAN Toto, I've feeling we're notin Kansas any more.
[01:07.108]EMILY a fat man,ooh he's fat.
[01:09.028]FAT MAN It's the pictures that got small.
[01:11.138]Hello there! Do you care for the flickers?
[01:13.498]EMILY The flickers?
[01:14.968]BOY Where is everybody?
[01:16.680]FAT MAN There's a gathering.
[01:18.760]BOY We just got here.
[01:20.310]FAT MAN Overloaded life-raft or sacrificed for organ transplants?
[01:24.218]BOY Runaway train.I was the one on the other track
[01:27.310]FAT MAN Bad luck.A leaky hot-air balloon did for me, someone had to go over the side... fattest first,
[01:34.549]saved the lives of three thin balloonists,bastards.
[01:37.930]EMILY You mean everyone here was a thought experiment?
[01:40.938]FAT MAN That's funny.There's a plane dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.
[01:45.209]EMILY There ain't no anything, not a blade of grass!
[01:47.489]BOY Why's nothing growing?
[01:49.569]FAT MAN It's a tragedy.
[01:51.280]The whole valley was common land,
[01:53.110]first-class grazing and plenty for everyone,
[01:55.140]share and share alike,
[01:57.260]with a stream running down the middle to dip a bucket in and enough water behind the dam to turn a wheel in the sluice-
[02:04.099]you could slip an extra cow or two into your herd with no one any the wiser,
[02:08.399]or take a little channel off the stream for your tomato patch.
[02:11.869]I wasn't the first, believe you me!
[02:14.599]EMILY You mean you cheated?
[02:16.759]FAT MAN I had to. Look at it my way.
[02:20.009]Either there's others cheating or there's nobody cheating.
[02:22.619]If there's others cheating.I'd be a fool to stick to what was agreed.
[02:26.239]For all I know I'd be the only one!
[02:28.769]-So it's best for me to cheat along, that's obvious.
[02:32.789]And if there's nobody cheating,
[02:34.379]my little bit of cheating makes no difference,
[02:36.579]so that's best for me too.
[02:38.619]Whatever the others are doing, it's best for me to cheat.
[02:41.179]The tragedy was that everyone else was thinking the same thing.
[02:46.310]So the common was bound to be overgrazed,
[02:48.060]and the stream was bound to fail.
[02:50.220]Nothing could have stopped the common from being ruined for us all.
[02:53.360]EMILY Yes, it could! You could have decided not to cheat,
[02:56.009]whatever else the others were doing
[02:57.959]FAT MAN It wouldn't have made any difference, me not cheating on my own.
[03:00.689]EMILY You wouldn't be on your own if everybody was thinking the same!
[03:03.549]In the end you gained nothing by cheating,
[03:06.399]so you might as well have played fair.
[03:08.389]BOY Yes!You cracked it, Emily!
[03:11.199]FAT MAN Emily? Aren't you nobody? Emily?
[03:13.109]EMILY No, I'm not a bloody thought experiment, I'm Emily McCoy.
[03:17.339]FAT MAN Emily McCoy? Everybody's waiting for you! Emily McCoy?
[03:21.459]You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
[03:34.669]SCENE 8: INTERIOR. STONE CORRIDOR
[03:37.839]EMILY(panicked) I'm not ready!
[03:39.720]BOY This is not a drill.
[03:41.679]This is it.
[03:42.209]EMILY I need time to think
[03:44.679]BOY No, it came in like a bird through a window and out,
[03:46.349]it's done.
[03:47.660]EMILY But I have to find the words
[03:50.459]BOY Hold the thought like holding your breath till you can't hold it any more,
[03:54.089]then hold it more till you think you're going to die,
[03:57.259]and let it go,
[03:59.619]a thought wave, sound waves of pure thought!
[04:07.030]Voice in the underscore: ‘...not frightened of dying, any time will do...’
[04:10.009]EMILY And I'm getting voices-
[04:20.348]BOY Thought waves. You can do that.
[04:26.500]Take a breath, hold it.
[04:28.899]Emily sucks in her breath and holds it.
[04:31.339]FX: atmosphere opens into arena and crowd murmur Underscore continues.
[04:39.819]FAT MAN Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world,
[04:43.360]she walks into mine
[04:46.528]Crowd murmu goes to silence.
[04:50.889]BOY Go, girl.
[04:51.870]Emily lets go her breath into GREAT GIG vocal.
[04:58.829]Sporadically individual voices are overdubbed as in a revivalist church congregation, assenting, endorsing, ‘Yeah yeah!' ‘That's right!', ‘That's the truth！’... At 2.32(1.24 into the vocal) Emily's speaking voice comes in like an overdub.
[06:17.300]EMILY (sing-song)
[06:18.069]So woe to you
[06:22.360]So woe to you and me
[06:25.610]and woe to all of us
[06:28.180]EMILY(speak-song)
[06:31.709]But we can save the earth
[06:34.968]from turning to dust and bones
[06:39.360]dust and bones
[06:42.778]from fire and flood
[06:47.389]EMILY(speaks)
[06:50.310]Here's the thing.Here's what I'm saying.
[06:53.930]The earth is a common.
[06:56.810]You can't save it for yourself
[06:58.889]but you can save it for others,
[07:00.560]and the others will save it for you.
[07:03.170]The other is us, and we are the other.
[07:07.939]We are of a kind,
[07:09.680]we are natural born to kindness,
[07:11.759]which means to act as to our kind,
[07:14.038]as kin to kin, as kindred,
[07:16.889]which is to act kindly.
[07:22.139]What is the Good？
[07:24.538]It is nothing but a contest of kindness.
[07:27.879]To be unkind is against nature,
[07:30.199]and it makes us feel bad.
[07:32.360]To be selfish is against nature
[07:34.879]because it is against our kindness.
[07:40.339]We are as natural-born to unselfishness as a mother to her baby.
[07:45.800]Her milk is the milk of human kin and kindness.
[07:51.750]But when we live for trickery and gain,
[07:56.310]we turn against nature,
[08:01.228]and nature will turn against us.
[08:06.269]We will be lords of dust and bones.
[08:13.120]Vocal fading
[08:22.589]WITCH FINDER
[08:23.490]Are you with the witch, boy?
[08:24.538]BOY What?
[08:25.968]WITCH FINDER Are you with the witch?
[08:26.740]Boy What witch?Suspend album.
[08:29.218]EMILY(amplified) Thank you,ladies and gentlemen.for your attention. Crowd moans, weeps.
[08:31.098]WITCH FINDER That witch.
[08:32.529]BOY Who are you?
[08:33.089]WITCH FINDER I'm the Witch Finder.
[08:34.799]BOY The Witch Finder?
[08:35.820]She's not a witch.It was me showed her.
[08:36.958]WITCH FINDER You bewitched her?
[08:38.469]EMILY(arriving) What happened?
[08:39.929]BOY They heard you!
[08:41.229]WITCH FINDER They were bewitched.
[08:42.279]EMILY Dr Antrobus！
[08:43.469]BOY He says he's the Witch Finder
[08:45.629]EMILY Dr Antrobus,It's me-Emily!
[08:47.700]WITCH FINDER Don't be afraid,
[08:49.700]I am here to help you.
[08:52.299]FX: a heavy door slams shut, echoing.
