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[shooting][movie like speech:]Frankie: Okay, this is the picture. Johnny's been hurt. He's been hurt bad.Woman: Look, we can't leave him here, we can't. Look, he's in a pool of blood. He's gonna die, I know it.Frankie: We've gotta leave him here, honey. We gotta. He won't talk, I promise you that! Will you Johnny?Woman: Frankie, I don't care whether he talks or not, I just can't leave him like this.Johnny: Listen. Leave me here I... I... I can ... I can ... handle it.Woman: Oh, no, Johnny, no...[interlude]Frankie: The cops are outside. Luke's in the car. Come on, let's get the hell outta this joint.Woman: Frankie, when they get here wer're gonna be dead, I know we are! We don't have agun!Frankie: Listen. We got three million... Listen, [spud]. We got three million in the can, here. We can't look after him, I'll send the bird to his mother. Come on, let's just get out of this place, we can do it!Woman: Oh, no, Johnny, no...[interlude]Frankie: Okay now, just lean up against that door. When I give the word "Go" we just..., we just go through it and blast at the same time.She came, as in the book, Mickey SpillaneThat Saturday night dark masqueradeHad filled his friend with lead, the same, sweetheartBut then, as nothing happens quite the sameInvestigation is the gameHe had to check her story right away-he deadSam Spade his buddy Archer first to go he got itShe spelt it out, how could they know the 'Fatman' got it -he deadSongtexteHer sister didn't really live at all-confusion-he deadHis chase led to the Fatman, to face the friends of Mr. Cairo[movie like speech:]Woman: Hey, there's a really terrific dress shop. Can we stop this raid while I buy a new gown?Frankie: I'll buy you the whole factory, sweetheart. Don't worry.That night, the double crosser got it rightPretending he was really dimHe slipped to Sam a double gin (Mickey Finn)He woke, the boys had gone, but not his gunThey'd left a note to lead him onThe chase to find the Maltese Falcon-you bet-Early thirties gangster moviesSet to spellbind populationFrom Chicago to Hong KongVia Istanbul the Talking TongDirty rats through' prohibitionMoney flowed through gangsterismActing out this fantasyIn Hollywoods vicinityThe best part for the best renditionAl Capone he sent to prisonCitizen Kane came fast and quicklyConquering ol' New York CityPoking fun at superstitionMedia became television Give me Cagney anydayOr Jimmy Stewart for PresidentOr Edward 'G' and all those guysWho always shoot between the eyesBetween the eyesBetween the eyes[movie like speech:]Kasper: ha, ha, well done Mr. Cairo, and what do you have to say about that, my friend?Spade: Allright. So you've got me in it. What about her?Brigid: Don't worry about me, I'm okayKasper: Very magnanimous, sir, very magnanimous indeed, ha, ha, haMr. Cairo: You mean..., you won't make us an offer we... we can't refuse...Father love do you work, do you work for MotherChances could call, and accept that, be no otherScience as it might, disappear correspond with colourChance is the fruit, will outlive, what is now the brotherCall for total wealth to distribute like a pictureIn black and white, give it joy, give it, let it hit youSpoil our existence by extreme gift to populationFather love do you work, do you work for MotherTell me straight be the Godfather be no otherMedia Kings give us now give us total movieStraight right now, give it clear, give us total movieNow being here, being now, being here believing[movie like speeches:]Man: I don't know which words to put in there sweetheart, you know, I can't do it. Pretty kind of useless, though, don't you think so Mary?Man: Come with me to the far lands of Baghdad.Woman: Oh, if only I could. That's what I want more than anything in the world, but it could never be...Man: Of course it can...Woman: But my father would find us wherever we went. Yes, he has forbidden me to... to even speak to you, if he finds me now. I don't know what he'd do...Man: But he doesn't know that I'm... I'm a prince. Before, I was the thief of Baghdad now...Woman: It doesn't matter...Man: Then follow me, darling, follow me now to the ends of the EarthOne on one to talk to youLike film stars they get close to youYou've mirrored his appealHe wants you so, he wants to be beside youThen you pass by giving him the other side of youLike the mystics doSo that every time he moves, he moves for youSoul and light can always seeThe meeting of true love and sheThis silent night and I,I guess a lonely mind might seeI've seen love on the screenI've seen a screen goddesss and me-ohHow often this, how often, this the power of youAnd so, I must confessWhatever I seeI'm meant to be there with youWith you with youSilent golden movies, talkies, technicolour, long agoMy younger ways stand clearer, clearer than my footprintsStardom greats I've followed closely Closer than the nearest heartbeatLonger that expected-ther were great-Oh love oh love just to see themActing on the silver screen, oh myClark Gable, Fairbanks, Maureen O'SullivanFantasy would fill my life and ILove fantasy so muchDid you see in the morning lightI really talked, yes I did, to Gods early dawning lightAnd I was privileged to be as I am to this dayTo be with you. To be with you[movie actor like speech:]Mr. Cairo: Listen. I have arranged this display for... for all of you people to... to come here this evening and I... I know you have been searched, but, what you... you don't realize is, is that in the back of the Maltese Falcon, I have it ... Aus Songtexte Mania