Wednesday, July 13, 2005

I used to skip this song a lot. It was one of my least favorites from his collection, It started playing, and I decided to listen to it. To really listen and picture everything that he said. I pressed repeat. It was worth another listen. It's like something clicked and I finally got it. If I ever get the chance to be in film school, i'd love for this to be my first script:


I made a movie about the end of the world
It was 12 seconds long and it didn’t have a plot
It just happens

And that’s why it’s in black and white
The characters don’t talk or move around
They just stare up at the sky, frozen
And the light, the light is numb, the light is off
The light is just a thumb nail sketch of God...

Somewhere, someone is crying
The camera sweeps over a desolate street
Holding a mother and her child
The kid is calm and she is shaking
The camera passes into the sun
Come at last to be undone
Panicking, she tries to run
The kid is calm

And then the credits roll
And every name is my name

-Matthew Good Band

posted by psychobabbler @ 7:54 PM