WOMAN 1:
I was out
In the yard
Taking down the bed sheets
When my neighbor yelled across:
PROPRIETOR:
"The president's been shot."
WOMAN 1:
I remember where I was
Just exactly where I was
In the yard out back...
PROPRIETOR:
"The president's been shot."
MAN 1:
I was getting me a shoeshine...
WOMAN 1:
...Folding sheets...
MAN 1:
...When I heard...
WOMAN 2:
We were waiting for a carriage...
MAN 1:
...Newsboys...
WOMAN 2:
...Suddenly there's shouting in the street...
WOMAN 1:
...Lizzie's sheets...
THE PROPRIETOR:
"The president's been shot."
WOMAN 2:
...I'll remember it forever...
WOMAN 1:
...And I thought:
WOMAN 2 and MAN 1:
Where I was, what I was doing...
WOMAN 1:
Something just broke
PROPRIETOR:
"The president's been shot."
MAN 1:
My God!
MAN 2:
I was up near the ridge
Plowing...
MAN 3:
We were working at the plant...
WOMAN 2:
I was halfway through correcting the exams...
MAN 2:
...When my wife...
MAN 3:
...It was Mike...
MAN 2:
...She comes tearing 'cross the field...
MAN 3:
...Mike the foreman...
WOMAN 2:
...In runs billy...
MAN 3:
...I mean, he was crying...
WOMAN 2:
...He was crying...
MAN 2:
...She was crying...
WOMAN 2, MAN 2, MAN 3:
I'll remember it forever...
WOMAN 1:
And I thought:
PROPRIETOR:
"The president's been shot."
WOMAN 1:
You know what?
There are presidents who aren't worth a lot
WOMAN 2, MAN 2, MAN 3:
I kept thinking:
WOMAN 1:
There's the kind that gets elected, then forgot
MAN 1 and WOMAN 1:
Mr. Garfield
WOMAN 2:
Mr. Lincoln
MAN 1 and WOMAN 1:
He's a hack
MAN 3 and WOMAN 1:
Bill McKinley
WOMAN 2:
He's a giant
MAN 1, MAN 3, WOMAN 1:
He's a joke
WOMAN 1:
Still, something just broke
PROPRIETOR:
"The president is rallying."
"The president is sinking."
"The president is dead."
WOMAN 1:
Something just broke
MAN 2:
I was down at the Exchange...
WOMAN 1:
Something just made a little dent
WOMAN 2:
I'd been shopping...
MAN 1:
I'd been sick...
WOMAN 1:
Something just broke
MAN 3:
All I know, it was a Friday...
WOMAN 1:
Only for a moment
MAN1, MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY:
I remember it exactly...
WOMAN 1:
Something got bent
WOMAN 2:
I'm taking the order...
WOMAN 1:
Something just left a little mark
BOY:
I was getting dressed...
WOMAN 2:
...two potato soups...
WOMAN 1:
Something just went a little dark
Something just went
MAN 2:
And I wondered:
WOMAN 2:
I was scared...
MAN 2 and WOMAN 2:
What would follow...
WOMAN 1:
Something to be mended...
MAN 1:
Made me wonder who we are...
WOMAN 1:
...Something we'll have to weather...
MAN 2:
It was seeing all those torches...
WOMAN 1:
...Bringing us all together...
MAN 2:
He was me...
MAN 3:
He was us...
WOMAN 1:
...If only for a moment...
ALL:
I'll remember it forever...
WOMAN 1:
...Nothing has really ended...
MAN 1, MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY:
Where I was, what I was doing...
WOMAN 1:
...Only just been suspended...
MAN 1, MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY:
Like a flash...
WOMAN 1:
...'Cause something just stirred...
VARIOUS:
And I thought
And I thought to myself
And I thought
And I thought
I kept thinking
WOMAN 1:
...Something just woke...
ALL:
Something just spoke
Something I wish I hadn't heard
Something bewildering occurred
BOY and MAN 2:
Fix it up fast
Please
MAN 2 and MAN 3:
Till it's just smoke
WOMAN 1 and WOMAN 2:
Till it's only "Something just pa**ed"
Nothing that will last
WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1:
Where I was, what i was doing
MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY:
Nothing but the moment
WOMAN 2:
Just an awful moment
WOMAN 1
But something just--