[ADDISON, spoken]
Hello, Willie
[WILSON, spoken]
They told me you were dead
[ADDISON, spoken]
I am
[WILSON, spoken]
Then that must mean that...
[ADDISON, spoken]
Face down in a double bourbon in a booth at the Brown Derby
[WILSON, spoken]
Oh, damn. But when I think of all the famous last words I'd rehearsed
[ADDISON, spoken]
The show's over, Willie. I'm the only audience you've got left
[WILSON, spoken]
What'd you die of anyway?
[ADDISON, spoken]
I got lonely
[WILSON, spoken]
Yeah
[ADDISON, spoken]
And in the end... I guess I was... ashamed
[WILSON, spoken]
Ashamed?
[ADDISON, spoken]
I had a talent, Willie. I threw it away!
[WILSON, spoken]
Nah!
Well... yeah...
(sung)
Still you got rich
Still you got laid
Not such a waste
Only one hitch:
Me, I'm afraid
Still you were embraced!
[ADDISON, spoken]
It wasn't enough, Willie. It was also too much
[WILSON]
So you fell short
Of your dream
Come on, sport
We're still a team
We're made the same way
[ADDISON]
So you say
[PAPA MIZNER, spoken]
Boys, boys!
[ADDISON, spoken]
Oh sh**
[PAPA MIZNER, spoken]
A doting father's dying words, boys
(sung)
There's a road straight ahead
There's a century beginning
There's a land of opportunity and more
(spoken)
I expected you'd make history, boys. Instead you made a mess
[WILSON, spoken]
A mess? What does he mean a mess?
[ADDISON, spoken]
You know what he means
[WILSON, spoken]
Yeah, well, one man's mess is another man's... something or other...
[ADDISON]
God, you had charm
God, you had guts
God, what a waste
[WILSON, spoken]
Hey, we built a city!
[ADDISON, spoken]
Actually, we didn't
(sung)
God, we did harm
What were we nuts?
And where was our taste?
[WILSON, spoken]
So we went overboard a little, where's the harm in that?
[ADDISON, spoken]
Where's the harm?
[WILSON]
So if we fell
And fell fast
Why should we dwell
On the past?
Looking ahead
[ADDISON]
Willie, we're dead
[WILSON, spoken]
I know it's a long shot, but, you don't suppose this could be heaven, do you?
[ADDISON, spoken]
God keeps better books than that, Willie
[WILSON, spoken]
Then where do you think guys like us go after they die?
[ADDISON, spoken]
I don't think they go anywhere. I think they just keep going
[ENSEMBLE]
Look at it!
Look at it, look at it!
[WILSON, spoken]
Addie, look at it! You know what that is!
It's the road to opportunity!
[ADDISON, spoken]
It's the road to eternity
[WILSON, spoken]
The greatest opportunity of all!
Sooner or later, we're bound to get it right