After Charlie and his makeshift band performs, Audrey’s band goes on.
She sings a song about overcoming the strife of a former life. A song about coming out of a string of mistakes and becoming a much stronger, more self assured person.
As Charlie watches, he very quickly falls in love.
Lyrics:
And you give yourself away to homeless decorations of the underground. Your pointed plastic truths are ripped from phantoms shouting, calling from your misspent youth.
And with trees whipping by, no memory, no tears left to dry. Just my haunting tonic taking hold, I never thought I'd be so bold as to speak my mind freely and hurl my inhibitions in the street. And now all in spite of you, my whole world ceased to exist.
Yeah I'm down and out, but don't you fucking try to help me. Where I am is where I'm meant to be. In this strugglers tree That’s meant to rise above your lies and filth unending, not joining the hoards of those pretending. I'll make it or not but I'll be happy and free. Where I am is where I'm meant to be. I'll be happy and free.
Yeah, speeding down the road I’m finally free of this load. No your luggage cannot weigh me down, and I can almost hear the sound of my old life fading to white, leaving me in the clean and perfect night. For I will always be the one, fading away in the setting sun.
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