Testi Soundtracks :: B

MEREDITH: Out! Out! Out! Time to get out!

SHELLEY: Out?

MEREDITH: Out! Gotta just rip out this page,

bend the bars of this cage and run free!

SHELLEY: Free?

MEREDITH: Free! No one but Edgar, you and me!

Gotta go find him and move on-

BOTH: And be gone before the dawn!



MEREDITH: Gotta get checkbooks,

SHELLEY: Checkbooks,

MEREDITH: Car keys,

SHELLEY: Car keys,

MEREDITH: Passports,

SHELLEY: Passports,

MEREDITH: Then goodbye!

SHELLEY: Toothbrush,

MEREDITH: Toothbrush,

SHELLEY: Blankets,

MEREDITH: Blankets,

SHELLEY: Daddy?

MEREDITH: No.

SHELLEY: Why?



MEREDITH: Shelley, listen to me.

What do you do when you blow out a tire?

SHELLEY: Tire?

MEREDITH: Trash it! Some holes you'll never patch.

SHELLEY: You'll never patch?

MEREDITH: And who do you save when your house is on fire?

SHELLEY: Fire?

MEREDITH: Don't bring the guy who lit the match!

SHELLEY: Who lit the match!



MEREDITH: So we'll get a post office box,

And we're gonna change all the locks,

And we're gonna stay with my cousins a while.

Then we'll get a three bedroom house

with a white picket fence and a gun and a lawyer,

so smile!



Gonna get a homeowner's loan;

SHELLEY: Could...

MEREDITH: Gonna get an unlisted phone;

SHELLEY: Good!

MEREDITH: Gonna get away from this town gone insane!

SHELLEY: Kinda thought they would...

MEREDITH: Then we'll get a three bedroom house

SHELLEY: A beautiful three bedroom house

MEREDITH: Affordable

BOTH: Three bedroom house

MEREDITH: With a great big pit bull on a chain!



SHELLEY: Okay... Okay, Okay, Okay, Okay

Right! Right! Right! Mother, you're right!

MEREDITH: Right?

SHELLEY: Right! Still kinda sad that my dad lost what marbles he had

but we're free!

MEREDITH: Free!

SHELLEY: Free! I'll get a brand new fake I.D!

MEREDITH: And if we lack for anything I can hock this stupid ring!



BOTH: And we'll get a post office box

And we'll get a front gate that locks!

SHELLEY: And we'll get away from those ignorant pigs!

BOTH: And we'll get a three bedroom house!

MEREDITH: A livable three bedroom house

SHELLEY: A lovable

BOTH: Three bedroom house

MEREDITH: And some plastic surgery and wigs!

SHELLEY: For who?

MEREDITH: For all of us...

SHELLEY: Right...



BOTH: And Edgar will soon have

SHELLEY: A garden to walk in

MEREDITH: His own driver's license

SHELLEY: A car- NO! A van!

BOTH: And Edgar will soon have

SHELLEY: A ballroom to dance in

MEREDITH: A good dental plan!



SHELLEY: Cause Edgar will soon have a home...

MEREDITH: Yes, Edgar will soon have a home...

BOTH: A heck of a home!

And we'll get a post office box

And we'll get a front gate that locks

MEREDITH: And big electrified fence all around!

SHELLEY: Whoa!



MEREDITH: And we'll get a three bedroom house-

SHELLEY: Or even a two bedroom house-

MEREDITH: No, honey a three bedroom house-

SHELLEY: Mom... do you think Edgar would marry me?



(Pause)



MEREDITH: No, honey a three bedroom house,

A three bedroom house

In a concrete shelter ten feet underground!



SHELLEY: Mom! I want to marry Edgar! I'm in love with him!

MEREDITH: No, Shelley.

SHELLEY: What?

MEREDITH: You're not in love with Edgar!

SHELLEY: Yes, I am, Mom. I love him so much. And I want to be with him forever-

MEREDITH: No, Shelley! It's hideous! It's not right!

SHELLEY: You're just like the rest of them!

MEREDITH: You don't understand- Shelley! NO!



What about the three bedroom house?

The three bedroom house!

Who do you save when your house is on fire...

Your House Is On Fire...

Your House Is On Fire!