[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]
You know what, that's a relief

[ADDISON, spoken]
Hard times?
[WILSON, spoken]
Hollywood. You know, I actually wrote a couple pictures

[ADDISON, spoken]
Did you really?

[WILSON, spoken]
Well, I was in the room when a couple pictures got written. Hey, 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 shit
[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