Stephen Flaherty
He Wanted to Say
[YOUNGER BROTHER, spoken]
I should very much like to speak to Mr. Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
[COALHOUSE FOLLOWER, spoken]
Try turning around and going back where you came from, cracker.
[COALHOUSE]
What is it you want?
[YOUNGER BROTHER, spoken]
Uh... I... I... I... I want to... I know that if... Oh...
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
He wanted to say
I am sick of the injustices
He wanted to say
I have passion in my heart
In a world of callous strangers
Let your dangers be my dangers
Let this be the battle in which
I was born to take part
He wanted to say
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
I reject the world's complacency
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
He wanted to say
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
Give me something to believe
[EMMA GOLDMAN & YOUNGER BROTHER]
In my soul I am your brother
We are bound to one another
Angered by the darkness in life
And the lies we perceive
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
But all he said was—
[YOUNGER BROTHER, spoken]
I know how to blow things up.
[EMMA GOLDMAN & OTHERS]
He wanted to say
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
I am not who I appear to be
[EMMA GOLDMAN & OTHERS]
He wanted to say
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
Do not blame me for my past
[EMMA GOLDMAN, YOUNGER BROTHER & OTHERS]
Every day I wake up knowing
Something's lost and something's owing
This was deep inside me
And you helped me find it at last!
[Lights come up on the OTHERS: MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARIES, GOLDMAN FOLLOWERS, POOR PEOPLE, WORKERS.]
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
We are comrades in the struggle
That goes on across the earth
[YOUNGER BROTHER & OTHERS]
All across the earth
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
Comrades in the struggle
Brothers, you and I
[YOUNGER BROTHER & OTHERS]
Brothers, you and I
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
In the cause of justice
Brothers
[ALL]
We must fight
For all we're worth
With dynamite
And wire
And sheer desire
We'll light
The heavens
And show
The bastards
[EMMA GOLDMAN & YOUNGER BROTHER]
Fire in the sky
[OTHERS]
Fire in the sky!
[ALL]
Fire in the sky!
[COALHOUSE'S MEN]
He wanted to say
[COALHOUSE]
How I envy you your innocence
[COALHOUSE'S MEN]
He wanted to say
[COALHOUSE]
You're a fool as well as brave
[COALHOUSE & ALL EXCEPT YOUNGER BROTHER]
In my soul I am your brother
We are bound to one another
Angered by the darkness in life
And this trip to the grave
[COALHOUSE]
One last trip to the grave
[COALHOUSE'S MEN]
But all he said was—
[COALHOUSE, spoken]
We have rules here.
[YOUNGER BROTHER, spoken]
I'll follow them.
[COALHOUSE, spoken]
There is no turning back.
[YOUNGER BROTHER, spoken]
None.
[COALHOUSE nods his acceptance.]
[YOUNGER BROTHER, spoken]
What do you call yourselves?
[COALHOUSE, spoken]
We are all righteous men. We call ourselves Coalhouse.
[YOUNGER BROTHER, spoken]
Coalhouse.
[COALHOUSE'S FOLLOWERS]
Coalhouse.
[YOUNGER BROTHER, COALHOUSE, MEN]
Now we're all Coalhouse.
[Huge explosion.]