Me (1972)

[Music] ready [Music] [Applause] where it you guys [Applause] [Music] hey K what wrong come on do ball is anybody under there huh Can I play man you're so man you're too small to play football you come up to about my knee how do you expect to play football come back in about 10 years maybe you'll be halfway decent size let me have the ball [Music] what are you supposed to be you going to sleep yeah now it's early who cares you going to bed like that what's it to you nothing I don't care aren't you going to be hot how can you sleep in all that junk H you go away okay okay excuse daddy did you ever play football no John I never did are you going to bed now y like that Daddy okay okay I was just asking what is the matter with John oh he's tired I guess they wouldn't let him play again today but those kids are a lot older PA will you stop staring at me I can stand here can't I no did you see what he's got on the clothes no what go look did you get to play today no too bad listen Paul don't you have some homework okay John Mama now don't you start too can I ask you a question no would you like to hear a story mama I don't want be me anymore I see Mama I hate my image your image where on Earth did you ever hear Mama Don't Laugh sorry I heard it on the television I see and who would you like to be I don't care anybody but me nobody likes me the way I am well I certainly do no you don't John wouldn't you be more comfortable [Music] Mama all right what kind of a story would you like a fairy tale all right which one I don't care now close your eyes Johnny Once Upon a Time time when geese were swine and turkeys CH tobaki way way off in the land of where am I now there was a fine little boy named me now me was usually a very happy happy little boy but one day he found that he was very very sad for the fact was that me no longer wanted to be himself anymore I am a monster said me and I don't like me anymore you're not a monster we're monsters said the monsters other people get to do all kinds of fun things because they're just better people than me aha if it's because I'm me that I suffer then I just won't be me anymore I'll be someone else what a simple solution and the Monsters agreed it was indeed simple but what who shall I be if not me thought me so me set out on a walk into the kingdom of where am I now and as he walked he looked and thought of the various possibilities of people he might change himself [Music] [Laughter] [Music] into [Music] no no certainly not ah finally he arrived at a possibility that appealed to him the cowboy hero he had seen 112 times on television what a marvelous role to play rescuing maidens and riding off into terrific sunsets but he thought also of an Indian hero he liked equally well and who seemed quite as Splendid which shall I be thought me I will be both said me but how I'm not Broad and tall like the cowboy nor long and lean like the Indian well if I can't be them at least I can be like them and so saying me took a piece of the cowboy and a piece of the Indian and attached them to himself wow thought me better already I'm becoming a better me than I was and now he had what he thought he needed a formula for self-improvement he would go on taking pieces of the people he wanted to be and by so doing he would become the most admired and respected boy of all time I must be more much more thought me so next he thought of Jacob his classmate at school Jacob was an athlete and very good in his studies and very popular with the other children if I could take something of Jacob for myself but what well Jacob has dark skin well that's easy I'll just die part of my skin and that's what me he did wow and double wow I'm becoming more and more Splendid little man you are nowhere said Jacob and turned his back he's just jealous thought me but he did wonder why his own voice seemed to be growing a little faint and next he thought he might like to be a warrior and defender of Nations and at the same time a lover of Peace which after all is much better than war no problem bought me to himself [Music] oh marvelous groovy fantastic Neato said me I'm almost complete what an image I have I'm becoming everything he did not notice that his voice was growing weaker still a few more pieces of a few more people though he already drooped a little from the weight of his disguises there thought me at last that does it now I am ready oh wait till they see me his voice was but a whisper now as he turned to meet the final test I will achieve my goal I will be the greatest me in history and everyone will know it his voice voice however could scarcely be heard do you know why do you know why Hey kid you in there huh [Applause] [Music] oh my do you see he is gone he is not there there is nothing left of me All That Remains are the pieces of others poor me attached to himself poor me I thought you were okay as you were but now you are gone no more me goodbye goodbye me [Music] m yes John I'm here it's all right am I still here of course of course you are you fell asleep while I was reading you had a bad dream where's my other eye your eye patch John get out of all this junk Mama yes John do you like me like you and also love you Mama yes I mean me John just like I am I'm mean you John just like you are daddy never played football nope maybe tomorrow I won't even go near those big kids maybe I'll just do a Johnny thing Daddy yeah do you like me like you and love you just the way you are Paul too Paul too we all do you go to sleep now Johnny and this time you have a good dream Mama yes John maybe someday they will let me play maybe so and until then I'm just going to be me John good night good night sweet dreames [Music]