MerPeople (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

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She's hypothermic.
She's hypothermic. I got to pull Sparkles.
We have to pull Sparkles. Sparkles, out.
Come out right now.
Out.
I can tell you're hypothermic.
We got to get out.
Lift. I need you to get your butt up here.
- How are your muscles. Are you seizing?
- Uh
Lift and twist.
- All right.
- Get her out.
Take your tail down.
Do you have a towel?
Yup.
I know.
All right, pop one foot.
Oh my God.
Okay, I got you.
You don't have
fine muscle control right now.
You're starting to shiver bad.
That's why you can't do it.
Okay. Thank you.
We're gonna get you in a shower.
- Up.
- Okay.
- My God.
- I know.
Cold water takes it out of you
faster than you think.
Just go in with everything on.
The hot shower's the fastest way
to warm your core temperature up.
Stay under there
until your jaw stops chattering.
Hypothermia snuck up on you.
You were so excited to be doing
what you loved that you weren't
checking in on your body much.
You're not quivering anymore?
Somebody gotta
take care of the mer-babies.
Thank you. Thank you.
Come down to the Black Sea ♪
Swimming with me ♪
Ah-ooh-ooh ♪
Ooh-ooh ♪
Come down to the Black Sea ♪
Swimming with me ♪
Ah-ooh-ooh ♪
Go down with me, fall with me ♪
Let's make it worth it ♪
Ah-ooh-ooh ♪
You rise, I fall ♪
I stand, you crawl ♪
You twist, I turn ♪
Who's the first to burn? ♪
You sit and stay ♪
I don't obey ♪
Where do we land? ♪
In the Black Sea ♪
Ooh-ooh ♪
In the Black Sea ♪
Where do we land? ♪
In the Black Sea ♪
I'm so happy to be here! Oh my God!
- I love you so much.
- I love you too.
Aw
We'll talk.
It's like a prom or a homecoming.
Hi!
- How are you?
- So good!
There are 20 real-life mermaids
on this ship.
Myself and 19 other contestants
are going to be competing
for the King and Queen
of the Seas competition.
The grand prize is
an all-expense-paid trip for two
to the Greek islands.
All-expense-paid, you and another person
They even pay for the plane!
It's an awesome prize,
but you will also be called upon
by the mer community to be that leader
and be that next directing force for us.
We're, like, mermazing,
and we're just here
to shine our beauty on the world.
As soon as I found out about
the King & Queen of the Seas pageant,
I applied right away.
But I ended up being asked to be a judge
which is even better,
because I get to literally rub elbows
with the other judges who are
some of the founders of our findustry.
They're all iconic, they're all legendary.
But the most iconic
and the most legendary is Hannah Fraser.
Hannah Fraser is up here.
She's, like, up here.
Like, she's the first real mermaid
I saw swimming on the Internet.
I'm so starstruck right now.
You are my idol.
Aw
We have Kariel.
She came up right after her.
She's got this huge show in Hawaii.
She has her own tail line.
And then we have
the Singapore Mermaid.
Syrena.
She has a huge school.
She's trained hundreds of people.
Just to be able to hang out
with these women who have created
this thing that I love so much
So much better than any other prize.
- Oh, we're moving!
- Yeah!
Are we in a dream? ♪
The mermaid community
is incredibly open and diverse.
Kings and queens!
Kings and queens!
In this competition,
with these international,
super highly-trained, amazing mers
who are kind of
spreading to the mainstream
Anyone can be a mermaid.
Bring your freaky fish fabulousness.
This is a competition.
I'm going to go 1,000%.
I have no choice.
I'm the only one with a song!
Like, come on!
Are we in a dream? ♪
As soon as I saw Arkansas,
I was like, "Alright, good. She's going."
"I can just, you know, cheer."
And then, like, two days later,
they announced the rest and I saw
- Mexico!
- I know!
- Sea Queen of Mexico!
- I know!
The whole country!
Just the whole country! No big deal!
Are we in a dream? ♪
Are we in a dream? ♪
Am I gonna wake up
Just to see that you're gone? ♪
Gone ♪
Weeki Wachee is having
its 75th anniversary.
Mermaids from wherever
they wound up in the world are coming,
and I'm hoping that I will see
a lot of the gals I worked with.
We'll sit, we'll talk,
and we'll reminisce,
and, uh, just basically have a big party.
The legendary sirens
of Weeki Wachee
are rehearsing now for the 75th.
They're gonna be swimming together.
That's real special when we get to
get in the water with the girls.
The sirens,
do you have any idea
how wonderful it is for them
to go back and be weightless, if you will,
in the water, because you are.
And then perform the songs
that they did in their youth?
Oh my gosh.
It's like you're coming home.
Like a homecoming.
I mean, the springs
is the reason we were all there.
It gets into your blood system.
You know, it's part of us.
And it will always
You know, as they say,
it's the siren's call.
It will always call us back.
When I get in that spring,
55 years disappear,
and I'm a little girl again,
back there in that water.
A very select group have been able
to perform in it over the years
and create magic for people.
Swimming in a pool, swimming in a tank,
swimming in other bodies of water,
it's just not the same.
Be able to be
in that spring, on an air hose,
and do a show
for the 75th mermaid reunion
It's just a water person's cocaine
is all I can tell you. I mean
Just shoot us up with cold water.
You know? Give me an air hose. I'm high.
With this reunion
that's coming up,
you have mermaids coming back
from the very beginning in 1947.
And as they get older,
they're passing away,
and it's just so sad.
This might be
one of the last chances
that any of these ladies
have the opportunity
to get together
in the same place at the same time,
and have the ability
to swim with one another.
Management makes the decision,
and hopefully they will not
be mean and make us
stay out of the spring.
I want to
get in that water so bad.
Three months out of view ♪
Put foot on the good ship Volunteer ♪
Searching for some whales, me boys ♪
And still we're in good cheer ♪
Alone and aloft in the crow's nest ♪
I thought I saw a whale ♪
But this weren't no fish, me boys ♪
'Twas a mermaid with a tail ♪
The competition's going to be
sectioned into three different parts.
The first is gonna be
showing off their mersona.
And showing off
their mersonality all around the pool,
giving their biggest,
brightest, beautiful selves.
A mersona is something
that connects that person
to their tail.
And it also creates a storyline
for them to kind of get into
to allow them to almost
kind of, like, play.
It's hot in here.
- My feet won't go in the pockets.
- Oh no!
Yeah. Someone have lube for the feet?
You know you're a mermaid
when you're buying lube
by the five-gallon pump jug.
It's the butt for me.
It's getting it over the butt.
That's where I struggle most.
Get the 29 waist
over the 40 behind.
Mermaiding is so much grosser
than anyone realizes.
When you're lubed up from the waist down
and sitting in a tail in the sun
for two hours, everything's just
real sweaty, uh, in there.
It's It is so much grosser
than people think it is,
and doing that
with a smile on your face is really hard.
We are using professional-grade,
body-safe,
designed for skin contact,
personal lubricant.
It's a G-rated show, right?
There you go.
- Cookie, are you ready?
- Oh, as ready as I'm ever gonna be.
The best mersonas
are just an extension of yourself.
I think of my mersona
as a good red lipstick.
Something I put on before a performance
that's an enhanced,
slightly more glam version of myself.
My mersona is me. I'm just gonna
talk to people. I don't need to be loud
because I'm good.
- Going over your shoulder?
- Yeah.
What can I do to please you? ♪
What can I do or say? ♪
Sup, fish!
Looking good!
A reason to stay ♪
How many times should I tell you? ♪
You are my everything ♪
- What can I do ♪
- Ta-da!
To make your dreams come true? ♪
I'll do ♪
What I have to do ♪
To make 'em come true ♪
Go around and say hi to all of us.
When you're able to, you can vote
for your favorite mermaid with a seashell.
Two, three
Ah!
We will be judging
our merfolk on character,
costume, and charisma.
Can I get a shell yeah?
Shell yeah!
Can I get a shell yeah?
Shell yeah!
Give it up for Michelle,
Sea Queen of Arizona.
Sea Queen of Nevada.
Sea Queen of Indonesia.
Three words
to describe your mersona.
Unique, sassy, mermazing.
Mermaid Sparkles, Sea Queen of Arkansas.
You look stunning.
We have Mermaid Pixi,
Sea Queen of Mexico.
I actually do not consider myself
a dangerous fish.
The reason why I am rainbow is
because I'm from the Rainbow Riviera.
And everything in the Rainbow Riviera
is rainbow-colored,
so this is my natural camouflage.
I see. This is amazing.
I'm the only person here
that makes their own tails.
- What? You do not.
- Yes.
This is 8,000 hand-sewn sequins
in the shape of scales,
and I do my own custom silicone work.
So everything you see
on my top, my crown, and this,
are things that wash up on our shores
and I find in our waterways.
Next up, we have Merman Andy,
Sea King of California.
You guys are beautiful!
William, the Hawaiian Merman,
Sea King of Hawaii.
Last but not least,
we have The Blixunami
who's here to show everyone
that they can be whatever they want.
Okay, so I'm in my human form right now,
but look at these guys
at seven o'clock in the morning.
They are ready to go.
So this morning
while I was having breakfast
in my tail,
flipping my fins,
this man jumps up,
all excited,
and plops down on my lap.
And I found out it was
the Sir Richard Branson.
A billionaire was in
The Blixunami's lap today.
A billionaire!
With a B!
That is insane!
- Hey!
- Hey! It's so cute up here.
- How'd you find this?
- I know.
We needed a good, beautiful view
to sit and relax at.
I make mermaid tails, I make mermaid tops.
Chè told me that she had this dream
that she needed a silicone tail,
but silicone tails aren't easily made
in her size.
Do you have a tail under that blanket?
I've never done a plus-size mermaid tail,
and I would like that community
to know that I'm welcoming them as well.
Okay, open your eyes.
Oh, this is pretty.
Oh, this is pretty.
So, it kind of looks green
in this lighting.
- But it's brown and gold.
- Oh my goodness.
So excited!
I sent my husband a picture.
He was like, "Babe, is that your tail?"
Even though it was just a text,
I felt that in it. And it's like, "Yes!"
Good things come to good people.
She's good people. She's a good fish.
I get super competitive and cutthroat.
I'm sussing out the competition.
I'm watching, listening,
seeing how everybody talks.
Visiting other people's rooms
Like, "Oh, let's go hang out."
What am I doing going in your room?
I'm seeing your costumes.
I'm backstage right now.
The stage portion of the pageant
is about to start.
The second part of the competition is
where the merms show off their costumes,
causes, and unique talents
in the pageant section.
What is your cause?
Domestic violence.
Wow.
I'm I'm a survivor of it.
Oh my gosh.
That's so brave of you to talk about.
Mermaiding has literally saved my life.
Before mermaiding,
I've been on a lot of medication.
And I mean a lot of medications.
To a social disorder
that I couldn't leave my house
without the sweats, the shakes,
the floor would come up on me.
But mermaiding, little by little,
more swimming, less pills.
More swimming, less pills.
We actually got married
like three years ago, four years ago
at a mermaid convention.
I became more confident,
and less depressed.
Like the water was my shield.
Okay.
We can do this. We can do this.
Okay.
I think I can win this competition
because I deserve it.
I work so hard Seriously!
- You do.
- I work so hard.
And I really do feel like
I am the Sea Queen,
whether they crown me or not.
They're gonna go hard on whatever they do,
and Imma have to go ten times harder.
Okay.
All right, everyone!
It's showtime!
Can I get a drumroll, please?
Without further ado,
the Sea King of Virginia.
That boy gets his batons
and it's like magic.
He can twirl a baton like a motherfucker.
Oh, look at her go.
Yes, ma'am!
That's my baby!
Next up we have the Sea Queen
of the Sunshine State.
My name is Luna, and my regional costume
represents the native Florida eelgrass
that resides in our springs and waterways.
Arkansas, what is one thing
that we would not know about you?
Universal love.
I incorporate that in my mermaiding
um, by donating a lot of my free time.
Um, benefitting
Um
I Yes, I'm sorry.
I know I didn't do that great
in my interview.
I know I had the mental block
that I get sometimes
when I'm overwhelmed
and I can't speak words.
I'm so nervous right now,
so please excuse me.
This is the extra-large version.
- I guess it's a European brand.
- I have that same pair. Yeah.
Like, this It barely covers
The only person who I think is
remotely close to me now is Merman Andy.
I need to level my crap up.
I am not risking losing this competition
because of holding back.
Work it! Oh!
They're good competition.
That's the exciting part,
'cause I don't know.
So finally seeing them
and what else they can bring
is gonna be, "Oh shit," for me.
Like, "I need to step my game up."
Hey!
Let me fix my crown
Before I hit your pool now ♪
The Blixunami live
I make my rules, yeah ♪
Look at my fins and how my tail glows ♪
The Blixunami in the flesh ♪
A sight to see ♪
We find out who the top ten is
for the rest of the voyage.
And I am super nervous,
but I'm also confident
I'm going to be in that top ten.
I think they did wonderful. Right?
Can we give them all
a giant round of applause?
Let's have
the contestants come back out.
Half of us are going to advance
to become King and Queen of the Seas,
and the other half will support them.
So may the best mer win.
If I am not more skilled
than at least ten other people here,
I should throw away this tail.
Don't worry about this.
You got this.
And if they appreciate
what you've done and everything, fine.
You already are a winner to me.
- Thank you.
- All right.
All right.
After much council deliberation,
we now have our top ten.
- You guys wanna know who it is?
- Yes!
Sea Queen of Canada.
The Sea Queen of Indonesia.
Sea Queen of Mexico.
Sea King of California, Merman Andy.
Sea Queen of the Springs.
Sea Queen of the Sunshine State.
Sea King of South Carolina.
Sea King of Hawaii.
Sea Queen of Nevada.
And our final spot in the top ten
Can I get another drumroll?
Our final spot goes to
Sea King of Virginia.
Can I get
a huge round of applause
for all of our contestants up here
on the stage?
- How you doing, baby?
- I'm okay.
- Yeah?
- I'm a little a little sad.
But I'll be all right.
How you doing, baby? You did good.
I'm happy.
- I'm happy for Blix.
- Yeah.
It was an experience I'll never forget.
Hey, Mermama!
Hey!
Guess what?
Tell me!
Top ten, baby!
Yes.
I'm the one representing
the chocolate in the top ten, baby.
Yes.
Top ten!
Okay. Okay. Calm down.
"To all."
"To all."
"The 75 Years of Mermaid Magic Celebration
at Weeki Wachee Springs State Park"
"will be postponed
and rescheduled for another date."
"If you have already made payment,
you will receive a full refund."
"No questions will be taken at this time."
Bold print, big letters.
"No questions."
Ten days before our 75th mermaid reunion.
That was just so sweet.
They say because of the hurricane
that their, um, employees
had to go and help other parks.
But I don't think they sent the mermaids
to do any picking up of tree branches.
Hurricane Ian happened
a week prior to that.
A hundred miles south.
They're still doing shows.
And they know how long
we have been waiting on this,
and planning it,
and looking forward to it.
I just hate that they did that to us.
Eric, do you have a second?
So I walked into Mertailor
the other morning
and Tara approached like, "Did you know
the reunion was cancelled?"
And at that point I was like,
"Well, this sucks."
And, oh, please,
forgive me for saying this,
but this might be some of the
the last opportunity
for some of these women,
because they ain't getting any younger.
I have decided that
we are going to have a small get-together
for all former mermaids
who swam at Weeki Wachee Springs,
at Mertailor.
She's coming anyway.
So, you know, it's a lot.
And I'm totally pissed
about it. I'm sorry.
Yeah. It was rude and disrespectful.
It was the mermaids
that made Weeki Wachee.
It wasn't management or state park,
it was the mermaids.
And to have them
diss us like that was really rude.
I was in tears. I was like,
"What am I supposed to do?"
I booked my tickets in April.
Yeah, even
However far up the chain,
whoever dictated that letter
needs to have their head examined.
If you don't want to make
a hornet's nest out of something,
you don't send people
a letter that says, "No questions."
- Yeah. Exactly.
- Give me a break. Explain.
We don't have to go
to Weeki Wachee to have no reunion.
We can go to Mertailor,
and we can have our own reunion there.
- We're welcome there.
- We're welcome there. With open arms.
Let's wrap this up with a big hug, girls.
- All right!
- Yay!
A group hug?
Here we go!
If you think you're seeing mermaids ♪
No. Let's see.
I want to be a Weeki Wachee mermaid ♪
That is what I'd truly like to be ♪
And if I was a Weeki Wachee mermaid ♪
Everyone would be in love with me ♪
Yes, ma'am!
It's amazing how things change
in the blink of an eye.
The 75th reunion gets cancelled,
and there's gonna be
an amazing event at Eric's.
Barbie!
Hey, girls!
Yeah!
Look at you. Look at you!
You look like you just left the villa.
That ain't fair!
- Oh!
- Yeah, the west agrees with you.
- Hey, sweetie.
- Hey, sweetie. Look at you.
- You just look good.
- Thank you, darlin'.
- I like this. This is gorgeous.
- This is Mertailor, 2022.
Hey, baby doll.
- Hi. Oh
- That's sweet.
I made my own T-shirt.
Says "75" on it.
It's gonna be fun.
We're making our own history.
Mirror, mirror, in my hand.
Make me the fairest in the land.
What the fish?!
I should've been close
to making the top ten.
God, I was just crap yesterday.
But I'm running around the boat
with my best friend Pixi.
I'm a good sport about it.
Sparkles is living her best life.
I'm really trying
to stay out of my self-loathing.
Awesome! Awesome!
And focus more on
how happy I am for the contestants.
They are my people.
My family. I am excited to see them shine.
All right, go.
Fast. Fast. Fast. Fast.
Late last night, I realized
we didn't have our scoresheet
set up for today's event.
So I stayed up last night
just to set up the sheet,
and I noticed a discrepancy.
One row whose, uh, scores were
different than they should have been.
This person who made the top ten
was actually number 12.
Okay, so we need to make this right.
Um, in my personal experience,
having competed in pageantry,
I think the best way to do it is to
make it into a top 12 instead of a top 10.
Top 12?
Yay!
Guys. Guys, wait, everybody stay.
We have an interesting development,
an announcement to make,
because there was one discrepancy
in the scoresheet that we caught.
What we decided
was instead of removing
somebody from the top ten,
we're gonna add two more
to make it into a top 12.
Oh shit.
Oh shit.
Hold me!
Okay.
So, we are going to be adding in
Virgin Islands.
Yes!
Oh my goodness!
We will also be adding into our top 12
New Jersey.
The fact that
there was more color added
I'm good.
I love it.
Ten years ago
Black people in a mermaid pageant
would not have been a thing.
- Not at all.
- Not a chance.
So, there's still not many of us
here now, but we're here.
And we're representing as much as we can,
so I think that's a beautiful thing.
I'm just happy
that we're getting a chance finally.
You know? And now we're making history.
- We're making merstory.
- Merstory.
You go, Queen. You go.
- How are you?
- Good to see you. Doing great.
So many girls from back then.
- Hi!
- We know each other, Ruth.
Yes, we do. We swam together.
The reunion is cancelled.
You have all these people
coming from out of state making plans.
They just want to get together.
Crystal! Hey, girl!
How you doing?
It's wonderful to see you.
And I was like,
it'd be great to have a little party.
Yes.
So that way, these people coming in
could have a place to congregate, chat,
share stories.
There's a lot of people that
I was hoping to be able to reconnect with.
- Eric, how are you?
- I'm good. Thank you so much for coming.
I'm so proud of you.
A lot of these women were hoping
to get into the spring one last time.
So I have opened up the tank
for the ladies who come to this event,
and we'll give them
the opportunity to swim in the tank
with the rest of their mermaid family.
All right, in three, two, one.
Say, "Weeki Wachee."
Weeki Wachee!
I love it. Perfect.
I hope this makes up for it.
Not even makes up for it.
I just hope it provides a lovely time.
- Hello, gorgeous.
- Hello, darlin'.
All right.
You got this, girl.
- All right.
- Let's go! Whee!
Splish-splash!
So we are finally
at the last day of the competition
for King and Queen of the Sea,
and we are here in Bimini, Bahamas.
There's one last part of the competition.
The underwater photo shoot.
I am going to kill it.
My God, I'm so nervous, you guys.
I don't think a person here
can beat me in water.
I know my dramatic angles,
I know how to turn my fin.
If I don't win
No.
I'm going to win.
Good morning, everybody!
This is the ultimate deciding factor
in who is crowned
the King and Queen of the Seas.
This is what's really
gonna separate, like,
the mermaids and the mermen
from the models.
Knowing your angles for a tail,
knowing about the surface work,
knowing how to release
all the air to get rid of your buoyancy.
The true expertise of being a mermaid
comes into play.
Our first contestant,
Sea King of California.
Here we go.
- He's got good buoyancy control.
- Yeah.
He's doing good at making sure
his tail is staying in the shots.
Going for more.
- Oh, beautiful.
- He's in it to win it.
That felt like the first thing
that I really thought was like,
- "Okay, now I'm merring." You know?
- Yeah.
Next up,
the Sea King of Hawaii.
- I love his smile underwater.
- Me too.
Bubble kisses
don't translate well in photo.
Whoo! Good job, Will!
Pixi, you're a star!
Beautiful.
It'd be nice if the tail
was turned up though.
Yes, fish!
I love you!
The Sunshine State.
- Yes!
- Beautiful.
We're seeing all of it.
The tail, the face.
She's great.
The King of South Carolina.
Showing his personality.
Good job.
The judges are going to now debrief.
- I don't have any low scores on my sheet.
- That's where it's hard.
I'm floored.
I don't know
who is gonna win at this point.
I'm sure it's gonna be
one of those things
where it's, like, fractions of points.
It's so hard
at this point to choose.
Yay!
Yes, let's go swimming.
It doesn't matter
how long we're apart.
We are just, you know, bonded
because of this magic that we shared.
We are a sisterhood.
Once you have that mermaid connection,
it's not broken.
It's It's forever.
Once you're a mermaid,
you're always a mermaid.
Ended is my quest for truth and beauty ♪
I've no more pseudo-friendships
That are bought ♪
Completely without cost ♪
I've regained the youth I'd lost ♪
And happiness is being here with you ♪
At Weeki Wachee ♪
On top of being
King or Queen of the Sea,
one person is going to get
this grand prize, and it's a big prize.
It's not only a cruise to Greece,
but it's also the backing
of the entire mer community.
We're choosing a leader here.
Today we had
our final round to determine
who will be the King and Queen of the Sea.
Can the 12 fin-alists step forward?
Are you guys ready?
The Queen of the Seas,
the highest-scoring mermaid
Drumroll, please, and make it good.
The Sea Queen of the Sunshine State!
It's time to announce
the grand prize winner.
The highest-scoring mer overall.
The grand prize winner
of King and Queen of the Seas is
The Sea King of California, Merman Andy!
California!
So the competition isn't quite over yet.
We want to give want to give
a best congeniality award
to beauty and grace.
I announce South Carolina
as our winner of Virgin Voyages.
So, the surprise isn't actually done yet.
I want to personally tell you
that are winning another voyage
here on Virgin Voyages.
Yes!
- No!
- Yes!
No!
Andy! We're both going on the voyage!
- Are you serious? Oh my God!
- Yes!
By definition, we're a community
of rebels and renegades and runaways.
So not only are you finally given a place
where you belong, where you're accepted,
where there's no wrong way
to be who you are,
but the things that make you different,
that you might've been ridiculed for in
the past are now what makes you special.
The idea that there is
a world and community
where there's a place for you,
where there's a place for anyone,
is incredibly appealing to people
who have been told that
the world doesn't want them.
I'm not gonna cry in this interview,
so just, you know, give me a second.
All right, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good.
- Hey, Sparkles.
- Hey.
- All right, give me this.
- Okay.
Welcome to the Circus Siren Pod.
- Ready to meet the tank?
- Oh
Wow!
Oh my gosh, it's amazing!
It's pretty great.
There you go.
All right, guys, look who I've got.
Sparkles!
- Hey!
- Oh my gosh!
Here.
- So good to see you!
- Let's get her tail!
Thank you. Oh, thank you so much.
- Welcome to the family!
- Oh, thank you!
I'm so happy to have you here.
All right, we're gonna
slide in fluke first.
Nice and quiet like.
And then they'll get really excited
once they see your fluke.
When someone sees a mermaid,
it opens up
a whirlwind of unlimited imaginations.
When you think back of mythology,
the lost city of Atlantis comes up.
This once-gorgeous city
and all of these ruins
collapsed into the water.
It's magical, it's mythical, it's made up.
Or maybe it isn't.
Just imagine
if you, if I, if we lived in a world
where anything is possible.
This world of mermaids
is just spiraling and growing.
This is now. This is what we are doing.
There is absolutely no worry
with what's happening above.
You're there,
I'm there in that moment.
And nothing else in the world matters.
Anybody can be a mermaid.
You just have to believe.