Daisy Jones & the Six (2023) s01e05 Episode Script
Track 5: Fire
1
Previously on Daisy Jones and The Six
- What's the radio station?
- What?
- Oh, my God.
- This is what you ♪
- Don't wanna know ♪
- Oh, my God.
[LAUGHTER]
[GRAHAM] We got asked to join the bill
at the Diamond Head Festival.
- Let's give it up for The Six!
- [CROWD CHEERING]
Of course it wasn't just us
that they wanted on the bill.
[CROWD CHANTING] Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!
Your first single and
it hits number one.
What do you two have
planned for an encore?
Uh, that was more of a one-time thing.
[DAISY] You're a real
fucking asshole, aren't you?
[LAUGHING]
I think you're amazing.
It's never gonna happen for us, is it?
[EXHALES]
You in the band? Hi, I'm Caroline.
Graham.
[CAMILA] You and Daisy, it's
exactly what you need to get
- to where you want to go.
- I know. I know.
Well, do you want me to join your band?
[PATTI SMITH: "DANCING BAREFOOT"]
She ♪
Is benediction ♪
She ♪
Is addicted to thee ♪
She ♪
Is the root connection ♪
She ♪
Is connecting with he ♪
Here I go ♪
And I don't know why ♪
I fell so ceaselessly ♪
Could it be he's taking ♪
Over me ♪
I'm dancing barefoot ♪
Heading for a spin ♪
Some strange music ♪
Draws me in ♪
Makes me come on ♪
Like some heroine ♪
[PHONE RINGING]
[ROXY MUSIC: "LOVE IS THE DRUG"]
[EXHALES]
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
[WOMAN] Good morning, Ms. Jones.
This is the wake-up call you requested.
[MAN] What time is it?
T'ain't no big thing ♪
To wait for the bell to ring ♪
Time for you to go, babe.
T'ain't no big thing ♪
- Dada! Yay, yay!
- Hey.
Hey.
- Good morning, beautiful.
- Oh, yeah.
- Good morning, good morning.
- Hi. Mm.
You want any breakfast?
Oh, yeah? Uh
No, I should get showered and get going.
What time do you think you'll be back?
[GROANS] If it goes well
[SIGHS] I don't know,
in time for dinner.
- And if doesn't?
- [SIGHS]
Well, if it doesn't, then
it's gonna be a long night.
- All right.
- All right.
Love is the drug got a hook on me ♪
Oh, catch that buzz ♪
Love is the drug I'm thinking of ♪
Oh, can't you see ♪
Love is the drug for me ♪
Oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh ♪
[MUSIC STOPS]
- Hi.
- Hi.
It's got a lens that can zoom
all the way from nine to
36 on the first zoom, so
Oh. I made breakfast.
We didn't really know what to expect.
[WARREN] Again with the legs, man.
[EDDIE] Dude, I know.
- [WARREN] I'm a leg guy, you know?
- Hey, Daisy.
- [WARREN] That's just a fact.
- Hi.
- And those legs?
- Mm-hmm. I mean
They just got me a little distracted
- is all I'm saying.
- Warren, right?
Yeah.
You know it's not my job
not to turn you on, right?
I-I do now.
Great.
- [CHUCKLES]
- [BILLY] All right, everybody.
I just want to say a few things
before we get started. First off,
we have a new member of the band.
So let's hear it for Daisy Jones.
[CHEERING, WHOOPING]
- [WARREN] Welcome.
- Thank you for being here
and for doing this with us.
Thank you for having me.
So, it's been what, four weeks?
I wrote a song. [CLEARS
THROAT] Well, actually,
I've written about 20 songs
I'd like to play for you guys.
Sorry. I wasn't trying to
cut you off or anything.
I was just I'm
excited about it, so
[BILLY] Okay.
What?
The songs were all
written and ready to go.
Well, Daisy, the great
news is, we, uh
we actually have,
what, 13 songs for the album, so
Yeah, I mean, why
don't we play you some,
and then, uh, you can have
a listen, see if you
feel strongly about any of them or,
you know, want to add
anything. You know?
I mean, can you imagine?
I could not have been nicer.
We could play the, uh
- the new one for Daisy.
- Mm.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think you're gonna dig this one.
Let me guess, it's about
your wife and the rain.
[LAUGHS] Oh, my God.
[LAUGHS] I think it was
called "She's the Storm."
Seriously.
[LAUGHS]
- [CHUCKLES] That funny?
- No.
Sorry, did you want to say something?
No, I'm just I mean, I'm not here
to sing harmony on a bunch
of love songs about your wife.
Right?
You know, I mean,
if we're gonna if we're
in a band, then the album has
to be just as much mine as it is yours.
As it is Karen's and
Graham's and Warren's
and that guy's.
You know?
She was saying things
I'd been saying since '69.
I mean, shouldn't we at
least talk about a direction?
Is there a concept, a big idea
you have for the record, or ?
[KAREN] Actually, I-I agree.
What? I-I think it's
a good conversation.
- [EDDIE] You know what I think?
- Oh, God.
I think this should be
a rock and roll record.
[SIGHS] Thank you, Eddie.
Thank you so much for your input.
- [EDDIE] No, I'm serious.
- [DAISY CHUCKLES]
Of course it's gonna be a
rock and roll record, man.
What the fuck?
I mean, is it, though?
'Cause, I mean, like,
a lot of these songs are
sounding like, like,
well, well, pop songs, man.
[MOUTHING]
Like Sonny and Cher shit.
You know, are we a pop band now, or ?
All right? I mean,
rock and roll should be
passion, pain, anger.
- Mm.
- Sleeping with some girl you don't know,
not making sweet love to
your wife, for Chrissakes.
No offense, Billy.
Sort of what I was trying to say.
- How about some African drums?
- Great idea.
We could do a song
just vocals and piano.
Yeah, I-I'd like to write some
of my own bass parts for once.
- You know, why not?
- [DAISY] Great!
I knew this was a fucking terrible idea.
What's the bad idea?
Wait, I mean, you invited me here.
Yeah, well, maybe that
was a mistake, Daisy.
- All right?
- Are you done?
Are you? Jesus Christ.
You're acting like a
bunch of kindergarteners.
Just maybe the two of
you can go someplace
and work on something
together, how about that?
Either way, the door is right there,
so go on and get the fuck out of here,
'cause I got shit to do.
Go, goddamn it!
Come on.
[BILLY SIGHS]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
Hey, yeah, so what about us?
I could care less.
So where should we go?
- Apple Pan.
- What?
I'm hungry.
It's, like, 10:00 in the morning.
Well, I can't work if I'm hungry.
[BARRY MANILOW: "COULD IT BE MAGIC"]
Could this be the magic ♪
At last? ♪
[SHUTS RADIO OFF]
Oh, let me know ♪
[MUSIC STOPS]
And, baby, I want you ♪
- Turn it off.
- It's a good song.
- It's my fucking car.
- Oh, my lord.
- [BELL DINGS]
- Hey, there.
What'll it be?
Two hickory burgers, medium rare.
And two sides of fries, please.
I don't need you to order for me.
Well, good, 'cause I didn't.
Yeah. I'll, uh, I'll have the same.
Coming right up.
[MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]
[SIGHS] All right, look.
No good's gonna come out
of us fighting all the time.
Well, how-how do you know that?
- What?
- What do you know about fighting?
Nobody ever stands up to you.
Can I ask you a question?
Be my guest.
Why are you so obsessed with your wife?
- [LAUGHS] What?
- I met Camila. She's great,
but why can't you write a
song about anything else?
Is it are you afraid she's gonna
leave you or do you feel like
you're not good enough for her?
What's the thing that ?
- [CHUCKLES] Daisy.
- Did you do something wrong?
Daisy.
I don't want to talk
to you about this, okay?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Okay. Two hickory burgers each.
["STUMBLED ON SUBLIME" PLAYS ON RADIO]
I, I found you ♪
- Enjoy.
- Thank you.
[MUSIC CONTINUES FAINTLY]
Stumbled on sublime ♪
I stumbled on sublime ♪
[HUMMING CHORUS MELODY]
Getting through the day
was always such a chore ♪
Do you like this song?
- "Stumbled on Sublime"?
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, everyone likes this song.
- I wrote it.
What do you mean you "wrote it"?
I mean I-I wrote it.
Like you wrote "Honeycomb"?
Kind of.
[CHUCKLES] Okay.
I wrote the lyrics.
Some of the melody.
Well, most of the melody.
Stumbled on sublime ♪
Listen to the song.
You think Wyatt Stone could write this?
She's all around your head ♪
She's dancing on the
edges of your mind ♪
[LYRICS CONTINUE INDISTINCTLY]
It's a, it's a great
fucking song, Daisy.
Well, cool, man.
Now that you dig it,
maybe you can stop being
such a dick all the time.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
[WARREN] Hey, man, are you
sure you don't want to come?
Well, I've already seen it.
Yeah.
You've seen it once.
That's probably the
appropriate number of times
to watch Rollerball.
Not if you appreciate art, brother.
[LAUGHS]
It's a true cinematic masterpiece.
All right, well, enjoy
round two, gentlemen.
Oh, I will.
[LAUGHS]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
What are you guys up to?
- Movies.
- Oh. Rollerball again?
It's a fucking masterpiece.
- Hey!
- [LAUGHS]
[MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]
Hey, I was thinking, um,
I'll come to the beach with you today.
I mean, why not?
I got nothing else to do.
Okay.
Graham.
Are we good?
Of course we are.
We're great.
All right?
Okay.
- I'll go get my stuff then.
- [GRAHAM] Yeah.
[CAR HORN HONKS]
- Hey.
- [CHUCKLES] How's it going?
Oh, it's good.
- You got it? Okay.
- How are you?
- [GRAHAM] Yeah.
- [CAR DOOR OPENS]
Hey, you coming?
Why don't you guys just go ahead?
- Why, you all right?
- Yeah. [STAMMERS]
I just didn't realize that it was
[CAROLINE] Oh, no, no, no!
It's totally fine. Yeah, hop in.
- See?
- [CHUCKLES]
Don't be weird.
Let's go.
- [ENGINE STARTS]
- Cool.
Wow.
Whose house is this?
You've never been here before?
- I can't say I have.
- [SIGHS] Okay.
- Where is
- Uh, Daisy?
What? That key
[SCOFFS]
What are you doing?
I'm looking for a key, Billy.
I mean, Jesus
Daisy.
Ha!
Why do I get the feeling
we're breaking the law?
[DOOR OPENS]
[DAISY] That's not very
rock and roll, Billy.
Okay.
[SCOFFS SOFTLY]
Wow.
[PLAYS PIANO]
Great.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
That's crazy.
[SIGHS]
♪
What is that?
Just something my brother
was messing around with.
So how's this gonna work?
What do you mean?
Like, what's your process?
My "process"?
Yeah, for writing songs.
You're looking at it.
Your wife said you don't drink anymore.
Does this, does this bother you?
It's fine.
I don't know how to write with anybody.
Yeah, well, me neither.
- Not really.
- Okay, so what do we do?
[EXHALES] Uh
At least look at it, will you?
They're not all about my wife.
Well, pick another one.
[DAISY SIGHS, CLEARS THROAT]
You know what? Give me that.
It's fine.
We'll start something new.
[CLUCKS TONGUE]
Okay.
What?
What?
What's the fucking problem, huh?
Nothing, it's, uh
What?
I don't dig all the nature shit.
- The imagery, the the
- [SIGHS]
- Uh
- Okay.
It might work for some people,
but it just doesn't
work for me, all right?
I mean [STAMMERS]
are these even lyrics?
Yes, they're lyrics, or
they're-they're ideas,
they're fragments, they're just
things off the top of my head.
"Kites fly in a firestorm"?
- It's a metaphor.
- For what?
Uh, for feeling untethered or a-adrift.
Maybe just say that then.
You know, it's okay sometimes
to just say what you mean.
- I can say what I mean.
- Can you?
Yes, I can. I think you're a shithead.
How's that?
[CHUCKLES]
Uh, it was better, actually.
Okay.
Play that riff again.
Play your brother's riff.
- [SIGHS]
- All right.
♪
[VOCALIZING]
[VOCALIZING]
♪
- [WATER SPLASHES]
- [STOPS PLAYING]
♪
[PANTING]
Are we taking a break?
No.
We're writing.
♪
Hey, I think it's really
cool you're in a rock band.
You know, being a woman and all.
You almost never see that.
It's sad, but true.
What kind of music are you into?
Ooh, a little bit of
everything, I guess.
That Barry Manilow is really something.
You're really pretty.
[CHUCKLES]
I was Miss Teen Arizona in '73.
Congratulations.
[SCOFFS] Thanks.
What is it you do now?
Oh, I'm a student up
at UC Santa Barbara.
Premed.
You're gonna be a doctor?
Psychiatrist.
And you're into Graham.
- Yeah.
- Level with me.
Is it the whole rock star fantasy thing?
Guys with guitars and all that?
I don't think so.
What is it?
He's just a really good guy.
Plus you know.
What?
I mean, he's sexy as hell.
Is he?
[PANTING]
What are you two talking about?
- Oh, nothing.
- Nothing.
Who wants to learn how to surf?
Are you crazy?
There's no way I'm going
in that dirty piss water.
- Come on.
- I'll go.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
All right. Don't drown on me, Sirko.
Need a keyboardist.
[CAROLINE] You guys have fun.
[GRAHAM] All right. We'll be back.
- [THE DIXIE CUPS: "IKO IKO"]
- My grandma ♪
And your grandma were
sittin' by the fire ♪
My grandma told ♪
Your grandma "I'm gonna
set your flag on fire" ♪
- Talkin' 'bout hey now, hey now ♪
- Hey now ♪
- Hey now ♪
- Iko, Iko, an day ♪
- Oh ♪
- Jocomo fee no an dan day ♪
Jocomo fee nan nay ♪
Look at my king all dressed in red ♪
Iko, Iko, an day I
betcha five dollars ♪
He'll kill you dead,
jocomo fee nan nay ♪
- Talkin' 'bout hey now, hey now ♪
- Hey now ♪
- Hey now, oh ♪
- Iko, Iko, an day ♪
Jocomo fee no an dan day ♪
Jocomo fee nan nay ♪
My flag boy and your flag boy ♪
Sittin' by the fire ♪
My flagboy told your flagboy ♪
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire ♪
First record I bought with my own money.
Let me guess. Yours was something
cool like The Everly Brothers?
Mm-mm.
Fats Domino?
No.
See that guy all dressed in green ♪
Little Richard?
- No.
- What was it?
He not a man, he a lovin' machine ♪
Jocomo fee nan nay ♪
Talkin' 'bout hey now ♪
"How Much is That Doggie in the Window."
But if you ever tell
anyone, I will deny it.
[CHUCKLES] Want to pick a record?
[MUSIC STOPS]
Sure.
Uh
Here we go. All right.
[DAISY] What is it?
First song that really
[DAISY] What?
My first love.
Well, that's exciting.
[NEEDLE CRACKLES ON RECORD]
[THE BEACH BOYS: "IN MY ROOM"]
[SINGING ALONG] There's a world ♪
Where I can go ♪
And tell my secrets to ♪
In my room ♪
You know this song?
[LAUGHS] I know this song.
In my room ♪
In my room ♪
In this world ♪
I lock out all my ♪
- Move your shoulders.
- Okay.
All you got to do is move one step.
One. There you go.
Move your body.
Okay.
We don't have to be friends.
In my room ♪
But if we're gonna write together, we
we can't be strangers.
Do my dreaming ♪
Ask me something.
Ask me anything.
Lie awake and pray ♪
And you'll tell me the truth?
Sure.
Cross my heart.
Do my crying ♪
Okay.
And my sighing ♪
Uh, how many pills do you take in a day?
That's what you want to ask me?
Answer the question.
- I don't know.
- Well, you said "anything."
Yeah, and I'm telling you I
don't know. I-I don't count 'em.
You don't think that's a problem?
Why would that be a problem?
They're from a fucking doctor.
Well, it's a problem if you can't stop.
[DAISY] I can stop.
I can throw these in the toilet
right now, and I won't feel a thing.
In my room ♪
I'm not sure I believe you.
In my room ♪
In my room ♪
[BROTHER CORNELIUS:
"TOO LATE TO TURN BACK NOW"]
What else you want to know?
Why'd you want to join the
band in the first place?
You.
She said, "Son, please beware" ♪
What about me?
I feel like I know you.
Or, like, like we've known
each other for a long time.
I-I don't know how to explain it.
You feel familiar to me.
- Break your heart ♪
- Break your heart ♪
Does that happen to you often?
No.
One more, and then it's my turn.
I feel it's happened to
me and I'm tellin' you ♪
All right.
To turn back now ♪
I believe, I believe, I
believe I'm falling in love ♪
It's too late ♪
Tell me how you really cut your hand.
[LAUGHS] I-I told you.
- Breaking into your parents' house?
- Yes.
- You were serious about that?
- Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
I don't understand.
Ten times a day ♪
I had the number one
song in the country,
and I just wanted them to know about it.
But they weren't there.
[CHUCKLES] No.
- They'd moved away.
- What?
- Sleep at night ♪
- Sleep at night ♪
Wanting to hold her tight ♪
They moved away
without telling you.
To convince myself that this
feeling just can't be right ♪
Jesus, Daisy. That might be
the saddest thing I ever heard.
Well, Billy,
I hate to tell you this, but
life's full of sad things.
And when I feel sad, I take pills.
What do you do?
To turn back now ♪
I believe, I believe, I
believe I'm falling in love ♪
I don't know.
I mean, that's-that's
what I used to do, but
- I think I, uh
- What?
- It's too late, baby ♪
- To turn back now ♪
I guess I just
feel it.
Ooh.
That's the saddest
thing I've ever heard.
Love me, too ♪
But I'd hate to think
that I'm in love alone ♪
And nothing that I can do ♪
I see.
What do you see?
You write songs about
who you wish you were.
Not who you are.
I'm falling in love ♪
What if you didn't do that?
What if you wrote songs about the guy
that's not so good all the time?
The guy that lets people down
and the guy that maybe wants
things that he shouldn't.
[CHUCKLES]
Who would want to
hear a song about that?
I would.
It's too late ♪
I think everybody would.
I believe, I believe ♪
I believe I'm falling in love ♪
Hey, hey, relax, okay?
I don't know how to relax.
- I'm English.
- You're all right.
All right? I got you.
She's nice.
Yeah, she is.
She's pretty, too.
[CHUCKLES] Yeah, I'd say.
What do you guys talk about?
Karen.
What?
Are you calling her dumb?
No. No.
She's, like, a fucking
Rhodes scholar or something.
I'm just asking if you
have any mutual interests.
Yeah.
I mean, yes.
I mean, I think we do.
'Cause I was talking
to her earlier and
she's a big Barry Manilow fan.
Don't fuck with me.
[KAREN LAUGHS]
[BOTH LAUGH]
Well, we've only been out,
like, three or four times.
And
if I'm being honest, we don't, uh
do a lot of talking,
if you know what I mean.
- Yeah. Yeah, I I think I do.
- Yeah.
Yeah, not a lot of talking
whatsoever actually.
- Yeah, I understand completely.
- 'Cause of all the sex.
- Thank you, Graham. I get it.
- Yeah. Uh-huh. [CHUCKLES]
Jesus.
- Here comes a wave. You ready?
- No.
- It's too late. Come on.
- [GASPS]
- Get down on your stomach.
- Oh, my God.
- Down on your stomach, paddle.
- Oh, my fucking God.
[GRAHAM] Paddle. Paddle!
- Go, go, go!
- [KAREN SCREAMS]
[LAUGHS]
[KAREN WHOOPS]
[KAREN AND GRAHAM LAUGHING]
- Hi!
- [CAROLINE LAUGHS]
Ah!
[KISSING]
Are you ready?
- [CAROLINE] Ready for what?
- [GRAHAM] We're going in.
- [CAROLINE] No, we're not.
- [GRAHAM] Yeah, are you ready?
Come on.
♪
Like that.
Like that, but where is it gonna go?
I mean, I feel
The good thing about the
way that I was doing it
- [DAISY] I I
- I feel like it had someplace to go.
I just think this suits the verse
- that that you wrote better.
- Okay.
- Well, well, I okay.
- Just try it. Just try it.
We went back and forth
on it for hours, I think.
Changing the chords,
changing the melody,
hashing the whole thing out.
Back to the C?
♪
- I like that. [LAUGHS]
- Ah
It's quite a feeling when it works.
Let me down ♪
Let me down easy if you're gonna ♪
I don't think we should
both go down. [LAUGHS]
- Let's try that. Let's try it.
- Okay. Okay.
Let me down ♪
There we go.
[EXHALES]
♪
♪
Okay, but he didn't write that song.
Who cares?
But, Caroline, the whole
The song is called "I Write the Songs."
- I mean, how can you not have a problem with that?
- It's a good song.
- Whoever wrote it.
- Will you help me, please?
I mean, what exactly
do you like about it?
I don't know.
Um, the words? His voice?
Well, no, but for real.
[LAUGHS]
Hey, look, there's
no wrong answers here.
Well, I wouldn't say there
were no wrong answers,
- all right?
- Well, it's a catchy song.
Okay? It makes me happy.
Geez, isn't that the point of pop music?
It's not supposed to, like,
change your whole life, guys.
- I mean, that's insane.
- Right. Sorry,
you said there were no wrong answers?
- Oh, fuck off.
- [LAUGHS] Okay.
- Barry Manilow.
- God.
- [BRAKES SQUEAK]
- They're still not back yet?
God. How many times can you
see Rollerball in one day?
[CHUCKLES]
- Can you walk me in?
- What? Why?
I don't know. What if
someone's in the house?
Like who?
I don't know, burglars.
- "Burglars"?
- Yeah.
There's been all those
break-ins recently.
Uh, I mean, I haven't
heard about any break-ins.
- Will you just walk me to the bloody door?
- [CAROLINE] It's fine.
- Just walk her to the door.
- Yeah. All right. Okay.
- Geez.
- All right.
- All right, be back in a second.
- Okay.
Well, looks like the coast is clear.
[BARRY MANILOW: "I WRITE THE SONGS"]
It's from me, it's for you,
it's from you, it's from me ♪
It's a worldwide symphony ♪
I write the songs that
make the whole world sing ♪
I write the songs of
love and special things ♪
I should probably, um
I write the songs that
make the young girls cry ♪
Caroline
I write the songs, I write the songs ♪
I can see it waving in the distance ♪
Like a mirage on sand ♪
That could be us ♪
Trading secrets no one
else could understand ♪
Why are we saying "it"?
- "I can see it waving in the distance."
- What?
- What is "it"?
- [STAMMERS]
Like, our future
What can you see in the distance?
- Why not "you" or "us"?
- [BILLY] It's like
- "Us" works.
- I like "us."
- I like "us." Let's try it.
- I love "us."
- Okay. [CHUCKLES]
- Try "us."
Okay.
- I can see us waving ♪
- Try it.
Okay. All right.
One, two, three, four.
I can see us waving in the distance ♪
Like a mirage on sand ♪
That could be us trading secrets ♪
No one else could understand ♪
I love that.
I got you under my skin now ♪
Why do you make it so hard? ♪
That sounds like a song.
Don't leave me broke,
don't-don't leave me ♪
Broken and free, won't
you tell me where you are ♪
Okay.
Okay. This-this part needs
We need to rework this here.
- Why?
- It's Disneyland, Billy.
- This is It is, it is.
- It's not Disneyland!
It It's optimistic.
It's it's hopeful.
- It's, I mean, what's wrong with being hopeful?
- [CHUCKLES]
It's not a song We're
not writing a song about
being hopeful. We're writing a song
about why we do things
that are bad for us.
Why we keep doing them
even though we know
- that it's hopeless.
- [BILLY SCOFFS]
I don't agree.
- Well, you're wrong, so
- Oh, wow.
Someone sure did a number
on you, didn't they?
- What does that mean?
- [BILLY] What?
I was wrong about you, that's all.
I never would have
thought you were so
What?
Like, broken.
[CLUCKS TONGUE]
Daisy!
[QUIETLY] That's not,
that's not what I meant.
Daisy.
Daisy!
Daisy, I'm sorry, all right? I
Oh, man.
Look.
I'm sorry.
What I meant was
we're more alike than I thought.
How's that?
My dad also left without
a forwarding address.
I was eight.
I try not to think about him too much,
but, uh
I'm pretty sure everything I do
is to try and make him regret it.
[SNIFFLES]
I'm not broken.
Yeah, me neither.
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFLES]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
Oh, shit.
How the hell did you get in my house?
The door.
[LAUGHS]
[DOOR OPENS]
[WARREN] Honeys, I'm home.
[PHONE RINGING]
[EDDIE] We're home.
Hey.
You guys heard from Billy yet?
[PHONE RINGING]
Uh, no.
Hello?
Okay.
Yeah, sure, no problem.
Mm-hmm.
Be right there.
That was Teddy.
What'd he say?
[BOTH LAUGHING]
I-I couldn't hold it in anymore.
I just, I literally just, uh
- Hi.
- Hi.
Hey, Graham, you know the,
uh, riff you're always playing?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You
guys write something to it?
[BILLY] Sit down. I think
you're gonna dig this.
It was the first song that
they ever truly wrote together.
Still one of my favorites.
[DAISY] Doesn't mean
I couldn't believe it ♪
Doesn't mean I won't
believe it still ♪
We ran through it a couple times.
Every lie is true at the time, baby ♪
That's the thrill ♪
Oh, won't you let me down ♪
I remember having this feeling like
nothing would ever be the same again.
It was just
a really great day.
And then it goes to D major?
Yeah, I know, but just
trust me, it-it-it works.
All right? Uh And,
hey, if you want to
fuck around with it, do your thing, man.
- [INTERCOM BEEPS]
- [TEDDY] Should we put this one on tape?
- [DAISY] Yes, we should.
- [OTHERS AGREEING]
- [TEDDY] Okay.
- What's it called again?
It's called "Let Me Down Easy."
[BASS DRUM BEATING]
[PLAYING "LET ME DOWN EASY"]
♪
[DAISY] Found me lost
in a daydream feeling ♪
I've been awake too long ♪
My eyes are open while
my heart keeps sinking ♪
Deeper till the days are gone ♪
Doesn't mean I couldn't believe it ♪
Doesn't mean I won't
believe it still ♪
Every lie is true at the time, baby ♪
That's the thrill ♪
[BOTH] Oh, won't you
let me down, let me down ♪
Let me down easy, if
you're gonna let me down ♪
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
Don't you go and tell
me that you love me ♪
While you're leaving if
you're gonna leave me now ♪
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
[GUITAR SOLOING]
I can see us waving in the distance ♪
Like a mirage on sand ♪
That could be us trading secrets ♪
No one else could understand ♪
I got you under my skin now ♪
Why do you make it so hard? ♪
Don't leave me broken, I'm free ♪
Won't you tell me where you are ♪
The best part was it left room
for everyone to contribute.
It wasn't just the Billy show anymore.
If you're gonna let me down ♪
Daisy did that for us.
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
Don't you go and tell
me that you love me ♪
While you're leaving if
you're gonna leave me now ♪
Oh ♪
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
♪
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
If you're gonna ♪
It was obvious that they
made each other better.
If you're gonna let me down ♪
Don't you go and tell
me that you love me ♪
While you're leaving if
you're gonna leave me now ♪
Oh, if you're gonna let me down ♪
Until, of course, they didn't.
If you're gonna let me down ♪
[SONG ENDS]
♪
[BILLY] Oh, my God.
[LAUGHS] That was,
that was the best one.
Right? What'd you think?
[INTERCOM BEEPS]
I'm a motherfucking genius.
[LAUGHTER, CHEERING]
[WHOOPING]
- [WARREN] Good one for you.
- [KAREN] We did it.
[MOANS]
[YAWNS]
What time is it? Mm.
Late.
Hmm. [INHALES]
I'm sorry. Was it that bad?
[NEU!: "AFTER EIGHT"]
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me, help me, help ho-ho ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
[MOANS]
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me see the sun,
help me to get up ♪
Help me see the sun ♪
Help me to get up ♪
♪
Oh ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Oh ♪
Help me see the sun,
help me to get up ♪
Previously on Daisy Jones and The Six
- What's the radio station?
- What?
- Oh, my God.
- This is what you ♪
- Don't wanna know ♪
- Oh, my God.
[LAUGHTER]
[GRAHAM] We got asked to join the bill
at the Diamond Head Festival.
- Let's give it up for The Six!
- [CROWD CHEERING]
Of course it wasn't just us
that they wanted on the bill.
[CROWD CHANTING] Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!
Your first single and
it hits number one.
What do you two have
planned for an encore?
Uh, that was more of a one-time thing.
[DAISY] You're a real
fucking asshole, aren't you?
[LAUGHING]
I think you're amazing.
It's never gonna happen for us, is it?
[EXHALES]
You in the band? Hi, I'm Caroline.
Graham.
[CAMILA] You and Daisy, it's
exactly what you need to get
- to where you want to go.
- I know. I know.
Well, do you want me to join your band?
[PATTI SMITH: "DANCING BAREFOOT"]
She ♪
Is benediction ♪
She ♪
Is addicted to thee ♪
She ♪
Is the root connection ♪
She ♪
Is connecting with he ♪
Here I go ♪
And I don't know why ♪
I fell so ceaselessly ♪
Could it be he's taking ♪
Over me ♪
I'm dancing barefoot ♪
Heading for a spin ♪
Some strange music ♪
Draws me in ♪
Makes me come on ♪
Like some heroine ♪
[PHONE RINGING]
[ROXY MUSIC: "LOVE IS THE DRUG"]
[EXHALES]
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
[WOMAN] Good morning, Ms. Jones.
This is the wake-up call you requested.
[MAN] What time is it?
T'ain't no big thing ♪
To wait for the bell to ring ♪
Time for you to go, babe.
T'ain't no big thing ♪
- Dada! Yay, yay!
- Hey.
Hey.
- Good morning, beautiful.
- Oh, yeah.
- Good morning, good morning.
- Hi. Mm.
You want any breakfast?
Oh, yeah? Uh
No, I should get showered and get going.
What time do you think you'll be back?
[GROANS] If it goes well
[SIGHS] I don't know,
in time for dinner.
- And if doesn't?
- [SIGHS]
Well, if it doesn't, then
it's gonna be a long night.
- All right.
- All right.
Love is the drug got a hook on me ♪
Oh, catch that buzz ♪
Love is the drug I'm thinking of ♪
Oh, can't you see ♪
Love is the drug for me ♪
Oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh ♪
Oh, oh ♪
[MUSIC STOPS]
- Hi.
- Hi.
It's got a lens that can zoom
all the way from nine to
36 on the first zoom, so
Oh. I made breakfast.
We didn't really know what to expect.
[WARREN] Again with the legs, man.
[EDDIE] Dude, I know.
- [WARREN] I'm a leg guy, you know?
- Hey, Daisy.
- [WARREN] That's just a fact.
- Hi.
- And those legs?
- Mm-hmm. I mean
They just got me a little distracted
- is all I'm saying.
- Warren, right?
Yeah.
You know it's not my job
not to turn you on, right?
I-I do now.
Great.
- [CHUCKLES]
- [BILLY] All right, everybody.
I just want to say a few things
before we get started. First off,
we have a new member of the band.
So let's hear it for Daisy Jones.
[CHEERING, WHOOPING]
- [WARREN] Welcome.
- Thank you for being here
and for doing this with us.
Thank you for having me.
So, it's been what, four weeks?
I wrote a song. [CLEARS
THROAT] Well, actually,
I've written about 20 songs
I'd like to play for you guys.
Sorry. I wasn't trying to
cut you off or anything.
I was just I'm
excited about it, so
[BILLY] Okay.
What?
The songs were all
written and ready to go.
Well, Daisy, the great
news is, we, uh
we actually have,
what, 13 songs for the album, so
Yeah, I mean, why
don't we play you some,
and then, uh, you can have
a listen, see if you
feel strongly about any of them or,
you know, want to add
anything. You know?
I mean, can you imagine?
I could not have been nicer.
We could play the, uh
- the new one for Daisy.
- Mm.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think you're gonna dig this one.
Let me guess, it's about
your wife and the rain.
[LAUGHS] Oh, my God.
[LAUGHS] I think it was
called "She's the Storm."
Seriously.
[LAUGHS]
- [CHUCKLES] That funny?
- No.
Sorry, did you want to say something?
No, I'm just I mean, I'm not here
to sing harmony on a bunch
of love songs about your wife.
Right?
You know, I mean,
if we're gonna if we're
in a band, then the album has
to be just as much mine as it is yours.
As it is Karen's and
Graham's and Warren's
and that guy's.
You know?
She was saying things
I'd been saying since '69.
I mean, shouldn't we at
least talk about a direction?
Is there a concept, a big idea
you have for the record, or ?
[KAREN] Actually, I-I agree.
What? I-I think it's
a good conversation.
- [EDDIE] You know what I think?
- Oh, God.
I think this should be
a rock and roll record.
[SIGHS] Thank you, Eddie.
Thank you so much for your input.
- [EDDIE] No, I'm serious.
- [DAISY CHUCKLES]
Of course it's gonna be a
rock and roll record, man.
What the fuck?
I mean, is it, though?
'Cause, I mean, like,
a lot of these songs are
sounding like, like,
well, well, pop songs, man.
[MOUTHING]
Like Sonny and Cher shit.
You know, are we a pop band now, or ?
All right? I mean,
rock and roll should be
passion, pain, anger.
- Mm.
- Sleeping with some girl you don't know,
not making sweet love to
your wife, for Chrissakes.
No offense, Billy.
Sort of what I was trying to say.
- How about some African drums?
- Great idea.
We could do a song
just vocals and piano.
Yeah, I-I'd like to write some
of my own bass parts for once.
- You know, why not?
- [DAISY] Great!
I knew this was a fucking terrible idea.
What's the bad idea?
Wait, I mean, you invited me here.
Yeah, well, maybe that
was a mistake, Daisy.
- All right?
- Are you done?
Are you? Jesus Christ.
You're acting like a
bunch of kindergarteners.
Just maybe the two of
you can go someplace
and work on something
together, how about that?
Either way, the door is right there,
so go on and get the fuck out of here,
'cause I got shit to do.
Go, goddamn it!
Come on.
[BILLY SIGHS]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
Hey, yeah, so what about us?
I could care less.
So where should we go?
- Apple Pan.
- What?
I'm hungry.
It's, like, 10:00 in the morning.
Well, I can't work if I'm hungry.
[BARRY MANILOW: "COULD IT BE MAGIC"]
Could this be the magic ♪
At last? ♪
[SHUTS RADIO OFF]
Oh, let me know ♪
[MUSIC STOPS]
And, baby, I want you ♪
- Turn it off.
- It's a good song.
- It's my fucking car.
- Oh, my lord.
- [BELL DINGS]
- Hey, there.
What'll it be?
Two hickory burgers, medium rare.
And two sides of fries, please.
I don't need you to order for me.
Well, good, 'cause I didn't.
Yeah. I'll, uh, I'll have the same.
Coming right up.
[MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]
[SIGHS] All right, look.
No good's gonna come out
of us fighting all the time.
Well, how-how do you know that?
- What?
- What do you know about fighting?
Nobody ever stands up to you.
Can I ask you a question?
Be my guest.
Why are you so obsessed with your wife?
- [LAUGHS] What?
- I met Camila. She's great,
but why can't you write a
song about anything else?
Is it are you afraid she's gonna
leave you or do you feel like
you're not good enough for her?
What's the thing that ?
- [CHUCKLES] Daisy.
- Did you do something wrong?
Daisy.
I don't want to talk
to you about this, okay?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Okay. Two hickory burgers each.
["STUMBLED ON SUBLIME" PLAYS ON RADIO]
I, I found you ♪
- Enjoy.
- Thank you.
[MUSIC CONTINUES FAINTLY]
Stumbled on sublime ♪
I stumbled on sublime ♪
[HUMMING CHORUS MELODY]
Getting through the day
was always such a chore ♪
Do you like this song?
- "Stumbled on Sublime"?
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, everyone likes this song.
- I wrote it.
What do you mean you "wrote it"?
I mean I-I wrote it.
Like you wrote "Honeycomb"?
Kind of.
[CHUCKLES] Okay.
I wrote the lyrics.
Some of the melody.
Well, most of the melody.
Stumbled on sublime ♪
Listen to the song.
You think Wyatt Stone could write this?
She's all around your head ♪
She's dancing on the
edges of your mind ♪
[LYRICS CONTINUE INDISTINCTLY]
It's a, it's a great
fucking song, Daisy.
Well, cool, man.
Now that you dig it,
maybe you can stop being
such a dick all the time.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
[WARREN] Hey, man, are you
sure you don't want to come?
Well, I've already seen it.
Yeah.
You've seen it once.
That's probably the
appropriate number of times
to watch Rollerball.
Not if you appreciate art, brother.
[LAUGHS]
It's a true cinematic masterpiece.
All right, well, enjoy
round two, gentlemen.
Oh, I will.
[LAUGHS]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
What are you guys up to?
- Movies.
- Oh. Rollerball again?
It's a fucking masterpiece.
- Hey!
- [LAUGHS]
[MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]
Hey, I was thinking, um,
I'll come to the beach with you today.
I mean, why not?
I got nothing else to do.
Okay.
Graham.
Are we good?
Of course we are.
We're great.
All right?
Okay.
- I'll go get my stuff then.
- [GRAHAM] Yeah.
[CAR HORN HONKS]
- Hey.
- [CHUCKLES] How's it going?
Oh, it's good.
- You got it? Okay.
- How are you?
- [GRAHAM] Yeah.
- [CAR DOOR OPENS]
Hey, you coming?
Why don't you guys just go ahead?
- Why, you all right?
- Yeah. [STAMMERS]
I just didn't realize that it was
[CAROLINE] Oh, no, no, no!
It's totally fine. Yeah, hop in.
- See?
- [CHUCKLES]
Don't be weird.
Let's go.
- [ENGINE STARTS]
- Cool.
Wow.
Whose house is this?
You've never been here before?
- I can't say I have.
- [SIGHS] Okay.
- Where is
- Uh, Daisy?
What? That key
[SCOFFS]
What are you doing?
I'm looking for a key, Billy.
I mean, Jesus
Daisy.
Ha!
Why do I get the feeling
we're breaking the law?
[DOOR OPENS]
[DAISY] That's not very
rock and roll, Billy.
Okay.
[SCOFFS SOFTLY]
Wow.
[PLAYS PIANO]
Great.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
That's crazy.
[SIGHS]
♪
What is that?
Just something my brother
was messing around with.
So how's this gonna work?
What do you mean?
Like, what's your process?
My "process"?
Yeah, for writing songs.
You're looking at it.
Your wife said you don't drink anymore.
Does this, does this bother you?
It's fine.
I don't know how to write with anybody.
Yeah, well, me neither.
- Not really.
- Okay, so what do we do?
[EXHALES] Uh
At least look at it, will you?
They're not all about my wife.
Well, pick another one.
[DAISY SIGHS, CLEARS THROAT]
You know what? Give me that.
It's fine.
We'll start something new.
[CLUCKS TONGUE]
Okay.
What?
What?
What's the fucking problem, huh?
Nothing, it's, uh
What?
I don't dig all the nature shit.
- The imagery, the the
- [SIGHS]
- Uh
- Okay.
It might work for some people,
but it just doesn't
work for me, all right?
I mean [STAMMERS]
are these even lyrics?
Yes, they're lyrics, or
they're-they're ideas,
they're fragments, they're just
things off the top of my head.
"Kites fly in a firestorm"?
- It's a metaphor.
- For what?
Uh, for feeling untethered or a-adrift.
Maybe just say that then.
You know, it's okay sometimes
to just say what you mean.
- I can say what I mean.
- Can you?
Yes, I can. I think you're a shithead.
How's that?
[CHUCKLES]
Uh, it was better, actually.
Okay.
Play that riff again.
Play your brother's riff.
- [SIGHS]
- All right.
♪
[VOCALIZING]
[VOCALIZING]
♪
- [WATER SPLASHES]
- [STOPS PLAYING]
♪
[PANTING]
Are we taking a break?
No.
We're writing.
♪
Hey, I think it's really
cool you're in a rock band.
You know, being a woman and all.
You almost never see that.
It's sad, but true.
What kind of music are you into?
Ooh, a little bit of
everything, I guess.
That Barry Manilow is really something.
You're really pretty.
[CHUCKLES]
I was Miss Teen Arizona in '73.
Congratulations.
[SCOFFS] Thanks.
What is it you do now?
Oh, I'm a student up
at UC Santa Barbara.
Premed.
You're gonna be a doctor?
Psychiatrist.
And you're into Graham.
- Yeah.
- Level with me.
Is it the whole rock star fantasy thing?
Guys with guitars and all that?
I don't think so.
What is it?
He's just a really good guy.
Plus you know.
What?
I mean, he's sexy as hell.
Is he?
[PANTING]
What are you two talking about?
- Oh, nothing.
- Nothing.
Who wants to learn how to surf?
Are you crazy?
There's no way I'm going
in that dirty piss water.
- Come on.
- I'll go.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
All right. Don't drown on me, Sirko.
Need a keyboardist.
[CAROLINE] You guys have fun.
[GRAHAM] All right. We'll be back.
- [THE DIXIE CUPS: "IKO IKO"]
- My grandma ♪
And your grandma were
sittin' by the fire ♪
My grandma told ♪
Your grandma "I'm gonna
set your flag on fire" ♪
- Talkin' 'bout hey now, hey now ♪
- Hey now ♪
- Hey now ♪
- Iko, Iko, an day ♪
- Oh ♪
- Jocomo fee no an dan day ♪
Jocomo fee nan nay ♪
Look at my king all dressed in red ♪
Iko, Iko, an day I
betcha five dollars ♪
He'll kill you dead,
jocomo fee nan nay ♪
- Talkin' 'bout hey now, hey now ♪
- Hey now ♪
- Hey now, oh ♪
- Iko, Iko, an day ♪
Jocomo fee no an dan day ♪
Jocomo fee nan nay ♪
My flag boy and your flag boy ♪
Sittin' by the fire ♪
My flagboy told your flagboy ♪
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire ♪
First record I bought with my own money.
Let me guess. Yours was something
cool like The Everly Brothers?
Mm-mm.
Fats Domino?
No.
See that guy all dressed in green ♪
Little Richard?
- No.
- What was it?
He not a man, he a lovin' machine ♪
Jocomo fee nan nay ♪
Talkin' 'bout hey now ♪
"How Much is That Doggie in the Window."
But if you ever tell
anyone, I will deny it.
[CHUCKLES] Want to pick a record?
[MUSIC STOPS]
Sure.
Uh
Here we go. All right.
[DAISY] What is it?
First song that really
[DAISY] What?
My first love.
Well, that's exciting.
[NEEDLE CRACKLES ON RECORD]
[THE BEACH BOYS: "IN MY ROOM"]
[SINGING ALONG] There's a world ♪
Where I can go ♪
And tell my secrets to ♪
In my room ♪
You know this song?
[LAUGHS] I know this song.
In my room ♪
In my room ♪
In this world ♪
I lock out all my ♪
- Move your shoulders.
- Okay.
All you got to do is move one step.
One. There you go.
Move your body.
Okay.
We don't have to be friends.
In my room ♪
But if we're gonna write together, we
we can't be strangers.
Do my dreaming ♪
Ask me something.
Ask me anything.
Lie awake and pray ♪
And you'll tell me the truth?
Sure.
Cross my heart.
Do my crying ♪
Okay.
And my sighing ♪
Uh, how many pills do you take in a day?
That's what you want to ask me?
Answer the question.
- I don't know.
- Well, you said "anything."
Yeah, and I'm telling you I
don't know. I-I don't count 'em.
You don't think that's a problem?
Why would that be a problem?
They're from a fucking doctor.
Well, it's a problem if you can't stop.
[DAISY] I can stop.
I can throw these in the toilet
right now, and I won't feel a thing.
In my room ♪
I'm not sure I believe you.
In my room ♪
In my room ♪
[BROTHER CORNELIUS:
"TOO LATE TO TURN BACK NOW"]
What else you want to know?
Why'd you want to join the
band in the first place?
You.
She said, "Son, please beware" ♪
What about me?
I feel like I know you.
Or, like, like we've known
each other for a long time.
I-I don't know how to explain it.
You feel familiar to me.
- Break your heart ♪
- Break your heart ♪
Does that happen to you often?
No.
One more, and then it's my turn.
I feel it's happened to
me and I'm tellin' you ♪
All right.
To turn back now ♪
I believe, I believe, I
believe I'm falling in love ♪
It's too late ♪
Tell me how you really cut your hand.
[LAUGHS] I-I told you.
- Breaking into your parents' house?
- Yes.
- You were serious about that?
- Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
I don't understand.
Ten times a day ♪
I had the number one
song in the country,
and I just wanted them to know about it.
But they weren't there.
[CHUCKLES] No.
- They'd moved away.
- What?
- Sleep at night ♪
- Sleep at night ♪
Wanting to hold her tight ♪
They moved away
without telling you.
To convince myself that this
feeling just can't be right ♪
Jesus, Daisy. That might be
the saddest thing I ever heard.
Well, Billy,
I hate to tell you this, but
life's full of sad things.
And when I feel sad, I take pills.
What do you do?
To turn back now ♪
I believe, I believe, I
believe I'm falling in love ♪
I don't know.
I mean, that's-that's
what I used to do, but
- I think I, uh
- What?
- It's too late, baby ♪
- To turn back now ♪
I guess I just
feel it.
Ooh.
That's the saddest
thing I've ever heard.
Love me, too ♪
But I'd hate to think
that I'm in love alone ♪
And nothing that I can do ♪
I see.
What do you see?
You write songs about
who you wish you were.
Not who you are.
I'm falling in love ♪
What if you didn't do that?
What if you wrote songs about the guy
that's not so good all the time?
The guy that lets people down
and the guy that maybe wants
things that he shouldn't.
[CHUCKLES]
Who would want to
hear a song about that?
I would.
It's too late ♪
I think everybody would.
I believe, I believe ♪
I believe I'm falling in love ♪
Hey, hey, relax, okay?
I don't know how to relax.
- I'm English.
- You're all right.
All right? I got you.
She's nice.
Yeah, she is.
She's pretty, too.
[CHUCKLES] Yeah, I'd say.
What do you guys talk about?
Karen.
What?
Are you calling her dumb?
No. No.
She's, like, a fucking
Rhodes scholar or something.
I'm just asking if you
have any mutual interests.
Yeah.
I mean, yes.
I mean, I think we do.
'Cause I was talking
to her earlier and
she's a big Barry Manilow fan.
Don't fuck with me.
[KAREN LAUGHS]
[BOTH LAUGH]
Well, we've only been out,
like, three or four times.
And
if I'm being honest, we don't, uh
do a lot of talking,
if you know what I mean.
- Yeah. Yeah, I I think I do.
- Yeah.
Yeah, not a lot of talking
whatsoever actually.
- Yeah, I understand completely.
- 'Cause of all the sex.
- Thank you, Graham. I get it.
- Yeah. Uh-huh. [CHUCKLES]
Jesus.
- Here comes a wave. You ready?
- No.
- It's too late. Come on.
- [GASPS]
- Get down on your stomach.
- Oh, my God.
- Down on your stomach, paddle.
- Oh, my fucking God.
[GRAHAM] Paddle. Paddle!
- Go, go, go!
- [KAREN SCREAMS]
[LAUGHS]
[KAREN WHOOPS]
[KAREN AND GRAHAM LAUGHING]
- Hi!
- [CAROLINE LAUGHS]
Ah!
[KISSING]
Are you ready?
- [CAROLINE] Ready for what?
- [GRAHAM] We're going in.
- [CAROLINE] No, we're not.
- [GRAHAM] Yeah, are you ready?
Come on.
♪
Like that.
Like that, but where is it gonna go?
I mean, I feel
The good thing about the
way that I was doing it
- [DAISY] I I
- I feel like it had someplace to go.
I just think this suits the verse
- that that you wrote better.
- Okay.
- Well, well, I okay.
- Just try it. Just try it.
We went back and forth
on it for hours, I think.
Changing the chords,
changing the melody,
hashing the whole thing out.
Back to the C?
♪
- I like that. [LAUGHS]
- Ah
It's quite a feeling when it works.
Let me down ♪
Let me down easy if you're gonna ♪
I don't think we should
both go down. [LAUGHS]
- Let's try that. Let's try it.
- Okay. Okay.
Let me down ♪
There we go.
[EXHALES]
♪
♪
Okay, but he didn't write that song.
Who cares?
But, Caroline, the whole
The song is called "I Write the Songs."
- I mean, how can you not have a problem with that?
- It's a good song.
- Whoever wrote it.
- Will you help me, please?
I mean, what exactly
do you like about it?
I don't know.
Um, the words? His voice?
Well, no, but for real.
[LAUGHS]
Hey, look, there's
no wrong answers here.
Well, I wouldn't say there
were no wrong answers,
- all right?
- Well, it's a catchy song.
Okay? It makes me happy.
Geez, isn't that the point of pop music?
It's not supposed to, like,
change your whole life, guys.
- I mean, that's insane.
- Right. Sorry,
you said there were no wrong answers?
- Oh, fuck off.
- [LAUGHS] Okay.
- Barry Manilow.
- God.
- [BRAKES SQUEAK]
- They're still not back yet?
God. How many times can you
see Rollerball in one day?
[CHUCKLES]
- Can you walk me in?
- What? Why?
I don't know. What if
someone's in the house?
Like who?
I don't know, burglars.
- "Burglars"?
- Yeah.
There's been all those
break-ins recently.
Uh, I mean, I haven't
heard about any break-ins.
- Will you just walk me to the bloody door?
- [CAROLINE] It's fine.
- Just walk her to the door.
- Yeah. All right. Okay.
- Geez.
- All right.
- All right, be back in a second.
- Okay.
Well, looks like the coast is clear.
[BARRY MANILOW: "I WRITE THE SONGS"]
It's from me, it's for you,
it's from you, it's from me ♪
It's a worldwide symphony ♪
I write the songs that
make the whole world sing ♪
I write the songs of
love and special things ♪
I should probably, um
I write the songs that
make the young girls cry ♪
Caroline
I write the songs, I write the songs ♪
I can see it waving in the distance ♪
Like a mirage on sand ♪
That could be us ♪
Trading secrets no one
else could understand ♪
Why are we saying "it"?
- "I can see it waving in the distance."
- What?
- What is "it"?
- [STAMMERS]
Like, our future
What can you see in the distance?
- Why not "you" or "us"?
- [BILLY] It's like
- "Us" works.
- I like "us."
- I like "us." Let's try it.
- I love "us."
- Okay. [CHUCKLES]
- Try "us."
Okay.
- I can see us waving ♪
- Try it.
Okay. All right.
One, two, three, four.
I can see us waving in the distance ♪
Like a mirage on sand ♪
That could be us trading secrets ♪
No one else could understand ♪
I love that.
I got you under my skin now ♪
Why do you make it so hard? ♪
That sounds like a song.
Don't leave me broke,
don't-don't leave me ♪
Broken and free, won't
you tell me where you are ♪
Okay.
Okay. This-this part needs
We need to rework this here.
- Why?
- It's Disneyland, Billy.
- This is It is, it is.
- It's not Disneyland!
It It's optimistic.
It's it's hopeful.
- It's, I mean, what's wrong with being hopeful?
- [CHUCKLES]
It's not a song We're
not writing a song about
being hopeful. We're writing a song
about why we do things
that are bad for us.
Why we keep doing them
even though we know
- that it's hopeless.
- [BILLY SCOFFS]
I don't agree.
- Well, you're wrong, so
- Oh, wow.
Someone sure did a number
on you, didn't they?
- What does that mean?
- [BILLY] What?
I was wrong about you, that's all.
I never would have
thought you were so
What?
Like, broken.
[CLUCKS TONGUE]
Daisy!
[QUIETLY] That's not,
that's not what I meant.
Daisy.
Daisy!
Daisy, I'm sorry, all right? I
Oh, man.
Look.
I'm sorry.
What I meant was
we're more alike than I thought.
How's that?
My dad also left without
a forwarding address.
I was eight.
I try not to think about him too much,
but, uh
I'm pretty sure everything I do
is to try and make him regret it.
[SNIFFLES]
I'm not broken.
Yeah, me neither.
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFLES]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
Oh, shit.
How the hell did you get in my house?
The door.
[LAUGHS]
[DOOR OPENS]
[WARREN] Honeys, I'm home.
[PHONE RINGING]
[EDDIE] We're home.
Hey.
You guys heard from Billy yet?
[PHONE RINGING]
Uh, no.
Hello?
Okay.
Yeah, sure, no problem.
Mm-hmm.
Be right there.
That was Teddy.
What'd he say?
[BOTH LAUGHING]
I-I couldn't hold it in anymore.
I just, I literally just, uh
- Hi.
- Hi.
Hey, Graham, you know the,
uh, riff you're always playing?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You
guys write something to it?
[BILLY] Sit down. I think
you're gonna dig this.
It was the first song that
they ever truly wrote together.
Still one of my favorites.
[DAISY] Doesn't mean
I couldn't believe it ♪
Doesn't mean I won't
believe it still ♪
We ran through it a couple times.
Every lie is true at the time, baby ♪
That's the thrill ♪
Oh, won't you let me down ♪
I remember having this feeling like
nothing would ever be the same again.
It was just
a really great day.
And then it goes to D major?
Yeah, I know, but just
trust me, it-it-it works.
All right? Uh And,
hey, if you want to
fuck around with it, do your thing, man.
- [INTERCOM BEEPS]
- [TEDDY] Should we put this one on tape?
- [DAISY] Yes, we should.
- [OTHERS AGREEING]
- [TEDDY] Okay.
- What's it called again?
It's called "Let Me Down Easy."
[BASS DRUM BEATING]
[PLAYING "LET ME DOWN EASY"]
♪
[DAISY] Found me lost
in a daydream feeling ♪
I've been awake too long ♪
My eyes are open while
my heart keeps sinking ♪
Deeper till the days are gone ♪
Doesn't mean I couldn't believe it ♪
Doesn't mean I won't
believe it still ♪
Every lie is true at the time, baby ♪
That's the thrill ♪
[BOTH] Oh, won't you
let me down, let me down ♪
Let me down easy, if
you're gonna let me down ♪
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
Don't you go and tell
me that you love me ♪
While you're leaving if
you're gonna leave me now ♪
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
[GUITAR SOLOING]
I can see us waving in the distance ♪
Like a mirage on sand ♪
That could be us trading secrets ♪
No one else could understand ♪
I got you under my skin now ♪
Why do you make it so hard? ♪
Don't leave me broken, I'm free ♪
Won't you tell me where you are ♪
The best part was it left room
for everyone to contribute.
It wasn't just the Billy show anymore.
If you're gonna let me down ♪
Daisy did that for us.
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
Don't you go and tell
me that you love me ♪
While you're leaving if
you're gonna leave me now ♪
Oh ♪
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
♪
If you're gonna let me
down, let me down easy ♪
If you're gonna let me down ♪
If you're gonna ♪
It was obvious that they
made each other better.
If you're gonna let me down ♪
Don't you go and tell
me that you love me ♪
While you're leaving if
you're gonna leave me now ♪
Oh, if you're gonna let me down ♪
Until, of course, they didn't.
If you're gonna let me down ♪
[SONG ENDS]
♪
[BILLY] Oh, my God.
[LAUGHS] That was,
that was the best one.
Right? What'd you think?
[INTERCOM BEEPS]
I'm a motherfucking genius.
[LAUGHTER, CHEERING]
[WHOOPING]
- [WARREN] Good one for you.
- [KAREN] We did it.
[MOANS]
[YAWNS]
What time is it? Mm.
Late.
Hmm. [INHALES]
I'm sorry. Was it that bad?
[NEU!: "AFTER EIGHT"]
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me, help me, help ho-ho ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
[MOANS]
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me see the sun,
help me to get up ♪
Help me see the sun ♪
Help me to get up ♪
♪
Oh ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night,
help me through the night ♪
Help me through the night ♪
Oh ♪
Help me see the sun,
help me to get up ♪