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paranoid android
director: daniel danger

Please could you stop the noise, I'm trying to get some rest

a man sitting in a mental institution cell gets up from bed and walks towards the small, barred, window. He yells at the people outside. They all look up and wave, a subtitle on the bottom of the screen says "HI FRANK!!"

From all the unborn chicken voices in my head

He shakes his fist at them, turns around and stumbles back to his bed. He sits down and pulls an issue of Popular Mechanics (from 1954) and opens it up to the Do-it-yourself section. He barely has time to look at it before he notives someone (a doctor) outside his door (someone slid open the hatch in the door)

What's that... [I may be paranoid, but I'm no android]

The insane man starts yelling "whats that" at the doctor outside along who shows no emotion.

What's that... [I may be paranoid, but I'm no android]

He realises the man outside doesnt care, he starts pounding on the door.

When I am king, you will be first against the wall

He reaches through the slot in the door and pulls the doctor at him (and right into the door.)

With your opinion which is of no consequence at all

he pushes the doctor back and he falls to the floor, he gets up, he adjusts his glasses, he makes some notes on his clipboard and walks off

What's that... [I may be paranoid, but I'm no android]

He walks back to his magazine, singing along with the music he cant hear.

What's that... [I may be paranoid, but I'm no android]

He looks at the plan to build-your-own-jet-plane

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly

he starts breaking and ripping his bed apart. The camera goes real fast until he touches something, where it slows down, but the moment he drops it or lets go, the camera speeds back up (this is done specifically to mess with old peoples heads, who will think their brain is on the fritz)

Kicking and squealing, Gucci little piggy

Still being fast/slow, as he starts picking up peices of metal from the floor and comparing it to things in the magazine.

You don't remember

he starts bending the metal into weird shapes,

You don't remember

He grabs the magazine and runs to the window, waving the magazine to show the others his plan. Hes laughing at them as if the say "im gonna be free"

Why don't you remember my name

Once again, they all wave in unison, and small white letters say on the bottom "HI BILL"

Off with his head, man

He runs back to his project. He starts stacking and tying the peices of metal into the crude shape of a plane.

Off with his head, man

His plane looks nothing like the one in the magazine.

Why don't you remember my name

Back to the window, he yells at the crowd below, "HI GEORGE!" they yell at him.

I guess he does

he yells as if to ask for help.

Rain down

They all start throwing their shoes at him

rain down

He tries to catch a few

come on

He gets a few, and he nods a few in thanks, and pulls his head back in

rain down

he starts pulling the shoelaces from the shoe

on me

and starts to tie more metal to his "plane"

From a great height

he piles all the lace-less shoes in his arms and walks to the window

from a great height... height...

he sticks his arms out the window and stars dropping the shoes

Rain down

all the shoes start hitting people

rain down

they all scream (more small white letters) "STOP IT JEAN-PIERRE"

come on

they all run In terror of the falling shoes

rain down

he laughs at them

on me

he pulls his head back in, smirking

From a great height

from a great height... height...

Rain down

rain down

come on

rain down

on me

through this whole part, he builds up his "plane" and prepares it for "takeoff"

[That's it sir

he starts talking to himself along with the song which he cant hear

You're leaving

still talking to himself

The crackle of pigskin

He starts wrapping the sheets from his bed around the "wings"

The dust and the screaming

he sits on top of his "plane"

The yuppies networking

and waits for it to take off

The panic, the vomit

it doesnt happen

The panic, the vomit]

"why doesnt it happen"

God loves his children, God loves his children, yeah!

He gets off his plane and walks to the window to tell the others that hes not going anywhere.

"SURE THING CHIEF"