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[music begins]

- [MAN 1] Ooh!

[man munching]

[man shushes]

MAN 1 (VO): Oh, shit.

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[music ends]

NARRATOR (VO): Mmmm, the great beyond.

The infinite darkness of the universe

with all it's secrets unknown to mankind.

The concept of eternity, or the risk of oneself

not being able to experience it,

is something most of us here on earth grapple with

from time to time.

This story takes place one night in September, 2023

when rock singer and estrador Papa Emeritus IV

also known as Cardinal Copia simplified within the Clergy

as Cardi.

Has been touring with Ghost for five years.

Two album cycles which is double what any of

his predecessors were allowed.

As his numeral name implies,

he should be the fourth in a row of Emerituses,

but he's technically the fifth Papa, since his father,

Papa nil, nil meaning zero, was the first one.

To make things even cozier,

the mother superior of the Ghost clergy,

whose name is Sister Imperator, is Cardi's actual mother.

However,

due to undisclosed circumstances in this particular story,

little Cardi wasn't aware of their family ties

until quite recently.

This may sound tragic, and maybe it is,

but we'll just have to tell that story at some other time.

Anyway, lately there's been a lot of talk,

or let's say insinuations, about death within the Clergy,

and little Cardi doesn't like that one bit.

Any notion of his time ending or someone passing away

has been a trigger for him.

His mind searching for ways to circumvent

an untimely ending of his time in the limelight.

You see, Cardi feels that since he is not only young,

well, sort of,

and able enough to carry on as the focal point of Ghost,

at least a few more album cycles.

Cardi feels that he is a better entertainer

than the previous Papas, and therefore,

he should simply be able to remain in his position,

and not have to face the same fate

as all the Papas before him.

Cardi has no interest in being taxidermically propped up

in a Plexiglass coffin to be displayed

before the Ghost fans, before they get the pleasure

of seeing and hearing some new Papa

frolicking around on stage.

Cardi doesn't want to end this tour,

simply because it might result in his ultimate

and premature demise,

his death.

However, this is not a tale about death, but one of life.

And Cardi is about to learn that the hard way.

The show is just about to start, so here we go people.

(audience cheers)

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[music continues) [cheering]

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[cheering]

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[cheering]

[explosion thumps] [audience cheers]

PAPA EMERITUS (ON/OS): ♪ Kaisarion ♪

♪ A prophecy told ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ We're building our empire ♪

♪ From the ashes of an old ♪

♪ Kaisarion ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ The fruit of the womb ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Our brotherhood ♪

♪ of good faith ♪

♪ Sealed an apostate witch's doom ♪

♪ It's the sound of another deadline ♪

♪ Whistling past your ears ♪

♪ It's the sight of a million regrets ♪

♪ mounting over years ♪

♪ It's the words that were never spoken ♪

♪ That echoes through the times ♪

♪ It's the smell of the burning temples ♪

♪ Swept away by rhymes ♪

GROUP MEMBER (OS): ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS:♪ Far away from the stench of the heavens ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Long ago yet too close to forever ♪

GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ When a paradise is lost ♪

♪ go straight to ♪

Los Angeles! (audience cheers)

♪ Kaisarion ♪

♪ A matter of love ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ When mother earth is ♪

♪ calling for a father up above ♪

♪ Kaisarion ♪

♪ Put on the smiles ♪

♪ And throw your holy rocks right at her ♪

♪ for her satanic wiles ♪

♪ It's the truth of candour shown ♪

♪ through a prism of deceit ♪

♪ It's the continence of bishops ♪

♪ With their choirboys en suite ♪

♪ It's the tongue ♪ soiled in adulation ♪

♪ that licks to no avail ♪

♪ It's the noise of the righteous dogma ♪

♪ That hides the handmaid's tail ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Far away from the stench of the heavens ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Long ago yet too close to forever ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ When a paradise is lost ♪

♪ Go straight to hell ♪

Hello.

Hello.

Ooh.

♪ It's the sound of another deadline ♪

♪ Whistling past your ears ♪

♪ It's the sight of a million regrets ♪

♪ mounting over years ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ It's the words ♪

♪ that were never spoken ♪

♪ That echoes through the times ♪

♪ It's the smell of the burning temples ♪

♪ Swept away by rhymes ♪

♪ It's the truth of candour shown ♪

♪ Through a prism of deceit ♪

♪ It's the continence of bishops ♪

♪ With their choirboys en suite ♪

♪ It's the tongue soiled in adulation ♪

♪ That licks to no avail ♪

♪ It's the noise of the righteous dogma ♪

♪ That hides the handmaid's tail ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Far away from the stench of the heavens ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Long ago yet too close to forever ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ When a paradise is lost ♪

♪ go straight to hell ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Far away from the stench of the heavens ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Long ago yet too close to forever ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Hypatia ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ When a paradise is lost ♪

♪ go straight to ♪

California! (audience cheers)

PAPA EMERITUS: Are you men?

Or are you rats?

[audience chanting]

PAPA EMERITUS (ON/OS): ♪ In times of turmoil ♪

♪ In times like these ♪

♪ Beliefs contagious ♪

♪ Spreading disease ♪

♪ This wretched mischief is now ♪

♪ Coursing through your souls ♪

♪ Never to let go ♪

♪ Never to let go ♪

Say it!

Ain't that right, California!

♪ Into your sanctum ♪

♪ You let them in ♪

♪ Now all your loved ones ♪

♪ And all your kin ♪

♪ Will suffer punishments ♪

♪ Beneath the wrath of God ♪

♪ Never to forgive ♪

♪ Never to forgive ♪

♪ Them rats ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Rats ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Rats ♪

GROUP MEMBER (OS): ♪ Rats ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Rats ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Rats ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Rats ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Rats ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ This devastation left ♪

♪ your cities to be burnt ♪

♪ Never to return ♪

♪ Never to return ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ No ♪

[audience cheers]

[guitarist plays]

Are you with us out there, Los Angeles?

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Them filthy rodents ♪

♪ are still coming for your souls ♪

♪ Never to let go ♪

♪ Never to let go ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: You know what they are, California!

Say it!

♪ Rats ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Rats ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Rats ♪

GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ Rats ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Rats ♪

GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ Rats ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Rats ♪

GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ Rats ♪

♪ They're still coming after you ♪

♪ And there's nothing you can do ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ They're still coming after you ♪

GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ Rats! ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ There's nothing you can do ♪

GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ Rats! ♪

PAPA EMERITUS (ON/OS): ♪ About rats ♪

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Clap all you want.

There's nothing that you can do about them fucking rats!

[music ends]

[audience cheers]

[music begins]

PAPA EMERITUS: Ooh

♪ There is a scourge in the guise of sanctity ♪

♪ A perpetrator with a quill ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Although it's often ♪

♪ steeped in well-spun mystery ♪

♪ The accuser sends the bill ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: You know how it goes, Los Angeles!

Sing it now!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ I am all eyes ♪

♪ I am all ears ♪

♪ I am the wall ♪

♪ And I'm watching you fall ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Because faith is mine ♪

[guitar solo]

♪ The luddites shun the diabolical ♪

♪ A fecal trail across the land ♪

♪ Although it stinks ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ Feels and looks identical ♪

♪ A pack of fools can take the stand ♪

♪ I am all eyes ♪

♪ I am all ears ♪

♪ I am the wall ♪

♪ And I'm watching you fall ♪

♪ Because faith is mine ♪

PAPA EMERITUS (ON/OS: ♪ Motherfuckers! ♪

♪ Oh! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! ♪

♪ Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! ♪

♪ I am all eyes ♪

♪ I am all ears ♪

♪ And I am the wall ♪

♪ And I'm watching you fall ♪

Everybody sing it now!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ I am all eyes ♪

♪ I am all ears ♪

♪ I am the wall ♪

♪ And I'm watching you fall ♪

Everybody!

♪ I am all eyes ♪

♪ I am all ears ♪

♪ I am the wall ♪

♪ And I'm watching you fall ♪

♪ Because faith is mine ♪

[music ends] [audience cheers]

PAPA EMERITUS: Good evening, Los Angeles!

[audience cheers]

How are you feeling?

[cheering]

PAPA EMERITUS: Let me hear you say, yeah!"

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: Yeah!

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: Yes, sirree, Bob.

AUDIENCE: Yes, sirree, Bob!

PAPA EMERITUS: Oh, you didn't have to say that.

But how's that for a Tuesday evening, huh?

[audience cheering]

Yeah. Can we, you know what?

I like Fridays way better.

Don't you?

Can we just pretend that it's Friday tonight instead?

[audience cheers]

Let me hear you say, yeah!

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: What day is it today?

AUDIENCE: Friday!

PAPA EMERITUS: There you go!

Are you ready to rock?

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: Fuck yeah, you are.

All right.

Well, luckily, we have some rocky tunes,

and now, we're gonna play one from our latest album.

This is called "Spillways".

[audience cheering]

[music starts]

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Through benediction ♪

♪ You tried to rid your mind of malediction ♪

♪ But through all this time you tried to peel it off ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ And it's such a ride ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Your desolation ♪

♪ Led you into this vile incarnation of consummated bliss ♪

♪ I know you need it now to make you feel alive ♪

GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ Alive ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ All your faith ♪ , ♪

♪ all your rage, all your pain ♪

♪ It ain't over now and I ain't talking about forgiveness ♪

♪ All your faith, all your rage, all your pain ♪

♪ It ain't over now ♪

♪ It's the cruel beast that you feed ♪

♪ It's your burning, yearning need to bleed ♪

♪ Through the spillways ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ You keep a casket buried deep within ♪

♪ You try to mask it but fall back in sin ♪

♪ You're trying to push it off but you're stuck inside ♪

GROUP MEMBER ♪ Inside ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ When stripped of rags, of skin and spine ♪

♪ Human decay, corpus dei, terminally dispelled ♪

♪ And it's such a ride ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ All your faith ♪

♪ All your rage, all your pain ♪

♪ It ain't over now and I ain't talking about forgiveness ♪

♪ All your faith, all your rage, all your pain ♪

♪ It ain't over now ♪

♪ It's the cruel beast that you feed ♪

♪ It's your burning, yearning need to bleed ♪

♪ Through the spillways ♪

♪ Through the spillways of your soul ♪

♪ Through the spillways ♪

♪ Through the spillways, spillways ♪

[guitar Solo]

♪ It's the cruel beast that you feed ♪

♪ It's your burning, yearning need to bleed ♪

♪ Through the spillways ♪

♪ Through the spillways of your soul ♪

♪ Through the spillways ♪

♪ Through the spillways of your soul ♪

♪ Through the spillways ♪

♪ Through the spillways of your soul ♪

♪ Through the spillways ♪

♪ Through the spillways of your soul ♪

[music ends]

[audience cheers]

[music begins]

[grunts]

PAPA EMERITUS: Ah!

Thank you.

Well, this is going great now, innit?

This is going great now, innit?

SISTER: What?

PAPA EMERITUS: It

is going great now.

innit?

SISTER: What?

PAPA EMERITUS: Oh, God.

I'm coming over. I'm coming over.

I said...

[spits]

We're doing great now, are we not?

SISTER: Yes. You are doing great.

PAPA EMERITUS: Thank you.

Yeah.

There.

Just wanted to hear that.

You know, I can't really get it.

Why something that's going this well

cannot go on for a longer period of time.

You know, for almost forever. [chuckles]

SISTER: Look. Go out there and do your show.

PAPA EMERITUS: I am.

SISTER: Sooner or later, you will have an ah-ha moment.

PAPA EMERITUS: I hope so.

I love a-ha.

Thanks for the pep.

Hm!

NIHIL: Hm.

SISTER: There you are.

Nice time to show up.

You're his father. Speak to him.

NIHIL: He wasn't my idea.

SISTER: Oh.

[audience cheers]

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ I feel your presence ♪

♪ amongst us ♪

♪ You cannot hide in the darkness ♪

♪ Can you hear the rumble ♪

♪ Can you hear the rumble that's calling ♪

♪ I know your soul is not tainted ♪

♪ Even though you have been told so ♪

♪ Can you hear the rumble ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: LA!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Can you hear the rumble ♪

♪ that's calling ♪

♪ I can feel the thunder that's breaking in your heart ♪

♪ I can see through the scars inside you ♪

♪ I can feel the thunder that's breaking in your heart ♪

♪ I can see through the scars inside you ♪

♪ A candle casting a faint glow ♪

♪ You and I see eye to eye ♪

♪ Can you hear the thunder ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Can you?

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Can you hear the thunder ♪

♪ that's breaking ♪

♪ Now there is nothing between us ♪

♪ From now our merge is eternal ♪

♪ Can't you see that you're lost ♪

♪ Can't you see that you're lost without me ♪

♪ I can feel the thunder that's breaking in your heart ♪

♪ I can see through the scars inside you ♪

♪ I can feel the thunder that's breaking in your heart ♪

♪ I can see through the scars inside you ♪

[audience cheering]

♪ Can't you see that you are lost without me ♪

♪ I can feel the thunder that's breaking in your heart ♪

♪ I can see through the scars inside you ♪

♪ I can feel the thunder ♪

♪ that's breaking in your heart ♪

♪ I can see through the scars inside you ♪

GROUP MEMEBER: ♪ I can feel the thunder ♪

♪ that's breaking in your heart ♪

♪ I can see through the scars inside you ♪

♪ I can feel the thunder that's breaking in your heart ♪

♪ I can see through the scars inside you ♪

[music ends]

ASHLEY: What the fuck? It's fogging everywhere.

[PAPA EMERITUS chuckles)

PAPA EMERITUS: Yes, yes.

Sure is.

Ooh.

♪ Ever since you were born, you've been dying ♪

♪ Every day a little more, you've been dying ♪

♪ Dying to reach the setting sun ♪

♪ And as a child, with your mind on the horizon ♪

♪ Over corpses to the prize you kept your eyes on ♪

♪ Trying to be the chosen one ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ All those things that ♪

♪ you desire ♪

♪ You will find here in the fire ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Come on!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Put your hands up ♪

♪ and reach for the sky ♪

♪ Cry for absolution ♪

♪ You'll be down on your knees and you'll cry ♪

♪ Cry for absolution ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Uh!

I can't hear you, LA!

[audience cheers]

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Even now when you're here ♪

♪ you are moving ♪

♪ Hysterically seeking out what needs improving ♪

♪ And you're still asking for the sun ♪

♪ All those things that you desire ♪

♪ You will find here in the fire ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Sing it!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Put your hands up ♪

♪ and reach for the sky ♪

♪ Cry for absolution ♪

♪ You'll be down on your knees and you'll cry ♪

♪ Cry for absolution ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Ah!

Now it's your turn to scream!

Alright, I want you to mean it this time!

Los Angeles!

Scream!

Los Angeles!

One more time!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Put your hands up ♪

♪ and reach for the sky ♪

♪ Cry for absolution ♪

♪ You'll be down on your knees and you'll cry ♪

♪ Cry for absolution ♪

♪ Put your hands up and reach for the sky ♪

♪ Cry for absolution ♪

♪ You'll be down on your knees and you'll cry ♪

♪ Cry for absolution ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Inglewood!

Los Angeles!

California!

United States of America!

[music starts]

PAPA EMERITUS: Yeah!

Alight!

Oh, okay.

Alright! Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Don't you step away from the turd you just laid

stealing my thunder like a dickhead.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Clap, clap, clap.

♪ Tonight we're summoned for a divine cause ♪

♪ Remembrance, no ♪

♪ But for their future loss ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ This chapel of ritual ♪

♪ Smells of dead human sacrifices from the altar ♪

♪ Beduins and nomads ♪

♪ Carried through the times ♪

♪ Through pestilences and famines ♪

♪ These ancient scrolls of rhymes ♪

♪ Our fallen angel vexed was banished from the sky ♪

♪ Recite now from the text, pray for all to die ♪

♪ This chapel of ritual ♪

♪ Smells of dead human sacrifices from the altar bed ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Now you sing it!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ On this night of ritual ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Invoking our master ♪

♪ To procreate the unholy bastard ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Our father who art in hell ♪

♪ Unhallowed be thy name ♪

♪ Cursed be the sons and daughters ♪

♪ Of thine nemesis whom are to blame ♪

♪ Thy kingdom come ♪

♪ Nema ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Tonight we summoned for his unholy fiend ♪

♪ Now celebrate ♪

♪ The end ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ This chapel of ritual ♪

♪ Smells of dead human sacrifices from the altar bed ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Everybody sing it now!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ And on this night of ritual ♪

♪ Invoking our master ♪

♪ To procreate the unholy bastard ♪

[guitar solo]

[music ends] [audience cheers]

[music begins]

[music ends] [audience cheers]

[music ends]

[slurps, sighs]

[audience cheering]

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Call out in the middle ♪

♪ of the night ♪

♪ For when else would I hear you ♪

♪ Fall out in the cold starlight ♪

♪ I can save you if you do ♪

♪ You will never walk alone ♪

♪ You can always reach me ♪

♪ You will never, ever walk alone ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ Little Sunshine ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ Call me Mephistopheles ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ When you feel all alone ♪

♪ Just call me ♪

♪ Little Sunshine ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Oh, Los Angeles!

♪ Light up in the middle of the day ♪

♪ For how else could you see me? ♪

♪ Ease up to the hunter from the prey ♪

♪ And transform indefinitely ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ You will never walk alone ♪

♪ You can always reach me ♪

♪ You will never, ever walk alone ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ Little sunshine ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ Call me Mephistopheles ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ When you feel all alone ♪

♪ Just call me ♪

♪ Little sunshine ♪

♪ You will never walk alone ♪

♪ You can always reach me ♪

♪ You will never, ever walk alone ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Come on, Los Angeles. Clap it!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ You will never walk alone ♪

♪ You can always reach me ♪

♪ You will never, ever walk alone ♪

♪ You will never walk alone ♪

♪ You can always reach me ♪

♪ You will never, ever walk alone ♪

♪ Even when you're dead and gone ♪

♪ You can always reach me ♪

♪ All you gotta do is call me ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ Little Sunshine ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ Call me Mephistopheles ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ When you feel all alone ♪

♪ Just call me ♪

♪ Little sunshine ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ Little Sunshine ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ Call me Mephistopheles ♪

♪ Call me ♪

♪ When you feel all alone ♪

♪ Just call me ♪

♪ Little sunshine ♪

[music ends] [audience cheers]

[music starts]

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Lucifer ♪

♪ We are here ♪

♪ For your praise ♪

♪ Evil one ♪

♪ Our congregation sings infernal psalms ♪

♪ And smear the smudge in bleeding palms ♪

♪ Siamo con clavi ♪

♪ Siamo con dio ♪

♪ Siamo con il nostro dio scuro ♪

♪ Demigod ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Our task ♪

♪ Behind mask ♪

♪ Chosen son ♪

♪ Oh, you rebel chief, destroyer of the earth ♪

♪ Rise from precipice through birth ♪

Alright, Los Angeles!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

AUDIENCE: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey!

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Sathanas ♪

♪ We are one ♪

♪ Out of three ♪

♪ Trinity ♪

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Siamo con clavi ♪

♪ Siamo con dio ♪

♪ Siamo con il nostro dio scuro ♪

[music ends] [audience cheers]

[music begins]

PAPA EMERITUS: I...

am ready.

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Searchlights ♪

SISTER: Stop!

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Searchlights ♪

♪ Looking for the watcher in the sky ♪

SISTER: Go, go!

PAPA EMERITUS: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

♪ Evolutionary the optics for us ♪

♪ To get answers as to why ♪

♪ We signal to another dimension ♪

♪ As we stand here ready for reply ♪

♪ Communication is key ♪

♪ When you unlock to believe ♪

♪ Can you see what I see ♪

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Searchlights ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Looking for the watcher in the sky ♪

♪ Searchlights ♪

♪ Looking for the watcher in the sky ♪

Yeah!

Yes.

Do you believe, Los Angeles?

♪ The kaleidoscopean visions we've seen ♪

♪ Tell of bloodlines of top notch ♪

♪ The pre-destinated will dispatch ♪

♪ While your realm has rotted on our watch ♪

♪ Communication is key ♪

♪ When you unlock to believe ♪

♪ Can you see what I see ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Searchlights ♪

♪ Looking for the watcher in the sky ♪

Say it!

♪ Searchlights ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Ooh ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Looking for the watcher in the sky ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Louder!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Searchlights ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Looking for the watcher in the sky ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Everyone!

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Searchlights ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Yes!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Looking for the watcher in the sky ♪

♪ For the light of our savior ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Savior ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ His machiavellian grace ♪

♪ And in the sheen of his splendor ♪

GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Splendor ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ There is a better place ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Let's go!

Los Angeles!

Do you believe that we can all leave now,

for a better place?

Let's go!

Take off.

GROUP MEMBERS (OS): ♪ Searchlights ♪

♪ Looking for the watcher in the sky ♪

♪ Searchlights ♪

♪ Looking for the watcher in the sky ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Holy sh...

NIHIL: Fear looks.

Green beans, right? [chuckles]

PAPA EMERITUS: Green beans?

It's cool beans, Mr., Mr. Brown Beans.

NIHIL: Look.

Will you please listen and obey your mother?

She's yelling at me because you don't get it.

Just listen to her, for my sake, and try to do it.

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Searchlights ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: For your sake? [scoffs]

When did you ever do something for me, man?

NIHIL: Thanks to me, you're on stage every night,

in front of all those people,

singing the biggest songs of your career.

PAPA EMERITUS (OS): Well, thank you, Your Highness.

Hey, if it wasn't for me, I wouldn't be here right now.

Just because you made two decent songs and one did okay,

you know, doesn't mean you...

What?

Peace? Peace man?

[chuckles] It's two. Peace.

Three. Three?

"I'm a wooden bonehead."

NIHIL: No.

I actually recorded three songs.

PAPA EMERITUS: Did you?

[audience cheering]

[music begins]

PAPA EMERITUS: I have to learn another song?

I don't have time for that right now. I mean...

You're gonna teach me?

NIHIL: There, there.

You don't have to learn it.

You could take something old,

and something borrowed,

for the new guy.

PAPA EMERITUS: Right.

NIHIL: Yeah, I could've been a good teacher

if you would've only trusted my techniques.

Breathe in. (inhales deeply)

Breathe out.

Breathe in.

Out.

(Papa Nihil breathes deeply)

PAPA EMERITUS: I wouldn't trust you to watch a snake slither

What? (breathes dramatically)

NIHIL: You think that is air you are breathing?

PAPA EMERITUS: Oh, man!

[Nihil laughs]

PAPA EMERITUS: Thank you.

(Nihil laughs)

He's abominable.

You're abominable.

[audience cheering]

PAPA EMERITUS: Hello, Los Angeles!

How are you doing over here?

Hello.

Hello.

Are we having fun?

Sure as shit, we are!

Well...

Alright, then let's hit it.

[music begins]

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ If you have ghosts ♪

♪ You have everything ♪

♪ If you have ghosts ♪

♪ You have everything ♪

♪ You can say anything you want ♪

♪ And you can do anything you want to do ♪

♪ If you have ghosts ♪

♪ You have everything ♪

♪ One never does that ♪

♪ One never does that ♪

♪ You can call it surprise, that it is ♪

♪ And a part of me is me ♪

♪ But one never does that ♪

♪ In the night, I am real ♪

♪ In the night, I am real ♪

♪ The moon to the left is a part of my thoughts ♪

♪ And a part of me is me ♪

♪ In the night, I am real ♪

[singer vocalizing]

PAPA EMERITUS: How about that?

I understand that, despite the fact that we're here tonight

and we're having a good time,

that might not mean that you're all feeling

great all the time, right?

Sometimes, moments of fun

Can just be like a lifting of the burden,

for a short little moment.

But hey.

That is life.

You know?

That is how life works.

You have fun,

and then you have not so fun.

You're happy and then you're sad.

That is the rollercoaster that is life.

You got that? (audience cheers)

Do you understand? (audience cheers)

Alright.

[cheering]

♪ I don't want my fangs too long ♪

♪ No, I don't want my fangs too long ♪

♪ The moon to the left is a part of my thoughts ♪

♪ And a part of me is me ♪

♪ Forever is the wind ♪

♪ I don't want my fangs too long ♪

♪ If you have ghosts ♪

♪ You have everything ♪

♪ If you have ghosts ♪

♪ You have everything ♪

♪ If you have ghosts ♪

♪ You have everything ♪

♪ If you have ghosts ♪

♪ You have everything ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: The ghoulettes, everyone!

[cheering]

[music begins]

[audience clapping in unison]

Hadoukenu.

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Listen up, hatchet man ♪

♪ Set controls for the heart of the land ♪

♪ Tell 'em all it is time ♪

♪ You're the next in the chain of command ♪

♪ Apparition ♪

♪ Direct the course for collision ♪

♪ Suspicion ♪

♪ For the Reich to come to fruition ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be singing in a rain of pennies ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be soaring in disguise of bevies ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS:♪ We'll be smooching at the feet of da rulah ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be grinding in a pile of moolah ♪

♪ Listen up, you motherfuckers ♪

♪ Those Ivy League dopes, they wanna mock us ♪

♪ Tell 'em all this is war ♪

♪ And not fighting a war is for suckers ♪

♪ Assassinate ♪

♪ Gather the tools to disintegrate ♪

♪ Hate ♪

♪ Reaping the seeds as a reprobate ♪

♪ I'm number one, you're number two ♪

♪ You've got a lot of God's work to do ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be singing in a rain of pennies ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be soaring in disguise of bevies ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMEBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be taking no shit from no chulas ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be grabbing 'em all by the hoohaas ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ In the twenties ♪

♪ We'll be dancing in the fields of freedom ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪

♪ We'll be crushing them laws 'cause we don't need 'em ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪

♪ All the way to the thirties ♪

[guitar solo] (audience cheers)

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be singing in a rain of pennies ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMEBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be soaring in disguise of bevies ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We'll be smooching at the feet of da rulah ♪

♪ In the twenties ♪ GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Twenties ♪

♪ We'll be grinding in a pile of moolah ♪

[music ends] (audience cheers)

PAPA EMERITUS: Ugh.

[skeletons giggling]

[Nihil Laughs]

[Papa Emeritus imitates laugh]

Whatever.

[music ends]

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Belial, behemoth ♪

♪ Beelzebub ♪

♪ Asmodeus ♪

♪ Satanas ♪

♪ Lucifer ♪

♪ Belial ♪

♪ Behemoth ♪

♪ Beelzebub ♪

♪ Asmodeus ♪

♪ Satanas ♪

♪ Lucifer ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Since dawn of time ♪

♪ The fate of man is that of lice ♪

♪ Equal as parasites ♪

♪ And moving without eyes ♪

♪ A day of reckoning ♪

♪ When penance is to burn ♪

♪ Count down together now ♪

♪ And say the words that you will learn ♪

♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ Archangelo ♪

♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ Welcome year zero ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Say it!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMEBERS: ♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ Archangelo ♪

♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ Welcome year zero ♪

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Belial ♪

♪ Behemoth ♪

♪ Beelzebub ♪

♪ Asmodeus ♪

♪ Satanas ♪

♪ Lucifer ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBER: ♪ Crestfallen kings and queens ♪

♪ Comforting in their faith ♪

♪ Unbeknownst to them ♪

♪ Is the presence of the wraith ♪

♪ Since fate of man is equal ♪

♪ To the fate of lice ♪

♪ As new dawn rises you shalt recognize ♪

♪ Now behold the Lord of Flies ♪

♪ Archangelo ♪

♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ Welcome Year Zero ♪

♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ He will tremble the nations ♪

♪ Kingdoms to fall one by one ♪

♪ A victim to fall for temptations ♪

♪ A daughter to fall for a son ♪

♪ The ancient serpent deceiver ♪

♪ To masses standing in awe ♪

♪ He will ascend to the heavens ♪

♪ Above the stars of God ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Say it, again!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ Archangelo ♪

♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ Welcome Year Zero ♪

♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ Archangelo ♪

♪ Hell Satan ♪

♪ Welcome Year Zero ♪

(Sister Imperator slurps)

[music starts] (audience cheers)

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ We're standing here by the abyss ♪

♪ And the world is in flames ♪

♪ Two star-crossed lovers reaching out ♪

♪ To the beast with many names ♪

♪ He is ♪

♪ He's the shining and the light ♪

♪ Without whom I cannot see ♪

♪ And he is ♪

♪ Insurrection, he is spite ♪

♪ He is the force that made me be ♪

♪ He is ♪

♪ Nostro dispater ♪

♪ ♪ Nostr'alma mater ♪

♪ He is ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Do you feel it, LA?

[cheering]

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ We're hiding here inside a dream ♪

♪ And all our doubts are now destroyed ♪

♪ The guidance of the morning star ♪

♪ Will lead the way into the void ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Sing!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ He is ♪

♪ He's the shining and the light ♪

♪ Without whom I cannot see ♪

♪ And he is ♪

♪ Insurrection, he is spite, ♪

♪ He's the force that made me be ♪

♪ He is ♪

♪ Nostro dispater ♪ ♪ Nostr'alma mater ♪

♪ He is ♪

[guitar solo]

PAPA EMERITUS: Come on!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ He is ♪

♪ He's the shining and the light ♪

♪ Without whom I cannot see ♪

♪ And he is ♪

♪ Insurrection, he is spite ♪

♪ He's the force that made me be ♪

♪ He is ♪

♪ He's the shining and the light ♪

♪ Without whom I cannot see ♪

♪ And he is ♪

♪ The disobedience that holds us together ♪

♪ He is ♪

♪ Nostro dispater ♪ ♪ Nostr'alma mater ♪

♪ And we are falling ♪

♪ Over the precipice ♪

(melodic guitar solo)

[audience cheering]

(muffled audience cheers)

SISTER: So, I hear you had a conversation with our son.

NIHIL: I had a conversation with him.

Cardi, can I see you a moment?

PAPA EMERITUS: What can I do you for?

NIHIL: I want to give you some entertainer advice.

PAPA EMERITUS: Sure. By all means.

Please do.

NIHIL: When you're done and finished.

When you're done with this show.

PAPA EMERITUS: Oh.

NIHIL: I want you to do the crucifixion.

PAPA EMERITUS: That sounds horrible.

I don't like that at all.

NIHIL: No.

No.

I want you to give them the crucifixion pose.

So the people know you've given them everything,

and you have nothing left to give.

PAPA EMERITUS: Sure.

One thing I do not understand.

All of these things,

here,

all of this stuff, and all these things we're doing,

where we go, and when, and to where.

Who decides these things?

I mean, who's calling the shots?

NIHIL: Son, son.

You seem to think of your life as a zero-sum game.

As if you living in a house means that nobody

has ever lived in the same house before you.

That nobody will ever live there, after you.

That before there even was a house there,

nobody walked that ground it now stands upon.

It's not pleasant to think about that, I know.

You have to be more here.

Right here.

Right now.

I have also lived a long life that I was precious about.

Life is not always how you scripted it.

I am almost 80 years old and I'm dead,

but I still am part of it, making the people rock.

Look, I always wanted to entertain people

and be a part of the night,

be a part of the world of magic and wonder.

Showbiz.

And I am.

Even now that I am dead,

I can still entertain those people

for a brief moment, every night.

And that is meaningful.

But do you think that is how I wanted it to pan out?

[chuckles]

Oh.

(audience cheers)

[Papa Emeritus chuckles]

[saxophone solo]

SISTER: You waste so much time and energy

worrying about what's been and what's next,

who's next, and what not.

As with all things in life, it circulates.

Everything that has a beginning, has an ending.

There just has to be an orderly transition.

[music ends]

PAPA EMERITUS: Thank you, Dad.

(audience cheering)

NIHIL: That was really good parenting. Don't you think?

SISTER: Congratulations.

You just became a father.

[music begins]

[Papa Nihil Groans]

(audience cheers)

PAPA EMERITUS: How you doing, Los Angeles?

(audience cheers)

What day was it today?

AUDIENCE: Friday! PAPA EMERITUS: There you go!

Yeah!

Oh, yeah.

How did you like that, then?

It's my old man, actually.

You know, we roll him out for the good nights.

You know

once upon a time, he was actually a quite decent singer.

Yeah.

Did you know that?

[audience cheers]

We're gonna sing a song now that he used to sing in, uh...

Come on! Join in, come on!

♪ We were speeding together ♪

♪ Down the dark avenues ♪

♪ But besides all the stardom ♪

♪ All we got was blues ♪

♪ And through all the sorrows ♪

♪ We were riding high ♪

♪ And the truth of the matter is, I never let you go ♪

♪ Let you go ♪

♪ We were scanning the cities, rocking to pay the dues ♪

♪ But besides all the glamour, all we got was bruised ♪

♪ And through all the sorrows ♪

♪ We were riding high ♪

♪ And the truth of the matter is, I never let you go ♪

♪ Let you go ♪

PAPA EMERITUS (OS): So sing it now, LA!

♪ You go down just like Holy Mary ♪

♪ Mary on a, Mary on a cross ♪

♪ Not just another bloody Mary ♪

♪ Mary on a, Mary on a cross ♪

♪ If you choose to run away with me ♪

♪ I will tickle you internally ♪

♪ And I see nothing wrong with that ♪

Over!

♪ We were searching for reasons to play by the rules ♪

♪ But we quickly found out it was just for fools ♪

PAPA EMERITUS (OS): Ain't that right?

♪ Now through all the sorrows, we'll be riding high ♪

♪ Because the truth of the matter is, I never let you go ♪

♪ Let you go ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: So, come on, let's go, Los Angeles!

♪ You go down just like Holy Mary ♪

♪ Mary on a ♪

CROWD: ♪ Mary on a cross ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Not just another bloody Mary ♪

CROWD: ♪ Mary on a ♪

PAPA EMERITUS (OS): Sing it!

♪ You go down just like Holy Mary ♪

♪ Mary on a, Mary on a cross ♪

♪ Your beauty never ever scared me ♪

♪ Mary on a, Mary on a cross ♪

♪ If you choose to run away with me ♪

♪ I will tickle you internally ♪

♪ And I see nothing wrong with that ♪

Sing it, everyone!

♪ Mary on a, Mary on a cross ♪

♪ Nothing wrong with that ♪

♪ Mary on a, Mary on a cross ♪

♪ Nothing wrong with that ♪

♪ Mary on a, Mary on a cross ♪

(audience cheers)

[end music]

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Mary on a ♪

AUDIENCE: ♪ Mary on a ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Mary on a ♪

AUDIENCE: ♪ Mary on a ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Mary on a... AUDIENCE: Mary on a...

PAPA EMERITUS: You're not saying "cross".

AUDIENCE: Cross! PAPA EMERITUS: Good!

Marijuana, Los Angeles!

All right!

Are you ready to get your chance to die?

Ooh!

[vocalizing]

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ I was carried on a wolf's back ♪

♪ Here to corrupt humanity ♪

♪ I will pummel it with opulence ♪

♪ With corpulence and greed ♪

♪ In God, you trust ♪

♪ My mummy dust ♪

♪ Dust ♪

♪ My mummy dust ♪

♪ Your cavalier of crapulence ♪

♪ To this feast of rapacity ♪

♪ I will bury you in treasures ♪

♪ Just to feed your incapacity ♪

♪ In God, you trust ♪

♪ My mummy dust ♪

♪ Dust ♪

♪ My mummy dust ♪

♪ In God, you trust ♪

♪ My mummy dust ♪

♪ Dust ♪

♪ Dust ♪

[pianist solo]

♪ You're the possessee of avarice ♪

♪ I'm the ruler of the earth ♪

♪ And I will smother you in riches ♪

♪ Till you choke on sordid mirth ♪

♪ You are summoned in cupidity ♪

♪ For purulence and lust ♪

♪ I'm the magnet for stupidity ♪

♪ Divine you feel my thrust ♪

♪ In God you trust ♪

♪ My mummy dust ♪

♪ Dust ♪

♪ My mummy dust ♪

♪ In God, you trust ♪

♪ My mummy dust ♪

♪ Dust ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Sing it!

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ In God, we trust ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ My mummy dust ♪

Again!

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ In God, we trust ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ My mummy dust ♪

Los Angeles!

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ In God, we trust ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ My mummy dust ♪

(audience cheers)

PAPA EMERITUS: Let me hear you say, yeah!

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: Yeah!

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: Oh, yeah!

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: Yeah.

All right.

Do you feel that, Los Angeles?

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: Where did you feel it?

[clears his throat]

PAPA EMERITUS: We're lacking a consensus.

Where did you feel it?

(audience cheers)

You, you felt it in your too?

Well, that's good. That's one.

How about the rest of y'all?

(audience cheers)

Where did you feel it?

(audience cheers)

In your?

[cheer]

PAPA EMERITUS: There you go! Very well.

Give yourself a round of applause for that.

You know, as long as you feel it somewhere in the middle,

it's fine.

Uh...

Speaking of in the middle,

I'm in the middle of a lot of shit here on stage now.

There's a lot of crap here that was supposed to be

sort of thrown at you.

They're not crap, but you know.

Shit like this.

But now we have it here, so,

I have a remedy for things like this,

and this is, uh, something I might not do very oftenly,

but I have to call up on Jesus now, to help me out.

Kevin Jesus Kaufman from New York City,

comes UP for the best blow job of the night.

(leaf blower buzzes) (audience cheers)

That is fantastic.

Really good.

Give it up for Jesus!

Kevin.

Kevin, while you're at it,

can you ask Ashley to bring me a new pair of shoes?

Because they are fucked.

How about that?

Anyway!

I'm only gonna wear 'em for another song

because we're already, you know,

at the tail end of our night together.

But I wanna look my best for you, you see.

What's wrong?

That's perfect. Yes, please.

Thank you. Oh, everybody give it up for Ashley!

(audience cheers)

Yeah.

Ashley, Ashley!

AUDIENCE: Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley!

Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley!

(audience cheers)

PAPA EMERITUS: That's all.

No?

I have to do this so I don't get injured, you know?

Whoop.

So, while we're doing this, I just wanna make sure

that we acknowledge a few people,

except for Ashley and Kevin here.

Thank you, Ashley.

Big round of applause! (audience cheers)

All of these other people that we have here,

both those to whom we brought,

and those working locally to make sure

all of this shit happened tonight!

Big round of applause!

D Richie here is taking care of you, here in the front.

The security. Yes.

And I want you to give yourself another round of applause

for being here tonight, for having fun,

and for enjoying life!

You know...

It is so god dang it, important,

to enjoy life, when you have it in front of you,

and when you're standing in the middle of it,

and even when you're nearing the end, as we are now.

Yes.

You sound not so positive.

I don't like that. I want you to be more positive.

So, when I say that we have one more song left,

you say, "Yeah!"

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: Yeah!

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: There you go. That is the spirit.

That is the spirit

that leads so many people here.

You know?

Like myself.

Once upon a time,

I dreamt about coming here to be an entertainer.

(audience cheers)

To make people laugh and make people dance,

and cry, and then laugh again.

And I found, the first night I came to Los Angeles,

and we played here, you gave us a warm welcome.

Technically, that wouldn't be me, but you know what I mean.

And ever since, every time we've been here,

you've always been so supportive.

And every time,

there has been a little bit more of you coming,

and more and more.

And look at us now!

(audience cheers)

Here we are!

On a what day is it now?

AUDIENCE: Friday!

PAPA EMERITUS: A Friday night in Los Angeles, having fun.

That is thanks to you.

So, from the bottom of all of our hearts, here on stage,

and from the bottom of mine,

thank you all for being here tonight.

(audience cheers)

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ We're here in the after ♪

♪ Of a murderous crafter ♪

♪ The past is spun like a yarn and mangled ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ With flesh and blood and bones ♪

♪ I wonder ♪

♪ Did no one hear the distant thunder? ♪

♪ The autumnal reaper ♪

♪ The stains of this creeper will last ♪

♪ The shine and the sham entangled ♪

♪ Like salting earth with tears of Jesus ♪

♪ He sliced and diced our dreams to pieces ♪

♪ For the dreams that you dread ♪

♪ Will become just as real ♪

♪ Like the blood that was shed ♪

♪ On the slash of his steel ♪

♪ For the street-walking dead ♪

♪ Was quite a scene, wasn't it ♪

♪ For the lost and mislead ♪

♪ Were promised seats by the pit ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMEBERS: ♪ We will break away together ♪

♪ I'll be the shadow ♪

♪ You'll be the light ♪

♪ Nothing ever lasts forever ♪

♪ We will go softly ♪

♪ Into the night ♪

♪ We're leaving this city ♪

♪ So this is farewell ♪

♪ Goodbye, seven sisters ♪

♪ And Saint Jezebel ♪

♪ The moon in the gutter ♪

♪ Has a story to tell ♪

♪ One day, he will come back ♪

♪ From the bowels of hell ♪

♪ He appeared to ascend ♪

♪ So we all stood there in awe ♪

♪ Now we have to pretend ♪

♪ We didn't see what we saw ♪

♪ When the curtain unveiled ♪

♪ To the sound of applause ♪

♪ That the king that we hailed ♪

♪ Was the Wizard of Oz ♪

♪ We will break away together ♪

♪ I'll be the shadow ♪

♪ You'll be the light ♪

♪ Nothing ever lasts forever ♪

♪ We will go softly ♪

♪ Into the night ♪

♪ Nothing ever lasts forever ♪

♪ We will go softly ♪

♪ Into the night ♪

That is it, Los Angeles!

Thank you all for being here tonight.

Adieu!

[group members vocalizing]

[music ends]

[chuckles]

Tres bien, folks.

Very well.

Well played.

So, yeah. Thank you, thank you.

Thanks.

See you around.

GHOUL: Are, are we doing an encore?

- Uh...

No. No, no, no.

Just, um...

No, no. Fuck it, fuck it.

See you around.

Ta

[chuckles]

SISTER (OS): No, no, no, no, no!

[Sighs]

SISTER (OS): Come here.

PAPA EMERITUS: What?

SISTER: Where are you going?

PAPA EMERITUS: I'm done.

We're done, dusted, delivered.

SISTER: No, no, no. Sit down.

Sit down.

Even though you don't understand right now,

sooner or later, you will know what I'm talking about.

Things, events are unavoidable.

Now, you go back out there

and give them one hell of an encore,

and that's all you have to worry about.

PAPA EMERITUS: Okay.

SISTER: Off you go.

PAPA EMERITUS: All right.

We're doing an encore.

(audience cheering)

(audience cheers)

What the hell is this?

What are you still doing here?

God damn it. This is school night, so you have to leave.

What's the matter?

What do you need? Three?

What does that mean?

Oh, you mean three songs? Oh.

Huh. What?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's haggle on that one.

I'll give you one song, if you leave!

(audience cheers)

Are you booing me?

Okay, two songs because you're so nice!

(audience cheers)

(audience boos)

We're not doing five, man.

(audience laughs)

Oh, fuck! I'm going soft here.

If we play three songs, will you get the fuck up?

(cheering)

We have potential problems.

The fact that this is an after-show jacket.

I don't know! I don't know!

But you know, there is a remedy.

I have this magical power, you see.

Where I can transform an after-show jacket

to an encore jacket!

How about that?

It's sort of a declassification, if you will.

You want to see me declassify my jacket,

from one thing to another?

(audience cheers)

All right. Hold onto your hats, and be quiet.

Uh, that's it. That's it, Los Angeles.

That's how easy it is

if you believe.

So...

Are y'all ready to rock?

(cheering)

Are you ready to roll?

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

PAPA EMERITUS: Do you want a kiss?

Alright!

[music starts] Go!

Yes, yes, yes!

Let me hear you say yeah!

Yeah!

♪ Hey, baby ♪

♪ Kiss the goat ♪

♪ Whoa, oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Kiss, kiss, kiss the goat ♪

♪ You've been playing ♪

♪ Around with magic that is black ♪

♪ But all those powerful magical mysteries ♪

♪ Never gave a single thing back ♪

♪ You've been daddied ♪

♪ By all the dudes that want a dad ♪

♪ And all of those dads never gave you ♪

♪ The things that you should've had ♪

♪ It ain't always what it seems ♪

♪ when you live inside a dream ♪

♪ It ain't always there to please you ♪

GROUP MEMBER: Please you ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ But he's the guy you wanna do ♪

♪ And you know that it takes two ♪

♪ Luckily he wants to do you too ♪

♪ Satan ♪

♪ Lucifer ♪

♪ Osculum obscenum ♪

♪ Hey, baby ♪

♪ Kiss the goat ♪

♪ Whoa ♪

♪ Kiss, kiss, kiss the go-goat ♪

♪ Oh. Hey, baby ♪

♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ Kiss the goat ♪

♪ Whoa ♪

♪ Kiss, kiss, kiss the go-goat ♪

♪ It ain't always what it seems ♪

♪ That glitter wasn't gold ♪

♪ As opposed to what they told you ♪

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Told you ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ But he's the guy you wanna do ♪

♪ And you know that it takes two ♪

♪ Luckily he wants to do you too ♪

♪ Satan ♪

♪ Lucifer ♪

♪ Osculum obscenum ♪

(energetic keyboard solo)

♪ Yeah ♪

[guitar solo]

♪ It ain't always what it seems ♪

♪ when you live inside a dream ♪

♪ It ain't always there to please you ♪

GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Please you ♪

♪ But he's the guy you wanna do ♪

♪ And you know that it takes two ♪

♪ Luckily he wants to do you too ♪

♪ Satan ♪

♪ Lucifer ♪

♪ Osculum obscenum ♪

[music ends]

All Los Angeles! Muah.

Alright!

Are you all wearing your dancing shoes?

(audience cheers)

That's good, we're gonna need 'em now,

because we're gonna dance, motherfuckers!

Are you ready to dance?

I wanna know now that not one single foot is not moving!

Two, four!

Wobble, wobble!

Wobble!

♪ You'll soon be hearing the chime ♪

♪ Close to midnight ♪

♪ If I could turn back the time ♪

♪ I'd make all right ♪

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ How can it end like this ♪

♪ There's a sting in the way you kiss me ♪

♪ Something within your eyes says ♪

♪ it could be the last time ♪

♪ For it's over ♪

♪ Just wanna be ♪

♪ Wanna bewitch you in the moonlight ♪

♪ Just wanna be ♪

♪ I wanna bewitch you all night ♪

♪ It keeps on giving me chills ♪

♪ But I know now ♪

♪ I know the closer we get ♪

♪ To the last bow ♪

♪ I don't wanna end like this ♪

♪ But the sting in the way you kiss me ♪

♪ Something within your eyes ♪

♪ Says this could be the last time ♪

♪ For it's over ♪

♪ Just wanna be ♪

♪ Wanna bewitch you in the moonlight ♪

♪ Just wanna be ♪

♪ I wanna bewitch you all night ♪

♪ Just wanna be ♪

♪ I want to bewitch you ♪

♪ one last time in the ancient rite ♪

♪ Just wanna be ♪

♪ I want to bewitch you all night ♪

♪ All night ♪

♪ Just wanna be ♪

♪ Wanna bewitch you in the moonlight ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Come on!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMEBERS: ♪ I just wanna be ♪

♪ I want to bewitch you all night ♪

Everyone!

♪ Just wanna be ♪

♪ Wanna bewitch you in the moonlight ♪

♪ Just wanna be ♪

♪ I wanna bewitch you all night ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ All night ♪

Oh woah, woah, woah, woah.

PAPA EMERITUS: Uh!

This is song number three, man!

So, remember what you promised.

This is the last one!

So, after we're done here, you're up.

Three songs, you're up.

You got that?

Now...

Remember.

All all of you are all of different ages,

different sizes, different experiences,

so you need to be nice to each other then when you leave.

One more thing.

You have to help each other.

If anyone needs help, help that person.

And the third thing, if you don't have someone to fuck with,

you can go fuck yourself.

(cheering)

Isn't that a pretty sweet deal, Los Angeles?

(cheering)

Are you gonna go fuck yourselves?

(cheering)

That's good.

Good stuff.

I greased them up for you, so uh, rip it, motherfucker!

PAPA EMERITUS: I'm feeling it.

I'm really feeling it.

I'm here.

Right here.

NIHIL: Right now.

And don't forget to do the pose.

SISTER: See you on the other side, son.

PAPA EMERITUS: ♪ Mating in the night ♪

♪ Neath heavens torn asunder ♪

♪ You call on me ♪

♪ To solve a crooked rhyme ♪

♪ And as I'm closing in ♪

♪ Imposing on your slumber ♪

♪ You call on me ♪

♪ As bells begin to chime ♪

I wanna know!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Are you on the square ♪

♪ Are you on the level ♪

♪ Are you ready to swear, right here, right now ♪

♪ Before the devil ♪

♪ That you're on the square ♪

♪ That you're on the level ♪

♪ That you're ready to stand, right here, right now ♪

♪ Right here, right now ♪

♪ Hiding from the light ♪

♪ And sacrificing nothing ♪

♪ And still you call on me ♪

♪ For entrance to the shrine ♪

♪ Hammering the nails ♪

♪ Into a sacred coffin ♪

♪ You call on me ♪

♪ For powers clandestine ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: Los Angeles!

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Are you on the square ♪

♪ Are you on the level ♪

♪ Are you ready to swear, right here, right now ♪

♪ Before the devil ♪

♪ That you're on the square ♪

♪ That you're on the level ♪

♪ That you're ready to stand, right here, right now ♪

♪ Right here, right now ♪

PAPA EMERITUS: All right! One last one up the poop shoot

PAPA EMERITUS & GROUP MEMBERS: ♪ Are you on the square ♪

♪ Are you on the level ♪

♪ Are you ready to swear, right here, right now ♪

♪ Before the devil ♪

♪ That you're on the square ♪

♪ That you're on the level ♪

♪ That you're ready to stand, right here, right now ♪

♪ Right here, right now ♪

♪ Right here, right now ♪

♪ Right here, right now ♪

♪ Right here, right now ♪

♪ Right here, right ♪

♪ Now ♪

[music ends]

(audience cheers)

[music begins]

[chuckles]

[music ends]

(switch clicks)

PAPA EMERITUS: Fiat looks.

[chuckles]

Ah.

[body thumps]

[gasps]

PAPA EMERITUS: Ah.

(monitor bleeps rhythmically)

[music begins]

(defibrillator whines)

(defibrillator thumps)

(defibrillator whines)

(defibrillator thumps)

[sobs]

[music ends]

SISTER (VO): My son.

I'm sorry I could not find it in my heart

to tell you about my condition.

I was afraid you might lose

your sometimes frail concentration.

My hope is that, while reading this,

you will come to understand that one day ending

means the beginning of a new one,

after a night of darkness, of course.

Anyway, boyo.

Now you have an even greater task ahead of you.

As the head of the Clergy,

you will henceforth be known as...

PAPA EMERITUS: Frater Imperator?

[music begins]

♪ 15 years from now ♪

♪ I know it feels remote ♪

♪ But picture it somehow ♪

♪ In your head ♪

♪ It's 1984 ♪

♪ And knocking on your door ♪

♪ Is the Brownshirt Stasi guard ♪

♪ Boom, you're gone ♪

♪ And in the blood of the Kennedys ♪

♪ The good ones get shot ♪

♪ And in the absence of sympathies ♪

♪ Won't you hear me out ♪

♪ When it all burns down ♪

♪ When it all burns down ♪

♪ I will hold you close for the minute ♪

♪ Yeah, I'll hold you for the minute it takes ♪

♪ 55 years from now ♪

♪ I know it sounds insane ♪

♪ The dark fascist regime might be gone ♪

♪ Might be gone ♪

♪ Oh, if you by then have forgiven me ♪

♪ When push comes to shove ♪

♪ We don't have to be enemies ♪

♪ Won't you hear me out ♪

♪ When it all burns down ♪

♪ When it all burns down ♪

♪ I will hold you close for the minute ♪

♪ For the minute ♪

♪ When it all burns down ♪

♪ And the flames devour everything that we are ♪

♪ I will hold you for the minute ♪

♪ I will hold you for the minute it takes ♪

♪ With these words at hand ♪

♪ The future is a foreign land ♪

♪ So let us pray for more ♪

♪ In 2024 ♪

♪ 2024 ♪

♪ We could grow old together ♪

♪ 2024 ♪

♪ We could love one another ♪

♪ 2024 ♪

♪ And there will from then be peace forevermore ♪

♪ Forever ♪

♪ Peace forevermore ♪ ♪ And forever ♪

♪ But if it all burns down ♪

♪ If it all burns down ♪

♪ I will hold you close for the minute ♪

♪ For the minute ♪

♪ If it all burns down ♪

♪ And the flames devour everything that we are ♪

♪ I will hold you for the minute ♪

♪ I will hold you for the minute it takes ♪

(organ and choir music)

You seem to have remodeled here.

Good, good. (chuckles)

SISTER: Well, I'm not in charge anymore.

[Sister sighs]

PAPA EMERITUS: No, you're not. (chuckles)

(Sister Imperator sighs)

(feet clack)

NIHIL: I hope that this new guy,

he doesn't disappoint, like you did.

(Sister Imperator sighs)

PAPA EMERITUS: Really?

Go nick or charge yourself.

NIHIL: Oh, shut up.

PAPA EMERITUS: You shut up.

NIHIL: No, you sh...

PAPA EMERITUS (OS): Go nick or charge yourself.

(gentle piano music)

No, you shut up.

NIHIL: No, you shut up.

SISTER: Two of you, just stop it!

PAPA EMERITUS: Okay. SISTER: This is done, just stop.

NIHIL: Old habits, they die hard.

SISTER: Old guys and habits die harder.

[Papa Nihil scoffs]

Oh!

Here he comes.

[music starts]

(footsteps clacking)

[music ends]