[WOMAN 1]
I was out
In the yard
Taking down the bed sheets
When my neighbor yelled across:
[PROPRIETOR, spoken]
"The president's been shot."
[WOMAN 1]
I remember where I was
Just exactly where I was
In the yard out back...
[PROPRIETOR, spoken]
"The president's been shot."
[MAN 1]
I was getting me a shoeshine...
[WOMAN 1]
...Folding sheets...
[MAN 1]
...When I heard...
[WOMAN 2]
We were waiting for a carriage...
[MAN 1]
...Newsboys...
[WOMAN 2]
...Suddenly there's shouting in the street...
[WOMAN 1]
...Lizzie's sheet...
[PROPRIETOR, spoken]
"The president's been shot."
[WOMAN 2]
...I'll remember it forever...
[WOMAN 1]
...And I thought:
[WOMAN 2 & MAN 1]
Where I was, what I was doing...
[WOMAN 1]
Something just broke
[PROPRIETOR, spoken]
"The president's been shot."
[MAN 1, spoken]
My God
[MAN 2]
I was up near the ridge
Plowing...
[MAN 3]
We were working at the plant...
[WOMAN 2]
I was halfway through correcting the exams...
[MAN 2]
...When my wife...
[MAN 3]
...It was Mike...
[MAN 2]
...She comes tearing 'cross the field...
[MAN 3]
...Mike the foreman...
[WOMAN 2]
...In runs Billy...
[MAN 3]
...I mean, he was crying...
[WOMAN 2]
...He was crying...
[MAN 2]
...She was crying...
[WOMAN 2, MAN 2, MAN 3]
I'll remember it forever...
[WOMAN 1]
And I thought:
[PROPRIETOR, spoken]
"The president's been shot."
[WOMAN 1]
You know what?
There are presidents who aren't worth a lot
[WOMAN 2, MAN 2, MAN 3]
I kept thinking:
[WOMAN 1]
There's the kind that gets elected, then forgot
[MAN 1 & WOMAN 1]
Mr. Garfield
[WOMAN 2]
Mr. Lincoln
[MAN 1 & WOMAN 1]
He's a hack
[MAN 3 & WOMAN 1]
Bill McKinley
[WOMAN 2]
He's a giant
[MAN 1, MAN 3, WOMAN 1]
He's a joke
[WOMAN 1]
Still, something just broke
[PROPRIETOR, spoken]
"The president is rallying."
"The president is sinking."
"The president is dead."
[WOMAN 1]
Something just broke
[MAN 2]
I was down at the Exchange...
[WOMAN 1]
Something just made a little dent
[WOMAN 2]
I'd been shopping...
[MAN 1]
I'd been sick...
[WOMAN 1]
Something just broke
[MAN 3]
All I know, it was a Friday...
[WOMAN 1]
Only for a moment
[MAN1, MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY]
I remember it exactly...
[WOMAN 1]
Something got bent
[WOMAN 2]
I'm taking the order...
[WOMAN 1]
Something just left a little mark
[BOY]
I was getting dressed...
[WOMAN 2]
...Two potato soups...
[WOMAN 1]
Something just went a little dark
Something just went
[MAN 2]
And I wondered:
[WOMAN 2]
I was scared of...
[MAN 2 & WOMAN 2]
What would follow...
[WOMAN 1]
Something to be mended...
[MAN 1]
Made me wonder who we are...
[WOMAN 1]
...Something we'll have to weather...
[MAN 2]
It was seeing all those torches...
[WOMAN 1]
...Bringing us all together...
[MAN 2]
He was me...
[MAN 3]
He was us...
[WOMAN 1]
...If only for a moment...
[ALL]
I'll remember it forever...
[WOMAN 1]
...Nothing has really ended...
[MAN 1, MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY]
Where I was, what I was doing...
[WOMAN 1]
...Only just been suspended...
[MAN 1, MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY]
Like a flash...
[WOMAN 1]
...'Cause something just stirred...
[VARIOUS]
And I thought
And I thought to myself
And I thought
[WOMAN 1]
...Something just woke...
[VARIOUS]
And I thought
I kept thinking
[ALL]
Something just spoke
Something I wish I hadn't heard
Something bewildering occurred
[BOY & MAN 2]
Fix it up fast
Please
[MAN 2 & MAN 3]
'Til it's just smoke
[WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2]
'Til it's only "Something just pa**ed"
Nothing that will last
[WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1]
Where I was, what I was doing
[MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY]
Nothing but the moment
[WOMAN 2]
Just an awful moment
[WOMAN 1]
But something just—