– English Lyrics

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

(keyboard clicking)

- Yeah, no, I do.

I know, yeah, yeah.

Go ahead and do that again.

Quick, think of number one to 10.

Yes, you, all of you in the audience right now

or maybe it's just one of you

or four of you or a hundred of you,

depending on how successful this movie is, whatever.

Just think of a number one to 10.

Got it?

Is it seven?

Chances are I'm wrong,

but for about one out of every three of you,

I just blew your goddamn mind.

But one out of three?

Not one out of 10?

How is that possible?

(upbeat rock music) (bell rings)

- Here's my theory.

First of all, no one will pick one or 10, right?

Like that's just stupid picking on the ends

and you didn't even specify one and 10 are included, right?

So people wouldn't wanna mess the rules or anything.

Like it would be embarrassing

to fuck up choosing the number one through 10.

- Why do you think people choose a number seven?

- Well, I'm an Aquarius,

so three gives off bad vibes for me.

- Yeah, five, bro.

Like that's just mid af!

- No cap.

- Well, you see, Pythagoras actually calculated

even integers are more predictable.

Two and four feel a bit, uh, harmless, if you will.

You know, back in my day-

- Three. - Nine.

- Five. - Four.

- Four. - Pick a side.

- Three. - Five.

- Two. - Nine.

(disorienting music) (students chattering)

- And so there it was.

Science has found that 33% of people will choose seven.

And yet no one could quite explain why.

Out of a seemingly random set

of arbitrarily assigned values,

out of complete and utter meaninglessness

and nothingness came...

(dramatic music)

Everything!

I mean, think about it.

We live in a world with so much uncertainty

with, like, climate change, civil unrest, and-

- The only thing unsure right now

is what college you're going to.

- Miles, it's really not that complicated.

Go to a good college, get a job and die.

- And what's with all that

1 through 10 shit you say every day?

- Yeah, what's with that anyway?

- Yeah, what's with that anyway?

- How about your extracurriculars?

Community service?

(disorienting dramatic music) (voices chattering)

Miles!

- Miles. - Focus.

- Hello!

- [Father] Miles.

(voices chattering) (disorienting music)

You don't have much time.

(keyboard clicking)

(light airy music)

- [Harper] Where do you wanna go next?

- [Miles] I don't know.

I don't know anything.

- [Harper] Try to remember.

- [Miles] Memories with you?

- [Harper] With me.

(both cheering and laughing)

- Get the fuck down!

You go ahead. (cheering)

Oh my god, oh my god! (laughs)

(seat belts clattering)

(windows whirring)

- No, no, no. - Mm, yeah.

- No, I, no, I just. - Right.

- If we. - Maybe.

- If we- - Could?

- Yeah, absolutely. - What?

- Total-. - What are you?

Yeah, okay.

- Well, I should probably, I should probably get going.

I just have some work

that I gotta do. - Yeah, same, same.

- Cool, but it was really nice conversing with you, Harper.

- Precisely, have a great night, Miles.

- You too.

- All right.

Wait, do you wanna kiss?

- Yeah I was like- - Yeah, exactly, of course.

- Like, obviously. - Door.

- Door. - Yeah.

- Yeah, um, but obviously.

- So should we drive around some more?

- Yeah, let's do that. - Yeah, let's-

(keyboard clicking)

(audience cheering) (audience applauding)

- Seven, was also the first time

I encountered the pinnacle of existence, death.

(raccoon chirping) (body thumps)

Why do you think that raccoon killed himself?

- He didn't, animals don't do that.

- But what if they have feelings just like us?

Maybe his wife died and he went through months

of existential grief and rehab.

- Where's all this coming from?

- Mom?

Did Uncle Fred kill himself?

- [Miles] You'll never have control over what you learn.

- I didn't. - But how does he know?

- [Father] I don't know!

- [Miles] You'll never know the value

of a moment until it becomes a memory.

- [Fred] Pick a number one through 10.

- Um...

And now you all are probably expecting a happy moral

to the story or some kind of, but wait, there's more ending.

But there is none.

There's no meaning to any of this.

There's no meaning to any of your shitty follow your dreams

(audience gasping) valedictorian speeches

or virtue signaling

"we live in a society" Pinterest quotes

and definitely there's no,

(microphone buzzes)

and definitely there's no meaning

to my pretentious, nihilistic and edgy

attempt at self-awareness for the sake of self-awareness!

(audience muttering)

- [Harper] Will you remember me?

- Of course.

- I don't think I will.

- Yeah, honestly I don't think I will either.

- No, like I'll remember you but, in like, in 50 years?

- Like, we probably won't

give a fuck about each other.

- Right. - Let's be honest.

- Exactly. - Yeah.

I mean, maybe though.

- Yeah, I'd like to think so.

I'll be, like, remember that Miles kid?

I really liked him.

He was really cute.

He had nice eyes.

- I guess.

It's a weird feeling.

It's a kind of fleeting feeling

we'll only really experienced once.

Like we're not gonna realize how good we had it

until we're old and inevitably lose contact with each other

and then,

and then remembering all of this will be painful.

Do you think then

that it would be better to remember or forget?

Yeah, me too.

(slow rock music)

- We begin tonight with New Mexico

where thousands of firefighters-

- [Miles] It's strange.

- Are battling the colossal wildfire.

- The worst day in more than 40 years.

- Decisions spark protest from-

- [Miles] There's so many random things

happening in the world at once

that don't feel like they make sense.

- Breaking news. - What you're about

to see is graphic.

- [Miles] Okay, now I'm gonna ask you

what do you think the meaning of life is?

- Mm, just to have fun

and don't care what anyone else thinks of you at all.

- Just live in with the journey,

the experience and find some happiness there.

- Honestly, just do whatever hell you want.

'cause I mean, in the end, none of this is gonna matter.

And these people that you think care right now,

they really don't.

- [Student] Um, I guess to focus on yourself

and do what you want to do

and not waste time. - I got it, I got it!

- [Student] To help people to do more good than bad.

- [Miles] So how do you feel about the future right now?

(both cheering)

- Like, the world's kind of uncertain at the moment.

- Personally kind of scared. - Not great.

- [Student] I'm just kinda nervous about it.

It takes a lot of work to be happy.

(students cheering)

I don't know where I'm gonna go to college.

I don't know what I wanna do with my life

and so I don't know where I'm gonna go.

- [Student] It's just such an unexpected thing.

You can never know what's gonna happen next.

(students cheering)

- [Miles] I don't think anyone really knows what's going on.

- How does he know? - I don't know!

- As a family man I,

so the meaning is to happen is for all my family members.

- [Student] The future, the past, the present.

It's like a gift, I don't know. (laughs)

- Three, two, one. - Future's really scary.

I don't really feel confident.

- Would I be here? - Boo!

- There you are! - I'd say sad,

only because there's a lot of things that I benefit from

in this world that a lot of people don't benefit from.

- It's a surprise.

I took a trip last year

but I didn't know what the future is, right?

- The world's biggest bird is the ostrich.

- Six?

(transcendental music)

But we all try to find our seven to hold onto.

Love everyone that you can

just go find someone and abuse them with your love.

- You know, the people that you spend it with.

- [Student] Just live life

and not just exist. - Just believe big

and you never know what's gonna happen.

- Existing is just waking up, going to work.

- We live and we die, that's all it is.

- [Father] You're gonna do great things, man.

Seriously, I believe in you.

- [Mother] Embrace it.

Embrace every moment of it.

- [Harper] You live in terror of not being misunderstood.

I'm always here.

Always.

- And all of a sudden,

in a moment of complete absurd randomness.

(transcendental music)

- Miles, focus.

(young Miles yelling)

- Oh, it's sadness. - Happiness, fear.

(children chattering)

You never know what's gonna happen.

(dramatic music)

- [Miles] There's clarity.

- Wesley Wang. (audience cheering)

(upbeat rock music)

- Three, two, one! (crowd cheering)

- I'm Saunders, production designer.

Today I have water guns.

- [Cameraman] Hey John, look at the camera.

- No.

(cameraman laughs)

♪ Shake your hair, have some fun ♪

♪ Forget our mothers and past lovers ♪

♪ Forget everyone ♪

♪ Oh, I'm so lucky that you are my best friend ♪

♪ Oh, there's no one ♪

♪ There's no one that knows me like you do ♪

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
number /ˈnʌmbər/ A1	noun - a symbol or word used to represent a quantity
seven /ˈsɛvən/ A1	noun - the number after six and before eight
pick /pɪk/ A2	verb - to choose or select something
choose /tʃuːz/ A2	verb - to select something from a range of options
think /θɪŋk/ A1	verb - to have an opinion or idea about something
feel /fiːl/ A1	verb - to experience a particular emotion or sensation
live /lɪv/ A1	verb - to be alive or to reside somewhere
die /daɪ/ A1	verb - to stop living
remember /rɪˈmɛmbər/ A1	verb - to keep something in your mind or memory
forget /fərˈɡɛt/ A1	verb - to fail to remember something
love /lʌv/ A1	verb - to have strong affection for someone or something noun - a strong feeling of affection
life /laɪf/ A1	noun - the condition of being alive or the period from birth to death
happiness /ˈhæpinəs/ A2	noun - the state of being happy
believe /bɪˈliːv/ A1	verb - to accept something as true
exist /ɪɡˈzɪst/ B1	verb - to be real or to have being
focus /ˈfoʊkəs/ B1	verb - to concentrate attention on something
world /wɜːrld/ A1	noun - the earth or the planet we live on
uncertainty /ʌnˈsɜːrtənti/ B2	noun - the state of being unsure
fun /fʌn/ A1	noun - enjoyment or amusement

Key Grammar Structures

• Go ahead and do that again.

  ➔ Imperative mood with 'and'

  ➔ The phrase uses the imperative mood to give a command, and 'and' connects the command to the previous action.

• Depending on how successful this movie is, whatever.

  ➔ Prepositional phrase with 'depending on'

  ➔ The prepositional phrase 'depending on' introduces a condition that affects the outcome.

• But one out of three? Not one out of 10?

  ➔ Tag questions

  ➔ Tag questions are added to statements to seek confirmation or express surprise.

• Like it would be embarrassing to fuck up choosing the number one through 10.

  ➔ Conditional sentence with 'would'

  ➔ The sentence uses 'would' to express a hypothetical situation and its consequence.

• You'll never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

  ➔ Future with 'will' in a negative statement

  ➔ The sentence uses 'will' in a negative context to emphasize the uncertainty of future knowledge.

• There's no meaning to any of this.

  ➔ Existential 'there is/are'

  ➔ The sentence uses the existential 'there is' to assert the absence of meaning.

• Do you think then that it would be better to remember or forget?

  ➔ Indirect question with 'if' and 'whether'

  ➔ The sentence uses an indirect question to inquire about preferences in a polite manner.

• We live and we die, that's all it is.

  ➔ Emphatic structure with 'that's all'

  ➔ The phrase 'that's all' is used to emphasize the simplicity or finality of a statement.