From Song to Screen

Crazy For you By Adele
I Found myself today singing out loud your name.
You said I'm crazy,
if I am I'm crazy for you.

Sometimes sitting in the dark wishing you were here turns me crazy,
but it's you who makes me lose my head

And everytime I'm meant to be acting sensible
you drift into my head and turn me into
a crumbling fool.

Tell me to run and I'll race,
if you want me to stop I'll freeze.
And if you want me gone I'll leave,
just hold me closer baby.

And make me
crazy for you.
Crazy for you.

Lately with this state Im in
I can't help myself but spin.
I wish you'd come over
send me spinning closer to you.

My oh my, how my blood boils,
its sweetest taste for you
It strips me down bare
and gets me into my favourite mood.

I keep on trying I'm fighting
these feelings away,
but the more I do
the crazier I turn into.

Pacing floors and opening doors
hoping you'll walk through
and save me boy.
Because I'm too

crazy for you.
Crazy for you.

Sometimes there are those songs, such as the one above, with lyrics that would just make the best dialogue, not only in film but perhaps even in real life...

And then, there are those other songs, like the one below, with lyrics that magically do an unexpected replay of a real life experience. An experience that was once only a memory, almost forgotten, until the radio reminded you, provoking a quiet excitement spoken only in a whisper 'Damn that would make a great film'...Suddenly the car then turns right around to the nearest coffee shop...where you breakout that mac-lap and type your heart out (tears and all) with only the boundaries of screenplay format policed by final-draft.....



5 Verses by Jeremy Warmsley
They met in a karaoke bar
Jack was singing "Lola" in a long black wig
The TV screen with the lines from the song
Caught the reflection of a girl

He caught her eye and he went wrong
She laughed while he apologized.
So they started talking to each other
Mary's friends listening from beyond
And shaking their heads

She had on half a smile as she looked away from him
He was falling victim to her every whim
The barman sighed, a tear in his eye.
So they kissed that night and she took him home

Though they were strangers he held her so tenderly
But she thought it might be fun to string him along
She knew it wasn't right; she didn't think it was wrong
She'd stop before he was in love with her

She didn't stop to think she might fall in love with him.
Well it went on for a week, a month, a year
Mary somehow forgot to break it off
Now she felt so trapped and she didn't know why

She was so sure that she loved him though it started as a lie
When she realized she broke down and told him
He already knew -- he'd read it in her diary the day before..

It turned out that he was the same as her
Living a lie on automatic pilot
Now they didn't know what to do
They didn't know who they were
Mary tried to smile, Jack slipped his hand into hers.....
The barman would have been surprised