1.
Back Story
2. Melinda
3. Letterman Jack
4. Switchblade Sam
5. Thinking
About The Upcoming Encounter
6. Football Game
7. Sam Hits The Keg Party
8.
Kegger
9. Sam Hangs With The Hoods
10. The Back Of The Blazer
11. Melinda
Ponders
12. Melinda Finds Sam
13. Sam & Melinda Speak
14. Sam Returns
To The Keg Party For A Friday Night Fight
15. The Meaning Of The Fight
16.
Melinda Discusses It With Her Parents
17. The Parents' View
18. Until The
End Of The Moonlight
19. After The Fireworks Blow
PART
I BACK STORY Melinda is the neighborhood girl,
She's
the talk of the town
With violence at recent kegs,
The police have been
coming around
The parents say, "Now, what do you boys think
Of the prettiest
girl?"
They say, "We'd fight
For the prettiest girl in our world"
MELINDA Melinda keeps her goals in her locket
She keeps Jack's
picture in her locker
She huffs and she puffs when they pass in the hall
She heads from the school to watch the boys play ball
She knows what they
keep in their pockets LETTERMAN JACK Jack says, "Our white-hatted
ways are top-notch
We are the crème of the crop
We drive in Blazers to
the parking lot
The keg is in the back of the car,
Pop the hood, clean
the screen
We got the braided belts
And we all wear green jeans"
Jack practices football
He passed Melinda in the hall
He tells the boys
in the locker room,
"I'm going to take her pearl"
He just met her
He gets another of her love letters
He still has dirt on his football pants
He needs to get clean SWITCHBLADE SAM Black-hatted Sam is so young
Black sweatpants with stuffed pockets
His parka is warm for the summer night
People say he carries a gun
In reality, he's only got a switchblade
He keeps Melinda's picture in his dresser drawer
Sometimes he takes it out
and brings it to school
He gets all his kicks in the lone bathroom stall
We don't want to talk about what he keeps in his pocket He says, "Melinda,
you've fallen
To the white-hatted man
You soon will be losing your pearl
On the football field Friday,
Midnight, 'neath the stars
You're joining
the lost and sad girls" "You'll run for me,
When he's lost his lust for
you
- The innocent girl
You'll say
'Don't you know what I've been
through tonight?'" When that happens
Sam thinks to himself
I'm gonna
get my switchblade THINKING ABOUT THE UPCOMING ENCOUNTER Jack thought
little but of his own desires
He didn't know where they came from
He
thought, "Don't you know there's no time like tonight?
I see paradise in
the back seat of the Blazer" FOOTBALL GAME Melinda came from Woodcrest
She traveled to the football game
She came with her rich, snobby friends
She saw Sam on her way in
Sam was leaving She broke away for a second
She wanted to pass him her number Sam said, "Are you ready for the Friday
night lights?"
Her picture was cropped for his locket
They sat on the
bleachers,
The blue played football
She smiled and stuck her number
in his pocket He smiled and walked away
He was headed to the keg
He
took a flask from his pocket
They were to meet later at the park
Sam wished
he could save her SAM HITS THE KEG PARTY Sam went to the park
He looked for the keg
They charged him
Three bucks for a cup He tossed
the keg cup
And said, "I'm out of here
I'm going to hang by
The
fountain with my friends" KEGGER There it was
Near Pine and
Frostbite
So many secrets in the dark
There's a kegger at Roberts Park
Far away, through the trees
You can see the cops
Busting up a different
house party
It's Friday night The kids will get older
The damage
will surface
It will take a lifetime to repair
Melinda she was kidnapped
By the Letterman Jack
They sped to the keg in his Blazer
She sipped
her three dollar cup in the dark,
She spilled her beer on the bark
She
waited for Sam to come save her SAM HANGS WITH THE HOODS Sam he
fell to Bacchus and his pards
He sipped a Schmidt
While the QA posse
sped for the park,
In search of pearls
Then he sipped Rainier Beer
While he and his boys
Cruised for the midnight world
He said, "Our fathers
are old
But you know they still see the stars
They haven't lost the lust
for young girls" THE BACK OF THE BLAZER Melinda was stopped
By Letterman Jack
He grabbed her arm
To take her from the keg
Back
to his brand new Blazer
Melinda is stuck
With the white-hatted man
Jack soon will be taking her pearl
He drove back to the stadium
On the
football field
Friday, midnight, 'neath the stars
She's just on the edge
of her innocent world She said, "Don't you know
It feels like a cold,
Innocent autumn night?
I'm too young to be old,
Can't you tell
by the way I stand?"
She said, "Don't you know
It will all change after
tonight?" She didn't want it and she said so
But Jack simply wouldn't
let go
It was hot in the back of the Blazer She says, "Why, oh, why Jack,
Did you forsake me?
You know that I didn't deserve this" He said,
"We boys have our lust
For the parking lot girls
But the blood in the
car
Makes me nervous" She says, "Don't you know
That the night suits
you just right?" PART II MELINDA PONDERS Don't
you know I lost my innocence tonight?
I never thought it would happen like
that
In the back of a Blazer with a cold-hearted man
Don't you know the
soul is too young?
Don't you know my soul still burns bright? MELINDA
FINDS SAM Sam sipped a beer by the fountain with his friends
They
smoked cigarettes while he talked of rock n' roll
They smoked pot in jean
jackets while he waited for her to show Melinda ran to him,
She said,
"This is the end
Jack took my pearl
His lust for girls took my soul
In the back of the Blazer
There were bloodstained hands
I'm too young
to be old,
Can't you tell by the way I stand?" She said, "Hold me, Sam,
In the soft summer moonlight
Don't you know my soul is too weak?
All of this is just not right" SAM & MELINDA SPEAK She said, "Let's
go to the lookout"
She said, "This will take a lifetime to repair" When
they reached the lookout up at Bi Crake,
She said, "Can't you see it will
never work for you and me
I'm always something different than you
And
you will never be what I need
But we have tonight
I need someone to be
there for me
From the lookout we can still see the same city" "So hold
my hand
They will cause trouble again
The lights are going down in downtown
Hold me now because I might not ever see you again
I've got to get away from
all of this" Melinda fell to Bacchus and his pards
She exclaimed in a
beautiful slur,
"Our friends will continue to drive Blazers
To kegs
in dark parks
But there is a fate I prefer" Sam said, "I must do something
I feel powerless
Kids can't keep our innocent world
Our fathers are
old,
But they still see the stars.
They haven't lost their lust for
the girls" They held each other close
They knew they were the kind
Who can live together in harmony
They looked out at the city from Bi Crake
She said, "It seems
I can't be what I need to be for you
But you need
something different, too
Those brawls at kegs are not what I need
No,
they aren't what I need
But I don't know where
I can get free" Sam
said,
"You're joining the lost and sad girls
You'll run for me,
When a guy like Jack
Loses his desire
For the innocent girl
I'm the
kind of guy
Who will complete your world" He put the music on his walkman
He put the headphones on Melinda
He says, "You need to find a song
That
can be uplifting
In the end, for me
It always comes back
To a love
song for a girl" SAM RETURNS TO THE KEG PARTY FOR A FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHT
Sam said, "I'll bust the keg up,
Gonna get that man
Don't you
know that I'll bust him up tonight?
I can see it's a Friday night fight
Gonna get my switchblade
We will wash our bloodstained hands" He ran
for the park and he looked for the keg
They tried to charge him three bucks
for a cup
He found out the boy who had hurt Melinda
He found him surrounded
by his clan
He threw a keg cup in his face
He broke a bottle on the ledge
He fell down then he busted Jack up THE MEANING OF THE FIGHT The
music blared from the parked Blazers
Don't you know the song was just right?
Blood mixed with the dirt
It mixed with the tiniest grains
Tomorrow
there will be rain
Sam hoped it would wash away all the mess He thought,
Don't you know I'm a Friday night casualty?
Don't you know it's a Friday
night fight? It's Friday night
The kids will get older
It will take
a lifetime to repair Don't you know that I busted him up tonight?
Can't
you tell, baby, by my bloodstained hands?
Don't you know what I've been through
tonight? The cars speed away and I might not see her again
I couldn't
have imagined it would be this way
My brother didn't prepare me with what
he told me
About these Friday night stands
These grand stands
These
brawls
It's so new and exciting and all
It's a rumble, caused by women
again MELINDA DISCUSSES IT WITH HER FOLKS (A DAUGHTER'S LAMENT)
I was with my friends at the football game
We were just being daughters in
an innocent world
I met a cute guy
I've had a crush on him
He robbed
me of my simple purpose
Don't you know my soul is not right?
It can never,
ever be repaired Oh, I don't know what to make of the moonlight
Where
will I go after my curfew next Friday night? THE PARENTS' VIEW
Mother didn't want to see
That her daughter had lost her pearl
She wanted
to pretend it hadn't happened
But on the football field
On Friday
Under the stars
There always is lust
For young girls Her mother
remembered
Losing her pearl
She cried for her little girl The father
is old now
He remembers the stars
But he's lost all his lust for this
world UNTIL THE END OF THE MOONLIGHT Get up now in the rain in
the moonlight
Don't you know that the time is just right? We only have
a few hours in the night
Don't you know there's no time like tonight?
Take me away, through the rain and the moonlight
Don't you know there's innocence
in the night? Oh, hold me now till the end of the moonlight
There's no
forever, but just hold me tonight AFTER THE FIREWORKS BLOW Where
will each of you go
After the fireworks blow tonight? Don't you know
it's a hot summer night?
You're on the edge of an age All of this is
gonna end
And you might not ever see her again But you have her tonight
In the palm of your hand She said you can't hold her forever,
So
just hold her tonight You don't know where you'll be
After the fireworks
blow tonight You never want this to end,
But soon she might not see you
ever again We always hope that it will be better
And beauty will leave
you, if you let her The girl doesn't have to escape only if you let her
Beauty doesn't have to die, only if you let her Fate will only beat you if
you let her
So, you have her now, in the palm of your hands Innocence
dies, but idealism only will if you let it
This hope will only leave you if
you let it | 
