Five Easy Pieces

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(Rafelson, 1970)
Seen your big fires, seen your small fires

In the final analysis, Jack Nicholson’s character in this film is one of the most cowardly and contemptible in all cinema, as cool as he seems on first watch. Musing on taking the easy option, resting on your laurels, and hitchin’ a ride the hell outta there the minute the going gets heavy.

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Five easy pieces, mmm
Let me show your lifestyle where the breeze is, mmm
Short-circuiting the pain, it’s tricky to maintain
Five easy pieces, where you headin’ to?

Tearing down the rocks since noon, he drove out of the plain
The clouds piled up like Blue-ridge mountains, tall before the rain
He drew a beat on a good time, hitched a ride on a honky-tonk freeway
Pick up some supplies and lose our clothes with the girls from yesterday
Rolling home, shaping up slow to apologise
As she washed and pressed her damp disguise
She told me, and she’s torn up
He’s tired of all these cracker lives
Hey, where you headin’?

Five easy pieces, mmm
Let me show your lifestyle where the breeze is, mmm
Short-circuiting the pain, it’s tricky to maintain
Five easy pieces, where you headin’ to?

Don’t you think it’s right that you should see him once before he goes
We never had that much to say, that’s something that we both know
He’ll sit and play a Chopin prelude, she’ll sing Tammy Wynette
She’s seen your big fires, seen your small fires and she ain’t give up yet
Can’t take much more of him sitting there like a stone
So roam across the floor alone
Don’t touch me if you don’t love me
Don’t ask for love in return
Hey, where you headed?

Five easy pieces, mmm
Let me show your lifestyle where the breeze is, mmm
Short-circuiting the pain, it’s tricky to maintain
Five easy pieces, five easy pieces,
Five easy pieces, where you headin’ to?

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from Soundtrack, released September 26, 2016

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