WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.070 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.070 --> 00:00:04.230 align:middle line:90% The Wayward Thing. 00:00:04.230 --> 00:00:08.910 align:middle line:84% "The wayward thing is not Wendy but rather Tiger Lily, 00:00:08.910 --> 00:00:11.100 align:middle line:84% and there is not a brave who would not 00:00:11.100 --> 00:00:13.860 align:middle line:90% have the wayward thing to wife. 00:00:13.860 --> 00:00:16.320 align:middle line:90% But Wendy notices. 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:19.470 align:middle line:84% She notices how Peter will go off to fight for her, 00:00:19.470 --> 00:00:22.890 align:middle line:84% will go off to reclaim her, to free her from pirate strings 00:00:22.890 --> 00:00:24.150 align:middle line:90% and pirate beams. 00:00:24.150 --> 00:00:27.600 align:middle line:84% He'll untie her with teeth, will carry her over board, 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.750 align:middle line:84% will safely stay underwater until there 00:00:30.750 --> 00:00:32.579 align:middle line:90% are no grown ups in sight. 00:00:32.579 --> 00:00:35.350 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.350 --> 00:00:38.290 align:middle line:90% I'm a little bird, he says. 00:00:38.290 --> 00:00:41.320 align:middle line:84% I'm a little bird who has broken out of an egg. 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:44.410 align:middle line:84% And dear Wendy, dear Wendy who gathers all the bramble 00:00:44.410 --> 00:00:48.220 align:middle line:84% wires and briars and twigs of the Neverland forest, who 00:00:48.220 --> 00:00:51.310 align:middle line:84% crouches down to make a little nest, who crouches down 00:00:51.310 --> 00:00:53.530 align:middle line:84% to make a little kindling for a fire, 00:00:53.530 --> 00:00:57.220 align:middle line:84% where is she to lay down this little bird who crows and crows 00:00:57.220 --> 00:00:57.970 align:middle line:90% and crows? 00:00:57.970 --> 00:01:00.100 align:middle line:84% When he talks in his sleep, he will say 00:01:00.100 --> 00:01:01.900 align:middle line:90% a name you have never known. 00:01:01.900 --> 00:01:04.209 align:middle line:90% There will be an adventure. 00:01:04.209 --> 00:01:06.880 align:middle line:84% There will be an adventure without you. 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:08.770 align:middle line:84% When he talks in his sleep, you will 00:01:08.770 --> 00:01:11.320 align:middle line:84% know that one day, one day you will sleep and sleep 00:01:11.320 --> 00:01:12.160 align:middle line:90% and never wake. 00:01:12.160 --> 00:01:13.720 align:middle line:90% And he will go on. 00:01:13.720 --> 00:01:16.030 align:middle line:90% He will go on without you. 00:01:16.030 --> 00:01:19.720 align:middle line:84% Never mind that the daffodils are all already a wilting, 00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:23.065 align:middle line:84% never mind that you can no longer let out the hem. 00:01:23.065 --> 00:01:26.230 align:middle line:90% 00:01:26.230 --> 00:01:31.710 align:middle line:84% So, you see now, he appears to be covered with fish scales. 00:01:31.710 --> 00:01:34.830 align:middle line:84% They're all tangled in his hair, in his head hair, 00:01:34.830 --> 00:01:39.090 align:middle line:84% in his cochlear hair, in the little tuft above his bum, 00:01:39.090 --> 00:01:41.340 align:middle line:90% in his pubis down. 00:01:41.340 --> 00:01:44.580 align:middle line:90% It was only an adventure, Wendy. 00:01:44.580 --> 00:01:46.440 align:middle line:90% It was only--. 00:01:46.440 --> 00:01:49.770 align:middle line:84% But she knows the look of infidelity. 00:01:49.770 --> 00:01:52.860 align:middle line:84% Knows the smell of a certain mere lady. 00:01:52.860 --> 00:01:55.500 align:middle line:84% Who among them will live forever? 00:01:55.500 --> 00:01:59.010 align:middle line:84% Certainly not the girl who has been left at home. 00:01:59.010 --> 00:02:03.060 align:middle line:84% Certainly not the girl who has been left darning socks alone. 00:02:03.060 --> 00:02:07.200 align:middle line:84% The darning egg is really a stone. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.050 align:middle line:90% I'm a little bird, he says. 00:02:10.050 --> 00:02:12.660 align:middle line:84% But he doesn't just say that to you alone. 00:02:12.660 --> 00:02:17.250 align:middle line:84% And now the whole of the house, a saltwater affair, his breath, 00:02:17.250 --> 00:02:22.620 align:middle line:84% his musk, his farts all tinged with that certain crabby smell. 00:02:22.620 --> 00:02:25.260 align:middle line:90% I'm Wendy, she says. 00:02:25.260 --> 00:02:26.430 align:middle line:90% I'm Wendy. 00:02:26.430 --> 00:02:28.540 align:middle line:90% But it doesn't stop there. 00:02:28.540 --> 00:02:31.950 align:middle line:84% The bed, all a-crusty, the floorboards all a-sandy, 00:02:31.950 --> 00:02:35.400 align:middle line:84% the bath basin all a-glittering with mermaid hair. 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.050 align:middle line:90% 00:02:39.050 --> 00:02:43.280 align:middle line:84% The Wendy girl will live longer than you. 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:47.030 align:middle line:84% The never bird will live longer than you. 00:02:47.030 --> 00:02:50.150 align:middle line:84% The wayward thing will be taken to wife 00:02:50.150 --> 00:02:52.940 align:middle line:84% unlike you who will never be taken to wife. 00:02:52.940 --> 00:02:56.360 align:middle line:84% And she, too, will live longer than you. 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:58.520 align:middle line:84% Shoot her down, shoot her down, you say. 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:00.920 align:middle line:90% And down comes the Wendy bird. 00:03:00.920 --> 00:03:06.590 align:middle line:84% And down comes the Peter bird to say who has done this? 00:03:06.590 --> 00:03:09.140 align:middle line:84% And you're shut up in your little house again. 00:03:09.140 --> 00:03:12.140 align:middle line:84% And all around you, the various fairy birds, 00:03:12.140 --> 00:03:15.230 align:middle line:84% are dying, are falling away from the Neverland. 00:03:15.230 --> 00:03:20.270 align:middle line:84% Hanging cocoon corpses in the never trees for the never 00:03:20.270 --> 00:03:23.140 align:middle line:90% worm for the never bees." 00:03:23.140 --> 00:03:25.000 align:middle line:90%