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- [Sophie] Underneath the water, the storm didn't sound like nothing,

just kept coming on and on.

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When the rain started, I put on my spaghetti helmet so my head

wouldn't get wet, but that didn't do a bit of good. I went down to the bottom of the

ocean where the dead people go.

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On the last day of the storm, people came pouring in like never before.

It seemed like the whole city was coming down to the bottom of the ocean.

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I could tell he was different. He weren't dead at all.

His eyes were living, not just blank like everyone else down here.

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- [Reverend Carlton] You look out at that ocean, that sky, the fish, the birds,

wild and wicked out in the chaos. Is there a god who can deliver us from the

chaos of nature? Listen to me, my baby.

- It was worse for them. They didn't know if he was in pain or just

feeling nothing. I try and think about how the storm and all of these people dying

was all a part of God's plan, but mostly I just stared through the water

hoping I can have one last look at them.

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When his body washed up on the shore, they thought he was some type of devil.

They said it was a sign that God was mad and things was only going to get worse.

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- [Boy] Preacher say you come from hell, says not to talk to you.

That supposed to be some type of boat? You're going to die.

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- My dad had been sneaking out and watching him build while he should have

been in church. He didn't care if he was the devil or the Pope of Rome.

When he saw that boat, man, he must have just about gone wild.

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Whenever he'd get wild he'd go find his friend Sergeant Major.

Sergeant Major was not allowed over for supper. My Aunt Caroline was always

talking how he ain't going nowhere except the bottle.

- [Dad] Sarge.

- [Sergeant Major] Don't you come near my fucking car. Every time you come

around painting a shiny picture, I always end up looking like a dime in a

goat's ass and I'm tired of it.

- What if I told you I could help you get your boy back?

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- In the Bible, we raised up a city of sinners. And what happened

to the sinners, God killed them. He washed them from the...the face...

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What are they doing?

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- Whoo, let's go. Whoo. Whoo.

- That Sunday, didn't no one show up in church

but the Reverend and the Holy Ghost.

- Hello.

- They wanted to know if they could have church on the boat.

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- What the hell?

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- [Bill] Flood came, my wife couldn't swim.

I busted a hole through the ceiling to float this here bed, middle on top.

Bed's blessed.

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- He can put the bed on this raft, I can put my car on here too.

- Put your car on? How you going to get your car here?

You ain't even got no wheels, Sarge.

- I ain't leaving it. It's a lovely car.

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- I want to bring my mom's bathtub.

- [Man] You know where it is?

- It's at my house.

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- They brought whatever they wanted to bring, whatever they still had.

Everybody had their thing, that thing that made it through the storm

that had some luck in it, that may help

find the person just by its own magic.

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- Don't you let them sail this. Don't you let them sail this.

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- Lord, help me

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- It didn't take nothing to get people crazy on my block. They throw a party just

because their dog died and they need to cheer up. So when people found out they

were coming for us, man, you better stand back.

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- That's my frickin' boat! I'm about to sail that thing!

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- Reverend Carlton didn't have no wife or babies. He'd tell us how the church was

his home and God was his family, and we were all his children

to watch over. He didn't have anyone now. There wasn't any school, any church,

all that was gone. The parks, the docks where you could run

around with your friends, grabbing the fish people were catching.

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I'd be splashing down the sidewalk, wash my hair beneath the drain pipes when

the heat was up, laying in the grass and talking to myself while my dad waited

for the train to pass, waiting until we could go home.

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- [Man] I just hope he knows where he's going.

- He knows.

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♪ - Howling with the moon Followed us down to Brownsville ♪

♪ Your skirt hiked up, your hands on the wheel ♪

♪ Though I've been burned I never been down to Brownsville, girl. ♪

- Give me a kiss.

- No.

- Come on, on my lips.

♪ - Should I say we went out dancing When we've never left the room ♪

♪ There's so much that don't come to mind And you're by your window with the dawn ♪

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♪ And if I get some, might be to drown in the rain ♪

♪ I got no wish to wake in the morning Singing love love ♪

♪ When honest love was only ever worth a dollar or two ♪

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- Bill!

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- Bill!

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- Bill!

- Bill, you fucking idiot. You trying to kill yourself?

- Bill!

Bill!

- Let go!

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- That boat just drifted. The water just took them where it pleased.

- God is going to sink this ship.

- It been so long since I seen that man come down here for his girl.

I started to wonder if I had just made him up.

- Get up! Get up! Get up!

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- Get up!

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- I'm always asking my dad how that boat knew to go down right there,

right over us. He'd laugh and say, "God did it."

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