The Next Step/Three Long Months - Hadley Fraser/Caroline Sheen.mp3

[00:00.31]Ben:
[00:00.32]No more looking back
[00:05.30]Only facing forward,
[00:07.00]Watch as the horizon gets closer.
[00:10.33]Nothing can go wrong.
[00:15.80]If it takes us long to walk the mile,
[00:19.27]Years to run the distance
[00:20.70]That's how long it takes, but we'll make it.
[00:24.20]Don't lose faith in me.
[00:30.46]'Cause this is our journey,
[00:32.16]One big adventure,
[00:34.43]Why stand and watch it pass by from the side?
[00:37.21]It's time to get going
[00:39.28]And yes there's no knowing
[00:41.15]The dangers ahead.
[00:45.00]How can you fly with your feet on the floor
[00:49.26]When what comes after is better than before?
[00:55.32]It'll be fine, I promise.
[00:56.40]As long as you're sharing it with me.
[00:59.45]Can we please agree that we walk the same direction?
[01:03.00]Take a little comfort in moving ahead as one.
[01:07.00]Each and every bend in the road that we follow
[01:10.27]Will lead us further, on and on
[01:14.00]But I cannot do this alone.
[01:17.60]We made a promise to stick by each other.
[01:21.00]For once, thanks to you,
[01:22.70]There's no hilltop that's too big to climb.
[01:25.33]Ami:
[01:25.34]It's not the greatest area, is it?
[01:29.00]Ben:
[01:29.02]It's on its way up! Come on, take a look at the flat. I know you're going to fall in love.
[01:33.00]I've spent thirty years drifting place to place.
[01:37.10]If something got hard then I'd quit to save face.
[01:41.00]Only me, drifting by all alone.
[01:48.00]I never had a father who called me each day
[01:51.70]From foster home to foster home was always the way
[01:55.35]But now I've ended here,
[01:59.37]We're finally here.
[02:03.00]What do you think? Come on, be completely honest.
[02:06.11]Ami:
[02:06.11]Well...
[02:07.00]Ben:
[02:07.00]All right, not completely.
[02:09.61]Ami:
[02:09.61]I like that stain.
[02:11.82]It's very Marc Chagall.
[02:13.52]Ben:
[02:13.52]Oh come on, Chagall's brushwork is much more self-contained...
[02:16.87]And I now realise that the important thing is that there's a stain over there.
[02:22.20]I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's got four solid walls!
[02:25.76]Ami:
[02:25.76]Don't lean on that one.
[02:27.00]I did and nearly went straight through.
[02:28.86]Ben:
[02:28.86]Three and a half solid walls, then, and a roof over our heads.
[02:33.17]Ami:
[02:33.17]I can smell gas!
[02:34.06]Ben:
[02:34.06]That's not gas!
[02:35.23]It's mice!
[02:37.86]Look beyond the cracks
[02:39.10]Sure it isn't perfect.
[02:40.50]Nothing ever is,
[02:42.00]But believe me
[02:44.00]Beauty can be found.
[02:48.00]Ami:
[02:48.00]Is that water coming in?
[02:49.58]Ben:
[02:49.58]Only when it rains?
[02:50.16]Take a look around,
[02:51.98]This place has charm - just like you, it's quirky -
[02:53.81]Needs a little work,
[02:55.77]But I love it.
[02:57.91]Build a home with me.
[03:02.69]Ami:
[03:02.69]Ben, the carpet is the colour of sick.
[03:05.77]Ben:
[03:05.77]We can change the carpet.
[03:07.00]Ami:
[03:07.00]This place is a dump.
[03:08.00]Ben:
[03:08.00]Yes, but it's our dump!
[03:10.57]I want a family
[03:14.41]I want a future,
[03:16.37]I want to wake each day in your arms
[03:20.02]Where no one will find us
[03:22.04]Break or unbind us...
[03:24.77]I bet there are amazing floorboards under this carpet. And we can salvage furniture from the local tip!
[03:30.17]Ami:
[03:30.17]What?
[03:31.38]Ben:
[03:31.38]I'll learn wiring and plumbing
[03:33.20]And this place will be just right:
[03:34.55]A home of our own full of joy and laughter!
[03:38.43]You are the best part of me.
[03:41.92]You are the one thing I need in my life.
[03:45.10]All of these dreams fall apart at the seams without you.
[03:50.23]Ami:
[03:50.23]Why do I keep falling for this?
[03:52.68]Ben:
[03:52.68]I don't know, but I am so glad that you do.
[03:57.49]Ami:
[03:57.49]Maybe what comes after is
[04:01.00]Better than before
[04:05.95]Better than before
[04:09.95]Ben:
[04:09.95]Better than before
[04:11.00]Ami:
[04:11.00]Better than before
[04:20.00]What comes after is better than -
[04:23.60]Ben:
[04:23.60]- before you leave and walk out the door
[04:27.10]Take a moment and marvel at what we've achieved.
[04:34.27]Ami:
[04:34.27]No time!
[04:35.72]Ben:
[04:35.72]Three long months of cleaning and scrubbing.
[04:38.71]Three long months of plaster and paint.
[04:42.07]Three long months of dust and debris in our hair.
[04:47.58]Now we're finally there
[04:49.40]And it's better than perfect,
[04:51.27]Finally there
[04:52.57]As I dreamt it would be.
[04:55.52]You, standing there, next to our new décor,
[04:58.42]Proves that what comes after is better than before.
[05:04.67]Well, except for the tap that won't stop dripping, upstairs and their taste in music, and the bastard who stole my bike.
[05:10.64]Ami:
[05:10.64]****! I'm going to be late!
[05:11.94]Ben:
[05:11.94]Have a good day. Love you.
[05:13.80]Ami:
[05:13.80]Love you too.
[05:15.64]Three long months of being so tired.
[05:20.96]Three long months of asleep at my desk.
[05:24.98]Three long months of working all day and night.
[05:32.12]Something's not right.
[05:36.32]Yes, the flat is perfect
[05:39.75]But something's not right with me...
[05:47.98]"Jonathan". Oh god. Not again. Don't answer it, Ami. But I have to! It will be bad and you'll regret it, you know you will. But I have to! I can't stop thinking about what he said.
[05:58.60]Why can't it all go away
[06:00.70]And I can just think about Ben instead?
[06:05.69]I wish I could -
[06:09.01]I can't ignore it, I'll miss my chance. Imagine never seeing him again, never holding him again.... Jonathan. Hello... Yes, I'm sorry... No this isn't a bad time. So this is serious...