Winter Morning II-Woodkid/Nils Frahm/Robert De Niro

[01:09.130]I remember the sound of the wind as I was falling asleep. [01:13.510]The tree branches scrapping the roof like people whispering. [01:30.350]I arrived here one winter morning,or maybe it was spring. [01:34.890]And I can't remember anymore. [01:37.710]The mind plays tricks. [02:02.020]Papa has just died two weeks before. [02:04.450]The ground was frozen when they dug his grave. [02:07.410]Mama left a note at my suitcase, [02:09.550]Telling me to do something that would make her proud, [02:13.930]To be a good man. [02:21.890]There were so many winters. [03:59.420]I came here because I wanted a home, [04:02.360]Or I can find peace, [04:04.690]Or I can be treated like anyone else, [04:07.500]Or I can be anyone I want to be. [04:23.730]It wasn't always empty. [04:29.370]They all had to come down here. [04:42.300]People would lined up here holding their suitcases, [04:44.600]And their children holding on to them for dear life. [04:51.950]There were young people and old people, families. [04:55.800]But lots of them, they were completely alone. [05:43.590]They waited their turn to reach the guard at the end of the hall. [05:49.230]The guard would stamp in a book, and say, [05:51.310]"Go over there." [05:54.990]And,"Welcome." [06:03.640]I was one of them. [06:09.540]When I got here, I went into a huge room. [06:15.650]Doctors are asking these quick questions. [06:24.570]A doctor comes to me and tells me, [06:28.660]"You've got to go back." [06:31.790]I say, "Back where?" [06:33.710]He says, "Back where you came from." [06:41.110]I said, "I've got to go to New York. I come for a new life." [06:46.740]He says, "No, you can't. You go to, back home." [07:05.740]And I fight him. [07:06.670]He doesn't listen. [07:07.530]He says "five minutes", and walks away. [07:10.110]I grab my suitcase, [07:11.550]And I went to hide in the closet behind all those dressing gowns. [07:16.440]And when it was dark, I went to hide somewhere else. [07:22.620]And somewhere else. [07:29.880]I stayed where nobody could find me. [07:34.390]And, a week became a month. [08:27.050]I had only one thing in mind, one place to be. [08:34.110]Like you can fly if you had the wings, [08:36.780]You can swim there if the current wasn't so hard. [08:40.690]Lots of people tried. [08:42.360]And I tried lots of times to get there. [08:52.840]I even tried to swim once, but I only made a little way. [09:07.730]One night, I met somebody else. [09:11.710]She was hiding, too. [09:14.990]So we hid together, living at night. [09:22.230]And we talk about what we would be when we got to the shore, [09:28.480]What our lives were going to be like. [09:46.420]And one day, she didn't wake up. [10:05.460]So I took her body, and put it in the water, [10:10.480]And watched it flow to where she wanted to go. [10:31.480]And I was alone again. [10:52.200]I'm sorry, we were so close. [12:33.510]There were all these millions of people who come to here, [12:38.080]And I see them all, [12:42.300]People of every color, shape, and size. [12:46.880]And I think about all those people who did, [12:50.450]All of those that made it, [12:57.010]Made it to some distant shore, [12:58.370]And when they come up the beach, [12:59.720]Or over a bridge, or onto a road, [13:03.170]They start to walk. [13:07.550]And they start walking faster and faster. [13:12.090]Then they are running. [13:17.740]They made it. [13:22.320]They were last home. [13:33.430]But don't get me wrong. [13:36.930]I am the ghost of all those who never got to get there.