The War of the Worlds movie - THE RED WEED AND PARSON NATHANIEL lyrics

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JOURNALIST: Next day, the dawn was a brilliant, fiery red and I wandered<br>

through the weird and lurid landscape of another planet; for the vegetation which<br>

gives Mars its red appearance had taken root on Earth. As Man had succumbed to the<br>

Martians, so our land now succumbed to the Red Weed.<br>

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Wherever there was a stream, the Red Weed clung and grew with<br>

frightening voraciousness, its claw-like fronds choking the movement of the water;<br>

and then it began to creep like a slimy red animal across the land, covering field and<br>

ditch and tree and hedgerow with living scarlet feelers, crawling! crawling!<br>

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I suddenly noticed the body of a Parson, lying on the ground in a ruined churchyard. I<br>

felt unable to leave him to the mercy of the Red Weed and decided to bury him<br>

decently.<br>

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BETH: Nathaniel! Nathaniel!<br>

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JOURNALIST: The Parson's eyes flickered open. He was alive!<br>

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BETH: Nathaniel! I saw the church burst into flame! Are you all right?<br>

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PARSON: Don't touch me!<br>

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BETH: But it's me - Beth. Your wife.<br>

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PARSON: No. You're one of them. A devil!<br>

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BETH: (to JOURNALIST) He's delirious!<br>

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PARSON: Lies! I saw the devil's sign.<br>

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BETH: What are you saying?<br>

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PARSON: The green flash in the sky. His demons were here all along - in our hearts<br>

and souls - just waiting for a sign from him. And now they're destroying our world.<br>

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BETH: But they're not devils - they're Martians.<br>

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JOURNALIST: We must leave here.<br>

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BETH: Look! A house still standing! Come, Nathaniel, quickly!<br>

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JOURNALIST: We took shelter in a cottage and Black Smoke spread, hemming us in.<br>

Then a Fighting Machine came across the fields, spraying jets of steam that turned the<br>

smoke into thick, black dust.<br>

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MARTIANS: Ulla!<br>

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BETH: Dear God - help us!<br>

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PARSON: The voice of the devil is heard in our land! <br>

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