Diary of a Taxi Driver

Diary of a Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann (伯納德.赫爾曼)/Robert De Niro

May 10th

Thank God for the rain

Which is help wash away

The garbage and the trash off the sidewalks

I'm working long hours now

Six days a week sometimes seven days a week

It's a long hustle but it keeps me real busy

I can take in three three fifty a week

Sometimes even more when I do it off the meter

All the animals come out at night

Buthers queens fairies d**ers junkies

Sick venal

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off

The streets

I go all over

I take people to the Bronx Brooklyn

I take them to Harlem

I don't care

Don't make no difference to me

It does to some

Some won't even take spooks

Don't make no difference to me

Each night when I return the cab to the garage

I have to clean the back seat

Some nights I clean off the blood

Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep

D**n

Days go on and on

They don't end

All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go

I don't believe that one should devote

His life to morbid self attention

I believe that

Someone should become a person like other people

Loneliness has followed me my whole life everywhere

In bars in cars sidewalks stores everywhere

There's no escape

I'm God's lonely man

June 8th

My life has taken another turn again

The days move along with regularity over and over

And suddenly there is change

June 29th

I gotta get in shape now

From now on it'll be fifty pushups each morning

Fifty pull ups

From now on it'll be total organization

Every muscle must be tight

The idea had been growing in my brain for some time

True force

All the king's men cannot put it back together again

Then who the hell else are you talking

Talking to me

Well I'm the only one here

Who do you think you're talking to

Oh yeah

Okay

Listen you screwheads

Here is a man who would not take it anymore

A man who stood up against the scum

The dogs

The filth

Here is someone who stood up

Now I see it clearly

My whole life is pointed in one direction

I see that now

And never has been any choice for me