Nicholas Pileggi - Casino (Meeting in the Desert Scene) [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

EXT. DESERT SCENE - DAY

A solitary ACE waiting in the vast desert, looking around.
ACE looks at a sage brush and sand and a few rocks on the
desert floor. This could be a hole meant for him. He steps
away from it.

ACE (V.O.)
Meeting in the middle of the desert
always made me nervous.
It's a scary place. I knew about the holes in the desert, of
course, and everywhere I looked, there could have been a
hole.

EXT. DESERT ROAD - DAY

Aerial shot of NICKY driving.

ACE (V.O.)
Normally, my prospects of comin'
back alive from a meeting with Nicky
were ninety-nine out of a hundred.
But this time, when I heard him say,
'A couple a hundred yards down the
road', I gave myself fifty-fifty.

EXT. DESERT - DAY

ACE still standing in the desert. NICKY's car suddenly appears
as a reflection in ACE's sunglasses, shaking ACE out of his
desert-induced reverie. NICKY's car pulls up by ACE. He gets
out and storms up to him.

NICKY
Where the fuck you get off talkin'
to people about me behind my back?
Goin' over my head?

ACE
What people?

NICKY
What people! What'd you think, I
wasn't gonna find out?

ACE
I don't even know what you're talkin'
about, Nick.

NICKY
No? You said I'm bringin' heat on
you?! I gotta listen to people because
of your fuckin' shit?! You're ordering
me out?! You better get your own
fuckin' army, pal!

ACE
I didn't do anything. I mean, I didn't
order you or anybody... I only told
Andy Stone that you had a lot of
heat on you, and that was a problem.

NICKY
You want me to get out of my own
fuckin' town?!

ACE
Yeah, I said I - let the bullshit
blow over for a while so I can run
the casino. Anything goes wrong with
the casino, it's my ass. It's not
yours, it's my ass.

NICKY
Oh, I don't know whether you know
this or not, but you only have your
fuckin' casino because I made that
possible!

ACE
I -

NICKY
(Interrupting)
I'm what counts out here! Not your
fuckin' country clubs or your fuckin'
TV shows! And what the fuck are you
doin' on TV anyhow?!

ACE
What are you -

NICKY
(Interrupting)
You know I get calls from back home
every fuckin' day?! They think you
went batshit!

ACE
I'm only on TV because I gotta be
able to hang around the casino. You
understand that. You know that. Come
on.

NICKY
Your fuckin' ass! You could have had
the food and beverage job without
goin' on television! You wanted to
go on TV.

ACE
Yeah, I did want to go on TV. That
way I have a forum. I can fight back.
I'm known. People see me. They know
they can't fuck around with me like
they could if I was an unknown. That's
right.

NICKY
You're makin' a big fuckin' spectacle
of yourself.

ACE
Me?! I wouldn't even be in this
situation if it wasn't for you. You
brought down so much fuckin' heat on
me. I mean, every time I meet somebody
here, the big question is do I know
you.

NICKY
Oh, sure. Now you want to blame your
fuckin' license on me, is that it?

ACE
No, it - it - Nicky, when you asked
me if you could come out here, what
did I tell you? I mean, you asked
me, and I knew you were going to
come out no matter what I said, but
what did I tell you? Do you remember
what I told...

NICKY
(Interrupting)
Back -

ACE
...you? Do you remember what I told
you?

NICKY
Back - Back up, back up a fuckin'
minute here. One minute. I asked
you?! When the fuck did I ever ask
you if I could come out here?! Get
this through your head, you -

ACE
(Interrupting)
You never - ?

NICKY
Get this through your head, you Jew
motherfucker, you. You only exist
out here because of me! That's the
only reason! Without me, you,
personally, every fuckin' wiseguy
skell [Skell: the lowest form of
wiseguy - a drunken bum] around'll
take a piece of your fuckin' Jew
ass! Then where you gonna go?! You're
fuckin' warned! Don't ever go over
my fuckin' head again! You
motherfucker, you!

NICKY drives off, leaving an angry and frustrated ACE to
ponder the desert and the holes.