Frankie calms Zack and ties him up with duct tape, before Elvis knocks Zack into the grave and shoots him dead. Zack is brought to the grave, and despite his and Frankie’s pleas, Elvis insists on following through. Sonny, Johnny's godfather Cosmo, and their lawyer confront Johnny, who refuses to call off the hit. Elvis and Keith return, and Frankie relents when Elvis explains they could face life in prison. Frankie returns and gives Zack a final opportunity to escape, but Zack declines, oblivious to the danger he is in. While Frankie runs off, Elvis introduces himself to Zack, then takes Keith to dig a grave in the nearby mountains. Zack goes skinny dipping with Julie and her friend Alma, leading to a romantic threesome.Įveryone happily says goodbye to Zack, and Elvis arrives, arguing with Frankie over Johnny’s plan to kill Zack.
Believing Zack will be returning home that night, Frankie and his friends throw a raucous party at a hotel. However, after a threatening phone call with Jake, and learning from his lawyer that he could face life in prison, Johnny offers to erase Elvis’ debt if he kills Zack, giving him a submachine gun. Frankie suggests to Johnny that they pay Zack to keep quiet about the kidnapping, and Johnny agrees. Staying at Frankie’s father’s house, Zack bonds with Frankie and ingratiates himself with his friends Keith, Julie, Sabrina, and Susan, though only Susan is concerned by his abduction. Frankie is left to watch Zack, and offers him a chance to leave, but Zack declines, not wanting to cause problems for his brother. Wanting a break from home, Zack makes no effort to escape, and they drive to Palm Springs.
Spotting Zack on the side of the road, Johnny impulsively orders the gang to kidnap him, planning to hold him until Jake pays his debt. Johnny brings Frankie and Tiko to confront Jake, but he is nowhere to be found. Jake attempts to borrow money from his father and stepmother, while his younger half-brother Zack looks up to him and longs to escape his home life.Ī fight breaks out when Jake tries to pay Johnny only part of his debt, leading Johnny to get Jake fired, and Jake to retaliate by breaking into Johnny’s apartment. His father, Sonny, supplies him with marijuana, which Johnny distributes with his gang of friends: Frankie Ballenbacher, Johnny's right-hand man Tiko Martinez, the group’s muscle Elvis Schmidt, who is ridiculed for being in debt to Johnny and Jake Mazursky, an addict also in debt with Johnny. I was 17 years old and it was coming from someone whose outlook on love or experience with love was totally new and naïve.In 1999, Johnny Truelove is a young drug dealer in the San Gabriel Valley.
He told Music Connection in 1989: "It's like the perennial ballad 'Your Song,' which has got to be one of the most naïve and childish lyrics in the entire repertoire of music, but I think the reason it still stands up is because it was real at the time. He told Rolling Stone: "I always thought 'Your Song' was written about one of his girlfriends, and when I asked him that, he just said, 'No it wasn't!' He gets fairly defensive." Elton sings a straightforward love-song at the beginning: "It's a little bit funny this feeling inside / I'm not one of those who can easily hide / I don't have much money but boy if I did / I'd buy a big house where we both could live." Read more: Did Elton John really pick his name from a bandmate and a John Lennon poster?Įlton has said that this song is not about anyone in particular, and Taupin has refused to reveal the identity of the person, if they even exist. The lyrics express the romantic feelings of an innocent person. This inspired the line: "I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss". Taupin wrote the song's lyrics after having breakfast on the roof of 20 Denmark Street, London, where Elton worked for a music publishing firm as an office boy.
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