Show Clip - Fences - "What About My Lif?"

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(Roy)
I’m trying the best I can to explain it to you.

It's not easy to admit that,

I've been standing,
in the same place for 18 years.

(Rose)
Well, I’ve been standing with you.

I've been
right here with you, Troy.

I got a life too.

I gave 18 years of my life to stand in the
same spot as you.

Don't you think I ever wanted other things?

Don't you think I had
dreams and hopes?

What about my life?

What about me?

Don't you think it ever crossed my mind,

to want to know other men?

That I wanted to lay up somewhere,

and forget about my responsibilities?

That I wanted somebody to make me laugh, so I can feel good?

You’re not the only one who’s got wants and needs.

But I held onto you, Troy.

I took all my feelings, my wants,

and need, my dreams,

and I buried them inside you.

I planted a seed and watched,

and prayed around I planted myself inside you

and waited to bloom.

It didn’t take me no 18 years to
realize the soil was hard and rocky

and it was never gonna bloom.

But I held on to you Troy,

I held you tighter.

You was my Husband.

I owed you everything I had,

every part of me I could find to give you.

And upstairs in that bedroom with
the darkness falling in on me,

I gave everything I had trying to raise the doubt

that you was the finest man in the world

and wherever you was going I was gonna be there with you

because you was my husband.

Because that’s the only way I was going,

to survive as your wife.

You’re always talking about what you give,

and what you don't have to give,

but you take too, you take,

and don't even know nobody's giving.

(Troy)
You say I take and don't give.

(Rose)
Troy you’re hurting me.

(Troy)
You say I take and don’t give.

(Rose)
Troy you’re hurting me.

Troy: I’ve given you everything I’ve got, don’t you tell that lie.

(Rose)
Troy you’re hurting me.

(Roy)
Don’t you tell that lie on me.

Don't you tell me about no taking

(Rose)
Troy no!

(Rose)
Troy no!

(Rose)
Please Troy!

(Troy)
Alright boy. That's strike two.

You stay away from around me, boy.

You living will a full count.

That's strike two.

Don’t you strike out.