Buffalo Springfield at Monterey Pop Festival (1967)

Chloé & James

Chloé: So Chloé: Where did you meet Emma? James: I have no idea who that is Chloé: Don't insult my intelligence James: I'm not Chloé: Then tell me where you met her James: why? James: what actual difference does it make Chloé: Of course it makes a difference Chloé: She isn't from 'round here, she has no mutual friends James: what you mean is, you don't know her Chloé: Exactly Chloé: so tell me Chloé: how the hell do you James: online, okay? Chloé: Perhaps a new level of tragic Chloé: So you hooked up Chloé: tell her to stop sending you stuff now James: I'm sure you already have Chloé: She's not responding James: maybe she's planning to ghost me first Chloé: This isn't funny, James Chloé: You at least had the decency to pretend to feel guilty before James: you had the decency to pretend to love our children before James: or at least one of them Chloé: You were testing me that night Chloé: that's hardly relevant to your promiscuity James: isn't it? James: I'm unhappy, Chloé, you make me unhappy Chloé: I'm not cheating on you with some bitch called Emma Chloé: I'm unhappy, I have right to be! James: because you don't like girls, not out of any loyalty to me Chloé: Ugh! Chloé: Stop it and stop it James: no Chloé: I swear to GOD James: I said no Chloé: It's not a request Chloé: you have to James: & you're going to follow through with that threat how? James: you're yet to stop me cheating Chloé: I could post these pictures James: if you want all your friends to know the ins & outs of our relationship, we can just have them over Chloé: You can't just Chloé: do whatever you want James: I know I can't & I'm not Chloé: What do you call this then? James: I'm still here Chloé: You have nowhere else to be Chloé: We have nowhere else James: how can you not care that I'd rather be anywhere else? James: with anyone else Chloé: I'm telling you to stop Chloé: How is that not caring James: because of your actual motivations James: it's never for the right reason Chloé: If you're doing this to make me fight for you or something Chloé: you need to get a grip James: that's the last thing I want James: how many times, let me go Chloé: Where, James? Chloé: Where do you think you're going James: I'd honestly rather live with my sister than you Chloé: Grow up Chloé: You have kids Chloé: they aren't going anywhere James: you go then Chloé: Oh I wish I could James: I'm not stopping you, the girls are fine here with me Chloé: Because I can just go without my kids Chloé: what would people say James: that you've finally done the right thing? Chloé: No everyone would call me selfish and a bad mother because I can't do anything without them attached to me James: & yet you never take them anywhere, so by that logic surely it's already being said Chloé: It isn't the same Chloé: I can't just leave James: you're saying that I should grow up but you won't do a single thing that's genuinely right by them James: this isn't going to last forever, you know Chloé: I look after them day after day Chloé: how is that not right James: that's me or your mother Chloé: you're just like her Chloé: always trying to make me feel bad about myself James: because you do bad things Chloé! Chloé: You act like I lock them in cupboards James: if you're not going to own up to what you've actually done, we have nothing really to say to each other Chloé: No this is a conversation about what you've done Chloé: stop trying to turn it on me James: okay, let's talk about me James: what exactly do you think is going to happen if I 'grow up' & fall for one of the girls I hook up with? Chloé: I've told you Chloé: you'll never see those kids again Chloé: if you make me look like an idiot James: you keep saying it like you can just make it happen Chloé: I could James: no, they're my daughters too Chloé: Are they James: yes James: you repeat that bullshit all you want, but my name is on their birth certificates, both of them Chloé: Why can't you just Chloé: this is our lives Chloé: you need to deal with it Chloé: you've got no other plan, no other options James: it's not the life I want for myself or for them Chloé: Well life isn't fair Chloé: you'll need to accept that if you have any hope of teaching them James: I'm not teaching them to accept misery James: for god's sake! Chloé: You live in a dream world James: you do if you think I'm staying here or letting them Chloé: What right do you to take them from me? James: what right do you have to threaten it when you don't even want them? Chloé: Because I have them Chloé: they aren't going to disappear and I don't get a clean slate James: I'm going to file for divorce, this has to end Chloé: No Chloé: no Chloé: I won't sign it or Chloé: whatever it is, I won't James: then don't, it won't just disappear either Chloé: You can't do this James: I have to, because I can't live like this Chloé: Jay isn't yours Chloé: I really mean it James: stop lying to me Chloé: I'm not! James: you can't say she's not mine every time you don't want her to be Chloé: Why would I just say her Chloé: I mean it, you do this and you will regret it James: because you know you can Chloé: don't believe me Chloé: it's your funeral James: prove me wrong, if you're so sure she's not mine Chloé: How? James: I'll spit into a tube or swab my cheek or however you wanna do it Chloé: If you think I'm going to let you divorce me Chloé: take my kids Chloé: and tell everyone I'm some kind of slut Chloé: no Chloé: this isn't happening Chloé: I'm not moving back in with my parents Chloé: I'm not sharing custody with you and ferrying them back and forth Chloé: this isn't the life I'm going to have James: take the flat, I'll talk to my dad, I don't fucking want it Chloé: You don't get to leave me! James: you don't get to stop me, not any more Chloé: No, I'll leave you Chloé: and I'll tell everyone you were abusive Chloé: I'm not being left James: I said, go then Chloé: James, I'm being serious James: you think I'm not? Chloé: I could ruin you James: how? Chloé: Like I said, I could say you were abusive Chloé: anything James: you've got no evidence, what are you going to try & do, punch yourself in the face? Chloé: I'll tell you, about Jay Chloé: then what will you do? Chloé: you can't leave her with me but you'll have to James: stop it, Chloé James: I'll leave with both of them Chloé: I could kill myself James: don't say that Chloé: Then stay James: I can't Chloé: What am I going to do Chloé: Have you even thought about me James: you're going to be their mother James: we can work out a custody agreement Chloé: I don't want to James: well, there are no other options Chloé: where do you think you're going to go Chloé: you have to have a place James: tonight, we'll go to my parents James: if you want the flat then I'll get another Chloé: this is ridiculous Chloé: I'm sick of talking about this James: so call me when you do want to talk James: I just said where we'll be Chloé: No Chloé: I won't let you leave James: call the police if you want Chloé: You really want that? James: of course not Chloé: I can't do this James: please just talk to me James: we can make a plan Chloé: No, we can't Chloé: I don't want them Chloé: you said it yourself Chloé: I'm not raising them even half of the week alone Chloé: I won't James: you only have to see them when you want, if you don't want to I won't force you Chloé: I don't know where I'm going to go Chloé: what I'm going to do James: I don't know what I'm doing either, but I know what I'm not going to do & that's this Chloé: I'm calling my parents Chloé: I'll make them talk to yours Chloé: make you come back James: Chloé James: we're not 16 Chloé: This isn't fair James: you're the one who said life isn't James: you're upset, call your parents if you like, but it won't make me come back Chloé: You were meant to look after me Chloé: and you haven't James: I know I've let you down & I'm sorry Chloé: No you're not Chloé: you wouldn't do it if you were James: I don't want things to be like this James: I'm sorry that they are Chloé: Then fix it James: that's what I'm trying to do Chloé: For yourself Chloé: not me James: this will be better for you too Chloé: Ha Chloé: My life is totally over James: Oh come on James: you've said repeatedly how unhappy you are & how none of this is what you want Chloé: I don't want you to leave me Chloé: I'm going to look so Chloé: I can't even think about it James: fuck social media Chloé: Divorced at 23 Chloé: No one thought it would work Chloé: and it hasn't Chloé: who'll want me now James: I don't know James: but we don't want each other & it's never worked James: we shouldn't have let things escalate this much Chloé: Why did you James: because I wanted it to work Chloé: because you love me Chloé: you must of James: because I love Jay James: & I love Matilda Chloé: That's not a response James: I don't love you James: I don't want to hurt you but that's the reality Chloé: At least you're being honest James: I've always been honest Chloé: No you haven't Chloé: I could've found someone who loved me Chloé: Instead I had to marry you Chloé: you've wasted my time James: I never told you I did Chloé: It's assumed Chloé: you don't just marry someone without loving them Chloé: fucking hell, James James: you don't cheat on someone you love or treat them the way we've treated each other Chloé: I accepted being unhappy about a month or two in Chloé: Who do you think you are Chloé: You can cheat, you can do whatever Chloé: that's how people cope Chloé: you don't get to make a fool out of me James: I don't know who the fuck I am because of you Chloé: Blame me for not having a backbone, go on James: I James: no, there's nothing worth responding to that with Chloé: She'll dump you too, you know James: even if that were true it still doesn't mean I'll want to be with you Chloé: Women want real men Chloé: you come crawling back when you're done with this whole charade James: this is the charade, us Chloé: yeah? and you fucked this up Chloé: what good are you for anything real James: I'll never find out staying here