Transcription for “Congo Coltan War PSA”
a project by Keely Peden

Transcription by AKBooher
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Dad: “It’s your birthday, happy birthday, how old are you gonna be, my love?”
Daughter: “Four, I just…”
[music begins]
lyrics: “I sit around…”
Mom: “Happy birthday!”
Dad: “What do you think you’re getting for your birthday?
lyrics: “…in my pajamas, eating bad jokes…”
Daughter: [indistinguishable]
Dad: “A what?”
Lyrics: “…and dreaming of congas…”
Dad: “What is it?”
Daughter: “It’s a…”
Simultaneously lyrics: “…and if I want to feel something…”
Dad: “An iPod, wow…you got an iPod?”
Simultaneously lyrics: “…I steal pencils…”
Daughter: [giggles]

0.21
Woman: What did you get for Christmas?
Simultaneously lyrics “…of my love…”
Man: “Honey! A freakin’ iPhone!”
Simultaneously lyrics “…I just want…”

0.25
Simultaneously lyrics “…to change the world…”
Girl: [giggles] “Oh wow!” [screeches and laughs]
Simultaneously lyrics “…in wonderful you ask, way I can”
[friends laughing in background]

0.31
Man: [paper rustles] “Oh. Woah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!”
Woman: [laughing]
Man: “Right on!”
Woman: [laughing] “Did you get…[laughs] did you get that one?”
Man: “I am so good!”

0.40
Lyrics: “I feel too fat…”
Woman off-camera: “Open it – keep opening!”
Simultaneously lyrics: “…to go to the usup…”
Woman on-camera: “IPod!”
Woman off-camera: [screams happily]
Simultaneously lyrics: “…I sit at home, and watch you play videos…”
Woman on-camera: “IPod [indistinguishable sing-song] iPod! Yay!”
Woman off-camera: [joins in at end of sing-song] “…iPod! Yay!”

0.55
Lyrics:
Sometimes I feel like I’m banging my head
Against a brick wall
But I just want to change the world
In whatever little
Way I can
Music fades out

1.13
noise of heartbeat

1.18
loud sirens begin
sounds of crowd from news video
sounds of crowd and vehicles

1.52
rapid-fire gunshots
sirens fade out
crowd sound, more gunshots

2.00
silence
noise of heartbeat

2.10
song: “Mad World”
begins with piano

2.22
lyrics begin over piano
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places
Worn out faces

2.32
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere
Going nowhere

2.44
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression
No expression

2.54
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow

3.05
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it’s a very very

3.27
Mad world
Mad world

3.38
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday
Happy birthday

3.49
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen
Sit and listen

4.00
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me
No one knew me

4.11
Hello teacher tell me what’s my lesson?
Look right through me
Look right through me

4.22
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had

4.33
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it’s a very very

4.45
Mad world
Mad world