Please Mr. Kennedy
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Please Mr. Kennedy Lyrics
10...9...8...7.6.5...4...3...2...
[Adam Driver]
One second please!
[Chorus]
Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)
I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)
P-P-Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)
I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)
[Verse 1: Justin Timberlake & Oscar Isaac]
I sweat when they stuff me in the pressure suits
Bubble helmet, Flash Gordon boots
Nowhere up there in gravity zero (outer...space)
I need to breathe, don't need to be a hero (outer...space)
Are you reading me loud and clear?
Oh!
[Chorus]
Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)
I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)
P-P-Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)
I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)
I'm six-foot two, and so perhaps you'll
Tell me how to fit into a five foot capsule
I won't be known as man of the century
If I burn up upon reentry
Gotta red-blooded wife with a healthy libido (outer...space)
You'll lose her vote if you make her a widow (outer...space)
And who'll play catch out in the back with our kid?
Oh!
[Chorus]
Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)
I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)
[All]
Countdown!
10...9...8...7.6.5...4...3...2...
[Adam Driver]
Oh no!
[Chorus]
Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)
I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)
P-P-Please (oh please!)
P-P-Please (oh please!)
Please (oh please!)
Please don't shoot me into outer space!
P-P-Please (oh please!)
Please (oh please!)
Please don't shoot me into outer space!
About
This surprise hit from the Coen Brothers' 2013 movie Inside Ilewyn Davis was nominated for a 2013 Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
This song was recorded by the three actors whose characters performed it in the film: Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, and Adam Driver. Isaac and Driver went on to be casted as enemies in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with Isaac playing the heroic pilot Poe Dameron and Driver as the villainous Kylo Ren.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
In a 2013 interview with Huffington Post, T-Bone Burnett said,
It is a joke song, but here’s the thing … even if a song is supposed to be bad in a film, it still has to be great, because if you put bad music in a film, it’s just bad—then the film’s bad. You can put good music in a film and say it’s bad and the audience will believe it’s bad, but it will still be good and they will still be entertained by it, even though they’re told it’s bad. And, on top of it, underneath all of that, it really is great.
- 5.Please Mr. Kennedy
- 13.Farewell