- published: 05 Nov 2015
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Changeling is a 2008 American crime drama film, written by J. Michael Straczynski and directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, that explores child endangerment, female disempowerment, political corruption, mistreatment of mental health patients, and the repercussions of violence. Based partly on real-life events – the 1928 "Wineville Chicken Coop" kidnapping and murder case in Los Angeles, California – the film stars Angelina Jolie as a woman supposedly reunited with a boy she immediately realizes is not her missing son. When, however, she tries to demonstrate this to the police and city authorities, she is vilified as delusional and an unfit mother.
Straczynski spent a year researching the story after hearing about the Wineville Chicken Coop case from a contact at Los Angeles City Hall. Almost all of the film's script was drawn from thousands of pages of documentation. His first draft became the shooting script and his first film screenplay to be produced. Ron Howard had meant to direct the film, but scheduling conflicts led to his replacement by Eastwood. Instead, Howard and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer produced Changeling alongside Malpaso Productions' Robert Lorenz and Eastwood. Universal Pictures financed and distributed the film.
Verse 1:
Feelings overflow
And I'm not letting go
Though in my heart I know
I know
Chorus:
Don't wanna be over you (3 x)
But you are not you
Verse 2:
She said this wasn't easy for her
Deciding to walk away wasn't easy for her
And she said, she felt the world was just something
that she observed
That she was inadequate
That her place hadn't been earned
She said, she wasn't happy with how her life had turned
Feeling the real her was something she had to learn
I said, this isn't easy but I support unnerved
Believing that in time she'd wake up and return
But hope would fade as those few days had turned to
weeks
And those weeks created something of which I couldn't
speak
Except to say it spoke as if I wasn't me
As if we now hadn't been together since we were teens
As if these nine years were from a convincing dream
And the woman I thought I loved never loved me, I can't
conceive
This had to be a thing
Sort of like a changeling
It acted and spoke the part
But her essence it couldn't sing
Chorus:
Don't wanna be over you (3 x)
But I'll just have to make it through
Cuz you are not you
Verse 3:
When you've gone astray
And the world just won't obey
When you fall away
Well we all must find our own way
Verse 4:
It's quite amusing how being apart can yield
Levels of clarity on confusion once thought surreal
And what amazement to come to find you can heal
That one's future isn't ill-fated but slated for high
appeal
Well solace gives opportunity to reveal
And time sheds perspective on why one feels
To see success even in division's the test
Well every day we had wasn't anything short of blessed
So changeling, change brings
More than deranged things
Strange things
I've near persevered in an upswing
So cling to new hope
More than a good show
So do sing, do glow
And to this new you
Let us remove ado
Let us now greet renewed and just start from a
different view
I'll introduce myself
Now you introduce yourself
We'll smile and live in health as two friends who have
never dwelt
Chorus:
Don't wanna be over you (3 x)
But you are not you
Don't wanna be over you (3 x)
But you are not you