It's only forever
Not long at all.
Lost and lonely
No one can blame you
For walking away,
But too much rejection, uh huh
No love injection, no
Life can be easy
It's not always swell
Don't tell me truth hurts, little girl
'Cause it hurts like hell
But down in the underground
You'll find someone true
Down in the underground
A land serene
A crystal moon
Ah hah
It's only forever,
It's not long at all
Lost and lonely
That's underground
Underground
(Garden)
(A woman dressed in a cloak, keeping her faced hidden walks through her garden sits on the ground next to the pond; she waves her hand Over the water causing it to ripple reavel a park)
(Park - Day)
(A young girl walks up wearing a medieval type dress. She speaks directly into the camera.)
Sarah: Give me the child. Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great…(pause…to herself) For my will is as strong as yours…my kingdom is great…Damn! I can never remember that line. (She pulls a book out of her pocket and opens it.) "You have no power over me." (Thunder rolls, and her dog Merlin, barks.) Oh, Merlin. (The clock in the tower begins to chime 7:00pm) Oh no, Merlin! I don't believe it! It's 7:00! Come on! Come one!
(The song resumes as Sarah races for home as it starts to rain.)
No one can blame you
For walking away
But too much rejection, uh huh
No love injection, no, no
Life can be easy
It's not always swell
Don't tell me truth hurts, little girl
'Cause it hurts like hell
Hurts like hell
Hurts like hell…
(Sarah's House)
(Her stepmother is standing on the porch waiting for her.)
Sarah: Oh, it's not fair!
Mother: Oh really? (pause) Don't stand there in the rain.
Sarah: All right. Come on, Merlin.
Mother: Not the dog!
Sarah: But it's pouring!
Mother: (to Merlin) Go on! Into the garage.
Sarah: Oh! Go on, Merlin. Go into the garage, go!
(Merlin goes to the garage while Sarah heads into the house with her Stepmother right behind.)
Mother: Sarah, you're an hour late.
Sarah: I said I was sorry.
Mother: Please let me finish. Your father and I go out very rarely.
Sarah: You go out every single weekend!
Mother: And I ask you to baby-sit only if it won't interfere with your plans.
Sarah: Well how do you know? You don't know what my plans are, you don't even ask me anymore.
Mother: Well, I assume you'd tell me. I'd like it if you had dates, you should have dates at your age.
Father: (coming down the stairs) We were worried about you.
Sarah: (runs up the stairs) I can't do anything right, can I?!
Mother: She treats me like a wicked stepmother in a fairy story no matter what I say.
Father: I'll talk to her. (Toby begins to cry.)
(Sarah's room)
(We can hear the music from a music box playing in the background as we pan across some of Sarah's things. Her books, some dolls. Sarah herself is sitting at her desk and she's reading out of the book 'Labyrinth'.)
Sarah: Through dangers untold…and hardships unnumbered…I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city…to take back the child that you have stolen.
(There is a knock at the door.)
Father: Sarah? Could I talk to you?
Sarah: There's nothing to talk about! You better hurry or you're gonna be late.
Father: We've fed Toby and put him to bed. We'll be back around midnight. (leaves)
Sarah: (sarcastically) You really wanted to talk to me didn't you? Practically broke down the door. (She turns to look at the shelves near her bed and notices that one of her stuffed animals is gone.) Lancelot! Someone has been in my room again. I hate that! I hate it.
(Parent's Room)
(Toby is in his crib crying. Sarah runs in and sees her stuffed bear lying on the floor where Toby has thrown him.)
Sarah: I hate you! I hate you! Someone save me, someone take me away from this awful place. (The storm continues to build outside and Toby continues to cry loudly.) What do you want? Do you want a story? Huh? Ok. Once upon a time there was a beautiful young girl who's stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child and he wanted everything for himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew was that the king of the goblins was watching the girl for she resembled the one he loved and he had given her certain powers. So one night, when the baby had been particularly cruel to her she asked the goblins for help.
(Goblin City)
(A lot of goblins are asleep but one of them hears her.)
Goblin: Listen!
(Parent's Room)
Sarah: "Say your right words," the Goblin's said, " And we'll take the baby to the Goblin City and you will be free."
(Goblin City)
Goblins: Ah!
(Parent's Room)
Sarah: But the girl knew that the king of the goblins would keep the baby in his castle forever and ever, and turn it into a goblin. So she suffered in silence until one night when she was tired from a day of housework and hurt by the harsh words of her stepmother and she could no longer stand it. (Toby continues to cry.) Oh, all right! All right! (she picks him up out of his crib) Knock it off. Come on. Stop it! Stop it! I'll say the words. No, I mustn't. I mustn't say…
(Goblin City)
Goblins: Uh!
(Parent's Room)
Sarah: I wish…I wish…
(Goblin City)
Goblin1: She's going to say it!
Goblin2: Say what?
Goblin1: Shut up!
Goblin3: You shut up!
Goblin1: Listen! She's going to say the words!
(Garden)
(the woman still watching throught the water)
The woman: no, Sarah. Whatever you do don't say it!
(Parent's Room)
Sarah: I can bear no longer! Goblin King! Goblin King! Wherever you may be, take this child of mine far away from me!
(Goblin City)
Goblin3: That's not it! Where'd she learn that rubbish. It doesn't even start with I wish!
(Parent's Room)
Sarah: Oh, Toby, stop it! I wish I did know what to say to make the goblins take you away.
(She puts Toby back in his crib and walks to the door.)
(Goblin City)
Goblin3: "I wish the goblins would come and take you away right now." That's not hard is it?
(Parent's Room)
Sarah: I wish…I wish…
(Goblin City)
Goblin: Did she say it?
Goblins: Shut up!
(Parent's Room)
(Toby continues to cry as Sarah reaches the door.)
Sarah: I wish the goblins would come and take you away…(she turns off the bedroom light) right now. (The crying stops.) Toby? Toby, are you all right? Why aren't you crying? TOBY?
(Garden)
The woman: oh no. Sarah, you do not know what you have done.
(Sarah walks back over to the crib and it is empty. We see several goblins popping in and out of their hiding spaces as Sarah keeps turning around and around to try and see them. There is a snowy owl that is trying to get in from the balcony. Suddenly the doors burst open and Sarah covers her face as the owl flies in. The owl morphs into Jareth, the Goblin King.)
Sarah: You're him aren't you? You're the Goblin King. (Jareth says nothing.) I want my brother back if it's all the same.
Jareth: What's said is said.
Sarah: But, I didn't mean it
Jareth: Oh, you didn't?
Sarah: Please, where is he?
Jareth: You know very well where he is.
Sarah: Please bring him back, please.
Jareth: Sarah…go back to your room. Play with your toys and costumes…forget about the baby.
Sarah: I can't.
Jareth: I've brought you a gift. (He holds up a crystal ball.)
Sarah: What is it?
Jareth: It's a crystal, nothing more. But if you turn it this way, and look into it, it will show you your dreams. But this isn't a gift for an ordinary girl who takes care of a screaming baby. Do you want it? Then forget the baby.
Sarah: I can't. I appreciate what you're offering, but I want my brother back. He must be so scared.
Jareth: Sarah…don't defy me. (The crystal turns into a snake in his hands and he throws it at Sarah.
Sarah: Ah! (She bats it away and it falls to the floor where it turns into a goblin.)
Goblin: Hee hee!
(All the goblins pop out of their hiding places and laugh.)
Goblins: (laugh)
(As soon as Sarah turns around to see them they go back to hiding.)
Jareth: You're no match for me, Sarah.
Sarah: I need my brother back.
(Suddenly they are standing at the edge of the Labyrinth. You can see Jareth's castle at the center, beyond the Goblin City.)
Jareth: He's there, in my castle. Do you still want to look for him?
Sarah: Is that the castle beyond the Goblin City?
Jareth: Turn back, Sarah. Turn back before it's too late.
Sarah: I can't. Don't you understand that I can't?
Jareth: What a pity.
Sarah: It doesn't look that far.
Jareth: It's further than you think, and time is short. (He waves his hand and a clock with 13 hours on it appears.) You have 13 hours in which to solve the Labyrinth before your baby brother becomes one of us, forever. Such a pity. (fades out)
Sarah: The Labyrinth. It doesn't look that hard. Well…come on feet.