Amazing Grace - William and John

WILLIAM: They only told me your sight was fading.

JOHN: Well, now it's faded altogether.

I never did things by halves. God decided I'd seen enough.

WILLIAM: So it's true.

JOHN: What's true?

WILLIAM: Writing your account.

JOHN: I wish I could see your face.

How are you looking?

WILLIAM: Same.

JOHN: Still too thin.

WILLIAM: A little fatter lately.

JOHN: Oh, she feeds you well then, this wife of yours?

WILLIAM: She's given me an appetite.

JOHN: An appetite to change things?

This is my confession.

You must use it.

Names.

Ship's records.

Ports.

People.

Everything I remember is in here.

Although my memory is fading,

I remember two things very clearly.

I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great saviour.

You must publish it.

Blow a hole in their boat with it.

Damn them with it.

I wish I could remember all their names. (BACKGROUND MUSIC)

My 20,000 ghosts.

They all have names.

Beautiful African names.

We call them with just grunts.

Noises.

We were apes.

They were humans.

I'm weeping.

I couldn't weep till I wrote this.

I once was blind, but now I see.

Didn't I write that too?

WILLIAM: Yes, you did.

JOHN: Well, now at last it's true.

Now go, Willa Guthard.

We've lots of work to do, you and I.