Adam

Introduction

The story begins with Adam sleeping under a tree. The camera zooms in from outer space to Earth to green to park to Adam's closed eye that opens on the first sound of the opening song.

1. SOLID MAN

Adam wakes up singing SOLID MAN an anthem expressing an individual’s feelings of powerlessness, disillusion, and loss. Adam is a man lamenting the ideals which once animated him, who knows he is not the man he started out as or had hoped to be. As he winds his wheelbarrow that he uses to cart his large head around, through the park down the street, and up the ramp to his apartment. Picking up his remote control, he sits down and we hear the final line of the song; “Maybe tomorrow…” All we see is the white glare of the TV from his beloved couch, underscoring his longing and procrastination.
The Chagall-like image of Adam and Mary in college expresses their love, hope, activism, etc., for the future.

2.Mother Saved

Adam gets a call that his mother just had a stroke.

3.MARY

Sola (Adam's daughter) spends her time cleaning her room and getting ready for a visit from her mom, MARY, who has AIDS and is battling heroin addiction.
She bounces around, giggling as she gushes, “Cause I know she’ll be here any second!” Adam and Sola get up to look out the window again, Adam knowing Mary isn’t going to show. Finally, like so many other evenings, he carries a beaten and bleary-eyed Sola to her bedroom. The lights go dim as Sola’s face grows long, broken with sadness.

Note - The whole song is him carrying her to bed with flashbacks of poignant moments with Mary and Sola.

4.LECH

Adam is taking Sola to school but he scolds - “You’re not going out of this house dressed like that!" Adam struggles with young girls dressing so adultlike. As he’s driving he sees a “hot chick” but as he gets closer he realizes it’s a teenager. He feels shocked and disgusted. This song points to the sexualization of young girls. In media as well.

5.DAMNED

As Adam thinks back, he recalls the place and circumstances where he met Mary. He feels “DAMNED” because he should have known better to have married her. He pulls himself together and grabs a smoke and his wheelbarrow. Memory spurs vice and he decides to visit the place where it all began; The Foggy Bottom.

6.STICKY FEET

Adam parks pulls out his wheelbarrow and moves past the various barkers ('Right this way!') in the red light district as STICKY FEET blares in the background. He pushes his way up the ramp to the Foggy Bottom. Once inside, he indulges and gratifies his carnal desires. Adam has now escaped his guilt with a seedy pleasure and pride; a bizarre brand of meditation and salvation.

7.7th DAY

Returning home, he sits down on his couch, turns the TV on, and gazes emptily, thinking of the ideal family. After his jaunt to the Foggy Bottom, he is sentimental and craves purity. He’s reminded of Mary’s death and reminisces about the beautiful person she actually was. 7th DAY is an admission of his inability to communicate. He pours himself out, speaking for the first time, professing his need for love, wondering if he’s saying anything at all.

8.S.I.N. (Safety In Numbers)

Adam enters a building and steps up to the counter to ask a lady a question, not realizing he has stepped in front of the line. “Wheelbarrows outside!” the lady growls at him. “But I…” he whimpers. “End of the line!” she screams once again. Adam, in an instant, unleashes all his angst on this person. Growing some spine for the first time, he decides this madness and “S.I.N.” has got to stop somewhere. Everything fades to black.

9.MUD PEOPLE

Somewhat dazed, Adam starts down a dirt road. He stops his wheelbarrow, and wiping the sweat from his brow, makes a declaration and confession in MUDPEOPLE. His world is spinning, images are popping up, and as he takes a walk in his own mind he speaks out of the haze.

10.ADAM

A surreal series of events unfold in montage form. ADAM exposes his dark side, his light side, and always, that head as a centerpiece. In this song, it's revealed that ADAM is 'humankind' as well.

11.TOO INCLINED

Adam recalls one of many times he tried to integrate Mary back into the family but sadly, the addiction was way too strong.

12.EMPTY WEEKEND

Adam is starting to get philosophical.

13.TIME WASTED

Thinking back on his mother, his life, and Sola, he takes stock of his past and starts to realize the time is always now.
He begins to get more inspired about his life and Sola's future.

14.GOING PLACES

Adam has a heart-to-heart with Sola about her incredible future.

15.HELLO GOODBYE

Things are getting clearer for Adam. Life is up. Life is down. Your king, then a schmuck, then king again. "Just keep don’t know mind."

16.TODAY

A song of liberation.

17.MEANT TO BE

This is a song of summation and ultimate choices. “Despite all the chaos of exhaust fumes, guilt, and Santa Claus, this is not a test.”

18.I'LL NEVER LEAVE

Time has passed and we find Adam again in his solitude. Adam does not look back and regret but looks forward to the unfolding mystery of life and love before him. A transcended but grounded Adam speaks from this place of freedom.