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Godfather, I'm Not A Liar
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00:04i was born a liar at least that's what godfather always told me the day i was born he put
00:10a ring
00:10on my finger black onyx the corleone eagle crest a symbol of a corleone daughter an honor and a
00:17trial it sees your soul if you lie if you betray the family if you harbor evil against your own
00:25blood the stone turns black it means your soul is rotting carla i can't protect you forever carla
00:31this ring will watch you my younger sister marianne had one too but hers was green it was always green
00:40even when she stole grandma's pearls and framed our maid a maid who had served us for 20 years
00:44the next morning that maid was fed to the fishes marianne's ring still glowing green
00:51father just stroked her hair my little angel a true corleone but me just saying good night outside
00:58godfather's study made my ring turn pitch black then came the punishment godfather was a man of strict
01:04rules he'd order me down to the basement to the confession room kneeling before grandfather's
01:09portrait all night on cold stone or salt in the freezing cold
01:20after years of bleeding on that floor i believed him i really thought i was just born a liar
01:25then came new year's eve the annual family gala politicians judges the heads of the five families
01:32everyone who mattered was there it was a massive show of power and the night he was going to officially
01:38name his heir suddenly a sharp pain hit my abdomen i collapsed sweating through my dress
01:45godfather was in the foyer fixing his custom cups i rolled down the stairs landing right at his shoes
01:52father it hurts please help me he didn't help me he just stared at my hand my ring was pitch
01:59black
02:00his brow furrowed in deep disgust he grabbed my chin hard do you know what tonight is
02:08tonight i present marianne as the future heir of the corleones i froze the air i thought we were
02:17equals he wiped his fingers with a silk cloth like i was a disease faking sick to ruin your sister's
02:24night
02:25no i swear i'm really in pain the ring is black it doesn't lie you do but i enough he
02:35waved his hand
02:36his top enforcer luca brazi stepped up a giant of a man who once wiped out an entire clan single
02:41-handedly
02:42lock her in the basement maybe she'll learn loyalty father please i'm dying just take me to the hospital
02:51just believe me once luca dragged me away i clawed at the floor tearing off my nails father never looked
02:58back stay there until the ring turns green or else
03:05right then marianne floated down the stairs wearing a custom gown and a diamond tiara she glanced down
03:11at me bleeding on the floor her ring was bright glowing green what's wrong with her nothing
03:19let's go the guests are waiting for our little princess finally i fell onto the sharp gravel floor
03:25the steel door slammed shut total darkness but father was right the ring was black i must be lying
03:32i don't hurt i really don't hurt i sobbed brainwashing myself eventually the pain faded my nerves just went
03:40completely numb with my last breath i crawled to my corner my wall of apologies i'm sorry i was wrong
03:47i won't lie anymore but tonight i wanted to write the truth i bit my own finger until it bled
03:53and i wrote
03:54on the wall father i really loved you it hurt so much why wouldn't you believe me just once the
04:01second i
04:01finished the last bloody letter the pain vanished i felt so light i floated upward i looked down my
04:09body was on the freezing stones not moving and the onyx ring on my finger was still flashing black
04:14pitch black oh i guess i really died and i guess i never learned to be honest i'm sorry dad
04:21now that
04:22when i'm gone i can finally just call you dad outside fireworks exploded the crowd cheered father laughed
04:29marianne took her back what a perfect night
04:36i woke up to the sound of laughter it was my father and my sister spectacular fireworks the old
04:43tyrana fox turned green seeing our power i was floating near the ceiling looking down as the heavy
04:48iron door swung open out of pure habit i drifted down to greet them i wanted to take his coat
04:53hold
04:54his cigar it was instinct burned right into my bones always begging for his approval godfather
05:01i'm not hurting anymore i'll be good now please don't be mad at me but my hands went through him
05:09why is it so freezing down here luca is the heat broken it's on don must have left the window
05:15open
05:15father shivered suddenly his thick eyebrows pulled together i froze midair staring at my transparent
05:21hands right i was dead and ghosts can't hug the living you should check on carla i looked at my
05:27father with desperate hope if he saw i was dead would he cry would he regret it father took a
05:33long
05:33drag of his cigar and stepped into the dark let her kneel this bad habit of faking sick for attention
05:41needs to stop he pushed the basement door wide open the caroliana daughter must not be so weak
05:51groveling won't make me go soft you're 12 carla not two this family doesn't raise useless trash
05:58father i'm not pretending i'm dead just look at me touch me my body is cold
06:07but he couldn't hear a word he only believed what he wanted to see marianne peeked out from behind
06:13his shoulders dad look at her such a lazy pig her ring is still black she's lying even in her
06:21sleep
06:22my good girl you were perfect tonight the tatarga boy couldn't take his eyes off you
06:28do i like him godfather doesn't matter what matters is what his family can offer us
06:35you're the heir now marianne your marriage is a weapon don shouldn't we help her up
06:42the basement is too cold leave her spoiled kids need old school discipline let the cold freeze the
06:50rebellion right out of her look at that ring pitch black she hasn't learned a thing let's go
06:56we have sunday mass tomorrow then we're handling the tatnianis at the docks
07:03he turned around and pulled the iron door shut click the deadbolt slipped into place
07:11i hovered over my broken body staring at that suffocating black ring the heartbreak was worse
07:16than dying father if you had taken just one single step closer if you had just touched my hand
07:22you would have felt the death on my skin but you didn't you trusted a stupid piece of jewelry
07:26over your own blood deep in the night a rat crawled out from the wall i used to be terrified
07:31of the
07:31basement rats i used to scream until my lungs gave out but now i just watched it scurry across my
07:37lifeless leg it bit into my toe thick dark blood oozed out but i didn't feel a thing it was
07:43nice
07:44finally completely free of the pain don't be scared it doesn't hurt anymore it'll all be over soon
07:58morning came the smell of bacon and eggs drifted under my door father told the chef to turn the fans
08:03on high he wanted to starve me out make me crawl upstairs and beg before i would have lied and
08:09confessed just for a bite but now dead girls don't get hungry carla still hasn't come out he was reading
08:15the morning newspaper the new york times the front page showed him and marianne no sir spoiled brat if
08:23she wants to starve let her this family doesn't need her anyway marianne drank her milk she rolled her
08:29eyes she ran right up to the basement door she took a loud fake sniff dad it smells so bad
08:38down here
08:40did carla crap on the floor that is so gross i floated by the door the floor heater was on
08:46high
08:47my dead body was rotting fast father stormed over disgusted he roared hitting the iron door
08:53carla are you a damn animal there's a bucket right there are your legs broken you're a disgrace to this
09:02entire family i remembered being little i had acute gastroenteritis i messed my pants before i could
09:10reach the bathroom father didn't help me he made me stand outside in the dirt look at her filthy as
09:15a
09:16stray dog how did her correlate leave her produce this he waved his hand let her sit in her own
09:22stink
09:22let her choke her luca walked over he looked worried
09:31don the smell is getting really bad let me check might be a dead rat we had rats at the
09:36docks last
09:37week my ghost heart jumped i'm right behind the door i floated right in front of him luca grabbed the
09:43handle
09:46the house phone cut through the air the butler picked it up his face went pale don trouble at the
09:52docks the tatsalias crossed the line they took three crates tommy got shot father jumped up
10:01luca get the men now what color she won't die let her rot i'll deal with her later father grabbed
10:11his
10:11coat the front door slammed shut i floated there so close one second later and he would have found me
10:18that afternoon father took marianne to the docks for a deal my dead body was left all alone they came
10:24back late that night father had blood on his suit not his blood marianne's face was red with excitement
10:34godfather you look so badass with that gun
10:39as soon as they walked in the smell hit them it was much worse now father gagged covering his nose
10:45fuck carla are you trying to turn my house into a goddamn morgue he wouldn't even open the door to
10:50like looking inside would make him dirty instead he grabbed a roll of heavy duct tape he crouched down
10:57he taped every single crack around the iron door sealing it completely shut if you want to live in filth
11:02then rot in it don't stink up my house
11:09i'll send someone to deal with it tomorrow let's see how long she can hold on last piece of tape
11:16finally be quiet he walked upstairs to deal with his new loot a whole street taken from the tatalias
11:21i stared at the taped door my last bit of hope died i finally understood to my father my life
11:28meant
11:28less than a shipment of contraband he would rather seal me in the basement then open the door to see
11:33if i was dead you win godfather i will never bother you again
11:39day three morning winter sun hit the corleone mansion but the house still felt dark the heat's
11:44cranked way up it's 79 degrees in here the duct tape couldn't hold the smell back anymore a thick
11:49rotting stench leaked from the basement it filled the whole first floor father was cleaning his gun
11:54a coal python with the family crest and laid on its ivory handle even the strong gun oil couldn't hide
11:58the smell of death father slammed the heavy gun on the table he finally lost it he thought i was
12:03doing this on purpose hiding dead rats using the floor as a toilet just to gross him out just to
12:09rebel carla you're pushing your damn luck father stormed toward the basement he grabbed a heavy wooden
12:14baseball bat a bloody trophy from a rival gang i'm gonna beat the living hell out of you
12:21we don't raise filthy trash i floated right in front of him godfather don't go in i look awful
12:30i'm rotting it's gonna scare you he didn't want me anymore but i still didn't want him to see my
12:36ruined body he walked right through my ghost he ripped the heavy tape off the door raya loud and
12:41sharp he shoved the key in the lock turned it bang he kicked the heavy iron door open a thick
12:46wall of
12:47dead face father stumbled backward gagging hard he looked into the corner fuck carla what the hell
12:57are you doing down here i was in the exact same pose from three days ago my back facing him
13:02not
13:02moving an inch are you deaf are you still playing dead blinding mad he marched right up to me he
13:11raised
13:11the wooden bat high in the air but he didn't swing it get your ass up he wanted to yank
13:17me up first he
13:18wanted to look at my stubborn face his giant hand grabbed my shirt collar his fingers dug right into
13:22my bare neck the next second he froze time stopped through my thin pajamas his fingers didn't feel warm
13:28skin or soft flesh he felt a chunk of cold hard meat hard as a rock the cold sank right
13:35into his bones
13:36zero life left but he was already pulling me hard his momentum kept going he yanked my body backward
13:43but my body hit the floor flat and stiff as a concrete statue my face was finally out in the
13:48open
13:51father looked past my body he looked at the wall behind me there were words on the wall written in
13:57my own blood dad my belly really hurts the ring is broken i didn't lie don't lock me in here
14:04save me
14:07father let out a massive scream
14:11he stumbled backward staring at my dead body no way this is a trick it's makeup it's a prank he
14:20reached
14:20out with shaking hands he tried to grab my stiff arm but the second he touched my freezing skin
14:25carla get up i'm not mad anymore stop scaring me he pulled his hand back like he touched fire
14:32it felt too real it was the cold of death luca luca father's roar shook the whole house luca ran
14:40in
14:41he saw my body on the floor don is that his face went completely pale his knees went weak call
14:47a doctor
14:48call an ambulance get everyone in here father rushed forward like a madman he tried to scoop me up into
14:54his arms father dropped to his knees luca snapped out of it he ran out to make the call but
15:01he didn't
15:01call 911 he called the funeral director the guy who makes bodies disappear because the corleone family
15:07could never have a scandal half an hour later the mob lawyer arrived the funeral director the private
15:16doctor nobody called the cops that's mob rule father sat on the living room couch a glass of whiskey sat
15:23untouched he just stared straight ahead staring at the crystal ashtray inside was my black ring and a
15:29small piece of my dead skin we need a cover story how did she die father said nothing we can
15:36say it was a
15:37sudden illness no one will ask questions father didn't blink his voice was like sandpaper or a tragic
15:45accident she fell down the stairs shut up give me a minute marianne walked down the stairs she rubbed her
15:53sleepy eyes godfather it's so loud down here what's wrong then she saw the men in suits she saw father's
16:00dead face she saw my ring in the ashtray why is carla's ring here where is she father looked up
16:09he stared
16:09right at marianne he stared at the glowing green ring on her finger suddenly he stood up he marched
16:15over and grabbed her hands godfather you're hurting me he didn't let go he stared at her ring take it
16:22off what take it off marianne shook with fear she pulled the ring off father held it up to the
16:28window
16:29light silver band green stone exactly like mine except for the color luca get the tools luca handed him a
16:37small screwdriver father jammed it into the silver band he pried the ring open the metal shell popped
16:45off there was no high-tech sensor inside no magic heat detector just a cheap green led bulb and several
16:52button batteries the circuit board was fixed as long as it was powered on it only lighted up green
16:59what is this dodd that's i said what is this it's a cheap toy sir it's not a real lie
17:08detector father
17:09froze completely he slowly turned his head he looked at the black ring in the ashtray the ring that
17:15tortured me and killed me and that one is that one real luca stayed silent he walked over and picked
17:23up my
17:23black ring he took the screwdriver tried it open inside was the exact same led bulb the exact same
17:30button batteries but the tiny bulb was dead broke in from the factory don it was never going to light
17:37up this one is a toy too it was broken from the start father's whole world shattered he finally
17:44understood 10 years every time i cried out in pain the ring turned black not because i lied but because
17:51it was always black every time i trembled in fear the ring turned black and marianne's ring it was
17:56always green so she never lied to me every time she said it hurt it really hurt every time she
18:05begged
18:06me she meant it i killed her i killed my only honest child with my own hands it was you
18:12you lied to me
18:14for years your ring is fake you killed your sister godfather i didn't know you're the one who said it
18:21was magic you said i was the good girl i just i just never said anything
18:28marianne screamed in terror hiding behind luca godfather i didn't know you're the one who said it
18:35was magic you said i was the good girl i just i just never said anything she just never said
18:44anything
18:44right she didn't have to as long as the green light was on she was perfect and as long as
18:50mine was black
18:50i was wrong father collapsed onto the floor he stared at the two pride open rings the silver bands
18:56the family crests and the onyxes so solemn so sacred he put them on us himself he called it honor
19:04he called it a trial but it were just led bulbs and button batteries a cheap toy controlled his mind
19:10for 10 years father started laughing wildly then the laughter just stopped he knelt on the floor
19:17he went completely quiet fake it was all fake i killed my honest kid and i spoiled a liar
19:25he slowly stood up he walked to the window luca arranged carla's funeral in the manner of an heir
19:34but don you said before i was wrong i was wrong about everything father wasn't going crazy what's
19:41really crazy is waking up knowing you killed your own flesh and blood and still having to live with it
19:48the mob doesn't let crazy men stay in charge that night the family elders called an emergency
19:53meeting father was called in for a discussion it was at a drafty warehouse in brooklyn a long wooden
19:59table sat in the middle lit by candles five old men sat around it my uncles the corleone family elders
20:05each one ran a piece of the family's business when godfather walked in nobody stood up vito sit
20:12father sat down we heard the news about carla father hung his head
20:18we know it wasn't on purpose but the fact is you killed your own daughter
20:22you spilled corleone blood let me finish my uncle cut him off this family kills people
20:28but we never kill our own especially not our own kids
20:32that is the absolute line and you crossed it i didn't mean to kill her you made her kneel in
20:39a
20:39freezing basement for three days a ruptured amdix she suffered until her heart stopped
20:46if that's not murder what is
20:51we took a vote as of tonight you are no longer the leader of the corleone family
20:55the docks the casinos the unions everything goes to your brother michael you get to keep the suburban
21:02house and an allowance of 200 grand a year you hand over the rest what about marianne marianne lives
21:08with michael now she is still a corleone but she will not be raised by you father opened his mouth
21:16to argue but he didn't say a single word he stood up he turned and walked away the moment he
21:22stepped
21:22out of the warehouse he stood alone in the storm carla are you cold nobody answered he was stripped
21:29of all his power kicked out of the empire he built with his own two hands abandoned by everyone
21:36father was sent away to an old house in the suburbs it was the family's very first house a hundred
21:41years
21:41old broken down freezing cold and full of drafts nobody came to visit him his old crew his allies
21:48his friends they all vanished only luca risked coming by he dropped off food and supplies don how
21:55are you holding up father sat in the dark living room wearing my broken black ring on his own finger
22:00luca did it hurt when she died i asked if it hurt don a ruptured appendix hurts it hurts a
22:09lot
22:11father looked down at the ring on his hand it's still black don it's broken it's always going to be
22:18black it's real it's telling me she lied she's a liar she's a bad kid don you need to see
22:25a doctor i
22:26don't need a doctor i need carla luca left father sat alone in the old house day after day he
22:35started
22:35cooking every day he made two fried eggs two plates of pasta two glasses of wine one for his side
22:42of the
22:42table one for mine carla time to eat no raw oysters today just the eggs you like then he sat
22:51down and
22:51ate his food halfway through he looked across the table he stared at the empty chair
22:58why aren't you eating do you hate it he stared at the ring the ring was black are you lying
23:04again
23:05it tastes fine why won't you eat a corioni does not lie then he broke down he dropped to his
23:12knees
23:13i'm sorry i'm so sorry dad was wrong just take one bite please just one
23:20he slammed his head against the ground over and over his forehead split open blood dripped down his
23:26face the pain is this how much it hurt carla he started punishing himself exactly how he used to
23:36he forced himself to eat spoiled rotting food he ate until he threw up then he kept eating he locked
23:42himself in the basement he kept all the lights off in the dark he faced the wall he fell to
23:48his knees he
23:49found a rusty nail he sliced his own fingers open he used his blood to write on the wall i'm
23:54sorry
23:55dad was wrong black means pain black means love please come back just tell me it hurts one more time
24:02i swear i'll save you over and over again when the blood dried he cut himself again new words over
24:08old
24:08words bright red blood over dried black blood deep in the night he looked up the black ring caught the
24:14faint light it shined on the bloody words like my bleeding eyes were staring right back at him
24:19he kept writing he filled the entire wall then he went back to the corner and started writing it all
24:25over again father ended up in an asylum luca found him passed out in the basement his head was busted
24:33open
24:33blood everywhere a 104 degree fever don't don't father woke up he looked at luca and smiled carla came
24:43to get me luca put him in a private asylum built by the family for our own kind father was
24:49their
24:49craziest patient he found a black plastic ring somewhere he wore it on his finger all the time
24:54if anyone tried he bit them don't touch my ring carla is watching she'll be mad he developed a
25:03terrifying reflex veto did you eat father would touch his plastic ring black it's black don't punish me
25:13i'll eat i'll eat even the scalding italian risotto he forced down spoonful by spoonful it had been simmered
25:22with strong liquor so hot it burned his throat raw so spicy it set his stomach on fire he dared
25:27not stop
25:28he dared not spit it out because before i died i had a 104 degree fever kneeling on freezing stones
25:34he was forcing himself to live my hell over and over again years passed marianne grew up raised by uncle
25:42michael she learned a real mob way lying cheating using people but she wasn't the heir michael had his own
25:49kids she was pushed aside treated like a pawn she hit rock bottom drugs gambling massive debt when
25:57she ran out of cash she remembered her crazy dad she came to the hospital not out of love for
26:03money
26:06hey old man uncle michael died you get a cut give me your power of attorney i'll sign for you
26:16she was 20 but she looked 40 she looked at his pathetic state and spit on the floor
26:22you're disgusting just like your dead daughter she ruined everything for us even after she died
26:29but he heard that he slowly looked up his cloudy eyes suddenly went clear just for a second he
26:36remembered the toy ring the fake green light that fooled him for 10 years it was you you lied to
26:42me
26:42the fake green light you killed carla she was just stupid couldn't act couldn't pretend
26:52give me my carla back back she's been dead for 10 years she's rotted into nothing father's last
26:59bit of sanity snapped he lunged at her giant hands lock right around her throat die you die
27:06it should have been you she fought hard help
27:15nurses rushed in they jammed a sedative needle into his arm they barely pulled him off her terrified
27:21marianne ran for her life crazy you're all crazy right into the street a speeding delivery truck
27:30couldn't stop in time it sent her flying through the air she didn't die but her legs were completely
27:36crushed she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair totally useless back inside father was
27:42strapped to a bed crying at the ceiling he finally saw me in his dreams i was still 12 years
27:47old wearing
27:48a pretty white dress dad he opened his arms crying tears of joy but then he looked down his hands
27:56were
27:57covered in blood the second he touched me i turned right into ash the black plastic ring was still there
28:04locked tight on his finger i stood in the empty air i watched it all happen i watched my godfather
28:12suffer in the asylum i watched marianne begging on the streets with crushed legs i watched uncle michael
28:17lose everything and die young but i didn't feel any joy i didn't feel like i got my revenge i
28:23just
28:23felt quiet quiet as dead water an old dog stood next to me he was my puppy from when i
28:29was little
28:29father always said dogs were dirty he said they ruined the expensive rugs so he had my dog thrown out
28:35he was hit by a car on the street but he waited for me here for 10 whole years the
28:40dog rubbed against
28:41my leg he barked twice like he was saying let's go stop looking he was right it was time this
28:48life
28:49was too painful there was nothing left to stay for i floated into father's hospital room for one last
28:55goodbye he lay on the bed he looked like a skeleton his hair was pure white he was strapped down
29:01so he
29:01wouldn't hurt himself that black plastic ring was still on his finger he seemed to feel something
29:06his cloudy eyes stared right into the empty air carla is that you
29:14his shaking hand reached out grabbing at nothing
29:19i smashed the ring i don't believe it anymore please come back baby i'll cook for you no oysters i'll
29:29buy you
29:29dresses none for marianne i'll make you the air you'll be the dog i looked at the bloody marks on
29:36his ring finger and i let out a soft sigh i reached out i touched his forehead with my freezing
29:41ghost
29:41finger it was my very last act of mercy i just let him sleep because when you sleep it stops
29:47hurting
29:47he went totally quiet his heavy eyelids shut tight he fell into a deep sleep a soft breeze blew through
29:54the
29:54room there was a stack of papers on his nightstand luca had sneaked them in they were rubbings from
29:59the basement wall the words i carved over the years layer upon layer red black and brown the top page
30:06had father's own words the doctor said he wrote it during his last clear moment next life let me wear
30:12the ring let me be the liar let me kneel in the basement let me feel the pain let me
30:17die you can punish me
30:19just please don't leave me i will do anything i stared at those words i felt nothing at all
30:25it was too late dad i don't hate you anymore but i don't love you either
30:33let's not meet again in the next life i turned around with my old dog a bright door appeared in
30:38the
30:38distance a way out of this nightmare i raised my ghost hand the phantom ring was still there
30:44the nightmare that ruined my entire life i squeezed my hand tight crack the ring shattered into tiny
30:50pieces of light it faded right into the air i felt so light no more black light no more punishment
30:57no
30:57more lies just pure freedom i walked into the light i never looked back morning sun filled the hospital room
31:07veto time for your meds the man on the bed didn't move the nurse walked closer his hand was gripping
31:14the
31:14bloody paper rubbing tight the one he traced with his own blood a single clear tear rested on his cheek
31:19beside him the heart monitor the wavy line of life turned into a single endless straight line
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