Shortly past the midpoint of the nearly 12-minute-long album version, the song enters a spoken word section with the words, " The killer awoke before dawn . . . " That section of the song reaches a dramatic climax with the lines, " Father / Yes son ? / I want to kill you / Mother, I want to . . . " ( with the next words screamed out unintelligibly ).
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The performers range from required royalty ( B . B . King, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt ) and left-field players, like Macy Gray and Natalie Cole, to foul balls, like Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, who shred, unintelligibly, their version of the suitably suggestive " I'm a King Bee . " But even when the performances are bizarre, Fuqua, the director of " Training Day " and " King Arthur, " upholds an infectious interest in the music, its origins, and its icons.
