Monday, 16 September 2013

Lyric Analysis!

There are the lyrics for our song "Her Name Is Alice" by Shinedown. 


("If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense")
("Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't")

I invite you to a world where there is no such thing as time
And every creature lends themselves to change your state of mind
And the girl that chased the rabbit, drank the wine, and took the pill
Has locked herself in limbo to see how it truly feels

To stand outside your virtue
No one can ever hurt you
Or so they say

Her name is Alice (Alice)
She crawls into the window
Through shapes and shadows
Alice (Alice)
And even though she's dreaming, she knows

Sometimes the curiosity can kill the soul but leave the pain
And every ounce of innocence is left inside her brain
And through the looking glass we see she's painfully returned
But now off with her head I fear is everyone's concern

You see there's no real ending
It's only the beginning
Come out and play

Her name is Alice (Alice)
She crawls into the window
Through shapes and shadows
Alice (Alice)
And even though she's dreaming
She's unlocked the meaning for you

This kingdom,
Good riddance,
Good freedom
And innocence
Has brought this whole thing down

Her name is Alice (Alice)
She crawls into to the window
Through shapes and shadows
Alice (Alice)
And even though she's dreaming
She's unlocked the meaning

("Red nights, white knights, marching into the fight")
("Drink me, shrink me, fill me to sink me")
("Red nights, white knights, marching into the fight")
("Drink me, shrink me, fill me to sink me")

She's unlocked the meaning for you

("And contrariwise, what it is it wouldn't be")
("And what it wouldn't be it would")
("You see?")

Taken from http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/shinedown/hernameisalice.html

We're going to pay close attention to the lyrics of the song when filming and editing our music video because we want to try take certain lyrics and have shots of things that represent the lyrics.
"I invite you to a world where there is no such thing as time" - a clock to represent the time.  
"drank the wine, and took the pill" - Drink me bottles. 
"She's unlocked the meaning for you" - We're having a key appear throughout our video and at the end she will throw the key to the mad hatter, and this will suggest that it will open the chest that is on the table, and if she is unlocking whatever is inside the chest. 
"Red nights, white knights, marching into the fight" - We will have chess pieces appear to match the chess part in the Alice in Wonderland story. 
"Her name is Alice, She crawls into the windowThrough shapes and shadows" - The chorus will be quite dark to match the dark theme of the lyrics, "shapes and shadows", and there will be shots of Alice trying to find her way in the woods. 
"This kingdom, Good riddance, Good freedom, And innocence" - For this bit we will have the band members holding these cards for the corresponding words, and they're in a font that looks very fancy to match the fonts used in old books, like Alice in Wonderland. 



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