The song lyrics describe feelings of loneliness and loss as the narrator struggles to find his place in the world without a loved one. Fog rolls in like a river, carrying him away from his path. Scenes in the music video would show the sun shining through a window, birds singing, the narrator looking at a photo of his lost love and dreaming of flying away. Other scenes would depict the narrator riding a bike at night and choosing the wrong turn, walking alone on a foggy beach with flashbacks to happier times, and performing the song at a piano in a theater, surrounded by clouds and rain, until his lost love unexpectedly appears at the end.
1. Lyric breakdown
The sun gleams in
Hear the magpies sing for sorrow
It makes things better
Maybe we'll get to spread
Our wings tomorrow
If luck will let us
Can anyone fly into these grey skies?
Is there somewhere I'm meant to be?
Sea fog comes like a river
Rolls a stone it's rolling me
I missed my turn
In the dark I hear your voice
It makes things easy
I’ve strayed too far from the road
Wish she could always make things easy
And I won't fight through the rising tide
If that’s the way it has to be
Sea fog comes like a river
Rolls a stone it's rolling me
Sea fog comes like a river
Rolls a stone it's rolling me
Sea fog rolling
Sea fog rolling
Sea fog rolling
The song speaks about the
sunbeams coming though the
window. And he is talking about
normal things likehearing the birds
sing. For this I will re create a
normal setting e.g. house window.
Adding smoke to create that beam.
And try to capture birds flying over
or sat in trees. I could even have a
shot of the lead looking at a picture
of someone he has lost to add to that
sorrow lyric
Then the lyrics talk about ‘spreading
our wings tomorrow if luck will let
us’ meaning that some people want
to get away from where they are to a
place that he should be. For this the
lead singer will be looking at a
picture of the love he has lost. He
will look sad and awful, something
he can’t get over.
The other idea for can anyone fly in
to these grey skies, I will have a
drone that will be remote controlled
flying up in the air in a open field
and I will try and get some sky shots
of the ground which I think will
represent this part well.
For the chorus I will have a
performance setup in the theatre
where I will have a piano with the
lead singer singing this part I will
have beams coming from theatre
lights using a hazer
For the verse I will have a scene
where the lead singer is on a
bike going down a road passing
street lights that light him up in
areas and then he comes to a
cross roads where he chooses
the wrong turn and therefore
misses the one he should be on.
For the link to tide I am going to
have the lead singer walking
down the beach on a cloudy day.
I will have quick flash backs to
emphasize the love that he has
lost, which will show him and
the person who has gone
together.
For the chorus leading in to the
ending I will have the shot back in
the theatre where I will have the
liveperformance showing the
singer playing the piano in a spot
light and there will be a cloud of
spot lights surrounding and
beams and video projection
showing rain and clouds and fog.
And then at the end on the last
word the loveof his life comes
though the door and he breaks
down.
Possible cut shots.
- to grey flashback
scenes of both
together
- to hands playing
piano when shot is in
different locations