'Counterpoint' By Delphic
Late at night, I'll run through the streets and empty corridors.
I'll find my counterpoint, inside a red room locked behind a door.
I keep holding my head up, holding it up.
Holding my head up, holding it up.
And you just don't come back, around.
It seems to me that we will never be.
And tell me nothings wrong, nothings wrong, nothings wrong today.
Just tell me nothings wrong, nothings wrong, nothings wrong today.
Late at night, I'll run through the streets and empty corridors.
I'll find my counterpoint, inside a red room locked behind a door. Behind a door.
And someone tell me,
nothings wrong, nothings wrong, nothings wrong today.
Just tell me nothings wrong, nothings wrong, nothings wrong today.
Ooooooh, everything I know.
Ooooooh, everything I know.
Is suddenly gone.
And tell me nothings wrong, nothings wrong, nothings wrong today.
And someone tell me, nothings wrong, nothings wrong, nothings wrong today, today, today, today.
In asking a number of people, there seemed to be many different interpretations to the song. It is made obvious that there is something wrong with the singer, as they aim to deny and convince themselves otherwise. However, it is not clear to what this is exactly. Individuals have analysed this in being because of the loss of a sexual partner, as we read ‘it seems that we will never be’ and ‘you just don’t come back’. This could be due to them going their separate ways or maybe because of her passing away, if looking at it in more dramatic terms, as this could relate to the link to a ‘red room’. This would work when looking at the loss of not just a partner, but of a friend or family member to, trying to deviate from the typical love relation to many bands lyrics.
The song could also manage to be linked with a place, rather than a person. He may have had to move away from home for example, claiming that ‘everything I know has suddenly gone’. Choosing a song with many different variations of belief has enabled us to widen our ideas, rather than being narrowed down by a straight forward and obvious story line. I wanted to ensure that our video leaves some questions and allows for different interpretations to be made in much
the same way, finding this to add fascination and interest.Although we do not want to relate to the lyrics quite so obviously in our video, there must be some links made obvious for the audience to connect the two. In particular, we will follow the lyrics as they explain how he finds his place behind a ‘red room locked behind a door’, using this in our images. Another way this song can be read is that the person feels as though they do not fit in, as he tries to ‘hold his head up’ and believes that his ‘counterpoint’ is kept away from everyone else.
With much consideration, we decided that we needed to be clear of a very basic story line to ensure our story makes sense and save confusion. We will stick to the view that he is missing his girlfriend, or fiancé, as she has passed away and, even so, he is still expecting and wanting her to come back. Using a more dramatic storyline, allows for us to connect much more with the audience and add some more interest to our video, being a more demanding and relatable link. We will still aim to not make this very clear; meaning some of the other meanings to the lyrics may still have the ability to flow through. Some of the strangeness of the bands videos they have done themselves will try to be apparent, along with short clips of them performing throughout. We may include some evidence of the man thinking she has come back, before realising he is imagining it and much of the story will be taking place in a red room, whether this is done with painted walls or with the use of coloured smoke. We will ensure to use many camera angles and follow the tempo of the music with our editing.
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