Lyrics along with story.

The whole story of our video:

It starts with the sky, we're going to pan the camera from the sky, to the trees, and then to Tyler. Who appears to be sitting in a park on a bench. He looks at his watch, showing the audience he's waiting for someone. We then show Charlotte (his girlfriend) texting Tyler "I can't do this anymore, it's over".


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( "There was a shot in the dark,
I was caught by surprise
There was a hole in my heart,                                                              

There were tears in your eyes
And there was nothing to say,
Cause you made up your mind
And so I guess what you meant
When you left was goodbye". )

He gets up, and starts walking on his own. He walks down the path still lip-syncing the words showing his stressed, and upset about their breakup. He sits aganist a wall, and then we insert flashbacks.

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 And leave me in a lonely gray
I won't let it show, 
Until you finally float away". )

The first flashback is of the couple playing around, in a park. Chasing each other, laughing and teasing each other. We then planned a short reverse shot in a local cafe. We intend to have the couple sitting with each other as the flashback. The camera is going to go from Tyler, (smiling and happy) to Charlotte (also happy, and in love) and then moves back to Tyler. When it moves back to Tyler it will no longer be a flashback and now turns back to reality. The camera will cut back to an empty chair to show she's no longer in his life.
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("You gotta know that you tear me up
When you say you wanna take it all away, take it all away
You tear it up when you say
You wanna take it all away, take it all away!
You were the one, and it was enough
To be the one you were dreaming of!
You were the one and we called it love
And now you take it away, take away")

We also plan to still show him distressed, and almost confused and angry as why this has happened. He can't digest what happened, and is struggling. He'll lip sync through this whole verse. We're also thinking about having a time lapse through this verse to represent his life at present. Without her, his life has sort of stopped. But the world and time is still passing.

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"I felt a pain in my chest with your kiss on my cheek
And as I tried to digest the words I couldn't believe
I'm left with nothing to say with my heart on my sleeve 
Making it easy to hurt, and even harder to breathe."

"So if you gonna go,
And leave me in the lonely gray
I won't let it show,
Until you finally float away"

Another flashback inserted here. We have the couple at an arcade. they'll play games and enjoy each other's company. They'll also go to a photo booth and take photographs. We'll take a close up shot of the photos as they as printed. They'll be pulling funny faces, and they'll be happy. He'll start to lip sync in Greenwich. We want to get a shot where he's standing at the edge looking at a scenery of London. Looking and also feeling lonely.

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"You tear me up when you say 
You wanna take it away, take it all away!
You were the one, and it was enough
To be the one you were dreaming of!
You were the one and we called it love
And now you take it away, take away!
You take it all away, you take it all away"

In the song, at 2:25 there's a sound that reminds us of water, it's a blurred out sound. We decided to record the clock and rewind to then show the past. The music fits very well with this scene.

It'll then rewind back to another flashback, to the first time Charlotte and Tyler met. They'll be walking down a path also in Greenwich and Charlotte will drop something. Tyler and Charlotte both go to fench it and end up touching each other's hands. They instantly smile and fall in love. The last scene, It'll go back to reality and Tyler will be sitting again on his own. He'll have the photo they took at the photo booth. Then he'll start to burn the image, with a lighter. He'll then walk away from the photo. Leaving it to burn to show, he'll get over her.

ñ"You gotta know that you tear me up
When you say you wanna take it away, take it away
You tear me up when you say
You wanna take it away, take it all away!
You were the one, and it was enough
To be the one you were dreaming of!
You were the one and we called it love
And now you take it away, take away!
You take it all away, you take it all away"

Analyzing the lyrics has helped with ideas with what happening inside the frame with camera shots, etc. I always really enjoyed planning out how the music video will be and definitely look forward to filming the final piece!