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* You see the band playing on a green hill, a
beautiful starry night around them. The band and
especially Billy, have a look of certainty and
serenity.* (Gone, long gone.) *Close up of Billy looking down and playing the guitar. As soon as he sings, 'blink', he and the band disappear and then reemerge as he sings, 'gone, gone, gone.'* (Leave this world of wrong, wrong, wrong.) *You see a mother standing in front of her son crying and her husband yells and hits her.* (Leave it far behind.) *The camera reemerges on the band and now they are levitating above the ground. Billy has his arms outstretched and is smiling.* (And although my secret's gone.) *you see a pretty woman in front of Billy. She opens her hands to reveal she is holding a translucent, beautifully glowing heart. She closes her hands and abruptly the band falls to the ground.* (I will try to carry on. If I must I'll carry on, without you.) *Billy lifts himself to his hands and knees and looks up at the woman's retreating figure. He sings still faithfully albeit a bit angered, but now his lip is bleeding from the fall.* (Gone, long gone.) *You see Billy stand up and start running down the field as the rest of the band gathers.* (Leave this world of wrong, wrong, wrong.) *You now see a homeless man lying against a wall asleep.* (Beyond the pale, beyond the dawn. Flee these mortal bonds.) *The camera is in front of Billy who is still running while he sings, smiling. The sun is beginning to rise.* (No one knows I can't be wrong. Still I sing the same old songs. I tried to be strong.) *Billy slowly stops running and looks down as he sings. He looks up as he sings, 'For you.' and his band is standing a few meters away reaching out to him. The camera closes up on Billy and you can see his breath in the cool dawn air. His nose is slightly read and there are tears in his eyes. He turns around as the sky darkens a little and sees the same woman standing.* (Why have you left me amongst the tall trees?) *Billy turns to her and sings with a pained look on his face and walks toward her.* (I knew I gave her all I had.) *Turns to the band and then back to the woman* (And I tied her heart in ribbons, and I tied her heart in ribbons. And I tied her heart in ribbons and bows.) *He extends his hands to her and in them is another beautifully radiant heart with a pink ribbon tied around it. He gives her the heart and she takes it.* (And I'm gone, oh yes I'm gone.) *As she takes the heart, the ribbon flies off of it and into the sky as it lightens and the woman disappears as she and Billy share a sad, but understanding smile.* (And I'm lost without you. And I'm lost within you. And I'm gone.) *The camera is looking down on Billy and his is spinning on top of the hill and singing as the sun caresses and erases the darkness.* (So gone. Long gone.) *He stops spinning and strums his guitar once more as he and the band look into the camera as they disappear.* By Patty Blair : OwenaX24@yahoo.com A the intro plays a camera pointing at Jupiter slowly zooms in until right as Billy Corgan says 'Gone, long gone...' it is close enough to see that Jupiter has a face like the moon in the 'Tonight, Tonight' video, only handsome. It sings the lyrics and the camera slowly pans around so that you see the other planets in the same perspective all together. It involves some slight of hand camera trickery and is very digital and cartoonish, yet powerful. All of the planets have a little bit of a frown except for the moon who is asleep, the sun who is indifferent, mars who is indifferent then angry then indifferent, and venus who frowns until Jupiter (which is Billy) sings:'I tied her heart in ribbons...' where venus starts weeping. The weeping goes on until the last strum of the guitar at which point in silence, the planets faces all dissappear as their eyes close and the moon wakes up. The sun winks at the moon, the moon smiles and the video fades to black. By - Tim Zero0Zero0Zero@aol.com |
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