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LVI Bot · Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 10111

"Prison Grove" 05-22-2006
Sayid and the most depressing song ever. The title says it all.
Song: Prison Grove by Warren Zevon
Vidder: thefilmchick
Length: 4:53 (36.59MB wmv)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv9oT0YBFOc

thefilmchick · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:52 am Post subject:

Lyrics, for what it's worth:

Prison Grove, by Warren Zevon

An icy wind burns and scars,
rushes in like a fallen star,
through the narrow space
between these bars -
looking down on prison grove.

Dug in, hunkered down;
hours race without a sound.
Gonna carry me to where I'm bound,
looking down on prison grove.

Iron will, hard as rock;
hold me up for the fateful knock,
when they walk me down in a mortal lock,
out on prison grove

Shine on all these broken lives.
Shine on; shine the light on me.

Knick-knack, paddy-whack;
they say you'll hear your own bones crack.
When they bend you back to bible black,
then you'll find your love.

Some folks have to die too hard.
Some folks have to cry too hard.
Take one last look at the prison yard.
Goodbye, prison grove.

Shine on all these broken lives.
Shine on; shine the light on me.

LadySnow · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:33 am Post subject:

I LOVED the song, and I liked your vid a lot too

... Sayid has so much angst potential .. and so rarely do you see a vid about him! (though I would have done the ending a bit differently *shrugs)

thefilmchick · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:50 am Post subject:

Thanks! Idle curiosity, how would you have done the ending? I needed a slow fade, and that scene of him alone on the beach in Solitary seemed suitable.

And yeah, the video's incredibly angsty. But the lyrics are so fitting that I couldn't resist.

LadySnow · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject:

... personally I would have done like a slow-motion... him being walked off... because the end of the song seemed very death row... I'm leaving and I'll never see this place again... I like what you did .. it just seemed anticlimactic maybe

thefilmchick · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject:

That's a good point, admittedly; maybe if I edit the video I'll see how something a little darker looks, there.

The reason I went with slightly less grim stuff was that the crescendo with certain images (Sayid in Danielle's hut cut to Sayid laying down a dead Shannon; Shannon and Sayid about to have sex cut to Sayid with his head in his hands) was so dark that I didn't want to take away from the power (cheesy, sorry) of those shots.

I will see how it looks with something more dead-man-walking, though I'll need to use a shot I haven't used. Thus, I can't use him being picked up in London, or taken out of the prison yard - thoughts on what I could use? I don't have all the episodes DLed yet, so there's that - but I have all the Sawyer-centric and Sayid-centric ones, if anything strikes you from any of those.

deserted · Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

I know this is one of your earliest vids, but it is still one of my favorites. The song is so stark and bleak, and you picked clips that fit perfectly. Simple but very moving. Overall it paints a very dark and fatalistic portrait of a good man that simply cannot escape his past and his pain.

thefilmchick · Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

Sayid does have a rather fatalistic/pained-past life, doesn't he? Similar to Sawyer in that way, heh - yet another way the two are alike, though neither of them would probably like the comparison.

And yeah, it's one of my earliest. I don't think it shows as me being new to the software as badly as 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me' or 'Will the Wolf Survive?' though - there aren't half as many messy clips, certainly.
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