Extensive thoughts on possible vids:

[butterfly]

The Fallen cd has given me multiple vid bunnies for future consideration.

Going Under: Buffy vs. the World. This would be Buffy up to the end of The Gift. The Buffy who is wondering whether or not this world that asks her to give up her very humanity is worth saving anymore. She's challenging the world to give her another solution.


Now I will tell you what I've done for you (Buffy in the training room with Giles in The Gift)
50,000 tears I've cried (After killing Angel, I imagine)
Screaming, (The scream in Hush)
Deceiving, (tricking Faith in Enemies)
And bleeding for you (any number of eps, really. maybe the end of Helpless)
And you still won't hear me (confronting Giles about the idea of killing Dawn)
Going under...(Buffy collapsing into her coma at the end of Spiral)
Don't want your hand this time (after Giles has told her about drugging her in Helpless)
I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once (wake up for once)
Not tormented daily
defeated by you
Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom

[Chorus]
I dive again
I'm going under (going under)
Drowning with you (drowning with you)
I'm falling forever (falling forever)
I've got to break through
I'm going under (these would all be her trying to win and not, basically. world screwing Buffy. I need to rewatch the eps)

Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies
(I don't know what's real and what's not)
Always confusing the thoughts is my head
So I can't trust myself anymore (These would be Buffy doing the spell in No Place Like Home)

I dive again
I'm going under (going under)
Drowning with you (drowning with you)
I'm falling forever (falling forever)
I've got to break through,
I'm, so go on and scream
Scream at me, so far away
I won't be broken again
I've got to breathe
I can't keep going under

I dive again
I'm going under (going under)
Drowning with you (drowning with you)
I'm falling forever (falling forever)
I've got to break through,
I'm, going under (going under)
Going under (drowning with you)
I'm going under (This last set will definitely be Buffy jumping in The Gift)


Bring me to Life: Basically, I'd like to do my icon set in vid form. I'd just look up the clips from those scenes and use them.

Everybody's Fool: A Jasmine vid! Definitely. Going through her beginnings to her end. And it's Jasmine as object. She's the 'you' of the song. It's really perfect.

The musical bit at the beginning would be Connor and Cordy doing the ritual. I think that at the beginning of the bass would be when the killing happens.

perfect by nature
icons of self-indulgence
just what we all need
more lies about a world that

never was and never will be
have you no shame don't you see me
you know you've got everybody fooled

look here she comes now
bow down and stare in wonder
oh how we love you
no flaws when you're pretending
but now I know she

never was and never will be
you don't know how you've betrayed me
and somehow you've got everybody fooled

without the mask where will you hide
can't find yourself lost in your lie

I know the truth now
I know who you are
and I don't love you anymore

it never was and never will be
you don't know how you've betrayed me
and somehow you've got everybody fooled

never was and never will be
you're not real and you can't save me
somehow now you're everybody's fool


My Immortal: Spike/Buffy, perhaps. If it were, I'd only have it go through his soulless period. I've also considered Willow/Tara, set first after Tara leaves, then after a brief respite, moves to after Tara's death, with flashbacks.

I'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
because your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
and I've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but now I'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
and I've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
and though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

when you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
and I've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me


Haunted: I was thinking Angel(us)/Darla. Season two with flashbacks.

long lost words whisper slowly to me
still can't find what keeps me here
when all this time I've been so hollow inside
I know you're still there

watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
fearing you loving you
I won't let you pull me down

hunting you I can smell you - alive
your heart pounding in my head (Definitely Angel finding out that Darla is human)

watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
saving me raping me
watching me

watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
fearing you loving you
I won't let you pull me down


Tourniquet: Connor. Poor, poor Connor.

I tried to kill the pain,
But only brought more.
(So much more)
I lay dying,
And I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal.

I'm dying,
Praying,
Bleeding,
And screaming.
Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?
My God, my tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.
My God, my tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.

Do you remember me? (I'd have Connor's return here, as a flashback, I guess)
Lost for so long.
Will you be on the other side?
Will you forgive me?

I'm dying,
Praying,
Bleeding,
and screaming.

Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?

My God, my tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.
My God, my tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.

(Return to me salvation)
(I want to die!)

My God, my tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.
My God, my tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.

My wounds cry for the grave.
My soul cries for deliverance.
Will I be denied?
Christ! Tourniquet!
My suicide. (Connor standing up in the sports store)


Imaginary: Fred's song. Mix up brutal reality with her idealized love with Gunn and suchlike.

(paper flowers)
(paper flowers)

I linger in the doorway
of alarm clock screaming
monsters calling my name
let me stay
where the wind will whisper to me
where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story

in my field of paper flowers
and candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
and watch my purple sky fly over me

don't say I’m out of touch
with this rampant chaos - your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
the nightmare I built my own world to escape

in my field of paper flowers
and candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
and watch my purple sky fly over me

swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
the goddess of imaginary light

in my field of paper flowers
and candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
and watch my purple sky fly over me

(paper flowers)
(paper flowers)


Taking over Me: The only song that I haven't had vid thoughts for. There just isn't a couple that one-sided that I've seen.

Hello: Sixth season Dawn.

playground school bell rings again
rain clouds come to play again
has no one told you she's not breathing?
hello I’m your mind giving you someone to talk to (all of this is pre-resurrection Bargaining Dawn)
hello (Seeing Buffy again for the first time)

if I smile and don't believe
soon I know I’ll wake from this dream
don't try to fix me I’m not broken
hello I’m the lie living for you so you can hide
don't cry

suddenly I know I’m not sleeping
hello I’m still here
all that's left of yesterday (all of this is pre-Buffy's epiphany in the dirt hole)


My Last Breath: Tara, Seeing Red interspersed with flashbacks.

Hold on to me love
You know I can't stay long
All I wanted to say was
I love you and I'm not afraid

Can you hear me?
Can you feel me in your arms
Holding my last breath?
Safe inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you

Sweet rapture and life,
It ends here tonight.

I'll miss the winter
A world of fragile things
Look for me in the white forest
Hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)

I know you hear me,
I can taste it in your tears.
Holding my last breath
Safe inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you.

Sweet rapture and life,
It ends here tonight.

Closing your eyes
You pray your dreams will leave you here,
But still you wake and know the truth -
No one's there.

Say goodnight, don't be afraid
Calling me, holding me, as you fade to black.

(Say goodnight) Holding my last breath
(Don't be afraid) Safe inside myself
(Holding me) Are my thoughts of you
Sweet rapture and life,
It ends here tonight.


Whisper: Sixth and Seventh Season Buffy.

catch me as I fall
say you're here and it's all over now
speaking to the atmosphere
no one's here and I fall into myself
this truth drives me into madness
I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away
if I will it all away

don't turn away
(don't give in to the pain)
don't try to hide
(though they're screaming your name)
don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
don't turn out the light
(never sleep never die)

I'm frightened by what I see
but somehow I know that there's much more to come
immobilized by my fear
and soon to be blinded by tears
I can stop the pain if I will it all away
if I will it all away

don't turn away
(don't give in to the pain)
don't try to hide
(though they're screaming your name)
don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
don't turn out the light
(never sleep never die)

fallen angels at my feet
whispered voices at my ear
death before my eyes
lying next to me I fear
she beckons me shall I give in
upon my end shall I begin
forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end

don't turn away
(don't give in to the pain)
don't try to hide
(though they're screaming your name)
don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
don't turn out the light
(never sleep never die)

don't turn away
don't try to hide
don't close your eyes
don't turn out the light

don't turn away
don't try to hide
don't close your eyes
don't turn out the light

Comments

[theamyrlin.livejournal.com]

I thought the exact same thing about the Jasmine video! Twins! I thought that My Immortal was better suited to Buffy/Angel, though.

I thought that Taking over Me would be a good one for an Everwood video (Amy/Colin).

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Everwood. So. Clueless.

But yeah, there needs to be a Jasmine vid to Everybody's Fool. It's like they wrote it with that arc in mind.

Re: My Immortal, I think that there's a certain one-sidedness in the song that doesn't suit B/A, though a talented vidder could certainly persuade me otherwise. It fits pre-soul B/S for me because Buffy wasn't there the whole time, while I do feel that Buffy and Angel have never been that down about their relationship. Actually, I see the B/A relationship as fairly healthy, at least as of Chosen. And B/A's relationship was always about mutuality, even when it wasn't. Part of my problem is that it's incredibly hard of me to switch pov's in songs. So, with My Immortal, I can 'see' Spike in the whole song, but if I went with B/A, you'd have to switch between the two of them, because they share the love in a way that I still think that B/S never has (though they shared other things, Buffy never loved him like he loved her, which I think he recognized in the end).

[soulfictionlady.livejournal.com]

How about Willow/Xander for that song? Willow loved him but he never saw her for more than a friend really. Until, you know, they kissed and OZ and Cordy saw them and stuff...

For that Jasmine vid though. Totally awesome. Really great choice!!

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[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Not sure. And like you said, it's not like he never noticed. So. Hmm.

And yeah, if I get vid-making stuff, I'd do that Jasmine one first.