Where Boys Fear To Tread by Swifty009@aol.com Beginning: a dark sky with lightning flashing off sporadically. The camera is focused on an old, twisted tree that is on a hilltop with a thin path winding in front of it. For the whole intro thingy...actually, nah, the radio would chop that right off, so just start it with four drum clicks and a one-guitar intro, then the bass, then four drum WHAMs then the whole band. (Think of it as the radio edit, I guess...I don't think anybody in their right mind at a radio would keep the jam intro, much less eMpTyVee) Oh, and a note: each time the rocket DOOM sound explodes, lightning flashes in the dark sky where applicable (like, if the scene directions say that the sky has turned blue then cancel the lightning obviously) OK. Here we go. Until the whole band enters in the song, white gossamer feathers fall sporadically in front of the tree in slow motion while wind moves the branches of the tree gently. In the drum beat thing, the scene changes to an eye, full screen. The iris of the eye is not colored as usual: it's totally white. On the third drum smack, the iris bursts into flame. When the full band comes in, the scene flips back to the tree shot, but this time instead of just feathers falling we see an angel, totally on fire, wings and everything, smack into the ground face first as if she has fallen from the sky face first. "Candy cane walks down" We get a shot of the angel from a worms' eye view, aimed at the face of the angel. She is female, with black hair, a pale complexion, fair features. All in all, she's really quite beautiful. She has her eyes closed, and her face is smeared with blood and dirt (in fact, her face seems to be pretty badly scratched up). At about "down", she opens her eyes, and the iris is NOT blue (surprise!), it better resembles a lava lamp with too many colors in it, or a mood ring that can't make up its mind. "To build a bonfire" The angels' eyes shift colors really really fast and land on icy, light blue, and we see the fire on her back dissipate. "To break my fall" We see a shot from the first angle of the angel picking herself up. One of her wings is broken, dripping a silvery liquid. "My baby, my sweet thing" The angel looks up suddenly as if afraid, the camera zooms in EXTREMELY FAST to her eye, *into her iris*, out the other side, and into heaven, where we see this imp-like creature laughing so loudly he is almost screaming (well, that's the visual effect anyway, you get the point). This guy has goat hooves and legs, a stubby goat tail, a man's body (buff), little stubby horns, etc. "Just maybe we could lose ourselves this time" It's heaven still, and we see Jesus paying the goat-imp off, counting out twenties, in his robes and everything, with a little shepherd's crook. Near the end of the line, we zoom in to the crook and see a bunch of hatch marks on it, and one sort of burns itself in as we watch. "King of the horseflies, dark prince of death" The angle zooms back out through the angel's eyes (FAST) and suddenly an identical mark as on the stave rips itself into the back of the angels' hands. THe angel sees this, then runs a few feet, stumbles, looks at a 45 degree angle downwards, and gasps. "His tragic forces are heaven-sent, in sweet things, in a lovers breath" Okay kids, here's what the money's really gonna be spent on in this video. The angel looks down into the valley the hill is on and sees a gigantic pit, with crooked spikes lining it, fire gouting out of the pit walls in places, with lava bubbling at the bottom, circular saws flying through the air in places, and electricity arcing in places. The camera pans slightly to the left, then right, to show that this is one big pit. Then the camera raises enough to show that there is another side to the pit, and that goat-men have lined up around the sides of this pit and are holding staves that are on fire with blue flame and, as we watch, one shoots a gout of flame at our angel. "A go-go-kids" Our angel gasps and recoils, then the camera rotates to in front of her face. "A go-go-style" Her eyes flash as before and land on green. "A suck suck kiss" The camera rotates back and the angel clamps her fists together, side by side (to see what I mean, make two fists, stick your thumbs under the rest of your fingers, then touch the knuckles of your thumbs together). "A suck suck style" A big-ass green ball forms around the hands of the angel, flattens out and shoots. Think, here, Spawn. Or just about any comic book character. "As always, in young need" We see the green shot and the blue gout connect and explode. If this coincided with an explosion in the song it would be quite cool. Seriously consider adding one in for the MTV version just to make it happen. "A veiled promise to never die" We rotate to the devils, who stop jumping around, and all aim their sticks at the angel. Right on time with the music, they all fire at once. "On dead highways" Flash back to heaven. The goatman is counting his money, and he stops and looks down. "Her black beauties roam" We pan up and over and see the goatman looking at a hole in the cloud-ground. Something by it flashes. "For june angels" The goatman reaches down and picks it up, and it is... "So far from home" A feather! Yes! The guy has picked up a feather from the angel! And it was by this pit thing! Wow! "For a love lost" The angel looks grim. Her eyes start to flash again. "A faded picture" Jesus is walking again, when he stops and looks at his cane. "To tread lightning" The mark that was burned in suddenly erases itself. "To ink the lavender skies" The angels' eyes stop on black. --Get on the bomb breakdown-- "Get on, get on, get on the bomb" The goatman in heaven looks in the pit and screams "NO!!!" (hopefully you can see him mouthing it) "Get back, get back, where you belong" Jesus whirls around and a red halo forms around his head. "Get on, get on, get on the bomb" The same halo forms around the goat-man's head, his eyes vanish, his jaw drops, and he topples into the pit. (He is obviously dead, folks) "Get back, get back, where you belong" The angel does a swan dive into the pit. "Get on..." Jesus turns back around, and keeps walking. (switch back to the angel) The camera, in a bird's eye view looking straight down, zooms out as the angel zooms down, the camera spiraling. (since this is one big pit we can do this) We see all of the blue flashes detonating on the tree, totalling the tree and the top of the hill. Then, in the last 10 seconds or so of the video, the center of the angel erupts in light and she explodes in light. Camera zooming out EXTREMELY FAST, we see the light ripping into all the demons, a black *pop* eminating from where each demon was before the light hit them. Where the light hits the land the land becomes green and grassy. The last thing shown is one little feather landing by a budding flower, and when the feather touches it the flower blooms, becoming a nodding tiny sunflower with an eye for the center. And any feedback you have for me will be appreciated. I'm gonna make more after this probably, because I think this is a really cool idea, but hey, if you *really* like it, you know, I might actually do some heavy work on them. Who knows. --Swifty-- (swifty009@aol.com)