Posted on 05/08/2017 9:12:09 AM PDT by mairdie
A literary song video for "Time After Time" by Eva Cassidy done to the TV show Lois and Clark.
For Warthog:
“Time After Time”
Eva Cassidy
Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick
And think of you
Caught up in circles confusion
Is nothing new
Flashback - warm nights
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories
Time after
Sometimes you picture me
I’m walking too far ahead
You’re calling to me, I can’t hear
What you’ve said
Then you say - go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
If you’re lost you can look - and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you - I’ll be waiting
Time after time
After my picture fades and darkness has
Turned to gray
Watching through windows - you’re wondering
If I’m OK
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time
If you’re lost you can look - and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you - I’ll be waiting
Time after time
You said go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
If you’re lost you can look - and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you - I’ll be waiting
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Eva Cassidy did not write this song.. it is a Cyndi Lauper song. If you really want to hear a fanastic version of it, google “TUCK AND PATTI and TIME AFTER TIME.
I believe Eva Cassidy sang it, Hildy. I didn’t mean to imply that she wrote it. If we could edit, sigh, I’d add a line noting the song writer. If I’m wrong about the singer, let me know. I screw up more times than imaginable. Thanks for the information.
“Literary”?!
Here's the Tuck and Patti Version. I think this is one of the most beautiful songs of my generation.
Literary Song Videos. Thirty years ago it was a phrase I came up with to explain what I was doing when I was interviewed. They’re chapters in a couple of books. It’s not a music video, which I think of as fine arts turned kinetic. It’s using video to analyze, explicate, interpret the poetry in the lyrics. You use the song to bring out aspects of a character or a show, or to turn an aspect on its head. Kandy Fong started it by putting still images to songs. I got into it very early - 1984 - and am one of the ancestors of the form as I trained a lot of the early vidders. While I was still working, people would fly in for all night sessions or stay a week while I trained them in the evenings. I ran a few seminars at cons. It was done on simple VCRs before non-linear editors like Avid made the form more accessible. I got the multimedia project at IBM Research BECAUSE I made these things, not the other way around. Bless fandom.
I still do “literary” but I now support academics doing poetry research analyzing 18th century American poetry. We transcribed the bodies of work of Henry Livingston and Clement Moore to statistically examine where the tongue went in the mouth when reciting poetry out loud - unconscious traits. Came out Henry. Have to pull away from all my music videos and such soon and go back to that as the academic’s book came out and he’s in arguments with another academic, and needs me to supply data for his “discussion.”
Eva Cassidy - one if my all-time favs. So sad to have lost her at such a young age ...
I only recently became aware of Eva Cassidy and listened to her music on LP vinyl on a high end audio system. Her singing was so beautiful that, when I shortly later found about her untimely and tragic death, it brought me to tears as I told my wife about it.
Thanks for all of your recommendations. I only knew this song from the Smallville album. Picked up her Best of album on Amazon.
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