No Rest - Dry the River

Connection between music/lyrics and visuals

Listen to the track with your eyes closed. First the music:

What are the emotions it stirs?
What do you visualise?
What images are conjured up in your mind when you hear the song?
Intertextuality, voyeurism, performance, narrative, abstract? A combination?
How do you picture the music video?
What did others say about their ideas for a music video? Which did you like the best?


Then the lyrics:

"No Rest"

I used to be a king alone
Like Solomon or Rehoboam
And in the eaves, the Corvidae
Did jealous keep my picture frames
And everything did oxidate in place.

But then you came, a single cell
With astrolabe and carousel
And algebra and symmetry
And none of this was lost on me
And I could see how still I’d been before

If I don’t eat, I don’t sleep at all
Like limbs in procession,
Like so many birds
Stampeding like oxen,
Our hearts are a herd

I loved you in the best
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best

Did you see the light in my heart?
Did you see the sweat on my brow?
Did you see the fear in my heart?
Did you see me bleeding out?

I loved you in the best
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best…

Now watch the video.