Wednesday, September 9, 2015

"The End of the World in Fort Worth" (video)

"The End of the World in Fort Worth" has been at an almost-finished point for some while.

The video below is the intro up through the start of Silas playing something.  The video starts into a song but it's only a placeholder and is not the final.

The story through this point is strange doings in Fort Worth as people are disappearing for no apparent reason.  We see various examples of this and then, amazingly enough, decide to head out of town.  There is short, baleful riff for the scene with Gabriel and his horn but it is not in this Take.

So, this sets the stage.





No need to embed the "Demons and Butterflies" video as most of it I will throw but conceptually it works as this will tell the story backwards.  The mystery is presented as all these people disappear and, gee, that's kind of unusual.  That leads out to Silas wailing on the guitar and this reveals the story of lack of respect for refugees.  This continues into the new part in the lyrics in which it comes that refugees are people so refugees are us.  Failing to take care of them will result in self-destruction for us all ... and the punchline:  it has already started.  That should be enough to link this back to the intro of the video so go into screaming, crying wah-wah guitar and then fade to black.

Possibly reprise the riff on Gabriel's horn at the end to fade.  The existing riff (which you can't hear on the Take V video) is not in the same key as "Demons and Butterflies" and the answer isn't to transpose the song but to transpose the riff and record it again.  That will definitely recall the intro so I believe there's a working model here.

Now to make it work.

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