Smaller Than You- Who Knew Lyrics

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It was easy to see when you were looking around at me,
A face of despair and a dream for prosperity,
But things started to to change a descision was made,... See more
About what you wanna do...

WHO KNEW!

About all the troubles and the hassle of life,
Run away from it all, run away from the light,
Can i deal with these problems,
Later on in my life.
Later on... later on..on in my life.
Later on, on.

All the things that you said and all the things that you've done,
Have only set in upon the minds of the young,
Actions have consiquence as some may say,
And they're coming for me not you,

WHO KNEW!

About all the troubles and the hassle of life,
Run away from it all, run away from the light,
You can't deal with these problems,
Later on in your life.
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These lyrics are extremely important for my video to be successful in following the Godwin Theory. As the Godwin theory implies there is a link between the visuals and the lyrics, and the music and the visuals. Our video was based upon a fragmented narrative (developed by the editing) where the characters are running (Run away from it all) frantically from one another with a pair of drumsticks. These drum sticks are significant as Jake, the drummer of the band, is unable to play without them and it's his quest to retrieve them back. The characters are skaters and band members from 'Smaller Than You', and also connote youth and the genre of Ska. The form of the lyrics itself are extremely high in punctuation developing a fragmented and fast paced style, even on the page. This was utilised by our edit, where we put intervals between certain frames to get a flip book event. This added a comic-cartoon aspect to the video and the use of cross fades also progressed this.
We wanted the narrative to be fast paced because of the music, but as the lyrics constantly refer to movement, transition and time- "run", "change", "later", "away", "actions". We started the narrative off to a vibrant beginning and set it in the afternoon, to show time had changed we shot each progressing scene hours later, when the sun was setting and it was becoming noir, to connote this time transition in the lyrics. The lyric of- "And they're coming for me not you"- influenced the relay of narrative, the characters chasing after one another and only out for themselves.