No Rest - Dry the River

We listened to the song No Rest by the band Dry the River, we had to listen to the song first with our eyes closed and really feel and think about the song and what we visualise, then we read along the lyrics and finally we watched the music video for the song.

Emotions?

From the song i get emotions like a happy sadness from the mythical-esk lyrics at the beginning, speaking about kings and names of legend like "Soloman". These emotions were rectified in the lyrics used in connection to the story they tell, in my opinion, a build up of a one sided relationship and then the break down. The video conjures the same emotions as this but there is more added to it because of the interpretation of the visual imagery like the visual metaphors that the band use to represent certain parts of the relationship. Making the connections of visual metaphors in conjunction to the story then emits a deeper level of emotion for the watcher.

Visualisation and Music Video Imagining

A lone man walking through the corridors of a castle then finding happiness in some way or another, a woman, a teddy bear (more of an abstract idea, like a childlike connection to something), etc.

Love and heartbreak, running around in summer my holiday to the Czech Republic, sunlight and slow motion stuff in meadows and fields. running around with his new love and then being alone again wandering the halls of the castle but life is okay now even though he is alone.

In the video i imagine has no performance from the band instead just the narrative of the lone man, haunted by his loneliness and then finding his happiness but then it turns to sadness again; i got this idea from the echoed high voices of the singers and the filling music of the instrument very emotive music.

The music video

The music video was not what i visualised but i can see how it shows the journey of the song, being alone "like Soloman", then not being alone exemplified by the rocks surrounding them, the fire showing the passion of the love but then the dead bird being a omen of the heartbreak or breakdown of the relationship, then the water being chucked over the band - rather aggressively - shows the trauma of those emotions being broken and running away, as portrayed in the second last verses lyrics and then for the last verse the enlightenment from the experience is portryed through the bright light on the bandmates faces.


Other Peoples Ideas

Ben G - "In my head I saw a lone man walking along a beach, and it would cut to him seeing his wife/girlfriend, creating a feel that they have split up and he misses her."

Bens idea follows the same sort of theme as I had and that the song has, that of heartbreak and relationship, we saw different settings of the video in our minds, different from each other an different to the actual music video.

We both shared the image of seeing a lone man walking around, alone. And the idea of a loved one being gone.


The Video