Group - Treatment and Lyrics

There will be an almost entirely illustrative relationship between visuals and lyrics. Our video will have three distinct lines of action that all converge by the end of the song:

·         One will focus on the protagonist performing the song on stage, which is part of the narrative

·         The second is a dedicated narrative portion, told through flash-backs which focuses on the protagonist looking for blood and biting people

·         The final narrative portion being  focused on the protagonist recovering in her bedroom from a kind of hang-over bought on by her drinking too much blood

[Intro] (Walking towards the stage and dancing in the lead up to the song.)

Baby, pass the aspirin, something’s gotta work (Hard cut at the start of this line before the protagonist starts singing to her lying uncomfortably in her bed having just woken up from her "hangover".)
I know I did it to myself but man, oh man, it hurts
That second last Martini, the one that went down real smooth
Set me on the bender with nothing left to lose

I just can’t apologize
For what I did to myself
My bed’s an ocean liner (We can use some pro-filmic effects here to make the protagonist's bed rock like a ship.)
And I can’t call for help

Yea baby, it hurts a bunch
The girls got going and we had a munch (This introduces the group that the protagonist goes blood-sucking with.)
I promise on a dime, it’s the last time (This could be a small aside to the viewer that breaks the fourth wall or be delivered to her band.)
I’ll ever have a liquid lunch

Yea baby, it hurts a bunch
The girls got going and we had a munch
I promise on a dime, it’s the last time
I’ll ever have a liquid lunch

I think I’ve got the symptoms and none of them will leave
They think that it’s a party to laugh at all my grief (She sings this wryly to the band.)
It must’ve been a doozy, I had two hundred dreams
At least I found my pillow ‘cause I can’t find my keys (She rolls off her bed and grabs her pillow, and realises she's late for her performance.)

It’s hard to remember
All of the events
But I must’ve paid the tab (The protagonist leaves money to people after she has bitten them.)
‘Cause all that’s left is fifty cents

Yea baby, it hurts a bunch (This is connected to another human reeling in pain from being bitten.)
The girls got going and we had a munch
I promise on a dime it’s the last time
I’ll ever have a liquid lunch (She's preparing for her performance, hurriedly applying make-up, etc.)

Yea baby, it hurts a bunch (Refers to her pain after having drunk too much blood.)
The girls got going and we had a munch (She walks away from biting someone, wiping her mouth with a napkin.)
I promise on a dime it’s the last time
I’ll ever have a liquid lunch (Jump cutting her wiping blood from her mouth, looking more run down with each shot.)

Musical interlude (More jump cutting but at a slower pace to the previous two lines, cutting between each line of action, and her staggering back into her house which ties this line of action into the hangover.)

Maybe, I can call the pharmacy (She examines her fangs in the mirror after she has returned home from hunting, she is questioning being a vampire and her decisions that night.)
They’ll bring something up, something up 'toute suite' (She sits downtrodden against the wall in her bathroom.)
Some exotic medicine to cure my every ill (She struggles to get to her bed.)
With some kind of magic pill (She collapses onto her bed at the end of the line. This brings the line of action up to the start of the hangover line of action.)

I just can’t apologize
For what I did to myself
My bed’s an ocean liner
And I can’t call for help

Instrumental (The protagonist leaves her house and heads towards performance area, trying to restrain herself from biting people on the way. This is inter-cut with shots of the band looking expectant like they have a plan, it is easy to assume that this is because the protagonist is late. A member of the band whispers in her ear that they are planning an attack on the audience after the performance and she is initially shocked and unwilling to go along with it. This makes this line of action converge with the performance.)

Yea baby, it hurts a bunch
The girls got going and we had a munch
I promise on a dime, it’s the last time
I’ll ever have a liquid lunch (This first chorus returns to a typical performance segment.)

Yea baby, it hurts a bunch
The girls got going and we had a munch
I promise on a dime, it’s the last time
I’ll ever have a liquid lunch (The protagonist is coming round to the idea of partaking in the band's planned attack. shown through shots of the audience's neck and hints in the lyrics, for example "I promise on a dime" could be delivered coyly to the band. The band’s vampire teeth are revealed to the crowd, people at the front have noticed and are growing worried.)

Yea baby, it hurts a bunch
The girls got going and we had a munch
I promise on a dime, it’s the last time
I’ll ever have a liquid lunch ( It is revealed that members of the audience are vampires, particularly towards the back, panic is setting in)

Yea baby, it hurts a bunch
The girls got going and we had a munch
I promise on a dime, it’s the last time
I’ll ever have a liquid lunch (Shots showing full scale of chaos and panic as vampires in the crowd and band prepare to attack, band loosens ties, the protagonist and band jump off the stage and attack at the end of the song.)