Vid: Landsailor [multifandom]

[raven]

This vid was made for silly_cleo's wonderful Aims vid project, in which a group of vidders are each making one vid for each song on Vienna Teng's new album. I highly recommend it. I am very grateful to such_heights and purplefringe for their kind commentary and technical advice on this vid, not to mention many glasses of wine and their sofa to sleep on!

A small fact which may aid in your enjoyment of this vid, if you did not already know it: in Europe, India, Australia and most of the rest of the English-speaking world, the standard voltage for mains electricity is between 230 and 240V.

[vid] Landsailor [multifandom]
by Raven
We're gonna need a bigger boat.

music: "Landsailor", Vienna Teng feat. Glen Phillips, from Aims
content notes: none standard; some disturbing images of fire.
password to stream: 230V / download from mediafire, 100MB

landsailor from Raven on Vimeo.

Sources in order of appearance:

Swades (We, The People); Master and Commander; 3 Idiots; The Dish; The West Wing; Parks and Recreation; Flight of the Phoenix; NASA archive footage; Apollo 13.

lyrics:

landsailor
landsailor, sail on time
rain or shine, I know you can

cloudraker
cloudraker, share your finds
all your wonders at my demand

lightbringer
tamer of night
blossom of hours unleashed

make me a lawbender
all equalized
saved from the chill and heat
your power flows through me transformed
here’s where I was born

landsailor
deepwinter strawberry
endless summer, ever spring
a vast preserve
aisle after aisle in reach
every commoner made a king
earthbreaker
noble and prized
feed me beyond my means

hello worldmaker
never denied
build all my wildest dreams
but there’s a storm outside your door
and I’m a child no more

headless and faceless
tireless and seamless behind these walls
this is my progress
when you don’t notice my lines at all
I split the world open
delve ever deeper in my alchemic arts
I crack the ciphers to free up your mind, your life, your heart

oh landsailor I’m your landsailor
in the bed that we’ve made in the bed that we’ve made
may every nail be shown may every nail be shown
great lifebringer great lifebringer
the price that we pay the price that we pay
time that you made it known time that you made it known
I want to be your bride in full oh be my bride in full
shield my eyes no more shield your eyes no more
oh I am altered now for good altered now for good
shield these eyes no more shield these eyes no more