Paper Moon, lyric video sample
- Song language English
- 30-second excerpt
Style and material
“Paper Moon” is a gentle song about ordinary love. Rain draws rivers down the window, a tune is never finished, and love turns out to be a cold hand reached for rather than fireworks and a grand arrival. It is quiet on purpose. A blackboard drawing in coloured chalk: a kitchen sink with a tap, a steaming mug, a plant and a striped tea towel. The lyrics are written in chalk beside them, in soft pink and blue. Chalk keeps the picture small and domestic, which suits a song about ordinary things.
About this clip
Paper Moon is a 30-second lyric video sample for a song in English.
Visual style: chalk lettering on a blackboard. Chalk on a blackboard: the lyrics are written in chalk.
Across the clip: The whole clip is drawn in coloured chalk on a dark blackboard. It starts in a small kitchen with a sink, a steaming mug and a tea towel, moves to a window with rain running down the glass, and then to a night scene with a hanging paper moon above a garden fence and a row of little houses. Later come a gramophone on a sideboard and, at the end, two hands reaching for each other above a shelf of potted plants.
The first and the last line of the clip:
“Your blue mug waits beside the sink”
“And every ordinary thing made sense”
More in this style (chalk):
Lyrics (caption text)
The same text as the captions of the video.
Your blue mug waits beside the sink
A paper moon from last July
You hum the tune you never finish
While rain draws rivers down the glass
I used to think that love meant fireworks
A grand arrival, something loud
Then you reached over for my cold hand
And every ordinary thing made sense
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