(The song begins with the guitars.  Wide shot of LA.  Perfectly serene.  The sun sets and falls and the moon stars come and out, and then, sunrise.  The clouds are animated and beautiful.  Moving right before dusk, when Phil kicks in.)

(The camera catches glimpes of city life in its busy activity, but always safely returns to the surreal slow motion.  Graceful cars explode onward and then brake into a floating state.  A coffee mug falls and breaks open like Hiroshima through the eyes of god.  The camera catches those well hidden faces of dispair on citizens faces, as they make their way through downtown.)

(Thom is in a convertable, riding home, as he approaches the camera, he begins to sing.)

transport

(shot of traffic)

 motorways & tram lines

(He looks at the passing rail line.  Cut to the lost child inside, clenching her doll.)

* starting and then stopping

(Onlookers watch him pass, a quiet envy on their face.  He drives through a red light.  Cut to a graphic shot of a heart valve in motion, and then the reflection of a mother staring into a flatline.)

* taking off and landing
(Planes flying in and out of the airport are seen in the sunset distance as he leaves downtown.)
(Thom is singing.)

*the emptiest of feelings
(A surreal shot from the inside the back of a commercial airliner, the gasmasks are down and the lights are off)

disappointed people
(Bums from downtown clinging onto bottles catch his brake lights in their peripheral. Beautiful rich people at a gala, sipping champagne)

* clinging onto bottles

(The bow tie is off, the once successful playboy is a slave to his bottle, in fetal position against the corner in his study)

* and when it comes its so so disappointing
(A teenager in a high school bathroom looks at a positive pregnancy test, then at herself in the mirror, gazing at her ringless ring finger.)

* let down and hanging around
crushed like a bug in the ground * let down and hanging around *
(Thom singing the refrain on his way home)

 shell smashed
(Thom pulls into his suburban neighborhood, he's just a normal guy in this video.  A letter is lowered before the camera, revealing nothing but devastion on the face of an elderly woman.  The letter is from the War Department.)

* juices flowing
(Thom pulls into the drive way of his middle class home.)

* wings twitch legs are going
(opens the front door eagerly.  He is searching for someone, walking down the hallway.)

* don't get sentimental
(he finds her in the bedroom, sitting on the bed, she looks up and her depression leaves revealing a glorious smile)

* it always ends up drivel
(They are in bed together.  He is facing her, laughing. They are truly happy.)

* one day I'm going to grow wings
(She is smiling, telling Thom this in bed)

* a chemical reaction
(They are now in a street side cafe, sipping coffee.  She puts hers down raising her eyes, mouthing the line)

* hysterical and useless
(She is crossing the street, her back to him.  Cut to her facing him in the middle of the road.  Smile.  Oblivious.)

* hysterical and let down and hanging around
* crushed like a bug in the ground
* let down and hanging around
(Thom IS HYSTERICAL AND USELESS, screaming at her to get out of the road, throwing the table through the cafe window.  Cut to him sitting.  Crushed.)

* let down again

(The camera looks over her dead face, held up by a street light post, and onto the street, a car on its side in the back ground.  The background fills with flashing lights.  The camera remains looking over her face as paramedics lift her into an ambulance, and then through the hospital.  Thom caught in various motions of despair and anguish.)

* you know where you are with
(He is mouthing the words to her as the cart is pushed through the er)

* you know where you are with
(Watching her from Thom's perspective)

* floor collapses
(double doors crash open)

* floating
(a respirator rises)

* bouncing back
(her lungs fill with air, her eyes open and screaming at thom)

* and one day I am gonna grow wings
* a chemical reaction
* hysterical and useless
* hysterical and
(the camera catches their priceless eye contact, their holding hands)

* let down and hanging around
* crushed like a bug in the ground
* let down and hanging around
(Thom is crushed, ignoring the rest of the band in a limo on the way to a funeral.  He reads at the funeral.  Cut to him alone with her grave stone.  Its rains.)

(Planes are flying over head.)