You know what would be awesome? If my brain were wired directly into a supercomputer that would allow me to intuitively craft and make movies by combining existing footage and images. When I am listening to a song I love, I automatically start world-building and running music videos based on the current and flow of music and lyrics. Some of them are even pretty good.
Take this song, for example: Shine On by Angie Aparo (or try this one: Download 06 Shine On)
I was born at the end of time
in the beginning
up on command post number nine
they gave me the living
As the song starts out, the scene opens with a quick time lapse of a large scale construction project in space. Suited figures and small utility craft swarm a much larger structure that gradually resolves into a gigantic space ship that dwarfs even the station where it is being built. By the end of the first stanza the time lapse has slowed to normal speed, and we see the legs of a woman as she walks into what looks like a command room and leaves something on the only seat in the room, before quickly leaving at the start of the second stanza.
With my love in place
they sent me on programmed to remain
of another mother robot's son
with my love I feel no pain
Just as the door she left through closes, a figure enters through another door and sits in the chair. As the screens around it come to life, we see the face of a cybernetic man. The scene cuts away to the outside of the ship as it pulls away from the spacedock, and begins to accelerate away; as it moves we can see that it is covered with gun blisters, missile tubes, and other weapons ports. Back in the cabin, the cyborg looks down at the paper heart he holds in his hand, with the words "I love you," written on it.
Shine on love
Shine on
Up to the heaven
Silver, blue, and red horizon
Shine on love
Shine on
Up to the heaven
As the ship heads out in the vastness, other scenes begin to play in a semi-transparent overlay showing that the builders are preparing to engage in some kind of conflict, and that the ship that left is the final piece of a Maginot Line-esque defense. The screen then splits to show the cyborg and his ship arrive at their destination, as the camera shows the woman from behind witnesses the same thing on the command plotter back at the station.
I came down in a silver dream
Just to be given
the memory of your love for me
Years pass and finally the great ship returns home from where it had been stationed. The space station that was once half the ship's size has grow to well over ten times the size of the war-torn vessel. Upon docking, the ship is boarded by hundreds of personnel, with three of them making their way to the command room where the cyborg is stunned to find that over a hundred years have passed since he left, and that instead of a hero's welcome, his ship is to be stripped of all usable material, and then scrapped. Shocked, the cyborg holds up the hand-written note the woman had left him, only to have two of the faceless figures look away as the third slowly shakes his head.
In this empty place
my circuit's done
just the cold remains
of another mother robot's son
with your love I feel no pain
The time lapse returns and shows the old ship once more swarmed as this time it is stripped of anything remotely usable, while a normal-speed overlay show the three figures deep in discussion with other officers over preparations for a final assault by the enemy. All available ships have been recalled, but the numbers are pitifully few when compared to the number of enemy ships. A third break-away shot shows the cyborg slumped in his command chair, listlessly staring at nothing, the paper heart still clutched in his hands.
Shine on love
Shine on
Up to the heaven
Up to the heaven yeah
The clock for the final assault begins to wind down. The commanders know where the enemy has massed their fleet, but know that they are hopelessly out-matched. As the hours tick down, the cyborg finally blinks his eyes and lets the paper heart drop from his grasp. Settling his hands on his armrests, he takes back control of his ship and forcefully evacuates all remaining personnel. He then breaks dock from the station and, ignoring frantic calls from his commanders, begins to accelerate his battered vessel to the outer system, where he initiates a hyperjump to where the enemy is amassed.
My soul was only in disguise
yeah
underneath my robot eyes
yeah
now I know my love will shine
yeah, yeah
Up to the heaven yeah
In the alien system, alarms on the enemy ships go off, and flashing lights illuminate reptilian figures as they move to battle positions. The approaching ship puzzles them as they expected the pitiful remains of the human fleet to face them, not a single ship. Their puzzlement grows as the ship continues to accelerate, as its projected course will take it straight into the star the reptilian fleet orbits. On board the battered vessel, the cyborg's face splits into a beastly snarl as he begins an overload sequence in the ship's hyperspace engines. The feral grin softens to a genuine smile when he spies the paper heart on the deck where he had dropped it.
My soul was only in disguise
yeah
underneath my robot eyes
yeah
now I know my love will shine
yeah, yeah
Back aboard the alien command ship, the rogue human vessel's plan has been divined and frantic orders are being issued to intercept and destroy it. However, the ship has piled on too much speed and it flashes past the picket ships before they have even warmed their guns. In his command room, the cyborg stands and places the paper heart on his chair, exactly how it was when he found it. Walking forward, he gazes at the large screen in front of him that shows his position relative to the star's turbulent surface. Warnings start buzzing as the ship's already-weaken shields start to fail under the fury of the orange giant, but still the cyborg smiles. The plotting on the screen shows him only moments from his target position, and as the ship arrives at that invisible point in space, he triggers a command that unleashes the pent-up energy of the overloaded hyperjump engines. Time slows as the flash of pure white engulfs the ship, and as it does we can see the rest of the message on the paper heart; "I love you, Daddy! Please come back to me!"
Back on the alien ships, the lizards can only watch in horror as a monstrous flare erupts from the surface of the star, and rages towards their armada. The farthest ships barely manage to flee into hyperspace ahead of the wave of destruction, but in the blink of an eye over half the fleet is destroyed, and the rest too damaged to fight off the human fleet that arrives in the wake of the flare.
As the closing bars of the song ring out, we see a bright light with a figure walking. Running towards it is the outline of a little girl who jumps towards the figure as the seen fades out.
Alas, much like any actual music or songs that come to me when I dream, I have no way of actually bringing those ideas to life.
