I was listening to this really sad
song and I thought of Jake. Being my favorite ( even through the end) I decided
to do this last video for him ( ya like it'll really be my last) Goes to "Runaway Train" as done by Soul Asylum.
Pull out you tissues boys and girls cuz here it comes….
As the guitar starts out, we pan our
way through the camp at night. Everything is some shade of blue. We fade to
Jake lying in bed on top of his sheets with his hands behind his head. He is
staring up at the ceiling. He sings, his eyes half lidded.
Call
you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blow torch burnin'
I was a key that could use a little turnin'.
So tired that I couldn't even sleep he turns over
So many secrets I couldn't keep he rubs his face
Promised myself I wouldn't weep he sits up
One more promise I can't keep he runs out
It seems no one can help me now he runs through the camp
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have
really led myself astray….. charges into the forest
Runaway train, never goin' back he sings as he weaves
through the trees
Wrong way on a one-way track Jake's view, the trees form
a narrow pathway
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there he turns to look around. He
then slows down.
Can you help me remember how to smile? he look sup
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile?
How on Earth did I get so jaded? He hangs his head
Life's mysteries seem so faded he angrily kicks the ground
I can go where no one else can go as he runs past the trees,
different animals take his place
with each tree passing in front of the camera {wolf,
tiger, falcon)
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just a drowin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train he's human now
And everything seems cut and dry the camera spins around his
face
Day and night it spins around the forest
Earth and sky spins from the trees to the night sky and back down
again
Somehow I Jake stumbles a little
disoriented
Just don't believe it…..
he
grabs his head and shakes it.
Runaway train never goin' back he runs again
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there the lyrics stop for a moment
and we hear the music play
on. As it does, Jake looks among the trees and in
between them, little hazy films play
his happier memories. When he was first in tiger morph, leaping on
roofs; flying happily with the rest of the animorphs; running and kissing
Cassie (#26). Then there are some non-animorph memories. Jake shooting hoops
with Tom; Jake and Marco playing animatedly at video games; a younger Jake
playing with his father. Jake stops running, out of breath. He stops at the
crest of a hill whose other side dips steeply down. A little ways from the
downward slope, the train tracks lay.
Bought a ticket for a runaway train he looks at it
Like a madman laughin' at the rain he turns around
Little out of touch, a little insane and sees ghostly figures of
Cassie, Rachel, Tobias (human),
Marco and Tom. They all look at him sadly and
pleadingly as if begging him to come back and
pay attention to them.
Just easier than dealing with the pain Jake quickly turns around
and begins running hurriedly
down the hill. The ghosts run after him.
Runaway train never goin' back Jake runs, determined not to
look back
Wrong way on a one-way track a
train comes roarin' down the tracks with blinding lights
Seems like I should be getting somewhere the camera goes back to the
ghosts who look upset
and frown. Tom, Rachel and Marco shout for him to
come back.
Somehow I'm neither here nor there face shot of Jake as he
steels himself not to look back.
Runaway train never comin' back he runs alongside the train
Runaway train tearin' up the track Jake runs up to an open
compartment
Runaway train burnin' in my veins he grabs and hoists himself
onto the compartment.
Runaway but it always seems the same……. Jake sits inside and puts
his head between his
hands. A
shot back to the ghosts. They all come to a stop and watch, unbelieving, as the
train rides on. Flash back to Jake who brings his head up, he's crying. Shadows
play across his face as the train jostles on and tears run down his face. The
song fades with a rising camera shot from behind of the ghosts looking
onward…………
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*sniff*
oooooooo now I want to go cry! *sniffle* pass the tissues please. *sniffle
sniffle* Thanks for listening…..have to go….something in my eye……:::Lenalaye
runs off :::::
