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40252, Easily Long Time
Posted by westloop, Wed Sep-20-06 04:34 PM
Since it’s already a prison-themed song, have Thought (in grainy black and white) break out of jail while flashbacks of Philly (in color) resonate throughout. By the last verse, have him finally get to Philly but then reality kicks in and it’s not what he remembered it to be. My first instinct would be to let the cops re-capture him at the end with that feeling that things change and you can’t always go back. But then I also think fuckit – let’s make it uplifting with the cops still trying to get him but he always gets away with the notion that he although he was away for a while and things are different – free will will always be triumphant. And then use Pity the Child as the outro fading out with “…one thing I can tell you is you’ve got to be free…”