A sad and moving music video, using both the footage and lyrics to explain a big problem in life that many face on a daily basis. Throughout the music video it shows Emeli Sandé singing, not for herself but for others, people like the suffering elderly, the homeless, and children with no good homes- people who suffer dearly in life.
Throughout, we see short clips of people that struggle in life, and in the lyrics "Oh Heaven, oh Heaven, I wait with good intentions. But the day, it always lasts too long"- this specific part of the lyrics suggest the world we live in is the hell for those suffering, and life right now for some people cannot go any slower.
In part of the footage, the sentence "Fear is your only God" appears on a dirty window, suggesting that ruling over you is FEAR, scaring you into staying where you are in life, not moving forward, making you miserable. Few clips throughout the music video show a small dark tunnel with light at the end of it, and a man slowly walking through the tunnel- this suggests that Heaven is close, but struggling to get to it is the price, this also relates back to the name of the song "Heaven".
Nice analysis! I needed this for my essay!
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