Cannonball - Lea Michele
Experience: When you lose the person you care about the most, your world simply ends. How do you keep going? How do you come back to life?
Music Video: Lea Michele wanders around three different sets: an abandoned house, a mirror lined room, a dark empty hall with dangling strings of lights. Each one symbolizes a different aspect of grief: the windows of the mansion are boarded up to keep the daylight out, the mirrors don't let Lea see anything but her own sad face, and the pale purple and white lights hold her attention, but don't offer any warmth. But at the 3-minute-point, when the daylight dims and leaves her in almost total darkness, the beat and the lyrics pick back up and Lea finds the courage to "get out into the world again" - a fourth set appears, with bright colorful spotlights, and Lea walks into them as Cannonball ends.
LYRICS:
Breakdown
Breakdown
Breakdown
I was scared to death I was losing my mind
Breakdown
I couldn’t close my eyes I was pacing all night
I think I found the light out the end of the tunnel
I couldn’t find the truth I was going under
But I won’t hide inside
I gotta get out, gotta get out
Gotta get out, gotta get out
Lonely inside and light the fuse
Light it now, light it now, light it now
And now I will start living today
Today, today I close the door
I got this new beginning and I will fly
I’ll fly like a cannonball
Like a cannonball
Like a cannonball
I’ll fly, I’ll fly, I’ll fly like a cannonball
Freedom
I let go of fear and the peace came quickly
Freedom
I was in the dark and then it hit me
I chose suffering and pain in the falling rain
I know, I gotta get out into the world again
But I won’t hide inside
I gotta get out, gotta get out
Gotta get out, gotta get out
Lonely inside and light the fuse
Light it now, light it now, light it now
And now I will start living today
Today, today I close the door
I got this new beginning and I will fly
I’ll fly like a cannonball
Like a cannonball
Like a cannonball
I’ll fly, I’ll fly, I’ll fly like a cannonball
Breakdown
I was scared to death I was losing my mind
Breakdown
I gotta get out into the world again
And now I will start living today
Today, today I close the door
I got this new beginning and I will fly
I’ll fly like a cannonball
Like a cannonball
Like a cannonball
I’ll fly, I’ll fly, I’ll fly like a cannonball
Like a cannonball
Like a cannonball
I’ll fly, I’ll fly, I’ll fly like a cannonball
Review by Benjamin O'Loughlin