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• Member: Arvidos
• Title: Steel Angel
• Premiered: 2004-03-29
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
• Song:
  • Skyclad Isle of Jura
• Anime:
  • Final Fantasy 7 (VII)
• Comments: My first video.
  I was listening to Isle of Jura after playing through Final Fantasy VII, and the phrase "Steel Angel" together with an image of the highwind inspired me to make this video.
  
  Oh, and this video is very, very, spoilerheavy. If you dont want to get spoiled, dont watch it. In fact, stop reading right now.
  
  Anyway.. I really wanted to retell the, to me, wonderful story of Final Fantasy VII, so its pretty chronological, going from the beginning to the end of the story. As I started working on the video it also became sort of a Character Profile for Cloud, and to some extent, Tifa and Aeris. At the end of the video I had actually sort of a dilemma - Would I focus on the story, and show Sephiroths final death, or would I focus on Clouds character development, and show his subconscious healing?
  Some people say they are actually the same, and that's what I choose to portrait.
  
  I was really pleased with how it worked out, and felt I found a way to tie basicly every clip to the song, except for the part with weapon, that's filler.
  
  I was considering the title "Steelwinged Angel", any better or too silly? Maybe something for the remixed version..
  
  And, as customary.. Here are the lyrics:
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  All around me strangers scurry -
  In a crowd but all alone.
  Got to hurry - pack my worries,
  Feel the arms that I call home.
  I am lonely - I am lost,
  inside my private holocaust.
  
  O' steel angel please carry me -
  Fly me to my love,
  From cold Earth far beneath me -
  To the Heavens high above.
  
  All aboard but flying so-low,
  (Chocks away) the engines start.
  Crossing oceans of emotion that circumnavigate my heart.
  
  Have you ever talked with hsomeone,
  Not recalled a single word?
  The gentle rhythm of the humdrum,
  It was the only sound I heard.
  Why was I not so astute as to stow
  my dreams a parachute?
  
  O' steel angel please carry me -
  Fly me to my love,
  From cold Earth far beneath me -
  To the Heavens high above.
  It seems they never sensed how time was passing,
  Deep in the silence and the cold.
  Sat living, breathing, drinking, laughing -
  While Death lay sleeping in the hold.
  Then my eyes beheld a vision,
  A beauty brighter than the starts.
  One single spark - and the ignition,
  Bathe my flesh and heal the scars.
  The hand that dared to touch god's knife,
  But 'Isle of Jura' - I love life.
  
  O' steel angel please carry me -
  Fly me to my love,
  From cold Earth far beneath me -
  To the Heavens high above.