Pitch idea based on lyrics

Full Lyrics:

So young, so how were you to know
You're a carrier, a carrier, of the light inside of you?

Glows green in the pitch black night
Can't tell anyone, it's hurting you
So hold it in, cover up, pull up your sheets
A torpedo cruising in the ocean, and soon it's due

So I got to sit up, sit up
For my heart to come down

The ghoulish entities, they come floating through the walls
Ghostly enemies, they come floating through your door

And the ghoulish entities, they come floating through the walls
From the past, from the past
And they're somewhere right before you like the ghost of Christmas past

I was always floating around the city
Go with the flow without ever knowing where I wanna be
So I got into crazy situations
A loyal soldier who acts, but never asks:

"Why am I flying on my back?
With the moon looking down?
Where's my band? Where's anything at all?
And why's the ceiling going to black?"

The ghoulish entities, they come floating through the walls
Ghostly enemies, they come floating through your door
And the ghoulish entities, they come floating through the wall
From the past, from the past
And they're somewhere right before you like the ghost of Christmas past

Don't, that hurts, and anything's coming unless you go,
And you can't break the chasing ghosts
So much so, when they come back but never ask
At your side, at your soul
When they come back but never ask

The ghoulish entities, they come floating through the walls
Ghostly enemies, they come floating through your door
And the ghoulish entities, they come floating through the wall
From the past, from the past

And they're somewhere right before you like the ghost of Christmas past

The majority of our music video is going to be based around the overall ghostly theme of the lyrics. This is established by lines such as "the ghoulish entities, they come floating through the walls", which show that the song is clearly a reflection of the lyricist being haunted. This is why we plan on showing our protagonist as being haunted within the video, as during his journey through the woods he will experience flashbacks to various things in the past. 

Another lyric from the song which will hold particular importance during our video is "you're a carrier, a carrier, of the light inside of you?", as this explains our lighting and setting choices. The light upon our actor is going to be a single floodlight which is going to be extremely bright, in a pitch black woods. This will create large shadows and will make him stand out better, along with linking to the only part of the lyrics which reflect on lightness amongst the dark - this is why the rest of the setting around the light will still be incredibly dark. 

The line "So hold it in, cover up, pull up your sheets" is another lyric which a lot of the video is based upon - the character is going to either begin or end the video asleep in bed, so the idea of "pulling up the sheets" suggests that he is in bed and is trying to hide from the stuff that is haunting him. This makes such an important lyric as one of the main props within our video is going to be a bed, and we wouldn't be including this without this lyric. 

A final lyric which is going to be important within our music video is the line "so I got into crazy situations". The question which the viewer will think almost immediately upon watching our video is how our protagonist woke up in the woods, which is the "crazy situation" described in the lyrics. In addition to this, it works throughout the video because the flashbacks which are haunting him are going to become of increasingly stranger nature. 

By examining certain lyrics and thinking about how they will be applicable to my video, I have also given myself a better idea of which lyrics I should get the character to lip sync for effect, and which lyrics should see him acting something out.