new vid - "It's Alright, It's Okay" - The OC - Marissa character
It's Alright, It's Okay
Fandom: The OC
Song/Artist: It's Alright, It's Okay by Leah Andreone
Duration: 3:53 minutes
Summary: Marissa character. Don't worry cos it's over before you know.
Spoilers: seasons 1 - 3.
Click to viewBroken doll baby and she says that life's a waste
It doesn't have to be that way
Dad threw away her mom, her mom gave up his name
Crucified by their words, nailed by shame
She stares into the sun, self inflicted pain
She sees that they're blind, why does she take all the blame
The rhyme has changed, compulsion rules
Mary's little lambs are now raised by wolves
A voyeur with wings flashes a cure
She knows forbidden things
They have a lovely lure
It's alright, it's okay, welcome to this life
Killing time, just watching the grass grow
It's alright, it's okay, welcome to this life
Don't worry sweet baby cos it's over before you know
Persecuted, she's not normal, I envy her strange ways
Seven deadly sins, seize the hour, seize the day
Her ideas need expression, her wounds never bleed
Her beauty lives in my eyes, too bad she can't see
She doesn't try, I watch her spirits die
But giving up the ghost would feel so good
A voyeur with wings flashes a cure
She knows forbidden things
They have a lovely lure
Crumbling Camelot, idle teardrops
Cloudy diamonds, freebase funhouse
Expecting to fly but she's just standing still
Every time she gets it up she just can't close the deal
So she gives herself another way out
Walks her dog for the fiftieth time
And files her nails till they bleed
and she cries now she doesn't have to try
I've had this vid idea for years, which may explain some of the weird literalness. It's a difficult song to edit because of the intrusive snare, which for some reason I can't bring myself to ignore even though it would probably have been wise to do so.
I wanted a sympathetic character study but wasn't sure if I achieved it. Here as in the show, Marissa just seems to mope around crying a lot. She is such a victim from start to finish - it grows increasingly hard to sympathise after a while. A lot of it comes down to the shit that she went through, but by the same token, it's difficult to imagine someone else - Summer, for example - reacting the same way if she were put in those situations instead. Marissa doesn't seem able to define herself without other people, and each person pushes their way into her life and she's continually buffeted by these opposing forces. Given my usual leanings toward insular characters and ideas, it's not a subject that I naturally gravitate toward. But I guess that's the point of trying to do something different this year.