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• Member: breeman
• Studio: Breeman AMV
• Title: You've Been Shot
• Premiered: 2011-12-11
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Serious
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • 3 You've Been Shot
• Anime:
  • GunGrave
• Comments:
  
  If you enjoyed the music in this video, check out the band 3 at their new website that I made: http://www.theband3.com
  
  Comments by 3 frontman Joey Eppard:
  "Nice work Jeff! You're attention to detail is just awesome. Every lyric fits perfectly with each sequence. The musical and the visual in perfect harmony!"
  
  I actually started this last year, before the "Dogs of War" video, and for some reason just didn't finish it. I knew it was a good idea but for some reason I just couldn't get anywhere with it and was stuck. After a long break from it I went back and fixed up the parts I had started and began to add the rest. I quickly found my groove and had no problem finishing the video.
  
  Now I knew this was going to be a good drama video because the song is very powerful and deals with a subject matter not often used in music. I knew the anime would be a perfect fit because of some very apparent literal connections to the lyrics, but also some emotional connections as well. I really tried hard to make the characters portray the emotions in the song, and I think I succeeded.
  
  I put a spoiler warning on this AMV, but it really only spoils about half of the series, as there is a point in Gungrave where the series takes a strange supernatural turn, which didn't really fit with my video. But it does spoil a big turning point in the anime so it's worth mentioning for people who haven't seen it.
  
  Also, there's a little easter egg in this video if you've seen Gungrave. Some of the scenes overlayed at the very end of the video (the ones that don't move so fast) have a different meaning if you can catch what scenes they are.
  
  I definitely plan to enter this in the Anime Boston AMV contest this year, and possibly some other cons as well. I have high hopes for this AMV.
  
  Lyrics: (courtesy of Lee Taggart)
  
  You've been shot (shot, shot, shot...)
  Full of holes
  You feel your eyes about to close
  And the clothes you're in
  Seem paper thin
  You feel the frost bite fangs sink in
  'Cause it's cold outside
  With no place to hide
  Your blood out in the snow
  And the people stare
  But they're unaware
  Of why you had to go
  
  Just think of all the fun you've had
  Breaking heads and acting bad
  But now that all those days are done
  Wound up on the other side
  Of a gangster's gun...
  
  Paralyzed, but a pulse remains
  To pump last thoughts
  Through your dying brain
  Remember Mom
  Said alwys do your best
  But now a bullet burns
  Within your chest
  And the sirens sound
  Crowd gathers round
  Like moths to flame they fly
  Because they love blood's smell
  But they're scared as hell
  Of what it means to die...
  
  Just think of all the fun you've had
  Breaking heads and acting bad
  But now that all those days are done
  Wound up on the other side
  Of a gangster's gun...
  
  I smell something burning
  Like a flag, like a rubber tire
  What you kids been cooking
  That's got my kitchen full of fire
  Well it's American stew
  'Cause we were sick of the pie
  Blood, white, and blue
  In the blink of an eye
  We'll go to the barn
  And we'll lay down low
  And hide 'til all of the fires go
  
  Just think of all the fun you've had
  Breaking heads and acting bad
  But now that all those days are done
  Wound up on the other side
  Of a gangster's gun...
  
  American stew
  'Cause we were sick of the pie
  Blood, white, and blue
  In the blink of an eye
  We'll go to the barn
  And we'll lay down low
  And hide 'til all of the fires go, oh
  American stew
  'Cause we were sick of the pie
  Blood, white, and blue
  In the blink of an eye
  We'll go to the barn
  And we'll lay down low
  And hide 'til all of the fires go, well
  (American stew)
  You been shot
  ('Cause we were sick of the pie)
  Yeah
  (Blood, white, and blue)
  Oh yeah
  (In the blink of an eye
  We'll go to the barn)
  You been shot
  (And we'll lay down low)
  Yeah
  (And hide 'til all of the fires go)
  Whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah
  (American stew)
  You been shot
  ('Cause we were sick of the pie
  Blood, white, and blue
  In the blink of an eye)
  You been shot
  (We'll go to the barn)
  You been
  You been