Miller's Angels (Demo) ~ Counting Crows - Lyrics and Interpretive Video video free download

A hauntingly beautiful song, especially in this acoustic version, with its stark and sorrowful piano accompaniment.

My video focuses on a common theme in Counting Crows songs, wherein beautiful (human) women are elevated to the status of angels, making them both terrifyingly powerful and irresistibly desirable. Millers "angels" may or may not be dangerous and it's entirely possible that they intend to separate him from God.

In my depiction, a woman who walks on solid earth is trying to tempt Miller into a relationship using the powerful religious poetry of Rumi as her lure. Can she persuade him to stop living in a dream? Will he be willing to risk walking out his door with her, even though a heavenly creature might ruin him at any time? Will he become a more confident, enlightened man? A man who can endure true intimacy?

**Please note that when Rūmī suggests you 'die' he is talking about a spiritual death and rebirth rather than actual physical death.

Material for my video came from:

The astonishing Wim Wenders film, "Wings of Desire"

The beautiful and inspiring videos of YouTuber, FenandiCreations

The abundance of Google images

and

The incomparable poetry of Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207-1273), a Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian and Sufi mystic.

Thanks for watching!

Lyrics below:

Miller's Angels (Demo Version)

Miller's angels in black and white

Welcome everyone in

Children dreamin' of wrong and right

Wrapped in grace and in sin

They come out of the blue sky

They come out of the blue

They come out of the blue sky

But you never know

Where they're gonna' go

Hey, Romeo

Miller's fingers are travelin'

Down the length of her thigh

Miller's mind is still wanderin'

Staring up at the sky

They come out of the blue sky

They come out of the blue

They come out of the blue sky

But you never know

Where they're gonna go

Hey, Romeo

Don't, don't, don't

Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't

Come around, don't, don't

Please, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't

Come around

Please, don't, don't, don't

Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't

Come around

Miller's angels are hoverin'

In between the earth and the sun

In the shadow of God's unwavering love

I am a fortunate son

They come out of the blue sky

They come out of the blue

They come out of the blue sky

But you never know

Where they're gonna go

Hey, Romeo

No, you never know

Where they're gonna go

Hey, Romeo

So, can't you hear me

'Cause I'm screamin'

But, I did not go outside yesterday

So, don't wake me

Please, don't wake me

'Cause I'm dreamin'

And I might not go outside again today

Yeah, I don't get outside much, anyway

Yeah, I don't go outside much, these days