Body Of Water - Directed by Patrick Smith

Body of Water from Patrick Smith on Vimeo.

A bizarre, surreal visual interpretation of the song "Body of Water" by the Blake Drummond Band http://www.blaked.com

Blake approached me earlier this year with a song about overcoming addiction, and helping others. It was difficult at first to translate his lyrics into drawings, but once I figured out some good analogies and metaphors, things really started to flow! -patrick smith

Music by the Blake Drummond Band
Animated and Directed by Patrick Smith
Color and Compositing by Jennifer Yoo
Animation Production by Kaori Ishida
Vocals/acoustic Blake Drummond
Lead guitar David Andreana
Bass Will Kencel
Drums Hadrian Castro
Keys Rich Gouinlock
Violin Jeremy Aaron
Backing vocals:
Karen Bauer, Caren Messing, Chris Goffredo, Kenny Lockwood
Engineer MP Kuo
Mix by Corey Tut
Mastering by Alex Deturk

Lyrics:
come on down the river's calling
i might drown if i should fall in 
no we won't ever row this boat to shore
something tells me we can soar
there's a whole wide world left to explore

my heart's a river
flowing to the sea
tributaries carry blood, fllooding over me
you better keep a lookout boy there's much too much to see

distant sounds of waves heard crashing
friendship found in hours passing
now the mouth opens and current pulls us through
eyes on the horizon finally coming into view
stars will guide us toward a light that's true

your eyes are oceans
wind swept into waves
tears fall into tidal pools, cry out to be saved
love's for fools
at least that's what they say

now the drought has our paddles scraping sand
when you're down and out i can lend a hand
by saving ourselves we help others through their pain
look up look up look up - can you feel it
It's starting to rain

on this body of water… 
on this body of water…