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The video starts in a fancy hotel going through the halls. Then it comes to an indoor swimming pool lavishly decorted with tropicol scenery and waterfalls. The band is playing around the edge of the pool. It zooms in on the band member's playing.

The distortion comes in...
It begains to rain as camera zooms in on Billy as he sings "Without a care in this whole world...".

The next part...
The scene fuzzes out onto the camera flying across an ocean. As the singing starts the camera zooms in on an animated island with seashell shores, palm trees, and a small village. The camera flies around the island circling various spots.

The distortion...
The scene comes back to the band standing around the swimming pool. It's raining harder. The camera flies around the band as they play...it starts flooding.

The next part...
The camera goes back to the to the animated island while Billy is singing: "Porcelina of the oceans blue...". The camera zooms onto Billy sitting on the ground on the island. He then gets up with: "In the slipsteam, of thoughtless thoughts...". he begans walking through the village singing as the band members join him.

The distortion...
The scene once again comes back to the hotel. The rain is pouring down as Billy sings. A flash flood crashes through walls and sweeps up the band as Billy is singing: "Within my mind I'm everyone...". The band is swepted out of the hotel and into the ocean. The song fades out as they float away in the ocean. When the song ends, they are washed onshore of the island.

By - Trans_former

Either a tone-downed Billy (sans black leather and such) or an actor is floating alone in a simple wooden rowboat, with the camera panning out from his sleeping face as the guitar gradually becomes more audible. The boat is bobbing in a sun-drenched sea in the afternoon. The video uses Tonight, Tonight style antiquated film effects, such as a spiky cardboard whale swimming by, spouting water, or fake sea gulls circling over head. Corgan's wearing old-fashioned clothes, 1900s, similar to Tonight Tonight. The camera soars over verdant tropical islands, and Corgan's small vessel appears as a small black fleck upon the saffron horizon. The tranquil, ebbing sea becomes violent once the song picks up, but Billy remains asleep. The color of the water has gone from the sleepy orange and yellow hues of the sunset to a tempestuous gray. Cardboard sharks dive in and out of the waves, and paper naval battles are waged in the horizon. It calms down again once "As far as you take me... " begins. Billy's awake though, now, and he's paddling slowly towards the islan and singing. When the guitars explode again, so does the sea. Waves burst from all sides of the boat, drenching Corgan, who continues to sing. He's shuttled off of the boat, and sent beneath the surface. He swims gracefully through the dark blue waters and schools of tropical fish, pursuing the faint outlines of a beautiful mermaid "Her seashell hips and lullabies...". He resurfaces, back onto his boat, and the storm still churns. He paddles towards the island, screaming the lyrics as the hurricane intensifies. The activity around grows more and more hectic, with a fake giant, unlikely green whale chasing a shark through the waves, which is after a smaller fish, which is hunting an even smaller fish. Early 20th century vessels, dirgibles, and battleships are all battling eachother. The camera following Corgan's dash for the land grows shaky and blurred as it is rattled in the storm. When "In my mind I'm everything" is over, he washes up on the island, and the sun is just rising. The camera circles above him, drifting away, as he walks upon the beach of the paradise, just as the guitars fade away.

By: Windsor13@aol.com

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