Vid: The Flash - Harry Wells - Solsbury Hill

[sholio]

Title: Solsbury Hill
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Show: The Flash
Character: Earth-2 Harrison "Harry" Wells
Seasons/Spoilers: Season 2 & 3, through 3x14
Summary: You can keep my things, they've come to take me home. Harry and his Flash(es) and Team Flash.
AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/10668813
Tumblr: here

So, just to be confusing, there are two versions of this. Initially I made the vid in my usual style, with minimal edits to the clips, then decided to redo it with clip color edits and some f/x to have a more contemporary look. The f/x one is the main one available below, but I'm offering both in case you'd rather watch the more lightly edited version.

Downloads: MP4 (zipped, 126 Mb) | DivX (zipped, 100 Mb)
Streaming: https://youtu.be/cnKv-ZwXnkA

No f/x version: MP4 (zipped, 126 Mb) | Streaming on Youtube

Subtitles (unzip and put in directory with vid): regular version | no f/x version
(These are exactly the same except for the filename; it just needs to match the vid.)

Watch on YouTube

No f/x version:

Watch on YouTube

Lyrics:

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing, stretching every nerve
I had to listen, had no choice
I did not believe the information
I just had to trust imagination
My heart going boom, boom, boom
Son, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home

To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Though my life was in a rut
Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom, boom, boom
Hey, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home

When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
[Cut from song in vid:
Watched by empty silhouettes
Close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
So I will show another me]
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart going boom, boom, boom
Hey, I said, you can keep my things they've come to take me home

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Very enjoyable! It says something about the Flash series that the Flash and Wells characters have to be specified by verse ;) Although my favorite has always been Cisco, I think Wells is definitely the most interesting character so far in all his incarnations and the Earth 2 version particularly so. I think the song was a pretty apt choice for his arc.

[sholio]

Thank you so much! :D I think the canonical AUs, watching the actors play all the different versions of their characters, are one of my favorite things about the show, and all the different Wellses especially; they're just so different from each other, and Harry totally had me at hello.

Cisco is also one of my faves - he's such an absolute sweetheart. :)

[dirty_diana]

This is adorable!