Edan Archer- "Garden Rose" Official Video

Edan Archer- "Garden Rose" Official Video

From the album 'Journey Proud', filmed in Orlando, FL October 2019.

Co-Directed, Filmed and Lego Animation by Ed Agudelo
Co-Directed and Edited by Edan Archer

About The Video
I wanted to play with the symbolism of the song in this video. The dollhouse represents the illusion of a perfect little life that we can control. My two characters show an inner/dream world, and a more mundane, realistic world, that exist simultaneously in the same space. The character in overalls is packing up the house and moving out, while the woman in the blue dress sees the potential colors of life and all the flowers that could bloom. In the end, the LEGO character makes it back to the house and as reality meets the dream world the two lives are reconciled. This is a break up song where the couple doesn't break up in the end. -Edan


About The Song
A love song about considering breaking up and seeing it all play out in my head- the fights, the process of boxing up a shared life together, and then sitting down on the floor before the last goodbye and having one last toast to the effort we put in. At the moment, the singer of the song realizes that its worth it to keep going, and to not break up after all. It talks a bit about my insecurity as a woman- I’ll never be as fresh and pretty as a garden rose, or a beauty queen. But my partner has wandered down the garden path (a play on my name, Edan), and we both know that it’s deeper than that. It’s about almost losing someone.

Lyrics
GARDEN ROSE
I will never be your beauty queen
I've been places you've never been
I will always leave my bridges burned
You don't seem to be overly concerned

I will never be your garden rose
I've got miles on me and God it shows
I've got magic in my angel eyes.
And a bottle that is sharing size

Well somewhere in the future
I see a lovely house and it is all cleaned out
and everything's in boxes 'cause
we're breaking up and taking our stuff
And one more toast at trying
as we sit on the floor at the end of the war
and you see me like you used to
I get right up next to losing
I get right up next to losing you
You will only let me feel your wrath
But, you've wandered on the garden path.
A gentle word from you may never come
Oh you take the cake and take the crumbs

Well somewhere in the future
I see a lovely house and it is all cleaned out
and everything's in boxes 'cause
we're breaking up and taking our stuff
And one more toast at trying
as we sit on the floor at the end of the war
and you see me like you used to
I get right up next to losing
I get right up next to losing you

I get right up
I get right up
I get right up

I get right up next to losing
I get right up next to losing you