The Killers- Human: The Final Music Video, The Planning Stage

It seems, these days, that I'm beginning planning on a tonne of different music videos. This is a plan for our newly appointed music video; 2009's 'Human' by The Killers, the four man band fronted by Brandon Flowers. Beginning our planning today, me, Kayleigh and Jack have chosen different areas of research for the video to be able to piece together later on and create our own vision of the song.
          I chose the lyrical side of the research. Even though this sounds easy enough, I need to be able to annotate the lyric sheet, pick out certain words and find as many allegoric/symbolic references as 'human'ly possible (see what I did there)?
         From first look of the lyrics, they seem to be referencing life, love, suicide and 'opening doors.'
From the perspective of another, the line "are we human, or we dancer" is "his way of asking would you rather be human and live and live everyday doing the same thing, or being a dancer and feeling the music and doing a dance that isn't a regular routine."As I carry on with this research, I'll update my blog to show you the latest news on the research and eventually merge all of the research from each group member together and create a presentation containing this information, using any possible website that creates presentations.

So here are the lyrics that I am annotating:

THE KILLERS LYRICS

I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind

And sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes, clear your heart
Cut the cord

Are we human or are we dancer?
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer
Are we human or are we dancer?

Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Hear my regards to soul and romance
They always did the best they could

And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye, wish me well
You've gotta let me go

Are we human or are we dancer?
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer
Are we human or are we dancer?

Will your system be alright
When you dream of home tonight
There is no message we're receiving
Let me know, is your heart still beating?

Are we human or are we dancer?
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer

You've gotta let me know

Are we human or are we dancer?
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer
Are we human or are we dancer?

Are we human or are we dancer?
Are we human or are we dancer?

Taken from http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/killers/human.html