About the band

Music Video was formed in mid 2002 after a bizarre series of events that found two gentlemen with a desire to express themselves through music. Paul Jenkins and Wes McCanse decided they would give making an album their best effort, and that hopefully one day something good would come of it. Paul was familiar with the piano and Wes was familiar with guitar, so they each had something to bring to the table. It turned out, Paul was able to sing, and Wes was good with production; so with no extra help, the two were well on their way to creating an album.

Working with a laptop computer, music video created a sound that was not only fresh, but challenging as well. They decided to call themselves music video, after the media art form that we've all come to know and love. Their music had somewhat of a soundtrack quality to it, and so the name seemed to fit. After a year of writing songs, the duo began performing with their laptop in late 2003 in their hometown of Tucson, Arizona. They hope to expand their fan base and possibly influence other musicians to challenge the confines of traditional pop music.

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Music Video's debut album. You can download 3 tracks free here and can listen to 30 second previews of all the tracks at music video official website.

Green and blue
It's nothing new
Her colors make me wanna cry

Grey and red
It hurts my head
And bleeding never felt this good

Orange and brown
She wears a crown
If you don't understand you should

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Another Borderline Emergency
It's rather fun to watch
Fun to watch when other fall
Hey by the way, there's a trap door down the hall
What a night for a storm
The rain will help to keep me warm
Perfect free form frequency
Another borderline emergency

I can't help wondering
What I'm doing here
And would it be a loss
If I were to disappear?

To everything turn, turn!
Feel a slow delicate burn
Why must you talk so loud?
Every silver lining has a cloud
And if at first you don't succeed
Ignore all evidence you tried
Because that which doesn't kill you,
only makes you wanna die

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Lost at Sea
I couldn't taste what I used to feel
Wake me up if this is real
I haven't seen the sun for days
And leave the past, it's in the past
Moments like these were meant to last
And views like these need photographs
I've still got far too long to go
Running fast and breathing slow
Yeah I've got far too long to go
Making love to a machine
Her LED's were bright and green
I couldn't understand her code

Watching it rain on a screen
It doesn't mean as much to me
I saw the storm on channel five
The only icicles we see
Are made of lights and hung on trees
It hasn't snowed since '85
I haven't slept since we first met
Cause if I did I might forget
That funny way you looked at me
With ticking bombs and fallen leaves
Forgotten songs and tricks up sleeves
There's plenty of fish lost at sea

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Figure of Speech
Shoot for stars like astronauts
Keep the food until it rots
Lets all drink 'til our heart stops
With ink-stain blots and blue blood clots
Pick the scab it bleeds again
It's good to be American
Buy one and you'll get one free
It sounds like fuzzy math to me
There's no place, no place like home
It beats just like a metronome
Just for kicks some pick-up sticks
Were entertaining lunatics
Plus or minus nothings timeless
Automatic writers block
Bullet blackheads stare you down
And thank you strokes for saving rock
Watching cock fights 'til dawn
You're the bishop to my pawn
Never really was that strong
Wayward son wont you carry on
Contractual obligation
Just one god under a nation
Premature masturbation, keep it here don't change the station

Do you think were better of dead?
Or just the best thing since sliced bread?
And do you believe I've lost my head?
Or just woke up on the wrong side of the bed?

An aphrodisiac for nymphomaniacs we need it like we need a heart attack
This was my wish, my dream that didn't come true so I'm taking it back
Rats doused in kerosene
Envy of the beauty queen
Something somewhat less obscene
The end will justify the means
Engine, engine number nine
Smash the grapes and make some wine
Mine is yours and yours is mine
Really though I'm feeling fine
Never mind panic attacks
Try not to step on the cracks
Something just occurred to me
My god wouldn't do this to me
Set it and forget it happened
Don't remember? Use a napkin
Guidelines of the laundry-mats
With extra saturated fats
Between a rock and a hard place
Vanished and gone without a trace
Pleasant for black comedy
And happiness don't grow on trees
Ignoring Sarah plain and tall
All for one and one for all
Let the scapegoat take the fall
It's his fault that we dropped the ball
Leave a message at the tone
Help me feel I'm not alone
Hate this feeling dry as a bone
Waiting for a ring from the phone
We rob the poor and give the rich
Scratch an unreachable itch
We turn lights off without a switch
It all goes off without a hitch
I don't know quite what I am saying
There's no way out just a way in
Flying high above the birds
A picture's worth a thousand words

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Nobody's Around
I'm walking on a razor's edge
I know its been said before
I've been looking for a way out
There never was a door

I wanna get away and ill be gone forever
I won't even look back, is that…

I'm walking on some broken glass
As cliché as it sounds
I wanna hear the tree that falls
When nobody's around

I wanna get away and ill be gone forever
I won't even look back, is that so much to ask?

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Everything up to this point has been a waste
My mind, it doesn't work well in 3d
I need to find, someone to fireproof the TV
I'm gonna tell you exactly how its gonna be
The new car smell, I swear its actually killing me

I can't help the way I feel, but if it's too late, then tell me now

So pack your knapsack and/or your suitcase
Stop and go until you're back in the same place
Slow and steady 'til you get blue in the face
Everything up to this point has been a waste

I can't help the way I feel, but if it's too late, then tell me now
And I can't tell if this is real, but the truth is, I don't wanna know

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Postrockfeelgoodsongofthemillenium
(instrumental)

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Blow up doll
I am so amused by you
And I can see that you are to
Tell me please, id like to know
How does it feel to be completely shallow?

I don't know what to see in you
I never thought I knew how to feel like you
I don't know what to see in you
I never thought I knew what to feel for you

You want me to look at you
You, so young and so confused

Tell me please, id like to know
How does it feel to be completely shallow?
Tell me please, Id like to know
How does it feel to be completely hollow?

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Somewhere between blue and gray
Kind of lost myself today
At a loss for words to say

And into me, the needles fly
As moving motion pictures die
It's quite an unfamiliar cry
The one you can't explain why

It'll all just fade away
and I'm a tired old cliche
It'll all just fade away one day
Tomorrow just might be okay

Well I thought I lost my way
Somewhere between blue and gray

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Abandoned highways
Is she alone as she is always?
I watch the stone roll through the star-ways
I ride along abandoned highways
Is she alone as she is always?

Is she alone as she is always?
I can't forget the smile on her face
Was I supposed to take her to that place?
Is she alone as she is always?

And then I'm caught up in her story-line
It's so exciting but it isn't mine
It feels just like were running out of time
Because I'm buried in her story-line

She said: Sing me a song, I wanna tag along
Just for the ride, its not where I belong
Sing us a song, it won't be too long
Just take me there and I'll move right along

Is she alone as she is always?
I watch the stone roll through the star-ways
I ride along abandoned highways
Are we alone as we were always?

I'm getting caught up in her story-line
It's so exciting but it isn't mine
It feels just like I'm running out of time
Because I'm buried in her story-line

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Glossolalia
We got a taste of better things to come
I wonder how the whole world shares the sun
I'll slur my words and this'll be real fun
Until it's all alone
And by now you should know, yeah you should know
We roll the tape and then say "okay go"
The spectral gate is closing in for show
Until it's all alone

You're finding out that nothing's worth it now
I couldn't find the beat here anyhow
I guess I was looking in the wrong place
It wasn't all alone
We leave you in a state of loneliness
I don't know what is like the point of this
If I was British I would take the piss
Until it's all gone

And it feels like home

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TV screen
I saw you on the TV screen
Or maybe that was just a dream
You presence never makes much sense to me
I try to find the words to say
But you won't hear me anyway
My voice is white noise dancing on the screen

If I could only just pretend for once to say the things I mean

I saw you in a picture book
I had to take a second look
I wish I had the attention span to read
But then you turned and looked at me
Your face was gone for me to see
And everything's exactly what it seems

If I could only just pretend for once to say the things I mean
And maybe you could just pretend to understand the things I've seen

And it feels just like letting go

I saw you in a magazine
It might have been a movie screen
My minds been playing subtle tricks on me
I'm close enough to touch you now
But I can't do it anyhow
You're better off remaining in my dreams

We would stay awake for good

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The Waltz
(instrumental)

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