Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me And My Imagination

"I want to get inside, To where the...Magic stays and myth remains"


A bright red neon heart within a heart within a heart frames the outer edges of this seemingly superficial flirty disco-pop music video. Yet, Sophie invites us to play a game in another realm that she calls home. On the gritty yet transparently false-illusion set of the streets of London that act as a stand in for the conscious world, she clicks her heels three times together to suggest that unlike Dorothy Gale, for her there is no place like Oz - perhaps the imaginal realm, accessed through the spinning heart chakra.

In the midst of streets and storefronts, she dances as light as air. She is trying to explain a state of being..of playfully not knowing..having just the right balance of mystery. In front of a darkened music storefront with a neon treble clef symbol, for the first of many times she is transported to another realm in a timeless moment - where "Magic stays and myth remains." A state of being that is a wondrous spell that she does not want to be released from. Neon stars of multiple numbered points dot the darkened spaceless space as she dances uninhibited, surrounded and supported by beings of light.

The lights converge and spin into a flower shape, as she puts on a crown chakra of light to emerge back into the worldly realm. She is in the refuge of nature among city streets, a park...admiring the beauty of a flower and dancing in the gentle balance between both realms. Mere moments beyond, she cannot help but transcend into the other realm once again. This time along with beings of lights, butterflies surround her.

She consciously decides to enter this realm one more time. On the illusion of the city streets, it starts to rain. Yet she keeps her step lightly, dancing through the drops to take shelter from the rain in a doorway. Is it yet another doorway to another realm? A doorway with a cross and a number 5, the number of humanity.

Once again she finds herself fading into the realm of light, where the rain there is brilliant blue lights streaming down from above. She spins her umbrella from her center heart position to show she is now in full motion. The beings of light and butterflies and stars are now joined by a bright neon rainbow. She now stays inside this realm of the heart within a heart within a heart.

"Me & My Imagination"

We're gonna play a game
Just you and me
You never should be won
So easily
Your eyes are on the prize
I'm worth the wait
Don't need to know the end
'Cause darling

Magic stays when myth remains
I'm under your spell
Don't release me
Never give the game away
Try to keep me entertained
Baby
Don't make
It too easy
Leave something
For me and my imagination

We're a possibility
When you make it hard for me
Baby
I'm not in a hurry

Leave something
For me and my imagination

I don't need to know
Your every trick
So keep me guessing just
A little bit
'Cause hidden in your eyes
There's mystery
I want to get inside
To where the

Magic stays and myth remains
I'm under your spell
Don't release me

[Chorus]

Never give the game away
Try to keep me entertained
Baby
Don't make it too easy
Leave something...

[Chorus]

Never give the game away
Try to keep me entertained
Don't make it too easy, baby

For me and my imagination

We're a possibility
You make it hard for me
I'm not in a hurry baby
For me and my imagination

Sophierazzi - sophieellisbextorfans.blogspot.com


A famous child-man who created his own world to live inside of, also revealed much about the same state of being in a world of pure imagination. "If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it." His chocolate factory was accessed though an impossibly small chamber, and the key was music.

"Pure Imagination"

Willy Wonka:
[Spoken]
Hold your breath
Make a wish
Count to three

[Sung]
Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of
Pure imagination
Take a look
And you'll see
Into your imagination

We'll begin
With a spin
Traveling in
The world of my creation
What we'll see
Will defy
Explanation

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it

There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it

There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly
Wish to be


Even Dorothy Gale herself found herself in another realm, that was accessed through a spinning vortex. She had to overcome much fear in the process. The white light goes through a prism to become a rainbow. How could Pink Floyd not have made such a synchronous connection to this movie? As this transformational scene of a depression era representation of a near death experience shows, it coincides with the infamous classic music most associated with ecstasy and death, and ultimately transcendental consciousness. Maybe Dorothy should learn how to stay in OZ.