half·alive - RUNAWAY (Official Video)

1960 - 26 year old Jessica Avet opens a stack of 20 letters from her father, J Francis Avet, addressed to her before he was drafted in 1940. Francis left his 6 year old daughter knowing he might not ever return, so wrote with the intension for Jess to read a letter on her birthday every year for 20 years. Jess never read a single one, until her 26th birthday.

half•alive’s music video for “RUNAWAY”

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Directed by : Carlos Lopez Estrada & Josh Taylor Written by : half•alive

CAST:
Jess : Jessica Muszynski
Young Jess : Lynden Liu
Francis : Josh Taylor

CREW:
Produced by : Little Ugly
Producer : Sammi Farber Exec.
Producers : Neil Garvey, Melora Donoghue, Kimberly Stuckwisch, Jesse McClung
Cinematographer : Matt Wise
Production Designer : Tyler Jensen
Edited by : Taylor Brusky & Josh Taylor
Post Supervisor : Naheem
Adio VFX : Ben Kadie Colorist : Gregory Reese
Choreographer : JA Collective
Commissioner : Nicholas Robespierre
Music Video Rep : Reprobates
Hair + Makeup : Alyson Black-Barrie
Stylist : Madelaine Turner

lyrics:
i've been searchin’
nothin’s workin’
i've been trippin’
no one’s perfect
chasing vision
just the surface
shirt’s on backwards
not on purpose

but I’ve been learning
something different
even bigger
in expectation
feet are failing
but I found blessings
flowing from this side of Heaven

staring into my reflection
redirecting my perfection somewhere else
when there isn’t any progress
lean in truth inside the promise – it is well

i hold my life out in front of me
dreams of who I want to be
& seeing every empty page

but I find that everything I am is
everything I should be
i don’t need to runaway

something’s working
heart is turning
vision’s clearing
still I’m learning

that what I am – what I am
what I am – what I am – what I am
is something more than I can plan
go tell me now – I don’t need to RUNAWAY

i've been standing on a stage
with just a mirror
forced to face who I’ve become

searching for a new escape
I scan the exits that embrace
an easy out

i hold my life out in front of me
dreams of who I want to be
& seeing every empty page

but I find that everything I am
is everything I should be
i don’t need to runaway

#halfalive #RUNAWAY #NowNotYet