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[Video #84] from http://www.youtube.com/user/MetalGuruMessiah the address for MetalGuruMessiah's Musical Paint Box! Check out my other videos!

"Young Lions" was the title track of Adrian Belew's 1990 album. This was the fifth album that Adrian Belew released, and it's filled with great tracks and fine guitar work. I've always been a huge fan of Adrian Belew's guitar playing style...very distinct and unusual.

The artists that Adrian Belew has worked with or been associated with is incredible; King Crimson, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, Tom Tom Club, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Tori Amos, The Bears, and many more.

I've been wanting to do a video for one of my favorites by Adrien Belew since I began making these videos and had thought of several songs that I wanted to play around with. "Young Lions" is one of my very favorites so it was always a contender, but it moved to the top of the stack mainly due to the fact that I'd been working on another African flavored tune, Bowie's "African Night Flight", and while working on that one, i kept coming to imagery that seemed more fitting for this tune.

Borrowed some video from Bob Rafelson's 1990 film "Mountains Of The Moon" and the BBC Planet Earth....also huge thanks to http://www.youtube.com/user/mamothmanX for the footage of the Masai tribe.....amazingly cool!

Africa is a place of such incredible beauty, mystery and wonder and Adrian Belew did an outstanding job bringing some of the rhythms and mysticism into "Young Lions".

The video for "African Night Flight" that I'll be finishing up soon will be very reminiscent of this one, and will share some of the same pictures and sequences, but it'll be masked and edited differently, and........when you get Bowie's music in front of it....it'll be an entirely different video! Great tunes both, and I'm honored to be able to create some imagery for such incredible music!

[Lyrics]

Hot tribal night
underneath florescent skies
bonfires rage strange
wild waving shouting Picasso faces

In the guise of a lioness
the wind kisses her burning dress
you can fell her animal eyes
you can hear them cry,
"Be the jewel around my neck,
never a tear on my burning dress"

Lying, paralyzed,
a brave prey who lays dying
and is surrounded by angry spirits
hunters, guns, drums, and elephants

Why is this night quiet?

filled with trees filled with eyes
as she prowls around my feet
she throws back her head dress and cries,
"Now you will be mine,
be my young lion"

Why is this night quiet?
why the trees filled with eyes?
as she prowls around my feet
she throws back her head dress and cries,
"Be my young lion"