Filmed almost entirely on steadicam, the colours will be over-saturated, whites will be blown out giving an urban edge. The compositions will be in an Edward Hopper style, long rectangular spaces filled with action framed on top and bottom by natural lines at the location. The video will follow two main themes of the song: the uncontrollable passage of time, and the mystical reliability of love, time after time. INOJ's performance will be simple, straightforward and honest. She's singing the song, but she's got things on her mind, too.

The musical intro of the video opens with an elderly black couple walking very slowly arm in arm down the urban street, the people passing are moving at a much quicker speed. The camera follows the delicate pace of their careful steps, of their comfort with each other as they slowly and protectively walk together, as they have for many, many years. The camera follows them as they pass and then cranes up to a window of a bedroom.

The video lyrics begin as the Cyndi Lauper video did, in the bedroom with her man, we see INOJ get up and leave a rather handsome, muscular man in bed.

A large abandoned building in Tribecca, INOJ is sitting next to a streetman who has just finished setting up his daily "shop" on the ground. He is selling books, used clothing, abandoned appliances, etc., to the side of the area where he lives and sleeps on the street. The people in the neighborhood know and love him and take care of him by buying and donating the contents of his "shop." People walking down the street at different paces, the view of him and INOJ is somewhat blocked by the rush of people passing. A little girl passes with her mother and gives the streetman a flower she had been holding. He puts it in a vase that is in his vast array of items, and smiles. Someone buys a book. Someone drops off a turntable. INOJ looks at a bicycle the streetman was selling, he nods for her to take it.

Performance INOJ riding bicycle through NYC streets. She puts a mechanical monkey, which drums in the front basket of the bicycle. He is drumming in sync to the rhythm of the song. Various angles of INOJ riding through the streets of Manhattan.

INOJ gets off the bicycle and runs up the steps of the Clock Tower. As she runs up, we see all the mechanical parts which measure time along the way. Performance location -- INOJ at the Clock Tower, 108 Leonard Street, an old clock tower which has been preserved since early New York City days, its old-tyme components are visible. The face of the clock faces west with a beautiful dusk light. We will film performance of INOJ at the top of the clock tower at magic hour.

INOJ is back on the bicycle, she passes a group of drummers on the street, who are drumming the rhythm of the song.

INOJ is back on the bicycle. POV INOJ on the bicycle of the elderly couple who continue walking very slowly at their own pace amidst the fast pace around them. She arrives at the loft space where the dancers are dancing and crosses in front of them. INOJ at the "Broken Kilometer" DIA Art Foundation. A large empty loft space with bright wooden floors and crisp white walls, and the giant pieces of golden pipes of a kilometer lined upon the floor. We will film both performance and dancers in this space.

Dancers and dance location -- The dancers will be a key component of the video. They will be intercut throughout the video, keeping the rhythm, the sense of time, as a metronome on a piano. The choreography will combine sharp movements and expertise of different styles of capoiora, hip-hop, club and modern jazz. The variety of dance movements will be artfully constructed as punctuations of energy and time. At different moments we will see independently the rigorous choreography of young children, club kids, professional dancers and dancers over 55, all syncing to the song. Their movements will be in varying speeds. (Regular speed will punch in to slow motion just as feet are to touch the ground again.)

Sometimes the "performer" persona of the dancer will be broken by the support and love of an on-looker, sometimes the step will be broken down, repeated over and over, as in a rehearsal with the required "time after time" to achieve perfection, most importantly, the choreography will be filmed from many angles, allowing for a sculptural, three-dimensional, quick paced match cutting on movement.

The video ends with INOJ back in bed with her lover.

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