Production Notes: Script - Dream and Reality (Verse 1)

The Deep Ones Script
By David Reichen

Verse One - Dream and Reality

The Dream

* The Dreamer -

As the third refrain of the intro starts, we see the kid is laying down in bed. He slowly closes his eyes and falls asleep.

We are able to gaze into his sleeping mind as he dreams quite literally of the girl of his dreams. We see her, above the waist, begin to gesture for him to come to her.

* The Sheik -
"Shrieking through jagged teeth, the voices call out while you dream."

She opens her mouth to reveal that she has jagged teeth. Her skin color, which starts out as a normal skin tone abruptly changes to a bluish green. Her long black hair, which was framing her face and cascading over her shoulder and down her front, gently billows away from her to revel undulating slits along her throat, as if she is breathing through them.

* Foretelling -
"Foretelling of things to be,"

While in the dream, the kid reaches out, as if to physically push the nightmare vision from his thoughts. His hands and arms are not what he expects them to look like. They look like the hands of a lizard.

* Scream -
"you wake up with a tortured scream."

The kid wakes, sits up in bed, covers his face with his hands and screams.

Reality

* Drawn -
"You feel drawn to a place you've never been before."

The town sign shows that it is Innsmouth. It is night. The kid approaches the ramp that leads down to the shore. It is a very low tide. He moves down the ramp and walks toward the shoreline.

* Look out -
"When you get there you see"

The kid stops and looks out over the water.

* Shapes -
"shapes rising up beyond the shore."

Since it is a very low tide, the kid sees an exposed reef just off shore. Shapes begin to move off of the reef and come toward him. He looks perplexed but not fearful.

* The Approach -
"Luring you down to the sea, the sirens sing so longingly. Luring you down to the sea,"

A glowing globe rises from the water and moves to the shore. As it gets closer, it rises upwards and it is revealed that the globe is being held aloft by the girl. She seems to be gliding across the water to him.

* Landing -
"Down with the deep ones you will be."

She then steps onto the shore.

* Closer -
"Dagon! Is the one that we follow.""Dagon! Unleash the beast.""Dagon! Is the one that we follow.""Dagon! Unleash the beast."

The girl slowly walks to the kid. She is still carrying the glowing globe in her hands.

* Not Alone -
Instrumental bridge between verse one and verse two.

So transfixed is the kid to his approaching beauty that he fails to notice that they are not alone. Shadowy shapes surround them and he is suddenly startled by this realization. He raises his arm out, as if to ward them off.

Note:
To get an idea of what the dream is supposed to look like, you can watch the movie Dagon.

The phrase All of your life and the word can have been deleted from the second half of verse one in order to make it generic instead of a special case and make it a bit tighter.