The Space In Between

The Space In Between is a song by How To Destroy Angels, and the second single from their eponymous EP. It runs 3:34 at 74 BPM.

Release

Since the band's inception, they had tweeted cryptic images, varying from smashed glass to flowers. The pictures culminated in an image of fire followed by the band tweeting that something would be there in "a few minutes" on May 14th 2010.

About 2 hours later, the video for The Space In Between was released via Pichfork Media. The following day, the band updated their website, YouTube and Vimeo profiles with a hi-definition (480p, 780p and 1080p) version of the video.

A week later, the band released the multitracks for The Space In Between, along with the previous release A Drowning, on remix.nin.com.

The guitar performance in this song was also featured prominently in an early teaser video which can be found here.

Appearances

How To Destroy Angels

Versions

The Space In Between (video version)

This is the only known version

Video

Warning:Spoilers

The video, directed by Rupert Sanders (who is primarily known for creating video game advertisements) is set in a hotel room, and opens to the corridor outside. It cuts to a shot of an ajar door, and of an over-running sink, to show that something surprised the room. Once the vocals come in, we are given a shot of a recently-murdered (albeit singing) Bride (Mariqueen Reznor) sitting against a bed, surrounded with blood. Following close up shots show that a struggle had occurred, and show a long-burning candle near a stack of papers. A shot of another, unmoving, dead body, that of the Groom (Trent Reznor) in a pool of his own blood.

We are then shown a woman (Molly McDowell) speaking on the phone, and a man (Atticus Ross) watching motorbike racing on the hotel's television. The video gives the implication that these are the killers, although no definitive answer is ever put forward. The video cuts to show the candle has ignited the stack of papers, and gives us the close up of the murdered man's face. We are also shown a knife, presumably the murder weapon (although the wound coming from the Bride's head could imply a gunshot wound).

The remainder of the video shows the spread of the fire engulfing the corpses and their half of the room, and the apparent nonchalance of the supposed murderers. The video also reveals that there is apparently another man in the bathroom, but only his feet and hands are ever seen. The video cuts out abruptly as the Bride and Groom are totally consumed by the fire.

Screenshots

Video Credits

Director: Rupert Sanders

Executive Producer: David Zander
Executive Producer: Eric Stern
Line Producer: Laurie Boccaccio
Associate Producer: Adriana Cebada Mora

Assistant Art Director: Jame LaRocca
Assistant Art Director: Kelly Flynn
Assistant Art Director: Kate Greenberg
Production Coordinator: Courtney Nolan
Director of Photography: Greig Fraser

Gaffer: John Vecchio
Key Grip: Brad Boyer
Production Designer: James Chinlund

Set Designer: James Chinlund
Art Director: Taylor Williams
Special Effects: Jeremy Hayes
Post Production: The Mill
Executive Producer: Sue Troyan

Post Production Producer: Arielle Davis
Post Production Supervisor: Cedric Nicolas Troyan
Flame Supervisor: Phil Crowe
Flame Artist: Andy Bate
Flame Artist: Gareth Parr

Editor: Neil Smith
Producer: Jane Dilworth
Editor: Patrick Murphee
Executive Producer: David Glean
Film Transfer: Shane Harris

Producer: Taryn Mackprang
Head of Post Production: Thatcher Peterson

Images

The band slowly released cryptic images via their twitter account, which culminated in the release of the video for The Space In Between, the images being revealed to be shots taken from the video's set.

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Lyrics

THESE HAVE BEEN TRANSCRIBED BY EAR. ANY PERCEIVED ERRORS SHOULD BE EDITED IN UNTIL WE HAVE OFFICIAL LYRICS.

   All our blood lying on the floor
   Sense the crowd expecting something more.
   Opened up, proudly on display,
   What we tried so hard to hide away

   Blinding light illuminates the scene
   Try to fill the spaces in between

   Arms entwined in a final pose
   Narrative drawing to a close
   Still remain the things we couldn't kill
   In your eyes I can see it still
  
   How we choose the framing of the scene
   Hate begins to spill across the screen
   
   Blinding light illuminates the scene
   Try to fill the spaces in between