Robert Leslie – My Bananamoon (Official Video)

“Pale wee Pierrot, ignoring her jars of verdant reds and Eastern greens,
paints her face with the strange makeup of a fantastical moonbeam”
(Albert Giraud, “Pierrot Lunaire”, 1898)

Dir: Jonah Green, Robert Leslie
Camera: Jonah Green
Editing: Robert Leslie, Emmanuel Rosario
Color: Emmanuel Rosario
Pierrot / moon maker: Ariel St Pierre

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/23fSOabLhQ1VU43awrpsFB

Shot at Theater 80, St Marks Place, NYC, with thanks to Genie and Lorcan Otway.

Lyrics:

There’s the kind of night where I’m just
Climbing up inside my mind
And there’s nights where I just
Wanna go out and have a good time

It gets hairy and you know it
When the daytime has no shape
And then ya gotta share it
With four eyes on two different escapes

By the window you are leaning
On the meaning of the gloom
And out there she is shining
In the skyline my bananamoon

In the bottle I am tumbling
Kinda mumbling through my cues
But out there she is smiling
In forgiveness my bananamoon

So let’s get up real fancy
Let’s get dressed up so nice
Just throw out the dirty laundry
In the dripping of the ice

But where’d everybody go?
We’re dancing to an empty sound
There’s no person that I’m missing
But I’d like to see some people around

So get yer rod, we’re fishing
Get the glitter & harpoons
Cause up there she is sailing
In the starlight my bananamoon

I’ll admit that I am torn up
It’s tricky when you’re living life in two
But up there she is holding
Us together my bananamoon