Just what was this video about? Poofy shirts. The Italian Renaissance. Man falls from the Heavens, like Icarus who flew to close to the sun. Then with the Industrial Revolution, man builds new flying machines. All the while, Michael Stipe's love song to a distant lover. The science and ambition of Leonardo Da Vinci, the composition of Carvaggio - with his signature cast light - "the spotlight". And the last time we would see Michael Stipe's hairline. And maybe R.E.M.'s first pop song. He finally let go of the rock band trope of mysticism (Led Zepellin and Hobbits, Uriah Heep "The Magician's Birthday", Spin̈al Tap "Stonehenge") and wrote about simple things. Gee Whiz.