Let's forget about the song for a minute. This video, which is clearly very Dick Tracy comic-inspired, is among the most beautiful ones I've ever seen. And Nick gets the girl in the end. What more can you ask?! So, before we talk about the music, let's enjoy the video.
The song itself, though, is not at all happy. It's angry and depressed and sarcastic in the first verse. The second verse keeps the anger and depression, but the sarcasm is replaced with hope. I was always impressed with the way Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson kept the story going so far forward in such a short song. And, let's be honest - music hadn't seen this much orchestral-style layering since Phil Spector!
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