Album: Welcome To The Real World
Video: From DailyMotion.
This is actually a pretty good song, and it took me all these years to realize it. For you see, back in 1985 I had a vague distaste for all things Mr. Mister. Perhaps it was because of that silly name.
Ah, Mr. Mister. Their "Welcome To The Real World" album featured three top ten hits, including two #1 singles. And just like that, they were done. They never had another hit. The band members dispersed and became session musicians after breaking up in 1990. An odd fate, it seems.
But they will always have their greatest legacy, two back-to-back songs that ascended to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie" both had two week runs atop the pop charts. "Broken Wings" is based on a novel of the same name, written by Lebanese artist Khalil Gibran in 1912.
Lyrically, the song is a poetic mourning of a doomed relationship. The main hook of the chorus is borrowed from "Blackbird", one of the Beatles' most beautiful songs. "Take these broken wings and learn to fly." Paul McCartney tosses off the line lightly, while Richard Page draws it out.
The video primarily features Page driving, seemingly anguishing over his soon-to-be lost love. At one point he appears alone in the back pew of a church, and he shares a moment with a hawk that soars in through an open window. Lots of bird imagery throughout. Also notable is a couple dancing, shown only from the waist down. At the end, he drinks from an enormous canteen and litters.
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