most of the time I TOO feel like an archetypal Everyman trying to make it through the day.
they sure don't make 'em like they used to.
Music Video
The song's music video, directed by Peter Christopherson, received a great deal of airplay on MTV, introducing the revamped Yes lineup and sound to a new generation of fans largely unfamiliar with the band's very different earlier work, which had helped to define the genre of progressive rock. The video begins in standard music video fashion with the band members performing in a studio all the way through the first chorus. Then, abruptly, Jon Anderson says, "Hang on, hang on! Maybe there's another way to do this." Then, each of the band members is shown transforming into a different type of animal before the song is re-started as the soundtrack of a black and white film. The film follows an archetypal Everyman as he tries to make it through a day whilst being shocked by pseudo-psychotic flashes of being menaced by the various animals. He is brought to court by government-looking toughs, summarily thrown out of court and into a boiler room where he fights a bruiser, then runs onto the roof of the building. There, he is confronted by the various band members, shifting back and forth between human and animal guises, which drives him to leap from the building. The video then ends with the same man in the same crowd as at the beginning of the video, but instead he turns back, presumably to go home and avoid the day.
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