The Seagull Was So Close

He was so close to it

A white seagull swoops toward two waffle-like biscuits resting on a windowsill outside an apartment building. It nearly reaches the food, but flies away at the last moment, making the caption “He was so close to it” comically tragic. Michael Andrews & Gary Jules’s melancholic cover of “Mad World” plays underneath, intensifying the bird’s tiny missed opportunity into an overly dramatic failure. EN: A white seagull swoops toward two waffle-like biscuits resting on a windowsill outside an apartment building. It nearly reaches the food, but flies away at the last moment, making the caption “He was so close to it” comically tragic. Michael Andrews & Gary Jules’s melancholic cover of “Mad World” plays underneath, intensifying the bird’s tiny missed opportunity into an overly dramatic failure.

♪ Michael Andrews & Gary Jules — Mad World

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