I really don't much like this video, and it's more of an experiment than anything else, but I wanted to get it done and see how it looked. The music is actually 'The Virgin Queen' by Martin Phipps, from the soundtrack of the same name (the lyrics to which are themselves adapted from the poem 'On Monsieur's Departure' by Elizabeth I), but the idea of a dual identity and hiding one's true self from the outside seemed very fitting for Thomas Cromwell.
I own neither the clips nor the music contained in this video.
Lyrics:
My care is like my shadow
Laid bare beneath the sun.
It follows me at all times
And flies when I pursue it.
I freeze and yet am always burned
Since from myself again I turn
I love and yet am forced to hate
I seem stark mute; inside I prate.
Some gentler love doth ease itself
Into my heart and mind
For I am soft and made of snow
Love, be more cruel or so be kind