The song lyrics evoke the age-old story of the pain of rejection, of someone being dumped and seeing their lover, or ex-lover, with someone else.
The video brilliantly builds on that with sharp visual metaphors. The band plays the song in a dried-out, empty pool. Our protagonist uses a knife to cut up an apple (a tool to extract nourishment, but one that brings risk of pain), but stops, tosses the knife and apple, and joins the band. He's given up on providing something. The girl walks in, contemplates, then removes her chains of love (heart pendant), undresses, and dives in at the other end, the deep end. She emerges satisfied, sopping wet, but not courtesy of our dry protagonist-musician: she's getting it from somewhere else. Cuts like a knife. Maybe the "but it feels so right" is what she says! Or maybe, ironically, he gets off on being dumped or betrayed.
The song lyrics evoke the age-old story of the pain of rejection, of someone being dumped and seeing their lover, or ex-lover, with someone else.
The video brilliantly builds on that with sharp visual metaphors. The band plays the song in a dried-out, empty pool. Our protagonist uses a knife to cut up an apple (a tool to extract nourishment, but one that brings risk of pain), but stops, tosses the knife and apple, and joins the band. He's given up on providing something. The girl walks in, contemplates, then removes her chains of love (heart pendant), undresses, and dives in at the other end, the deep end. She emerges satisfied, sopping wet, but not courtesy of our dry protagonist-musician: she's getting it from somewhere else. Cuts like a knife. Maybe the "but it feels so right" is what she says! Or maybe, ironically, he gets off on being dumped or betrayed.