Music Video
The video for the song is the first from the Dark Passion Play album, succeeded by another, Bye Bye Beautiful; both were directed by Antti Jokinen, and shot in Los Angeles, USA, in spring 2007 and cost more than 270,000€. In June 2007, Anette Olzon said that the video, which was released together with the single, is based on a Finnish painting called "The Wounded Angel", which was painted in the turn of the 20th century by Hugo Simberg and voted Finnish national painting in 2006.
The video alternates between the band playing underground and scenes of a story of two boys who find a fallen angel. It begins with the two boys playing by a stream, having a good time, but when one of the boys looks up from his toy boat, he sees an angel lying on the other side, unconscious and bleeding from her eyes. The boy points out the angel to his friend, and they run to her aid. Subsequently, they are seen carrying the now blindfolded angel on a makeshift stretcher. They travel to a nearby village in order to treat her. Residents of the village are confused and some look upon her with contempt, possibly seeing her not as an angel, but as an object of evil. This may be a reference to Lucifer, who fell from Heaven during the great battle. Because of Lucifer's treachery, a fallen angel is often viewed as evil.
The boys reach a hut and set the angel down on a bed. One of them touches the angel's wings, and she regains consciousness. The boy tilts her chin up, and a drop of blood falls from her eyes into his open hand, which closes. A mob of men, made up of some of the villagers who saw the boys bring in the angel before, barge into the house and drag the two boys out, away from the angel. A man outside sets the house on fire with a torch. The mob outside rejoice as the house burns down, but the angel escapes back to Heaven.
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