Music Video
The music video was directed by Travis Kopach and filmed on June 19, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. The video was premiered on MTV2 on July 14, 2006. It features people with fish tanks on their heads. The video only shows the band in one scene (the paramedics are the band members), because the band felt that their looks were distracting from their music.
According to one interpretation, the husband feels unloved by his wife whom he knows has been unfaithful. At one point the woman picks up a fish and puts it in her fish tank, representing her sleeping with another man. This makes her husband, depressed, commit suicide.
Those who believe in the above interpretation say that the number of fish in a person's tank represents the number of people a person has slept with. This leads people to believe that the woman in the video has been promiscuous outside her marriage while her husband only has one fish in his tank. However, upon closer inspection, it can be seen that he has numerous fish in his tank as well, although only the one is brightly orange in color and easy to see. The orange fish representing his faithfulness to wife, and the other, harder to see fish, representing past and forgotten lovers.
The band includes a 15-second intro instead of starting the vocals right at the beginning.
The band explained on Steven's Untitled Rock Show that they chose Kopach for the video because they felt his treatment was the most unconventional of the ones they had been offered.
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