Music Video
The music video for "Far Away" was first shown on VH1's V-Spot. Filmed at Green Timbers Park in Surrey, British Columbia just outside Vancouver, the video starts with a couple in bed, when a cellphone rings and the husband is forced to leave. It is revealed that he is a firefighter, and has been called to help fight a forest fire.
As the song moves on, we see the firefighters dropped right into the middle of the fire by a helicopter, which quickly overwhelms them and forces them to retreat. The husband goes back to help a fallen firefighter, and watches the helicopter leave without him. After the husband sees the helicopter leave, a large, fiery tree is seen falling, presumably onto him. This footage is inter-cut with his wife watching the news about the fire.
Later, she receives a phone call, and breaks down, as it appears that she has been informed that her husband has died. She rushes outside to see several firefighters emerge from a truck...including her husband, covered in soot. She rushes to him and hugs him, and the video ends.
The entire song also features inter-cuts to the band playing in a large, strobe light-filled red and orange room.
VH1 later named this video as the third best song on the Top 40 Videos Of 2006, behind Hips Don't Lie by Shakira and ahead of SexyBack by Justin Timberlake. It is the first Nickelback song to be among VH1's Top 10 videos of the year, let alone Top 3.
Nickelback has not talked about their inspiration for the song Far Away. Critics say that it has a storyline straight out of the Nicholas Sparks school.
Read more about this topic: Far Away (Nickelback Song)
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