The lows and the highs make life worth living, cherish each moment, two minutes, two weeks, years, can seem like a blink, and after I shed tears watching and listening to this song, my chest opens up and for a while I am good enough. 'Be careful what you ask of me because I can not say no' and I struggle every day to do just that because I never want to be so in love with someone that I feel like a puppet.
a man befriends another giving promise of a job, the man brings the other to an apartment and there is a sixteen year old girl and twenty something year old 'boyfriend'. The man tries to get the 'boyfriend' drunk while drinking heavily himself and the other watches. The girl says she is going to take a shower and the other is tempted to rape her because he has been without sex, housing, regular food, and steady work for so long and she is so pretty. The other makes faces to the man getting drunk implying the thoughts and the man understands and there is a pivotal moment where the other realizes something must be sacrificed to save the girl and I speak out and say, 'NO!' and the man is upset. The man is very strong working with tires all day long. He has a confrontation with the 'boyfriend' and the other sits there. The 'boyfriend' fends off the man after a struggle and yet the man tries several times more before stopping. Barking, a good dog, playful and loving, brown, perhaps a rot is jumping around and barking because of the wrestling. The man starts to wrestle and get rough with the dog, I think the dog's name was Jack, but I could be wrong, and the man punches the dog in the jaw full force and laughs. The 'boyfriend' is completely quiet. The girl finally gets out and quickly leaves to go to her mother's apartment and the girl smells divine. The man signals me to punch the dog also, and at first I say no, but the other did it anyway several times, in all the dog, Jack, was punched at least two dozen times. The other leaves, did not get a job since the man would not provide him with a phone number or a shower nor the divine. Some time goes by and the other goes back to see if the girl is still there, still under her 'spell' and he comes across someone else and instead of asking for the girl out of embarrassment because she was so young askes if the dog that used to be there is still around. Was told something happened to that dog, it stopped playing, all it would do is lay around, and soon after it died from 'a cancer'.
I cry every time I see the video and listen to the song and first listened to it a few years ago and had to change the station to keep from showing my emotion. Not until brightside did the video resurface and I chose not to say anything afraid to expose too much to too many and afraid that I had already said too much.