Broken Bells - The High Road

Music video by Broken Bells performing The High Road. (c) 2009 Sony Music Entertainment

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Broken
• Bells
• Columbia
• Alternative

[FantasyFarmENT]

Very beginning... Squidward playing the clarinet

[wutang9]

I didn't know that kevin spacey and the black guy from CSI formed a band.

[whalley10]

8tracks.com/whalley-07/time-fo­r-living

Songs like this. 

[Scarecrowman27]

Sounds like Damien Rice at the end when they sing "It's to late to change your mind"

[DaveFreddo]

Amazing! Check out the new Swedish band "Milano Sun - Already Gone" Great!

[a182ava]

I love Broken Bells!! If you're a James Mercer fan, The Shins new album "Port of Morrow" comes out 3/20. ...You can download their video for "Simple Song" for FREE on iTunes!! Go get it !!!!

[Zdude100]

For those wondering what the video means:

Based solely on the music video, i believe the song is about coping with the apparent meaningless in life:

The band members are wandering through the night with flashlights, kinda like how people wander through life without being able to see and trying to see things clearly. People distract themselves from the foreboding thought of pointlessness in many ways, which are represented throughout the video

[Zdude100]

Taking advantage of others (the stealing of the toy car), tragedy (the car wreck), entertainment (the kids watching the fire on the screen, which seems to be a subtle reference to the fact that fires are sometimes called "outdoor TVs" because of their tendency to hold our gaze), sex (the dancer), and, perhaps, religion (the white horse, a common symbol in various spiritual groups throughout history) are all seen as possible ways to fulfill us

[Zdude100]

The drug references in the lyrics also fit this pattern. All of these paths to fulfillment have a binding effect, that is, it's easy for us to get stuck in them ("It's too late to change your mind").

Overall: the songs about conflict, isloation and how these sort of things are associated with decisions, the challenge presented in decision making to "find the high road" (hence the title!) Btw this is not my interpretation, it is one I read and thought it fit well

[jmorris724]

@wutang9 lol

[MickeyZslav]

I wonder what the hell this video means