The black and white effect on the video was used to
represent the idea of love being clear and black and white. This idea that love
is clear and the expectations of relationships is challenged however by the
music video. The lyrics at the beginning of the song ‘when the walls care in I will
pull out, when the grounds shaking I will hold you down and I swear to god that
we will make it out alive’ demonstrates the kind of ‘destructive’ or ‘unstable’
love that the song is about. The line shows that no matter how their relationship
brakes down that he still cant help loving her and that he will try to make the
relationship work. The rest of the song follows this theme and the details of
the relationship are never mentioned. Therefore I think that by not including
the details in the music video the video illustrated the lyrics and intentions
of the song. This idea follows Andrew Goodwin’s theory that there is a
relationship between the lyrics and visuals, and that there is a relationship
between the music and visuals.
This idea that their love is destructive is also represented
by the frequent shots of the Romeo and Juliet. The reference to Romeo and Juliet
could also suggest that the couples relationship is ‘doomed’ and that it will
not end well for the couple despite their strong and passionate emotions.
