Unlike 'recreate' by 'Born of Osiris', 'Silverstein' have gone about this music video by using solely narrative as opposed to performance. The narrative of this video is highly metaphorical and directly applicable to the lyrics of the song. The artistic shots of various spinning innanimate objects at the begining are intensified by the fact that they are all in pairs and symbolic of a fragile love between two people.
We gradually see these objects become more frail throughout this video as the ink spills and as the lyrics discuss the fragile nature of his own emotion until finally we see all of the objects wither, die, smash and break down just as the relationship the song is based on inevitably has done.
The video does however contain a slight literal element within the deeply metaphorical narrative in the sense that the talking on the the phones and letter writting is directly suggestive of broken down relationships and useless apologies, however this still does not count as a performance element due to the fact that it is so tied in with the rest of the narrative.
This music video is very simplistic, however it is both visually and conceptually very impressive and goes to show just how influential and significant the narrative element of any music video can be.
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