A Song

I saw an interesting music video today where a woman is tied up in a trunk and a guy is driving the car down some lonely country road, looking out the window. Eventually the car is stopped and the man lets the woman out of the trunk, unties her and hands over the rope. She then ties him up and puts him in the trunk. The video begins and ends with the woman tied up on the road with a piece of chalk drawing x's on the ground.

I read an interesting interpretation. It's a sort of love story, one-sided. The x's are what really caught my attention and a connection between the x's and exes was made. An X is two lines which are separate until they meet at one point and then separate. There is a switch: each half of the X seems to be one of the people and each half is a one-hearted situation; the woman feels for the man while he remains ambivalent, until the meeting of the lines when the roles switch and the man falls for her while she becomes distant.

I just like the description of the X. It's a nice idea even though it ends in separation.