Has anyone seen the Killers 'When you were young' video? help out?!

Has anyone seen the Killers 'When you were young' video? help out?

Well i need this video explained to me, i like the video but i wanna know is she dead or what? in one version she jumps in the beginning and in the other (the more common) he gets there be for she jumps. The sequence of the video confuses me. at the end the meets him? or did she forgive him? or is that another guy or what? Tell me your take on it...

It’s really open to interpretation.

In the version I have seen, it does appear that she jumps (a slow-motion jump, or so it seems). But if you look closely, you see that she simply collapses onto the ground at the edge of the hill, where he finds her.

It’s a song about broken hope, about the version of your life that you see when you close your eyes. Does the version you see today match the version you saw 5 months ago? 5 years ago? (15 years ago?) If not, what has changed?

For the girl in the video, I believe the linear sequence of her life is this:

1. She prays the rosary. (Is she praying that God will give the husband of her dreams?)
2. She meets a man near the church who gives her his hand and kindly helps her up a steep step. (“He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus.” Hmm? Exactly what does Jesus look like? This fellow’s origin and complete character are unknown, but he obviously won her heart at some point.) He woos her. They kiss.
3. They are married and she is overjoyed. (She is at her very brightest in the wedding dance scene.)
4. He betrays her with the other woman. Our heroine catches him in the act, evidently at their own home, in their wedding bed. (The devil’s water isn’t sweet, “but you can dip your feet every once and long while.”
5. Their relationship is broken; their marriage is broken. (Notice the picture that falls when she discovers her husband in bed with the other woman. Is it the same wedding picture seen earlier?)
6. She leaves the house, crushed and in disarray, crying openly in the streets. (Is this the future she envisioned for herself when she was young?)
7. With nowhere else to turn, she ascends the hill and stands at the cross. Touching the cross, does she feel God has forsaken her? Are her dreams destroyed, was God deaf to her prayer? (Was she listening for God’s answer? If God had directed her away from this man, would she have heeded a warning from her heavenly Father?)
8. Knowing he has made a tragic error, her husband leaves the other woman and seeks his young bride, hoping to find her before the damage can never be repaired. He finds her spent and broken. His remorse is obvious, but is it too late? (“Can we climb this mountain? I don’t know. Higher now than ever before.” Is the cross on the hill a regular place of solace for her? Can he possibly hope to join her there, could he ever regain her trust?)
9. After some time has passed (weeks? months?) she returns. Entering the place where he works (had he always been a bartender?), she approaches him with a different expression, a different countenance. With the villainous ‘other woman’ directly in their presence, she offers him a confident handshake of peace. He accepts, and the path for reconciliation has been established.
10. As she turns from the bar and enters the club, he clearly has a permanent choice to make: to the left towards unfaithfulness or to the right towards forgiveness and a new beginning. As he goes to follow his wife, the other woman exits in disgust.
11. Inside the club, at the front of the stage, she sees the singer, who seems to be warning her about “the place where you used to live when you were young.” But when her man urges her to come with him, she turns to go with a wiser smile. But you can’t help but wonder if it isn’t all turning around too fast. (“I know we can make it if we take it slow.”) What will he do when he is tempted again? What will she do if she catches him cheating again? Is this his second and final chance, or is this the beginning of a wild merry-go-round? “A hurricane that started turning when you were young.”

When you were young, were you naïve?
Is there any way to learn the toughest life lessons except the hard way?
After you learn, what changes inside you?
Are you bitter? Can you forgive? Are you willing to risk being hurt again?
(Some pretty big soul stuff for a Killers video, huh?)