The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut
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| “The Final Cut” | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song by Coheed and Cambria | ||
| Released | 2005 | |
| Recorded | 2005 | |
| Genre | Progressive rock | |
| Length | 7:40 | |
| Label | Columbia, Equal Vision | |
| Producer | Michael Birnbaum, Chris Bittner, Coheed and Cambria | |
"The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut" is the last song on progressive rock quartet Coheed and Cambria's album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. The song, based on the comic series The Amory Wars, represent's The Writer's dreams of the lost souls of the Keywork carrying him to a guillotine to atone for his fantasized murder of his ex-girlfriend, Erica Court. As the guillotine descends, Erica's words (which are sung by Claudio during the song) echo through The Writer's mind: "This is no beginning; this is the final cut". [1]After the song "The End Complete V: On the Brink" on Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow a modified instrumental version of the The Final Cut can be heard.
[edit] Music video
The music video was written and directed by Claudio Sanchez. He and his girlfriend starred in the video. Throughout the video, there are completely irrelevant clips of things like cans hanging from tree limbs, including one in which Claudio is seen with a sack over his head while he wields a chainsaw, and other shots of the area around the shed where Claudio tortures his ex. After the scene in which Claudio is seen mourning the loss of his girlfriend, he takes off in his car, kidnaps her, and takes her to his tool shed. He then ties her to a chair and proceeds to torture her with the tools at hand. During this scene he initially wears a sack over his head, but reveals himself shortly after entering the shed. Claudio promptly begins torturing his ex, all the while ignoring her pleas and cries for help, finally killing her with a sickle.
In the end of the video, Claudio is shown sitting in his car, laughing, and a single leaf is shown floating atop a rippling pond.
[edit] In concert
The song has become a concert staple. The live version of the song is often longer than the album version, with the majority of it being improvised.[2]
[edit] References
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