Thief (Our Lady Peace song)
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| “Thief” | |||||
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| Single by Our Lady Peace from the album Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch |
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| Released | 1999 | ||||
| Format | CD Single | ||||
| Recorded | 1999 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative Rock | ||||
| Length | 4:01 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Raine Maida | ||||
| Producer | Arnold Lanni | ||||
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Thief is a song written and performed by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace and released in 1999 under the album Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. Lead singer Raine Maida provides the vocals.
[edit] Song meaning
The band revealed that the song was centered around a young girl with a cancerous tumor in her brain, who was named Mina Kim. The "thief" mentioned in the song references the tumor. The short clip at the end of the song consisting of a young girl singing a Sunday school song is a real audio clip of Mina Kim singing "Little By Little" with Maida's wife Chantal Kreviazuk.
The Micha Dahan-directed music video of Thief was filmed entirely under a rainy setting, to impose the mood given by the song. Raine Maida provides his trademark falsetto vocals that can also be seen in other pre-2001 singles such as Is Anybody Home, and Annie, which have been described as edgy, off-setting, and perfect for this song.
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