Nickelback released the video for the band’s new single “Song on Fire” on Monday.
It’s the latest song from their ninth studio album Feed the Machine, which comes out Friday.
“As we were working on this song, a very personal one for me, we all instantly connected to it on different levels through our own experiences,” singer Chad Kroeger explained, in a release.
“Everyone has a need to love or be loved and we’ve all been hurt or felt loss. It’s about your heart yearning for something that your rational mind knows is impossible to hold onto. There is a universally, haunting finality to losing love and we found ‘our protagonist’ (in this song) trying to reclaim it; but not knowing where to begin or that it might ultimately be in vain.”
Directed by Nigel Dick, the video features performance footage cut with metaphorical images of a woman struggling to find her way home — and a heartwarming ending that brings everything into focus.