Songs about heartache are necessarily one-sided, but City and Colour leader Dallas Green wanted to cover a break-up from both points of view on the Canadian band’s new album. “Lover Come Back” is the song he wrote from the perspective of the heartbreaker, singing to the heartbroken. Speakeasy premieres a video for the song today.

Directed by Michael Maxxis, the clip features Diem Al-Jouni, a Julliard-trained dancer who lives in New Orleans, gliding through urban and pastoral landscapes in the Mississippi delta as the breezy song swells around him. “The locations and the dancer capture the mood of the song perfectly,” Green says by email. “I've shot videos with Maxxis in the past and he always finds a way to visualize my music in a way I never could.”

“Lover Come Back” is on City and Colour’s new album “If I Should Go Before You,” which came out in October. It’s the flip side to the tune “Wasted Love,” which Green sings from the perspective of the dumped. “‘Lover Come Back’ is from the viewpoint of the person that let a good thing go and didn't realize it was gone until it was too late,” Green says. “I think a lot of people can relate to it.”

Maxxis spent six days scouting locations, and two days shooting the video in sites around Mississippi, including Vicksburg, Clarksdale, Greenwood, Yazoo City, Alligator and Tutwiler. “In the end, I believe we created something really powerful and really raw,” Maxxis says.

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