Cass McCombs - Name Written In Water

Cass McCombs - "Name Written In Water" from Hector Savage on Vimeo.
To put it bluntly, the video for Cass McCombs' "Name Written In Water" is an unsettling tableau, but as is the case with most art, one that's open to interpretation (or is it?). On one hand, it's an unrelenting torrent of imagery, a stark reality laid bare. On the other hand, when coupled with the lyric and mood of the song, perhaps it's an allegory about the transitory nature of all existence. In the context of modern capitalist hegemony, we're all just pigs to the slaughter in a cosmic sense.