Gotye - Hearts A Mess

The song 'Hearts A Mess', sung by the artist Wouter DeBacker, is a deep song indicating a small underlining point. Gotye, the artist name DeBacker goes by, sings about how one's specific love wont open their heart to anybody else, seen by the listener's perspective. The lyrics show how the other person has a fear of allowing people in, thinking they are safe from the rest of the world's pains because they wont allow their emotions and thoughts to show. The final saying Gotye sings, "Love ain't safe, You won't get hurt if you chaste, So you can wait, But I don't want to waste my love" (Gotye), represents a strong piece of speech on how if you keep to yourself love won't hurt you, but the perspective of the reader/listener sees how one doesn't want to waste their love on someone who wont allow them to personally connect to them. Gotye strongly makes a point about how one protects themselves to make their life easier, but makes it more of a struggle for other's.
Gotye's video is a simple color toned animation that has it's own similar meaning. The first image given is a long slimming black figure sitting on the moon. Once it jumps down to a dark, flat land, a spider joins him and then Gotye's face appears on the taller creature as he begins to walk and sing. The song itself is calming with Gotye's smooth voice, and the simple drum beats in the background harmony. The spider follows behind him, creating a coveting darkness behind it. They walk through a marching line with menacing, tall dog-like figures that hold guns and carry an old man. He wears a gas mask is holding crutches, and also has a tank of tear gas (I assume by the looks of it) on his back. The indication given to me at first was war. The rows of soldiers marching with a crippled man with a gas mask. This shows a fear of war almost, because he leaves the army-like group to follow the singer. As the group continues across the wasteland they pick up several more lonely characters. A wrecked pelican carrying a tied up back on it's back, as if it's running away like a child would, a crying beast that hid in a forest of peering eyes, carrying wood and an ax, a miserable looking wrecking-ball who was wrecking smaller buildings, a dragon headed man, who rows continuously in circles in the ocean on a lonely, floating piece of ice, and then the soul of a man who was being mourned by several other gathered men. Gradually the eight of them all walk around the planet, in search to protect themselves from the dangers around them as the spider strings out the darkness covering the planet behind them. During the last saying of the song (quoted before), they climb one another to reach above the clouds, where they all begin to float away as the planet darkens, representing almost their individual freedoms from the outside, dark, wretched world.