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"gave up" is the final confession and realization of the killer and the video shows that: a criminal brought to justice in the legal sense. Though it is a dehumanizing trip (this video is interrupted by shots from the film, scenes of the victim's horrible final moments showing a killer who very simply is not a human being anymore), the killer is caught and the lyrics to the song suggest that it was his own doing: "after everything i've done i hate myself for what i've become / i tried / i gave up / throw it away" This video shows police investigating refrigerators and freezers filled with previous victims in various stages of decay and cannibalism. The killer is hanged at the end, with his head flying off screen in the final seconds.
The film, along with the accompanying videos from the EP, shows a horrible vision of a murder victim and the killer's trip to consciousness. The killer feeling regret is not likely, given his smug smile during the execution scene. What the killer "gave up" on may have been any number of things, but it's not probable that this shows a killer who realizes how wrong he has been. There's a lesson here, but it's not a positive one and not one that most people would care to acknowledge. For the most part, we'd like to believe that these kinds of things don't happen in our world, neither symbolically nor literally.--[[User:Tsguitar|Tsguitar]] 19:04, 23 February 2007 (PST)