I'm sure this has been brought up many times before, but most threads on this board are by nature redundancies (ie, what's your favourite AIC song, video, where can I find X song/video, etc)... but I came up with what I think is a pretty cool idea about the video for Get Born Again, about a week ago.

I don't know how involved the band was with the making of the video, clearly new footage of them does NOT appear in it, and I don't even know who directed it, or how clever they were and how much they knew about AIC's music. Never the less, this is my current interpretation of it:

The video, based on the message of the song, is about an internal conflict in the mind of someone who is considering changing their life by "getting born again." We all know how plenty of people exchange drugs for Jesus, even George Bush jr if you listen to some rumours. Well, I think this is Layne Staley's idea of such a conversion. The new life is the baby, created by the decaying man who is clearly worn down by life and abuse. The woman is the person's conscience, who is disgusted by this artificial, perverted Frankenstein-style creation, this "getting born again," and who eventually, quite literally, aborts it. The old guy watching over the whole procedure is the mind of the man as a whole, observing these thoughts battle each other. The woman's destruction of the baby is the last straw for the decaying man, who had pinned his hopes on this new life, and the old guy himself - the whole mind - is affected with angst and destruction.

On the youtube video clip for the song, someone wrote "People don't change so easily is the message I got from this song," at least implying they were getting a similar vibe. I like the idea that in order to "get born again" you have to lie to yourself and sacrifice your principles, and that in a person with a real conscience, that conscience would overcome hypocrisy even at the cost of hope and even life itself. "Just repeat a couple lies."