Over the Rhine, "I Want You to Be My Love"

I’ve got a special place in my heart for Over the Rhine, even when I don’t feel like I’m in a place where my heart identifies with theirs.

Not going to lie, it’s hard to listen to a couple who love each other this much. Even when you go back to the angst of “Ohio,” you still feel like you’re not really sure that you can identify with Linford and Karin, except in the sense that you wish that kind of love could exist in your own life.

Heroic love that could cause such passionate tenderness and love between a singer and a hat wearing pianist seems to be a rarity in this reality, and it’s not easy to completely buy into their poetic expressions of love.

“I Want You to be my Love,” is Over the Rhine at its best, or absolute worst.

If you are in love, you’ll remember why you are the luckiest individual in the world.

If you are out of love, you’ll feel a profound sense of emptiness, loss, and possibly a moist face.

This video, created by “Fly” is probably one of the most beautiful things I have seen in a long time. This is art, in every sense of the word.

Camera angles, story telling, originality- there is little this director doesn’t touch with his masterful hand.

The only way it could have been more compelling is if he had written the song himself, but somehow he pays tribute to Karin and Linford and you feel like this is what viewing the world through their eyes might look like- right down to the hat.

I’m in a state of shock right now after watching this. I can’t believe it’s not an official video.

Patrol Mag