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When my CMT.com co-workers and I watched the new Rascal Flatts video, "Here Comes Goodbye," we all had the same reaction: "Wait a minute -- who dies?" The lyrics indicate that it's a breakup song, but the director, Shaun Silva, clearly interpreted it differently. So, in singer Gary LeVox's opinion, how closely does the video correspond to the lyrics?

"It's totally different than what we thought, which is the great thing about Shaun Silva in particular, and with videos," he said in an interview with CMT.com earlier this week. "When we cut it, we were thinking relationship stuff, and not so much ‘chapters of goodbye.' I think that's the main reason why you cut videos, because it leaves it wide open for everybody's own personal interpretation."

He goes on to say, "We shot our part somewhere else, and they shot all the B-roll stuff and all the actors somewhere else. When they sent it to us, before it was actually done, I just cried. It's different from when you read the treatment, and you know what you're talking about and you know what's going on. But when you actually get a visual of it, it really blew me away. It choked me up, big time."

Also, in case you're still wondering, our consensus at the office is that the video portrays a mother and daughter grieving over the deaths of a father and son. It doesn't match up with the lyrics, but hey, whatever.