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Rosegarden Funeral Party Stoke the Fires of a Bad Relationship in Their Video for “Embers”

Do you ever stop to think about

Who you’re hurting?

When the lights have all gone out

In the morning.

In the depths of a toxic relationship, one can become strangely bound to their own pain, as though shackled by the very suffering they should flee. This condition, akin to a cruel form of Stockholm syndrome, twists loyalty into a thing of habit, where even wounds feel familiar, and familiarity starts to resemble love. Each betrayal is swallowed as one swallows medicine, bitter but somehow necessary, clinging to the rare moments when warmth, however fleeting, cuts through the chill.

To break free requires a strength that surpasses sheer will; it demands a reckoning with oneself, a hard-eyed look at the lies we tell ourselves in exchange for comfort. One must confront the aching truth—this attachment is no salvation, but a slow erasure of self. It’s only by reaching into that profound solitude, the space stripped of illusions, that one can finally unbind and begin again, no longer tethered by the false promises of love.

Rosegarden Funeral Party’s powerful Embers plunges headlong into the turmoil of a love fractured by betrayal and bruised by the ache of self-doubt. The song tells a tale of a person, caught in a cycle of self-punishment and yearning, who wrestles with eroded self-worth yet feels bound by the allure of hollow promises and the haunting beauty of their partner’s charm. Despite the pain, they find themselves returning, haunted by hope, unable to sever the pull of something both bitter and binding. It’s a song steeped in anguish and longing, grappling with the delicate yet dangerous line between desire and devastation.

Erin Devany of All Hallows Productions delivers a stirring visual—a performance in a dim church where innocence and safety are stripped bare, leaving the protagonist tethered to a grim dance between reality and reverie. Frontwoman Leah Lane moves through the night in tortured agony, her clothes bloodstained, embodying martyrdom and sacrifice. The church’s hollow vastness presses down as she writhes, caught in the bleak ritual of her own pain, casting an atmosphere heavy with themes of loss and fragile hope. Devany’s direction presents a haunting yet unflinching portrait of a soul wrestling with profound loss and an unsteady grasp on reality.

“Like most, if not all, Rosegarden Funeral Party songs, very little of what the song means is shrouded in metaphor, says Lane. “I wrote Embers after seeing someone that I was deeply in love with for the first time since our separation.  I wasn’t ready to see him and he took advantage of not only my love for him, but my weakness for him.  No one around me could understand why I was so attached to someone who hurt me so consistently. I was convinced that no one understood our love and I was willing to sacrifice every part of me for that love. It took me a very long time to realize that the love kind of love I had for him was a reflection of the lack of love I had for myself. This is what the video is about… the Church represents redemption, the bleeding heart represents this self harm dressed up like love, and the mannequin that has also appeared in the videos Doorway Ghost and Love Like Goodbye, represents him.” 

Watch the video for “Embers” below:

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Alice Teeple

Alice Teeple is a photographer, multidisciplinary artist, and writer. She is not in Tin Machine.

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