Wow! Thanks for this. I'd either missed it the first time around or saw it but it failed to register.

When I first heard the song, on her first EP, I conceptualized it as "obligatory ballad," and didn't like it much. I'm still not a giant fan, but it makes more sense now, as a mood and a wisp, a memory. Interesting how in the vid the diary pages become pictures on the wall; seems odd at first, since the essence of diary pages are that they're private, while framed pictures are fundamentally public. But it makes sense, when the camera pulls back and E.via's looking at the display: here are her feelings, her lost love, a time past. Ray Davies: "People take pictures of each other, just to prove that they really existed" and "Picture book, pictures of your mama, taken by your papa, a long time ago/Picture book, of people with each other, to prove they love each other, a long time ago"; happy guy. But E.via's not as despairing; the love's lost but she's not denigrating the diary for recording the forever that wasn't. Isn't denigrating what was, just mourning it, missing it, while also, it seems, putting it in its place.

The song isn't as sappy as I'd originally taken it.