Music Video Analysis: 'Never Too Late'

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Depression is something that is easy to fall into, but very hard to get out of. Depression often makes a person feel hopeless. The rock band, Three Days Grace, created a song called “Never Too Late”. The music video portrays an emotionally unstable woman who reflects on her childhood, and now she suffers because of her past. These lyrics give the listener a sense of understanding when the world is against them, as well as a positive outlook when it is hard to see the light.
Listeners of the song who have been in a dark place can relate to the first line of the song, “this world will never be/what I expected/and if I don’t belong/who would have guessed it?”(lines 1-4) because when a person is in a dark place, the world is often turned upside
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These lyrics signify that no matter what a person has been through, it’s never too late to change the outcome of life. In the music video, the woman finally comes to terms and is able to face her past and not let it kill her. The feathers falling represent that the Angel of Death ceases to exist. The Angel of Death is falling apart by losing feathers as the woman pictures him attacking her abuser. When the woman is imagining this, the Angel of Death is no longer something that she needs because she no longer thinks that she should end her life. The woman instead of killing herself, killed the idea of dying because she finally came to terms with the terrible memories of her childhood. She was then able to move on, signifying, that is indeed, never too late.
The message given by the song “Never Too Late” is a song about never giving up, and that it’s never too late to change your life. The lyrics and the music video depict a dark time, but also how the dark time will pass. When listeners watch the music video, or listen to the lyrics, the listeners who have been through depression, or a dark time could relate to the feeling of hopelessness, and hopefully realize that is it not the end, and that it is never too late to

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