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Jun 21st 2018!⃝I think this is about personal struggle. As someone who has had a past of dissociation during traumatic events, it very much feels like a dark "protector" and a white "exile." In the video, many times he is wearing a white shirt in the dark, and a dark suit in the light. It signifies that dark protector in all of us, who has to shelter and take care of the vulnerable exile. But the protector is resentful of this, as we can often be with ourselves. The protector sings, "Didn't I tell you, you were going to break down. Didn't I warn you? ... Better take it easy, try to find a way out. Better start believing in yourself."
Then the exile sees, "Now and then, there's a light in the darkness. Feel around 'til you find where your heart went," only to have the protector say, "Didn't I tell you, you were going to break down? ... Tell me what you're needing. Give into your bleeding. Never any feeling for yourself." The exile cannot function without the shelter of the protector.
The pivotal moment is when they both realize, "We are lost and we're falling. Hold on to me, you're all I have...all I have." One cannot exist without the other. They need each other. At the end of the video he is seen then in a white shirt, with a dark "protector" jacket. It is the eternal struggle of being strong enough, but feeling weak and vulnerable, and the self-abuse that comes with all of it.
