 As a child, LaChapelle made frequent visits to a retirement community where his mother worked as a nurse.He directly took the inspiration for the video's concept from a nightmare in which he found himself elderly, confined to a wheelchair, and left in a hallway with many other senior citizens, unable to move.LaChapelle interpreted the song as sounding "like someone at the end of their life, reconciling with being at the end of their life" and felt that the retirement home concept suited the video.