"Saint Veronika" is the third official single by

Billy Talent Billy Talent is a Canadian Rock music, rock band from Mississauga, Ontario. They formed in 1993 with lead vocalist Benjamin Kowalewicz, guitarist Ian D'Sa, bassist Jonathan Gallant, and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk. There have been no lineup change ...

from their fourth album, '' Billy Talent III''.

Music video

The music video premiered on February 1, 2010 on MySpace, and was directed by Michael Maxxis. The video starts with a family of dolls sitting down at dinner when the father gets angry at his daughter (likely Veronika); she flees the room, over to a shelf and grabs a couple of tools. The story is intercut with scenes of Billy Talent playing this song in a shed while other dolls' wheels are spinning thread. The girl leaves the house, jumps over a fence and unwittingly gets one of her threads stuck on a nail. Suddenly the other dolls try to chase her, possibly trying to convince her to come back. When they get to the fence they notice that her thread is stuck on the fence, and give up. The girl keeps running, not noticing the thread caught on the fence is slowly unraveling her and leading to her demise, and at the end of the video she collapses with barely any of her body left.

Track listing

CD single

# "Saint Veronika" - 4:09 # "Line & Sinker" (live at the Horseshoe Tavern) - 4:06 # "Saint Veronika" (music video)- 4:18

Cultural reference

The song was based on the novel ''

Veronika Decides to Die ''Veronika Decides to Die'' ( pt, Veronika Decide Morrer) is a novel by Paulo Coelho. It tells the story of Veronika, a 24-year-old Slovenian who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself. This book is pa ...

'' by Paulo Coelho. According to vocalist Ben Kowalewicz, '' The Alchemist'', another of Coelho's books, is the band's "bible"."Saint Veronika" Songfacts
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Live Performances

Billy Talent performed the song at the

2010 Juno Awards The Juno Awards of 2010 honoured music industry achievements in Canada for the latter part of 2008 and for most of 2009. These ceremonies were in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada during the weekend ending 18 April 2010. Primary cerem ...

in St. John's.

Charts

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 2010 singles Billy Talent songs Songs written by Ian D'Sa Songs written by Benjamin Kowalewicz Songs written by Jonathan Gallant Songs written by Aaron Solowoniuk Songs about suicide Song recordings produced by Brendan O'Brien (record producer) 2009 songs Music based on novels Adaptations of works by Paulo Coelho