“The Gift” by Seether

"The Gift" was the third and last single pulled from Karma and Effect, the South African band Seether's 2005 album, where it sits fourth in the running order. Shaun Morgan wrote it alone and has said his daughter inspired it, and he sings lead and plays guitar alongside Patrick Callahan, with Dale Stewart on bass and backing vocals and John Humphrey on drums and percussion. Bob Marlette produced and recorded it, and Randy Staub mixed.

Meiert Avis wrote and directed the video, a ghost story set in southern Mexico: a man who killed a little girl in a car crash keeps vigil each Day of the Dead at the roadside cross, while her ghost goes into town with a curandero to see her father and sister, the woman the man had been seeing. She leaves candy skulls on his bed as a sign of forgiveness, and the band plays between scenes in a dark room lit only by bare bulbs.

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