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Watch Jaymes Young's Unsettling Video for "I'll Be Good"

What if your heartache manifested itself in physical ouch?

If you've had a case of the winter SADs, Jaymes Young's video for "I'll Be Good" will pretty much align with those emotions. The video (much like the song) is a melancholy testament to the hurt we experience and the power to forgive—something that the 23-year-old crooner has carefully crafted in grayscale.

"The video represents the harm we do," Young said. "We harm ourselves when we harm others. It also reflects the re-birth of a forgiven conscience."

With Young's slow-moving, stark visual endeavor, we see different sides of him and of his lover, emotional hurt manifesting itself through physical injuries. It's a discomfiting watch, a video that comes full-circle as a complex portrait of Young himself. Lyrically, this Seatte-born singer excels here—pulling emotions from your soul like the Grim Reaper.

Young will release his debut album later this year, but "I'll Be Good" is lifted from Young's Habits of My Heart EP, out now, via Atlantic.