Thomas wrote this song, and although he had been married since 1999, he sang from the perspective of someone who has been hurt by previous relationships, and is now afraid to enter a new one for fear of the loneliness he will feel if it ends like all the others.
Thomas has some hits as a member of Matchbox Twenty and sang on the Santana song "Smooth," but this was his first single as a solo artist. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
The music video, directed by Joseph Kahn, is memorable for its special effects, which mimic the twists and turns of a Rubik's Cube. Many of Kahn's other clips experiment with effects, like the morphing clothes and green-screen backdrop in Janet Jackson's "Doesn't Really Matter," the split-screen technique in blink-182's "Always," and the invisible band members in Garbage's "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)."
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