Thief (Our Lady Peace song)
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Thief is a song written and performed by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace and released in 1999 under the album Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. Lead singer Raine Maida provides the vocals.
Song meaning
The band revealed that the song was centered around a young girl with a cancerous tumor in her brain, who was named Mina Kim. The "thief" mentioned in the song references the tumor. The short clip at the end of the song consisting of a young girl singing a Sunday school song is a real audio clip of Mina Kim singing "Little By Little" with Maida's wife Chantal Kreviazuk.
The Micha Dahan-directed music video of Thief was filmed entirely under a rainy setting, to impose the mood given by the song. Raine Maida provides his trademark falsetto vocals that can also be seen in other pre-2001 singles such as Is Anybody Home, and Annie, which have been described as edgy, off-setting, and perfect for this song. It is speculated that in later albums, starting with Gravity, Maida's voice evolved to exclude this trademark sound.
The song does not, as some suggest, criticize religion. The line most often sited with such assertions, "I don't wanna hear who walked on water. 'Cause the hallways are empty, clocks tick.", does not allude to a skeptical position on religion, but rather emotes the feeling of not wanting to be comforted with faith in a time of personal loss.
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