The video begins with Brandon Boyd and his father Charles, at opposite ends of a hallway. The music video for "Pardon Me", directed by Steven Murashige, also gained considerable airplay. After seeing a picture in Life magazine of a man who had spontaneously combusted, he related the man's problems to his own and was inspired to write the lyric " Pardon me while I burst into flames" on his hand. I was going through some turmoil in my life, both good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so I wrote a song about it." Boyd had recently returned from a tour to find out that his girlfriend of 7 years had been cheating on him, and that both his grandmother and a close friend of his had died. There were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact - then, right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. In an interview, lead singer Brandon Boyd explained the song's origins, "I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. Released in October 1999 as the lead single from their third album Make Yourself, it was the band's first song to receive considerable radio airplay, reaching number three on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and number seven on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 2 on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. " Pardon Me" is a song by American rock band Incubus. NRG Studios, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
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