Released March 21, 2000 Recorded 1999 | Format Promo-only CD single Length 4:01 | |
Genre Alternative rock, post-grunge | ||
"Thief" is a song by Canadian alternative rock group Our Lady Peace. It was released in March 2000 as the third and final single from their third album Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch.
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The band revealed that the song was written about a young girl from Kitchener, Ontario with a cancerous tumor in her brain named Mina Kim. The "thief" mentioned in the song refers to 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 and band member Jeremy Taggart.
Music video
Micha Dahan directed the music video. It was filmed on May 2, 2000 on a rooftop in downtown Toronto and premiered on Muchmusic on May 23. It was shot entirely under a rainy setting on an otherwise sunny day, to impose the mood given by the song. Band members do not play instruments and are shown in slow motion film stock in the rain.