The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut

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"The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut" is the last song on progressive rock quartet Coheed and Cambria's album Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. In "Final Cut", the character Ambellina is killed by the Writer so that Claudio may become The Crowing. Ambellina is based upon the Writer's (ex)girlfriend and was written to personify the good and innocent side of Erica Court. She is killed by the writer during the "Final Cut".

[edit] Music video

The music video was written and directed by Claudio Sanchez. He and his girlfriend starred in the video. Throughout the video, there are completely irrelevant clips of things like cans hanging from tree limbs, including one in which the man/writer is seen with a sack over his head while he wields a chainsaw, and other shots of the area around the shed where the man/writer tortures his ex. After the scene in which the man/writer is seen mourning the loss of his girlfriend, he takes off in his car, kidnaps her, and takes her to his tool shed. He then ties her to a chair and proceeds to torture her with the tools at hand. During this scene he initially wears a sack over his head, but reveals himself shortly after entering the shed. The man/writer promptly begins torturing his ex, all the while ignoring her pleas and cries for help, finally killing her with a sickle.

In the end of the video, the man/writer is shown sitting in his car, laughing, and a single leaf is shown floating atop a rippling pond.

[edit] In concert

The song has become a concert staple. The live version of the song is often longer than the album version, with the majority of it being improvised.^{[citation needed]}