Beyond here lies nothin'

My music tastes are fairly inclusive. I like jaunty blues. So I like Beyond here lies nothing'.

While procrastinating, I discovered the title was apparently inspired by a line from Ovid. I had a quick search to see if the internet would reveal where it was from, but could only narrow it down to an English translation ('Beyond here lies nothing but chillness, hostility, frozen waves of an ice-hard sea') and the Tristia.

Oh well. I checked the Tristia, and pulled out:

Longius hac nihil est, nisi tantum frigus et hostes,
et maris adstricto quae coit unda gelu. 

.. which is nice.

I just don't like the video. Perhaps that's a little mild - I think the video is absolutely appalling. (Man returns to motel, opens bedroom, and finds an empty bed - bloodstained with ropes trailing from bedposts; woman tries to escape, they fight brutally, she eventually hits him with a car.. and then returns to kiss him.) Sorry, what? She's been tied up, beaten, probably raped.. and that's appropriate for a music video? And then she kisses her torturer - what does that say? - 'Oh, it was just a game'? 'Violence against women is acceptable - in fact, she probably enjoyed it'?

I just can't figure out where they were trying to go with it. There's no accounting for taste, but you'd think such bad taste would be universally recognised.

But I still like the reference to Ovid.