Editing devices are used to create the effect of the band members 'walking through' one another and teleporting on and off the stage, an effect similar to one used in the Red Hot Chili Peppers video ' Around the World'. The members are performing the song on stage, surrounded by approximately 1,500 fans. The music video was the band's first collaboration with the acclaimed director Marcos Siega, and is set in the car park of the Oak Tree Inn motel in Los Angeles, hometown of the band. Most pressings of the album include an intro to the track where lead singer Serj Tankian can faintly be heard saying 'we're rolling 'Suicide '' while drummer John Dolmayan is counting the band in. However, the band members claim this change was not caused by pressure from their record company Odadjian said the band simply chose their battles carefully. The song title is therefore a wordplay: 'Suey' is 'suicide', 'chopped' in half. The song was originally titled 'Suicide' but Columbia Records forced the band to change it to avoid controversy. Hence the line, 'I cry when angels deserve to die.' The lyrics for the midsection ('Father into your hands I commend my spirit') were randomly picked out by Tankian from Rubin's book collection after Tankian was struggling for ideas. Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. In an interview, Daron Malakian explained, 'The song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass.

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