"Dirt Room" was the first single from alternative rock band Blue October's fifth studio album, Approaching Normal.

At the end of the video he is placed in an open grave and viewed by a great deal of people, including two police officers.

These scenes are intercut with footage of the band playing the song in the living room of the captor's house.

refer to Michael Rand, their former manager who sued them for $1 million, claiming he was owed a cut from the sales of their multi-platinum album Foiled, even though their business relationship ended several years prior.

"But that song really brought out this more confidence side of me and not the, ‘Oh hate me because I am bad’ side – I don’t do drugs anymore and I don’t f*ck with that stuff, I have a daughter now so if anybody wants to take food off of her plate then they are going to have to come straight through me whether it be verbally, and I hope not physically because I try to teach self-expression instead of physical violence!