In the clip which covers the dissolution of a longtime love relationship, singer/guitarist Tim Lopez takes on the song's titular role, actually becoming "The Giving Tree," thanks to extensive make-up that allows him to blend in with an actual tree. Lopez takes the part even further, portraying various items made from trees, including the hull of a boat and a wall situated inside a bar.

"The production, a lot of the songs we write tend to be acoustic based," said the band's frontman, Tom Higgenson in a recent interview with Radio.com. "it's just a matter of, do we want to build them up to be full band things or do they work in just the intimate, acoustic and a vocal. A song like 'The Giving Tree' that Tim wrote, it just felt so good with this finger picking thing. It felt like that's how the song should stay."