Music Video Analysis: C'mon Billy - PJ Harvey

Much like St Vincent's music video I previously analysed, PJ Harvey's music video for her 1995 single from To Bring You My Love is a spectacle. The mise-en-scene is on point, the acting from her is perfect and it is shot spectacularly. The song itself is about a woman who is begging for her partner to return (where he is is undisclosed, whether he left her for another woman or is at war etc is not confirmed) and meet his son. It is a desperate cry for him to come back.
The first shot shown in the music video is close-up shot of a man in a cowboy hat playing the violin. Though it may seem insignificant, this shot sums up the genre of the track. It has bluesy-country sounds to it, whilst having a melancholic string section to it. We then see Polly in a satin lilac dress and feather boa - an outfit that is reminiscent of a sex worker in western times, which is abundantly the role Polly plays in this video. Interestingly enough, even though she plays a character who is a sex worker, she still remains not excessively sexualised (unlike most music videos today). She is surrounded by men and behaves in a seductive way towards them.
This entire scene contrasts greatly against the next scene in Polly's bedroom. We have a birds-eye-view shot of her bed as she lies down, in her underwear, singing about the man she misses. Her loneliness and lack of men surrounding her contrasts greatly from when she was at the bar (?). We then see Polly standing in a dark room with one small lit square on her face as she changes into a loosely fitting shirt which we can only assume belongs to the partner she misses. Her makeup is greatly smudged, fitting into the high emotions she must be feeling at the moment. She slides down the wall, her face leaving the lit box, to then sit and watch footage of her and her partner. The footage is very pure and happy, whereas Polly's reaction shots are very dead and unhappy. In the footage she is smiling and lifelike, whereas the Polly watching the video is a completely different person.
After a brief few shots of the home footage, a sudden jump is made in the narrative of the music video. Polly has captured the man she is singing about and has managed to tie him up in a way so that his arms are embracing her. This is a very literal metaphor for her managing to make him stay and make him love her. As the song is already a desperate cry for him to return, it seems Polly has to take desperate measures to make him come back. An important thing to note is that Polly's child isn't present at all throughout the video aside from in the old home videos. Perhaps, her partner only stayed because they had a baby and now the baby is no longer there, he feels there was no reason to stay.