Parker McCollum released the official music video for his song, “Rest Of My Life,” earlier today (March 2nd). The clip, which features actor Cameron Cowperthwaite (American Horror Story, Dahmer-Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Rocket Man), depicts the toll substance abuse could take on one’s life.

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While the video doesn’t really reflect what the Texas native was going through at the time, he wrote the song — which appears on his 2021 album Gold Chain Cowboy — during the pandemic as he struggled to cope with life while the entire world was shut down.

“Shooting the ‘Rest Of My Life’ video was certainly pretty intense. Cameron Cowperthwaite, who is an actor out of Hollywood who’s been in a bunch of films and super, super talented, really, really embraced the role of what we were envisioning for this video,” he says. “I would say the message of this video in terms of the graphic extent in making this video was much more dramatic and further along than anything I was doing in real life that inspired this song, but I really wanted to kinda push the limits. And, you know, I didn’t want to get done with this video and feel like we could’ve done more. I felt like we did everything we could do. So many talented people working on it made it so easy to capture exactly what we were talking about and exactly what that song’s about. Hopefully, it helps somebody.”

Parker is currently making his way to the top of the country charts with “Handle On You.”