About six months after releasing the video for its first single, "Sex and Candy," which spent an unprecedented three months atop the alternative rock charts, Marcy Playground has just released the clip for its second single, "Saint Joe on the School Bus.

The video [article id="1447586"][500k QuickTime][/article] for the newest Marcy single was directed by a British team named Hammer and Tongs, who also helped Ash's "A Life Less Ordinary" and Sleeper's "Nice Guy Eddie.

In an interview with MTV News, Marcy singer John Wozniak explained that "Saint Joe" was actually a throwback to a childhood memory about a kid that's always picked on.

The way I wanted to write it," Wozniak said, "is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you -- everything seems black or white, good or bad.

[article id="1447588"]"Knowing that the kid in the back of the school bus says your mom is a whore and that he left his Vaseline over your house the night before,"[/article] Wozniak continued, [article id="1447588"]"knowing that the kid is having a rough childhood doesn't really help you [750k QuickTime][/article] deal with him saying that about you.

Marcy Playground just wrapped up the video for its third single, "Sherry Fraser," with director Kevin Kerslake. The band is currently out on the road as part of the H.O.R.D.E. tour, which rolls into the Great Woods amphitheater on Thursday.