The heartbreak amidst grieving a connection just hits different especially when the pain does not know when to stop negotiating. Once in one’s life, they have replayed the relationship enough times to know where it went wrong, yet some stubborn part of you is still asking: What if we could just go back?

VXON’s “lamoba” lives exactly there.

Originally released as part of the group’s Pasakalye release in January, the track now gets its own official music video, released September 6. Written by VXON members Franz Chua and Sam Cafranca, with Franz also credited as composer and producer, “lamoba” turns the aftermath of a breakup into a long, increasingly desperate attempt to talk yourself into one more chance.

And if the song already sounded like a relapse, the MV gives that feeling somewhere to go. “Lamoba” does not begin with acceptance. Its narrator is stuck, unable to move forward and still unable to accept how suddenly someone disappeared from his life.

The song’s concept photos set the mood before the MV even arrived. The rollout moves through solitary portraits and enclosed spaces, with window light cutting through otherwise muted rooms, with a mystery muse that the boys are directing their yearning to. One of the group images places all five members together against a bare, shadowed interior, while the individual photos emphasize distance and introspection.

“Lamoba” also sits interestingly within Pasakalye, an album that helped cement the direction VXON has been moving toward: hip-hop and R&B-infused pop shaped by the group’s own street sensibilities.  Against that backdrop, the song, with the three track run alongside “Taguan (Tayo Lang)” and “Walang Iba” gives the album’s more vulnerable side room to breathe.

The song understands something painfully familiar: sometimes, wanting someone back is not the same as believing the relationship was good for you. Sometimes, you know exactly why it ended and still find yourself asking if there is a way to undo it.

For now, VXON has given us the visualization of that feeling through the music video. The rest of us, especially the group’s Vixies, can handle the relapse.