The song achieves this by acting out a conversation between friends, with one feeling the negativity of his life, while the other persuading him to stay strong.
It starts off with such lines as "Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking, when you fall, everyone stands"; this is where the friend has tried to help the other, yet he keeps on getting lost in his own thoughts, piling up the negative aspect that he is worse off than most other people.
Other lines such as "Such a heart that will lead you to deceiving" continues on the story, by saying that his heart seems to ignore the problems rather than deal with them, which leads on to worse situations, etc.
So the main aspect is that the friend constantly reminds the other to "move along" in life, to deal with his problems, and then therefore be much better for the outcome.
HOWEVER, in the video, it is depicted much differently, as it tries to connect to a large audience through a unique use of different aspects:
First off, the video was directed by Marc Webb and was filmed on several different sites to which none have been noted (most likely Film Studios).
The video follows the lead member "Tyson Ritter", as it starts off with him falling backward from a diving board into an empty swimming pool.
This probably symbolizes the suicides, and the empty pool represents the empty hope that the person, who wishes to die, have in his/her own life.
Throughout the song, Tyson is shown in stand still scenes, where the camera then changes between alternating scenes, that requires Tyson to change outfits and backgrounds, resulting in a massive collage of different situations, in which they show the stand still character Tyson, having a rough time.
This is used to connect to different audiences, in which, whatever the situation, people have a hard time, and so makes this video relatable to a lot of us.
It also shows a lot of trivial objects within these scenes, as the video is starting up, reflecting upon what we may think is bad, is simply trivial in reality, showing how we can perhaps over-think when we are at an "all-time-low".
Such situations involve; a doctor failing to save someone's life in hospital, a football player loosing his game badly, an office worker being shouted at by his supposed boss/manager, eating supper alone at a dinner table, a young man getting a full tirade off of his angry father, and more shown throughout.
With this, Tyson is shown singing the song through all of the scenes, despite their negative escalation.
When ever the song reached its chorus, the transition of editing would amplify, and show many scenes to the viewer at once, showing a correlation between all people that we are the same, and could use with same motivation and help, in-order to get back to living normally.
As the video comes to it's end, it returns to the starting scene where Tyson was falling into the pool, as he does, he is then caught by a wave of people within the pool (fans+friends,etc) and is then crowd-surfed to where the rest of his band are playing in the centre of the pool, as they then continue to play the song normally with scenes being presented to have happy endings to their situations.
This ending pen-ultimately sums up the intentions of the song, as to "move along"and if done so ti shall lead to better things, or to put it simply your troubles will be eventually solved if you handle them properly.
The people in the pool, represent friends, family or simply people who can help, and as they catch Tyson, this symbolizes how they prevent him from suiciding and as he crowd-surfs, this could reflect upon the songs title "Move Along" as he moves with the help and comfort of others.
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