Even when life grabs her by the hair and drags her forward, Chappell Roan just can’t move on in the music video for “The Subway.”

Released on Friday (Aug. 1) hours after the song dropped the night prior, the Amber Grace Johnson-directed visual finds the pop star haunted by an ex, as represented by a long train of hair Roan drags behind her through New York City. Even as her tresses get longer and longer, trapping pieces of garbage and rats in their tangles, the Missouri native just can’t cut it off as she searches the city