: The video follows frontman Dan Smith as he wanders through a seemingly empty Los Angeles. He soon discovers that the few people he encounters have unnatural, vacant black eyes , signaling they have been "infected".
The video was produced with a cinematic, melancholic aesthetic that has become a signature for the band. : Jesse John Jenkins Producer : Tova Dann Length : 3 minutes and 52 seconds Critical and Commercial Impact
: According to Dan Smith, the song is an imagined conversation between two charred corpses reflecting on the city of Pompeii, capturing human emotions of hopelessness and desperation. Production Credits