We found an image a couple of years ago of “The lovers of Valdaro”, two 6000 year old skeletons found in Italy, holding each other. We fantasised about what might have happened to these two skeletons? Were they so in love they had their mouths and noses too close to each other, or couldn’t stop kissing so they died of carbon monoxide poisoning?
(This also inspired the lyrics for the song "Carbon Dioxide")
Or did a dinosaur kill them, and they died in fear holding each other? Was it a volcano, and they were protecting themselves from the lava burning their flesh? Maybe they weren’t in love at all; perhaps they were lifelong enemies facing their final struggle strangling each other?
I guess we have to decide for ourselves… but we felt there was a beautiful story there about the struggles of falling in love and the vulnerability you might feel being “examined” by your love interest who wants to make sure you really are the one they can trust and form a relationship that will last for eternity.
And with the Shiver video, we close the story of our dear protagonist “Main” and send them off to the ever-shifting sands of time.
Fever Ray
We found an image a couple of years ago of “The lovers of Valdaro”, two 6000 year old skeletons found in Italy, holding each other. We fantasised about what might have happened to these two skeletons? Were they so in love they had their mouths and noses too close to each other, or couldn’t stop kissing so they died of carbon monoxide poisoning?
(This also inspired the lyrics for the song "Carbon Dioxide")
Or did a dinosaur kill them, and they died in fear holding each other? Was it a volcano, and they were protecting themselves from the lava burning their flesh? Maybe they weren’t in love at all; perhaps they were lifelong enemies facing their final struggle strangling each other?
I guess we have to decide for ourselves… but we felt there was a beautiful story there about the struggles of falling in love and the vulnerability you might feel being “examined” by your love interest who wants to make sure you really are the one they can trust and form a relationship that will last for eternity.
And with the Shiver video, we close the story of our dear protagonist “Main” and send them off to the ever-shifting sands of time.
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