This torch song finds Jehnny Beth asking the question, "Is it human to adore life?" The lyrics stem back to an obsessional childhood anxiety of Beth's. "I had one fear, which was to become bitter, because I had witnessed that in adults," she recalled to The Guardian.
When Savages first played the song in New York, it took on the weight of the Charlie Hebdo Paris attacks. (Beth knew several people who were killed at the Bataclan – French music industry colleagues that she worked with via her own label, Pop Noire.)
The video, which is directed by Anders Malmberg (Mew, Mø) with lighting and concept design by Tobias Rylander (The xx, Lykke Li, FKA Twigs), finds Jehnny Beth looking right down the camera. (Not unlike Sinead O'Connor in her famous "Nothing Compares 2 U" clip.)
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