Own eyes meanwhile have turned black as well. He climbs a mountain and looks out at the view, before turning around to reveal his He steals a car and drives into the desert to escape them, but the car breaks down and he soon realizes he's been infected as well. The video follows Bastille's frontman Dan Smith, as he wanders about an empty-looking Los Angeles, before realizing the few people around all have unnatural vacant black eyes. Video was first released onto YouTube on 20 January 2013 at a total length of three minutes and fifty-two seconds. It was directed by Jesse John Jenkins and produced by Tova Dann. The official music video was filmed in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. Dan Smith, explaining the meaning behind the lyrics of "Pompeii" And then it became a pop song, which you know is a bit weird.” “I guess it was, sort of, at a time when I was like a bit… I felt like my life was slightly in stasis and I was a little bit bored, so I guess I kind of equated that to being a frozen corpse and stuck in an ashy position under a burned down city for a long time. Lyrically, the song is about the Roman town of the same name, which met its fate with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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