Rocks Off: As strange apocalypses goes, this one is pretty damned strange. What gave you the idea of sudden hemorrhages brought on my an off-axis moon orbit?

Tyler T. Williams: The idea first came to mind as I was driving around listening to the track on repeat. I knew I wanted the story to have a sci-fi element and having the moon off axis seemed perfect. It's just a surreal idea that at the same time I view as within the bounds of being possible.

I originally wanted to have a plane crashing with the gravity shifting during the moons orbit while kids were partying and having fun, totally oblivious to the havoc of mother nature, but it just didn't work out with the budget.

RO: There's a real, raw sense of loss throughout the song. Did a real life loss help drive the video?

TTW: Fortunately nothing this prominent of a loss has happened to me. It's just a fictitious story that I thought fit the song with an eerie twist. I tend to find much of my inspiration and story ideas tied together with a common theme of death.

Dark, pessimistic stories tend to inspire me most with the likes of David Lynch, the Cohen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, and so on. Death is inescapable for us all one day and it is something everyone can relate on, especially emotion wise. No one wants to have their life cut short.

RO: You could take the whole thing as saying that one act of violence is the catalyst for all the world's pain since the catalyst for much of it is the altercation with the biker. Agree? No?

TTW: Totally. It's all the small things that consume us everyday, the pointless and petty fighting and violence against each other contrasted with the omnipotent forces of our universe and how much we take for granted every day. The kids didn't appreciate the environment around them and assumed they were indestructible until something happened to them where they were forced to realize that life is very fragile and can be cut short.

RO: What did you think of this song when you first heard it?

TTW: Initially, the slow eerie start made me feel like I was in a dream state so I knew the concept had to consist of something unfathomable, but at the same time, very plausible. About halfway through the song Trevor sings "safely, so safely" and at that moment, I just pictured something going terribly wrong after the Fourth of July fireworks.

Everyone is supposed to be happy and to have not a worry, chaos unfolds. Love the song.

Youth Lagoon plays Fitzgerald's Sunday, March 18.