Octavian Winters - Undertow

​@octavianwinters Undertow, was loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale of the little matchgirl, who stands outside a window on a winter’s night, separated from all sustenance and warmth. Ignored by everyone around, and unable to sustain herself after lighting all her matches for warmth, she freezes to death in the snow. Aursjoen sees in this story another aspect of separation from the world and the darkness that comes out of it, a sort of ominous current capable of pulling someone away from all hope. “Could you join me here, could you find a way to melt the bones of the night?” Aursjoen sings, referencing the theme of isolation again, and the yearning for connection that will never come. “I think we have seen this dark ‘undertow’ overcome so many people in different and tragic ways during quarantine,” says Aursjoen. LYRICS: The winter stars are bright Captive in the night’s soft velvet wings In the mirror of the ice A curve and then a line Then the glass bell