love like winter (explanation and facts)

Explanation

The video starts by showing the band in a snowy forest setting. They slowly walk through the dark forest, slowly stumbling and growing further apart, implying they grow apart from each other. As guitarist Jade Pudget stumbles, lead singer Davey Havok wakes up in a small mound of snow. A cloaked woman appears, seeming to have some kind of relationship with Havok. Through the video, Havok follows the hooded woman into what appears to be a snowy clearing in the forest. It ends with the cloaked woman taking off her hood, revealing eyes which are black and unfriendly, literally blowing Havok away. Then he falls through the ice into a lake. He tries to escape, but the water above refreezes, sealing him underwater. He then mouths words. Havok is drowning when the woman appears underwater and grabs him, turns him around, and holds him. The video then shows Havok from an overhead angle and he is sinking. Although many say that the woman is then gone, this is just a trick of the camera angle. The woman, who is in fact "The beautiful embodiment of hopelessness" according to Havok, is still there, her face opposite Havok's.

Facts

• Near the end, after the blizzard, the protagonist (Havok) catches sight of a pair of arms, frozen in place. These arms belong to Smith Puget (AFI's tour manager), brother to AFI's guitarist, Jade Puget. Though in the context of the video, it appears that the pair of frozen arms belong to Jade himself.
• The girl in the video is named Christina Petrovic.
• "Por Siempre" means "Forever", or "For Always" in Spanish.
• There is a popular piano version of the song made by a piano artist known as "The Pianocian" on YouTube.
• Evanescence's "Lithium" music video bears a striking resemblance to the video of "Love Like Winter". The latter was shot and released two months previously.
• After some internet rumors that Apoptygma Berzerk will be remixing the song, it was discovered that VNV Nation will in fact be remixing the song. They previously remixed Miss Murder.
• On January 21, 2007 AFI performed this song on Saturday Night Live, along with their previous single, Miss Murder. The soundboard crashed before the band took the stage for Miss Murder, resulting in intermittently muted vocals.