DVRST - Scape

Follow DVRST🎵 Instagram: Telegram: VK: Discord: 🎬thanks for the help: Insta: A still frame from a video filmed on July 7, 2012 served as the cover for this track. When I was 8 years old, I survived a flood that flooded and destroyed half of my city. My family and I miraculously survived, despite the fact that the alert system of the town did not work. Suddenly one morning, we woke up to a phone call from my grandmother, “Are you drowning?“ were the words that were heard from the other end of the phone. Unsuspectingly, we looked out to the street, there was no electricity. The neighbor’s knock on the gate finally woke us up. After my mother collected our important documents and valuables, we tried to travel to my grandmother’s house. We managed to drive 100 meters down our street, but we were stopped by a wave of water that hit our car. I remember sitting in the back seat with my legs up to keep them from getting wet from the water. Accelerated, we drove back to the house. The water was approaching very quickly, and by this time its level was knee-deep. We thought that the water would stop at 1 meter, but it continued to advance. We climbed onto the kitchen table when the water was already in the house but when the refrigerator began to float, we realized the gravity of the situation. We managed to get out through the kitchen window by pumping up beach floats and climbing up the iron pipes of the canopy to the roof of the house. We also rescued our parrot and a dog onto the roof. The dog jumped into the water from time to time, watching the passing ducks, which were carried by the current. Pieces of wooden walls, debris, and various objects floated past us, the water was very muddy, and the current was strong. We were lucky that it was summer, otherwise we would have been very cold. The water level was several meters high, and there was about a 40 centimeter gap of air up to the ceiling. For the next few hours we were completely soaked sitting on the roof, joking and trying to remain positive waiting for the morning to arrive. Finally, when the water was down to a normal level we were able to travel to grandma. In the music video, you will be able to see real-life footage of the flood and its aftermath, elements of popular culture, anime and video games that influenced me as a child.