Many years ago a friend in Az played this masterpiece for me and Matt trapped my heart. Little did I know that a few years later I would move to Portland Oregon and hear him perform live with me sitting no more than 20 feet from him. And as he began singing with the voice of an angel the crowd of some 250 people were all talking so loudly over him and so disrespectful. I have never done something like this before but I stood up and screamed at the top of my lungs BE QUIET! and the entire place went dead silent. Matt never missed a note. After his performance I got up the courage to introduce myself to him and sheepishly asked him if he’d like a boyfriend and he lovingly told me he already had someone (lucky guy) Not too many months after tho Matt accepted an invitation to my home and he let me prepare dinner for him and get this. He shared some very personal thoughts with me that I promised him I would never repeat to my dying day and I’ve never broken that trust. As I told him the first time I met him “I am your number one fan” I still believe I am. I’m glad to read here of so many others who feel the same way Matt is truly altogether lovable Miss you Matt wherever you are. All my best
That’s a great story. I’ve seen just enough video of him talking to know he has no pretentiousness and is very approachable. This song is simply amazing. I never tire of it, and I like to think that, had I been in your shoes during that live performance, I would have yelled at the crowd, too.
I saw him in Fort Lauderdale last night. All forty audience members hung on every word he spoke and sang. If they hadn’t, I would have done the same thing as screamed at everyone. He is such a nice guy and talked to me for a few minutes after the show. He just broke up and I almost asked him out for a date but I was a bit shy. I should have done that I guess. I will be sure to see him sing live again. I won’t be so shy next time.
I cry every time the curtains come open. I'm over 40, and from a very very conservative part of the country. When I was a kid, this video, with men dancing together to a love song, would have been wildly controversial, to say nothing of the kiss. Things are so scary for my LGBT+ family right now, especially my trans family, but please know that however far we have left to go, we have come so far. I am finally, after 20 years of waiting, with someone who fits me completely. It was worth every day of not knowing who or how or when. This year at the fair we rode a ferris wheel together, we held hands together, we danced together and kissed in front of a whole tent full of people, and there was not a single dirty look or cruel comment. We got a shoutout from the band. It's the same state, just 25 years after I realized I love women. The only thing that has changed...is time. It's worth sticking around to find love, to find yourself. Please know that your rainbow family needs you.
I love you for this comment. I'm a trans guy as well. Thank you so much for making this community warm. We need accepting older LGBT+ folk like you:) thank you.
So many levels. The music itself. The haunting melody. The orchestration. The multi-valent lyrics effortless weaving between the story and the metaphor. And finally the masterful vocal interpretation. I've lost count of the times I've listened to it; focusing on one dimension, then another. This is why it's a masterpiece and will survive the test of time.
I am 80 years old, never fallen in love or deeply in love with someone. The only one I loved was my brother. Understand that I was not in love with my brother just loved him. How he is gone some 11 years and all my friends are gone. No family just relatives. I am saying this because there are some who are my age and older in the same boat as me. This is the first time I heard this song and I can say that I cried very deeply. Why I am alone with nothing to really live for but I will stay and continue. Have no pity for me as I chose this life and have no regrets. Thank you Matt for this song. I will play it many many more times.
There is so much loneliness in this world. I HAVE fallen in love before (three times with a few crushes sprinkled here and there), but I feel like I know what you felt. It’s such a powerful emotion, and I’m grateful there are songs like this to help us cope.
It hasn’t been 24 hours since I heard the song in the trailer for The Fall: Covenant of Grace, and I have played this more than 20 times, now. I knew in the first 5 seconds of that opening that this song was going to pierce my armor, penetrate my heart, to find that it’s has been residing in my soul, all along...longing. This song is me. This is us. I am so grateful to you Matt. Thank you.
I have watched this “The Falls” trilogy a half dozen times or more since “Covenant” was released in 2016. But, it wasn’t till 12/5/21 when “End Of The World” grabbed me and made me ugly cry.
ok everyone. it's years later and I revisited this site. Now, Tim and I just celebrated our 34th year together. I listened to the song again and cried! Matt......you really touched me.
To all of you posters, keep forwarding this song to all you know. I have been doing that for the past year. I feel all my friends deserve to hear this wonderful guy.
When I'm missing my sweetie and need a good cry, I return to this. I know he would have loved it, even though it wrecks me. (Being a barber doesn't help...)
I've seen this video over 100 times, and each time, I cry. Such a deep and tender-hearted meaning in every frame and musical note. Matt has created a masterpiece that will live on through the ages. God Bless You, Matt for such a treasure you gave us !
I would just like to let everyone know that Matt Alber has a fan from the Philippines, and that would be me. Teehee. :) His voice, his lyrics, his melody has reached even this little country.
This song, this vignette, this dreamscape never fails to send me spinning -- off balance, suddenly awash in yearning and regret. It wasn't just one hesitation, just the one fumbled gesture,or lone misunderstood glance -- it's the sudden realization,, crystallized in this vision of two men caught in each others' arms,, how much of my young irreplaceable life was lived behind a curtain, with my hands tied behind my back. I know I'm lucky now-- marrried to the same man more than 30 years -- but this sharp shard of music makes it clear that, lodged among my memories, are the moments with the blond boy from Newport, or the redhead from Chicago, or the blue-eyed sailor in Iceland -- moments when I think that all of us heard the music, but didn't realize -- couldn't conceive - that it might be for us.
I remember watching this video and crying so so hard when I was 10 years old. I didn't know why this struck a cord with me like it did. I even showed it to my parents and they didn't understand it. 3 years later I realized I was a man. And I was transgender. This song was my dream - to be a man, and to be loved as a man. When I came out, my parents refused to put me in therapy and I lost all of my friends and the entire school shunned me. I pretty much lost everything, so I went back in the closet again. While I was in denial, I developed intense psychosomatic illnesses including "incurable" IBD, became suicidal, et cetera. Now at 21, I finally came out again:) I'm now 8 months on T and I look more beautiful than ever and I'm finally happy again. Everything in my life makes sense, and this song's lyrics finally make sense to me too. Being born LGBT+ is aching and painful and difficult, but at the end of the day, it is beautiful. I have fallen in love with a beautiful man who happens to be trans as well too. We both love vintage aesthetics, romance, and beautiful singing...one day, I hope I can show him this song and see if he feels it in his heart too.
What a tough path you've been on. Am so full of joy that you're finding your way, finding love, becoming the man you've been born to be and are embodying.
I remember buying this video from iTunes over 4 years ago... it remains one of my favorite ones. It always makes me feel so happy, even when my day sucks.
This is our song, our video. I sing, I'm a tenor and I sang it to him over and over. He passed away 2 yrs. ago and this is the first time I've come back to it, sung it and cried. The day we met he begged me to dance, he was a dancer and we danced all night. Separated for 5 years before we could be together when we finally could come together he lost one of his legs and we danced anyway even when he had to be propped on a stool we danced.
Crying!! I never knew this song. So wonderful. My brother who passed in 2020, loved this song and I just found out that he did today. I see why he loved it and I am so grateful to know this. I can hear him singing it and smiling with his crooked smile while watching it. So beautiful.
Matt, I have been discovered you at the beginning of the last chapter of The Falls. Marvellous voice, very romantic, incredible song. My deep and honest congratulations. I played your video several times a day since then. Simply, outstanding.
My dear friend Matt...I can't believe what you've become. I'm so proud of you! Truly, truly proud. What a beautiful song...and I'm happy I had the opportunity to perform with you back in Kville (my bragging rights). But...I think this video is kind of...well...gay... Lance M ;-)
How did I not find this guy before today......heard this song on The New 20 and it stopped me in my tracks. When a song does that to me it's in my heart forever!
Six years later and I still weep every time I watch this. I've been corresponding with a new "boyfriend" who's stationed in Afghanistan and I shared this link with him. I'm certain he'll love it too. If any one reads this, I want you to know what a truly great guy Matt is, even answered a personal email. Matt if it works out with my soldier, I want you to sing at our wedding!
I love seeing two men slow dancing or dancing arm in arm. Several years ago I was visiting Kansas City and there was a bar there where the gay cowboys used to dance the two step. It was beautiful. These old guys and young guys were just doing a wonderful job of dancing, and it was beautiful to see who took the part of dancing backwards. I was in Nirvana.
I suspect i said this before, but I value very much discovering Mr. Alber, and how i find some real harmony with his music and sentiments. For a gay guy who has been captivated and guided by the Big Sisters that the Indigo Girls have been for me, it's nice to also hear kind and heartfelt words from a fellow gay man. It's a difficult thing to be BOTH a sensitive guy, and and a gay one as well. The world you meet with an open heart and an unguarded soul, is set to be more hostile and assaultive towards you, and for many, that shock and lack of toughness to defend against it, is a cold slap to the face ,and one that some don't survive to recover from. It makes me SO happy that ANY person of ANY gender or sexual orientation can find sympathetic rhythms and pleasing chords that they connect with, when there seems to be less-and-less room for that these days, and less of an opportunity to find that, when the music business is so splinted and dispersed. I know I am oddly and overly ascribing a persona to what is really more of a fictional person really, but we all crave connection and validation, and where ever you can find that, that must be a gift to not ignore. I appreciate him just 'being', if that makes sense, and it really speaks to the real need to be both out as adults, and encouraging that for everyone. There's no pain like one inside you that's never addressed or healed, and the best way to not allow that to happen, is, pardon the cliche. but to ASK, to TELL.
Well said!!! Being vulnerable is so much more difficult on the soul than being crass. It's easy to put on the funny-man mask but it's hard to be one's self, fully and wholly, and show these delicate emotions. Especially if you know you are going to get hate just on the basis of how you were born
easy to ,Criticize Matt produced the video himself, his father pulled the curtain. He wanted to end it with the 2 men flying off in a hot air balloon, but the money to hire a ballon was way too restrictive. To me this is insanely beautiful, especially because it was self produced with no big Hollywood budget. No smoke and mirrors, just honesty.
I listen to this beautiful song regularly, and am always sending friends and family to see it and hear it. So lovely and sweet, lik I am sure you are. Thank you so much, Matt! Kisses and greetings from Ireland. xxx
The song stands on its own greatness. Then, the perfect treatment and perfect director happens. None of the big budget, big name directors (cough David Fincher / Mark Romanek cough) could top this. End of the World is Grammy level material that never received due recognition.
This was the one song that helped me come out of the closet. And I can't thank you enough for it. I can't help but to cry every time I listen to it. I have the most wonderful boyfriend now, and I swear I will marry him someday. And I swear I will sing this for him at our wedding. Thank you so much, Matt.
Oh my God what a gorgeous song! Just discovered you recently by accident and can't wait to hear you in concert. It's SO wonderful to finally see a man singing to another man in such romance.
I get the same lump in my throat and stinging in my eyes every time I watch this video and listen to the words in the wonderful way Matt sings them. Just beautiful... And I think the other guy's being somewhat "colder" than Matt makes it even more unexpected--poignant, even--when he offers his hand to dance.
I can't believe I actually got to meet this wonderful man! I was in 8th grade choir and I remember him and a woman who I think her name was like Shelly or Sherri? 😂 They came to our school and the girls and boys choir got to meet them and we took a selfie together! We also later got to see them perform at something called I think "Conspiare"? at the toban center and it was so fun! I remember looking at the song list and I knew I was gonna love the song "end of the world" I just got a vibe from it and I was right! That woman also sang pure imagination (one of my favorites) and I of course knew that would be a favorite as well, and it was, they both did so well and I'm so happy and glad I got such an amazing opportunity to meet them! I also remember a few days later after the performance one of the choir kids heard that Matt was gay and this quickly spread through the choir, but in a positive way, because openly gay people were to still new to me and us at the time and we were surprised to find out it was true about Matt being gay (also plainly demonstrated in this video). I am also gay myself and I just really admire him and his work especially this song and I just wish I could've realized the man in front of me and got a better conversation with him or autograph 😂💖
Thank you Matt, saw you perform this at a fund raiser in Halifax last year, it has haunted me ever since, it still makes me cry joyful tears, that is what music is all about
Lyrics: I don't want to ride this roller coaster I think I want to get off But they buckled me down Like it's the end of the world If you don't want to have this conversation Then you better get out 'Cause we're climbing to our death At least that's what they want you to think Just in case we jump the track I have a confession to make It's something like a cork screw I don't wanna fall, I don't wanna fly I don't wanna be dangled over The edge of a dying romance But I don't wanna stop I don't wanna lie I don't wanna believe it's over I just wanna stay with you tonight I didn't mean to scream out quite so loudly When we screeched to a halt I'm just never prepared For the end of the ride Maybe we should get on something simpler Like a giant balloon But I've got two tickets left, and so do you Instead of giving them away to some stranger Let's make them count, come on Let's get back in line again and ride the big one Don't you want to fall, don't you want to fly Don't you want to be dangled over The edge of this aching romance If it's gonna end, then I wanna know That we squeezed out every moment But if there's nothing left can you tell me why That it is you're holding onto me Like it's the end of the world
I never tire of listening to this song. It evokes in me some deep feelings that cannot be expressed. I thank the film "The Fall" for it's introduction in my life, forever grateful. Beautifully done Matt.
I think this song would sell quite well if it was on the radio. Wonderful song, beautiful lyrics. A sad song, but one that pulls at the heart. Makes me want to hug my lover even harder.
I can't hear this without getting weepy. You performed this with the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus this past weekend (3/28/15) and I am still soaring high from the experience. I can't wait to hear you live again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for an unforgettable afternoon.
One of the most beautiful songs in history.
I think it owes its beauty to the way Matt sings it. He brings something so unique to the words and melody.
Many years ago a friend in Az played this masterpiece for me and Matt trapped my heart. Little did I know that a few years later I would move to Portland Oregon and hear him perform live with me sitting no more than 20 feet from him. And as he began singing with the voice of an angel the crowd of some 250 people were all talking so loudly over him and so disrespectful. I have never done something like this before but I stood up and screamed at the top of my lungs BE QUIET! and the entire place went dead silent. Matt never missed a note. After his performance I got up the courage to introduce myself to him and sheepishly asked him if he’d like a boyfriend and he lovingly told me he already had someone (lucky guy) Not too many months after tho Matt accepted an invitation to my home and he let me prepare dinner for him and get this. He shared some very personal thoughts with me that I promised him I would never repeat to my dying day and I’ve never broken that trust. As I told him the first time I met him “I am your number one fan” I still believe I am. I’m glad to read here of so many others who feel the same way Matt is truly altogether lovable Miss you Matt wherever you are. All my best
That’s a great story. I’ve seen just enough video of him talking to know he has no pretentiousness and is very approachable. This song is simply amazing. I never tire of it, and I like to think that, had I been in your shoes during that live performance, I would have yelled at the crowd, too.
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I saw him in Fort Lauderdale last night. All forty audience members hung on every word he spoke and sang. If they hadn’t, I would have done the same thing as screamed at everyone. He is such a nice guy and talked to me for a few minutes after the show. He just broke up and I almost asked him out for a date but I was a bit shy. I should have done that I guess. I will be sure to see him sing live again. I won’t be so shy next time.
Decade and a half later... I still sob. Masterpiece.
I cry every time the curtains come open.
I'm over 40, and from a very very conservative part of the country. When I was a kid, this video, with men dancing together to a love song, would have been wildly controversial, to say nothing of the kiss.
Things are so scary for my LGBT+ family right now, especially my trans family, but please know that however far we have left to go, we have come so far.
I am finally, after 20 years of waiting, with someone who fits me completely. It was worth every day of not knowing who or how or when.
This year at the fair we rode a ferris wheel together, we held hands together, we danced together and kissed in front of a whole tent full of people, and there was not a single dirty look or cruel comment. We got a shoutout from the band. It's the same state, just 25 years after I realized I love women. The only thing that has changed...is time.
It's worth sticking around to find love, to find yourself. Please know that your rainbow family needs you.
Wow. This video is simply wonderful. Thanks.
I love you for this comment. I'm a trans guy as well. Thank you so much for making this community warm. We need accepting older LGBT+ folk like you:) thank you.
Wow! What a statement--no less powerful than this song and video--more even for having been LIVED! Congratulations on your journey and your love!!
As an over 40 from a very liberal part of the country, I STILL feel this. Thank you.
@A Gannon That's so beautiful. I hope you are doing well and I wish you and your loved ones are happy, healthy and strong.
So many levels. The music itself. The haunting melody. The orchestration. The multi-valent lyrics effortless weaving between the story and the metaphor. And finally the masterful vocal interpretation. I've lost count of the times I've listened to it; focusing on one dimension, then another. This is why it's a masterpiece and will survive the test of time.
Matt... Goddammitt... Stop making me cry.
Especially when he sings, "I just wanna stay with you tonight."
I am 80 years old, never fallen in love or deeply in love with someone. The only one I loved was my brother. Understand that I was not in love with my brother just loved him. How he is gone some 11 years and all my friends are gone. No family just relatives. I am saying this because there are some who are my age and older in the same boat as me. This is the first time I heard this song and I can say that I cried very deeply. Why I am alone with nothing to really live for but I will stay and continue. Have no pity for me as I chose this life and have no regrets. Thank you Matt for this song. I will play it many many more times.
There is so much loneliness in this world. I HAVE fallen in love before (three times with a few crushes sprinkled here and there), but I feel like I know what you felt. It’s such a powerful emotion, and I’m grateful there are songs like this to help us cope.
So incredibly touching. I just sent the link to my husband to be. This has to be "our" song.
love this video and song.
I get teary and emotional every time I play this song/video. Matt, it is, and you are, so beautiful.
Me, too!
It hasn’t been 24 hours since I heard the song in the trailer for The Fall: Covenant of Grace, and I have played this more than 20 times, now. I knew in the first 5 seconds of that opening that this song was going to pierce my armor, penetrate my heart, to find that it’s has been residing in my soul, all along...longing. This song is me. This is us. I am so grateful to you Matt. Thank you.
The Falls trilogy and this song have impacted me so deeply that words cannot express. My heart is full.
I have watched this “The Falls” trilogy a half dozen times or more since “Covenant” was released in 2016. But, it wasn’t till 12/5/21 when “End Of The World” grabbed me and made me ugly cry.
@@Nacho-Mamma Thank you for bring me back to this timeless space of art that touches my heart so deeply and the tears continue to flow.
ok everyone. it's years later and I revisited this site. Now, Tim and I just celebrated our 34th year together. I listened to the song again and cried! Matt......you really touched me.
That moment when the barber opens the curtain to let in the sunshine is perfection. Such a beautiful song and so beautifully realized in the video.
the curtain opens.. and so do my floodgates
To all of you posters, keep forwarding this song to all you know. I have been doing
that for the past year. I feel all my friends deserve to hear this wonderful guy.
When I'm missing my sweetie and need a good cry, I return to this. I know he would have loved it, even though it wrecks me.
(Being a barber doesn't help...)
The Falls Covenant of Grace brought me here. Haunting song. Love.
I can't believe this song is 10 years old.
@@naruto99124 it’s older than that. I first heard it in 2007 I do believe
LOVE IT ! Beautiful voice and very romantic....how blessed i am to have found someone to ride the rollercoaster of life 23 years ago :)
I've seen this video over 100 times, and each time, I cry. Such a deep and tender-hearted meaning in every frame and musical note. Matt has created a masterpiece that will live on through the ages. God Bless You, Matt for such a treasure you gave us !
I would just like to let everyone know that Matt Alber has a fan from the Philippines, and that would be me. Teehee. :) His voice, his lyrics, his melody has reached even this little country.
I can't stop replaying this and rewatching it .. :/
Over and over and over again....for years. Each time I do, I cry. Beautiful, beyond words.
Romance is not dead. This song proves it!
Your lyrics are tearing me apart...
His best piece. His best work. It slays me.
This song, this vignette, this dreamscape never fails to send me spinning -- off balance, suddenly awash in yearning and regret. It wasn't just one hesitation, just the one fumbled gesture,or lone misunderstood glance -- it's the sudden realization,, crystallized in this vision of two men caught in each others' arms,, how much of my young irreplaceable life was lived behind a curtain, with my hands tied behind my back. I know I'm lucky now-- marrried to the same man more than 30 years -- but this sharp shard of music makes it clear that, lodged among my memories, are the moments with the blond boy from Newport, or the redhead from Chicago, or the blue-eyed sailor in Iceland -- moments when I think that all of us heard the music, but didn't realize -- couldn't conceive - that it might be for us.
sadly real music, real talent and real love don't get much attention in our heartless world now
Can't get enough of this song makes me cry almost every time I listen.
I remember watching this video and crying so so hard when I was 10 years old. I didn't know why this struck a cord with me like it did. I even showed it to my parents and they didn't understand it.
3 years later I realized I was a man. And I was transgender. This song was my dream - to be a man, and to be loved as a man. When I came out, my parents refused to put me in therapy and I lost all of my friends and the entire school shunned me. I pretty much lost everything, so I went back in the closet again. While I was in denial, I developed intense psychosomatic illnesses including "incurable" IBD, became suicidal, et cetera.
Now at 21, I finally came out again:) I'm now 8 months on T and I look more beautiful than ever and I'm finally happy again. Everything in my life makes sense, and this song's lyrics finally make sense to me too. Being born LGBT+ is aching and painful and difficult, but at the end of the day, it is beautiful.
I have fallen in love with a beautiful man who happens to be trans as well too. We both love vintage aesthetics, romance, and beautiful singing...one day, I hope I can show him this song and see if he feels it in his heart too.
What a tough path you've been on. Am so full of joy that you're finding your way, finding love, becoming the man you've been born to be and are embodying.
This is gorgeous, and its own creation; that said, I can not help think of Rufus W. every time that I play it. (It's a compliment.)
I remember buying this video from iTunes over 4 years ago... it remains one of my favorite ones. It always makes me feel so happy, even when my day sucks.
This is our song, our video. I sing, I'm a tenor and I sang it to him over and over. He passed away 2 yrs. ago and this is the first time I've come back to it, sung it and cried. The day we met he begged me to dance, he was a dancer and we danced all night. Separated for 5 years before we could be together when we finally could come together he lost one of his legs and we danced anyway even when he had to be propped on a stool we danced.
"I don’t wanna lie
I don’t wanna believe it’s over
I just wanna stay with you tonight"
That, that Love, can move mountains.
Crying!! I never knew this song. So wonderful. My brother who passed in 2020, loved this song and I just found out that he did today. I see why he loved it and I am so grateful to know this. I can hear him singing it and smiling with his crooked smile while watching it. So beautiful.
so i heard this on a movie and had to know who sang such a beautiful and powerful song ... simply put, amazing!
What movie? I'd love to see how it was used.
@@dj33036 The Falls: Covenant of Grace. Beautiful movie!
@@dj33036 it wasn’t the falls movie, it was actually a different one
Matt, I have been discovered you at the beginning of the last chapter of The Falls. Marvellous voice, very romantic, incredible song. My deep and honest congratulations. I played your video several times a day since then. Simply, outstanding.
Amazing song and video. I saw Matt perform around the time this came out and it was awesome. Can’t believe it’s been 15 years.
my man passed away 2 years ago everytime I hear this song it just some how makes me fell better love u vince miss u sooooo
My dear friend Matt...I can't believe what you've become. I'm so proud of you! Truly, truly proud. What a beautiful song...and I'm happy I had the opportunity to perform with you back in Kville (my bragging rights).
But...I think this video is kind of...well...gay...
Lance M ;-)
I just can’t get enough of this song.
I feel the exact same way!
How did I not find this guy before today......heard this song on The New 20 and it stopped me in my tracks. When a song does that to me it's in my heart forever!
This is so beautiful!
I bawl like a baby watching this truly remarkably romantic dream song/video.
Thank you so much Matt. You are so awesome. I wish I could know you.
i have been looking for this song for five years, im so fuckin happy.
This should be on the #1 charts.
Six years later and I still weep every time I watch this. I've been corresponding with a new "boyfriend" who's stationed in Afghanistan and I shared this link with him. I'm certain he'll love it too.
If any one reads this, I want you to know what a truly great guy Matt is, even answered a personal email. Matt if it works out with my soldier, I want you to sing at our wedding!
The most beautiful boy meets boy love story ever filmed. Oh, and the song is beautifully timeless.
So emotional and wonderful.
I love seeing two men slow dancing or dancing arm in arm. Several years ago I was visiting Kansas City and there was a bar there where the gay cowboys used to dance the two step. It was beautiful. These old guys and young guys were just doing a wonderful job of dancing, and it was beautiful to see who took the part of dancing backwards. I was in Nirvana.
Fuck I've been listening to this for years now, still get teary eyed. I hate the loneliness.
after 27 years together this is just how I feel about my man. what an incredible song and his voice puts you in another world.. I love him!
This is my #1 soundtrack of my life. And the video is amazing too.
I suspect i said this before, but I value very much discovering Mr. Alber, and how i find some real harmony with his music and sentiments. For a gay guy who has been captivated and guided by the Big Sisters that the Indigo Girls have been for me, it's nice to also hear kind and heartfelt words from a fellow gay man. It's a difficult thing to be BOTH a sensitive guy, and and a gay one as well. The world you meet with an open heart and an unguarded soul, is set to be more hostile and assaultive towards you, and for many, that shock and lack of toughness to defend against it, is a cold slap to the face ,and one that some don't survive to recover from. It makes me SO happy that ANY person of ANY gender or sexual orientation can find sympathetic rhythms and pleasing chords that they connect with, when there seems to be less-and-less room for that these days, and less of an opportunity to find that, when the music business is so splinted and dispersed. I know I am oddly and overly ascribing a persona to what is really more of a fictional person really, but we all crave connection and validation, and where ever you can find that, that must be a gift to not ignore. I appreciate him just 'being', if that makes sense, and it really speaks to the real need to be both out as adults, and encouraging that for everyone. There's no pain like one inside you that's never addressed or healed, and the best way to not allow that to happen, is, pardon the cliche. but to ASK, to TELL.
Well said!!! Being vulnerable is so much more difficult on the soul than being crass. It's easy to put on the funny-man mask but it's hard to be one's self, fully and wholly, and show these delicate emotions. Especially if you know you are going to get hate just on the basis of how you were born
This really touched me, Daniel. Thank you.
@@mattalber Warmth and grace in such a cold and graceless age.
Thank you so much for bringing such beauty into the world with this song. It evokes so much emotion in me I cry every time I hear it.
Still my favorite video in a long time...brings back memories.
I keep coming back to listen to this song, and I finally figured out that it wasn't just the soothing voice that I like....woof :)
I love you Matt for this song. I love this song so much. Thank you.
I must be the only one who cries every time I hear this..beautiful
Romantic and so beautiful.... especially love the bit where the barber opens the drapes and the two men are dancing in the sunbeam.
easy to ,Criticize Matt produced the video himself, his father pulled the curtain. He wanted to end it with the 2 men flying off in a hot air balloon, but the money to hire a ballon was way too restrictive. To me this is insanely beautiful, especially because it was self produced with no big Hollywood budget. No smoke and mirrors, just honesty.
I never knew that was his father in the vid as the barber. Also the info about the balloon is nice to know as well.
I listen to this beautiful song regularly, and am always sending friends and family to see it and hear it. So lovely and sweet, lik I am sure you are. Thank you so much, Matt! Kisses and greetings from Ireland. xxx
So wonderfully conceived and filmed! From the point the curtains are drawn back, the dance ending in the kiss. So beautifully sensuous and romantic.
It's one of the most perfect pieces of music ever created. Truly.
Timeless.
I come back to this again and again
Great lyrics
The song stands on its own greatness. Then, the perfect treatment and perfect director happens. None of the big budget, big name directors (cough David Fincher / Mark Romanek cough) could top this. End of the World is Grammy level material that never received due recognition.
This was the one song that helped me come out of the closet. And I can't thank you enough for it. I can't help but to cry every time I listen to it.
I have the most wonderful boyfriend now, and I swear I will marry him someday. And I swear I will sing this for him at our wedding. Thank you so much, Matt.
one of the most beautiful songs written in our times. It makes me cry every time I listen to it.
This is a masterpiece they will be playing long after we are gone.
oh great make me cry..I can barely see what I am typing..what a beautiful song
Thank you, Mr Alber
Oh my God what a gorgeous song! Just discovered you recently by accident and can't wait to hear you in concert. It's SO wonderful to finally see a man singing to another man in such romance.
I am so thankful my chorus got to sing backup with you on this song.
Good music. Beautiful voice. And clip without appeals. Beauty, kindness and love between two men, it should be.
So beautiful. I cried when they kissed.
Gosh, what a video, lyrics, music and above all Matt and model. 🥰
I get the same lump in my throat and stinging in my eyes every time I watch this video and listen to the words in the wonderful way Matt sings them. Just beautiful... And I think the other guy's being somewhat "colder" than Matt makes it even more unexpected--poignant, even--when he offers his hand to dance.
the words are so clever how he marries the rollercoaster ride and the relationship - brilliant
love is love is love..sometimes it has to hurt..not sure why....
Soulful, romantic, retro ... and wonderful!
I can't believe I actually got to meet this wonderful man! I was in 8th grade choir and I remember him and a woman who I think her name was like Shelly or Sherri? 😂 They came to our school and the girls and boys choir got to meet them and we took a selfie together! We also later got to see them perform at something called I think "Conspiare"? at the toban center and it was so fun! I remember looking at the song list and I knew I was gonna love the song "end of the world" I just got a vibe from it and I was right! That woman also sang pure imagination (one of my favorites) and I of course knew that would be a favorite as well, and it was, they both did so well and I'm so happy and glad I got such an amazing opportunity to meet them! I also remember a few days later after the performance one of the choir kids heard that Matt was gay and this quickly spread through the choir, but in a positive way, because openly gay people were to still new to me and us at the time and we were surprised to find out it was true about Matt being gay (also plainly demonstrated in this video). I am also gay myself and I just really admire him and his work especially this song and I just wish I could've realized the man in front of me and got a better conversation with him or autograph 😂💖
Amazing blue eyes and awesome voice. Thanks snarky for the recommendation.
Thank you Matt, saw you perform this at a fund raiser in Halifax last year, it has haunted me ever since, it still makes me cry joyful tears, that is what music is all about
I will always love this song.
Lyrics:
I don't want to ride this roller coaster
I think I want to get off
But they buckled me down
Like it's the end of the world
If you don't want to have this conversation
Then you better get out
'Cause we're climbing to our death
At least that's what they want you to think
Just in case we jump the track
I have a confession to make
It's something like a cork screw
I don't wanna fall, I don't wanna fly
I don't wanna be dangled over
The edge of a dying romance
But I don't wanna stop
I don't wanna lie
I don't wanna believe it's over
I just wanna stay with you tonight
I didn't mean to scream out quite so loudly
When we screeched to a halt
I'm just never prepared
For the end of the ride
Maybe we should get on something simpler
Like a giant balloon
But I've got two tickets left, and so do you
Instead of giving them away to some stranger
Let's make them count, come on
Let's get back in line again and ride the big one
Don't you want to fall, don't you want to fly
Don't you want to be dangled over
The edge of this aching romance
If it's gonna end, then I wanna know
That we squeezed out every moment
But if there's nothing left can you tell me why
That it is you're holding onto me
Like it's the end of the world
I am here now because of the movie this beautiful movie called The FALLS: COVENANT OF GRACE. . I am in love with THE FALLS trilogy and this song. :-)
Still such a beautiful, poetic, soaring lyrics and performance of a gorgeous song you wrote #MattAlber.
I first saw this video almost 2 years ago and thought it was a really great song. Makes me believe in Romance again.
so sad and beautiful at the same time!!!
DAMN! This man can SING!
I never tire of listening to this song. It evokes in me some deep feelings that cannot be expressed. I thank the film "The Fall" for it's introduction in my life, forever grateful. Beautifully done Matt.
I think this song would sell quite well if it was on the radio. Wonderful song, beautiful lyrics. A sad song, but one that pulls at the heart. Makes me want to hug my lover even harder.
You are soooo right SPDLST. I saw him in NYC last year when he debuted this... AMAZING !
Love … love this so much. I keep playing it over and over. Thank you!
Still a favorite song and video.
Always shed a tear when I watch this!
SOME VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!
BEAUTIFUL!
Beautiful song.
I can't hear this without getting weepy. You performed this with the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus this past weekend (3/28/15) and I am still soaring high from the experience. I can't wait to hear you live again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for an unforgettable afternoon.
This is one of my top 5 favorite songs. I hope Matt comes to Tampa!