Ethel Cain - Inbred (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Official visualizer for "Inbred" by Ethel Cain.
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Lyrics:
bare naked under my nightgown
pissing on the stove to put it out
watching him through holes in his door
sucking on the back of his leg to stay warm
older brother made a name for himself with the cops
scumbag fuck but i swear that he’s not
he’s so good to me and to nobody else
so you should watch yourself
mama’s comatose, she can’t leave the bed
something smells rotten and it starting to spread
i’m bad, he’s worse, we’re already dead
we’re already dead
we wake up and all the fucking lights are out
you can’t win ‘em all
who knows how much longer
i’ll lay on the floor
touch me til i vomit
i’m not scared of god
i’m scared he was gone all along
who will take the fall
who of us is stronger
you’ll just want it more
if you could, you’d have fought it
but you know you’re not
from the start, they knew you were wrong
you were wrong
older brother made a name for himself with the feds
white trash dick but i love him to death
he’s so good to me and to nobody else
so you can fuck yourself
you get off on innocence so you savor this
does your baby know her daddy’s a rapist
he hates the way you look at me
you’re already dead
you’re already dead
if he wakes up, he’ll show you what i’m talking about
you can’t win ‘em all
who knows how much longer
i’ll lay on the floor
touch me til i vomit
(touch me til) i’m not scared of god
i’m scared he was gone all along
who will take the fall
who of us is stronger
you’ll just want it more
if you could, you’d have fought it
but you know you’re not
from the start, they knew you were wrong
you were wrong
you were wrong
you were wrong
Why haven't I seen any comments on "You get off on innocence, so you savor this"? It's so powerful and sad, especially as a victim of csa.
what is csa?
@@adnanhossain5050stands for child sexual assault
@@adnanhossain5050 an abbreviation for child sexual abuse
“Does your baby know her daddy’s a rapist?”
There are no words to describe this line besides dread and that no one will ever top it
It hit like a train
it came out of nowhere 3:14
😊😊@@ahandl3
to me it's "touch me til' I vomit"
Voting for Ethel to do the credits song for whatever Silent Hill game they make next.
THISSSSSS
YESSSSSSSS
You get it!!!!!
Omggggggg as a silent hill fan
Yes she should make it
no
modern silent hill doesnt deserve ethel.
she should get to do something else horrifying, like the inevitable remake of friends
"touch me till I vomit" and the whole song makes me feel heard as a person who went through sa for years from my brother
i'm so sorry to hear that
Im sure this’ll sound like an empty platitude, but holy shit im so sorry that happened to you! i sincerely hope u heal♥️
I’m so sorry that happened to you omg
Same :/
Is it really sexual abuse if you enjoyed it? Thats what the song is about lol
Some of the most haunting lyrical imagery I’ve ever heard. This kinda changed the entire trajectory of my life 🥵
omg hey bitch!!! how are things. glad to see that you still have impeccable taste
@@LanatheSatan omg hey babe I was scared you died thinking abt you always 💗
You're literally everywhere!
I see you like Marina a lot and this chick, anymore cool artists like these two?
@@ben6089 who told you I like Marina??
i only listen to songs w deep meanings and that includes “pissing on the stove to put it out”
Yes, indeed.
I don't understand it 😭
real
You've never done that?
@@skye_belle888Ethel herself said “don’t ask me about that line. I don’t know what it means either I was high when I wrote it” 😂
I'm in my forties. This and Sun Bleached Flies have unearthed feelings I'd kept buried since my teens. Never have I found a song so viscerally nauseating but simultaneously cathartic.
Im desperately searching for someone IRL to talk Ethel Cain lore. My god, she's fucking gifted- especially lyrically.
Me too lol. Its so hard because her music is one of the most important things in my life right now but I can't talk about her to anyone IRL because its too dark
let's get the group chat going
id honestly love than lol@@ArtHeaux420
haha i know like three other girls in my dorm hall into Ethel Cain! she's definitely up and coming and has been around for a bit on tumblr and such. she also had a couple songs become popular on tiktok. i really see her reaching some older generations soon!
@@okay6353 ... already. I'm 53 and she's brilliant!
as a victim of in-family csa... this song hurts so bad but I feel so heard when I listen to it
Very sorry
SAME
real.
what is csa? i speak spanish🥺
@@isadei1105 childhood sexual abuse
“touch me till I vomit”
“I’m not scared of God, I’m scared he was gone all along”
“aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”
lyrics like these, they are stories. that people can identify with.
knife to my heart
This is probably one of my favorite songs by Ethel. It's erieily, sensually psychedelic, trance inducing sounding musically. With her beautiful, strong voice...just..uuhh so good. "I'm not scared of God, I'm scared ge was gone all along". Resonates.
"I'm not scared of God, I'm scared he was gone all along" - hit me so hard cause i can relate on such a deep level
anyone know similar songs to this one?
@@ElenaNaumovaa Selby wall
the vocals........ HOLY SHIT!!!! SO FUCKING GOOD
Losing my absolute mind as a csa survivor whose main abuser was their father oh my god. This is extremely upsetting in a good way. It makes me feel very raw & actually allows me to connect w my emotions about what happened more
My dad was really weird with me growing up until I became a teen and he coerced me into something I won't get into, and I've struggled to process it. I've never talked about it so publicly. I'm also a SA survivor of my first boyfriend. This song expresses so well what I feel after all these years, and it's become my favorite. It just expresses these sorts of feelings in a way I never could, it's a melancholic catharsis while being haunting all the same, and memories like these are still scary, just in a different, more quiet way as the years go on. I'm so thankful Ethel exists and we get to hear her beautiful voice.
I'm so sorry you had to experience it. Glad you're doing better now
Whispers, "Pissin on the stove to put it out" sweetly in your ear
thank you ❤
Hey, i'm from Brazil. What that means?
@@insanelyhighthe artist herself said she doesn’t know since she was high when she wrote it. So there isn’t a meaning behind it
@@insanelyhigh artist said she was high when she wrote the line so she doesn’t know what it means either but I saw someone say that it could be interpreted as growing up in poverty if that’s any help:D
@@Mr.PicklenutOMG ME TOO! U WATCH THE LYRICS?
I wanted so bad to be in the studio when she recorded this song... its like shes banning someone, like a god
this is that song where you want to sing it out loud but you couldn't cuz of its dark lyrics and people might be mortified 😭
Just how the hell can she express these kinds of things so flawlessly???
Exactly
This song touches the deepest parts of my soul, with Ptolomea, to a point I can’t even believe such songs exist.
Someone made a Mashup of both
this song feels like growing up around your pdophile dad and knowing he looked at you in a way nobody should look at a child
ope😃 didn’t expect to be called out in the comments like this 🚣
@@Sevenwrens I'm so sorry that you've gone through something like that. No child should go through that ❤
I am so fucking sorry
Literally what happened to me, and you're right, this song captures that feeling perfectly
@@Sevenwrens oh my gosh your pfp is that one guy from the labrnyth!
the howling wind in the beginning is my absolute favorite part of this song
This song is horrifying. The lyrics tell a haunting story, and the vocals at the end are just. Insane. They're so shocking yet extremely impressive. I'm so glad I found Ethel's music. I've never heard anything like it, and I mean that in the best way possible
Don’t get my wrong, I love all of Ethel’s music. But I will always come back to this song. It touches a part of me that is hard for me to access and it makes me feel so exposed and vulnerable.
I wonder if she'll ever perform this. Quite possibly one of her best songs ever.
frr i need to hear it live
it’s amazing but the vocals r like impossible
@@EthelCainVinylnah i don’t think she’s an alto, she’s probably a mezzo
@@arianatorforever9282 I think you’re probably right
stumbled onto this last night after listening to crush and went into a trance. The whole album is a masterpiece and it's clear music like this is something the world was missing
This hurts just to listen to. A melancholic hurt. It makes me think about so much. It's not triggering in a way, but it opens up my mind to the memories. It's a sad, pleasuring pain. I love it.
Ethel really said “ahhhhHHhhHhHhHhhHhH”
And that's on period
God i love Ethel Cain, just discovered her and the soul crushing, tearing songs she makes are perfect
I was CSA'ed by my own half-brother. This is rlly touching to me. My favourite of the whole album.
Damn, can't believe this hasn't been picked up by the algorithm yet. Hope you keep making music for a long time because you're good at it
"if he wakes up he'll show you what i'm talking about" is painful- the one person who seems to want to protect her is so troubled too, and might even be dying. there's no guaranteed escape, just someone doing her best to be brave and an "if" resting on someone unstable.
That is pure euphoria, moonlight, hope, breeze, refreshment and freedom, Hayden. Thank you.
Have been searching for this voice and sound for years now. I have listened to this song(only) on repeat for 3 days now. Nothing lyrically has painted a mental image like this has for me in a long while.. I'm sure she is still growing, learning, and finding her place in song writing and being an artist BUT ooooooh do I hope she has more like this up her sleeve. This song is what season 2 of True Detective should have been. Only downside is finding this later rather than sooner and missing out on the EP purchase.
something about this song makes me feel somber, but it's so heavenly and i keep coming back to it. great work of art.
This is a masterclass in musical skill. Such a brilliant song writer and composer, Fucking insane. Without a doubt One of the best songs ever written in history.
Haunting, raw, mad lyrics and vocals. She summons a huge hole on the surface on my heart and the voice mentally makes you feel fatal. Don’t know if I’ll ever get over this shit.
“Which of us is stronger? You’ll just want it more, if you could you’dve fought it” HAYDENNNNNNNNNNNNN 😭😭😭😭
the vocals are absolutely amazing and beautiful omg
One thing I love about Ethel Cain(the artist) is the fact that her production sounds extremely intimate, which makes sense cuz she produces most of her music.
When it comes to her songs, majority of the pronunciation of her lyrics are lost due to the reverb and way she sings. But the production carries the message of the song. You don't necessarily NEED to read the lyrics to know what the song is about, and many mainstream artists lack that ability.
I could yap all day about her approach to storytelling but that would be boring, huh? Anyway, Live, Love, Laugh, Ethel Cain❤
Her vocal range is amazing!!
i can never be the same person i was before listening to your discography, i love you hayden
"touch me till i vomit"
"You get off on innocence so you savor this"
Chills
I am absolutely obsessed with her music. I'm usually not that into lyrics....but her lyrics? Good lord....just astounding.
But the music too....is really haunting and creative and weird and interesting. I love the subtle things that send shivers up my spine. The moment at 1:56 for sure. Also....this one chord in the progression that is just SO beautiful and haunting to me. It's hard to say why...but that ONE chord makes me feel....a lot. The chord at around 2:12 and 3:01...tho it's throughout the song. Something so emotionally resonant in that one chord.....or at least the chord that's implied by that rising bass note underneath the rest of the harmony.
I love little things like that.....it's like an entire world summed up in a single passing sound.
as someone who grew up in a dysfunctional family in poverty, this song hit hard. i was sa’d by my mom’s ex boyfriend when i was 11 and my family finding out fucked a lot up. i come from a long line of generational trauma that i’ve spent my whole life trying to break free from. this song is so painfully relatable in awful ways i can’t explain.
I hope you continue to grow more free
@@synesthesia.aesthetic thank you :)
The emotion and passion is real in this, glad I found this artist.
The algorithm introduced me to Ethel Cain today, and I cannot believe these videos are not at a million views, not yet anyway. I think they will be soon.
Incredible voice.
Yeah this song was my intro to Ethel Cain, it enters your head and starts throwing shit around like a poltergeist.
Me too...
This song has such a grip on me. It's haunting and comforting at the same time for me. The lyrics are not about it, but I just can't help but associate the vibe of this song to my experience surviving Mariupol without electricity, heat, gas, water, and when it was bombed for weeks by ruzzia in 2022.
"I’m bad, he’s worse, we’re already dead
we’re already dead
we wake up and all the fucking lights are out"
These lyrics just hit so freaking hard. We were just walking corpses without hope and thinking that this is the end of our fates.
I don't know why I'm sharing this, but this song just makes me feel so many good and bad things in a disturbing but healing way simultaneously.
Thank you, Ethel for your art and your masterpieces.
When my family tells me its been years and I need to 'get over it' and 'its just some thing that happens':
it doesn’t just happen they’re disgusting
I have chills all over my body
This is so good
She has crosses all over hers
@@tojisenpai87 LMAOO
This song is the only song for me that grasps what i went through. I was sa-d by my half brother, and i feel like no media or anything talks about what in family sa is like. And for some reason the sa songs i found often have a romantic tone (wtf). I feel like i just relate to this song so much, even though my trauma was not extreme.
Holy shit. This is creepy. Beautiful. Sacred. Sacrilege. Reminds me of Zola but her voice and style are amazing.
this one hits so hard.. so full of imagery it grabbed me by my guts
this video reminds me of my dead ex boyfriend. through the good and the bad, no one knew me like you did. rest in peace dear angel, i wish i could have showed you ethel cain.
Ethel Cain is criminally underrated wish more people knew about them.
Your thoughts and feelings are so real that every time I listen to your songs, I feel my heart aching, as if your voice penetrates my cells. I'm so glad you exist.
Discovered you today, and i am obsessed w the album, this song in particular; the voice, the lyrics, the composition is ethereal. The high note at the end😭❤️ Girl, you gon shine✨ all the best!
I discovered your music yesterday while I was reading “the witch doesn’t burn in this one” by Amanda Lovelace & it was so fitting. I’m so in love with you and your sound. You’re an incredible lyricist.
Once in a few years I run into some great artist that I fall in love with. Ethel this time. Her music is so beautiful and it resonates with my soul.
I legit think this song has changed my life in such an extreme way, thank you
Sometimes this song makes me feel sick, and I love it, I love when a song makes me feel something
3:28 oh my god I’m literally floating
Real
Ooof, if you put this on repeat, the transition from the end to the beginning is absolutely flawless
My god! It’s been a while since a song truly hit me, but this one did. I felt like I left my body about half way through. The lyrics really hit home, and the haunting vocals, the music you can feel in your bones. A masterpiece
"You can't win 'em all"
Her brother was smooth and could have had anyone, he wanted her because he wasnt supposed to. He can never "win" her though. Not in spirit and its not like this could ever be a relationship.
this song mirrors my pain so perfectly that it absolutely destroys me every time :) thank u very much :)
"If he wakes up he'll show you what I'm talking abooouuutt!"
Ethel I’m scared of this song & it’s makes me feel all weird inside but I will never stop listening cause I love it so
holy f**k - this song started so inconspicuously and then near the end it hit me SO HARD it just blew my mind, like I literaly got goosebumps on my skin and felt chills all over my body - I feel in love with Ethel Cain (talking about music here)
This was do beautifully haunting but i dont know if i can ever listen to it again...
Hauntingly beautifully moving til you feel sick. You're music is brilliant
the definition of hauntingly beautiful.. 🤍
Reminds me when I got sa 4 months ago in June, the fucker only got sent to jail for 2 weeks and then got bail. He's on house arrest and knowing he's still out there terrifies me.
I'm so sorry to hear that
this song is what it feels like being SA over years by your own older brother, at a time he was a adult while i am still a minor, knowing one day he will have his own children.
I listened to this whole album in history class today and I’ve been put into a spiritual comma. Wake me up when the next album drops
She put her whole new born into this
First Ethel Cain song i heard 2 years ago changed my life forever
She convays an emotion thats so heart wrenching
Lyrics:
Bare naked under my nightgown
Pissing on the stove to put it out
Watching him through holes in his door
Sucking on the back of his leg to stay warm
Older brother made a name for himself with the cops
Scumbag fuck, but I swear that he's not
He's so good to me and to nobody else
So you should watch yourself
Mama's comatose, she can't leave the bed
Something smells rotten and it starting to spread
I'm bad, he's worse, we're already dead
We're already dead
We wake up and all the fucking lights are out
You can't win 'em all
Who knows how much longer I'll lay on the floor?
Touch me 'til I vomit
I'm not scared of God, I'm scared he was gone all along
Who will take the fall? Who of us is stronger?
You'll just want it more
If you could, you'd have fought it, but you know you're not
From the start, they knew you were wrong, you were wrong
Older brother made a name for himself with the feds (uh, uh)
White trash dick, but I love him to death
He's so good to me and to nobody else
So you can fuck yourself (fuck yourself)
You get off on innocence, so you savor this
Does your baby know her daddy's a rapist?
He hates the way you look at me
You're already dead, you're already dead
If he wakes up, he'll show you what I'm talking about
You can't win 'em all
Who knows how much longer I'll lay on the floor?
Touch me 'til I vomit
I'm not scared of God, I'm scared he was gone all along (oh, oh)
Who will take the fall? Who of us is stronger?
You'll just want it more
If you could, you'd have fought it, but you know you're not
From the start, they knew you were wrong, you were wrong
You were wrong
You were wrong
1:55 best thing ive heard in years
i am going to be thinking of these lyrics for the rest of my life
god i am always thinking about the various interpretations of the siblings' relationship. i forget where i first saw it pointed out that 'inbred' doesn't necessarily mean 'incest', and interpreting them as such isn't the only option. If their family is inbred, as in past generations having married each other, then they could be ostracized as odd and immoral, regardless of recent generations. Public opinion might inhibit the bonding between siblings, any amount of closeness (even to a normal degree) could be seen as sinister or sinful but outsiders who associate incest with them. AND if the inbreeding is more recent like between their parents, then (whether they were raised to be against or neutral or for it) they might not be adequately looked at like kids raised in an unhealthy environment- but freaks to be avoided, products of sin. And sin has to he an inherited innate thing in order for you to need church officials to cleanse you of it- thus the bad family from the bad tree is bad and being able to point it out is how outsiders know they themselves are good people from a good family tree, not by actions but by defining virtuous and sinful as 'me' and 'not me' as in real life Christian cults
i lost my train of thought i love this song
yes! i've also thought about how it's a stereotype associated with extreme poverty, which is another theme of the song. some abusers target people who are already ostracized due to financial situation, disability, etc.
I need a gc that is STRICLY Ethel Cain.
This entire album is fucking incredible
This is her best song and album. Period. Preacher's Daughter is cool, but Inbred (and the whole album) is just too powerful and hits different
Wow! I love how I sometimes stumble upon something I’ve never heard of before and it just blows me away. ❤️
been listening to this song everyday and cannot get tired of it
this song will always have a very special place in my heart and will take up a big sum of that space. this song has touched the dread and anger so many assault victims feel and we can't thank you enough. this is beautiful. we love you, mother.
fucking amazing. so glad i was able to discover your voice and music. haunting and beautiful lyrics... cant wait to hear more!!!
Wow! Where did she come from!? The subject matter, context, images and that voice. You got my attention
I can't even explain how this song or any of her music makes me feel. There are so many different feelings at once. I feel like it will take years to truly process it all.
This makes me sick with images of them but at least in those visions I can throw them into traffic. Thanks Ethel 💙
Damn, thanks Hayden, amazing Ring
I already know what brings me here without understand one single word, and this is acting after all.
Aw I just adore this song
I can't stop listening to this... it's done something to me.
This song is everything I needed right now
This is absolutely f&(%$#g brilliant! You are really REALLY great and in a perfect world you would be number almoste everywhere! Your music/lyrics combine horrific pain but simultanesly a weird "Lynchian" sense of humour that "hides" beneath. Greetings from Greece.
"Pissing on the stove to put it out"
I know she doesn't know what this means but maybe subconsciously, its a reference to poverty. Maybe having to cook food in inventive ways and can't spare water to put the self-made fire out. If he's the fire, and she pisses on him, maybe it echoes "touch me til i vomit'. Her body reacts in repulsed and averted ways to the acts.
"From the start they knew you were wrong"
He was born damaged in some way, either in spirit or mind or both.
And of course that leads into "you were wrong" to do what he did to her.
THE HIGGH NOTESSSSSSSSSS
every single line in this song is enough to give me chills