The Crane Wives - The Moon Will Sing (Lyric Video)
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We darkened the cover art so hopefully it's a little easier to read!
Full lyrics:
Tell me once again
I could've been anyone, anyone else
Before you made the choice for me
My feet knew the path
We walked in the dark, in the dark
I never gave a single thought to where it might lead
All those empty rooms
We could've been anywhere, anywhere else
Instead I made a bed with apathy
My heart knew the weight
Ten years worth of dust and neglect
We made our peace with weariness
And let it be
The moon will sing a song for me
I loved you like the sun
Bore the shadows that you made
With no light of my own
I shine only with the light you gave me
I shine only with the light you gave me
Name your courage now
We could've had anything, anything else
Instead you hoarded all that's left of me
Swallowing your doubt
Like swords to the pit of my belly
I wanna feel the fire
That you kept from me
The moon will sing a song for me
I loved you like the sun
Bore the shadows that you made
With no light of my own
I shine only with the light you gave me
I shine only with the light you gave me
I shine only with the light you gave me
(I could've been anyone, anyone)
I shine only with the light you gave me
(I could've been anyone, anyone)
I see this song as a relationship between a parent and child. A child loves their parent unconditionally. A parent is supposed to love their child the same, but for whatever reasons, this sometimes is an abusive love. The parent has gone through life and their failures weigh on them. So in an effort to spare their child the same fate they tell them they can't do it, don't try, they aren't bright enough, and so on. The child listens because their parent's advice is all they know, and their parent loves them, so they must be right. So they don't try, dimly reflecing their parents apathy through life because they were never told they had their own light, their own destiny. Through circumstance they see their potential was always there, but hidden away, stolen and buried by their parent. And this song is them confronting the parent about the lies they were told all their life.
Honestly, I always saw it that way too
Wow u should be a poet
Or the reters for that matter
Kratos and Atreus who-
wow man that’s beautiful. and belive it or not but this realy helps thank you
holding up characters i like to this song like paint swatches in a home depot
anyway this is a horatio from hamlet song because i said so
EXACTLY
SAME BRO I be projecting onto this song like a spotlight on a stage
Great comment
this is so real (this is a reyna and hylla song from percy jackson bc im severely hyperfixated on them 😕)
this was my first crane wives song, first heard it about a year or two ago and almost immediately became favourite band :-)
Exact same here.
same!! first song of theirs, around a couple of years ago
mine was curses
damn you youtube for taking advantage of my furry algorithm and giving me this masterpiece of a band
My first was also Curses!
Ironic that a furry introduced this song to me lmao
For me it was Curses
This song meant so much to twelve year old me that was dealing with bullying amongst "friends". I used to be very scared of the dark but these songs made nature and the night feel less daunting and more freeing, I'm so happy I got to find this again!
nice profile
@@a.4858 ah yes, another akutagawa enjoyer. Thank you very much!
@@ryunosukeakutagawa7325 (:
Hello fellow bsd fans how we feeling before new episode?
@@zuzannarak9392 after nearly having a stroke when chuuya appeared, I would say excited is an understatement
‘We could’ve had anything else’
‘Swallowing your doubt like swords to pit of my belly, I wanna feel the fire that you kept from me’
‘I could’ve been anyone’
This song has comforted me through my first heartbreak. I was completely in love with my best friend, and they often referred to me as their sun. It felt sweet, but in reality I was pouring myself into the relationship and giving them all my light which I believed I owed them as they were my moon (giving personal gifts, supporting them with their abusive parents and writing love notes etc). They put me on a pedestal and told me how much they loved me often, especially after I helped them with their mental health. They’d tell me how I was the best thing to ever happen to them, how they’d be lost without me (writing songs/gift giving/quality time). Only to break up just before our anniversary with no closure in a very harsh two minute phone call (the only reason they could give was ‘I don’t want to risk it, what if we break up once we’ve moved in together’)
Despite telling me I was their sun, I feel like the roles reversed, and I feel cheated out of that light I once had. My purpose felt as if it had been taken from me, and I felt like I had lost all of my goals because we once shared them. ‘I could’ve been anyone’ but I chose to be the person who loved you, and then you left me alone after being the only person who was there for you. ‘We could’ve had anything’ but you walked away the moment I asked for some of the same energy back.
(Your music helps me realise how harmful codependency can become and that I’m not alone, and that we can hopefully all heal together, and feel that fire again
This is beautiful, as a story, and as a representation of the song! I wish you the best with what happens next-
BRO SAME BUT THEY CALLED NE THEUR MOON AND I CALLED THEM MY WORLD (bc I always circled around them in a game)
AND WE BITH ADMITTED EE HAD FEELS ABD NIW SHES GHOSTING ME FIR TWO MONTHS 😭😭
@@Finnythefox Thank you so much, I am healing every day. Sometimes people aren’t meant to be in our lives forever, and that’s okay ❤️
But the comment means a lot :,)
This made me tear up a little. I had a relationship with my best friend almost exactly like that. We ended up fine, but I still felt lost and purposeless after our breakup. I gave up everything for them, but they just couldn't respond to that love the way I wanted. Of course I was at fault too, yeah, codependency sucks.
Months later they were in a relationship with someone else, and it broke me. I know that's completely fine and I don't hold any grudge, but at that time it hurt terribly.
Nowadays I'm feeling better, but I'm still healing from that experience. I hope we can all move on from experiences like that and learn from them :')
I swear we have lived the same experience!!! I hope you are doing fine and shining with your own light!✨
The song of the child that remained “loyal” to their abusive parent.
Ngl your Rise Donnie pfp really emphasizes your comments sentiments lol
Oh my God oh my God oh my God. Breath. Maintain composure. It's been so long but it's going to be so great so it doesn't matter. Oh my lord I'm so excited
? Is it a line fron a movie?
I really love this song, I don’t know it embodies a relationship that is very common place I think but isn’t talked enough about
“I shine only with the light you gave me” is such a great line cuz like that’s literally how the moon works but can also make a wonderful metaphor
Yeeee!
feeling the need to learn music theory just so i can fully get the effect of these songs oh my god. lost count of how many times i’ve listened to this song and i never even realized the vocal harmonies were like a call and response that’s NUTS
.O.
my brain is exploding rn
As someone who knows music theory, it hurts. Every note, every change, every slight carry and change to Forte or piano, it all holds a meaning.
Oh wow so the call is the person in the narrative singing and the response is the moon (“the moon will sing a song for me”)
The Crane Wives are the stuff dreams are made of. Elegant, soft, and calm with some of their songs, rowdy, jumpy, and powerful with others, but all of them just completely take over your mind. Like listening to the songs puts you under some sort of enchantment. This band truly is something else, in all the best ways
I love this song :>
Was never sure if I got the lyrics correct though ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
No such thing as wrong words, just different interpretations
@@thecranewivesthat feels like such a bob ross quote and i love it
@@thecranewives lovely quote :D
@@thecranewives I love this! In birds (imagine dragons) the first line is "two hearts one valve" but I heard it a "two hearts one vow" which added a lot more meaning because I saw the song as a song of the loss of a partner. I still see it as a song of loss but it's just different.
“i shine only with the light you gave me.”
I don't know who will read this but.
My dad died when I was 9. I know the song is about a toxic relationship but the words about shadows hit me a bit different today. To a lot people, I am a shadow of my father. His personality, his legacy.
By those people, I have never been me. Just an extension of him only being able to shine where he already did..
Never lose yourself and your desires, know that the roads that have fallen into darkness can be illuminated by you! Never lose your roads, sometimes it turns into a lot of suffering and regrets, do not choose the path if you do not feel that it is yours, but only the desire of your family. I hope the translator understood the meaning of these lines correctly
“The moon will sing a song for me”
“I loved you like the sun.”
Such beautiful words yet such sad words 😢❤
The people who did the subtitles have serious skills. The song writers too.
i KNOW its just a lyric video of an already made song but i will take any new Crane Wives content and cherish it.
also please tell me youre touring soon id give anything to see you guys live
Keep an eye out for us this summer!
@@thecranewives I certainly will ^^
i sobbed to this song in freshmen year in a toxic relationship . this was the comfort i got during that time, and one of the first songs i heard from this band. it’s been my comfort band since. every song is wonderfully composed, and the singers voice is so calming and she has amazing range
:)
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Just want you guys to know your music strikes an emotional chord with me that no over band or artist can. Thank You for your amazing music
2:24 "I wanna feel the fire that you kept from me" The lyrics reminds me of, when someone tells you to conceal your emotions or control your anger
Crane Wive songs are very interesting. When I think about it, most song's lyrics have pretty depressing meanings, if you just read them by themself. But the music is always a mixture of bravery and some kind of stubborn determination. Combined with the lyrics it gives me a feeling of revenge, but in the good way. Idk if that makes sense. But this is definitely one of my new favorite songs and it is so catchy :) 💚
most of them feel like driving in the backseat of a car after losing a loved one. you put your hand on the window and can feel your heart hurting, but then you look up at the sunset hitting the hilltops you’re passing by. the sun will dry your tears and give you peace, but your heart will still be cold. You realize those feelings can coexist, and you wave goodbye to the person that once was and the person you once were. They see you out the window. They wave back, but you have already driven too far to notice.
@@wren_. oh wow... that is beautiful.
@@wren_. So have you ever considered poetry as a career?
When I heard this song, it brought tears to my eyes because I was reminded of my two online friends that I made during the Pandemic. We bonded over our love of a book series and wrote a 248 page book about our story together. Eventually, I wanted to make the characters more inclusive in sexuality, and my friend, being a strict, homophobic christian, her mother said that we couldn't write together anymore. And it's sad because we didn't even care about our differences, we were tied together by our love of stories and creativity. And that has stuck with me forever. My other friend, we eventually just stopped talking. He and I were super close too. This song resonates with me because 'I loved you like the sun' expresses the love I felt for them. They were amazing, and I will always miss you guys.
oh, sorry to hear that. your friendship sounded so special. its cool that u also found comfort in this great song... :D
I was in a 9 year relationship and it ended tragically when I realized that not only did they love me, but I was being emotionally abused. Listening to this song, it makes me know that I gave all of my light and all of my strength to them when I should have been giving it to myself. 9 Years of pain and suffering for someone who not only cared, but never supported me. It's amazing what a single song can do for a person. Even a single sentence worth of lyrics can open up a large void in your heart. I thank you greatly for that, Crane Wives. To this very day, I am still recovering and collecting the light that was taken from me. And to those that have suffered the same way, have hope. The light will come back, it always does.
this song specifically reminds me of an ex best friend of mine who was abusive towards me emotionally. so crazy how all these years later i still feel like her light shines through- one day it’ll be my light
Aw
I'm confused, what does that mean
@@dickersoncharlie4961she means her ex Best Friend was emotionally abusive to her. Even now she still feels like her ex Best Friend has power over her.
Same, except it was an old toxic boyfriend, luckily we broke up and he no longer goes to my school, so I don’t see or talk to him now. I’m now in a much better relationship with a new boy, and he’s wonderful. I hope you’re doing better after that.❤
The opening lines "tell me once again I could've been anyone, anyone else before you made the choice for me" hits me on such personal level. Being a trans guy with a strongly transphobic mom I feel like this song describes my relationship with her and a lot of other people.
So do you feel like you where given the light to be trans and your mom does not accept it?
@@dickersoncharlie4961I think they mean their parents told them they'd love them/support them no matter what the did and etc, but when they stepped outside of the confines of what their parents considered 'okay' (or however you'd like to phrase that), it wasn't okay- basically making the choice of who they are for them? I could be wrong but that's what I thought they meant upon first read.
I know the feeling. I found a very similar meaning in the song myself. Stay strong out there, you'll shine by your own light, if not today maybe tomorrow! We'll find our way through, eventually.
I always thought that line was hella queer
@@sou.p yeah you right lol, thats how i meant it.
Someone sent me this song and told me it reminded them of me, so I listened to it and I am now crying
My family moved around a lot , and they would constantly tear away everything that made me happy, slowly but surely, and expect me to be completely fine with it. This recent year was rough, we moved from a place I'd lived in for years to an unfamiliar town, but everyone accepted me with open arms and I felt like I belonged. And the moment I saw the hope in front of me, it was snatched again. I fought so hard to stay that time, I was tired of holding the burden I did, having to give up everything I held dear to me just because my parents wanted to do things without giving us any advance, making our desicions for us because they thought we were doing the wrong thing. I fought so hard, but it didn’t work and now I’m stuck in an unfamiliar place again and I’m meant to hold up this act of pretending I like it here because otherwise they’ll get mad again
People think of this song with relationships, but this feels like my relationship with most of my family. This is a good song to cry to.
Ever since I joined the fandom for the Life Series (3rd Life, Last Life, etc) everybody kept talking about this band, and I had never heard of it. A friend I made told me to start with this one. Amazing band.
You were right hex, it is divorceduo coded.
👀 Another Life series fan, eh?
AYYYY LIFESERIS FAN
@@AquaEclipse324AYYYY
I too am a life series fan I actually heard of the band before the Life series so I just kept listening to curses over and over again and it was last life I believe that had the animatic it was pretty cool
I FOUND MY PEOPLE
This song fills me with a familiar sense of mourning, a mourning for something that could have been. Despite the sorrow of the song, I love it so much. It’s currently 11:20 and I can’t stop listening and crying, it’s absolutely beautiful
I only recently discovered this group but it’s an automatic fave
My daughter played me this the other day, very nice - can anyone else hear the echoes of "You and Me" by the Delays? Very different style but the song definitely has something in common especially at 1:30 - 1:40. No disrespect to either artist, it's always fascinating to hear these subtle echoes and familiarities.
"the moon will sing a song for me i loved you like the sun" i loved this so much as an apollo & artemis worshipper
My crush sang this song in class today and now I'm hooked because it's so beautiful
“I shine only with the light you gave me” chills. Literal chills.
1:27
i really love this part
Samee :D
i love that y'all described the music sounds rather than exclusively putting just the lyrics onscreen!
This is such a good song. It reminds me of how my confidence usually comes from others believing in me and how my voice used to be so quiet, but now I'm much louder and much better at expressing myself because of others around me actually wanting to hear what I have to say
Currently writing a tragic love story where one of them loses their memory and doesn't remember the other and lemme TELL YOU this song has me IN A VICE
Like oh my GOD the amnesiac literally loved astronomy before losing their memory. The "I loved you like the sun" line BROKE ME
thank you for making something so emotionally dense. My writers heart FEASTS.
(And no, the lovers never reconcile. A broken cup can't hold the water, but it can hold the paintbrushes)
why would you hurt me like that with the last line
UM I NEED TO READ THIS, WHERE CAN I READ/BUY IF YOU ARE GOING TO PUBLISH IT
@peytonrosie working on that!
Thinking of publishing it independently if I can manage tbh
my god that broken cup line absolutely demolished me. what the fuck. i need to be notified when you release this book man.
I hardly ever comment, much less look at comments, but I NEED to read your book now. Please update me if you are ever going to publish it❣
"The Moon will sing a song for me" so inspirational
“I loved you like the sun” this verse is just good tho😭
This songs makes me feel like I’m being transported to a book where I’m some princess traveling through and enchanted forest scorned and betrayed by her lover, friend, or even family. The moonlight illuminating her in small sections with the shadows of leaves adorning her face.
MMMMM DUDE THAT *ADD TO PLAYLIST* BUTTON IS LOOKIN SO FINEEEEE
" the moon will sing a song for me, *i loved you like the sun..* "
(i could have been anyone, anyone!)
yeah this really hit deep, since every time i try to have friends it flops VERY hard, we both do something from spite or the need to be heard and it crumbles, i usually do the bad thing after the other person does the bad thing, and i honestly hate my school bc of my peers and more, and i've been sayin it for years on end but i got 2 months left of this wretchid school, upbeat songs and songs like this make me feel happy! currently wanting to draw this with one of my ocs!
why i mentioned friends is: it sounds very much like my past experiances, and my process of healing from opening up all those times lol
I need this song to play on constant repeat forever in my mind
This reminds me of a chapter I have to write for a short story I'm doing in the chapter a mom comes to term with the fact her child whose nick name is little fox has changed forever and is never going to be the sweet kid he used to be. The guy is a high-ranking officer and the mom who hasn't come to acceptance about his job receives a patient who got tortured by her son because the patient owed the military money she also catches him in the town in his work persona and comes to accept the fact that her once sweet child has been death for a while and the only thing that remains is his love for their family
the hero and the warrior were like the sun and the moon
THEIR LIGHT A PROTECTIVE GLOW SHINING UPON THE WORLD
@@mr.calcium8740 TOGETHER THERE WAS NOTHING THAT COUKD STOP THE TWO OF THEM, EITHER IN THE CELESTIAL REALMS OR ON EARTH
this song definitely has a meaning but unfortunately i'm too busy jamming out to the tunes to figure it out
This song is really powerful when I heard ‘my heart knew the weight Ten years worth of dust and neglect we made our peace with weariness and let it be’ and “Swallowing your doubt Like swords to the pit of my belly I wanna feel the fire you kept from me that part get me emotional it makes me rethink about my high school self how I could have been more courageous instead of living a lie I’m glad I found this song when I did it brings out a fire inside of me I never knew I had !!!!!!
"I shine only with the light you gave me..."
“I could have been anyone, anyone!”
The first wave of covid in my country was a bitch and a half, I broke down a couple times. This particular song kept me sane during some nights
This song reminds me of my mom, I never really understood what your music was about, but subconsciously I think I did. I was raised in a household where showing any humanity got your torn apart, my mother was the reason it was like that. I was adopted into the family, and she saw me and my little brother as projects to fix, not letting us live our lives or have fun, I love this band so much and I hope you make music forever
love to see another lyric video from you guys! i really like how they are more than just the lyrics, and give a deeper insight into the creative process for them
they always make me notice things i hadn't paid attention to before :)
I've longed to get back into fantasy.
To get back one of my favorite escapes.
Now, I have a new love for it and can't wait to escape again.
Id like to imagine that in the picture of this song, is that its a slight cold breeze and jogg with a wolf. Perfectly fit the song and music. Just know that the wilderness is something i can feel while listing to this song doubles the points.
This is the most detailed lyric video I’ve ever seen 💀
This song reminds me of the fact that the moon only shines because of the sun, the sun gave the moon light because the moon has no light of its own. I love this song so much ❤
This song reminds me of Ace and Luffy but in a good way because Ace hated himself and heritage but Luffy gave him his light and a reason to smile, showing his own light.
I met The Crane Wives this week and i immediately loved Tongues & Teeth, so i decided to listen to the whole album and now i'm listening to all of their songs. I just can't stop listening to them, i really like the voices, the instrumental, the lyrics and even the cover art!!! Everything is a masterpiece !!!! I'm really happy that i came across this wonderful musical group!
I didnt know this about toxic relationships, and the chorus makes ke think of something better... like i am almost only happy with him (not bc of him btw hes amazing) and i feel like i shine only with the happiness he gives me.. its hard for me to be hapoy since my childhood, and he just makes it better 😔😊
I'm not going to lie i never had an interest in music before, not really getting the intense love people had for it before (but I respected it ofc!) But when I first heard your songs I kid you not it made me feel such raw, intense, yet unexplainable emotions and now I truly get it now! I now see how music can make you feel things youve never had and how it tells stories or convey feelings with such creativity in it's lyrics, tone, and rhythm! And so I've now basically become one who always has earbuds on 😅😅 I don't regret it!
TCW’s music means so much to me, it has for a while now and I love the amount of metaphors incorporated into each of their songs. Oh what I’d give to see them live…
What's up fellas? New songs coming? I wish more songs, you're amazing!!!!!❤❤❤❤
Definitely! We're working up a bunch of new tunes to get them ready for recording. In the meantime, we'll be posting more of these lyric videos to keep the channel alive, but we're hoping to get some new songs up soon! Thanks so much for checking in
@@thecranewives ❤❤❤❤
@@thecranewives we cannot wait, particularly while I and a friend campaign to get our jazz band director to have us play curses
Ah good old codependency
*sigh* desertduo. >> also the lyric "i loved you like the sun" :(( the fact that sun means grian in irish 😭
I See a abusive relationship.
I’ve been through one.
They called me fat pig as a “joke” and did something that hurt me and said it was a “dare.” They also blamed me for everything they did, when I said “this won’t work”, they will act all innocent and start begging me to come back.
I really loved them like the sun, but then broke my heart.
Now I just listen to the night sky, and look at the moon like it’s singing to me as I still remember this song and the relationship. I loved them so much, and I didn’t realize the pain.
I *loved* them like the sun.
my favorite part was “I loved you like the sun” it was beautiful and also almost made me cry.
I remember myself blasting this almost on full volume untill I can’t hear my outside surroundings
For some reason. I feel so much emotion listening to this and other crane wives songs
Same
'I want to feel the fire that you kept from me' speaks so much to my younger self who watched my father give all the love I was so desperate to recieve from him to someone else's kids. Even at 30 years old now it still stirs that old hurt in me and makes me wonder about the nature of our ireperably damaged relationship. Deep down, I'm still just a child that wants my father to care about me.
This song helped me get through hospitalization because of a suicide threat & try. It also reminds me of my relationship with my parents. Thank you for keeping me alive, Crane Wives.
I’m so glad this song is getting more popular. This band helped me through many hard times and I hope it can help me with the ones on the horizon
I love when a song can mean so much to different people. I have a few songs that I have been collecting and now I really have my own meaning for them. (Rant below, sorry)
I have been dating someone for three years, funny enough they are the one who got me into Crain Wives in the first place. But, a few months ago I realized that the love I had for them was gone. For the first time in years we spent a month away from each other and I realized that I was nothing without them. When we started dating, it was the beginning of the pandemic. I made a group chat with my friends and we planned to have a DnD campaign together so we could still have a reason to see each other while school was non existent. Earlier in the school year I had just broken up with one of the people in the group and I honestly wasn't over it and still wanted to feel loved. So, when one of my other friends asked me out I didn't want to damage our relationship and also wanted to see if it would work out so I said yes. From there, the group desolved and I blamed myself for it, but I still had them. I grew to be extremely dependent on them from then on. The other two people in the group stopped talking to me and my new partner at the time was the only one who really stayed in touch while I was basically all alone. During our years in the relationship I had ups and downs in my mental health, but I didn't want to be a burden on them so I never really expressed how I felt and being with them made me feel happier so it didn't feel as dire anymore. Resulting from my poor treatment of my mental health has kinda erased a lot of my memories of our time together, but earlier this year something changed and we were seeing each other more than ever. I thought I didn't mind the changes, but when I finally stepped back and had a break I realized that all of my butterflies were anxiety and uncertainty. I also realized that all of my family, friends, and acquaintances associated me with them and some people basically treated us as if we were interchangeable. I also noticed that anytime that I had something that brought me joy, it felt that they would immediately make that a part of themself as well and do it better than me. My clothing style, my comfort activity, and then one of my favorite shows. "We could have had anything, anything else/Instead, you hoarded all that's left of me" is the lyrics that resonates with this to me.
All of this made me extremely uncomfortable to the point that I am afraid of seeing them because I know that they already can tell that I seem off. Though my brain wants to blame them and say that all of this is their fault I know that it is mine and I don't want to hurt them because of my Idiocracy. I still care so much for them but I can't bring myself to feel anything for them anymore. "We could have been anywhere, anywhere else/Instead, I made a bed with apathy". During our relationship we also both came out as not our birth gender, and I still am struggling with who I truly feel like I am. During one of my name changes they suggested a name and though it kinda clicked, I didn't sit right with me that my partner named me. So I added it my names that I was going by and they would always specifically refer to me as that even though I would introduce myself as something else completely.
Sorry that this is long, I have been leaving a trail of my thoughts in the comments of songs that I have been projecting onto with my current mental state. So much of this song feels like my current feelings and I want to express them but have no outlets anymore.
this song makes me want ro create a show/game/novel about the whole aesthetic, vibe and themes it shows
This song as always been my favourite, it gives me an immense feeling of safety for some reason.
in my relationship, I'm the moon and mein Liebling is the sun. So like, we love this, ja
My daughters and their friends and I saw them in concert! It was awesome! The Crane Wives 🙌
There's this small character that I got inspiration from the song (though a bit far from the song's meaning): a well-bahaved child who turns into a lost individual, partly due to their parents but mostly because of their own people-pleasing mindset. I want to make a story where the parents are actually decent, but their child simply has self-denial and chooses to be so closed off to their parents about the child's lost sense of self until way later.
This will always be my favorite song
New favorite song!❤
Thank you for a deaf accessible song!!
This sounds like it could be in an fantasy animated movie credits with mystical and mysterious drawings appearing while the music goes with the credits. It could be awesome and more people would know about this beautiful song
I let my niece choose songs in the morning for when I brush her hair and whenever I give her this song as one of the choices, she always chooses it. She even tries to sing along (she doesn't know the words but she knows the tune because of how much I play this song for myself), she really likes this song and it makes me glad because i like it too.
Just some thoughts I had while reading the lyrics for like years lol
“Tell me once again
I could’ve been anyone, anyone else
Before you made the choice for me”
Since the theme revolves mostly around the sun and moon, my thoughts kinda landed to where the sun isn’t the only star in the universe, and neither is the moon the only moon! In a more fantasy-like way, who knows if the moon and sun chose each other, or if it was “fate”
“My feet knew the path
we walked in the dark, in the dark
I never gave a single thought to where it might lead”
The sun and moon naturally orbit because of gravity and whatnot, in space where it’s just dark! How the sun and moon just orbited? Could’ve they cared? idk
“All those empty rooms
We could’ve been anywhere, anywhere else
instead I made a bed with apathy
My heart knew the weight
ten years worth of dust and neglect
we made out peace with weariness and let it be”
It gets more personified here. Some people see the moon and sun as “fated” for each other, but what love could be shared if they’re rarely in the same sky? This bond between the sun and moon feels like it started out as a young and naive “destiny,” but again the sun and moon don’t shine the brightest together in the same sky; they don’t meet very well in the same sky.
“The moon will sing a song for me
I’ve loved you like the sun”
Seems like the personified Sun’s view. In a way, the way the music rises was like a resurfacing memory.
“bore the shadows that you made with no light of my own
i shine only with the light you gave me,
I shine only with the light you gave me”
The moon can only face the shadows of the earth made by the sun, the sun’s light reflects on the moon and cause the moonlight in the night
“Name your courage now
We could have had anything, anything else
Instead, you hoarded all that's left of me”
sun
“Swallowin' your doubt
Like swords to the pit of my belly
I want to feel the fire that you kept from me”
sun reading the moon’s pov
“The moon will sing a song for me
I loved you like the sun
Bore the shadows that you made
With no light of my own
I shine only with the light you gave me
I shine only with the light you gave me
I shine only with the light you gave me
(I could have been anyone, anyone)
I shine only with the light you gave me
(I could have been anyone, anyone)”
Longing, just more deeper than how it was sung earlier
this is devastating HOW I NEVER KNEW THEIR STORY
I just discovered this song and It's bittersweet that it describes my life situation right now. Not much but still.
The line "I could've been anyone, anyone else before you mafe the choice for me" Hits hard knowing as the older sibling in the family, everyone depends on me even though I don't get enough credit for everything that I did. (Also the line in 1:03 to 1:09.)
"Bore the shadows that you made with no light of my own" and "I shine only for the light you gave me" hits harder than a moving train especially since my family expects more and more as I grow up. Nevertheless I'm still grateful for having them, I'll continue to try and make them proud.
despite having this song on repeat on my phone all the time, i've never actually listened to it on youtube -- mad props for including an audio description along with lyrics! 💖
Why has this song been hiding my whole life😭 I've been playing this song on loop
I don't see anyone talking about the excellent description of the instrumentals!! not only do i appreciate the song froma deeper, structural level, i imagine this would be great for hard of hearing folks!
I love the melancholic and nostalgic vibe, it feels like a Sunday afternoon (now I'll listen to this song every Sunday)
Thank you for that ❤(brazilian here)
this is really vibey, i like it
the more i listen to this song the more it makes me cry
It's like a child being forced into the shadow/s of his older siblings/parents, and this song is them trying to regain back who they are after being someone else all their lives - almost as if blaming the people that put them in a spot where they don't even know who they are anymore.
hell yeah! amazing to see you guys are still making music
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Crain wife's and wilber???
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This reminds me of like reflecting someone's personality, because they need someone, taking on their problems and just following their lead, but ending up getting hurt.
Man… my friend said this song reminds them of me….I’ve got to go cry in a corner now.🥲🖤🩶🤍
Same as everyone in this comment section I've got a story of my own, although that story is for another time.
I'll just tell you I enjoyed this
this song made me cry, happy, sad, nostalgic, healing tears all at the same time
This song has honestly comforted me realizing I loved someone like the sun and I only got the moonlight that came from me.
Three generally unrelated to each other things
The Garden was the first song I ever heard of yours and the first I ever obsessed over but this is the first I ever truly connected to. It's helped me through a lot of hard days, your music in general has, and I truly appreciate you for putting all the effort you do into your songs.
I adore your lyric videos because they're so incredibly detailed in descriptions. It makes the deeper aspects of your music accessible to those who may not necessarily have a musical background and helps deconstruct the music much more than typical lyric videos. I also absolutely adore that you've made them more accessible with the darker cover art.
I really hope I get the chance to see you guys live at some point in my life because I think it would be an incredible experience.
Thank you for all you do❤️
I COULDVE BEEN ANYONE ANYONE ELSE
I feel this song like a punch in the gut
i really feel this as someone who cant transition because my parents. i want to feel the fire (living as my correct gender) that they're keeping from me.
"we could've had anything, anything else instead you hoarded all thats left of me" as well
I am using this for dnd character angst and I love it
I don’t think you could possibly understand the love I have for this song and all of your music. Thank you!! I’m so excited for you to do more shows, I would love to be at one