@@DeadRedAssassin relentless is the best way to describe that outro. It just keeps freaking going way past you think the riff should be over. Absolutely masterful, it's a perfect breakdown.
My mummy vision picked up on the 3 big scars on his left forearm, just below his inner elbow. Whatever caused them was painful both mentally and physically! I think that's where the lyrics "bandage up the trenches" and "talk me through the damage" you have vital tendons and a big artery where those scars are, and it takes a LOT to repair. I'm just glad he failed, because the world is a lot richer with him in it! ❤
There seem to also be several less visible ones on his right arm... I think if he really was trying to hide them, he'd have longer sleeves on his robe.
That scream at the end "I can't hold myself together"..the pain in his voice is just 🥺 I was a sobbing mess 😭! I think we can all relate to Vessel's words in some way. What an incredible band. Great reaction guys! 🫶🏻 WORSHIP
Makes me sob every single time at that part! I can't help but lose myself in the end of this entire song. It's painful yet so beautiful. Absolutely unreal band.
I've said this plenty of times, but the perfect compliment to Vessels voice is II's insane drumming. Every single time I show someone Sleep Token, they talk about how the drumming brings the song to a completely different level. WORSHIP!
For me, "High Water" is more of the finale of the album, with "Missing Limbs" more of a post-script addition, like an after-credits scene in a Marvel movie. And "Telomeres" is a great lead-in to "High Water", an unexpected shift equating DNA cell degradation with an all-encompassing toxic relationship that eventually breaks down and destroys those involved. It also includes a rare guitar solo and awesome drum fills! By the time "High Water" ends, my interpretation is that Vessel's meaning of the title of the album 'This Place Will Become Your Tomb' is that "This Place" is himself, his body, his human shell, his... vessel.
I just saw this, and it's interesting you say that, because I've seen people say the same thing about Take Me Back to Eden vs. Euclid. TMBTE is the finale, and Euclid is the epilogue.
This has one of the most difficult lines I resonate with "and I know you still bear the weight of your own existence, but you'll never bear the weight of two". It just screams that I refuse to be a burden.
@@Nonya12608 I feel it this way because of "when the mouth of infinity buries its teeth in me, I'll smile through the agony for you" that to me means the heaviness of existing, of being alive, and for that to follow makes me feel as though I'll refuse to dump all of that on you, all of my trauma and my pain, because you've got your own. The entire song feels like it's about his inability to keep himself separate from the anguish and likely the desire to unalive. And that he loves her and finds that as his beacon of hope and his purpose and that she's the only thing he's holding onto as he's drowning in it and it keeps him alive, but she's entirely unaware, because he refuses to tell her anything.
Let me blow your minds a bit further. The same synth pattern is also present in Jericho when he starts singing “until I wake I’ll dine on old encounters”
Anyone else think there may be a correlation between “flood me like Atlantic” in Atlantic, and “wash the salt from my hands” from Rain being connected to “wash me clean again before I pull myself beneath the waves”?
Yeah I think it ties together and more. I feel like several of the songs are sort of the events leading up to Atlantic both before and describing it after the fact.
i always thought he said "wash all the salt from my earth". the romans used to "salt the earth" to kill their enemies future prospects of growing food to return to prosperity. i took it as washing the salt from his earth could help him start anew
Everyone, get the sobbing corner ready for Missing Limbs. Support groups will be available. High Water is a great build up for the last song. Loved this and cannot wait for the next!
Sleep Token aren’t even a guitar-orientated band, yet this is one of the best guitar riffs of all time. Perfectly encapsulates what it must be like to drown. Chills every time!
I don't know... "High Water" breaks me down more than "Missing Limbs"... It's just the fact that in the song these lyrics "All of these scars on my arms"... he really has these scars on his left arm. Also the pain in his voice in "I can't hold myself together", it breaks me. Thanks you guys for your reaction. I'm really looking forward to "Missing Limbs" and the EPs One and Two
Something that I don't hear people talk about enough is Vessels ability to write melodies - not only that but ones that feel very appropriate to the names of the song. The increase in the notes he sings at the chorus in this one is like water rising; the guitar in Chokehold's chorus almost instills a sense of panic/alarm in how it sounds with the words separated like a gasp of air between the lyrics as if he was in an actual chokehold. There's so many examples of this throughout their discography High Water is one of my favourites from this album, it has so much to offer. Thanks for the reaction!
I could go on and on about why this is my favorite song. The lyrics, the haunting melody, the callbacks and the lines that get called back to, the Jaws melody, the climbing then sinking of the melody and vessels voice in the chorus, the outro that hits like a truck in various ways, in which i could describe even more but ive said enough. Theres more too. But, to do a TLDR. This song is one of the best songs ive ever heard, and the song i connect to the most. I mean every song by Sleep Token is perfect, this song is the perfect above perfection in my opinion. I know a lot of people agree with me too, and even that gives me the feels, knowing now how much this song touches other people, more than i thought before. Maybe because the Missing Limb people are very vocal haha.
Everything is connected with these guys. Everything. One of the more meta connections which I made only more recently was the "mouth of infinity" reference alongside the album cover of TMBTE being the moon with teeth. The moon controls the tides, and therefore creates the "High Water". If you stack all 3 album covers on top of each other, another visual story is told of someone rising up from the depths toward the moon. I have my own theory about what the "night" references are in their story, but it relates to a topic that we shouldn't discuss openly really (iykyk kinda thing). Just take "trees", "canopies", "night skies" and the autumn leaves from Euclid (leaves falling, revealing the sky/stars behind them) and you'll make some connections I'm sure.
There are very few things in life I wish I could experience for the first time again and ST is definitely one of them. Glad to be a part of your guys journey. Worship.
But wait there's more...there the EP's One(2016) & Two(2017) pre Sundowing. My absolute favorite Sleep Token song is Calcutta on Two. I know Missing Limbs is coming...but there's more to still blow your mind.
Once y'all are done with Missing Limbs, are you gonna discuss the journey on the podcast? Would love to hear your interpretation of the story. There's definitely a real story of Vessel underneath the lore and through the lyrics - a lot of us theorize there was a really nasty accident that plunged them into the Atlantic and that they may have lost a baby during it - in essence, the trilogy being his grieving process of the events. Another piece I interpret differently are the scars on his arms - I personally don't think he means self-harm. If we're going with the theme of the accident, and you actually look at the outside of Vessel's left arm, you can see two pretty nasty scars a couple inches apart that look like textbook scars from a compound fracture. Just my interpretation :)
Totally agree that it's a real thing that Vessel has been through as I have so heavily related to so many of his lyrics. You can't possibly imagine that level of pain and lyrically elucidate the way he does unless you've been through it
For Missing Limbs, if you go to the official video from Sleep Token, you'll notice the depth markers are listed (as he sinks on each track). 10,924m down is one of the deepest points in our ocean at the bottom of the Mariana Trench; the deepest Man has been able to go.
i wish i could hear high water for the first time again. this was a massive treat for yall. make sure you guys listen to the EPs in order! you’ll hear the growth and difference in music from one to two :) AND DONT FORGET ABOUT THEIR LOATHE COVER PLEEEEASE
The first thing I noticed when listening to it for the first time was "oh, this feeling is familiar." Then i realized it feels like when everything is starting to pile up and you go spiraling in your own thoughts and emotions. The sudden silence at the end reminds me of the numbness that i feel after a panic attack, where everything stops, gets dull and unimportant.@@Jesus-cu6vn
As exciting as it is to see you guys finish off Tomb with the next song, I am excited to see you check out their early ep's. Nazareth is going to blow your mind :D
@@nathanoconnell6348I just listened the song watching the video one time and it really broke my heart. I don't know why... I haven't listened again since. It's an amazing song anyway
Can I formally request a Cave Cast Episode where you piece all of ST together once you've heard everything? Pretty please? Also - if you haven't already and fancy some emotional devastation this fine Wednesday afternoon, go read the poem that the text cuts in the Fall For Me video form...
Watching this made almost cried because it made me remember what I felt the first time I listened High Water. One of my favorite songs. Vessel is a genius. It's being a wild ride see your reactions. Thank you for that.
Can’t wait for the last one. It’s a whole different vibe. It’s not dark or broody feeling like high water it’s just slow melodic soul crushing sadness.
Key things for me in this song: When someone says "don't hold your breath" waiting for something to come, but Vessel says "I can hold my breath forever". He knows they cannot be together, but he will still wait for her. "basking in the solace of regret" is such a killer line "Before I pull myself beneath the waves" after being flooded like Atlantic... and how the song ends sounding like its swirling down the drain. THAT GUITAR TONE "You still bear the weight of your own existence, and you'll never bear the weight of two" Vessel wanted a family, but she would never have a kid with him? Second favorite song overall but what I pull from the lyrics hits me harder than any song in the catalogue.
I think the breakdown is the true authentic moment you realize that every word you said up until that point is true. You really won’t ever be together. And the breakdown is so crushing because the feeling is crushing. And the breakdown is so instant and abrupt because the second you realize it’s over, every relevant feeling you’ve denied is no longer inaccurate.
People keep telling me to watch you guys! I finally have and I just fell in love. 😭 Watching you experience this song filled my heart to the brim. This is a sneaker favorite of mine. There goes my evening as I run back through all your previous reactions.😂 🙌
This song is THE ONE I have been waiting for and the reaction DID NOT disappoint!!!!! This has got to be my favorite album by them so far. While I am sooooooooooooo sad this series is coming to a halt (until the next album:) ), I am so excited for you guys to hear how Missing Limbs ends and Chokehold begins. It was such a HELLLLLL yeahhhhhh moment when I listened to the albums back to back.
This song break me down every time one of my favorites by them, the ending hurts so much especially his scream of “ and I can hold myself together!!!!!” I feel that pain I relate to it in every way, and the musical outro breakdown, it’s so intense, I’d be lying if I said I have never lost it and broke down to it and how the beast comes in and the bassline you just feel all the emotion, “ and I know you still bare the weight of your own existence and you’ll never bare the weight of two “😢 that one stings
This is such a powerful raw one. You can feel him just suffering and suffocating in the lyrics and the music of this one. Love the reaction guys, keep it up!!
With your spacing of Sleep Token songs, I thought I'd have to wait over a week for this. So happy you're almost to the end. On pins and needles for Missing Limbs.
This song is so fucking good, especially that "I can't hold myself together" I knew you guys would love this one, great reaction again ❤ I can't wait for you guys' reaction to the next one, it's gonna be real sad. *Worship*
You guys are so astute and switched-on with your analyses. You recall things from previous tracks that are so specific, it took me multiple listens to see some of the connections that you guys get straight away.
all the way from the philippines, you two are the best music commentators ever.. *so articulate and with feelings*. goddamn, silently just watching all of your videos from the past 6 months literally from the otherside of the world, theres magic between you two.. *take note of the different, awesome beer mugs/glasses that eric gulp into*... looking forward for more.. love you man. im here for one solid support! - hindi sikat na vlogger on Tiktok.
Missing Limbs is one of the saddest songs I have ever heard. It follows High Water so well. I have had to skip Missing Limbs on several occasions when I’m not in a good head space. It’s devastating.
I love that the "I can't hold myself together" line is the final line he screams, leading right into missing limbs. Just think of that when you read the lyrics to to missing limbs. Everything is so beautifully intertwined. Great reaction again guys 💜
I always found the music throughout this one was like being submerged in water. Feels like I’ve waited a long time to get to this one. Still my favourite on the album! Missing limbs next, but I’m missing Veric!!
You guys have to go through the 1 and 2 eps. There are tracks on those eps that are right up there with their best. When the bough breaks and nazareth are 2 of my fave sleep token songs.
I've listened to all of sleep tokens songs so much, it's so refreshing to listen to them with you guys. It's like listening to them again for the first time vicariously. I gain new appreciation for each song every time you guys react to it
This song ruins me to my core. It sums up never being able to have that person ever again and the literal madness of dispair that comes with that. inescapable, like drawing at the bottom and clawing your skin off in panic and fear and wishing for escape. when the drums kick in, every single hair stands on end and tears come. every time damnit
Someone, somewhere said that the breakdown perfectly mimics the chaos of drowning and that made immense sense.
Like being crushed by relentless waves
i know who said it but i cant remember his name. he is another reactor
@@DeadRedAssassin relentless is the best way to describe that outro. It just keeps freaking going way past you think the riff should be over. Absolutely masterful, it's a perfect breakdown.
Worship.
it also matches jaws
My mummy vision picked up on the 3 big scars on his left forearm, just below his inner elbow. Whatever caused them was painful both mentally and physically! I think that's where the lyrics "bandage up the trenches" and "talk me through the damage" you have vital tendons and a big artery where those scars are, and it takes a LOT to repair. I'm just glad he failed, because the world is a lot richer with him in it! ❤
Holy shit. I never knew he legitimately had scares on his arms. Dear lord. I hope he does feel better one day
Yeah I’ve speculated that’s part of the reason for the black paint
There seem to also be several less visible ones on his right arm... I think if he really was trying to hide them, he'd have longer sleeves on his robe.
Vessel sings in cursive. Bold, loopy, beautifully written cursive
And II drums in ALL CAPS and it goes together brilliantly. ❤
🙌🏼♥️
Verbal calligraphy.
"We dive through crystal waters perfect oceans but no one told me not to breath"
"But you know, I can hold my breath forever"
That scream at the end "I can't hold myself together"..the pain in his voice is just 🥺 I was a sobbing mess 😭! I think we can all relate to Vessel's words in some way. What an incredible band. Great reaction guys! 🫶🏻 WORSHIP
Makes me sob every single time at that part! I can't help but lose myself in the end of this entire song. It's painful yet so beautiful. Absolutely unreal band.
Glad to know that I am not the only one. I get emotional with this masterpiece.
You are a perfect reminder of what these scars on my arms are for - if I can hold myself together. Then at the end.... I can't hold myself together! 😢
That final part is basically a long II flex and I'm all here for it
basically letting him get all the insane drumming out of the way since the next song is pure instrumental
I've said this plenty of times, but the perfect compliment to Vessels voice is II's insane drumming. Every single time I show someone Sleep Token, they talk about how the drumming brings the song to a completely different level. WORSHIP!
You’re godammned right it is !
II. THE greatest drummer of all time. There…I said it
For me, "High Water" is more of the finale of the album, with "Missing Limbs" more of a post-script addition, like an after-credits scene in a Marvel movie. And "Telomeres" is a great lead-in to "High Water", an unexpected shift equating DNA cell degradation with an all-encompassing toxic relationship that eventually breaks down and destroys those involved. It also includes a rare guitar solo and awesome drum fills!
By the time "High Water" ends, my interpretation is that Vessel's meaning of the title of the album 'This Place Will Become Your Tomb' is that "This Place" is himself, his body, his human shell, his... vessel.
I love this line of thinking! I always felt those last songs flowed well together.
Yup
The final handful of Tomb songs are probably my most often skipped ST songs. Glad to have this new appreciation for them.
I just saw this, and it's interesting you say that, because I've seen people say the same thing about Take Me Back to Eden vs. Euclid. TMBTE is the finale, and Euclid is the epilogue.
This has one of the most difficult lines I resonate with "and I know you still bear the weight of your own existence, but you'll never bear the weight of two". It just screams that I refuse to be a burden.
theres a theory that "you'll never bare the weight of two" is about a child
That's an interesting interpretation I'd never considered. I've always heard it as the loss of a pregnancy, or a child.
@@Nonya12608 I feel it this way because of "when the mouth of infinity buries its teeth in me, I'll smile through the agony for you" that to me means the heaviness of existing, of being alive, and for that to follow makes me feel as though I'll refuse to dump all of that on you, all of my trauma and my pain, because you've got your own. The entire song feels like it's about his inability to keep himself separate from the anguish and likely the desire to unalive. And that he loves her and finds that as his beacon of hope and his purpose and that she's the only thing he's holding onto as he's drowning in it and it keeps him alive, but she's entirely unaware, because he refuses to tell her anything.
@@Lunar_Asylumohhhh thanks for that analysis. Makes a lot of sense.
And just getting stoned to numb the pain rather than process it. (Choking on sacred vapor)
Also 5:45 or so. Hey it's the synth from Jaws before that glorious outro.
I caught that callback immediately! I still try to piece together what that parallel means.
How did I not notice this?! Cue several hours of obsessively trying to understand what this means
I NEVER NOTICED THIS
I was just about to comment about the jaws synths, just slowed down!
Let me blow your minds a bit further. The same synth pattern is also present in Jericho when he starts singing “until I wake I’ll dine on old encounters”
THE most underrated Sleep Token song, and in my personal opinion, the greatest breakdown of all time
I envy you so much for being able to listen to this for the first time
As if they have listened to this song for the first time. 😂😂
Anyone else think there may be a correlation between “flood me like Atlantic” in Atlantic, and “wash the salt from my hands” from Rain being connected to “wash me clean again before I pull myself beneath the waves”?
Yeah I think it ties together and more. I feel like several of the songs are sort of the events leading up to Atlantic both before and describing it after the fact.
With ST everything is connected to everything else.
Yes, everything is connected. Which makes me so excited for what's next because it sounds like it's a new era.
i always thought he said "wash all the salt from my earth". the romans used to "salt the earth" to kill their enemies future prospects of growing food to return to prosperity. i took it as washing the salt from his earth could help him start anew
Plus i think it's tied to Blood Sport.
Blood Sport is where he gets his hands bloody. Then Atlantic and then Rain...
It's just perfect
Everyone, get the sobbing corner ready for Missing Limbs. Support groups will be available. High Water is a great build up for the last song. Loved this and cannot wait for the next!
Absolutely ready for Missing Limbs to break my heart all over again
@@boomjykeo2 It does every time
Sleep Token aren’t even a guitar-orientated band, yet this is one of the best guitar riffs of all time. Perfectly encapsulates what it must be like to drown. Chills every time!
I scream this song in my car until my throat hurts bro, this song has me in an absolute fucking CHOKEHOLD
I do that too 😂😂 People must think "who's that freak?" But I don't care, I just worship.
The fact that he holds himself together while singing these words. Really this song is underrated and it is glorious.
" I CAN'T HOLD MYSELF TOGETHER" that scream hits me every time in the feels.
This band just does something to your soul! I am here for it. *worship*
Sleep Token began a spiritual awakening for me.
Absolutely agree 🫶
Howwww many times am I gonna say "Incredible" after listening to ST?? 🤷♀️🤦♀️ Just Incredible!! 🥰🥰
Can always see the moment Kyle's heart breaks for Vessel during the painful bits, and it's relatable as hell
This is some of my favorite drumming from II ❤
Oh For Sure!!
I don't know... "High Water" breaks me down more than "Missing Limbs"...
It's just the fact that in the song these lyrics "All of these scars on my arms"... he really has these scars on his left arm. Also the pain in his voice in "I can't hold myself together", it breaks me.
Thanks you guys for your reaction. I'm really looking forward to "Missing Limbs" and the EPs One and Two
I agree, high water just absolutely destroys me every time
They still have the EP’s to do yet??
@@coldblooded005 they said that they would listen to all the songs from Sleep Token, so I think yes, they won't miss the EPs
Agreed. This should be the end of the album and usually is for me when I listen. I like Missing Limbs, but this song completes the album.
Totally agree, this is the reaction vid I've been waiting for from them.
The “I can’t hold myself together” gives me goosebumps everytime. One left. Let’s go!!
"This fucking band, dude." 🤣 same, Kyle. Same.
You’re going to love When the Bough Breaks.
One of my faaaaaves. God I love layered vocals.
So excited for this one
"This fucking band dude!"
Yep!! The same words have came out of my mouth as well.
Something that I don't hear people talk about enough is Vessels ability to write melodies - not only that but ones that feel very appropriate to the names of the song. The increase in the notes he sings at the chorus in this one is like water rising; the guitar in Chokehold's chorus almost instills a sense of panic/alarm in how it sounds with the words separated like a gasp of air between the lyrics as if he was in an actual chokehold. There's so many examples of this throughout their discography
High Water is one of my favourites from this album, it has so much to offer. Thanks for the reaction!
I could go on and on about why this is my favorite song. The lyrics, the haunting melody, the callbacks and the lines that get called back to, the Jaws melody, the climbing then sinking of the melody and vessels voice in the chorus, the outro that hits like a truck in various ways, in which i could describe even more but ive said enough. Theres more too. But, to do a TLDR. This song is one of the best songs ive ever heard, and the song i connect to the most. I mean every song by Sleep Token is perfect, this song is the perfect above perfection in my opinion. I know a lot of people agree with me too, and even that gives me the feels, knowing now how much this song touches other people, more than i thought before. Maybe because the Missing Limb people are very vocal haha.
Same, I really love this song! It makes me sad but also somehow happy to be understood and feel less alone in this feelings
Everything is connected with these guys. Everything.
One of the more meta connections which I made only more recently was the "mouth of infinity" reference alongside the album cover of TMBTE being the moon with teeth. The moon controls the tides, and therefore creates the "High Water". If you stack all 3 album covers on top of each other, another visual story is told of someone rising up from the depths toward the moon.
I have my own theory about what the "night" references are in their story, but it relates to a topic that we shouldn't discuss openly really (iykyk kinda thing). Just take "trees", "canopies", "night skies" and the autumn leaves from Euclid (leaves falling, revealing the sky/stars behind them) and you'll make some connections I'm sure.
There are very few things in life I wish I could experience for the first time again and ST is definitely one of them.
Glad to be a part of your guys journey.
Worship.
But wait there's more...there the EP's One(2016) & Two(2017) pre Sundowing. My absolute favorite Sleep Token song is Calcutta on Two. I know Missing Limbs is coming...but there's more to still blow your mind.
Same ❤
Same, plus the music video blows you away with the sneak peeks!
“Still more to blow your mind” 😂😂 I agree so much. Love Calcutta too. That and Jericho are my most listened to.
Once y'all are done with Missing Limbs, are you gonna discuss the journey on the podcast? Would love to hear your interpretation of the story. There's definitely a real story of Vessel underneath the lore and through the lyrics - a lot of us theorize there was a really nasty accident that plunged them into the Atlantic and that they may have lost a baby during it - in essence, the trilogy being his grieving process of the events.
Another piece I interpret differently are the scars on his arms - I personally don't think he means self-harm. If we're going with the theme of the accident, and you actually look at the outside of Vessel's left arm, you can see two pretty nasty scars a couple inches apart that look like textbook scars from a compound fracture. Just my interpretation :)
Totally agree that it's a real thing that Vessel has been through as I have so heavily related to so many of his lyrics. You can't possibly imagine that level of pain and lyrically elucidate the way he does unless you've been through it
Never clicked so fast I’ve been impatiently waiting for this 😭🖤🖤
Same here 😅
For Missing Limbs, if you go to the official video from Sleep Token, you'll notice the depth markers are listed (as he sinks on each track). 10,924m down is one of the deepest points in our ocean at the bottom of the Mariana Trench; the deepest Man has been able to go.
i wish i could hear high water for the first time again. this was a massive treat for yall. make sure you guys listen to the EPs in order! you’ll hear the growth and difference in music from one to two :)
AND DONT FORGET ABOUT THEIR LOATHE COVER PLEEEEASE
I second the Loathe cover. It’s so good.
The breakdown feels like the building of a panic attack to me.
Never really put that together but now that you mention it, it really does
The first thing I noticed when listening to it for the first time was "oh, this feeling is familiar." Then i realized it feels like when everything is starting to pile up and you go spiraling in your own thoughts and emotions. The sudden silence at the end reminds me of the numbness that i feel after a panic attack, where everything stops, gets dull and unimportant.@@Jesus-cu6vn
As exciting as it is to see you guys finish off Tomb with the next song, I am excited to see you check out their early ep's. Nazareth is going to blow your mind :D
I can see Kyle's face now during Naz. 😅
Nazareth is on my top 3. So lucky to have seen it live! Just pure perfection! ❤
@TeeBagGee yep. Can't wait to see both their faces on that one.
@@marisas3715I'm seeing them in May...I'm hoping it on their set list. If they play it, I'm gonna lose my mind...lol
Oh WOW this is my 1st time hearing this song too. That ending just scratched an itch I had no clue that I could even have. 💯🎵💯🎶💯
The Way That You Were will break you like no other
I can't listen to that song.
Neither Are You really Ok?
There’s nothing like this song
@@nathanoconnell6348I just listened the song watching the video one time and it really broke my heart. I don't know why...
I haven't listened again since.
It's an amazing song anyway
Can I formally request a Cave Cast Episode where you piece all of ST together once you've heard everything? Pretty please? Also - if you haven't already and fancy some emotional devastation this fine Wednesday afternoon, go read the poem that the text cuts in the Fall For Me video form...
HARD AGREE 👍
That scream at the end was warped and still there but turned down then brought back into the music at the end to ultimate silence. So epic!!!!!!😮💨
When I first heard this song, the final line stopped me dead in my tracks, I had to stop walking and just interpret what I just heard
Oh yes, finally this perfection of a song 🖤
Watching this made almost cried because it made me remember what I felt the first time I listened High Water. One of my favorite songs. Vessel is a genius. It's being a wild ride see your reactions. Thank you for that.
Yes. Those drums be drumming at the end, lol. So fucking good. ❤
Can’t wait for the last one. It’s a whole different vibe. It’s not dark or broody feeling like high water it’s just slow melodic soul crushing sadness.
Key things for me in this song:
When someone says "don't hold your breath" waiting for something to come, but Vessel says "I can hold my breath forever". He knows they cannot be together, but he will still wait for her.
"basking in the solace of regret" is such a killer line
"Before I pull myself beneath the waves" after being flooded like Atlantic... and how the song ends sounding like its swirling down the drain.
THAT GUITAR TONE
"You still bear the weight of your own existence, and you'll never bear the weight of two" Vessel wanted a family, but she would never have a kid with him?
Second favorite song overall but what I pull from the lyrics hits me harder than any song in the catalogue.
I’ve been waiting for this one!!! High Water is such an incredible song!
High water is such an underrated song. So damn good
I think the breakdown is the true authentic moment you realize that every word you said up until that point is true. You really won’t ever be together. And the breakdown is so crushing because the feeling is crushing. And the breakdown is so instant and abrupt because the second you realize it’s over, every relevant feeling you’ve denied is no longer inaccurate.
It’s lovely to see people enjoying this band as much as me. Love you guys!
That ending. Heavy guitars and a recorder sounding synth giving one of the best hooks I've ever heard on repeat. Could just listen to it on repeat
So happy this morning! Clicked as fast as I could.
Also, love the "sacred vapours" line.
The end of missing limbs sounds a bit jarring but pay attention to the sounds you hear. Some of us correlate it with the beginning of Chokehold.
There’s a line in Missing Limbs that’s gonna really make you go, “Wait….what??”
I literally just thought, "I can't wait for the High Water reaction."
Watching you guys react to all of their songs makes me feel like I’m feeling them for the first time all over again you guys are amazing rock on🤘🏽🤘🏽
NEVER CLICKED FASTER
Aww they didn't catch the slowed down Jaws synth. I didn't realize it when I first listened either, but it is a really cool detail.
And in Jericho as well. Give them time, they will get there 😊
This one destroys me from the inside out. So so good.
just .. what a fucking beautiful song. and that breakdown man
Finally! Literally my favorite song. Ever. Bar none. I've been so excited for you two to get to this one!
This is one of their best songs, the lyrics just resonate with a lot of us!
The sheer pain in his voice is incredible but so sad
People keep telling me to watch you guys! I finally have and I just fell in love. 😭 Watching you experience this song filled my heart to the brim. This is a sneaker favorite of mine. There goes my evening as I run back through all your previous reactions.😂 🙌
I can't wait for you guys to hear the EPs. They are amazing.
This song is THE ONE I have been waiting for and the reaction DID NOT disappoint!!!!! This has got to be my favorite album by them so far. While I am sooooooooooooo sad this series is coming to a halt (until the next album:) ), I am so excited for you guys to hear how Missing Limbs ends and Chokehold begins. It was such a HELLLLLL yeahhhhhh moment when I listened to the albums back to back.
This song break me down every time one of my favorites by them, the ending hurts so much especially his scream of “ and I can hold myself together!!!!!” I feel that pain I relate to it in every way, and the musical outro breakdown, it’s so intense, I’d be lying if I said I have never lost it and broke down to it and how the beast comes in and the bassline you just feel all the emotion, “ and I know you still bare the weight of your own existence and you’ll never bare the weight of two “😢 that one stings
Thanks so much for the journey so far! A bright spot in my days!
This is such a powerful raw one. You can feel him just suffering and suffocating in the lyrics and the music of this one. Love the reaction guys, keep it up!!
My absolute favorite ST track.. II is an animal
With your spacing of Sleep Token songs, I thought I'd have to wait over a week for this. So happy you're almost to the end. On pins and needles for Missing Limbs.
Maybe my favorite Sleep Token tune. A bummer lyrically but I can relate
Sleep token can make me cry, rage, and help me sleep. Such an amazing band
the berried alive shirt tho. charles is probably the most underrated guitarist alive rn. criminal.
The drums in this are everything
Telomeres, High Water, and Missing Limbs is the trifecta off this album. Good luck for the next one! Have some tissues handy 😂❤
I was so fucking excited for this one! It's my favorite from the album so far
This song is so fucking good, especially that "I can't hold myself together"
I knew you guys would love this one, great reaction again ❤
I can't wait for you guys' reaction to the next one, it's gonna be real sad. *Worship*
"This fucking band, dude" - me also every time I listen to ST
Did you catch the "Jaws" synth line in there? Easter eggs everywhere.
You guys are so astute and switched-on with your analyses. You recall things from previous tracks that are so specific, it took me multiple listens to see some of the connections that you guys get straight away.
This is one of my favorites, but damn it tears me apart…
all the way from the philippines, you two are the best music commentators ever.. *so articulate and with feelings*. goddamn, silently just watching all of your videos from the past 6 months literally from the otherside of the world, theres magic between you two.. *take note of the different, awesome beer mugs/glasses that eric gulp into*... looking forward for more.. love you man. im here for one solid support! - hindi sikat na vlogger on Tiktok.
This is my favorite of TPWBYT. Absolute banger! Don’t forget the EP’s though. It’s not quite almost over yet, lol.
It’s my favourite ST song. Destroys me every time.
Top five sleep token song for me!
I’ve been listening to this song frequently the past few weeks. It’s one of my top favs
Missing Limbs is one of the saddest songs I have ever heard. It follows High Water so well. I have had to skip Missing Limbs on several occasions when I’m not in a good head space. It’s devastating.
I love that the "I can't hold myself together" line is the final line he screams, leading right into missing limbs. Just think of that when you read the lyrics to to missing limbs. Everything is so beautifully intertwined. Great reaction again guys 💜
Their most underrated song in my opinion 🔥🔥🔥
Oh hello. One of my top 5 songs by them if not further up.
I always found the music throughout this one was like being submerged in water. Feels like I’ve waited a long time to get to this one. Still my favourite on the album! Missing limbs next, but I’m missing Veric!!
This is one of my favorites from them! I love the line "basking in the solace of regret" - I recognize that exact feeling.
You guys have to go through the 1 and 2 eps.
There are tracks on those eps that are right up there with their best.
When the bough breaks and nazareth are 2 of my fave sleep token songs.
I've listened to all of sleep tokens songs so much, it's so refreshing to listen to them with you guys. It's like listening to them again for the first time vicariously. I gain new appreciation for each song every time you guys react to it
Please react to "Is it Really You!". It is gorgeous
High Water was one of the firsts I heard from ST, still breaks me every single time. Can't wait for Missing Limbs!! Al
You guys need to react to "The Way That You Were"!
One of my all time favourite Sleep Token songs Pre-Sundowning
Couldn't wait for this reaction. Insanely awesome track. Great reaction.
This song ruins me to my core. It sums up never being able to have that person ever again and the literal madness of dispair that comes with that. inescapable, like drawing at the bottom and clawing your skin off in panic and fear and wishing for escape. when the drums kick in, every single hair stands on end and tears come. every time damnit