Had a friend who committed suicide last week and left behind his eight year-old daughter. I’m so thankful Dave created this beautiful song to grieve with. 🙏🏻
Wild this was 6 years ago. Bazan’s daughter here is likely nearing an adult now. This came out when my first daughter was born and I am moved more now than I even was then.
I was recently in a rehab facility for drugs and alcohol. During our downtime we’d watch music videos for the most part. I had my own sort of social experiment with playing this video. The response was not exactly what I was expecting. Of course I was waiting for “what’s this gay shit”? Followed by laughter. What I got was anger. It was an all male facility. They’d never seen a man behaving like this before. They wanted it turned off, now! Who has the remote?! Who put this on?! I’m a huge D.B. And Pedro fan. He’s built a very high ceiling for other lyricists. I was sort of shocked seeing this video for the first time, but crying on cue is one of if not the hardest things an actor will ever pull off. My boy here has been through it. Beautiful
Such a sense vulnerability and fear of rejection. I’m 44 year old man and just tear every Time. Sir you are my song writing hero. Helped me at my worst. Seeing how you preform this song live is mesmerizing and cuts thru musically to my hip hop head friends are amazed on you skill. You don’t even know the people you help like me, but we thank you.
Same, almost 15 years (for me) sometimes i don't understand how in different cultures, and different countries, people has to pass through the same. Im Argentinian, 40 yo. And when y discover her music fell in love, in that time i was in a "spiritual crisiis" (that I did not understand, until years closer to the current one) Due to the difference in language, and my ignorance about it, I always believed that the songs were critical of the political economy and American culture. Until I learned that, like me, he had to learn to live in another faith, which was not how he was educated (in my case The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and I understood why, despite strictly understanding the language, but not understanding the context of it, I loved his songs so much. For me, he is the true king of music, he makes me cry, get angry, or laugh. There aren't many composers who generate that in me.
@@santiagostokle thank you for your well written reply . Although I have always wanted to travel out of the US to see different cultures. For me I consider Art to be a tool to invoke emotions. Honestly just the video alone does that very well I’m it’s self. What I see when I watch this is simply pain from a cruel world sometimes and that child and or adult Needs to be reminded they are worth enough to be loved. I would recommend the new Pedro the lion album
Why does this bring me to TEARS every time knowing the back story of this video with no ties to being a father to a daughter?... (I have an 11 year old son who I made this connection with.) I think maybe seeing a FATHER of similar age to HIS child cry brought it home for me... the hurt WE have as parents for their new struggles that we cannot possibly-conceive, their illnesses, their pains... the HURT we FEEL as their antiquated and helpless proxies. God bless you, David. Pedro is STILL the LION. Thank you for getting me through the hard times. Come back to Fort Wayne soon, brother. Your words sung in the most visceral tones have gotten me by in the tribulations of life... somehow, we are all WORTHY OF LOVE.
David, as someone who bought Whole EP the day it came out you have given me 20 years or so of simply incredible gifts. Growing with you has been a privilege I don't take lightly. Thank you.
"Because art speaks. Art is important. Art is personal, and it is binding. It is for when words fail. It is for when we fall down and need to crawl with our elbows through the mud toward a shrouded destination because we cannot stand." so, so beautifully said. i felt you as i read your poetic words. y'all are the kind of people i would love to hug and joke with in the kitchen as we just keep trying. trying to forget and to forgive and continue to pull ourselves and each other out of all the mess. thank you david, for this incredible song and video and thank you Kathleen for what i call mountains of moments, the moments that truly matter. all of this is so heartfelt i will write a song at 3:45am as i pack to move into a tiny garage apartment in a new place clear across town where i hope to capture the intensity of curious splendor that is the gift God gives us. i keep playing this over and over. it really is a wonderful masterpiece. y'all take care. -steve-
this was a punch to the gut. it's so true and it hurts, a lot. thank you for instilling the message of hope and yet exposing the unfairness of it all in the song. i hope that when i have a daughter we will have all learned to treat our girls and women better in this world.
All your trouble with boys like you're making a choice. Still you really don't know why they treat you so so bad. Your stepbrother smirks that it has nothing to do with your dad. And you dream that the sound of his voice might melt them away. Your trouble with boys. And you wonder what he would say and would it be enough? Either way you are worthy of love. You are worthy of love.
Beautiful video. After watching it I had to pledge to back the documentary right away. Good luck and I hope the kickstarter for Strange Negotiations: The David Bazan Documentary is a rousing success!
It's been two years. Still at that soul-crushing job? Your comment made me sad because I know exactly how you feel. I just started a job that I love about a month ago after decades of soul-crushing(or at least unfulfilling) jobs.
Heard this for the first time this past Saturday at Saturn in Birmingham. Closed the set with it. And wow. One of the most powerful songs I've seen performed in a very long time.
I just found you here on UA-cam. WOW!. Your voice is amazing. WOW! This has to be one of the single most amazing pieces of work I have had the please to present to my ears and eyes. I can not say it enough. AMAZING!
I'm by no means a Trump supporter, but this video being about Trump makes his other work feel shallow. what are those songs about, the pizza being delivered late?
What in the hell are you talking about? I get this comment is old but I feel the need to clarify the meaning of this song. Firstly this song has nothing to do with Trump or politics or ever a womans right to choose. It's about the challenges daughters face while growing up and how they look to their fathers to protect them. He's simply stating that whatever a young girl goes through in their lives to bring them to a certain point.. they are "worthy of love". WTF does Trump have to do with this?
It's so unfortunate how brave a man has to be to show emotion like that. I love you David Bazan. You're an amazing artist.
I'm 0 for 3 in trying to watch this and not cry. Like my own daughter, this is perfectly gorgeous.
Had a friend who committed suicide last week and left behind his eight year-old daughter. I’m so thankful Dave created this beautiful song to grieve with. 🙏🏻
Holy crap. David, thanks for being so open. Phew. That was beautiful.
So encouraged to keep making honest things in a culture that is so shut off.
Thank you for your vulnerability. This is beautiful.
Kathleen is so right- this video means so much at this moment in time. Thank you for helping me grieve this unspeakable loss.
david bazan is a gem who must be protected and nurtured at all costs.
"So am I."
,dan'
Creepy
@@nonymousjones7204 Check out that self-awareness.
I understand this..
Wild this was 6 years ago. Bazan’s daughter here is likely nearing an adult now. This came out when my first daughter was born and I am moved more now than I even was then.
I was recently in a rehab facility for drugs and alcohol. During our downtime we’d watch music videos for the most part. I had my own sort of social experiment with playing this video. The response was not exactly what I was expecting. Of course I was waiting for “what’s this gay shit”? Followed by laughter. What I got was anger. It was an all male facility. They’d never seen a man behaving like this before. They wanted it turned off, now! Who has the remote?! Who put this on?!
I’m a huge D.B. And Pedro fan. He’s built a very high ceiling for other lyricists. I was sort of shocked seeing this video for the first time, but crying on cue is one of if not the hardest things an actor will ever pull off. My boy here has been through it. Beautiful
This is beautiful. Thank you, David.
Perfect. Thank you David.
David Bazan's music makes me want to become a better person.
It's hard to be a decent human being
Such a sense vulnerability and fear of rejection. I’m 44 year old man and just tear every Time. Sir you are my song writing hero. Helped me at my worst. Seeing how you preform this song live is mesmerizing and cuts thru musically to my hip hop head friends are amazed on you skill. You don’t even know the people you help like me, but we thank you.
Same, almost 15 years (for me) sometimes i don't understand how in different cultures, and different countries, people has to pass through the same. Im Argentinian, 40 yo. And when y discover her music fell in love, in that time i was in a "spiritual crisiis" (that I did not understand, until years closer to the current one)
Due to the difference in language, and my ignorance about it, I always believed that the songs were critical of the political economy and American culture.
Until I learned that, like me, he had to learn to live in another faith, which was not how he was educated (in my case The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and I understood why, despite strictly understanding the language, but not understanding the context of it, I loved his songs so much.
For me, he is the true king of music, he makes me cry, get angry, or laugh. There aren't many composers who generate that in me.
@@santiagostokle thank you for your well written reply . Although I have always wanted to travel out of the US to see different cultures. For me I consider Art to be a tool to invoke emotions. Honestly just the video alone does that very well I’m it’s self. What I see when I watch this is simply pain from a cruel world sometimes and that child and or adult Needs to be reminded they are worth enough to be loved. I would recommend the new Pedro the lion album
I feel like i have a thousand eyelashes in my eyes. this is so important. thank you, bazan.
Why does this bring me to TEARS every time knowing the back story of this video with no ties to being a father to a daughter?... (I have an 11 year old son who I made this connection with.) I think maybe seeing a FATHER of similar age to HIS child cry brought it home for me... the hurt WE have as parents for their new struggles that we cannot possibly-conceive, their illnesses, their pains... the HURT we FEEL as their antiquated and helpless proxies.
God bless you, David. Pedro is STILL the LION. Thank you for getting me through the hard times. Come back to Fort Wayne soon, brother. Your words sung in the most visceral tones have gotten me by in the tribulations of life... somehow, we are all WORTHY OF LOVE.
David, as someone who bought Whole EP the day it came out you have given me 20 years or so of simply incredible gifts. Growing with you has been a privilege I don't take lightly. Thank you.
+10476 points
Wow, that's powerful, so beautiful
love love love. thank you david.
this is gorgeous
This is the first music video that has made me cry, and it's now in my top 5 music videos of all time. Thank you for this.
Love to you, your family, and everyone who takes the time to watch this video and genuinely process what it all means.
"Because art speaks. Art is important. Art is personal, and it is binding. It is for when words fail. It is for when we fall down and need to crawl with our elbows through the mud toward a shrouded destination because we cannot stand."
so, so beautifully said. i felt you as i read your poetic words. y'all are the kind of people i would love to hug and joke with in the kitchen as we just keep trying. trying to forget and to forgive and continue to pull ourselves and each other out of all the mess.
thank you david, for this incredible song and video and thank you Kathleen for what i call mountains of moments, the moments that truly matter. all of this is so heartfelt i will write a song at 3:45am as i pack to move into a tiny garage apartment in a new place clear across town where i hope to capture the intensity of curious splendor that is the gift God gives us. i keep playing this over and over. it really is a wonderful masterpiece. y'all take care.
-steve-
It hurts and invigorates me. Not a parent yet but i love you and yours. thank you again.
this was a punch to the gut. it's so true and it hurts, a lot. thank you for instilling the message of hope and yet exposing the unfairness of it all in the song. i hope that when i have a daughter we will have all learned to treat our girls and women better in this world.
Powerful, raw, real. Thanks for this, Dave! And thanks again for a great show last night in SLC. Happy holidays to you and your family.
All your trouble with boys like you're making a choice.
Still you really don't know why they treat you so so bad.
Your stepbrother smirks that it has nothing to do with your dad.
And you dream that the sound of his voice might melt them away.
Your trouble with boys.
And you wonder what he would say and would it be enough?
Either way you are worthy of love.
You are worthy of love.
hi dan. please contact me.
Me too Dan. Call me sometime bro.
@@lamestream, I'll get right on that
,dan'
@@sryburn641you okay bud?
@@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-. one breath at a time full of hope.
Beautiful video. After watching it I had to pledge to back the documentary right away. Good luck and I hope the kickstarter for Strange Negotiations: The David Bazan Documentary is a rousing success!
Thank you Dave.
Beautiful song. Beautiful video.
i love your bazan covers, maybe you can do this one too?
Thank you so much.
Wow. Damn. Give me a minute while I wipe my own tears away.
This is beautiful, Dave. And sad. And real. And hopeful. And hard to watch because it convicts me. Thanks for putting this out.
This is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen. Thanks, Dave.
Well, fuck. There goes the quiet sense of togetherness I was trying to manufacture so I could sit at my desk and do my soul-crushing job.
It's been two years. Still at that soul-crushing job? Your comment made me sad because I know exactly how you feel. I just started a job that I love about a month ago after decades of soul-crushing(or at least unfulfilling) jobs.
I needed this
Thanks David
I wish my dad loves me enough to write this song
"why don't you show him this song and that comment and I bet you he'll try a lot harder deary."
,dan'
Goddamn I just want to hug you so much right now
Awwww. That hit the target. Thank you.
As a father to a very young daughter, as a person who cried with my wife on nov 9, as a musician and music lover.... WOW!
THANK YOU DAVID
This is so good. You are a wonderful parent.
This is absolutely amazing!
A Professional, treated as a peasant. This world....
A very powerful video and powerful message! Amazing, your daughter is beautiful! :)
Don’t cry David, I’m here.
We’re all here
Hugs
A Jewel !!
I was needing a good cry. Boy, did this ever do the trick.
Kurt Armstrong so incredibly much
I have a vary peculiar taste in music and honestly I love a ton of your songs. You're so talented and keep up with the awesome music.
Heard this for the first time this past Saturday at Saturn in Birmingham. Closed the set with it. And wow. One of the most powerful songs I've seen performed in a very long time.
love your music, will you perform on stagebay.com sometime?
Saw you play this with Pedro the Lion in Portland in January(I think). I didn't recognize it at first. Once I did I felt bad because I love this song.
more more!!!!
Beautiful Dave,Tore me up,when you played it @ Johnny Brenda's last night. Great job,all good bro!Peace.
11 people who live in a box don't know shit about art or music,and being vulnerable enough if an artist to put this out,amazing dave
holy fuck
I just found you here on UA-cam. WOW!. Your voice is amazing. WOW! This has to be one of the single most amazing pieces of work I have had the please to present to my ears and eyes. I can not say it enough. AMAZING!
Incredible and beautiful. For some reason, reminds me of the video game Passage.
but either way, you are worthy of love
damn David! ...wow..
❤️
I think this might be something else ..the music world needs to wake up ...
well done good sir!
❤❤❤
O silencio me persegue.
whoa dang
Dunno about this weird racist rant by Kathleen Tarrant, but this is beautiful.
:)
Wow does this have less views then stuff like lil uzi vert, and lil yachty. I don't understand
"Stop name dropping them here then."
,dan'
FIRST
"Hello Myself, you are also a nice guy. How did you manage to finally finish not last?"
,dan'
"Oh wait, you never lost, just always took your time finishing."
,dan'
I'm by no means a Trump supporter, but this video being about Trump makes his other work feel shallow. what are those songs about, the pizza being delivered late?
What?
Now it's about the loss of a woman's right to choose
@@FriendOfTrashPandas He's a time traveler?
@@asaturn no... the meaning of art changes over time contextually.
What in the hell are you talking about? I get this comment is old but I feel the need to clarify the meaning of this song. Firstly this song has nothing to do with Trump or politics or ever a womans right to choose. It's about the challenges daughters face while growing up and how they look to their fathers to protect them. He's simply stating that whatever a young girl goes through in their lives to bring them to a certain point.. they are "worthy of love". WTF does Trump have to do with this?
Thank you David.