I completely understand the audience’s initial awkward reluctance to clapping. Like great job Phil, you’ve written an incredible song and you performed it very well... but it sucks that the song even exists and that you have to perform it in earnest.
Aw man, he was supposed to sing "My brain fails, words fail," but accidentally switched it around, and you can see the frustration on his face immediately afterward. It disrupts his emotional trance. Performance-wise it's a microscopic slip, but given how carefully, perfectly crafted the lyric is, you know he's miserable about it. It really does need to end at "words fail" for maximum impact.
OMG this is soooo potent. it sure IS real... 💜💔 Watching my wife fade as the alzhiemers takes over... her.... & and i cry. thank you for this "song".... it really does help it's good to cry.💐💜
Death is real Someone's there and then they're not And it's not for singing about It's not for making into art When real death enters the house, all poetry is dumb When I walk into the room where you were And look into the emptiness instead All fails My knees fail My brain fails Words fail Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail A week after you died a package with your name on it came And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known Deep down would not include you Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down Being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real It's dumb And I don't want to learn anything from this I love you
Death is realSomeone's there and then they're notAnd it's not for singing aboutIt's not for making into artWhen real death enters the house, all poetry is dumbWhen I walk into the room where you wereAnd look into the emptiness insteadAll failsMy knees failMy brain failsWords failCrusted with tears, catatonic and rawI go downstairs and outside and you still get mailA week after you died a package with your name on it cameAnd inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secretAnd collapsed there on the front steps I wailedA backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from nowYou were thinking ahead to a future you must have known Deep down would not include youThough you clawed at the cliff you were sliding downBeing swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and realIt's dumbAnd I don't want to learn anything from thisI love you
the fact that this man hasn't killed himself yet is a statement to everyone feeling like they want to go down that path. If he doesn't go, you can't. You've never felt pain like this man. This man has been living in sadness for his whole life, and then this event happened. Keep Fighting.
@@colon5246 I agree that what he said is insensitive, but I don’t think he realized it. He wasn’t trying to be abrasive. I believe there is a positive message in what he said. If you look up to Phil, be inspired by his strength. He is a man with a rock solid constitution despite the hardships he has faced. No macho bullshit. He’s just a good man. Of course, not everyone has the same capacity to face hardships in this way. Still, his legacy thus far is an inspiring one.
I see your point but I disagree, I don't think he's exploiting it, I think it's catharsis for him and it's his way of coping. And many people who have lost people close to them have found the album to be really therapeutic, as dark as it is. When I lost my dad to cancer I found a good deal of catharsis in this album.
and u calling people the "N" word thinking THAT'S alright is completely the FUGGED UP PART OF THIS post!!!!! Jerk!!! There is NOTHING wrong with singing about living someone you live. WHERE IN THE WORLD DO U THINK MUSIC COMES FROM???!!! GO READ A BOOK U ignorant boob!!!
How does he have the strength to play this live? Or to an audience?
It's good that he can and he does.
I completely understand the audience’s initial awkward reluctance to clapping. Like great job Phil, you’ve written an incredible song and you performed it very well... but it sucks that the song even exists and that you have to perform it in earnest.
it is unbelievable that he is able to say any of these words without breaking down. i cant hear them without breaking down.
Ro!
Edit: my comment is too positive for this video. I apologize for the exclamation point.
hi ro, didnt expect you here
omg no way youtube socialist superstar ro ramdin!!! nah fr tho, love your videos!
This performance sounds identical to the album version. Very strong.
I was almost crying
can’t imagine the pain he feels
You won't need to imagine it, because you will have it, we all do
@@ckminty603 Unfortunately true
@@ckminty603 “Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.” - Richard Silken, War of the Foxes
Aw man, he was supposed to sing "My brain fails, words fail," but accidentally switched it around, and you can see the frustration on his face immediately afterward. It disrupts his emotional trance. Performance-wise it's a microscopic slip, but given how carefully, perfectly crafted the lyric is, you know he's miserable about it. It really does need to end at "words fail" for maximum impact.
I actually think it works well in an unintentionally funny way given the fact that his words failed on the line that said "words fail"
Not the first time he’s done that
@@thesameinitials5655 i'm not sure there's any humour to be found in this performance.
He's so strong and brave to be performing such a personal song live 🥺
OMG this is soooo potent.
it sure IS real... 💜💔
Watching my wife fade as the alzhiemers takes over... her.... & and i cry.
thank you for this "song".... it really does help
it's good to cry.💐💜
Man, watching this live is even more sad.
the words he sings are almost tangible, so real in such a painful, heart wrenching, beautiful way.
Death is real
Someone's there and then they're not
And it's not for singing about
It's not for making into art
When real death enters the house, all poetry is dumb
When I walk into the room where you were
And look into the emptiness instead
All fails
My knees fail
My brain fails
Words fail
Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw
I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail
A week after you died a package with your name on it came
And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret
And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now
You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known
Deep down would not include you
Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down
Being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real
It's dumb
And I don't want to learn anything from this
I love you
I could never understand what this man went through, but I appreciate what he gave to the world in the name of his beloved. RIP
It just made me think. When he wrote this album to heal did he think he would have to sing these songs over and over and feel it over and over
This strikes chords deep within my soul.
(My mom committed suicide last year...)
My mom took her life last month.
I'm sorry friend, All will be well in the end. Much love 🤍
Wizzard Lizzard - my condolences, hope you’re hanging in there 🖤
aww i’m sorry, to both of u, I hope everything gets better
@@rufusthespaceman6635 tysm
I'm very sorry to hear that
Watching this the morning after my cousin (more like an older brother died). This hurts
crying
que fuerte. que valentía tocar esto en vivo; ojala alguna vez pueda escucharte de cerca.
Death is realSomeone's there and then they're notAnd it's not for singing aboutIt's not for making into artWhen real death enters the house, all poetry is dumbWhen I walk into the room where you wereAnd look into the emptiness insteadAll failsMy knees failMy brain failsWords failCrusted with tears, catatonic and rawI go downstairs and outside and you still get mailA week after you died a package with your name on it cameAnd inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secretAnd collapsed there on the front steps I wailedA backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from nowYou were thinking ahead to a future you must have known Deep down would not include youThough you clawed at the cliff you were sliding downBeing swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and realIt's dumbAnd I don't want to learn anything from thisI love you
25 seconds in im crying
This popping up in my algorithm first thing of 2023 is harsh
수정이 아니면 어디서 이런 노래르르ㅡ 너무 고맙습니당요~
i want to give him a hug so bad
I wouldve sobbed on the spot
thanks I want to listen to a crow looked at me and cry again
마지막에 들리는
함부로 치지 않는 박수가 참 슬프네요
I'm crying just listening to this. How can he play it?
한국 왔었구나... 못갔네...
와 이걸 지금 알았네...
마이크로폰즈 이름으로 꼭 다시 내한와라ㅠㅠ
❤
Should I clap? Damn. I clapped real quick. 👀
Okay, cool.
He gestured passive acquiescence.
Phew…
❤ 오랜만에 들어보는 ㅡㅡㅡ
the fact that this man hasn't killed himself yet is a statement to everyone feeling like they want to go down that path. If he doesn't go, you can't. You've never felt pain like this man. This man has been living in sadness for his whole life, and then this event happened. Keep Fighting.
Shut up you don't know what other people go through
@@colon5246 I agree that what he said is insensitive, but I don’t think he realized it. He wasn’t trying to be abrasive. I believe there is a positive message in what he said. If you look up to Phil, be inspired by his strength. He is a man with a rock solid constitution despite the hardships he has faced. No macho bullshit. He’s just a good man. Of course, not everyone has the same capacity to face hardships in this way. Still, his legacy thus far is an inspiring one.
absolutely horrid way of saying it
this nicca be literally touring his wife's obituary and people pretend there's nothing wrong with that
I see your point but I disagree, I don't think he's exploiting it, I think it's catharsis for him and it's his way of coping. And many people who have lost people close to them have found the album to be really therapeutic, as dark as it is. When I lost my dad to cancer I found a good deal of catharsis in this album.
and u calling people the "N" word thinking THAT'S alright is completely the FUGGED UP PART OF THIS post!!!!! Jerk!!! There is NOTHING wrong with singing about living someone you live. WHERE IN THE WORLD DO U THINK MUSIC COMES FROM???!!! GO READ A BOOK U ignorant boob!!!