my father introduced me to Nick Cave's music when I was a kid. He passed away last year after a very difficult fight with acute leukemia. I played this song on his funeral.
Blixas face at about the 1:58 mark kills me! The face you make after getting shit faced in a boat with Nick cave only to sober up and find out its a cardboard box and cellophane waves! But hey Nick Cave was there too 😂
This song always remind me of 2013 and early 2014, when I was so depressed, I kept listening this song for days and days, couldn't sleep without it. Then everything went back to normal, I started listening other songs instead of repeating this one all day. Now it's 3 years later, I'm in uni right now, everything in my life is fine, but I'll always remember this song, how did it help me with my life, heartbreaking yet inspired at the same time.
I just watched a DVD in which they briefly talk about some of their songs and Nick Cave said that in The Weeping Song, he really likes the dancing because they look like "two old, gay business men at the disco".
Was randomly listening to Nick Cave and Birthday Party songs this evening, then this one came up and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I lost my dad to prostate cancer on July 25th 2023. I wasn't the easiest son to raise or deal with, but damn he loved me no matter what. I'm just glad I was able to tell him that I loved him before it happened. Not everyone gets to do that. But damn this song stings. I miss him so much.
I’m sorry for your loss. If you haven’t already I highly recommend diving into Caves more recent albums. He wrote them after he lost his son and they really helped me grieve. ❤
@@MrRUKnight Lou Reed is cool but I'd have to rank him below the other guys because Lou Reed always seemed to put too much effort into being cool and everybody knows that trying to be cool just isn't cool. Plus the whole pretentious NYC thing going on. Still pretty cool though. For the category of excellence in the effortless zen of coolness, I'd also nominate Iggy Pop, Kim Deal, and Tom Petty not necessarily in that order. I haven't quite worked out all the kinks in my Unified Theory of Coolness yet.
Listening to this song when I'm depressed reminds me that sadness is meaningless and inconsequential, just like the rest of existence, and then I can smile at my misfortunes 👍🏻
Go son, go down to the water And see the women weeping there Then go up into the mountains The men, they are weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping? They are weeping for their men Then why are all the men there weeping? They are weeping back at them This is a weeping song A song in which to weep While all the men and women sleep This is a weeping song But I won't be weeping long Father, why are all the children weeping? They are merely crying son Oh, are they merely crying, father? Yes, true weeping is yet... to come This is a weeping song A song in which to weep While all the men and women sleep This is a weeping song But I won't be weeping long Oh father, tell me are you weeping? Your face seems wet to touch Oh, then I'm so sorry, father I never thought I hurt you so much This is a weeping song A song in which to weep While we rock ourselves to sleep This is a weeping song But I won't be weeping long But I won't be weeping long But I won't be weeping long But I won't be weeping long
I like this clip because you can totally tell that there had fun doing it. Especially Nick who seems on the edge of laughter at a few moments. It's always funny to notice the discrepancy between the depth and darkness of his lyrics and the real life Nick Cave.
Yeah, you can tell they really had fun making this video, but then again Nick Cave is awesome like that. By the way... does anyone know who the other guy is?
The one and only Blixa, band member from beginning up until about 1999. Saw Nick through some of his best albums. 💙 Blixa. All of the bad seeds in fact are incredible musicians in their own right. Mick Harvey, Conway savage, Blixa, Martyn Casey, Warren Ellis. Amazing ppl he surrounded himself with.
If your are strong enough in your mind and willing to experience new depths of sound and darkness try Blixa Bargeld's band called "Einstuerzende Neubauten".
This song brings up strange, confusing emotions. One moment, I just wanna weep uncontrollably at the misery of everything, the next, I wanna leap with joy and dance without a single worry in the world.
Most bizarre , low budget video - spot I've ever seen . And it beats all other top production videos . Surrealistic , expressive and unique . As the song is
My heart goes out to you and your family in the loss of your beloved son, Nick and Susie. I too, have a teenage son and upon hearing the news of Arthur's death, I went and hugged mine. We should all take the time to hug our loved ones just a little bit tighter, I know I will. Bless you Nick, may your family find peace.
FrakkinToaster Luvva either you don't know Blixa's nasel voice and thick German accent, in which case you are an idiot, or you are trolling UA-cam comments, in which case you are also an idiot.
THE WEEPING SONG Go son, go down to the water And see the women weeping there Then go up into the mountains The men, they are weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping? They are weeping for their men Then why are all the men there weeping? They are weeping back at them This is a weeping song A song in which to weep While all the men and women sleep This is a weeping song But I won’t be weeping long Father, why are all the children weeping? They are merely crying son O, are they merely crying, father? Yes, true weeping is yet to come This is a weeping song A song in which to weep While all the little children sleep This is a weeping song But I won’t be weeping long O father, tell me, are you weeping? Your face seems wet to touch O then I’m so sorry, father I never thought I hurt you so much This is a weeping song A song in which to weep While we rock ourselves to sleep This is a weeping song But I won’t be weeping long No, I won’t be weeping long No, I won’t be weeping long No, I won’t be weeping long
@@SupBro-ww9go I was about to start a discussion on how Blixa's usual style of singing, monotone (as in a declamation manner) is an acquired taste, which I personally adore. But I get your point, when he sings in a traditional way, his voice is utterly melodic.
Помню школьные годы, по mtv показывали много интересного, но именнно эта пнсня меня зацепила. Записав ее на кпссету в 92 году, я слушаю ее третий десяток лет, и каждый раз до мурашек по коже.
When I was introduced to Nick Cave 's music in 2000, my artistic life fundamentally changed. This particular song seemed to exist in it's own universe of expression. To this day it leaves me practically speechless.
This is the best lighthouse deleted scene.
I instantly thought at that movie
applause
xD
This is the best lighthouse comment
damn ye
my father introduced me to Nick Cave's music when I was a kid. He passed away last year after a very difficult fight with acute leukemia. I played this song on his funeral.
Nice. Sorry to hear of your loss.
Your father's love for Nick Cave lives on in you. 😊
.... this is a weeping song ..... 💜🌹
🙏🏼
Sorry for your loss. I honestly think that this song is very appropriate for some sending offs, in particular your father's.
I love listening to this and singing along when I’m cleaning my home.. reason being is I call it The Sweeping Song
😅
Yup
😂 cute
genius
But you wont be sweeping long!
This to me is the feeling of 4am, coming off of a blackout drunk, about to go to sleep, and knowing that tomorrow is going to hurt.
This is one of the rare examples of a song that is both happy and sad. A song that you can dance to and cry simultaneously.
like the cure's entire catalog?
Melancholy
Try You want it darker from Leonard Cohen
yeah, dark comedy
Yea exactly.I think the same as you.
Nick and Blixa getting drunk in a boat never fail to cheer me up.
they act as two priests getting drunk in a boat while they hold some medieval book, maybe a Gospel...totaly crazy and cool.
Not just drunk, stoned as fuck...all good...
surrounded by black cellophane
Blixas face at about the 1:58 mark kills me! The face you make after getting shit faced in a boat with Nick cave only to sober up and find out its a cardboard box and cellophane waves! But hey Nick Cave was there too 😂
Me either! lol Xx
this video's silliness, paired with the way it matches the song, is masterful
Masterful?
Thank you for providing me with my daily LAUGH, Slave! 😂
Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱
Man, Blixa was an extraordinary looking creation.
*IS *always has been
Always 💯
@@isabely.6926 Absolutely.
Extraordinary sounding too!
You should see THIS
Even the fake sea is epic
Agreed ❤
A Fellini “reference”
And moon😆
@@sqeye And the Bad Seeds Sailed On
Look so real...😉
The darkest COVID comfort found here
fuck COVID
best comment ever
I feel you Matthew !!!!
♥♥♥
The .Pain Of Progress. cover is really good too.. 😊 i love this song.
This is a gorgeous song. I love the claps, the dialogue, the lyrics are simply yet deeply emotional.... a triumph.
The drunken dance style gets me every time.
This song always remind me of 2013 and early 2014, when I was so depressed, I kept listening this song for days and days, couldn't sleep without it. Then everything went back to normal, I started listening other songs instead of repeating this one all day. Now it's 3 years later, I'm in uni right now, everything in my life is fine, but I'll always remember this song, how did it help me with my life, heartbreaking yet inspired at the same time.
Same for me., but in 2015.
I was the same except I have discovered nick cave only this year and this song a few weeks ago!
because you sung: but I won't be weeping long
The transformative..pwr of song'!
The dancing. I feel life will not be complete until I can dance like Nick Cave.
He really is an amazing dancer
He can't row a boat though, smiley
Exactly!!!
I just watched a DVD in which they briefly talk about some of their songs and Nick Cave said that in The Weeping Song, he really likes the dancing because they look like "two old, gay business men at the disco".
There is only one dancer better than Cave - Jarvis Cocker :)
If there were more songs like this in today's musical landscape then the world would be a better place.
Was randomly listening to Nick Cave and Birthday Party songs this evening, then this one came up and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I lost my dad to prostate cancer on July 25th 2023. I wasn't the easiest son to raise or deal with, but damn he loved me no matter what. I'm just glad I was able to tell him that I loved him before it happened. Not everyone gets to do that. But damn this song stings. I miss him so much.
I’m sorry for your loss. If you haven’t already I highly recommend diving into Caves more recent albums. He wrote them after he lost his son and they really helped me grieve. ❤
@@SL-es5kb thank you. I do need to visit his recent work.
words can not express how much I love Nick Cave.
they just did
GOD!
This is about as happy as Nick Cave gets. How lucky we are as Australians to call him our countryman? One of the all time greats.
Blixa is great too
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Of course, at that time he was living in São Paulo, drinking cold beer and eating Pastel de Queijo with his son, life was simple and beautful.
LOL. “ Smile, Nick.” ……” I AM smiling…..
Amazing 🙏@@marcosgomes7681
So i have this weird habit when having some drinks... This is what I come to watch. God how much I enjoy them sailing and dancing.
I made a comeback to this video after a few years. Oh my Gosh!
Nothing like listening to saint Nicholas when you are hammered af. Best thing in the world!
Not only this song, this whole era is a piece of art.
Nick Cave is simply the definition of coolness.
Lou Reed: hold my beer.
(then again, if you consider being alive as a precondition for being cool, then you're right :p)
I love NIck Cave too, but Tom Waits could give him a run for his money. And yes, to the Lou Reed comment, gotta agree with that one too.
@@MrRUKnight Lou Reed is cool but I'd have to rank him below the other guys because Lou Reed always seemed to put too much effort into being cool and everybody knows that trying to be cool just isn't cool. Plus the whole pretentious NYC thing going on. Still pretty cool though.
For the category of excellence in the effortless zen of coolness, I'd also nominate Iggy Pop, Kim Deal, and Tom Petty not necessarily in that order. I haven't quite worked out all the kinks in my Unified Theory of Coolness yet.
@Horror Fanatic I wouldn't dispute that. But you know Peter Murphy does that same thing, but like, better?
gaetano martire nick cave is better in every possible way
Listening to this song when I'm depressed reminds me that sadness is meaningless and inconsequential, just like the rest of existence, and then I can smile at my misfortunes 👍🏻
ifyouwantbochin you can never go wrong with some bad seeds songs coupled with some drinks!
that escalated quickly ._. true tho
Life is empty and meaningless, and it means nothing that it's empty and meaningless - so! create any meaning you want! :) Xxx
beautifully put.
Nihilistic optimism? I can dig.
Go son, go down to the water
And see the women weeping there
Then go up into the mountains
The men, they are weeping too
Father, why are all the women weeping?
They are weeping for their men
Then why are all the men there weeping?
They are weeping back at them
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
Father, why are all the children weeping?
They are merely crying son
Oh, are they merely crying, father?
Yes, true weeping is yet... to come
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
Oh father, tell me are you weeping?
Your face seems wet to touch
Oh, then I'm so sorry, father
I never thought I hurt you so much
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While we rock ourselves to sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
But I won't be weeping long
But I won't be weeping long
But I won't be weeping long
Thanks for this, I couldn't make out a couple of words and this puts the missing pieces in place for me
Blixa is missing!!
С ДНЕМ РОЖДЕНИЯ, КОЛЯ ПЕЩЕРА! ВСЕХ БЛАГ ТЕБЕ, И, КОНЕЧНО, ЗДОРОВЬЯ.
I will never love anyone as much as I love Nick Cave.
I will never love anyone as much as Nick Cave loves Blixa Bargeld.
This is hands down my favorite Nick Cave music video. Blixa and Nick dancing, man that's just too much.
mjtorjan with the amount of plastic being dumped into the ocean, that's probably a literal possibility
I've been listening to this on repeat all evening. I feel sad. I'm not able to weep right now but I feel like hearing about weeping.
Same !!! All night this song...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg! All these years, I thought Nick was singing both parts!!! 🤣
I like this clip because you can totally tell that there had fun doing it. Especially Nick who seems on the edge of laughter at a few moments. It's always funny to notice the discrepancy between the depth and darkness of his lyrics and the real life Nick Cave.
totally agreed.
Yeah, you can tell they really had fun making this video, but then again Nick Cave is awesome like that.
By the way... does anyone know who the other guy is?
Chris Mc. Blixa Bargeld
antipattern Awesome, thanks.
The one and only Blixa, band member from beginning up until about 1999. Saw Nick through some of his best albums. 💙 Blixa. All of the bad seeds in fact are incredible musicians in their own right. Mick Harvey, Conway savage, Blixa, Martyn Casey, Warren Ellis. Amazing ppl he surrounded himself with.
Something magic about this song.........I can listen to it over and over again.
“I won’t be weeping long” gives me so much hope
It's because the father's old and going to die soon...
Hope is for pussies
@@FerbanaKinnitty yes, true weeping is yet to come.
This is Blixas song. Nick is the counterpoint. Love . Repeating for the 20th time.
The weeping is yet to come... RIP Arthur Cave
He died. Omg how sad 😥
Just discovering a lot of old Nick Cave now in 2016. Life changing !
+Rod T You are embarking on a strange and wonderful journey.... be sure to check out The Birthday Party too.
and the boys next door
I discovered Nick Cave & the bad seeds in 1996 when I was 13, and I can tell you there's no turning back! Life changing indeed
If your are strong enough in your mind and willing to experience new depths of sound and darkness try Blixa Bargeld's band called "Einstuerzende Neubauten".
my brother loved Nick Cave, we played the Ship Song at his funeral.
This song brings up strange, confusing emotions. One moment, I just wanna weep uncontrollably at the misery of everything, the next, I wanna leap with joy and dance without a single worry in the world.
Nick and Blixa as a couple of drinking priests in a storm tossed rowboat is an incalculably perfect vision that haunts/pleases my brain!
This "weeping song" makes me happy. This a very good song.
Hahah exactly!💓
I was looking for good music on UA-cam. I found it.
... and heaven knows you're miserable now?
SkyHigh87 Nick Cave is wonderful
"I was looking for good music on UA-cam. I found it."
There's also quite a lot of shitty music here which you can find. Should you so desire.
yes, of course. And they can find much more...
SkyHigh87 of course it is. its fucking Nick Cave
Two shamans calling for the darkest dream ever...... they literally send shivers through my spine.
✨
I love the humor in this video, it is the first time I smiled when hearing this song.
I remember my older brother passing down his entire Nick Cave vinyl collection in 1992 along with all his old house tracks.
LIFE CHANGER!!!
Nick and Blixa what a great combination.
+mark goodyer so right on it.
Incomparable!
What ever happened to Blixa?
Blixa is still with Einstürzende Neubauten but also follows his solo projects. Apart fom that he married years ago and the couple has a daughter.
Sandra Kleinmann Momma's baby is daddy's maybe.
Awesome song and album The Good Son, 1990 year. My Childhood's end ) Great Nick Cave!
Отвал башки, оба два - красавы, сил нет! Офигенная песня!
Треш и угар и ловка😘
I heard Cave in concert once (ca 2000). I can testify that his powerful baritone is not some studio trick. He really sings that good live.
i pray for nick and his family each evening we lost a 9 year old child in our family the pain burns youre soul god bless you
Шкодую тільки про те що не зустріла цю пісню раніше 💔
Скорейшей перемоги! Санкт-Петербург за Украину❤
The guy directing this video should be appointed universal art & music video director
Indeed some fine work there.
💯
True, with that supra-human aesthetic sense. Like, how do you get *everything* right like that?
Какие голоса... 😍 Мурашки по коже бегут!!!
Most bizarre , low budget video - spot I've ever seen . And it beats all other top production videos . Surrealistic , expressive and unique . As the song is
Rowing a boat on a sea of black plastic...Priceless!
How can I like this one million times?
These are two of my favorite musicians/songwriters! they are both impressive in very different ways. Much love to both of you, Blixa and Nick!
Nick cave
My heart goes out to you and your family in the loss of your beloved son, Nick and Susie. I too, have a teenage son and upon hearing the news of Arthur's death, I went and hugged mine. We should all take the time to hug our loved ones just a little bit tighter, I know I will. Bless you Nick, may your family find peace.
2021 год это по прежнему шедевр...Бликса вееликолепен
Великолепны оба два!..)
This is homoerotic literature in visual format. Thank you, Nick, and the rest of The Bad Seeds.
Whoa, that's quite a take on it. How did you get to that conclusion?! 😮😅
@@darcyroyce because I'm that much of a fucking weirdo
@@spinningindaffodils “oh father tell me are you weeping, your face it seems wet to touch”
I agree with you.
Blixa's deep deep beautiful voice
What? Of course it can. Who else do you think is singing as the "father"?
FrakkinToaster Luvva there's this thing called "multitracking" you may have heard of.
emoedison How is that relevant?
Blixa is singing this song alongside Nick Cave. Or have you got some inside info that says otherwise?
FrakkinToaster Luvva either you don't know Blixa's nasel voice and thick German accent, in which case you are an idiot, or you are trolling UA-cam comments, in which case you are also an idiot.
usually nick is pretty nasal too..
the clapping is the icing on the cake! always loved it!
Exactly
Icing on a cake?
You say this english ppl? Wow :)
optimat prime every time I hear this i clap.
What a wonderful duo and greate song. I love both voices and music
Dear Master of Australian music,Nick Cave,please dont ever think your not loved as a muso,your great,and thats the TRUTH!!
THE WEEPING SONG
Go son, go down to the water
And see the women weeping there
Then go up into the mountains
The men, they are weeping too
Father, why are all the women weeping?
They are weeping for their men
Then why are all the men there weeping?
They are weeping back at them
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won’t be weeping long
Father, why are all the children weeping?
They are merely crying son
O, are they merely crying, father?
Yes, true weeping is yet to come
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the little children sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won’t be weeping long
O father, tell me, are you weeping?
Your face seems wet to touch
O then I’m so sorry, father
I never thought I hurt you so much
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While we rock ourselves to sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won’t be weeping long
No, I won’t be weeping long
No, I won’t be weeping long
No, I won’t be weeping long
Andrey Yankin
Andrey Yankin Thanks for thre lyrics :)
Thanks man.....
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Andrey Yankin 0lllllłllhooio HG HG hghggg GH phhh HG HH IU Ohio 88iiiiii8ii UI iiiii88i8
Бликса Баргельд и Ник Кейв - это шедевр. Не все поймут. Но это - вещь на века)
Согласен!
Nick Cave гениальный ❤️ Я его с 7 лет слушаю, очарована до сих пор ❤️
Бликса чисто 🦁 с этой шевелюрой))
I usually listen to this song after a bad date. Gold.
Lol
My boyfriend and I are both listening to this for the first time, in 2020. New fans!
Nick and Blixa: my favorite lesbians.
🤣🤣🤣
Huh?
Сов ем мозги поплыли у современной молодежи🙈
Lol Blixa and Nick on a "Drunken Boat" love this song
Fucking masterpiece.
No bullshit!!!
Who knew a song about weeping could be so much fun.
for me this is the most anti-depressive song and the video ever :-))
Easy to listen to this over and over.
Blixa and Nick Cave together in a boat, drinking, is beyond perfection. And this song is amazing, one of my favourite along with to be by your side.
уже сто раз пересматриваю...супер!клип то простенький,но блин,оторваться невозможно...и хочется повтора...красавцы конечно!и голоса...ммм...
Ты знаешь что основном маньяки ими восхищались дамер например,шелфидский маньяк clock dva послушай по альбомам поймёшь что они детей на завтрак едят
@@user-to9kl1hq6o ты больной?
@@johanedlund2899 а почему это я должен быть больным?
@@user-to9kl1hq6o полный бред,как можна сравнивать треш что ты перечислил с этой афигенной и весёлой песней?
@@user-mv2ec6nl4v она не веселая вообще, как по мне. Грустрая. Песня так и называется-плачущая песня
Офигенный дуэт ! Классная печаль ! Крутой клип !
Nick cave has me hypnotized by those dance moves...This is hillarious and some of the best Dance moves I've seen in quite awhile.
Oh god. I discovered this song just now. Instantly fell in love with the song ,the video, and nickkkk
coolest men and beautiful song!
This is one of my favourite songs!
same here too!! :D
Nick and Blixa... Two sides of one coin!!!
What a voice! One of our finest.
thank you nick cave,youre music helps me to heal
i have lost my babygirl today and the pain is deep
god bless you amen
2021 Quarantine... and oh my god i found this today!👏👏🙏🙏 Love u Nick Cave and you Blixa!
For me it is best song from Nick Cave , I don’t explain what ... but really it is amazing
I wont be weepin long.
Blixa and Nick; two synonyms for phenomenally cool!
If you don't think this is the greatest music video of all time you're wrong.
"Kazik - Idę tam gdzie idę" will be forever IMO best music video ever.
It's awesome compared to a lot of music in the modern age. It's an epic video.
It is the greatest music video of all time, I've been declaring it for 20 or 30 years. Nice to see that I'm not the only one!
I feel exactly the same way about Alice Cooper's Poison and Marilyn Manson's Sweet Dreams
I'm 25 yrs old and I think so too. 😂 oldies are the way to go!
🍃🍂🍁🕸🌷
Happy 63rd Birthday Nicholas Edward Cave And many more too.
Blixa's vocals here are deeper than Nick's...damn
When he actually sings, he's amazing
@@SupBro-ww9go I was about to start a discussion on how Blixa's usual style of singing, monotone (as in a declamation manner) is an acquired taste, which I personally adore. But I get your point, when he sings in a traditional way, his voice is utterly melodic.
@@isabely.6926 I love it too, but damn his singing is soulful
@@SupBro-ww9go Why I occasionally listen to Einstürzende Neubauten.
@@courtneyappel2649 great band
Geniuses. Plain and simple.
Восхитительно ..
Творческий дуэт. Сочетание могучих голосов. Красивый музыкальный клип еще к томуже. Красивые мужчины....
Помню школьные годы, по mtv показывали много интересного, но именнно эта пнсня меня зацепила. Записав ее на кпссету в 92 году, я слушаю ее третий десяток лет, и каждый раз до мурашек по коже.
эти парни ....не забываемы...а кто второй то..ну напарник Ника Кейва !...поди и не знаешь ?...как и команду его.
@@user-jj9uw4tk2s Баргельд Бликса, его я отдельно слушаю от Кейва. Его творчество специфическое.
"Yes, true weeping is yet to come." Profound.
The clapping is so good
This song is incredible. Thanks a lot from Slovakia.
I’ ve never heard something so magnificent and so heartwrenching, I Swear. Sublime
God bless these men, and God bless all the people of the Earth.
Just lovely.
Always back here to rest my weary head.
Hard to believe so much time has passed.
They are so young…
When I was introduced to Nick Cave 's music in 2000, my artistic life fundamentally changed. This particular song seemed to exist in it's own universe of expression. To this day it leaves me practically speechless.
no matter how sad or down i feel, i always recurr to this to lift up the morale. thank you nick and blixa for this epic song.
Maybe one of the greatest songs of all time.
Not maybe, it is
Blixa is everyone's favourite crack pixie.