Mike Doughty - Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating in the Future (Official video)

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  • Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
  • From the album STELLAR MOTEL. Pick up a copy...
    Direct from Mike: bit.ly/1dvWKWb
    On iTunes: geni.us/1Dko
    On Amazon: geni.us/Stellar...
    At your local record store: bit.ly/StellarRSD
    Directed by Robert Greenwood and Phil Kibbe

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  • @lilmo037
    @lilmo037 4 роки тому +18

    I absolutely love this song and don't realize that my soul needs it until it starts up and my brain just slips into comfort mode.

    • @TheRealBuckBumble
      @TheRealBuckBumble Рік тому +3

      its his voice, he has one of the most mesmerizing voices of any singer ever

  • @GenericBrand-TM
    @GenericBrand-TM 2 роки тому +9

    I can't believe this song is bordering on ten years old now. You've been a source of joy for me since the 2000s and I truly appreciate you, Mike!

  • @nicholasrichon5062
    @nicholasrichon5062 Рік тому +2

    In case anyone's missing this.... This song is awesome.

  • @HillaryHarrison
    @HillaryHarrison 10 років тому +10

    I can't tell you how much I love this song. I am so thankful my local radio station plays it and introduced me to it. Love it!

    • @RobertF-
      @RobertF- 8 років тому

      Thanks for mentioning 88.9 Radio Milwaukee. It's a cool radio station. I first heard this song on WFUV. Another great radio station that can be listened to online.

  • @imjusts0medude
    @imjusts0medude 9 років тому +27

    this...this is what the world needs much more of.

  • @VampireMob
    @VampireMob 10 років тому +34

    This song had caused me to play air banjo.

  • @meowMix03
    @meowMix03 8 років тому +16

    it's five am and u r listening,,,, u r listening,.,,,,,,,,,,to Mike Doughty!!!!!

    • @browndogjack
      @browndogjack 5 років тому +2

      The only one listening is st Louis.

  • @jimrhea5484
    @jimrhea5484 2 роки тому +3

    Underrated. Wow. Gonna take awhile to absorb this guy and his band. It's not just him, everybody is on it. I am a fan. Big time.

  • @barrytipton8564
    @barrytipton8564 7 років тому +3

    Doughy, please keep making music. Nobody else has your sensibility.

  • @wouldyoulikefrieswiththat9310
    @wouldyoulikefrieswiththat9310 2 роки тому +1

    I'm here from soul coughing back in the 90s was wondering what happened to you I've been on a 90s nostalgia trip for the past few months and the past 3 weeks I've been listening to all the soul coughing albums on repeat lol yaw really were a good band wished things would have turned out different it would be nice to see what you guys would be doing today . Much love and respect to you have a good one mike👍👍👍. New subscriber.

    • @thetalantonx
      @thetalantonx 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah, I saw Soul Coughing live every time they came to Portland back in the old days. It was good finding his stuff again, and this song is a banger. I was actually just listening to Irresistible Bliss and El Oso last night.

  • @nonyabusiness9747
    @nonyabusiness9747 3 роки тому +1

    Wow.. how is it that it has taken me six years to hear this.?

  • @mtbugaj
    @mtbugaj 10 років тому +1

    i sent my funds to other projects when the motel had exceeded capacity. have remained in the dark until now. if the whole thing is this good, i might just use this utterance of the word light to keep my heart beating. just the word, no need for the physical presence itself. i live as a shut-in n the darkest place in america.

  • @mgb9778
    @mgb9778 9 років тому +8

    Never stop rocking, Mike!

  • @holly6084
    @holly6084 Рік тому +1

    Namaste 😊

  • @MrJcucchiara
    @MrJcucchiara 9 років тому +10

    You haven't done it again... you're just consistently doin' it! FANTASTIC!

  • @YinzerSteel
    @YinzerSteel 5 років тому +3

    I don't think I've ever heard a catchier song in my entire life. Instant classic!

  • @i.m.i.7310
    @i.m.i.7310 3 роки тому +1

    Your videos rock.it sir.

  • @PulpedFiction
    @PulpedFiction 10 років тому +6

    I was in a bad mood when I woke up but not any more. Thank you!

  • @GeorgNikodym
    @GeorgNikodym 10 років тому +2

    I've been

  • @SuperDuperYTsecret
    @SuperDuperYTsecret 11 місяців тому

    Keeping your views going one day at a time!
    Should have way more honestly...
    I owe you a lot and you're part of why I'm still alive for sure.
    Thank you for reminding me of my brother who introduced me to your music. ❤

  • @AG-mz7vm
    @AG-mz7vm Рік тому +1

    Amazing Song! Thanks Mike!

  • @bcstargazer
    @bcstargazer 10 років тому +3

    Heard this on el radio on KINK FM 101.9 in Portland, OR and was like all, " Grooovy tune dude!"

  • @spider1620
    @spider1620 10 років тому +1

    Awesome song. And a killer show tonight in Charlottesville. Great job calling out the girl talking during the show. You are my hero for doing that!

  • @RickG603
    @RickG603 9 років тому +17

    Mr. Dougjhty, I love your amazing music...I am a new fan but you definitely are touching my soul...had some drug issues in my past as well...but way too old for that shizzle now..pretty much...lucky me. Please do not stop your musical endeavors! You are innovative, new and make my heart feel very special things like no other artist. Please do not stop creating your music!!

    • @newhampguy
      @newhampguy 9 років тому +1

      You really think he reads the comment section of this? xD

    • @RickG603
      @RickG603 9 років тому

      I never wrote the above comment, someone must have been on my account thinking they were on their own... wierd!

    • @newhampguy
      @newhampguy 9 років тому +2

      Rick Goodrich lol!

    • @TweEkc
      @TweEkc 8 років тому

      or you were on drugs again

  • @ForestKorok_
    @ForestKorok_ 10 років тому +2

    Link will keep your piece of heart in the future!

  • @vladtheinhaler229
    @vladtheinhaler229 10 років тому +2

    Outstanding tune and a very hip Banjo...and the solid drums...very cool lyrics !

  • @richmarkese9120
    @richmarkese9120 10 років тому +6

    Nice Mike! Didnt expect to hear that. First song Ive heard from you since SC days. Very fucking cool track! Groovy, great hook, great energy. Now gonna listen to more.....

  • @mattboucher7466
    @mattboucher7466 3 роки тому +5

    I can't hear this song enough! Mike Doughty is such an amazing musician. The other members of Soul Coughing really are f'd in the head letting that band dissolve and their egos. Idiots! Mike is the real deal and will continue to produce great music

  • @jenniferwilkins6301
    @jenniferwilkins6301 10 років тому +8

    I fuxking love this song!

  • @WaterDesignirrigation
    @WaterDesignirrigation Рік тому

    Been a fan since early soul coughing when there was an upright bass. Which was amazing. Saw soul coughing downtown nyc. Wtf was the name of the place ?
    Hey Mr. Dougherty .. hit me back.

  • @harveyatlaw
    @harveyatlaw 6 років тому +1

    More people need to see this

  • @aerotrooper
    @aerotrooper 10 років тому

    I didn't know this. Thanks to god for Spotify.

  • @danielmijakovski2659
    @danielmijakovski2659 2 роки тому +1

    Mr Doughty, Mr McLaren n Quan

    • @danielmijakovski2659
      @danielmijakovski2659 2 роки тому

      in a room together talking music..........................I do not have any idols, but I know for sure that they will they will THROW it down funky n SOULFUL. The mix of Bobby n a fast car was not well executed

  • @TimPaigeArts
    @TimPaigeArts 10 років тому +5

    His music is amazing.

  • @garyronningtonhughes5837
    @garyronningtonhughes5837 9 років тому

    You were marvellous in St Albans last September.

  • @teresatalks9
    @teresatalks9 9 років тому +2

    his voice reminds me of jimmy pop's in the best way possible

  • @ronaldpike4630
    @ronaldpike4630 4 роки тому

    I know and love that voice from Soul Coughing! Well done!

  • @jameslwjtoler
    @jameslwjtoler Місяць тому

    I knew the lyrics were muddy lace and rotten lime. Every website, including Spotify, has them as moneyless and ridin' line.

  • @EldonMoore
    @EldonMoore 10 років тому +1

    tiiiight

  • @discwidower
    @discwidower 9 років тому +1

    Gotta find me a straw pork pie now !!

  • @cason211
    @cason211 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for this. All of it.

  • @wkze4822
    @wkze4822 10 років тому +2

    Awesome Tune!

  • @Rune_Wave_
    @Rune_Wave_ 9 років тому +4

    Me and my mom love your songs so much! i hope you make more videos of thes songs sone!!

  • @specksmacgruder
    @specksmacgruder 10 років тому +1

    Such a fresh album. Thanks Mike!

  • @cubancigarcrisis
    @cubancigarcrisis 10 років тому +2

    Seriously dope video and song

  • @JerryWilliamswebshowsandfilms
    @JerryWilliamswebshowsandfilms 9 років тому +3

    love it...banjo surreal pop!

  • @jennifermally1001
    @jennifermally1001 9 років тому +1

    love the beach boardwalk theme..

  • @hydeerockett5064
    @hydeerockett5064 10 років тому +1

    Solid gold, as usual.

  • @MicBratsis
    @MicBratsis 10 років тому +2

    this is dope! im a new fan!

    • @theoriginalMaxman2
      @theoriginalMaxman2 10 років тому +2

      I highly suggest checking out his 2005 album Haughty Melodic, it's lyrically his best effort since the mid 1990s.

  • @RND_ADV_X
    @RND_ADV_X 6 років тому +1

    Those dusty tomes
    In the antique
    bookshop
    Are the ones
    That don't sell
    in the Midwest
    The case I left
    At the renovated
    car park
    Was only a still life
    The case of cows is still
    in vitamin D
    Like a stab wound victim
    Your trees
    called the hand down
    While an old shepherd
    Weaponizes
    his livestock
    Bigger hats
    Overcast
    An overgrown heart
    Half
    pacemaker
    Two legs
    The wolf that stands
    Selfless phenomenon
    Ventricles
    Like a dusty moon
    Your loves' a loom
    The lunatic
    The inward Doom
    Death and sex
    don't need the room
    :)

  • @zootman2020
    @zootman2020 10 років тому

    SPECTACULAR!!!

  • @aerotrooper
    @aerotrooper 10 років тому +5

    I'm thankful for this new lyrics on screen trend. It's fun. Looking up words on lyrics sites and wondering if it's really what the artist meant is wearying and becomes like this esoteric school of epistemology and culture. It's just easier when they incorporate the text. Also, the new Thunderbolt roller coaster is said to be very rough which could be a good tradition to keep but a surprising addition to the future.

    • @jamesonscales666
      @jamesonscales666 10 років тому

      That trend is definably not new, Steve; 20 years ago it was. Also, with this song at least, it'd be really troubling if you had to look the lyrics up. It ain't like he's channeling a drunk Bob Dylan! I'm totally not trying to make any sort of judgement, but you're somewhat younger, right?

  • @DuffyLaudick
    @DuffyLaudick 10 років тому

    Great track Mike!

  • @stealingroses
    @stealingroses 10 років тому

    Awe man there needs to be a single 3rd harmony on the chorus! Especially on the keep your heart beating part.

  • @LiveAndLetLive2025
    @LiveAndLetLive2025 4 роки тому

    Awesome track. Request: could you post the official lyrics in the description? They're always poetic, and worth sharing.

  • @cglaurer
    @cglaurer 3 роки тому +1

    The most underrated singer-songwriter in the known universe.

  • @i.m.i.7310
    @i.m.i.7310 3 роки тому

    👍awe.some tanks.

  • @dennisstjohn1349
    @dennisstjohn1349 10 років тому +3

    I love the song, this video is aweful!!

  • @KU-mq4er
    @KU-mq4er 8 років тому

    Dope

  • @meredithelaine
    @meredithelaine 10 років тому +8

    I'm amazingly in love with this song! But (and I hate to be THAT person), I can't get over the typo in the video...mandarin is spelled "MADARIN" (2:24). I'm sorrrrrrry.

    • @eltroyo7575
      @eltroyo7575 10 років тому

      I thought that exact same thing

    • @AbeIsMean
      @AbeIsMean 10 років тому +1

      They spelled it right...

    • @Wysefool
      @Wysefool 9 років тому

      bugs the hell outta me too, it's a great video otherwise - I wish they could correct it

    • @problemchild799
      @problemchild799 4 роки тому

      Mandarin is a dialect of Chinese. That's how it is spelled in the US.

  • @LiveAndLetLive2025
    @LiveAndLetLive2025 4 роки тому +8

    "[Verse 1]
    I was in many minds
    I was in an airport bookstore
    I wait for many moons
    Left a suitcase on the fourth floor
    Enormous balloons
    Gold choker all made out of spoons
    Eating super sugar crisp
    I was getting used to this
    Well
    Light will keep your heart beating in the future [2x]
    [Chorus]
    Keep your heart beating in the -
    Keep your heart, keep your heart beating
    Keep your heart beating, beating
    Keep your heart beating in the (beating in the)
    Keep your heart, keep your heart beating
    Keep your heart beating, beating
    Keep your heart beating in the (beating in the)
    [Verse 2]
    There was a lot of them
    There was a bloody fight next door
    There was a crack stem
    There was a ghoul on the misty moor
    City bus, Ketamine
    Lucy Lawless, Magazine
    Out of base, Lucky charm
    Outer space, Smoke alarm
    Light will keep your heart beating in the future [2x]
    [Chorus]
    [Verse 3]
    Overlap, Overleaf
    Shoulder strap, Fire chief
    Porch swing,Moneyless
    Purple wine, Freckle face
    Heavy hand, Closed door
    Contraband, North shore
    Fine line, Margarine
    Riding line, Mandarin
    Light will keep your heart beating in the future [2x]
    [Chorus] [6x]"
    🎤🎶💕

  • @ArthurBrooklyn
    @ArthurBrooklyn 3 роки тому

    Anybody can help me find a collaboration that Mike supposedly did with BT. Track supposed to be called "The Heat And The Hate"

  • @mattboucher7466
    @mattboucher7466 3 роки тому

    Song is Bad Fucking Ass! I love it!!

  • @Preppy-au0
    @Preppy-au0 5 років тому

    Bring back super sugar crisp!

  • @TheObliviousi
    @TheObliviousi 2 роки тому

    I wasn't there

  • @dnktrap1845
    @dnktrap1845 6 років тому

    For one collaboration? ❤️

  • @campbelltron
    @campbelltron 10 років тому +2

    is this song about the singularity?

    • @jamesonscales666
      @jamesonscales666 10 років тому +1

      I imagine he wrote in the same, abstract observational manner as a lot of his tunes. I'd put money on him writing this after literally being in an airport bookstore looking at books and magazines seeing things like Lucy Lawless on a cover, a story about ketamine, and spotting a girl with a gold choker made out of spoons as a fire alarm went off, as well as some article similar to this one: www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/279218.php

    • @ForestKorok_
      @ForestKorok_ 10 років тому

      about sandstorm

  • @jennifermally1001
    @jennifermally1001 9 років тому +1

    Where is this filmed?

  • @aaronmiller3156
    @aaronmiller3156 4 роки тому +1

    So am I the only one who is completely lost on what this is even about? Am I missing something? It just sounds like random words that sound good together... maybe I'm dumb.

    • @SaberToothTigerRBY
      @SaberToothTigerRBY 13 днів тому

      It’s Jesus that keeps our heart beating (eternal life) in the future.

  • @generalproductfund
    @generalproductfund 9 років тому +4

    Is this the same guy from Soul Coughing?

    • @krypticjunglist
      @krypticjunglist 9 років тому +1

      Zachary Lane It most certainly is.

    • @weezerman2002
      @weezerman2002 8 років тому +2

      If you can't tell by the voice....

    • @JB5D
      @JB5D 5 років тому

      same but different

  • @cyborgpenguin1
    @cyborgpenguin1 9 років тому +1

  • @matthewmcdanel4106
    @matthewmcdanel4106 10 років тому +3

    Production from the always amazing GoodGoose!
    soundcloud.com/goodgoose

  • @jennmagrey2834
    @jennmagrey2834 6 років тому

    I think I need to marry you.

  • @wallin.9377
    @wallin.9377 8 років тому

    69th commit

  • @homerd.mitchell4342
    @homerd.mitchell4342 4 роки тому

    You're trying too hard......
    But keep trying.🤪

  • @bugjams
    @bugjams 9 років тому

    Shame this is one of the only songs I like out of his album... It's so unlike most of his other songs, which contain trashy meanings or lyrics.

  • @AbeIsMean
    @AbeIsMean 10 років тому +4

    Am i the only one that thinks this song is actually pretty terrible and makes no sense? I mean if you wrote the lyrics down and turned it into your English teacher for a poem assignment or something like that i think the teacher would transfer you to special needs... there might be a message behind it but, he does a terrible job at relaying it in an understandable way.

    • @DRidleyThinkingFish
      @DRidleyThinkingFish 10 років тому +6

      There's no profound message, that isn't Doughty's style.
      He just uses his voice as an instrument

    • @HappyFace7115
      @HappyFace7115 10 років тому +1

      your not the only one

  • @TheHighExecutioner
    @TheHighExecutioner Рік тому

    Brilliant