Amanda Palmer - Astronaut [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Amanda Palmer's video for 'Astronaut' off the album Who Killed Amanda Palmer - available now on Roadrunner Records. Download now on iTunes: smarturl.it/who...
LYRICS
Is it enough to have some love
small enough to slip inside a book
small enough to cover with your hands
because everyone around you wants to look
is it enough to have some love
small enough to fit inside the cracks
the pieces dont fit together so good
with all the breaking and all the gluing back
and i am still not getting what i want
i want to touch the back of your right arm
i wish you could remind me who i was
because every day Im a little further off
but you are, my love, the astronaut
flying in the face of science
i will gladly stay an afterthought
just bring back some nice reminders
and is it getting harder to pretend
that life goes on without you in the wake
and can you see the means without the end
in the random frantic action that we take
and is it getting easy not to care
despite the many rings around your name
it isnt funny and it isnt fair
youve traveled all this way and its the same
but you are, my love, the astronaut
flying in the face of science
i will gladly stay an afterthought
just bring back some nice reminders
i would tell them anything to see you split the evening
but as you see i do not have an awful lot to tell
everybodys sick for something that they can find fascinating
everyone but you and even you arent feeling well
(instrumental)
yes you are, my love, the astronaut
crashing in the name of science
just my luck they found your upper half
its a very nice reminder
its a very nice reminder
and you may be acquainted with the night
but I have seen the darkness in the day
and you must know it is a terrifying sight
because you and i are living the same way
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She broke the middle C on the keyboard playing this song last night in Portland. It was only the second song of the night, but that didn't matter at all. She gave the most powerful performance imaginable. I was crying and laughing all night. I'm so lucky.
:)
So lucky
:') that's so badass
"I wish you could remind me who I was, cause every day I'm a little further off..."
This. So much.
This is when there is expression, passion and power inside a song. Not often seen these days. The dynamic is amazing.
Still one of the best songs I've ever heard. She sounds like she's going to come off the rails at any moment, but is driven by the rhythmic piano and string section. An absolute masterpiece and for me, her finest work.
It's been over a decade that I get goose bumps every time I listen to this song.
I love how she can take rough noises and banging and drumming and make it into something so beautiful that it flows!
i swear she just keeps getting more and more awesome I love Amanda Palmer she's so phenomenally talented and her lyrics blow my mind with how they always seem to relate to what I'm going through makes me glad I'm not the only person out there with this feelings.
I totally adore how she uses piano here. She creates strong rhytm, which holds the attention to the sound. And plays on contrasts. The lyrics and sounds are perfect. The voice sounds incredibly beautifull. Totally awesome.
This song came up on my suggested list on Spotify and I'm so glad that it did. Amanda really helped me through some tough spots the past 2 years.
I found some graffiti that said "I wish you could remind me who I was cause everyday I'm a little further off", I thought it sounded beautiful, & it lead me to this beautiful song :)
I absolutely love this song. The piano is so perfect, soft and heavy in the right places. Then the orchestra comes in and by the end Amanda's softly spoken words just make you feel sad and empty. Not to mention her amazing singing, which communicates so much emotion and confidence. I think this song is simply breathtaking. It's dark and bleak, but also so _full_. Great work, as always. :)
This song is brilliant. Even just the thought of losing the one you love to someone else is a frightening thing. It's easier to put them on a pedestal and justify their wrongdoings than to lose them sometimes and once you start defending their bad behavior it turns into a cycle. This song is so deep. There's so much to it, i literally feel like it is telling a story that has to be so thoughtfully pieced together to understand. Very beautiful and touching.
You may be acquainted with the night but I have seen the darkness in the day.
And you must know it is a terrifying sight because you and I are living the same way.
This song made me feel emotion for the first time in what feels like years.
Reminds me of the Doctor and River Song. "i wish you could remind me who i was" "but you are, my love, the astronaut, flying in the face of science" "but I have seen the darkness in the day and you must know it is a terrifying sight because you and i are living the same way"
That makes sense, I think. To me this song is partly about the isolation of being in love with someone you will always play second fiddle to and whose love for you will always be second to their field. That pretty much fits with River Song's story.
She is so amazing.
Everyone's talked about how awesome this song is (and it is) but I want to say she looks especially lovely in that outfit.
this song makes my heart beat fast and if there is something music should be able to achieve it is exactly that
also your skin tingle, your eyes water, your insides melt.
@@irazorn3712 that's called radiation
Is it enough to have some love?
Small enough to slip inside a book
Small enough to cover with your hand
Because everyone around you wants to look
Is it enough to have some love?
Small enough to slip inside the cracks
The pieces don't fit together so good
With all the breaking and all the gluing back
And I am still not getting what I want
I want to touch the back of your right arm
I wish you could remind me who I was
Because every day I'm a little further off
But you are, my love, the astronaut
Flying in the face of science
I will gladly stay an afterthought
Just bring back some nice reminders
Is it getting harder to pretend
That life goes on without you in the wake?
And can you see the means without the end?
In the random frantic action that we take
Is it getting easy not to care?
Despite the many rings around your name
It isn't funny and it isn't fair
You've traveled all this way, and it's the same
But you are, my love, the astronaut
Flying in the face of science
I will gladly stay an afterthought
Just bring back some nice reminders
I would tell them anything to see you split the evening
But as you see I do not have an awful lot to tell
Everybody's sick for something that they can find fascinating
Everyone but you, and even you aren't feeling well
But you are, my love, the astronaut
Flying in the face of science
I will gladly stay an afterthought
Just bring back some nice reminders
Yes! You are, my love, the astronaut
Crashing in the name of science
Just my luck, they sent your upper half
It's a very nice reminder
It's a very nice reminder
You may be acquainted with the night
But I have seen the darkness in the day
And you must know it is a terrifying sight
Because you and i are living the same way
If I had to choose 5 songs everyone I know should experience this would definitely be in that list. Stunning.
This one and The Dresden Doll's Sing
I can't tell you how refreshing this is to hear
with pen and poker ! the soaring heart of Amanda Palmer !
So much passion comes through one person. It’s enough to make you smile.... and cry.
Two things make this video absolutely beautiful....the editing is stellar, and her gorgeous, expressive face.
This is one of the best things I've seen and heard in my life.
I can't stop watching this very talented woman she is amazing
It was the last tear for an old love
This should of played some part in interstellar. The emotion in this is is so intense and so perfect for enhancing the emotions of the movie
It doesn't fit the tone of the movie AT ALL
Amazing.. it makes me shiver. Dark Cabaret, allow me to explore your deepest depths along with this wonderful lady!
Just saw Nina Forever and had to look up this gem. I was in no way dissapointed!! Such passion!
Amanda Palmer, thank you so much for making the world a better place. Where would we be without the 'astronauts' of art... (Love the fact that the song reminded me of Patrick Wolf's cover of Kate Bush' "Running up that Hill"!) Xx
the most beautiful song to date she has done
Tbh I don’t know why this masterpiece..does not have million view++.. I seen it a million times myself
The splash cymbals post-chorus makes this song for me.
I love that amazing red overcoat. Where can I get one?
This song is already 8 years old - God, I feel old...
Just bring back some nice reminders
This is freaking amazing!!! What would it be like if she and Tori Amos got together?
DAMN!!
They used to be kind of adversarial but I gotta say I can see the reasoning on the part of Amanda after reading some old blog really really old blog entries of hers from the Way Back machine. I was also predominantly keyboard based singer songwriter at the same time and Palmer and I are a few months apart from each otherin age..,, so we were both in the beginning of playing out at shows in our careers on our merit and then the popularity of 9 zero Tori as the ultimate keyboard driven female artist, even though there were several people who did play key before and afterwards, and during it was a real pigeonholing challenge to be female artist anyway in the post garage still sort of grunge era early mid 90s. It was also a limiting because Tori‘s core fan base was so loyal so cultish that they were gonna give to anyone else they thought was a copycat or a competition or. Including even some reviewers, realizing at least intentionally not acting that they were shooting us foot and a lot of other singer songwriter pianist. I think about it now it’s pathetic how thin skinned I was in the face of pretty vanilla cyber Billy compared to some trolls, you see now brought on and made personal by a couple people who were clearly still immature about such behavior and so was I in handling it with any grace or maturity? I just span off the Internet, although I still released a couple of albums and such. But it was really interesting to read that series of blog entries where she was. Amanda was venting about some things that I was also familiar with, but I guess too diplomatic and two powered me to just say what I thought, the thing I don’t think she had a problem with herself I didn’t really ever it was the fan. It was the people that were sycophantic to be honest and more often they were other women around age who just probably had less control over most circumstances that it happened in their lives at that point and the saying hurt people hurt people it’s a thing. Unfortunately, my brother had just taken his life around that time and it was really shitty to have open my email. I’ll need to find a three page diagram of how an outfit song on one of my records was derivative and stolen from Tori according to this person who knew my brother was dead and how so they told me to follow suit because it was very person that was pathetic and it sucked. I failed to get some of the fun parts that I could’ve been enjoying about being on tour about making records, but I knew that stuff even though I was culturally and critically irrelevant comparatively. I chose to leave the label that had signed me in 96 because I was just getting so worn out by it and I think that was the right decision but I wonder sometimes what would’ve happened if I just kept with it I just didn’t wanna be False and they were trying to get me to be a bit sexier, angrier, and crazier than I ever was at 22 years old now I’ve experience and menopause hormones have probably made me the perfect candidate to be the angry young woman just five years late lol take care. Have a great afternoon. Oh the funniest thing was that before that happened before I even, put out a record nationally. I worked at a radio station as The Morning Show Psychic and got to do charts and readings for a lot of the people who were coming through for promotion tour and I met Tori Amos among others did her astrology and tarot before any of that and she was just such a obnoxious sweet, kind person crushing on a guy at the time, it was kind of strange that a couple years later it would be that person who had the fan base that was the most toxic and brutal when music and I were entangled. Because she was one of the nicest and there were a couple people that never really got a lot of notice but they happen to be on our radio show and those were the people that stuck in my head is being rude and self-employed and just absolute main character. There was a girl from Chicago who I had seen her band well visiting Chicago a few years before loved it then, but it purified into no doubt trying to be evanescence rip off/mashup that because she was such a jerk she was such a jerk to people that show stand out in my memory two years earlier when I ended up playing with her, there was nothing originally sounding or she completely aped the Gwen Stefani aesthetic and was downright rude to most of her band to the club that was hosting it and promoters and that’s just one thing that’s so yuck in any field to me is way a person pulls rank with don’t you know who I am. I thought that was just a thing people said in movies or it was exaggerated but the truth of the people that do that kind of attitude usually most people would not know who they are or why they’re so full themselves, at least two women were so not full of themselves. In fact, I think they was a feeling of having not entirely accepted understood observed, celebrated how much good was in there working there actual personalities I think they were unimpressed by themselves, which is a way to impress the hell out of me. I would much rather be friends and colleagues who don’t know just how awesome they are than they are compared to people who think they’re the cats pajamas in the snakes ass they deserve a parade back rub attack break, etc. but there’s nothing really there the rest of the world besides a couple enablers of course they tend to portray themselves to the world at large obnoxious concentration of irrelevance that they probably really are more often than not and society will then take a look over there at that ensemble” wait who are you? Huh? Or “for what?” ❤😂
I'm so in love with this woman, where has she been all my life?
Love Amanda Palmer!!! So much feeling in songs and a voice that pulls you Into the song (for me anyway)
I know Palmer has a bad rep, but even people who don't like her have to admit her music is STELLAR
This is one of my perfect grief songs to speak to my partner who overdosed far too young leaving their magic all over
This is one of my favourite songs... so good
For the first time ever, I understand this song. Completely.
my friend just killed himself. this seems so fitting. I just keep calling his phone to hear his voice. I don't know why this is so perfect but I hope he gets the peace that I can never have now.
andrea lampe ♡
May he rest in peace
sorry for your loss. my best friend killed himself almost exactly 4 years ago and discovering this song today hits hard. "It isn't funny and it isn't fair, you've traveled all this way and it's the same" fits so well.
I met her yesterday :) She sure does give nice hugs....
Sure she does....
@AnotherOpheliac I'm not settling for less. Respecting it is accepting it to some degree. I literally love their band, and especially Amanda!
so much power in one human being
The beat is just so good.
gods I loved this era of amanda
I can't believe how different and inspirationally strange and tasty every song is, it's like a stroll through a fantasy park
wow. shes amazing. so talented it makes me jelous!
great song (Y) tbh great album..
you know what everything about amanda palmer is great, and that's an understatement.
I CAN'T STOP WATCHING THIS!! :D This is amaaaaazing
I met her when she was touring with GTO. It was amazing, and I hope the rest of you all get the same treatment!!!!!!!!!!!
I love Amanda Plamer's songs they contain lyrics that border on (Devine Crulity) she is the all time Extreme personality I have ever heard ! GOOD TOO THE LAST DROP !!!
This song has that Type-O-Negative vibe that I like.
Aga şu şarkının altında bi vatandaşımı buldum ya :D
Love listening/watching this when I'm high ^~^
yes yes yes and yeah!
Her beauty and voice is so immense and powerful.
Her voice is lovely and her smile is beautiful.
So amazing.
Still one of my favorite albums ever.
THE FIRST SONG IN THE PLAYLIST OF MY LIVE!! :D
This song saved me❤
gets me every time
I'm thankful to steampianist for introducing me to this absolute masterpiece.
So pretty, your voice your music - - your dress, you rule!
she is crazy i love it!
amo tanto mds♡
What a way to start an album.
I love this women
3 am amanda palmer...weirdly soul touching
So abusing the replay button right now... lol
fantastic song.....
You may be acquainted with the night,
but I have seen the darkness in the day..
And you must know it's a terrifying sight,
because you and I are living the same way...
and you may be acquainted with the night
but I have seen the darkness in the day
and you must know it is a terrifying sight
because you and i are living the same way
How on earth does this only have 133K views?
great voice, 1:29 reminds me of Siouxsie in her best years
luv u Amanda Palmer.
she always has fantastic eyebrows
If you haven't, read the blog about the meaning of this song then watch the video again! MAKES IT EVEN MORE AMAZING
This still has the strongest intro to a song this side of Nightwish.
she is awesome xxx
My astronaut... always looking at the stars...
seca Amanda, buenísima!!
2024 ❤
As much as I have to disagree, you are officially my new best friend :3
splendiferous!
Wow. That is fkn HUGE.
beautiful!
AMAZING!!!
This is the song for people who just really hate their piano
where can i get that outfit?
i met her shes amazing!!
You make me giggle.
Powerful.
I love you❤
To be honest. I really dig Amanda Palmer's music. She is a genius. Using the Challenger disaster footage for this music video though....I don't know...feels weird.
Isn’t that what it’s about though? Idk if it’s about challenger specifically but it’s a song about being in love with an astronaut who dies in a crash
@romeosevendelta yea exactly. its not like roadrunner pushes hers or dresden dolls music.
30 people liked this so much they turned the computer upsidedown just to like it again
That song... Amen
Grateful...
hello again thank you
Amanda Palmer + Serj Tankian
make it happen
yes. absolutely.
yess!
Fuck yes!
Two of my fave artists/people.
Its been 3 years people! Why hasn't this happened yet