moss can grow and die to nearly a couple of cells and come back, functionally most plants live for hundreds to thousands of years in the right conditions. Redwoods older than the first settlers. The moss will continue its life, regardless of what humanity accomplished. And will continue its life, regardless of how soon we die
"Legend has it that one and one is two, and one and two is three" Fuckin genius it relates to the rest of his covers, and you can hear Mind when that line is sung
Dystopian A.I after every human has died and is now realizing yhat it's the sole true sentient being left inthe world, alone with it's modernized high tech by souless world, and now just sings to itself and makes mock up theatre plays to entretain itself
Exactly lol- Meanwhile the other one seens to be talking about a world full of hopes and wonderfull storys, about a world full of incredible beings... This one just gives the reverses vibes, like you're in some sort of wasteland and your last hope sits in front of you, telling about legends very long ago dead and forgotten.
@@blur9992 yea that's it, i also kinda see it as like a representation of childhood and adulthood, like the legends at the start of the song are interesting facts about the world that a child would be interested in, then it transitions into fun fantasy tales and stories, as the song continues the instruments get 'deeper' (not really sure on music terminology but it just doesnt feel as light and carefree as it feels at the beginning) and then it's like someone else comes in and scolds the now teenager for being so childish with the second chorus, and then the next set of legends are facts that arent really interesting at all or are presented in a boring manner as you continue to age and learn about how the world really works
This feels like the nature that is the original was paved over by cruel unthinking machines and the singing is one of the few who remembers the green that once sat before one ground of concrete did So pretty goddamn cool
@@TOH_FanHey, don't give up hope dude! Hopelessness and contempt kill far more than maliciousness. This was shown with genocides, corruption and a lot of other things. And it's the same here. Read up on how the world's being messed up, and get others to help! If you wish, I could help give some pointers? (Gods I might sound like such a shill rn)
What I personally get from this remix, is that all the nursery rhymes and children's stories are being used as a distraction from what they've done to the planet and how it's affected the life they live. It's even brought up in the switch over to the darker half of the song. All in all, it's a great song that has been twisted into a mourning for what had been lost.
Here’s the lyrics : Legend has it that the moss grows on the north side of the trees Legend has it when the rain comes down, all the worms come up to breathe Legend has it when the sunbeams come, all the plants, they eat them with their leaves Legend has it that the world spins round on an axis of 23 degrees But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon? Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon Or she, who leapt up mountains while whistling up a tune And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe Or the girl that sang by day and by night, she ate tear soup Or the man who drank too much, and he got the brewers' droop Come listen, all ye fair maids, to how the moral goes Nobody knew and nobody knows How the pobble was robbed of his twice five toes Or how the dong came to own a luminous nose Or how The Jumblies went to sea in a sieve that they rowed And came to shore by the chankly bore, where the bong-trees grow Where the jabberwocky's small green tentacles do flow And the quangle wangle plays in the rain and the snow But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon? Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon Or she, who leapt up mountains while whistling up a tune And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe Or the girl that sang by day and by night, she ate tear soup Or the man who drank too much, and he got the brewers' droop But everything you see isn't everything that is Every thing you think to be, every thought you can't dismiss The lives we try to lead and the time we try to give Well it's all a fallacy, we continue to relive And every thing will live, just as every thing will die Every foe that you forgive, and every friend that you deny Every single first hello, and every single last goodbye Every smile that you show, every tear that you hide Well legend says that, one and one is two and that one and two is three Well legend has it that, the first flight flew back in 1903 Well legend has it that, we're all just doomed, and we've ruined our society Well legend has it that, we dug our tomb which we'll lie in for all eternity But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon? Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon Or she, who leapt up mountains while whistling up a tune And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe Or the girl that sang by day and by night, she ate tear soup Or the man who drank too much, and he got the brewers' droop Well everything you see isn't everything that is Every thing you think to be, every thought you can't dismiss The lives we try to lead and the time we try to give Well it's all a fallacy, we continue to relive And every thing will live, just as every thing will die Every foe that you forgive, and every friend that you deny Every single first hello, and every single last goodbye Every smile that you show, every tear that you hide Well legend has it that, the moss grows on the north side of the trees Well legend has it that, the moss that grows will outlive both you and me Well legend has it that, the world once knew a whole palette of lovely blues and greens Well legend has it that, our corpses lie a foundation of insincerity
This made me think of generations in the far future telling our story tales with slightly mixed up or misinterpreted details, IDK why that's what I thought of but I did
@@thefancyghost2891 i dont get how him not being on spotify boils your blood, listening to him on YT ain't much of a problem for me. Ads are being douches? Get an adblocker (some browsers have a built in one; such as Opera GX.)
holy shit. holy shit holy shit holy shit. this cover slaps SO fucking hard. the new lyrics are so good SO FUCKING GOOD. I love how they change the context of the song completely, from being about forgotten myths to how one day we and our society will be forgotten too. GOD these ones specifically "everything will live just as everything will die" "every single first hello and every single last goodbye" "legend has it that the moss will outlive both you and me" I need to lay down. good song good fucking song. I can't believe I came here from the fly to the moon shit post (also!!!! very high quality cover) this is making me feel new emotions
HELLO??? THIS SOUNDS SO EPIC AND THERE'S ADDED LYRICS WHAT I don't know how to describe the feeling it gives--it's like a more bitter, "we gotta fix whatever this paranormal mess is and quick" as opposed to "woah, look at all of this mysterious, whimsical stuff"
I get a similar feeling! Though for me it's a feeling that these issues are being presented, attention is being brought to them, but then the chorus comes in and it's like people are purposely ignoring the problems, the Singer is singing their same stories that are used as a distraction in an annoyed tone to show that it's a distraction, showing that the problems are being ignored Idk that's what my brain put together for it
I kind of imagine this as like Someone is telling stories with children and is starting to get tired of lying to them and tells them the truth of how they feel….that is oddly specific but yeah.
I very much appreciate it if it is but I think it’s in reference to the first airplane. It’d be in line with the theme of industrialization verses nature.
@@TheWilderCat yes, as the first fly (human being) who flew did so in 1903, being the wright brothers. I just took the fly part specifically was included as a nod (or Im lookin too far into it lol)
After listening to this cover, it makes me imagine a fantasy world with creatures like elves, dragons, and other magical beings. In this world, there's a wise man known as 'the Moss' who sings the original song. Then, one day, he begins to sing this version, revealing that this fantasy world wasn't always so beautiful; it emerged thousands of thousands of years after a nuclear war. The Moss was actually a man from that time, who suffered the mistakes of humanity and became the sole survivor of the old world.
I like how the new lyrics take the original The Moss to its natural conclusion. The original Moss suggests that believing in folklore is charming, harmless... this cover reminds us that believing in lies is how we've fucked ourselves, our friends, our communities, and our planet.
I am very, very happy that youtube mix randomly put this into a mix that had NOTHING to do with it, because this is the best song I've heard in a long, LONG while. Anyways, time to listen to it on loop until it's no longer that good! (it'll be a few weeks! hah!)
This is what it felt like when I noticed how unnerving the words "Legend has it when the sunbeams come, the plants they eat them with their leaves, legend has it that the earth spins round on an axis of 23 degrees" were compared to the rest of the song since the rest can be seen, while those words really show how far gone we are to the point where even 'nature' is just science. Fact. Unobservable through the lens of a child. We don't say grass is green, we say the air is oxygen.
This is if those legends and myths went wrong and caused ultimate destruction across the world. Like a second Pandora's Box, but without the hope at the end. Also i want to see an animation with the new lyrics Edit: coming back and noticing that the original chorus (about legends and folklore and how they are able to shape us and the world) appears _right_ after the nihilistic chorus (saying that we're all doomed and nothing we do matters) gives me an idea. The original chorus is the hope that's left in the world and is fighting to make it better, using these stories as inspiration. At the end, maybe hope lost, maybe nihilism is just getting the last word before it's defeat.
comes in thinking "oh cool a synth version of Moss love that song" gets distracted playing games than begins hearing the extra lyrics and my brain is instantly, "the fu...!" proceeds to listen to the new song thinking "why am i just now hearing of this?" truly underrated version. great job
Everyone else: talking abt how good the added lyrics are, the vibe of the song, how it compares to the original. Me: slowly developing an animatic I will never make abt a twink elf wizard, a trigger-happy fighter and a somewhat incompetent dwarf cleric
@@Goombatron3000 I’m literally relistening to the finale this week after relistening to all of Balance form the beginning for the third time (yearly winter tradition), and I was listening to the original literally thinking “wow this song fits what Lucretia did to them + them finding their way back to their memories so well” and then I ended up here in short: hello!!!
Okay, so the way I've heard it, I have a full trilogy of The Moss in my head, which goes: The Moss: Someone singing about the wonders of nature and the inherant magic in the world and its many mysteries, lots of traditional-type instrumentals used, has that pseudo-fantasy vibe. The Moss (Demo): Same general lyrics, but sounds much more underplayed, like someone reminiscing on how things were, while things are becoming more modernized. There are some mysteries, but he's far too busy with his day-in and day-out to seek them out. Lots of clicking and mechanical sounds interspersed with the final instrumentals used. The Moss (Cosmo Sheldrake Cover): A new verse and chorus added, like someone in the distant future is looking back on this (maybe a robot based on the use of past tense of the humans), but the world is now no longer even remotely similar to the one described in the song. No wonders, no mysteries, and no magic. Just a bleak monotone landscape as far as the eye can see. My interpretation is that the song was passed down through the eras, but lost its meaning as the world got more and more industrial. Lots of autotune and synth instrumentals replacing the flute and banjo.
I legitimately thought this was the original song at first, so I set my phone down and started having a creative brainstorming session making up characters and a story that I loosely based on the original song. Needless to say, I made a nightmare version of the story I had come up with previously. Which is ok. The original story I made didn't have a villian. Now it has a monster to haunt my waking hours. O.o
this and be born make me feel non-existent emotions like I feel like like AAAAAAA JNXNMCMCMCMMMM the layers crunchy the music and the voice and the crunchy and HHHH
[I further modified the lyrics, I hope you, Chonny Jash, enjoy the creative liberty I took inspiration to make...] have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon? or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon. Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune and swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom. Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few from that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe. Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup, or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers' droop and died? But everything you see isn't everything that is, every thing you think to be, every thought you can't dismiss. The lives we try to lead and the time we try to give, well it's all a fallacy, we continue to relive. And every thing will live, just as every thing will die. Every foe that you forgive, and every friend that you deny. Every single first hello, and every single last goodbye. Every smile that you show, every tear that you hide, it's all societal cyanide. Well legend has it that the moss grows on the north side of the trees. Well legend has it that same moss that grows will outlive both you and me. Well legend has it that world once knew a whole palette of lovely blues and greens. Well legend has it we turned the world to a concrete grey due to our greed... And Legend has it we cut down the forest without seeing for the trees... Well legend has it that our corpses lie a foundation of insincerity. Well legend has it neither you or me can last against infinity... Legend has it someone's life savings was traded for fool's gold on a side street... And Legend has it we never last to see the next century...
Just discovered you from your Mind Electric cover to find out you also covered my FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME??!??!?!?! The way you handle the art of song covers is just on a whole different level,,,,
this fucking guy I found "The Moss" while listening to a youtube-curated playlist of music, by chance... and then I find that chonny has already covered it. Wow.
His channel is pretty much solely known by the Tally Hall fandom which I think is a tragedy and a crime bc it means his original songs and other covers like this are ignored when they are just as bangin'
I imagine a group of people surrounding a campfire, the world around them gone and replaced with a cascade of grays and yellows of a destroyed planet. They sing of "legends" of their ancestors, remissing of actual fair tails mixed in with the past, yet they could not tell the difference. For the idea of a green and blue Earth is as far fetched as a cow straddling a spoon jumping between planets.
@@ChonnyJash My list of recommendations to you in no particular order: Tardigrade Song Pelicans We The Fly Birthday Suit Egg and Soldiers These are some of my favorite songs by Cosmo that have interesting lyrics.
@@ChonnyJash Chonny, by the time this is written, I'm sure your still doing Tally Hall stuff, and this probably may not get to you at all, but might I reccomend one of Cosmo's newest releases called No. 3? It's really good and I feel like a cover of that would be cool.
Bro, this song is so amazing I love I can't stop listening, it's been my work and focus song three months, I swear. I would love to hear something like Pelicans We covered in this style
not me, *seeing this and my eyes bugging out as I go “WHAAT?!- YOOOOOO-“ and immEDIATELY- click because I recently found your cover(s?) for the mind electric and LOVED IT- SO I KNOW THIS IS GONNA BE ONE OF THE BEST THINGS IN THE WORLD AND I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS A WHOLE YEAR OLD ALREADY?????* edit: AAAAAAAAAAAAGH- OH MY GOOOOOSH- *I LOVE THIS SO FREAKING MUCH THE ADDED LYRICS LEGIT ADD SO MUCH LIKE WHAT?!?!*
Question: How the friggety frick frack does this only have 90 likes?! This is like, the best cover I've heard, like ever! I can't believe I had to search covers of this song to find you!!
I adore this cover so much, the added lyrics are so good and still work SO WELL - I honestly like it more then the original. Absolute bop. It would be so cool to hear more songs covered! (possibly one of my favourites, Untrust Us? Hah-- I'm obsessed..)
When compared to your newer covers, this still sounds amazing, and while it feels a bit calmer than a lot of the others, i think it fits this song quite well
At that start i was thinking it was kinda meh, but then, it really started to grow, and when you added your own lyrics it made my brain shoot allllllll the happy chemicals! I literally put loud when “Ohhh euhhuhhuooo this iss gooooooood “ Bra friggin vo.
This is AMAZING 😻!! I cant believe that this is as good as it is! If you do any other covers of cosmo sheldrake, I highly recommend his song “come along” its such an atmospheric song!
WOAH! I discovered the original just today, and I had no clue you also covered this! (i'm a fan of your tally hall covers, and i haven't checked out much of your other content really) and I'm super surprised, but I'm all for it!
"Well legend has it that the moss that grows will outlive both you and me." this has to be my favorite line tbh, just something about it
Humans outlive moss.
@@tables8709 *INCONSOLABLE SOBBING*
@@oliviatilleman8055 Maybe it means that we’ll be dead before the moss could die, considering the message
@@tables8709 true, true
moss can grow and die to nearly a couple of cells and come back, functionally most plants live for hundreds to thousands of years in the right conditions. Redwoods older than the first settlers. The moss will continue its life, regardless of what humanity accomplished. And will continue its life, regardless of how soon we die
"Legend has it that one and one is two, and one and two is three"
Fuckin genius
it relates to the rest of his covers, and you can hear Mind when that line is sung
Didnt catch that, thx
MIND NOOOOOOO NOT AGIAN
@Foxett your literally everywhere lol hope you have a great rest of your day dude!
@@Foxett25hi
it has that sort of..... idk bite to it thats really noticeable whenever Mind sings
This song genuinely feels like some dystopian A.I singing to itself.
why is that like so perfect
HOLY HELL THAT'S A PERFECT DESCRIPTION
Skynet be like:
Dystopian A.I after every human has died and is now realizing yhat it's the sole true sentient being left inthe world, alone with it's modernized high tech by souless world, and now just sings to itself and makes mock up theatre plays to entretain itself
A.M.
this legitimately feels like a bad ending of the original and im here for it
I think you put into words what I could not
Exactly lol-
Meanwhile the other one seens to be talking about a world full of hopes and wonderfull storys, about a world full of incredible beings... This one just gives the reverses vibes, like you're in some sort of wasteland and your last hope sits in front of you, telling about legends very long ago dead and forgotten.
@@blur9992 yea that's it, i also kinda see it as like a representation of childhood and adulthood, like the legends at the start of the song are interesting facts about the world that a child would be interested in, then it transitions into fun fantasy tales and stories, as the song continues the instruments get 'deeper' (not really sure on music terminology but it just doesnt feel as light and carefree as it feels at the beginning) and then it's like someone else comes in and scolds the now teenager for being so childish with the second chorus, and then the next set of legends are facts that arent really interesting at all or are presented in a boring manner as you continue to age and learn about how the world really works
well said! :D
not readin that@@Monochrome2004
This feels like the nature that is the original was paved over by cruel unthinking machines and the singing is one of the few who remembers the green that once sat before one ground of concrete did
So pretty goddamn cool
A pessimistic Android singing a tale about how the world was once bright to the humans that are left.
I am thinking about Terminator when I listen to this
@@NaveeSeal yeah
@@NaveeSeal this is the one i can imagine the most in my head
sounds like a movie called "The Lorax"
Original: woah nature!! Cool!!!
This cover: WE'VE RUINED OUR PLANET AND THE DEADLINE TO FIX IT IS RAPIDLY APPROACHING
We’re doomed aren’t we…
@@TOH_FanWe’re doomed aren’t we…
@@Silly-LillieOvO
Not yet
@@TOH_FanHey, don't give up hope dude! Hopelessness and contempt kill far more than maliciousness. This was shown with genocides, corruption and a lot of other things. And it's the same here. Read up on how the world's being messed up, and get others to help! If you wish, I could help give some pointers? (Gods I might sound like such a shill rn)
@@keegans.969that is a much better representation of this song than the original comment.
What I personally get from this remix, is that all the nursery rhymes and children's stories are being used as a distraction from what they've done to the planet and how it's affected the life they live.
It's even brought up in the switch over to the darker half of the song. All in all, it's a great song that has been twisted into a mourning for what had been lost.
Ey that’s kinda like what I said! :D
Here’s the lyrics :
Legend has it that the moss grows on the north side of the trees
Legend has it when the rain comes down, all the worms come up to breathe
Legend has it when the sunbeams come, all the plants, they eat them with their leaves
Legend has it that the world spins round on an axis of 23 degrees
But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?
Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon
Or she, who leapt up mountains while whistling up a tune
And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom
Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few
From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe
Or the girl that sang by day and by night, she ate tear soup
Or the man who drank too much, and he got the brewers' droop
Come listen, all ye fair maids, to how the moral goes
Nobody knew and nobody knows
How the pobble was robbed of his twice five toes
Or how the dong came to own a luminous nose
Or how The Jumblies went to sea in a sieve that they rowed
And came to shore by the chankly bore, where the bong-trees grow
Where the jabberwocky's small green tentacles do flow
And the quangle wangle plays in the rain and the snow
But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?
Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon
Or she, who leapt up mountains while whistling up a tune
And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom
Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few
From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe
Or the girl that sang by day and by night, she ate tear soup
Or the man who drank too much, and he got the brewers' droop
But everything you see isn't everything that is
Every thing you think to be, every thought you can't dismiss
The lives we try to lead and the time we try to give
Well it's all a fallacy, we continue to relive
And every thing will live, just as every thing will die
Every foe that you forgive, and every friend that you deny
Every single first hello, and every single last goodbye
Every smile that you show, every tear that you hide
Well legend says that, one and one is two and that one and two is three
Well legend has it that, the first flight flew back in 1903
Well legend has it that, we're all just doomed, and we've ruined our society
Well legend has it that, we dug our tomb which we'll lie in for all eternity
But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?
Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon
Or she, who leapt up mountains while whistling up a tune
And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom
Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few
From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe
Or the girl that sang by day and by night, she ate tear soup
Or the man who drank too much, and he got the brewers' droop
Well everything you see isn't everything that is
Every thing you think to be, every thought you can't dismiss
The lives we try to lead and the time we try to give
Well it's all a fallacy, we continue to relive
And every thing will live, just as every thing will die
Every foe that you forgive, and every friend that you deny
Every single first hello, and every single last goodbye
Every smile that you show, every tear that you hide
Well legend has it that, the moss grows on the north side of the trees
Well legend has it that, the moss that grows will outlive both you and me
Well legend has it that, the world once knew a whole palette of lovely blues and greens
Well legend has it that, our corpses lie a foundation of insincerity
Thank you❤
There are lyrics in the description
should be doe* not dong, as in rudolph the red nosed reindeer
@@forkliftposterI know this is ridiculously late, but the original song also says "dong"
If the original song is when we are children, if the Demo is when we grow and lose all dreams, then this is when we Gain our spark once more.
This is when we start biting people.
@@TheWilderCat what
@@robloxarchiver You heard me.
@@TheWilderCat what
@@robloxarchiver This is when we start biting people.
This made me think of generations in the far future telling our story tales with slightly mixed up or misinterpreted details, IDK why that's what I thought of but I did
The fact you aren't on spotify is a crime against humanity and needs to be fixed as soon as possible
i dont use spotify and i never have but the fact hes not there pisses me off and it does have to be fixed as soon as possible
@@thefancyghost2891 i dont get how him not being on spotify boils your blood, listening to him on YT ain't much of a problem for me. Ads are being douches? Get an adblocker (some browsers have a built in one; such as Opera GX.)
@@dark_433 you can't turn the screen off tho
@@KosmoLore put it into a new tab
@@dark_433 on a phone? BTW I use brave as my browser
holy shit. holy shit holy shit holy shit. this cover slaps SO fucking hard. the new lyrics are so good SO FUCKING GOOD. I love how they change the context of the song completely, from being about forgotten myths to how one day we and our society will be forgotten too. GOD these ones specifically "everything will live just as everything will die" "every single first hello and every single last goodbye" "legend has it that the moss will outlive both you and me" I need to lay down. good song good fucking song. I can't believe I came here from the fly to the moon shit post (also!!!! very high quality cover) this is making me feel new emotions
HELLO??? THIS SOUNDS SO EPIC AND THERE'S ADDED LYRICS WHAT
I don't know how to describe the feeling it gives--it's like a more bitter, "we gotta fix whatever this paranormal mess is and quick" as opposed to "woah, look at all of this mysterious, whimsical stuff"
I get a similar feeling! Though for me it's a feeling that these issues are being presented, attention is being brought to them, but then the chorus comes in and it's like people are purposely ignoring the problems, the Singer is singing their same stories that are used as a distraction in an annoyed tone to show that it's a distraction, showing that the problems are being ignored
Idk that's what my brain put together for it
Massive Take Back the Falls vibes. . . My gosh I love that show so much.
I think you got it, it's been giving me a strange emotion that I can't put my finger on, definitely a sort of negative though i think
“we gotta fix this paranormal mess”?
perhaps Secure it? Contain it? Protect the world from it?
@@mikedoesthings2134 nah hes just pointing it out
HOW IS THIS SO CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED?! It sounds so good- the added lyrics are also really cool and go with the song perfectly hdhdjfhhfjf
its not criminally underrated, its criminally unseen
either way, both are still really bad
Yup, amazing song
he says 1+1 is 2 and 1+2 is 3
he just talkin about math
I kind of imagine this as like
Someone is telling stories with children and is starting to get tired of lying to them and tells them the truth of how they feel….that is oddly specific but yeah.
The lie is so pretty, everyone keeps telling them the world is meant for them, for us, for anyone. They need the truth.
@@aclickinthehead yesss, I’m glad you get what I’m trying to say lol
I really like that you put a slight new spin in this cover!
"Legend has it that the first fly flew back in 19-0-3"
a nod to cosmo's 'The Fly', bloody genius move
I very much appreciate it if it is but I think it’s in reference to the first airplane.
It’d be in line with the theme of industrialization verses nature.
@@TheWilderCat yes, as the first fly (human being) who flew did so in 1903, being the wright brothers. I just took the fly part specifically was included as a nod (or Im lookin too far into it lol)
@@Chickennaator you're probably mishearing it, it's "the first flight flew" (in description)
After listening to this cover, it makes me imagine a fantasy world with creatures like elves, dragons, and other magical beings. In this world, there's a wise man known as 'the Moss' who sings the original song. Then, one day, he begins to sing this version, revealing that this fantasy world wasn't always so beautiful; it emerged thousands of thousands of years after a nuclear war. The Moss was actually a man from that time, who suffered the mistakes of humanity and became the sole survivor of the old world.
I like how the new lyrics take the original The Moss to its natural conclusion. The original Moss suggests that believing in folklore is charming, harmless... this cover reminds us that believing in lies is how we've fucked ourselves, our friends, our communities, and our planet.
original: The beauty of nature and pure imagination
This cover: Nature has been destroyed and innocence is lost
I am very, very happy that youtube mix randomly put this into a mix that had NOTHING to do with it, because this is the best song I've heard in a long, LONG while.
Anyways, time to listen to it on loop until it's no longer that good! (it'll be a few weeks! hah!)
This adds a lot of emotion to the original song. It feels like the perfect addition to an already wonderful song
The audio filter makes it a little hard to hear
There are lyrics in description @@Volcano22207
This is what it felt like when I noticed how unnerving the words "Legend has it when the sunbeams come, the plants they eat them with their leaves, legend has it that the earth spins round on an axis of 23 degrees" were compared to the rest of the song since the rest can be seen, while those words really show how far gone we are to the point where even 'nature' is just science. Fact. Unobservable through the lens of a child. We don't say grass is green, we say the air is oxygen.
thought this was just the song but that extension to it fucking flashbanged me
This is if those legends and myths went wrong and caused ultimate destruction across the world. Like a second Pandora's Box, but without the hope at the end.
Also i want to see an animation with the new lyrics
Edit: coming back and noticing that the original chorus (about legends and folklore and how they are able to shape us and the world) appears _right_ after the nihilistic chorus (saying that we're all doomed and nothing we do matters) gives me an idea. The original chorus is the hope that's left in the world and is fighting to make it better, using these stories as inspiration. At the end, maybe hope lost, maybe nihilism is just getting the last word before it's defeat.
Pabdiras box has been opened once more by archeologists, now Hope has left the box after aeons of caring for humanity.
I would really love to make an animatic for this at some point!
@@magicmouse2273 yeah!!
I'm definitely making one with both songs eventually
Og cover:miths and story's
This guy:what's the point, we're all going to fucking die.
2:34
Don't think I didn't hear Mind singing in the background of that part
this was made before chonny started doing the tally hall covers
comes in thinking "oh cool a synth version of Moss love that song" gets distracted playing games than begins hearing the extra lyrics and my brain is instantly, "the fu...!"
proceeds to listen to the new song thinking "why am i just now hearing of this?"
truly underrated version. great job
I can't get enough of covers that change the lyrics
Everyone else: talking abt how good the added lyrics are, the vibe of the song, how it compares to the original.
Me: slowly developing an animatic I will never make abt a twink elf wizard, a trigger-happy fighter and a somewhat incompetent dwarf cleric
YOU. YOU GET MY VISION
@@bwezil Why hello there my fellow overly imaginative TAZ fan
@@Goombatron3000 I’m literally relistening to the finale this week after relistening to all of Balance form the beginning for the third time (yearly winter tradition), and I was listening to the original literally thinking “wow this song fits what Lucretia did to them + them finding their way back to their memories so well” and then I ended up here
in short: hello!!!
"But everything you see isn't everything that is, every thing you think to be, every thought you can't dismiss." is my favorite line
I genuinely hope Cosmo saw this one. This version hit HARD.
Okay, so the way I've heard it, I have a full trilogy of The Moss in my head, which goes:
The Moss: Someone singing about the wonders of nature and the inherant magic in the world and its many mysteries, lots of traditional-type instrumentals used, has that pseudo-fantasy vibe.
The Moss (Demo): Same general lyrics, but sounds much more underplayed, like someone reminiscing on how things were, while things are becoming more modernized. There are some mysteries, but he's far too busy with his day-in and day-out to seek them out. Lots of clicking and mechanical sounds interspersed with the final instrumentals used.
The Moss (Cosmo Sheldrake Cover): A new verse and chorus added, like someone in the distant future is looking back on this (maybe a robot based on the use of past tense of the humans), but the world is now no longer even remotely similar to the one described in the song. No wonders, no mysteries, and no magic. Just a bleak monotone landscape as far as the eye can see. My interpretation is that the song was passed down through the eras, but lost its meaning as the world got more and more industrial. Lots of autotune and synth instrumentals replacing the flute and banjo.
edit the Cosmo Sheldrake Cover to Chonny Jash cover :>
I legitimately thought this was the original song at first, so I set my phone down and started having a creative brainstorming session making up characters and a story that I loosely based on the original song.
Needless to say, I made a nightmare version of the story I had come up with previously. Which is ok. The original story I made didn't have a villian.
Now it has a monster to haunt my waking hours. O.o
the extra lyrics are so beautifully written, it makes me feel something I can't quite explain
This is actually the best song I've heard in a while I can't say this enough. It makes me feel like I just ascended.
Holy shit, Tally hall, That Handsome Devil, and now Cosmo? Chonny really just makes covers of all the artists i love
Fr dude
Okay this just showed up randomly in my mix playlist and OH MY GOD I LOVE IT. I hope Cosmo himself sees this!!
oh this is so cool! so sweet- oh... ohhh its existential... ITS STILL AMAZING
this and be born make me feel non-existent emotions
like I feel like
like AAAAAAA
JNXNMCMCMCMMMM
the layers
crunchy
the music and the voice and the crunchy and HHHH
Ngl the new lyrics fit so much I thought I forgot a part of the song
holy this slaps really hard
holy shit i didnt think a cover could literally be better than the original but here we are
Love this! You are seriously underrated smh
Genuienly, the most impressive cover I have ever heard.
It’s like a darker take of the song the lyrics are like someone who used to be creative and love nature being crushed by adulthood and reality
been more than a little obsessed with this version of this song for the last week holy SHIT
[I further modified the lyrics, I hope you, Chonny Jash, enjoy the creative liberty I took inspiration to make...]
have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon? or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon.
Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune and swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom.
Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few from that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe.
Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup, or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers' droop and died?
But everything you see isn't everything that is, every thing you think to be, every thought you can't dismiss.
The lives we try to lead and the time we try to give, well it's all a fallacy, we continue to relive.
And every thing will live, just as every thing will die. Every foe that you forgive, and every friend that you deny. Every
single first hello, and every single last goodbye. Every smile that you show, every tear that you hide, it's all societal cyanide.
Well legend has it that the moss grows on the north side of the trees.
Well legend has it that same moss that grows will outlive both you and me.
Well legend has it that world once knew a whole palette of lovely blues and greens.
Well legend has it we turned the world to a concrete grey due to our greed...
And Legend has it we cut down the forest without seeing for the trees...
Well legend has it that our corpses lie a foundation of insincerity.
Well legend has it neither you or me can last against infinity...
Legend has it someone's life savings was traded for fool's gold on a side street...
And Legend has it we never last to see the next century...
2:00 is where it splits off from the original
Just discovered you from your Mind Electric cover to find out you also covered my FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME??!??!?!?!
The way you handle the art of song covers is just on a whole different level,,,,
this fucking guy
I found "The Moss" while listening to a youtube-curated playlist of music, by chance... and then I find that chonny has already covered it. Wow.
I liked this a lot more before I noticed you rhymed "three" with "three"
Akkkk now i won’t be able to unhear that(((
Me Too.
This is awesome. I love it when someone makes a darker parody of a song I already love!
I listened to the original a while ago, but....wow. this is FUCKING AMAZING
How is this channel not more well known oh my lord this is good
His channel is pretty much solely known by the Tally Hall fandom which I think is a tragedy and a crime bc it means his original songs and other covers like this are ignored when they are just as bangin'
@@KeruuKat fr
I was like "Oh cool a remix in my Mix? Nice!" And then the new lyrics started playing and I said "HOLD UP THATS NOT HOW IT WENT-"
lad has made the ultimate covers. there is no world where this man has no subscriders and iff there is there wont be soon :)
I imagine a group of people surrounding a campfire, the world around them gone and replaced with a cascade of grays and yellows of a destroyed planet. They sing of "legends" of their ancestors, remissing of actual fair tails mixed in with the past, yet they could not tell the difference. For the idea of a green and blue Earth is as far fetched as a cow straddling a spoon jumping between planets.
what I understand from this song: moss tastes good :)
One of the best covers of this song I’ve heard in a while have you considered covering any other Cosmo Sheldrake’s songs?
truth be told i'm not really familiar with his stuff, but i'm not necessarily against the idea. any suggestions?
@@ChonnyJash My list of recommendations to you in no particular order:
Tardigrade Song
Pelicans We
The Fly
Birthday Suit
Egg and Soldiers
These are some of my favorite songs by Cosmo that have interesting lyrics.
i'll be sure to listen! no promises on the covers front, though
@@ChonnyJash Come Along is also a really good one
@@ChonnyJash Chonny, by the time this is written, I'm sure your still doing Tally Hall stuff, and this probably may not get to you at all, but might I reccomend one of Cosmo's newest releases called No. 3? It's really good and I feel like a cover of that would be cool.
I gotta say I wasn’t big on this cover until I got to the parts you added on, they fit so well and sound so good
lit cover.
just as lit as the planet
This is one of the best covers I’ve ever heard. Chonny Jash you absolute legend.
This song lives in my brain and it will NOT move out of my
Legend has it that this cover is a straight up banger
This cover of one of my favourite songs has motivated me more than anything else ever has. Thank you, Chonny Jash.
Robots in the future telling the story of what happened to their creators.
(its a cautionary tale)
Bro, this song is so amazing I love I can't stop listening, it's been my work and focus song three months, I swear. I would love to hear something like Pelicans We covered in this style
This reminds me of someone whos despeartely trying to hold onto the good things, the stories and myths, while all the bad things are creeping closer.
Pelicans We, Tardigrade Song, Come Along are all songs I'd Love to see You do!
not me, *seeing this and my eyes bugging out as I go “WHAAT?!- YOOOOOO-“ and immEDIATELY- click because I recently found your cover(s?) for the mind electric and LOVED IT- SO I KNOW THIS IS GONNA BE ONE OF THE BEST THINGS IN THE WORLD AND I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS A WHOLE YEAR OLD ALREADY?????*
edit: AAAAAAAAAAAAGH- OH MY GOOOOOSH- *I LOVE THIS SO FREAKING MUCH THE ADDED LYRICS LEGIT ADD SO MUCH LIKE WHAT?!?!*
Wait hold on a minute, those extra lyrics. You made them? Cuz those fucking slap, bro!
I think I might be obsessed with this cover. It's got an emotion that I don't think I know the name of
i think this is my favourite cover of yours. not too exciting that it gives me a headache but still that awesome zappy-like sound.
Question: How the friggety frick frack does this only have 90 likes?! This is like, the best cover I've heard, like ever! I can't believe I had to search covers of this song to find you!!
The Moss is my literal fav song, now hearing a majestic cover of it is just so fascinating!💖💖
Ear candy like this deserves to be heard a lot more.
I love the new lyrics it definitely gives the song a new meaning
this is amazing
it gives the vibes if how everything in our civilisation will one day be nothing but myth and legend
rly cool chonny
I adore this cover so much, the added lyrics are so good and still work SO WELL - I honestly like it more then the original. Absolute bop.
It would be so cool to hear more songs covered! (possibly one of my favourites, Untrust Us? Hah-- I'm obsessed..)
Goddamn! Im really surprised that this isn't much more popular. Keep going man! This sounds great!!
I wish this got as much views as your tally hall stuff this is so damn good!
HOW THE FUCJ DOES THIS GUY HAVE COVERS OF ALL MY FAVORITE SONGS I LOVE YOU
This is underrated what the heck this is an awesome cover
I want to merge this version with the original
This autotuned voice and metal parts are just... Wow
But have you heard the story of the rabbits in the *mooon* ?
or the cow who hopped the planets while straddling a spoon??
Or she who lept up mountains while whistling up a tune?
why i like that song "the moss" it look like a fairytale you have a dream
When compared to your newer covers, this still sounds amazing, and while it feels a bit calmer than a lot of the others, i think it fits this song quite well
I love how this sounds more like the demo
This gives me such a good feeling it makes my ADHD happy how-
At that start i was thinking it was kinda meh, but then, it really started to grow, and when you added your own lyrics it made my brain shoot allllllll the happy chemicals!
I literally put loud when
“Ohhh euhhuhhuooo this iss gooooooood “
Bra friggin vo.
Are you high?
I want to see more Cosmo Sheldrake possibly in the future
I want to hear this on that radio it's so good
Dannnnnnng big fan of that custom part dud, good job
THIS GUY MAKES COVERS OF EVERYTHING I SWEAR
im going insane i just found this channel and they covered my favorite song AAAAAA
This is AMAZING 😻!! I cant believe that this is as good as it is! If you do any other covers of cosmo sheldrake, I highly recommend his song “come along” its such an atmospheric song!
Amazing cover, amazing lyrics, goes hard man 420/10
One of the best covers I've ever heard fantastic work!.
WOAH! I discovered the original just today, and I had no clue you also covered this! (i'm a fan of your tally hall covers, and i haven't checked out much of your other content really) and I'm super surprised, but I'm all for it!