🔥 Yeah for me it was 2:45 a.m. just after I came back in from my dog needing a pee, and hugging a sad man walking by on the sidewalk who asked me what I would say to a man whose 13 year relationship just ended. I said I might not be the one to ask, as my 20-year relationship ended, I spent 4 years living on my couch, and I'm just coming up for air now. One day at a time. 🌱
Lost my best friend and roomate to fentanyl. I was the one who found him. I spent the next year or so having these guilty thoughts. Why couldnt i find em sooner. Did he want to be like me? Only when the pills wore off..other than that id do it to forget...driving endless miles to nowhere not caring if i live or died. Im now almost 2 years sober from opiates. I did it for the both of us. This song brings me some form of peace. Thanks.
I lost my husband and today would be his birthday. I believe music finds you when you need it and I really needed this one today so thank you for this beautiful song!
This crescendo 2:55 from “there’s no way he could have known that it was fentanyl” to the image of the urn and everything in between is equal parts flawless and devastating. Lost a friend to that substance awhile back and that lyric gives me a full body chill every time, I too tell myself there’s no way they could have known. Folk music is a beautiful, tragic, miraculous form of therapy.
I hope it can be therapeutic, because it was for me. We thought a lot about what that moment meant- the “how” and the “why” in terms of lyrics, instrumentation, and cinematography. The risk, of course, is that it would be overdone, would be too big, would be merely triggering instead of relieving. I’m glad it works.
@@Willi-Carlisle Don't worry friend, everything you do sounds amazing. I'm 14 years old, crying in my bedroom alone because of hard times I'm going through currently and I often sometimes wish I didn't wake up. Your music Mr Carlisle is something that helps keep me sane. I also do poetry and write western music and I want you to know how much I look up to you. Anyways, thanks for helping me get a little bit of closure and please Mr Carlisle, keep up the good work. Thank you fpr everything friend
Thanks going to park this one right next to Dear Alcohol, Leave a Light (Madchild), Broken Window Serenade and Using again. I am alive, 51 years and counting.
I’ve lost more loves to overdoses than I can count and the hits never stop coming. Music has been one of the most healing things for me and songs like this really help me get through. I think there’s a certain kind of loneliness to that kind of stigmatized, disenfranchised grief, and finding songs like this helps to ease it just a bit.
Saw you at the word barn in NH. Will be again at the 3S art space. Hope you're prepared to see 6'6" 270lbs man blubbering in the second row if this makes the set list. Thank you for this. man.
Breaking my heart all over again, every time i listen. I doubt texting him that day would have kept him alive but it would have been another chance to tell him how much he means to me. Thank you Willi for singing and sharing.
Not too many people who can write songs with such a vivid picture of life. Willi's songs have characters that leap off the page and are genuinely alive.
Didn't know what I was getting myself into, such joy to see a new one from you friend, and the gush of tears and heartbreak I know too well washes over me and I'm a puddle on the ground healing again from things I thought I'd worked enough. Thank you for your bravery and the talent to delicately capture such tender pieces of the life we live. For Ian and Max and all those dirty mfrs who live on in our triumphs and mistakes. Miss you.
Amazing song brother man it’s been on repeat awhile now. Lost some good friends and this song the first time I heard it threw me back to the memories with them. Glad I was the lucky one who was able to get sober and hold my sobriety.
UA-cam had my back on this one. 3 app opens with you at the top. Listened and now I have found a new means of healing. *Said with a sign* They were beautiful souls looking for a way out. I encourage all of us to stop running and confront what makes us want to escape in the first place. It won’t be fun but it could be worth it.
Been loving your music for years now just wanted to say thanks for the music and I hope you're doing alright, next time you're in NWA I'm hoping I can see ya again met ya in eureka springs with Nick shoulders and that set of yours although shortened by rain is still my favorite live set I've seen ❤
I seriously thought the one who passed was Head Ned from Okilly Dokilly and thought "Of course Willi would be the one to get him to show up for a music video." A fantasy song as always, Willi, hope to see you in San Diego some day!
This is so bravely beautiful, heartbreaking, and healing at the same time. I am so glad to be here, listening and witnessing the birth of a true legend of an artist. My Knight of the Holy Divine Light of Truth and Wisdom.
"I drove 200 miles for 6 inches of love." We all fall victim to some kind of chase, don't we? You'll be sitting on a mountain of pulitzer trophies one day willi.
What a tear jerker. Jess Harp you did an amazing job in the acting role. I hope to hear your music on this channel soon. Willi I can't wait to see you in March! I love Gar Hole Records ❤❤❤❤
Call me a pussy Call me a demon Call me a fiend Cuz i know that i need them I need to feel the rush Run through my veins Lift me from darkness Take away all the pain Wake me inside I feel so alive Ive taken too much And now its my time I've had a good run All good things must end See you on the other side Best batch we've had, my friend
Now I see why the likes are nonexistent Lol enjoyed the song man, I'm in Kentucky, practically neighbors with Benjamin Tod. Been clean 10+ years, once good drugs became extinct that is Lol I gotta say, this video was weird, and not in the usual "We love Willi's brain" kinda weird way Lol like "Somebody else used this for a platform" kinda bad way!! Can't say I recall ever not liking/thumbs-up one of your videos, sorry man!! 🤷♂
Can’t please everyone. If you’re thinking someone else used my work as a platform for a queer love story, that’s not true. I wrote the music and came up with the concept, casting, and direction for the video. If you “like my brain” sometimes, this is part of it too. Returning to KY soon. Hope to see ya there. ❤
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excuse me sir you have no right releasing music this good
How am I supposed to explain to my coworkers that I’m having a deep religious experience at 10am on a Thursday? As always, amazing amazing song
🔥 Yeah for me it was 2:45 a.m. just after I came back in from my dog needing a pee, and hugging a sad man walking by on the sidewalk who asked me what I would say to a man whose 13 year relationship just ended. I said I might not be the one to ask, as my 20-year relationship ended, I spent 4 years living on my couch, and I'm just coming up for air now. One day at a time. 🌱
Rip James
Rip Amanda
Rip Richie
Rip frank
Rip joe
Rip Bryan
Rip nick
rip my dad thanks opium
Lost my best friend and roomate to fentanyl. I was the one who found him. I spent the next year or so having these guilty thoughts. Why couldnt i find em sooner. Did he want to be like me? Only when the pills wore off..other than that id do it to forget...driving endless miles to nowhere not caring if i live or died. Im now almost 2 years sober from opiates. I did it for the both of us. This song brings me some form of peace. Thanks.
Kepp fighting the good fight friend, it's a battle we win and a war we forever fight!
His music is like a warm hug from a friend you haven't seen in years.
This song took an immense amount of courage for a number of reasons. I'm forever grateful for your music.
I lost my husband and today would be his birthday. I believe music finds you when you need it and I really needed this one today so thank you for this beautiful song!
This crescendo 2:55 from “there’s no way he could have known that it was fentanyl” to the image of the urn and everything in between is equal parts flawless and devastating. Lost a friend to that substance awhile back and that lyric gives me a full body chill every time, I too tell myself there’s no way they could have known. Folk music is a beautiful, tragic, miraculous form of therapy.
I hope it can be therapeutic, because it was for me. We thought a lot about what that moment meant- the “how” and the “why” in terms of lyrics, instrumentation, and cinematography. The risk, of course, is that it would be overdone, would be too big, would be merely triggering instead of relieving. I’m glad it works.
@@Willi-CarlisleYou nailed it. one take.
@@Willi-Carlisle
Don't worry friend, everything you do sounds amazing. I'm 14 years old, crying in my bedroom alone because of hard times I'm going through currently and I often sometimes wish I didn't wake up. Your music Mr Carlisle is something that helps keep me sane. I also do poetry and write western music and I want you to know how much I look up to you. Anyways, thanks for helping me get a little bit of closure and please Mr Carlisle, keep up the good work. Thank you fpr everything friend
I bought Critterland when it rleased without listening to any of the songs and didn't regret it a bit.
Thanks going to park this one right next to Dear Alcohol, Leave a Light (Madchild), Broken Window Serenade and Using again. I am alive, 51 years and counting.
I’ve lost more loves to overdoses than I can count and the hits never stop coming. Music has been one of the most healing things for me and songs like this really help me get through. I think there’s a certain kind of loneliness to that kind of stigmatized, disenfranchised grief, and finding songs like this helps to ease it just a bit.
Saw you at the word barn in NH. Will be again at the 3S art space. Hope you're prepared to see 6'6" 270lbs man blubbering in the second row if this makes the set list. Thank you for this. man.
For my cousin Jason and Micheal who lost their battle to drug addiction.
Bless you stranger. Im sorry for your losses.
@@nicholasresch9614 Thanks
living day by day as each of us are.... keep going buddy your music is awesome and more than you know it is to some people. blessings
The ones who get it, need this. Thank you for making music for the ones with an underlying undying sadness.
Breaking my heart all over again, every time i listen. I doubt texting him that day would have kept him alive but it would have been another chance to tell him how much he means to me. Thank you Willi for singing and sharing.
Stunningly devastating song and performance. Raymond Carver set to music.
Beautiful, Truthful. I can't think better words to describe this song, then again my vocabulary ain't great.
welp, you made this old lady cry
again
thank you
deeply ♥️
Not too many people who can write songs with such a vivid picture of life. Willi's songs have characters that leap off the page and are genuinely alive.
I’ve lost too many friends this way. But also so proud of my friends who’ve made it. Love to you, Willi💜
Didn't know what I was getting myself into, such joy to see a new one from you friend, and the gush of tears and heartbreak I know too well washes over me and I'm a puddle on the ground healing again from things I thought I'd worked enough. Thank you for your bravery and the talent to delicately capture such tender pieces of the life we live. For Ian and Max and all those dirty mfrs who live on in our triumphs and mistakes. Miss you.
This song made me burst into tears
Amazing song brother man it’s been on repeat awhile now. Lost some good friends and this song the first time I heard it threw me back to the memories with them. Glad I was the lucky one who was able to get sober and hold my sobriety.
Holy smokes willi you done it again
UA-cam had my back on this one. 3 app opens with you at the top. Listened and now I have found a new means of healing. *Said with a sign*
They were beautiful souls looking for a way out. I encourage all of us to stop running and confront what makes us want to escape in the first place. It won’t be fun but it could be worth it.
your performances are always so heartful -- thank you for all your work, your art, and your existence
This is a beautiful song.
I wont add it that thought
I can't even begin to explain how hard this hits
Been loving your music for years now just wanted to say thanks for the music and I hope you're doing alright, next time you're in NWA I'm hoping I can see ya again met ya in eureka springs with Nick shoulders and that set of yours although shortened by rain is still my favorite live set I've seen ❤
Another fine one, Willi. Your vocals and playing are medicine.
This is amazing Willi! The videography is on par with Childers masterpiece In Your Love!
I seriously thought the one who passed was Head Ned from Okilly Dokilly and thought "Of course Willi would be the one to get him to show up for a music video."
A fantasy song as always, Willi, hope to see you in San Diego some day!
saw you play this at 9:30 Club last fall. the energy in that room was heavy, beautiful, real.
seeing you open for Tyler Childers in Tampa blew me away. Keep doing what you're doing. If I see you again I'm gonna give you a hug
This is quirky, beautiful. I cried. 🪷
thank you for this song and for this video. truly, my friend, thank you. love from chilly lil’ sweden. 🤎🧡💛
Wow...just wow....
The vinyl came on Monday and I've been listening non stop. Thank you so much for your music.
Beautiful. A lot I could say, but just want to say "Thanks."
Another amazing song,Willi.thank you
This is so bravely beautiful, heartbreaking, and healing at the same time. I am so glad to be here, listening and witnessing the birth of a true legend of an artist. My Knight of the Holy Divine Light of Truth and Wisdom.
Dude… wow. Thats all around amazing.
Genuinely phenomenal. I love it.
"I drove 200 miles for 6 inches of love." We all fall victim to some kind of chase, don't we? You'll be sitting on a mountain of pulitzer trophies one day willi.
Grammy Song Of The Year worthy. My humble review channel is on hiatus but I’ll be remembering this song on my best of year lists. 😭
Beautiful, thank you for sharing such a tender and tragic story in such a poignant song.
Thanks, friend. ❤
Wow Willi.. I think that's your best song yet..
Thank you willi ❤
Goddamn! Got me tearing up over here. Beautiful song.
So lovely and painful. Great to have the video for it now
Beautiful
Hoping i can get off work so that i can see you in Fayetteville. Love your music man. keep it up
beyond lovely. beyond poignant.
Damn.
Helluva song, and a great video.
Thanks, y'all 🙏🏻🤍
Willi, thank you. I’ll see you out there, again.
beautiful.
What a tear jerker. Jess Harp you did an amazing job in the acting role. I hope to hear your music on this channel soon. Willi I can't wait to see you in March! I love Gar Hole Records ❤❤❤❤
beautiful
Thanks for this album Willi, its perfect
That's fantastic
Beautiful video, this song was incredibly touching in person.
Please go see him live if you can. It's how these musicians make a living. Please support the rad stuff you enjoy at home on UA-cam.
been fighting demons for almost 70 yrs. It's only because God keeps nudging me away from the precipice that I am still here and enjoying 4 grandkids.
Wonderful music as always, Willie!
Beautiful song and video.
Amazing! Hits me right in the feels..!
So good ❤
tragic video, well done
❤xx
❤🖤❤
younger brother passed about a year ago. fentanyl and meth. The what if's tear me up.
What kind of guitar is that? I'd love to have an acoustic with a neck that wide
Gawdamn Yung Jessimyn looking as fresh and beautiful as ever.😍🔥
Call me a pussy
Call me a demon
Call me a fiend
Cuz i know that i need them
I need to feel the rush
Run through my veins
Lift me from darkness
Take away all the pain
Wake me inside
I feel so alive
Ive taken too much
And now its my time
I've had a good run
All good things must end
See you on the other side
Best batch we've had, my friend
Now I see why the likes are nonexistent Lol enjoyed the song man, I'm in Kentucky, practically neighbors with Benjamin Tod. Been clean 10+ years, once good drugs became extinct that is Lol I gotta say, this video was weird, and not in the usual "We love Willi's brain" kinda weird way Lol like "Somebody else used this for a platform" kinda bad way!! Can't say I recall ever not liking/thumbs-up one of your videos, sorry man!! 🤷♂
Can’t please everyone. If you’re thinking someone else used my work as a platform for a queer love story, that’s not true. I wrote the music and came up with the concept, casting, and direction for the video. If you “like my brain” sometimes, this is part of it too. Returning to KY soon. Hope to see ya there. ❤
cool style for a jewish man
Brokeback mountain crap.
Brokeback was a good short story, and a film I liked!
Thank you Willi I needed this man even this interaction keep on living and loving
@@Willi-Carlisle your response to this fellow is pure class, Willi. This song and video made me laugh and cry, as does most of your art. Thank you.
Michael, that film came out in 2005. Clearly, you think about it *a lot.* Hmmm...
@@Willi-Carlislekillin him with kindness
beautiful