Weyes Blood - God Turn Me Into a Flower (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- "God Turn Me Into a Flower" by Weyes Blood
From the album 'And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow,' out now on Sub Pop Records.
Order the Album & Stream: ffm.to/weyesbl...
Video directed by Adam Curtis.
Additional Photography by Micah Van Hove
Lyrics:
As long as I stand
To face the crowd
To know my name
To know its sound
It’s good to be soft
When they push you down
Oh God turn me into a flower
It always takes me
It’s such a curse to be so hard
You shatter easily
And can’t pick up all those shards
It’s the curse of losing yourself
When the mirror takes you too far
Oh God turn me into a flower
You see the reflection
And you want it more than the truth
You yearn to be that dream
You could never get to
‘Cause the person on the other side
Has always just been you
Oh God turn me into a flower
this video captures the way in which we as humans get wrapped up in the oddities of our lives that feel incomparably important and defining in the moment, things that become nothing more than puzzling ephemera in the future. i’d like to think that someday someone will stumble across some pictures or videos of me or my loved ones and marvel at our rich but entirely momentary inner worlds. your work is beyond compare natalie
beautifully said
Could you please explain this to me like I'm a child?
@@MissVanHelsing This video shows how us humans, get caught up in the details of our lives that seem very important then, when we’re within that event, even though they may not matter later in the grand scheme of existence, just a speck of red in the blue ocean
@@MissVanHelsingpeople stress all their lives and its not worth it. But they only learn that after theyre grown up and feel like its too late for things to change
I didn't think there could be a more beautiful and stunning song than 'Movies', but Natalie has proved me wrong. Her talent is immense.
They're my thoughts exactly too x
Stole the words from my mouth
that's one of my favorites from her too. such a great one.
Honestly I can name like 5 songs of hers better than movies🔥movies is SO good but she has such a loaded discography
I just saw here at the Greek Theater 2 weeks ago.when she sang this song and played this video everyone in the audience was crying.
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t cry to this song, truly one the most beautiful performances by a singer-songwriter ever
thank you
@@weyesbloodI LOVE YOU NATALIE
@@weyesbloodDO MORE SONGS WITH LANA
THISSSS AND ORIGINAL SONG NOT A COVER PLEASEEE@@staticturbulence
@@weyesbloodsee you in Barcelona ❤
life is pain and hope and horror and beauty and this song makes me feel peace with being human.
thank you Natalie, always 💜
thank you for understanding how its absolutely all those things
this music video has caused me to reflect on the meaning of life. As time passes on, the good time and bad times become memories until one day our life is finished and our memories are no more. Life is beautiful even when it's hard to see it, and what thing is the definition of beautiful? a flower. The idea of life becoming a flowers is the personification of the beauty. despite all the hardship in life; humans are beautiful beings, and that can never be taken from us.
beautiful sentiments
Beautiful album
this song is probably the closest we’ll get to what it feels like to ascend to heaven… incredible
And So It Goes by Mac 🔝
I missed the concert at the Greek because my friend died that morning. I thought her music would be a reminder but it's more comforting...this beautiful yet haunting song. Perfect. Goodbye Richard.
I'm so sorry to hear that.. sending you some support right now. I'm so glad its comforting.
It's like she's showing us how she feels as an outsider in this world and how much pain we carry while we try to understand the "whys" of every suffering in this world and how we must be watchers of all of this while we're victims too. It's painful to feel that you don't belong anywhere when all you see and feel is pain among so much beauty.
Wow you phrased that amazingly... Any advice on how to deal with it? It can be overwhelming sometimes :(
I was front row centre for her first live performance of this song. So incredible.
same here. it was unreal. definitely something a person should experience in this lifetime
I'm going to see her for first time in november. Can't wait to experience this :)
So was I!!! It was my first concert ever and I cried nearly every song haha. She’s amazing
the pain and beauty of the spectrum of human emotion. thank you weyes, your art is excepcional.
I found this artist like a week ago randomly, through this song. My sister took her last breath to this song on December 1st. I can't think of a more beautiful song to take your last breath to. Thanks for creating this gem.
Thank you for sharing that. So beautiful. My heart goes out to you, but something tells me you're going to be just fine. I love you.
I love you all
i've never felt more grief and peace at the same time than i do right now
I left the religión I was raised in a year ago. All I wanted was truth and in the end I found it. My whole world was broken when I left it. And I asked myself what was the meaning of all this. I feel this song echoes my sentiments, Thank you Natalie
What was your religion and what do you believe in now?
@@TheAmanor123 Jehovahs witnesses. And I believe in loving others and myself
Its so hard to start from scratch and I can relate to this, but there is beauty in letting go of an old cosmology, and there are things to be salvaged into a new one that is more all encompassing of the mysteries in life.
@@weyesbloodyou’re truly a visionary wow
@@weyesbloodyou are so grand. i appreciate you so much. beautiful thought & vision.
Thank you for existing Natalie & Weyes Bl00d. You make this life worth living, despite all going on. God bless.
this is how i imagine your life flashing before your eyes right before you die. watching this video almost a year after this song came out, a song that has defined my year, was so cathartic.
And directed by Adam Curtis - wonderful, beautiful, poetic. What a treasure it is that humans make art to share with others. How they can express what we all feel deep inside. Thank you 💖
I should have known, he used that gym workout clip at the start in Hypernormalisation I believe. Two legends in their respective field coming together
i haven’t cried this hard in a while, this is one of my favorite songs ever and has been since it’s came out. what an amazing video to accompany it i love you so much natalie thank you for creating such meaningful and breathtaking art💘🌸🌺
For the record, I still cry sometimes when I watch this video too. Adam Curtis has such a special talent for weaving together cognitive dissonances into a beautiful tapestry.
@@weyesblood you both did such an amazing job💘 thank you so much for replying😭😭 i’ve listened to your albums thousands of times you mean so much to me💘
@@weyesblood How did you discover Curtis? He's as deep as Cohen and Campbell for me (Leonard and Joseph) and I didn't think anybody even knew who he was here. Who reached out to whom?
It's been a tough year. I found this song randomly and sobbed uncontrollably by the time outro came in at 3:00. Like I've everything I've been feeling just released. Beautiful and powerful song.
the first time i heard this song i stopped what i was doing and just stared into the abyss contemplating the meaning of life. thank you natalie for sharing your art and giving me hope in humanity for 6 minutes
the beauty of this song never fails to overwhelm me i love it so so much
I am 63 years old. I showed this song to a friend 12 years younger and he was in shock.
Natalie has been my favorite artist for 3 years, I am not a psycho or sick at all. I just think her music and lyrics are going to mark a before and after. I don't even know which song is the best anymore, I can only be thankful.
i don’t really remember things well but i do remember the incredible amount of emotion that i felt watching this performed live- absolutely amazing. i used to not understand how songs could be so beautiful that they make people cry, but now i do.
most transcendental, expansive and ascending song ever. this song is my oyster
this was so much more visceral than i was expecting. it feels like despite how much i love this song, this video just presented an entire new layer to it that i never even thought of before. genuinely my favorite song ever for a reason. what a video. shoutout adam and shoutout natalie
I've had a difficult 2 years of being ill and Weyes Blood's music has been a source of comfort and hope for me. This song makes me feel like my soul is at peace even when my body is suffering - like i can leave all my troubles behind for a while. It's truly transcendent.
Hope you're able to get better soon 🤍
I'm speechless... (Already crying btw)
I wish every human could really HEAR this song - I believe it has the power to heal souls.
When I listen to this song, I'm always reminded of this passage of dialogue from the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker:
"Softness is great and strength is worthless. When a man is born, he is soft and pliable. When he dies, he is strong and hard. When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life. That which has become hard shall not triumph."
Well tied in with the video considering the director Adam Curtis directly references Stalker/Roadside Picnic within one of his recent documentaries
that is so so beautiful 🪷
Oh wow! Weyes Blood had this as a background visual while performing this song at her Pittsburgh concert. I didn’t realize it was also the music video but it’s so lovely. Seeing it made me remember hearing it live again and that’s such a special thing
I listened to this song before my mother passed away, she had cancer and when I knew it my world fell down in so many ways, this song made me feel better, so strong to overcome everything!
When I listen to the outro I always feel her embrace.
Thank you for this BEAUTIFUL and PERFECT song. 🥹
Ever since I watched this video Monday, it's been in the back of my mind, when it comes to the forefront, tears well up immediately.
This song was powerful to begin with but I wasn't ready for what the video turned out to be.
It's beautiful. It's harrowing. As others have noted the vulnerability, horror and beauty of life are comingled in this breathtaking lyric and video. While its a glorious offering of Americana, the flashes of historical, social and pop culture imagery do not read as sentimental, nostalgic or preachy. For me, it's a stream of consciousness-style portrait of our--meaning late 20th and 21st century Americans--specific and personal grief. It's our story; our pain. The images of class warfare and oppression from the State put the vulnerability of the song in a chilling new light.
I am currently reading a book discussing the horrors of MK Ultra experiments that were conducted by the CIA on unknowing patients. Images from this video fused with what I've been reading and I wept, I just couldn't stop crying.
I've rambled enough. I'm just trying to say that this song and this video blew me away.
I absolutely agree with what you said. This video had an emotional range that I did not expect.
Do you mind sharing the name of the book you are reading?
Full body tingles, Adam Curtis' "Century of the Self" was deeply formative for me, and recently discovered Weyes Blood almost equally so, and to find them paired?!? Harmonic universal resonance has just blinded, stunned, and deafened me to anything else. Wow. I'm here for eternity.
oh she just created world peace with this
May we all become flowers, and see that truth now.
I lose my ability to cry after suffering great loss as a child, your music helps me feel out these emotions in other ways
i saw this girl working at a bar, a radiant soul humbled by gentle eyes. took me a few visits to pluck up the courage to ask for her number. first and only time ive done so. we'd meet and could seemingly talk forever, id be lost in her presence everytime she spoke, passion and curiosity woven into each of her words. she recommended this song to me, got around to listening some days later, within the first few seconds something told me i needed to listen with headphones and take in the video with no distraction. And it was for good reason. Ive sat here debating an impressive word to pull out of my vocabulary, but none seem to do enough justice to describe how good this song is, i have never cried so profusely.. each and every time i listen, to such extent i only listen on one occasion each month despite it being my favourite song of all time. i create music myself and had always been on the hunt for that one song that conveys an excruciating amount of emotion. i live solely for the feeling this gives, this will surely be my favourite song for the rest of my time in this life and although i no longer see the girl, i thank her endlessly for sharing this with me. it makes me think of her when i listen and admittedly i get sad, not due to her absence, but for the beauty of what we had. the universe led me to her for a reason, and im sure i have my place in her story too.
This is medicine. I am heart sick yet full of love, my soul is in poverty until it is not, my mind is clear beneath being lost and in agony and fog, life is beautiful and it's also not. This felt like healing, acceptance and feeling the depths of all it is to be human, and lifting it up; all with safety and inner peace. Thank you.
A month ago I saw Natalie singing this song in front of me in Buenos Aires, I still couldn't stop thinking about it, we were all so captivated, many like me couldn't hold back the tears. It was a unique spiritual moment.
And all of the sudden, the world is a more beatiful place 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
the urgency for human element in everything here...
For me this is such a sad song, and yet also extremely peacfull and relaxing.
Takes a lot of talent and and a very sensitive soul to create such a song.
Thank you.❤
Thank you for this song! It's truly an ethereal experience every listen; I feel warmth, pain, hope, despair. It's poetic, and at its most raw, cathartic. Thank you Natalie for your beautiful music!! ❤
ay, Natalia. ¿sabías que este tema marcó mi vida? hay un antes y un después en mí con God turn me into a flower.
y este video me llega a lo más profundo; me hizo llorar y agradecer que creaste esta obra de arte junto a OPN.
te amo, morra.
total
Ojos llorosos
This gives me hope on a dark day. Thanks for your magic Weyes Blood and Adam Curtis
A friend of mine that past away told me about this artist and how her music impacted their life. Normally i listen to metal or other genres that are more aggressive... But this woman has moved me. Thank you so much my friend and rest in peace. I know you're in a better place now.
If there’s ever a song I’d love to hear as I pass away, THIS IS THE ONE❤
This song came into my life in Divine Time and I feel as if it is the Theme of my life. Thank you, Weyes!
E ela não paraaaara, uma artista de verdade! ❤
Words can't describe the power in this song. It sings for itself ❤
One of the most affecting pieces of art I've seen in a while. A lot is familiar here to Adam Curtis fans... the workout video clips, poverty juxtaposed with excess, etc... and scoring it is probably the most gorgeous song I've heard this year. Beautiful stuff
When I listen to the end of the song I picture walking into the most beautiful garden with the natural light hitting in all the right places with someone special dressed in all white sitting in a chair covered in flowers and greenery, I get chills all over and my eyes start to water
I wish I could direct a scene how it plays out in my head with this song playing over it one day
I saw her perform this live and I started crying. It's just so beautiful.
All that footage evoke the powerful sense of nostalgia and hope in the mist of despair the song is about. Amazing work of art.
I cried watching this live in concert, and now I cry every time I hear this song! So beautiful!
This brought me to tears. So beautiful. Life has always been filled with pain and beauty. Pressure to conform or be ostracized. It feels so escalated now. With the world online and every bad thing being shared at all hours of the day.. Everything is flying by and so much is happening, its overwhelming. The lyrics & composition of the song fit the end of this video so well. We want to be beautiful, we want to be enough, we want to be happy. But also the notion of being something simple like a flower instead of a human in this chaotic life... just has me tears. I'm terrible with words but thank you for this ❤
This is my favourite song from "in the darkness, Heart aglow" so I'm really looking forward to this video!!!
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Started watching this and didn't know what I was getting into while me and my girlfriend were getting ready to leave. Now we're sitting here, stunned and crying. What a gorgeous song, and really, this is one of the most beautiful, meaningful, stunning music videos ever made. Much of your music makes my girlfriend and I think about the pain and beauty and strangeness of being human, this strange animal, but this is just next level. I am a sucker for archival footage music videos (another good one is the unofficial music video for Alex G's Sarah by David Dean Burkhart), and the way this is put together without any words is just an undescribable piece of art. I was at a loss for words for a while after watching this, but now I feel like I have to type this out. Amazing work, Natalie and Adam Curtis
Sometimes i wish god turn me into a flower, life isn't easy, we have to deal with so hard times...
But sometimes life is a flower, sometimes you will wake up and be glad to be alive, to experience what be alive is...
Sometimes we are a flower in someone's life, making everything more beautiful, making everything better.
That's how I see this MV, life can be bad, good, and both at the same time, we never can control everything around us and this is scary but also cozy.
And at the end, this song is a flower in my life, Weyes Blood makes my days better, makes my life prettier, i think one day i can be a happy person, but until there, her music make my way much easier.
Love, Kaio ❤
Favourite artist in the world right now. I cannot begin to describe how her music has saved me through some tough times. It's life changing.
I started listening to weyes blood in dec of 2022, went to her show at the greek in oct 2023 w/ my best friend. needless to say that this was one of the highlights of our night. the video perfectly encapsulated everything I felt when I first listened to this song & it continues to stir something deep in my soul whenever I listen to it.
'it is a serious thing, just to be alive, on this fresh morning, in the broken world' - Mary Oliver
thank u, natalie
I'm going back to this video because it's definitely one of my favorite visual pieces in existence, this is art in every definition. Truly love you Natalie
watching this live was a beauty. thank you so much weyes blood ❤️❤️
Eu fico encantada com cada detalhe de TODOS os álbuns dela, tudo tem um conceito, muita criatividade e o que falar da estética visual dos cenários, roupas....?! ✨ Você brilha muito Natalie, tudo que toca vira mágica, a própria Disneyland 💜 love u so so much
Just watched her in Paris a few days ago. When she asked if anyone knows who Adam Curtis is and only a few people cheered (including me of course), I was a bit disappointed. He is one of the greats when it comes to documentaries and the music in his films and the footage he uses is gorgeous.
P. S. Btw I cried after they played the song too :') One of the best songs I have ever heard. Thank you Natalie!
As the kids used to say Weyes Blood gives me the feels. This song & video in particular
Aww. Thank you so very much. Your voice is so emotive. The words are so very meaningful. The video speaks volumes. From pain to peace. Our lives are so full of contradictions. So joy without sadness. No peace without fear. Sending you and all much love 🌈💜
I have just come back from the Apollo and crying. I also bumped by Richard Curtis Love actually Director. Appeals to do many on so many levels
I flipped out when I saw you play this video live, because I had only been exposed to Adam Curtis's work about a year prior. What an incredible collab
EVERYTHING is so beautiful. Everything.
One of the highlights of the concert for me!
I freaked when I saw this was a premier!! Just saw her in Austin, and it was amazing. Her VIDEOS are extremely, extremely cool to boot ! ( as a photographer, I love that the music is incredible, AND the visuals / videos make it a cool ass package!! ) Can. Not. Wait!!
this song has to be the most beautiful song I have ever heard.
These last few years due to the pandemic and personal reasons I have not feeling like myself sometimes I feel like a ghost and that the world left be behind and moved on but songs and your art makes me feel understood and somehow free from this feeling like I could fly and above all hope for better days
Thank you Natalie ♥️
I saw this in concert twice during her tour. Both times extremely powerful. There's a certain energy that comes with being surrounded by people in awe, and it feels extremely commandeering and.. how do I put this... fertile? Like theres a seed growing within each of us. I guess that's fitting with the song.
However, there is something different about watching this video again, alone in my room. I guess I had forgotten about the mass of emotion I had felt at the shows. My first emotions watching it this time were very singular. I was drawn to tears thinking about all my mistakes, the way I view myself, and my terrible coping mechanisms. It was sad and lonely. But something changed towards the end of the video. I distinctly remember the first time I saw this video, in the very back of a concert venue in Boston, and getting that overwhelming sense of power and intimacy, and that was tied to the footage of rioting, looting, and the joint pain that we all share. I remembered that my problems, as real as they are, are sort of inconsequential when you take a step back, and it sort of feels better to feel joint pain rather than alone pain. At the end of the day, I can probably trace all my problems back to the same things as everybody else, so why not console each other by showing our true emotions. There is beauty in our pain, and when we all show that beauty we create a garden of hope.
And I was again drawn to tears. Thank you, Natalie. Can't wait to see you again
So well worded
Can not wait !!! Snippets look amazing !! Most impactful record on this album! My sister walked down to this song in her wedding ❤❤❤
I want this song to play at my funeral.
One of my favourite songs of hers ❤
You were born with such a beautiful gift. Thank you for sharing with all of us.
I saw you in Carrboro, NC and got to take a picture with you after the show. You are saving modern music - god bless you and your band. You have got IT (and you know it, too!) Thank you for creating such a beautiful meaningful song which will resonate with me for the rest of my life. I will never forget it. Stoked for part 3 of the trilogy. Thank you, Natalie!
This might be the most beautiful song and video my god.
Been listening to this for 10 months.
It helps me sleep, calms me down and is such a beautfil piece of art. I'll never hearing this live. The last two minutes were people putting their phones down and just enjoying the moment thar Weyes.
Magical song.
wow, that was beautiful.
i really hope everyone in here can find faith, in god, in the sun, in themselves.
🌼
This music video just amplifies the song by a million, Its incredible
Inspirational song and video, the birdsong towards the end might be one of my favourite auditory experiences of all time. Stunning.
The way the visuals of this video complement both the song itself and its admirably poetic lyrics is outstanding. Very likely my favourite music video of all time, it makes me cry every time I watch it without fail. Thank you for making such beautiful art, Natalie.
I'm not one to usually get emotional to a song, but this one really got under my skin. Exceptional.
Goddamn this means a lot. Thank you for this.
i was there at the premiere of this video and i haven’t watched it once without crying. such a beautiful visual and a testament to the power of audiovisual arts. just when i thought this song couldn’t be any more powerful…natalie you’ve done it again. an artistic soul that we are blessed with, thank you thank you thank you!!!
Best song ever written. I will die on this hill.
I don’t think I can listen without crying.
your music touches my heart in a way i can’t describe. so thankful
I have been thinking of this song since the first time I heard it, everything always seemed so delicate and fragile, but now, I feel more in peace with the idea that it can be no other way.
This is the closest i've come to a religious experience (and i went to church my whole childhood)
Seen her live 2 times with my son, and her voice is that of no one ive ever heard. This song brings tears my eyes every time i hear it. absolutely beautiful.
There are no words that can describe how im feeling now, thanks for this masterpiece
I saw this video live forthe first time at Primavera sound Bs As. I shed a tear and i didnt even know the band. It was amazingly peaceful beautiful and hurtful to watch❤
I'm speechless... Please come back every year 🤩🥀
My most listened to album this year - it just keeps giving.
Just when I thought I couldn't love your music any more, you make a video with ADAM CURTIS for crying out loud!
I don't think she will ever know how much I love and how much her music is so important to me.