My 18 year old cat passed yesterday 7-2-22. This song has been on basically repeat since then. It's helping a lot, the song describes my life so closely it's strange, nearly every word. She knew and helped me through my twenties and most my thirties. I got diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 27 and she was my star that was always there. Anytime I was home alone she was my star that made me feel safe and normal after any seizures I might've had. 8 years later I'm finally seizure free and she was there the whole time. I'm finally getting my life back together and she seemed just fine literally 1 week before this post. She died so fast, I knew she was old but wow it happened fast. We're pretty sure a saddle thrombus was the culprit. Basically a blood clot leading towards the rear of her body gets lodged in a specific spot that is common amongst cats but is very rarely curable and takes thousands of dollars to attempt. I'm 37 now and moving forward though. I'll get another cat in a little while.. I don't know when. Everything still hurts but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for this song Sage Francis.
I didn't 👍 your old, wise feline friend's death. I 👍 what you shared. My father... So much like me inherited/saved a troubled, but very cool chihuahua. He was young enough for us to rename him Chico. A new life. Chico saved my dad as my dad saved him. They go everywhere together. Anyone knows my dad, they K ow and love Chico. My dad's getting on? Man, at his oldest I keep thinking early 60s. But I'm only 19-20 years younger than him. I'm 45. I have no domesticated buddies. I have the youth I sacrificed on love. Not my youth, persé. My own selfishness for the women I loved and still do. I did the right thing, because of love. if I was selfish I would have had what I wanted, especially the shared dream between me andy ex fiance. She had a family who needed help. A little sister who couldn't afford school. I went without for them to be ok. My fiance sacrificed ten years of her life for me and inevitably found someone else. No green card in our country. It costs a fortune to prove you are marrying the love of your life because she is. Our xenophobic government talks about "genuine assylum seekers waiting in line vs cue jumpers on boats, like it makes a difference". I could have married. We planned to. But having a wife who the government refused to "allow" me to have move to my country would have been too painful, so I tried to go through the proper Chanel's while making a life for my beautiful international family. Last visit (was meant to be one to provide as much evidence that our love was real as my fascist government required and) for my parents to meet my fiance's family (they met her, loved her on her visits here) was also the visit I discovered (she didn't tell me) that she had found someone else. We only promised one another one thing each. She asked me, "please don't change your mind". I never did. Never changed my heart either. I asked her, "if you meet someone and he is giving you money - I was living on very little to provide for safe living and education and to supplement my fiance's hard work at a café - please let me know. And if you find someone else, please tell me". She didn't. And on that visit, I was made to look the bad guy, because I knew everything without anyone telling me. I just knew. The hints weren't so subtle. Suddenly my fiance` claiming she needed to to travel to China for better work... Turns out her new Russian husband works for a Chinese company. She told me that later. After a family holiday in which my fiance wouldn't even share a bed withe or give me a kiss any more after paying for nice hotel rooms for us to enjoy our time together, in which I spent my time alone... She was being faithful to her new man. The same man who didn't even spring for my sister-in law's education, as I had. He was selfish and got what he wanted. I was not. And I did not get what I wanted for myself. I got what I wanted for that beloved family of mine. Safety, repairs on their dangerous home, education. I've Always done that. Doing the right thing. Hey, that amazing woman gave me ten years from the time we first fell in love. She had suffered enough. Worst thing (besides her not keeping half of her promise - being the woman she was, she stopped taking money from me when she was being supplemented by her new husband - but she didn't tell me the most important thing. I wasn't her fiance any more. I don't regret it at all. I am not bitter about her. I think lowly of the Russian who didn't pay for his sister-in law's education... This guy was making more money than me. I still payed for her. She deserved an education and she LOVED going to school. My little sister would get upset if she could not attend school. I could have given just enough that would allow me to take everything I wanted. But I, iny heart just could not. I spread myself too thin. I'm working class. The working class. We're kept in our box. If we overreach, we end up like me... In this video... But with no domesticated animal for comfort. My mum's white German Shepherd, who I had taken to walking daily and caring for when my parents were away. She died on the weekend, a Sunday whiley folks were away. She was off her food for a day or so, then Sunday night, she couldn't walk up the stairs to the little room out the back where I "live". I had to carry her. She was getting on. 12 years old. Going for walks was everything to her. We had to buy wrist supports for her to go for walks and ease the pain in her weakening joints. But I always walked her. She would get so depressed without walks. She would obsessively dig holes in a sandy patch of the yard without walks. That night I carried her up. Put her on her big pillow-bed (the same one my ex-fiancé once joked about being jealous of, because she grew up sleeping on the floor... And still did in the one room apartment she shared with two aunties. I paid for her shares and other stuff, because what she earned at work was literally criminal, but not criminal in that country. It was sad but true that a dog in my country lives in greater comfort than a person in her home country) and I placed water by our dog (my mum had named whisper. Characteristic of my mum and her K9 Companion. Both very gentle and quiet creatures) I woke early the next morning and Whisper had died during the night. I whept. I thought there should have been more I could have sones for her. I thought I should have been awake and not let myself fall asleep. She needed me and I wasn't there for her. Tooke a long time to talk about without breaking up. She was my bud. I know from my own experience as an animal. I Know from watching the cats we've had in our lives... When an animal is old and/or sick, they always sneak off to somewhere dark and quiet to be alone. I know what most human animals are unwilling to accept. The truth. We are born alone. We die alone. I can be surrounded by people and still LIVE alone. Now, back to save Francis. Working class or working poor. We don't get the luxury of a midlife crisis and a stupid, ugly, red sports car. We get to accept that we did what was good. Not "nice" f**K nice. "Nice guys finish last". They deserve to. Good guys get the waman, they even get the family. I been through all that in different scenarios. I'm not nice, I am a good man. I have at this time, literally no personal possessions apart from a few clothes.
I gave a lot. Even recently to the family of a woman who I fell in love with. And she was damaged by a history of abuse. Her ex was still around... He was donour to four of her five kids. Nastiest piece of work I ever encountered. His kids loved me. He hated that. His ex loved me. He hated that. He hated that I chose non-violence and chose to stand defiantly against him, without fear for my wellbeing. He hated that it showed his kids that he was a sadistic bully. And that I was teaching them about kindness and compassion. Especially in how I treated their mother. Their mother eventually pushed me away. Even when I was willing to be there and give myself completely. I had no job at the time, thanks to a medical condition. I was up in the mornings to help everyone get to school. I was up into the wee hours after making dinner, cleaning up, helping prepare chest for the next day... The closest thing to my own family I will ever have. My ex, she had her issues. And she was addicted to drama. Lavishing me with praise and love, affection, generosity and compassion 90-99% of the time. But she would turn one after a certain level of alcohol was in her and she would treat me like every man who ever mistreated her. She would be truly horrible to me for hours on end. She truly broke it all up when she put on two bizarre performances, both in front of at least one of her children. The same family who were my friends. Who would worry that their dad would hurt me. That I would always reassure, I'll be ok. And that there was never any reason fore to hide from him. Suddenly the woman who spent all of her life hiding the abuses of her partners from her children to "protect them" which did the opposite to them, she behaved on two sudden and hurtful occasions as though I was to be feared. Even on the one where she hit me and the stood up and kicked me. Because I asked a question (thinking out loud) about how to train your dragon. We were watching. Suddenly, I wondered, are they Celtic Scotts or are they Vikings? Because of all of the mixed accents. That was it. Not sarcastic. Not mocking. Heck, I love that series. I watch it if it's on TV when I visit my dad. That doubled woman made her life a d the life of her kids so much more complicated the next time she did something similar. So, the closest thing I had to a family of my own, without any illusions of replacing anyone. Of changing anyone. They were all so great. So special, each of them. They never had to. And I preferred that they didn't, but they'd openly defend me when their father talked about about me. The youngest, six years old was the fiercest. and a true inspiration to me. What that family went through, no one ever should. No child should ever become accustomed to it. But they were more immune to the bad energy and generally nasry and violent demeanor of their father than I ever was. I wish they didn't have to be. But they were. I I stayed through it all until I was told by their mum after she tried to start another fight in which I refused to engage, planned to leave and give us some space and come back with a change of clothes and hopefully a refreshed perspective for all (she never apologised, I was accustomed to that), but was told not to bother to come back. Leave the keys to her car, which sh couldn't legally drive after losing her license to DUI, and I was driving, doing school drop offs and pickups, grocery shopping, runs to get her ciggies and something to drink (which she kindly shared and which I had been paying her -on top of everything else at my own place, debts bills etc - for... Food, drinks etc) and never come back. 💔 The woman who would not tell her kids the truth about their sociopathic, bully of a father was pushing me away, because I wouldn't be drawn into the madness to which she was so accustomed. And my new family... I couldn't blame their mum I had to make sure if they needed anything, because I needed to go home... I couldn't even say a proper goodbye. And now this Sage Francis track means more to me than ever.
@@elhorrendo7026 Wow your story is rough man. I've never had as much as you did to lose. I hope things have gotten better for you as this is an old comment I somehow never saw. I'm part of the poor as well. I could fit every possession I have in my tiny 700$ truck and 1/2 the bed would be empty. My brother in-law inherited his parents home and I look around at all the things they have and kind of laugh in my head. I've got nearly nothing. I'm getting really lucky soon though! My sister's cat in pregnant and I'm going to get one! I'm so happy to finally have a companion again. I'm kind of the black sheep of the family, only my sister talks to me anymore. I'm a little different than you. I'm nice (I think) and good... but too good. People owe me money right now but I have no income right now either. It helped them out of a pickle though. I could never be a salesman. I've watched service writers and salesmen at car dealerships (I used to work at one) upsell and upsell and take advantage of people and I just can't do that. I would want to just sell you what you want and/or need without the pressure to upsell stuff they don't need. I was a graphic designer and photographer for little while and I had the hardest time charging anywhere near others did.. I just couldn't do it even though my skill was close with theirs. I've tried to be that guy with no morals and take advantage of people but I'll hate myself for doing it days afterwards until I finally forget about it. I have trouble not being the "nice/good guy". It is what is it. In the end I don't think it will matter though, I play closely to the beliefs an "optimistic nihilist" would. Sure, optimistically everything works out and things just keep going well but if stuff goes bad it.. doesn't matter. All of us living today are all going to be space dust when the sun consumes the Earth. There's nothing realistic I could do to change that. If humans never find a way out of our solar system or never find a way to control our sun's output of energy... Nothing we've ever done matters. The sun will explode and become a white dwarf. A few satellites floating in the void like the 2 voyager satellites will be all that remain as any evidence something lived here. It all doesn't matter in the end. Search for "Optimistic Nihilism" and you'll find the video that explains it the best. It's the most popular video explaining it by far. Hope you're doin well. - Shaz
Damn. First time hearing this. Partied hard as a depressed youth in my 20s, incidentally that was when I listened to a bit of Sage Francis. I turned 39 yesterday and holy fuck this decade has flown by, litterally a blur. I was lucky enough to have the sweetest cat for 16 years, she helped me through some of the most difficult times of my life. She died last year, I would have done anything to keep her here with me and spent a bit trying but it was just delaying the inevitable. I'm engaged now, I guess I don't need the cat as a crutch anymore. Life feels like it's actually falling into place. I don't know what my 40s will hold, but I feel like; I'm going to make it purr. Shout out to Sage for making me feel something all these years later.
My cat Little Wolf was my best friend. If I cried, he'd lick away my tears. If I was so depressed I couldn't get out of bed, he'd lay right on top of me or next to my head. I noticed when he started getting sick, and I didn't have the means to take him to the vet until ot was too late. He was my mom's cat too, and she would always refuse to take him even though she had the money. I took him for a blood test finally, but the next day he died at home. I was heartbroken for years after, and I still miss him and think about him everyday. He deserved better. This video always reminds me of how much he meant to me.
This hits so incredibly close to home. I found my cat at an incredibly low point in my life where I was completely tucked away and from everything. He brought new life into me. He got sick and I almost lost him and after thousands of dollars and much stress I was able to save him. Now 8 years later I got the news I'm going to lose him, there is no fixing him this time. He is the most incredible cat and I don't know how much time I have left with him but I love him and I'm going to miss him very much. I hoped for more time with him but I've cherished every moment with him, even more so after almost losing him. A few years ago I met someone very special and we have a life together and welcomed our daughter 2 years ago. He is a part of our family and my daughter loves him and he has been great with her since we brought her home from the hospital. I listened to this song back when I almost lost him and it hit so close to home and now when I listen to it as I'm about to lose him, it still rings true, I'm about to turn 40 in 2 months.
My cat is 24. It is about time. 😢 she has seen me through high school and seen my kids growing up, my oldest now in middle school. They are struggling just like me knowing the end is near. Very near.
I saw I got a like on this comment, I thought I would update. Sadly Zoe passed away on October 23rd 2020. As I buried her in our backyard close to midnight that night my outdoor cat came and sat next to me to keep me company. While I was digging a mother and baby deer walked by within 75 foot of us. I will remember it forever with both love and sadness.
@@engelwood39 What I love about cats is that they're honest. It's always tough to lose someone you love - but that's because love is immortal and transcendent. You cared about her and vice versa - that's a gift. This shit doesn't get easier - but hold that feeling of love, because it's the truth. She be head-bonking you from the spirit realm bro - it's right to be sad, it shows you and your kids are right in the brain, but Zoe wouldn't want it to be like that. Make it purr bro.
I refuse to watch this video in front of other people. Tears squirt out of my eyes. I have to block them so they don't get in my keyboard. RIP Rusty. I miss you boy.
This song is raw and sad but beautiful. How Sage Francis isnt insanely popular, I will never understand. His music has gotten me through some intense times in my life, good and bad.
@Nolan Beatrolyn ive met him twice. The first time i just ran up and got a picture and the second time I actually got to speak to him and couldnt speak at first lol
This whole story parallels my life a few years ago. I lived in a house with no power or heat in cold ohio. Everything was wrong. Then a deaf kitten abandoned at my place by an ex became my everything. He too died way to soon at the age of 3. He taught me more about life than any human could. He played everyday including on his death bed with cancer. Miss you Abe Lincoln you wonderful creature. And if you get a chance to see this sage, thank you. You continue to affect my very being deeply.
Looked over and stared at my dog the entire time and cried like a baby knowing one day he's going to have to carry on another life without me. Love you, Uncle Sage.
The fact that you felt like you needed to comment that says a lot about toxic masculinity in society. Nothing wrong with a man crying and it's very normal.
It’s so fucking awesome knowing Uncle Sage is doing better than ever now. Has a beautiful family, getting back on the road….and broadcasting regularly. That shit makes me happy when I hear this song. #BeHappy
Makes me think of my black cat that died...his name was Francis because he was a saint to me. The. Landlord called him Lucifer because he was all black...but he was no devil...he was the only thing left of purity in my life to love besides the angels in heaven above
'if you wanna eat healthy? You gotta dirty some dishes' - I'm feeling you Sage, too much, don't do me like that... cooking for one ain't it. I been eating takeaways for years now.
I can relate to a comatose lifestyle fruitlessly spent on my addictions. Its what I do best. I've lived through a bunch of bullshit that pushed me to not give a fuck, and that ended up in addictions to whatever little thing could distract me really, video games, internet, drugs... but not really ever going out and talking to people or anything, I honestly prefer to be alone. Solitude is my biggest addiction, too damn scared and scarred from trying to relate to backstabbers and faulty family members, Never felt anything but anxiety trying to keep my composure in front of them. Guess I'm gonna keep this lifestyle up until I can stop looking behind my shoulders wondering who's gonna stab me next.
i feel this way exactly like i hate people from anxiety fear i have screwed up my life and feel i have no direction so deprived of energy every single day my video games i play most when under depression but even that doesnt make me happy i look at the time and realize its night and think damn wtf is wrong with me theres a girl i liked but now shes gone and her friends give me the meanest looks i lost all my friends to not that i had many to start with i dont usely consider suicide as it only banishes me from existence i just dont know anymore dont know who to talk to
Brandon Hairston Well, speaking from experience bud, I know what its like to lose the girl you like, you feel like the world isn't even worth living in without her. I still feel that way about the girl I lost, truth is, it only gets better if you find your way over it. In all honesty I've never gotten over the first girl I lost, and that's because I didn't tell her the truth, that I really loved her. I feel that, rhetorically speaking, if you tell her how you feel and she doesn't accept, then Ce La Vie, life goes on, you let her knew and that's all you can do. There's gonna be a lot of potential partners later on in life. Now as a Survivor of many Suicide attempts, don't do it. Its really, really selfish, and I've taken many year's off my mother's health with my attempts and how worried she'd be about me whenever I would show up home late. Talk about it with someone you trust my dude, and if there isn't, there's no shame in calling the Suicide prevention hot-line, but never consider suicide. That problem that plagues upon my people has costed me three people I knew personally to suicide, carrying that burden, doesn't ever lighten.The thought of inflicting that burden upon family, friends and loved ones keeps me alive, knowing that I would be missed, is the biggest motivator for my continued existence, because knowing they wouldn't know how to deal is something that sway's my mind from suicidal tendencies. Take it easy Brandon, I don't mean to be presumptuous but I'm guessing your in your teens and things seem a lot bigger and harder than they really are, perhaps your thinking is making it that way. I get that way all the time, just calm down, hold your breath for three seconds, let out your breath, repeat three or as many times as you need to clear your head. Trust me it works, as someone who over-thinks everything, I know having a clear head, helps make clear decisions. Peace dude, never forget you're a person who is wanted and needed in this world.
I feel the same way. This video made me sob my eyes out thinking about my kitty that passed not too long ago... It's a pain I have never felt before. I feel like I can't breathe sometimes...
This song tears my heart out evertime. Sage mined his heart, no doubt, to create this song, and it still moves me to tears even after all the years. Sage Francis is one of the International Treasures of our times. After the tears, I'm gonna let em make me purr.🤘🏻🤟🏻🖖🏼👊🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻🎶🎤🎹 🐈⬛
Strong, very strong. I'd been reclusive after i lost everything back in 2010 Since this year I'm back. Have a new job, A new girlfriend. A new apartment But still track this hits home badly. Sitting here with a lump in the throat
@@mt.doomer6645 World's full of cats bro. When he punches his ticket just know he loved you and you made him happy, and that was pure - he wouldn't want you to get wrecked over it. Do his memory right and keep spreading the love. See yourself the same way that cat sees you, feel me?
I was fostering sick abandoned newborn kittens over the summer and four out of the five in one litter passed away and I have never been so devastated..... I love this song and combined with the video I cant help but bawl every damn time. Love you uncle Sage.
Wow this is incredible. I can relate so much..More emotion in this song than any shit played on the radio in the last 5 years. This deserves more love.
If art is supposed to evoke emotions, then Sage succeeded very well here. Anyone who didn't get teary eyed watching this video must not have much of a heart.
this goddamn song hits way to close to home. when I lived by myself, all I had was my cat. And I adopted another one to fill a void that was empty. I got sadder and sadder on my own, downright insane. suicidal. it came so close I had a cocked fun to my head. ready to pull the trigger. I voiced my concerns and my friend pulled me away. I'm only 22 but imma make em pur. imma make em pur. I live now to inspire. I have my vices, but goddamnit I'm going to do good in this world.
2023 and STILL straight slaps me silly. Legit hope life is rad AF. I've been to two shows. One in Portland, Oregon. One in Texas. You literally helped me through a personal hurricane. Like category 5. So. Thank you.
I know ur pain.I lost my girl and great ant on the same day...I listened to this and finaly got the realese.ive never cryed so hard...sage ,every time im down I know u help that shit with the amazing music you make.peace man.
Damn, Sage, you crazy cat lady, you are tearing heart strings and watering eyes with this new work. I'm really excited to listen to your new album every time I put it on. This video was beautiful and you and everyone involved should feel very proud.
Just rewatched this after a long time and remembered the the exact moment when I took one of my cats to the vet for the last time few months ago. And I cried like a baby.
Found Sage Francis in highschool in 2015 and I still come back to this song and Vonnegut Busy. They both hold a small and very special place in my soul.
I've been bumping sage for so long, been a while since I heard new material, but ya this song is sad a f. You are an amazing writer sage. Bigups my dude
My cat passed away last week. I can relate so much with this clip that is really hard to watch. She spent 9 years with me, always following me in the house, trying to lay down with me or just stay close watching. When I come back home, she was always on the door. When I wake up, she used to meow, just to me pet her. I really miss her and the house seems a lot emptier now that shes gone. I have 4 more cats, and my goals are just to make them to live the best of their lives.
I read a lot of the comments. They are both profound and depressing, but they touch me in places not easily reached. Lots of questions, no answers. But whatever you do, don't put yourself in a place that you might not be cause you connect to this beautiful but dark journey that Sage penned. You soul has to be dead not to connect to this. The deamons that race up and down our psychology is the same place where we find character. So, hold on to the pain, but bring it in the light. That is why you touched me with your comments. And that is precisely why, you are human. So, don't hold back. Cry on. Cry on.
Just cat I grew up with for 20 years... Sage knows how to hit those realistic strings in your heart... I found this video randomly and video helped me grieve. Thanks Sage.
This is a great song that shows the rampant depression among people right now and how we will shut our selves off from the outside world and everybody but we will open up to animals that we can grow attatched to and we will go to more lengths to keep them happy and alive over us but in the end lose them and be all alone
HOW could this video possibly get any thumbs down? Everything about it is beautiful and emotional. I relate to it entirely with my cats I HATE people. I LOVE cats, I will always have a cat in my life. Cats mean the world to me, one of my cats died recently of old age. It was a natural death, but absolutely the hardest thing I've ever had to go through, especially since he knew he was going and didn't want to go. The animation is beautiful, the insects in the light, the eyes of the people and the cat, the lyrics -everything. All wonderful details. Sobbed my eyes out, brilliant and wonderful. Deserves far more appreciation.
The song may mention cats, but they're only there to allude to Sage's deep and heavy depression. I'd assume that anxiety and stress play a part of it too, when considering the lyrics and what they express. The cat is more symbolic of how nice and loving he is, self-sacrificing, as per his actions with spending more on a cat he found than himself. This is explained well with the "Moneys no object" line there in the song. He's caring and self-sacrificing, but, he's also depressed and anxious. Thus why he takes care of a cat in this instead of someone else. Animals (cats here) are loving and they don't betray or belittle you. Another thing Sage expresses in the song with not having romantic relations and so forth. Still, you can take anything from a song, that's what truly matters. At any rate, the song is great and very deep. But I don't see how others not liking it matters. You don't need to dislike the meaning to dislike the sound of a song. But that's just me.
This song as well as many others of sage's helped me on so many ways to understand myself and the depression i deal with.. i really dont think i would be here today if i never wouldve heard his music. And it may sound cliche or whatever but this man saved my life.. or atleast made me realize how to save my own.. i feel for whoever is dealing with loneliness, depression, and anxiety. It is seriously the worst thing in the world to feel alone.. i dont care who you are. We all need recipirocation from others. The soul needs interaction. Thanks Sage, for all you do.
This is why I've always loved Sage Francis. His songs delve deeply into the complexities faced during our (mis)adventures during life. It's rare for music to move me so profoundly. .... I actually cried the first time I heard this song (and everytime I've listened since.) 😥
I had not heard this one from sage. Today while working and sitting at my desk, I stumbled across this and as I listened, my heart came to my mouth, a sudden gloom of realization came over me.. I was sad and surprised, is this man talking about my life ? I am not even 30 but I guess thats how its gonna end .. Sage francis is a lyrical genius .
My beloved kitty precious just died in my arms in her sleep 2 hours ago...I am so sad and hate the world. She had lymphoma gi and slowly stopped eating... forever my precious kitty...................rescued at age 1 in 1998 and lived 20 yrs til now, Rip my baby...Everyone whom has lost a furry friend I feel for you. Bought copper gone years ago but this song hits home now and its difficult.
Wow, very hard not to get shivers and a tear in your eye watching this... If you've ever been lonely or had the comfort of an animal... This was so fucking powerful...
41 this year. The dreams and unknown future suddenly turned into memories and fast moving days where there is only time and energy to survive and hold my ground
Saw Sage perform this one live in a cult Club in Cologne, that's gone now. I dunno how many people were there, I guess 50 at most, plus Sage. I cried. Remember I came for Grace, but when he was done with Make 'em purr I felt much more overwhelmed. I was happy to be sad at that moment. There is rarely a piece in any given artform that makes you feel like that. Speaks volumes about Sage's quality.
I was just thinking today about how the rap I hear is over-produced, mechanical, and pointless. Then a friend mentioned this song in an email. Love how life lines up like that sometimes...thought brings response from outside yourself and breathes a little faith into you. Its always good to be reminded there are still great artists to be found, if you can dig through the noise.
diggin in crates since the mid nineties, if you put in the work there are hundreds in the underground where real hip hop lives as of current gen, just gotta stick to word off mouth
+Stephen Perry Sage is awesome. Also look up Doomtree. And all the stuff the members of that group too. And then B. Dolan.....Metermaids....I could go on and on....
I heard this the first time you played this at SxSw this year. You did an acapella of it as the last song of the set and remember it being like a punch to the face. So many good quotables
Never really comment on videos but damn sage you keep killing it. One of the only actual artists left standing. Wish it was you I heard on the radio...
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I lived this song for years during a depression. It gets better.
Welcome to the better times. Stay head strong my friend!!!
My 18 year old cat passed yesterday 7-2-22. This song has been on basically repeat since then. It's helping a lot, the song describes my life so closely it's strange, nearly every word. She knew and helped me through my twenties and most my thirties. I got diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 27 and she was my star that was always there. Anytime I was home alone she was my star that made me feel safe and normal after any seizures I might've had. 8 years later I'm finally seizure free and she was there the whole time. I'm finally getting my life back together and she seemed just fine literally 1 week before this post. She died so fast, I knew she was old but wow it happened fast. We're pretty sure a saddle thrombus was the culprit. Basically a blood clot leading towards the rear of her body gets lodged in a specific spot that is common amongst cats but is very rarely curable and takes thousands of dollars to attempt. I'm 37 now and moving forward though. I'll get another cat in a little while.. I don't know when. Everything still hurts but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for this song Sage Francis.
I didn't 👍 your old, wise feline friend's death. I 👍 what you shared.
My father... So much like me inherited/saved a troubled, but very cool chihuahua. He was young enough for us to rename him Chico. A new life.
Chico saved my dad as my dad saved him. They go everywhere together. Anyone knows my dad, they K ow and love Chico. My dad's getting on? Man, at his oldest I keep thinking early 60s. But I'm only 19-20 years younger than him. I'm 45.
I have no domesticated buddies. I have the youth I sacrificed on love. Not my youth, persé. My own selfishness for the women I loved and still do.
I did the right thing, because of love. if I was selfish I would have had what I wanted, especially the shared dream between me andy ex fiance. She had a family who needed help. A little sister who couldn't afford school. I went without for them to be ok. My fiance sacrificed ten years of her life for me and inevitably found someone else. No green card in our country. It costs a fortune to prove you are marrying the love of your life because she is. Our xenophobic government talks about "genuine assylum seekers waiting in line vs cue jumpers on boats, like it makes a difference".
I could have married. We planned to. But having a wife who the government refused to "allow" me to have move to my country would have been too painful, so I tried to go through the proper Chanel's while making a life for my beautiful international family.
Last visit (was meant to be one to provide as much evidence that our love was real as my fascist government required and) for my parents to meet my fiance's family (they met her, loved her on her visits here) was also the visit I discovered (she didn't tell me) that she had found someone else. We only promised one another one thing each. She asked me, "please don't change your mind". I never did. Never changed my heart either.
I asked her, "if you meet someone and he is giving you money - I was living on very little to provide for safe living and education and to supplement my fiance's hard work at a café - please let me know. And if you find someone else, please tell me". She didn't. And on that visit, I was made to look the bad guy, because I knew everything without anyone telling me. I just knew. The hints weren't so subtle. Suddenly my fiance` claiming she needed to to travel to China for better work... Turns out her new Russian husband works for a Chinese company. She told me that later.
After a family holiday in which my fiance wouldn't even share a bed withe or give me a kiss any more after paying for nice hotel rooms for us to enjoy our time together, in which I spent my time alone... She was being faithful to her new man. The same man who didn't even spring for my sister-in law's education, as I had.
He was selfish and got what he wanted. I was not. And I did not get what I wanted for myself. I got what I wanted for that beloved family of mine. Safety, repairs on their dangerous home, education.
I've Always done that. Doing the right thing. Hey, that amazing woman gave me ten years from the time we first fell in love. She had suffered enough. Worst thing (besides her not keeping half of her promise - being the woman she was, she stopped taking money from me when she was being supplemented by her new husband - but she didn't tell me the most important thing. I wasn't her fiance any more.
I don't regret it at all. I am not bitter about her. I think lowly of the Russian who didn't pay for his sister-in law's education... This guy was making more money than me.
I still payed for her. She deserved an education and she LOVED going to school. My little sister would get upset if she could not attend school.
I could have given just enough that would allow me to take everything I wanted. But I, iny heart just could not. I spread myself too thin.
I'm working class. The working class. We're kept in our box. If we overreach, we end up like me... In this video... But with no domesticated animal for comfort. My mum's white German Shepherd, who I had taken to walking daily and caring for when my parents were away. She died on the weekend, a Sunday whiley folks were away. She was off her food for a day or so, then Sunday night, she couldn't walk up the stairs to the little room out the back where I "live". I had to carry her. She was getting on. 12 years old. Going for walks was everything to her. We had to buy wrist supports for her to go for walks and ease the pain in her weakening joints. But I always walked her. She would get so depressed without walks. She would obsessively dig holes in a sandy patch of the yard without walks.
That night I carried her up. Put her on her big pillow-bed (the same one my ex-fiancé once joked about being jealous of, because she grew up sleeping on the floor... And still did in the one room apartment she shared with two aunties. I paid for her shares and other stuff, because what she earned at work was literally criminal, but not criminal in that country. It was sad but true that a dog in my country lives in greater comfort than a person in her home country) and I placed water by our dog (my mum had named whisper. Characteristic of my mum and her K9 Companion. Both very gentle and quiet creatures) I woke early the next morning and Whisper had died during the night.
I whept. I thought there should have been more I could have sones for her. I thought I should have been awake and not let myself fall asleep. She needed me and I wasn't there for her. Tooke a long time to talk about without breaking up. She was my bud.
I know from my own experience as an animal. I Know from watching the cats we've had in our lives... When an animal is old and/or sick, they always sneak off to somewhere dark and quiet to be alone.
I know what most human animals are unwilling to accept. The truth. We are born alone. We die alone.
I can be surrounded by people and still LIVE alone.
Now, back to save Francis.
Working class or working poor. We don't get the luxury of a midlife crisis and a stupid, ugly, red sports car.
We get to accept that we did what was good. Not "nice" f**K nice. "Nice guys finish last". They deserve to. Good guys get the waman, they even get the family. I been through all that in different scenarios.
I'm not nice, I am a good man.
I have at this time, literally no personal possessions apart from a few clothes.
I gave a lot. Even recently to the family of a woman who I fell in love with. And she was damaged by a history of abuse. Her ex was still around... He was donour to four of her five kids. Nastiest piece of work I ever encountered. His kids loved me. He hated that. His ex loved me. He hated that. He hated that I chose non-violence and chose to stand defiantly against him, without fear for my wellbeing. He hated that it showed his kids that he was a sadistic bully. And that I was teaching them about kindness and compassion. Especially in how I treated their mother.
Their mother eventually pushed me away. Even when I was willing to be there and give myself completely. I had no job at the time, thanks to a medical condition. I was up in the mornings to help everyone get to school. I was up into the wee hours after making dinner, cleaning up, helping prepare chest for the next day... The closest thing to my own family I will ever have. My ex, she had her issues. And she was addicted to drama. Lavishing me with praise and love, affection, generosity and compassion 90-99% of the time. But she would turn one after a certain level of alcohol was in her and she would treat me like every man who ever mistreated her. She would be truly horrible to me for hours on end. She truly broke it all up when she put on two bizarre performances, both in front of at least one of her children. The same family who were my friends. Who would worry that their dad would hurt me. That I would always reassure, I'll be ok. And that there was never any reason fore to hide from him.
Suddenly the woman who spent all of her life hiding the abuses of her partners from her children to "protect them" which did the opposite to them, she behaved on two sudden and hurtful occasions as though I was to be feared. Even on the one where she hit me and the stood up and kicked me. Because I asked a question (thinking out loud) about how to train your dragon. We were watching. Suddenly, I wondered, are they Celtic Scotts or are they Vikings? Because of all of the mixed accents. That was it. Not sarcastic. Not mocking. Heck, I love that series. I watch it if it's on TV when I visit my dad. That doubled woman made her life a d the life of her kids so much more complicated the next time she did something similar.
So, the closest thing I had to a family of my own, without any illusions of replacing anyone. Of changing anyone. They were all so great. So special, each of them.
They never had to. And I preferred that they didn't, but they'd openly defend me when their father talked about about me. The youngest, six years old was the fiercest. and a true inspiration to me.
What that family went through, no one ever should. No child should ever become accustomed to it. But they were more immune to the bad energy and generally nasry and violent demeanor of their father than I ever was. I wish they didn't have to be. But they were.
I
I stayed through it all until I was told by their mum after she tried to start another fight in which I refused to engage, planned to leave and give us some space and come back with a change of clothes and hopefully a refreshed perspective for all (she never apologised, I was accustomed to that), but was told not to bother to come back. Leave the keys to her car, which sh couldn't legally drive after losing her license to DUI, and I was driving, doing school drop offs and pickups, grocery shopping, runs to get her ciggies and something to drink (which she kindly shared and which I had been paying her -on top of everything else at my own place, debts bills etc - for... Food, drinks etc) and never come back.
💔
The woman who would not tell her kids the truth about their sociopathic, bully of a father was pushing me away, because I wouldn't be drawn into the madness to which she was so accustomed.
And my new family... I couldn't blame their mum
I had to make sure if they needed anything, because I needed to go home... I couldn't even say a proper goodbye.
And now this Sage Francis track means more to me than ever.
❤
@@elhorrendo7026 Wow your story is rough man. I've never had as much as you did to lose. I hope things have gotten better for you as this is an old comment I somehow never saw. I'm part of the poor as well. I could fit every possession I have in my tiny 700$ truck and 1/2 the bed would be empty. My brother in-law inherited his parents home and I look around at all the things they have and kind of laugh in my head. I've got nearly nothing. I'm getting really lucky soon though! My sister's cat in pregnant and I'm going to get one! I'm so happy to finally have a companion again.
I'm kind of the black sheep of the family, only my sister talks to me anymore. I'm a little different than you. I'm nice (I think) and good... but too good. People owe me money right now but I have no income right now either. It helped them out of a pickle though. I could never be a salesman. I've watched service writers and salesmen at car dealerships (I used to work at one) upsell and upsell and take advantage of people and I just can't do that. I would want to just sell you what you want and/or need without the pressure to upsell stuff they don't need. I was a graphic designer and photographer for little while and I had the hardest time charging anywhere near others did.. I just couldn't do it even though my skill was close with theirs. I've tried to be that guy with no morals and take advantage of people but I'll hate myself for doing it days afterwards until I finally forget about it. I have trouble not being the "nice/good guy". It is what is it.
In the end I don't think it will matter though, I play closely to the beliefs an "optimistic nihilist" would. Sure, optimistically everything works out and things just keep going well but if stuff goes bad it.. doesn't matter. All of us living today are all going to be space dust when the sun consumes the Earth. There's nothing realistic I could do to change that. If humans never find a way out of our solar system or never find a way to control our sun's output of energy... Nothing we've ever done matters. The sun will explode and become a white dwarf. A few satellites floating in the void like the 2 voyager satellites will be all that remain as any evidence something lived here. It all doesn't matter in the end.
Search for "Optimistic Nihilism" and you'll find the video that explains it the best. It's the most popular video explaining it by far.
Hope you're doin well. - Shaz
I'M NOT CRYING. YOU'RE CRYING.
Sage tweeted about this comment :)
Agreed, BEST. COMMENT. EVER.
ok glad I'm not the only one
YO SAGE !!!!!
Cassiest Morin this video made me cry and i haven't cried since I was 7 and i am 19 lol
Damn. First time hearing this. Partied hard as a depressed youth in my 20s, incidentally that was when I listened to a bit of Sage Francis. I turned 39 yesterday and holy fuck this decade has flown by, litterally a blur. I was lucky enough to have the sweetest cat for 16 years, she helped me through some of the most difficult times of my life. She died last year, I would have done anything to keep her here with me and spent a bit trying but it was just delaying the inevitable. I'm engaged now, I guess I don't need the cat as a crutch anymore. Life feels like it's actually falling into place. I don't know what my 40s will hold, but I feel like; I'm going to make it purr. Shout out to Sage for making me feel something all these years later.
My cat Little Wolf was my best friend. If I cried, he'd lick away my tears. If I was so depressed I couldn't get out of bed, he'd lay right on top of me or next to my head. I noticed when he started getting sick, and I didn't have the means to take him to the vet until ot was too late. He was my mom's cat too, and she would always refuse to take him even though she had the money. I took him for a blood test finally, but the next day he died at home. I was heartbroken for years after, and I still miss him and think about him everyday. He deserved better. This video always reminds me of how much he meant to me.
2020 and this still hits you in the heart.
Every damn time.
I honestly avoid it because i cry or get near crying every time. My cat just died though so here I am.
2023
Sage Francis is all about the heart
I turn 40 tomorrow and can't think of anything but this song.
I'm not so sure but I'm gonna make em purr ya'll
Hey man, you will! you got this.
you will Justin. trust the process.
I hope they're purring man, I hope they're purring.
Make em PURR bro
This hits so incredibly close to home. I found my cat at an incredibly low point in my life where I was completely tucked away and from everything. He brought new life into me. He got sick and I almost lost him and after thousands of dollars and much stress I was able to save him. Now 8 years later I got the news I'm going to lose him, there is no fixing him this time. He is the most incredible cat and I don't know how much time I have left with him but I love him and I'm going to miss him very much. I hoped for more time with him but I've cherished every moment with him, even more so after almost losing him. A few years ago I met someone very special and we have a life together and welcomed our daughter 2 years ago. He is a part of our family and my daughter loves him and he has been great with her since we brought her home from the hospital. I listened to this song back when I almost lost him and it hit so close to home and now when I listen to it as I'm about to lose him, it still rings true, I'm about to turn 40 in 2 months.
I really like this song but every time I watch the video I cry.
Thank you for the comment
My cat is 24. It is about time. 😢 she has seen me through high school and seen my kids growing up, my oldest now in middle school. They are struggling just like me knowing the end is near. Very near.
I saw I got a like on this comment, I thought I would update. Sadly Zoe passed away on October 23rd 2020. As I buried her in our backyard close to midnight that night my outdoor cat came and sat next to me to keep me company. While I was digging a mother and baby deer walked by within 75 foot of us. I will remember it forever with both love and sadness.
@@engelwood39 What I love about cats is that they're honest. It's always tough to lose someone you love - but that's because love is immortal and transcendent. You cared about her and vice versa - that's a gift. This shit doesn't get easier - but hold that feeling of love, because it's the truth. She be head-bonking you from the spirit realm bro - it's right to be sad, it shows you and your kids are right in the brain, but Zoe wouldn't want it to be like that. Make it purr bro.
I refuse to watch this video in front of other people. Tears squirt out of my eyes. I have to block them so they don't get in my keyboard. RIP Rusty. I miss you boy.
This song is raw and sad but beautiful. How Sage Francis isnt insanely popular, I will never understand. His music has gotten me through some intense times in my life, good and bad.
@Nolan Beatrolyn ive met him twice. The first time i just ran up and got a picture and the second time I actually got to speak to him and couldnt speak at first lol
Amen
20s were a ROAR.....like roaring 20s...🙂
Sage is one of the best emcees to grace this planet, hands down.
This whole story parallels my life a few years ago. I lived in a house with no power or heat in cold ohio. Everything was wrong. Then a deaf kitten abandoned at my place by an ex became my everything. He too died way to soon at the age of 3. He taught me more about life than any human could. He played everyday including on his death bed with cancer. Miss you Abe Lincoln you wonderful creature. And if you get a chance to see this sage, thank you. You continue to affect my very being deeply.
Yeah the cat in this song doesn't die though.
@@FeathersMcGraw_ Ummm did you not watch the video? it dies
@@FeathersMcGraw_ I guess you stated this 7 years ago. Maybe you've grown up by now. Making that type of comment defeats everything Sage stands for.
Okay this... Made me cry
Every damn time..
I cried at the part were he was trying to revive the cat
Looked over and stared at my dog the entire time and cried like a baby knowing one day he's going to have to carry on another life without me. Love you, Uncle Sage.
Man I cry every time I revisit this video. My cat died at the age of 17 a year ago.
I'm a 34 year old man and I fucking cried like a baby...
33 and cutting onions dude.
The fact that you felt like you needed to comment that says a lot about toxic masculinity in society. Nothing wrong with a man crying and it's very normal.
@jl9949 Not just Toxic Masculinity but Toxic Femininity too, let's not blame one party for what the two contribute equally
We argue too much between toxic masculinity and femininity but can never seem to conclude that we just live in a toxic society..
This song and music video never fails to make me cry and I'm 36. Losing a cat is beyond painful.
This has to be one of the hardest hitting music videos ever.
thank you so much for the nice comment.
Yes.
It’s so fucking awesome knowing Uncle Sage is doing better than ever now. Has a beautiful family, getting back on the road….and broadcasting regularly. That shit makes me happy when I hear this song. #BeHappy
It bothers me how much I feel I relate to this...
you are not alone
Makes me think of my black cat that died...his name was Francis because he was a saint to me. The. Landlord called him Lucifer because he was all black...but he was no devil...he was the only thing left of purity in my life to love besides the angels in heaven above
There's a whole generation of us out there
'if you wanna eat healthy? You gotta dirty some dishes' - I'm feeling you Sage, too much, don't do me like that... cooking for one ain't it. I been eating takeaways for years now.
I can relate to a comatose lifestyle fruitlessly spent on my addictions. Its what I do best. I've lived through a bunch of bullshit that pushed me to not give a fuck, and that ended up in addictions to whatever little thing could distract me really, video games, internet, drugs... but not really ever going out and talking to people or anything, I honestly prefer to be alone. Solitude is my biggest addiction, too damn scared and scarred from trying to relate to backstabbers and faulty family members, Never felt anything but anxiety trying to keep my composure in front of them. Guess I'm gonna keep this lifestyle up until I can stop looking behind my shoulders wondering who's gonna stab me next.
oh man, I didn't expect Sage to like this comment, That's dope!
i feel this way exactly like i hate people from anxiety fear i have screwed up my life and feel i have no direction so deprived of energy every single day my video games i play most when under depression but even that doesnt make me happy i look at the time and realize its night and think damn wtf is wrong with me theres a girl i liked but now shes gone and her friends give me the meanest looks i lost all my friends to not that i had many to start with i dont usely consider suicide as it only banishes me from existence i just dont know anymore dont know who to talk to
Brandon Hairston
Well, speaking from experience bud, I know what its like to lose the girl you like, you feel like the world isn't even worth living in without her. I still feel that way about the girl I lost, truth is, it only gets better if you find your way over it. In all honesty I've never gotten over the first girl I lost, and that's because I didn't tell her the truth, that I really loved her. I feel that, rhetorically speaking, if you tell her how you feel and she doesn't accept, then Ce La Vie, life goes on, you let her knew and that's all you can do. There's gonna be a lot of potential partners later on in life. Now as a Survivor of many Suicide attempts, don't do it. Its really, really selfish, and I've taken many year's off my mother's health with my attempts and how worried she'd be about me whenever I would show up home late. Talk about it with someone you trust my dude, and if there isn't, there's no shame in calling the Suicide prevention hot-line, but never consider suicide. That problem that plagues upon my people has costed me three people I knew personally to suicide, carrying that burden, doesn't ever lighten.The thought of inflicting that burden upon family, friends and loved ones keeps me alive, knowing that I would be missed, is the biggest motivator for my continued existence, because knowing they wouldn't know how to deal is something that sway's my mind from suicidal tendencies. Take it easy Brandon, I don't mean to be presumptuous but I'm guessing your in your teens and things seem a lot bigger and harder than they really are, perhaps your thinking is making it that way. I get that way all the time, just calm down, hold your breath for three seconds, let out your breath, repeat three or as many times as you need to clear your head. Trust me it works, as someone who over-thinks everything, I know having a clear head, helps make clear decisions. Peace dude, never forget you're a person who is wanted and needed in this world.
went through the same thing not long ago with my cat, miss her to this day, cant listen to this song without crying
I feel the same way. This video made me sob my eyes out thinking about my kitty that passed not too long ago... It's a pain I have never felt before. I feel like I can't breathe sometimes...
my little kitten just passed about 5 hours ago.... then i remembered this song, cried i dont know how many times already
This song tears my heart out evertime. Sage mined his heart, no doubt, to create this song, and it still moves me to tears even after all the years. Sage Francis is one of the International Treasures of our times. After the tears, I'm gonna let em make me purr.🤘🏻🤟🏻🖖🏼👊🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻🎶🎤🎹 🐈⬛
Strong, very strong. I'd been reclusive after i lost everything back in 2010
Since this year I'm back. Have a new job, A new girlfriend. A new apartment
But still track this hits home badly. Sitting here with a lump in the throat
Just a lump? You're strong.
Osmosis same here...I kicked a 15 year heroin habit for an old diabetic cat that adopted me. When my little buddy goes....I don't even fucking know.
Osmosis I hope I can get there
@@mt.doomer6645 World's full of cats bro. When he punches his ticket just know he loved you and you made him happy, and that was pure - he wouldn't want you to get wrecked over it. Do his memory right and keep spreading the love. See yourself the same way that cat sees you, feel me?
I have rewatched it several times. I have tears on my eyes every time.
Where has this been all my life. I cant believe ive been sleeping on you sage, your a legend.
One of the best emcees ever!
Man this couldn't be more relevant to this day for this 42 year old. Love you Sage! Been bumping your music for years! 🖤
I was fostering sick abandoned newborn kittens over the summer and four out of the five in one litter passed away and I have never been so devastated..... I love this song and combined with the video I cant help but bawl every damn time. Love you uncle Sage.
shit still makes me cry every time
I need this. Every month or so, I find myself here once again.
Wow this is incredible. I can relate so much..More emotion in this song than any shit played on the radio in the last 5 years. This deserves more love.
If art is supposed to evoke emotions, then Sage succeeded very well here.
Anyone who didn't get teary eyed watching this video must not have much of a heart.
this goddamn song hits way to close to home. when I lived by myself, all I had was my cat. And I adopted another one to fill a void that was empty. I got sadder and sadder on my own, downright insane. suicidal. it came so close I had a cocked fun to my head. ready to pull the trigger. I voiced my concerns and my friend pulled me away. I'm only 22 but imma make em pur. imma make em pur. I live now to inspire. I have my vices, but goddamnit I'm going to do good in this world.
I know how it feels. Hit me up if you ever feel alone.
I wish I was as strong as you
Love you sage francis. Keep em coming. Never stop. You are important. I feel connected with you and your expression.
I'm in tears. Nothing else to it.
I came here to feel. I'm leaving in tears.
My life, lost to much and down the rabbit whole.
One of those songs that touches and hitting hard..
Dude. I love your music.
2023 and STILL straight slaps me silly. Legit hope life is rad AF. I've been to two shows. One in Portland, Oregon. One in Texas. You literally helped me through a personal hurricane. Like category 5. So. Thank you.
I know ur pain.I lost my girl and great ant on the same day...I listened to this and finaly got the realese.ive never cryed so hard...sage ,every time im down I know u help that shit with the amazing music you make.peace man.
Damn, Sage, you crazy cat lady, you are tearing heart strings and watering eyes with this new work. I'm really excited to listen to your new album every time I put it on. This video was beautiful and you and everyone involved should feel very proud.
This is the most beautiful mix between heart-wrenching and awesome. Thank you Sage Francis!
Wow . The most important song of 2014 and everyone love your pets . Thank you sage francis
i can't lie, I'm crying like a baby. I'm a 38 year old man and i never cry. deep bro..deep..
And now Sage has found his true love, it couldn't have happened to a better person ❤
Just rewatched this after a long time and remembered the the exact moment when I took one of my cats to the vet for the last time few months ago. And I cried like a baby.
so much love from Tanzania....we feelin' yo muzik overhere
Found Sage Francis in highschool in 2015 and I still come back to this song and Vonnegut Busy. They both hold a small and very special place in my soul.
I've been bumping sage for so long, been a while since I heard new material, but ya this song is sad a f. You are an amazing writer sage. Bigups my dude
Fucking love animals too..
My cat passed away last week. I can relate so much with this clip that is really hard to watch. She spent 9 years with me, always following me in the house, trying to lay down with me or just stay close watching. When I come back home, she was always on the door. When I wake up, she used to meow, just to me pet her. I really miss her and the house seems a lot emptier now that shes gone. I have 4 more cats, and my goals are just to make them to live the best of their lives.
wow such heavy words and truth, I cried harder than I've ever have in a long while
Beautiful and Painful... this is what music should be....
I read a lot of the comments. They are both profound and depressing, but they touch me in places not easily reached. Lots of questions, no answers. But whatever you do, don't put yourself in a place that you might not be cause you connect to this beautiful but dark journey that Sage penned. You soul has to be dead not to connect to this. The deamons that race up and down our psychology is the same place where we find character. So, hold on to the pain, but bring it in the light. That is why you touched me with your comments. And that is precisely why, you are human. So, don't hold back. Cry on. Cry on.
Just cat I grew up with for 20 years... Sage knows how to hit those realistic strings in your heart... I found this video randomly and video helped me grieve. Thanks Sage.
the video art is way better than i expected.
I lost my cat recently and had to look up this song again and ugly cry. Hurts like hell and I miss him so much.
"Hurts like hell" this is the most fit describe of that pain. I lost my cat just today and i feel like excatly this
Thank you for being willing to be vulnerable and honest with your heartbreak.
Poppa Sage... One of the best.
This is a great song that shows the rampant depression among people right now and how we will shut our selves off from the outside world and everybody but we will open up to animals that we can grow attatched to and we will go to more lengths to keep them happy and alive over us but in the end lose them and be all alone
I'm not crying for the 35th time... You are!
HOW could this video possibly get any thumbs down? Everything about it is beautiful and emotional. I relate to it entirely with my cats I HATE people. I LOVE cats, I will always have a cat in my life. Cats mean the world to me, one of my cats died recently of old age. It was a natural death, but absolutely the hardest thing I've ever had to go through, especially since he knew he was going and didn't want to go. The animation is beautiful, the insects in the light, the eyes of the people and the cat, the lyrics -everything. All wonderful details. Sobbed my eyes out, brilliant and wonderful. Deserves far more appreciation.
Probably voted down by immature 12 year olds for not being "macho" enough. I agree with you completely, by the way.
The song may mention cats, but they're only there to allude to Sage's deep and heavy depression. I'd assume that anxiety and stress play a part of it too, when considering the lyrics and what they express. The cat is more symbolic of how nice and loving he is, self-sacrificing, as per his actions with spending more on a cat he found than himself. This is explained well with the "Moneys no object" line there in the song. He's caring and self-sacrificing, but, he's also depressed and anxious. Thus why he takes care of a cat in this instead of someone else. Animals (cats here) are loving and they don't betray or belittle you. Another thing Sage expresses in the song with not having romantic relations and so forth. Still, you can take anything from a song, that's what truly matters. At any rate, the song is great and very deep. But I don't see how others not liking it matters. You don't need to dislike the meaning to dislike the sound of a song. But that's just me.
my cat is going to die in a few years, i love him with my whole heart and even though it’s a while away and can’t bare to see him go
This song as well as many others of sage's helped me on so many ways to understand myself and the depression i deal with.. i really dont think i would be here today if i never wouldve heard his music. And it may sound cliche or whatever but this man saved my life.. or atleast made me realize how to save my own.. i feel for whoever is dealing with loneliness, depression, and anxiety. It is seriously the worst thing in the world to feel alone.. i dont care who you are. We all need recipirocation from others. The soul needs interaction. Thanks Sage, for all you do.
Excellent song and the video adds to the emotion of the song I must admit I was kinda choked up at the end.
This is why I've always loved Sage Francis. His songs delve deeply into the complexities faced during our (mis)adventures during life. It's rare for music to move me so profoundly.
.... I actually cried the first time I heard this song (and everytime I've listened since.) 😥
I had not heard this one from sage. Today while working and sitting at my desk, I stumbled across this and as I listened, my heart came to my mouth, a sudden gloom of realization came over me.. I was sad and surprised, is this man talking about my life ?
I am not even 30 but I guess thats how its gonna end ..
Sage francis is a lyrical genius .
Been listening to sage eversence the early 2000
Still bring that raw and make em purr
Oooof. Brutal. Gorgeous,but brutal. Thanks for sharing.
This made me cry like a baby. Your music is so beautiful Sage.
This legit, made me cry.
My beloved kitty precious just died in my arms in her sleep 2 hours ago...I am so sad and hate the world.
She had lymphoma gi and slowly stopped eating... forever my precious kitty...................rescued at age 1 in 1998 and lived 20 yrs til now, Rip my baby...Everyone whom has lost a furry friend I feel for you. Bought copper gone years ago but this song hits home now and its difficult.
the cats all show up at the end cause they know he's a good soul. he's just lost
I love the end. My heart hurts, but it is so sweet
Nah bruh. He's found. You are one that found him.
I don't come here often cause everytime it breaks my heart.
Fantastic video and song. Looking forward VERY much to the UK tour.
Amazing! I'll continue being a fan as long as you make music, Sage.
All your songs always hit me so hard. Tingles and shivers up my spine its like your in the room talking to me.
haven't seen this vid in over two years but it makes me cry everytime it comes up. thank you for sharing your vulnerability through art.
Sage can give me goosebumps with any topic here writes about
What Brian Redban Do (podcast) led me to this video, and I am so thankful for it.
thank you and thanks Brian
that guy is gross
CreepSpark Which episode?
Episode 2, I believe.
Earth Punk and you’re not?
Sage is my favorite rapper. So much lyrics i can relate to.
Another solid track, vid & album from the strange famous one. Respect Sage
Another amazing track. I can relate to a good deal of this.
Almost 2024 and still the best rapper of the century!💯
Did not know you got Danger Mouse in the US🤷🏻♂️
Wow, very hard not to get shivers and a tear in your eye watching this... If you've ever been lonely or had the comfort of an animal... This was so fucking powerful...
41 this year. The dreams and unknown future suddenly turned into memories and fast moving days where there is only time and energy to survive and hold my ground
Saw Sage perform this one live in a cult Club in Cologne, that's gone now. I dunno how many people were there, I guess 50 at most, plus Sage. I cried. Remember I came for Grace, but when he was done with Make 'em purr I felt much more overwhelmed. I was happy to be sad at that moment. There is rarely a piece in any given artform that makes you feel like that. Speaks volumes about Sage's quality.
I feel many of his songs in my heart to some degree, but this one hits closer to my soul. The video is a perfect complement.
this song ducking broke me and lifted my spirits at the same time. not alone.
this video, I can't even put into words, ugh! so good in a make you bawl your eyes out kinda way.
thank you pretty much !
Thanks for this one Sage..
story of my life! "Alone but never lonely!!!"please come back to colorado you just came but not to Ft. Collins
Unbelievable!! Sage never ceases to amaze me.
no matter how many times i watch this ..i always fell the need to come back :)
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God damn...this one just hit me in the feels.
Love you Sage. Thanks for being on Redban's podcast. Met you at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor in 2004...keep hustling
I was just thinking today about how the rap I hear is over-produced, mechanical, and pointless.
Then a friend mentioned this song in an email.
Love how life lines up like that sometimes...thought brings response from outside yourself and breathes a little faith into you.
Its always good to be reminded there are still great artists to be found, if you can dig through the noise.
Stephen Perry And to think you're only scratching the surface....keep going
diggin in crates since the mid nineties, if you put in the work there are hundreds in the underground where real hip hop lives as of current gen, just gotta stick to word off mouth
+Stephen Perry Sage is awesome. Also look up Doomtree. And all the stuff the members of that group too. And then B. Dolan.....Metermaids....I could go on and on....
+Stephen Perry As much as i love this song complaining about technical things and saying they are bad and then getting advice from email ...
Not gon' cry, not gon' cry, not gon' cry, not gon' cry, not gon' cry, not gon' cry, not gon' cry
I heard this the first time you played this at SxSw this year.
You did an acapella of it as the last song of the set and remember it being like a punch to the face.
So many good quotables
You performed this beautifully in Bristol this week, Sage. Thanks for the music, dude.
Never really comment on videos but damn sage you keep killing it. One of the only actual artists left standing. Wish it was you I heard on the radio...
Pure brilliance
Purr brilliance