I remember when I got a job, I moved to another city, and spent a year there alone.. for me, my life was good, I was young.. But when my brother came home to visit me, he asked me if I was suffering in loneliness, I was offended and replied that I was doing great. The next day I asked him why he thought so, he told me he watched me while I played "Elephant" as we settled for the night. He said some things are evident by the type of music we listen to, more importantly, the way we sing it. I apparently lost my self and sang along even in the high pitches, as though I felt every word of it. To me it was normal, this is a masterpiece and that's how it is to be sung along. he refused, there was something wrong with me. Then I thought maybe he was right, I was lonely, but it was not like anyone could enter into that room and make me feel better. It's been 4 years now, and I just can't help get over this song. The same loneliness is lurking within.. But I don't regret it... We are all here for the human experience, and what better way to feel human than the existential feeling of being lonesome.
Although the Irish are great, I believe differently. It’s the unique individuals who oft become poets, from all different places where various perspectives roam, like no other. 😊
Damien has been the person I have gone to when i needed to be alone, for the last 11 years, I still remember watching Closer at the cinema, I loved the film, but I just wanted to get back home, and discover more about this singer, since then, I have been totally hooked. every song pictures a moment of my life like nothing else is able to. Unfortunately I have only been able to go to one of his concerts, but boy, I will never ever forget it. You will never read this Damien, but if you do. Thank you.
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. His voice, the tone, the rawness. Full of soul. The intimacy of his performance. The song change transition.
Whoever did the lighting and the camerawork for this performance deserve accolades. Those wide shots and corner shots of him in an almost sepia spotlight are absolute perfection. Such an amazing compliment to his incredible performance!
That’s the only thing i have from my dad..I never knew who he was besides people talking about him. My mom told me that was the song he sang while holding me. Rip dad 🤍 26/11/19
He's an acquired taste, brilliant, passionate, and the ladies love him 😜but way way too heavy for most, to intense and graphic I'd say, no broad appeal at all. But this is a cracking song,many musicians like myself love him, he's successful. Just not main stream.🎸🎤😎
A little late to the party but both songs are supposed to complete each other. Originally elephant was meant to be called The Blower's Daughter Part II.
It has been 14 years, sitting in my car listening to this song, reaching for your hand that wasn't there. It was the first time I noticed the ending line, until I find somebody new. But no one has ever came close.
I remember when I discovered his music for the first time. It was around 2:00 A.M. I was depressed and I had planned to end my own life that night, and I happened to discovered this concert on UA-cam and I stayed awake listening to it. So basically his music saved my life...
Just a man and his guitar; A man who has a voice to reach the stars; his soul a glowing fire that keeps me warm; just a man and his guitar; who is only everything; he truly is absolutely everything; spectacular precious and Amazing❤Luv You Damien! You sing my heart back to life every single time!
I read the comments, and I am grateful to all the intelligent and sensitive people who are still able to grasp profound sides of their lives simply by listening to this piece of music. There are distant molecules in our bodies that come home by listening.
And so it is just like you said it would be Life goes easy on me Most of the time And so it is the shorter story No love, no glory No hero in her sky I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes And so it is just like you said it should be We'll both forget the breeze Most of the time And so it is the colder water The Blower's daughter The pupil in denial I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes off you I can't take my eyes Did I say that I loathe you? Did I say that I want to leave it all behind? I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind off you I can't take my mind My mind, my mind 'Til I find somebody new
I come here most nights to put myself at peace with the day. I watched my wife walk down the aisle to The Blower's Daughter so it holds a very special place in my life. The transition and passion in Elephant is world's apart from he majority of other artists. The audience is captivated as per usual with Damien. A true musical genius 💛
Its like she is there even when she isn't there and that's what makes it so powerful. I was just listening to some of Damien's old performances with Hannigan. This is one of my favourite performances on UA-cam, I like to think there is a back story behind these good ones
Hey Ryan, if you ever come across this comment, you were an amazing guy, an incredible boyfriend and I hope you're in a relationship with someone who sees all your gifts and cherishes you. You got me through some of the darkest times in my life and you did it with so much music, including this piece. Thanks for being you and thanks for loving me and thanks for letting me love you.
I found this song when I was in a foster home And it has been the closest song to my heart that I find hard to listen to Even after all of THEESE years Thankyou
I can't take my ears off of this. I can't take my eaaarrrsss off of this......I can't take my ears..... my ears.... my ears, off of this. my ears. my ears. my ears.
12 years ago my brother came home damien rice's album, we used to listening together, now we live in different countries, we have our own family but i'll never forget those golden moments. When I listen this song, i go back to that time when there was no worries, we just living.
Mr. Rice, you make me want to cry. I'm almost your age, your style of man, but you break my heart with every false pause, falsetto, stutter stop, broken C, waning F. Thanks man. You are doing it right.
I am 61 and actually followed my nose from Disturbed to here. UA-cam is amazing but it is sad that musicians aren't paid for their years of dedication and sacrifice anymore. You get what you pay for folks so, I hope if you like Damien that you get out your wallets. ☮
Damien is mesmerizing. His songs and voice are so full of feelings that is a rarity on these times. Only few artists like him can take you into a journey with his songs. I love this man.
best live performance ever. he took the blowers daughter, which is one of the best songs, and made it look like its just part of the performance and then he went on and did this... woooooow
There are fewer things in my life I would want more than to have been there and seen this live... If there's ever been the perfect rendition of a song, this is it. Damien is something else entirely...
It is one of those most captivating things for me to experience in life to witness his emotional journey thru all of his songs. I don't think I have ever seen an artist that put that much of his soul in his works, all of his live performances are just masterpieces, and I am grateful
I found him back in 2005. When I was with my Ex. We still talk. But we don’t talk about this music because it brings back too many memories we want to relive but can’t
Damien, the songs, the ambience, the light, the mist, the camera movement...I'm taken into another world, to a world of magic, love and peace, my Soul sings and flies ❤❤❤
It reminds me what jamiroquai said about a great song.... He said something like : "If a song can be sung with just one instrument then it's a great song... "... This kind of song seems to carry deep feelings... Touching song...
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Are you that 3am person who like to hear this kind of music alone?
oh shit sonnnnn
2:10
always
More like almost 5 am during lockdown
I'd rather not alone but so it is...
I remember when I got a job, I moved to another city, and spent a year there alone.. for me, my life was good, I was young..
But when my brother came home to visit me, he asked me if I was suffering in loneliness, I was offended and replied that I was doing great.
The next day I asked him why he thought so, he told me he watched me while I played "Elephant" as we settled for the night.
He said some things are evident by the type of music we listen to, more importantly, the way we sing it. I apparently lost my self and sang along even in the high pitches, as though I felt every word of it. To me it was normal, this is a masterpiece and that's how it is to be sung along. he refused, there was something wrong with me.
Then I thought maybe he was right, I was lonely, but it was not like anyone could enter into that room and make me feel better.
It's been 4 years now, and I just can't help get over this song. The same loneliness is lurking within.. But I don't regret it...
We are all here for the human experience, and what better way to feel human than the existential feeling of being lonesome.
Thank God for those pillows in those pillowcases ❤
Either way I bet it sounded beautiful
Wow so true 😭love this sentimental piece
i am floored, i feel this so deeply
I understand. To be understood and to understand this makes all the difference imo.
No one bleeds all over their microphone quite like Damien Rice.
Ben Howard.
@@McStoolio 100% agree. A beautiful musician
Glen Hansard!
this guys is insane :o
wow , how perfectly said
The Irish are poets, storytellers and can convey emotions better than any others. Genius performance.
............Any others, except Mexicans......indeed
Amazing voice and songwriter
Although the Irish are great, I believe differently. It’s the unique individuals who oft become poets, from all different places where various perspectives roam, like no other. 😊
@@alexi.de.charleyeah i agree
@@miguelhernandez-jc6yr as a fellow mexican (half mexican though) who do you view as good storytellers especially musically that are mexican?
Damien has been the person I have gone to when i needed to be alone, for the last 11 years, I still remember watching Closer at the cinema, I loved the film, but I just wanted to get back home, and discover more about this singer, since then, I have been totally hooked. every song pictures a moment of my life like nothing else is able to. Unfortunately I have only been able to go to one of his concerts, but boy, I will never ever forget it. You will never read this Damien, but if you do. Thank you.
+symba Same here.
+symba same with me
+symba At his concert in Brazil, I tried not to cry just to pay more attention. He is amazing live!
god, this comment almost made me cry 😢 it is always so beautiful when people find such a deep connection with a song or artist...good for you.
I'm smoking a blunt with Damien and he is blessed to have hit your heart. smoke out with us!!
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. His voice, the tone, the rawness. Full of soul. The intimacy of his performance. The song change transition.
older chests..
2020! Anyone?
It’s 2022 and I’m still listening to this masterpiece.
Yes in Lockdown in Dublin 💕
@@marymolloy4133 yes, lockdown in California. May,2020
Me in quarantine.
2020 june in Seoul
Yes sir
I must say I'm jealous to all of the people who got to see this masterpiece live
Daryl C Join his newsletter and cross your fingers. I was able to see him twice a few years ago by some miracle. He is amazing.
Saw him live yesterday. Too bad he didn't play this song.
Daryl C ,saw him down the pub last night...............
Watched him live a few months ago. I was starstruck the entire time, I'm not even lying
@@breenwalshe7667 Which pub? I wanna come there.
The man who sings raw feelings instead of a song
Exactly that.
2024 anyone? I was 21 when I first heard this. Hearing this and the blowers daughter takes me back to beautiful memories.
Brings in 2020 with some timeless classics. Who's here with me? Who's listening to this song in 2020?
Hi would love to know what you think of my 17 year old grandsons cover of this ua-cam.com/video/w3G6pL8TpIA/v-deo.html
❤
I am
Still listening in MN, USA
me.
Whoever did the lighting and the camerawork for this performance deserve accolades. Those wide shots and corner shots of him in an almost sepia spotlight are absolute perfection. Such an amazing compliment to his incredible performance!
yes its so beautiful
This is absolutely ridiculous. What a voice. What an artist!
That’s the only thing i have from my dad..I never knew who he was besides people talking about him. My mom told me that was the song he sang while holding me.
Rip dad 🤍 26/11/19
He has to be one of the most under-rated artists.
He is not!!! You & I “know” him😉
He's an acquired taste, brilliant, passionate, and the ladies love him 😜but way way too heavy for most, to intense and graphic I'd say, no broad appeal at all.
But this is a cracking song,many musicians like myself love him, he's successful.
Just not main stream.🎸🎤😎
Indeed, that's also why I was always listening
A masterpiece. Electricity for the soul.
Indeed.
2021 still so hard. Rice always calm me down.
I can’t take my ears off of this song!
Watching on fathers day 2021 ...missing my daghter ...if you ever see this daddy always love you Autumn x
Elephant will forever be my favorite song ever. Magical lyrics by an amazing musical poet. His voice is like no other.
The transition between the two songs is so impressive. Both melancholy songs; both entwined beautifully.
Not that difficult since they are both in the same tone sort.
A little late to the party but both songs are supposed to complete each other. Originally elephant was meant to be called The Blower's Daughter Part II.
Blower's Daughter:- We'll both forget the breeze
Elephant:- Do you still forget the breeze?
pienso lo mismo, la transición entre las canciones es genial.
It has been 14 years, sitting in my car listening to this song, reaching for your hand that wasn't there. It was the first time I noticed the ending line, until I find somebody new. But no one has ever came close.
💔
I hurt with/for you man.
Too sad.
Sometimes you only get it once!
He's getting better as he ages like an exquisite wine. Love him
Nice.
love too.
He ages?!
Gama
Our Fantasy Life ,
ALWAYS listen to Damien at 3am ❤
Can I ask why?
@@OJAX3 Cos she may cry like a baby
holy shit this performance..and the audience, silent..perfection
2 forgotten classics by such an underrated artist. We need this kind of talent in 2021. What happened to real music.
I dont know what happened to real music, it doesnt seem to exist!
Dermot Kennedy happened :)
Where have you been living? How is Damien Rice underrated?
There’s no real music anymore, and it’s sad.
He is not underrated. He is the best singer-songwriter, and he is an acclaimed worldwide.
I remember when I discovered his music for the first time. It was around 2:00 A.M. I was depressed and I had planned to end my own life that night, and I happened to discovered this concert on UA-cam and I stayed awake listening to it. So basically his music saved my life...
Steeven Hyde - just keep on hanging on. It always gets better ❤️
Bro hope you are well. It probably gets easier
Don't give up
I've discovered now!
So good your choice!!
Fight! It's hard But Fight. You've nothing to loose.
I Hope You're better Now.
A greeting from Italy
damn this guy is the epitome of a true musician.
Verdadero musico
There's no more anger in his voice.
yep, that's why I can relate.
It's great to compare Elephnt from this performance with Elephant from his concert from Korea in 2012
Oliver William Quinn yea.... i miss his anger voice... it was really beautiful, but now sounds like reached nirvada,... did he let her go now?
***** Oivier is right don't try to start somthing negative here. People are peacefully giving their opinions. Stay classy.
Oliver William Quinn i'm missing out a bit because i don't follow him that much. what happened between 2012 and 2014?
2024 -this is a masterpiece
an underrrated genius of our time, and that's kind good
Alexandre Folquito people prefer pop over this music, and I don't get it
How is that good?
@@blackeesh463 That his music is not commercialized and mainstream
💯 @@YukiKunikida
Makes me think of her so bad :(
this the sound of a place to come to when it feels hard to be anywhere. his voice is the quilt you need when the world is too much.
Oh I struggle to listen to this… the whole cemetery knows this song now… miss you my beautiful wife
I txt my wife this chorus back in the day. nearly sure thats why she married me. shes absolutely gorgeous. thanks damo xx
I cry everytime listening to this no matter what my mood. Happy tears, sad tears, struggle tears.... 🌼 what a piece ❤️
same!
Also.
Me too
大米的歌给人传递的情绪真的好强烈
Just a man and his guitar; A man who has a voice to reach the stars; his soul a glowing fire that keeps me warm; just a man and his guitar; who is only everything; he truly is absolutely everything; spectacular precious and Amazing❤Luv You Damien! You sing my heart back to life every single time!
I am a singer songwriter and would love to sing a song for you. I love what you said
You don't get any closer to perfect than this.
J
2019 anyone? what a pure performance
2020!
2020
Is 25 too late to fall in love for the first time? I feel sick. Tired of everything after having lost her.
I read the comments, and I am grateful to all the intelligent and sensitive people who are still able to grasp profound sides of their lives simply by listening to this piece of music.
There are distant molecules in our bodies that come home by listening.
Omg, I've found this man and I can't stop listening him, he's voice is incredibly beautiful.
I’m the same way. I discovered Damien about a month ago...can’t believe my luck!
@@virginiaknighten4687 You should listen to a band called "Juniper" baby Damo rice..Great song called "weatherman"...
This is my favorite video on youtube
oh my god
Gustavo Barbosa you can listen George Kidonakis and another version of this song
Gustavo Barbosa hi
Same
And so it is just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is the shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes
And so it is just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is the colder water
The Blower's daughter
The pupil in denial
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes
Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to leave it all behind?
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind
My mind, my mind
'Til I find somebody new
Coming back to this in 2023 is A TRIP 🥺 wow
Never get tired of coming back and listening to him 👌🏻
when my heart hurts I look for Damien and then it hurts a little less - because my pain can live outside me inside his songs
How beautifully said
2020 and the beauty of these songs still remain and get even more beautiful
My daughter often ask me why I watch live performance videos. This is why.
Couldn’t agree more. Such a captivating performance
If you’re listening to this as a time traveler in 2022 you have awesome taste 🥰
If i could time travel i would go back to the seventies!
I really love the transition from the first to the second song.
I come here most nights to put myself at peace with the day. I watched my wife walk down the aisle to The Blower's Daughter so it holds a very special place in my life. The transition and passion in Elephant is world's apart from he majority of other artists. The audience is captivated as per usual with Damien. A true musical genius 💛
Its like she is there even when she isn't there and that's what makes it so powerful. I was just listening to some of Damien's old performances with Hannigan. This is one of my favourite performances on UA-cam, I like to think there is a back story behind these good ones
Hey Ryan, if you ever come across this comment, you were an amazing guy, an incredible boyfriend and I hope you're in a relationship with someone who sees all your gifts and cherishes you. You got me through some of the darkest times in my life and you did it with so much music, including this piece. Thanks for being you and thanks for loving me and thanks for letting me love you.
He's so beautiful, inside and outside. Such passion, his voice, the love he puts into it. Such a wonderful gift to us.
Steeven Hyde linda
@@ing_a8653 😊
I found this song when I was in a foster home
And it has been the closest song to my heart that I find hard to listen to
Even after all of THEESE years
Thankyou
My two favorite songs and favorite live performance, best late night song ever.
🍷🍷🍷😥💜
I want to go to sleep listening to these songs and wake up in the morning the same way, every day
I can't take my ears off of this. I can't take my eaaarrrsss off of this......I can't take my ears..... my ears.... my ears, off of this. my ears. my ears. my ears.
12 years ago my brother came home damien rice's album, we used to listening together, now we live in different countries, we have our own family but i'll never forget those golden moments. When I listen this song, i go back to that time when there was no worries, we just living.
The HEART is ETERNAL. Those moments will NEVER DIE.
So do I ❤
And so it is the shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky...
Mr. Rice, you make me want to cry. I'm almost your age, your style of man, but you break my heart with every false pause, falsetto, stutter stop, broken C, waning F. Thanks man. You are doing it right.
I wish someone were here listening to this with me.
I am 61 and actually followed my nose from Disturbed to here. UA-cam is amazing but it is sad that musicians aren't paid for their years of dedication and sacrifice anymore.
You get what you pay for folks so, I hope if you like Damien that you get out your wallets. ☮
Perfect transition. Damien never disappoints.
Someone help this guy, he is suffering a lot, you can feel in your voice and your chords… He is brilliant singer! Amazing, Damien!
If you don't like this song, then I am afraid you just might not like music...
I've my exams tmrw that I'm shite terrified of. Damien and Ray La Montagne are the only two musicians who heal me without making me all melancholic.
Melancholy.
Damien is mesmerizing. His songs and voice are so full of feelings that is a rarity on these times. Only few artists like him can take you into a journey with his songs. I love this man.
best live performance ever. he took the blowers daughter, which is one of the best songs, and made it look like its just part of the performance and then he went on and did this... woooooow
One of the best songs around. Very sad but simply beautiful.
One of these days I am going to see this Minstrel live.
Beyond touching. Haunting beauty. Unique like a great Irish poetry
This live is a masterpiece.
Anyone else listening to this musical genius in 2018?
I just heard him for the first time yesterday unbelievable beautiful music and a man I'm going to get some more of his music what a talent
Yes. I am here.
I want more ...
he is my favorite musician. Wish he toured more in America
@@mrjaydean12 I was thinking the same thing. I would rather see him than any current artist.
There are fewer things in my life I would want more than to have been there and seen this live... If there's ever been the perfect rendition of a song, this is it. Damien is something else entirely...
It is one of those most captivating things for me to experience in life to witness his emotional journey thru all of his songs. I don't think I have ever seen an artist that put that much of his soul in his works, all of his live performances are just masterpieces, and I am grateful
Perfectly said 👍
I found him back in 2005. When I was with my Ex. We still talk. But we don’t talk about this music because it brings back too many memories we want to relive but can’t
If Van Gogh had been a musician.
I don't think cutting his ear off would have helped with his musical endeavours.
Actually, it wouldn't matter... Cause it's just the ear not the inner ear (I think) xD
@@Kevito2486 Beethoven, for example, is your proof of your insight.
he never drink absinthe because he's irish...
This one comment is a piece of art.
Pure madness. I have his picture in my IG posts.
The Artist, the Guitar and The Voice ... Soo Beautiful !
Always stunning and meaningful.
Listened exactly when this video and concert got released 9 years ago, I remember I even shared❤
Oh how I want to feel this intensity of his wondrous despair.
One of the greatest live performance i think.
Always makes me cry this does
why do his songs give u goosebumps ? the pure simplicity and genuineness strikes right at the heart
Because you opened the door to your soul and Damien walked in :)
Damien, the songs, the ambience, the light, the mist, the camera movement...I'm taken into another world, to a world of magic, love and peace, my Soul sings and flies ❤❤❤
Just come out from his show at Paris. Sensational & an absolute must see on this tour. Came straight online to see more. Unbelievable experience
It takes me to the burial of my long lost memories and their scent which is still dominant in my vains .
His voice gets richer and purer with each year, as does his performance.
The most authentic,,unique sad song in the world
The emotion in his voice is heartbreaking !
Sitting here, full-on goosebumps down both legs, both arms, fighting back tears, I don't know why.
It reminds me what jamiroquai said about a great song.... He said something like : "If a song can be sung with just one instrument then it's a great song... "...
This kind of song seems to carry deep feelings... Touching song...
what does it take to make such a song & performance - superb
a piece of art❣️Glad we exist in the same time and space.
Loved the movie Closer especially because of this beautiful song.
The sweetness of sorrow is something only a few will ever experience. These two songs are all about that...
I am here again and always to listen to this story again and again!
Every time I hear this angle/man sing my heart learns something new.
Liebe und Schmerz pur❤❤❤