Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye (Official Music Video)

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  • Official Music Video for "Song To Say Goodbye" by Placebo, from the album, Meds.
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    This is the full cinematic version of the video was written & directed by Philippe Andre.
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    This is the official UA-cam channel of Placebo, on this channel you will find all of the official video content from the band including music videos, full album playlists, live show footage and more. PLACEBO was formed in London in 1994 by singer-guitarist Brian Molko and guitarist-bassist Stefan Olsdal.
    The band has released 7 studio albums to date, including:
    Placebo - 1996
    Without You I’m Nothing - 1998
    Black Market Music - 2000
    Sleeping with Ghosts - 2003
    Meds - 2006
    Battle For The Sun - 2009
    Loud Like Love - 2013
    Placebo have released over 30 singles, including tracks Nancy Boy, Pure Morning, Every You Every Me, Taste In Men, Without You I’m Nothing ft David Bowie, Slave To The Wage, Special K, The Bitter End, Meds, For What It’s Worth, The Never-Ending Why, Too Many Friends, Loud Like Love and many more.
    #Placebo #SongToSayGoodbye
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    Song To Say Goodbye lyrics:
    [Verse 1]
    You are one of God's mistakes
    You crying, tragic waste of skin
    I'm well aware of how it aches
    And you still won't let me in
    Now, I'm breaking down your door
    To try and save your swollen face
    Though I don't like you anymore
    You lying, trying waste of space
    [Chorus]
    Before our innocence was lost
    You were always one of those
    Blessed with lucky sevens
    And a voice that made me cry
    My, oh, my
    [Verse 2]
    You were mother nature's son
    Someone to whom I could relate
    Your needle and your damage done
    Remains a sordid twist of fate
    Now, I'm tryin' to wake you up
    To pull you from the liquid sky
    'Cause if I don't, we'll both end up
    With just your song to say goodbye
    My, oh, my
    A song to say goodbye
    A song to say goodbye
    A song to say
    [Chorus]
    Before our innocence was lost
    You were always one of those
    Blessed with lucky sevens
    And a voice that made me cry
    [Outro]
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye

КОМЕНТАРІ • 4,9 тис.

  • @PhilippeAndreFilms
    @PhilippeAndreFilms Рік тому +3193

    I wrote and directed this video for Placebo in 2006. It’s so much heartwarming to see how my short film can connect with all of you. ‘Song to say goodbye’ was so inspiring, I wrote a story following the lyrics but being distant from them at the same time, to not illustrate and let it open to interpretation. I first made a 4’ music video for ‘Song to say goodbye’ then suggested this 8 minutes extended version.
    Thank you so much to all of you for your wonderful comments.

    • @senjen988
      @senjen988 Рік тому +93

      This video is so important in my life for so many years now. I've been thinking a lot about its director and the two actors who made it exist, its really moving to read you today. I couldn't thank you enough sir.

    • @xoen6
      @xoen6 Рік тому +37

      Thank You, Sir...

    • @dominiksiemon3913
      @dominiksiemon3913 Рік тому +11

    • @EicherCorp
      @EicherCorp Рік тому +32

      Hi i would like to know who is driving the car at the end of the video? ahahaha

    • @elhijodelaconserje
      @elhijodelaconserje Рік тому +8

      I've been listening to this song and watched this video so many times!!!! Thanks for this piece, thanks a lot...

  • @lilianakekalih7551
    @lilianakekalih7551 Рік тому +2216

    When i was a kid, i used to watch this video on MTV. In my head i was like : "Oh.. poor boy. he had to take care of his dad all the time..."
    15 years later, my prespective in seeing this video has changed. "This is me in depression and the boy is just a little voice in my head who convince me to stay alive."

    • @almarhein
      @almarhein Рік тому +124

      Oh dear, your comment made me cry. I’m in a terrible depression right now and I’m trying to stay alive. It’s too hard, but maybe…maybe it’s worth it.

    • @zido1
      @zido1 Рік тому +20

      @@almarhein

    • @almarhein
      @almarhein Рік тому +9

      @@zido1 Thank you for your support 🥺❤️

    • @jefsplt1973
      @jefsplt1973 Рік тому +7

      I didn’t see this perspective… thanks…

    • @A_Man_with_a_Dream
      @A_Man_with_a_Dream Рік тому +60

      @@almarhein I’m from Russia… and my depression started from 24th of February and continues to nowadays… can’t live like this anymore.. I can’t hide my emotions my thoughts from society.. because of the risk of being jailed for a political reasons, ‘cause telling the truth means telling lies in putin’s nazi Russia😭😣 can’t live like this anymore! There is no one in my close nearby with whom I can talk too, just two or three people faraway from me… I’m fucking dying inside 😣 😢

  • @1746hgf
    @1746hgf 4 місяці тому +206

    When I was young this song and music video used to make me think about my childhood, being parent of my alcoholic dad and schizo mom. Now as an adult I changed my point of view and makes me think about my inner child guiding me to be a better person and finally get a happy life. A song to say goodbye to all my past.

  • @artegall1
    @artegall1 2 роки тому +1484

    This song means so many different things to so many people - definition of high art

    • @stefanrichter5581
      @stefanrichter5581 2 роки тому +5

      Always hit my heart

    • @Derethevil
      @Derethevil 2 роки тому +29

      And the best thing about it is, that every single way you understand the song is the right one. There is not one definitive one. The highest art you can achieve.

    • @86hikki
      @86hikki 2 роки тому

      Too true

    • @henrylinks1087
      @henrylinks1087 2 роки тому +4

      its about the end times we are in now...
      God be with you
      much love
      disobey tyranny

    • @TaniaFeliciano
      @TaniaFeliciano Рік тому

      Amén

  • @nachimbie
    @nachimbie 8 років тому +9489

    My mother had a brain stroke (thrombosis) when i was 10.
    I don't need to analyze this video so much. from then, i grew up very fast and i became her personal assistant, translator and her right arm (she doesn't move it, and she never spoke one word again since that day).
    When she fell down, a part, or my entire childhood fell with her.
    Everybody can make his own interpretations, but i can feel this song and video very directly and i hope can let her go someday.
    I'm 26 now and i always wanted to share my story each time i saw this video. Thanks for reading and thanks Placebo.

    • @thiagogita
      @thiagogita 8 років тому +163

      +Ignacio González Dude i dont know you but i would love to give you a hug. Your history was really touching. My mother had also a brain stroke but she didnt survived it ;(

    • @sashawallace1916
      @sashawallace1916 8 років тому +104

      Glad to see I'm not the only right arm here, keep going you amazing human being.

    • @weird0channelp945
      @weird0channelp945 8 років тому +41

      +Ignacio González be always well >> you deserve happiness bro........

    • @foatsa6329
      @foatsa6329 8 років тому +44

      you are a wonderful person. i hope the best for you and your mom. :)

    • @MiekKiev
      @MiekKiev 8 років тому +48

      My mother had a brain cancer when i was 6 and i also became her personal assistant. I know what you feel, bro.

  • @BellalovesMarla1
    @BellalovesMarla1 5 років тому +3412

    The most accurate portrait of depression to me. The man is my depression and the little boy is the part in me that still wants to keep going.
    Edit: wow thank you so much for the likes and sweet comments. I actually means a lot me.

    • @sixteencscs
      @sixteencscs 4 роки тому +61

      I think everyone should see your comment, because it's indeed the meaning of the song.

    • @Ana_Lev
      @Ana_Lev 4 роки тому +12

      BellalovesMarla1 or any mental illness.

    • @i-AMsorrow
      @i-AMsorrow 4 роки тому +3

      Agreed

    • @ab0ve1st
      @ab0ve1st 4 роки тому +5

      BellalovesMarla1 stop cutting Onions, please

    • @stardust3204
      @stardust3204 4 роки тому +1

      Indeed

  • @Karolcia1993
    @Karolcia1993 3 роки тому +524

    This is not just a song and a video - this is a work of Art.

    • @strangemanmtd8350
      @strangemanmtd8350 3 роки тому +7

      the message i took from it was that his childhood before the addiction or abuse is the only thing driving him and giving him direction abd he is the passenger but at the end when he makes it to treatment the boy inside him drives away in the back seat no longer needed for direction and the boy looks relaxed a d peaceful as he gets driven off.

    • @lowwastehighmelanin
      @lowwastehighmelanin 9 місяців тому

      Multimedia tbh. Both art art on their own already but come together magically.

    • @barsaygor9281
      @barsaygor9281 4 місяці тому +1

      wazzup honneyy? give me you number and ig :3:3

    • @user-oe4xv7by5c
      @user-oe4xv7by5c 2 місяці тому

      Вы абсолютно правы

  • @meekcheeks
    @meekcheeks 2 роки тому +455

    It's 2022 and this song still rocks. Probably my favourite placebo song

    • @ddoherty5956
      @ddoherty5956 Рік тому +4

      This and the bitter end are at the top end of my top 20 songs of all time.

    • @nathansmith6914
      @nathansmith6914 Рік тому

      And I'm still not sure exactly what it's about. But love it, and several more.

    • @meekcheeks
      @meekcheeks Рік тому +2

      @nathan smith it's about coming off drugs. Saying goodbye to drugs. This is thr first album they did without the influence of drugs

    • @AriesRus
      @AriesRus Рік тому

      Уже апрель 2023 🙂

    • @EddyHawk360
      @EddyHawk360 Рік тому

      Hello, I came from 2100, still rocks.

  • @arghavanjafarijozani2592
    @arghavanjafarijozani2592 3 роки тому +765

    Being a parent to your parents deprives you of childhood, I can relate to this on another level

    • @kakurukiam2933
      @kakurukiam2933 3 роки тому +30

      if you survive, it makes you stronger than anyone else

    • @andrewpredeth8459
      @andrewpredeth8459 3 роки тому +15

      It sort of stops you been a parent when you have to be one because you did it for years

    • @hikarucz-gw5hb
      @hikarucz-gw5hb 3 роки тому +11

      this song is actually about a drug addict and the kid is just an analogy for heroin. It’s not father and son. It’s a man and his drug.

    • @ninatouber9100
      @ninatouber9100 3 роки тому +1

      @@hikarucz-gw5hb i'ts about autism, at the end is the kid who is at the backseat. The kid made all that stuff not the parent.

    • @hikarucz-gw5hb
      @hikarucz-gw5hb 3 роки тому +22

      @@ninatouber9100 Brian admitted that he has an experience with heroin and the album is called Meds. In the video clip, heroin drives the person through life and the person just watches it goes by the window. He ends up in a rehabilitation house like that's where heroin brought him to. And yes, at the end of the song you can see the heroin sitting in the back of someone's car - now he's entered into someone else's life but this person has still the drug under control, though you can guess that it’s not for too long and soon the heroin will be the one who's sitting in the driving seat.

  • @xingoffdays
    @xingoffdays 9 років тому +1746

    Actually I view this video as the perfect representation of depression, where the kid is actually the young us that was still "happy" and that is still trying to fight and to be better again.

    • @petercrouch4668
      @petercrouch4668 7 років тому +1

      Vulpes foor halzaymair

    • @user-yg8ot8kj3n
      @user-yg8ot8kj3n 7 років тому +25

      This is exactly how I see this video.

    • @richpanini5295
      @richpanini5295 4 роки тому +2

      ​@@solongvictoria It`s not about drugs (plural). It`s about heroin addiction which goes hand in hand with depression. So technically, you`re wrong, not Vulpes.

    • @bezslonca
      @bezslonca 4 роки тому +19

      What if I never had any young, happy part of me?

    • @jalbertomartinez8600
      @jalbertomartinez8600 4 роки тому +2

      Me too.😞

  • @FrankBakulov
    @FrankBakulov 4 місяці тому +36

    I'm 39 having difficult times and this song just came to my mind tonight. I've never seen the video and I'm shocked because I'm feeling like the Man. Fortunately, I don't have kids to bear me. The video and the song are absolutely brilliant. Speechless.

  • @gadfly6991
    @gadfly6991 2 місяці тому +10

    Актуально даже 13лет спустя! Вот такую музыку и нужно делать... ❤

  • @mimi_alix6684
    @mimi_alix6684 3 роки тому +424

    When I was 9 my step dad died, my mum and him were literal soulmates, you just couldn’t believe it. He died because of an overdose of a medication a nurse had given to him in hospital. My mum told me once that the only reason she was staying in this world was me, she cried every night, I comforted her every time (I now get startled and tense when I hear something like a sob). I took care of the house, her and myself, the type of thing that scars you: I now don’t experience emotions in the same way, they just « slip », something just broke.
    I am nearly 18 now, she is still very depressed and I was the kid in the video and will always be, the scar is still there and will never leave.
    And the fact that this song is played with the video is really getting to me: the song is already really weird, it brings up deep feelings that mix nostalgia, fear, depression and is, in an unhealthy way, comforting, similarly to when your disorder becomes your friend, it reminds me of a part of my childhood in a weird way and the clip of an other part of it. I can’t believe it became so personal to me and that it is to many people too.

    • @Adargrati
      @Adargrati 3 роки тому +2

      oh wow...

    • @ChristosL1992
      @ChristosL1992 3 роки тому +8

      You have a lot to grief for buddy. It's always a double edged sword for a child to take on a role that is not mend for children. Don't forget to also have personal space/time.
      If you like reading,
      The Drama of the Gifted Child : Alice Miller.
      Best of Luck.

    • @gustavoruvalcaba89
      @gustavoruvalcaba89 3 роки тому +15

      The singer suffered of depression and channelled all the negativity to music. The lyrics can be very very relatable...
      Depression is not a joke (I suffer from it to) so please consider getting help, sometimes we need guidance in order to learn how to deal with deep emotions and our daily challenges.
      Peace and love from Mexico.

    • @trappart9209
      @trappart9209 2 роки тому +6

      I don't know what future will be for you. I hope you will find what you want and need in this life. Take care, I love you.
      From Berkan, 20 years old

    • @jibrilcarletti4025
      @jibrilcarletti4025 2 роки тому +3

      the actor's skills are actually incredible. let through so much without a single word

  • @kennytelfer1300
    @kennytelfer1300 5 років тому +823

    It's a song about heroin addiction and I can't thank this song and strong video enough . It gave me the strenght to get help after 30 years of addiction to mostly every drug I touched. I am in my second year of recovery, two amazing children 9 and 7. I was always a functioning addict so thankfully my children haven't been effected. Being clean is so much better. Thanks placebo.

    • @megamegan8607
      @megamegan8607 5 років тому +21

      Kenny Telfer Bless ya Kenny
      And well done you .
      Am 15 years clean . It can be done thou it never leaves us . We just have to stay strong xx

    • @petercocker6413
      @petercocker6413 4 роки тому +14

      Me too my man.....I'm just over 2 years clean and sober. 30 years of trying to quit. Drugs and drink were my solution to a bigger problem

    • @alisa_rieger
      @alisa_rieger 4 роки тому +2

      god bless you. i hope you are doing great.

    • @Kukasauto
      @Kukasauto 3 роки тому +4

      Keep it up!

    • @TheLaSirenaVarada
      @TheLaSirenaVarada 3 роки тому +13

      I don't think the song is about that... But if it help you, it was good!!

  • @danielkelleher2012
    @danielkelleher2012 2 роки тому +119

    Probably one of the greatest music and video combos ever

  • @LaEsquinadelOcio
    @LaEsquinadelOcio Рік тому +106

    I've been listening to Placebo since I was 17, I'm 32 now, and I could say that no other video + song I've ever heard can compare to the emotions I feel when I watch this one. 2022 and it's still an absolute masterpiece.

    • @konanamegakure4342
      @konanamegakure4342 10 місяців тому +1

      I have one , blue October hate me

    • @user-pf8qi9fi6s
      @user-pf8qi9fi6s 10 місяців тому


      Посмотрела только что клип на песню Blue oktober, которая всегда мне очень нравилась. Благодарю Вас, что напомнили о ней ❤
      Сильно
      Спасибо 😊

    • @Anonymous-jy5ew
      @Anonymous-jy5ew 3 місяці тому

      Modest Mouse - Hotel (?) Has me bawling so i avoid it, hence i cant remember the song name and am not looking for it lol

  • @stephaniedelannoy1335
    @stephaniedelannoy1335 4 роки тому +166

    I have schizophrenia and depression so they took away my daughter. I cry everytime i watch this video, thinking that if i was with her, it would end up that way

    • @moleshaman3040
      @moleshaman3040 3 роки тому +16

      I really hope you will feel better at some point and that you can be together again . Don't give up ,there are better days ahead for you both !

    • @dvdbdx6763
      @dvdbdx6763 3 роки тому +7

      We are in a mad world and we must survive. Courage à toi.

    • @dvdbdx6763
      @dvdbdx6763 3 роки тому

      🇫🇷 ?

    • @spliffi869
      @spliffi869 3 роки тому +6

      Uff, that's a tough fate. Nobody deserves to be their child taken away. Stay strong and I'm sure there's a chance you will meet her again (more frequently)!

    • @stanger5283
      @stanger5283 2 роки тому +6

      Its breaks my Heart to hear that

  • @v0rtex87
    @v0rtex87 7 років тому +274

    it isn't clip, it's a masterpiece.

    • @michaelhawk1826
      @michaelhawk1826 3 роки тому

      What does it mean?

    • @user-fd1sf1kp5n
      @user-fd1sf1kp5n 3 роки тому +3

      @@michaelhawk1826 clip is the videoclip
      It is not a 8,17 min clip its a life clip

  • @jerit7529
    @jerit7529 2 роки тому +216

    This video is so powerful because regardless of what Brian was singing about, it hits a lot of people dealing with different things. It brings me memories of having to "parent" my mom who has struggled with depression and BPD her whole life.

    • @Mizzstarr
      @Mizzstarr Рік тому +3

      It is Powerful .

    • @reginamorgernstern7069
      @reginamorgernstern7069 Рік тому +4

      My dad has BPD, I was best friend and spouse (including sex acts) as well as child, I can really see mind and my father's dynamic in this, especially when the kid has a bruised face and smiles to comfort the adult, goddamn that got me.
      I remember looking at my dad like that once, and my heart nearly burst with how much I wanted to love him.

    • @weedsumm3777
      @weedsumm3777 Рік тому +3

      brother reading this got me serious goosebumps... my mother suffers extreme depression and borderline disorder, like yours and because of her I suffer PTSD (like almost every children of a borderline mother). I tried everything to get rid of my trauma but I just can't, I'm forced to take medications to control my anger, I can't sleep because of bad dreams and I keep dreaming of vivid memories like when my mother pulled a gun on me or the numerous times I had to save her from cutting her veins in the bathroom, or the multiple times I had to call an ambulance because she tried to OD with random pills... I don't know if this is what you went through as well, but if yes, I really feel your pain. I never met somebody like me, never.

    • @themetalchica
      @themetalchica Рік тому +3

      Bipolar, here. I felt every fall to the ground in my bones. It's a very difficult night, wrestling w bipolar depression, but I'm here for now.

    • @noircandle3218
      @noircandle3218 Рік тому +1

      @@themetalchicaI feel you sweetheart .. I wish you much strength to keep going on through your dark times .. I wish that the sun will shine into your live and I wish you much happiness. I really wish that to everyone ❤

  • @piaorellana9120
    @piaorellana9120 28 днів тому +2

    I had never seen his video before and I love this song. It left me with a tight chest. I'm about to turn 25, and as far as I can remember my dad has been someone who I've tried to run away from, he has caused me so much pain and trauma that's been hard to feel love for him, I've felt hate, disgust, and mosty felt sorry for him mixed with love as I got older. I've been dealing with mental health issues since I was a kid, and my dad's poor mental health didn't help much, even though he cares deeply for me and he has helped me in the best way he could offer, including therapy and internalization in a mental facility in my darkest times. I am forever grateful for this, and he is forever guilty for what I had to live with him, he lives with infinite guilt, shame and melancholy for what he's done, and and he expresses this every time he can. I had to see his first suic*de attempt when I was 5, and I remember coming back home from school one day to find him sitting at the kitchen table staring into nothing in silence and then telling me he didn't want to live anymore. I have seen myself taking his hand looking at him as a helpless child and me as his caregiver, and this video hit me right in the gut.

    • @wuitschduitsch
      @wuitschduitsch 17 днів тому

      I‘m really sorry that you had to went through this. Sometimes Life is really bizzare. I See some similiarities to my own history. I‘m 26 now and my mom was/is Like my Child. I‘m her therapist, best friend, a father, Brother and every other constant she could not have in her Life. She wasn‘t a really good mother until i Moved out with 19. She was traumatized and never had a Beautiful time in her Life. There was Always trouble and her Family was abusive. She was impulsive and got Angry really fast. When i moved out i lost myself in drugs and partys. Just to forget and move on. To be with people who really love me. But there was no love. I needed to make my own mistakes to forgive my mom. She was the only one who was there when i needed to get sober with 23/24. Now I‘m stable and she is too. We Made the best out of it. Talked for ours. She told me a Lot of her past and my childhood. I came to a Point to realize who she really is and how she fehlt in different Situation. The Funny thing is, all the Bad stuff she did to me was only to protect me. Because Nobody protected her. But i Never felt the Need to be protected. These days i feel lighter. I hope Both u will find real peace and that better times will arise

  • @dspna860
    @dspna860 4 роки тому +420

    You can't change people.
    You can only love them.

    • @user-serjyniy
      @user-serjyniy Рік тому +4

      Интересная теория!

    • @dspna860
      @dspna860 Рік тому +11

      @ה̴̖͛ר̸̭͗ ̵̬̕מ̸̧̐ח̸̼̉י̴̡̈י̵̮̾ב̶̣̆ (Aharon)
      I see your point. What I meant to say is that we don't need to waste energy to change a person. A person can change only when he wants to. Trying to change them is very exhausting at times and has no real effect. Loving someone also means leaving them alone so they can mature and change when the time comes. It doesn't mean we've abandoned them. You can love someone without letting them affect your life in any way. Hate never leads to positive things. Let's not forget that we all struggle with our own demons and that the journey of loving ourselves first, takes a lot of patience and hard practice every day. So letting people go and discover who they really are for themselves is also an act of love..

    • @giotaloukeri8291
      @giotaloukeri8291 Рік тому +1

    • @__esternetico_26.06
      @__esternetico_26.06 Рік тому

      thank you...

    • @nathansmith6914
      @nathansmith6914 Рік тому +2

      So hard to learn and accept.

  • @staythesame709
    @staythesame709 7 років тому +1400

    I can't stop crying when I listen this song. it's terrible, and it's amazing.

  • @technomaker777
    @technomaker777 Рік тому +55

    I did not understand this video long time ago. And now I understood it. (( we all have this kid who keeps us alive. He is the reason we make our next step every day. I hope everyone who read this comment will be happy soon. Placebo, please come with concert to Russia. We all loves you.

  • @Greeny_isthegoat
    @Greeny_isthegoat 3 роки тому +110

    Basically my life in one song. My inner child never letting go. Healing from trauma after trauma

  • @GiveMeTechno
    @GiveMeTechno 3 роки тому +444

    Absolute masterpiece. The sadness and melancholy this song portraits is unreal. Sad and beautiful at the same time, amazing!

    • @ivonapetrovic3848
      @ivonapetrovic3848 3 роки тому +1

      As any Placebo song, always painful and beautiful for it's pain, as they would say themselves: happily bleeding 💜

    • @silvanacarbone7678
      @silvanacarbone7678 Рік тому

      ❤👍

  • @TheGovinda777
    @TheGovinda777 9 років тому +285

    For once, I am actually enjoying most of the comments here. Very insightful and interesting takes on such a powerful song.

  • @juancarvajal1412
    @juancarvajal1412 Рік тому +27

    Para mi significa : la depresión y las ganas desesperadas de retroceder el tiempo , conectarse con tu niño interior para sentirnos protegidos … pero la realidad esque si somos adultos heridos duele saber que nunca más volveremos a ser nuestra versión infantil sana y pura , que tenia un futuro por delante y muchas oportunidades .

  • @Agrio_RR
    @Agrio_RR 5 місяців тому +4

    My dad had a stroke in 2019. He never fully recovered control of his body's right side nor his speech. As his only son (left) I had to take care of him and the house's expenses since then.
    He had a kidney failure and he passed away last July.
    Today I watched this videoclip again and whatever was left in my little black heart was smashed into a million little pieces.

  • @Hippytrippis
    @Hippytrippis 8 років тому +116

    I was a drug addict before.
    and between a center of drug addictions
    we had to say goodbye somehow our addiction in a song.
    This was my song.
    THANK PLACEBO

  • @CaramidaCaramizie
    @CaramidaCaramizie 6 років тому +596

    My mother is an alcoholic. While I don't know what the video was REALLY meant to be about; I know for a fact that it hits close to home for me on a personal level. I'm 27 but in relation to her addiction I feel as helpless as I did when I was small. Trying to help or to change someone who insists on ruining their own life is pointless and fruitless but that doesn't mean you'll ever stop trying... You insist and you push and you try it by force and you try it by kindness and you try it by manipulation; but whatever method you pick, the addict just keeps breaking your heart again and again. You know it's going to happen and you reach a point where you see it coming from one single syllable or one change of tone - they're going to do it again. And they do. So you're mad at them for being predictable and mad at yourself for being right. It's lonely and disappointing and disgusting; and really it just refuses to let you be truly happy in your own life, no matter how well everything else is going. It's always there, gnawing at you.
    And the egocentric bastards believe it's just their own little fun or their own little pleasure and that it's got nothing to do with you. It ruined your life before you even had a chance at normalcy but somehow they think it's just between them and the bottle. They love you. But not enough as to give it up. Or to admit to the impact they've had on you.
    I'm sorry for the tangent. I can't even put my finger on it 100% but I just know that this video and this song make me go into all of that. Without ever being about that. I dunno, maybe that's what art's meant to be like: it brings out different people's different demons with the same intensity.

    • @user-qg3bo5kp6p
      @user-qg3bo5kp6p 5 років тому +14

      Thank you for your frankness so much. I really hope that your words help someone to overcoming those insane difficulties, someone from one or another side of addiction. You have pretty inspiring words and not yet a dead soul and it means you are still alive.

    • @manueladorado8092
      @manueladorado8092 4 роки тому +10

      Thank you so much for putting into these words. I have a very similar childhood to yours, growing up with an alcoholic mom, and partly alcoholic dad. I've felt just like you, I've felt so much pain that I always find it very hard to put it into words. The feeling is so sharp that words don't exist. Thank you.

    • @blaqshiep4920
      @blaqshiep4920 3 роки тому +4

      Like most art... your interpretation is the one the artist wanted you to see. We are all so different, we just arent always aware of it. True inspired art, reaches many demographics and does not have a solid, 100% message its trying to convey. Its expressing the human experience

    • @TheKrololo
      @TheKrololo 3 роки тому +9

      I had an alcoholic dad. He passed away now. And i could not fix him.

    • @4lek5a
      @4lek5a 3 роки тому +1

      @@TheKrololo really sorry... RiP...

  • @F.OWX_C2V
    @F.OWX_C2V 11 місяців тому +19

    Brian, un des meilleurs artiste que j’ai pu écouter, ma maman était fan de Placebo.
    Toute mon enfance pendant les trajets en voiture j’écoutais tout ces albums, mais aussi dans mon lecteur MP3 de l'époque
    cette musique représente beaucoup pour moi, aujourd’hui j’ai 28ans j’ai perdu ma maman et chaque fois que je l'écoute je re plonge 15ans en arrière.
    Beaucoup de mes souvenirs sont associé a ce morceau.
    Brian fait partie des artistes qui ma donner envie de composer.
    Absolument tout ces albums sont ancestral surtout (Battle For The Sun) qui traînera dans la boîte à gant de mon véhicule à tout jamais.
    Cette version longue est encore meilleure à écouter, il argumente encore plus le sentiment de dépression et de nostalgie avec ce solo de guitare batterie. JUST INSANE !
    Love Placebo et MERCI🙏🏼🖤

  • @albertoguzman2601
    @albertoguzman2601 Рік тому +40

    Brian Molko is definitely a genius a poet. Nothing better than listening the deep feelings of someone who is dying from the inside and desperately asks for help!

  • @Baxxter101
    @Baxxter101 4 роки тому +981

    Not gonna lie, "You are one of God's mistakes" is probably the most brutal intro to any song ever... Holy shit. "you crying tragic waste of space"

    • @AlexaBellaMuerte
      @AlexaBellaMuerte 3 роки тому +3

      Yessss

    • @f.jideament
      @f.jideament 3 роки тому +34

      I felt like it speaks to me personally as myself thinking that I am nothing but a waste of energy.

    • @matiasdelmarmol2886
      @matiasdelmarmol2886 3 роки тому +20

      @@f.jideament you are not that, im sure! I felt a lot like that before, from time to time I think the same, but now I know is a lie coming from my heritage planted in my head and I can keep rolling afterwrards ;). a big hugh for you from here

    • @f.jideament
      @f.jideament 3 роки тому +11

      @@matiasdelmarmol2886 many thanks for your positive comment, good luck and have fun in your life.

    • @karlamfh835
      @karlamfh835 3 роки тому +3

      brutal

  • @xochi9091
    @xochi9091 9 років тому +87

    Why don't more people love this band??? They're simply amazing!

  • @user-em5il7hp9j
    @user-em5il7hp9j 4 місяці тому +3

    Я смотрел этот клип по мтв, когда был в возрасте этого мальчика. Мне тогда стало грусто, от того что даже взрослея, люди могут оставаться безпомощными, которые не могут повлиять на свое будущее.
    Сейчас я уже повзрослел, в моей стране война, я вынужден участвовать в ней. Я чувствую себя беспомощным, не в состоянии повлиять на свое будущее.

  • @weevil8025
    @weevil8025 Рік тому +22

    This song makes me think of toxic relationships. For me, my toxic relationship was with my abusive mother. In and out of foster care, she subjected me to verbal and physical abuse daily, but sprinkled in acts of love at the same time that made it hard for me to leave her. When I finally did, I regretted it for a few months, but then came to realise how much better off I was. This is the same for people with abusive friends, or lovers, leave them and claim back your life. You will be better off.

  • @thefocox
    @thefocox 9 років тому +146

    I can hear the song, but i cant see the video at the same time without crying...

  • @CatarinaVilasBoas13
    @CatarinaVilasBoas13 10 років тому +92

    I haven't hear or seen this in years. It's still all about goosebumps. Goosebumps every single fucking time.

    • @CatarinaVilasBoas13
      @CatarinaVilasBoas13 10 років тому +8

      It's like when all the hair in your body stands up and your skin looks like the one of a chicken. Like when you have the chills... I cannot explain it better.

    • @VikatSankhe
      @VikatSankhe 10 років тому

      Wer r u from...???

    • @SiliconBong
      @SiliconBong 10 років тому +13

      *reminds me of the time I took my dad to his first AA meeting.

    • @Fl0yDian86
      @Fl0yDian86 10 років тому +4

      It's like the "saudade" word... hard to explain :D but easy to feel. That's our way

    • @BjrnOlavLeraand
      @BjrnOlavLeraand 9 років тому

      Catarina Vilas Boas It's called the goosebumps with shivers down your neck

  • @MJN_couchsessions
    @MJN_couchsessions Місяць тому +2

    This is the saddest video that I have ever watched. Beautiful but sad. You can feel the depression coming from the screen. Powerful.

  • @stuffedwalrus
    @stuffedwalrus 2 роки тому +63

    11 years on and this video still breaks my heart.

  • @v0rtex87
    @v0rtex87 7 років тому +131

    this video makes me cry, again and again

  • @lailav2229
    @lailav2229 4 роки тому +34

    Reminds me of my father who had chronic and severe depression... he didn't make it... you fought a food fight dad... I was glad he had finally found peace. Love you ❤

  • @colinrobertson9656
    @colinrobertson9656 Рік тому +9

    For the real good fathers out there. Stay strong

  • @lulo2049
    @lulo2049 3 роки тому +34

    This video relates to my relationship with my dad, where I was his Dad and was my son, but at the same time, he was the best friend I ever could imagine.
    I miss you old men.

  • @pr50
    @pr50 6 років тому +44

    This video illustrates very well what is a severe depression

  • @janiquevaillot8554
    @janiquevaillot8554 3 роки тому +25

    It's so sad and dangerous when we've had lost our childwood and our INNOCENCE

  • @karlpearson8032
    @karlpearson8032 8 місяців тому +21

    I have lived with depression all my life this song reminds me that I have great family support as the little boy is trying to do by himself I can emphasise with all people who have this affliction, an amazing SONG & VIDEO which captures all the emotions

  • @katalinamagna5145
    @katalinamagna5145 8 місяців тому +5

    The song was playing on MTV in Germany around 2008 when there was a school shooting. They played music videos the whole day because of it, usually it was reality shows back then. I was 14 years old and shocked about the news (doesnt happen often in Germany). That song made me cry. Memories can be so strongly connected with music.

  • @MissBlaze94
    @MissBlaze94 7 років тому +260

    Doesn't this song just make your heart bleed? And the video? Even the instruments sound sad somehow. It's beautiful

    • @pierremoi3729
      @pierremoi3729 6 років тому

      MissBlaze94 always love placebo?

    • @sooofunny37
      @sooofunny37 3 роки тому +1

      i could barely stand while watching this video

    • @kinggbaallzsaaarensen4752
      @kinggbaallzsaaarensen4752 3 роки тому +1

      Its beautiful asf

    • @nickdugard9848
      @nickdugard9848 3 роки тому +1

      It’s a beautiful and true song. I love Placebo and everything they stand for! Awesome band where their lyrics actually mean something. Take them as you will followers X

  • @NIGHTL0RDs4
    @NIGHTL0RDs4 8 років тому +474

    This song and video is really touching me..

    • @Wittemn
      @Wittemn 8 років тому +20

      +Addrenalline Please, point in the bear where they touched you.

    • @ShyGuyexe-bb3do
      @ShyGuyexe-bb3do 8 років тому +10

      +Dmitri Karamazov i just wanna know who the fuck drove the kid home lol

    • @eyeshield2191
      @eyeshield2191 8 років тому +1

      Rofl Weismann :d

    • @rubenroseteramirez8626
      @rubenroseteramirez8626 7 років тому +2

      beutiful

    • @thecurse2563
      @thecurse2563 6 років тому +2

      ShyGuy.exe his dad

  • @tornikeshubitidze3678
    @tornikeshubitidze3678 Рік тому +18

    We broke up on New year's eve and I listened to this song on my way home that night. There were tough months after and to everyone who thinks they can't handle heartbreak, you can! Time really heals and this too shall pass, guys. You got this and if you're reading this, you're special and you're heart deserves better. All the best!

  • @seazonegranec
    @seazonegranec Рік тому +27

    As a father of a small child, this really hits me differently than when I was a teenager listening to this song. Brilliant stuff

  • @rhyshamilton3196
    @rhyshamilton3196 7 років тому +520

    My mother suffers from Bipolar and drug issues and my dad was an aggressive wife beater and from ages 5_14 I was in fostercare. This music video destroys me as it reminds me of my past. As a kid I had to look after my mums emotion and when I moved back hone when I was 14 I had to look after her, make her meals, clean, get groceries, do things a 14 year old shouldn't be doing. I protected my mum from my abusive dad and had to give my mum through everything. Her mental health is extremely bad and I wish things weren't this way.
    Sometimes I miss being the ignorant naive kid I used to be, as I've grown up I have become the depressed cynical man that is breaking apart and can no longer function. What gets me through the day is remembering the naive kid I used to be. Everywhere I go my past follows me and the happy memories is the onlything that makes me want to move forward.
    Such a powerful video

    • @sharonmarsh102
      @sharonmarsh102 5 років тому +13

      Exactly the same for me.
      We will be ok !!!

    • @carolinaparedes6224
      @carolinaparedes6224 5 років тому +11

      Guy!! You will create more happy memories. I send you good vibes!!

    • @starlodear2987
      @starlodear2987 5 років тому +4

      Cry out to Christ Jesus. Vent your spleen. Don't hold back.

    • @insaneindamembrain9878
      @insaneindamembrain9878 5 років тому

      Should I listen to your bs lol

    • @aicimanel3387
      @aicimanel3387 4 роки тому +6

      You can Always be a better person focus in thé moment present live like there s no past i really hope you il find you re way and remember your bigger then Evry thing you're a worrior

  • @dug553
    @dug553 7 років тому +64

    I feel for the thousands of children who live this reality x

  • @xavilangley
    @xavilangley 8 місяців тому +20

    I have no qualms about saying that this is one of the best songs ever made. ❣️

  • @kevlon_
    @kevlon_ 2 роки тому +6

    Dad died from cancer when I was 14. Was a struggle for a few years where I lived alone with him. This video hits hard...

  • @Chagrungex
    @Chagrungex 7 років тому +1831

    My biggest fear is to become the person who had hurt me the most

    • @TheSourcealpha
      @TheSourcealpha 7 років тому +70

      "The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."
      I don't know if that's true but the guy who said it was a roman emperor and one of the most important figures in western philosophy so he probably knew his shit

    • @jacklabite
      @jacklabite 7 років тому +14

      yeah and some dude, I think was called "jesouis " or something like that, said about the same shit...

    • @mathildamathilda3007
      @mathildamathilda3007 6 років тому +2

      Santiago Henriquez it hurts

    • @ThomasTheTheory
      @ThomasTheTheory 6 років тому +6

      You cant deny destiny of humankind destroying and anhilating ourselves for nothing

    • @whiterose1828
      @whiterose1828 6 років тому +1

      Me too

  • @alanolvera1774
    @alanolvera1774 6 років тому +31

    Placebo has been part of my teenage days, from good to bad days, this song as Placebo means everything to me.
    Brian, if you see this, thank you.
    My oh my...

  • @MisterMang
    @MisterMang 18 днів тому +1

    Es hat fast 20 Jahre gedauert bis ich verstanden habe was das für ein Meisterstück ist! Worte können dieses unglaubliche Lied nicht ansatzweise beschreiben! Diese Version ist nochmal besser als die ohnehin auch großartige Radioversion!

  • @RocknRolla96
    @RocknRolla96 2 роки тому +77

    Я так люблю эту песню. Спустя стольких лет, Когда мне 25, я понял о чём клип и что хотел автор донести до нас. Взрослый человек это тот кто зависимый, дорога, это жизненный путь. И ему всегда кажется что нет никого лучше кто мог бы позаботиться о нем как этот мальчик. А этот мальчик это его зависимость. Неважно, алкоголь это или наркотики. Именно он управляет его жизнью. Ему всегда кажется, когда он падает, именно мальчик ему поможет. Он даже отвернулся от прохожих людей, когда упал на улице. Концовка вообще шикарная. До чего приводит человека его зависимость. А мальчик сидит уже в чужой машине, типо он уже в чужой жизни. Не управляет им (пока что), но он уже существует... До мурашек

    • @user-dl3xw3xn5j
      @user-dl3xw3xn5j Рік тому +3

      Интересная теория, но вам не кажется странным, что мальчик возвращается на той же машине, что и приехал?

    • @RocknRolla96
      @RocknRolla96 Рік тому +1

      @@user-dl3xw3xn5j машина и мальчик взаимосвязаны. Этот человек за рулём думает что он все контролирует, но вскоре он превратится в пассажира овоща.
      (Все это плод моих воображений, не более.)

    • @antareslite9011
      @antareslite9011 Рік тому +4

      У вас интересная и глубокая трактовка, но всё немного проще: мальчик привозит отца в дом престарелых, а потом сам садится на место отца.

    • @RocknRolla96
      @RocknRolla96 Рік тому

      @@antareslite9011 да, так и есть. Суть проста. Мальком сам об этом говорил. Но, трактовать это по своему никто не запрещал) Можно посмотреть с других ракурсов жизни и можно извлечь совсем иное, нежели есть на самом деле

    • @user-de4mp3oq8j
      @user-de4mp3oq8j Рік тому

      А мне кажется что мужчина справился с проблемой и именно он теперь везёт своего, уже спокойного мальчика...

  • @lockedherselfout
    @lockedherselfout 3 роки тому +98

    this song hits harder when you read the interview where Brian says the whole song was a letter written to himself... :(

    • @schore69
      @schore69 2 роки тому +12

      link pls. now im really interested to read that

  • @rdtli
    @rdtli 7 років тому +1891

    I´m a physician , surgeon and urologist , i´m 40 , i use meds since i graduated in 99 ....i´m totally disconnected and feel apart from this world , things like cruelty , humans behaviour , eating meat and etc...are part of my brainstorm everyday...so , i fell into a deep deppression crisis in 2010 , lost 20 kg , got a bilateral pneumonia , stopped working , driving , and living for 6 months , lost illusion , happinness and ambition , had no ´´strenght´´ for nothing.... thought of killing myself for serious 2 times ....death seemed to be my redemption and the end of pain those days.....my son matheus was 4 and , was the only reason i did not do nothing serious by that time... i got better nowadays , ....but my existence crisis still goes on...in a controlled way .....this video really....really touched me..... cheers for all of you...wish you never felt like i did sometime ago....

    • @arunas7822
      @arunas7822 7 років тому +58

      you are not alone, my friend

    • @lequotazioniinborsadellafa5867
      @lequotazioniinborsadellafa5867 7 років тому +30

      your story touched me

    • @Trollouloute
      @Trollouloute 7 років тому +7

      On peut résister tant que l'on veut..., la dépression prendra le dessus. S'entourer de vrai, du nature, du beau et de couleurs sont des choses qui peuvent aider par moment. Courage.

    • @rdtli
      @rdtli 7 років тому +14

      cheers my friend .... from são paulo - brasil...best wishes...peace

    • @leeanna8369
      @leeanna8369 7 років тому +3

      Olá Rodrigo...Lamento imenso por tudo que passaste. Eu sofro de depressão e ansiedade ao mesmo tempo..Nunca cheguei a metade do que passaste mas acredita, não estás sozinho. :)

  • @justme3971
    @justme3971 3 місяці тому +3

    My Father was killed when I was 8 yrs old, I not only lost my Dad, but my Mother as she shut down and I lost my childhood as had to grow up and look after yourself, and as a family we turned in on ourselves and self destructed in various ways.

  • @antoniabaxter3254
    @antoniabaxter3254 8 місяців тому +15

    Coming back to this song time and time again it never gets old, descovered placebo at 14, now 25. What a heavy weight of emotion this song carries for me ❤

  • @pollyjh159
    @pollyjh159 7 років тому +392

    I can't watch this video, it reminds me too much of what it is like when you want to stop feeling so bad and you just can't.

    • @stephedawe2230
      @stephedawe2230 7 років тому +5

      polly jh right now I want to die

    • @cheerfulcharms
      @cheerfulcharms 7 років тому +13

      You want to stop feeling so bad urgently and when this never happens you feel more badly...and again and again!

    • @aligdragon9303
      @aligdragon9303 6 років тому +1

    • @abbyrosenbaum
      @abbyrosenbaum 6 років тому +4

      you are not alone.

    • @shoyebieber9720
      @shoyebieber9720 6 років тому +1

      I agree this song also reminds me of when I got hospitalized for suicidal thooughts and actions and psychosis

  •  8 років тому +178

    I think I'm not the only one who feels different things and finds different meanings inside the song while watching this every time.
    Edit: I made this comment 4 years ago. It's 2020 now and nothing has changed. I still feel those different "things". Still giving different roles to that man and his son and it still hurts.
    Edit 2: It's 2022. Still the same...

    • @greyfishfriend5981
      @greyfishfriend5981 5 років тому +5

      I can think of a few
      - the actual meaning of the song (son worried about addict dad)
      - kid resembles herion anf the guy goes to rehab at the end
      - child carer (the father is incapable of basic tasks for some reason)
      And a few others. It is a very powerful video and although it may have been written with one meaning, things like this never turn out with one meaning. That what I like so much about Placebo's fandom (soulmates) we all have that creativity and deep thought process that allows us to say what we thinknthe songs and vifeos are about, and even if that turns out not to be the original idea written, it usually makes sense and it is a very good skill to have. Interpretation is always a positive with suff like this, in art too, it shows you connect with whatever it is that you're interpreting and you then able to come up with a meaning. Sorry for the waffling but I'm very passionate about things like this.

    • @Lio_Braga
      @Lio_Braga 4 роки тому +2

      It hurts so bad. Some days worse than others. Since I've seen this clip for the first time, I always cry copiously. It doesn't help that I come here when I'm at my lowest, either because of myself and my internal struggle, or my issues with my dad and his drinking problems, now getting worse because there's also old age and physical problems adding up. Again, some days are worse than others...

    •  2 роки тому +1

      @@greyfishfriend5981 maybe I'm late to reply this after 3 years but thanks a bunch mate. You have touched my soul.

    • @hunterblacc4336
      @hunterblacc4336 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah this one holds a lot

    • @dariaalekseeva7252
      @dariaalekseeva7252 Рік тому

      Probably I know what will be in the "Edit 3" someday in 2025, for example)
      Without any jokes - I definitely agree with you

  • @andrejvnior
    @andrejvnior 2 роки тому +40

    After all those years, I finally realized the meaning of this video... Not realized, but felted. I am spending my days 'just spending'. I don't feel like I want to be, or I want to achieve, or I want to really live something... I just feel like the life is a big empty ocean and I am floating to nowhere because I am to coward to drown myself into the darkness.

  • @aischabeck5689
    @aischabeck5689 2 місяці тому +4

    remindes my early relationship with my mother

  • @truth-spreader
    @truth-spreader 4 роки тому +38

    Placebo have this special gift of capturing emotion. We all have different experiences and tragedy but we all find commonality in beautifully written songs just like this one.

  • @CordovaLeonardo
    @CordovaLeonardo 9 років тому +25

    My father suffers from bipolar disorder. I know this vid isn't about a child carrying his dad cause he's mentally disabled, but I truly feel this song and story as they were mine. Touching.

    • @AXharoth
      @AXharoth 6 років тому +1

      u can listen this song how u like it doesnt hurt anyone right

  • @addambrooks1599
    @addambrooks1599 3 роки тому +43

    This song hits me hard as i feel just as broken as this man. The boy is my son trying to keep me present and in the moment. My depression is debilitating and i swear if i was to top myself this song would definately be playing on loop

    • @Celtic_Thylacine
      @Celtic_Thylacine 3 роки тому +3

      "Broken" is exactly how I often feel. I am doing better but I was so close to this a while ago. Good luck mate. It can get better.

    • @theenchantedrealm01
      @theenchantedrealm01 Рік тому +2

      I understand completely. I hope you have found some slivers of light to help you through the darkness.

    • @johnnyperez4330
      @johnnyperez4330 Рік тому

      But when on loop does UA-cam just stream then? So it would cut the "monitization" of the artist...
      Well all be saved if we join the PTA

  • @ChristianAlanis
    @ChristianAlanis 9 місяців тому +3

    When you have to learn to be an adult when you just a kid. It’s hard. I was there.

  • @viviannelok3629
    @viviannelok3629 9 років тому +13

    What a fucking masterpiece...

  • @maori94
    @maori94 3 роки тому +37

    This is a music video you never forget

  • @2minuss
    @2minuss 8 місяців тому +5

    Opening a song with "You are one of god's mistakes" is utterly brutal. Such a masterpiece!

  • @ronehirschi3063
    @ronehirschi3063 2 роки тому +18

    Masterpiece, definitely.

  • @mothermonster82
    @mothermonster82 8 років тому +123

    I have never had a video make me cry before...

    • @MsRedbelly
      @MsRedbelly 8 років тому +4

      +Lauren Messett
      This does to me, & 'Hurt' ( Johnny Cash version). & Now 'Lazarus' by Bowie. Powerful imagery.

    • @LH3plus2
      @LH3plus2 8 років тому +3

      I understand. My beloved nephew died of a heroin overdose June 9, 2015. He was 39. Only a few years younger than myself. The song by Neil Young " The needle and the damage done" makes me cry now. He was suppose to go to Italy with us in 2017. The music and voice in this song is beautiful but such a sad video and I've listened to it often for years but it is so personal now!

    • @marymacpherson4679
      @marymacpherson4679 8 років тому +1

      +Lisa Thompson Hi Lisa sorry for your loss xx

  • @paoloammendola7591
    @paoloammendola7591 3 роки тому +1735

    My Mother has Alzheimer's and everytime I see this video I can't stop crying ....

    • @markzvomuya8589
      @markzvomuya8589 3 роки тому +32

      I am truly sorry

    • @talitasnyman8846
      @talitasnyman8846 3 роки тому +17

      So very very sorry

    • @zehirliicerik
      @zehirliicerik 3 роки тому +12

      Sorry for u paolo 🙏

    • @MelancholischerMond
      @MelancholischerMond 3 роки тому +55

      My mom suffers from dementia but I stopped crying because of her terrible illness. I became a fighter instead. I fight for her staying alive and feeling fine. Change your perspective.

    • @mcmahon6712
      @mcmahon6712 3 роки тому +14

      I’ve been there Paolo, it’s was horrible. Wouldn’t wish that experience on my worst enemy.

  • @Mel-mc9lf
    @Mel-mc9lf 2 роки тому +26

    This song has spoken to me since it came out and it's still the same to this day, it's hard to let go of something you accepted and got used to

  • @orestespylades9519
    @orestespylades9519 2 роки тому +12

    I never had something like a relationship to my father, but last time we met I really felt how hopeless it is. It doesn't feel like talking to a grown human being. Sometimes I remember the shame I felt as a kid. Sometimes I wonder how he was like before he got off track. I am already far away now, but sometimes I come back to this song.

  • @megamegan8607
    @megamegan8607 5 років тому +77

    15 years and counting
    Yet I still taste it every day .
    My son saved me and saves me now .
    Placebo go there , as other bands pass by xxx

    • @rhyshamilton7406
      @rhyshamilton7406 4 роки тому +2

      Mega Megan I wish you and your son well. I’ll pray for you

  • @babybangsherrera3763
    @babybangsherrera3763 10 років тому +11

    this song means alot to me

  • @EvilBunnyCompany
    @EvilBunnyCompany 2 роки тому +26

    first time listening to this song after 6 or 7 years. Havent had such a goosebump all over the body. Masterpiece.

  • @ceciliacc1573
    @ceciliacc1573 2 роки тому +100

    Esta canción me atraviesa por completo, siendo adulta cuidando a nuestros padres que se vuelven pequeños, indefensos y nosotros como hijos también estamos vulnerados haciendo lo que podemos por seguir adelante..

    • @MilanRob
      @MilanRob 2 роки тому +5

      Todo el amor, fuerza y alegria para tu familia Ceci. Greetings from Cancún.

    • @moisessanchezbejarano770
      @moisessanchezbejarano770 2 роки тому +2

      Un hombre que lo ha perdido todo y su hijo tuvo que madurar y crecer rápido para ayudarlo y al fin el niño vuelve a ser un niño y su padre vuelve a ser un adulto
      Literal y también me recuerda a una invasión extraterrestre que los alien de otra dimensión invaden a la tierra

  • @EzioAssassins
    @EzioAssassins 4 роки тому +130

    Увидев бы я этот клип и музыку раньше, я б рыдал навзрыд. Сейчас у меня жена и я такого не допущу. Нельзя что бы мои дети прошли через все, чего я насмотрелся в детстве. Тащить на себе пьяных родителей это просто позор и стыд. Спасибо бабушке.

    • @user-ff2oe9cm4u
      @user-ff2oe9cm4u Рік тому +7

      Тут можно взглянуть и иначе и интерпретировать разными образами. А так да, я согласна с вами. Для своих детей хочется лучшего

    • @user-vg4lm1ws1h
      @user-vg4lm1ws1h Рік тому +4

      Мне 29.И я до сих пор рыдаю
      ..Не могу избавится от этого ужаса .

    • @Editor905
      @Editor905 Рік тому +2

      У него отец не пьяный, а душевнобольной, судя по всему. Гораздо хуже и настоящее горе. Алкоголь человек сам выбирает и вылечиться можно, хоть и тяжело. А здесь неудачная случайная комбинация генов и от этого не вылечиться... Дедушка был психиатром, насмотрелся на его пациентов - адовый ужас, никому такого не пожелаешь!

    • @crazygloom1391
      @crazygloom1391 Рік тому +1

      И каким местом думал при просмотре клипа?

    • @EzioAssassins
      @EzioAssassins Рік тому +3

      @@Editor905 ты явно с этим не сталкивался и говорить на эту тему никакого желания нет. А интерпретировать клип можно по разному.

  • @muhgtra2sd
    @muhgtra2sd 10 років тому +14

    You shouldn't feel downtrodden or dejected when listening to this song, it all makes a sense if you think of people in a troublesome situation, due to the shortage of self-care. And it's incredible how this child drives his father and how he's ready and willing to help him all the time. I state that so many guys and girls have to take heed of their parents and when you get skilled about this "God mistake" you'll love them. It doesn't matter whether you're exhausted or you want to be by yourself, it's the unconditioned love you stick to. My whole speech means that it's definitely a love song.

    • @fidget2030
      @fidget2030 10 років тому +10

      My mother developped a bipolar disorder after a traumatising car accident and the following alcohol and medication abuse. I'm 18 now, and together with my brother I've been helping her survive for the past 6 years. My dad divorced her, she can't work, has no income, and it is no fun at all to make her eat, take care of herself, to go looking for her once she gets the idea in her head to go and jump under a train. And most people, even the family don't understand anything. They don't understand why we won't have her locked up in an asylum or something.
      It's because we love her, we loved her as she was, and even as she is.
      Because our mother before her accident is still in there, and every now and then, we get to see her for a fe hours. and that's worth the world to us.
      I justed wanted to tell you that, because I have had trouble dealing with her lately, and your comment reminded me of why I'm taking care of her.
      Thank you.

    • @muhgtra2sd
      @muhgtra2sd 10 років тому +2

      Lukas Vandermeersch This really hurts me, I may not know the way you feel but it's obvious how glum and hard this all should be. If you want to argue about this issue do not hesitate! Send me a private message and I'll give you my email address. Greetings! Michele

  • @corpuscallosum1357
    @corpuscallosum1357 7 днів тому +1

    I never want anyone to feel like this.

  • @walterwhite5705
    @walterwhite5705 Рік тому +15

    Suffering from depression this really hits hard

  • @caitroisin3461
    @caitroisin3461 3 роки тому +29

    This is...genius. Sad, beautiful. Thank you Brian, thank you Placebo.

  • @Naxio.nn94
    @Naxio.nn94 8 років тому +108

    masterpiece

  • @abrilmartinez3665
    @abrilmartinez3665 2 роки тому +18

    How can something so beautiful be so cruel...? I love and hate this song, it hurts me to listen to this amazing song like my heart is stabbed and to see my family.

    • @stitches36
      @stitches36 2 роки тому

      I think molko wanted it to be a song you love but also hate it. He's showing what addiction can lead to. His was heroin addict. He is showing what it does to families.

  • @lucielovesyou90
    @lucielovesyou90 3 роки тому +24

    Won't get tired of this masterpiece song and the videoclip.
    Emotionally im always in the back seat.

  • @jmb65541
    @jmb65541 6 років тому +539

    It hurts more when you realize you became the person who hurt you the most

  • @brunotorres1100
    @brunotorres1100 9 років тому +44

    THIS IS ART!

  • @davidnavarro4821
    @davidnavarro4821 2 роки тому +2

    I understand why this video hits hard for many people. The son clearly acts as a caretaker for his father. Many people think the father is being depressive but given how he falls on the ground and is withdrawn, it could be interpreted as if the son is dealing with an alcoholic father especially at 4:35 where he either snapped or fell on the ground.
    This really mirrors how I deal with my father's abuse of the bottle. When I was 7 my mum left home because of that but then they got back after he became sober (they're now divorced) but after a stroke he relapsed during my mid-20's and for 6 years he's been on-and-off alcohol and the clip's ending reminds me how I once took him to a clinic for rehab.

  • @Lewis_Steel
    @Lewis_Steel 9 місяців тому +8

    Placibo - Song to Say Godbye
    You are one of God's mistakes
    You crying tragic waste of skin
    I'm well aware of how it aches
    And you still won't let me in
    Now I'm breaking down your door
    To try and save your swollen face
    Though I don't like you anymore
    You lying trying waste of space
    Before our innocence was lost
    You were always one of those blessed with lucky sevens
    And the voice that made me cry
    My oh my
    You were Mother Nature's son
    Someone to whom I could relate
    Your needle and your damage done
    Remains a sordid twist of fate
    Now I'm trying to wake you up
    To pull you from the liquid sky
    'Cause if I don't we'll both end up
    With just your songs that say goodbye
    My oh my
    A song to say goodbye
    A song to say goodbye
    A song to say
    Before our innocence was lost
    You always one of those blessed with lucky sevens
    And a voice that made me cry
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye
    It's a song to say goodbye

  • @dasgehteuchnixan7153
    @dasgehteuchnixan7153 6 років тому +16

    This was playing in my head as I was driven to the psychiatric hospital during a major depressive episode. Now, two years after, I can watch the video without crying my eyes out.

  • @MasNalgan
    @MasNalgan 9 років тому +26

    I love how it leaves you wondering "Who's driving the child?" at the end.

    • @saymyname8925
      @saymyname8925 4 роки тому +6

      And he looks out the window same way as the father. Same fate?

  • @amysr93
    @amysr93 9 місяців тому +11

    Here in 2023 after finding my old placebo albums. Absolute chills, I had forgotten how much of a masterpiece this song actually was from being a teenager, now I'm a 30 year old mother suffering with trauma and depression and everything just hits a lot harder. The lyrics, the video, the music. Heartbreaking yet also makes me want to dance like I've never danced before and have a few teenage moments again 😆

  • @johnton6488
    @johnton6488 6 місяців тому +1

    Most piercing song I ve ever heard. Being that child, becoming that adult, carrying my inner child, having my own child, trying my best so my son will never ever experience this.