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.
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.
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 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 😣 😢
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.
+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 ;(
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 ❤
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.
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!
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🙏🏼🖤
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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. That song made me cry. Memories can be so strongly connected with music.
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
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)!
@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..
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
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 ❤
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
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
@@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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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
@@ДмитрийБелов-с8у 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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I feel for the thousands of children who live this reality x
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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... Edit 3: It’s 2024. Still the same…
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.
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...
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@@greyfishfriend5981 maybe I'm late to reply this after 3 years but thanks a bunch mate. You have touched my soul.
This song is so wonderful and hits deeper than I like to admit. I grew up in a family with mental disorders and addictions. I myself have a BPD. But this always reminds me to keep going and I've been in therapy for years now and I've managed to become a social worker and help others to fight and find their way. It's hard to accept who you are and the reality of yourself with your problems. But after that it gets better. And it's worth it.
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 😆
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
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 ❤
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!
Beautiful!! I felt it is the story of one guy riding his car that is life.. And the kid is his dreams, his desires, the innocence to take life head on... But the man is all the sadness and suffering that life gives you.. And everyday our goals and desires keep pushing us ahead like the little kid but our sadness and suffering weighs us down.. Though we try so hard to change that, the irony lies in the fact that at some point we have to bury our pain and all those demons far away and move on like how the kid left the guy at the asylum. But it never ends there.. The kid ends up in the car and the cycle repeats . Well I've been through depression.. Just thought I'd put what I feel out here.. Hope someone else finds strength to live.. :)
Mmm nice interpretation. But i think the video is about drugs and addiction. The grown man is an addict and the kid represents the drug and the addiction. The addiction (the kid) leads, manages and controls the grown man's life everytime; pretending to care and protect the grown man. Instead, the grown man feels a constant depression and sometimes the feeling to leave the kid (the addiction), but he is weak enough to let the addiction (the kid), so the kid ride his life over again. But, why something bad represents a kid? Easy, the drugs always lies and pretend to be nice causing fake pleasures that take away the preocupations and sadness, it pretend to be a nice and adorable hero ;) (like the video tries to show in the kid, the hero who wants the grown man to be fine), but at the end he do what drugs always do, destroy the person and leave him alone at rehabilitation. And that last grown man´s face like: WTF you was supoused to care about me and not leave me alone, and kid (drug) doesn't even turn and look him for last time, because he never care. At the end the kid is in another car (life) of other person, who still have the control of his/her life, yet. Couse the kid pretend to do the same thing with that new person. This was my interpretation. :)
Those lyrics are not only received by the ear, they can also be felt within our very soul. Strong, dark, intense, those lyrics are everything! The music is just as brilliant. Like a musical poem this song, with Molko nailing it all the way
Everything in my life has changed, even me but the feeling this song gives to me did not. Play this song at my funeral. Over and over. Again and again. And the last goodbye is given. A song to say goodbye.
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.
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.
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!
Thank you, Placebo. This is real art. It inspires, it makes people question, it has different layers in terms of meaning. I don’t have such story, but I suffered other ways and music was the thing that kept me going. It was the driver in my car. I wish that I can make music like you someday. I wish that I can provide a driver for all the people who suffer and think that they can’t go on.
A song to say good morning A song to say good night A song to say "I'm sorry" A song to say "I tried" A song to sing in mourning A song to sing in flight To sing when you are leaving And when you're coming home. A song to say "goodbye" A song you'll never know.
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!
"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
It's hard for me to watch this music video. When I was a child I didn't realize what was the meaning, but now I help my father fighting against depression and I feel like that child.
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..
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
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.
Love this song! Played it on repeat like a million times! Never could have envisioned this video though! That's the beauty of music....the very same song can be interpreted differently from one person to the next!
This song and film clip so accurately depicts for me the experience of being grown up but driven by the wounded or damaged inner child. The adult inside doesn't know how to interact with the world, the adult is relegated to being an observer, incapable but still feeling the need to be seen as independent. When he falls over and people come to help him but he throws them off is such a big moment. People very well might be there to help, but you don't want to be seen as weak, even if you're barely getting by.
This video it’s just the same my life was before my dad passed away. I was a kid that take care of her alcoholic father we used to go to the motorway for hours. This song makes me cry and set me free.
for me it's having to say goodbye everytime I have to take my son back to his mother whom lives in Nevada, and I'm in Los Angeles California.. seeing him only at certain times during the year...
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.
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.
Thank You, Sir...
Hi i would like to know who is driving the car at the end of the video? ahahaha
I've been listening to this song and watched this video so many times!!!! Thanks for this piece, thanks a lot...
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."
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.
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@@zido1 Thank you for your support 🥺❤️
I didn’t see this perspective… thanks…
@@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 😣 😢
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.
+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 ;(
Glad to see I'm not the only right arm here, keep going you amazing human being.
+Ignacio González be always well >> you deserve happiness bro........
you are a wonderful person. i hope the best for you and your mom. :)
My mother had a brain cancer when i was 6 and i also became her personal assistant. I know what you feel, bro.
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.
Happy for you! Go and enjoy life you beautiful soul!
❤
Like me
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Must've been diffiocult. My parents weren't mentally ill, they were just mean.
This song means so many different things to so many people - definition of high art
Always hit my heart
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.
Too true
its about the end times we are in now...
God be with you
much love
disobey tyranny
Amén
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.
oh wow...
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.
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.
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
the actor's skills are actually incredible. let through so much without a single word
This is not just a song and a video - this is a work of Art.
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.
Multimedia tbh. Both art art on their own already but come together magically.
wazzup honneyy? give me you number and ig :3:3
Вы абсолютно правы
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.
The same I'm feeling I only need a friend
@@cristinarodriguezmatas1564Are u guys okay?
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.
Vulpes foor halzaymair
This is exactly how I see this video.
@@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.
What if I never had any young, happy part of me?
Me too.😞
Being a parent to your parents deprives you of childhood, I can relate to this on another level
if you survive, it makes you stronger than anyone else
It sort of stops you been a parent when you have to be one because you did it for years
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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
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
god bless you. i hope you are doing great.
Keep it up!
I don't think the song is about that... But if it help you, it was good!!
It's 2022 and this song still rocks. Probably my favourite placebo song
This and the bitter end are at the top end of my top 20 songs of all time.
And I'm still not sure exactly what it's about. But love it, and several more.
@nathan smith it's about coming off drugs. Saying goodbye to drugs. This is thr first album they did without the influence of drugs
Уже апрель 2023 🙂
Hello, I came from 2100, still rocks.
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.
I think everyone should see your comment, because it's indeed the meaning of the song.
BellalovesMarla1 or any mental illness.
Agreed
BellalovesMarla1 stop cutting Onions, please
Indeed
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.
It is Powerful .
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.
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.
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.
@@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 ❤
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.
I have one , blue October hate me
Посмотрела только что клип на песню Blue oktober, которая всегда мне очень нравилась. Благодарю Вас, что напомнили о ней ❤
Сильно
Спасибо 😊
Modest Mouse - Hotel (?) Has me bawling so i avoid it, hence i cant remember the song name and am not looking for it lol
This is the saddest video that I have ever watched. Beautiful but sad. You can feel the depression coming from the screen. Powerful.
Absolute masterpiece. The sadness and melancholy this song portraits is unreal. Sad and beautiful at the same time, amazing!
As any Placebo song, always painful and beautiful for it's pain, as they would say themselves: happily bleeding 💜
❤👍
Probably one of the greatest music and video combos ever
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!
he is also angry and frustrated. he is so brave to sing these lyrics.
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🙏🏼🖤
Me 32 years, I'm from Russia, I'm love this song
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.
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.
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.
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
I had an alcoholic dad. He passed away now. And i could not fix him.
@@TheKrololo really sorry... RiP...
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
Stay sober bro.
For once, I am actually enjoying most of the comments here. Very insightful and interesting takes on such a powerful song.
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. That song made me cry. Memories can be so strongly connected with music.
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
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 !
We are in a mad world and we must survive. Courage à toi.
🇫🇷 ?
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)!
Its breaks my Heart to hear that
You can't change people.
You can only love them.
Интересная теория!
@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..
❤
thank you...
So hard to learn and accept.
this video makes me cry, again and again
Unglaublich hart,aber wahr.
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
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 ❤
I can't stop crying when I listen this song. it's terrible, and it's amazing.
Deep feels.
Feel the same
О чем песня?
zdrahar89
О героине.
why am I having such a deep emotional reaction to this? holy shit
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
Exactly the same for me.
We will be ok !!!
Guy!! You will create more happy memories. I send you good vibes!!
Cry out to Christ Jesus. Vent your spleen. Don't hold back.
Should I listen to your bs lol
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
Opening a song with "You are one of god's mistakes" is utterly brutal. Such a masterpiece!
Why don't more people love this band??? They're simply amazing!
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"
Yessss
I felt like it speaks to me personally as myself thinking that I am nothing but a waste of energy.
@@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
@@matiasdelmarmol2886 many thanks for your positive comment, good luck and have fun in your life.
brutal
it isn't clip, it's a masterpiece.
What does it mean?
@@michaelhawk187 clip is the videoclip
It is not a 8,17 min clip its a life clip
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.
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.
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...
I haven't hear or seen this in years. It's still all about goosebumps. Goosebumps every single fucking time.
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.
Wer r u from...???
*reminds me of the time I took my dad to his first AA meeting.
It's like the "saudade" word... hard to explain :D but easy to feel. That's our way
Catarina Vilas Boas It's called the goosebumps with shivers down your neck
This song and video is really touching me..
+Addrenalline Please, point in the bear where they touched you.
+Dmitri Karamazov i just wanna know who the fuck drove the kid home lol
Rofl Weismann :d
beutiful
ShyGuy.exe his dad
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.
Doesn't this song just make your heart bleed? And the video? Even the instruments sound sad somehow. It's beautiful
MissBlaze94 always love placebo?
i could barely stand while watching this video
Its beautiful asf
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
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
Интересная теория, но вам не кажется странным, что мальчик возвращается на той же машине, что и приехал?
@@ДмитрийБелов-с8у 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.)
У вас интересная и глубокая трактовка, но всё немного проще: мальчик привозит отца в дом престарелых, а потом сам садится на место отца.
@@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
А мне кажется что мужчина справился с проблемой и именно он теперь везёт своего, уже спокойного мальчика...
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
Mega Megan I wish you and your son well. I’ll pray for you
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.
🙏❤
Maybe after Russia stops the war
👍👍👍👍👍
I see it as an adult its inner child
И ты будь счастлив, друг)
As a father of a small child, this really hits me differently than when I was a teenager listening to this song. Brilliant stuff
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.
Where You in contact with Your mom after leaving? How did you manage the feeling Bad ?
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.
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.
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
I can hear the song, but i cant see the video at the same time without crying...
Me too. It's the same with everybody hurts by R.E.M....
Same u,u
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.
polly jh right now I want to die
You want to stop feeling so bad urgently and when this never happens you feel more badly...and again and again!
✨
you are not alone.
I agree this song also reminds me of when I got hospitalized for suicidal thooughts and actions and psychosis
I have no qualms about saying that this is one of the best songs ever made. ❣️
This is...genius. Sad, beautiful. Thank you Brian, thank you Placebo.
It's so sad and dangerous when we've had lost our childwood and our INNOCENCE
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.
❤
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
I feel for the thousands of children who live this reality x
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...
Edit 3: It’s 2024. Still the same…
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.
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...
@@greyfishfriend5981 maybe I'm late to reply this after 3 years but thanks a bunch mate. You have touched my soul.
Yeah this one holds a lot
Probably I know what will be in the "Edit 3" someday in 2025, for example)
Without any jokes - I definitely agree with you
This song is so wonderful and hits deeper than I like to admit.
I grew up in a family with mental disorders and addictions.
I myself have a BPD. But this always reminds me to keep going and I've been in therapy for years now and I've managed to become a social worker and help others to fight and find their way.
It's hard to accept who you are and the reality of yourself with your problems. But after that it gets better. And it's worth it.
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 😆
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Basically my life in one song. My inner child never letting go. Healing from trauma after trauma
Wish you a lot of courage.
Hope you better now
its lucky.
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
"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.
I understand completely. I hope you have found some slivers of light to help you through the darkness.
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
Never really appreciated how beautiful this video is and how amazing this longer version of the song is, until now.
Never seen this song before and I’m lost for words how much meaning this song has just WOW
For the real good fathers out there. Stay strong
This video illustrates very well what is a severe depression
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 ❤
Welcome back ❤️❤️
Same, friend.
I have never had a video make me cry before...
+Lauren Messett
This does to me, & 'Hurt' ( Johnny Cash version). & Now 'Lazarus' by Bowie. Powerful imagery.
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!
+Lisa Thompson Hi Lisa sorry for your loss xx
Beautiful!! I felt it is the story of one guy riding his car that is life.. And the kid is his dreams, his desires, the innocence to take life head on... But the man is all the sadness and suffering that life gives you.. And everyday our goals and desires keep pushing us ahead like the little kid but our sadness and suffering weighs us down.. Though we try so hard to change that, the irony lies in the fact that at some point we have to bury our pain and all those demons far away and move on like how the kid left the guy at the asylum. But it never ends there.. The kid ends up in the car and the cycle repeats . Well I've been through depression.. Just thought I'd put what I feel out here.. Hope someone else finds strength to live.. :)
I couldn't agree with you more :) .. Reminds me of the ending of the movie wanted.. Lol
Mmm nice interpretation. But i think the video is about drugs and addiction. The grown man is an addict and the kid represents the drug and the addiction. The addiction (the kid) leads, manages and controls the grown man's life everytime; pretending to care and protect the grown man. Instead, the grown man feels a constant depression and sometimes the feeling to leave the kid (the addiction), but he is weak enough to let the addiction (the kid), so the kid ride his life over again. But, why something bad represents a kid? Easy, the drugs always lies and pretend to be nice causing fake pleasures that take away the preocupations and sadness, it pretend to be a nice and adorable hero ;) (like the video tries to show in the kid, the hero who wants the grown man to be fine), but at the end he do what drugs always do, destroy the person and leave him alone at rehabilitation. And that last grown man´s face like: WTF you was supoused to care about me and not leave me alone, and kid (drug) doesn't even turn and look him for last time, because he never care. At the end the kid is in another car (life) of other person, who still have the control of his/her life, yet. Couse the kid pretend to do the same thing with that new person. This was my interpretation. :)
Loved your interpretation,you almost made me cry. I couldn't agree more :)
Erick Barriga Your interpretation was beautiful, very inspiring. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!
This short movie trapped me inside, and made me deep thinking...
It hurts more when you realize you became the person who hurt you the most
Yes...
So damn true..
As soon as you realize it then it's time to work like hell to change your ways.
You are not
The most lies we will tell in our lives will be to ourselves
Those lyrics are not only received by the ear, they can also be felt within our very soul. Strong, dark, intense, those lyrics are everything! The music is just as brilliant. Like a musical poem this song, with Molko nailing it all the way
Everything in my life has changed, even me but the feeling this song gives to me did not.
Play this song at my funeral. Over and over. Again and again. And the last goodbye is given.
A song to say goodbye.
11 years on and this video still breaks my heart.
Same here 😢
first time listening to this song after 6 or 7 years. Havent had such a goosebump all over the body. Masterpiece.
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.
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.
Тут можно взглянуть и иначе и интерпретировать разными образами. А так да, я согласна с вами. Для своих детей хочется лучшего
Мне 29.И я до сих пор рыдаю
..Не могу избавится от этого ужаса .
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!
И каким местом думал при просмотре клипа?
@@Editor905 ты явно с этим не сталкивался и говорить на эту тему никакого желания нет. А интерпретировать клип можно по разному.
Won't get tired of this masterpiece song and the videoclip.
Emotionally im always in the back seat.
Thank you, Placebo. This is real art. It inspires, it makes people question, it has different layers in terms of meaning. I don’t have such story, but I suffered other ways and music was the thing that kept me going. It was the driver in my car. I wish that I can make music like you someday. I wish that I can provide a driver for all the people who suffer and think that they can’t go on.
Omg 🥹🤍🤍
So beauty full
𝟤𝟢𝟣𝟨, ＆ this song still hasn’t gotten old,
Don’t think it ever will.
Fresh as pure morning 🌞
You missed the chance to say „Fresh as a pure morning”!
masterpiece
A song to say good morning
A song to say good night
A song to say "I'm sorry"
A song to say "I tried"
A song to sing in mourning
A song to sing in flight
To sing when you are leaving
And when you're coming home.
A song to say "goodbye"
A song you'll never know.
Canzone bellissima,il video ,mi ha trasmesso tristezza
Se ti capita di incontrare una persona
nello stesso bisogno
fai come quella bambina
dai aiuto
senza chiedere
NON VOLTARE LA SCHIENA!
grazie eva
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!
Wise words dear friend.
This band should not be forgotten...plain awesome..thanks.
I had a brainstroke since 1995 and i can live with that, i speak english, spanish, french and japanese, never be down, saludos desde coahuila mexico 😘
The memories 😁
Through my life I always go back to this song...Can't explain why and it still hits hard.
Она из жизни. Одного подростка. - JoysticK.❤
My biggest fear is to become the person who had hurt me the most
"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
yeah and some dude, I think was called "jesouis " or something like that, said about the same shit...
Santiago Henriquez it hurts
You cant deny destiny of humankind destroying and anhilating ourselves for nothing
Me too
THIS IS ART!
Masterpiece, definitely.
It's hard for me to watch this music video. When I was a child I didn't realize what was the meaning, but now I help my father fighting against depression and I feel like that child.
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..
Todo el amor, fuerza y alegria para tu familia Ceci. Greetings from Cancún.
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
one of the most powerful songs ever. Hear it since years and it helps everytime
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.
Thank you for sharing this
Love this song! Played it on repeat like a million times! Never could have envisioned this video though! That's the beauty of music....the very same song can be interpreted differently from one person to the next!
Feb 2016 anyone? Still my favourite band. I wish they came to New Zealand. Much love xxx
Laura Gilray they did
That feeling you get when the music touches your soul ..
This song and film clip so accurately depicts for me the experience of being grown up but driven by the wounded or damaged inner child. The adult inside doesn't know how to interact with the world, the adult is relegated to being an observer, incapable but still feeling the need to be seen as independent. When he falls over and people come to help him but he throws them off is such a big moment. People very well might be there to help, but you don't want to be seen as weak, even if you're barely getting by.
This video it’s just the same my life was before my dad passed away. I was a kid that take care of her alcoholic father we used to go to the motorway for hours. This song makes me cry and set me free.
I can relate to this music video on a personal level. I'm literally tearing up.
Same here
for me it's having to say goodbye everytime I have to take my son back to his mother whom lives in Nevada, and I'm in Los Angeles California.. seeing him only at certain times during the year...