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Joshua Idehen - Learn To Swim
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2023
- Directed By Carlos Zaya
Filmed at Fasching, Stockholm
Styling by Åsa Maria Camnert
Music by Ludvig Parment
Poem By Joshua Idehen
Stay cool, Learn to swim
I only started learning last year
and now I’m forty two
And if you already know how to swim?
Good for you
This is for all the people behind you
Stay cool, learn to swim
Nah, mate, you’re not too heavy
Your bones are not too dense
Pennywise was right
In the end, everyone floats
Stay cool, learn to swim
Your skin will thank you
Your mind will thank you
And if there’s blood in the water
sharks will thank you
Don’t swim in the river thames
nobody asked you to do that
Some things will always be true
The sun always sets in the westRight now will always be as good as it gets
Romeo and Juliet is tragic
Time is wasted on worry
And everyone is made of pure, unadulterated magic
except for Boris Johnson
Trans men are men
Trans women are women
Some things by now should be a given
It looks worse when it's online
Facebook is not research
no matter the hours you spent on it
There are no solutions at the bottom of a doomscroll
and you’re never at your best when
you are looking at someone else’s highlight reel
Time heals all wounds and makes new ones but
a hot shower will cure 99% of bad vibes, truss me
You should be nice to yourself
You should be nice to people
except for nazis.
No one should never be nice to Nazis.
There are so many ways
to be yourself
don't get lost in the options
All the paper straws in the world
won't save a single polar bear
but making Amazon pay their proper taxes could
And all your idols will let you down,
except for Keanu Reeves
cuz Keanu Reeves is
perfect
You don't have to like Pink Floyd
You don't have to like Prince
None of it is by force
Every elder is a village
but some villages are full of racists
and aren’t worth the visit
Protect your peace
Cherish your joints
Eat your fruits and vegetables and mind your business
Don’t be afraid to dress like an idiot at least once in your life
Embrace your cringe, embrace your cringe
New York is nice, but you should try Benin City
If they won’t let you start
a union, join a mafia
The means you cannot seize
you should steal
If you love doing a thing, and you're not hurting any one or yourself, do the thing
Don't let anyone stop you doing the thing
If you love shoplifting from department stores, do the thing
Department stores aren't people
Sometimes the answer is to sleep on it
Sometimes you need to face it head on
Sometimes it's scarier in your head, and when you stop running, you realise the monster was a shadow all along
Your heart will be broken
and you will break hearts
and when the dust settles
in your spirit, do not forget
to forgive yourself
Call all the friends
you've fallen out with
tell them you miss them
dying right is overrated
But that does not mean
you should down a bottle
of Merlot and text your former
lover, nothing good will come from that
Recognise the difference
between alone and lonely
More often than not you won’t
resolve all loose ends, your life
isn’t that kind of movie, it's more
like a rambling soap opera that'll
eventually run out of budget
I hope you get old
I hope when you get old
compassion is cool again,
And if you’re lucky, one day you’ll
wake up, and you’ll be out of
the zeitgeist’s eye. You won’t
recognise the music, you’d rather
go to bed at ten. Your pleasures
will be gentler, movements slow
goalposts shifted, your former
burdens slightly lifted, and that
would be okay, it happens to
most of us
Maybe by then you’d have stayed cool
maybe you’d could do something else
with your life
Like learn to swim
I’m from Trinidad 🇹🇹, I’ve had a serious eye opener after listening to this . every morning ever since as a rule , as a prayer , as an anthem I listen to it twice just to move forward with my day , you made me love poetry again ❤
Saw you at We Out Here. You changed me. This was church and I was raised up. Thank you from a 56 year old white guy with still a galaxy of learning to do.
Ah man, thank you!
All the comments and Nobody is gon talk about his voice which speaks and sees right through you. I like this guy📌🤸🏻♂️🤸🏻♂️🔥🔥
This song, this album, has been so important to me this past year. You made a masterpiece that will live on for years as the most important album of 2023. Thank you
Appreciate this. Thank you for saying it
Some mellow but direct truths on the internet, it was about time..
Since I saw this post on ig, I’ve been obsessed. It’s uncanny how it seems like we’ve lived the same life. Not a single track was skipped. 10/10
Ah bless
Thanks mate, you made my day.
Beautiful
Thank you for making this, found you on instagram. This is beautiful, poetry and music flowing, and growing perfectly. I needed this.
Appreciate this + u
Saw you in Brussels, u made me feel so incredibly happy!
I have it on repeat, each time I hear something else... love it... So true! Stay cool ❤
Right with you. Touched my heart deeply. Thank you. ❤
It felt like I didn't blink while watching this video, you're beautiful Joshua and I'm glad I randomly saw this. Keep blossoming, I need moreeeee💆🏾♀️❤
I’m from Nigeria bro please make more of this calm poet in this manner. My spirit tells me this is the path that would lead you into greatness… ❤️
The hours scrolling at facebook was worth comming across this masterpiece. I hope to find more poets the only thing worth reading
I love this. I think it should be made into animated clips for another video or two. I can really visualise an animation of each phrase and how easily they flow together. This is an incredible song ❤
Cheers mate!
Beautiful ! Thanks for sharing this calm magic ...gonna send it on to all my fam .A good reminder to stay with what's good and true x
My heart and soul says, thank you so much. All the best to you and your loved ones, bless❤🙏
That made my day! Listening on repeat!
Powerful words, reminds me of "Class of 99"
The best ❤ I love it
Beautiful work, mate.
Thank you Joshua.
i love so much love the choice of words ❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is beautiful ❤️
Liquid deep! ❤
I love This 🥰💯🙏👍🏿
"I hope you get old" - ironic, since you have not aged a week since that day in Berlin :)
We're both vampires my g.
Ta!
(42, can't swim, living with a great trans person)
Love you man. I mean it ❤. Stay cool.
Brilliant
I’m here ✨✨🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wow
what is the piano piece in the background? i'm sure i've heard it before without this poem. can sb tell me what it is?
Same
This sounds like something the devil would wisper in your ear.
Deep
The sunscreen song in 2023/24. Epic 5 minutes.
Oh, my, fucking, Good! :-D
Your queen is a reptile is where i ranked you
💓💓💓💓
Beautiful