"when you lose small mind you free your life" and "swimming through the void we hear the word, we lose ourselves but find it all" both have tremendous meaning to me spiritually.
finally someone made a song about a writing font (edit: vid creator changed the title from "Arial" to "Aerials" for those wondering why i commented saying this..)
When I was a teen I listened to this on the radio and I thought the base part was so so pretty to listen to. I couldn’t get the name of the song or the artist back then so I kept trying to sing the melody into the song finding apps but couldn’t find it anywhere. in college I found it again and I think it’s just as nice to hear when I was little. Thank you
I started sharibg my favorite songs with my youbger siblings and my little brother told me that all my songs are depressing. 😯I was in complete disbelief and really confused.😶 I was like 😨What! Dese songs are awesome! 😫Whatchu talkin bout! But, yeah, now I get it😅👍Thanks for puttin it into words!
@@sanv3275 that just means you like songs that mean something, Mine has kind of dark undertones, or is about something not typically “happy” most good songs are sad tho
this song has always spoken to me very deeply and whether its about government or spiritual beliefs, my interpretation has always been that of A river of experience, all of us wanting to drink the good from it while attempting to protect ourselves from the bad. in the end we are all like fireworks exploding in A black sky only to fade back into the nothingness that birthed us, stop worrying about life and start living it.
bros, just think in that bird. "Ho my god, there's a hole on that human's house, what's there inside ?, everything maybe, i want to know... wait, who's the other bird ?"
This song is about how people can lose their identities and become just like everyone else. Some lyric analysis: "Life is a waterfall,we're one in the river, one again after the fall." - We all start off the same and we all end up the same. "Swimming through the void, we hear the words,we lose ourselves, but we find it all." - As we go through life we are told lessons, but we ignore them. We forget who we really are in the mix of seeking the synthetic lifestyle, and that's the price to lose who we really are. "'Cause we are the ones that wanna play, always want to go, but you never want to stay." - We always want to be part of the scene. We strive for what we want and when we get it, it still does not satisfy. "And we are the ones that want to choose, always wanna play, but you never wanna lose." - We want and want. We do whatever we can but if trouble is ever near we do whatever we can to maintain innocence. "When you lose small mind you free your life." - When we stop to see the full picture is when we really have control of our lives. "Life is a waterfall, we drink from the river then we turn around and put up our walls." - We take and take and in the end we give nothing. This shows how greedy, oblivious and inconsiderate people can be
holly fuuck still having the chills from the first line, Life is a waterfall, We're one in the river, And one again after the fall. goddamn... Just never heard someone putting it like that. So good it hurts. So simple and brilliant, how we are nothing like human, we are just some kind of energy, that we call atoms. Than we become a conscious human being, but it really doesn't matter cuz we just go back to how we were, and we are nothing like when we "lived" anymore. It's so insignificant yet we think of ourselves as the center of everything just cuz we have a conscious...
Szabo Tamas yeah, i dont think it called atom i think it called "life force" "chi" "consciousness energy" or "soul" its just so true how they put that hidden meaning in the lyric. im still trying to see through, to get the eternal prize
Nguyễn Thịnh Well I was referring to how we are built from the same stuff that the world around us is built of. And if we dig deep enough, atoms are more than 99 percent empty space and to a fundamental level we still don't know what causes them to stay in motion and what it is. The particles that makes up an atom are protons electrons and neutrons. And we don't really know what those are fundamentally. Some kind of energy/mass/wave etc. That's what I was getting at. I don't mean to be disrespectful but I don't believe in bullshit.
Szabo Tamas actually everything is in some system of believe. if we think out of the box we can see religion are some system of believe and science are also some system of believe. they are equal if we change the perspective not from our stand point in one system looking to another, but outside all of them. thank you for not disrespectful. iam truly an atheist but what iam saying is religion and science may be not the same, but they are equal, have some crosssection. specifically in the previous comment. iam saying all those souls those religious people talking about is actually is just what science people call energy like what inside our brain? what inside those computer is designed electric pulses. they are energy so iam saying souls are just energy. get what iam saying? its not like things not exist, just that sometime we stand in some perspective that make us thing it is nonexistence and am pretty sure those guys in soad do mindtrips. if you experienced those stuff sure you will know what iam talking about and why iam making all these reference and connection in their lyrics
I know where no flaming unicorns are, thus I cannot stuff them. Also, you didn't specify what you want me to stuff the flaming unicorn with. But it seems slightly homophobic, I must say.
Oh, just teasing the person who told me shut up by deliberately mistranslating their acronym and attempting to illustrate the absurdity of expecting someone to obey a stranger who can't even be bothered to write out what they want of you. Plus, what more did they expect I was going to say if not prompted? Good times.
Heard this song for the first time today . And as a hip hop fan and being open more open to music for the past year I can say this song is dope man . Amazing music . And I like system of the down now .
“When you loose small mind you free your life” - I feel means that when you let go of your current life circumstances and situations and realize there’s more to life and you were put here for something bigger than yourself and we are invincible human beings with no limit except the one we put on ourselves, then you will have peace of mind and be free from this thing we call society and all of its “problems “ it’s just an illusion we have to overcome to see Life.
Tony Quintana this is a very good outlook, but I think when you “lose small mind”, it correlates to ego death. Ego death is the loss of your subjective self identity (the thing that controls you in your daily life, via the ego). Ego death is achieved from psychedelics and intense meditation. Once you lose your ego, you are a “free” bird. You are your TRUE self after ego death, freeing yourself from the ego that controlled you all your life.
System of a Down is one of the deepest bands the world has ever seen, next to Tool, they express themselves in there music to a point where nobody will ever understand.
[Verse 1] Life is a waterfall We're one in the river And one again after the fall Swimming through the void, we hear the word We lose ourselves, but we find it all [Pre-Chorus] 'Cause we are the ones that want to play Always want to go but you never want to stay And we are the ones that want to choose Always want to play but you never want to lose [Chorus] Aerials in the sky When you lose small mind You free your life [Verse 2] Life is a waterfall We drink from the river Then we turn around and put up our walls Swimming through the void, we hear the word We lose ourselves, but we find it all [Pre-Chorus] 'Cause we are the ones that want to play Always want to go but you never want to stay And we are the ones that want to choose Always want to play, but you never want to lose Oh
Same thing? What is a -- a lien... monetized it means ... Break down words and see how it is all connected and talks about currency like water and land ...somebody have a brain!!!
"when you lose small mind, you free your life". In buddhism the small mind is the mind that cling to their thought, to their emotions, who isn't mindful, who can't see that in reality everyone and everything is connected, the small mind sees everything as separate (I am here, you are there) , as if all things are separate, because our senses see this. SO the small mind falls victim of the illusion that our senses give us (that everything is separate) and also becomes victim of the ego and of the many thoughts, without being mindful and present in the moment.
My dad showed me this when i was like 6 and in my lady gaga phase and i still loved it. Even for a child that hated this type of music i loved this song
For me when they talk about being in the river, they're talking about the flow of the higher consciousness that we're all apart of. The fall, life like they say, is that moment we're droplets, seemingly separate, just consciousness observing itself. Once we hit the water at the end of life we realize once again of being whole. The putting up the walls and the damns are us trying to control the flow of life. Getting rid of death, trying to find a way out. We open our minds to the whole, the knowledge of being One we free those constraints on ourselves be our true selves. We take life with grace. This seems to be a good conclusion to the whole album, as the rest are bits and pieces of the same message. If you got this far, I appreciate you hearing me out. Love and Light
Songinterpretation: We all are afraid of something, and we never want to face that. In our lives, we always want to enjoy and gamble for the better, but never want to lose. we never want to accept loss. We can never deal with bad luck and bad emotions. We can never face, that our relationships one day will fail, that we will die one day, that we will just lose this game, one day. That we will always just run away from our problems. We will only ever feel free, when we dont put up our walls and accept others as they are, even if they had more luck than oneself. We have to face problems and be rewarded only if we get the reward by ourself. Nothing will ever be handed to you that easily. You can never expect the best to happen and be mad because it hasnt been gifted to you. You must accept that it happened and just go on, cause live is a waterfall, we drink from the river and put up our walls. we are the ones who want to play and choose, we always want to play, but never want to loose. When you loose small mind, you free your life When you free your eyes, ethernal prize. Baltori
You're looking too deep into it my brother. Keep your eyes in the sky. Truth in plain sight. Free your mind. Wake the fuck up. They're trying to tell you
Best comment here! The only acceptance we are looking for in our whole life is the acceptance of ourselves. We cannot accept us as we are, we cannot accept that the failure is a part of game of life. If we can accept us we are gonna pull off our fancy masks and drop these walls. Rember that the revolution begins from us as individuals. Have a nice day from Greece.
@@v._vanja6515 haha yeah I thought that was funny , and also thought it was funny that someone responded to this comment just a few minutes before I started to read it ,that's rare
@@Zazou_96 We’re one in the river and one again after the fall. Basically life is like the waterfall, rough and turbulent but we are all one before life begins and one after life ends, like the river that leads in and out of the fall.
I know I'm a whole ass year late to this comment but I literally just heard it I needed to come here and just have a little ear massage after hearing MGK's nail on chalkboard representation of it
That intro was the first ringtone I ever made myself, from a crappy recording on a crappy flip phone. I always knew when Mom was calling 😂 Serj Tankian is life
I'm using this for a school project were we have to find literary devices in music books or movies. I'm doing the metaphor "Life is a waterfall". I love soad 😄
Teacher: "Okay, in what way is life like a waterfall?" You: "we drink from the river, turn around and put up our walls." Teacher: "I don't know what that means, but somehow it feels true."
Life is a waterfall We're one in the river And one again after the fall Swimming through the void We hear the word We lose ourselves But we find it all? 'Cause we are the ones that want to play Always want to go But you never want to stay And we are the ones that want to choose Always want to play But you never want to lose Aerials in the sky When you lose small mind You free your life Life is a waterfall We drink from the river Then we turn around and put up our walls Swimming through the void We hear the word We lose ourselves But we find it all? 'Cause we are the ones that want to play Always want to go But you never want to stay And we are the ones that want to choose Always want to play But you never want to lose Aerials in the sky When you lose small mind You free your life Aerials so up high When you free your eyes Eternal prize Aerials in the sky When you lose small mind You free your life Aerials so up high When you free your eyes Eternal prize
I couldn’t keep up with the video so I needed to know what was the next line before it started so I know how to pronounce it correctly until I memorize it , something u won’t be able to understand since am pretty sure you are a native English speaker :) , think about all the possibles choices why certain things happen before you open your mouth , you’ll be surprised after all, btw I posted them for me to memorize the lyrics not for other people but you are more than welcome to use them as u want :)))))
STILL get chills when he starts chanting.....
Out of this world voice
Indubitably
Perhaps you're becoming possessed
I feel the same way
I have always loved System of a Down for their superior vocals. My God. This song is spectacular.
Symphonic. Orchestral. Takes you to a genius you couldn't make up in your mind
This song will never die
Steve Murray
I hope so man i want to be 90 and still be listening to this song im only 13 now but man i really hope these songs stay with us
@@ldeaI. same im 14 and i will forever listen to this and soad
I thought it was colors?😂
The truth limp biz kit
Had to cleanse my ears after hearing MGK's cover of this masterpiece
Machine gun kelly has a cover of this!?
im glad i never heard it i can only imagine the monstrosity
"when you lose small mind you free your life" and "swimming through the void we hear the word, we lose ourselves but find it all" both have tremendous meaning to me spiritually.
Listen to chop suey
@@funnyboyz6208 best song for playing halo ngl
It is very spiritual and meaningful.
Only for those with the ears to hear and the eyes to see.
@@SRWill64 It was good. O:)
Talk to them bro 💪🏾
For those wondering about the meaning...the band themselves said the song is about nothing. So in other words the meaning is up to the interpreter. 🤘🏼
I think that's true of most System of a Down songs.
@@thecraftycrayfish7539
Violent pornography had a pretty clear message
True of most songs or people wouldn't feel a connection
@@ina7084 you had me in the first half ngl
@@TheBliepbliep Are you a fax machine? because you spoke nothing but fax
finally someone made a song about a writing font (edit: vid creator changed the title from "Arial" to "Aerials" for those wondering why i commented saying this..)
2 spoopy
@@glow6514 conversion software. Version 7.0
I'm sorry I need help understanding what you guys are talking about I'm a little bit slow forgive me
@@Crowfist Toxicity - System of the Down
This comment had me rollin 😂
When I was a teen I listened to this on the radio and I thought the base part was so so pretty to listen to. I couldn’t get the name of the song or the artist back then so I kept trying to sing the melody into the song finding apps but couldn’t find it anywhere. in college I found it again and I think it’s just as nice to hear when I was little. Thank you
Bass
Listen one from fade, the bass is really good.
Eu passei exatamente a mesma coisa pois não sabia qual o nome da música até que finalmente a encontrei
Procurei durante 7 anos
Lifelong SOAD fan.
It will get better.
I've been listening to S.O.A.D my entire life and nothing is better then them. This song is one of my favorites. Always has been always will be.
10 anos atrás…
they say that about most of their songs
They freaking suck smh
"When you lose small mind you free your life"
Yeah, this is big brain time
BIG BRAAINN!!!
- Einstein
This is too good
@SAMUEL MORALES lol
@SAMUEL MORALES NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCEEE
when we were kids we sang the lyrics
now we feel em
I started sharibg my favorite songs with my youbger siblings and my little brother told me that all my songs are depressing. 😯I was in complete disbelief and really confused.😶 I was like 😨What! Dese songs are awesome! 😫Whatchu talkin bout! But, yeah, now I get it😅👍Thanks for puttin it into words!
@@sanv3275 that just means you like songs that mean something, Mine has kind of dark undertones, or is about something not typically “happy” most good songs are sad tho
Now im doing both 🥰🥰🥰
NICE....
Couldn't said it better myself ur right
this song hits close to home in a way i can't explain. anyone else listening to this and feeling like lifes too much for you, im sorry.
Love ya Abby stay strong
the opening will always be the reason i love this song
Jacob Fort cool
i found it that it's a sample
One of them
Kulo Ren of course there so much to love about this song
Reminded me of a three days grace intro, take me under lol
This song is sick 🔥 cant believe im barely listening to them
this song has always spoken to me very deeply and whether its about government or spiritual beliefs, my interpretation has always been that of A river of experience, all of us wanting to drink the good from it while attempting to protect ourselves from the bad. in the end we are all like fireworks exploding in A black sky only to fade back into the nothingness that birthed us, stop worrying about life and start living it.
Got chills mate
How do they manage to add a violin and a bell into a heavy rock song is amazing
SOAD was and still is one of my favorite rock bands! Huge influence on my acoustic guitar playing. Right up there with Incubus!
They are nu-metall band 😅
"When you free your eyes, eternal prize."
-Itachi approved
XD
Sasuke too
+Upasna Ganguly Brothers approved
thank you for this comment
lol
This song is deeper than anyone can fathom
This is perfection. Anyone who wants to have a bad time go check out MGKs cover
Yeh
the second he started singing I noped tf outta that
thatll make it worst
that's why im here, saw that garbage and needed to come cleanse my ears with the real shit
Oh….really….dare i go there????????
2020 song still in my play list
Same
Yep
I love how this song only has a few verses but they make it work so well
do songs usually have more than a few verses?
This song is definitely about when a bird fucked'up my window.
you are so fucking stupid man...srry
+Dawnslayer13 Sorry for what...you say sorry because you are a fucking bitch
bros, just think in that bird.
"Ho my god, there's a hole on that human's house, what's there inside ?, everything maybe, i want to know... wait, who's the other bird ?"
+Mihai Tudor Bostan triggered much?
+Mihai Tudor Bostan Jesus dude, chill tf out. Christ.
Unfortunately heard MGK's "cover" of this today & had to come here to clean my ears. I feel better now...
First time listening to System Of A Down and I LOVE IT!!!!!
It's been 4 years how metal are you now. I expect you to be riding a mad max cage on top of a dragon screaming lyrics to rob zombie by now.
@@ben48357 I was thinking the same thing lol, Rob zombie the shit tho🤘🏽
@@ben48357lmao
"Aerials, in the sky" Whats happening in my head: the little mermaid flying in the sky above the ocean.
yes, very much!
lol
sends legit
Awkward. But thats understandable.
Sarah The Shepherd i saw you in the comments of a planet dolan video a while back. Thought i recognized your profile.
So catchy.. Maybe one of the best songs by them.
Look up temper.
shitty song temper
I agree !
Temper is really good
nah I like chop suey better tbh but tempers pretty good
Not many bands have a sense as critical as System of a Down.
Thank you!🙏
This song is about how people can lose their identities and become just like everyone else. Some lyric analysis:
"Life is a waterfall,we're one in the river, one again after the fall." - We all start off the same and we all end up the same.
"Swimming through the void, we hear the words,we lose ourselves, but we find it all." - As we go through life we are told lessons, but we ignore them. We forget who we really are in the mix of seeking the synthetic lifestyle, and that's the price to lose who we really are.
"'Cause we are the ones that wanna play, always want to go, but you never want to stay." - We always want to be part of the scene. We strive for what we want and when we get it, it still does not satisfy.
"And we are the ones that want to choose, always wanna play, but you never wanna lose." - We want and want. We do whatever we can but if trouble is ever near we do whatever we can to maintain innocence.
"When you lose small mind you free your life." - When we stop to see the full picture is when we really have control of our lives.
"Life is a waterfall, we drink from the river then we turn around and put up our walls." - We take and take and in the end we give nothing. This shows how greedy, oblivious and inconsiderate people can be
Bold of you to assume i need the meaning.
@@idab9949 ok asshole
@@idab9949 fortune favors the bold, yo
@@idab9949 aerial in bold is a cool font
English teachers: 😍😍😍🤤🤤
old school is the best school
Only school that i like
IRubexD
I grew up listening to Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory album so I love your profile pic
IRubexD and u still have linkin park as profile pic smh...poser
Shayde Wolfe still a strong fan of LP today. I hear a new album is coming soon too
Tom Araya
You're the type of guy who would mourn Chester even after you made fun of him.
I like this video better mainly because the Eye child scares the fuck out of me
Why is he in the video ?
Me 2
It isn't scary it's just fucked up and unnecessary IMO
That's not the point of this song
Travis Dyer no shit, that doesn't make him any less disturbing.
my parents got me hooked on this album as a baby. Fuckin love you dad, rip
God bless you Brother
The Only SOAD music my throat is able to Afford Singing
Lonely day? Lost in Hollywood? Get a clue..?
A.T.W.A?
@@siLence-84 Yep, Lonely day is pretty Cool too
Meth user
What about "Lost in Hollywood" cause that's a great song your throat will love to sing. Trust me on this one.
holly fuuck still having the chills from the first line,
Life is a waterfall,
We're one in the river,
And one again after the fall.
goddamn...
Just never heard someone putting it like that. So good it hurts.
So simple and brilliant, how we are nothing like human, we are just some kind of energy, that we call atoms. Than we become a conscious human being, but it really doesn't matter cuz we just go back to how we were, and we are nothing like when we "lived" anymore. It's so insignificant yet we think of ourselves as the center of everything just cuz we have a conscious...
Szabo Tamas yeah, i dont think it called atom
i think it called "life force" "chi" "consciousness energy" or "soul"
its just so true how they put that hidden meaning in the lyric.
im still trying to see through, to get the eternal prize
Nguyễn Thịnh Well I was referring to how we are built from the same stuff that the world around us is built of. And if we dig deep enough, atoms are more than 99 percent empty space and to a fundamental level we still don't know what causes them to stay in motion and what it is. The particles that makes up an atom are protons electrons and neutrons. And we don't really know what those are fundamentally. Some kind of energy/mass/wave etc. That's what I was getting at. I don't mean to be disrespectful but I don't believe in bullshit.
Szabo Tamas Bullshit is what you want to be bullshit my man :p
Szabo Tamas actually everything is in some system of believe.
if we think out of the box
we can see religion are some system of believe
and science are also some system of believe.
they are equal
if we change the perspective not from our stand point in one system looking to another, but outside all of them.
thank you for not disrespectful.
iam truly an atheist but what iam saying is religion and science may be not the same, but they are equal, have some crosssection.
specifically in the previous comment.
iam saying all those souls those religious people talking about is actually is just what science people call energy
like what inside our brain?
what inside those computer is designed electric pulses. they are energy
so iam saying souls are just energy. get what iam saying?
its not like things not exist, just that sometime we stand in some perspective that make us thing it is nonexistence
and am pretty sure those guys in soad do mindtrips. if you experienced those stuff sure you will know what iam talking about and why iam making all these reference and connection in their lyrics
'' we drink from the river and then turn around and put up our walls '' that song is really good.
I used to think the lyrics were:
"Aliens,
in the sky
when you lose your mind you free your lies."
You may want to get your hearing checked if you have yet to do so.
Bismuth Crystal stfu
I know where no flaming unicorns are, thus I cannot stuff them. Also, you didn't specify what you want me to stuff the flaming unicorn with. But it seems slightly homophobic, I must say.
Bismuth Crystal what the hell?
Oh, just teasing the person who told me shut up by deliberately mistranslating their acronym and attempting to illustrate the absurdity of expecting someone to obey a stranger who can't even be bothered to write out what they want of you. Plus, what more did they expect I was going to say if not prompted? Good times.
Heard this song for the first time today . And as a hip hop fan and being open more open to music for the past year I can say this song is dope man . Amazing music . And I like system of the down now .
"Once again, this song is about nothing!"- Daron Malakian
5g aerials, in the sky~ killing all that stands in pride~ is there anywhere we can hide?~
@Olek the Eternal cool
amusingly SOAD felt like they had a LOT of songs like that really - one of my favorite songs is basically just vowels for the chorus
yes its about Nothing= NO THING aka source creator, the "river" from where everything originates
It's about something more profound than you could ever imagine
play it at my funeral
same
Cpt. Tripps you never truly die
well this comment was oddly prophectic
havoc127 Did he die?
@@mongopipes, this guy not to my knowledge. But thesong was played at Keith Flint's funeral.
Essa guitarra arrepia até o cabelo da unha!!!! Incrível 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😻
Cabelo da unha ?kkkkk
the guitar and drums in the background gives me life
Love the call and return between the vocals and guitar in the melody. Beautifully well done
Love this band!!! Love this song!! Eternal kick ass rock!!
This type of music gives me chills 💯💯
Had chills while reading the comments then came across this oneee, vibee on my friend
I love this kinda music
this is one of my favourite songs ever! im just so happy to find it again!!
1:51 seriously am i the only one hearing that?
no
i hear the skip too
A little mistake
Actually one at about 2:46 as well
It’s the version of the person who uploaded it
NOO omg I downloaded it and everytime this came up it made me so annoyed
this song is major deep
Zim O.E SOAD 4 U
thats a lyrical masterpiece.. just genius...
“When you loose small mind you free your life” - I feel means that when you let go of your current life circumstances and situations and realize there’s more to life and you were put here for something bigger than yourself and we are invincible human beings with no limit except the one we put on ourselves, then you will have peace of mind and be free from this thing we call society and all of its “problems “ it’s just an illusion we have to overcome to see Life.
Tony Quintana this is a very good outlook, but I think when you “lose small mind”, it correlates to ego death. Ego death is the loss of your subjective self identity (the thing that controls you in your daily life, via the ego). Ego death is achieved from psychedelics and intense meditation. Once you lose your ego, you are a “free” bird. You are your TRUE self after ego death, freeing yourself from the ego that controlled you all your life.
I heard something simillar from alan watts
This was the first metal song I heard in my life. It's amazing 💗💗💗
System of a Down is one of the deepest bands the world has ever seen, next to Tool, they express themselves in there music to a point where nobody will ever understand.
[Verse 1]
Life is a waterfall
We're one in the river
And one again after the fall
Swimming through the void, we hear the word
We lose ourselves, but we find it all
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go but you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play but you never want to lose
[Chorus]
Aerials in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
[Verse 2]
Life is a waterfall
We drink from the river
Then we turn around and put up our walls
Swimming through the void, we hear the word
We lose ourselves, but we find it all
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go but you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play, but you never want to lose
Oh
Its on the fuckin video dipshit
@@Graxonscool chill out man-
out played,the video is a lyric video 💀
@@bigoofs6237 not everyone can sing with the lyrics been displayed, for some its easier to have the full text infront
@@StasiSLG very good point,i was just joking
soad fans:
"14 year old girls: billy eilish is so deep!"
"me: aerials by system of a down is so deep!"
Daron: "This song is about nothing"
Who's daron
@@zogar9169 the guitarist of this band
Right tho lol
@@zogar9169 he's guitarist, background vocal and song writer(not all but most of them)
Imo sounds like a religious reference, but okay.
Helps bring me out of a dark place.... thank you S.O.A.D
Man, I always heard "aliens in the sky" before seeing this.
Bioweapon N
What a tweest.
Bioweapon N haha nice man
Hahaha
Same thing?
What is a -- a lien... monetized it means ...
Break down words and see how it is all connected and talks about currency like water and land ...somebody have a brain!!!
Warriors :DDD
Idk why but it sounds like warriors to me even tho I know it's wrong lol
This one of the most beautiful songs ever!!!!!!!!!
When I was a child I used listening this song, twelve years later i do again and feel the same mood
15 years after listening to this with my Dad on Yahoo and it's still my favorite song from them
This song is amazing. I could listen to it all day :)
"when you lose small mind, you free your life". In buddhism the small mind is the mind that cling to their thought, to their emotions, who isn't mindful, who can't see that in reality everyone and everything is connected, the small mind sees everything as separate (I am here, you are there) , as if all things are separate, because our senses see this. SO the small mind falls victim of the illusion that our senses give us (that everything is separate) and also becomes victim of the ego and of the many thoughts, without being mindful and present in the moment.
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My thoughts exactly!! Very well said
Do you really expect me to read "ALL THAT SHIT?"
So beautiful
@@sic5153 actually too many people did .
My dad showed me this when i was like 6 and in my lady gaga phase and i still loved it. Even for a child that hated this type of music i loved this song
There is a spiritual meaning to this song
Everyone has there own perspective on the song and I respect all of them.
😋😊😄
fuck your opinion
" when you lose small mind , you free your life"
Control. the metal community needs more people like you
@@foreheadgoals the fuck dude? Lmao
Not gonna lie the med express ad that played before this video made me madder than a midget in a crowded elevator...
*CLAP CLAP CLAP*
Madder then a two peckered Billy goat.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I've been looking for this song for 10 years....
10 years? how did it take you so long
LMAO it took you 10 years to figure out how to say "system of a downx, aerials", to google? Ffs!
Great song
For me when they talk about being in the river, they're talking about the flow of the higher consciousness that we're all apart of. The fall, life like they say, is that moment we're droplets, seemingly separate, just consciousness observing itself. Once we hit the water at the end of life we realize once again of being whole.
The putting up the walls and the damns are us trying to control the flow of life. Getting rid of death, trying to find a way out.
We open our minds to the whole, the knowledge of being One we free those constraints on ourselves be our true selves. We take life with grace.
This seems to be a good conclusion to the whole album, as the rest are bits and pieces of the same message.
If you got this far, I appreciate you hearing me out.
Love and Light
Jarl Dolan you sun worshipper . thank you for translating
This song is sooo good first time listening to it is just epic
Also first time listening. Discoverd "Chop Suey" this week ans now iI keep searching and discovering. It's like falling in love.
Have always loved their music, but 25 years later, really understand and appreciate. So relevant today.. how strange that he knew...
Serj Tankian - You sir have a magical and poetic way with words!
And System of a down
Needs to be in the rock and roll hall of fame
Songinterpretation:
We all are afraid of something, and we never want to face that. In our lives, we always want to enjoy and gamble for the better, but never want to lose. we never want to accept loss. We can never deal with bad luck and bad emotions. We can never face, that our relationships one day will fail, that we will die one day, that we will just lose this game, one day. That we will always just run away from our problems.
We will only ever feel free, when we dont put up our walls and accept others as they are, even if they had more luck than oneself. We have to face problems and be rewarded only if we get the reward by ourself. Nothing will ever be handed to you that easily. You can never expect the best to happen and be mad because it hasnt been gifted to you. You must accept that it happened and just go on, cause live is a waterfall, we drink from the river and put up our walls. we are the ones who want to play and choose, we always want to play, but never want to loose.
When you loose small mind, you free your life
When you free your eyes, ethernal prize.
Baltori
You're looking too deep into it my brother. Keep your eyes in the sky. Truth in plain sight. Free your mind. Wake the fuck up. They're trying to tell you
Accurate
But life is a waterfall
Best comment here! The only acceptance we are looking for in our whole life is the acceptance of ourselves. We cannot accept us as we are, we cannot accept that the failure is a part of game of life. If we can accept us we are gonna pull off our fancy masks and drop these walls. Rember that the revolution begins from us as individuals.
Have a nice day from Greece.
@@v._vanja6515 haha yeah I thought that was funny , and also thought it was funny that someone responded to this comment just a few minutes before I started to read it ,that's rare
Still the best and the deepest song i've ever heard :D ;)
Peter Bartfai listen to dance with the devil by Immortal Technique, you will thank me :)
The lyrics to this so song are incredibly deep. Anyone who is interested in meditation and spirituality will know.
Favorite in high school still amazing album
I love the guitar between vocals
I first heard this in 2005 and still jamming it in 2018 🎧
One of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard, period!
The beginning build up to this song will make you run through a wall
Here for my pallet cleanser after that Machine Gun Kelly cover.
Had to come here after watching Mr. voice like warm flat cola (MGK)
This takes me back to the 90s! ❤
The song was released in 2002.
That waterfall line is real as shit. Took me all these years to really think about what it meant.
What does it mean?
@@Zazou_96 We’re one in the river and one again after the fall. Basically life is like the waterfall, rough and turbulent but we are all one before life begins and one after life ends, like the river that leads in and out of the fall.
Who’s here after hearing MGK’s horrid cover
I know I'm a whole ass year late to this comment but I literally just heard it I needed to come here and just have a little ear massage after hearing MGK's nail on chalkboard representation of it
first song i learned to play on guitar
That's also my case :O
same for me!
first song I learned to play on bass
Lost Moose. now that's cook... love bass forever
Lost Moose probably one of my favourite songs to play on bass
People can say what they want about system they got me through some tough times and i love em
Oh yeah system of a down is slapper love the music
That intro was the first ringtone I ever made myself, from a crappy recording on a crappy flip phone. I always knew when Mom was calling 😂 Serj Tankian is life
I"VE been listening to SOTD for over fifteen years, and, their greatness still stands the test of time. Also happy 4,20. 🎮❤🎮❤🎮❤
yet sou still spell the band name wrong
When you free your eyes, eternal prize.
MrAnguswangus itachi approved.
"when you lose small mind, you free your life"
Real eyes, realise, real lies 👁👁
Mathieus The Walking Witness you are awakened 👁
Always loved this song. It was well put together. No surprise
God i love this band there f....ing excellent xxxxxxxx keep rocking xxxx
poetic masterpiece
the music video scares me.
Dan M yeah with that weird looking kid
@JPXFRD eminem's alien son*
@JPXFRD ik that lol I've gotten used to watchin the vid tho
Mahdi Didou 😂😂👍
Arials in the sky ....
Best Single ever. I always can here it
Présente
I love music with mening. I wished they made music like this again. #Timeless
I'm using this for a school project were we have to find literary devices in music books or movies. I'm doing the metaphor "Life is a waterfall".
I love soad 😄
Teacher: "Okay, in what way is life like a waterfall?"
You: "we drink from the river, turn around and put up our walls."
Teacher: "I don't know what that means, but somehow it feels true."
lmao I used this song for that back in like '03
The metaphor is so deep... To me it suggests that we're worse off (lower) after the waterfall that is life; so seemingly suicide is the answer
A minha musica preferida da banda.
Life is a waterfall
We're one in the river
And one again after the fall
Swimming through the void
We hear the word
We lose ourselves
But we find it all?
'Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go
But you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play
But you never want to lose
Aerials in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Life is a waterfall
We drink from the river
Then we turn around and put up our walls
Swimming through the void
We hear the word
We lose ourselves
But we find it all?
'Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go
But you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play
But you never want to lose
Aerials in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials so up high
When you free your eyes
Eternal prize
Aerials in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials so up high
When you free your eyes
Eternal prize
Thanks man, we definetly needed lyrics to a vid where the lyrics are already given. Thanks for improving my life😒
Ps: what where you thinking dude!?!?
I couldn’t keep up with the video so I needed to know what was the next line before it started so I know how to pronounce it correctly until I memorize it , something u won’t be able to understand since am pretty sure you are a native English speaker :) , think about all the possibles choices why certain things happen before you open your mouth , you’ll be surprised after all, btw I posted them for me to memorize the lyrics not for other people but you are more than welcome to use them as u want :)))))
WOW WOW..........................
Why post the lyrics on a lyric video.
U just wasted 10 min of ur life
i still love this one 🖤
One of my favorite songs of SOAD!! :)
Had to come back after hearing mgk do this song a massive injustice
This song is so deep! One of their mellowest songs but its sooo hard!! 🤘🤘💯💯
Has to be my favorite band ever