Correct! It is also a counterpart to Fall for Me, from This place will become your Tomb. Fall for Me points out all the imperfections of Vessel and in his life, where DYWTYLM is referencing accepting those imperfections and accepting self-love. There is a really cool visualizer of DYWTYLM over top of the video for Fall for Me, and they are spot on with each other…. Amazing! Worship!
I definitely go with this theory as well but bear in mind it's only a theory; he's not said anything about these songs "Rain" takes up the themes nicely too: "when you smiled at me"
This song made me start going to therapy. I struggled with so much self hate for so long and always pushed away the idea of delving into it, but this song broke me and made me realize how much I needed it. I still cry whenever I hear it. I love it so much and I can never thank Sleep Token enough.
DYWTYLM: “Do you ever believe, that we could turn into different people?” Euclid: “I must be someone new” So many little references and call backs. “There is something eating me alive, I don’t know what it is” TMBTE: “I don’t know what’s got it’s teeth in me but I’m about to bite back in anger”
For real, almost every listen through the album i pick up another call back or reference. Maybe here i felt "this" but now, in this song, I have learned "this" about me.
The meaning of Euclid is a direct copy of one’s self, but making different choices to become who you are… somewhere in the ethereal of different fabrics of space and time, Vessel made the choices we are hearing about in Sundowning, TPWBYT, and TMBTE…. In a different world than what we are experiencing he made different choices, and it could have been that Vessel and Sleep worked out instead of being toxic towards each other, or maybe Vessel never met Sleep to begin with… The concept behind Sleep Token, and the way the trilogy plays out, is basically a master-class in writing, but done in the form of albums, rather than books… And it is glorious… 🖤 Worship! 🖤
A lot of fans seem to view this as the song to skip on the album, but it’s every bit as emotionally impactful as Are You Really Okay? I guess the pop sound is tough to get past but to me, it’s a total bop with a crushing message. I love this damn song. Don’t @ me.
I'll admit when I first heard this one I did not immediately love the sound of it. But after listening more and more I realize it's not about how it sounds, it's about how it feels. It will get me crying every time now. Worship.
I’m so glad I’m found this reaction. Every reaction I see no one seems to grasp how powerful this song really is. It’s by far my most played song in the last year while I try to work on loving myself. You guys rock! Take your sub ❤
This song hits all the harder on multiple plays, realizing that the music is so polar oppisite of the message because he is looking at himself and wanting to feel a certain way. There is a feeling that something is missing and the want to change in the words reflected in the music. There is almost an incomplete melody that keeps changing. So powerful, Vessel knows how to draw you in.
As a person who suffers, and is recovering from, depression I can say there's a moment in the healing journey when you really wish things to be different, i mean, you always want to, but in the dark moments is to cease to exist, when you're getting better is to change, to be someone new, to be allowed to feel better and the melody here represents, in my opinion, what that moment of awareness actually means, after all is the beginning of the process of wanting to live again after wishing for a long time to be dead and that moment is for sure a happy one, it represented to me a sunrise after a moonless night. My therapist told me once that the fact that there’s the desire to be better is a signal of good things coming so yeah this song is that, sad as depression and happy as an awakening all at the same time.
I love that this song can either be about someone's own self-loathing or their failed relationship where two people wish they still had that spark, but are maybe now just going through the motions. Lyrically, this song hits so close to me on both fronts. Almost a year ago now, I broke up with my girlfriend of seven years probably two years later than I should've. Both of us were staying together out of habit. Some of these lines--"I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could" / "Maybe not that you conceal your feelings, they just don't exist" / "I cannot hope to give you what I cannot give myself"--hit me so raw to the point where this song has literally made me start bawling after. Vessel has such a wonderful way of putting certain things into words that you yourself can't quite. This song made me feel so understood, and even though it's hard sometimes to listen to emotionally, it's one of my favorites. Thank you Sleep Token.
This song is AMAZING live, he sings it with none of the added auto-tune and its RAW emotion! IF you ever want to see any good live shots of these guys, there was one guy that did alot of close up filming i BELIEVE in magnet house perth... or perhaps it was Adelaide? either way AUSTRALIA LIVE look it up!
Dude this song made me feel so many things because I realized he was talking to himself - and then he said, “Smile back… at me,” and I absolutely lost it. I’ve struggled with loving myself for so many years now, and it just hit so hard. This song so perfectly puts it into words. I love your reactions, guys! I found y’all during your NF journey and I’m so glad I stuck around!
I’m so glad you guys liked this one. I listened to this album for the first time on a 6 mile run on an 90 degree day without knowing a single song and it blew me away I didn’t know when songs began and ended lol. And the change of pace in this song stuck out to me instantly. Honestly this last bit of the album you got left is my favorite.
Another runner who listens to ST! 👋🏼 It’s all I listen to when I run. I put their name in on Spotify, and hit shuffle. (Who am I kidding, it’s always on ST.)
I was surprised at how many wrote this song off and/or called it happy. I don't think they heard the lyrics. I can tell you that seeing them live is incredible - everyone singing along. I rarely get emotional at a show but I did seeing them. Was at the barrier and was just overwhelmed. Can't wait to see them again in fall. Love your reactions! Worship!
So heartbreaking because it’s so real. I have been down that road of feeling worthless, not enough, and hating myself for it, and wanting to disappear, be someone else somewhere else.
They have a previous song called "fall for me" it's a triple threat. The music is very electronically pop, the lyrics will break your heart but the MUSIC VIDEO.... soul crushing!!!!!
If you guys like this song, when you finish the Take Me Back to Eden album, definitely check out Fall for Me!! That's the closest song they have on the previous album to this
Having heard this song live I can say it so emotional I literally cried hahahaha. One of the best bands I have seen live as they sound exactly like they do over speakers, and they know how to bring you in and have a party while balling your eyes out from the emotions that they bring out.
9:48 I think it happens more often than people think. A lot of relationships are formed around initial physical attraction, convenience, immense loneliness, shared suffering etc. People get into relationships for a myriad of reasons and sadly all to often none of those reasons are actual love. I know I’ve fell into relationships where circumstances forced me into close proximity with a person for a long time and a relationship just happens to form when spending that much time with a person, and while some care and affection might exist, neither of us where actually in love, and I’ve found my myself asking the same question, but even more often asking myself that question. Do I wish that I loved someone enough to stay with them, and that is a very hard question to answer.
Yesterday after work, I picked up my almost-6 year old grandson & I was playing this song when he got in the car & he almost instantly expressed his approval of it!! #RaisinEmRight 🤘🏻😌
I just went to a ST show on Tuesday, they didn’t play this song, I don’t think I would be able to handle it this song hits soo hard. I still cried a few times
I'm hoping they release a live version of it at some point, cause there's no auto tune effects on his voice and it makes it sooooo much more raw. I get the voice effects though, he aimed for sounding robotic which fits the lyrics.
This song is so amazing. The build up and swell then ebbing and flowing of the music/beat paired with the vocals and lyrics, then he goes into this staccato verse, it’s all just so good. A lot of their music has this flow to it that reminds me of polyphias song structures.
God, this song is a freaking masterpiece. As always, Sleep Token songs can be interpreted in so many ways. BUT. I have a really powerful take on DYWTYLM. If you know anything about masking, particularly in the context of someone who has ADHD/Autism, and/or any crippling/disabling mental health issue, this song is literally IT. The disconnect between the intense lyrics and the peppy music. The autotune on his usually raw and fantastic voice, hiding his true sound/feelings (masking it, in essence). Even the lyrics themselves ask "Do you pull at the chains" - do you go against the grain and defy the way society defines your worth by your productivity? "Or do you push into constant aching" - Or do you push yourself past your limits and cause yourself pain just to get by. "My reflection just won't smile back at me the way I know it should" "I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could" "Do you ever believe we can turn into different people." All of these lyrics are so much deeper than they sound, and they all are something I can relate heavily to as a late-diagnosed Autist with ADHD, going through the unmasking process right now. And the whole while, doing all that, while sounding like a superficial upbeat pop groove... SO. GOOD. Whatever the actual meaning of this song is, Vessel is a freaking genius and Sleep Token is my favorite band of all time. No music has ever impacted me the way theirs does.
So glad you guys are going through this album, it is a masterpiece. I will tell you both right now, if you ever get a chance to see Sleep Token live, DO IT.. it's an experience and it is sooo awesome. Amazing reaction guys!
I didnt enjoy the surface happy feels of this, but when looking at it deeper from the perspective of self critism in a mirror, its a tale of lying to yourself, biting your lip and pretending your something youre not. So now i appreciate it a whole new way.
the line do you wish that you loved me seems more like satire to me. as if asking someone while telling them all about his damage. i can see this as like an argument, his crying, asking do you wish that YOU loved me? with all my flaws and self hate?
So many fans have hated on this song....but my god the lyrics get me every time. Yes, there isn't this signature huge drop with guitars in the beat or change in the style during the song.....but it makes the words he is saying stand out. The words become that much more important. I also love when the production kicks up and he starts speaking almost in syllables. So so gooooddddd. It's become one of my favorites of theirs!!!
This song always makes me emotional because the first time I heard it, it felt so much like how I see my mom. It gives words to the unhealed child in me who wishes my mom would see me, be proud of me, smile at me and love me. I used to wish I could change who I was to get that from her.
I really love the way you guys experience this song because this is exactly how I feel every time I listen to it. This song has the more depth than any singular piece of artwork I’ve ever experienced. It blows my mind that people can hear this and not be moved on a tectonic level, but I’m so glad you guys were!!! 🙌🏻
I liked this song, but was more focused on others. I knew it was Vessel speaking to himself. My husband was abused as a child, so grew up unloved by others, so never learned to truly love himself (he's working on it). When he told me this is one of the songs he relates to and has teared up to, I actively listened. It kills me every time, now.
I have waited so long for you guys to listen to this one. It is probably the one song where Vessel stays in one lane (pretty much). I love this song and the entire album, these guys are changing music for me!
When you think, you're listening to a happy easy Pop song, but it's Sleep Token. Its underrated but it shows those guys can do everything, but always with their special twist on it.
I love this song, a lot of people don’t in this album but it’s so raw and deep. If you really want your feelings hurt after you’re done with the album do Blood sport from the room below specifically. It’s vessel singing live over nothing but a piano and it hurts so good.
I think all songs on the Album are mazing. Not everyone of those fits in my everyday Playlist tho. Also I can't deny that those more "tame" songs hit right in the Feelings and are lyrical wise among the best on the Release.
What i noticed is that when Vessel sings "Do you wish that you loved me?" at the end of every verse, it feels like he's showing all the unspoken questions in his mind when he asks do you wish that you loved me? Like its conditioning you for the build up at the end. The parts in between are Vessel's insecurities that are driving him to want to ask such questions. The build up to the end when "do you wish that you loved me?" Is repeated over over shows just how much desperation and weight light in that single sad question.
WORSHIP!! 🙌🏻 You guys have some great songs left of this album, but I really can’t wait for you to dive into their other two albums, KEEP GOING 🤘🏻🔥 To me it’s self reflection, he’s looking at himself from the outside (like in a mirror)
One of the things about Sleep Token's lyrics is that they can be very direct ("Are You Really Okay") but others can have multiple interpretations. This is one of those songs. When I first heard it, I thought he was singing about unrequited love; this person he's singing to isn't returning the love he has for them. And sure that works and fits the larger narrative and story arc of the last three albums. But then one time, I'm listening to this and I realize it works equally as well as a song about him looking in a mirror ("...and my reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should...") and singing about a loss of love for himself.
So, speaking on the divide between the music and lyrics: Sleep token does something very well. Every single song on this album has a feeling of ethereal yearning to it. Sometimes it's sad, sometimes it's angry, sometimes it's reflective, sometimes it's horny. But every song just exudes that otherworldly yearning that has been a fascination of mine since I was little.
Love that you guys keep hitting this album. Again it was this album that has made me fall into metal recently and you're channel. Been watching all your video's, still have a ways to go but I look forward to more of these reviews from this album because it really is a new favorite of mine.
This band i am constantly blown away. You think its a love song but...its not and then you look at it completely differently. His voice blows my mind no matter. Love all your reactions. The background noise is just delucious on this one 💗✌️🎶
Being at The Masonic Temple in Detroit (largest masonic temple in the world!) in September 2023, with around 6,000 people all singing the same songs was like nothing I've ever experienced before, I'll never forget it and I'm STILL feeling it now. You guys gotta make it to a show together! Worship!
Not sure if you are trying to finish the take me back to eden album first before hearing older songs but fall for me is great ckose to this and the love you want is great as well . Their first 2 albums are just as amazing
This song came out the day my ex and I broke up. Thought it was gonna be uplifting and then bawled the entire time 😂 should've known better. Then I saw it was written from the perspective of Vessel speaking to himself in the mirror and it breaks me every listen. Excited for more ST reactions! Once you're ready to dive into older songs, I'd highly recommend Blood Sport (from the room below). The video is Vessel singing and playing piano so you can actually "see" him. Worship
Lore from Sleep Token nerd: Vessel is stuck in self loathing. He reflects on the pain he has caused himself, and “do you wish that you loved me” is written so it can be a love song, but it’s actually about how he can’t love himself. He asks himself if he did this, and if he can get out (“do you pull at the chains”). He knows it’s getting “harder to be (him)self”. (not my info)
I know you guys get inundated with recommendations, because your reactions to this band are fantastic, but it would be great to see you guys go through their back catalogue. It would be interesting to get your takes.
Hi Kyle, hi Eric, I discovered you two tonight and saw how many ST videos you guys have, it’s made me so happy to watch you guys enjoy all of it. I saw them live at Aftershock 2023 and they were amazing. My song request for you two to review is When the Bough Breaks off their EP One it’s a masterpiece and I constantly find myself in an ocean of emotions listening to it, please do it sometime I will love you guys forever
I don’t know what is next on your guys’ list for take me back to Eden reactions, all I know is Euclid NEEDS to be last. That song really ties the entirety of the album together, and I think you guys would really appreciate it. I might even request listening to their song “The Night Does Not Belong to God” off of their first album before you listen to Euclid. Sleep tokens music is just such a powerful journey
If you guys are going to go through all of sleep tokens songs leave euclid last it has connection to old songs. It will have a lot more meaning if you leave it for the last song
I know you guys are going through Take Me Back to Eden, but you should defnitely go through This Place Will Become Your Tomb after that. Their whole discography is just......perfection
once you guys get to euclid, i need y’all to listen to the night does not belong to god from the sundowning album first! it’s literally so necessary for it to hit the way it’s supposed to!
Before you guys listen to Euclid.. you HAVE to listen to The Night Does Not Belong To God, the first song on their first album of the trilogy Sundowning. It takes it to a whole new level
DYWTYLM was the first song i heard from sleep token, after they had released TMBTE and made got me hooked on them and down the rabbit hole i went 😅 love the song but Rain and Euclid is my favourites from the album BUT i love the whole album and always listen to it from start to finish.
Vessel wrote this from the perspective of looking at yourself in the mirror.
Correct! It is also a counterpart to Fall for Me, from This place will become your Tomb. Fall for Me points out all the imperfections of Vessel and in his life, where DYWTYLM is referencing accepting those imperfections and accepting self-love. There is a really cool visualizer of DYWTYLM over top of the video for Fall for Me, and they are spot on with each other…. Amazing! Worship!
Oh. My. God. This just changed everything for me.
I definitely go with this theory as well but bear in mind it's only a theory; he's not said anything about these songs
"Rain" takes up the themes nicely too: "when you smiled at me"
Holy shit this comment made me rethink the whole song
thanks for sharing.. this song means so much to me.
"No, we're doing that again"
Translation: That didn't hurt me enough, lets listen again!
This song broke me when I got to the "smile back" part and realized he wasn't begging another person to love them, he was begging himself.
This song made me start going to therapy. I struggled with so much self hate for so long and always pushed away the idea of delving into it, but this song broke me and made me realize how much I needed it. I still cry whenever I hear it.
I love it so much and I can never thank Sleep Token enough.
I hope you are feeling better now ❤
That is awesome friend
DYWTYLM: “Do you ever believe, that we could turn into different people?”
Euclid: “I must be someone new”
So many little references and call backs. “There is something eating me alive, I don’t know what it is”
TMBTE: “I don’t know what’s got it’s teeth in me but I’m about to bite back in anger”
For real, almost every listen through the album i pick up another call back or reference. Maybe here i felt "this" but now, in this song, I have learned "this" about me.
There's call backs all the way to the original EPs too.
@@ninja3687there's even Pre - ST callbacks. IYKYK. 🤌
The meaning of Euclid is a direct copy of one’s self, but making different choices to become who you are… somewhere in the ethereal of different fabrics of space and time, Vessel made the choices we are hearing about in Sundowning, TPWBYT, and TMBTE…. In a different world than what we are experiencing he made different choices, and it could have been that Vessel and Sleep worked out instead of being toxic towards each other, or maybe Vessel never met Sleep to begin with… The concept behind Sleep Token, and the way the trilogy plays out, is basically a master-class in writing, but done in the form of albums, rather than books… And it is glorious… 🖤 Worship! 🖤
There was also a call back from chokehold to TMBTE
A lot of fans seem to view this as the song to skip on the album, but it’s every bit as emotionally impactful as Are You Really Okay? I guess the pop sound is tough to get past but to me, it’s a total bop with a crushing message. I love this damn song. Don’t @ me.
Im with you. This song and euclid tend to bring out the emotion in me more than the rest
I skip it because I usually can't handle it when it pops up on shuffle at 5 am lol
only appropriate reason to skip@@crankycroc9970
I don't get why people get so elitist when they hear something too catchy and they call it pop, enjoy music ffs!
i'm 100% with you
I'll admit when I first heard this one I did not immediately love the sound of it. But after listening more and more I realize it's not about how it sounds, it's about how it feels. It will get me crying every time now.
Worship.
Its a bop that makes me sob😂
Literally what I wanted to say. I'll be on my way to work not wanting to skip and then start crying ugh lol ❤😂
I’m so glad I’m found this reaction. Every reaction I see no one seems to grasp how powerful this song really is. It’s by far my most played song in the last year while I try to work on loving myself. You guys rock! Take your sub ❤
This song hits all the harder on multiple plays, realizing that the music is so polar oppisite of the message because he is looking at himself and wanting to feel a certain way.
There is a feeling that something is missing and the want to change in the words reflected in the music. There is almost an incomplete melody that keeps changing.
So powerful, Vessel knows how to draw you in.
As a person who suffers, and is recovering from, depression I can say there's a moment in the healing journey when you really wish things to be different, i mean, you always want to, but in the dark moments is to cease to exist, when you're getting better is to change, to be someone new, to be allowed to feel better and the melody here represents, in my opinion, what that moment of awareness actually means, after all is the beginning of the process of wanting to live again after wishing for a long time to be dead and that moment is for sure a happy one, it represented to me a sunrise after a moonless night. My therapist told me once that the fact that there’s the desire to be better is a signal of good things coming so yeah this song is that, sad as depression and happy as an awakening all at the same time.
@@barbyA1 YES❤
I love that this song can either be about someone's own self-loathing or their failed relationship where two people wish they still had that spark, but are maybe now just going through the motions.
Lyrically, this song hits so close to me on both fronts. Almost a year ago now, I broke up with my girlfriend of seven years probably two years later than I should've. Both of us were staying together out of habit. Some of these lines--"I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could" / "Maybe not that you conceal your feelings, they just don't exist" / "I cannot hope to give you what I cannot give myself"--hit me so raw to the point where this song has literally made me start bawling after.
Vessel has such a wonderful way of putting certain things into words that you yourself can't quite. This song made me feel so understood, and even though it's hard sometimes to listen to emotionally, it's one of my favorites. Thank you Sleep Token.
This song is AMAZING live, he sings it with none of the added auto-tune and its RAW emotion! IF you ever want to see any good live shots of these guys, there was one guy that did alot of close up filming i BELIEVE in magnet house perth... or perhaps it was Adelaide? either way AUSTRALIA LIVE look it up!
They never played it live..
@@dayvan_cowgirl yes they did. literally the fifth thing that pops up when you search for this song on youtube is a live performance.
@@dayvan_cowgirlyes they did ua-cam.com/video/HFACUrIZ1SI/v-deo.html
Thank you for the tip, just watched the live version from Melbourne and got all teary eyed because you could hear and feel the raw emotions from him.
it would be so cool if they did an acoustic/ live version kinda like the room below
Dude this song made me feel so many things because I realized he was talking to himself - and then he said, “Smile back… at me,” and I absolutely lost it. I’ve struggled with loving myself for so many years now, and it just hit so hard. This song so perfectly puts it into words. I love your reactions, guys! I found y’all during your NF journey and I’m so glad I stuck around!
That end destroyed me 😭❤️🩹
This one broke me when I first heard ir
It's introspective. He's speaking to himself. Once you understand that, the lyrics hit WAAAYYYY DIFFERENT
I adore this song. Especially after learning the meaning behind it all.
This song is so demure but the lyrics just CRUSH you.
I’m so glad you guys liked this one. I listened to this album for the first time on a 6 mile run on an 90 degree day without knowing a single song and it blew me away I didn’t know when songs began and ended lol. And the change of pace in this song stuck out to me instantly. Honestly this last bit of the album you got left is my favorite.
End of this record is fire.
Yeh I'm curious about their reaction to rain for example
Another runner who listens to ST! 👋🏼 It’s all I listen to when I run. I put their name in on Spotify, and hit shuffle. (Who am I kidding, it’s always on ST.)
Fellow runner here! This album got me through so many tough runs!
This was a song I just kinda passively listened to, and then one night very unexpectedly, it hit me so hard. These lyrics are too good
I was surprised at how many wrote this song off and/or called it happy. I don't think they heard the lyrics. I can tell you that seeing them live is incredible - everyone singing along. I rarely get emotional at a show but I did seeing them. Was at the barrier and was just overwhelmed. Can't wait to see them again in fall. Love your reactions! Worship!
I know that you guys will react to all the songs on the album and I can't wait until you react to "Rain" and " The Apparition". Keep it up guys!
So heartbreaking because it’s so real. I have been down that road of feeling worthless, not enough, and hating myself for it, and wanting to disappear, be someone else somewhere else.
They have a previous song called "fall for me" it's a triple threat. The music is very electronically pop, the lyrics will break your heart but the MUSIC VIDEO.... soul crushing!!!!!
If you guys like this song, when you finish the Take Me Back to Eden album, definitely check out Fall for Me!! That's the closest song they have on the previous album to this
This is my personal favorite and it’s so slept on!
Having heard this song live I can say it so emotional I literally cried hahahaha. One of the best bands I have seen live as they sound exactly like they do over speakers, and they know how to bring you in and have a party while balling your eyes out from the emotions that they bring out.
9:48 I think it happens more often than people think. A lot of relationships are formed around initial physical attraction, convenience, immense loneliness, shared suffering etc. People get into relationships for a myriad of reasons and sadly all to often none of those reasons are actual love. I know I’ve fell into relationships where circumstances forced me into close proximity with a person for a long time and a relationship just happens to form when spending that much time with a person, and while some care and affection might exist, neither of us where actually in love, and I’ve found my myself asking the same question, but even more often asking myself that question. Do I wish that I loved someone enough to stay with them, and that is a very hard question to answer.
Thank you guys for this series. Takes me back to my first time listening to this album. This is what makes reaction channels great
Yesterday after work, I picked up my almost-6 year old grandson & I was playing this song when he got in the car & he almost instantly expressed his approval of it!!
#RaisinEmRight 🤘🏻😌
This whole album is a masterpiece. Everytime I listen I am surprised each time. Another great reaction guys.
Y’all are awesome, I watch y’all every single time I donate plasma and it makes the time fly by 🙏🏼
this song breaks me. ugly crying every time. but i love it
I just went to a ST show on Tuesday, they didn’t play this song, I don’t think I would be able to handle it this song hits soo hard. I still cried a few times
Im so glad you guys took the time to listen to this one. Its overlooked so often.
This one is him singing to himself in the mirror.
A song about codependency/self love deficiency ::nods::
I'm hoping they release a live version of it at some point, cause there's no auto tune effects on his voice and it makes it sooooo much more raw. I get the voice effects though, he aimed for sounding robotic which fits the lyrics.
I also want a live version as well!
This song is so amazing. The build up and swell then ebbing and flowing of the music/beat paired with the vocals and lyrics, then he goes into this staccato verse, it’s all just so good.
A lot of their music has this flow to it that reminds me of polyphias song structures.
I take this one as a song to self. Yep I'm doing this sleep token thing today. Hope you all are doing great
God, this song is a freaking masterpiece. As always, Sleep Token songs can be interpreted in so many ways. BUT. I have a really powerful take on DYWTYLM.
If you know anything about masking, particularly in the context of someone who has ADHD/Autism, and/or any crippling/disabling mental health issue, this song is literally IT. The disconnect between the intense lyrics and the peppy music. The autotune on his usually raw and fantastic voice, hiding his true sound/feelings (masking it, in essence). Even the lyrics themselves ask "Do you pull at the chains" - do you go against the grain and defy the way society defines your worth by your productivity? "Or do you push into constant aching" - Or do you push yourself past your limits and cause yourself pain just to get by. "My reflection just won't smile back at me the way I know it should" "I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could" "Do you ever believe we can turn into different people." All of these lyrics are so much deeper than they sound, and they all are something I can relate heavily to as a late-diagnosed Autist with ADHD, going through the unmasking process right now. And the whole while, doing all that, while sounding like a superficial upbeat pop groove... SO. GOOD. Whatever the actual meaning of this song is, Vessel is a freaking genius and Sleep Token is my favorite band of all time. No music has ever impacted me the way theirs does.
I do absolutely believe Vessel is neurodivergent himself- I see so many mannerisms in him and it would make a lot of sense too
Ankor. Ankor. Ankor. Chapters 1,2,3. Such an overlooked band. So good. Love ya!
So glad you guys are going through this album, it is a masterpiece. I will tell you both right now, if you ever get a chance to see Sleep Token live, DO IT.. it's an experience and it is sooo awesome. Amazing reaction guys!
I love that you guys love this one. It’s one of my favs and so crazy underrated.
I didnt enjoy the surface happy feels of this, but when looking at it deeper from the perspective of self critism in a mirror, its a tale of lying to yourself, biting your lip and pretending your something youre not. So now i appreciate it a whole new way.
Great reaction! The Apparition or Euclid next, please!
the line do you wish that you loved me seems more like satire to me. as if asking someone while telling them all about his damage. i can see this as like an argument, his crying, asking do you wish that YOU loved me? with all my flaws and self hate?
I loved this song so much, I designed a tattoo and put it on my body♥️. This song is perfection.
We are so lucky to live in a time, to share a universe, with a band this unique and truly special.
So many fans have hated on this song....but my god the lyrics get me every time. Yes, there isn't this signature huge drop with guitars in the beat or change in the style during the song.....but it makes the words he is saying stand out. The words become that much more important. I also love when the production kicks up and he starts speaking almost in syllables. So so gooooddddd. It's become one of my favorites of theirs!!!
This song always makes me emotional because the first time I heard it, it felt so much like how I see my mom. It gives words to the unhealed child in me who wishes my mom would see me, be proud of me, smile at me and love me. I used to wish I could change who I was to get that from her.
I just realized what "can we hit delete" really means...
I really love the way you guys experience this song because this is exactly how I feel every time I listen to it. This song has the more depth than any singular piece of artwork I’ve ever experienced. It blows my mind that people can hear this and not be moved on a tectonic level, but I’m so glad you guys were!!! 🙌🏻
I liked this song, but was more focused on others. I knew it was Vessel speaking to himself.
My husband was abused as a child, so grew up unloved by others, so never learned to truly love himself (he's working on it). When he told me this is one of the songs he relates to and has teared up to, I actively listened. It kills me every time, now.
I have waited so long for you guys to listen to this one. It is probably the one song where Vessel stays in one lane (pretty much).
I love this song and the entire album, these guys are changing music for me!
When you think, you're listening to a happy easy Pop song, but it's Sleep Token. Its underrated but it shows those guys can do everything, but always with their special twist on it.
I am so happy you reacted to this and you vibed so hard with it. It's a tender, heart-wrenching song that just...well. It's lovely.
Variety is the spice of life so all you really need is Sleep Token 😂
I love this song, a lot of people don’t in this album but it’s so raw and deep. If you really want your feelings hurt after you’re done with the album do Blood sport from the room below specifically. It’s vessel singing live over nothing but a piano and it hurts so good.
I think all songs on the Album are mazing. Not everyone of those fits in my everyday Playlist tho. Also I can't deny that those more "tame" songs hit right in the Feelings and are lyrical wise among the best on the Release.
Here waiting for them to react to Rain... Listen to it like 20 times per day now 😂
What i noticed is that when Vessel sings "Do you wish that you loved me?" at the end of every verse, it feels like he's showing all the unspoken questions in his mind when he asks do you wish that you loved me? Like its conditioning you for the build up at the end. The parts in between are Vessel's insecurities that are driving him to want to ask such questions. The build up to the end when "do you wish that you loved me?" Is repeated over over shows just how much desperation and weight light in that single sad question.
The layers in this are highly overlooked and under appreciated.
5:48 Eric's reaction right here sums it up really well.
This one came out of left field and i love it so much
WORSHIP!! 🙌🏻
You guys have some great songs left of this album, but I really can’t wait for you to dive into their other two albums, KEEP GOING 🤘🏻🔥
To me it’s self reflection, he’s looking at himself from the outside (like in a mirror)
This vid gave me a different outlook on this song, thank you 🙏🏻
Gotta be The Apparition or Rain next, amazing songs 😁
I think hes asking himself if he wished he loved him
One of the things about Sleep Token's lyrics is that they can be very direct ("Are You Really Okay") but others can have multiple interpretations. This is one of those songs. When I first heard it, I thought he was singing about unrequited love; this person he's singing to isn't returning the love he has for them. And sure that works and fits the larger narrative and story arc of the last three albums. But then one time, I'm listening to this and I realize it works equally as well as a song about him looking in a mirror ("...and my reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should...") and singing about a loss of love for himself.
Fantastic Track
Heaviest song on the album. 😊
So, speaking on the divide between the music and lyrics:
Sleep token does something very well. Every single song on this album has a feeling of ethereal yearning to it. Sometimes it's sad, sometimes it's angry, sometimes it's reflective, sometimes it's horny. But every song just exudes that otherworldly yearning that has been a fascination of mine since I was little.
This Song made me Cry a lot actually espacially the Verse with the "My Reflection wont smile back at me..."
Love that you guys keep hitting this album. Again it was this album that has made me fall into metal recently and you're channel. Been watching all your video's, still have a ways to go but I look forward to more of these reviews from this album because it really is a new favorite of mine.
This band i am constantly blown away. You think its a love song but...its not and then you look at it completely differently. His voice blows my mind no matter. Love all your reactions. The background noise is just delucious on this one 💗✌️🎶
This song is my absolute favorite off this album!! So glad you guys finally did it!
I'm so excited for y'all to experience not just the end of this album but their other albums as well.
Being at The Masonic Temple in Detroit (largest masonic temple in the world!) in September 2023, with around 6,000 people all singing the same songs was like nothing I've ever experienced before, I'll never forget it and I'm STILL feeling it now. You guys gotta make it to a show together! Worship!
Not sure if you are trying to finish the take me back to eden album first before hearing older songs but fall for me is great ckose to this and the love you want is great as well . Their first 2 albums are just as amazing
Worship.
This song came out the day my ex and I broke up. Thought it was gonna be uplifting and then bawled the entire time 😂 should've known better. Then I saw it was written from the perspective of Vessel speaking to himself in the mirror and it breaks me every listen.
Excited for more ST reactions! Once you're ready to dive into older songs, I'd highly recommend Blood Sport (from the room below). The video is Vessel singing and playing piano so you can actually "see" him.
Worship
Really looking forward to seeing you guys react to Rain🤘🔥🤘😝
The next best thing after listening to sleep token is watching these guy listen to sleeo token! Keep it up! ❤
I haven't been able to stop listening to this album since I discovered it a week or so ago. It's amazing. Worship.
Lore from Sleep Token nerd: Vessel is stuck in self loathing. He reflects on the pain he has caused himself, and “do you wish that you loved me” is written so it can be a love song, but it’s actually about how he can’t love himself. He asks himself if he did this, and if he can get out (“do you pull at the chains”). He knows it’s getting “harder to be (him)self”. (not my info)
I've fallen in love with their song Rain. In my opinion it's one of the most beautiful ones that I've ever heard
You guys need to listen to his live performance "Blood Sport (From the room below)" The raw emotion is just...insane
I know you guys get inundated with recommendations, because your reactions to this band are fantastic, but it would be great to see you guys go through their back catalogue. It would be interesting to get your takes.
Ahh the one thing on other band is willing too use the mirror affect it's useful at times so u know exactly where he is in his head
Hi Kyle, hi Eric, I discovered you two tonight and saw how many ST videos you guys have, it’s made me so happy to watch you guys enjoy all of it. I saw them live at Aftershock 2023 and they were amazing. My song request for you two to review is When the Bough Breaks off their EP One it’s a masterpiece and I constantly find myself in an ocean of emotions listening to it, please do it sometime I will love you guys forever
We've done all of Sleep Token's work.
This song made me sob when I first heard it.
I don’t know what is next on your guys’ list for take me back to Eden reactions, all I know is Euclid NEEDS to be last. That song really ties the entirety of the album together, and I think you guys would really appreciate it. I might even request listening to their song “The Night Does Not Belong to God” off of their first album before you listen to Euclid. Sleep tokens music is just such a powerful journey
Worship! Sleep Token and Ren are pretty much all I'm listening to these days
If you guys are going to go through all of sleep tokens songs leave euclid last it has connection to old songs. It will have a lot more meaning if you leave it for the last song
I know you guys are going through Take Me Back to Eden, but you should defnitely go through This Place Will Become Your Tomb after that. Their whole discography is just......perfection
once you guys get to euclid, i need y’all to listen to the night does not belong to god from the sundowning album first! it’s literally so necessary for it to hit the way it’s supposed to!
This is definitely one of the most underrated songs in this album
Looking forward to the reaction for Rain! 🤞🏻
🥰🎉LOVED IT! ✌️🫶🔥🎶🫂☕️🤷♀️
Before you guys listen to Euclid.. you HAVE to listen to The Night Does Not Belong To God, the first song on their first album of the trilogy Sundowning. It takes it to a whole new level
Vessel is a musical genius 🙌
DYWTYLM was the first song i heard from sleep token, after they had released TMBTE and made got me hooked on them and down the rabbit hole i went 😅 love the song but Rain and Euclid is my favourites from the album BUT i love the whole album and always listen to it from start to finish.
It's time. Do Rain.
As for the meaning... guys... Vessel is the greatest musician of our time.
Worship😍🙌🏽