I remember listening to the original release of this song, feeling so devastated, because I was struggling to accept my new set of beliefs, knowing I was the only one in my life who believed it, knowing my parents would hate me if I came out. I’m so happy I survived long enough hear this more upbeat version, that matches my (closer to) acceptance of myself and my beliefs, and matches what I’ve overcome so far. Beautiful song. Beautiful cover(?). Beautiful music video. 💖 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 I’ll spend the rest of my life tearing down, the Jesus from Texas they put in a crown. But I won’t give up on God. And God won’t give up on me.
Wow! It's crazy the difference in tone this song has taken since the initial release. 2021's release was grippingly sorrowful...wishing that people who don't understand would come around. This one is so joyful it's a battlecry of the current political landscape: "I am here and I'm happy about it, that's what God's love truly means". I absolutely adore seeing the happiness shine here. It's been a terrible honor to know and feel your music all this time, but I'm glad we're all living, growing, and choosing to see joy together. '21's JFT will always have my heart but thank you for letting us see the love that was hiding behind the despairing original mix.
As a lesbian who grew up in church your music has truly impacted my life. Thank you so much for the songs you have put out. Keep doing what you’re doing you are an inspiration.
Gooooood damn. This is so beautiful. "What a terrible honor it's been to learn that my blessings are things you call sin." Consider my heart wrenched. My parents are baby boomers (teetering on silent gen), and i never had the courage to come out as nonbinary to them. To my dad, i never will. But my mom, against all my wildest hopes, slowly began leaving notes on the closet door. She never knocked - but she showed me through time that she saw me, loved me still, and respected my identity. "I will always love my little Becky. But i love my big Skotty just as much!" -my mom a couple months ago (about 5 years after i came out to my friends). "I won't give up on you."
Listening to this version shot me back to when I was 17, scared, convinced I was wrong. I remember hearing it for the first time and feeling so validated in my fear and exclusion rather than being convinced it was my fault. It’s funny how things change so quickly. Thank you for this beautiful song.
This has always been one of my favorite songs, but this music video just elevated it to a whole new level. Feeling so in awe of your artistic vision, your creative talent, and your storytelling abilities!!! Also Frances is a scene stealer like she is an ACTRESS!!!!!
Thanks for writing this…from a 42 year old PK from Virginia. Happily married to my husband, thriving at life, but still struggling with the separation of family and friends, church community that no longer loves me.
My Methodist gay heart explodes because of you (and your gorgeous family). Your work, from the very beginning, threw the Holy Spirit in my face over and over. I can’t wait to see your first full length album (and many more!!!)
This video is so artistically beautiful and was worth the hype. I’m so happy for your beautiful child to grow up and learn their parents music was screamed in cars and smiled at and healing to so many people.
This song is absolutely incredible, powerful, life changing, world crashing, heartbreaking, devastating, inspiring, joyful, and TRUE. Thank you Grace ❤
It's so amazing to see how much you've elevated this song since the demo was released. I loved Jesus from Texas then, and I love it even more now. Thank you for writing it 🩷
Needed this today! Thank you thank you Semler for everything. This song expressed everything I never knew I felt when I heard it for the first time. Since then I've come out, moved out, wrote a religious studies paper on your music, graduated, made my own home and family, and I like to think I share the freedom and joy of that with all of us who love this song. Thank you, I'm honored to be a houseguest. Please come to Seattle when you tour the album!
Okay it’s been a few hours and I feel like I can articulate my thoughts better 😂. When I heard this song for the first time I was in the darkest period of my life. Obviously cov/d, but also bouts of catatonia, and whole days spent on the toilet with severe chronic pain, and DECONSTRUCTION. Now, years later, I am hearing the same song in a new way, with my life having changed so much since then. I came out, I have an amazing girlfriend whom I love so much (who also has chronic pain), I’m on medication for my weird brain and body…..and it’s beautiful….seeing the change in all of our lives over these few years
Proud to have supported you, so that you have gotten to a point where you can release a full studio album; from pop trigger to preachers kid to six feet and beyond. ILY Grace/SEMLER! Congrats. Look forward to preordering.. details coming soon I hope !..
omg why am i crying!! this video is absolutely beautiful. I feel like its full circle to the "dont grow up too fast" video that makes me cry every time. I love the way you tell stories through your music and videos
watching this with absolute tears in my eyes, i loved the original version but this is something else. the music video adds so fucking much to it. thank you.
Omg as someone who loved the song in 2021 seeing you re-release it is so cool especially now with kiddo being here the line about loving those you don't know yet is so powerful
I was in love with this song when it first dropped and I’m blown away in love with this re-release. It was already such a powerful song, but now it’s getting the sound, the music video, and the acknowledgment it deserves! Congratulations, Semler! ❤️🔥
Been a longtime listener/watcher since the time Grace was on PopTrigger and TYT, and I gotta say, it's also been real cool seeing Lizzie crush it again in a music video after doing so in Red Rover, but also lil Fran and Grace's mum appear in this one!
This song was the beginning of a long journey for me. Thank you for your music, you have helped me become endlessly more authentic as a human being. I've seen you twice now in Baltimore and both shows were such healing experiences and spurred rapid growth for me. This version has a spark to it. I find the version differences parallels the progress from me as a melancholic college freshman listening to the first version who was so closeted and afraid to tell people that I was bisexual. I hadn't accepted that I was nonbinary and I dressed hyperfeminine for approval and was so uncomfortable constantly. I look to me now as a college senior openly expressing my gender identity (I wore my late bloomer hoodie to my first gender affirming haircut "because i'm worth it") and I'm going by a new name that truly feels like me. My world is so much more open and I feel triumphant. That triumphant sentiment I feel in the album version as well with the upbeat remake starring your beautiful family. If only one fan's life was changed by your music please know it was me (though I am certain your impact has extended far far more)
I first heard this song around the first time right around the time it first came out, I was closeted, deeply entrenched in the catholic shirt, and had frequent mental health admissions. I am now out as trans, in college, living my truth!
F the one in Tennessee too 🖕! Thank you! 🙏❤😭😭😭 I'm so glad I stumbled upon this today. You probably do understand how much I needed to here it. Much love ❤
I voted for us guys. I love everyone, even those that don't realize they voted against their own interests. Im so tired of the BS Dogma that is keeping us in the dark ages.
Help I do not understand the first part of the song 😅 the whole thing with the bricks and the ballot and why did she freak out and why does the sky fall? 😅 Love love love the 2nd part of the song ❤
Ok so this song is about being a queer person growing up with a complicated relationship with God and Christianity. The bricks are referencing Stonewall, which was an rioting the 60s caused by cops raiding a gay bar, and it's considered a pretty significant historical event in queer history, I'd recommend researching it more if you're interested.
Instant tears every time I hear "if her kid comes out I hope that she calls me"
I remember listening to the original release of this song, feeling so devastated, because I was struggling to accept my new set of beliefs, knowing I was the only one in my life who believed it, knowing my parents would hate me if I came out.
I’m so happy I survived long enough hear this more upbeat version, that matches my (closer to) acceptance of myself and my beliefs, and matches what I’ve overcome so far.
Beautiful song. Beautiful cover(?). Beautiful music video. 💖
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I’ll spend the rest of my life tearing down, the Jesus from Texas they put in a crown. But I won’t give up on God. And God won’t give up on me.
Amen! 🙏🌈
omg, same!!! im so fucking happy for us tho
Wow! It's crazy the difference in tone this song has taken since the initial release. 2021's release was grippingly sorrowful...wishing that people who don't understand would come around. This one is so joyful it's a battlecry of the current political landscape: "I am here and I'm happy about it, that's what God's love truly means". I absolutely adore seeing the happiness shine here. It's been a terrible honor to know and feel your music all this time, but I'm glad we're all living, growing, and choosing to see joy together. '21's JFT will always have my heart but thank you for letting us see the love that was hiding behind the despairing original mix.
IF HER KID COMES OUT I HOPE THAT SHE CALLS ME - wow
I'm glad so much of the queer art coming out is about queer people from red states. It feel good seeing queer art by people like me
as a missionary preacher's kid, this song has been echoing through my transfemme mind
Good luck to you!!!
I’m a pastor’s kid, moved a million times, homophobic household, and I’m a genderfluid Christian.
Have you followed Ethel Caine at all? Transfemme preachers kid. Might be relatable
@ I really need to get on that. I’ve been told to listen to those so many times.
(good pastor’s daughter to genderfluid Christian btw)
As a lesbian who grew up in church your music has truly impacted my life. Thank you so much for the songs you have put out. Keep doing what you’re doing you are an inspiration.
mama semler! lizzie! baby! band! grace's screams! this video has it all!
Gooooood damn. This is so beautiful. "What a terrible honor it's been to learn that my blessings are things you call sin."
Consider my heart wrenched.
My parents are baby boomers (teetering on silent gen), and i never had the courage to come out as nonbinary to them. To my dad, i never will. But my mom, against all my wildest hopes, slowly began leaving notes on the closet door. She never knocked - but she showed me through time that she saw me, loved me still, and respected my identity.
"I will always love my little Becky. But i love my big Skotty just as much!" -my mom a couple months ago (about 5 years after i came out to my friends).
"I won't give up on you."
This music video feels like looking through an old photo album - beautiful, and sometimes gut wrenching.
Listening to this version shot me back to when I was 17, scared, convinced I was wrong. I remember hearing it for the first time and feeling so validated in my fear and exclusion rather than being convinced it was my fault. It’s funny how things change so quickly.
Thank you for this beautiful song.
This has always been one of my favorite songs, but this music video just elevated it to a whole new level. Feeling so in awe of your artistic vision, your creative talent, and your storytelling abilities!!! Also Frances is a scene stealer like she is an ACTRESS!!!!!
Thanks for writing this…from a 42 year old PK from Virginia. Happily married to my husband, thriving at life, but still struggling with the separation of family and friends, church community that no longer loves me.
🖤 hearing how this song has developed since the demo dropped is so beautiful
My Methodist gay heart explodes because of you (and your gorgeous family). Your work, from the very beginning, threw the Holy Spirit in my face over and over.
I can’t wait to see your first full length album (and many more!!!)
Transman from OK here. Beautiful song, lyrics, and video. Thank you ♡
I was raised by lesbian mamas who took me to an open and accepting church growing up. I saw this music video and cried. Thank you.
This video is so artistically beautiful and was worth the hype. I’m so happy for your beautiful child to grow up and learn their parents music was screamed in cars and smiled at and healing to so many people.
fully SOBBING. my favorite family to exist
Saints of Nevada, Jesus From Texas. Now we need Angels of Arizona or something
This song is absolutely incredible, powerful, life changing, world crashing, heartbreaking, devastating, inspiring, joyful, and TRUE. Thank you Grace ❤
I wish I could Like this one hundred times
how do i inject this directly into my veins
i love this type of music video, that feels less like performance and more like setting pieces of life to a song. it was very powerful
the bit where it's 'my best friend found god so we lost touch' paralleled with the current love you have in your life... absolutely.
It's so amazing to see how much you've elevated this song since the demo was released. I loved Jesus from Texas then, and I love it even more now. Thank you for writing it 🩷
listening to the 2021 version of this and then this version back to back counts as church
Needed this today! Thank you thank you Semler for everything. This song expressed everything I never knew I felt when I heard it for the first time. Since then I've come out, moved out, wrote a religious studies paper on your music, graduated, made my own home and family, and I like to think I share the freedom and joy of that with all of us who love this song. Thank you, I'm honored to be a houseguest. Please come to Seattle when you tour the album!
Okay it’s been a few hours and I feel like I can articulate my thoughts better 😂. When I heard this song for the first time I was in the darkest period of my life. Obviously cov/d, but also bouts of catatonia, and whole days spent on the toilet with severe chronic pain, and DECONSTRUCTION. Now, years later, I am hearing the same song in a new way, with my life having changed so much since then. I came out, I have an amazing girlfriend whom I love so much (who also has chronic pain), I’m on medication for my weird brain and body…..and it’s beautiful….seeing the change in all of our lives over these few years
Everything about this is so gorgeous 😭😭 and your mom is a star!!!
Proud to have supported you, so that you have gotten to a point where you can release a full studio album; from pop trigger to preachers kid to six feet and beyond. ILY Grace/SEMLER! Congrats. Look forward to preordering.. details coming soon I hope !..
I could listen to the last chorus on repeat for days. It's stuck in my head in the best way
Ahhhhh!!! Yesssss!!!! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for this. I feel like it's the deconstructionist anthem WE NEEDED!!!
Thank you for making this song🤍
omg why am i crying!! this video is absolutely beautiful. I feel like its full circle to the "dont grow up too fast" video that makes me cry every time. I love the way you tell stories through your music and videos
Oh my goodness. I cried at the hug at the end. I wish my family was at all accepting of my life.
This song means so much to me. Your beautiful family gives me hope.
watching this with absolute tears in my eyes, i loved the original version but this is something else. the music video adds so fucking much to it. thank you.
Omg as someone who loved the song in 2021 seeing you re-release it is so cool especially now with kiddo being here the line about loving those you don't know yet is so powerful
i cry happy tears, this is such a healing song for so many people- I am lucky that at least my close family was accepting
Love this song and what a great video, Semler! ❤
Beautiful video. This song means the world to me. Thank you for doing what you do ❤
I love this so much!!! I’ve loved the demo version for years but this video and the new version are just so so good!
This is so beautiful. What a full circle moment. Thank you for sharing your art with us, Grace.
Thank you Semler! This song is healing and liberating. I play it and cry about all the ones I love that I don’t know yet. Never give up!
This song is so joyful and sorrowful and deep and powerful and honest and real that it gives me chills. Thank you ♥️
I was in love with this song when it first dropped and I’m blown away in love with this re-release. It was already such a powerful song, but now it’s getting the sound, the music video, and the acknowledgment it deserves! Congratulations, Semler! ❤️🔥
I've listened to this song many times since the first version came out and I still love it. The video is beautiful.
Been a longtime listener/watcher since the time Grace was on PopTrigger and TYT, and I gotta say, it's also been real cool seeing Lizzie crush it again in a music video after doing so in Red Rover, but also lil Fran and Grace's mum appear in this one!
Great to see this amazing video! Well done! So nice to see your Mom as well.
- Mama Fillmore
Such a beautiful song 💖💖💖💖
In love with the song and the cinematography
This song was the beginning of a long journey for me. Thank you for your music, you have helped me become endlessly more authentic as a human being. I've seen you twice now in Baltimore and both shows were such healing experiences and spurred rapid growth for me. This version has a spark to it. I find the version differences parallels the progress from me as a melancholic college freshman listening to the first version who was so closeted and afraid to tell people that I was bisexual. I hadn't accepted that I was nonbinary and I dressed hyperfeminine for approval and was so uncomfortable constantly. I look to me now as a college senior openly expressing my gender identity (I wore my late bloomer hoodie to my first gender affirming haircut "because i'm worth it") and I'm going by a new name that truly feels like me. My world is so much more open and I feel triumphant. That triumphant sentiment I feel in the album version as well with the upbeat remake starring your beautiful family. If only one fan's life was changed by your music please know it was me (though I am certain your impact has extended far far more)
Such a lovely video for the song
Love this! Your lyrics are so powerful, and y’all look like you’re really having fun in the video!
Tears. Just tears. Great song, has so much meaning. Thank you!
This song and this video are so beautiful!
All the feels felt. You are truly blessed. ❤️
Love love love this song ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
just spent the past half hour replaying the last first full on sobbing, so thanks ;)))
trans preacher's kid here - thank you so much!!
sweetest song and music video. i feel so lucky to be semler fan
This is amazing. Thank you for making this
I first heard this song around the first time right around the time it first came out, I was closeted, deeply entrenched in the catholic shirt, and had frequent mental health admissions. I am now out as trans, in college, living my truth!
This song gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes every time. Loved seeing the sweet bb baldridge cameos too!
So glad to be here ❤❤❤
just beautiful, I'm so proud to be your fan❤
I’m so happy it’s released!!!
What a triumph ❤
this is beautiful
Obsessed! Such a powerful song. Frances is a dream 🥰
such a special, important song, i will be forever grateful to you for putting this out into the world❤
Still giving me goosebumps
This is so beautiful
Doing amazing stuff, as ever! I love this set
It’s a perfect video, thank you so much for making art ❤
My heart is full
AHHH I LOVE THIS, AND YOU SEMLERR!!! ❤❤❤
Beautiful 💜
OH MY GAWWWWWD IT'S HERE
what a beautiful song and video! thank you grace
omg it's time it's time i have been so excited for this
Oh that is lovely. Thank you so much.
Love this so much!
IT'S SO GOOD! SO PROUD OF YOU SAND ALL OF US AND ALL OF THE QUEER KUDS TO COME AFTER US! 🏳️🌈😍😭
F the one in Tennessee too 🖕! Thank you! 🙏❤😭😭😭 I'm so glad I stumbled upon this today. You probably do understand how much I needed to here it. Much love ❤
I voted for us guys. I love everyone, even those that don't realize they voted against their own interests. Im so tired of the BS Dogma that is keeping us in the dark ages.
im crying thank you
Stunning work❤❤
I've been listening to this SO much for the last two months. Also cried over it a lot lmao. Sending much love to everyone as a queer person in Texas 💙
Just found this song, and after the election results, this gives me a lot of comfort... what a terrible honor it is
Semler voted for Trump though, does that change your mind?
@@htht856 no she didn't
Hodi feature!!!
Hell yeah!
I remember first listening to this song in IG reel
listening to this while writing my religious studies class essay
Help I do not understand the first part of the song 😅 the whole thing with the bricks and the ballot and why did she freak out and why does the sky fall? 😅
Love love love the 2nd part of the song ❤
Ok so this song is about being a queer person growing up with a complicated relationship with God and Christianity. The bricks are referencing Stonewall, which was an rioting the 60s caused by cops raiding a gay bar, and it's considered a pretty significant historical event in queer history, I'd recommend researching it more if you're interested.
@@springshowers4754 1000 internet points awarded to you for giving a helpful answer.
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being queer saved my life!!
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