I lost my loved grandfather today and i thought of this song. He was the strongest man i ever knew, he cheated death for 30 years of pain, he had scars all over his body from surgerys but he always kept fighting, he was always happy, always had the humor on top, he was a real survivor until this day 2017-03-07. I will never forget you my dear grandfather, you was a real rolemodel. You will forever live in my mind and heart until i see you when my time here is over
My grandfather died 06.01.2016. when he was 88. For me he was also rolemodel. He never told too much but when he spoke it was directly from his hart. We often had a beer together. I miss him.
First listen, instant classic in my mind. Literally every song I have listened to by Future Island. I have not purchased music in probably over 10 years. Until today. Purchased all their albums.
Josh River hilarity! i often think about (I'm 44) how i used to...1st,.in early 80s-early 90s, lug around those wooden boxes of cassettes AND my extensive/massive vinyl collection everywhere i moved. then, one day i finally got rid of all the cassettes.. found a store that bought them all almost at like $0.50 a piece or something...i had thw complete lot of WaxTrax! and PIAS tapes of Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Skinny Puppy, basically every industrial band EVER. KMFDM, Thrill Kill Kult, etc etc...PLUS old school rave, house and techno, PLUS general 80s stuff ranging from Pet Shop Boys to Metallica, The Smiths, Dead Kennedys, etc...Then of course around '88, began buying CDs...of which I eventually wound up with about 10,000 compact discs.. Plus at the peak of my vinyl collection I probably had around 30 crates, the old Peaches Rrcords crates ..... and then starting in the late 90s thru 2008, sold ALL the vinyl AND compact discs. and finally now all I have is micro SD cards, MP3 stored on my laptop computer and phone, and to have physical copies I have every single song and album stored on 8 to 64 gigabyte external drives... WOW... what times we have gone thru!!! LOL
shanedangers lol..if I didn't know better I'd think you were stalking me. True story...you and I have alot in common. Im in my early 40s. I'm passionate music lover of lots of genres. I was literally listening to Ministry as I read your comment. I also have kmfdm, skinny puppy, ttk in my play list. I also have a pretty extensive CD collection. No where near 10,000 but I'm closer to 3k. I own multiple albums from every artist you named except revolting cocks. I used to save those cardboard flats CD,s used to come in and coverd every inch of my walls and ceiling with them. I can't let go of my CD collection. But it is a chore to move them all. Lol
Josh River WOW! Josh that is awesome. i confess i still have a few CDs. i think a few Peter Murphys, some New Order and Joy Division, and then some meh CDs that i couldnt sell but didnt wanna throw away like Cover Girls, Lisa Lisa, some freestyle, that oddly no one wanted!! LMAO!! - your stalker haha YOU Josh, have a great day!!!
As a 63 year old, I am partial to 70's normally, but they cracked the CODE. Brilliant lyrics and Melodies on many of their songs. Glad that I saw Sam dancing around like a funny guy on ACL, then I started listening to the music and never stopped.
I never met either of my grandfathers. One was killed in a landslide when my father was 11. The other died of lung cancer when I was only four months old. But I cherish their legacy. The first, Wlliam Fitzgerald, was the son of the first Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Edward Fitzgerald. The other, Reb Herschel Zukier, was a much loved and respected teacher in Konskovolia, Poland. Between the two of them they passed on a legacy of creativity, social activism, and spiritual teaching which I have passed on, hopefully, to my children.
In the past yr. I have had 6 family members pass away.. Yesterday was the day my daughters grandfather passed away... he was my ex-father in law.. he was the nicest person.. I dont know if we ever really get to a place where we understand the heart that hurts, for the family members we have lost.. but i do know we take 1 day at a time.. this song does have away of helping me .. thank you Future islands...
There is something that sticks with me from this amazing song and lead singers music, it's deep but very powerful and beautiful at the same time. A very unique song.
I love this song, love the band, and love the video. Thanks for being so real, having such talent and putting actual meaning into your music and videos.
I'm a blues guy, and generally can't stand synthesizers in music…but these guys have great soul and gravity. love em. The singer sounds like a man when he sings…so much better than most of the modern stylists. Great bass and drums, great melodies and meaningful lyrics.
Instrumentation doesn't make music any more or less "real". Marble House by The Knife is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and it's purely electronic.
A farewell. It truly is. How many times have I said this but to just go back. Far to many times to know this feeling right now is different. It's sad but not the pain isn't as deep or as painful as before. Our nations Independence is approaching now. Less than a week away. Far to many are acting and not believing. I am an immigrants son. A United States citizen to two immigrant parents from Guerrero Mexico. From Aztec descent. A proud Aztec warrior and believer of its God's as well as a proud Catholic. I come from and grew up on black and white culture. Jazz, blues and rock and roll. All I can do is write and so I do. I am proud to be part of this nation and what it stands for. Hopefully we can show the nation indivisible by God. Show the world the birth of a new nation. United States of America as great as our nation has been there have also been many injustices done as well. Far to many that just cannot be simply ignored. The selfish, the greedy and the heartless are sitting to comfortably. Their day is coming. Yet as our government currently stands falls way behind standards. The one mistake was taking religion out of government. We ought to have constitutients that have love and hope of God in their hearts if they are to serve as part of our nation. Why take that out? We are also putting faith and beliefs into things we have never witnessed or experienced before. Yes we read it or think it's in the Bible but you got to build faith, hope and trust on the tangible. Otherwise if anything bad happens we can simply brush off responsibility and blame the promise that no one made to us but we believe it did so in the Bible and by God. Nothing is ever going to get fixed if we keep blaming God. For one he never promised me or anyone anything. He never came before me and told me empty promises. My parents did. My pastor did. Yet how could God had told them anything if had not even been born yet. The Bible is book of prophecies. On human behavior. We are that predictable. So Jeremiah 4 is actually happening right now. The cities have been abandoned. Lo and behold I look up into the sky and no light. Lo and behold I looked into the mountains and felt the earth shaking. It's currently Mexico and the mass leaving of its people. As a woman giving birth to her first born is heard screaming. I am surrounded by my assassins. God has not even been born. What a better way to keep him safe than the world do what it does best. Blame someone other than themselves. The guilty never go beyond the surface. God has been trying and trying for thousands of years. Every one of us had the potential to be themselves. Rarely does any ever truly become self. I have. I have been. Jesus Christ no he was alcoholic and had a foot fetish. I am lizandro salgado. A meth user. That's not right God or Jesus Christ doesnt do meth. How do you know? For once try something different. All we have been doing is the same thing believing its the right way. I'm saying it's not. Don't hang out with those people they are a bad influence. Then let me be a good influence on them. How is your thinking in any way selfish and just evil. We are your over lords. Rip and tear every false prophet. Rip and tear where they called home including their children and anyone willing to defend these so-called kings. My people are stupid and do not know how to do good. They only learned to do evil. A reckoning is coming. Change your evil ways or when we come back you will regret ever becoming more than just a thought. Still here when we come back judgment will be upon your so called God, whoever mothered him will be trialed as well. Along with anyone who pushed this foolish agenda. Watching an evil act and do nothing then you should not judge any anyone lesser than you. You are the low of lowest animals. True leaders with integrity can only judge even if he has to become God jury and exucutioner. Kill this man then only blame your ignorance for whoever long Your suffering continues. So as long as the lowly creature drags his guilt and shame your suffering shall never end. We are leaving you to your own devices. Tell them whatever lie you want about defeating me. I leave you these so called riches to you and your people are the True rulers of these lands. Or until we come back to reclaim and fight what we have left you. I will return every so often if by the 3rd generation. Of the 13th Tracena of the holy dependent on every life on Earth. There will be no rest for you. Its always 5pm somewhere in the world joke here. 4 of my men will come to help you in your need. Name as you want they are powerful allies. One of your allies has arrived. Corruption is conquest. You breed your own punishment. You create that which you seek to destroy. Yourself. 1+1+1+1+4=1 eat it nerds. I don't believe in equality, I don't believe in absolutes, I don't believe we should all be created equal. The means that created you were the means that defined them. Shell Shock. I am the first ally that was promised. War. My wisdom here is to help out your enemy after a battle. You never win the war when you kill him and his home. Hopefully in the next battle instead of dealing a death blow he returns the favor and helps you out. Kill and just kill then read my writing above.
This song really hits home... I grew up in a small town and spent a lot of time on farms being babysat as a kid. Then I went off to live in the city and hang out with the weirdos at the punk bars. Still have a big place in my heart for my people back home, although it's been twenty years and I probably seem as weird to them as they do to me. Even so I know they'd welcome me in without hesitation for Sunday dinner.
Been a long time, in a low place Surrounded by what I have made Need to get away Get away from what relates And what was done Cuz it's all over now Through the woods, I come running to loose leaf And carve my name In the lines, there's not a trace I hear the ghost whisper, and those old eyes watching me But I feel safe Grandfather looking over me He said: Don't make them wait Gotta go a long way Let's be brave Don't make them wait Nah, don't make them wait I sat down, with a coffee on my bent knee Looking out, at the burnt land, looking back at me These used to be green crops And high on a summer breeze No it's fallow fields and clear-cut barren weeds They said that if I stared The abyss would stare back at me So I did... And I felt it slowly creep in me Save for the smoke, that danced when I took a drag It made me think about the way it all came to be Grandmama watching over me And she said Don't make them wait Gotta go a long way Let's be brave Don't make them wait Nah, don't make them wait Don't make them wait, nah Don't make them wait I hear the ghost whisper And those old eyes watching me But I feel safe I feel safe
I've been a fan of Future Islands for a while but just now stumbled across this video. It took me back to the days when I'd watch MtV and watch music videos until the wee hours. Some would stick with me and I'd want to see them again right away. Well back then you'd have to be lucky to catch it again. Now I'll just hit replay. Love these guys.
Reminds me of hanging out with my grandfather's. My parents would send me to help my grandfather Bill work on his farm in the summer. Learned so much from him. And during the school year I lived closer to my other grandfather. He was always working on something so I was excited and always wanted to help him out. I learned so much. Building and working on cars, this song brought back so many memories. Thank you so much. They are gone but never forgotten. Now I pass down what I learned to my kids or who ever needs help. We are all in this journey of life together.
Saw you guys live many times never get tired of you guys. It was just after the lockdown of COVID. Your first show again in House of Blues in Anaheim. I had brought my two best friends and my dad. Hope they got to see the magic i saw in you all. Thanks
Had a cricket and thought only way to beat them was to join, them. Looked up cricket songs. This was the first song on cricket playlist..the cricket was dancing in the middle of kitchen and able to let outside and now I play for then 😅😅😅😅and found this song by future island
It feels good. I've lost grandparents and they were the best to me. I wish they could have met my children. How they would have loved them. Hearing this song gives solace.
Such a great song, almost three years ago my Granma passed away, It's been a shadow time for me, but I'm now reframing all of this, thanks for this song, my granma wanted me to be brave and strong :D
Just discovered Future Islands...I heard this song and spent a whole work week trying to discover who this was. Seriously, my new favorite band. Will watch for shows in Dallas and tell everybody I know to check these guys out. SO FN AWESOME. Best of luck to these guys.
Awesome! My heartbeat slow and my mind flow through e the times until the grandpa and grandma souls when i ear this song. Thanks to give us this energy!
awww jeez, now which version do I have on my playlist?? The "un-official" video is so excellent it makes me cry, but I love this one too. Best to have both I think!
Coastal Caro/Balto/badasses singing about family in what is essentially a country music video -- this band was born to be my favorite. Keep it up guys! Thanks and good stuff Jay Buim!
I remember loving this when this first came out, but in the back of my head, thinking there will come a time when this song hits differently. Unfortunately that time has come. Amongst the insurmountable grief, disappointment, frustration, and anger, this song emerges providing at least a small piece of solace.
Hey guys you're awesome, I love your Indie handcrafted music and videos, so original, so authentic, so unique. You are an island in the ocean of commercial BS. Greetings from Colombia,
Whatever happens i have prepared myself to face the impact. No longer holding the anxiety of the truth arriving. Fear of talking you will never let go of the pain. Stuck on that perspective so yeag it hurts relieving the memory but its like an acoustic guitar. You dont heal over the scar you develope callouses. Able to handle that feeling better and put it to use towards my anger. Pull the string back and just simply pulling back and not letting go
Every Easter, my family has a reunion at the family farmland, and it looks so much like this video. It makes me nostalgic to watch this video. The warmth and tenderness of the gathering in the video really shines through.
I never really knew my grandfather as I only met him when I was a small child and my dad had kids pretty old. I only got to know him through a series of posthumous letters he left me to read when I was of-age. I can't help but think of those letters when I hear this song...
So pure. So very true and from the heart. The optics of family and friends, not being afraid to share your values, this is what art really is. If only there were more of an appreciation for the feelings and morals this promotes . . . the world would be a better place.
Loved these guys just after hearing Tinman but this song is very special and makes me remember Pop Pop and Grammy, i miss you both so much and you taught me everything. See you again someday, love you so much, Will.
I could write pages about what this songs means to me. To me, the song feels like it's partially about why the field became barren in the first place and part of it stems from not being able to express yourself for fear of making waves. He, and now me, is imagining what that must have been like for them to go through and then saying to them "It's ok. We can be ok. But we have to be brave or it will never work." And it's tinged with sorrow for them because they never really got to "Be Brave" for themselves while they were alive. The video just adds to the message. It's beautiful.
it's just so obvious that this band tries their absolute best on all fronts (music video production, live performances, lyric writing, dat bass, and general song composition." hats off to these guys.
I lost my loved grandfather today and i thought of this song.
He was the strongest man i ever knew, he cheated death for 30 years of pain, he had scars all over his body from surgerys but he always kept fighting, he was always happy, always had the humor on top, he was a real survivor until this day 2017-03-07.
I will never forget you my dear grandfather, you was a real rolemodel.
You will forever live in my mind and heart until i see you when my time here is over
Future Islands has a way of helping you grieve in a very positive way. At least for me. Sorry about your Grandfather
My grandfather died 06.01.2016. when he was 88. For me he was also rolemodel. He never told too much but when he spoke it was directly from his hart. We often had a beer together. I miss him.
Respect to your loved ones impacting our lives forever
❤🇩🇰🙂
❤️
First listen, instant classic in my mind.
Literally every song I have listened to by Future Island.
I have not purchased music in probably over 10 years.
Until today. Purchased all their albums.
good for you
D0wnshift uhg! now you're gonna have to lug an SDmicro card around with you everywhere...as if we dont already have enough to carry.
Josh River hilarity! i often think about (I'm 44) how i used to...1st,.in early 80s-early 90s, lug around those wooden boxes of cassettes AND my extensive/massive vinyl collection everywhere i moved. then, one day i finally got rid of all the cassettes.. found a store that bought them all almost at like $0.50 a piece or something...i had thw complete lot of WaxTrax! and PIAS tapes of Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Skinny Puppy, basically every industrial band EVER. KMFDM, Thrill Kill Kult, etc etc...PLUS old school rave, house and techno, PLUS general 80s stuff ranging from Pet Shop Boys to Metallica, The Smiths, Dead Kennedys, etc...Then of course around '88, began buying CDs...of which I eventually wound up with about 10,000 compact discs.. Plus at the peak of my vinyl collection I probably had around 30 crates, the old Peaches Rrcords crates ..... and then starting in the late 90s thru 2008, sold ALL the vinyl AND compact discs. and finally now all I have is micro SD cards, MP3 stored on my laptop computer and phone, and to have physical copies I have every single song and album stored on 8 to 64 gigabyte external drives... WOW... what times we have gone thru!!! LOL
shanedangers lol..if I didn't know better I'd think you were stalking me. True story...you and I have alot in common. Im in my early 40s. I'm passionate music lover of lots of genres. I was literally listening to Ministry as I read your comment.
I also have kmfdm, skinny puppy, ttk in my play list. I also have a pretty extensive CD collection. No where near 10,000 but I'm closer to 3k. I own multiple albums from every artist you named except revolting cocks. I used to save those cardboard flats CD,s used to come in and coverd every inch of my walls and ceiling with them.
I can't let go of my CD collection. But it is a chore to move them all.
Lol
Josh River WOW! Josh that is awesome. i confess i still have a few CDs. i think a few Peter Murphys, some New Order and Joy Division, and then some meh CDs that i couldnt sell but didnt wanna throw away like Cover Girls, Lisa Lisa, some freestyle, that oddly no one wanted!! LMAO!! - your stalker haha YOU Josh, have a great day!!!
Absolutely sublime lyrics. How could anyone's heart not be moved by words like this?
As a 63 year old, I am partial to 70's normally, but they cracked the CODE. Brilliant lyrics and Melodies on many of their songs. Glad that I saw Sam dancing around like a funny guy on ACL, then I started listening to the music and never stopped.
First time I have cried in 10 years. Long live Future Islands
4:36 gets me right in the feels. you can tell he's holding back the tears, as he gazes up to the sky as if he is seeing his grandparents right there.
I never met either of my grandfathers. One was killed in a landslide when my father was 11. The other died of lung cancer when I was only four months old. But I cherish their legacy. The first, Wlliam Fitzgerald, was the son of the first Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Edward Fitzgerald. The other, Reb Herschel Zukier, was a much loved and respected teacher in Konskovolia, Poland. Between the two of them they passed on a legacy of creativity, social activism, and spiritual teaching which I have passed on, hopefully, to my children.
*RIP ARTHUR RAY GARCIA* May your memory always live on through this song...
Love ENRIQUE MENDOZA ♥️
In the past yr. I have had 6 family members pass away.. Yesterday was the day my daughters grandfather passed away... he was my ex-father in law.. he was the nicest person.. I dont know if we ever really get to a place where we understand the heart that hurts, for the family members we have lost.. but i do know we take 1 day at a time.. this song does have away of helping me .. thank you Future islands...
Work hard and be blessed. That’s what I see in this video. I like them. They are good people. It’s refreshing to see this. I’m thankful to be a fan
There is something that sticks with me from this amazing song and lead singers music, it's deep but very powerful and beautiful at the same time. A very unique song.
I love this song, love the band, and love the video. Thanks for being so real, having such talent and putting actual meaning into your music and videos.
robsfilms In total agreement here. THANKS
robsfilms my thoughts exactly!
robsfilms I third that emotion
felt everything . .the family, the fields, the fire. .so much honesty . .raw ...
Well said
I'm a blues guy, and generally can't stand synthesizers in music…but these guys have great soul and gravity. love em. The singer sounds like a man when he sings…so much better than most of the modern stylists. Great bass and drums, great melodies and meaningful lyrics.
diddo
+Stanley Milton well spoken!
I don't think I have heard one of their songs that isn't meaningful...
agreed.
Instrumentation doesn't make music any more or less "real". Marble House by The Knife is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and it's purely electronic.
A farewell. It truly is. How many times have I said this but to just go back. Far to many times to know this feeling right now is different. It's sad but not the pain isn't as deep or as painful as before.
Our nations Independence is approaching now. Less than a week away.
Far to many are acting and not believing.
I am an immigrants son.
A United States citizen to two immigrant parents from Guerrero Mexico. From Aztec descent. A proud Aztec warrior and believer of its God's as well as a proud Catholic. I come from and grew up on black and white culture. Jazz, blues and rock and roll. All I can do is write and so I do.
I am proud to be part of this nation and what it stands for.
Hopefully we can show the nation indivisible by God. Show the world the birth of a new nation. United States of America as great as our nation has been there have also been many injustices done as well.
Far to many that just cannot be simply ignored.
The selfish, the greedy and the heartless are sitting to comfortably.
Their day is coming. Yet as our government currently stands falls way behind standards.
The one mistake was taking religion out of government. We ought to have constitutients that have love and hope of God in their hearts if they are to serve as part of our nation.
Why take that out? We are also putting faith and beliefs into things we have never witnessed or experienced before. Yes we read it or think it's in the Bible but you got to build faith, hope and trust on the tangible.
Otherwise if anything bad happens we can simply brush off responsibility and blame the promise that no one made to us but we believe it did so in the Bible and by God.
Nothing is ever going to get fixed if we keep blaming God. For one he never promised me or anyone anything. He never came before me and told me empty promises. My parents did. My pastor did. Yet how could God had told them anything if had not even been born yet.
The Bible is book of prophecies. On human behavior. We are that predictable. So Jeremiah 4 is actually happening right now. The cities have been abandoned. Lo and behold I look up into the sky and no light. Lo and behold I looked into the mountains and felt the earth shaking. It's currently Mexico and the mass leaving of its people.
As a woman giving birth to her first born is heard screaming. I am surrounded by my assassins.
God has not even been born. What a better way to keep him safe than the world do what it does best. Blame someone other than themselves. The guilty never go beyond the surface.
God has been trying and trying for thousands of years. Every one of us had the potential to be themselves. Rarely does any ever truly become self.
I have. I have been. Jesus Christ no he was alcoholic and had a foot fetish. I am lizandro salgado. A meth user. That's not right God or Jesus Christ doesnt do meth. How do you know?
For once try something different. All we have been doing is the same thing believing its the right way.
I'm saying it's not. Don't hang out with those people they are a bad influence. Then let me be a good influence on them. How is your thinking in any way selfish and just evil.
We are your over lords. Rip and tear every false prophet. Rip and tear where they called home including their children and anyone willing to defend these so-called kings.
My people are stupid and do not know how to do good. They only learned to do evil.
A reckoning is coming. Change your evil ways or when we come back you will regret ever becoming more than just a thought. Still here when we come back judgment will be upon your so called God, whoever mothered him will be trialed as well. Along with anyone who pushed this foolish agenda.
Watching an evil act and do nothing then you should not judge any anyone lesser than you. You are the low of lowest animals. True leaders with integrity can only judge even if he has to become God jury and exucutioner. Kill this man then only blame your ignorance for whoever long
Your suffering continues. So as long as the lowly creature drags his guilt and shame your suffering shall never end. We are leaving you to your own devices. Tell them whatever lie you want about defeating me. I leave you these so called riches to you and your people are the True rulers of these lands. Or until we come back to reclaim and fight what we have left you. I will return every so often if by the 3rd generation. Of the 13th Tracena of the holy dependent on every life on Earth. There will be no rest for you. Its always 5pm somewhere in the world joke here. 4 of my men will come to help you in your need. Name as you want they are powerful allies.
One of your allies has arrived. Corruption is conquest. You breed your own punishment. You create that which you seek to destroy. Yourself.
1+1+1+1+4=1 eat it nerds. I don't believe in equality, I don't believe in absolutes, I don't believe we should all be created equal.
The means that created you were the means that defined them.
Shell Shock. I am the first ally that was promised. War.
My wisdom here is to help out your enemy after a battle. You never win the war when you kill him and his home.
Hopefully in the next battle instead of dealing a death blow he returns the favor and helps you out.
Kill and just kill then read my writing above.
4th ally me.
This is the most wholesome music video/song i've ever seen.
home is where the heart is
Love it
Absolutely amazing group 🫶❤
Lembranças😢
The best part of this video are the expressions of love and pride and adoration on the faces of Sam’s family as they watch him and his band perform.
I heard this song for the first time two days after my grandfather passed, this song is fantastic
Quite simply one of the most beautiful song/video combo's I've ever seen. Cried my eyes out on first listen
homesick beyond words now, but still one of my favorite songs
My grandfather passed away yesterday. Thank you for this song, guys.
God bless ❤️ take care friend.
This band has some seriously good poetry
This song really hits home... I grew up in a small town and spent a lot of time on farms being babysat as a kid. Then I went off to live in the city and hang out with the weirdos at the punk bars. Still have a big place in my heart for my people back home, although it's been twenty years and I probably seem as weird to them as they do to me. Even so I know they'd welcome me in without hesitation for Sunday dinner.
Been a long time, in a low place
Surrounded by what I have made
Need to get away
Get away from what relates
And what was done
Cuz it's all over now
Through the woods, I come running to loose leaf
And carve my name
In the lines, there's not a trace
I hear the ghost whisper, and those old eyes watching me
But I feel safe
Grandfather looking over me
He said:
Don't make them wait
Gotta go a long way
Let's be brave
Don't make them wait
Nah, don't make them wait
I sat down, with a coffee on my bent knee
Looking out, at the burnt land, looking back at me
These used to be green crops
And high on a summer breeze
No it's fallow fields and clear-cut barren weeds
They said that if I stared
The abyss would stare back at me
So I did...
And I felt it slowly creep in me
Save for the smoke, that danced when I took a drag
It made me think about the way it all came to be
Grandmama watching over me
And she said
Don't make them wait
Gotta go a long way
Let's be brave
Don't make them wait
Nah, don't make them wait
Don't make them wait, nah
Don't make them wait
I hear the ghost whisper
And those old eyes watching me
But I feel safe
I feel safe
Rose Muhdz a
Imagine you're related to Sam and he brings his band to perform at the family reunion LOL.
That would be amazing
Iv been visiting this song with the recent passing of my mom even more so.video is love.
I've been a fan of Future Islands for a while but just now stumbled across this video. It took me back to the days when I'd watch MtV and watch music videos until the wee hours. Some would stick with me and I'd want to see them again right away. Well back then you'd have to be lucky to catch it again. Now I'll just hit replay. Love these guys.
Every sight and sound of this video moved me. Thanks FI.
Simply a fantastic song and a video that does the song justice. Beautiful and poetic. Well done.
A song for the ages. Timeless and heartfelt🙏
Reminds me of hanging out with my grandfather's. My parents would send me to help my grandfather Bill work on his farm in the summer. Learned so much from him. And during the school year I lived closer to my other grandfather. He was always working on something so I was excited and always wanted to help him out. I learned so much. Building and working on cars, this song brought back so many memories. Thank you so much. They are gone but never forgotten. Now I pass down what I learned to my kids or who ever needs help. We are all in this journey of life together.
This song makes me think of my children's great grandfather.... I LOVE YOU TATA.
J'aime ce groupe.....cette voix.....leurs musiques.....les mots ajoutés qui savent toucher. Merci l'artiste.
Saw you guys live many times never get tired of you guys. It was just after the lockdown of COVID. Your first show again in House of Blues in Anaheim. I had brought my two best friends and my dad. Hope they got to see the magic i saw in you all. Thanks
My favorite song
His eyes create a pathway of vision to his soul. Light sparkles.
❤❤❤
You guys give me so much joy! Thank you for being you! Rock on! xoxoxoxo Amber
This is my FAVORITE OF ALL,AND I LIKE MANY😢😢💎💎💎💎!!!!!!REST IN PEACE GRANDPOPS!!..I LUVYA!💎💎💎
Love, love this guy’s voice. Very talented. I was raised by my grandparents. L.O.V.E. this S.O.N.G...
Great song! Back In The Tall Grass is for me the much better song from Singles.
Greetings from Peru.
Had a cricket and thought only way to beat them was to join, them. Looked up cricket songs. This was the first song on cricket playlist..the cricket was dancing in the middle of kitchen and able to let outside and now I play for then 😅😅😅😅and found this song by future island
Thanks, now I have to look up a cricket playlist...
I wanna live a moment that make me feel the way this song makes me feel
This. You. Are what's been missing in my life. Just bought up all your albums.
Much love for the Album!!!
To-the-heart-
real-music!!!
Life!
It feels good. I've lost grandparents and they were the best to me. I wish they could have met my children. How they would have loved them. Hearing this song gives solace.
Such a great song, almost three years ago my Granma passed away, It's been a shadow time for me, but I'm now reframing all of this, thanks for this song, my granma wanted me to be brave and strong :D
Wow!! What a song. Made me cry. Makes me want to be a better man for my grandchildren………..
Just discovered Future Islands...I heard this song and spent a whole work week trying to discover who this was. Seriously, my new favorite band. Will watch for shows in Dallas and tell everybody I know to check these guys out. SO FN AWESOME. Best of luck to these guys.
this
Really great video for this amazing song! Wish I was at the party!
The imagery is haunting, and these wonderful waxes of texture are washing over me...
Perfect.
So beautiful, and peaceful
Saw them live for the first time last weekend in Liverpool and wow, just wow! I'm so glad they played this song - shivers every time. Superb!
Miss those summer holidays
Awesome! My heartbeat slow and my mind flow through e the times until the grandpa and grandma souls when i ear this song. Thanks to give us this energy!
awww jeez, now which version do I have on my playlist?? The "un-official" video is so excellent it makes me cry, but I love this one too. Best to have both I think!
cracking video for a cracking song
shiny as gold, deep as love
Once in a blue moon comes band like Future Islands, - they make heartfelt music.
These fellows are GOLD. Thanks again for a wonderful song, music, video.
Coastal Caro/Balto/badasses singing about family in what is essentially a country music video -- this band was born to be my favorite. Keep it up guys! Thanks and good stuff Jay Buim!
Reminds me of family reunions as a kid in Iowa, minus Future Islands lol, seeing the generations.
i think i can account for at least 1000 of those views! Love love this band
The band members hugging family makes me smile.
the middle 8th of this song is bloody brilliant
I remember loving this when this first came out, but in the back of my head, thinking there will come a time when this song hits differently. Unfortunately that time has come. Amongst the insurmountable grief, disappointment, frustration, and anger, this song emerges providing at least a small piece of solace.
I hope you feel better. Thinking of you
Hey guys you're awesome, I love your Indie handcrafted music and videos, so original, so authentic, so unique. You are an island in the ocean of commercial BS. Greetings from Colombia,
Whatever happens i have prepared myself to face the impact. No longer holding the anxiety of the truth arriving. Fear of talking you will never let go of the pain. Stuck on that perspective so yeag it hurts relieving the memory but its like an acoustic guitar. You dont heal over the scar you develope callouses. Able to handle that feeling better and put it to use towards my anger. Pull the string back and just simply pulling back and not letting go
Every Easter, my family has a reunion at the family farmland, and it looks so much like this video. It makes me nostalgic to watch this video. The warmth and tenderness of the gathering in the video really shines through.
The way you use your voice is incredible
I never really knew my grandfather as I only met him when I was a small child and my dad had kids pretty old. I only got to know him through a series of posthumous letters he left me to read when I was of-age. I can't help but think of those letters when I hear this song...
How perfectly spoken for our times, right now at this time. Beautiful! I am feeling all of the beautiful forgettable moments as if they are gold
great song and superb clip, love the sincerity.
Absolutely AmAzInG song 💜💜 How in the world do you guys come up with the most beautiful beats to your music........
Absolutely breathtaking song
This guys voice is all soul! ❤
perfection
So pure. So very true and from the heart. The optics of family and friends, not being afraid to share your values, this is what art really is. If only there were more of an appreciation for the feelings and morals this promotes . . . the world would be a better place.
That was beautiful, guys! Glad to have a vid for this powerful song & I feel honoured to have gotten a little more insight into your lives- thanks FI.
so inspiring to see So many happy and smiling faces enjoying the day, jealous oh yes I am.
Hermosa canción.
Wonderful song and production...sonically reminds of New Musik which is a good thing.
I LUV'YA for this my Boi...!!!!💎💎💎💎
I'm so sad and happy and all of it at once and I'm sick of quarantine and I need a hug.
3:00 thats one proud family member!
william marshall beautiful
that is the look of pride like all the trouble of life is worth it for this one moment. captured in a look. wow dad's are awesome.
Loved these guys just after hearing Tinman but this song is very special and makes me remember Pop Pop and Grammy, i miss you both so much and you taught me everything. See you again someday, love you so much, Will.
This really makes me feel something. 'Lets be brave' is why I grew my hair out. Feeling it is such a nice reminder.
Future Islands is a family-friendly talent. God bless you guys and bless your music too!
I could write pages about what this songs means to me. To me, the song feels like it's partially about why the field became barren in the first place and part of it stems from not being able to express yourself for fear of making waves. He, and now me, is imagining what that must have been like for them to go through and then saying to them "It's ok. We can be ok. But we have to be brave or it will never work." And it's tinged with sorrow for them because they never really got to "Be Brave" for themselves while they were alive. The video just adds to the message. It's beautiful.
This is such an underrated song.
Real.
Love it. The second song I like by these. The lead singer is mint live
it's just so obvious that this band tries their absolute best on all fronts (music video production, live performances, lyric writing, dat bass, and general song composition." hats off to these guys.
Geweldig dit doet je wat super muziek
yep one of my all time favorites. touches good places inside!!!!
Sam's performances exquisitely demonstrate how I feel when I listen to great music. He's an incredible performer and artist
I really enjoy Future Islands. I saw them this year live and I don't regret it at all.
Best thing to come from Baltimore in a long time.
Sorry...Their From NC...My Kids went to their same schools. Either way... ❤️ Future Islands