MewithoutYou-In a Sweater Poorly Knit
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- yeah all the other versions on youtube we're live so yeah
MewithoutYou For The Win
in a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile
little moses drifts downstream in the Nile
a fumbling reply, an awkward rigid laugh
I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft
your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between
sweet rhan any wine and bitter as mustard greens
light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickel bread
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!
as you plow some other field try and forget my name
see what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same
I planted rows of peas but by the first week of July
they should have come up to my knees
but they were maybe ankle high
take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns
and boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars
but now the books are overdueand the goats are underfed
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!
you're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
you made a holy fool of me and I've thanked you ever since.
if she comes circling back we'll end where we'd begun
like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one
or if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken open seed
if I come without a thing, then I come with all I need
no boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head,
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!
I do not exist only you exist
It's 2006. I am 19 years old and I have this album on CD and play it every morning I drive my baby brother to his elementary school in my '95 Mitsubishi clunker secondhand SUV. On the days I don't have to be at work for a while we take a detour to get Denny's for breakfast and we sing this song, the last track on the CD together, hitting every note and chord with our voices with precision. Now it's 2021 again and a bittersweet tear comes into my eye remembering such happy times
So Beautiful and reminiscing , sending love from India
Thank you for this wholesome image as I drink my morning coffee :’)
cool haha greetings from Tbilisi
I fully understand. This is a great song. I lived in the suburbs growing up and was a huge fan of this band in high school, but this song hits much harder now that I live in the country some 13 years later. It's beautiful.
Wherever you are,whoever you are,I wish nothing but the best for you and your family.
this song is on another level. its the kind of thing that an artist can only make once in a lifetime and never top
They’ve got a lot of songs like that. Mexican War Streets, King Beetle on a Coconut Estate, Winter Solstice etc.
They were incredibly talented.
@@acaughtfoxmexican war streets, red cow, dorothy, & blue hen - all back to back is definitely one of my favorite string of songs on an album by them. that & this album are by far my favorite. incredible.
@@dogwalk3 I don’t think I’ve ever skipped through that sequence of tracks! I love all their albums, but Pale Horses is special to me.
"If i come with out a thing, then i come with all i need" so good
Homecoming
I always *come back to this song at various points in my life, 💙
I dont understand the meaning but it always seems that way
@@fulbertsantos420 It's a unique type of song that means exactly what you need it to mean at whatever chapter of life in which you find yourself drawn to it. It's an ambiguous parable.
So do I. It finds me when I need it most. It's genius on a unique level.
Welcome back.
Come back soon brother
Do you ever feel something from listening to a song? But you can’t pinpoint exactly what it is? Just a wave of emotion bursts through you. Either happiness or sadness or a little of both? Or maybe none of those at all. Like I said, you can’t pinpoint it. I feel this way when I listen to this song. There’s this bizarre beauty to it that encircles my headspace. I just don’t want to tie any exact words to it because I don’t want to ruin the feeling I get when I listen to it. 🖤
Maybe you don't exist...
Yes, I feel more than just that from listening to this song
Yeah..
I friend brought me to their show in 2007 and Manchester Orchestra opened for them...amazing
Pb and jelly
@@hp5310 respect
I may be doing a bit of morning drinking, but reading this comment literally gave me goosebumps.
Quality!!!
wow
This is possibly the most beautiful song I've ever heard, EVER.
Agreed
And we'll ever hear
@@mynamesbluryface2760and I care what you think
Hello from 2025
My favorite song ever
if u listen to the lyrics its all a parable of
a relationship with a girl that turned him to God
its amazing
Didn’t think of that way!
The beginning harmony makes me break down every time after all these years.. every time.
I feel you
its that C#m chord. hits me everytime
There will never be anything like this, or Brother, Sister again. Thank you, mewithoutYou. Thank you for saving my soul and showing me to Him.
You guys will be missed.
mewithoutYou
2001-2022
There will never be anything like mwY ever again. Truly phenomenal
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
We spent hours thinking, designing, questioning, also you can spent a few seconds lost in one moment. No time to think, just reaktion, focus, all the worry washed away by the rush.When it comes to trails, when the builder puts down the shovel and pick up the bike, when creation overwrites destruction ...well...thats living.
all the worry IN A ONE: WATCH THE WAY by the rush
@@kalinatomaszuk5466 Worth looking up?
We reap and we cut, we seed and we sew and yeah we do great damage, but we're also capable of great good.
MTB Freeride
I came here because of Life Cycles too. Love that scene.
This may sound weird, but my favorite part of this song is whem they say "I do not exist. Only you exist" my buddy has that tattooed on his chest.
Woah nice to hear that , it's also mu fav part of the song
YOU EXIST. I EXIST. YOU WERE TOLD, YOU WERE RAISED TO BELIEVE YOU DO NOT MATTER. TO BELIEVE ONLY OTHERS MATTER. THIS IS NOT TRUE. GOD LOVES YOU AND IF ONLY YOU EXISTED ONLY YOU WOULD MATTER. I MEAN IT. AND THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE WHO CAN SEE THESE WORDS OR HEAR MY HEART. YOU MATTER AND YOU EXIST TO LOVE AND BE LOVED.
Hearing him shout it live brought me to tears
I had to do two weeks in a psychiatric facility after an attempt on my life a few years ago and a counselor all tatted up with the words “I’m glad” on one arm and “you exist” on the other. Something about that reminded me of this artists beautiful music and it got me back to fight through my demons.
This is amoung the very best songs I have ever heard. It's pure magic, the music, the lyric the voice everything. One of my favourite things to do is take a walk in the woods on a nice autumn day, when the leaves fall at random, with this song in playing in my ears
Definitely one of the most poetic album I've heard so far.
this group. is just one of those groups. that you can listen to all the time and never get sick of, no matter what mood you're in(:
First time I heard this song was at the movies when it was part of the Soundtrack for a mountainbike movie on the European Outdoor Film Tour. Now, more than 10 years later I’m doing the moderation for the EOFT and every time we’re doing the setup, this song is played to get ready for the show.
Why isnt that masterpiece on spotify goddamn?
It's insanity!
It used to be as part of this big emo playlist, but it’s since been deleted. Nothing else from this album is on there either, at least here in the UK, so I’m guessing it’s licensing issues.
LIFE CYCLES
kyle Jones Yup :D
+kyle Jones hell yeah m8
cheers...
No. Those are the spider/ leaves
When the builder puts down the shovel...
this album was part of the map I followed to find my faith.
The faith and passion on this record changed my life.
technicalerr0r whoa, is this a Christian band?
Same. Same dude.
Hope that faith stays strong brother I’ve been listening to them since 2004 md I just found out they are Christian and it made my day as I’m trying to cut out the overt satanic BS in basically all rap which is what I’ve been listening to mostly for a few years so I’m coming back to my roots in Hardcore/metal/etc
While there is Christian Imagery, I wouldn’t call them a Christian band. There are also several Islam reference throughout their music. That being said, this band has defiantly brought me closer to Christ through their music.
This and tendons by bellarive are helping me discover my own faith
I could listen to that harp all my life
What a lovely song, " If I come without a thing, then I come with all I need." Ah! It's soooo beautiful! Everytime I listen I get something new. It's a crazy!!!!
It’s all Crazy ;)
they’ve taken this masterpiece off of spotify ffs😫😫😫😫
Its there
@@rex-up9ln No, there's only a cover or remix of it.
I've been going through a bit of a reawakening, coming out of the fog of arrogance and foolishness. I still maintain my doubt, I can't help that. But this song has a heck of a way of playing every single one of my heart strings.
Maybe faith bears it's own rewards, without proof. Maybe it's better to cast of doubt, and to accept without question. Or more accurately, hesitation
I'm experiencing the exact same thing right now. I dont know if I believe in God, but I feel their presence. Enlightenment is waiting for me, and I'm closer to it everyday, and bc of that, I'm slowly losing my ability to relate to people.
@@mr.busster8424 Be careful of what ur doing with ur life "getting closer to enlightement" or whatever shouldn't make you loose ur ability to relate to people. This can lead you to sectarianism stay close to ur friends and familly.
Can't relate anymore , I'm too going through a lot, I've lost faith in me
"If I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken open seed
if I come without a thing, then I come with all I need."
-to me this is a clear light, a direct message.
This song has always been in my life bro 2020 anyone ?
Still coming back 2021.
@@pugsandhugsnotdrugs first song on my playlist, hasn't changed in probably over 5 years
@@violetjilliwilli7703 yesssss. I think it has to be my favorite song of all time. I always love coming to this video, too and reading the comments.
@@pugsandhugsnotdrugs how would you feel about getting married
@@violetjilliwilli7703 must hire MeWithoutYou to play this song on repeat at the reception. Hahaha.
My cousin was truly correct when he said that the lyrics are absolutely phenomenal! Love the words, now a fan.
this shit is so profoundly beautiful
Still my favorite band since I was 12.. Ecstatic I got the pleasure to see them before with a teenage great best friend in the world
I do not exist, only you exist
Evan Beckstedt affirmative
water goes district under jump more or suchoreatle, Q?
I always liked this song but never really got it.
Hooked up with an addict awhile ago, and... it clicks now. "Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between, sweeter than any wine and as bitter as mustard greens." Weird to look at lyrics and see an old relationship spelled out, c'est la vie I suppose.
Such a bittersweet blessing to have known such beings ay? :) I will love him always
This song + mountain biking = awesome
I first saw it in a biking film
I still cant get over how truly deep these words are.
just stumbled on this randomly... and wow it's so great!
You should check out more of these guys. This album is so good, Brother Sister. You should definitely check out their album Ten Stories, it's phenomenal.
This song is beautiful. I've never heard something like that. It's amazing.
There are no words to discribe this song. I just love it.
same here, its like your heart is telling you that hey you know that band that you like but don't really listen to everyday. remember that song. you should listen to it right now
Exactly folks
I love how Messes of Men begins with "I do not exist" and this songs ends with it... they keep the theme of cycles present in their art at all times, don't they? So beautiful!
This band's music has aged remarkably well, especially among other bands in their scene. It's the depth.
Wow..... the "I do not exist, only you exist" thing reminds me of my best friend.... or rather.... the guy who USED to be my best friend.... he made up a world for us. He was four different people, and I was one. He said none of him was real, but I was.... Awesome song.... thanx....
Seen them 3 times. Every time I see them its amazing. Best show's Ive ever been too. My all time favorite band.
i have had this song stuck in my head for eleven hours straight and i would like to say that this song sounds more like an anxiety episode than anything else does, including the impossible mix of ra ra rasputin. props to MewithoutYou for writing a song that i'm incapable of removing from my head.
Oh yes, same thing happened to me when I first heard it. Not eleven hours, but a couple of days rather.
Honestly 'Brother, Sister' is my favorite album.
i have never heard of Me Without You till today but my sister invited me to a concert with her and her boyfriend and so i decided to look them up.... moral of story i am now a fan and have no idea how i have never heard of them before today shame on me!
i agree i been feeling like crap all day i listen to this it cheers me up.
Wow 12 yrs ago
you made a holy fool of me and ive thanked you ever since. stings every time i hear that.
My favorite lyric as well - but for me the dulcimer at the end makes the song.
Herd this song once, and new that I had to here it again. Exelent piece of music.
@leogregoire0346 ... its not just "a mountain biking video"... its the ONE and ONLY mountain biking video!! its legendary. absolutely outstanding!!!
just saw these guys a couple days ago, always an amazing experience! i love the passion of the fans and the downright positive force their music has.
saw them at cornerstone a few times before the festival shut down for good, changed my life
Bought the album today. Found u by accident. .. happy life now I found ur music
+Dauntless Survive Ohhhhkay cutieeeee
Hi there u fellow hooman
I remember discovering this song years ago and being totally caught by surprise at the transition at 1:11 .
Was hooked to their music ever since.
"You made me a holy fool and I thanked you ever since"
I love this song. Brings me to tears every time.
I remember hearing this for the first time in my late teens. I'm currently 30 and I don't think I'll ever grow tired of this beautiful masterpiece.
Buying "A-B Life" after being a HUGE youth group kid and fan since hearing Aaron's feature on NJ's "Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste" and later seeing a video for "Bullet To Binary" and relating to the angst and confusion and searching for purpose through my faith and then being a HUGE fan of "Catch for Us the Foxes" and then buying this record and getting into Shane Claiborne's "Irresistible Revolution" and trying to bring up Biblically-valid points from it during youth group Bible study only to get eye-roll'd and not taken seriously to the point that I got disillusioned with the modern church and modern Christianity and decided to wander out "into the world" where I eventually got jaded and became a "heathen" is what brought me here. Sidenote: still love me some Jesus despite how awful I've gotten.
Dude I get it: the church, she's broken I have a similar story, but don't forget that She is also being restored, and Jesus loves them. Jesus loves you. Jesus Loves. Its what he does, He restores, he heals, He brings hope to the hopeless purpose to the purposeless. Life IS messy. and following God is hard we were told that. And yeah they aren't perfect and neither are you, and neither am I this random brother who stopped and read what you wrote, but we are all being restored Collosians 1 tells that in Christ we are made holy and blameless in God's sight because of Christ's blood. Don't give up on the church, Jesus hasn't and its the only way we know him through the sacrifices he made. Stay strong brother The Holy spirit is in you if you have been adopted into the family of God and He does not forsake his children. pray to him, listen to good music^(these guys are dope), but also uproot bitterness and forgive others because it will wreck your relationships and drive you away from your spiritual family and let me tell ya man. The Enemy would love to isolate you from encouragement and destroy your desire for community that loves Jesus.
Peace to you brother or sister? (you have a really awesome name btw)
-Hit me up in a PM or respond if you ever want to talk, I don't know you but if you love Jesus then you are my sibling and I'll do everything in my small power to help ya out.
James Henderson he may never have read that but I did and I feel encouraged by your words, thank you. I feel so confused to, but if Jesus loves the church, so must we
This always gibes me shivers, especially the beginning... Like really always. I heard this song at least the 20th time now since i discovered it and my hairs on my arms are standing as high as when I heard this song the first time.
EDIT: this is so beautiful....
+Arkydos I was literally typing the exact same thing on the live version they have on the concert.
That bass kicks in and EVERY HAIR on me stands up. It's the closest music has ever gotten me to god.
So true.
Can someone direct me to more music that sounds specifically like this song... It's like older mewithoutyou mixed with mumford & sons... it's somehow both heartfelt and intense but serene simultaneously
Neutral milk hotel is pretty good, check their songs Areoplane over the sea and 1945
Brand new?
My friend told me to listen to this song. I love him.
Woah , where are u rn ?
@@mynamesbluryface2760 don't usually give out my private info, but I can say I am honestly on UA-cam right now :) hope you have a nice day
@@guidetoanything 😳😳🙄 active even after 8 years 💀💀
@@mynamesbluryface2760 is that so strange? Many people have the same account for a long time :) and youtube notifies you when your comment is directly answered, unless you turn those notifications off
@@guidetoanything kind of it is :) bcoz yk 8 yrs is such a big time gap !!!
Listener and Mewithoutyou have been my musical bread and butter, these days. :)
Saw them do this live last year when i went to see brand new. was amazing, brand new came out and perfomed with it them!
saw them live last night. it was awesome
I love this band. I don't know what to say. I'm so glad their music exists (even if they don't, heheh). Thank you for being honest with your music, guys.
Ahh this brings back bittersweet memories. The lyrics resonates with my life.
If I come with out a thing I come with all I need
"I do not exist" and "only you exist" open and end the album. Hits me right in the feels every time.
After 8 years I finally found it
Congratulations
If I'm a crown without a king
A door without a key
the way your able to put your words together in these songs are absolutely unreal ♥♥♥
i LOVE this song!!!!! i miss you Tiff!! we jammed out to this ALL summer!!!! :))
Fucking LIFE CYCLES
one of the coolest bike movies ever made. so amazing.
basically the best that happened after the collective had their 3 movies down ;)
Watched it for the first time in a while last night, and can honestly say it's hands down better than all other mtb films. Sound tracks are brilliant, riding is also brilliant, but I think it's the narration that really hits home.
I love the stories created in this music
Welcome To The Basement brought me here... i like. hello from Croatia
I saw them in 2010 at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco with David Bazan. Very memorable show.
Watched Life Cycles for the first time today and this song really stuck out to me. I searched for 20 minutes to find it and I'm so glad I did cuz it's amazing.
@ArtIsGood4TheSoul I was honestly just listening to these guys and I was like "Wow, La Dispute sounds a lot like them." I absolutely love both MewithoutYou and La Dispute. They are both so lyrically poetic and have such unique sounds.
I have to say this is song is wonderful, pure magic.
every persons should be made to see life cycles. even non bikers enjoy it, i know this because my family loved it. makes u think about life and ur attitude towards it
I get the chills at almost every single line.
In a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile
Little Moses drifts downstream in the Nile
A fumbling reply, an awkward rigid laugh
And I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft
Your flavor in my mind's back and forth between
Sweeter than any wine and bitter as mustard greens
And it's light as dark as honeydew and pumpernickel bread
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
Go plow some other field and try and forget my name
We'll see what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same
I planted rows of peas, by the first week of July
They should have come up to my knees
But they were maybe ankle high
Take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns
And boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars
And the books are overdue and the goats are underfed
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
You're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
You made a holy fool of me and I've thanked you ever since
And if she comes circling back, we'll end where we'd begun
Like two pennies on the train track, the train crushed into one
But if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken open seed
If I come without a thing, then I come with all I need
No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
I do not exist, I do not exist, I do not exist
I do not exist, I do not exist, I do not exist
I do not exist, I do not exist, I do not exist
I do not exist, only you exist, I do not exist
Catch for us the foxes.
Still coming here in 2022.
Brilliant song. just keeps me dancing all day long =)
at the drive in is my fav band of all time and mewithoutyou is quickly climbin the charts
Beautiful music that was in a breathtaking movie about the thing I love to do. Yes I think I very much love this song.
i used to think the same, but if you listen to his writing on the newest cd, and get the references....oh my god..he's an absolute genius. i met Aaron at cornestone this last summer, and it was unreal. amazing band.
life cycles is one of the best MTB movies of all time great song!
It's strange. I never listened to them previous to Saturday night. I saw them with underoath and it was truly beautiful.
Heard this live at Slims SF Wednesday night 7/27/2012. Amazing.
This is like the strangest music ever...yet the lyics are pure genius...and the band has been growing on me like crazy lately
thanks so much for speaking the words straight from my chest
7:10 ny tv on 2001
Self defeat... beautiful self defeat. Reminds me of Edward Scissorhands
I love Life Cycles, it soothes my soul.
For my 1st time........sounds nice.
Made a comment 11 years ago. Hallo!!! Need this on Spotify.
it used to be but got removed :(
sooo goooood.. shivers all over my body...
great music!
This band reminds me of a really underrated band called Lovedrug.
Chez Johnson lovedrug was sooo much more than these guys could have ever been! It's a pity that they don't make music anymore.
keith girard lolwut
@@keithgirard7435 No....the lyricism of mwy is worlds better
Saw lovedrug in Green Bay, March 4th, 2007. One of my favorite memories for many reasons. I hadn’t heard of them prior, and I agree they are terribly underrated
Just found these, its so beautiful.
one of my favorite songs now...
One of best songs in Life Cycles ! Love that ♥
I will give this song the highest praise: brilliant.
Not bad at all,
time to get my bike out!
Life cycles :)
Such an amazing scene, maybe one of the best I've ever seen in a bike movie.
Der Zitronenmann downhill !!;)