[Verse 1] Rejoice, rejoice God's ears are stitches Rejoice, His eyes are big X's Rejoice, His arms are burning witches Rejoice, His hands perform hexes [Chorus] Rejoice despite the fact this world will hurt you Rejoice despite the fact this world will kill you Rejoice despite the fact this world will tear you to shreds Rejoice because you're trying your best [Verse 2] Rejoice, the bed you sleep in is burning Rejoice, the sky's fucking falling Rejoice, the world we know is turning Rejoice, your father's been calling [Verse 3] Rejoice although this world will devastate you Rejoice although this world will penetrate you Rejoice although you will not survive Rejoice you'll never make it out alive [Verse 4] Rejoice, your hair it smells like burning hair Oh rejoice, your nails all got chewed off Rejoice, and - holy fuck! - you're bleeding there Oh rejoice, you burned your whole beard off
@@bonesfloodedwithdreams rejoice god's ear's are stanchions a stanchion is a big beam (god is deaf as a post) rejoice, his eyes are big Xs (and he's also blind)
@@sleekthegeek6669 I heard stanchions exactly like you said until I really listened to this video and looked at the stitches lyric. I think he actually is saying "exes" (used to think it was axes) and "stitches" (used to think it was stanchions). He has a thick accent but comparing them to the way he says 'witches' and 'hexes' I think OP is right. I'll still forever hear "stanchions" which are also tall cones meant for looping caution tape across, shaped like horns. There are also stanchion horns, which are elongated horns like for the hard of hearing. This does kind of contrast with the deaf idea, so I'm thinking it's stitches.
@mitchellknapp5766 yep, "rejoice because you're trying your best" definitely overshadows the pessimism shown in the previous lyrics. But even so, there is a strong taste of poignancy throughout the song. In fact, "rejoice because you're trying your best" came as such a twist for me I even interpreted it as sarcasm at first. Quite an awesome song indeed, sounds depressing but gives you some sort of reassurance in the end.
I can never tell what level of ironic this song is, like if I'm feeling well it's a sincere acceptance of everything you can't change, and if I'm feeling bad it's a satire of religious zeal in the face of terrible things...
I've always loved the way "your best" is sung. The oscillation makes it come out like "your har-best," as though it were both your best and your hardest at the same time.
I struggle with depersonalization and dissociation but this song along with people remind me of the world out there. Sometimes I get stuck in my head and can’t get out, and I can’t talk about because nobody takes it seriously. I thought this is what all kids and teens went through going up, but after looking up some stuff, feeling like you’re not real and thinking of hypotheticals for if you died of different ways is normal. I don’t want a therapist and I don’t want to talk to my parents. I don’t want to burden any friends with my problems. Life sucks so much sometimes and I wish I was never born sometimes. But I’m here and my goal right now is to make it out of growing up so that at least I’ll be an adult someday. I love this song
Hi. One of those eventual adults here. Everything here is very familiar to me. Being trans in the South didn't help. If you have the resources to pursue therapy, I do suggest giving it a try, or reach out to friends here and there. The real ones will be there for you; try to offer them the same in return. Beyond additional freedoms from reaching the age of majority, and perhaps a bit more experience, being an "adult" is an arbitrary thing; It won't magic this stuff away. But doing the above is a good step forward.
@@zoomer2965 thanks man. I made this comment a while ago in a pretty dark place, and I’ve developed some better coping mechanisms for myself and cut off toxic friends. I still listen to AJJ though, haha. Thanks for the insight
@@heezyforsheezfun fact, ajj supports trans rights Maybe leave trans people alone and dont try to tell them who they are, you arent in their head Also saying that they'll eventually be hit with health problems is at best not helpful and at worst flat out harmful and disgusting Stop being like this
This is one of my comfort songs... that probably says something about my mental health lol. It's just so harsh and real, yet hopeful. This world is brutal and broken, but we're together in this painful life. Together till our inevitable end, not to be feared but accepted. Hell, maybe even rejoiced Taking comfort in death, that this pain I feel will at some point end. Weirdly comforting to my mentally unwell ass
the fact that i can’t even count how many times i’ve cry to this song... edit: this comment is 3 years old and i still love this song but the ‘…’ was so dramatic
I'm back and I'm burnt out. Life has ripped me away from my favorite hobby-art. Art was the thing keeping me happy. But I'm trying to figure it out, one day at a time. I've apologized for some past stuff and I'm currently trying to get out of my mentality of demonizing myself. Instead of drowning in apathy towards everything wrong in the past, I'm trying to float out of it. Sometimes I sink but, hey. I'll rejoice because I _am_ trying my best!
I love this song so much and it makes me cry when I'm up late at night and it just comes on at the right time, and it makes me thankful for everything i have. (only song to have ever made me cry.)
This song gives me the same vibes as that Disney ad in the beginning of every Disney dvd where it uses that song that goes “as sly as a fox, as big as an ox” whatever. The cool nostalgic but not vibes
Man the way in which this song is so angry and nihilistic and yet still still ends on a optimistic note ("Rejoice because you are trying your best") is really cool.
Used to think gods arms were made of witches that were ablaze and not the obvious, his arms are used to burn witches. I used to drink a lot. I still do, but I used to too.
@@BLANK-sm4dd I think I meant differently than how you read it, but it's because I'm very bad at communication and knowing me, I wrote my comment sleep deprived- basically I originally heard it when I was in a super rough place; When I originally heard it it felt like it was cynically reflecting on forcing positivity and saying it was futile to try and bring joy into life when it's a shitshow I don't know for sure what the original intention was, but now I take from it that sometimes refusing to let the shittiest things in life dictate how you react is the only control you still have Idk, I've just been doing what I can to accept that some things are gonna be shitty no matter what and if I can find ways to fight back against that I won't be in a worse place than I was before, so why not try I try to Rejoice if only to prove I still can Sorry to be Fake Deep or whatever, I just like the song
This song seems pretty anti God but I like to take it as no matter how shitty you day or life is God will be there in the end of it with open arms, so REJOICE
Homeless waiting on the bus, so this song hits different.
Stay safe, shit's hard and might get harder, but navigating it is possible.
I hope you find a way out of your problem, best wishes friend
Hope you're doing good, hope you stay safe, and hope your situation will get better
[Verse 1]
Rejoice, rejoice God's ears are stitches
Rejoice, His eyes are big X's
Rejoice, His arms are burning witches
Rejoice, His hands perform hexes
[Chorus]
Rejoice despite the fact this world will hurt you
Rejoice despite the fact this world will kill you
Rejoice despite the fact this world will tear you to shreds
Rejoice because you're trying your best
[Verse 2]
Rejoice, the bed you sleep in is burning
Rejoice, the sky's fucking falling
Rejoice, the world we know is turning
Rejoice, your father's been calling
[Verse 3]
Rejoice although this world will devastate you
Rejoice although this world will penetrate you
Rejoice although you will not survive
Rejoice you'll never make it out alive
[Verse 4]
Rejoice, your hair it smells like burning hair
Oh rejoice, your nails all got chewed off
Rejoice, and - holy fuck! - you're bleeding there
Oh rejoice, you burned your whole beard off
Thank you :)
@@bonesfloodedwithdreams rejoice god's ear's are stanchions
a stanchion is a big beam (god is deaf as a post)
rejoice, his eyes are big Xs (and he's also blind)
@@sleekthegeek6669 I heard stanchions exactly like you said until I really listened to this video and looked at the stitches lyric. I think he actually is saying "exes" (used to think it was axes) and "stitches" (used to think it was stanchions). He has a thick accent but comparing them to the way he says 'witches' and 'hexes' I think OP is right.
I'll still forever hear "stanchions" which are also tall cones meant for looping caution tape across, shaped like horns. There are also stanchion horns, which are elongated horns like for the hard of hearing. This does kind of contrast with the deaf idea, so I'm thinking it's stitches.
Rejoice because you exist at the same time as this song
Rejoice! You're doing your best.
I feel like this song is a perfect mix of optimism and pessimism
Lol so spot on but actually almost, the "rejoice b/c youre trying your best" brings in the W for optimism. Such an awesome song.
@mitchellknapp5766 yep, "rejoice because you're trying your best" definitely overshadows the pessimism shown in the previous lyrics. But even so, there is a strong taste of poignancy throughout the song. In fact, "rejoice because you're trying your best" came as such a twist for me I even interpreted it as sarcasm at first. Quite an awesome song indeed, sounds depressing but gives you some sort of reassurance in the end.
I can never tell what level of ironic this song is, like if I'm feeling well it's a sincere acceptance of everything you can't change, and if I'm feeling bad it's a satire of religious zeal in the face of terrible things...
I've always loved the way "your best" is sung. The oscillation makes it come out like "your har-best," as though it were both your best and your hardest at the same time.
no coments for like 3 years and then three coments
great song
Yes Lets make it a thing
@@smuggpugg7916 ok
Wow. That's upsetting. It's gonna be 5 years in a few months and there's under 200 comments...
youtube tells me this comment was made three years ago :) congrats
WE FUCKIN DID IT!!!!!!!
This song is like if Chicken little became an anarchist.
based chicken little
This is the song the youth pastor sings after his psychotic break.
I just upgraded from 'no children'
so on point
hahaha
There is much about Sean that reminds me of various youth pastors I was around over the course of my childhood .
Moral orel
Of the 35 comments the video has, 20 have been during the pandemic. I think there's a correlation here.
ajj is staying inside to avoid the deadly plague type music
I struggle with depersonalization and dissociation but this song along with people remind me of the world out there. Sometimes I get stuck in my head and can’t get out, and I can’t talk about because nobody takes it seriously. I thought this is what all kids and teens went through going up, but after looking up some stuff, feeling like you’re not real and thinking of hypotheticals for if you died of different ways is normal. I don’t want a therapist and I don’t want to talk to my parents. I don’t want to burden any friends with my problems. Life sucks so much sometimes and I wish I was never born sometimes. But I’m here and my goal right now is to make it out of growing up so that at least I’ll be an adult someday. I love this song
Hi. One of those eventual adults here. Everything here is very familiar to me. Being trans in the South didn't help.
If you have the resources to pursue therapy, I do suggest giving it a try, or reach out to friends here and there. The real ones will be there for you; try to offer them the same in return.
Beyond additional freedoms from reaching the age of majority, and perhaps a bit more experience, being an "adult" is an arbitrary thing; It won't magic this stuff away. But doing the above is a good step forward.
@@zoomer2965 thanks man. I made this comment a while ago in a pretty dark place, and I’ve developed some better coping mechanisms for myself and cut off toxic friends. I still listen to AJJ though, haha. Thanks for the insight
@@zoomer2965you're not trans either but you'll figure out that later when the identity crisis and health problems come in, if you're on HRT.
@@heezyforsheezfun fact, ajj supports trans rights
Maybe leave trans people alone and dont try to tell them who they are, you arent in their head
Also saying that they'll eventually be hit with health problems is at best not helpful and at worst flat out harmful and disgusting
Stop being like this
This is one of my comfort songs... that probably says something about my mental health lol.
It's just so harsh and real, yet hopeful. This world is brutal and broken, but we're together in this painful life. Together till our inevitable end, not to be feared but accepted. Hell, maybe even rejoiced
Taking comfort in death, that this pain I feel will at some point end. Weirdly comforting to my mentally unwell ass
Rejoice in the fact your taste in music has not been affected. Hope you’re doing better man.
Kind of reminds me of Camus’ take on Sisyphus, and how you should embrace suffering and meaninglessness instead of fruitlessly trying to overcome it.
Fake deep yt comments😭
@Kas3- don't call me out like that >:/
@@justbrowsing9697 ;)
i love the way sean enunciates "and holy FUCK youre bleeding there!!!!!"
What an opening to their first album, I find myself singing and humming it more often than not
It's their second album
Man, this album sure does take me back.
“Rejoice because you’re trying your best.”
This line is for the mentally ill students who are struggling at distance learning in Quarantine 2020.
as a college prof teaching my students through zoom, they are absolutely doing their best. i love my students. we're all in this together
Or anyone who has been affected by the quarantine.
Perfect. I'm both teaching and studenting online right now.
@@hmoment661 The quarantine was actually fun. I didn't have to go outside.
Maybe it's for those who aren't getting five figure useless degrees but who are working their actual fingers to the actual bone? Just saying
the fact that i can’t even count how many times i’ve cry to this song...
edit: this comment is 3 years old and i still love this song but the ‘…’ was so dramatic
I feel that. Big Bird is always the one that really makes me feel sick as I sob
Yeah I’m a 56 year old army vet and this song makes me cry all the time. It is the truthfulness that breaks my heart.
Us
I'm back and I'm burnt out. Life has ripped me away from my favorite hobby-art. Art was the thing keeping me happy. But I'm trying to figure it out, one day at a time. I've apologized for some past stuff and I'm currently trying to get out of my mentality of demonizing myself. Instead of drowning in apathy towards everything wrong in the past, I'm trying to float out of it. Sometimes I sink but, hey.
I'll rejoice because I _am_ trying my best!
Wait my bed is burning
yes
yes it is
Uh oh
Dont smoke on the bed. Learnt that the hard way.
Welp I found my new favorite singer
sean bonnette is a king
Maddy for sure
the girl of my dreams used to love this album i listen to it and all i can see is her its true agony but beauty in the pain
I love this song so much and it makes me cry when I'm up late at night and it just comes on at the right time, and it makes me thankful for everything i have.
(only song to have ever made me cry.)
Rejoice!
Oh, rejoice!
Rejoice, gods ears are stitches!
Oh, rejoice! His eyes are big Xs!
a good folk punk/folk punk adjacent band always needs a good sacrilegious song, hell yeah
This song gives me the same vibes as that Disney ad in the beginning of every Disney dvd where it uses that song that goes “as sly as a fox, as big as an ox” whatever. The cool nostalgic but not vibes
It's called Everything at Once by Lenka!
I always come back to this song at really bad times and it always lifts me up a little, or at least makes me feel less alone
every time i feel terrible i put on ajj and smile at the fact that this isnt even the worst part
Man the way in which this song is so angry and nihilistic and yet still still ends on a optimistic note ("Rejoice because you are trying your best") is really cool.
every year i listen to this song and the state of the world is worse than it was before, the lyrics bring me comfort
this album makes me so hopeful and heard and happy
Shout out atrioc and the popathon glad to see some folk punk music in that stream
This song's gotten me through some tough times.
rejoice, quarantine has lead us to discover amazing songs
Good shit
I like ur pfp
This song is a crisis of faith personified
2020 vibes :)
I cant remember how i found this song but i heard it in a spotify radio and it brought back some sense of nostalgia.
Gods ears are stitches!
Again you!
His Eyes Are Big X's!
listening to this song is how I cope with being a living person
best easter song I've ever heard!
I can't stop listening to it and I'm not sure what this tells me about me.
My friend suggested this band now I can't stop listening to this song
and- HOLY FUCK- -YOU'RE BLEEDING THERE?!
Rejoice, I remember when you played this all the time in Macomb IL. Love you babygirl
This is a bop
Yoooo this takes me back Andew Jackson Jihad ..... great band name
ajj's and similar songs have a weirdly grounding affect on me,, anyone else?
hi, same
Something about listening to this song while imagining a favorite character that has this kind of vibe feels oddly comforting
2021 still rejoicing
god i love this song
THIS ALBUM IS SO GOLD I LOVE THE FACT THAT I EXPERIENCED IT BEFORE ANY OF MY FRIENDS HOLY FUCK ITS BEAUTIFUL
One of the best albums
That’s a great music!
i love thiss a lil too much
I fucking LOVE the brass in this song!
Yeah, atleast this one didn't got takedown.
*REJOICE!*
Lol this one was uploaded by the actual record label
This song helps me come to peace with my mental illness lmfao
i will drink to this.
REJOICE REJOICE REJOICE REJOICE
REJOICE
Hello to all my fellow beings with ✨religious trauma✨ that downplay it by saying “it’s not that bad” even though IT IS that bad
Absolutely ❤ im not a victim of it but I've seen it in many friends and i feel for you all. Its lifelong
Vibin me and my chaotic mind
Used to think gods arms were made of witches that were ablaze and not the obvious, his arms are used to burn witches. I used to drink a lot. I still do, but I used to too.
This is 2020s anthem
This but unironically
No ones taking this ironically dude. It's art. No ones ashamed to like it.
@@BLANK-sm4dd I think I meant differently than how you read it, but it's because I'm very bad at communication and knowing me, I wrote my comment sleep deprived- basically I originally heard it when I was in a super rough place;
When I originally heard it it felt like it was cynically reflecting on forcing positivity and saying it was futile to try and bring joy into life when it's a shitshow
I don't know for sure what the original intention was, but now I take from it that sometimes refusing to let the shittiest things in life dictate how you react is the only control you still have
Idk, I've just been doing what I can to accept that some things are gonna be shitty no matter what and if I can find ways to fight back against that I won't be in a worse place than I was before, so why not try
I try to Rejoice if only to prove I still can
Sorry to be Fake Deep or whatever, I just like the song
Rejoyce!!!!!!!!!!
Religious trauma anthem fr fr
(I am sobbing due to personal reasons rn)
People that can eat people are the luckiest people in the world...I agree.
I fucking love this song
The instrumentals remind me of the weird songs they used to play at kids church events
Maybe that's intentional
What do I know, though, never been to one of those
when man play guitar fast i go :)
Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice.
Hello fellow tired and stressed students/workers
I hope anyone who relates to this song is ok :)
This would be a good song to hunt vampires to.
oh man the milk in this hotel tastes neutral
Ayy
culture.
(look at our profiles lmao)
I might as well be u/siewek
Please God let me die with this on
Granted.
'How can we sleep while our beds are burning?' (Midnight Oil)
Is this a reference to Watership down (By Richard Adams)?
Emely Center
Carson Pine
Commenting as a memory
It sounds like bleeding while you run
i wanna make a nagito animatic to this :)
DO IT BITCH
Yes please
Idk what that is but do it
David from Camp Camp vibes anyone?
To shreds you say?
ja
Millennial music.
Made in 2006, i guess that would count as millennial music
extremely vaptsarovian
In the future the equivalent of emo teens will listen to this and say they were born in the wrong generation. Or not.
Reminder from a different person I used to/choose not to be..
Thompson Elizabeth Harris Christopher Lopez Karen
he sounds exactly like amdrew from big mouth
negative milk hotel
This is Christian enough
any gay people here?
Hi
Halo :3
:33333
okie just checking, ly all :3
A lot, me included!.
Wilbur soot anyone?
Yeah
HE SENT ME DOWN THIS SPIRALLING RABHIT HOLE
God yeah lmao
Did he do a cover of this or somthing?
@@Lantern_Light no he has a spotify playlist with it in
This song seems pretty anti God but I like to take it as no matter how shitty you day or life is God will be there in the end of it with open arms, so REJOICE
Spencer Kenney The first verse is saying that god doesn’t listen, see, or care about humanity.
You really missed the mark, lol.
christians are fuckin wildin man
A Rosenthal Ik what it says I’m not stupid interpretation is up to the listener
Matt Wood truly we are
Thumbs down for changing your name for the woke crowd