Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Trout Heart Replica (Lyric Video)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2012
- Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra's lyric video for "Trout Heart Replica" from their new album, 'Theatre Is Evil,' available everywhere! Get 'Theatre Is Evil' on AmandaPalmer.net: bit.ly/AFPshop. Tour dates and tickets available at bit.ly/AFPshows.
years ago i was on a boat and someone caught a sail fish. It was such a beautiful thing that I had never seen or heard about. The sail shimmered and flashed with colors shooting through it. I was amazing. Then they clubbed it and all the lights immediately ceased.
I know this song is about her experience with watching a butcher take to a fish, but to me it really encompasses feeling of detachment in a relationship. Its like, I know I'm detaching but I hate dealing with the vulnerability involved, and although I come off as cold and unavailable, its really because I'm so afraid of getting hurt. So pushing away is my only hope, regret soon following by afterwards. Oh, sensitivity.
getting lost in her music was the way i was able to feel when i couldnt feel, because the pain was so much that i couldnt feel with out risking total destruction,. Her music allowed me to feel with out having to feel, to be alive when i was so afraid to be alive. i love you Amanda , so much,
Love Amanda from one Amanda to another she speaks to my soul.
YES!!!!! I saw her in concert last year. Amazing...
I'm hurting so much right now and AFP'S music is the only thing that helps. My best friend killed himself, I'm in a really abusive relationship that I just ended and I have severe CPTSD and panic attacks when I'm alone. I'm checking myself into a hospital because my head's just getting worse and worse.
This song used to make me think, "what a beautiful yet tragic song", then I read Amanda's book and about the experience that inspired this song. Now it makes me cry, ugly cry...as in every time I hear it I sob a bit. It's a beautiful experience, but restricts listening sessions to the privacy of my own home. Thank you so much Amanda!
What did she say about it?
god, the "look its still beating, god I dont wanna know" is so heart wrenching with the context
One of the best songs ever constructed in my opinion.
So an old friend of mine is dying of cancer, and I found out today she's not expected to make it through the night. I've been sitting here listening to so many of your songs for the past couple hours (while also reading about the story behind your song Machete). This song made me chuckle and I wanted to sincerely thank you for that. I needed that so much right now. Thank you for all your beautiful music.
I love when she sings about "it still beating." So many chills.
This was one of the songs that inspired me to sit down at the piano again after a ten year hiatus. Just printed off the sheet music, and hoping I'm able for it. Wish me luck.
I'm proud of you! How's it going?
Did you play it?
Three years later- how is it going?
well I was really enjoying reading the lyrics til 1:05
and then what?
@@jeremybow604 that part doesn't have the lyrics on screen
@@jeremybow604 And then nothing happened. That pesky nothing, happens at all the wrong times.
🤣 I hadn’t even noticed…too sucked into the story 😢
It's one of my favourite songs from her. It's so striking and perfect from the music to the way she sings, the rythm. everything. So melancholic and striking.
this song crawls into my head and touches my soul in a soothing yet slightly naughty way
I'm a hunter, and I know the song is more about killing gamefish, but....
She catches the sick feeling of knowing you gotta eat, but knowing you have to hurt.
We can't live without destroying something.
Killing things ain't that hard, but the fun's over as soon as the smoke clears...
I love hunting, and hate it.
this is such a good way to put it. We cannot live without killing organisms. It is the cycle of life but it hurts.
you really don't have to hunt in the first place dude idk why youre complaining
@@queerlibtardhippie9357 would you rather people got their meat from industrial slaughterhouses?
It's a metaphor for living removed from nature
the contrast of your voice with the strings is beautiful. I got goosebumps
Last I checked, everything is something. When taken literally, the statement, "We can't live without destroying something," is true.
This song is so heart breaking.
This album was so magical to me
Same what is your favorite song? Mine is smile
I've been going through an existential crisis since I was like 13. This song makes me feel better
Does the die cut in half represent us giving ourselves every unfair advantage to remove all risk in hunting while still pretending to be on the same terms as the other animals and subject to natural selection or something? A very effective metaphor I think, if that's what it is.
I think it just represents the size of a trout's heart, but I think It's wonderful you are able to see such a thoughtful parallel.
I try really hard not to cry everytime I hear this song but it's just too sad :(
God, that beating.
I feel as though this is the Amanda Palmer Solo Version of "Slide." (Excluding her own cover of her and Mr. Viglione's original, of course) Now, yes, I know the meaning behind the song, but, I can't help feel that this song is also about caring too much for people and not enough for yourself, whilst only realising until the last moment and only being able to salvage the tiniest of scraps, in this case, one day.
I absolutely love the lyrics in this one!
One of the best tracks of 2012.
Of course she would, at one point, have Beefheart references in her songs.
Amanda, your music is wonderful. I can't imagine what it must be like to have a conversation with you or Mr Gaiman. Please, both of you keep following your vocations, for they enrich the world. :)
This song speaks my soul
this is my favourite song of AFPs for when i need to bawl my eyes out. i'm not a cryer but every fucking time this manages to do it
Lyrics
They've been circling
They've been circling
Since the day they were born
It's disturbing
How they're circling
Fifty feet from the pond
Pretty often
Pretty often
I don't want to be told
It's a problem
It's a problem
It's a problem I know
And I won't keep what I can't catch in my bare hands without a net
It's hard enough to walk on grass so conscious of the consequences
They've been jerking
They've been jerking
In a pail by the dock
I know that oxygen might
Make them blossom and die
But I'm not going to talk
Feed them details
Feed them emails
They'll eventually grow
But it's not working
It's not working
Not as far as I know
And killing things is not so hard it's hurting that's the hardest part
And when the wizard gets to me I'm asking for a smaller heart
And I got you
I thought that I got you
now I'll ruin it all
Feeling helpless
Acting selfish
Being human and all
And they're jumping
And they're jumping
But they'll never get out
Just keep touring
Just keep on ignoring
Be a good little trout
And the butcher stops and winds his watch and lays their lives down on the block
He raises up his hatchet and the big hand strikes a compromise
Wait, we'll trade you
Wait
Please just one more day
And then we'll go with no complaining
No complaining
No complaining
No complaining
Stop
Come
And they're cutting
And they're cutting
And I think that I know
And they're gutting
And they're gutting
And I think that I know
And it's beating
Look, it's beating
And I don't want to know
And it's beating
Look, it's still beating
God, I don't want to know
And killing things is not so hard
It's hurting that's the hardest part
And when the wizard gets to me
I'm asking for a smaller heart
And if he tells me "no"
I'll hold my breath until I hit the floor
Eventually I'm know I'm doomed
To get what I am asking for
Now my heart is exactly the size
Of a six-sided die cut in half
Made of ruby red stained glass
Can I knock you unconscious as long as I promise
I'll love you and I'll make you laugh?
Now my heart is exactly the size
Of a six-sided die cut in half
Made of ruby red stained glass
Can I knock you unconscious as long as I promise
I'll love you and I'll make you laugh?
I love this song and like the picture very much
Some days, I live for this song.
Love this song
Definitely my favorite song from the new album.
Ive been looking for this for so long
I kinda interpreted this as not wanting to let go of those who take advantage of you. Rather than realizing what they're doing, you blame yourself for being "selfish" and act as if you have total control over what is going on.
"They've been circling since the day they were born"- Immediately these people latch onto you, realizing that they can get what they want from you.
"Circling 50 feet from the pond"- they're always around. Always waiting for when they need you.
"It's a problem, I know"- Others tell her that she needs to let go of these people. She knows they're an issue.
"They've been jerking"- Knowing that they can use her, they get more aggressive.
"I know that oxygen might make them blossom and die but I'm not going to talk"- She's trying not to give them what they want.
"Feed them details...they'll eventually grow, but its not working... not as far as I know"- They only get stronger and more aggrissive. No matter how much you give, they'll never have enough.
and so on and so forth! :>
the second song that's actually made me cry
gracias
I think it's very different. I could have the DD or WKAP albums on repeat constantly, but this album I could only listen to a couple of times a week. It gets old quickly after a few days and then you want to listen to it again. But it is magnificent if you try to listen without comparing.
I was worried there wouldn't be a 5minute+ tear-jerker on this album (alla Point of it All, Delilah, Truce)
Guess you liked the latest album then, given it's like 80% long tearjerkers.
That's exactly what I thought, same with The Sheep Song!!! Thank the heavens I keep veggie burgers around :D
Captain Beefheart tribute? :D
The concept started with the visit to the fishery. The song is not completely about that. It is a contrast.
You really feel that way ? I love 80% of this record.
Her book brought me here ❤ page 169
You are cordially invited to attend our special event Madam. You are a key player after all.. 😎
#TheAbyssStaresBack
I feel the same way. I thought this was a very solid record :)
Who did that beautiful reductive block print?
all living things are technically sentient I'm afraid. :c
I'm sorry but a plant has no central nervous system so there is no pain-feeling consciousness, whereas an animal is very much aware and afraid.
when I first heard this song I thought it was about liking animals and having to kill them, essentially. and I feed snakes a lot and I have to kill mice and things like that. hurting is the hardest part indeed 8(
Dat Captain Beefheart reference.
I want to collabprate with you!! I want to share with you my words and songs ♡
just when I was feeling better about eating fish over fellow fury creatures. next someone will write about the silent screams of carrots and other veggies being yanked from the earth then chopped to pieces. is this why she asks for a smaller heart?
Jose Pena oh Jose you're missing out. Keep listening to this song over and over again til it pierces your heart where it's all knotted up and you'll be born again you'll forever drop that ugly shell you're displaying.
Jose Pena what's annoying orange? Okay, watch her video about killing. Killing something. Can't remember. It's badass. That might be more your emo flavor. Or try her other crazy rock party song lol. She's insane and beautiful. Amanda Palmer is so alien
Jose Pena I did. I guess we all have different tastes...
Idk... I still have to watch flat earth videos. At least I might discover something ground breaking while I can't fall asleep. Thanks anyway.
Sebastian Burgess I think it's more about relationships between people that are fading yet there is that person who wishes they wouldn't.
because fish taste good.
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"We can't live without destroying something." Yes we can. Most choose not to.
so many poppy songs on this album without real lyrics/feelings. most of them are getting on my nerves rly quick. same with the APGDU album, just loving (rly loving!) vegemite + bad wine and lemon cake. nearly all of the other songs im not even liking a bit. big polarity :( and its rare to find "bad/boring/modest/whatever" DD songs, it feels like another class :)
epic song, just sad that on every amanda palmer album there are just 2-3 of them, the majority is unfortunately crap. :(
in DD-Times nearly every fkin song has been fantastic. :)