... but then I was pleased life still gave me nice things, if I just opened my eyes/heart. I've said this before, but I'll never close myself off again. We'll see:)
This is my absolute FAVORITE performance of Astronaut. I love it so much & it was the first one I heard. I think I like this song better with just the piano :) either way I LOVE YOU!
i obsessively watched this video when it came out. seeing the date say "17 years ago" is blowing my mind. i wanted to be like her. not necessarily live her life but possess her ability to write songs as strongly. amanda, you were the reason i taught myself the piano. i wrote an entire album at 16 years of age all inspired by you. this song was a profound experience for me the first time i heard it. the energy you have here is phenomenal. anyway.. yeah.. still watching in 2024! still a great performance.
My God Amanda! This is the 1st time I've heard you without Brian and I am speechless! Your compositions are so special and rare. Your passion touches me to the core of my heart and soul! You are a living legend! I LOVE YOU!
If I could learn how to play this song, just this song, I'd be happy and content for the rest of my life. Amanda Fucking Palmer is spectacular, and the worst-kept secret of the music world.
Amanda's voice is just different--and a VERY refreshing different. I love her voice--so much emotion. It's not a pretty voice, but I love listening to it. She's an incredible performer. Rock on, Amanda!!
Oh my God I can't stop watching this video.. Probably the best performance of this song I've ever seen... It gives me goosebumps! I LOVE YOU AMANDA PALMER!!!
Is it enough to have some love Small enough to slip inside a book Small enough to cover with your hand Because everyone around you wants to look It is enough to have some love Small enough to slip inside the cracks The pieces don't fit together so good With all the breaking and all the gluing back And i am still not getting what i want I want to touch the back of your right arm I wish you could remind me who i was Because every day I'm a little further off But you are, my love, the astronaut Flying in the face of science I will gladly stay an afterthought Just bring back some nice reminders And is it getting harder to pretend That life goes on without you in the wake And can you see the means without the end In the random frantic action that we take And is it getting easy not to care Despite the many rings around your name It isn't funny and it isn't fair You've traveled all this way and it's the same But you are, my love, the astronaut Flying in the face of science I will gladly stay an afterthought Just bring back some nice reminders And i would tell them anything to see you split the evening But as you see i do not have an awful lot to tell Everybody's sick for something that they can find fascinating Everyone but you and even you aren't feeling well But you are, my love, the astronaut Flying in the face of science I will gladly stay an afterthought Just bring back some nice reminders Yes you are, my love, the astronaut Crashing in the name of science Just my luck they sent your upper half It's a very nice reminder It's a very nice reminder And you may be acquainted with the night But I have seen the darkness in the day And you must know it is a terrifying sight Because you and i are living the same way
This is so amazing! I can understand why people dont appreciate her as she isnt the best singer in the world bt she is so talented and so honestly raw. One of the best live acts I have ever seen, she is fabulous!
I love this song so much!!! amanda palmer has real talent.. she sings with passion unlike other singers who lip sing all there performances... she is the BEST singer EVER!!!
Cuts so deep. I remember learning this on keys in the run up to the release of WKAP. I think I had ripped this version to my ipod...cos that's how we did back then.
If there is a god, this woman is it. I have never come across another artist who is so passionate about what they do. She will never cease to amazing me.
The way this song climaxes is unreal. It takes hold of me; It shoots me up into the sky...^. All musicians should be so emotionally into the music they are playing as she is... It's really something; the way her voice breaks... the way she shakes... This is the way music is meant to be.
I LOVE Amanda Palmer, her voice is the same regardless of if it's on her records, or in person, she is such an amazing artist and I wish I could meet her and shake her hand and thank her for her amazing music which has helped me through my recent break up!
No one can insult this song, or can even do better. Until the critics can prove themselves better they should keep to themselves. Because it is obvious that many people don't know how much hard work goes into making music. On another note, great song, love the live versions, they are amazing
@CherriSpryte thats correct, it is "but they couldnt care like i did" it is because she finished that song 10 minutes before stage time (she told in some interview) and it is about some rock star she used to date. she knew he would be at the show and the whole song is about him AND some astronauts widow. and she wished so much to play the song when hes in the crowd and thats why she improvised some finish lyrics. of course, afterwards, she had some time to change it for the album.
"this is the only song in the world where i find a cracking voice beautiful." This and the Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" has a woman named Merry Clayton ripping it with a cracking voice.
Rant Bandini Taken from Amanda's blog: “astronaut” is, i think, my favorite song on the album, mostly because of how beautiful and slammingly perfect ben folds’ production turned out. i love his drum playing, the manic synths, the crashy percussion.i wrote this song away from home, which is rare for me. i remember what came first: it was what we called the vamp…the poundypoundy section that intros the song and keeps returning. I mut have come up with it during the dolls “no virginia” tour, because i was always banging it out during soundcheck, it had such a satisfying sound. i went to record with …and you will know us by the trail of dead around that time, in austin, and i was banging out the vamp on the grand piano in the studio and conrad said: “is that yours?” and i said yes and he said “finished?” and i said “no” and he said “but it’s goin’ to be good” and i thought “hell yeah, it does sound like he beginning of an awesome song.” then i had to write it and make sure it was awesome.the chorus hit me one day (but you are, my love, the astronaut) and the pieces started slowly formatting. i wasn’t sure where the astronaut came from. he sounded good. it made sense enough to me to fit him into my non-relationship of the moment. i had a terrible crush on a singer from a band. we had been dating but he vaguely vanished into thin air. he was unfindable, literally…he had no phone. he was handsome and smart and i’d finally let myself fall a little tiny bit in love for the first time in years. i felt gypped. i’d drawn his right arm, the back of it, which had a tattoo on it that I was attached to, one day when we were on a picnic by the river.so some of the lyrics had come together, but i hadn’t quite finished. i’m bad at finishing. he was coming to see the dolls at a show in portland, oregon, at the crystal ballroom, because his band was in town playing the next night. things had already torn apart quite far, and i was hoping the relationship was salvagable, and there is nothing to motivate the finishing of a song like an audience of one for whom it is intended. so i hauled my practice keyboard into the brewery room of the crystal ballroom (where the huge painted beer vats were, smelled very malty) and forced myself to finish it before the show come hell or high water. and i did. he heard it. i don’t think it did much good.sometimes you write songs and you know what you mean and sometimes you just don’t and sometimes it’s both.
@@JesseColton Might be but doesn't explain the meaning of the lyrics. It's written from the point of view of a woman loving an astronaut. The whole story is a metaphore and is really about the phenomenon of huge emotional dependance. The guy is an astronaut very successful but not very loving. The woman doesn't think about her own life but desperately yearns for his attention and wants more than he can give. It is about emotional dependant people loving the complete opposite of them, meaning self-centered ambitioned people in the hope of fixing their own feeling of being incomplete or being carried through their life which no person can or should do. So yes this is a common dynamic for a person in a crisis who is in a relationship.
What happened to the guy in Dresden Dolls? They made great music together, MAN!!!! She sings with so much emotion. She's a joy to listen to and watch. Awesome job!!
yes, she is amazing and that star that she has will last forever. there will be nobody with the same voice as her until the end of earth and space. she is beutifull and talented cos now she is popular anybody that says anything bad about her will not be liked. that is a speshol thing about singers, actors, stars or anything like that!
It's sad really ...that people need to validate themselves and their opinions through speading negativity. Amanda you are incredibly talented - never stop!!
Hey Amanda, Awesome song, I'm Just wondering were you sick or something, Your voice sounds really Husky here. anyway, Great song, as always. Its stuff like this that makes you one of my favorite people. Much love from Down under
Okay. HOW can she BEAT that piano so frickin' hard, basically SHRED her vocal chords by burning up every last ounce of passion in her for one song, rock back and forth on her seat, stamp her foot, bear her teeth in her tumultuous, terrifyingly huge amounts of furious energy and STILL look and sound like an ultra fuming sex, punk and cabaret GODDESS?! I'm lost...
Solo album, shmolo album. I wanna know when the new DD CD is coming out. Just to give me closure that Amanda's not gonna pull a Fergie on us. The world can't live without the Dresden Dolls.D:
Why does her not shaving her armpits mean she isn't taking care of herself? She shaves her eyebrows because she wants to, and she doesn't shave her armpits because she doesn't want to shave them. Has nothing to do with health or "taking care of" yourself. It's more of a personal choice.
You should check out a band called Hierosonic. She did vocals on a song of theirs called Circus Freak Love Triangle, and they're equally emotive. Incredible shit.
What are the lyrics toward the end? After she says, "Yes, you are my love..." When she starts yelling "But they couldn't..????" Anybody know what the lyrics are there?
I've never been so in love with a musician. The sheer amount of emotion is incredible.
I'm not sure why, but this song always makes me burst into tears. Just big ugly bawling tears.
I'm so angry that I just found her music recently this is phenomenal
Me in 2021
Ditto. But I had heard of Dresden Dolls at least by name.
... but then I was pleased life still gave me nice things, if I just opened my eyes/heart. I've said this before, but I'll never close myself off again. We'll see:)
This is my absolute FAVORITE performance of Astronaut. I love it so much & it was the first one I heard.
I think I like this song better with just the piano :)
either way I LOVE YOU!
Same!
that's amazing!! my first impression was like 'what the' but the passion just draws you in and i could feel myself being moved....
phenomenal!!
i obsessively watched this video when it came out. seeing the date say "17 years ago" is blowing my mind. i wanted to be like her. not necessarily live her life but possess her ability to write songs as strongly. amanda, you were the reason i taught myself the piano. i wrote an entire album at 16 years of age all inspired by you. this song was a profound experience for me the first time i heard it. the energy you have here is phenomenal. anyway.. yeah.. still watching in 2024! still a great performance.
My God Amanda! This is the 1st time I've heard you without Brian and I am speechless! Your compositions are so special and rare. Your passion touches me to the core of my heart and soul! You are a living legend! I LOVE YOU!
I LOVE THIS VERSION!!
2k15 and I still can't get enough of this performance
I love the energy that Amanda puts into her performances, she is one of the most talented solo artists out their now!!
so much emotion in this song AFP is perfect
nd again nd again nd again....
just beautiful..unbelievable tallent!!!
thank u, Amanda!!! ;)
If I could learn how to play this song, just this song, I'd be happy and content for the rest of my life. Amanda Fucking Palmer is spectacular, and the worst-kept secret of the music world.
I just love this woman. In The Dresden Dolls & now on her solo project. The new album is awesome. This is one of my favorite songs on it.
Some days i find loads of good music ive never of before on you tube. todays a good day.
Amanda's voice is just different--and a VERY refreshing different. I love her voice--so much emotion. It's not a pretty voice, but I love listening to it. She's an incredible performer. Rock on, Amanda!!
i have to watch this at least once a day...... simply beautiful!
So much passion and emotion in her singing. I love it.
Oh my God I can't stop watching this video..
Probably the best performance of this song I've ever seen...
It gives me goosebumps!
I LOVE YOU AMANDA PALMER!!!
Is it enough to have some love
Small enough to slip inside a book
Small enough to cover with your hand
Because everyone around you wants to look
It is enough to have some love
Small enough to slip inside the cracks
The pieces don't fit together so good
With all the breaking and all the gluing back
And i am still not getting what i want
I want to touch the back of your right arm
I wish you could remind me who i was
Because every day I'm a little further off
But you are, my love, the astronaut
Flying in the face of science
I will gladly stay an afterthought
Just bring back some nice reminders
And is it getting harder to pretend
That life goes on without you in the wake
And can you see the means without the end
In the random frantic action that we take
And is it getting easy not to care
Despite the many rings around your name
It isn't funny and it isn't fair
You've traveled all this way and it's the same
But you are, my love, the astronaut
Flying in the face of science
I will gladly stay an afterthought
Just bring back some nice reminders
And i would tell them anything to see you split the evening
But as you see i do not have an awful lot to tell
Everybody's sick for something that they can find fascinating
Everyone but you and even you aren't feeling well
But you are, my love, the astronaut
Flying in the face of science
I will gladly stay an afterthought
Just bring back some nice reminders
Yes you are, my love, the astronaut
Crashing in the name of science
Just my luck they sent your upper half
It's a very nice reminder
It's a very nice reminder
And you may be acquainted with the night
But I have seen the darkness in the day
And you must know it is a terrifying sight
Because you and i are living the same way
I just discovered Amanda Palmer and Dresden Dolls about a week ago . its up at the top of favorite stuff of all time ,and I listen to alot of music .
I'm at a loss for words. This is excellent.
This is so amazing! I can understand why people dont appreciate her as she isnt the best singer in the world bt she is so talented and so honestly raw. One of the best live acts I have ever seen, she is fabulous!
I know! I've never seen anybody put as much emotion into their music as Amanda has.
Amazing. So much raw passion. I love it.
Beautiful. Simply beautiful.
I love this song so much!!! amanda palmer has real talent.. she sings with passion unlike other singers who lip sing all there performances... she is the BEST singer EVER!!!
Cuts so deep. I remember learning this on keys in the run up to the release of WKAP. I think I had ripped this version to my ipod...cos that's how we did back then.
I am going to see Amanda in Edinburgh this year and I need to ask her what she was singing when it sounds like "but thy couldn't they like hiding"
Did you ask her? I think she might be saying "but they couldn't care like I did"
She's so passionate. It's wonderful and refreshing.
If there is a god, this woman is it.
I have never come across another artist who is so passionate about what they do.
She will never cease to amazing me.
The way this song climaxes is unreal.
It takes hold of me; It shoots me up into the sky...^.
All musicians should be so emotionally into the music they are playing as she is...
It's really something; the way her voice breaks... the way she shakes...
This is the way music is meant to be.
thats what makes an amazing artist such as amanda palmer
I LOVE Amanda Palmer, her voice is the same regardless of if it's on her records, or in person, she is such an amazing artist and I wish I could meet her and shake her hand and thank her for her amazing music which has helped me through my recent break up!
Wow! You can see & hear her passion as she plays
its sounds as great as the studio version, i love her♥
No one can insult this song, or can even do better. Until the critics can prove themselves better they should keep to themselves. Because it is obvious that many people don't know how much hard work goes into making music. On another note, great song, love the live versions, they are amazing
I'm so happy to have seen such an amazing artist. Ilu aFp
Just look at her face.
Thats where you can tell the true artists.
The song effects her so much. It comes from the heart.
She never ceases to amaze me.
2021 here
Amazing, simply Brilliant.
awesome
I love DD
and she as a single singer
of all the things this is my favorite 🧡
I LOVE this song she is so talented!!
I can't believe how beautiful and passionate that performance was. I love you Amanda Palmer (:
She has such an amazing voice.
Just an amazing performance.
So impacting with emotion. I love her.
wow, you played this song on your show at mexico city and I hadn't listen to it before so I didn't recognize it but it was pretty awesome anyway!
Love it.
Yes, she's already released a book of sheets for "Who Killed Amanda Palmer". It's available on Amazon, I believe.
@CherriSpryte
thats correct, it is "but they couldnt care like i did"
it is because she finished that song 10 minutes before stage time (she told in some interview) and it is about some rock star she used to date. she knew he would be at the show and the whole song is about him AND some astronauts widow. and she wished so much to play the song when hes in the crowd and thats why she improvised some finish lyrics. of course, afterwards, she had some time to change it for the album.
Amanda Palmer makes the world colorful!
Sends chills up my spine....
"this is the only song in the world where i find a cracking voice beautiful."
This and the Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" has a woman named Merry Clayton ripping it with a cracking voice.
I love her dress. I've never heard this song before and it's mad good.
great great performance... but i still don't get what this song is about. could someone please explain? :)
Rant Bandini Taken from Amanda's blog:
“astronaut” is, i think, my favorite song on the album, mostly because of how beautiful and slammingly perfect ben folds’ production turned out. i love his drum playing, the manic synths, the crashy percussion.i wrote this song away from home, which is rare for me. i remember what came first: it was what we called the vamp…the poundypoundy section that intros the song and keeps returning. I mut have come up with it during the dolls “no virginia” tour, because i was always banging it out during soundcheck, it had such a satisfying sound. i went to record with …and you will know us by the trail of dead around that time, in austin, and i was banging out the vamp on the grand piano in the studio and conrad said: “is that yours?” and i said yes and he said “finished?” and i said “no” and he said “but it’s goin’ to be good” and i thought “hell yeah, it does sound like he beginning of an awesome song.” then i had to write it and make sure it was awesome.the chorus hit me one day (but you are, my love, the astronaut) and the pieces started slowly formatting. i wasn’t sure where the astronaut came from. he sounded good. it made sense enough to me to fit him into my non-relationship of the moment. i had a terrible crush on a singer from a band. we had been dating but he vaguely vanished into thin air. he was unfindable, literally…he had no phone. he was handsome and smart and i’d finally let myself fall a little tiny bit in love for the first time in years. i felt gypped. i’d drawn his right arm, the back of it, which had a tattoo on it that I was attached to, one day when we were on a picnic by the river.so some of the lyrics had come together, but i hadn’t quite finished. i’m bad at finishing. he was coming to see the dolls at a show in portland, oregon, at the crystal ballroom, because his band was in town playing the next night. things had already torn apart quite far, and i was hoping the relationship was salvagable, and there is nothing to motivate the finishing of a song like an audience of one for whom it is intended. so i hauled my practice keyboard into the brewery room of the crystal ballroom (where the huge painted beer vats were, smelled very malty) and forced myself to finish it before the show come hell or high water. and i did. he heard it. i don’t think it did much good.sometimes you write songs and you know what you mean and sometimes you just don’t and sometimes it’s both.
@@JesseColton Might be but doesn't explain the meaning of the lyrics.
It's written from the point of view of a woman loving an astronaut.
The whole story is a metaphore and is really about the phenomenon of huge emotional dependance.
The guy is an astronaut very successful but not very loving. The woman doesn't think about her own life but desperately yearns for his attention and wants more than he can give.
It is about emotional dependant people loving the complete opposite of them, meaning self-centered ambitioned people in the hope of fixing their own feeling of being incomplete or being carried through their life which no person can or should do.
So yes this is a common dynamic for a person in a crisis who is in a relationship.
What happened to the guy in Dresden Dolls? They made great music together,
MAN!!!! She sings with so much emotion. She's a joy to listen to and watch. Awesome job!!
I think she's helping to rebuild the music industry from the inside out. Spectacular.
amanda palmer is my hero.
i'm 12.
i play piano because of her.
i write music because of her.
i love amanda palmer.
weird seeing this now knowing you’re in your late 20s
yes, she is amazing and that star that she has will last forever. there will be nobody with the same voice as her until the end of earth and space. she is beutifull and talented cos now she is popular anybody that says anything bad about her will not be liked. that is a speshol thing about singers, actors, stars or anything like that!
You nailed it Amanda.
this is sooooo catchy song!!!!
She Rocks!
i love this
She's so captivating
nicely stated :), she looks so passioned.
awesome voice she got....awesome..one of the things its worthed 2 live 4 ;)
going to a concert of hers in Dublin in.,.... 3 hours!!! :O
aaaah im so excited!!
=]
I saw her last night and was blown away. Absolutely great entertainer. I was in rapture the whole time.
It's sad really ...that people need to validate themselves and their opinions through speading negativity.
Amanda you are incredibly talented - never stop!!
I idolize Amanda Palmer more than ANY solo entertainer. Sheer talent & class.
Hey Amanda, Awesome song, I'm Just wondering were you sick or something, Your voice sounds really Husky here.
anyway, Great song, as always.
Its stuff like this that makes you one of my favorite people.
Much love from Down under
uaaahhh!!! stupenda
Wow, brilliant, what a woman what a singer.
Reminds me of Hazel O´Connor.
I play a Kurzweil keyboard too :) I always think of it as my tenuous connection to the great Amanda Palmer haha.
love
@Jakexxart its actually in english :3. perhaps your volume is not up enough? they are actually kinda similar languages.
HAH!!! Thanks; it's all buena. I LOVE YOU (as a friend)!!!
Okay. HOW can she BEAT that piano so frickin' hard, basically SHRED her vocal chords by burning up every last ounce of passion in her for one song, rock back and forth on her seat, stamp her foot, bear her teeth in her tumultuous, terrifyingly huge amounts of furious energy and STILL look and sound like an ultra fuming sex, punk and cabaret GODDESS?!
I'm lost...
you are amazingly beautiful -- what a breathtaking performance!
Amanada Palmer has immense amounts of talent!
She's amazing!
@OperaOfInsanity And that is why we adore her!
Holy Man!!!!!
No one beats Amanda, man.
Solo album, shmolo album. I wanna know when the new DD CD is coming out. Just to give me closure that Amanda's not gonna pull a Fergie on us. The world can't live without the Dresden Dolls.D:
in love with her
I want her to live forever
wow crazyness
I am still not getting what I want.
I want to go see her in concert.
Why does her not shaving her armpits mean she isn't taking care of herself? She shaves her eyebrows because she wants to, and she doesn't shave her armpits because she doesn't want to shave them. Has nothing to do with health or "taking care of" yourself. It's more of a personal choice.
bellisimo
You should check out a band called Hierosonic. She did vocals on a song of theirs called Circus Freak Love Triangle, and they're equally emotive. Incredible shit.
It was supposed to be out in spring, but I think she is taking a break from touring for a little while and putting it out in september,?
they should be releasing a new album by the end of may
2020 anyone? Early post Dresden Dolls era was her best
не то слово=)
Love Amanda more and more.
I heart
Oh, Amanda. I love your little dress thingy.
What are the lyrics toward the end?
After she says, "Yes, you are my love..."
When she starts yelling "But they couldn't..????"
Anybody know what the lyrics are there?