Matt Alber - End of the World (Director's Cut)
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- Опубликовано: 30 янв 2011
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Music video by Matt Alber performing End of the World (Director's Cut). 2009 Silver Label, a division of Tommy Boy Entertainment, LLC 
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Many years ago a friend in Az played this masterpiece for me and Matt trapped my heart. Little did I know that a few years later I would move to Portland Oregon and hear him perform live with me sitting no more than 20 feet from him. And as he began singing with the voice of an angel the crowd of some 250 people were all talking so loudly over him and so disrespectful. I have never done something like this before but I stood up and screamed at the top of my lungs BE QUIET! and the entire place went dead silent. Matt never missed a note. After his performance I got up the courage to introduce myself to him and sheepishly asked him if he’d like a boyfriend and he lovingly told me he already had someone (lucky guy) Not too many months after tho Matt accepted an invitation to my home and he let me prepare dinner for him and get this. He shared some very personal thoughts with me that I promised him I would never repeat to my dying day and I’ve never broken that trust. As I told him the first time I met him “I am your number one fan” I still believe I am. I’m glad to read here of so many others who feel the same way Matt is truly altogether lovable Miss you Matt wherever you are. All my best
That’s a great story. I’ve seen just enough video of him talking to know he has no pretentiousness and is very approachable. This song is simply amazing. I never tire of it, and I like to think that, had I been in your shoes during that live performance, I would have yelled at the crowd, too.
I cry every time the curtains come open.
I'm over 40, and from a very very conservative part of the country. When I was a kid, this video, with men dancing together to a love song, would have been wildly controversial, to say nothing of the kiss.
Things are so scary for my LGBT+ family right now, especially my trans family, but please know that however far we have left to go, we have come so far.
I am finally, after 20 years of waiting, with someone who fits me completely. It was worth every day of not knowing who or how or when.
This year at the fair we rode a ferris wheel together, we held hands together, we danced together and kissed in front of a whole tent full of people, and there was not a single dirty look or cruel comment. We got a shoutout from the band. It's the same state, just 25 years after I realized I love women. The only thing that has changed...is time.
It's worth sticking around to find love, to find yourself. Please know that your rainbow family needs you.
Wow. This video is simply wonderful. Thanks.
I love you for this comment. I'm a trans guy as well. Thank you so much for making this community warm. We need accepting older LGBT+ folk like you:) thank you.
Wow! What a statement--no less powerful than this song and video--more even for having been LIVED! Congratulations on your journey and your love!!
As an over 40 from a very liberal part of the country, I STILL feel this. Thank you.
@A Gannon That's so beautiful. I hope you are doing well and I wish you and your loved ones are happy, healthy and strong.
Decade and a half later... I still sob. Masterpiece.
So many levels. The music itself. The haunting melody. The orchestration. The multi-valent lyrics effortless weaving between the story and the metaphor. And finally the masterful vocal interpretation. I've lost count of the times I've listened to it; focusing on one dimension, then another. This is why it's a masterpiece and will survive the test of time.
I get teary and emotional every time I play this song/video. Matt, it is, and you are, so beautiful.
Me, too!
So incredibly touching. I just sent the link to my husband to be. This has to be "our" song.
love this video and song.
It hasn’t been 24 hours since I heard the song in the trailer for The Fall: Covenant of Grace, and I have played this more than 20 times, now. I knew in the first 5 seconds of that opening that this song was going to pierce my armor, penetrate my heart, to find that it’s has been residing in my soul, all along...longing. This song is me. This is us. I am so grateful to you Matt. Thank you.
The Falls trilogy and this song have impacted me so deeply that words cannot express. My heart is full.
I have watched this “The Falls” trilogy a half dozen times or more since “Covenant” was released in 2016. But, it wasn’t till 12/5/21 when “End Of The World” grabbed me and made me ugly cry.
@@Nacho-Mamma Thank you for bring me back to this timeless space of art that touches my heart so deeply and the tears continue to flow.
I am 80 years old, never fallen in love or deeply in love with someone. The only one I loved was my brother. Understand that I was not in love with my brother just loved him. How he is gone some 11 years and all my friends are gone. No family just relatives. I am saying this because there are some who are my age and older in the same boat as me. This is the first time I heard this song and I can say that I cried very deeply. Why I am alone with nothing to really live for but I will stay and continue. Have no pity for me as I chose this life and have no regrets. Thank you Matt for this song. I will play it many many more times.
There is so much loneliness in this world. I HAVE fallen in love before (three times with a few crushes sprinkled here and there), but I feel like I know what you felt. It’s such a powerful emotion, and I’m grateful there are songs like this to help us cope.
LOVE IT ! Beautiful voice and very romantic....how blessed i am to have found someone to ride the rollercoaster of life 23 years ago :)
That moment when the barber opens the curtain to let in the sunshine is perfection. Such a beautiful song and so beautifully realized in the video.
I've seen this video over 100 times, and each time, I cry. Such a deep and tender-hearted meaning in every frame and musical note. Matt has created a masterpiece that will live on through the ages. God Bless You, Matt for such a treasure you gave us !
"I don’t wanna lie
I don’t wanna believe it’s over
I just wanna stay with you tonight"
This song, this vignette, this dreamscape never fails to send me spinning -- off balance, suddenly awash in yearning and regret. It wasn't just one hesitation, just the one fumbled gesture,or lone misunderstood glance -- it's the sudden realization,, crystallized in this vision of two men caught in each others' arms,, how much of my young irreplaceable life was lived behind a curtain, with my hands tied behind my back. I know I'm lucky now-- marrried to the same man more than 30 years -- but this sharp shard of music makes it clear that, lodged among my memories, are the moments with the blond boy from Newport, or the redhead from Chicago, or the blue-eyed sailor in Iceland -- moments when I think that all of us heard the music, but didn't realize -- couldn't conceive - that it might be for us.
To all of you posters, keep forwarding this song to all you know. I have been doing
that for the past year. I feel all my friends deserve to hear this wonderful guy.
I can't stop replaying this and rewatching it .. :/
Over and over and over again....for years. Each time I do, I cry. Beautiful, beyond words.
Can't get enough of this song makes me cry almost every time I listen.
Amazing song and video. I saw Matt perform around the time this came out and it was awesome. Can’t believe it’s been 15 years.
I would just like to let everyone know that Matt Alber has a fan from the Philippines, and that would be me. Teehee. :) His voice, his lyrics, his melody has reached even this little country.
I remember watching this video and crying so so hard when I was 10 years old. I didn't know why this struck a cord with me like it did. I even showed it to my parents and they didn't understand it.
3 years later I realized I was a man. And I was transgender. This song was my dream - to be a man, and to be loved as a man. When I came out, my parents refused to put me in therapy and I lost all of my friends and the entire school shunned me. I pretty much lost everything, so I went back in the closet again. While I was in denial, I developed intense psychosomatic illnesses including "incurable" IBD, became suicidal, et cetera.
Now at 21, I finally came out again:) I'm now 8 months on T and I look more beautiful than ever and I'm finally happy again. Everything in my life makes sense, and this song's lyrics finally make sense to me too. Being born LGBT+ is aching and painful and difficult, but at the end of the day, it is beautiful.
I have fallen in love with a beautiful man who happens to be trans as well too. We both love vintage aesthetics, romance, and beautiful singing...one day, I hope I can show him this song and see if he feels it in his heart too.
What a tough path you've been on. Am so full of joy that you're finding your way, finding love, becoming the man you've been born to be and are embodying.
Matt... Goddammitt... Stop making me cry.
I remember buying this video from iTunes over 4 years ago... it remains one of my favorite ones. It always makes me feel so happy, even when my day sucks.
I am here now because of the movie this beautiful movie called The FALLS: COVENANT OF GRACE. . I am in love with THE FALLS trilogy and this song. :-)
One of the most beautiful songs in history.
The most beautiful boy meets boy love story ever filmed. Oh, and the song is beautifully timeless.
Matt, I have been discovered you at the beginning of the last chapter of The Falls. Marvellous voice, very romantic, incredible song. My deep and honest congratulations. I played your video several times a day since then. Simply, outstanding.
This was the one song that helped me come out of the closet. And I can't thank you enough for it. I can't help but to cry every time I listen to it.
I have the most wonderful boyfriend now, and I swear I will marry him someday. And I swear I will sing this for him at our wedding. Thank you so much, Matt.
His best piece. His best work. It slays me.
Thank you so much for bringing such beauty into the world with this song. It evokes so much emotion in me I cry every time I hear it.
easy to ,Criticize Matt produced the video himself, his father pulled the curtain. He wanted to end it with the 2 men flying off in a hot air balloon, but the money to hire a ballon was way too restrictive. To me this is insanely beautiful, especially because it was self produced with no big Hollywood budget. No smoke and mirrors, just honesty.
Six years later and I still weep every time I watch this. I've been corresponding with a new "boyfriend" who's stationed in Afghanistan and I shared this link with him. I'm certain he'll love it too.
If any one reads this, I want you to know what a truly great guy Matt is, even answered a personal email. Matt if it works out with my soldier, I want you to sing at our wedding!
after 27 years together this is just how I feel about my man. what an incredible song and his voice puts you in another world.. I love him!
I can't believe this song is 10 years old.
Crying!! I never knew this song. So wonderful. My brother who passed in 2020, loved this song and I just found out that he did today. I see why he loved it and I am so grateful to know this. I can hear him singing it and smiling with his crooked smile while watching it. So beautiful.
Lyrics:
I don't want to ride this roller coaster
I think I want to get off
But they buckled me down
Like it's the end of the world
If you don't want to have this conversation
Then you better get out
'Cause we're climbing to our death
At least that's what they want you to think
Just in case we jump the track
I have a confession to make
It's something like a cork screw
I don't wanna fall, I don't wanna fly
I don't wanna be dangled over
The edge of a dying romance
But I don't wanna stop
I don't wanna lie
I don't wanna believe it's over
I just wanna stay with you tonight
I didn't mean to scream out quite so loudly
When we screeched to a halt
I'm just never prepared
For the end of the ride
Maybe we should get on something simpler
Like a giant balloon
But I've got two tickets left, and so do you
Instead of giving them away to some stranger
Let's make them count, come on
Let's get back in line again and ride the big one
Don't you want to fall, don't you want to fly
Don't you want to be dangled over
The edge of this aching romance
If it's gonna end, then I wanna know
That we squeezed out every moment
But if there's nothing left can you tell me why
That it is you're holding onto me
Like it's the end of the world
I listen to this beautiful song regularly, and am always sending friends and family to see it and hear it. So lovely and sweet, lik I am sure you are. Thank you so much, Matt! Kisses and greetings from Ireland. xxx
This is gorgeous, and its own creation; that said, I can not help think of Rufus W. every time that I play it. (It's a compliment.)
I suspect i said this before, but I value very much discovering Mr. Alber, and how i find some real harmony with his music and sentiments. For a gay guy who has been captivated and guided by the Big Sisters that the Indigo Girls have been for me, it's nice to also hear kind and heartfelt words from a fellow gay man. It's a difficult thing to be BOTH a sensitive guy, and and a gay one as well. The world you meet with an open heart and an unguarded soul, is set to be more hostile and assaultive towards you, and for many, that shock and lack of toughness to defend against it, is a cold slap to the face ,and one that some don't survive to recover from. It makes me SO happy that ANY person of ANY gender or sexual orientation can find sympathetic rhythms and pleasing chords that they connect with, when there seems to be less-and-less room for that these days, and less of an opportunity to find that, when the music business is so splinted and dispersed. I know I am oddly and overly ascribing a persona to what is really more of a fictional person really, but we all crave connection and validation, and where ever you can find that, that must be a gift to not ignore. I appreciate him just 'being', if that makes sense, and it really speaks to the real need to be both out as adults, and encouraging that for everyone. There's no pain like one inside you that's never addressed or healed, and the best way to not allow that to happen, is, pardon the cliche. but to ASK, to TELL.
Well said!!! Being vulnerable is so much more difficult on the soul than being crass. It's easy to put on the funny-man mask but it's hard to be one's self, fully and wholly, and show these delicate emotions. Especially if you know you are going to get hate just on the basis of how you were born
This really touched me, Daniel. Thank you.
@@mattalber Warmth and grace in such a cold and graceless age.
The song stands on its own greatness. Then, the perfect treatment and perfect director happens. None of the big budget, big name directors (cough David Fincher / Mark Romanek cough) could top this. End of the World is Grammy level material that never received due recognition.
This is my #1 soundtrack of my life. And the video is amazing too.
This is our song, our video. I sing, I'm a tenor and I sang it to him over and over. He passed away 2 yrs. ago and this is the first time I've come back to it, sung it and cried. The day we met he begged me to dance, he was a dancer and we danced all night. Separated for 5 years before we could be together when we finally could come together he lost one of his legs and we danced anyway even when he had to be propped on a stool we danced.
This is so beautiful!
sadly real music, real talent and real love don't get much attention in our heartless world now
so i heard this on a movie and had to know who sang such a beautiful and powerful song ... simply put, amazing!
What movie? I'd love to see how it was used.
@@dj33036 The Falls: Covenant of Grace. Beautiful movie!
@@dj33036 it wasn’t the falls movie, it was actually a different one
I never tire of listening to this song. It evokes in me some deep feelings that cannot be expressed. I thank the film "The Fall" for it's introduction in my life, forever grateful. Beautifully done Matt.
I bawl like a baby watching this truly remarkably romantic dream song/video.
Thank you so much Matt. You are so awesome. I wish I could know you.
Fuck I've been listening to this for years now, still get teary eyed. I hate the loneliness.
Oh my God what a gorgeous song! Just discovered you recently by accident and can't wait to hear you in concert. It's SO wonderful to finally see a man singing to another man in such romance.
one of the most beautiful songs written in our times. It makes me cry every time I listen to it.
This is a masterpiece they will be playing long after we are gone.
my man passed away 2 years ago everytime I hear this song it just some how makes me fell better love u vince miss u sooooo
Love … love this so much. I keep playing it over and over. Thank you!
Amazing blue eyes and awesome voice. Thanks snarky for the recommendation.
should have put this up for grammy consideration
Gosh, what a video, lyrics, music and above all Matt and model. 🥰
So beautiful. I cried when they kissed.
It's one of the most perfect pieces of music ever created. Truly.
I just can’t get enough of this song.
I feel the exact same way!
I can't hear this without getting weepy. You performed this with the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus this past weekend (3/28/15) and I am still soaring high from the experience. I can't wait to hear you live again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for an unforgettable afternoon.
Thank you Matt, saw you perform this at a fund raiser in Halifax last year, it has haunted me ever since, it still makes me cry joyful tears, that is what music is all about
So wonderfully conceived and filmed! From the point the curtains are drawn back, the dance ending in the kiss. So beautifully sensuous and romantic.
Still such a beautiful, poetic, soaring lyrics and performance of a gorgeous song you wrote #MattAlber.
I think this is one of the best songs ever ever ever...that lyric is beyond words. thank you Matt.
This sublime song came from a dream and from inmemorial times. Thank you Matt Alber for bringing justice to another kind of love, and for making absolutely irrelevant 2000 years of prejudices.
I am so thankful my chorus got to sing backup with you on this song.
Romantic and so beautiful.... especially love the bit where the barber opens the drapes and the two men are dancing in the sunbeam.
Matt meet you Friday nite 9/9/11 at Meyer's Grove here in St. Louis, MO got your autograph and tickets to your show. We so loved your preformance that night on Saturday. It was so worth seeing you finally in person. My sincere thanks and best Jeff and Mark :)
This song was not only featured in 'Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom'...but it was also used in the trailer for the upcoming trilogy film--'The Falls: The Covenant of Grace'--too!!!
Still my favorite video in a long time...brings back memories.
I love seeing two men slow dancing or dancing arm in arm. Several years ago I was visiting Kansas City and there was a bar there where the gay cowboys used to dance the two step. It was beautiful. These old guys and young guys were just doing a wonderful job of dancing, and it was beautiful to see who took the part of dancing backwards. I was in Nirvana.
Right, this melody has been haunting me since this video was released. Turns out it's queerly similar to Quando M'innamoro (aka "A Man Without Love"), the Italian smash melody from the late sixties, made into a hit first by The Sandpipers in Italian, and then by Englebert Humperdinck in English. Thanks, Matt, for reviving an old chestnut of a melody that still pulls at the heartstrings... :-) Joe, a fan
I keep coming back to listen to this song, and I finally figured out that it wasn't just the soothing voice that I like....woof :)
i have been looking for this song for five years, im so fuckin happy.
This should be on the #1 charts.
Timeless.
Ditto PhireFoxRBLX.......can't stop re-watching. Absolutely stunningly beautiful, everything about it, the vocals, the story, the cinematography..........Wow.
I think this song would sell quite well if it was on the radio. Wonderful song, beautiful lyrics. A sad song, but one that pulls at the heart. Makes me want to hug my lover even harder.
I just love everything about this video...the song, the voice, the story, the look, the actors...everything just takes a wonderful song and makes it amazing. One of my top 10 videos ever!! Thank you Matt!!
Still after all this time I hear this song and tear up. Matt you're a brilliant talent and know exactly how to tap into the human condition! I just sent this to my beautiful man in London whom now I miss more than ever.......
Thanh you very much so Amazing and with such a poetry expressing love...
so sad and beautiful at the same time!!!
im thankful for the noahs arc tv show and movie for bringing artists that i might otherwise not know or heard of like this song from matt alber into my life. what a smooth touching song .
I absolutely love this song and this video. Thank you, Matt Alber!
Just wonderful.... even better live... thank you for coming to London UK... please come back soon. You are an amazing, incredible talent.
Romance is not dead. This song proves it!
Just heard this song again while viewing "The Falls" and there is something about this song and your singing that touches a spot within me that sometimes is difficult to reach.
I get the same lump in my throat and stinging in my eyes every time I watch this video and listen to the words in the wonderful way Matt sings them. Just beautiful... And I think the other guy's being somewhat "colder" than Matt makes it even more unexpected--poignant, even--when he offers his hand to dance.
Your lyrics are tearing me apart...
Great lyrics
love is love is love..sometimes it has to hurt..not sure why....
Thank you, Mr Alber
Amazing song, Matt, and amazing video, Robin. Honestly, just incredible.
I love this. Song. Video. Amazingly powerful.
I come back to this again and again
Nice clip. Beautiful song. Emotion and simplicity together in this song. Feeling, desire and affection together in a beautiful art exhibition. The singer is very good.
I must be the only one who cries every time I hear this..beautiful
I already have the soundtrack that this was also featured on in the movie, Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom, but had to check it out here. It's such a truly beautiful song. LOVE IT!!!
Beautiful! Thank you!
Love this! Wish I had been your Barber for this!
This song is amazing.
This was like finding a gem on RUclips. A diamond in the rough.
He needs publicity, promote promote.
I can't believe I actually got to meet this wonderful man! I was in 8th grade choir and I remember him and a woman who I think her name was like Shelly or Sherri? 😂 They came to our school and the girls and boys choir got to meet them and we took a selfie together! We also later got to see them perform at something called I think "Conspiare"? at the toban center and it was so fun! I remember looking at the song list and I knew I was gonna love the song "end of the world" I just got a vibe from it and I was right! That woman also sang pure imagination (one of my favorites) and I of course knew that would be a favorite as well, and it was, they both did so well and I'm so happy and glad I got such an amazing opportunity to meet them! I also remember a few days later after the performance one of the choir kids heard that Matt was gay and this quickly spread through the choir, but in a positive way, because openly gay people were to still new to me and us at the time and we were surprised to find out it was true about Matt being gay (also plainly demonstrated in this video). I am also gay myself and I just really admire him and his work especially this song and I just wish I could've realized the man in front of me and got a better conversation with him or autograph 😂💖
Absolutely in love with everything I just heard and saw. My eyes are glossy and I can barely speak. Why am I just now hearing of you, Matt? Well, luckily I have ... and I'm going to find everything you have ever recorded and share the love of your music with all my friends. You are a horse of a different color .... in every perfect way.