I love how they're referencing the whole "ancient cultures didn't have a word for blue" phenomenon. I've never seen it used as a metaphor, despite how perfect that is 😊 (even if it's a linguistic phenomenon and not anything to do with rods and cones)
Right! Every culture/language has a pattern of starting with Light/White and Dark/Black. Then they add in Red as the third color in the vast majority of cases. It's not that they couldn't see it of course; they simply didn't need more colors in everyday language up until they added them in. I like this song and I get that it's a metaphor but I kind of wish they'd framed it differently. Love the references and the overall idea though. :)
@@DoveJS yeah. I was a bit saddened when I saw how it was framed, but I do think it's a good metaphor. I know there was a really popular episode of radio lab on NPR that randomly (and wildly innaccurately) theorized that writers like homer may have called the sea "wine red" due to not having as many rods or cones and not seeing some shades of blue. So that may be a factor. But even if that weren't, I knew people in college familiar with the theory from anthropology or linguistics who seemed to think you couldn't tell the difference between two colors without having a word for it and I couldn't help but think from listening to them that they were clearly misunderstanding the difference between how you perceive shades and tints in the color spectrum and how you categorize those shades and tints in your language. I've been told that Russian has a separate core vocabulary color word for light blue and treats that as it's own color - doesnt mean we can't tell the difference between light and dark blue in English. Not to mention, there's the oft overlooked fact that English has a core vocabulary word for "light red" not found in many languages: pink. (My degree is in linguistics, btw)
@@friend_trilobot there is also an ambivalent relationship between names and the ability to recognize the existence of an object. To some degree, you won't be able to "see" an object in terms of assigning any value or meaning to it. Here in Russian, we don't have any articles. That means that in casual everyday language we don't usually categorize objects as being definite or indefinite. We don't see this information as meaningful. We don't "see" it. But if confusion arises, we can definitely provide this information through different means.
interpreting this through a classics viewpoint: the greek poet Homer used the epithet "the wine-dark sea" to describe the ocean. Since then there has been a lot of academics and scientists who have given different explanations for why Homer would choose such a phrase, because "duh, the ocean is blue". There is a widely accepted theory that the ancient greeks had no word for blue/did not hold the cultural concept of the colour blue. The song "Lapis lazuli" is referencing this idea: hence why "the sky looked white", and "Rayleigh" here refers to the optical phenomenon that makes the sky appear blue most of the time to our eyes. I think broadly the lyrics are about gaining new perception and seeing what was hidden before, ie. being able to perceive "blue" (unlike the greeks). HOWEVER I also have to add my $0.02: 1) some classicists don't believe this myth about ancient greeks and blue. one persuasive argument is that the greeks in their poetry are concerned with the LUMINOSITY of substances more than the actual HUE. So actually, the sea is "wine-dark", because think about how seawater looks in a b&w photo: dark but not opaque, a lot like a glass of wine, actually. 2)my own argument is that people are dumb and the sea is just wine-dark sometimes. Sure, the sea is sort of blue on sunny days, but think about sunsets and sunrises: they do turn the sea purplish red sometimes. The world isn't a kid's crayon drawing; sometimes the sea just isn't blue. (this is way too in detail but i mean the whole song is about perception and seeing what's there/what isn't there)
I actually didn’t know this! Cool information! I agree that the song is definitely about finding something/new meaning you couldn’t see before. I heard it for the first time during the wildfires, so the sky was literally white from smoke and the water like wine, so this song is always going to remind me of seeing the first blue skies when the smoke clears.
Lol, "too much detail" is never enough with this band! I swear I could write a book on The Anemoi Cycle! Interesting analysis, by the way! Blue seems to be associated with... Well, to start out with, it's a very rare color in nature. It's sometimes used in literature as a metaphor for peace, like in Lois Lowry's "Gathering Blue" (it may be a YA novel, but it's really complex!). Also, the ancient Egyptians used lapis lazuli around their eyes because they thought it improved their vision, which has that association with clarity and truth.
Ooh, really interesting. I'm also wondering if describing the sea in the context of wine in this particular song is a reference to Jesus turning water into wine?
I believe Lapis Lazuli is about discovery of further truth, completing the puzzle of your vision, finding what was missing, but I think also, it is fundamentally about communicating the completion to an audience who is alien to that idea, and the struggle to translate. With this new knowledge, you have to regress your language to explain it to those who lack the revelation. All of this done so elegantly with our inability to communicate to true experience of color through the facet of our individual vision of it, as well as the barriers of the language we use to describe them.
The stone is associated with truth, among other things. Apparently, the ancient Egyptians would grind it up and wear it around their eyes, because they believed it improved eyesight.
@@thecottageofcuriosities863 The ones that aren't supposed to be bangers, and are designed to be more painful and make you think more. As in, Passerine, which isn't really a "banger" so to speak, but it's still AWESOME. Also I think this song is a lot more like "Heiroglyphics," "Grow," and "Notos," than "Constellations." But thas just me.
@@wrenisprobablyb0red agree, i think boreas is more like constellations (but also not really) or glowing- not sure, i've yet to memorize all the song lyrics & process all the songs
I agree .. I have online classes tomorrow and I'm here crawling through the woods because of their wonderful music .. For a moment everything is peaceful .. 🌬️❄️💙💙
[Lyrics] I don’t mean to speak so collectively, I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna hear it; what can I say, what can I say, what can I say? 'cause the more I recite it the more you wanna fight it, the more my language is sounding fabricated But if there’s one thing I know, it’s either the growing is slow or it cuts to the bone, moving too quickly. So I’ll keep half of my words in my mouth, let the syllables fall out at a steady trickling; I’ll be your roof caving in. You don’t know what you don’t know yet! Yeah, I go on forgetting it. Don’t you go on forgetting it, too! _(Don’t you go on forgetting it!)_ I don’t mean to speak so intrusively; I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna see it. Nothing old, nothing new. Well, if there’s two things I know, it’s that the sky looked white and the water like wine when I first met you. But somewhere along the line Rayleigh scattered across my eye and I found her blue! Yeah, I found her blue! *You don’t know what you don’t know yet!* *Yeah, I go on forgetting it!* *_Don’t you go on forgetting it, too!_* *_(Don’t you go on forgetting i-i-i-it!)_* *_(Don't you go on forgetting i-i-i-it!)_* I must have found a new cone in my eye. What other Lapis Lazuli was hiding behind my color blindness? What did I miss, what did I miss, what did I miss...
This song is about someone who has found their new truth. As they've gone wandering through the cold winter, their questions find new answers, which become new thinking, and a new color, and new way of seeing, enters their world. They keep trying to tell people about what they have seen, to little avail. And they begin to wonder, gazing at Lapis Lazuli they had long rejected as common rock, what else they might have missed without this beautiful new sight.
I'm fighting back tears listening to this. My worldview has shifted so drastically the last few years that I no longer even have the words to try to explain my perspective to my family without them looking at me like I've lost my mind. In a way it's nice to know I'm not the only one who's ever felt this way.
Tyler, Maggie, and the Oh Hellos Family: God bless you. So much growth has happened to me over the last 2 years, and I've been listening to your stuff since Deep Dark Valley. Your music keeps me grounded while jumping the fuck around and fist bumping. I remember pounding my chest to the drums of this song last Saturday while bounding over rocks in a state park. You guys make my heart pound a happiness bound out of me, it's a marvel. Can't wait to shout with y'all when you make it to Minneapolis again
Lapis Lazuli: The storm reaches its full force in lapis lazuli. But it’s not angry, because the lead has floated to above the white cotton clouds. It has understood the true meaning of cold and now it has found the arctic in the heavens. But from this height, the lead has become reflective. It wonders what it is missing. What it doesn’t know.
I love this band and their music, I’m not christan and I’ve cut ties with it for my own spiritual healing but I’m glad they found a place to heal. My place was elsewhere where I felt safe and at home. This gives me hope that other christans and be so self aware and understanding and that ignorant and selfish hate stop
It sounds like someone trying to preach their religion to someone, trying to not make it awkward or intrusive, but after a while, they discover something and now have a new perspective on their beliefs. Idk, it’s just me.
Definitely. The opening lines of "the more I recite it the more you wanna fight it, the more my language is sound and fabrication" is a common feeling that a lot of religious people have about trying to spread the word of one's faith. The later line about change either happening too slow or cutting to the bone too quickly is another great description of how it's hard to find the right balance between ignoring one's faith and not doing anything to make the world a better place out of shyness, and being so desperate to spread the word that one ends up driving people away in one's efforts to convince them. But the beautiful conclusion they reach about their own faith at the end is honesty perfect. Probably the most underrated song lyrically I've ever heard.
Been over a year, but I still love listening to this jam. If Dear Wormwood is any indicator, I have a feeling I'll be listening to this and all the other songs from Boreas for a long time to come.
Something about the woman's voice and the way it kind of trails behind makes me feel weird things. And I absolutely can't wrap my head around what it is. Her voice feels like that of a wise female mentor-mother-figure in a fantasy story and that's a voice that I would like to hear guiding me through life
Well said. It's not even the most traditionally beautiful singing voice I've ever heard but she delivers every line sooooo perfectly for the highly lyrical and emotional style of almost all of The Oh Hello's songs. It's just magic.
I love this band for this exact reason. They sound like someone who's gone through it, learnt from their mistakes, are now old and wise, but hold so many regrets. They know they're putting a heavy burden on you, talking about their own heavy burdens, but they want you to be better. Invokes this deep sense of... you have responsibilities now lind of thing?
@@trikalabris It's not a full album. EPs have kind of lost their meaning as an "extended play" and are now usually written seperately. They're just short albums now, usually less than 25 minutes, with less than 7 songs. This one has 7 songs, but only 5 of them are lyrical, so it fits.
i cannot handle how much i love the oh hellos. their songs paint a picture in your head. their songs deserve stories written about them. and they touch your heart. their music would be perfect for an animated adventure fantasy movie
THIS is my favorite song from Boreas!!! I love it, the beat is energizing and just great!! Amazing work!!! I love this so much. I know that it may mean different things to other people and I'm not trying to force my interpretation on anyone, but personally I sort of see at as someone trying to explain a religion/faith to someone and they don't want to hear it and then that someone who never had any sort of faith, just... Sees something they've never seen before, You don't know what you don't know yet. :) Or just in general that feeling of epiphany when you discover something new that was there all along but you didn't realize existed, and it's just so big and beautiful and bold... how did you miss it?? What else did you miss?? Either way, I love this song so much!
i was only kidna aware of the oh hellos before now from Tiny Desk etc... but this album is incredible. i adore it. i'll be listening to this for a long time
Damn it’s crazy I found them my freshman year of high school and heard eurus when it came out and now I’m a freshman in college and I heard them on compilation and I’m listening again great stuff
Does anybody know who/what Rayleigh is in this song? It's capitalized in the lyrics, so I thought it may be the name of somebody who means a lot Tyler and/or Maggie.
I think it refers to Rayleigh scattering: the scattering of light by particles that have a radius less the wavelength of the light. It's why the sky's blue. Sorry if that wasn't a very good explaination, I'm tired.
in the context of the rest of the EPs, this song sounds to me like someone trying to encourage people close to them to open up against their closeminded/conservative beliefs. cold (the song before this in the tracklist) references the main hook of Passerine, which is one of the more direct songs about the conflict that can come from acknowledging the harmful things one has done in name of ideas they thought were correct. but instead of just wallowing in the grief that can come from feeling like one has lost the community you shared with other people who thought the same way, the singer has decided to stop simply "philosophizing" and is now taking action, trying to be the catalyst for that same change in other people, instead of giving up on them. even when they don't wanna hear it and even when you still feel like you have no idea what the hell you're talking about these EPs are so cool. favorite band for sure.
Man, all these people going on about it being a reference to finding further truth or literally about color blindness... Pretty sure that's overcomplicating things. From what I've gathered this song is about depression, or rather, recovery from it. When you're depressed you don't notice it but colors are naturally muted, everything taking on a darker and dreary tone, something that is impossible to notice until you're finally free of it, gaining self esteem or getting better. When you get that moment of happiness and self esteem it's almost like the whole world goes vibrant and there's so many colors you've never seen before. Especially the whole ending part with "you don't know what you don't know yet" being how a lot of people with depression assume things are just gonna keep being bad but only in that state of happiness do they realize that things can be better, and a lot of times when you relapse into depression you forget this happiness, so the song is telling you not to forget. Especially the beautiful part at the end "what other lapis lazuli was hiding behind my color blindness" being something I've wondered before of how much I've missed due to my depression. It's a beautiful and inspiring message that always uplifts me every time I listen to it. Everybody who talks of being disappointed about the metaphor not being good just weren't seeing the correct metaphor. This song is beautiful.
I don’t mean to speak so collectively I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna hear it What can I say, what can I say, what can I say the more I recite the more you wanna fight it the more my language is sounding fabricated if there’s one thing I know it’s either the growing is slow or it cuts to the bone moving too quickly so I’ll keep half of my words in my mouth let the syllables fall out at a steady trickling I’ll be your roof caving in You don’t know what you don’t know yet yeah, I go on forgetting it don’t you go on forgetting it, too don’t you go on forgetting it I don’t meant to speak so intrusively I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna see it nothing old, nothing new well if there’s two things i know it’s that the sky looked white and the water like wine when I first met you but somewhere along the line Rayleigh scattered across my eye and I found her blue Yeah, I found her blue I must have found a new cone in my eye what other lapis lazuli was hiding behind my color blindness what did I miss, what did I miss, what did I miss
![the oh hellos - four winds (full album, seamless edit) [updated version]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jajR9KxiOHc/mqdefault.jpg)
My Math teacher: Alright, class. Are there any questions? No? Okay then lets move on.
Me, *through tears*: I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DON'T KNOW YET
I thought you said *throwing tears* and I just accepted it, cause it works just as well.
I vibe so much
I love how they're referencing the whole "ancient cultures didn't have a word for blue" phenomenon. I've never seen it used as a metaphor, despite how perfect that is 😊
(even if it's a linguistic phenomenon and not anything to do with rods and cones)
Oh my lord that actually works so well!!!
i agree! the reference to the odyssey was very nice touch
Right! Every culture/language has a pattern of starting with Light/White and Dark/Black. Then they add in Red as the third color in the vast majority of cases. It's not that they couldn't see it of course; they simply didn't need more colors in everyday language up until they added them in. I like this song and I get that it's a metaphor but I kind of wish they'd framed it differently. Love the references and the overall idea though. :)
@@DoveJS yeah. I was a bit saddened when I saw how it was framed, but I do think it's a good metaphor.
I know there was a really popular episode of radio lab on NPR that randomly (and wildly innaccurately) theorized that writers like homer may have called the sea "wine red" due to not having as many rods or cones and not seeing some shades of blue. So that may be a factor. But even if that weren't, I knew people in college familiar with the theory from anthropology or linguistics who seemed to think you couldn't tell the difference between two colors without having a word for it and I couldn't help but think from listening to them that they were clearly misunderstanding the difference between how you perceive shades and tints in the color spectrum and how you categorize those shades and tints in your language. I've been told that Russian has a separate core vocabulary color word for light blue and treats that as it's own color - doesnt mean we can't tell the difference between light and dark blue in English. Not to mention, there's the oft overlooked fact that English has a core vocabulary word for "light red" not found in many languages: pink.
(My degree is in linguistics, btw)
@@friend_trilobot there is also an ambivalent relationship between names and the ability to recognize the existence of an object. To some degree, you won't be able to "see" an object in terms of assigning any value or meaning to it. Here in Russian, we don't have any articles. That means that in casual everyday language we don't usually categorize objects as being definite or indefinite. We don't see this information as meaningful. We don't "see" it. But if confusion arises, we can definitely provide this information through different means.
interpreting this through a classics viewpoint: the greek poet Homer used the epithet "the wine-dark sea" to describe the ocean. Since then there has been a lot of academics and scientists who have given different explanations for why Homer would choose such a phrase, because "duh, the ocean is blue". There is a widely accepted theory that the ancient greeks had no word for blue/did not hold the cultural concept of the colour blue. The song "Lapis lazuli" is referencing this idea: hence why "the sky looked white", and "Rayleigh" here refers to the optical phenomenon that makes the sky appear blue most of the time to our eyes. I think broadly the lyrics are about gaining new perception and seeing what was hidden before, ie. being able to perceive "blue" (unlike the greeks).
HOWEVER I also have to add my $0.02: 1) some classicists don't believe this myth about ancient greeks and blue. one persuasive argument is that the greeks in their poetry are concerned with the LUMINOSITY of substances more than the actual HUE. So actually, the sea is "wine-dark", because think about how seawater looks in a b&w photo: dark but not opaque, a lot like a glass of wine, actually. 2)my own argument is that people are dumb and the sea is just wine-dark sometimes. Sure, the sea is sort of blue on sunny days, but think about sunsets and sunrises: they do turn the sea purplish red sometimes. The world isn't a kid's crayon drawing; sometimes the sea just isn't blue.
(this is way too in detail but i mean the whole song is about perception and seeing what's there/what isn't there)
I actually didn’t know this! Cool information! I agree that the song is definitely about finding something/new meaning you couldn’t see before. I heard it for the first time during the wildfires, so the sky was literally white from smoke and the water like wine, so this song is always going to remind me of seeing the first blue skies when the smoke clears.
Lol, "too much detail" is never enough with this band! I swear I could write a book on The Anemoi Cycle! Interesting analysis, by the way! Blue seems to be associated with... Well, to start out with, it's a very rare color in nature. It's sometimes used in literature as a metaphor for peace, like in Lois Lowry's "Gathering Blue" (it may be a YA novel, but it's really complex!). Also, the ancient Egyptians used lapis lazuli around their eyes because they thought it improved their vision, which has that association with clarity and truth.
Ooh, really interesting.
I'm also wondering if describing the sea in the context of wine in this particular song is a reference to Jesus turning water into wine?
@@therainbowwillow4453 well, you don't know what you don't know yet.
I believe Lapis Lazuli is about discovery of further truth, completing the puzzle of your vision, finding what was missing, but I think also, it is fundamentally about communicating the completion to an audience who is alien to that idea, and the struggle to translate. With this new knowledge, you have to regress your language to explain it to those who lack the revelation. All of this done so elegantly with our inability to communicate to true experience of color through the facet of our individual vision of it, as well as the barriers of the language we use to describe them.
I think your analysis of the song is pretty accurate. it at least seems to make sense to me.
explaining radical Christianity to evangelicals
The stone is associated with truth, among other things. Apparently, the ancient Egyptians would grind it up and wear it around their eyes, because they believed it improved eyesight.
The cathartic ending of Dear Wormwood in the background is magnificent!
at first I thought I was imagining it!
That's something I still wouldn't have noticed years later prolly - thanks for pointing it out!
Oh shit!!! I just noticed that, and now I’m crying-
Where is it!? I only hear Boreas...
Edit: oh, Yes, now i hear.
Full on chills, I love it!
ok so this is the constellations of boreas basically, i.e. absolute banger
ABFLAKFNKALD YOU RIGHT! But also; is any song by these wonderful humans not an absoLUTE banger?
@@thecottageofcuriosities863 The ones that aren't supposed to be bangers, and are designed to be more painful and make you think more. As in, Passerine, which isn't really a "banger" so to speak, but it's still AWESOME.
Also I think this song is a lot more like "Heiroglyphics," "Grow," and "Notos," than "Constellations." But thas just me.
Wesley Page XDD that’s valid. Tbh I use bop, banger, vibe and such interchangeabley for songs that I just adore XDD
@@thecottageofcuriosities863 That's also valid, I suppose. :)
@@wrenisprobablyb0red agree, i think boreas is more like constellations (but also not really) or glowing- not sure, i've yet to memorize all the song lyrics & process all the songs
People who don't listen to the Oh Hellos do not have the same quality of life as we do
It's basically the main thing that keeps me happy
I agree .. I have online classes tomorrow and I'm here crawling through the woods because of their wonderful music .. For a moment everything is peaceful .. 🌬️❄️💙💙
@Jacob Wood Yes, indeed ! Haha ..
TRUEE
I just got diagnosed with covid today and this new music has definitely been helping. Its like they knew, ha
[Lyrics]
I don’t mean to speak so collectively,
I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna hear it;
what can I say, what can I say, what can I say?
'cause the more I recite it
the more you wanna fight it,
the more my language is sounding fabricated
But if there’s one thing I know,
it’s either the growing is slow
or it cuts to the bone,
moving too quickly.
So I’ll keep half of my words in my mouth,
let the syllables fall out
at a steady trickling;
I’ll be your roof caving in.
You don’t know what you don’t know yet!
Yeah, I go on forgetting it.
Don’t you go on forgetting it, too!
_(Don’t you go on forgetting it!)_
I don’t mean to speak so intrusively;
I know I don’t make it easy
to even wanna see it.
Nothing old, nothing new.
Well, if there’s two things I know,
it’s that the sky looked white and the water like wine when I first met you.
But somewhere along the line
Rayleigh scattered across my eye
and I found her blue!
Yeah, I found her blue!
*You don’t know what you don’t know yet!*
*Yeah, I go on forgetting it!*
*_Don’t you go on forgetting it, too!_*
*_(Don’t you go on forgetting i-i-i-it!)_*
*_(Don't you go on forgetting i-i-i-it!)_*
I must have found a new cone in my eye.
What other Lapis Lazuli was hiding
behind my color blindness?
What did I miss, what did I miss, what did I miss...
This song is about someone who has found their new truth. As they've gone wandering through the cold winter, their questions find new answers, which become new thinking, and a new color, and new way of seeing, enters their world. They keep trying to tell people about what they have seen, to little avail.
And they begin to wonder, gazing at Lapis Lazuli they had long rejected as common rock,
what else they might have missed without this beautiful new sight.
Even though the lyrics are in the description, I’ll never not upvote the Lyric Comment
@@a.morphous66 oh, they are? I didn't even know.
Ah yes, serotonin 😭
The Oh Hellos really be giving us our free serotonin 😔😔
I love free stuff
This has such a different kind of strength behind it. I can't get enough of it.
good morning everyone
Good morning
I'm fighting back tears listening to this. My worldview has shifted so drastically the last few years that I no longer even have the words to try to explain my perspective to my family without them looking at me like I've lost my mind. In a way it's nice to know I'm not the only one who's ever felt this way.
Tyler, Maggie, and the Oh Hellos Family:
God bless you. So much growth has happened to me over the last 2 years, and I've been listening to your stuff since Deep Dark Valley. Your music keeps me grounded while jumping the fuck around and fist bumping. I remember pounding my chest to the drums of this song last Saturday while bounding over rocks in a state park. You guys make my heart pound a happiness bound out of me, it's a marvel. Can't wait to shout with y'all when you make it to Minneapolis again
I was so surprised by this one because it felt so different, this sounds amazing!! I love this so far
the world: is absolute hell
The Oh Hellos: we don’t do that here
I'M SO EXCITED TO LISTEN TO ALL OF THEM AAAAAHHHH
You guys... is that Dear Wormwood echoing in the background starting at 2:21 or am I crazy? I'm OBSESSED
that is the tail end of it yes
Reminds me of "all you need is love" when someone starts singing "she loves you" at the end
YES!! Omg I freaked out when I heard it and screamed “Is that Dear Wormwood!?!!?”
I HEARD IT TOO (so either we're both crazy or neither of us are XD)
I got full on chills at that moment
Thank you so much for putting the lyrics in the description!
dang all these people are so insightful and I just saw the title and thought _heho minecraft_
I should've kept awake earlier... Then I could've seen this masterpiece come out
Samee .. But instead I was busy reading and my notifs was off ..
i stayed up late waiting for it to drop and it was so worth it
I stayed up with the Discord listening party.
This feels a lot different from when Notos and Eurus released! Those 2 years in between increased the audience.
A wildfire spreading
Lapis Lazuli: The storm reaches its full force in lapis lazuli. But it’s not angry, because the lead has floated to above the white cotton clouds. It has understood the true meaning of cold and now it has found the arctic in the heavens. But from this height, the lead has become reflective. It wonders what it is missing. What it doesn’t know.
I love this band and their music, I’m not christan and I’ve cut ties with it for my own spiritual healing but I’m glad they found a place to heal. My place was elsewhere where I felt safe and at home. This gives me hope that other christans and be so self aware and understanding and that ignorant and selfish hate stop
It sounds like someone trying to preach their religion to someone, trying to not make it awkward or intrusive, but after a while, they discover something and now have a new perspective on their beliefs. Idk, it’s just me.
I mean the whole series is about new ideas and the process of developing them
Definitely. The opening lines of "the more I recite it the more you wanna fight it, the more my language is sound and fabrication" is a common feeling that a lot of religious people have about trying to spread the word of one's faith.
The later line about change either happening too slow or cutting to the bone too quickly is another great description of how it's hard to find the right balance between ignoring one's faith and not doing anything to make the world a better place out of shyness, and being so desperate to spread the word that one ends up driving people away in one's efforts to convince them.
But the beautiful conclusion they reach about their own faith at the end is honesty perfect. Probably the most underrated song lyrically I've ever heard.
It's my birthday today and I'm super happy that this music was uploaded today!
Happy birthday!
@@andirling thankyou!
Been over a year, but I still love listening to this jam. If Dear Wormwood is any indicator, I have a feeling I'll be listening to this and all the other songs from Boreas for a long time to come.
Oh wow I woke up with constellations stuck in my head this morning then I check youtube to see a bunch of new music :0
I think there's going to be some new songs stuck in your head.
Your soul had prophesied the release and was trying to tell you...
Same!
Something about the woman's voice and the way it kind of trails behind makes me feel weird things. And I absolutely can't wrap my head around what it is. Her voice feels like that of a wise female mentor-mother-figure in a fantasy story and that's a voice that I would like to hear guiding me through life
Well said. It's not even the most traditionally beautiful singing voice I've ever heard but she delivers every line sooooo perfectly for the highly lyrical and emotional style of almost all of The Oh Hello's songs. It's just magic.
I love this band for this exact reason. They sound like someone who's gone through it, learnt from their mistakes, are now old and wise, but hold so many regrets. They know they're putting a heavy burden on you, talking about their own heavy burdens, but they want you to be better. Invokes this deep sense of... you have responsibilities now lind of thing?
Leaving this EP on loop for a while
What is an EP ?
@@trikalabris EP stands for "Extended Play", a term which comes from records. It's longer than a single, but shorter than an album
@@wmarrin1211 Oh I see. So this is not the full album ?
@@trikalabris It's not a full album. EPs have kind of lost their meaning as an "extended play" and are now usually written seperately. They're just short albums now, usually less than 25 minutes, with less than 7 songs. This one has 7 songs, but only 5 of them are lyrical, so it fits.
@@wrenisprobablyb0red Oh got it. I thought its goin to be full album with some songs releasin later
Loving the EP so far!
Enjoy the good vibes my friends. May this be the turning point of 2020.
I'm hearing a lot of callbacks to different songs
At "found her blue" I got goosebumps
i cannot handle how much i love the oh hellos. their songs paint a picture in your head. their songs deserve stories written about them. and they touch your heart. their music would be perfect for an animated adventure fantasy movie
i'm sobbing, this is so beautiful
THIS is my favorite song from Boreas!!! I love it, the beat is energizing and just great!! Amazing work!!! I love this so much. I know that it may mean different things to other people and I'm not trying to force my interpretation on anyone, but personally I sort of see at as someone trying to explain a religion/faith to someone and they don't want to hear it and then that someone who never had any sort of faith, just... Sees something they've never seen before, You don't know what you don't know yet. :) Or just in general that feeling of epiphany when you discover something new that was there all along but you didn't realize existed, and it's just so big and beautiful and bold... how did you miss it?? What else did you miss?? Either way, I love this song so much!
i was only kidna aware of the oh hellos before now from Tiny Desk etc... but this album is incredible. i adore it. i'll be listening to this for a long time
I love it!😍
I love you guys🥰
Your music never fails to cheer me up and make me feel wonderful.
I'm so grateful for this😊
These were posted on my birthday :0 Excellent timing! :D
Happy birthday
Was in the top 2% of listeners for the oh hellos on my spotify wrapped
Watched them all ❤
So... This album is the second album I want to buy for myself ever. And first I will probably buy.
JUST LOVING IT
This song gives me so much energy!!
I am absolutely in love with Boreas
Waking up to all these releases is the best feeling
So great to have new songs! i love listening to old albums but sick to have a new one, that is great as well!
Yep i've decided this is my fav song from this album :D there is so much energy to it :D
Favorite band favorite band favorite band!!!!!!
easily my fav from this EP
it's evening here and i should sleep but who needs sleep bxmdshsks
Yeahh, who needs sleep .. ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
The vibes of this new album are immaculate 😌👌
my favorite gem stone
this is such a beautiful album and im not even done yet
Damn it’s crazy I found them my freshman year of high school and heard eurus when it came out and now I’m a freshman in college and I heard them on compilation and I’m listening again great stuff
this is my favourite from the ep :DDD
3:04 my favorite sensational part of the song
This music always gives me goosebumps... It's so good!!!
These are so great, I'm so excited.
Does anybody know who/what Rayleigh is in this song? It's capitalized in the lyrics, so I thought it may be the name of somebody who means a lot Tyler and/or Maggie.
I think it refers to Rayleigh scattering: the scattering of light by particles that have a radius less the wavelength of the light. It's why the sky's blue. Sorry if that wasn't a very good explaination, I'm tired.
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I cant tell if this is my new favorite album or if I still like dear wormwood more
i looooooooooove this song 😍😍😍
Oh boy, can't wait to enchant my tools to this
I’m loving this album
Woah I absolutely love this one. Its different but so good!
This is the closet I get to country
Beautiful, brought a smile to my face
Thank you for saving 2020
I woke up to this 💕
wow that last line hits different
I'm so happy. thank you 💜
BEAR! It's me!!!!
Get ready for the minecrafters!!
Wow!
Yesss
omg new music!
ahh i love this
Anyone else hear the yell from dear wormwood in the second half?
I need a license to use on my travel video.
On RUclips
Where do I pay?
Ah yes, my favorite character from Land of the Lustrous
in the context of the rest of the EPs, this song sounds to me like someone trying to encourage people close to them to open up against their closeminded/conservative beliefs. cold (the song before this in the tracklist) references the main hook of Passerine, which is one of the more direct songs about the conflict that can come from acknowledging the harmful things one has done in name of ideas they thought were correct. but instead of just wallowing in the grief that can come from feeling like one has lost the community you shared with other people who thought the same way, the singer has decided to stop simply "philosophizing" and is now taking action, trying to be the catalyst for that same change in other people, instead of giving up on them. even when they don't wanna hear it and even when you still feel like you have no idea what the hell you're talking about
these EPs are so cool. favorite band for sure.
Man, all these people going on about it being a reference to finding further truth or literally about color blindness...
Pretty sure that's overcomplicating things.
From what I've gathered this song is about depression, or rather, recovery from it.
When you're depressed you don't notice it but colors are naturally muted, everything taking on a darker and dreary tone, something that is impossible to notice until you're finally free of it, gaining self esteem or getting better.
When you get that moment of happiness and self esteem it's almost like the whole world goes vibrant and there's so many colors you've never seen before.
Especially the whole ending part with "you don't know what you don't know yet" being how a lot of people with depression assume things are just gonna keep being bad but only in that state of happiness do they realize that things can be better, and a lot of times when you relapse into depression you forget this happiness, so the song is telling you not to forget.
Especially the beautiful part at the end "what other lapis lazuli was hiding behind my color blindness" being something I've wondered before of how much I've missed due to my depression.
It's a beautiful and inspiring message that always uplifts me every time I listen to it.
Everybody who talks of being disappointed about the metaphor not being good just weren't seeing the correct metaphor.
This song is beautiful.
So is this supposed to be from Peridots perspective?
Any Steven universe fans here?
omg minecraft??
Lapis Lazuli is a real gemstone. They're not singing about minecraft.
@@wrenisprobablyb0red ....i know. it's a joke.
@@frills5316 Ok, cool.
:)
1:27
Quien le daría dislike? 😣💛
I must be a dummy, I thought they were gonna reference Steven Universe when I saw the title. ._.
I don’t mean to speak so collectively
I know I don’t make it easy
to even wanna hear it
What can I say, what can I say, what can I say
the more I recite
the more you wanna fight it
the more my language is sounding fabricated
if there’s one thing I know
it’s either the growing is slow
or it cuts to the bone
moving too quickly
so I’ll keep half of my words in my mouth
let the syllables fall out
at a steady trickling
I’ll be your roof caving in
You don’t know what you don’t know yet
yeah, I go on forgetting it
don’t you go on forgetting it, too
don’t you go on forgetting it
I don’t meant to speak so intrusively
I know I don’t make it easy
to even wanna see it
nothing old, nothing new
well if there’s two things i know
it’s that the sky looked white and the water like wine
when I first met you
but somewhere along the line
Rayleigh scattered across my eye
and I found her blue
Yeah, I found her blue
I must have found a new cone in my eye
what other lapis lazuli was hiding
behind my color blindness
what did I miss, what did I miss, what did I miss
Steven Universe fans: 👁👄👁
Me talking to transphobes
This song is about minecraft
bruh moment
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