Here is my take. This song is an metaphor for drug use/addiction. The Grandpa worked a hard and had a stressful life so we was tempted by drugs (follow me, follow me). Grandpa tried it (went to the tracks) and got hooked. He turned into a rambling man and warned his daughter and future grandson not to go to the tracks (not wanting them to succumb to addiction like he did). The Grandpa disappears (possibly OD’s), but his spirit still haunts the family (much like how even once an addiction is gone it’s still a struggle). The son made these family demons his own (addiction can be inherited and passed down in families) and so eventually he is driven to to tracks and succumbs to addiction like his grandpa did.
i was abt to comment this lol I feel like its about repeating the patterns of your family before you. the voices the grandpa hears are faint in the beginning and he ignores them (hes only just started to use drugs, hes ignoring/denying the risks) they get louder (the addiction gets stronger) until he "goes berserk" and goes to the train tracks, the train being the point of no return where hes given into his addiction and let it take over his life. I didnt think of it as him ODing though that makes sense also, I saw him leaving the family to go to the tracks as being like how you lose a family member to addiction, not because they die but because theyve completely lost their old self to addiction. bc at the end the devil offers the grandson everything he wants in exchange for his soul, basically to throw away his life for the pleasures of being high
I know everyones talking about the "Are you waitin' on a train?" But honestly when the glitch happens as he says "I'll put you in control." I get chills
@@AngelBirdoit's because of young kids in fandoms associating this song with two characters they perceive as gay for each other. This song has been used in many animatics for different fandoms. I know this because I used to be one of those children. I'm an adult now and I still dig this song.
Legosi Haiura I like how it’s fits with the backing being old, like the devil train and his grandfather’s story, yet the rap is modern just like the guy singing about his own similar fate.
I'm an aspiring author, and when I first heard this song, I came up with a character. Seven years later, it has evolved into one of the most expansive story ideas I've ever had titled "The Devil of Autumn's Edge". Thank you for creating this wonderful song, Lab Rats. I'm exicted to see where the future of my story takes me!
I love how at the end he says “well where we gonna go?” I like to imagine after he said that the random man smiled deviously like he new exactly what it would lead to
this week on buzzfeed unsolved we investigate the devil's train as part of our investigation into the question, are ghosts real? as i stated before, i will only do one demonic investigation per season, so here we are
It's sad that this song isn't on Spotify. It's one of my favourites and I have to come searching for it on RUclips every time I want to listen to it instead of being able to add it to a playlist :(
@@soupoup if you use a phone then it's infinitely worse yes but if youre using a computer and adblock its basically the same except some songs might have worse audio quality
Okay weird story. My great grandfather was a conductor on a train, he was a drunkard, he was insane. Drinking to escape the noises, the voices in his head. He disappeared one night. We dont know what happened.
Aye kinda sounds like my grandma. She is skitzaphrenic and an alcoholic, one night she straddled my grandpa while holding a kitchen knife "because the voices told her to" I was really little so it scared my mom and she told her to get put or shes calling the cops and nobody has seen her again. I dont know if shes dead or a live or what
Holy cow! Both stories are spooky!at the meantime, my grandparents are just nice old people that like Kandy. (Sorry for the bad English, it's not my native language)
Danm, your grans stories are scary. The scariest thing that happened to my grandparents was terrorism for racist people, all I know is a lot of people died_)
My grandmother was schizophrenic and ended up killing herself, I never got to meet her. Turns out I'm schizophrenic too. So this song is even scarier. Lol
Big Scare... Welp my Gram's heart stopped multiple times when she was about my age, my dad had a massive heart attack last year, my grandfather has two stents, my great gramps got 3 stents.. ...... So imma eat alllll the junk food and see what happens XD
i love the bit where it goes 'F O L L O W M E' 'F O L L O W M E' 'F O L L O W M E' 'F O L L O W M E' 'F O L L O W M E' 'F O L L O W M E' 'I H A V E S O M E T H I N G T O S H O W Y O U . . .'
That's a good theory, but no. Besides, if it were about suicide, grandpops wouldn't come back. He wouldn't be "floating" (in the apparition) and his body might have been found on the train or track (from other methods of suicide that isn't a noose). So yeah p.s I'm not trying to shit all over your theory, I was just adding to why it's not about suicide
i like to think that this song is about schizophrenia. “he was actin’ was berserk”, schizophrenia can cause apathy and decreases emotional expression. “told her not to not to act up and cracked up laughing” schizophrenia can cause inappropriate actions “went from a family man to a rambling man, a gambling man that burned both ends of the candle.” schizophrenia symptoms often worsen with time and get more prominent if it is a progressive type. “was urging him to listen to the train in the distance” auditory hallucinations “after all that happened he left never to be seen” probably ran away after giving in to the voices that were telling him to do so. “sitting on the tracks waiting for the night train, looking down the road ain’t never gonna come back” probably referring to him running away, since he was sitting ON the tracks he probably got ran over. “when i was a teen i pretended that my demons were friends” schizophrenia can be inherited, and i assume “demons” is referring to the voices in a schizophrenia patient’s head “not the average things you see on acid” this implies that the hallucinations were in detail “suddenly i discovered little voices mumbling up in my head” referring to the ‘demons’ from earlier in the song i’d assume. i could go through the whole song and pick out the lyrics that further back up my ‘argument’ but i feel like whoever may or may not read the comment get it. because the grandfather is implied to have a gambling addiction, and the son is implied to have a drug addiction, i’d assume the devil is either a hallucination or the source of their addiction (dealer for both of them)
Fantastic theory I think the beginning is correct with 'Demons are friends' but it's really about a demon who drives people a little insane so they commit su!cide by getting hit by train(s) :}
I also think the acid trip is really telling as it's one of the things that can trigger the gene if you possess it already. He even makes a comment about how its not the normal stuff you'd see on acid, which is notably pretty true
Me-*finishes this song and takes off headphones to go to sleep* Me-*hears train horn despite the song being over and my headphones being off Me- *sweats nervously* (For context I live almost directly beside a train station)
I always thought it was about suicide, mostly at the end with the lines “ain’t never gonna go back” and “I always pretended my demons were friends” and I basically always thought riding the devils train was a metaphor for suicide
Not enough people talk about how timeless this song is. It's rap, which is a relatively new genre of music (in terms of MUSIC as an activity and how long it's been around, drums are an EXTREMELY old instrument, you get my point), but I feel like this is still gonna SLAP in twenty or thirty more years. It's already 11, if the date of the original on The Lab Rats YT channel is to be believed. It's crazy, do you think the original rapper even knows 6m+ people have listened to this?
hotel eden (the man who wrote the instrumentals for the second half of the duo) knows about the popularity :) i have no idea about brian tho. there's rumors that he's dead but no one really knows what happened to him after lab rats
@@AngelBirdo Youre welcome! I think I actually have talked to Hotel Eden, you can find his channel, a lot of people have commented on his videos to really see what hes up to, after all he produced the SICK INSTRUMENTALS FOR THIS TRACK!!!!! (i really love the lab rats sorry )
Counter counter point: Make contracts as a minor. Contracts when you’re a minor aren’t legally binding, and therefore, demon can’t take your soul. You’re welcome.
A really cool thing about this song that I noticed and loved is that the demon/devil cuts off a return to the chorus, both when he arrives and when he replies to the singer for the first time. It makes that final chorus feel a lot more ominous, because you know that it wouldnt be happening unless he wanted it to, and he wanted you to hear it.
going with the drug addiction theory, i can see how the devil is actually a drug dealer, offering the boy a position to also be a drug dealer with him, given that drug dealers make mad cash. However, crossing a drug dealer can lead to a lot of bad blood. maybe this doesnt make sense lool edit: i was high when i wrote this so to expand: drug dealers make fast cash and a lot of cash ("you never have a need to beg work or steal" and "all the money to fold") and they tend to have a lot of power in the sense that they could kill you for crossing them or they could cut you off of something you're addicted to (drugs or otherwise) BUT on the flipside of the rewards, you're paranoid. You could lose everything. But the rewards seem like it's the devil himself trying to convince you. imo
My general guess is that this tells a story of a grandfather who got addicted to gambling and ruined his life (addiction being the devil in this case) and the Grandson ended up in the same unfortunate situation simply because he didnt listen to his mother of whom he rebelled against
I kinda thought it was just how the grandfather had been tempted to gamble for a while ("Follow me, follow me, I have something to show you") and he finally gave in but ended up losing all his money to who he didn't know was the devil. So to try to win the money back, he bet his soul but lost. Then the grandson gets into his teen years, starts trying to welcome demons. He's doing some kind of drug maybe and the Devil takes this as an opportunity to get his soul too. He steers him towards the train tracks with his grandfather's carcass. Then he strikes. The train might've been used to take the grandfather to the Devil's casino, hence why it's the Devil's Train. Idk maybe it's just a guy with schizophrenia
The sentence "not the average things you'd see on acid" kinda makes me think it has something to do with drugs, but also it doesn't. If that makes sense.
I thought it was about a skitzophrenic kid, inherited by his grandad and like, ends up killing himself by going to the train tracks or something? Like the demon was a figment of his imagination, hence "not the average things you see on acid" make me believe this is isn't about drugs. Just a theory.
This is nostalgic. Not only because I listened to this a lot as an elementary school kid, but also my adventures. When I was 4, my father took us to the old train tracks every weekend. The trussles (can't spell) were broken from when the trains crashed nearly 60 years ago. We'd cross them. Which isn't very safe for 4 toddlers and a full grown man. We'd sit there in the broken edge in the middle and watch the sunset. My father told us about the ghost train that goes off the tracks and find whoever could hear it. He said if you could hear it then you are the ghost train's next victem. There weren't any trains that came through for years. But I always heard and still hear a train in the distance at night. I might be halucinating, but It still chills me to this day. They recently fixed the tracks and trussels into a trail. Now where our dad took us, is our hide out area. There is a tree that holds an island next to it. We swim in the river and find old train pieces. If no one believes me about ghe place, then I can take a video. We go there everyday. (I'll be gone for the next week so I can't then)
I never been in a train before but next to our house is an abandoned rail tracks. My mom always told me that it was use on WWI. Everytime I woke up at 3 am, I swear I heard train sound on the back garden which is where the old train track is located.
1:26 in my country there's this myth of wearing your shirt backwards (or inside-out) when you get lost because of an enchantress or supernatural force that may be playing with you. This is often talked about when you go into a forest or a 'masukal' or obscured area that may be in the mountains or the deeper parts of rural areas. Very interesting if you kinda let go of the logic of why the hell would you wear your shirt inside out once you get lost.
My mythology knowledge is a bit basic, but I think one of the ways to deal with the Leshen is turning your shirt backwards so you can find your way back again
I legitimately thought this was from the Disney show Lab Rats (I know nothing about it) so I finally decided to watch some of it and realized something was very wrong and I now know that I'm an idiot
love all the devil glitches, even the subtle less noticeable ones, like in “let’s make a deal,” “price of your soul,” and the hissing breaths taken before a handful of sentences
I love how this is the perfect fusion of rap and electro swing, the sample is just so good (if it is a sample, that is. I can't really tell.) It also tells a really interesting story.
We used to play on the train tracks when I was younger. Occasionally we played chicken with the trains. One day I went out alone to get the sweatshirt I had lost the day before when a short man in a dark suit strolled up to me. No one around the area would have dressed like that, so it was already strange. He asked if I would take a walk with him and I told him I knew about stranger danger. He grinned and told me I was smart, but if I came to the traintracks alone again I would regret it with all my being. I tore out of there and never went back. Recently I was driving over the tracks a short distance away from that same place alone at night. I looked down the tracks to see that no trains were coming, and on the side of the road standing alone in between the rails was a short man in a dark suit. He tipped his hat to me and disappeared. I stay well away from those tracks.
No. This is a perfect Creepypasta. Tell this to Mr Nightmare. He's a Creepypasta reader and makes videos out of them. Who knows. Maybe his friend Llama Arts will turn it into an animated one?
For those who also came from tiktok, the audio a lot of cosplayers use ("it's a nice night for a walk would you mind if I joined you?" Thing) starts at 4:30
you ever just trip on drugs so hard that you start having hallucinations of your decaying grandfather and make a deal with some random demon who wants your soul
i saw a comment that said that this might have a deeper meaning about underlying schizophrenia. maybe the grandfather uncovered his through alcohol (i mean the 1930’s vibes are there) and there’s a lot saying he wasn’t rich and probably poor. maybe during the great depression one night he went to a bar and got drunk, uncovering his own schizophrenia. and then the same thing happened to his grandson but with drugs. maybe it’s not only a deeper meaning about schizophrenia but being prone to addiction in families.
Did anybody else get a really _not quite right_ vibe when listening to this song for the first time? ...and the ensuing times? I still love his song tho
Yes! Something about it was like an ill-fitting piece of clothing, irking and crawling, like it settled in the shadows of your room and kept watching you
I had abandoned train tracks outside my house and those tracks where abandoned around the 60s-70s and built during the 30’s every single night I could hear a train whistle and dogs barking but we had yorkies small dogs not big loud dogs ... still scares me to this day thinking about it.
He’s alone on the train tracks and sees a silhouette in the distance, and a man with a shiny grin. The lights and shadow from the train approaching him. He dead
It took me awhile buu I think it’s either about the “devil” convincing people to commit suicide or the “devil” is just a symbol of depression or mental illness that can lead to suicide. 🤷🏼♀️
@@morgansteele3769 that would be just as perfectly good. It would be really cool to make an eerie movie that *is* the prequel, but at the end we see the kid starting to hear satan's voice.
This actually matches two of my characters, Alan and William. William is a ghost train conductor, who died in WW1, and Alan, who is also a ghost, and he died from a drug overdose in 2010. Both have teamed up a few times to give William "Souls" (he basically uses the souls in a way, if they are useless he gives them to somebody else who can use them.) William is obviously the Devil's Train Conductor, and Alan is the Devil that the singer talks to, which results the singer to be killed by the train.
The “are you waiting for a train?” line could be a way for the creature to ask of the protagonist is waiting for a train to run over him. It probably assumes he would take his life on the tracks like his father and grandfather both did.
@rosey comet Exactly, I’ve lost too many good songs to Tik Tok... Mercy, Big Fun, Join Us For A Bite, Boys Will Be Bugs and a few Beetlejuice songs to name a couple...
I remember the first time I listened to this song it was midnight and I was in my room, which of course was dark, and I was watching animations for songs and I saw one for this song, and it scared the crap out of me for some reason XD
??? First time I heard this it was exactly 3:00am when it started (3:00am=devil's hour) and I was alone in my grandma's room it was dark and I was like "welp...time to memorize the devil's part."
I like to think the “waiting on a train” and “put you in control” bits are like when Bill Cypher from Gravity Falls gets angry and glitches out. The same for “let’s make a deal”
Grandad: *doesnt show up to work*
Grandmom: omg is it the devil
Pastor: yes
For once the pastor was right
666 likes and uh hi-
I wanna like but it's a 666 likes, it's too perfect
edit: it's over 1k now, I've liked the comment lol
@@burningcandlewick 1 more like till 999
@@izukabakugou4835 No longer
"Do what you wanna do."
"Well that's great cause I'm going to."
Me: *oh*
yes.
*No*
*YES*
NO
@@malokaaaisawerdio1944 *Y E S*
"Follow me"
Grandpops: lol no
"Follow me"
Grandpops: *yes*
Bruh The Gandpa could be Opie
@@LpsDreamsStarsandMoons j
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Here is my take. This song is an metaphor for drug use/addiction. The Grandpa worked a hard and had a stressful life so we was tempted by drugs (follow me, follow me). Grandpa tried it (went to the tracks) and got hooked. He turned into a rambling man and warned his daughter and future grandson not to go to the tracks (not wanting them to succumb to addiction like he did). The Grandpa disappears (possibly OD’s), but his spirit still haunts the family (much like how even once an addiction is gone it’s still a struggle). The son made these family demons his own (addiction can be inherited and passed down in families) and so eventually he is driven to to tracks and succumbs to addiction like his grandpa did.
holy shit im so glad im not the only one who thought this
To add to this, trainspotting refers to the "tracks" left on a person's arm when they shoot up drugs.
one of my favourite takes on the meaning
I love the meaning
i was abt to comment this lol I feel like its about repeating the patterns of your family before you. the voices the grandpa hears are faint in the beginning and he ignores them (hes only just started to use drugs, hes ignoring/denying the risks) they get louder (the addiction gets stronger) until he "goes berserk" and goes to the train tracks, the train being the point of no return where hes given into his addiction and let it take over his life. I didnt think of it as him ODing though that makes sense also, I saw him leaving the family to go to the tracks as being like how you lose a family member to addiction, not because they die but because theyve completely lost their old self to addiction. bc at the end the devil offers the grandson everything he wants in exchange for his soul, basically to throw away his life for the pleasures of being high
I know everyones talking about the "Are you waitin' on a train?" But honestly when the glitch happens as he says "I'll put you in control." I get chills
Yess
5:20
yess
For me it’s “flocking like birds of a feather”
@@helplessnarwhal3722 and the "all you want in life *for the price of your sooul*
The sound of the train talking “follow me” send legitimate chills down my spine
It sounds like Bill cipher, I know this is not what it's from but every time I hear it I think of him
*_I have something to show you._*
The best part is it does sound really train like to me
*coughs in Thomas the train*
@@skeletonwarrior9393 Exactly
Theory : the guy got ran over by the train, "I stepped the train tracks were wet, i saw a shiny grin from afar" the shiny grin was the train's lights
oo i like that idea !!
I'm so messed up, I'm laughing at the idea of him talking to himself and then- AHHHH!
Oh....my god....HOLY SHI-
*and then went to hell just to see SATAN HIMSELF*
@@sonavirain571 yikes man
The Devil: *implies that he can make the guy scream in pain through torture and suffering*
Everyone: "Why are you gæ?"
That’s even bette- **gets shot**
The comments are full of children 🤦
@@somebodysson7571 Every time I come back to this video I see this comment and I still don't understand what being gæ has to do with children
@@AngelBirdo I think he just means they're immature for making that joke
@@AngelBirdoit's because of young kids in fandoms associating this song with two characters they perceive as gay for each other. This song has been used in many animatics for different fandoms. I know this because I used to be one of those children. I'm an adult now and I still dig this song.
Can we talk about how the devil kinda sounds like a train?? Cause that’s an amazing attention to detail
Wait- he does!
Bakugo
That's all I could think about
the demon's voice is hot.
@@tufits Down Bad 😐 /j
I love the mix modern rap and old fashioned parlor music, gives off a creepy but memorable tune
Legosi Haiura I like how it’s fits with the backing being old, like the devil train and his grandfather’s story, yet the rap is modern just like the guy singing about his own similar fate.
reminds me of Cuphead with the train boss battle then the lead up to king dice and the devil
@@pouncelygrin6699 i thought the same thing lol. It reminds me of those cuphead fansongs from like 2017-2018
@@pouncelygrin6699 ok holy fuck i didn't think about that
Yeah it reminds me of chap hop, and artists like Mr B the gentleman rapper and Professor Elemental
I love how this song actually tells a clear story. It’s so creative with the lyrics
Same! That's the best part abt it
it's one of those rare songs that's catchy, tells a story, and has lore? somehow?
you should listen to slick rick- children’s story if you liked this
both very similar
Became by atmosphere is another one
I'm an aspiring author, and when I first heard this song, I came up with a character. Seven years later, it has evolved into one of the most expansive story ideas I've ever had titled "The Devil of Autumn's Edge". Thank you for creating this wonderful song, Lab Rats. I'm exicted to see where the future of my story takes me!
I would like to read it
@@VulpineGunslingerme too
Badass! Don't dream it. Be it.❤
I'd love to read this story...it sounds awesome!
Loved to read it. Gotta tell us when the story is written and ready for us to read it ❤
It would be so cursed if someone made a mashup of this and the thomas the train theme song
Oml XD
Someone needs to do this
Thomas the tank engine at 3 am challenge
HSHAIABSHSHS DONT GIVE THEM IDEAS-
@@sorryno6215 I was going to say this but you beat me to it
"So what's your favourite rap song?"
*sweats nervously*
Some random person: this type of music is for the devil!!
Me: *plays devil's train* fight me.
Your comment has 666 likes
@@firehawk7934
This is a momentous occasion
@Magma-Headd Gaming nooooooooooo!
Alphabet aerobics
This song is creepier when you live right next to train tracks.
yeah, I live near train tracks :P
Its always so loud..
Ikr
Ugh PREACH
not really
They go right behind my house
I love how at the end he says “well where we gonna go?” I like to imagine after he said that the random man smiled deviously like he new exactly what it would lead to
Song has a demon saying “Let’s make a deal”
Everybody: GrAvItY fAlLs
Yes.
Yup lol
No....I feel more like Snatcher cuz “of the price of your soul”
Lol meee tho 😂😭💀
Supernatural
Anyone else loves when the devil says "you're waiting on a train?"
(especially in headphones)
succffering 96
Your waiting on a *traiiiiiiiiiin?*
It’s like he’s taunting
Yeaaaa!
Dont ever walk to the train tracks alone
I can make you scream if I wanna...
Yessssss
*"What's up demons, it's ya boy"*
this week on buzzfeed unsolved we investigate the devil's train as part of our investigation into the question, are ghosts real? as i stated before, i will only do one demonic investigation per season, so here we are
I wanna like but it's 666 likes XD
Uuuuh...SKINNY PENI-
*Hello, fellow Kermit.*
@@gremlin_child_00 *_Hello, brethren_*
It's sad that this song isn't on Spotify. It's one of my favourites and I have to come searching for it on RUclips every time I want to listen to it instead of being able to add it to a playlist :(
There's a podcast episode that has it, it has ads but its there.
rip the video and play locally
Same
@@themusicintrovert1393 you cant listej to them in the background plus soooooo many ads not worth it
@@soupoup if you use a phone then it's infinitely worse yes but if youre using a computer and adblock its basically the same except some songs might have worse audio quality
Me: wow this song is a bop
Spotify: oops we don't have that
Me: 😔
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame 😔
I know its just a poor person's spotify, but I first heard it on Soundcloud
SoundCloud: hello
Same
I found it but it's blacked out and I don't know why, halp
Okay weird story.
My great grandfather was a conductor on a train, he was a drunkard, he was insane. Drinking to escape the noises, the voices in his head. He disappeared one night. We dont know what happened.
Aye kinda sounds like my grandma. She is skitzaphrenic and an alcoholic, one night she straddled my grandpa while holding a kitchen knife "because the voices told her to" I was really little so it scared my mom and she told her to get put or shes calling the cops and nobody has seen her again. I dont know if shes dead or a live or what
Holy cow! Both stories are spooky!at the meantime, my grandparents are just nice old people that like Kandy. (Sorry for the bad English, it's not my native language)
Danm, your grans stories are scary. The scariest thing that happened to my grandparents was terrorism for racist people, all I know is a lot of people died_)
*in high pitched screech*
oH-
Oh no-
My grandmother was schizophrenic and ended up killing herself, I never got to meet her. Turns out I'm schizophrenic too. So this song is even scarier. Lol
Hooh sorry to hear that dude
Stay safe please
DUDE felt that
sorry to hear that,, please take care and stay safe 🥺💖
Big Scare... Welp my Gram's heart stopped multiple times when she was about my age, my dad had a massive heart attack last year, my grandfather has two stents, my great gramps got 3 stents.. ......
So imma eat alllll the junk food and see what happens XD
@Lauren Alexander Thank you so much
"Are you watin on the train" Is such a good part because of how the lyrics twist over itself
i love the bit where it goes
'F O L L O W M E'
'F O L L O W M E'
'F O L L O W M E'
'F O L L O W M E'
'F O L L O W M E'
'F O L L O W M E'
'I H A V E S O M E T H I N G T O S H O W Y O U . . .'
I'm listening to that right now it's so good
It gives me chills every time
@@_sstaticc_ ikr that's why I like it so much
@@Fishfaceiskewl Yesssss agreed
Can you give me time please ? If it is in this song
It took me until the third chorus to think that this was about the devil convincing people to commit suicide on the train tracks
Mizikii DARK
Mizikii it took me until this comment to realise that
oh woah ok lol thanks for this insight
That's a good theory, but no. Besides, if it were about suicide, grandpops wouldn't come back. He wouldn't be "floating" (in the apparition) and his body might have been found on the train or track (from other methods of suicide that isn't a noose). So yeah p.s I'm not trying to shit all over your theory, I was just adding to why it's not about suicide
Aaaaannnnndddd, chills. Thank you for ruining my hobo delution....
are we just gonna ignore the fact that this song is a bop
actually nobody is ignoring that fact
i need more songs like this, please give me recommendations i need this stuff in my life lol
surprisingly thats the reason everyone is listening to the song 🙀🙀
420 likes... fuck.. whatever not anymore! ahahha
A good song is bullet it’s bop
i like to think that this song is about schizophrenia.
“he was actin’ was berserk”, schizophrenia can cause apathy and decreases emotional expression.
“told her not to not to act up and cracked up laughing” schizophrenia can cause inappropriate actions
“went from a family man to a rambling man, a gambling man that burned both ends of the candle.” schizophrenia symptoms often worsen with time and get more prominent if it is a progressive type.
“was urging him to listen to the train in the distance” auditory hallucinations
“after all that happened he left never to be seen” probably ran away after giving in to the voices that were telling him to do so.
“sitting on the tracks waiting for the night train, looking down the road ain’t never gonna come back” probably referring to him running away, since he was sitting ON the tracks he probably got ran over.
“when i was a teen i pretended that my demons were friends” schizophrenia can be inherited, and i assume “demons” is referring to the voices in a schizophrenia patient’s head
“not the average things you see on acid” this implies that the hallucinations were in detail
“suddenly i discovered little voices mumbling up in my head” referring to the ‘demons’ from earlier in the song i’d assume.
i could go through the whole song and pick out the lyrics that further back up my ‘argument’ but i feel like whoever may or may not read the comment get it.
because the grandfather is implied to have a gambling addiction, and the son is implied to have a drug addiction, i’d assume the devil is either a hallucination or the source of their addiction (dealer for both of them)
Fantastic theory I think the beginning is correct with 'Demons are friends' but it's really about a demon who drives people a little insane so they commit su!cide by getting hit by train(s) :}
o,o *when the some of those symptoms relates to you*
Oh....
*L O V L E Y-*
I also think the acid trip is really telling as it's one of the things that can trigger the gene if you possess it already. He even makes a comment about how its not the normal stuff you'd see on acid, which is notably pretty true
My father was schizophrenic and this sounds the same road he went
the song is made 15 years ago
Me-*finishes this song and takes off headphones to go to sleep*
Me-*hears train horn despite the song being over and my headphones being off
Me- *sweats nervously*
(For context I live almost directly beside a train station)
Same lmao
Same
If you here a strangely attractive voice and the corpse of a dead relative, Be prepared for death cause like your kinda screwed now O-O'''
Marli Shuten I- I mean yeah you got me there
@@garbagecan5756 Mhm •_•'''
Okay listen here raise your hand if you think the demon sounds cool, i love his voice
*hands in the air like I just don't care*
Not just any demon, Lucifer himself
🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️
🖐️
🙋🏻♂️
i always thought this song had a second meaning about kind of hereditary progressive schizophrenia
That... makes a lot of sense
Probably ain't helped with the drug thing, either. Likely got high and it made the underlying schizophrenia worse.
Or a kid on acid.
@Plushie 🧸 did the same, found a whole fandom
I always thought it was about suicide, mostly at the end with the lines “ain’t never gonna go back” and “I always pretended my demons were friends” and I basically always thought riding the devils train was a metaphor for suicide
Not enough people talk about how timeless this song is. It's rap, which is a relatively new genre of music (in terms of MUSIC as an activity and how long it's been around, drums are an EXTREMELY old instrument, you get my point), but I feel like this is still gonna SLAP in twenty or thirty more years. It's already 11, if the date of the original on The Lab Rats YT channel is to be believed. It's crazy, do you think the original rapper even knows 6m+ people have listened to this?
hotel eden (the man who wrote the instrumentals for the second half of the duo) knows about the popularity :) i have no idea about brian tho. there's rumors that he's dead but no one really knows what happened to him after lab rats
@@LittleKoneko Ah, well wherever he is I hope he's happy! Thank you for telling me, I was super curious haha
@@AngelBirdo Youre welcome! I think I actually have talked to Hotel Eden, you can find his channel, a lot of people have commented on his videos to really see what hes up to, after all he produced the SICK INSTRUMENTALS FOR THIS TRACK!!!!! (i really love the lab rats sorry )
I beg your pardon? We're all believers and we going to fight Allahs angels as they're disbelievers? ☝️
hey!
@@Dragon-Slay3rWhat does your comment have to do with anything
I watched this and imagined everything in my head like a movie
i heard this and imagined... well i imagined a... an amv
Same dude
@@TamWam_ Dude same
SAMEEE
Same here, and that’s on ✨maladaptive daydreaming✨~
*Don't summon demons, kids*
Counter counter point: Make contracts as a minor. Contracts when you’re a minor aren’t legally binding, and therefore, demon can’t take your soul.
You’re welcome.
*grabs demon blade and summons crossroads demon*
Oops
no promises lol
He got 3 more inches and became king of hell. I'm making a deal with a demon😂
I like how sometimes the chorus tries to start but gets cut off by the guy singing. Like at 4:00
@@aaddiemac or the grandpops = schlatt IM SORRY-
Damn your right
Philza i see-
This song= Revivebur lore
Ok, that's _really_ cool and I'm bummed I missed it at first!
It's a means of ignoring the call and burying it in words, even if it doesn't work
A really cool thing about this song that I noticed and loved is that the demon/devil cuts off a return to the chorus, both when he arrives and when he replies to the singer for the first time. It makes that final chorus feel a lot more ominous, because you know that it wouldnt be happening unless he wanted it to, and he wanted you to hear it.
going with the drug addiction theory, i can see how the devil is actually a drug dealer, offering the boy a position to also be a drug dealer with him, given that drug dealers make mad cash. However, crossing a drug dealer can lead to a lot of bad blood. maybe this doesnt make sense lool
edit: i was high when i wrote this so to expand: drug dealers make fast cash and a lot of cash ("you never have a need to beg work or steal" and "all the money to fold") and they tend to have a lot of power in the sense that they could kill you for crossing them or they could cut you off of something you're addicted to (drugs or otherwise) BUT on the flipside of the rewards, you're paranoid. You could lose everything. But the rewards seem like it's the devil himself trying to convince you. imo
My general guess is that this tells a story of a grandfather who got addicted to gambling and ruined his life (addiction being the devil in this case) and the Grandson ended up in the same unfortunate situation simply because he didnt listen to his mother of whom he rebelled against
I think its about a person who has schizophrenia and he gets taken over by his delusions.
I kinda thought it was just how the grandfather had been tempted to gamble for a while ("Follow me, follow me, I have something to show you") and he finally gave in but ended up losing all his money to who he didn't know was the devil. So to try to win the money back, he bet his soul but lost. Then the grandson gets into his teen years, starts trying to welcome demons. He's doing some kind of drug maybe and the Devil takes this as an opportunity to get his soul too. He steers him towards the train tracks with his grandfather's carcass. Then he strikes. The train might've been used to take the grandfather to the Devil's casino, hence why it's the Devil's Train. Idk maybe it's just a guy with schizophrenia
The sentence "not the average things you'd see on acid" kinda makes me think it has something to do with drugs, but also it doesn't. If that makes sense.
I thought it was about a skitzophrenic kid, inherited by his grandad and like, ends up killing himself by going to the train tracks or something? Like the demon was a figment of his imagination, hence "not the average things you see on acid" make me believe this is isn't about drugs. Just a theory.
The one guy sounds like Satan from Welcome to Hell
some scrub i wanna like this over a thousand times!
Mephistopheles-
But you're right though. It reminded me of that animation too.
I agree, it does sound like Mephustopheles.
Ah, a man of quality!
XD I thought that too!
I love how the Devil's voice distorts sometimes when he talks. It's such a cool detail.
After years I still know the lyrics by heart. This song really left an impression on me.
same here
Same here too, this song is way too cool for me, its a fucking treasure
“Do what you wanna do.”
“Well thats great cause im going to”
In a weird way im into it..
Hello *son*
Jesus no- humans have tainted you-
thanks Jesus!
Jesus why😰
I don’t get this part. Somebody explain the joke😓
This is nostalgic. Not only because I listened to this a lot as an elementary school kid, but also my adventures.
When I was 4, my father took us to the old train tracks every weekend. The trussles (can't spell) were broken from when the trains crashed nearly 60 years ago. We'd cross them. Which isn't very safe for 4 toddlers and a full grown man. We'd sit there in the broken edge in the middle and watch the sunset. My father told us about the ghost train that goes off the tracks and find whoever could hear it. He said if you could hear it then you are the ghost train's next victem. There weren't any trains that came through for years. But I always heard and still hear a train in the distance at night. I might be halucinating, but It still chills me to this day. They recently fixed the tracks and trussels into a trail. Now where our dad took us, is our hide out area. There is a tree that holds an island next to it. We swim in the river and find old train pieces. If no one believes me about ghe place, then I can take a video. We go there everyday. (I'll be gone for the next week so I can't then)
Scary.
Wow, I relate to this because on my first train ride, I heard some screaming
king Wenikka III
That’s actually really cool, a creepy kinda cool
I never been in a train before but next to our house is an abandoned rail tracks. My mom always told me that it was use on WWI. Everytime I woke up at 3 am, I swear I heard train sound on the back garden which is where the old train track is located.
dude that's so cool
This song had a better established plot in 5 minutes than a 4 hour star wars movie
WAIT.. YOU'RE RIGHT
True
Well yes
Nah fr and I came on RUclips to find this song from a Kenobi edit lmao
More accurately: this song is better than every song on Top 100.
"you waiting on the train?" HAS ME QUAKING IN MY BOOTS NGL
I MEAN? SAME-
1:26 in my country there's this myth of wearing your shirt backwards (or inside-out) when you get lost because of an enchantress or supernatural force that may be playing with you.
This is often talked about when you go into a forest or a 'masukal' or obscured area that may be in the mountains or the deeper parts of rural areas. Very interesting if you kinda let go of the logic of why the hell would you wear your shirt inside out once you get lost.
My mythology knowledge is a bit basic, but I think one of the ways to deal with the Leshen is turning your shirt backwards so you can find your way back again
I legitimately thought this was from the Disney show Lab Rats (I know nothing about it) so I finally decided to watch some of it and realized something was very wrong and I now know that I'm an idiot
I used to think that lmao
KoderKat same ive never watched it tho and i thought this was that main kid singing it idfk why
Same, for like, 3 seconds.
KoderKat omg same
KoderKat OMG I'm not the only one.....
“I could make you scream if I wanted”
Nah man. I’m married.
I would like to like this but the number present already describes your intentions perfectly
:P
6x9
@@dodh2089 6 × 9 = 54 Hehe, whoops!
Sorry, my inner mathematician was active.
@@revaslatts8011 lolol
love all the devil glitches, even the subtle less noticeable ones, like in “let’s make a deal,” “price of your soul,” and the hissing breaths taken before a handful of sentences
4:19 please don't mind me it's just a replay button for me.
thank you
Love it
I have one at 4:30 creepy and catchy!
Our replay button
The devil: I could make you scream if I wanted
Me: KINKY
Pastel Queen I came a little when I head that line lol
Reading this gave me DEH vibes..
Lol
Ew, no
Amelia Asker YES SINCERELY ME IS THE BEST
I’m on the bus and someone is blasting the thomas the train theme
WHO-
y e s
😏
*HIS PRESENCE HAS BEEN NOTIFIED*
Π Δ Π I??????!!!!!
me :3c
I especially love the distortion when the devil says "then let's make a deal" at 5:12
“Or I could make you scream if I wanted”
Oh okay
"Oh, easy with the tongue"
AOTP
My mind went dirty
Bro I should really stop reading those AO3 fanfics
Kinky
I love how this is the perfect fusion of rap and electro swing, the sample is just so good (if it is a sample, that is. I can't really tell.) It also tells a really interesting story.
Every time I listen to this song I hear more distortion in the devil's voice.
@Joaquim Rezendes nice
Sounds like this should be in a horror movie about a 1910’s-1920’s asylum
Does anyone else love how the devil talks?
ya.
Samuel Watson me
I do. Any other voice would ruin the song
Which part are you talking about? The only different voice is the chorus?
4:31. It's ovbiously a different voice.
When you actually like the song and not because you’re in a fandom
Soup Pigeon Me 🤚
Jokes on you already thought of something
The irony is that i like the jjba fandom more then the scp fandom
There is a fandom?
CRAWAII Gravity Falls.
We used to play on the train tracks when I was younger. Occasionally we played chicken with the trains. One day I went out alone to get the sweatshirt I had lost the day before when a short man in a dark suit strolled up to me. No one around the area would have dressed like that, so it was already strange. He asked if I would take a walk with him and I told him I knew about stranger danger. He grinned and told me I was smart, but if I came to the traintracks alone again I would regret it with all my being. I tore out of there and never went back. Recently I was driving over the tracks a short distance away from that same place alone at night. I looked down the tracks to see that no trains were coming, and on the side of the road standing alone in between the rails was a short man in a dark suit. He tipped his hat to me and disappeared. I stay well away from those tracks.
You could make a book out of this-
IObessOveeDeadPeopleAndRocks Thanks!
CutieYokai you should!
That is scary as shit. Write a book or make a movie about this, or both.
No. This is a perfect Creepypasta. Tell this to Mr Nightmare. He's a Creepypasta reader and makes videos out of them. Who knows. Maybe his friend Llama Arts will turn it into an animated one?
Man I love this song, it also reminds me of that eerie but serene feeling you get when you hear a train off in the distance in the middle of the night
I WANT THIS ON SPOTIFY *THIS. INSTANT.*
Same!
Ye
it is but its blocked for some reason
@@utatanepikoV5 what!? Why!?
@@Mothz_yay idk!!?
The lab rats: a band
Me: Mr Davenport??
The True Bean of Death samee lmao
Omg that shooowww
it reminded me of that show it used to be my favorite :)
yees
YESSSSSS
oh look, my new obsession
Helen's Muse same
Same
Same tho
👍
before was GRRRLS and HIP, then Discord TLT Remix, then Karma and Copycat (the meme songs) and now THIS
For those who also came from tiktok, the audio a lot of cosplayers use ("it's a nice night for a walk would you mind if I joined you?" Thing) starts at 4:30
ENMU COSPLAYERS GATHER UP
Whenever I do this I go into a New Yorker accent that I can’t escape
Justin .Y. EET fuck same dude
Yea
''If all this sounds worth it then lets make a deal!''
The Yellow Dorito was here
Morty 😂 yes
ya.
Or was it s n a t c h e r ?
That's what I thought!!
Y E S
you ever just trip on drugs so hard that you start having hallucinations of your decaying grandfather and make a deal with some random demon who wants your soul
yeah, every tuesday.
Yeah every month
yea every friday
yeah, every monday
i saw a comment that said that this might have a deeper meaning about underlying schizophrenia. maybe the grandfather uncovered his through alcohol (i mean the 1930’s vibes are there) and there’s a lot saying he wasn’t rich and probably poor. maybe during the great depression one night he went to a bar and got drunk, uncovering his own schizophrenia. and then the same thing happened to his grandson but with drugs. maybe it’s not only a deeper meaning about schizophrenia but being prone to addiction in families.
Did anybody else get a really _not quite right_ vibe when listening to this song for the first time?
...and the ensuing times?
I still love his song tho
Y e s!
Me! And even after it on repeat for ages it’s still only now going away
I still get it everytime I listen, but it’s a good feeling- Like- Yea-
Nah I got the _Quite Right_ Vibes instead
Yes! Something about it was like an ill-fitting piece of clothing, irking and crawling, like it settled in the shadows of your room and kept watching you
* trains goes off in the distance*
Me: Shit.
Shit I missed my trainnnnnnn .A. noooooo
Dont go to the tracks
@@lilman10te Me: *goes to the tracks* la da dee la do
i walked down the track listening to this an hour ago
Stfu 😂
I had abandoned train tracks outside my house and those tracks where abandoned around the 60s-70s and built during the 30’s every single night I could hear a train whistle and dogs barking but we had yorkies small dogs not big loud dogs ... still scares me to this day thinking about it.
Cerberus...
@@camilleviglietta3860 ???
I love how this song gives me chills... everytime it has that creepy vibe to it
The fact that ive been listening to this for years, and it STILL isn't on spotify, kills me :(
I got a solution if you still want to listen to it on spotify?
@@feralpossum2089 I DO.
Nice pfp
FRFRFR
IKR :
He’s alone on the train tracks and sees a silhouette in the distance, and a man with a shiny grin. The lights and shadow from the train approaching him. He dead
Rip dude
It took me awhile buu I think it’s either about the “devil” convincing people to commit suicide or the “devil” is just a symbol of depression or mental illness that can lead to suicide. 🤷🏼♀️
shut up and enjoy the song. Is just a devil on a train so shut up
@@-ashautumn-9582 Shut up and let people enjoy the song.
@@-ashautumn-9582 or is it😈🚂💊
@@MiniMia48 lmbo
Let the devil enjoy the train
I can’t put into words how this song makes me feel
I DEMAND A MOVIE OF THIS STORY.
-...and maybe a sequel?-
Would a prequel suffice?
@@punkfluff3395 yep
Luna Moon I feel like this is the type of thing where they could make a prequel and explain what led to the devils train
@@morgansteele3769 that would be just as perfectly good.
It would be really cool to make an eerie movie that *is* the prequel, but at the end we see the kid starting to hear satan's voice.
*insert my neurodivergent self planning a whole ass animatic of this song*
"I could show you things that paint all your dreams horny"
Wha-
Oh you meant "haunted"
Right, i knew that, haha
"I could make you scream if I wanted" as the next line goes well with that interpretation
@@j.m.h.6363 I love it XD
I *knew* it wasn't just me
I can't unhear it now oh goody-
"Easy with the tongue son"
Eeeeee that sounds different now
me: *forgot what this song was called*
me: that one song with the train tracks
this: oh that's me
I just searched “follow me follow me I have something to show you” after hearing it in a tiktok my friend sent me 👌
i will never get over the fact that my mom dated someone in this band
thats so cool!!??
that’s kinda weird bro
Getting this song stuck in your head is lowkey terrifying
so i'm not the only one who gets followed by a "follow me" now?
It already is stuck in mine
i got this shits lyrics engraved in my brain
I had it stuck in my head last night and I couldn't sleep
@@ilovehairyblackmen I like it it’s cool bruh
This is pure talent, there is no mumbling or unessesary cursing just passion.
that's because it's from the 2000s, rap wasn't mumble rap back then
Nobody:
Gravity falls fandom in 2015:
YEAH WHAT ABOUT IT
I thank the Gravity Falls fandom for finding this song because I love it and i still listen to it in 2020😤👌🏼💕
OMG YESS
Ikr lol. Ngl that's what I thought when I heard the "deal" part of the song XD
Lmao
i come back to this every now and then and i always remember the lyrics by heart
Time to memorize this song!!!
Holy heck I just found this song again and realised its been 2 years (and yes I've memorized it)
Izzy D Already did! 😎
SAME
SAME
Izzy D I used to love this song it's been years since I heard it, but I still know every word
almost got it..!
“you can’t gender envy a god damn song”
also this song
EXACTLY YOU GET IT OH MY GOD
YES. EXACTLY THIS.
YES 😭
SO TRUE AND I AGREE
SAME
4:30 don't mind me, just making a time stamp for myself 🥰
Thank you very much 🥰🥰🥰
I’ll be taking that
This actually matches two of my characters, Alan and William. William is a ghost train conductor, who died in WW1, and Alan, who is also a ghost, and he died from a drug overdose in 2010. Both have teamed up a few times to give William "Souls" (he basically uses the souls in a way, if they are useless he gives them to somebody else who can use them.) William is obviously the Devil's Train Conductor, and Alan is the Devil that the singer talks to, which results the singer to be killed by the train.
I love how the background music sounds like Thomas the train’s music... really adds to the creepiness
1:00 "Follow me, follow me"
4:30 "It's a nice night for a walk, do you mind if I joined you?"
This song actually gives me Enmu vibes
@V3X. thx
The “are you waiting for a train?” line could be a way for the creature to ask of the protagonist is waiting for a train to run over him. It probably assumes he would take his life on the tracks like his father and grandfather both did.
This song: *exists*
TikTok: *It's free real estate*
tik tok ruins all the songs that I think are cool :'(
@rosey comet Exactly, I’ve lost too many good songs to Tik Tok... Mercy, Big Fun, Join Us For A Bite, Boys Will Be Bugs and a few Beetlejuice songs to name a couple...
This meme: *exists*
Princess MJ: *it's free real estate*
Its on tik tok
rosey comet no lmfao it helps the artists get more recognition.
me: *enjoying the song and drawing*
song: "i could make you scream if i wanted to"
me: "*intense coughing* I AM CONFUSED AND AROUSED"
69th like 😏
FRICKIN SAME
SAME-
@Monke El Heehoo agreed
@Monke El Heehoo shut up redditor
The “you waiting on a train” part always freaked me out
If you don’t know every word religiously, learn it. It’s that good of a song. Probably one of my favorite songs of all time
The fucking grandpa from Rugrats.
O a t s
Ooooohhhhh
Lol
O a t s your icon being Jasper somehow makes this better
O a t s I don’t get it
O a t s o my god camp camp fan wowz
I remember the first time I listened to this song it was midnight and I was in my room, which of course was dark, and I was watching animations for songs and I saw one for this song, and it scared the crap out of me for some reason XD
??? bro same!
??? dude this is my first time listening to it and its 4:41
??? First time I heard this it was exactly 3:00am when it started (3:00am=devil's hour) and I was alone in my grandma's room it was dark and I was like "welp...time to memorize the devil's part."
This is hella dark.
??? Hi
The devil's part is 10/10
I like to think the “waiting on a train” and “put you in control” bits are like when Bill Cypher from Gravity Falls gets angry and glitches out. The same for “let’s make a deal”
I'm not a big fan of Rap, Hip-Hop, or R&B... But this right here is lit as... Hell :)
aha love what you did there