As many have mentioned, this song is about Ren's best friend Joe. Ren was about 2 minutes too late running to the bridge where Joe jumped. I know a lot of people say this is from Joe's perspective, but I also believe the lyrics are Ren trying to live after Joe passed. Ren couldn't escape from the trauma of losing his best friend.
@@sketchtherapy1218idk man … I have watched this quite a few times And it just hit me hard today … Think of it as Johnny Cash covering Hurt The lyrics can hit someone old like me Riches turn to rust Sad eyes blind me I’m just not the same person I was and I hate it. I am glad there are people like these two out there … making me think ❤️🙏
@@billmonb4579 I had to hear it a few times before it dawned on me too. This is a song by a mourner to the mourning & those who seek to understand mourning about what it's like to mourn. When a piece of you dies you forget how to be yourself. It’s a song about when a loved one takes their life what is a brother without a sibling? a father without a son? A husband without a wife? Can they be themselves as theyre haunted in mourning for the dearly departed? when a piece of you dies you forget how to be you. Ren's friend Joe was like a brother to him and when Joe jumped off that bridge Ren felt like a piece of him died.
You need to react to Chinchillas live Hungertv version of FINGERS. It will show you why Ren calls her his musical sister. He said there brain works the same musically. Also check out all they do together. The live versions, Chalk outlines, sexual healing busking on street. They are magical together. But hungertv live version of fingers. It’s like something you never seen before. She is elite vocalist. Move it up to the top. With chalk outlines next
It's about Ren's response and feelings towards his best friend committing suicide by jumping off a bridge. You'll hear more about Joe in several of Ren's other songs, including 'Freckled Angels', 'Suicide' and 'For Joe'. The last is live and is best listened to after hearing 'Suicide'. Ren split the proceeds from his only album to date, between Joe's parents and the lifeboat station that searched for Joe's body. Ren lived not far from the bridge and was running as fast as he could to get there but arrived just a couple of minutes too late...
There's a restaurant on Anglesey Island in Wales owned and operated by a friend. Named after Ren's album, and in honor of Joe, Freckled Angel. I'm not sure if any of the proceeds went towards that, but if you're ever in northwestern Wales, I hear they have great reviews.
These two together are pure magic...Chalk Outlines LIVE ( this version ) and them busking on the streets doing " One Love/Drunk in Love " just brilliant . Chinchilla " Fingers" Live for Hunger TV is truly a must. Lovely reaction to this one.
To hear Ren really sing, there's a couple of songs Ren Busking in Brighton. The Big Push - Wade in the water / Nina simone / Trouble so hard. and Ren & Sam Tompkins - Earned it /Mans World / Falling 😊
Love these two, co-written by Ren & Chinchilla as well as performed ❤ thanks for your reaction, definitely check out some more Chinchilla like Ren I’ve yet to find one I don’t love 💕 powerhouse 😊
‘Chalk outlines’ is another great duet by them and Chinchillas ‘Fingers’ live is stunning. RENs more recent song ‘Suicide’ also refers to the death of his friend but bring a box of tissues for that one
Those pair really do vibe well together, their voices match beautifully! This is one of my favourite of their collaborations, just sublime! Chinchilla as a solo artist is just amazing, anything she’s done is worth a listen! Enjoyed your reaction/analysis, very good! 🌹
@@KoalityReactions she did a joint analysis and reaction to one of her own songs with The Fairy voice mother a few weeks ago, Lolli and Chinchilla were very interesting to watch commenting together, it was a lot of fun for both of them!
Chalk Outlines by Ren X Chinchilla as stated .. ya definitely should check out Chinchilla - Fingers (live) .. another must watch .. Chinchilla is so powerful and expressive
Not afraid to admit that as a 45 yr old guy this song breaks my soul every single time i hear it. They are perfect together and the lyrics and the live performance... It's just too much perfection.
This song written by Ren, is really about his childhood friend Joe Hughes who gave up the fight, late at night when he was aged 19. Joe was in distress and calling someone telling them to say goodbye to his friends. Ren heard and as he lived close to the bridge Joe was on, ran as fast as he could, but he got there a few minutes too late and Joe was gone. He has written this song from Joe's perspective.
Altho you can (I do) see it as both how Joe AND Ren felt, before and after. Very sad but very beautiful also. Beautiful in its honesty as well as musically.
The harmonies that sound so hauntingly beautiful are so awesome! Listen to the studio version.. they are mimicking the strings you can hear in the instrumental. So great these two!
It’s a song about when a loved one takes their life what is a brother without a sibling? a father without a son? A husband without a wife? Can they be themselves as theyre haunted in mourning for the dearly departed? when a piece of you dies you forget how to be you. Ren's friend Joe was like a brother to him and when Joe jumped off that bridge Ren felt like a piece of him died.
I so enjoy your reactions, sometimes I see your openness, willing to let yourself be engulfed in the story. It’s a beautiful watch. I know you will have so many people putting forward great songs for you to react to. I unfortunately will add to this growing list! Ren is an amazing writer and performer, one of his songs reaches so deep, it is ‘crutch’ one of his very early songs. I will await from a distance and have my fingers and toes crossed that you react. PS. You have a lovely comic side, you remind me a little of Jim Carrey at times(that’s a compliment)
Oh, I had such nice shills listening to them both... I think Chinchilla's stronger voice acts like an emotional amplifier. Emotions from Ren flowing through Chinchilla are immediately amplified and delivered (to us)... and this is excellent! Thanks for this one, Jenna! Again: great to hear how you feel about it (especially about the lyrics and art) PS: enjoy your coffee time 😜 !
Ren is the Original "Bardcore Genre Bender" The Master Bard himself ( Shakespeare ) would have understood exactly where Ren was coming from. Ren isn't just a songwriter but rather a Performance Art Master who blends music and character acting from all the styles over the last 500 years and makes it modern and relatable to all generations even if normally you may not be a fan of whatever genre he is currently performing. While most good Performers can envoke some emotions in their audience, Ren is an Emotion Master who has control of all of them, From the Feel Good Vibes of Bongo Bong, to the Rebellion of Illist Of Our Time, to the Tragedy of Jenny and Screech, to the Mind Bending Rap Flow of Losing It, and the Internal Psych War of Hi Ren, Ren has it All! The Ren Rabbit Hole is Deep and Powerful!
"I don't feel safe in my bed voices in my head talking to the dead. Fear and Sin follow me over the valleys and hills below; back home. It suffocates me...Wish I could get out of this tomb (Joe's own mind)" Ren wrote this from Joe's perspective in my opinion... You get to the end of the song and as Ren does so often he then breaks the 4th wall and says, "When HE gave up the fight, the decision he made stayed with me for the rest of my life. I miss you so." This was yet another song influenced by his best friend Joe who took his own life... Others include; Freckled Angels, Su!c!de, For Joe (which he song live for Joe's Family this year). "I forgot how to be me". The song Freckled Angel talks about how happy and cheerful Joe was...
While i completely understand that perspective, I feel it's about the agony of loss from Ren's point of view. "talking to the dead", the 'haunting' moans, "Kingdom (His Life) turned to dust", "Watched all my riches (friendships) rust" [Ren elaborated on this in For Joe/Su!c!de with the line "distance was my plaster cast"], The tomb I believe was Ren's depression, and rather, the halls were his mind, bruises were his trauma and emotional health, and the "bodies (!) in the floor" were his memories he's tried to suppress. I have no doubt Ren is capable of the genius required to apply it from both perspectives intentionally, but I feel his main focus when originally writing it was autobiographical.
I red the comment regarding this song being about Ren's reaction to his friend Joe's suicide by jumping off a bridge one night. But, I didn't see a note informing you that they performed the song on the bridge his friend had jumped from, hence, the overwhelming emotion.
Thank you ❤ Jenna for your Ren X Chinchilla - How To Be Me (Live) reaction! Well spotted they were on a bridge. Some Renegades say it is the beautiful Menai Suspension Bridge, the one where Ren's friend Joe went missing 13 years ago.
They are amazing. Check out money game 3. It surprised me at how inventive it was and the amazing camera work and audio design. (And of course it hits on the feels too being a Ren song)
When you said you want to hear what he has to say, it reminded me of my time working in the USA. American Girl: Oh my. Your accent! Me: I'll read the dictionary forwards and backwards if you like. American Girl: Take my digits. Ah, good times.
If this was your first viewing, now that you understand the end, keeping that in mind, I encourage you to rewatch it and decrypt the rest of the song as it relates.
I felt I did decrypt it, for how I saw it anyway. I think people in the comments are split on how they see it... from Joe's perspective or from Ren's, also that he's capable of writing it from both sides, simultaneously!
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Ren X Chinchilla - Chalk Outlines is another good one with the pair.
And the live version is the one to react to
Great one
As many have mentioned, this song is about Ren's best friend Joe. Ren was about 2 minutes too late running to the bridge where Joe jumped. I know a lot of people say this is from Joe's perspective, but I also believe the lyrics are Ren trying to live after Joe passed. Ren couldn't escape from the trauma of losing his best friend.
It's not from Joe's perspective it's about how the living are haunted by the dearly departed.
@@sketchtherapy1218idk man … I have watched this quite a few times
And it just hit me hard today …
Think of it as Johnny Cash covering Hurt
The lyrics can hit someone old like me
Riches turn to rust
Sad eyes blind me
I’m just not the same person I was and I hate it.
I am glad there are people like these two out there … making me think ❤️🙏
@@billmonb4579 I had to hear it a few times before it dawned on me too. This is a song by a mourner to the mourning & those who seek to understand mourning about what it's like to mourn. When a piece of you dies you forget how to be yourself.
It’s a song about when a loved one takes their life what is a brother without a sibling? a father without a son? A husband without a wife? Can they be themselves as theyre haunted in mourning for the dearly departed? when a piece of you dies you forget how to be you. Ren's friend Joe was like a brother to him and when Joe jumped off that bridge Ren felt like a piece of him died.
You need to react to Chinchillas live Hungertv version of FINGERS. It will show you why Ren calls her his musical sister. He said there brain works the same musically. Also check out all they do together. The live versions, Chalk outlines, sexual healing busking on street. They are magical together. But hungertv live version of fingers. It’s like something you never seen before. She is elite vocalist. Move it up to the top. With chalk outlines next
Chinchilla's Fingers live is one of the most extraordinary performances I've *ever* seen.
This.
Yes 1000% - Fingers (Live for Hunger TV) and also the live version of Chalk Outlines
Definitely react to Chalk Outlines(live) next. Ren & Chinchilla have a wonderful sound together.
It's about Ren's response and feelings towards his best friend committing suicide by jumping off a bridge. You'll hear more about Joe in several of Ren's other songs, including 'Freckled Angels', 'Suicide' and 'For Joe'. The last is live and is best listened to after hearing 'Suicide'. Ren split the proceeds from his only album to date, between Joe's parents and the lifeboat station that searched for Joe's body. Ren lived not far from the bridge and was running as fast as he could to get there but arrived just a couple of minutes too late...
Oh my gosh that is heartbreaking. This song makes total sense now. I love that he split the proceeds… what a gem of a human. 🤍
There's a restaurant on Anglesey Island in Wales owned and operated by a friend. Named after Ren's album, and in honor of Joe, Freckled Angel. I'm not sure if any of the proceeds went towards that, but if you're ever in northwestern Wales, I hear they have great reviews.
"Chalk Outines" is also a duet with Ren and Chinchilla. And yes, it is also a special kind of awesome.
These two together are pure magic...Chalk Outlines LIVE ( this version ) and them busking on the streets doing " One Love/Drunk in Love " just brilliant . Chinchilla " Fingers" Live for Hunger TV is truly a must. Lovely reaction to this one.
To hear Ren really sing, there's a couple of songs Ren Busking in Brighton. The Big Push - Wade in the water / Nina simone / Trouble so hard. and Ren & Sam Tompkins - Earned it /Mans World / Falling 😊
Love these two, co-written by Ren & Chinchilla as well as performed ❤ thanks for your reaction, definitely check out some more Chinchilla like Ren I’ve yet to find one I don’t love 💕 powerhouse 😊
Yup I’m a fellow 🫘 SammiJK 😊
‘Chalk outlines’ is another great duet by them and Chinchillas ‘Fingers’ live is stunning. RENs more recent song ‘Suicide’ also refers to the death of his friend but bring a box of tissues for that one
Ren - Sick Boi album drops Oct 13, Please support a brilliant independent artist @ Ren Makes Music - Thanks all
Thanks Ed, we need to get this album a top 5 on the charts. He deserves it.
Those pair really do vibe well together, their voices match beautifully! This is one of my favourite of their collaborations, just sublime!
Chinchilla as a solo artist is just amazing, anything she’s done is worth a listen!
Enjoyed your reaction/analysis, very good! 🌹
Definitely! I need to listen to some of her stuff, I bet she's killer on her own too.
@@KoalityReactions she did a joint analysis and reaction to one of her own songs with The Fairy voice mother a few weeks ago, Lolli and Chinchilla were very interesting to watch commenting together, it was a lot of fun for both of them!
@@DarrellW_UK Ugh jealous!!!!!
@@KoalityReactions it’s worth a watch!
Now RUN to watch "Chalk Outlines (Live)," an equally-good Ren-Chinchilla collab.
Chalk Outlines by Ren X Chinchilla as stated .. ya definitely should check out Chinchilla - Fingers (live) .. another must watch .. Chinchilla is so powerful and expressive
You must react to chinchilla Fingers. You'll be amazed how good her voice is.
Ren X Chinchilla "Chalk Outlines" next, then for a change of pace, have a listen to Ren "Power"
I think you will like Chinchilla's solo work also. She is another independent UK artist and she is so talented and unique. 🧡
You really need to check out some of his stuff when he is busking with his band The Big Push, he is soo talented in so many musical styles!
Omg you've never listened to Chalk Outlines?
Ohhhh you'll love it 😍
Not afraid to admit that as a 45 yr old guy this song breaks my soul every single time i hear it. They are perfect together and the lyrics and the live performance... It's just too much perfection.
This song written by Ren, is really about his childhood friend Joe Hughes who gave up the fight, late at night when he was aged 19. Joe was in distress and calling someone telling them to say goodbye to his friends. Ren heard and as he lived close to the bridge Joe was on, ran as fast as he could, but he got there a few minutes too late and Joe was gone. He has written this song from Joe's perspective.
Altho you can (I do) see it as both how Joe AND Ren felt, before and after. Very sad but very beautiful also. Beautiful in its honesty as well as musically.
Beautifully sung song
Great reaction
The harmonies that sound so hauntingly beautiful are so awesome! Listen to the studio version.. they are mimicking the strings you can hear in the instrumental. So great these two!
It’s a song about when a loved one takes their life what is a brother without a sibling? a father without a son? A husband without a wife? Can they be themselves as theyre haunted in mourning for the dearly departed? when a piece of you dies you forget how to be you. Ren's friend Joe was like a brother to him and when Joe jumped off that bridge Ren felt like a piece of him died.
Such a beautiful and haunting song. I love this so much, one of my favorites 💜💜
I don't know if this has been mentioned, but this tribute was done live on the bridge that Joe jumped from...R.I.P Joe.
I'm a 59-year-old metal-head and I want to hear everything that this man has to say.
There is only one artist I know, that can compare in originality and passion to Ren. Aurora from Norway. She is a very special artist.
Please keep going. Ren has so much to offer and I love your reactions. ❤
thank you for continuing to react and support my favourite artist ever ❤❤
To me, it’s one of the most poignant songs about grief that I’ve ever heard.
Love your reaction
Thank you!
I so enjoy your reactions, sometimes I see your openness, willing to let yourself be engulfed in the story. It’s a beautiful watch.
I know you will have so many people putting forward great songs for you to react to. I unfortunately will add to this growing list!
Ren is an amazing writer and performer, one of his songs reaches so deep, it is ‘crutch’ one of his very early songs. I will await from a distance and have my fingers and toes crossed that you react.
PS. You have a lovely comic side, you remind me a little of Jim Carrey at times(that’s a compliment)
Oh, I had such nice shills listening to them both... I think Chinchilla's stronger voice acts like an emotional amplifier. Emotions from Ren flowing through Chinchilla are immediately amplified and delivered (to us)... and this is excellent! Thanks for this one, Jenna! Again: great to hear how you feel about it (especially about the lyrics and art)
PS: enjoy your coffee time 😜 !
Ren is the Original "Bardcore Genre Bender" The Master Bard himself ( Shakespeare ) would have understood exactly where Ren was coming from. Ren isn't just a songwriter but rather a Performance Art Master who blends music and character acting from all the styles over the last 500 years and makes it modern and relatable to all generations even if normally you may not be a fan of whatever genre he is currently performing. While most good Performers can envoke some emotions in their audience, Ren is an Emotion Master who has control of all of them, From the Feel Good Vibes of Bongo Bong, to the Rebellion of Illist Of Our Time, to the Tragedy of Jenny and Screech, to the Mind Bending Rap Flow of Losing It, and the Internal Psych War of Hi Ren, Ren has it All! The Ren Rabbit Hole is Deep and Powerful!
3 refreshing young people ,keep up with the acting you have a interesting face
That was a very good assessment of the song/performance 👍
great stuff
Great Reaction really enjoyed your breakdown!
The bridge is the one his friend Joe ended his life at.
You are covering my favorite artists: Chinchilla, Ren & The Warning. My top.
Great reaction video.... Thanks
"I don't feel safe in my bed voices in my head talking to the dead. Fear and Sin follow me over the valleys and hills below; back home. It suffocates me...Wish I could get out of this tomb (Joe's own mind)" Ren wrote this from Joe's perspective in my opinion... You get to the end of the song and as Ren does so often he then breaks the 4th wall and says, "When HE gave up the fight, the decision he made stayed with me for the rest of my life. I miss you so."
This was yet another song influenced by his best friend Joe who took his own life... Others include; Freckled Angels, Su!c!de, For Joe (which he song live for Joe's Family this year). "I forgot how to be me". The song Freckled Angel talks about how happy and cheerful Joe was...
While i completely understand that perspective, I feel it's about the agony of loss from Ren's point of view. "talking to the dead", the 'haunting' moans, "Kingdom (His Life) turned to dust", "Watched all my riches (friendships) rust" [Ren elaborated on this in For Joe/Su!c!de with the line "distance was my plaster cast"], The tomb I believe was Ren's depression, and rather, the halls were his mind, bruises were his trauma and emotional health, and the "bodies (!) in the floor" were his memories he's tried to suppress.
I have no doubt Ren is capable of the genius required to apply it from both perspectives intentionally, but I feel his main focus when originally writing it was autobiographical.
I red the comment regarding this song being about Ren's reaction to his friend Joe's suicide by jumping off a bridge one night. But, I didn't see a note informing you that they performed the song on the bridge his friend had jumped from, hence, the overwhelming emotion.
Thank you ❤ Jenna for your Ren X Chinchilla - How To Be Me (Live) reaction!
Well spotted they were on a bridge. Some Renegades say it is the beautiful Menai Suspension Bridge, the one where Ren's friend Joe went missing 13 years ago.
For this performance they are on a large balcony. I thought it was a roof top but was corrected.
❤ @@kellyt5341
@@kellyt5341 I also was going to say it might be a balcony! Weird.
I love your performance 😂🫶
Hahahahahaha Oh dear.
LESSS GOOO
Another masterpiece composition from Ren! :)
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I’ll listen to anything you have to say-that describes most of us Ren fans…
Have you seen any of Ren & Chinchilla Busking performances from Bristol England 🇬🇧. Superb.
BRIGHTON. NOT Bristol..BRIGHTON .I Blame my Grey hair .Sorry. BRIGHTON
Not yet, but I want to!!!
Keep the Ren a coming! ❤
They are amazing. Check out money game 3. It surprised me at how inventive it was and the amazing camera work and audio design. (And of course it hits on the feels too being a Ren song)
live yes ,si imagine renting a B&B and these 2 are on the roof next door
This is Art - I agree.
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Not sure if anyone mentioned that this was recorded on the bridge where Joe gave up his fight
That's not correct!!!
RIP Joe
Chalk outlines next !!!
This may be coming soon… 👀
When you said you want to hear what he has to say, it reminded me of my time working in the USA.
American Girl: Oh my. Your accent!
Me: I'll read the dictionary forwards and backwards if you like.
American Girl: Take my digits.
Ah, good times.
Ahahahaha I believe this.
@KoalityReactions oh it's true, I have no shame. It was like a damn super power 👍
@KoalityReactions I'll proofread your RUclips transcript/description/titles for you if you like? * The Englishman shoots his shameless shot * 🤣
Great reaction next is suicide then for Joe 🦋
@dave.james007 Yeah, let's string three songs about suicide together that even share the same lyrics in parts.
Show some mercy man.
Flower duet for a wreath❤️
Very beautiful but sad song, but Ren will always give you reality with honesty, this song is about his friend Joe who commited suicide when he was 19.
Shakespeare only had a stage, they have the world, why not project.
If this was your first viewing, now that you understand the end, keeping that in mind, I encourage you to rewatch it and decrypt the rest of the song as it relates.
I felt I did decrypt it, for how I saw it anyway. I think people in the comments are split on how they see it... from Joe's perspective or from Ren's, also that he's capable of writing it from both sides, simultaneously!
@@KoalityReactions Oh, I'm sorry, I was Intending that towards the audience, I should have clarified that a bit better.
Play video talk later 3:45
Are they not the best duo ever. Also Ren & Sam Tompkins.
Blah blah goodbye
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