The Weakerthans - The Entire Saga of Virtute the Cat (with lyrics)

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  • Опубликовано: 4 апр 2017
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    A tetralogy of songs; 3 written from the perspective of a depressed alcoholic's pet cat, and 1 written from the perspective of the alcoholic themself, as they attend court-mandated rehab and begin to slowly recover their strength.
    0:03 - "Plea from a Cat Named Virtute"
    3:52 - "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure"
    8:01 - "17th Street Treatment Centre"
    10:30 - "Virtute at Rest"
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Комментарии • 254

  • @matthewmyers37
    @matthewmyers37  2 года назад +69

    It was recently brought to my attention that these songs were mentioned somewhat recently on a popular Spanish-language podcast! For those native speakers out there, I encourage you to check out this version of the video with Spanish subtitles uploaded by Pablo Ponce. Enjoy!
    Me ha llamado la atención que estas canciones se mencionaron recientemente en un popular podcast en español, ¡de ahí el aumento en las vistas! Para aquellos hablantes nativos, los animo a ver esta versión del video con subtítulos en español, subido por Pablo Ponce. ¡Disfrutar!
    ruclips.net/video/zfm0QXhB4Fc/видео.html

  • @crazy4HungerGames
    @crazy4HungerGames 3 года назад +360

    "But I can't remember the sound that you found for me" always gets to me once I realized Virtute meant she couldn't remember the name her owner gave her.

    • @nepetaren1267
      @nepetaren1267 3 года назад +25

      Oh god I didnt realize.

    • @InviernoAustral
      @InviernoAustral 3 года назад +20

      Lovely, eh? Then I realized that I have a sound that someone found for me.

    • @borkshork8238
      @borkshork8238 3 года назад +26

      WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS THIS MADE ME CRY

    • @iiiiiivviiixiiixxi1612
      @iiiiiivviiixiiixxi1612 3 года назад +6

      Virtute is a girl?

    • @borkshork8238
      @borkshork8238 3 года назад +21

      @@iiiiiivviiixiiixxi1612 one of the song titles is “virtue the cat explains her departure” so id assume so

  • @mno65
    @mno65 7 месяцев назад +25

    "Most of us probably not getting better, but not getting better, together." Gets me so deep in the feels. This coming from an addict in recovery who's also a nurse working in a detox facility. And a guy with a cat too.

  • @vinnythepoet3483
    @vinnythepoet3483 4 года назад +188

    “Know I am with you. Know I forgive you. Know I am PROUD of the steps that you’ve made.”
    For some reason that never fails to move me to tears

    • @joiemontealegre
      @joiemontealegre 2 года назад +11

      puts me into tears even just reading the lyrics in the comments 😢

    • @rueburch2856
      @rueburch2856 2 года назад +13

      I've often tried to perform this whole suite together, but to this day can never make it more than a couple lines into "Virtute at rest" without it getting stuck in my throat. Those are some of the most moving lyrics ever written.

    • @bearwade9513
      @bearwade9513 Год назад

      Dammit, got me and I'm still at plea 😅

    • @grantmcinnes1176
      @grantmcinnes1176 Год назад +2

      @@rueburch2856 Jesus, there's another, sadder, one? I only ever heard the first two. Can't handle a "Virtue at rest" tonight.

    • @johnlittle3430
      @johnlittle3430 Год назад +7

      I know "Explains" is the overwhelming fan favourite, but good Christ, "At Rest" is perhaps the finest piece of writing I have EVER seen. What Samson does with that handful of lines is inexplicable. From the unreliable narrator, to the anthropomorphism, to the themes of forgiveness and acceptance, to the fact that the cat is both cat and depressed protagonist and has been all along... my god, it's breathtaking. I can't even read the lyrics to the song without bawling my eyes out.

  • @Kozumou
    @Kozumou 5 лет назад +125

    It really started with Confessions of a Futon-Revolutionist:
    "Leave the apartment to buy alcohol. ... Enlist the cat in the impending class war. Let's lay our bad day down here, dear. Let's make believe we're strong or hum some protest song, like maybe We Shall Overcome Someday."

    • @lootwijk
      @lootwijk Год назад +3

      Holy crap, you are right. I missed that!

  • @xcvx16
    @xcvx16 5 лет назад +160

    I feel like the Weakerthans make me happy being sad. They don't cheer me up when I'm sad. They just make me feel happy to be sad.

    • @keysersose638
      @keysersose638 3 года назад +9

      Sometimes you just need to give yourself permission to feel something. They have always helped me validate those feelings and know that it's ok. It can't rain all the time, but neither is the sun always out.

    • @garag3054
      @garag3054 3 года назад +1

      I know what you mean ... I have an indoor cat now for past 9 yrs. and also have had many strays in my life ... which also came sooner or later w/ loss and hearbreak due to illnesses. Can't listen enough to these incredibly beautiful songs. 🐱♥️♥️♥️and 💔💔💔🐱

    • @joshuathomas8222
      @joshuathomas8222 3 года назад +5

      Sometimes that’s just what we need.

    • @the42voice
      @the42voice Год назад

      I feel that.

  • @QwertyJew
    @QwertyJew 3 года назад +87

    I work at a steel yard and spent the last week trying to catch a stray cat. I finally caught her and a friends mom took her in. Virtute was the perfect name but they decided on Precious. I'm just happy she's warm and has a family now.

    • @scottbaylo
      @scottbaylo 3 года назад +8

      I was really expecting a terrible ending to that story, thank goodness for being wrong, the songs are enough of a bummer.

    • @kaitlin3287
      @kaitlin3287 Год назад +1

      my old cat was named precious 😢

    • @jasoncoker1625
      @jasoncoker1625 Год назад

      💯🤘💜

  • @robintimpson6755
    @robintimpson6755 7 лет назад +80

    "I can't remember the sound that you found for me" holy fuck!

    • @DJDarren80
      @DJDarren80 6 лет назад +18

      Robin Timpson I didn't know what this really meant for some years, until my wife pointed out that it was how Virtute hears her name. Now this bloody song makes me cry.

    • @garag3054
      @garag3054 3 года назад +2

      For real!!!! Geez!!!

    • @swimandsleep6979
      @swimandsleep6979 2 года назад +2

      this line literally made me start crying

  • @polterkitty3639
    @polterkitty3639 2 года назад +19

    My cat ran away for a week so “Your anger pleading in a uncertain key” hits so hard

  • @cosmicfatboy1419
    @cosmicfatboy1419 2 года назад +105

    I lost my Miko yesterday. She took her last breath in my lap right as we pulled into the emergency Vet. They said it was congestive heart failure possibly due to a blood clot and that point nothing we could have done would have saved her. I'll never forgot that car ride and the feelings of absolute helplessness as Miko gasped for air and writhed. She was so frightened and confused fighting for her life and then she was gone. I'm balling my eyes out in the bathroom, her favorite room in the apartment, and I'm listening to saga now. I love a Plea but haven't heard the rest of the songs. Thank you for putting this here.

    • @DOMINIOT0TAL
      @DOMINIOT0TAL 2 года назад +10

      I'm so sorry for your loss... It's kind of hard for us to live more than those little angels. So unfair.

    • @bonusflaps1749
      @bonusflaps1749 2 года назад +4

      I'm so sorry for the loss of your dear pet. I hope you can heal quickly.

    • @BigSleep666
      @BigSleep666 2 года назад +6

      ❤️ Dude, I’ve been there. Please take solace you made each other’s lives better. Neither of you would have been the same without one another. You did that.

    • @tjdavis9362
      @tjdavis9362 Год назад +3

      His Cosmic Fat Boy (dope username and no sarcasm meant). I lost my cat 2 weeks ago. I'm 32 and she's been the only constant in my life for just over a decade. After the first 600 dollars AUD we were told we might never know whats wrong. We spent another 200 on medicine. She never got better but it's okay. Glad you found this song too.
      Also.
      I'd say stop naming ur pets after anime but my bab's name on her birth cert was "Girlcat" so who am I to judge lmao

    • @whisperr2522
      @whisperr2522 Год назад +5

      I'm gonna be real with you I can only read your comment halfway through. I hope you're doing alright, and remember that Miko believes you're strong

  • @Lina-ws3sy
    @Lina-ws3sy 3 года назад +39

    CAT: BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER THE SOUND THAT YOU FOUND FOR ME
    Me: *starts quietly sobbing*
    I miss my chunky Billy boy so much. I love you so much Lord Billsner, you will always be the the best cat ever.

    • @spud13x13
      @spud13x13 Год назад +1

      That line will break my heart for the rest of my days.

  • @Newmoonraccoon
    @Newmoonraccoon 3 года назад +67

    To Maple;
    You were the best cat I’ve ever had. I thought when you died I would come right after because what was the point without you? You followed me around, came when I whistled, learned how to sit, and always came when I cried. You always wanted to be in the car, to go on joy rides, always rushing to the car door. You were there at such an important point of my life. I have no clue what happened in your past, your clipped ears and street smarts, but I knew when you put your paw to the glass after throwing your bed into your litter box that you were the one for me, we were the ones for each other. I wish I got my driving permit sooner so I could drive you to the beach like I promised before you went missing.I’m so so glad my last words to you were I love you, come home soon. I love you Maple

    • @EarlofSedgewick
      @EarlofSedgewick 2 года назад

      Has Maple come back?

    • @Newmoonraccoon
      @Newmoonraccoon Год назад +2

      @@EarlofSedgewick No sadly! But me and her adoptive brother will always keep her in our hearts

    • @EarlofSedgewick
      @EarlofSedgewick Год назад +1

      @@Newmoonraccoon Hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday! Glad to hear another cat has come into your life

    • @spud13x13
      @spud13x13 Год назад +2

      I miss Maple with you, like I miss my Mocha, and Tascha, and Oso, who all disappeared without explanation. I'm guessing I have lived four times as many winters as you, so that means I've loved a lot of cats. It never gets easier to let one go, and it shouldn't. I don't know why I'm responding other than to tell you that the way you expressed your memories of Maple touched my heart, and I'm crying like a little boy right now. But any moment one of these miniature lions will come sauntering in, saying, "who loves kitty?", and all cares will dissolve. Happy holidays, AJ!

  • @TheCivildecay
    @TheCivildecay 5 лет назад +70

    Damn you have to be a machine to not get sad by "virtute the cat explains her departure"

  • @dumpstercub2902
    @dumpstercub2902 4 года назад +226

    I can't physically get through Virtue at Rest without breaking down and crying

    • @lootwijk
      @lootwijk 4 года назад +22

      It is truly a monstrous song. Excellent, of course, but lethal.

    • @tedy101
      @tedy101 4 года назад +33

      same for me but also like, "i cant remember the sound that u found for me" that shit gets me everytime😔☺️

    • @joanandreanoweyland57
      @joanandreanoweyland57 3 года назад

      Same here.

    • @josephwood4362
      @josephwood4362 3 года назад +7

      It's because I see myself in it so much. I went through the AA thing, trying to figure out what could be rebuilt and what couldn't. It's raw, yo. But beautiful too, so it's not a sadistic kind of cry.

    • @digitalucidity
      @digitalucidity 3 года назад +4

      I can't get through half of the first song without doing the same

  • @dizzydiddle123
    @dizzydiddle123 4 года назад +60

    My 15 year old cat passed away seven months ago. I still come back here for a good cry.

    • @Angie-Pants
      @Angie-Pants 4 года назад +6

      My 17 year old cat died two years ago and this still breaks my heart, I don't know why I come back.

    • @scottbaylo
      @scottbaylo 3 года назад +4

      We lost 2 babies, big pig in 2013, and sweets was in 2018 or 2019 (there were a few years that seemed like one long bad year, so I'm not sure), but what they say about time healing all wounds is nothing but words for a bumper sticker. I'm so sorry for your loss, and even though the pain is unbearable when they leave, don't deny sharing your home with them. You both need each other.

  • @tibicenlinnei4014
    @tibicenlinnei4014 Год назад +45

    As an addict (recovered), this saga hits so hard and makes cry my eyes out. The cat that lived on out porch at the sober house was killed by loose dogs.
    Her name was Chloe.

    • @TheBrysonK
      @TheBrysonK Год назад +4

      Chloe at rest…life is hard. Let it rest, all you can’t change. Be well, friend.

    • @grantmcinnes1176
      @grantmcinnes1176 Год назад +1

      I hear you friend.

  • @janoallen
    @janoallen 2 года назад +33

    Saw John in concert in St Catharines, and he ended with Virtute at Rest, and I swear the whole place was in tears. What a songwriter.

    • @gogopod
      @gogopod 3 месяца назад +1

      Good lord, reading this made me cry

  • @dueyramone
    @dueyramone 2 года назад +25

    Hadn't spoken to my son, of his accord, for far too long.
    Sent him the first part today.
    Knowing the rest.
    Maybe one day I send the rest.

  • @fa1_z
    @fa1_z 4 года назад +177

    "I know you're strong" - this gets me every single time. Instant tears. God, I hate myself.

    • @ehvaen8479
      @ehvaen8479 3 года назад +14

      I know you're strong.

    • @dueyramone
      @dueyramone 2 года назад +7

      The notion that it gets you, speaks volumes to your actual strength.
      Carry on as though normal.
      As you were, good human.

    • @doctajuice
      @doctajuice 2 года назад +11

      It's "I can't remember the sound that you found for me" that always breaks me. I have my 2 cats now and I'll be sure they never forget the sounds that I found for them

    • @jenniferparker7588
      @jenniferparker7588 2 года назад +3

      Literally same for me. Can't hear these songs without bawling.

    • @doctajuice
      @doctajuice 2 года назад +1

      @@jenniferparker7588 *bawling

  • @lotsofciggies
    @lotsofciggies 3 года назад +33

    Does anyone else get to feeling those Big Sad Feelingz sometimes and they wont go away so you come here and listen to these goddamn songs so you can just break down and cry like a baby for a while and then you feel better? Or is it just me?

    • @littlesnowflakepunk855
      @littlesnowflakepunk855 3 года назад

      me too

    • @zaneridings3789
      @zaneridings3789 3 года назад +2

      You're not alone. A lot of people saying they wish he hadn't written Virtute at Rest, but I think the song is magical. Plus, he uses that style where the short song is one long run-on sentence and I absolutely love it.

    • @lotsofciggies
      @lotsofciggies 3 года назад +3

      @@zaneridings3789 Virtute at Rest is the perfect coda to a lovely song cycle that ranks among the greatest feats of storytelling in the history of popular music (and I mean it, I'll put 'em in the ring with Desolation Row or Street Hassle any day). I also think it's just a wonderful song, one of John K's patented four chord folk poems (Sounds Familiar, Illustrated Bible Stories, Bigfoot, etc). I gotta say, some of the comments here are just tragic in their hopefullness. "Virtute isn't dead, she found her owner and they are resting comfortably" or "it's open-ended and left to interpretation." It's about as open-ended as Old fucking Yeller. Virtute has been on the street so long she's forgotten her name and eventually she does what all strays do -- freezes to death, or dies of exposure, or maybe a car or bus. Either way, she exists only in the back of our humble subject's brain by the time At Rest begins.

    • @lotsofciggies
      @lotsofciggies 3 года назад +1

      Support your SPCA/ animal shelter!

    • @authaire
      @authaire 3 года назад +1

      Big time

  • @annibond8414
    @annibond8414 3 года назад +20

    I miss my recently deceased cat so much. Listening to this was a mistake.

    • @aissela-sy9dv
      @aissela-sy9dv 2 года назад +3

      it's still here, you just can't see it❤️

    • @annibond8414
      @annibond8414 Год назад

      @@aissela-sy9dv I saw her in a coma shortly after posting this. I saw her and Dad. I think she's here, too.

  • @danielbandman3380
    @danielbandman3380 2 года назад +44

    When I first heard "Plea" I didn't realize it was from the cat's perspective (at first) and thought it was the dumbest song. Turns out I was just the dumbest listener. What a great set of tunes. John K. Samson is one of the best lyricists of my generation. Hard to believe that he was in Propaghandi (which I loved first).

    • @benstanbury
      @benstanbury 2 года назад +2

      I literally discovered The Weakerthans about two weeks ago ( from the Reply All podcast) and my gosh, this band / his lyrics are so good... I actually emailed a dude I know in Winnipeg and was like 'HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS BAND?'

    • @BethanyMystic
      @BethanyMystic Год назад +1

      😂 If i didn’t receive context with this recommendation, I may have missed that detail as well ☺️ music’s great for discovery.

  • @spenserc123
    @spenserc123 7 лет назад +224

    I wish I had never found out about Virtute the Cat at Rest. I'm still not over her losing her ears and then that happens. I wish I could go back in time to where she just wants to have a party. I've been crying like a baby for the past half an hour, just as bad as last night. Makes me wanna go snuggle my cats even harder.

    • @ssimpson3288
      @ssimpson3288 6 лет назад +27

      Has Vertute actually passed away in the song or is Vertute just resting with her master? I've found the wording can be taken two different ways. At first it implies that Vertute has passed away but at the same time it can also be implied that Vertute is just resting with her master and that if he ever starts to feel sorry for himself she will dig in her claws in him to snap him out of it.

    • @tas991000
      @tas991000 6 лет назад +24

      S Simpson I think she's not with her owner anymore and both have come to terms with living without each other.

    • @heishikaej
      @heishikaej 6 лет назад +37

      I always interpreted it to mean the memory of Virtute in the master's mind. About letting go of the things you can't hold, putting their memory to rest and being grateful for still having that.

    • @ScottSchleiff
      @ScottSchleiff 6 лет назад +19

      I always heard it as "when the winter took / the tips of my ears found this noisy home" Alternatively, she could have been eartipped by a TNR rescue, where volunteers have feral cats neutered and get them healthy then return them to the 'wild' after clipping the tip of their ear as a sign that they've been TNR'ed so another rescue doesn't pick them up and try and do it again. Either way, Virtute didn't lose her ears.

    • @alexdeeley
      @alexdeeley 5 лет назад +29

      I believe we are led to believe that Virtute is home, in the master's mind, held by the memories and kept safe from the world. The reality is that we can't really keep safe the things we love. And that's ok.

  • @abrahambugarin6136
    @abrahambugarin6136 2 года назад +15

    I lost two kitties a couple weeks ago, they got sick but there was not much that could be done at the hospital. I thought I was over it, but these songs (particularly "Virtute at Rest") just broke me and I bursted into tears. However I can't feel nothing but gratitude as it is helping me with my grieving.
    I'll remember my kitties laying with me, at the afternoon sunbeam.

  • @the_scotch
    @the_scotch 3 года назад +20

    I had to give my cat away 13 years ago for reasons I won't go in to. Every day I regret that I didn't feel strong enough to be there to say goodbye to her.

    • @spud13x13
      @spud13x13 Год назад +4

      Go now, you are forgiven. With love, from a stranger.

    • @niccilefevre
      @niccilefevre 2 месяца назад +1

      "You should know I am with you, know I forgive you
      Know I am proud of the steps that you've made
      Know it will never be easy or simple
      Know I will dig in my claws when you stray
      So let us rest here like we used to
      In a line of late afternoon sun
      Let it rest, all you can't change
      Let it rest and be done"

  • @griffin4243
    @griffin4243 3 года назад +21

    "most of us probably not getting better, but not getting better together" always hits me. really captures the feelings of being in those kinds of programs

    • @robertparrish4894
      @robertparrish4894 11 месяцев назад +2

      Been in men's rehab facility for nearly 8 months and I think maybe 5 out of 50 guys I've seen pass through are still here, that line hits me hard too, shame this disease takes out so many people

  • @crake2502
    @crake2502 Год назад +15

    I wrote a small something on my band’s instagram about how the beauty of John K’s writing is proven best within these comments. Thank you for sharing your grief and joy 🌹Vivat Virtute and all cats, always.
    “November always finds me nostalgic but recently I’ve been overcome by a layer of sentiment so dense I can’t get to sleep. And when I can’t sleep I find myself on RUclips looking for videos of The Weakerthans. For me, nostalgia and The Weakerthans come as one and I realise I am at the age where I have listened to them for as long as I have not. Quite sadly, I find The Weakerthans nearly impossible to talk about for my recommendation of their virtuosity is often met with silence or politely brushed aside. And I get it, I really do. They are a band that have to find you at that right moment and in all honesty if someone recommended them to me today I might not make it to the end of one song, such is the distance from more familiar sonic form. But there’s a slow beauty to John K Samson’s writing that once it’s given the right vessel is haunting and will always be somewhere within quietly worrying away. As professor Nick Mount noted in his lecture on Samson’s lyrics, the songs are often written in the imperative mood. They ask of you demands you spend your whole life trying to answer. But the real testament to the value of Samson’s writing is found here in these screenshots taken from comments under the RUclips entry “The Entire Saga of Virtute the Cat (with lyrics)”. Written across three albums and many more years, the narrative of Virtute is one of love between a cat and a human that was found, lost, then found again in the most plaintive and powerful of places - old memory. The comments show how the story of Virtute is a warm home for people to collectively share the joy of cats known and grieve those now gone. Because the emotion Samson captures is universal, as I said it just has to find the right vessel in. I hope one day I can be half the songwriter. “
    Full post: instagram.com/p/ClAPJlDI3FX/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
    @crakeleeds

  • @hawkthewalk
    @hawkthewalk 4 года назад +23

    these songs are just completely devastating, especially in sequence like this.
    "The Serbian deadhead who wears his sunglasses / so no one can see at my eyes" got a good chuckle out of me despite the tears

  • @suppeccnole6787
    @suppeccnole6787 2 года назад +16

    I’ve been crying for an hour and a half. I cant sleep even though it’s 1 am because of these songs. I think virtute the cat explains her departure might be my favorite song I’ve ever heard

  • @goobey7512
    @goobey7512 5 лет назад +56

    Why does this hurt so much

    • @stateless13
      @stateless13 5 лет назад +3

      because it's so very true.

    • @scottbaylo
      @scottbaylo 3 года назад +4

      Because cats are the only thing God got right.

  • @bongo4160
    @bongo4160 3 года назад +22

    i have loved these songs forever and have always found them difficult to listen to. Our cat just passed away yesterday and I've never needed these songs more than I have right now. They hurt. And they heal. Thank you, John.

  • @Scorpia161
    @Scorpia161 4 года назад +31

    Well it's a little earlier than my regularly scheduled cry but okay

  • @AgedBlaineGaming
    @AgedBlaineGaming Год назад +8

    Thanks so much for compiling this and uploading it. Made it so much easier to share with friends. I also really appreciate how tightly the lyrics are synced with the music! I can tell a lot of attention was paid. 😊

  • @jasonhofacker4814
    @jasonhofacker4814 11 месяцев назад +4

    I wonder if my cat has noticed that he's growing older, while I have changed so little. I'd like to donate a decade or two to my little friend.

  • @ricardotorres3159
    @ricardotorres3159 2 года назад +50

    Imposible definir el valor intrínseco de esta saga.

  • @kevinroberts5216
    @kevinroberts5216 2 года назад +9

    Wow I never knew those last two songs existed before today. It rounds out the entire story and Virtute at Rest is just such a beautiful ending.

  • @BoyVSInternet
    @BoyVSInternet 6 лет назад +50

    I'm leaving for college in a few weeks and this made me actually cry because I have to leave my cats behind. Absolutely beautiful but insanely sad

  • @deadontheoutside4692
    @deadontheoutside4692 2 года назад +8

    My cat died two months ago she died howling in my arms in pain, and all I could do was cradle her and tell her I loved her and begged her not to go, to hold on, to live. She died anyways. I love her more the words can say, then the world could encompass, she was everything to me my other half and she died in pain screaming. And I think that will haunt me for the rest of my life. But this album this beautiful horrible wonderful songs makes me remember I had 13 years with the best cat in world 13 good years we’re she lived and I loved her and I think she loved me in the ways only animals can love. And I remember 5 minutes of pain, 13 years of love.

    • @gogopod
      @gogopod 3 месяца назад

      Thank you for sharing this. Whoever you are, I love you, too.

  • @TheTeaHermit
    @TheTeaHermit 4 года назад +16

    I don't think I've ever been so moved to years by a dozen minutes of music before.

  • @umbreonandespeon
    @umbreonandespeon Год назад +4

    Genuinely every single time i come to these songs, i leave in tears
    But i keep coming back :')

  • @09ThunderOne
    @09ThunderOne 7 месяцев назад +3

    There is no set of songs that speaks to me more than this.

  • @MegaMoegreen
    @MegaMoegreen 5 лет назад +8

    Real shit. As I lay next my cat...

  • @FunGoverner
    @FunGoverner 3 года назад +7

    Inherently “sad” music is my favorite music. Of all time. Forever. For every mood.

  • @geriannepandolfi
    @geriannepandolfi 9 месяцев назад +3

    Of course, this trilogy breaks my heart.
    What is even more heartbreaking are the statistics.
    In the USA, 85% of cats WHO HAVE OWNERS (i.e., cats who are not strays) are neglected or abused.
    As a veterinarian, the cats who I see for preventative care, or who are sick or injured, represent only 15% of American cats who have owners/guardians.
    Thank you to John K. Samson, and to all of you who have been moved by Virtute’s story. You are the 15% who care.
    God bless you, and keep you. Please do all you can to fight for all pets, and for all animals.
    Ghandi (in 1931) said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.”
    I hope and pray and wish, on a daily basis, that all nations could and would comply.
    Please, if you can do nothing else, spay or neuter your pets to help prevent the cruelty, though it is often not thought about, perpetrated upon kittens and puppies who are unwanted.
    ♥️❤️♥️

  • @todogenial119
    @todogenial119 4 года назад +12

    It's been years since I cried this hard, very good songs

  • @lootwijk
    @lootwijk 4 года назад +23

    John K Samson is a horrible man, and I love him so.

  • @tomduch5828
    @tomduch5828 7 лет назад +16

    spoiler alert...
    you're gonna fucking cry.

  • @pissangelmindfreak
    @pissangelmindfreak 3 года назад +7

    i come here to cry

  • @HotlineSacramento
    @HotlineSacramento 3 года назад +9

    I really wish virtute at rest wasn’t a thing but I’m so happy it is :( only song that makes me ugly cry

  • @natereed3425
    @natereed3425 4 года назад +7

    They are sad, and depressing in the best possible way, but there is always a bit of hope.

  • @GOAWAYJAKE
    @GOAWAYJAKE 2 года назад +7

    Goddamn I should've known what I was getting into here but fuck I'm blindsided anyway. Exactly what I needed and also totally devastating. It's been nearly 4 years since music hit me quite so hard.

  • @carlosjvargas8083
    @carlosjvargas8083 Год назад +3

    This song was my life in 1998-2001 and I didn’t even have a cat then!

  • @dejiko
    @dejiko 2 года назад +7

    I miss my cat, he passed away yesterday due to poisoning.
    Some evil a**hole murdered my little guy even though he was harmless and friendly.
    This one's on you B!

  • @brandiediss
    @brandiediss 4 года назад +11

    😭😭😭😭😭 I’d never listened to them all in a row like this. I am destroyed. ❤️

  • @marielespedal1315
    @marielespedal1315 5 лет назад +40

    I'm never listening to this again.

  • @colzp
    @colzp 6 лет назад +28

    Just the most beautiful songs ever - I found them via Frank Turner, but "Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure" makes me cry uncontrollably... I've been moved to tears by songs before, but nothing even close to this - just so incredibly and beautiful and heartbreaking...

    • @emerickscott
      @emerickscott 5 лет назад +2

      I don't even really care for cats and I break down every time I listen to it.

  • @AlanYash
    @AlanYash 2 года назад +5

    I came from "Things Podcast"

  • @pinback3977
    @pinback3977 Год назад +5

    Let it rest and be done :(

  • @PerryPlatt
    @PerryPlatt 3 года назад +6

    Oh my gosh... I've only ever really listened to Renion Tour from start to finish, and Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure is one of my favorite songs on it. I didn't know this was a whole series. Mind is blown right now while listening to this. haha

  • @The420Tokers
    @The420Tokers 5 лет назад +22

    i only knew of the first two and those were enough to make me cry. this really hurt.

  • @jessicajett8469
    @jessicajett8469 7 лет назад +40

    thank you.
    your music has always impacted me in such a positive way. no matter how I was feeling.
    I married my best friend on the 21St. 12 years (to the day) after we kissed.
    I have a cattoo that says, "I know you're strong"
    thank you

    • @katbailey1334
      @katbailey1334 5 лет назад +2

      CATTOO OMG.

    • @davidrich27
      @davidrich27 3 года назад +2

      I've thought about getting a tattoo like that. Maybe I'll add some scratches and bitemarks too, so I'll remember in case I stray.

    • @redward1965
      @redward1965 2 года назад

      I hope you don't mind, but I must get that cattoo

  • @DJDarren80
    @DJDarren80 6 лет назад +16

    Oh god, this is heartbreaking ☹️

  • @sparro768
    @sparro768 3 года назад +7

    im so stumped with school, covid and having relationships with people that I don't know that I want anymore. i feel like I am being killed by apathy quite literally, and that the only way to get better is to stop feeling. Covid killed a family member of mine today. one I knew for quite some time. i have no words. i have no feeling for it. my girlfriend is back at school now and I have no support emotionally. i feel like I have no emotions currently. I'm an engineering technology major so stress from class is constant. i feel... drained. yall have a great day.

    • @ehvaen8479
      @ehvaen8479 3 года назад +1

      I'm sorry for your loss and your isolation. Apathy has been eating me too. I don't know it's source, but the fact that we can talk about it makes it shrink a bit. Hey-- I know we are strong.

    • @aissela-sy9dv
      @aissela-sy9dv 2 года назад +4

      ​@@ehvaen8479 @sparro Hey let me tell you something. I understand you because apathy has been eating me alive since covid and isolations. All I can tell you is that we can beat it by doing things that make us feel alive like running, screaming, doing high intensity activities, singing, talking, crying, feeling strong emotions and doing things and keep doing always different activities. Apathy is also worse than depression because you can’t feel anything but you JUST KNOW that the pain is there so we have to make sure to keep our body and mind alive and aware by doing anything!!! I know it’s hard cause 80% of the time I live perceiving life as a sort of realistic blurry dream and this is making me going crazy I swear but we just must keep on living or else depression, sadness, apathy or isolation will eat us alive!! BTW this comment is for everyone in this comment section i just wanted to share these tips cause we're all in the same boat at the end of the day (Also sorry for my english)

  • @joanandreanoweyland57
    @joanandreanoweyland57 4 года назад +5

    Can't help but cry every single time.

  • @realname2472
    @realname2472 6 лет назад +9

    Just something in my eye...

  • @andygtmo
    @andygtmo 2 года назад +4

    R.I.P. Virtue

  • @tibicenlinnei4014
    @tibicenlinnei4014 Год назад +2

    I want to get get a tattoo of my cat Dexter that passed in December with the lyrics "I will dig in my claws when you stray" to remind me I never want to be this low/destructive/suicidal ever again
    Edit: I know I commented previously about a different cat.

  • @Teiouika
    @Teiouika 2 года назад +4

    By the last song i was in TEARS

  • @johnmiller4859
    @johnmiller4859 5 лет назад +5

    Oh dear Lord, that is so sad. Poor Kitty.

  • @MothersRuin80
    @MothersRuin80 7 лет назад +36

    So good! Thanks for bringing these together. I didn't know the Winter Wheat songs were a continuation of this story.

    • @MassiveBeaver
      @MassiveBeaver 6 лет назад +1

      Me neither

    • @JeffWHigdon
      @JeffWHigdon 4 года назад +2

      I've seen John play all four live a couple times, and he does the Winter Wheat one last. I think it fits better as the third, but it's awesome either way.

  • @elly-maehall638
    @elly-maehall638 6 лет назад +4

    holy fuck ;_____; not een twenty seconds in and I'm fuckin WEEPING.

  • @ursulatheseawitch6446
    @ursulatheseawitch6446 3 года назад +3

    Miss you so much bee

  • @lootwijk
    @lootwijk 2 года назад +2

    Damn you, John. ⭐️

  • @GSchazz
    @GSchazz 6 лет назад +8

    Really appreciate the collab! This was a very very good deed bud.

  • @aisle9
    @aisle9 Год назад +1

    I never thought a song about a dead cat would gut me the way Virtute at Rest just did.

  • @willhuemiller7824
    @willhuemiller7824 6 лет назад +5

    Thank you!

  • @garag3054
    @garag3054 3 года назад +2

    So much love for this whole group of songs.

  • @tommiedooley8215
    @tommiedooley8215 6 лет назад +3

    love this! great song

  • @sharkulashairstylist5505
    @sharkulashairstylist5505 2 года назад +8

    did John quit drinking???
    Good for him, I did in 2015 its hard... I quit shooting dope..
    I lived to tell the story but John does it better.

    • @simonw560
      @simonw560 13 дней назад

      Sending a message from the future to past you. I hope you are still living clean.
      If you need someone to not drink with you tonight, I'm your man.

  • @kejoradini8612
    @kejoradini8612 3 года назад +6

    Masterpiece.. I don't even own a cat. Bye💔🐈

  • @kingkobra7745
    @kingkobra7745 4 года назад +2

    beautiful!

  • @samgills5703
    @samgills5703 7 лет назад +4

    thank you, matt

  • @sasuke001100
    @sasuke001100 2 года назад +6

    Roberto mtz - cosas :D

  • @estefygb6556
    @estefygb6556 2 года назад +4

    Vine aquí por Ruperto Mtz en el podcast #Cosas haha

  • @notehden
    @notehden 2 года назад +3

    let's see how long it takes to break me

    • @notehden
      @notehden 2 года назад +6

      4 minutes.

  • @Hydro_Waterbottle
    @Hydro_Waterbottle 5 месяцев назад +1

    Kaycee. I wish you didn’t go out the way you did. I wish I could’ve said goodbye at least. It angered me that everyone thought I knew already. Barely a time to mourn since you had already been gone long. It’s so difficult to look at the bathtub anymore, you were there and I didn’t know. I wish I could’ve given you all the love in the world. I still have your collar, I hope you remember your name. Your son is still around, and I hope he stays for all the years you couldn’t. I still see your shadow sometimes, where you are not. I love you both. forgive me

  • @concars1234
    @concars1234 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is sheer poetry

  • @burdturglar
    @burdturglar 2 года назад +2

    Dear gawd. I've loved and lost many feline buddies over my lifetime. I still think of them and cry. This did the same. I've never watched Marley and Me because I know what happens. This is so good in not sure I can listen again. Dammit.

  • @TentacleBees
    @TentacleBees 2 года назад +1

    i am in tears

  • @tritthompson631
    @tritthompson631 5 лет назад +4

    Miss u obi.

  • @ClaraLol200
    @ClaraLol200 Год назад +2

    Gah, I love the Weakerthans so much ❤

  • @nameforcomments4092
    @nameforcomments4092 5 лет назад +24

    Dear John K. Samson,
    Please, please don't ever write another song in this series. I can't handle it.
    I know, prequels and side-stories are all the rage, but I can't do it. I'm not up for it.
    You might be thinking, 'but this is only four songs, and there are five stages of grief.' Well, I'm perfectly happy considering the owner being 'denial' and the cat being 'anger' simultaneously in 'Plea', especially given that the last two songs heavily imply this is really more the owner's voice/projection. You wouldn't write a proper song about your denial while you're still in it, so the self-reflecting song from the anger phase that renounces his denial (those bitter songs weren't helping anything, after all) is where this series starts.
    So just four songs. It's already a masterpiece that breaks me to enjoy.

    • @alexrichmond4684
      @alexrichmond4684 5 лет назад +4

      Every time I've found out that he's added I knew song since 'Plea From a Cat Named Virtute' I have been emotionally destroyed by it. I for sure cannot handle any more.

  • @urielgodinezsantos8401
    @urielgodinezsantos8401 2 года назад +2

    Gracias Roberto Martínez

  • @omardavidr.s1236
    @omardavidr.s1236 2 года назад +3

    Muy intrínseco la verdad

  • @elliotjohnson1172
    @elliotjohnson1172 10 месяцев назад +1

    I miss my Meemow every day : (

  • @andrewalexander8877
    @andrewalexander8877 6 лет назад +3

    😢

  • @natashas2103
    @natashas2103 Год назад +1

    And all cater. With all the birds that I can kill. Let their tiny feathers fill disappointment. Lie down. And lick the sorrow from your skin. Scratch the chair and begin. To believe you're strong. 😭😭😭😭

  • @CLCHRD
    @CLCHRD Год назад +3

    how many times do i have to listen to these songs to become sober

    • @simonw560
      @simonw560 13 дней назад

      I'm not drinking with you tonight. Hope you're doing well friend.

  • @WhoamI-yz9nx
    @WhoamI-yz9nx 2 месяца назад

    Listening to this for the first time while on a public transport was a huge mistake...
    And the comments are definitely not helping, jesus christ

  • @cerveceros8371
    @cerveceros8371 Год назад +1

    de aqui se inspiro jose madero para hacer la cancion de teo?