I was a fan of this song and the message behind the video back when it first came out. Now I care for a couple of bee colonies and it makes me appreciate it even more. 🐝 I love my bees and I definitely work for them, not the other way around. 💛
I feel this video is the struggle of everyday life, living to work, working to live. the bees that escape are finally happy just as you are when you finally get off work and are able to spend time with your loved ones
And when you don't perform you are disposed of and another individual is waiting in line to take your place for their soul sucking occupation. I was in my mid 20s when I realized that's not the life I'm making for myself. I am still doing my own thing now in my 40s. I'm like the 2 free bees and it's truly the key to happiness. Success doesn't equate to being a slave to corporations.
Lyrics: I took a walk with an invisible friend And on that walk, I gave my hand O, to be a machine O, to be wanted To be useful With this ring that I wear today My whole world is your property O, to be a machine O, to be wanted To be useful I took a walk with an invisible friend And on that walk, I gave my hand.
from what i can see, the birds over power the bees,and the regergetating of the ground up flowers is what the birds run on. and they found a queen and kept her hostage just for her egges so that the birds wont die and 2 worker bee got free by working together. but the folly of the first worker bee got him killed and instead of flowers being grounded, their bees that died or got killed. and know the new bee has to feel the suffering... and the pattern follows until someday the queen bee dies.....
Yeah, those are his dying thoughts, and the flight into the sky signifies them ascending to "heaven." The flowers represent souls, as it shows in the end that bees are being ground up, pressed into a liquid, drank and regurgitated.
@@squirrley9 i am literally 12 years older than when I commented this. But I have not forgotten Menomena, at the time I felt nothing else came close to this song.
I took a walk with an invisible friend (meaning Jesus) And on that walk, I gave my hand (accepting Christ's promise of salvation and repenting from sin) O, to be a machine O, to be wanted To be useful (to be productive and have a purpose to fulfill, as in serving God) With this ring that I wear today My whole world is your property (Jesus referred to himself as the "bridegroom", this referred to the relationship you build with him and in that relationship you give everything you are to him.) O, to be a machine O, to be wanted To be useful I took a walk with an invisible friend And on that walk, I gave my hand.
The repudiation of Christ and the hypocrisy of organized religion (particularly Christianity), is a common theme in Menomena's work before Brent left the band.
Yeah I read that, and was like "what." People should listen to Tithe if they want a less subtle song from which to decipher pre-Brent leaving Menomena's message.
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I was a fan of this song and the message behind the video back when it first came out. Now I care for a couple of bee colonies and it makes me appreciate it even more. 🐝 I love my bees and I definitely work for them, not the other way around. 💛
Wow. Can't remember the last time I saw a music video with this much depth in it.
This is one of those videos that I have to come back to and watch again and again.
I feel this video is the struggle of everyday life, living to work, working to live. the bees that escape are finally happy just as you are when you finally get off work and are able to spend time with your loved ones
And when you don't perform you are disposed of and another individual is waiting in line to take your place for their soul sucking occupation.
I was in my mid 20s when I realized that's not the life I'm making for myself. I am still doing my own thing now in my 40s. I'm like the 2 free bees and it's truly the key to happiness. Success doesn't equate to being a slave to corporations.
This video was the one in particular that I remembered somewhere in the back of my head and I stumble upon it out of nowhere. What luck!
Danny Chau referenced this in his article on the Ringer today. Wonderful.
This song and video used to freak me out as a child, now I kinda like it
Wow, amazing imagination, creativity & execution on this theme/story!
Song has been stuck in mind for a couple days & i Just now saw this video.
15 years ago I watched this.
Still as powerful as it ever was.
Same!
This made me cry so many times when I saw it on that basic cable music video showcase.
bring this band back, fugggggg
Surprise! They're back.
@@nigelmoyes9798 bruh you made my day that morning reading this email from RUclips
Lyrics:
I took a walk with an invisible friend
And on that walk, I gave my hand
O, to be a machine
O, to be wanted
To be useful
With this ring that I wear today
My whole world is your property
O, to be a machine
O, to be wanted
To be useful
I took a walk with an invisible friend
And on that walk, I gave my hand.
Amazing Video,Amazing Sound,Amazing Band.......
Awesome vid.
Been wanting to buy the Menomena records for a while now, though it's hard getting a hold of them here in Norway.
You should reupload this in in 1080p. Such a great video deserves better quality.
not sure there is man....this album is from 2007. this might be the highest quality
He took a walk with his invisible friend...
i want one!!!
cool song, it's so free sounding.
thoroughly enjoyed that, beautiful
and favorited immediately
Love Menomena.. :)
Life cycles can be crippling. This song is the shhhhh!
OMG! good times!!
a stunning use of computer generated animation . . . a haunting video for a haunting song
2018
Almost 104K views of this video but only 913 likes? Are people frightened, confused or lazy?
Probably a combination of the three 😂
music and video pretty cool, i love Menomena! and the bees too :)
why there isn't a HQ version of this video?
2007
Who’s here in 2023
Here in 2024
2024 ! Just a class tune
2024 here! This song still slaps! Even 16 years later.
AMO A ESTA BANDA
2022 and I'm sad I've never heard this band before now
this entire album is one to be listened to straight thru on headphones. its a life changer
2024 awesome band to be fair
Absolute visionaries
awesome video from my new favorite band.
Wow.
What a powerful video!
POWERFUL
if i was to guess I'd say it's about the circle of life and how one always gets the shit end of the stick.
umm best music viideo ever!
makes me cry
Literally the birds and bees.
@atknoob5 it does!
So fucking sad and frustrating. Just the true about the system.
Why this go so hard?!
Menomena is the one band that should never have broken up
oh do be a machine
from what i can see, the birds over power the bees,and the regergetating of the ground up flowers is what the birds run on. and they found a queen and kept her hostage just for her egges so that the birds wont die and 2 worker bee got free by working together. but the folly of the first worker bee got him killed and instead of flowers being grounded, their bees that died or got killed. and know the new bee has to feel the suffering... and the pattern follows until someday the queen bee dies.....
the flowers aren't real, the flowers are a lie
It's a shame this was taken off of spotify
wich one is the female bee?
All of them.
Patrick Bright Lesbian couple. Well maybe the protagonist is a drone.
This is a powerful statement sir.
I agree, though, aside from my sarcasm.
let me tell you about the birds and the bees
Hi Rhianna! 🐝🐷
I think all the thing of the bee meeting another one and escaping is just his imagination, right?
Yeah, those are his dying thoughts, and the flight into the sky signifies them ascending to "heaven." The flowers represent souls, as it shows in the end that bees are being ground up, pressed into a liquid, drank and regurgitated.
@@squirrley9 i am literally 12 years older than when I commented this.
But I have not forgotten Menomena, at the time I felt nothing else came close to this song.
@@GoPieman its a great song, and I have yet to see a more profound music video. I think it can encompass pretty much all of human consciousness.
@@squirrley9 definitely at least all of bee consciousness
evil bird
Evil crow
itunes store.
What the fuck, depth? You cried? What the fuck did I just watch? WHAT.
Cloud Atlas: Bee edition
Was anyone else reminded of the Matrix? :)
I just want to be wanted
Call it Bee Laden
🙃
Wow that's so jaded
i don`t understand this vid
I only really came back for the video. :/
Anyone else reminded of the Matrix a bit?
bluerabbitvine yeah
this is gross!
I took a walk with an invisible friend (meaning Jesus)
And on that walk, I gave my hand (accepting Christ's promise of salvation and repenting from sin)
O, to be a machine
O, to be wanted
To be useful (to be productive and have a purpose to fulfill, as in serving God)
With this ring that I wear today
My whole world is your property (Jesus referred to himself as the "bridegroom", this referred to the relationship you build with him and in that relationship you give everything you are to him.)
O, to be a machine
O, to be wanted
To be useful
I took a walk with an invisible friend
And on that walk, I gave my hand.
The repudiation of Christ and the hypocrisy of organized religion (particularly Christianity), is a common theme in Menomena's work before Brent left the band.
Wtf are you drinking
Yeah I read that, and was like "what." People should listen to Tithe if they want a less subtle song from which to decipher pre-Brent leaving Menomena's message.