DDWIWDD (Dan Deacon “When I Was Done Dying”) | Off The Air | Adult Swim
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- Опубликовано: 23 мар 2015
- For this special episode, Off The Air brings together nine of their favorite animators to each animate one section of Dan Deacon's song "When I Was Done Dying" off his latest album Gliss Riffer.
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Animators in order of appearance:
Jake Fried
Chad VanGaalen
Dimitri Stankowicz
Colin White
Taras Hrabowsky
Anthony Schepperd
Masanobu Hiraoka
Caleb Wood
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DDWIWDD (Dan Deacon “When I Was Done Dying”) | Off The Air | Adult Swim
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The Earth looked at me and said "wasn't that fun?"
And I replied "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone"
. . .
absolutely slays me every time I hear it
And without even thinking cast me into space but before she did that she wiped pff my own face
Better luck nexttime dont worry so much .
Without ears i couldnt hear i could just feel the touch
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@kailutz4901 eyy 2 years late but its tears me up as well :'( ly all
Better luck next time, don't worry so much without ears i couldn't i hear could just feel the touch. gets me too fam
I honestly couldn't care less if people think that this kind of animation is only useful for drug trips. I think it's a magnificent piece of art.
Steelgirl Yah, exactly. That's what 100% of Off the Air is.
You should see some artwork by Max
Psychedelic drugs only increase your appreciation and emotional attachment to everything you are experiencing. Therefore what you already think is beautiful becomes more so.
And honestly this song is very reminiscent of something called "ego death" that can happen on large doses of Psychedelics
Definitely 100% about ego death no doubt about it. Seems like an Ayahuasca trip honestly. I'd say DMT but DMT doesn't usually have such a coherent storyline
I found so much peace in this song as I laid in my hospital bed. The oncologist's words - "The chemo isn't working" - still ringing fresh in my ears. I heard this so long ago and just thought it was a cool song with a trippy video, but now the lyrics mean so much more. Sometimes there isn't hope for a better future only celebration for the past, and even then what comes next is simply just the next adventure.
... Anyway the chemo did work, it took over 6 years of operations, different treatments plans and technology but I'm still here and still ready for whatever adventure comes next.
I am so happy for your recovery, hope you are still healthy to these day and foreward.
Love you,
from a kind stranger.
I love you
I don’t you and you don’t know me but I wanted to let you know that I love you.
God bless you.. I cant describe how that made me feel
There are songs that expose the wonder of being human.
I count this amongst them.
The whole exchange with Mother Earth is really profound to me. Her remarks, "wasn't that fun?" and "better luck next time, don't worry so much" make me feel like we're really just here to vibe together, die, and let the next generation do the same. It's comforting.
Yeah man, i know how u feel, we are here for the experience thats all, nothing more nothing less
@Caleb Fletcher lets solve drinking water and global warming in the next 100 years first
@Caleb Fletcher by that logic what's the point of anything? I'm curious why you are concerned with an event so far away in time that we haven't even gone 1% of the way to reaching it when we are close to killing ourselves off with much more immediate threats. I want to understand what leads you to choose this in particular.
To actually answer your question it would be all the potential along the way. The journey is important, not everything is the destination.
@Caleb Fletcher I see, but it’s not true, none of this is true, even that statement I just made, it means LIFE. To me LIFE, and it’s purpose, is LIFE. Life is the obstacle, the probability, the solution, Love, Change, evolution, and transcendence. To transcend your destiny or the end of it (one in the same), Is to say that god isn’t real, god isn’t real because reality before has been centralized around the human experience, meaning if we can experience it we can perceive it and that’s why we exist, because we can perceive ourselves and attempt to understand and continue evolving to a point of full understanding of what experience entails past human experience. This doesn’t mean be happy and give up because life is pointless and there’s pretty much nothing to do, but it does mean that you are the master of your fate and the captain of your soul. It’s all Love, in the end, whether we even get to look at it, I will measure the feelings I have till the end of those feelings, because to assume that we continue experiencing after death is not absolute. So we give up all of our emotions and feelings presumably and speculated at the moment of our death, I actually believe otherwise, I believe, existence is eternal and it’s ever lasting, it’s omnipotence and omnipresence, it centers itself around itself, why? Because being that life is centralized around itself means that life is all about “focus on Myself”, when I say that it seems like Life just goes down the drain and all of our material realities seem to go away, because of the nourishment and self care of our own existence as experience itself, do you get that? We’re not human, we’re experience itself, and we go “consciousness is in the brain”. No it’s not, it’s everywhere, it’s everything, it feels everything, it sees everything, it is everything, in both senses of the word, consciousness is figured out what consciousness is, itself, consciousness is experience, it’s the realization and evolution to the realization of experience and self, when I say self it almost personifies consciousness because at the end of the day, we do attribute consciousness to be the source of our experience and therefore the reason we attribute and make such a big deal at trying to make ourselves into something, whether it be god, Aliens, cool, fearful. Let me be honest, for me to say that fear is fun or that it isn’t real, I would be false, as fear itself is an experience perceivable by god as a creation of god, I say god to encapsulate the entirety of existence, if there’s nothing outside of consciousness or existence itself, not that we know, but if there isn’t anything outside of experience, then we ourselves are god, I say this because I’ve seen myself as god, during high states of consciousness, through the use of psychedelics or other forms of deep introspection and inquiry on the self. The reason being that at the time of my experiences I was attempting to regain some sort of label or definition on who? or what I was? But that didn’t change until I asked who am I? And then went through the list, then after I released all labels handed to me by realities outside of my personal conscious experience, I realize that I was nothing but god itself, nothingness itself is god, as god is nothing, due too nothing being outside of experience itself, leaving for the possibility of eternal, pure, awareness and realization of existence. It starts with listening to your mind. I know and understand the mind May be aspiring to create realities that seem to cause more harm than good, because the mind sees all as neutral and not evil nor good, we attribute those meanings to the way we define feelings to make us feel, I say feelings because feelings are at the root of experience, anytime, I flex I get interrupted listen up I Am Not Fearful of expression of my truth, I fear nothing, not even fear itself, listen up truth is here, everything he said was truth except this, nothingness is nothing, nothingness is everything and nothing at the same time, everything beyond that is false, not this listen up listen up listen up
@Caleb Fletcher oh boy you really aren't going to like learning about dark energy gravitational acceleration that will eventually go even beyond heat death to the point our entire perceived universe becomes an event horizon stretched in 1 molecule strings until the bonds break.
Best not to waste the limited time you have interfacing with this reality worrying about things outside your control, especially when they will never occur during the time you can observe.
“Better luck next time, don’t worry so much”
Such a simple thing to say yet so deep in this context
surrendering to experience is part of the discipline
But I didn't have ears so I just felt the touch
@@caidasuave4183 should be a balance though right? That's the tough part. From my understanding it's like walking on a tightrope without being so conscious about where you're stepping. I may be overthinking it though.
@Iamhereblossom Yes, in my personal experience, when I surrender too much I end up feeling exhausted and weak, as if the universe expected more of me. When I focus too much, I end up trapped in a vicious circle where I feel like the center of attention of all living creatures.
After finding the perfect balance, the battle between "I'm great to discover and understand" and "I do not want to worry or take everything personal" disappears.
@@caidasuave4183 Buddha spoke of the "middle way".
Whoever is running adult swim is doing a good job cultivating creativity.
Correction: doing drugs. Lol me too too tho
Pity about World Peace tho, eh
Dan deacon did drinking out of cups... he's nothing new
Though beautiful
Adult Swim was made as a more creative an expressive outlet for creators that didnt need high income like a normal cartoon network show
I just about cry every time I hear that line,
"Better luck next time, dont worry so much"
So simple yet so comforting. Damnit it's so simple
It really is peaceful. Of course, even though I believe it, I have a hard time practicing it. I feel like I'm supposed to worry. To try hard. To push on. How can I do that without worrying? If I'm meant to do both, then how do I learn? Where do I go? How am I supposed to do this? What is my real purpose? Is there even one? Maybe we just keep going until we figure that out. That sounds nice. I hope that's what this is supposed to be. We just keep circling around, until we find a way to comfort others, and so ourselves. Then eventually gain the confidence to be more.
@@TheAero1221What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Yeah sometimes phrases than come out of the blue just fill up this eager soul
Comforting to know there’s a next time?! Comforting would be “okay you’re done you don’t have to do anything anymore you may leave”
My high school art teacher showed us this for Animation Friday. Not only did she said this was her favorite animation, but she said she also really enjoys Adult Swim's work. She's now my favorite teacher.
OH MY GODD YESSSS!!
She trips bawlz
W art teacher
Check out When You Die by MGMT for another decent ride
You got a super cool art teacher.
"Im sorry if i hurt anyone" man i freakin cried
Truth
Nice profile picture homie
@@reJECT0 You know it my dude
i nearly cry even reading this comment
It made me cry too. I don’t know why
These guys were Deeeep into ego death.
Those lyrics, man
Seriously!! Truly amazing !!
Actually true
This has to be about dmt
@@Comuniity_ nah, any psychadelic can cause ego death
@@drhoneybadger not as extreme and intense as dmt though, and the lyrics describe so much stuff about being on dmt
“Art isn’t supposed to be good, it’s supposed to make you feel something.”
What's that supposed to mean, this is teally good
Why not both?
- Michael Scott
Said noone.
These two are not mutually exclusive
The first time I saw this I was on one of my very first psychedelic trips and I cried like a baby. Years later it still hits me in that spot. Such a masterpiece.
lol same when i smoked my 1st joint my brother made me watch this and blockhead-the music scene,was trippy af
@@princeson13 that blockhead vid is super cool.
Yes dude! I've never cried the way I did when I had a psychedelic reincarnation vision on mushrooms. Stuff coming out of my nose. Pure instant information as old as time.
Have tripped 100 times on different enthogens but that time was special. I did however trip to this song the day the album was released. Was pretty big on torrents at the time. Loaded it on my phone and went over to my best friend justins pad. song hits me in my feels.
@@princeson13 i love 'the music scene' but it gives me horrible nightmares every time i watch it...
First time I seen I was a kid it came on tv years later found it on Lucy for the first time… man it speaks to me bc I should have gone deeper but I’m not so brave
As someone who's studied and wants to be an animator. I have just seen the shrine of my idols
Bro if you're at all into this kind of weird animation check out "double king" on yt
same the transitions are seamless its nuts
Anyone knows other music videos similar to this one? or like "The music Scene", from Blockhead
@@Ty-vk8pb honestly the dragon animation looks so much like Felix's work. (Double king)
Felix colgrave is quite good
“I should’ve gone deeper, but I’m not so brave”
That line really speaks to me. Overcoming the fear and anxiety of life, surrendering the need for control, learning to love and appreciate people. Damn.
I heard this song for the first time in 2018 and felt the same way 😊 I was deep in an existential crisis at the time and when I heard that line I got up and got a scuba diving license! Crazy what music does 😅
I wonder if its talking about blasting off with DMT
@@mimszanadunstedt441 The song is about the artist experiencing a life-changing trip. 'when i was done dying' refers to ego death, which many people claim happens at the beginning as the drugs hit. The rest of the song is about his trip.
Always do what you are afraid to do
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
@Robert Phillips it's a geniun beautiful quote, especially when you fully understand it. He's not talking about risking your life, he's talking about going that extra step and how you theres growing when you endure suffering
My dad died two weeks ago, suddenly and unexpectedly. Today was his cremation.
After watching the machine push the cardboard box containing my dad into its mouth, and seeing the flames go up through the little window, I felt happy to know my dad's spirit didn't have to worry about his body no more. This song has been playing over and over in my head. It's beautiful and brings me so much peace in this time.
I'm sorry for your loss, it's a really tough thing to go through. I have listened to this song for years but I return to it regularly because it brings me comfort to believe this is what it's like to die. I lost my grandad recently, we were really close, I like to believe that he felt this same comfort as he passed. I miss him so much.
Good luck out there, and look after yourself.
😢 sorry for ur loss
I’m so sorry for your loss. His spirit will always be with you. The longer I live, the more I really believe that death is not the end, yet another transition into the great unknown. Beauty lies in the mystery. May you find peace and solace now and always, and carry him with you in your heart through this world into the next. ❤
Sorry about your dad I feel your pain he is now living through you now 🧡 so make him proud and if you need someone to talk to hmu drop one of your socials
We all go. What are y'all going to do about it? ❤🎉😂
This song always makes me tear up. It gives me hope that we have the chance to come back as someone different and make all the right choices we failed to make the 1st, or even the millionth, time around.
I listen to this song whenever i feel unmotivated to do anything. It brings so much to me, so many emotions, also makes me tear up. Makes me feel so small in this world, so tiny but at the same time so unique.
It’s a nice thought
🙏❤️🤗 you spoke my heart
Poincaré recursion, in my mind, is just as likely an ultimate fate of the universe. So, it's totally possible that we'll do this all again some day when the universe ends and restarts.
Strap in, though, it's gonna be a while.
You should read The Egg by Andy Weir if you haven't already.
"I should've gone deeper, but I'm not so brave" I just can't express how much I adore this line; one simultaneously reflecting on how the boy regrets not taking the trip to the full extent and also how he laments not making the most out of life before the crash. Such a gorgeous song.
I would argue that line is more of a sigh of acceptance, that no life lived is perfect or exactly what you envisioned. Everyone has regrets about inaction at some point in their lives. The message is: that's ok. Acceptance > FOMO
Read that as he sang it
Brother I am tripping and I feel that
I had my first awful trip where I was on the cusp on ego death and I choked and held onto myself and was afraid and it was the worst experience ever. This line like fully encapsulates that feeling and fear and it makes me feel a lot less alone and less fearful to let go of my fears.
I have nothing but my breath
That must've taken a stupid amount of time to animate. It shifts through styles every 3p seconds. Whoever did this is really good
Watch the credits. A different person did each segment.
@@haroldcjennettiii For posterity it's called a Map Animation! I love animations like this! Chronicles of Riddick had one as well.
It’s all SO GOOD, but the very animation that looks vaguely like a fast-moving collage is truly magnificent. Something about the two “thumbs down” moments follow by that powerfully affirmative movement with green triangle followed by the spinning, swirling structure hits something powerfully meaningful in me but I have no idea why.
If you just look at the video description it says all the artist in order it was shown. I always think it's funny nobody ever checks the description on videos.
Madd respect to them
It's been 7 years, and I still come here to revisit this masterpiece.
Right behind ya
Same
Real
It's a perfect song
I'm not a religious or spiritual person but this really captures the beauty in the ideas of death, rebirth and our own cosmic insignificance. To me it signifies the fear, confusion and comedy we have all experienced at one time or another when venturing into the unknown and the transformative effect that can have on ourselves. Moving to a new place, the end of a relationship, getting lost, coping with a traumatic event - the seismic events in life can be their own kind of death and rebirth because afterwards you aren't the same person anymore.
Those experiences cause small ego deaths which can help mature a person. Sometimes it does the opposite and makes people lose their love and happiness. Psychedelics kill your ego entirely which matures you in the best way. DMT is the compound you need to try. We're beings of consciousness. Consciousness is multidimensional. Scientist already know there are higher dimensions and we experience 3D reality. We live in a semi simulation. DMT let's you experience the higher dimensions of consciousness and you're able to understand life and death and everything in between. Our brains don't produce consciousness it receives consciousness through quantum mechanics in your microtubules. -Dr. Stuart Hameroff "Quantum Consciousness"
tripping and boy yall left a tear in my eye. "next time dont worry so much" ok man... ok. i wont. thank you
I'm with you naudia 😅♥️
I always say I won't worry next time, but boy do I sure do anyways. Good old mammal brain. 😂
sober as a judge with a tear in my eye, over here. truly transcendent piece of work
Been there with Lucy.
I like to think its more of a tongue in cheek thing. Next lifetime, don't worry so much. But you won't remember this anyways so the advice is just for the cosmos, not you.
I love how this song can either make you feel deeply depressed or ground breaking alive.
MooNScreen or a mix of both
MooNScreen it prompted me to go out and get a scuba diving license 😂
@@cheekybum1513 thats also my take on it that its a complete mixture of both you saying that proves to me that im not alone with my thoughts I love you without even knowing you
i feel so alive i think im seconds away from dying
Both?
And the earth looked at me and said wasn't that fun
And I started to cry and said I'm sorry if I hurt anyone
I don't know why but this part always makes me tear up
We all cry when we see it. Cos we feel somekind of profound truth.
Don't worry so much =o)
/friend
It always feel deep atleast we have a feeling of guilt and pardon that is what matters to God
And the earth looked at me and said wasn't that fun
And I started to cry and said I'm sorry if I hurt anyone
“I should’ve gone deeper but I’m not so brave” this line touches me so deeply
Same here brother.
And the Earth looked at me and said "Wasn't that fun?" and I replied "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone"
That's my mood and vibe from this song. "I love everything so much and it hurts". Everything is bittersweet.
"she said better luck next time, don't worry so much"
@@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945 ¨without ears, I couldn't hear, I could just feel the touch¨
I started crying almost instantly when I heard those lyrics.
I feel like that’s such a genuinely, sincere and realistic response a lot of people will have at the end of their lives looking back: “I’m sorry if I hurt anyone.”
Let’s try to live so that we’ll have as little of that regret as possible when our time to go comes.
@@AegisAuras and not worry so much
I remember seeing this on adult swim at 4 in the morning. That animation hits different from a box tv in a dark silent room
This was my experience too. I just happened to be awake and shot straight up totally enthralled like I had been instantly transported
Off the Air was such a cool and unique show. In general I love whoever in the Adult Swim staff decided they should highlight music. Before Tycho was featured on Off the Air one of his songs was used for one of those black screen text(I can't think of what the term is) like waaaay back 2013/14. I've been listening to Tycho ever since and is still one of my favorite artist.
the first time I saw it was the best for sure. Just out of nowhere in a haze of late night stagnation. This was over a half decade ago now. It’s crazy to think back that far.
@@lostsurferjames5 the term is bumper. Try searching adult swim bumper on YT. you'll find some neat stuff.
Dan Deacon spittin off secrets of the universe with this one. Both in the lyrics and the artwork. This song is like my soul finally being heard.
When I was done dying, my conscience regained
So I began my struggle, a nothingness strained
Out a flash made of time, my new form blasted out
And it startled me so and I burst out a shout
At which my legs ran frantic like birds from a nest
And I ran until drained, leaving no choice but rest
So I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave
But I should have gone in deeper but I'm not so brave
And like that I was torn out and thrown in the sky
And I said all my prayers because surely I'll die
As I crashed down and smashed into earth, into dirt
How my skin did explode, leaving only my shirt
But from shirt grew a tree and then tree grew a fruit
And I became the seed and that seed was a brute
And I clawed through the ground with my roots and my leaves
And I tore up the shirt and I ate up the sleeves
And they laughed out at me and said "what is your plan?"
But their question was foreign, I could not understand
When then suddenly I'm ripped up and placed into a mouth
And it swallowed me down at which time I head south
I said hey ya ya hey ya ya hey ya ya hey ya ya hey ya ya
Well I woke up to see them, these two mighty steeds
With their mouths grinning wildly expressing my needs
As they stood there above me, being flanked on each side
I felt no need to fear them, no reason to hide
So I reached up to touch but they faded too soon
Yet their mouths still remained and stacked up towards the moon
How that ladder of mouth waved so soft in the night
And I looked up in awe at that beautiful sight
And I dreamt about climbing into the night sky
But I knew had I touched them they'd mouth back "Bye-bye"
So I got up and walked down the path in the dark
And there deep in the distance my eye caught a spark
Of a crab twice my size with incredible strength
Oh, it greeted me kindly and then we all drank
And we drooled out together right onto the ground
And the ocean grew up quickly right up all around
And the earth looked at me and said "Wasn't that fun?"
And I replied "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone"
And without even thinking cast me into space
But before she did that she wiped off my own face
She said better luck next time don't worry so much
Without ears I couldn't hear I could just feel the touch
As I feel asleep softly at the edge of a cave
But I should have gone deeper but I'm not so brave
I said hey ya ya hey ya ya hey ya ya hey ya ya hey ya ya
Thanks for posting this here. 🙏
♥️♥️♥️
It's so profound and so beautiful.
Made me cry more than twice today.
Wishing everyone everything you want. I wish you get it.
Love from me =o)
Thank you
Respect for the Lyrics Comment vomit. Should be Top
Im seriously crying right now. something about this was so incredibly moving. I feel like it comes from a place of innocence. Not childlike innocence mind you, but the innocence that comes once you've lost that glimmer of wonder and light and spent years of your life struggling to see anything good in yourself let alone the world. Then it all comes full circle and you realize that by not giving into the evil of the world and doing your best to be a good person you can reclaim that sense of awe and wonder. that you can come back to a point where you see the world as beautiful and full of light again.
gnarly
that is one the best youtube comments i have read so far.. not kidding..."Then it all comes full circle and you realize that by not giving into the evil of the world and doing your best to be a good person you can reclaim that sense of awe and wonder. that you can come back to a point where you see the world as beautiful and full of light again."... i know what you are trying to say ... i have struggled there .. i feel you mate
thanks for the kind words you guys
I love this comment thread
I was wondering why my eyes keep welling up to this song. that's exactly it. Thank you.
“Better luck next time, don’t worry so much” hits me like a brick wall every time I hear this song and I’m not sure it’s ever not going to
Shakira Cadillac Christmas wtf
@@szlendak1368 sorry about that wrong person
This song perfectly summarizes the intense connection that ego death brings. The grounded feeling, and the third person connection to everyone in the world. I cannot explain how grateful I am that I have experienced this feeling. Truly a masterpiece.
"She said 'better luck next time, done worry so much"
(tears every time for some reason)
you and i both know the answer to that, even though we might not want to admit it
It’s like my body and mind understand this song on an unconscious level. I still am not sure what it all means, but the rest of me knows.
You put it into words! That's the exact "feeling" I was having but couldn't describe it.
My god, what a way to put it.
Maybe cause I’m your inner being is feeling nostalgic over the reincarnation process you went through- whether anyone believes in that or not it’s a fun food for thought
Absolutely exactly, yes.
WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
God, I get chills when he says "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone". This is such a great song
Better luck next time don’t worry so much
weird those two lines get me every time too.
After my first DMT trip just a couple of days ago, all of a sudden this music and video makes so much more sense.
@@ThatGuy-kz3fx no. The video is about you.
We are the trip
Bro I want to try DMT so fucking bad
me too
ugh shut up
Whoever animated the Earth saying "Wasn't that fun?" needs a raise.
Caleb Wood
These animators are the most talented, and patient humans alive
And for Dan, jesus man you can make some good music.
Same animators for Rone I think ! "Bye bye baccadam"
The limitless of the human imagination will never fail to astound me; a gift people should use more. You'd be amazed how deep it goes.
Pretty sure the artwork was inspired by psychedelics
I don't think you'd need psychadelics for this kind of art. My brain's done stuff like this before in lucid dreams.
I agree, I really love the way I feel when I'm researching astrophysics and quantum physics. When my friends ask me questions about quantum physics especially I'll find that after I'm done explaining my pupils are dialated and I'm literally shaking from the excitement. It feels like I'm doing something right
@@courtlandsimkins3957 me too!!
not sure if this was intentional, but at the end of episode 12 in a series called Limitless this song plays.
I heard it there and remembered of this video so I payed a revisit. totally worth it
It’s almost like there’s a deeper message every time you interact with someone that’s experienced ego death. The words, the art, the music, everything. It all communicates the same thing, “Everything is connected and I’ve seen it” There’s a special kind of awe that is unconsciously telegraphed.
"Better luck next time. Don't worry so much."
The thing I need to hear every day when I wake up.
If aliens found this they would at least know we are an interesting species
They already think we’re interesting
@@aiden5822 YES
we are also aliens
@@aiden5822 you get it...shhhh🤫
😐🤫🤐
The part where he says "I could've gone deeper but I'm not so brave" get me every time. It makes me feel in touch with loving and living but I myself can't dig as deep as I want to
Okay, this is one of the best things I've seen in a rather long time, deeply involving and emotional, my sincere thank you to everyone involved from the music to the visuals, this is truly a work of art.
Lost some one close to suicide, none of us know what’s to see beyond this mortal coil. I hope he’s found peace in some way similar to this video and hope anyone who reads this knows your not alone in this, never no matter how much you may convince yourself otherwise. Peace and love man, peace and love
This video isn’t peaceful
We're gonna be okay everybody.
Just gotta not worry so much, and try not to hurt anyone.
i just hope it happens before the earth asks me
@Stale Bagelz no
@Stale Bagelz yes :) we are fundamentally a part of everything. Don't take life tooooooo seriously. Remember to enjoy it and when you're stressed or worried, take deep breaths. We will be okay :)
It’s gonna be alright - The Beatles
Adult Swim doing more for music than MTV nowadays.
Too true. TV should showcase more music with visual art. Especially with so much streaming content and music apps, television could hold onto some viewers by providing some cool music videos between shows that they their audience would not see otherwise.
You are right
TV is dead. A poison through misuse
Every once in a while, I come back to this song and animation and am in awe every time. Beautiful lyrics. Beautiful artistry. I love it so much.
Me too. Its amazing.
I hope ai will never be able to create anything like this. This is one of a kind and this kind of talent is so valuable… i hope it never loses it.
This song came out about week after my dad died and as I sat around looking to feel something on the internet... I found this and it scared the poop out of me every second I watched it and then I watched it again and just kept crying wondering what my dad thought in his last few moments, I hope it was something.
My dad died suddenly of a massive heart attack on his way home with my mom driving. They had finished singing at a karaoke bar
Its an incredibly isolating feeling knowing you have to wait until youre gone too to see them
To me it was about a month. I miss the old man so much. I just hope that he was OK with his life and is in the end.....
Maybe he thought something after death you never know
I hope he thought of you. Take comfort in knowing that he is at peace, and manifest your own peace from that. I hope you’re feeling better now, friend.
"...I'm sorry if I've hurt anyone..."
that part gets me every time. I hope it's a sentiment shared by the majority. It's sad to think it probably isn't.
Pain and misery is the worst part about life. That line cut me deep also
nah i feel exactly the same, it almost breaks my heart every time i hear it
i think ... thepain is necessary to change your life/point of view for good.... the problem is when you make suffer another lifeform :(
I think that causing and receiving hurt is a vitally important part of humanity. the goal should be not to do harm, but if you accidentally do I feel that's just life, ya know?
Every single time.
Yup, still makes me cry every time. This song is so profound it's hard to even express.
One of my favorites too
Every single time
I used to watch this when I was lit, but 5 months sober and this is still amazing.
Wish I could watch and listen to this for the first time again. Whomever you are that just discovered this, I envy you.
First time I've heard this. WOW! is all I can say
MY FIRST TIME WATCHING THIssss I loved it
Hahahahahaha
First time, this time around the loop de loop...beautiful
why envy my brother? don't worry too much. you had your fun :-)
I've watched this a dozen times, and I just realized (?) that when the two horses are standing (at 2:13), they're over a time-stopped car crash. That's the moment the character in this died. In that bit after with the mouths forming a ladder into the sky, I never focused on the lower left (at 2:26), which has the person trying to swerve the steering wheel over and over in a loop, while at the same time reaching up into the heavens.
The details in this are insane and beautiful.
This is bigggg
@@tylerhayslett9073 @_@
Well done for noticing these small details, and well done to all that were involved in this absolute masterpiece
Holy shit even the intro is about the person being ejected from the vehicle.
@@BillyGiraffeWhoa, in the black and white bit in the intro there are road lines on the ground, then the eyes zoom in, closer and closer (to impact), then they finally close as they crash.
Reopening, suddenly they're in color looking around, in the weird new world.
This video is insane.
Once on a dmt trip I hid under the blanket and I heard voices say “oh shhh she’s scared” and then giggle quiet.
I didn’t know my face could become so wholly soaking wet with tears in 5 minutes. Do you ever just cry, what feels like randomly, day to day? I don’t mean ‘good’ crying or ‘bad’ crying, you’re just brought to tears because EVERYTHING hits you at once and it’s indescribable. That’s the feeling, to me. People who can better put into words how this song makes you feel, you’re incredible
I hope Dan Deacon and every animator knows the fresh catharsis they’ve brought to people
Me too!
Oh don't mind me, just replaying this for the 1000th time
I come back to this every time I’m high
Same, I've never even been high or seen this other than stone cold sober, but it's still been amazing. Can't imagine what wonderful and unique twists it adds for those who have.
Haha same here!
Literally me on my tenth playthrough tonight lol
S A M E 🤟🏻🤘🏻🙏❤️
This is what the black hole scene in Interstellar should have been
naw dude, that movie was perfect, dont mess with perfection.
PsychoticMango I agree, that scene didn't hurt my brain enough.
+PsychoticMango if he didn't cling to life and to finding the answers to save earth it might have been this
PsychoticMango The black hole from interstellar is actually considered by many scientists to be one of the most accurate portrayals of a black hole ever.
+Christian Scott okay, gotta watch interstellar now.
I probably listen to this once a month. It's one of those safe space songs for me. A happy cry. A silent nod to all of us going through rough times, whatever it may be ❤️
This song helped me find answers within myself and brought me out of my depression.
I can't tell you how much this song touched me when it first came out. I originally caught it on the Monday of it's premier on AS, and was totally unprepared for it. It took me by surprise and since Monday, I can't stop listening to it. It freakin made me cry because of how much it made me feel. How much I identify with it. The meaning... the meaning along with the overwhelming warm and comforting feeling the song gives you is so welcoming. The meaning (which I interpret) as the soul's journey into the cosmos back to the creator, only to be sent onwards as you eventually become aware of the permanence of your existence and let go the anxiety and worry of this life and the others. I can only hope with all my might that something like this awaits us all on the other side. I just hope there is the other side.
Glad Im not the only one who was bought to tears by this. Such a beautiful song and awesome video.
There probably is another side, but we can't get there yet even by dying.
JrIcify if we go there before we die we can just come back here to where we were before to the point that we think we would be when the drugs wear off
Likewise homie u literally just took the words outta my mouth
Yes. Yes exactly.
This is, no exaggeration, the coolest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life.
Wait to experience being lifeless and the transition into non existence
The cool thing is to actually get to experience it
You should try drugs then
your life must be boring
You should do some drugs
This is by far the most captivating piece of art I’ve ever experienced. We are all so small, beautiful, minuscule, and lost…we’re in this together.
Agree/ a friend. From sweden.
There is just one of us here. So yes
Dan Deacon: "So what art style are you gonna go with?"
Artists: *"I agree"*
I feel ya! Freedom !
Yes, and...
Oh another unoriginal comment
@@pornsakpongthong1092 you must be fun at parties
@@legoeggot never been to one. I'm a huge believer in your big mind for being in your big world of life
The earth looked at me and said, "Wasn't that fun?"
I replied, "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone."
That's one of the most beautiful lines I have ever heard. A person standing before Earth (in my opinion symbolizing creation itself) and not asking anything, not asking 'Where am I?", or "What are you?" or anything about the meaning of life. They aren't begging for forgiveness. They are expressing a statement of regret for hurting anybody even slightly. They realize that life is an experience, and to hurt anybody even remotely is to ruin that experience. A person stands before earth, apologizing for any wrong doing, like a child to a mother. I can picture Earth smiling, trying to soothe their child, letting them know that even negativity is a an experience in of itself, and not to be sorry, not to worry.
That part gets me every time but your break down of it hit me profoundly, thank you for that
Kaylee Heights that is my favorite part of the song and video because I've felt that actual experience in a bad acid trip and I just wished all humans could connect together and make life good for everyone
Every time I watch this video (at least once a month) I have to find this comment so I can understand this video in a more in depth way.
Thank you.
Guess what according to British writer and researcher Anthony Peake and the American writer Scott Beringer you get to do it all over again not once but an infinite number of times. This is called Eternal Recurrence. Scott explains that in order to escape that fate you have to raise your vibration and get your Ark/Arc ready to jump to the next level of reality. Peake tells us we are in a computer game and we keep making the same mistakes until we learn not to. So what we call reality is really a School/Prison you learn in both.
Beautiful
Fun fact:
this song is impossible to sing. Try it in the same cadence of the actual song. You'll run out of breath. This recording was edited together from separate takes; The live performance is super different because of this.
Not a bad thing, just a cool detail
Oh wow that is actually a really cool fact! I hadn’t thought of that but I guess that makes sense because there isn’t really a point in the song where the singer could stop to breathe. Really interesting. Thank you for this comment.
perhaps it's symbolic?
I had just tried singing via the posted lyrics before seeing your comment. I can agree. Lol. I love the song but it was difficult to keep up with. I had to snatch tiny breaths at the end of each line. Such a great song, though.
If you sing with your chest in a talking manner like the song, it's not impossible; just really difficult, gotta have great lungs.
I've learned to speak while inhaling because of this song lol
I'm obsessed with this.
I was on this Instagram page posting movie scenes, and this music was playing in the background of one reel they posted. I Shazamed it naturally, and I listened to it on Spotify almost everyday, I love everything about it, the melody, the words, such a beautiful story, I want it to be played at my funeral even lol.. but this is the first time for me to watch the video, and it is exactly how I imagined it. Good job to the animation team. A beautiful work. Thank You
Songs like this induce a nostalgia for a time that didn't exist, yet I yearn for.
retroasf maybe a past life when you died and now you’re here.
I teared up, this is beautiful
Oh shit, didn't expect to see somebody I watch in here
Me too 🤘🥺🤘
🤯🤯
I still tear up on like the 100th watch.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat
Just found it too. Absolute eye candy. Great song too.
This feels closer to home than anything I've felt in a long time. Something I can comfortably give my mind to and feel understood. It's rough out here. Thanks, Dan.
This is the one right here
When I discovered this back in 2016 it became kind of a ritual to play it after a week of hard work or completing a difficult task. It just feels like such a release, it’s hard to describe. When you’re finally “done dying” you really feel free. That’s how this video/song makes me feel, still to this day.
I want this played on a projector at my funeral.
Love the idea
Me to
We actually did this at my girlfriends funeral a few years ago. It wasnt on a projector but it was on a few tvs they had at the funeral home.
No. No music for you.
I'll remember it
Why do i feel like i just i just experienced the inception and conclusion of reality?
jazz3911 because its just like this . we reincarnate(but we can cannot remember our past lifes ) till we make enough 'experience' to end the cicle of reincarnations
Because it does..
Omg jeza bell you know the Truth well done
This is absolute genius. Everyone has gone through the river of forgetfulness at least a couple of times… the life-death experience is the plot, but the song is a reminder for us, actors of our own lives, to be braver in confronting our challenges in each of our existences.
I watched this while I was high and it moved something in me I felt like a different person after watching this the art the music everything is so perfect I would change nothing this is a true work of art the whole time I watched this high my heart was beating fast and I felt involved in the whole thing that it was meant for me the music is amazing and the animation is amazing I just realized that humans are able to do incredible things but some don’t do such good things I really hope one day that every one will love everyone and we will all get along
This all feels familiar in a strange way.
Because you've already seen it
Philosophase dimethyl tryptamine
Yes! Its like it already happened
Keep remembering. Eventually we will remember our true self.
Embrace this reality we have been gifted to experience. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Use this gift while we have it. It doesn't keep us from the truth, it allows to see from another perspective.
All apart of one mind, temporarily expended to come to know ourselves in a different way.
Death is unity.
@@flightwithoutfeathers4682 Mmmm well said
Was very surprised to hear this in Dark.
Don't be so much. Netflix knows what you like and what you will be looking in the future before you do. You're a statistic, the more you get entangled to a certain kind of culture, the more predictable your "liking" will be.
@@siinxx7656 or maybe the people who worked on the show just have good taste in music lol. Not everything is exclusively corporate and souless.
@@Toey- Yeah, specially entertainment corporations, those are the less likely to have corporate interests, lol
I was surprised to hear it, then track it down and find it was the danny deacon i used to listen to 12 years ago.
This song hits different than anything else and that windy sound at the end is just perfect 👌
When asked to explain my ayahuasca ceremony. The only thing that could explain was this video, not similar visually, but emotionally
Sometimes it's so hard to understand what this song is all about. I try to explain it to my friends but it's so hard to put it into words. I've successfully done so once or twice but most of the time I sound mad. It makes me feel so much better when I watch something like this that shows that I'm not alone, that others know and understand it. It makes me so much happier that other can express it into art like this. It's so beautiful to watch
I learned that words can't explain most of the things I wanna explain especially if it comes to things like this. The more you try it the more u drift of yourself until u don't even understand what you meant. It's sad, I guess everyone needs to find there own meaning
To me, this song is the perfect representation of what happens when you are pushed beyond the point of absolute & deepest sadness & despair. Beyond that is this mad happiness & ecstasy where you are no longer worried about any consequences...just like the feeling of free falling...there is no longer any fear, only the feeling of weightlessness & the wind on your face because you know for sure this will all end in a split second 🙃
we’re all one, that expression of the knowledge that sits in all of us truly is beautiful
@@colbyreeves1178 💖
@@Shiva-mh6td well it’s about fucking dying.... it’s right there in the title man
40 year old professional here - with a marriage, toddler, 401k - and watching this slammed me back into myself 20 years ago where I had tripped for 48 hours and grokked every preposterous edifice of human pretense shatter and fall to confetti on the ground. The night that I came to realize how magnificently lost we are, and came to worship that magnificence. From that point on I was a humanist.
Professional of what? Also, why did you become a humanist from your trip? (Sorry if this sounded rude or weird at first... I was really tired before).
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 Software Engineer, for what it's worth.
To be fair, the journey to humanism wasn't especially far or unpaved - not being particularly religious and already having almost zero credulity for the supernatural.
The change was a clarity around the notion and feeling of reverence, and how it can be directed for good results, and what 'good' even means. The trip was difficult and extremely alienating, in that I lost my ability to take for granted all of the little ridiculous things that make up day to day life. Why do we do what we're told to? Why do we sometimes not? Why did a bunch of people dig up various dirts from the ground, process them in extremely specific ways, ship the results all over the world, and eventually assemble them into a machine with a glowing rectangle that displays images of a dancing purple dinosaur? Why do we stare at it? What is the point of this preposterous thin skim of busy, animate organic material on the surface of a sphere in space? At was an opportunity to put the mentally put puzzle back together based on principles.
Yadda yadda yadda, the point that I came to is that the meaning of 'good' that I want to pursue is aesthetic - I want what is beautiful. What is beautiful to me? Human flourishing. To say nothing of what or whether God is - we make our own sanctity. Speaking only for myself, it is preferable for my morals and actions to be guided by a direct reverence of human flourishing, than pursuing the same end via proxy reverence to the notion of this or that deity.
@@grontleyschweebnalter2567 I guess I've been a humanist all along because I relate to what you're saying. I've never truly believed in religion and I've always thought of myself and others as our own gods. Thank you so much for explaining (when you didn't even need to!), I appreciate it. I searched up the term humanist earlier although I got kinda confused for whatever reason.
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 Sure thing - just doing my duty as a rando commenter on a psychadelic internet video. All the best on your journeys!
1:54 that face when you find a song that captures how you feel swimming in your own head and puts music to the emotions that lacked vocabulary
I want to cry every time I see this, I rewatch it all the time and it means so much to me. It's such a touching piece of art, what a masterpiece that has been blessed to the world.
She said, "Better luck next time, don't worry so much."
Lyric makes me weep like a kid.
Living with chronic anxiety at every moment, I'd give anything to be rid of it.
Something about that lyric comforts me.
Don't worry so much. Could it be that easy?
you can do it!!! i believe in you!!!!!!
We all make mistakes. Some worse than others. But it doesn't matter what our past is, what matters is what we do to better ourselves in the future. If you try to show your sorry and recognize your mistakes, people will understand your empathy. People know when your a good person that did a shit thing.
The easy part is knowing not to worry. The hard part is finding out why you are worrying, and fixing what makes you most uncomfortable.
Thank you all for your words.. I still won't leave my house, but I feel more at ease knowing others feel the same.
I'm truly humbled by folks' response here. Helps to know that, even in eye of our isolation, we're not just speaking to an emptiness. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Really good stuff. A lot of folks don't "get" why this is a really good and important form of music, but this kind of music is all about exploring consciousness, like "O' Superman" by Laurie Anderson was in 1980. If you are young, you need to hear that one, too. It'll blow your mind.
Yeah man. It's nice to be good and good to be nice here on the oul planet for a short, frightening time betimes.
The frequent use of conjunctions to emphasise speed I think is really powerful. Events are happening at such a pace that before he even has time to digest what happened, something else happens. Neither we nor him are given the time to collect our bearings once throughout the song.
His final thoughts are of his regrets for not doing more in life, or 'going deeper'. Despite his regrets he's still whisked off into the 'next time', but there's definitely an element of comfort there. To me it's like saying despite the speed, despite the chaos, despite the regrets, there will still be some comfort for us in the end.
Parts of this song make me cry and overwhelmingly comfort me about death and whatever comes after that. This piece of music changed my life, thank you Dan Deacon and Adult Swim
Could i interest you in an even more enlightened path that goes along with the meaning of this song?
what are you on about?
nicole richards could you tell me. please.
I completely understand, every time I listen it makes me cry a little. I had some intense moments in my life recently and coming back to listen to it the meaning totally changed again for me, it reminded me "Don't worry so much." and to live a life without regrets. Never thought a song could have so much meaning but also sound like such nonsense.
3:01 well that got super real 😥 and now im cryin
LYRICS:
When I was done dying my conscience regained
So I began my struggle a nothingness strained
Out a flash made of time my new form blasted out
And it startled me so and I burst out a shout
At which my legs ran frantic like birds from a nest
And I ran until drained leaving no choice but rest
So I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave
But I should have gone in deeper but I'm not so brave
And like that I was torn out and thrown in the sky
And I said all my prayers because surely I'll die
As I crashed down and smashed into earth, into dirt
How my skin did explode leaving only my shirt
But from shirt grew a tree and then tree grew a fruit
And I became the seed and that seed was a brute
And I clawed through the ground with my roots and my leaves
And I tore up the shirt and I ate up the sleeves
And they laughed out at me and said "what is your plan?"
But their question was foreign I could not understand
When then suddenly I'm ripped up and placed into a mouth
And it swallowed me down at which time I head south
So I said
Hey ya ya
Hey ya ya
Hey ya ya
Hey hey hey
Well I woke up to see them, these two mighty steeds
With their mouths grinning wildly expressing my needs
As they stood there above me, being flanked on each side
I felt no need to fear them, no reason to hide
So I reached up to touch but they faded too soon
Yet their mouths still remained and stacked up towards the moon
How that ladder of mouth waved so soft in the night
And I looked up in awe at that beautiful sight
And I dreamt about climbing into the night sky
But I knew had I touched them they'd mouth back 'bye bye'
So I got up and walked down the path in the dark
And there deep in the distance my eye caught a spark
Of a crab twice my size with incredible strength
Oh it greeted me kindly and then we all drank
And we drooled out together right onto the ground
And the ocean grew up quickly right up all around
And the earth looked at me and said "wasn't that fun?"
And I replied "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone"
And without even thinking cast me into space
But before she did that she wiped off my own face
She said better luck next time don't worry so much
Without ears I couldn't hear I could just feel the touch
As I feel asleep softly at the edge of a cave
But I should have gone deeper but I'm not so brave
I said
Hey ya ya
Hey ya ya
Hey ya ya
Hey hey hey
I know this might sound sappy and all but when I was thinking of my cousin that passed away this song popped up in my recommendations and I cried for how it made me feel it made me feel like he was still here somehow thank you for making this
coming back to this years later, still brings tears to my eyes. beautiful.
holy shit that was incredible
+Christopher Franko (Sr) My thoughts exactly
+Christopher Franko (Sr) agreed
Beautiful.
you know its good when trap nation calls it beautiful
+Trap Nation Hey Andre! Nice music taste :D
Haha woah it's trap nation
omg trap nation is here
Trap Nation amen
9 years have passed, and this still brings me to tears, and now I finally know why
Fantastic animation!
I love Dan Deacon so much. Just ordered his new record on vinyl. Thank you music gods.
One of my dearest friends lost her life on Saturday. This was one of her favorite songs.
I'm sorry to hear that. May this song only serve as a pleasant reminder.
Well, only through death do we find new life. I hope you can find some joy in the life part.
fuck
Know that she never left. Only changed form.
She is all around you. She exists with all now.
She is the sun that greets you in the morning.
She is the flowers in the garden.
She is the wind that sings through the trees.
She is the gentle light of the moon that wishes you sweet dreams.
Know you are never alone.
Take consolation in knowing that she only lost her physical form and the life she experienced and the memories she made with you are eternal.
Joe rogan: *busts through door* that’s cool, have you tried dmt?
the lyrics could very well be describing a salvia or dmt trip
@@baesex or is the salvia or dmt trip describing the lyrics
note at 0:30 as he opens his eyes and sees the drug taking effect, he finally exhales and that's when he blasts off
@@maximumtaco2298 bro stop I'm too high for this comment rn
😂
It's been a few years since I've seen this and it's still one of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen. It always grounds me and makes me remember how truly magical and beautiful life is. I'll never not be moved to tears from the earth speaking. ❤️ So much love and respect to these artists
This is the only song keeping me grounded lately.
Man, this video and the song combined provide me a strange level of comfort I have rarely ever felt before.