The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The Waterboys - This Is The Sea, This Is The Sea (1985)
Lyrics:
These things you keep
You'd better throw them away
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days
Once you were tethered
And now you are free
Once you were tethered
Well now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea!
Now if you're feelin' weary
If you've been alone too long
Maybe you've been suffering from
A few too many
Plans that have gone wrong
And you're trying to remember
How fine your life used to be
Running around banging your drum
Like it's 1973
Well that was the river
This is the sea
Now you say you've got trouble
You say you've got pain
You say've got nothing left to believe in
Nothing to hold on to
Nothing to trust
Nothing but chains
You're scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
Scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
But that was the river
This is the sea, yeah
Now i can see you wavering
As you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
And it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense
Of something that you just can't see
Trying to make sense now
And you know you once held the key
But that was the river
And this is the sea
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Now i hear there's a train
It's coming on down the line
It's yours if you hurry
You've got still enough time
And you don't need no ticket
And you don't pay no fee
No you don't need no ticket
You don't pay no fee
Because that was the river
And this is the sea
That was the river...
This is the sea...
Behold the sea
John Murphy sent me
:D
same, makes me feel so apocalyptic. What's your favourite end of the world song ?
Me too :)
Me too😂
I never thought I'd love a character as much as I do, when I hated him so much in Season 1
anyone listening to that wonderful song in 2024?
Yep
Yes, Today~ Mother's Day (May 12, 2024)
Yes, love it.
👋
Came from John murphy
John Murphy and his good taste in music...
From being locked up in the lighthouse for 86 days. But yeah, good taste.
Os good
благодаря Мёрфи слушаю эту песню)))
I got here for the Music...banging drums like its 1979
A year 1 you made this comment to yourself and I'm barely seeing it how it is possible that I knew the future of the 100 series I know it was in 2018 but until this moment on April 6, 2020 the west series came out-cap all This season I do not understand how how do you know that you know the future that is you do not understand this you do not answer the comment but it is very difficult that you are to remove the doubt Iker write comment.
The 100 fans will be coming
Nope.
@@thedojodjsx9605 well they are. Isn't it banging the drum for this great song to have exposure to a wider audience.
Hhhhhhhh
I’m not fan but the 100 shares this song with me! and I liked it not because the series no but this song like my other mood
And I am one lol
John murphy.. hated by everyone at the start and ended being loved by all!
true that
And always alive
@@berenicefils4820 Well he is literally called the cockroach...
watch everyone coming here just after 6x01 of the 100 airs
Yup lmao
Yep
Yep 😂
real ones seen the first 2 episodes already
@@prod.lil_beyblade3242 exactly 😂
I first heard this song parked at an old cemetary on the north side of my small home town in Iowa. It was playing from an 'alternative' college radio station in 1986. I was a junior in high school, I was desperately alone, I was angry at the world , I was drunk, and this came over the waves. I'll never forget the moment. I tried to play and sing it the best I could for years when drunk and lost, then sober and lost. It still means more to me than any single song has. Moments are like that.
I graduated high school in the late '70's. I had never hear this song until the spring of 2020. And then it was a just a wee bit of what John Murphy of "The 100" displayed. What a new view revealed to me!
Damn, your comment hit me hard. So much nostalgia.
👍👍
Hey u there?
Thanks Nik. Beautiful words. Heartfelt. Honest. Mike and Karl would approve ! ❤️
murphy s playlist is awesome hahahaha
Technically it wasnt his
@@graybushlive3583 you just be fun at parties
TO MY BEST FRIEND FOREVER THAT INTRUESTED ME TO THIS BAND IN PLETTENBERG BAY IN 1991 I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU MARK YOUR FRIEND FOR LIFE RGDS JEAN-PIERRE AMEN 🙏
Anyone from the 100?
all of us in 2019
I'm from when this was fresh and new, and when I heard the song on The 100, it gave me goosebumps. Good to know that this song will last two ends of the world and a space colony 300 hundred years after it was made.
I'm from the 4020s hello space traveller 🙏
Yes
Indeed! Hello!
The 100 brought me here but I stayed for good music...
Same
Luis Miguel Dias same
Same .')
Same
Indeed!
This song really makes me feel something everytime I hear it.
Just after The 100 season 6 premiere😍 loved it
What a stunning episode.
Good Will Hunting soundtrack got me here with Fisherman's Blues. 25 years later and I found this one. With Fisherman's Blues. Loved it at first but I think Elliot Smith really owned that soundtrack. But years later coming back to it, The Waterboys were where it was really at. I was just too young to see it at the time.
The WATERBOYS most underrated group in my lifetime. I will be 71 soon.
No question about that
So right. Where is the love?
I'm 51 and have never agreed so completely with a comment like this one. Underatedly best lyrics besides Van in my lifetime. Brilliant.
my mother dancer she 72 I'm 52 young lonely.
I wanna talk
I've just heard " THE WHOLE OF THE MOON " ...now it's time to smell that special salty scent of " THIS IS THE SEA " ...whats next ? a Pagans Place ,December, Somebody might wave back , or any of the other FANTASTIC songs the WATERBOYS have shared with us ...& there have been many ? .
This is orgasmic magic for the soul that's been laid to waste by the haste and bustle of the modern world.
35 years later? and here we are? well that was the river! THIS IS THE SEA!
JOHN MURPHY.
THE MOST UNDERRATED GUY EVER
BY WHO ?
Most underated band of the last 40 years. Just fkn genius.
I always associated this song with my uncle. I never told him this though.
Last year as l was watching his casket come into the funeral home, this song played over the speaker. This song will forever connect us. I miss him so.
I was 14. I went out and bought this record. Where have 39 years gone? I still have and listen to this record.
So do my kids.
when I listen to this - the neighbours do as well....
I raised my son on the banks of the Elster River in Thuringia.
Now he lives on the Baltic Sea and works on his small sailing boat.
Soon he will be setting off on a longer tour on the seas with his wife and my grandchild.
It would be a lie if I didn't say I'm scared for them.
But at the same time I'm incredibly proud.
Because this is the sea and I taught you to steer our little red rubber boat across the rivers.
The river is life - the sea is eternity
This magnificent song represents to me being pulled out from a gray life, a life of constant discomfort, depression, a life with no meaning. Thanks to God I've turned my back on my soulless days, and I'm free because that was the river but this is the sea! Bless.
Same here! Exactly the same here... Thank you.
🙏
ME TOO!!! PRAISE YAH!!
One of the few songs that makes one cry with utter joy.
... it's about suicide mate. One in the river and together in the sea
I heard the whole of the moon on the radio when it was first released and thought it was great…I then got lost in the fog of living and bringing up a family found it again this week and all the other water boys music what the hell did I miss a fantastic band
It's never too late...
This is the sea.... One of the best albums ever made
RIP Karl Wallinger. Waterboys are part of my musical DNA.
This song was a comfort when I was younger. It still is.
John Cockroach Murphy brought me here and I'll repeat again and again... What incredible song
Damn...36 years later and still goosebumps. What a song. I still have the album.
I've got he album on vinyl. Took me decades to really 'get' the meaning. Have you seen the in-depth analysis of this beautiful song & incredible album?
Reply
Ageed
What fabulous images to complement this wonderful song! Beautiful! Those powerful, crashing waves announcing The Sea! Thank you very much!
Yes, awesome video. Stunning.
This song hooked me last night, it punched me in the gut and took my breath away. I cried without making a noise so as not to wake my daughter. A beautiful man is untethered and free. He's banging his drum, absolutely free, and I miss him dearly. I thank the Universe for this song.
One of the most underrated band's still going strong..!!!
Going to see them tonight in my home town of Glasgow..
This is my recovery song,recovering from a hopeless state of mind & body.39yrs of active addiction & 9 months free.
That was the river & sobriety is the sea.First heard this aged 17,still playing aged 53.
Anyone in early recovery,keep on keeping on.Life IS truly & amazing experience.
Found this song watching the series "The 100" and i cant agree with you more. 7 days away from reaching 1 year of sobriety (11/3/20 sober date) and this song moved me tremendously.
Amazing man great job
Amazing mike. Keep it up . its worth iy
Daily Bread Andrew
Thank you, Sir.
Been in love with them since I as Fifteen, I’m 49 now. It still gets me.
Still moves me to tears 💜
I’m sorry, but in my humble opinion, this is the greatest song of all time. (Second is under pressure)
Agreed
me three Isabel ;-)
and then Spirit, got me thru the loss of my 30 y.o. son to opiates
almost. red army blues
I went to see the Waterboys. In Ireland back in the 90's
When life kicks you in the soul... multiple times, and you end up with the emptiest heart you ever had to carry around, listen to this song once a day when you wake up.
Beautiful comment .. I will give it a go :)
this song got me through a very dark time in my life.It should be free on prescription
What excellent advice Miguel, thanks - hope you are having a good life now - take it easy
Miguel Baptista best therapy for the worst period of my life
That's exactly it!....thanks Miguel for expressing it so accurately and so nicely :-) :-)
From the we will rise. oh Murphy I love youuuuuuu
I'm here because I like the Waterboys.
Me too
Most recently brought to light by John Murphy from the 100! Thank you!
SOULJAHZ ROCKERZ
did anybody ask you why you were here? Don't lower yourself to the "i'm here because..." brigade
Did anyone ask for your opinion?
I am sure this album can physically change you through sheer emotion.
I guess I'm part of the 100 fans cuz I'm also here from Murphy's good taste in music
Literally... How many lives has this song saved?... It sure saved mine. My story is short: in some night of january 1995... already in bed, in the dark... with the phones in my head... This starts to play and... some kind of light has opened my path... Full of strength and will to live, I moved away from the most dangerous depression of my life! Almost 30 years have gone by... and I'm still here. Life changed forever. I owe it to myself, it's true... but this song sure helped a lot! Thank you so much, Mike Scott! And thank you everybody for sharing your thoughts. Long may you run!
agreed it saved me too depression all my sad life have a 15 month old baby and a girlfriend now never been so happy long may it last thanks for ur message xx
Amazing, truly inspirational x
Wow. Powerfull story
God bless. Hope you've found new meaning in life - wishing you all the very ebst Have you seen the in-depth analysis of this beautiful song & incredible album?
❤ I'm hoping it will reach my brother at least one moment before it's too late.
Many many memories of this fantastic band...Mike Scott...an absolute gentleman....and my buddha.....they are fantastic live....100% Class......❤❤❤❤❤
"This Is The Sea"
These things you keep
You'd better throw them away
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days
Once you were tethered
And now you are free
Once you were tethered
Well now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea!
Now if you're feelin' weary
If you've been alone too long
Maybe you've been suffering from
A few too many
Plans that have gone wrong
And you're trying to remember
How fine your life used to be
Running around banging your drum
Like it's 1973
Well that was the river
This is the sea!
Wooo!
Now you say you've got trouble
You say you've got pain
You say've got nothing left to believe in
Nothing to hold on to
Nothing to trust
Nothing but chains
You've been scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
Scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
But that was the river
This is the sea yeah!
Now I can see you wavering
As you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
And it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense
Of something that you just don't see
Trying to make sense now
And you know you once held the key
But that was the river
And this is the sea!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
Now I hear there's a train
It's coming on down the line
It's yours if you hurry
You've got still enough time
And you don't need no ticket
And you don't pay no fee
No you don't need no ticket
You don't pay no fee
Because that was the river
And this is the sea!
Behold the sea!
This will play at my memorial service
This is a timeless hymn. Far more than just "a song".
John Murphy is the best character hands down and his jokes are the best in any series/movie and hes just amazing his sense of humour's the best I've ever seen
This is one of my favourite songs......great album....have it on tape...OMG....
It's like Van Gogh in music! So emotionally stirring...
Brilliant.
John brought me here, I really love this guy 😂❤
Never was a song more appropriate for my darlin' girl. This is yours sweetheart - the sea awaits! All my love, your Seal-boy ♥
Great song reminds me of a brilliant poem “ Fear” by Kahlil Gibran
It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that’s where the river will know
it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean.
here is link to the wonderful video of this poem ruclips.net/video/K_IXi4VceRM/видео.html
words to this song better than that.imo.
The Kahlil Gibran is overly-literal, and he's everywhere. The Waterboys song is soul-inspiring and majestic. They're a vastly underrated band that deserves much more attention.
@@jamesrockwood9022 I agree, this song is great, just like „ The Whole Of The Moon ” it just reminded me of that poem, thats all.
Not sure if Gibran is everywhere, and Waterboys are underrated, I think they were quite popular ( maybe still are, don’t know) I heard their songs on the Polish radio when I was a kid.
Gibran is the third-bestselling poet in history. Shakespeare and Lao Tzu are the first and second. Not saying that getting a few spins on Polish radio isn't important, but a lot of the many folks quoting 'The Prophet' on Facebook have never heard of The Waterboys. @@SlavicGirl.
I'm about to cry
Used to listen to these guys LOTS, then somehow i didnt listen to them for years until today...And now im hooked again...LOVE IT.Fantastic band
This is just wonderful!!!!
I can’t believe the 100 ends tonight. 5 years of my life. I’m gonna miss it so much.
May we meet again
I believe there are rumors of a prequel coming out!!
One of the strongest casts I’ve ever seen.
ha ha s7 was TRASH im glad it ended fuck that garbage season
@@hiyourerickrightimnegan.3788
Bar a handful of episodes I really did like, I can’t help but agree with you. I’m glad they ended it before Rothenberg could do any more damage.
The river brought me here!
John Murphy brought me here 😍 The 100 squad
Ah yes! Me Too! (not related to the me too movement), Just that I too was brought here by John Murphy
Thanks Murphy
This brings tears to my eyes
To mine too.....every time :-)
Me too
A dear friend of ,ine passend away last month and I know now why je loved this song!
How this song had eluded me my entire life I have no idea. Amazing piece.
The entire album is this good. One of the best albums of all time across all genres in my opinion
Yeah - this is up there with Lennon, and Dylan - perhaps better. It amazes me how it never became a classic. But all the more precious for that reason I suppose.
you're all there!
The music industry godfathers would discourage Celtic spirituality stirring up human consciousness, but this is an enduring wake-up call. Surely their greatest song.
Right? I'm stealing that quote thanks for finding the words I could not
Rest in Peace Keelin Shanley. You are the reason I discovered this great track as it played out on the programme celebrating your life.... And to all those I hold dear that I've lost .... this is for you too......
This is heartbreaking... Played at the funeral this week of a man who I loved.. I will never forget you😢.. This song will now always remind me of you.. Always..... Rest in paradise, goodnight AW.. ❤
Hope you're doing better, stranger ✌️
@@JammyGit thank you
@@colettecolette4802 I wasn't expecting a reply but I always wonder about the person. I've been getting into the Waterboys again after listening to the This is the Sea album back in the 90s. Your love had good taste in music ✌️
I was introduced me to a whole range of music that id not heard before
one of the best songs ever
Favourite Murphy's song
Emori be like: 🤯🤬🔪
my fav song in the whole wild world
One of the best soundtracks of my life.
"That was the river
This is the sea... "
Much love & peace to all 🌊❤
Wunderschöne Musik - Herrliche Bilder Dankeschön!❤❤❤
Oh my dear god... I love this music.... But, what a pity,I forgot about that most of my lkifetime. Now I am nearly 50 years old, sitting in my living room and be sad about my life full of missed
possibilities... That was the river-this is the sea....
You still got time to do what you want
Thnx!
@Shannon Smith Wow, so profound words, just what I need right now. Thanks..& God Bless The Waterboys for their power to connect.
Happy farthers day dad x
45years old. Been blown away by soooo much. But this is on another level.👊
Yeah....such a higher level....tks! to TheCrashf100 and tks! to The Waterboys
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same here, thx!
may we meet again..
Waded in mid November to put my mother's ashes into the sea forever with sea where we all came from
Mike Scott is the ultimate in Coolness 🎉
Mike Scott is the author of the song
unreal vocals - wonder how many souls were saved by just this one song?
This being the greatest song of all time bought me here
The Irish will always be able to sing the sound of the sea xx
Mike Scott is Scottish.
Yessssss
@@thefoxhat6163 OK , the Celts !
really the 100 brought me here a few years ago and i heppy :)
Extraordinary, a feeling almost like vertigo. Like having the contents of your mind read back to you. The first time I heard this I sat bolt upright in the dark and stared at my CD player like it had just BIT me.
!!!
Glass of single malt roaring fire and no lights enjoy
And a big fat sticky joint!
I love the bridge!!
Holy smoke! Touched me deeply!
James Gunn sent me here. From now on this is also my favorite music too.
James Gunns favourite song right here
The 100 🖤🖤🖤
Still listening to Waterboys from 1979 to today
Me too 💚
It s never enough
I have loved this song the 1st tme I heard it. Still do...but LOUD.
Most definitely 👍
This song is for Maggie, my dog for fifteen years. I had to put her asleep this morning and my heart is breaking, she was my family. I pray she is in the sea now.
I love you so much Mags
Allison Fruet I'm so sorry
XOXOXOXO Peace.
💗 to you trying to make sense Maggie says that was the river.. Behold the sea 💗
o no...you made me.......much love Mag
When I put my border collie and best friend of 17 years to sleep, I felt so alone because we were practically inseparable. Took a while for me to realize that he was finally free to roam wherever he wanted to. Now I also realize he is with me, wherever I may walk. My sincerest sympathies. It will get easier.
Nothing brought me here for this song, and may i tell you, its one of my greatest findings.
The climax of this song is just incredible.
The 100 sent me here. Just had to look pause the show and look it up. Love the voice. Love the music.
After all these years - still powerful and invigorating - real and from the heart to the heart.
Thank you John Murphy for this song.
Occasionally a soul will realize their non-separation from everything. This new reality that opens up (which is just seeing things as they really are - naturally), is usually accompanied by a strong sense of good-will to humanity and to life in general. l think Mr Scott had a spiritual awakening around this time in his life and wrote an album with the inspiration. lmagine knowing a love and a joy, a deep abiding peace that you know will never leave you, no matter what life throws at you. The reality of this incredible life we all share is that there is only one of us here - pure, whole and complete, limitless, actionless, non-dual - awareness-existence.
Brilliantly stated .. The Waterboys are a gift to the world .. Namaste
i think he was at Findhorn at this time
Nathan Jones perfection.
Nathan Jones
I heard he was 23 when he wrote this. Helped heal many.
Just if one thinks one experienced difficulties in the river, imagine the sea!
The greatest band ever
D&J Creighton fact
Off the radar good. Ironically I think they would have been a bigger band today. They are not really a genuine 80s band. They are timeless.
Mike hated the 80's music scene, so you're not wrong.
Your correct sir!
production was 80s as hell but everything else - transcendent
LA ESTÁS VIEBD
LA ESTÁS VIENDO ...❤