Something I realised is that at the end of the song, his tone sounds different, like a tamed, subdued kind of sound is in his voice at the end after the electroshock therapy. I've listened to this song too many times.
Honestly I believe in the beginning and the ending is either the brain basically explaining the electrocution or a doctor studying the character's body as if it had been donated to a group of doctors for study.
i like to see it as a narrarator and he died, so the narrarator is talking in his place (hence, the particles shining, or the electricity coming out of his corpse)
@@BIP0LARISTIC yeah, but it's implied that he wasn't in his right mind when he did that. He was a boy suffering from insanity, or most likely a severely unchecked mental illness or something. Not that killing someone is ever really right, but from a storyline point of view, this character is kinda tragic. Though imo it just adds more depth to the song and makes it better lol
It's possible that him saying "I was just a boy you see" is him saying that he was naive for (falsely) pleading insanity. He was probably assuming that he'd get off easier if he just said he was crazy, but now is realizing that prison probably would have been better. Idk whether the narrator is actually crazy or not tho so idk
"Doctor I can't tell if I'm not me" has to be the most haunting line in the song. The idea of going insane, but still having brief moments of rational thought that are long enough for you to realize what's happening to your mind. That absolutely terrifies me. It reminds me of a book called challenger deep, which basically covers this topic in detail. And now that I think about it, it's actually extremely similar to Hawaii part II in terms of theme. It's a good read and I would recommend it to anyone who connected with this song.
@@LMNL_SUPRSTR Thats the part that fucks me up about this song the most. The idea of someone being subjected to electroshock, (before they started giving anaesthesia for it) expressing sheer terror and confusion, only to be laughed at or not taken seriously by someone who I like to assume is the doctor administering the shocks.
@@LMNL_SUPRSTR I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets easily emtional over music! I love this song and the whole album, but I agree it's so thematically heavy that I also have to take breaks from time to time. It's a powerful album and a powerful song.
As someone with (diagnosed) DID, that's exactly how we are about 60% of the time. I can't imagine having that feeling thrust upon someone who has never experienced it before. It's absolutely haunting.
I wrote a comic not too long ago about people slowly descending into madness but having them realize every so often what's going on and every time they look in the mirror their faces are less recognisable
Fun fact: the laughing at 2:03 is actually Ganon’s laugh from the legend of zelda 2 which plays when you die, the death screen also has flashing colours like the official video for this song!
@@Avdeyy They really are. Also, what is it with the LGBT community and obscure indie music? I swear, at least eighty percent of all Tally Hall and Lemon Demon fans are LGBT
Actually I almost confused it with the death sound from Kung Fu on the NES, which used a very similar sound byte. But Zelda II seems to be something that Joe Hawley references a lot.
I struggle with derealization. Frequently. The near ending of this song is something i can relate to. the lyrics “See how the brain plays around, and you fall inside a hole you couldnt see. You fall inside a hole inside a- someone help me, understand whats going on inside my mind. Doctor I cant tell if im not me.” Is so well constructed. The feeling of not knowing what reality is anymore or who or what you are is so terrifying. It hurts so bad, Its like you’ve forgotten everything you’ve ever known. Its like the feeling when you almost understand, But yet you’re not even close to understanding at all. This song is so beautiful. The feeling was so elegantly caught.
@@Ilovepriestwally hey man if you're having any issues like this, please reach out to friends or family. Stuff like this can be hard to explain to someone, but if you feel like this is an ongoing thing or that it affects your daily life, try to find someone who can help you through it.
I’m sorry that you struggling with derealization. As someone who also struggles with mental illness as well, I want to encourage you that things do get better and tell you that you are capable of overcoming this 😊
@@dopeyfx1783 This story is about someone getting falsely accused of a murder, then pleading insanity in court to avoid getting sent to prison. He is later sentenced to shock therapy which, because he does not need it, turns him insane. Everytime the electric guitar kicks in, it signalises that he’s getting shocked
@@dopeyfx1783 It’s part of an album called “Hawaii part 2” where the whole story is told theough the songs. In the album there’s a song called “Murders” two songs before this
I believe this song is about someone who was accused of a crime they didn’t commit. They falsely pleaded insanity and was sent to electroshock therapy where he actually went insane wether he was in the first place or not.
imo it's set in the era of primitive/religion-based medicine and about someone having a dissociative disorder, taken to the hospital where he's shocked right in the brain while having religious rites chanted to him to "exorcise the demon", and then either becomes a vegetable or is actually comforted by the electrotherapy.
Most cases of electroshock therapy are for the mentally ill n if it’s for someone who committed a crime they would be send to a death sentence or jail time not electroshock I think this guy is mentally ill and he’s done wrong letting his head get over him telling him things to the point where he feels insane and accuses himself as a bad human at the end where they said he made it another night I think they are talking about how he passed another day without letting his brain fuck him up too much
And then the original was in reverse, so make the story backwards, so he was insane, got electro therapy, acted normal got out and killed someone, was put on trial but got out on insanity
I think it’s someone who is going insane and committed a crime and so they did electroshock therapy, and when he says the thing about surviving another night, that’s him saying he survived electroshock therapy. I do that’s how I interpret it
1:47-2:32 is literally the best part also the lyric "doctor I can't tell if I'm not me" made me feel like this aching sense of despair and dissociation out of nowhere
@@Scourgelover99 and also the court refrences, the honor being the judge and the minor being asked how they plead (such as pleading innocent or pleading guilty.)
Bro I love tally hall so much and after hearing murders and eventually branching out to the rest of miracle musical, I was so happy that I found *another artist* who had the same type of sound tally hall does and then I was absolutely shocked in every way to find out that miracle musical was a side project of a few tally hall members I’m dying
This song is a part of a beautiful album (Hawaii part II). It's about a guy who's had a terrible life, then meets a girl and falls in love. They go on a date in a forest, then someone kills her. He didn't do it, but all of the evidence is stacked against him, so he pleads insanity. Because he's not insane, the electro-shock therapy drives him to insanity. He eventually breaks out and goes out to sea. He dies there and gets reunited with his love. I'd highly recommend listening to the full album. Of course it’s all up to your own interpretation, that’s just the way i and many others see it anyway.
Woah I've already listened to the entire album multiple times but this story makes so much sense and fits so well, like even just the name of the songs: murderers, sweet dreams in sea major, etc.
fun fact: at the nuns commencing part 1:17 the voice in the back is chanting "axon dendrite" over and over, axon and dendrite are both parts of a neuron. dendrites are the input of an electron and axons are the output of a neuron. (atleast from my understanding im not a neurologist)
"electrifying mine chambers wholly scorching out thine sovereignty" is one of my favorite lines in this song. It graphicly depicts his damn near soul being fried during the electroshock.
If I'm correct, I'm pretty sure this is the story of this album-- A Sailor falls in love with a lady. As they fall more and more in love, the lady disappears into the sea horizons. People accuse the Sailor of her murder. Without evidence to prove his innocence, he pleads insanity falsely. Quickly, this backfires as he's sent to shock/come therapy. The Sailor becomes insane from the shock therapy, losing any rational thoughts, like being in a labyrinth. The Sailor starts sailing to nowhere, his irrational thoughts bolting about Timemachines and whatnot. Finally, he is lured in by the very thing that killed his lover: The Siren. Now, the Sailor is with his lover. In the after life.
this song is DARK looking into the lyrics, seeing what the general consensus is, i think i know what it means: our protagonist, we'll call him simon since the original name of the song during its demo was something like "inside the mind of simon", is put on trial, likely for the murder of his lover if the album as a whole follows a continuity. The original song is inverted at first, starting at the end and playing to the beginning, at which point the song actually starts. This is likely a symptom of insanity and memories being jumbled and repressed, with simon struggling to remember, working backwards to the beginning. Afterwards, the first lines i believe are simon trying to assure himself of his intelligence, readying himself for the trial. Following this is the judge, (or "father", implying some holy connection, which is expanded on later,) asks simon, who is now implied to be no older than 17, given "minor", how he pleads, then informs him they need his testimony, then warns him he must tell the whole truth, as is standard for trial. Next, simon, not wishing to try to fight off the false accusation of murder as he has no way of doing so, pleads insanity, saying his heart is in the right place but his brain got the better of him, and so the judge condemns him to "the infirmary", likely a mental institute or prison of some kind. The next lines are simon's panic, referred to as his towers crumbling down, his "brilliant plan" having gotten him in even more trouble. He desperately tries to devise a new plan to escape but his efforts are futile, and the warden of this prison, referring to themselves as the lord of a kingdom, is immediately portrayed as a horrible abusive ruler demanding fear, submission, and prayer. Simon is then taken into electro-shock therapy, the temples being struck with lightning being his temples, the soft parts on the side of the head next to each eyebrow ridge. This shock therapy is treated as some sort of exorcism, given the references to nuns chanting, for which to expel "demons", or his claimed insanity, and simon describes how his brain is scorched by the shocks. Released, dazed and in pain, he then begs the "lord" for mercy and sympathy, claiming he is but a boy and as such shouldn't be made to go through this. The warden/lord ignores his cries for mercy and points him to the other prisoners, choosing to boast of his power over them, referring to them as the serfs of his kingdom, then directing him to join them in working until they can work no more. A laugh very similar to that of Ganon's from Zelda II is played, cementing the warden as a horrible, evil man who takes pleasure in the pain of others. Simon resumes his recounting of his experience, explaining how his foolish plans lead him into consequences he had not foreseen. He begs for help, then seems to ask a doctor to figure out what's going on with him, and explains that he doesn't quite know if he truly is in control anymore, likely due to actual insanity having developed from the electro-shock therapy. The final lines explain how each time he comes to after EST, simon marvels at having survived the "therapy", and then i believe its stated he sort of represses memories of the pain of the shocks, which is claimed to be calming, from a certain point of view. We're left on a cliffhanger, with simon still imprisoned, still regularly being put through electro-shock therapy. So there it is, that's my reading on The Mind Electric. any thoughts and critiques are welcome
1:41-2:32 is undoubtedly my favorite part, the almost off rhythm beat mixed with the haunting lyrics, especially the last line "doctor i can't tell if i'm not me"
How to make your mind electric Step 1. Have a terrible life Step 2. Meet a wonderful woman Step 3. Go on a date in the woods Step 4. Your date dies, and all of the evidence is stacked up upon you despite it not even being you Step 5. Plead insanity, and get electro-shock therapy Step 6. Go insane because of the shock therapy Step 7. Do you see Banana Man
Do you see banana man? Hopping over on de white hot sand Here he come with some for me Freshly taken from banana tree Banana man, me want a ton Gimme double and a bonus one Gimme more for all me friends Dis banana flow will never end
if anyone is still here and looking through the comments, please PLEASE listen to the rest of Hawaii Part II, Miracle Musical's first and only album and then listen to the songs by Tally Hall. They are all as great as this one and totally worth it
im thinking of getting into tally hall's works and looking them up on google is VERY confusing if its not too much to ask could you tell me the genre and a bit of the history its kinda messy im really lost but im intrigued by hawaii part II so :'(
@@hollyhadley9960 tally hall prides itself in not having a genre, they call it "fabloo", although wikipedia describes them as an "american rock band". it was created by five (six?) high school friends from michigan: rob cantor, andrew horowitz, joe hawley, ross federman and zubin sedghi (and bora karaca?) because they liked music i guess. one of their early projects from the university of michigan itself is a student film that actually had some pretty cool songs in it. there's not really a lot of history to them, although i do understand its a bit confusing because all the information is spread across the internet since they split so long ago that there's not one place where everything about them is contained. you can check out the hiddeninthesand wiki if you have any confusions
i think the reason that makes you feel like that is that you can feel the characters misery, and you feel like you are the villain as the beats get stronger and more distorted. So you feel the evil inside you but don't understand it as you get caught up in the intense fast beats. This is just an idea?!
I think 0:16-0:28 is my single favorite moment in the song. the voice chosen is perfect for the court role intended, coming off as monotone yet secretly sinister.
@@cobbss1405 After Tally Hall entered hiatus some of the band members started Miracle Musical as another project detached from TH (basically all the band members except Andrew Horowitz (the green tie guy)
This song haunts me sometimes. I was never subjected to electric shock in inpatient but I was overly medicated, probably to the point of OD at one point I was so far gone. I went in and was honest with them 'my brain has claimed it's glory over me'. Then was drugged and humiliated by the nurses and watched them mistreat everyone else while cracking jokes at our expense. 'scorching out thine sovereignty' sounds like when i was drugged so bad i felt my mind numb and go away and I have no real memories, but I have 'fake ones' - it broke my heart to see them do the same to other patients. The laughter always gets me, I remember feeling so powerless 'cower and pray' like when the doctors would come in and anything we did was written up - even if they hurt us if we reacted it would be written up. I already went in there so lost in psychosis, i was so scared I hid in my room until I made a friend. All they did was make everything worse. My aunt did have electroshock therapy done on her and she was half a person, chain smoking... i'm glad i didn't suffer her fate but it breaks my heart. Anyway - this song just came up in my life again and it brought up a lotta pain. It's a good song. Very very sad though.
I've seen a lot of ideas of what the song is about, so here's another theory: This kid/boy killed his girlfriend (other songs in the album hint at this, and the song before this one is called murders) and pleaded insanity to get away from punishment. He gets treated with electroshock therapy and actually goes insane.
@@uranium404 Well, I don't think she did. The song before this one is called Murders, so if that's not a big clue then I don't know what is. Killing herself is an interesting idea- maybe? Nothing is really confirmed so I think the album is meant to be interpreted differently by everyone. So yeah, maybe she did kill herself. It can be seen either way.
The way I saw somebody interpret it was somebody had killed the love interest and the protagonist got blamed, so to avoid punishment like you said pleaded insanity, had electro therapy, and ended up actually going insane. I think its undecided if he killed her or not though. I'm still trying to figure out the full story of the album but I think I got a slight understanding of it now.
I think he was insane before because he likes causing people fright from the “closing circuitry of fright” and the electric shock made him more insane and it made a cycle refrenced by the reverse at the begining
luke baron well the could also just be referring to nerves in your brain firing off electricity, spreading information, which is something that happens quite frequently in dreams
to be fair a good handful of h:pii songs were shelved tally hall songs so technically you're not wrong we werent meant to hear it but then joe was like "i always finish writing songs" and then finished writing songs and released it
"doctor I can't tell if I'm not me" This has got to be the most relatable line in this song. And I think I understand what it means in this context too. He can't tell if he's actually insane or not.
Listened to this on loop while falling asleep. Had weird haunting dreams and woke with a feeling of unease 10/10 would fall asleep to this again (yes, I'm oddly hooked)
Don’t you make an animatic in your head, and as you repeat the song you polish it out, add and subtract/add parts to make it perfect, but then you realize you’ll never make it
Is it just me or does anyone find this song oddly beautiful? It's sort of hypnotizing. The original ever more so. I actually like the reversed parts. I feel it has a very pleasant mysticism behind.
The reversed part is essential to the song. You hear the instruments the right way round the first time, then it flips and you hear the vocals the right way round. They're two sides of the same piece
fun fact: at 2:04 you can hear a whistle motif of Labyrinth at the same part of the hectic version you can hear the chiptune melody of Labyrinth play in the background
@@Breadlesscrust165And the melody for that is also in Labyrinth, I have a theory that while they were making The Mind Electric they originally had what we now know as Labyrinth in it, as demonstrated by the pieces of Labyrinth in demo 4. I think as they went on they split the songs and that’s how we have what we do today
i can’t explain how good this song is but i’ll try: -every note is perfect. the tune is exactly what you want it to be -the harmony on inside my mind is amazing -i’ve a good heart albeit insane is beautiful -see how the serfs work the ground sounds so creepy yet amazing -the last line is so sad. you know he’s gone crazy
FINALLY I UNDERSTAND WHY I LIKE THE LAST LINE OF THE SONG SO MUCH, IT'S SAD! I know it's kind of weird but that last line being so melancholic and calm is just perfection to me
With the added context of "fall inside a hole" and "doctor I can't tell if I'm not me," I interpreted the final line along the lines of "when the electroshock therapy is finished you'll be filled with joy, never to ponder whether what remains is actually you or the electricity, but that won't be your problem anymore"
I'm late. But this song is good because it follows the 70/30 rule. The 70 percent of the song is the normal part before the see how the serfs part. 30 percent is the see how the serfs part. It feels more satisfying
the thing I hate about amazing and unique songs like this is that they’re so one of a kind. I’ll never be able to compare the feeling I get listening to this as I do to anything else. It’s its own thing, and you can’t make anything like it or replace it.
I just listened to this with headphones for the first time, it was SO good. It enhanced the experience so well due to the sound placement, and I could hear so much more. I cannot recommend it enough.
"Someone help me understand what's going on inside my mind" As someone who has trouble struggling with a few mental disorders and had to go through therapy multiple times this line hits hard.
I can understand why people like this simplified version without the repeating flashes, words, distortion, and reverse but the original is so metaphorical “if you look at it right” *wink wink* and I love it for sounding good but still giving you intermissions of insanity to remind you that this isn’t just some fairytale musical, it’s a story. A story about a very dark topic, and every one of these dark topics has some sort of correlation with the broken bits of the song. Electroshock therapy? Being shocked in the middle of the song and slowly losing your mind. Electric chair? Going insane and giving into sadness breaking out in rage awaiting your demise while getting bits of the shock as time passes on in the song. Losing your mind? This one’s self explanatory. It all ties together in a little horrific bow and I love it. The original deserves more respect.
If you've ever dealt with mental instability you'd feel it even more even without shock therapy the instabity itself can cause you to fade. your mind begins to fade the small bits of your sanity that remain struggle to keep control. You almost feel like another entity is consuming you. And you begin to become terrified of what you see. What you may become. That fear itself driving your insanity forward or potentially sometimes being the only thing giving you the will to hold on. If your sanity fades entirely and you lose your mind you may cease to exist in a sense. After all if the essences of who you are is your very personality if that fades what is left of you? In a sence you die but your body lives on corruped and altered. To many that is a concept more terrifying than death. At least thats my experience when off my meds for too long.
14 people In the Infirmary. We are Running Low on Disgusting Infirmary food. We were not expecting them to eat as much. They aren't sleeping. We are in trouble.
Three more have been taken in. We are running out of room to put them, doctors are getting their food taken from them by hungry and sleep deprived patients. Trouble is rising higher and two residents of the infirmary keep arguing about something but they’re talking backwards. We cannot last too much longer if more people enter. Send help.
It’s strange and funny how other people hear this differently. Instead of being scared and sad about this song, it makes me feel finally free. Even the truth behind the song makes me feel calm but my pulse also starts speeding. Something about it makes me dizzy and feel alright. I’m almost sad that the original disappeared- the one with flashing. That helped it even more. The thought that this song is about such a twisted topic makes me feel even more joyful, something about the reversed mumbling in the background and the melodic mix of quiet voices and diverse sounds is just perfect to me. That’s just me, though.
i feel the same. the part where he says "i was just a boy you see" and his voice just sounds desperate, i feel oddly calm and, uhm,,, excited in a way? and then because its just that part, it ends and i get disappointed lol
Has anyone else noticed this lines up perfectly with "animal crackers in my soup"? Its in minor instead and not blatantly ripped off. I played them together and it's hilarious.
It's funny how nobody mentioned the use of Ganon's laugh at 2:03 . I mean Tally Hall and Miracle Musical both have always crammed tons of creative things into their music but I'm just surprised.
My interpretation: It starts the same. Innocent man accused of murder. He knows that an infirmary would be better than jail, so he pleads insane, though he isn't. He is taken to the infirmary, and they start to give him electrotherapy. This is where it changes. The electrotherapy doesn't make him actually insane. It releases something in his mind that takes power. It takes a little bit of mercy on the man, leaving a small peice of him there. The small peice of him begs for mercy from the monster, and then the monster becomes more brutal. The all powerful monster takes over his mind as a full, leaving nothing of what he was. He is no longer him, but something else.
So my brother pointed out the fact that the song plays backwards maybe because it’s a tape recording. When ever you record a tape or the tape has already been played, you need to rewind it and the result is the whole thing in reverse.
Technically, both parts of the song are part backwards and part forwards. The vocals are backwards in the first half and the instruments are backwards in the second half.
The song is originally backwards because when you get the electric chair, it feels like your life is going backwards. The song is about someone who got electric chair but it never worked so it happened multiple times edit: i made this 3 months ago and i have gotten a few things wrong in the song. i was not expecting to get feedback on this and im sorry for my mistake haha.
@@Emanymph Don't think so. IMO it is a story which is in pieces. The first piece; "Someone helps me, understand what's going inside my mind, Doctor I can't tell if I'm not me." Second Piece; The trail, Get's convicted. Third Piece; He breaks down at the thought that he is gonna die in an electric chair for a crime He did not commit. Fourth piece; The first electrodes go through his body and is on the verge of dying. He is in hell and meets a satan type character. Fifth piece; Two servants, or leaders talk about how it works in hell. Sixth piece; He falls back into the real world as he has survived the electric shocks due to malfunction and he lives another day.
I truly believe anyone who suffers from severe mental illness can really relate to at least one part of the song or the entirety of it. I suffer from severe ocd and the line “someone help me -understand what’s going on inside my mind, doctor I can’t tell if I’m not me” hits dead on for me. Ocd makes you think you’re a monster for your intrusive thoughts and makes you doubt your entire personality and character. It’s a horrible thing to go through on a daily basis. Luckily I’ve just started TMS and I am hoping I will see results!
I have OCD and you really end up feeling in the jail of your own mind. I have certain compulsions my brain thinks I HAVE to do. Touching every stove top 3 times every time I pass the kitchen is one of my worst currently because even if I KNOW it's hot and know it's irrational I feel like I HAVE to. Fluvoxamine has taken the edge off. Years of therapy has as well. I hope you find some relief soon!
The only other stuff remotely similar to this might be lemon demon’s spirit phone And now that I think about it, some Cyriak stuff has a somewhat similar vibe. Maybe.
I always thought about this song as a guy who pleads insanity to avoid prison; he gets sent to a mental hospital, undergoes electroshock therapy, and is lectured by religious leaders while gradually going truly insane
Unquestionably the best Hawaii Part ii song. It's the most emotional, it still has a rhythm backwards, it's actually horrifying??? It's the most important story-wise (Simon died because of his insanity), and it's the most... different, in my opinion.
2 months ago but...I don't think Simon died, did he? The mind electric is the 5th song, and the halfway point in the album and the last 3 after are: labyrinth, time machine, and dream sweet in sea major. Labyrinth is a song about the aftermath of the failed electro-shock therapy Simon went insane from, and how he feels trapped in his own head as a bit of him clouded by jumbled up memories and insanity, time machine is about how still wallowing in his cell at the asylum, Simon wishes he had a time machine to travel back to a time when his lover was still alive before her murder in the forest was pinned on him and how he decides that he's leaving that day, whether he escaped or just got released normally is not said, but when he leaves the asylum he steals a boat and rides off to sea to try and find his dead lover who he forgot died(cause insanity) and finally, dream sweet in sea major is Simon on the boat slowly dying from dehydration and/or starvation. His madness has caused him to regularly hallucinate and hear sounds that aren't there, he has reached rock bottom and in his clouded mind he thinks he hears a siren(mythical creature similar to mermaids I'm guessing)in the water. He assumes that this is definitely his dead lover and she's not actually dead, come on! His fried brain is being a fried brain, causing him to jump off the boat to his "lover". he can't swim, and drowns at sea finally ending his suffering. The last 3rd of the song is sort of a musical interpretation of Simon floating to heaven, and coming face to face with his lover, commenting to each other about how great they look in reunion. Edit: im Fucking stupid, cause Simon did die from his insanity i was just confuzzled as to when you meant
@@aubergineman3205 wait no, i was talking about the og comment, the mind electric is NOT the best HPII song, its obviously Introduction to the Snow smh my smh
In my interpretation, its about the invention of the Electric Chair (explaining tge concept in the beginning of the song.) A man [Resident Minor?] is going to court and attempts to plead insanity, but is immedietly disregarded, and is sent away to an Infirmary or mental facility. Then he states his final words (Scattering Sparks...) before being electricuted while Nuns are praying outloud to drown out the sounds of Minor's screams. Now he is falling into hell (So Spiraling down thy majesty [God]) and is pleading for mercy as he was just a boy, which opens the Idea that he was young when the crime was commited. In the slow section, Minor is now in hell and the devil is explaining what his punishment is (Being a serf?) while the other serfs tell him are pleading the same case as Minor. In the end, the doctor is going over the first execution by electric chair and is quite amazed by it. I think this is spot on...
The electric chair has nothing to do with this. This is about a man who killed someone and pleaded insanity (you got that right) and is then sent to the infirmary where he is given electroshock therapy - hence the lyrics "electric calming" - they're using electricity to try to "calm" him down, as in mitigate/cure his insanity.
This much more likely is about said man (boy) being a victim to electic shock therapy, not an execution. If he was dead, he wouldn't make such a hassle trying to figure out whats wrong with his mind, and the end fits nicely as the acceptance part of the 5 stages of grief you can see him go through ("I've a good heart albeit insane" | "All my towers crumble down" | "I beg of thee have mercy on me" | "And you give it all you got, till you're down" | "Electric Calming if you look at it right")
@@koncentra5767 Right so the story is that a man was madly in love with a woman, but ended up killing her and this song is his trial. He pleads insanity and you're right about the electro-shock therapy however he does actually die from this in the canon story.
...am I the only one here that thinks this song fits the soul master/tyrant from hollow knight really well?? Like even the bit at 1:08 makes sense as the radiance saying it??? How
Pinfigure same! I have an idea for animation that I may actually be able to go through with now that I have nothing better to do and I made a bit more story for another character
*This song is about a boy who committed many crimes, and when he went to court (?) He used the exuse that he was insane, which was a grave mistake, causing him to be sent to shock therapy*
The more I listen to this song, the more I understand what is happening, and as horrible as the story is, this song is somehow calming and full of hope, I absolutely love the song
This song is forever associated with gutsick gibbon for me, amazed there aren't more people mentioning her. I would never have found this without her, and it's an iconic part of her intro
Something I realised is that at the end of the song, his tone sounds different, like a tamed, subdued kind of sound is in his voice at the end after the electroshock therapy. I've listened to this song too many times.
Honestly I believe in the beginning and the ending is either the brain basically explaining the electrocution or a doctor studying the character's body as if it had been donated to a group of doctors for study.
tbh i've listened to it too many time to
Another thing to consider: Once they became "unsavable" and realize it, they become calm.
@@tinteddarkness7427 impossible
i like to see it as a narrarator and he died, so the narrarator is talking in his place (hence, the particles shining, or the electricity coming out of his corpse)
"I WAS JUST A BOY YOU SEE"
that line...that line just makes me feel something
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As someone with epilepsy
Thank you.
@Tesru Croww Same. It hurts my eyes.
@@joshdotjpeg04 tbh it;s distracting as fuc since I had it playing in the background in the dark.
Whenever I see flashing lights it makes blood rush to my head and gives me anxiety attacks so I also thank the creator of this video
@Tesru Croww ruclips.net/video/0vfZjdK8Ktw/видео.html that's the original song, it doesn't have a video
I have autism and I'm sensitive to light so it helps me too.
If you listen really closely, in the background of the "NUNS COMMENCE INCANTING" part, you can hear someone saying "help me" repeatedly
if you didn't know, track 34 in hawaii part ii part ii has an entire track of that clip, i found out this info before listening to tme
RALSIE!?! what are you doing here?
I turned up the volume and sure enough, there’s feminine voices singing “help me”. Nice catch.
Someone is also “axon dendrite
@@dat_moody_cartoonistit's not feminine. It's Joe Hawley's voice pitched up
“I was just a boy you see”
That part literally made me feel *something* , I’m not sure what but it felt like despair almost
He was just a boy WHEN HE KILLED SOMEONE
I beg of thee have sympathy for me
@@BIP0LARISTIC yeah, but it's implied that he wasn't in his right mind when he did that. He was a boy suffering from insanity, or most likely a severely unchecked mental illness or something. Not that killing someone is ever really right, but from a storyline point of view, this character is kinda tragic. Though imo it just adds more depth to the song and makes it better lol
It's possible that him saying "I was just a boy you see" is him saying that he was naive for (falsely) pleading insanity. He was probably assuming that he'd get off easier if he just said he was crazy, but now is realizing that prison probably would have been better.
Idk whether the narrator is actually crazy or not tho so idk
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
"Doctor I can't tell if I'm not me" has to be the most haunting line in the song. The idea of going insane, but still having brief moments of rational thought that are long enough for you to realize what's happening to your mind. That absolutely terrifies me.
It reminds me of a book called challenger deep, which basically covers this topic in detail. And now that I think about it, it's actually extremely similar to Hawaii part II in terms of theme. It's a good read and I would recommend it to anyone who connected with this song.
@@LMNL_SUPRSTR Thats the part that fucks me up about this song the most. The idea of someone being subjected to electroshock, (before they started giving anaesthesia for it) expressing sheer terror and confusion, only to be laughed at or not taken seriously by someone who I like to assume is the doctor administering the shocks.
@@LMNL_SUPRSTR I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets easily emtional over music! I love this song and the whole album, but I agree it's so thematically heavy that I also have to take breaks from time to time. It's a powerful album and a powerful song.
Challenger Deep is an *incredible* book, and I especially love how it depicts the protagonist's depersonalization / dissociation.
As someone with (diagnosed) DID, that's exactly how we are about 60% of the time. I can't imagine having that feeling thrust upon someone who has never experienced it before. It's absolutely haunting.
I wrote a comic not too long ago about people slowly descending into madness but having them realize every so often what's going on and every time they look in the mirror their faces are less recognisable
Fun fact: the laughing at 2:03 is actually Ganon’s laugh from the legend of zelda 2 which plays when you die,
the death screen also has flashing colours like the official video for this song!
who else would put in LOZ stuff in their music but them smh /j
@@Avdeyy Leave it up to the guys from Tally Hall to use video game samples creatively.
also, nice PFP. lesbian gang
@@isabellev9576 Ayy a fellow tally hall/miracle musical lesbian. And yeah, rob and joe are- spmething, arent thay?
@@Avdeyy They really are. Also, what is it with the LGBT community and obscure indie music? I swear, at least eighty percent of all Tally Hall and Lemon Demon fans are LGBT
Actually I almost confused it with the death sound from Kung Fu on the NES, which used a very similar sound byte. But Zelda II seems to be something that Joe Hawley references a lot.
I struggle with derealization. Frequently. The near ending of this song is something i can relate to. the lyrics “See how the brain plays around, and you fall inside a hole you couldnt see. You fall inside a hole inside a- someone help me, understand whats going on inside my mind. Doctor I cant tell if im not me.” Is so well constructed. The feeling of not knowing what reality is anymore or who or what you are is so terrifying. It hurts so bad, Its like you’ve forgotten everything you’ve ever known. Its like the feeling when you almost understand, But yet you’re not even close to understanding at all. This song is so beautiful. The feeling was so elegantly caught.
That part is my my ringtone.
@@johngilbert7983 nicee
I feel like that's what is happening to me....
@@Ilovepriestwally hey man if you're having any issues like this, please reach out to friends or family. Stuff like this can be hard to explain to someone, but if you feel like this is an ongoing thing or that it affects your daily life, try to find someone who can help you through it.
I’m sorry that you struggling with derealization. As someone who also struggles with mental illness as well, I want to encourage you that things do get better and tell you that you are capable of overcoming this 😊
Holy shi- I just noticed that everytime he gets electrocuted, the electric guitar starts playing. Such great attention to detail
Wait that makes more sense to it
What?
@@dopeyfx1783 This story is about someone getting falsely accused of a murder, then pleading insanity in court to avoid getting sent to prison. He is later sentenced to shock therapy which, because he does not need it, turns him insane. Everytime the electric guitar kicks in, it signalises that he’s getting shocked
@@conlash How'd ya figure that out?
@@dopeyfx1783 It’s part of an album called “Hawaii part 2” where the whole story is told theough the songs. In the album there’s a song called “Murders” two songs before this
I believe this song is about someone who was accused of a crime they didn’t commit. They falsely pleaded insanity and was sent to electroshock therapy where he actually went insane wether he was in the first place or not.
imo it's set in the era of primitive/religion-based medicine and about someone having a dissociative disorder, taken to the hospital where he's shocked right in the brain while having religious rites chanted to him to "exorcise the demon", and then either becomes a vegetable or is actually comforted by the electrotherapy.
Most cases of electroshock therapy are for the mentally ill n if it’s for someone who committed a crime they would be send to a death sentence or jail time not electroshock I think this guy is mentally ill and he’s done wrong letting his head get over him telling him things to the point where he feels insane and accuses himself as a bad human at the end where they said he made it another night I think they are talking about how he passed another day without letting his brain fuck him up too much
I feel his pain oof
And then the original was in reverse, so make the story backwards, so he was insane, got electro therapy, acted normal got out and killed someone, was put on trial but got out on insanity
I think it’s someone who is going insane and committed a crime and so they did electroshock therapy, and when he says the thing about surviving another night, that’s him saying he survived electroshock therapy. I do that’s how I interpret it
1:47-2:32 is literally the best part
also the lyric "doctor I can't tell if I'm not me" made me feel like this aching sense of despair and dissociation out of nowhere
I thought she said she is terrified of her?
I love the harmonies in that part.
It also starts to sound at bit like "Ruler of Everything" at that part. If not, it could just be my imagination.
Yo, I get that feeling every day.
HAHA EDGY SAME
ME TOOOO
WOW REALLY
OK
STUPID SMH
YOSSOSTIZOTSITOYZTOOHXGOXOGXOXHL
wait
i just realized,
"Resident minor how do you plead?"
"Father you honor, may I explain?"
THEY'RE MIRRORING EACHOTHER
I dont get it, could you explain?
@@KniteRite i think he meamt the melody, and that they both started with a question
not Resident Simon any more :(((((((
@@Scourgelover99 and also the court refrences, the honor being the judge and the minor being asked how they plead (such as pleading innocent or pleading guilty.)
@@edentague8141 and in this case he pleads to insanity
finally i dont have to have a seizure listening to a song about seizure
why does this not have more likes?
Its about electric shock therapy
Mackenzie Topshe one of the effects of electric shock therapy is seizing I think
@@Mitochondribruh That's true, but I'm pretty sure it was written about it XD
Omg same
"I was just a boy, you see. I plead of thee have sympathy for me." that line makes my stomach twist every time
timestamp?
Tango Toes 1:36
THE GLASS SCIENTISTS!! I LOVE THAT COMIC!! I DIDNT THINK ID FIND SOMEONE THAT LIKES IT AS WELL!!
Dusk bg YOU KNOW IT AS WELL?!? HELL YEAH!!
Dusk bg guys are you talking about Jekyll and Hyde what the fuck is going on
This song just FEELS like an existential crisis.
Yep
true
Mhm
Very accurate
that’s because it is
Bro I love tally hall so much and after hearing murders and eventually branching out to the rest of miracle musical, I was so happy that I found *another artist* who had the same type of sound tally hall does and then I was absolutely shocked in every way to find out that miracle musical was a side project of a few tally hall members I’m dying
Bro cant escape tally hall
This song is a part of a beautiful album (Hawaii part II). It's about a guy who's had a terrible life, then meets a girl and falls in love. They go on a date in a forest, then someone kills her. He didn't do it, but all of the evidence is stacked against him, so he pleads insanity. Because he's not insane, the electro-shock therapy drives him to insanity. He eventually breaks out and goes out to sea. He dies there and gets reunited with his love. I'd highly recommend listening to the full album.
Of course it’s all up to your own interpretation, that’s just the way i and many others see it anyway.
Can you link it?
@@aubrey6073 ruclips.net/video/NbtsZJXnzFY/видео.html
Oh so that’s what the album was about.
Woah I've already listened to the entire album multiple times but this story makes so much sense and fits so well, like even just the name of the songs: murderers, sweet dreams in sea major, etc.
Just wanted to point out even if he wasn't insane, electro shock therapy is useless and nothing but torture disguised as treatment
i like how he just says the word "insane" and then the judge goes "I've seen enough. I'm satisfied."
@@bobbypierce6536 Personally i wanna listen to them for a uneccessararily long time
@@sussybaka425...
So uhm...maybe I do too...
Yeah what if they're just wery edgy? I mean the judge says: "resident *MINOR*" minor - child so resident child is what he's saying, right?
@@АртемПістунов 💀💀💀💀
@@АртемПістуновhe kill his girlfriend... Well, not him but everybody thinks that.
"Father, your honor may I explain" is me when I fail a test.
LMAOOOOO
@@metra8604 XD
@@Revunant wait, i got one!
'Father, your honour, may I explain?'
me when my dad catches me doing something ridiculous
“My brain has claimed its glory over me”
lol
fun fact: at the nuns commencing part 1:17 the voice in the back is chanting "axon dendrite" over and over, axon and dendrite are both parts of a neuron. dendrites are the input of an electron and axons are the output of a neuron. (atleast from my understanding im not a neurologist)
GUYS THIS IS PROOF WE HAVE ELECTRIC BRAINS AND NOT MUSH MUSH 😼‼️‼️
real smarty pants over here!
@@Franklingaming-xb9ctmy second account lol
as a psychology major this detail makes me SO happy
Wow, I only heard "eeeee eeeee eeeeee"
The Zap Zap Song™
Calming if you look at it right!
SirHunter zippity zip zap
You need a trophy
Yes
ZaP *ZaP* zAp *zAp*
"SEE HOW THE BRAIN PLAYS AROUND" GIVES ME CHILLS EVERY TIME I AM NOT KIDDING
everything from see how the surfs work the ground really feel like cathartic madness in the worst possible way.
And you fall inside a hole you couldn’t see
HEY BUTTERS PFP!
time stamp?
@@beanybabysnail8576 Here you go! 2:04
This song kinda reminds me of bohemian rhapsody in the way it tells a story and how it sounds like it goes through multiple songs
I know, I wish there were more like them! If you know of any others please let me know!!
@@persici9650 No place like home by Marinas Trench
@@persici9650 Ruler of everything by Tally Hall
Hoverboard by diveo
@@yourdearestrat1058 bruh im not even asking for it but thanks for the new liked song of mine
"electrifying mine chambers wholly scorching out thine sovereignty" is one of my favorite lines in this song. It graphicly depicts his damn near soul being fried during the electroshock.
AXON DENDRITE, AXON DENDRITE (HELP ME, HELP ME)
REAL
chonny jash reference
@@sillychalk. NO IT'S NOT
@@cyonuanimationThis comment really Chonny's my Jash
If I'm correct, I'm pretty sure this is the story of this album--
A Sailor falls in love with a lady. As they fall more and more in love, the lady disappears into the sea horizons. People accuse the Sailor of her murder. Without evidence to prove his innocence, he pleads insanity falsely.
Quickly, this backfires as he's sent to shock/come therapy. The Sailor becomes insane from the shock therapy, losing any rational thoughts, like being in a labyrinth.
The Sailor starts sailing to nowhere, his irrational thoughts bolting about Timemachines and whatnot. Finally, he is lured in by the very thing that killed his lover: The Siren.
Now, the Sailor is with his lover.
In the after life.
@Hey There bitter-sweet. He dies but he's happy he's back with his lover.
What does the siren look like?
Dead Account
A Siren Head uwu
iRain_TM oh god
This album is called Hawaii Part II, so what is the first one about?
this song is DARK
looking into the lyrics, seeing what the general consensus is, i think i know what it means:
our protagonist, we'll call him simon since the original name of the song during its demo was something like "inside the mind of simon", is put on trial, likely for the murder of his lover if the album as a whole follows a continuity.
The original song is inverted at first, starting at the end and playing to the beginning, at which point the song actually starts. This is likely a symptom of insanity and memories being jumbled and repressed, with simon struggling to remember, working backwards to the beginning.
Afterwards, the first lines i believe are simon trying to assure himself of his intelligence, readying himself for the trial.
Following this is the judge, (or "father", implying some holy connection, which is expanded on later,) asks simon, who is now implied to be no older than 17, given "minor", how he pleads, then informs him they need his testimony, then warns him he must tell the whole truth, as is standard for trial.
Next, simon, not wishing to try to fight off the false accusation of murder as he has no way of doing so, pleads insanity, saying his heart is in the right place but his brain got the better of him, and so the judge condemns him to "the infirmary", likely a mental institute or prison of some kind.
The next lines are simon's panic, referred to as his towers crumbling down, his "brilliant plan" having gotten him in even more trouble. He desperately tries to devise a new plan to escape but his efforts are futile, and the warden of this prison, referring to themselves as the lord of a kingdom, is immediately portrayed as a horrible abusive ruler demanding fear, submission, and prayer.
Simon is then taken into electro-shock therapy, the temples being struck with lightning being his temples, the soft parts on the side of the head next to each eyebrow ridge. This shock therapy is treated as some sort of exorcism, given the references to nuns chanting, for which to expel "demons", or his claimed insanity, and simon describes how his brain is scorched by the shocks. Released, dazed and in pain, he then begs the "lord" for mercy and sympathy, claiming he is but a boy and as such shouldn't be made to go through this.
The warden/lord ignores his cries for mercy and points him to the other prisoners, choosing to boast of his power over them, referring to them as the serfs of his kingdom, then directing him to join them in working until they can work no more. A laugh very similar to that of Ganon's from Zelda II is played, cementing the warden as a horrible, evil man who takes pleasure in the pain of others.
Simon resumes his recounting of his experience, explaining how his foolish plans lead him into consequences he had not foreseen. He begs for help, then seems to ask a doctor to figure out what's going on with him, and explains that he doesn't quite know if he truly is in control anymore, likely due to actual insanity having developed from the electro-shock therapy.
The final lines explain how each time he comes to after EST, simon marvels at having survived the "therapy", and then i believe its stated he sort of represses memories of the pain of the shocks, which is claimed to be calming, from a certain point of view.
We're left on a cliffhanger, with simon still imprisoned, still regularly being put through electro-shock therapy.
So there it is, that's my reading on The Mind Electric. any thoughts and critiques are welcome
pretty good
WOW
This is so well thought of just as this song, man!! Good shit 👌✨
Sounds a bit like Pink Floyd's The Wall. Or at least The Trial.
damn you wrote a whole essay
i thought the original video was what caused my seizure, but according to my watch history, it was actually “luigi explains capitalism to luigi”
the hell 😭
@@1284productions 💥
i gotta check this out
luigi explains epilepsy to luigi
Dude what
1:41-2:32 is undoubtedly my favorite part, the almost off rhythm beat mixed with the haunting lyrics, especially the last line "doctor i can't tell if i'm not me"
Same here
its perfect for a tiktok speech bubble thing
@@Sprinkledsprinkles Ew
it has that tally hall feeling to it. it's so perfect
@@mxjuno1998 It's because it is made by Tally Hall, it's a separate project from Tally Hall, with all the band members but 1
How to make your mind electric
Step 1. Have a terrible life
Step 2. Meet a wonderful woman
Step 3. Go on a date in the woods
Step 4. Your date dies, and all of the evidence is stacked up upon you despite it not even being you
Step 5. Plead insanity, and get electro-shock therapy
Step 6. Go insane because of the shock therapy
Step 7. Do you see Banana Man
Do you see banana man?
Hopping over on de white hot sand
Here he come with some for me
Freshly taken from banana tree
Banana man, me want a ton
Gimme double and a bonus one
Gimme more for all me friends
Dis banana flow will never end
@@PstrywBerryVids AHAYSHJDW thats so perfect ,,
@@PstrywBerryVids I mean he did say he came back again to make it clear that he never said it would meet demand, right?
@@tkts8782 well im certainly happy now you've revealed the truth
@@PstrywBerryVids well to be fair, he was living a lie. A metamorphical scheme if you will.
I hate it when I fall inside a “someone help me”
Me too it really hurts
Pastafarian ikr 😔✊
Me when i fall inside a someone help me: oof oh ouch
Me when i fall inside a someone help me: oof oh ouch
Same smh
He really should've just called Saul 😔
True
“Father, your honor, may I explain? My client was simply in the forest, looking to see the trees, but none were there.”
Out of all of the comments I did not expect to see a Breaking bad/better call Saul reference. Made me laugh
soul, even
@@sillychalk.Not a good idea. He wouldn’t hesitate to kill his heart and mind.
"Someone help me understand what's going on inside my mind"
This hits hard
doctor i can't tell if I'm not me...
Relatable af
@@ilovejsonwhen it grows bright the particles start to marvel having made it through the night
@@project.creativity3 never they ponder whether electric calming if you look at it right!
I’ve cried a lot over those lyrics.
if anyone is still here and looking through the comments, please PLEASE listen to the rest of Hawaii Part II, Miracle Musical's first and only album and then listen to the songs by Tally Hall. They are all as great as this one and totally worth it
👀
im thinking of getting into tally hall's works and looking them up on google is VERY confusing if its not too much to ask could you tell me the genre and a bit of the history its kinda messy im really lost but im intrigued by hawaii part II so :'(
@@hollyhadley9960 tally hall prides itself in not having a genre, they call it "fabloo", although wikipedia describes them as an "american rock band". it was created by five (six?) high school friends from michigan: rob cantor, andrew horowitz, joe hawley, ross federman and zubin sedghi (and bora karaca?) because they liked music i guess. one of their early projects from the university of michigan itself is a student film that actually had some pretty cool songs in it. there's not really a lot of history to them, although i do understand its a bit confusing because all the information is spread across the internet since they split so long ago that there's not one place where everything about them is contained. you can check out the hiddeninthesand wiki if you have any confusions
@@qwest9227 thank you thank you!! i read through alot and half of what you said is news to me 😳
666 likes
this comment is cursed
Something about this song was horrifying... terrifying... I’m literally shivering after listening to it.
I ruined your 69 likes
mavislost I like the song
It makes me think of fnaf
@Tania Sapinsky lowkey same-
@@logansmith6586 that's actually what I was thinking, it definitely makes me think of it haha
i think the reason that makes you feel like that is that you can feel the characters misery, and you feel like you are the villain as the beats get stronger and more distorted. So you feel the evil inside you but don't understand it as you get caught up in the intense fast beats. This is just an idea?!
I think 0:16-0:28 is my single favorite moment in the song. the voice chosen is perfect for the court role intended, coming off as monotone yet secretly sinister.
This dudes lawyer was ass
service of the fee fi fo fum
Its like demonic bohemian rhapsody
YUP
im just a poor boy pls spare me
BAHAHHAH
RIGHT OMG
Yes and the two songs even have similar plots
Ah yes, "seizure bohemian rhapsody"
Xd
"Why are you booing me? I'm right!"
@@allie_dear huh
@@r4v3r_k1d3 I have no idea, I was trying to quote a meme but I probably messed it up XD
*Wheeze*
As a Tally Hall fan, discovering Miracle Musical feels like discovering a dark truth that was never meant to be known
I'm just getting into Tally Hall, what do they have to do with Miracle Musical? I'm pretty curious
@@cobbss1405 After Tally Hall entered hiatus some of the band members started Miracle Musical as another project detached from TH (basically all the band members except Andrew Horowitz (the green tie guy)
i mean some things are just never meant to know
Same, the time that i realise that miracle musical was a band composed by tally hall members, i just get shocked
HOLBSV SHIT NEVENR MEABT TO KNWO REFERENCE
This song haunts me sometimes. I was never subjected to electric shock in inpatient but I was overly medicated, probably to the point of OD at one point I was so far gone. I went in and was honest with them 'my brain has claimed it's glory over me'. Then was drugged and humiliated by the nurses and watched them mistreat everyone else while cracking jokes at our expense. 'scorching out thine sovereignty' sounds like when i was drugged so bad i felt my mind numb and go away and I have no real memories, but I have 'fake ones' - it broke my heart to see them do the same to other patients. The laughter always gets me, I remember feeling so powerless 'cower and pray' like when the doctors would come in and anything we did was written up - even if they hurt us if we reacted it would be written up.
I already went in there so lost in psychosis, i was so scared I hid in my room until I made a friend. All they did was make everything worse. My aunt did have electroshock therapy done on her and she was half a person, chain smoking... i'm glad i didn't suffer her fate but it breaks my heart. Anyway - this song just came up in my life again and it brought up a lotta pain. It's a good song. Very very sad though.
I feel bad now😢
I was just about to write a comment like “Huh this really sounds like Tally Hall” and then I read the description
HAHA exact same thing happened to me
SAME! I LISTENED TO THE ENTIRE ALBUM AND THOUGHT THAT!
damn yeah this … I dunno chief, kinda sounds like tally hall
Ikr lmao
Yep but something about it is also kinda calming
I've seen a lot of ideas of what the song is about, so here's another theory:
This kid/boy killed his girlfriend (other songs in the album hint at this, and the song before this one is called murders) and pleaded insanity to get away from punishment. He gets treated with electroshock therapy and actually goes insane.
@@uranium404 Well, I don't think she did. The song before this one is called Murders, so if that's not a big clue then I don't know what is. Killing herself is an interesting idea- maybe? Nothing is really confirmed so I think the album is meant to be interpreted differently by everyone. So yeah, maybe she did kill herself. It can be seen either way.
Loko 105 the song before this one is actually called 宇宙ステーションのレベル7
The way I saw somebody interpret it was somebody had killed the love interest and the protagonist got blamed, so to avoid punishment like you said pleaded insanity, had electro therapy, and ended up actually going insane. I think its undecided if he killed her or not though. I'm still trying to figure out the full story of the album but I think I got a slight understanding of it now.
I think he was insane before because he likes causing people fright from the “closing circuitry of fright” and the electric shock made him more insane and it made a cycle refrenced by the reverse at the begining
luke baron well the could also just be referring to nerves in your brain firing off electricity, spreading information, which is something that happens quite frequently in dreams
The entire Hawaii: Part II album feels forbidden, like we were never meant to hear it.
YES YES YES THIS IS EXACTLY HOW IT FEELS
Snack?
Joe Mama
"Invisible to some until its time"
to be fair a good handful of h:pii songs were shelved tally hall songs
so technically you're not wrong we werent meant to hear it but then joe was like "i always finish writing songs" and then finished writing songs and released it
"doctor I can't tell if I'm not me"
This has got to be the most relatable line in this song.
And I think I understand what it means in this context too.
He can't tell if he's actually insane or not.
I interpreted it as dissociation after the ECT.
woah i never thought of it that way
And I think he’s forgotten what’s real about him and what’s fake. After everyone believed he was a killer he started to believe it too.
This song makes me feel an emotion that doesn't exist
ya same
So true omg
Its called stress
Lmao
dorslessness
Listened to this on loop while falling asleep. Had weird haunting dreams and woke with a feeling of unease
10/10 would fall asleep to this again
(yes, I'm oddly hooked)
What how why
@@mightypurplelicious1625 it's calming if you look at it right
Oh fuck I've listened to this a million times before bed
Have you tried any other songs by Miracle Musical? A few of the more ominous ones are Murders and Labyrinth.
i've actually almost fallen asleep to the actual song with the reverse and distortions
i think i listen to this song too much
Don’t you make an animatic in your head, and as you repeat the song you polish it out, add and subtract/add parts to make it perfect, but then you realize you’ll never make it
yeah
Yup 😳
yeppers
Y e s
Mhm- if I could draw I’d have a banger Travis Phelps animatic-
WE MAKING IT OUT THE INFIRMARY WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🔥🔥
WE MAKING IT OUT THE HOLE WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥🔥
No youre not, youre stuck in this maze of design, the labyrinth
CONDENM HIM TO THE INFIRMARY 👹
WE’RE PONDERING WHETHER ELECTRIC CALMING IF YOU LOOK AT IT RIGHT WITH THIS ONE ‼️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
@@project.creativity3 WE THINKING OF EACH THOUGHT AS LIMITLESS LIGHT
Is it just me or does anyone find this song oddly beautiful? It's sort of hypnotizing.
The original ever more so. I actually like the reversed parts. I feel it has a very pleasant mysticism behind.
👍
The reversed part is essential to the song. You hear the instruments the right way round the first time, then it flips and you hear the vocals the right way round. They're two sides of the same piece
Omg exactly it’s one of my favorite songs I love it so much
@@Holgast thanks for pointing that out, I never realized that
I have the reversed part memorised and I find that slightly concerning
fun fact: at 2:04 you can hear a whistle motif of Labyrinth
at the same part of the hectic version you can hear the chiptune melody of Labyrinth play in the background
That's actually from demo 4 of the mind electric which is where the "see how I laugh at you" part is from
@@Breadlesscrust165And the melody for that is also in Labyrinth, I have a theory that while they were making The Mind Electric they originally had what we now know as Labyrinth in it, as demonstrated by the pieces of Labyrinth in demo 4. I think as they went on they split the songs and that’s how we have what we do today
HOW DID I NOT HEAR THAT?!
Mm reuses many parts of songs in other ones
THATS SO COOL??
Whoever made the closed caption subtitles is my new favourite person, there is no arguing nor ties that can't easily be broken
[HOOOOOO]
When it glows bright the particles start to[Hoooooooooooooooooo]
ties...
(Hooooooooooooooooooo)
[THiRst FoR tRouBlE]
The spiralling down thy majesty part just before the ‘best part’ is my absolute favourite part
RTC MENTIONED 🌀🎢🗣️
i can’t explain how good this song is but i’ll try:
-every note is perfect. the tune is exactly what you want it to be
-the harmony on inside my mind is amazing
-i’ve a good heart albeit insane is beautiful
-see how the serfs work the ground sounds so creepy yet amazing
-the last line is so sad. you know he’s gone crazy
This is how I feel about most of the album. Harmonised perfection
"My brain has claimed it's glory over me" is really beautiful too
FINALLY I UNDERSTAND WHY I LIKE THE LAST LINE OF THE SONG SO MUCH, IT'S SAD! I know it's kind of weird but that last line being so melancholic and calm is just perfection to me
With the added context of "fall inside a hole" and "doctor I can't tell if I'm not me," I interpreted the final line along the lines of "when the electroshock therapy is finished you'll be filled with joy, never to ponder whether what remains is actually you or the electricity, but that won't be your problem anymore"
I'm late. But this song is good because it follows the 70/30 rule. The 70 percent of the song is the normal part before the see how the serfs part. 30 percent is the see how the serfs part. It feels more satisfying
the thing I hate about amazing and unique songs like this is that they’re so one of a kind. I’ll never be able to compare the feeling I get listening to this as I do to anything else. It’s its own thing, and you can’t make anything like it or replace it.
Yeah. It reminds me of Touch-Tone telephone or MK Ultra Victim
@@LD-2401 YESS!
also i love ur dib pfp *smoochB* u have immaculate taste
@@Franky__J0e Thanks. I kin Dib Membrane pretty hard.
@@LD-2401 valid. oddly enough zim is a big kin for me, haha
@@Franky__J0e ZIM!
Closed Captions: scattering sparks of virginity
Me: eh, close enough
PLS
*what*
@@verglas. The video used to use auto-generated Closed Captions and that's what it said for "scatter sparks of thought energy" (at the 1:00 mark).
@@relt1554 I didn’t need an explanation. I was saying ’what’ because I’m not sure how it got that through ’thought energy.’
I just listened to this with headphones for the first time, it was SO good. It enhanced the experience so well due to the sound placement, and I could hear so much more. I cannot recommend it enough.
The random "Someone help me" Gives me chills everytime
Pokémon girl 😳
This song is the most medieval-modern song that it freaks me out...
Oh my God did you just describe it in the best way possible??
Yes, like their language style and tone of voice gives a royal/aristocratic and classical vibe to it.
@@extrapathos Interesting take on it, I hear it quite similarly now that you mention it.
it's fabloo
it's like a shakepearian language
"Someone help me understand what's going on inside my mind" As someone who has trouble struggling with a few mental disorders and had to go through therapy multiple times this line hits hard.
I agree
I'm a teenager but this is also relatable
me too god
@@iwannabeyourdog4195 im 14 and this is deep
Ive dealt with some reality breaking mental madness before and this song really explains how I felt during that
I can understand why people like this simplified version without the repeating flashes, words, distortion, and reverse but the original is so metaphorical “if you look at it right” *wink wink* and I love it for sounding good but still giving you intermissions of insanity to remind you that this isn’t just some fairytale musical, it’s a story. A story about a very dark topic, and every one of these dark topics has some sort of correlation with the broken bits of the song. Electroshock therapy? Being shocked in the middle of the song and slowly losing your mind. Electric chair? Going insane and giving into sadness breaking out in rage awaiting your demise while getting bits of the shock as time passes on in the song. Losing your mind? This one’s self explanatory. It all ties together in a little horrific bow and I love it. The original deserves more respect.
“Doctor I can’t tell if I’m not me”
Don’t know why, but that’s deep
It is deep
I think it talks about how you loose yourself in shock therapy. The neurons die, and you come out like a zombie.
If you've ever dealt with mental instability you'd feel it even more even without shock therapy the instabity itself can cause you to fade. your mind begins to fade the small bits of your sanity that remain struggle to keep control. You almost feel like another entity is consuming you. And you begin to become terrified of what you see. What you may become. That fear itself driving your insanity forward or potentially sometimes being the only thing giving you the will to hold on. If your sanity fades entirely and you lose your mind you may cease to exist in a sense. After all if the essences of who you are is your very personality if that fades what is left of you? In a sence you die but your body lives on corruped and altered. To many that is a concept more terrifying than death. At least thats my experience when off my meds for too long.
When it grows bright the particles start to-
(someone dislikes this song)
*CONDEMN HIM TO THE INFIRMARY*
yes
14 people In the Infirmary. We are Running Low on Disgusting Infirmary food. We were not expecting them to eat as much. They aren't sleeping. We are in trouble.
Three more have been taken in. We are running out of room to put them, doctors are getting their food taken from them by hungry and sleep deprived patients. Trouble is rising higher and two residents of the infirmary keep arguing about something but they’re talking backwards. We cannot last too much longer if more people enter. Send help.
Another one has arrived. 2 more spots and we’re doomed. One is already coming.
25 dislikes food and water ran out 3 days ago health support is going to stop tomorrow.
It’s strange and funny how other people hear this differently. Instead of being scared and sad about this song, it makes me feel finally free. Even the truth behind the song makes me feel calm but my pulse also starts speeding. Something about it makes me dizzy and feel alright. I’m almost sad that the original disappeared- the one with flashing. That helped it even more. The thought that this song is about such a twisted topic makes me feel even more joyful, something about the reversed mumbling in the background and the melodic mix of quiet voices and diverse sounds is just perfect to me. That’s just me, though.
i feel the same. the part where he says "i was just a boy you see" and his voice just sounds desperate, i feel oddly calm and, uhm,,, excited in a way? and then because its just that part, it ends and i get disappointed lol
indeex
idk why u guys always try to make everything deep. its literally just called liking a song
@@verticiant3501 they can enjoy a song while also analyzing it, chill
@@chongyun5680 ye but its not analysing when they comin up with random shit like this. theyre just overdescribing them liking a song lol
shoutout to "doctor i can't tell if i'm not me" mood of all time
I like songs like this that tell a story but are still vague so that I can fit them to the stories of my characters and do animatics and other stuff
Yes, just... Yes
Imma make an animation about this one song and build an entire universe around it because wow so vauge and amazing
yep! a lot of people have made stories with this yet they're so different from the one i'm making lol
Love your pfp! Must watch Octoboy like me I see
SANS INKLING
Has anyone else noticed this lines up perfectly with "animal crackers in my soup"? Its in minor instead and not blatantly ripped off. I played them together and it's hilarious.
IceEve this song is never gonna be the same 😔
I knew I’d heard the tune somewhere-
Waiiit what
Animal these thoughts as in my soup-
Woah
~mindblown~
It's funny how nobody mentioned the use of Ganon's laugh at 2:03 . I mean Tally Hall and Miracle Musical both have always crammed tons of creative things into their music but I'm just surprised.
Judah Osboja and at 2:13 they have a guy saying something that i can’t understand
@@thecoolexclamationpoint he is laughing
gotta be honest the second i heard the laugh my mind went "hold the fuck up, ganon????"
Ganon? As in blue pig demon king Ganon from Zelda?
@@star_.liightt That specific laugh is from Zelda II on the NES, so more like silhouette pig Ganon on the game over screen. c :
fun fact, the person singing the "see how the brain plays around" part isn't a female but rather a male and it's joe hawley (it's sped up)
WHAT, SO YOUR TELLING IT WAS A LIE ALL ALONG
It is indeed Joe, but its not sped up, its just with a different pitch and Voice effects
And, he's one of the vocalists in Tally hall
This has enough plot to qualify as a vocaloid song
Truuuee
Or part of a concept album
@@Yakkymania might well have been
TRUE
I've never been so offended by something I totally agree with
My interpretation:
It starts the same. Innocent man accused of murder. He knows that an infirmary would be better than jail, so he pleads insane, though he isn't. He is taken to the infirmary, and they start to give him electrotherapy.
This is where it changes.
The electrotherapy doesn't make him actually insane. It releases something in his mind that takes power. It takes a little bit of mercy on the man, leaving a small peice of him there. The small peice of him begs for mercy from the monster, and then the monster becomes more brutal. The all powerful monster takes over his mind as a full, leaving nothing of what he was. He is no longer him, but something else.
>Tries to be philosophical
>Cant spell piece
@@otamo_ oof
@@otamo_ F
@@otamo_ dude who the fuck cares about spelling errors its not a big enough deal to point out
@@madi6704 it's a five letter word 🤣
This sounds like a mix between a Halloween song and Christmas song, and I love how it sounds
Nightmare before Christmas vibes
Yes lmao, I showed this song to my friend and he told me it sounds like a mix of a Christmas song and a FNAF song, I think it fits well
@@TururruuuuuuuuuuuuuFive Nights At The Infirmary
this is what it sounds like entering november
@@TururruuuuuuuuuuuuuREAL
I've listened to this song like 30 times today, back to back
I’m surprised how nobody is talking about how the captions just have “[Hooooooooo]” in most of the verses-
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Can we also give a special shoutout to [aaaaaaaaaaa]
@@yeethittter1285 service of the fe Fi Fo Fum
PLS I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO MENTION THE CAPTIONS THEYRE THE BEST PART OF THE SONG SKSKKDKQKA
IT'S THE LYRICS FOR THE BACKING VOCAL BUT YEAH ITS STILL FUNNY
If you ever thought the way he says “Death minute in decimal” sounded weird, It’s because in reverse it sounds like “Homicide.”
THAT IS ACTUALLY SO COOL
What? How??
@@talb.1805 lamicide - decimal backwards (with some changes to make it easier ofc)
neat considering how this album is about someone wrongly charged with murder
Amazing
auto-subtitles at 0:38:
“father may I explain my brain has claimed is gopher over me”
gOpHeR
I mean your gonna get the insanity charge at that point
My power keeps going out as im listening to this, it's very authentic
1:29 sounds so desperate. Like he’s actually crying for help.
so many likes but no comments so this shall be the first!
@@porygon1889 I didn’t even know this had likes????
wowww
HOMESTUCK SPOTTED
So my brother pointed out the fact that the song plays backwards maybe because it’s a tape recording. When ever you record a tape or the tape has already been played, you need to rewind it and the result is the whole thing in reverse.
Damn thats actually a great take though ( sorry I know this is an old comment its just like 4 am for me smh )
Technically, both parts of the song are part backwards and part forwards. The vocals are backwards in the first half and the instruments are backwards in the second half.
Captions: [Music]
Deaf people: 🤠
@@nicoletelovejoy5565 if you turn on captions it says "[music]"... I'm making fun of the captions :/
Yeehaw
hawYee
gortragoth you've yawwed your last hee
Can't forget [Applause]
I like how the whistling at 2:04 mimics the melody of "SEE HOW I LAUGH AT YOU" so that part is technically still made it past demo 4
no one:
Captions: "Father may I explain my brain has claimed its gofer over me I'm a good hearted same"
I saw that lol-
Also captions: there's four drug for scattering sparks of thought and of the GG river me and
Me: and what?
@@marissasullivan7356 LMAO I DIDNT SEE THAT
Marissa Sullivan for me it said
There’s four scattering sparks of virginity River me and carry me away
@@BlitzStudiosIsinsideyourhome I re watched it and I can find your part but not mine.
HOW DID WE GET FROM SINGING ABOUT SOMEONE'S GROCERY LIST TO THIS
Joe Hawley Joe Hawley was made after this, Hawaii: Part II was made in 2012, and JHJH was made in 2016
@@RandySaturn wow you ruined my joke thank you
@@p1xelat3d yeah but at least I was correct :/
@@RandySaturn "wow look at me im so smart watch me be a party pooper"
@@nicoreii tbh to me jokes are funnier if they're accurate so I can't help but agree with that guy
The song is originally backwards because when you get the electric chair, it feels like your life is going backwards. The song is about someone who got electric chair but it never worked so it happened multiple times
edit: i made this 3 months ago and i have gotten a few things wrong in the song. i was not expecting to get feedback on this and im sorry for my mistake haha.
Karkalicious Definition this song is actually about shock therapy, but you’re close.
@@Emanymph Don't think so. IMO it is a story which is in pieces. The first piece; "Someone helps me, understand what's going inside my mind, Doctor I can't tell if I'm not me." Second Piece; The trail, Get's convicted. Third Piece; He breaks down at the thought that he is gonna die in an electric chair for a crime He did not commit. Fourth piece; The first electrodes go through his body and is on the verge of dying. He is in hell and meets a satan type character. Fifth piece; Two servants, or leaders talk about how it works in hell. Sixth piece; He falls back into the real world as he has survived the electric shocks due to malfunction and he lives another day.
wassup karkat
CAPTAIN isn’t that miraipark? Lmao
@@majanimatins4385 What do you mean by that? Don't really know what a Miraipark is or what it means...
I truly believe anyone who suffers from severe mental illness can really relate to at least one part of the song or the entirety of it. I suffer from severe ocd and the line “someone help me -understand what’s going on inside my mind, doctor I can’t tell if I’m not me” hits dead on for me. Ocd makes you think you’re a monster for your intrusive thoughts and makes you doubt your entire personality and character. It’s a horrible thing to go through on a daily basis. Luckily I’ve just started TMS and I am hoping I will see results!
I have OCD and you really end up feeling in the jail of your own mind. I have certain compulsions my brain thinks I HAVE to do. Touching every stove top 3 times every time I pass the kitchen is one of my worst currently because even if I KNOW it's hot and know it's irrational I feel like I HAVE to. Fluvoxamine has taken the edge off. Years of therapy has as well. I hope you find some relief soon!
This song...
It makes me...
Feel something...
I guess now I see how the brain plays around,
did you see how you fall inside a hole....inside a......
*SOMEONE HELP ME*
@@incoherentbabbler8496 Understand what's going on inside my mind...
@@awelko Doctor, I can't tell if I'm not me!
It dose be like that he do be explaining a true point.
Only glimpses
thanks for a lyric video that doesnt kill me via epilepsy
OFF TOPIC BUT IS THAT GRIMM I SEE
What’s ligma?
Ligma balls
VRISKA
@@ekorruptdead4923 briska........
i’m finding a whole new genre of music during quarantine
And what genre would that be?
@@SamSUNG-lz9sw t h i s
@@bigstankytoes312 ?
@@SamSUNG-lz9sw this is basically a genre on its own lmaoo. Although I think people have started calling it weird core
The only other stuff remotely similar to this might be lemon demon’s spirit phone
And now that I think about it, some Cyriak stuff has a somewhat similar vibe. Maybe.
I always thought about this song as a guy who pleads insanity to avoid prison; he gets sent to a mental hospital, undergoes electroshock therapy, and is lectured by religious leaders while gradually going truly insane
2:03 i cant stop listening to this part ITS SOOO GOOD
Unquestionably the best Hawaii Part ii song.
It's the most emotional, it still has a rhythm backwards, it's actually horrifying??? It's the most important story-wise (Simon died because of his insanity), and it's the most... different, in my opinion.
2 months ago but...I don't think Simon died, did he? The mind electric is the 5th song, and the halfway point in the album and the last 3 after are: labyrinth, time machine, and dream sweet in sea major. Labyrinth is a song about the aftermath of the failed electro-shock therapy Simon went insane from, and how he feels trapped in his own head as a bit of him clouded by jumbled up memories and insanity, time machine is about how still wallowing in his cell at the asylum, Simon wishes he had a time machine to travel back to a time when his lover was still alive before her murder in the forest was pinned on him and how he decides that he's leaving that day, whether he escaped or just got released normally is not said, but when he leaves the asylum he steals a boat and rides off to sea to try and find his dead lover who he forgot died(cause insanity) and finally, dream sweet in sea major is Simon on the boat slowly dying from dehydration and/or starvation. His madness has caused him to regularly hallucinate and hear sounds that aren't there, he has reached rock bottom and in his clouded mind he thinks he hears a siren(mythical creature similar to mermaids I'm guessing)in the water. He assumes that this is definitely his dead lover and she's not actually dead, come on! His fried brain is being a fried brain, causing him to jump off the boat to his "lover". he can't swim, and drowns at sea finally ending his suffering. The last 3rd of the song is sort of a musical interpretation of Simon floating to heaven, and coming face to face with his lover, commenting to each other about how great they look in reunion. Edit: im Fucking stupid, cause Simon did die from his insanity i was just confuzzled as to when you meant
the wrong opinion
@@drewdrinks3930S I L E N C E
@@aubergineman3205 wait no, i was talking about the og comment, the mind electric is NOT the best HPII song, its obviously Introduction to the Snow smh my smh
@@drewdrinks3930 oh my GWAD bruh the best song is obviously poopoo peepee fart by@&@&'jcxjejdjcjEDKCK\¥●¥□♡□♡●
In my interpretation, its about the invention of the Electric Chair (explaining tge concept in the beginning of the song.) A man [Resident Minor?] is going to court and attempts to plead insanity, but is immedietly disregarded, and is sent away to an Infirmary or mental facility. Then he states his final words (Scattering Sparks...) before being electricuted while Nuns are praying outloud to drown out the sounds of Minor's screams. Now he is falling into hell (So Spiraling down thy majesty [God]) and is pleading for mercy as he was just a boy, which opens the Idea that he was young when the crime was commited. In the slow section, Minor is now in hell and the devil is explaining what his punishment is (Being a serf?) while the other serfs tell him are pleading the same case as Minor. In the end, the doctor is going over the first execution by electric chair and is quite amazed by it.
I think this is spot on...
The electric chair has nothing to do with this. This is about a man who killed someone and pleaded insanity (you got that right) and is then sent to the infirmary where he is given electroshock therapy - hence the lyrics "electric calming" - they're using electricity to try to "calm" him down, as in mitigate/cure his insanity.
This much more likely is about said man (boy) being a victim to electic shock therapy, not an execution. If he was dead, he wouldn't make such a hassle trying to figure out whats wrong with his mind, and the end fits nicely as the acceptance part of the 5 stages of grief you can see him go through
("I've a good heart albeit insane" | "All my towers crumble down" | "I beg of thee have mercy on me" | "And you give it all you got, till you're down" | "Electric Calming if you look at it right")
@@koncentra5767 Right so the story is that a man was madly in love with a woman, but ended up killing her and this song is his trial. He pleads insanity and you're right about the electro-shock therapy however he does actually die from this in the canon story.
@@lunsrea 1) Why do you think he killed a girl he was in love with? Which lyrics led you to believe this?
2) Same question but about his death
@@koncentra5767 Apparently, in the album this song comes from, there's mentions of the girl he killed
sounds like queen got their hands on a computer
LMAO
sHIT IT DOES REMIND ME OF QUEEN--
YOURE SO RIGHT IT KINDA SOUNDS LIKE QUEEN
Omg it’s literally just like Queen
LMFAO
...am I the only one here that thinks this song fits the soul master/tyrant from hollow knight really well?? Like even the bit at 1:08 makes sense as the radiance saying it??? How
whenever i hear a song i animate in my head, this song helped my create 3 characters (if you care)
Pinfigure same! I have an idea for animation that I may actually be able to go through with now that I have nothing better to do and I made a bit more story for another character
holy crap same
Ooh, do tell
I love doing this! Especially songs on the radio when I'm in the car, and it also helps me get more creative!
I care :)
I like how this song gives me a lot of anxiety but I can’t stop listening
Same😭
*This song is about a boy who committed many crimes, and when he went to court (?) He used the exuse that he was insane, which was a grave mistake, causing him to be sent to shock therapy*
The more I listen to this song, the more I understand what is happening, and as horrible as the story is, this song is somehow calming and full of hope, I absolutely love the song
I didn’t mind the flashing lights but I was just wanting to find something with more than one phrase at a time so I think you for making this
I hate how addicting this song of insanity is, bruh this bop is a freggin CURSE, gah its such a great bop tho
This song helps w my religious trauma
REALITY IS FUN
Same
Good for you bro, hope you're doing better and getting better.
Are you okay?
This song is forever associated with gutsick gibbon for me, amazed there aren't more people mentioning her. I would never have found this without her, and it's an iconic part of her intro
i love her intro so much!!!!
That’s how I discovered this song too! I love her stuff