[Verse 1] Rejoice, rejoice God's ears are stitches Rejoice, His eyes are big X's Rejoice, His arms are burning witches Rejoice, His hands perform hexes [Chorus] Rejoice despite the fact this world will hurt you Rejoice despite the fact this world will kill you Rejoice despite the fact this world will tear you to shreds Rejoice because you're trying your best [Verse 2] Rejoice, the bed you sleep in is burning Rejoice, the sky's fucking falling Rejoice, the world we know is turning Rejoice, your father's been calling [Verse 3] Rejoice although this world will devastate you Rejoice although this world will penetrate you Rejoice although you will not survive Rejoice you'll never make it out alive [Verse 4] Rejoice, your hair it smells like burning hair Oh rejoice, your nails all got chewed off Rejoice, and - holy fuck! - you're bleeding there Oh rejoice, you burned your whole beard off
@@bonesfloodedwithdreams rejoice god's ear's are stanchions a stanchion is a big beam (god is deaf as a post) rejoice, his eyes are big Xs (and he's also blind)
@@sleekthegeek6669 I heard stanchions exactly like you said until I really listened to this video and looked at the stitches lyric. I think he actually is saying "exes" (used to think it was axes) and "stitches" (used to think it was stanchions). He has a thick accent but comparing them to the way he says 'witches' and 'hexes' I think OP is right. I'll still forever hear "stanchions" which are also tall cones meant for looping caution tape across, shaped like horns. There are also stanchion horns, which are elongated horns like for the hard of hearing. This does kind of contrast with the deaf idea, so I'm thinking it's stitches.
i dont understand how yall are hearing stanchions, it doesnt sound like stanchions, and why would his ears be posts? it not only sounds like stitches but stitches actually makes sense too
I've always loved the way "your best" is sung. The oscillation makes it come out like "your har-best," as though it were both your best and your hardest at the same time.
I can never tell what level of ironic this song is, like if I'm feeling well it's a sincere acceptance of everything you can't change, and if I'm feeling bad it's a satire of religious zeal in the face of terrible things...
Even if the artist didnt write the lyrics sincerely the meaning is the same externally. To me i took it to be similar to a Jobian situation and thats how i view it regardless.
@mitchellknapp5766 yep, "rejoice because you're trying your best" definitely overshadows the pessimism shown in the previous lyrics. But even so, there is a strong taste of poignancy throughout the song. In fact, "rejoice because you're trying your best" came as such a twist for me I even interpreted it as sarcasm at first. Quite an awesome song indeed, sounds depressing but gives you some sort of reassurance in the end.
This is one of my comfort songs... that probably says something about my mental health lol. It's just so harsh and real, yet hopeful. This world is brutal and broken, but we're together in this painful life. Together till our inevitable end, not to be feared but accepted. Hell, maybe even rejoiced Taking comfort in death, that this pain I feel will at some point end. Weirdly comforting to my mentally unwell ass
I struggle with depersonalization and dissociation but this song along with people remind me of the world out there. Sometimes I get stuck in my head and can’t get out, and I can’t talk about because nobody takes it seriously. I thought this is what all kids and teens went through going up, but after looking up some stuff, feeling like you’re not real and thinking of hypotheticals for if you died of different ways is normal. I don’t want a therapist and I don’t want to talk to my parents. I don’t want to burden any friends with my problems. Life sucks so much sometimes and I wish I was never born sometimes. But I’m here and my goal right now is to make it out of growing up so that at least I’ll be an adult someday. I love this song
Hi. One of those eventual adults here. Everything here is very familiar to me. Being trans in the South didn't help. If you have the resources to pursue therapy, I do suggest giving it a try, or reach out to friends here and there. The real ones will be there for you; try to offer them the same in return. Beyond additional freedoms from reaching the age of majority, and perhaps a bit more experience, being an "adult" is an arbitrary thing; It won't magic this stuff away. But doing the above is a good step forward.
@@zoomer2965 thanks man. I made this comment a while ago in a pretty dark place, and I’ve developed some better coping mechanisms for myself and cut off toxic friends. I still listen to AJJ though, haha. Thanks for the insight
@@heezyforsheezfun fact, ajj supports trans rights Maybe leave trans people alone and dont try to tell them who they are, you arent in their head Also saying that they'll eventually be hit with health problems is at best not helpful and at worst flat out harmful and disgusting Stop being like this
the fact that i can’t even count how many times i’ve cry to this song... edit: this comment is 3 years old and i still love this song but the ‘…’ was so dramatic
I love this song so much and it makes me cry when I'm up late at night and it just comes on at the right time, and it makes me thankful for everything i have. (only song to have ever made me cry.)
I'm back and I'm burnt out. Life has ripped me away from my favorite hobby-art. Art was the thing keeping me happy. But I'm trying to figure it out, one day at a time. I've apologized for some past stuff and I'm currently trying to get out of my mentality of demonizing myself. Instead of drowning in apathy towards everything wrong in the past, I'm trying to float out of it. Sometimes I sink but, hey. I'll rejoice because I _am_ trying my best!
This song gives me the same vibes as that Disney ad in the beginning of every Disney dvd where it uses that song that goes “as sly as a fox, as big as an ox” whatever. The cool nostalgic but not vibes
Man the way in which this song is so angry and nihilistic and yet still still ends on a optimistic note ("Rejoice because you are trying your best") is really cool.
Used to think gods arms were made of witches that were ablaze and not the obvious, his arms are used to burn witches. I used to drink a lot. I still do, but I used to too.
@@BLANK-sm4dd I think I meant differently than how you read it, but it's because I'm very bad at communication and knowing me, I wrote my comment sleep deprived- basically I originally heard it when I was in a super rough place; When I originally heard it it felt like it was cynically reflecting on forcing positivity and saying it was futile to try and bring joy into life when it's a shitshow I don't know for sure what the original intention was, but now I take from it that sometimes refusing to let the shittiest things in life dictate how you react is the only control you still have Idk, I've just been doing what I can to accept that some things are gonna be shitty no matter what and if I can find ways to fight back against that I won't be in a worse place than I was before, so why not try I try to Rejoice if only to prove I still can Sorry to be Fake Deep or whatever, I just like the song
Homeless waiting on the bus, so this song hits different.
Stay safe, shit's hard and might get harder, but navigating it is possible.
I hope you find a way out of your problem, best wishes friend
Hope you're doing good, hope you stay safe, and hope your situation will get better
@@lIlIIlIllIIIllIIllIlIllIllI I love the sentiment, but you really didn't need to add the word "might".
@@JohnDoe-pk2hs Shit's uncertain, I don't know if things'll get better for them or worse. Might was appropriate given the uncertainty.
Rejoice because you exist at the same time as this song
Rejoice! You're doing your best.
[Verse 1]
Rejoice, rejoice God's ears are stitches
Rejoice, His eyes are big X's
Rejoice, His arms are burning witches
Rejoice, His hands perform hexes
[Chorus]
Rejoice despite the fact this world will hurt you
Rejoice despite the fact this world will kill you
Rejoice despite the fact this world will tear you to shreds
Rejoice because you're trying your best
[Verse 2]
Rejoice, the bed you sleep in is burning
Rejoice, the sky's fucking falling
Rejoice, the world we know is turning
Rejoice, your father's been calling
[Verse 3]
Rejoice although this world will devastate you
Rejoice although this world will penetrate you
Rejoice although you will not survive
Rejoice you'll never make it out alive
[Verse 4]
Rejoice, your hair it smells like burning hair
Oh rejoice, your nails all got chewed off
Rejoice, and - holy fuck! - you're bleeding there
Oh rejoice, you burned your whole beard off
Thank you :)
@@bonesfloodedwithdreams rejoice god's ear's are stanchions
a stanchion is a big beam (god is deaf as a post)
rejoice, his eyes are big Xs (and he's also blind)
@@sleekthegeek6669 I heard stanchions exactly like you said until I really listened to this video and looked at the stitches lyric. I think he actually is saying "exes" (used to think it was axes) and "stitches" (used to think it was stanchions). He has a thick accent but comparing them to the way he says 'witches' and 'hexes' I think OP is right.
I'll still forever hear "stanchions" which are also tall cones meant for looping caution tape across, shaped like horns. There are also stanchion horns, which are elongated horns like for the hard of hearing. This does kind of contrast with the deaf idea, so I'm thinking it's stitches.
i dont understand how yall are hearing stanchions, it doesnt sound like stanchions, and why would his ears be posts? it not only sounds like stitches but stitches actually makes sense too
I've always loved the way "your best" is sung. The oscillation makes it come out like "your har-best," as though it were both your best and your hardest at the same time.
I can never tell what level of ironic this song is, like if I'm feeling well it's a sincere acceptance of everything you can't change, and if I'm feeling bad it's a satire of religious zeal in the face of terrible things...
Even if the artist didnt write the lyrics sincerely the meaning is the same externally. To me i took it to be similar to a Jobian situation and thats how i view it regardless.
no coments for like 3 years and then three coments
great song
Yes Lets make it a thing
@@smuggpugg7916 ok
Wow. That's upsetting. It's gonna be 5 years in a few months and there's under 200 comments...
youtube tells me this comment was made three years ago :) congrats
WE FUCKIN DID IT!!!!!!!
I feel like this song is a perfect mix of optimism and pessimism
Lol so spot on but actually almost, the "rejoice b/c youre trying your best" brings in the W for optimism. Such an awesome song.
@mitchellknapp5766 yep, "rejoice because you're trying your best" definitely overshadows the pessimism shown in the previous lyrics. But even so, there is a strong taste of poignancy throughout the song. In fact, "rejoice because you're trying your best" came as such a twist for me I even interpreted it as sarcasm at first. Quite an awesome song indeed, sounds depressing but gives you some sort of reassurance in the end.
i love the way sean enunciates "and holy FUCK youre bleeding there!!!!!"
This is one of my comfort songs... that probably says something about my mental health lol.
It's just so harsh and real, yet hopeful. This world is brutal and broken, but we're together in this painful life. Together till our inevitable end, not to be feared but accepted. Hell, maybe even rejoiced
Taking comfort in death, that this pain I feel will at some point end. Weirdly comforting to my mentally unwell ass
Rejoice in the fact your taste in music has not been affected. Hope you’re doing better man.
Kind of reminds me of Camus’ take on Sisyphus, and how you should embrace suffering and meaninglessness instead of fruitlessly trying to overcome it.
Fake deep yt comments😭
@Kas3- don't call me out like that >:/
@@justbrowsing9697 ;)
Of the 35 comments the video has, 20 have been during the pandemic. I think there's a correlation here.
ajj is staying inside to avoid the deadly plague type music
I struggle with depersonalization and dissociation but this song along with people remind me of the world out there. Sometimes I get stuck in my head and can’t get out, and I can’t talk about because nobody takes it seriously. I thought this is what all kids and teens went through going up, but after looking up some stuff, feeling like you’re not real and thinking of hypotheticals for if you died of different ways is normal. I don’t want a therapist and I don’t want to talk to my parents. I don’t want to burden any friends with my problems. Life sucks so much sometimes and I wish I was never born sometimes. But I’m here and my goal right now is to make it out of growing up so that at least I’ll be an adult someday. I love this song
Hi. One of those eventual adults here. Everything here is very familiar to me. Being trans in the South didn't help.
If you have the resources to pursue therapy, I do suggest giving it a try, or reach out to friends here and there. The real ones will be there for you; try to offer them the same in return.
Beyond additional freedoms from reaching the age of majority, and perhaps a bit more experience, being an "adult" is an arbitrary thing; It won't magic this stuff away. But doing the above is a good step forward.
@@zoomer2965 thanks man. I made this comment a while ago in a pretty dark place, and I’ve developed some better coping mechanisms for myself and cut off toxic friends. I still listen to AJJ though, haha. Thanks for the insight
@@zoomer2965you're not trans either but you'll figure out that later when the identity crisis and health problems come in, if you're on HRT.
@@heezyforsheezfun fact, ajj supports trans rights
Maybe leave trans people alone and dont try to tell them who they are, you arent in their head
Also saying that they'll eventually be hit with health problems is at best not helpful and at worst flat out harmful and disgusting
Stop being like this
What an opening to their first album, I find myself singing and humming it more often than not
It's their second album
Man, this album sure does take me back.
Rejoice!
Oh, rejoice!
Rejoice, gods ears are stitches!
Oh, rejoice! His eyes are big Xs!
This is the song the youth pastor sings after his psychotic break.
I just upgraded from 'no children'
so on point
hahaha
There is much about Sean that reminds me of various youth pastors I was around over the course of my childhood .
Moral orel
the girl of my dreams used to love this album i listen to it and all i can see is her its true agony but beauty in the pain
This song is like if Chicken little became an anarchist.
based chicken little
Welp I found my new favorite singer
sean bonnette is a king
Maddy for sure
the fact that i can’t even count how many times i’ve cry to this song...
edit: this comment is 3 years old and i still love this song but the ‘…’ was so dramatic
I feel that. Big Bird is always the one that really makes me feel sick as I sob
Yeah I’m a 56 year old army vet and this song makes me cry all the time. It is the truthfulness that breaks my heart.
Us
a good folk punk/folk punk adjacent band always needs a good sacrilegious song, hell yeah
I love this song so much and it makes me cry when I'm up late at night and it just comes on at the right time, and it makes me thankful for everything i have.
(only song to have ever made me cry.)
Wait my bed is burning
yes
yes it is
Uh oh
Dont smoke on the bed. Learnt that the hard way.
“Rejoice because you’re trying your best.”
This line is for the mentally ill students who are struggling at distance learning in Quarantine 2020.
as a college prof teaching my students through zoom, they are absolutely doing their best. i love my students. we're all in this together
Or anyone who has been affected by the quarantine.
Perfect. I'm both teaching and studenting online right now.
@@hmoment661 The quarantine was actually fun. I didn't have to go outside.
Maybe it's for those who aren't getting five figure useless degrees but who are working their actual fingers to the actual bone? Just saying
I'm back and I'm burnt out. Life has ripped me away from my favorite hobby-art. Art was the thing keeping me happy. But I'm trying to figure it out, one day at a time. I've apologized for some past stuff and I'm currently trying to get out of my mentality of demonizing myself. Instead of drowning in apathy towards everything wrong in the past, I'm trying to float out of it. Sometimes I sink but, hey.
I'll rejoice because I _am_ trying my best!
I always come back to this song at really bad times and it always lifts me up a little, or at least makes me feel less alone
This song gives me the same vibes as that Disney ad in the beginning of every Disney dvd where it uses that song that goes “as sly as a fox, as big as an ox” whatever. The cool nostalgic but not vibes
It's called Everything at Once by Lenka!
This song's gotten me through some tough times.
Man the way in which this song is so angry and nihilistic and yet still still ends on a optimistic note ("Rejoice because you are trying your best") is really cool.
every year i listen to this song and the state of the world is worse than it was before, the lyrics bring me comfort
this album makes me so hopeful and heard and happy
every time i feel terrible i put on ajj and smile at the fact that this isnt even the worst part
I cant remember how i found this song but i heard it in a spotify radio and it brought back some sense of nostalgia.
rejoice, quarantine has lead us to discover amazing songs
Gods ears are stitches!
Again you!
His Eyes Are Big X's!
Shout out atrioc and the popathon glad to see some folk punk music in that stream
2020 vibes :)
Good shit
I like ur pfp
bad piss
This song is a crisis of faith personified
Rejoice, I remember when you played this all the time in Macomb IL. Love you babygirl
best easter song I've ever heard!
My friend suggested this band now I can't stop listening to this song
Yoooo this takes me back Andew Jackson Jihad ..... great band name
Something about listening to this song while imagining a favorite character that has this kind of vibe feels oddly comforting
I can't stop listening to it and I'm not sure what this tells me about me.
I think to some extent this album has saved my life
This is a bop
That’s a great music!
listening to this song is how I cope with being a living person
2021 still rejoicing
Love ajj❤
Pointless comment , engagement
god i love this song
and- HOLY FUCK- -YOU'RE BLEEDING THERE?!
ajj's and similar songs have a weirdly grounding affect on me,, anyone else?
hi, same
i love thiss a lil too much
I fucking LOVE the horns in this song!
THIS ALBUM IS SO GOLD I LOVE THE FACT THAT I EXPERIENCED IT BEFORE ANY OF MY FRIENDS HOLY FUCK ITS BEAUTIFUL
One of the best albums
Yeah, atleast this one didn't got takedown.
*REJOICE!*
Lol this one was uploaded by the actual record label
REJOICE REJOICE REJOICE REJOICE
Used to think gods arms were made of witches that were ablaze and not the obvious, his arms are used to burn witches. I used to drink a lot. I still do, but I used to too.
Hello to all my fellow beings with ✨religious trauma✨ that downplay it by saying “it’s not that bad” even though IT IS that bad
Absolutely ❤ im not a victim of it but I've seen it in many friends and i feel for you all. Its lifelong
i will drink to this.
Vibin me and my chaotic mind
❤
REJOICE
Morel orel core
This is 2020s anthem
This song helps me come to peace with my mental illness lmfao
Rejoyce!!!!!!!!!!
This but unironically
No ones taking this ironically dude. It's art. No ones ashamed to like it.
@@BLANK-sm4dd I think I meant differently than how you read it, but it's because I'm very bad at communication and knowing me, I wrote my comment sleep deprived- basically I originally heard it when I was in a super rough place;
When I originally heard it it felt like it was cynically reflecting on forcing positivity and saying it was futile to try and bring joy into life when it's a shitshow
I don't know for sure what the original intention was, but now I take from it that sometimes refusing to let the shittiest things in life dictate how you react is the only control you still have
Idk, I've just been doing what I can to accept that some things are gonna be shitty no matter what and if I can find ways to fight back against that I won't be in a worse place than I was before, so why not try
I try to Rejoice if only to prove I still can
Sorry to be Fake Deep or whatever, I just like the song
I fucking love this song
Is this a reference to Watership down (By Richard Adams)?
Hello fellow tired and stressed students/workers
Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice.
Ayy
culture.
(look at our profiles lmao)
I might as well be u/siewek
when man play guitar fast i go :)
I hope anyone who relates to this song is ok :)
Religious trauma anthem fr fr
(I am sobbing due to personal reasons rn)
We wont make it alive thats a thing to rejoice for
322 Isai Street
This would be a good song to hunt vampires to.
Newton Street
The instrumentals remind me of the weird songs they used to play at kids church events
Maybe that's intentional
What do I know, though, never been to one of those
People that can eat people are the luckiest people in the world...I agree.
hell followed with us vibes
'How can we sleep while our beds are burning?' (Midnight Oil)
Commenting as a memory
oh man the milk in this hotel tastes neutral
It sounds like bleeding while you run
Please God let me die with this on
Granted.
To shreds you say?
i wanna make a nagito animatic to this :)
DO IT BITCH
Yes please
Idk what that is but do it
David from Camp Camp vibes anyone?
Madalyn Plaza
In the future the equivalent of emo teens will listen to this and say they were born in the wrong generation. Or not.
Casper Landing
Emely Center
Carson Pine
ja
Millennial music.
Made in 2006, i guess that would count as millennial music