the song fireflies is about nuclear inferno destroying a major city and the rest of the world, the close-death of the protagonist, and the aftermath and eventual deterioration of the protagonist's mental state due to him being the last survivor and an "ant-walking alligator", a person whose skin has been so badly charred they are left blind, with mouths gaping open unaware of what's happening other than it's dark and everything hurts. "You would not believe your eyes If ten million fireflies Lit up the world as I fell asleep 'Cause they fill the open air And leave teardrops everywhere You'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare" the "fireflies" are a metaphor for nuclear bombs. Him "falling asleep" is a metaphor for his eyes melting during the explosion due to proximity "I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep 'Cause everything is never as it seems" he is struggling to stay alive and is in denial of his situation "'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs From ten thousand lightning bugs As they tried to teach me how to dance" the shockwave from the blast reaches him, knocking him off of his feet, "dancing" "A foxtrot above my head A sock hop beneath my bed A disco ball is just hanging by a thread (thread, thread)" describing the ruins of the city "Leave my door open just a crack Please take me away from here 'Cause I feel like such an insomniac Please take me away from here Why do I tire of counting sheep Please take me away from here When I'm far too tired to fall asleep" his subconcious mind trying to tell him that he must leave the area and find help
its like a fake out, kinda how gravity falls had the normal intro and then for it to just change dramatically, it really works if you want to capture the feeling that this is the end of the series or a corrupted area where the main character lived in
oh man. i just feel like owl city is a hermit in his room and he has horrifying secrets that he's vaguely telling us through this song. i feel like fireflies is code, and he has other things kept in jars, hidden under his bed. he's often told through messages in sleep paralysis dreams to do the shit he does. smiling, he wants you to tell the cops. you don't understand.
I see a lot of people saying that it sounds like he’s a serial killer or giving their own interpretations of the vibe this song gives off, but I have kind of a different idea, so I’m going to leave it here “You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies...” might represent gunshots or bullets flying, and that’s more solidified by “cause they fill the open air, leave teardrops everywhere” like a lot of people are dying and they’re being mourned by people who love them. It’s maybe like during a mass shooting or on a battlefield. “you’d think me rude but I would just stand and stare” he’s watching the people dying. He knows what’s happening, but he can’t exactly process what’s going on, so he’s just watching people die, not reacting. Then the next part is about how he doesn’t want to join them, doesn’t want to die yet. He’s not ready to leave the world, and he’s trying to convince himself that he won’t. “Cause I’d get a thousand hugs, from ten thousand lightning bugs” meaning that he’s getting shot. He’s dying. “As they tried to teach me how to dance.” He’s getting shot at. He’s trying to dodge the bullets. But he can’t. The “lighting bugs” and “hugging” him. “A fox trot above my head, a sock hop beneath my bed” the bullets sometimes miss, and the bed might be a death bed, like the person is coming back to check and make sure he’s actually dead. “A disco ball is just hanging by a thread” much like his life is. And then in the next part he’s trying to convince himself that he’s not dead. The chorus takes a deeper meaning now, because he’s dead. He’s been shot. But he’s trying to pretend like he’s not. “Leave my door open just a crack” he’s begging to live. Begging to somehow make it out alive. He hasn’t realized that’s not possibly. “Please take me away from here” is pretty obvious. “Cause I feel like such an insomniac” referencing how he can’t be asleep, he just can’t be dead. “Why do I tire of counting sheep...when I’m far too tired to fall asleep” he’s realizing he’s dead. He knows it. He’s coming to terms with the fact. But he doesn’t want to. “To ten million fireflies, I’m weird cause I hate goodbyes, I got misty eyes as I said farewell.” He finally truly knows he’s dead. He knows there’s no hope for him. He’s dead. But he doesnt want to be. But he knows it’s too late. “But I’ll know where several are, of my dreams get real bizarre, cause I saved a few and I kept them in a jar.” He’s looking back on his old memories. He thinks of his life fondly, knowing that things like that are never going to happen again. The next chorus is him saying goodbye to the world. The things he loves, the things he hates. He’s going to miss it. And in the very last part he’s coming to terms with his death, and leaving the world he didn’t want to say goodbye to. “When I fall asleep.” He knows he’s dead, and he’s okay with it. He might miss life, but there’s no point anymore. So he falls asleep, he dies. Tl;Dr: He’s getting shot but doesn’t want to die, so he’s in denial, until he finally comes to terms and lets his life end :))
I feel like this song is about some sleep-deprived serial killer who goes around murdering people, trapping their souls in jars, hangs the jars from trees in the middle of the woods, and dances naked amongst them in the middle of the night, hm hm...
It feels like the fireflies are distracting you from something terrible going on around you, almost like they’re hypnotizing you with their weird hypnotic blinking
THIS IS A LONG AF ANALYSIS OF THIS SONG: It started out pretty normal. Just minor. Then I was like, oh this is cool. Then I started to listen to the lyrics. Now i'm not saying this is like 100% some secret message he's hiding or something (but who knows seriously). (NOTE: this does get darker and IMO deeper as the list goes on. This is just something uh... fun? That I decided to type at 2am. Don't take this seriously. Unless think im right in which case lemme here those theories!) (THESE ARE RELATIVELY BROAD ASSUMPTIONS SO JUST ROLL WITH IT) >1ST VERSE This is kinda hard to say what it means, because it doesn't seem too dark yet. Perhaps its the beginning of his... hobby. Whatever it is (we'll get into that later in the verses!) "You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies, lit up the world as I fell asleep. Cause they fill the open air, and leave teardrops everywhere, you'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare." Nothing very deep here, maybe "you would not believe your eyes" could mean something dark but idk. "cause they fill the open air, and leave teardrops everywhere, you'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare." Fill the open air, could mean a stench? Screams? Leave tear drops everywhere could be the families miss their loved ones. Maybe he's a murderer? Or worse? Remember, im TRYING to find something dark in this... so this is gonna be grasping at straws lol. Still.. nothing real to go on here. >CHORUS I believe this is his buffer between his thoughts, and how at his core he wants to be caught, like many serial killers. Ill explain more down where it says ">Chorus again" "Id like to make myself believe, that planet earth turns slowly. It's hard to say that id rather stay awake when im asleep, cause everything is never as it seems." Cut out some of the middle lyrics, "Id like to make myself, stay awake, everything is never as it seems." Why would anyone want to stay awake indefinitely? Sleep is awesome. Maybe he is scared to sleep because he is haunted by his dreams, maybe he has a dark secret like he has pieces of bodies in his room, and only when he sleeps is he vulnerable to be caught. Its the one time he isn't on guard. Maybe both. "I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly" ...maybe a reference to time? He enjoys his dark hobby and wants to ravish in it as long as he can. "It's HARD TO SAY that id rather stay awake when im asleep." Its hard to say... he likes sleep but its difficult because of dreams/fear of being caught. "Everything is never as it seems." He isn't just a good, god fearing man who loves his community and just writes happy fun music. He's found the darkest of pleasures and it has consumed him. Eh.. but lets keep going. >2ND VERSE Not sure... just more dark stuff. Maybe the disgusting part... which... I guess to him would be the best part of it: the gore, the begging and bargaining, the pleading, the fumes and rot and carnage that he has found an endless appetite for. (ugh) "Cause I get a thousand hugs, from ten thousand lightening bugs, as they try to teach me how to dance. A fox trot above my head, a sock hop beneath my bed, a disco ball is just hanging by a thread." Getting darker. The lightening bugs could be the bugs that are attracted to the stench of death, and they always find a way to get on him throughout the night, or he notices them around his corpses. "A fox trot above my head.." could be the things he has hidden in his attic, "A sock hop beneath my bed.." could be the same... or worse something captive in his basement. "A disco ball hanging by a thread..." a life hanging by a thread? Just barely hanging on? The life of his captive that he is prolonging just for the sheer pleasure of keeping alive... only to kill later? Idk. See? Getting darker. >CHORUS (again) I think the chorus is, as I said earlier, a buffer between his paranoia, fear of being caught, and love for his game. Its not really dark, just pointing out that he loves it deep down, and doesn't really want it to end. He is torn between keeping it going and letting go. Being caught and ending the fear of being caught, taking credit for his kills, and whatever else a psychopath thinks. I might not be articulating this well enough, but I hope you kinda get my thought process. >3RD VERSE This is more about what I was saying: that he wants it to end in the sense of he's tired of being tired. He doesn't want to keep hiding it, and a part of him hates himself. He lets a little light in, shows a little of his dark side to the world in this song, to possibly be caught, but knows, deep, deep down, that he won't. "Leave my door open just a crack. (Please take me away from here) Cause I feel like such an insomniac. (Please take me away from here.) Why do I tire of counting sheep (PTMAFH)? When I'm far too tired to fall asleep." This one has quite a few possible hidden meanings behind it, and is ramping up to the darkest climax of the song. "Leave my door open just a crack, please take me away from here." He's giving you very, VERY subtle hints and, in a way, taunting you. He gives you small bits of his secret, begs you to come get him, but no one will. And he knows it, and loves it. "cause I feel like such an insomniac, please take me away from here." He's tired of hiding and waiting, but is torn and doesn't want to give up the game just yet. "Why do i tire of counting sheep, please take me away from here." How could he tire from his deepest, darkest passion? It's become a chore that he has to keep fulfilling his desires. Like an alcoholic that hates alcohol. He struggles with just letting it all end. "When I'm far too tired to fall asleep." He's in too deep, (he's gone too far) to give up now. Its like he's.. talking himself out of giving up. You'll notice there's no PLEASE TAKE ME AWAY FROM HERE after the final part, as if he convinced himself to keep the game going. Being too tired to fall asleep doesn't make sense. >4TH VERSE This is very correlated with the last part of the third verse and is, by far, the creepiest and darkest verse. I believe its where he decided to not give up, and to continue hiding and killing, but knew he had to commit to one or the other. So, he got rid of most of his... we'll call them trophies. Which are evidence he partially hoped was found. "Ten million fireflies, I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes, I got misty eyes as they said farewell. Ill know where several are, if my dreams get real bizarre. Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar (jar, jar)." "I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes, got misty eyes as they said farewell." He got rid of most of his trophies: the bodies, the small parts he keeps hidden around his house and room. He cried because he will miss them, his prizes, his trophies. "Ill know where several are, if my dreams get real bizarre." He knows where he hid them. In case his dreams (desires?) start to haunt him again, he can find them if he needs to. When, he needs to. "I saved a few and I keep them in a jar." He destroyed most of his evidence, "trophies." He saved a few, and stored them away. Maybe close to home, maybe far, far away where no one would ever find them. The chorus is then repeated 3 times, and is much more um.... idk the word for this. Big? Thematic? Idk its just more grand and like loud and idk. Its like he came to terms with who he is and what he does. Then at the end, for the final time he repeats the verse, he almost whispers it. The final line changes however and he says: "It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep, because my dreams are bursting out the seams." "Because my dreams are bursting out the seams." It finally consumed him, totally, entirely. He has become the ultimate killer, in the fact that not only did he do it and get away with it, but he's seen as a good person, a famous musician with pretty, happy songs. The last person you'd expect would be relishing in the darkest of pleasures. To top it all off, in his happy fun whatever songs, he is literally telling us what he does. It's the end game of serial killers. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANYWAY so this is just a omg its 2am rant and analysis of this minor version of the song PLEASE don't take this too seriously (but im guessing if you're STILL reading this comment you probably at least found it interesting so.. thanks for reading! BACK TO FALLOUT 4 WITH THIS GUY). Goodnight YT! CHECK OUT MAH YT CHANNEL I UPLOAD STUFF SOMETIMES HOORAY! :D
This. This right here is what depression feels like. All this wonderful shit happening around you, and instead of making you happy it's just overwhelming and it saps all the energy out of you ("Take me away from here") and leaves you mentally exhausted ("It's hard to say I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep").
supapaya13 this, smash mouth all Star in minor, Bohemian Rhapsody in minor, don't stop believing in minor, all make me think that they are from another dimension where all major is minor, and all minor is Major.... Seriously...
Okay, is it just me, or does this work better? The song is about insomnia, and the song in minor definitely amplifies that aspect of it. This version is about a man who's so sleep deprived he's losing his mind and depressed.
i know this comment is old but i'm laughing so much at the mental image of a body being carried by a gigantic swarm of flies lmao that'd be funny and horrifying at the same time
My lyrical breakdown. This song in minor key can be interpreted as the PTSD of a burn victim who survived and developed insomnia You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep. While the narrator was sleeping , a major fire broke out which caused him to wake up but he couldn't process what was happening. They fill the open air and leave tear drops everywhere You'd think me rude but I would just stay d and stare The embers filled the air like fireflies while the smog killed of all of the oxygen.He can hear people reacting by crying , but the narrator himself is so afraid he cant even move; he is in shock. I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth moves slowly , Its hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when am asleep cause everything is never as it seems. When one spends too much time in their head , the person's perception of time is altered. One might think only a few minutes have gone by when it's been hours. The narrator is pondering about what his life might have been like if the fire never happened and he never woke up. That night he fell asleep feeling safe but now he knows better. Cause I get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lighting bugs as they try to teach me how to dance The fire reaches our protagonist and engulfs him. The dance of the fireflies is him running and rolling on the ground in pain. (Repeated lyrics) To ten million fireflies It's weird cus I hate goodbyes I get misty eyes as they say farewell A firefighter breaks in and manages to extinguish the flames from his body and he cries from pain and joy. I know where several are if my dreams get real bizarre I saved a few and I keep them in a jar. One might be mislead into thinking he is referring to the fireflies but he is actually talking about other burn victims whom he formed a support group with. He has nightmares about the incident and talking to his support group helps him out. (Repeated lyrics) ( Repeated lyrics) (Repeated lyrics ) my dreams are bursting as it seems This reinforces the idea that he has nightmares about the fire and forces himself to stay awake in order to avoid it. I might of missed a few lyric but so far it sound pretty accurate. What do y'all think.
Wow. I actually knew someone that this happened too (I don't know about the PTSD part). When he was a kid his house caught on fire at night and he was burned pretty badly. He ended up being ok and was a cool guy. I honestly never really noticed the burn scars. I've never really thought about what that must have been like. I wish I had talked to him more about it.
A guy who’s life has been destroyed by everyone he loves. So he only felt like the only things that he can rely on is animals and insects who won’t judge him for who he is, soon in his adult life he contemplates suicide because she has nobody except the bugs around his infested house that he talks to as he slowly becomes crazier and crazier day by day, on his last days on earth he sees thousands of fireflies in the middle of June that he captures for light in his dark house. Then after that he falls asleep and never wakes up again and the maggots begin to feast on all of his flesh, the same things that gave him comfort is the same things that turned their back on him.
I've been listening to this song for months now, I absolutely love it. Reminds me of early 2000s lighter side of nu metal. I didnt even know there was an original till today. It sounded so wrong and just off compared to this minor key version. Fucking bravo
This sounds like he used to see fireflies and he hasn't seen them in years, since The Day. He sounds as if he's bitter about everything that's happened. He sounds as if he's the youngest generation to remember the apocalypse. Everything- his dreams, his aspirations, his love of life- has been robbed from him. He no longer has the happiness he once had. Only anger. Only bitterness.
your back in the city that you've grown up in, the buildings destroyed, no ones alive in the area, and everyone you love are gone, your dreaming again but you can't wake up... you wish that you were awake and weren't here "please take me away from here" with no one here to guide you or help, your truly alone
When you found out you had a twin as a child but you had a fugue state and killed them violently. This is the song that plays when you find the scrapbook your mother has been hiding from you. Shes dead now. She killed herself
This sounds like the singer met Blowflies from hell, and that they’ve killed him and are convincing his spirit to remain in the physical plane by reminding him how good his life before all this was.
you would not believe your eyes
if *ten thousand people died*
I assume your one of the ten thousand?
There's blood in the open air, and guts strewn out everywhere
You think I'd retch, but I would just stand and.....stare.
MEEEE
Holy fuck lmao
Axolotl Hamilton lmao this is so funny
_"I like to make myself bleed~"_
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Edgy
This comment made me laugh til I peed
suddenly the fluffy lyrics seem like theyre hiding a dark secret
pastell ame a song of insomnia and drug addiction
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please take me away from here
the song fireflies is about nuclear inferno destroying a major city and the rest of the world, the close-death of the protagonist, and the aftermath and eventual deterioration of the protagonist's mental state due to him being the last survivor and an "ant-walking alligator", a person whose skin has been so badly charred they are left blind, with mouths gaping open unaware of what's happening other than it's dark and everything hurts.
"You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
'Cause they fill the open air
And leave teardrops everywhere
You'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare"
the "fireflies" are a metaphor for nuclear bombs. Him "falling asleep" is a metaphor for his eyes melting during the explosion due to proximity
"I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems"
he is struggling to stay alive and is in denial of his situation
"'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance"
the shockwave from the blast reaches him, knocking him off of his feet, "dancing"
"A foxtrot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread (thread, thread)"
describing the ruins of the city
"Leave my door open just a crack
Please take me away from here
'Cause I feel like such an insomniac
Please take me away from here
Why do I tire of counting sheep
Please take me away from here
When I'm far too tired to fall asleep"
his subconcious mind trying to tell him that he must leave the area and find help
@@apocalyptic3837 you...you didn't have to ruin my day like that.
“Please take me away from here” has never sounded so unsettling
I was just thinking that. XD
please take him away from here
This makes it sound the lyrics hold some deeper, sinister meaning.
anaktis C A U S E E V E R Y T H I N G I S N E V E R A S I T S E E M S
I M F A R T O O T I R E D T O F A L L A S L E E P
They're actually about insomnia, which is pretty sinister.
anaktis it's about WWII air raid
AndyGHKFilm hehehehehe.... fart
first few seconds: “oh this isn’t so b-
“oh god save me”
JESUS CHRIST SAVED US FROM DEATH
its like a fake out, kinda how gravity falls had the normal intro and then for it to just change dramatically, it really works if you want to capture the feeling that this is the end of the series or a corrupted area where the main character lived in
God loves you 💕
now it just kinda sounds like he wants to "sleep forever"
Sorry about that Pewdiepie moderation bro.
He finna game-end himself
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Dude you’re not gonna get monetization from a comment...
0:35 And leave tear *gas* everywhere
you made me laugh so hard i almost barfed
Cool Beans You have won one (1) internet.
I laughed so loud haha THANK YOU ( And your profile pic omg)
Why is this so relevant
Hexagonal r/agedlikemilk worthy perhaps?
NOT SAFE NOT SAFE NOT SAFE
Profile pic makes it
Liliputian07 I WAS GETTING CREEPED OUT BY THE SONG BUT YES I LOVE UR COMMENT KAHSHDJS
This guy watches the world end via pestilence...
NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE
God loves you 💕
I'd like to make myself believe that planet earths burns slowly. . .
Evenly roasted
Well you apparently predicted Australia.
Well, you're right! It's called global warming.
God loves you 💕
that hook sounds so damn good lmao
Cam Raps sounds like twenty one pilots
Deven Frasier shut up
Tcoon 14 It kinda does though xD
@@thom1474 NIGGA WHAT? 🤛😡🤜
@@thom1474 ugh
oh man. i just feel like owl city is a hermit in his room and he has horrifying secrets that he's vaguely telling us through this song. i feel like fireflies is code, and he has other things kept in jars, hidden under his bed. he's often told through messages in sleep paralysis dreams to do the shit he does. smiling, he wants you to tell the cops. you don't understand.
Did you mean: Tyler Joseph
please don't breathe in my direction
*breathe*
cotton hat cat Is it weird tht I completely understand
This scares me but I get what you mean
It's unsettling.
Ronald Rhodes you're unsettling
Stefan Michael you're mom's unsettling jkjk
I'd like to make myself *deceased*
why wasn't this on the suicide squad soundtrack
James Brodie stop insulting this song
Steve Harvey not an insult tho
Xx_CykaBlyat24_xX it is. Suicide squad was a fucking atrocity.
I think he ment suicide squad would be better with this song
James Brodie best comment, good lord
Sounds like the fireflies are about to burn him to death
a disco dancer is just hanging by a thread
Or a rope
@@xxp0siZlayr yeah, no shit lmao
The edgy version
Add some mystical 2000s metalcore
I see a lot of people saying that it sounds like he’s a serial killer or giving their own interpretations of the vibe this song gives off, but I have kind of a different idea, so I’m going to leave it here
“You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies...” might represent gunshots or bullets flying, and that’s more solidified by “cause they fill the open air, leave teardrops everywhere” like a lot of people are dying and they’re being mourned by people who love them. It’s maybe like during a mass shooting or on a battlefield.
“you’d think me rude but I would just stand and stare” he’s watching the people dying. He knows what’s happening, but he can’t exactly process what’s going on, so he’s just watching people die, not reacting.
Then the next part is about how he doesn’t want to join them, doesn’t want to die yet. He’s not ready to leave the world, and he’s trying to convince himself that he won’t.
“Cause I’d get a thousand hugs, from ten thousand lightning bugs” meaning that he’s getting shot. He’s dying. “As they tried to teach me how to dance.” He’s getting shot at. He’s trying to dodge the bullets. But he can’t. The “lighting bugs” and “hugging” him.
“A fox trot above my head, a sock hop beneath my bed” the bullets sometimes miss, and the bed might be a death bed, like the person is coming back to check and make sure he’s actually dead. “A disco ball is just hanging by a thread” much like his life is.
And then in the next part he’s trying to convince himself that he’s not dead. The chorus takes a deeper meaning now, because he’s dead. He’s been shot. But he’s trying to pretend like he’s not.
“Leave my door open just a crack” he’s begging to live. Begging to somehow make it out alive. He hasn’t realized that’s not possibly. “Please take me away from here” is pretty obvious. “Cause I feel like such an insomniac” referencing how he can’t be asleep, he just can’t be dead. “Why do I tire of counting sheep...when I’m far too tired to fall asleep” he’s realizing he’s dead. He knows it. He’s coming to terms with the fact. But he doesn’t want to.
“To ten million fireflies, I’m weird cause I hate goodbyes, I got misty eyes as I said farewell.” He finally truly knows he’s dead. He knows there’s no hope for him. He’s dead. But he doesnt want to be. But he knows it’s too late.
“But I’ll know where several are, of my dreams get real bizarre, cause I saved a few and I kept them in a jar.” He’s looking back on his old memories. He thinks of his life fondly, knowing that things like that are never going to happen again.
The next chorus is him saying goodbye to the world. The things he loves, the things he hates. He’s going to miss it.
And in the very last part he’s coming to terms with his death, and leaving the world he didn’t want to say goodbye to. “When I fall asleep.” He knows he’s dead, and he’s okay with it. He might miss life, but there’s no point anymore. So he falls asleep, he dies.
Tl;Dr: He’s getting shot but doesn’t want to die, so he’s in denial, until he finally comes to terms and lets his life end
:))
Not to be rude to all the other 'interpretations' but um this is the best one and it makes the most sense
I really like the way you observed the lyrics! That's really great.
*I'm not crying, you are*
CHILDHOOD RUINED
Jesus Christ. This is morbid asf
I'd like to make myself believe that I'm fucking dead inside
You Greedy Memebag
Aren't we all?
Damnnnn 😆 That's depressing.
I feel like this song is about some sleep-deprived serial killer who goes around murdering people, trapping their souls in jars, hangs the jars from trees in the middle of the woods, and dances naked amongst them in the middle of the night, hm hm...
Eddie Price I laughed so hard at that😂😂😂👌
Madison Price hey are you ok
welp tIME TO WRITE A CREEPYPASTA
you done?
Damn someone knows how to use their imagination, Lmao
"please take me away from here" hits real different
And the "A disco ball is just hanging by a thread" in the exact same way
Everything is better in minor key👌🏻
IIIIIIINDEEEEEEEEED
Minor key: Sad, Deep, Dark
Major key: Happiness, Joyful, Wonderful
No, its...
Minor key: Sad, Deep, Dark
Also minor key: Happiness, Joyful, Wonderful
NoOneGHF of course no
Neil Neilson not if it’s originally in a mode.
It’s weird how some frilly mystical fun lyrics can turn so sinister and creepy with a key change
Chiga
It feels like the fireflies are distracting you from something terrible going on around you, almost like they’re hypnotizing you with their weird hypnotic blinking
Wow I like this better than the original.
I like the original better.
Julian B Exactly
0:43 That sounds so damn good.
András Fogarasi edgy
Mr. Human Useless comment
András Fogarasi Yep
THIS IS A LONG AF ANALYSIS OF THIS SONG:
It started out pretty normal. Just minor. Then I was like, oh this is cool.
Then I started to listen to the lyrics. Now i'm not saying this is like 100% some secret message he's hiding or something (but who knows seriously).
(NOTE: this does get darker and IMO deeper as the list goes on. This is just something uh... fun? That I decided to type at 2am. Don't take this seriously. Unless think im right in which case lemme here those theories!) (THESE ARE RELATIVELY BROAD ASSUMPTIONS SO JUST ROLL WITH IT)
>1ST VERSE
This is kinda hard to say what it means, because it doesn't seem too dark yet. Perhaps its the beginning of his... hobby. Whatever it is (we'll get into that later in the verses!)
"You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies, lit up the world as I fell asleep. Cause they fill the open air, and leave teardrops everywhere, you'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare."
Nothing very deep here, maybe "you would not believe your eyes" could mean something dark but idk. "cause they fill the open air, and leave teardrops everywhere, you'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare." Fill the open air, could mean a stench? Screams? Leave tear drops everywhere could be the families miss their loved ones. Maybe he's a murderer? Or worse?
Remember, im TRYING to find something dark in this... so this is gonna be grasping at straws lol. Still.. nothing real to go on here.
>CHORUS
I believe this is his buffer between his thoughts, and how at his core he wants to be caught, like many serial killers. Ill explain more down where it says ">Chorus again"
"Id like to make myself believe, that planet earth turns slowly. It's hard to say that id rather stay awake when im asleep, cause everything is never as it seems."
Cut out some of the middle lyrics, "Id like to make myself, stay awake, everything is never as it seems." Why would anyone want to stay awake indefinitely? Sleep is awesome. Maybe he is scared to sleep because he is haunted by his dreams, maybe he has a dark secret like he has pieces of bodies in his room, and only when he sleeps is he vulnerable to be caught. Its the one time he isn't on guard. Maybe both.
"I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly" ...maybe a reference to time? He enjoys his dark hobby and wants to ravish in it as long as he can.
"It's HARD TO SAY that id rather stay awake when im asleep."
Its hard to say... he likes sleep but its difficult because of dreams/fear of being caught.
"Everything is never as it seems."
He isn't just a good, god fearing man who loves his community and just writes happy fun music. He's found the darkest of pleasures and it has consumed him.
Eh.. but lets keep going.
>2ND VERSE
Not sure... just more dark stuff. Maybe the disgusting part... which... I guess to him would be the best part of it: the gore, the begging and bargaining, the pleading, the fumes and rot and carnage that he has found an endless appetite for. (ugh)
"Cause I get a thousand hugs, from ten thousand lightening bugs, as they try to teach me how to dance. A fox trot above my head, a sock hop beneath my bed, a disco ball is just hanging by a thread."
Getting darker.
The lightening bugs could be the bugs that are attracted to the stench of death, and they always find a way to get on him throughout the night, or he notices them around his corpses.
"A fox trot above my head.." could be the things he has hidden in his attic,
"A sock hop beneath my bed.." could be the same... or worse something captive in his basement.
"A disco ball hanging by a thread..." a life hanging by a thread? Just barely hanging on? The life of his captive that he is prolonging just for the sheer pleasure of keeping alive... only to kill later? Idk.
See? Getting darker.
>CHORUS (again)
I think the chorus is, as I said earlier, a buffer between his paranoia, fear of being caught, and love for his game. Its not really dark, just pointing out that he loves it deep down, and doesn't really want it to end. He is torn between keeping it going and letting go. Being caught and ending the fear of being caught, taking credit for his kills, and whatever else a psychopath thinks. I might not be articulating this well enough, but I hope you kinda get my thought process.
>3RD VERSE
This is more about what I was saying: that he wants it to end in the sense of he's tired of being tired. He doesn't want to keep hiding it, and a part of him hates himself. He lets a little light in, shows a little of his dark side to the world in this song, to possibly be caught, but knows, deep, deep down, that he won't.
"Leave my door open just a crack. (Please take me away from here) Cause I feel like such an insomniac. (Please take me away from here.) Why do I tire of counting sheep (PTMAFH)? When I'm far too tired to fall asleep."
This one has quite a few possible hidden meanings behind it, and is ramping up to the darkest climax of the song.
"Leave my door open just a crack, please take me away from here." He's giving you very, VERY subtle hints and, in a way, taunting you. He gives you small bits of his secret, begs you to come get him, but no one will. And he knows it, and loves it.
"cause I feel like such an insomniac, please take me away from here." He's tired of hiding and waiting, but is torn and doesn't want to give up the game just yet.
"Why do i tire of counting sheep, please take me away from here." How could he tire from his deepest, darkest passion? It's become a chore that he has to keep fulfilling his desires. Like an alcoholic that hates alcohol. He struggles with just letting it all end.
"When I'm far too tired to fall asleep." He's in too deep, (he's gone too far) to give up now. Its like he's.. talking himself out of giving up. You'll notice there's no PLEASE TAKE ME AWAY FROM HERE after the final part, as if he convinced himself to keep the game going. Being too tired to fall asleep doesn't make sense.
>4TH VERSE
This is very correlated with the last part of the third verse and is, by far, the creepiest and darkest verse. I believe its where he decided to not give up, and to continue hiding and killing, but knew he had to commit to one or the other. So, he got rid of most of his... we'll call them trophies. Which are evidence he partially hoped was found.
"Ten million fireflies, I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes, I got misty eyes as they said farewell. Ill know where several are, if my dreams get real bizarre. Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar (jar, jar)."
"I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes, got misty eyes as they said farewell." He got rid of most of his trophies: the bodies, the small parts he keeps hidden around his house and room. He cried because he will miss them, his prizes, his trophies.
"Ill know where several are, if my dreams get real bizarre." He knows where he hid them. In case his dreams (desires?) start to haunt him again, he can find them if he needs to. When, he needs to.
"I saved a few and I keep them in a jar." He destroyed most of his evidence, "trophies." He saved a few, and stored them away. Maybe close to home, maybe far, far away where no one would ever find them.
The chorus is then repeated 3 times, and is much more um.... idk the word for this. Big? Thematic? Idk its just more grand and like loud and idk. Its like he came to terms with who he is and what he does. Then at the end, for the final time he repeats the verse, he almost whispers it. The final line changes however and he says:
"It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep, because my dreams are bursting out the seams."
"Because my dreams are bursting out the seams."
It finally consumed him, totally, entirely. He has become the ultimate killer, in the fact that not only did he do it and get away with it, but he's seen as a good person, a famous musician with pretty, happy songs. The last person you'd expect would be relishing in the darkest of pleasures. To top it all off, in his happy fun whatever songs, he is literally telling us what he does. It's the end game of serial killers.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANYWAY so this is just a omg its 2am rant and analysis of this minor version of the song PLEASE don't take this too seriously (but im guessing if you're STILL reading this comment you probably at least found it interesting so.. thanks for reading! BACK TO FALLOUT 4 WITH THIS GUY).
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Amazing
TheCrossBuster best comment on here
holy shit
Ok
Hey, thanks for explaining it to me...
"why say goodbye? all the fireflies power my owl city."
full pic?
wtf doge
nice profile pic.
I never thought I'd hear Owl City in a minor key. But as someone with schizophrenia and sleep paralysis, I say this is much more true to life.
This. This right here is what depression feels like. All this wonderful shit happening around you, and instead of making you happy it's just overwhelming and it saps all the energy out of you ("Take me away from here") and leaves you mentally exhausted ("It's hard to say I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep").
why do i tire of counting *shaeiep* 2:00
Vega_Omega I fucking love
This comment
I know this is old, but I wish I could double like this comment.
Hahahahahaha
This sets my teeth on edge and makes me question music itself
supapaya13 this, smash mouth all Star in minor, Bohemian Rhapsody in minor, don't stop believing in minor, all make me think that they are from another dimension where all major is minor, and all minor is Major....
Seriously...
when you start hallucinating due to sleep deprivation
Firedies
DieFries
the ending oh my
You would always believe your nose if -10 million butterfles enshrouded the world in darkness as I woke up...
Lol.
Antonyms
I got misty eyes as they said, "farewell...."
I would watch the horror movie with this as the soundtrack
You would not believe your eyes...
*if I was buried 6 feet under ground*
I am Potato *if I was 10 feet tall*
Minor key is always better. Always. No question.
Jericoe Jones major is only for partying,
Minor fuels existence
I disagree
Music is ever so slightly more complex than major vs minor
Jericoe Jones If a song is in a mode like dorian or mixolydian, it would probably sound like garbage if you transferred it to a minor scale so no.
Minor is way catchier.
“Nothing is ever as it seems”
“Please take me away from here”
“I feel like such an insomniac”
God these songs become terrifying in a minor key
The world has died, the last survivors gone, and the beasts that roam the lands fill with their emptiness the hole left by our removal...
Anthony R.
Is this a quote from something?
If so blease tell me what that’s from.
If not, that’s raw as fuck, my guy.
This sounds like a manic depressive mental breakdown
it’s cool to come back to an old video’s comments section and see people’s profile pictures or names change
Okay, is it just me, or does this work better? The song is about insomnia, and the song in minor definitely amplifies that aspect of it. This version is about a man who's so sleep deprived he's losing his mind and depressed.
"I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth *burns* sloooooowly."
Honestly this song is so good it sounds good either way
It sounds like it was made in early 00's
pszemek makes sense because that's when the song came out
This song was made in 2009.
it sounds like evanescence or linkin park
@@NewWaveArch90 please don't ever compare Linkin Park to that Evanescence trash again.
@@lachlanw7740 both sucks
0:00 - oh this is nice
0:04 - oh shit
this makes the lyrics sound like the guy is slowly going insane and describing what goes through his head and how much he's suffering
*PLEASE TAKE ME AWAY FROM HERE*
you would not believe your eyes
if ten million tethered flies
hoisted my corpse into the sky
i know this comment is old but i'm laughing so much at the mental image of a body being carried by a gigantic swarm of flies lmao that'd be funny and horrifying at the same time
My lyrical breakdown.
This song in minor key can be interpreted as the PTSD of a burn victim who survived and developed insomnia
You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep.
While the narrator was sleeping , a major fire broke out which caused him to wake up but he couldn't process what was happening.
They fill the open air and leave tear drops everywhere
You'd think me rude but I would just stay d and stare
The embers filled the air like fireflies while the smog killed of all of the oxygen.He can hear people reacting by crying , but the narrator himself is so afraid he cant even move; he is in shock.
I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth moves slowly ,
Its hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when am asleep cause everything is never as it seems.
When one spends too much time in their head , the person's perception of time is altered. One might think only a few minutes have gone by when it's been hours. The narrator is pondering about what his life might have been like if the fire never happened and he never woke up. That night he fell asleep feeling safe but now he knows better.
Cause I get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lighting bugs as they try to teach me how to dance
The fire reaches our protagonist and engulfs him. The dance of the fireflies is him running and rolling on the ground in pain.
(Repeated lyrics)
To ten million fireflies
It's weird cus I hate goodbyes
I get misty eyes as they say farewell
A firefighter breaks in and manages to extinguish the flames from his body and he cries from pain and joy.
I know where several are if my dreams get real bizarre
I saved a few and I keep them in a jar.
One might be mislead into thinking he is referring to the fireflies but he is actually talking about other burn victims whom he formed a support group with. He has nightmares about the incident and talking to his support group helps him out.
(Repeated lyrics)
( Repeated lyrics)
(Repeated lyrics ) my dreams are bursting as it seems
This reinforces the idea that he has nightmares about the fire and forces himself to stay awake in order to avoid it.
I might of missed a few lyric but so far it sound pretty accurate. What do y'all think.
Holy shit- yes
Wow. I actually knew someone that this happened too (I don't know about the PTSD part). When he was a kid his house caught on fire at night and he was burned pretty badly. He ended up being ok and was a cool guy. I honestly never really noticed the burn scars. I've never really thought about what that must have been like. I wish I had talked to him more about it.
Sounds like it's about nuclear war.... Holy shit..
When you give up on humanity and accept that only thing that is constant in this universe is greed and ignorance.
no one:
the synth: *bLoOp* *bLeEp* *baDeeP*
A guy who’s life has been destroyed by everyone he loves. So he only felt like the only things that he can rely on is animals and insects who won’t judge him for who he is, soon in his adult life he contemplates suicide because she has nobody except the bugs around his infested house that he talks to as he slowly becomes crazier and crazier day by day, on his last days on earth he sees thousands of fireflies in the middle of June that he captures for light in his dark house. Then after that he falls asleep and never wakes up again and the maggots begin to feast on all of his flesh, the same things that gave him comfort is the same things that turned their back on him.
please write a novel on this, omg lol
He went from sounding like he wanted to be high to actually tripping.
lowkey hauntingly beautiful
you would not believe your eyes if ten million thousand knives fell from the sky as i sat and cried
What a heck .-.
This is the equivalent of random existential crisis' you get in the middle of the night
no it's not
Imagine you’re awake at 3am and thanos starts dancing towards you with this music playing
Can someone do a rock cover of this?
Oh no. Then it'd literally just be a fucking Hollywood Undead song.
closest rock version i could find.
ruclips.net/video/5IPtDMBtFYc/видео.html
when 0:03 came around i literally said ‘oh no’ out loud
So creepy... I can't help but see people in an asylum with black slim running down the walls...
but the black slime is actually 10 thousand dead fireflies
I put my Batman mask on to listen to this
iPeeTheRainbow No he’s a rock guy. A metal head.
*treat yo self flashbacks
That intro sounded a little drunk and I love it
I've been listening to this song for months now, I absolutely love it. Reminds me of early 2000s lighter side of nu metal. I didnt even know there was an original till today. It sounded so wrong and just off compared to this minor key version. Fucking bravo
You would not believe your eyes
If fireflies gouged your eyes
pLeAse, tAKE ME AWAY FROM HERE
am i going crazy cuz i coulda sworn i didn’t comment on this video two years ago…..
@ WHAT HOW DID WE CHOOSE THE EXACT SAME PORTION OF THE EXACT SAME PHOTO TO USE ON OUR PFPS?!
LMAO I HAVE NO CLUE
I DID A DOUBLE TAKE WHEN I SAW IT
it’s a good pfp tho :)
@@AHSJEJhelhdbwilE..gesundheit It ISSS. The way I do it, every account as a different sprite :)
2:31 This just turned into a Radiohead song
This is what an anxiety attack feels like.
The 10,000 fireflies sound like a metaphor for nuclear warheads in this version
yup
This sounds like he used to see fireflies and he hasn't seen them in years, since The Day. He sounds as if he's bitter about everything that's happened. He sounds as if he's the youngest generation to remember the apocalypse. Everything- his dreams, his aspirations, his love of life- has been robbed from him. He no longer has the happiness he once had. Only anger. Only bitterness.
The world after Mojang removes fireflies.
SOUNDS BETTER!
I felt really calm and centred until i heard this. Now Im stressed agitated and on edge. Thank you😐
your back in the city that you've grown up in, the buildings destroyed, no ones alive in the area, and everyone you love are gone, your dreaming again but you can't wake up... you wish that you were awake and weren't here "please take me away from here" with no one here to guide you or help, your truly alone
For some reason I keep listening to this video over and over again.
This sounds like that trope where some characters are in some whimsical magic land but its all fake and secretly evil
"cus everything is never as it seems" well now i dont feel the same about those lyrics anymore
*"Because the bodies are bursting at the seams"*
this fills my body with insurmountable fear
You would not believe your eyes, *if I ended 10,000 lives*
you would not believe your eyes if 2 planes collide
This gives it a spacey vibe, I kinda like it...
Normal: Opening Credits
Minor: End Credits
When you found out you had a twin as a child but you had a fugue state and killed them violently. This is the song that plays when you find the scrapbook your mother has been hiding from you.
Shes dead now. She killed herself
Bro damnnn 💀
Look at this sad Computer/Robot trying to be happy.
This is the climax of an entire television series with cazily edited together flashbacks of the whole series.
This sounds like the singer met Blowflies from hell, and that they’ve killed him and are convincing his spirit to remain in the physical plane by reminding him how good his life before all this was.
I kind of feel like I'm gonna have nightmares now
I'll never see this song the same....
I think I just sommoned a demon holy shkzrizzles
Fireflies but the creepy guy on the subway sings it sensually at you
0:59 cause everything is *never* as it seems
Bad ending: he's terrified of fireflies and has nightmares about them
"Please take me away from here" really be hitting different
the owl city Massacre (2020 colorized)
This song reminds me of my slow descent into insanity. : )