Seventeen years later, and this video is still here. I can't believe how much has happened since I first saw it, first heard this song, and fell entirely in love with it. The person who introduced this song to me is no longer here. I'm celebrating my sixteenth wedding anniversary next month, and the gray in my beard is taking over. I can't explain how happy I am this is still here.
How blessed you truly are. The person I "turned on" to this song, my soul mate, my best friend, passed on Father's Day. This song somehow encapsulates our story.💔🙏 Michael, hold on to her tight...🥹
@@kayjay407 my sincerest condolences and best wishes go out to you, for what has to be the most painful of losses. Thank you for reaching out to me, and the wisdom you've shared.
I used to watch Cruel Intentions over and over. Every time I hear this song, I feel nostalgia, strong as ever. Gives me chill bumps listening to this song. All I can think about was Sebastian meeting Annette at the top of the escalator. Just standing there. The way he's looking at her. This song playing in the background. Its crazy. I fall in love every time. Such a hopeless romantic lol. They were married in real life for years after making this movie. Ryan Phillips and Reese Witherspoon were married and had two children together I do believe. Omg this movie.
While I didn't get quite as rapped up in the emotion of the romance that you did, I also get intense visual flashbacks and butterflies of nostalgia whenever I hear this song. There was something about the way this film used its amazing visuals, and performances and combined it with some of the best songs with the 90s that made it so special for me. While I have always prefered the first half (I could have watched a whole movie alone of katherine and sebastian, scheming and playing mind games with eachother, the dialogue, coupled with Sarah Michelle Gellers amazing performance made it gripping). whenever I hear any of the songs. Suddenly I want to go back and watch the movie again!.
One of the saddest, yet most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life, sometimes it gets really tough, but this song gets me through these times. Seriously, this is one of the best songs ever made, it's a freaking masterpiece musically and lyrically.
Hang in there, matey. I've been through Detox as well. My sister who is a top nurse would say to me, "Run through the jungle, Mads". You can do it! I'm sending you lots of happy vibes. X
Does anyone else have those songs they used to constantly listen to when they were going through a really bad patch? And then you listen years later when you are doing a bit better and you get this sad, bittersweet feeling? This is one of those songs for me.
You are totally normal to need to have music that reflects what you are going through, and how you are feeling. I am hoping that you are feeling better these days... We all go through those times. God bless you!!
He wrote it when he was struggling with depression. that's why it's gloomy and overly sad expressing a great feeling of emptiness and inability to connect to people or enjoy anything anymore. It's all black and white. Everything has lost its colours, taste, and meaning.
Here it live. Watch him play the piano. It went to my core. I can't wait to see them again. And the stories he tells in between songs.... this man keeps his audience absolutely hooked on his every word....
Depression is mysterious. I still suffer from bouts of the "blues" from time to time. Even when everything is moving along as it should, still it resurfaces. I am beginning to believe some are just meant to struggle with such feelings. I love to hear songs based on depression, because I can relate to them so well. It is a shame I can say that, but I accept what and who I am. If you feel the same, know you are not alone.
Cruel Intentions was definitely a movie that I expected to be shallow and easily forgettable but the actors and the music definitely brought a whole new level to the film, and this song in itself made the movie unforgettable, when it came on in the movie i was literally bawling and now everytime i hear it i think of Cruel Intentions. long story short this song is perfect and watch Cruel Intentions.
My friend from school died today... Smart, kind, sensitive and beautiful boy... I listen to this song and memories of those carefree moments come back to me, when spring smelled like spring, when our hearts weren't so wounded yet... I feel regret, longing that constricts my throat and feelings that I can't even name... Beloved Friend, see you in the Morning of Resurrection❤️
I haven’t heard this song since high school and I’m 32 now and I have to say after all these years I didn’t realize how depressed I was back then. I broke down and cried for bit today after hearing it. I needed that.
I feel my depression so strong when I hear this song but I cannot stop. Like a constant running in my head of needing to hear this to know I'm not alone.
I haven't listened to this song in years, but I can never listen to it without instantly feeling the love that I had with an incredible person, and then, sadly, the tremendous heartache I felt for years after losing her
As a die-hard metal head I must say, this song is quite powerful. I don't even like this band all that much but holy smoke, this song just grips me. It really takes me somewhere else.
I love some brutal death metal. However, I also absolutely love the melancholic and beautiful heart churn that is so soothing as a song like this, it's just something about the way the chords speak to me. Music and life is all about variety, there's so much beauty in all the forms that are out there, this is in its own right is a masterpiece.
Hearing it live will bring tears to your eyes. Just watching him play the piano... it's beautiful. It's intense. He's an amazing story teller during his concerts. Supposed to go see them this Tuesday but sadly the concert has been postponed. I can't wait to hear this song live, again.
This is my favorite Counting Crows song. I played it with my partner years ago; it literally expressed the words I couldn't. We listened to it on repeat for hours. To me it depicts the choice to love and be loved. The beautiful process of unfolding into a person that desires to feel and move past fear to share something as fragile and valuable as their heart to someone who deserves it!! This is real music...
I am colorblind Coffee black and egg white Pull me out from inside I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am taffy stuck and tongue tied Stutter shook and uptight Pull me out from inside I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am fine I am covered in skin No one gets to come in Pull me out from inside I am folded and unfolded and unfolding I am colorblind Coffee black and egg white Pull me out from inside I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am fine I am fine I am fine
This song is timeless to me. I remember listening to this on repeat after my Mother died in 2006. There's just something about this song that's so haunting, yet powerful. It's sad, yet it comforts me. For me, this song makes me feel like I'm fading away in a warm bath of my own tears, that feeling of letting go and never worrying about anything anymore.
Ikr I so want a part 2 to this thinking about contacting the producer as I wrote a storyline for it and guess what i said if i can find sumone to play Sebastian brother and he fine asl who would it be I said sumone who fits him a lil bit and fits this song then I said Theo James
"Taffy stuck and tongue tied. Stutter shook and uptight ... I am covered in skin. No one gets to come in." Still one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Poetry...probably the 1st "90s band" I really connected with lyrically. Thank God Adam Duritz decided to share his madness with the world.
I had a vacation in Germany, and I was on the train to Berlin, watching the open green fields and thick forests go by when this song came up on my mp3 player. I've known this song for a long time but that was the moment when I felt that I understood the true meaning of this song. It was an exhilarating experience.
I have always struggled with depression, dissociation,anxiety and just shutting people out in general. for awhile now ive been feeling numb and "going through the motions" of daily life. I havent cried in months probably. I was looking up edits for a show i love when i was watching one and this song started playing, i never have heard this song once but i broke down sobbing after months of not crying now i cant seem to stop.
+Kawaii Rainbows im so sorry kawaii, my heart is sending you love and support right now. i am in the same exact boat. the same one. im so incredibly distanced from myself and from my reality and my surroundings (depersonalization and derealization), and the only thing that makes me feel anything is music. if you ever need someone to talk to, please dont hesitate to reach out to me and shoot me a message. thinking of you.
This song means so much to me as I can relate very much. It's about being trapped in mental illness. I learned it on piano and it's my go-to for a lot of things. Absolutely beautiful song.
The funny thing about music is it can mean whatever you want it to...it may be about moments in ones life or emotional issues but for me i think of the struggles of interracial relationships and prejudicey...
That's so beautiful dude! What's more amazing about music and people's interpretations is that for a second there I looked at this song from a completely different perspective than what I originally had, that was an amazing feeling, thank you.
When I listen to this song I think about how easily life can pass you by. About how calm it may feel but also how terrifying it is to feel stuck. Everything around you keeps moving and yet youre stuck on this memory.. this memory that scarred you so badly. It takes life away
Yes, I totally agree with that. My ex husband came out as trans when I was pregnant with our second child. That enraptured him and he mentally checked out. It was the dissolution of our marriage and the death of my husband, my best friend. All the while having this beautiful life growing in me and knowing she would be born into a broken family, a broken mommy. Letting life pass me by while I lived that pain, almost unbearable pain, just stuck. Seeing life in black and white, unable to see joy in my babies that reminded me of a man that no longer exists.
Under construction: Im with You. I agree.Try listening WHEN SHE DANCED please by David Foster.In better words: As of my perspective" Its totally like if EVERY single thing is ok, people walking, working, doing same old, same old, Youre expressing your good mornings, have a nice day viewing same faces, smelling same fragrances, a repeat, rewind, repeat, rewing to think AND believe: I DONT GIVE A F. And pardon.Wish I could express myself better.Its 2019 and TRUST me Ive lived that feeling.You know, all cool, bloody fine BUT You give a F about it?".
The song to use when you can't describe the deep unrequited feelings you have for someone... Anybody else just desperate to hear somebody tell you they love you? 90's nostalgia... sigh
I really like this song and the movie "Cruel Intentions" as well. This is truly a good love song as it was in the movie. I am just now listening to this after 20 plus years now and introducing it to my girlfriend whom I love dearly more and more as I listen to it with her.
A class of older girls did a routine to this song in my dance recital when I was around 6. The studio would put together DVDs of each recital, and every time I watched that year's, this song would give me such an eerie, melancholy feeling that I would leave the room until it was over. Great song that now has a special place in my heart, even though (or because) it scared me as a kid.
My son did a beautiful family video using this song as a backdrop. This beautiful and moving song plays while we watch precious video clips of a little boy walking in the back area of our condo, wearing his shorts and tennis shoes and baseball cap, carrying his baggie of watermelon, our faithful cat, "Nakia," following him, and he turns and speaks to her, and she stops to listen and to nuzzle him, and he continues on his little stroll in the sun, and she follows... He is three...
Lowest part in my life right now. This song speaks to me in a way no one else could. I lost someone I loved dearly and slipped into this depression. Now I face the unknown, but not alone though.
Listened to this song a million times when I was 16 years old …. Just turned 41 a week ago once again I’m listening at 16 found comfort because of the pain …. Life in general, now I’m listening to it because of all the pain I caused others 😢 the ones closest to my heart because the kid I was waited to long to fix the shit that was making him cry
For the lyrics,"I am covered in skin, no one gets to come in" I think it means that you shut yourself away from people mentally and don't let others get too close. When it gets to "pull me out from inside" I imagine you wanting to connect with the world but you need help. "I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding" might mean that people use you so now you are "unfolding" or in other words, falling apart.
I like to interpret these lyrics literally, and just really hope Hannibal Lecter, Ted Bundy, and the roach from Men In Black do not steal my face/skin/Edgar-Suit respectively. Disembowelment is cool though.
+Emma Swan I imagine this song as speaking both literally and metaphorically, like some beautiful awkward sexual encounter and the emotions that go with it and how the same feelings apply in various parts of life. Life is very hard and complicated and beautiful.
i interpret the skin as a barrier or cage trapping the true soul of a person, nobody gets to see who we really are because they cannot see our thoughts and who we are on the "inside" so to me he wishes for some one to see his actual self instead of the coffee black, tongued tied and uptight individual he appears to be and for that person to pull him out from his shell so that he can be alive and no longer colour blind.... i dont even know it makes sense in my head. lol :)
"This was not depression. This was not workaholism. I have a fairly severe mental illness that makes it hard to do my job - in fact, makes me totally ill suited for my job. I have a form of dissociative disorder that makes the world seem like it’s not real, as if things aren’t taking place. It’s hard to explain, but you feel untethered. And because nothing seems real, it’s hard to connect with the world or the people in it because they’re not there. You’re not there. That’s why I rarely saw my family back then: It’s hard to care when everything feels as if it’s taking place in your imagination. And if you’re distant with people, especially women you’re romantically involved with, they eventually leave. What makes my case even worse is that every night I go out on stage and have this incredible emotional connection between me, the band, and the audience. Then, just like that, it’s over. I go backstage, back to the bus, back to my hotel room, and sit there all by myself. That deep connection is yanked away in an instant. It’s like breaking up with your girlfriend over and over again, every night." Adam Duritz - Counting Crows. Sorry if it's already shared here, didn't read every single comment. I took this from the live at Pinkpop 2008 video comments here on RUclips, so all credit goes to the original poster. Since I can (unfortunately) relate to quite an extend, I wanted to share it here too....
They are on tour right now. This band is amazing live. Sadly, the date we have tickets for has been postponed. I'm hoping we get to see them again very soon. Every word he speaks, every song he plays during his shows, you FEEL. And you leave knowing that you have feelings.
@@HkFinn83 Nevermind your opinion on Counting Crows the band/music, Adam in the quote wasn’t being pretentious… Dunno why you’re even saying that in this context. Do you know a thing about depersonalization/derealization?
Masterful...amazing clean, pure, full emotions vocal and the piano...whole is just amazing piece of art. Ever heard so much emotion in the voice, in the vocal...not from this world...
It’s amazing how there can be so many different interpretations for this song to me. I always thought it was a broken person telling someone who is interested in them the truth about their lives. That it is traumatic thing this person has gone to and they’re telling this person that “I will love you like no other but you have to understand I’m scared and in pain to let someone in even though they want through the broken mess you’ve see
there are people that once they are gone... they still haunt us.... but we continue repeating to ourselves... we are fine....when inside we are totally broken...
This reminds me of my ex partner. We come together from time to time but she is so sadly scared of committing to us. I get sad when I am with her because I love her so much and this song reminds me of my sadness at not being with her and reminds me of how frightening closeness is for her. It's very painful to feel all this.
It's interesting how depending on what mind-set you are in you hear something different. When I hear this song it feels romantic, gentle and it makes me think if the person I love.
This just reminds me of a part if my life when I was at my worse in my depression and self hatred. But somehow this song gave me solice. Brought out all the tears that I fought so hard to keep hidden from friends ans family. In a way made me feel better and like a release.
I love this song for so many reasons. My best friend at the time poured her soul into dancing this song when we were young. Emotions are amplified to an infinite degree at that age but yet to this day I can not just remember this song, I can feel it...
Dancing is another artistic medium that can be used beautifully to express intimate, unspoken emotions Especially modern dancing ⭐✨ Thank you for taking the time to share your special memory with us 😊
I'm here because I've read a post in facebook by Counting Crows, and it goes like this. "22 years ago, I saw an early screening of Cruel Intentions. After seeing the film, I told them “It’s weird but I think I just wrote the perfect song for that scene last night. It’s called ‘Colorblind’. We haven’t recorded it yet but I can demo it at the studio tonight to check it out.” Soon after, we recorded it and the rest is history. Happy anniversary to the whole team."
this song fucks me up every time, still one of my all time favorites, and im a hip hop guy, this is not even my style. Nonetheless im forever in love with this song, it makes me miss someone i never met (if that makes any sense).
Seventeen years later, and this video is still here. I can't believe how much has happened since I first saw it, first heard this song, and fell entirely in love with it. The person who introduced this song to me is no longer here. I'm celebrating my sixteenth wedding anniversary next month, and the gray in my beard is taking over. I can't explain how happy I am this is still here.
How blessed you truly are. The person I "turned on" to this song, my soul mate, my best friend, passed on Father's Day. This song somehow encapsulates our story.💔🙏 Michael, hold on to her tight...🥹
@@kayjay407 my sincerest condolences and best wishes go out to you, for what has to be the most painful of losses. Thank you for reaching out to me, and the wisdom you've shared.
I used to watch Cruel Intentions over and over. Every time I hear this song, I feel nostalgia, strong as ever. Gives me chill bumps listening to this song. All I can think about was Sebastian meeting Annette at the top of the escalator. Just standing there. The way he's looking at her. This song playing in the background. Its crazy. I fall in love every time. Such a hopeless romantic lol. They were married in real life for years after making this movie. Ryan Phillips and Reese Witherspoon were married and had two children together I do believe. Omg this movie.
Phillips*
Phillipe****
The Cherokee Gypsy you just gave me chills
While I didn't get quite as rapped up in the emotion of the romance that you did, I also get intense visual flashbacks and butterflies of nostalgia whenever I hear this song. There was something about the way this film used its amazing visuals, and performances and combined it with some of the best songs with the 90s that made it so special for me. While I have always prefered the first half (I could have watched a whole movie alone of katherine and sebastian, scheming and playing mind games with eachother, the dialogue, coupled with Sarah Michelle Gellers amazing performance made it gripping). whenever I hear any of the songs. Suddenly I want to go back and watch the movie again!.
The Cherokee Gypsy True
For me, this is Counting Crows best song.
Gabriel Trejo agreed!!!!!
Every song on August has something to say about that. ;)
I totally agree. Its beautiful.
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The nostalgia hits HARD...
And takes me back to THAT movie scene 😍
"I'm impressed."
"Well I'm in love."
That movie fucks me up
+Seth Justice too good
I FUCKING LOVE THAT PART.
+Seth Justice damnnn that's a good movie!
me too but I love it so much.
One of the saddest, yet most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life, sometimes it gets really tough, but this song gets me through these times. Seriously, this is one of the best songs ever made, it's a freaking masterpiece musically and lyrically.
I feel exactly the same...
See him play it live. Please 🙏
@@tri7205 Saw Them live last night this song was even better live than i could have imagined.
@@benoitmatters3674That's true for so many of their songs! Counting Crows are an incredible live act
completely agree. I sometimes forget but always come back. So pleased ive seen them live,
This song is getting me through detox....never cried so much in my entire life. It feels like it is piercing my soul 🙏
Hope you're doing well
R u good Jona??
Hang in there, matey. I've been through Detox as well. My sister who is a top nurse would say to me, "Run through the jungle, Mads". You can do it! I'm sending you lots of happy vibes. X
It's a very very very hard thing, especially if young. Don't be hard on yourself if fall, don't give up, it might take many tries. Good luck.
I’m glad hope you got through it well take care God rest
Does anyone else have those songs they used to constantly listen to when they were going through a really bad patch? And then you listen years later when you are doing a bit better and you get this sad, bittersweet feeling? This is one of those songs for me.
Anna Jolie absolutely for me too
You are totally normal to need to have music that reflects what you are going through, and how you are feeling. I am hoping that you are feeling better these days... We all go through those times. God bless you!!
Anna Jolie music will do this for a lifetime
Yep..
Yes..
2020 here. Song slaps hard after all these years. Even during what feels like the end of times.
Listen to the one by between the buried and me👌
every single time i hear it its like everything stops
You know how many end of times there has supposed to have been since history began? Relax
Maaan Idgaf it’s just a comment. Relax. fucking pussy
@@ricardostrydom2089 facts 👌
He wrote it when he was struggling with depression. that's why it's gloomy and overly sad expressing a great feeling of emptiness and inability to connect to people or enjoy anything anymore. It's all black and white. Everything has lost its colours, taste, and meaning.
Thank you yes makes sense.
Moyou J. Roman song of my life since my dad died 6 years ago.
praying for you Kayla
My Mother died in 2006, I know the pain, it is horrible. Just know that they would want you to remember and cherish the good times you had with them.
Thank you all for your kind words! They mean so much.
An absolute masterpiece. Today was the first time I’ve heard this song and I have replayed it repeatedly since then. Haunting
Here it live. Watch him play the piano. It went to my core. I can't wait to see them again. And the stories he tells in between songs.... this man keeps his audience absolutely hooked on his every word....
*hear, my bad. Fat fingers. Hit the wrong word.
It's beautiful ❤️
Jay, do you know St. Robinson and his Cadillac Dream?? The lyrics..... Ugh.
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Depression is mysterious. I still suffer from bouts of the "blues" from time to time. Even when everything is moving along as it should, still it resurfaces. I am beginning to believe some are just meant to struggle with such feelings. I love to hear songs based on depression, because I can relate to them so well. It is a shame I can say that, but I accept what and who I am. If you feel the same, know you are not alone.
Beautiful words...I hope you feel better these days....stay strong 🤗
@JohnColeman you should listen to the song Empty by Olivia O’Brien
You are not alone either ❤️
I listen to this song with sad thoughts but not depression, I can't even imagine that hurt.
Just watched cruel intentions last night again, this song is amazing!!
Cruel Intentions was definitely a movie that I expected to be shallow and easily forgettable but the actors and the music definitely brought a whole new level to the film, and this song in itself made the movie unforgettable, when it came on in the movie i was literally bawling and now everytime i hear it i think of Cruel Intentions. long story short this song is perfect and watch Cruel Intentions.
This song Is deep.
Cruel intentions was a great movie, I wanted to change my name to Sabation after watching it.
cruel intentions is such a good movie with a powerful message.
So true, it’s my favourite movie ever and this track has been with me since I first heard it I’m now 40
YESSSS good movie,and music🤗
My friend from school died today... Smart, kind, sensitive and beautiful boy... I listen to this song and memories of those carefree moments come back to me, when spring smelled like spring, when our hearts weren't so wounded yet... I feel regret, longing that constricts my throat and feelings that I can't even name... Beloved Friend, see you in the Morning of Resurrection❤️
🥰Your friend is in a better place. Positive vibes only, so don't be sad.
I haven’t heard this song since high school and I’m 32 now and I have to say after all these years I didn’t realize how depressed I was back then. I broke down and cried for bit today after hearing it. I needed that.
I feel my depression so strong when I hear this song but I cannot stop. Like a constant running in my head of needing to hear this to know I'm not alone.
Many of us have the same feelings...
Same and heartbreaking 💔 but I love the feeling ❤
same, sometimes you just want to feel it, so you go to that one song that makes you feel something
Hi karinA I too have that fixation
Me too. Unreal
I haven't listened to this song in years, but I can never listen to it without instantly feeling the love that I had with an incredible person, and then, sadly, the tremendous heartache I felt for years after losing her
The piano in this song makes my heart drop...pure beauty🌹
As a die-hard metal head I must say, this song is quite powerful. I don't even like this band all that much but holy smoke, this song just grips me. It really takes me somewhere else.
That was an absolutely beautiful and powerful description of this song...
I love some brutal death metal. However, I also absolutely love the melancholic and beautiful heart churn that is so soothing as a song like this, it's just something about the way the chords speak to me. Music and life is all about variety, there's so much beauty in all the forms that are out there, this is in its own right is a masterpiece.
Hearing it live will bring tears to your eyes. Just watching him play the piano... it's beautiful. It's intense. He's an amazing story teller during his concerts. Supposed to go see them this Tuesday but sadly the concert has been postponed. I can't wait to hear this song live, again.
This is my favorite Counting Crows song. I played it with my partner years ago; it literally expressed the words I couldn't. We listened to it on repeat for hours. To me it depicts the choice to love and be loved. The beautiful process of unfolding into a person that desires to feel and move past fear to share something as fragile and valuable as their heart to someone who deserves it!! This is real music...
Well said.
Wow well said
Beautifully and eloquently stated ⭐✨⭐
I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready, I am ready, I am ready,
I am taffy stuck and tongue tied
Stutter shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside
I am ready, I am ready, I am ready,
I am fine
I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded and unfolded and unfolding
I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready, I am ready, I am ready,
I am fine
I am fine
I am fine
*colour
This song is timeless to me. I remember listening to this on repeat after my Mother died in 2006. There's just something about this song that's so haunting, yet powerful. It's sad, yet it comforts me. For me, this song makes me feel like I'm fading away in a warm bath of my own tears, that feeling of letting go and never worrying about anything anymore.
Thanks for your words
@@jesuszendejas1753 2 years since I posted that, this song is still Amazing to me! Enjoy Life!
Ikr I so want a part 2 to this thinking about contacting the producer as I wrote a storyline for it and guess what i said if i can find sumone to play Sebastian brother and he fine asl who would it be I said sumone who fits him a lil bit and fits this song then I said Theo James
That's beautiful and beautifully written too
I'm sorry for your loss 😞
@@whitneyrose9293 Ty! Life goes on & on though, stay strong!
"Taffy stuck and tongue tied. Stutter shook and uptight ... I am covered in skin. No one gets to come in." Still one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Poetry...probably the 1st "90s band" I really connected with lyrically. Thank God Adam Duritz decided to share his madness with the world.
I write poems and I have a very similar romantic and nostalgic style. I love the lyrics. ❤️❤️
Have loved this song from the first stroke of the piano.
I had a vacation in Germany, and I was on the train to Berlin, watching the open green fields and thick forests go by when this song came up on my mp3 player. I've known this song for a long time but that was the moment when I felt that I understood the true meaning of this song. It was an exhilarating experience.
90's nostalgia... sigh
tell me about it.. I miss photographs on paper.
tonight tonight
I'm not the sentinel type but I also miss photos and personal letters on paper....Sigh
No words can justify this song...Beyond Priceless
I have always struggled with depression, dissociation,anxiety and just shutting people out in general. for awhile now ive been feeling numb and "going through the motions" of daily life. I havent cried in months probably. I was looking up edits for a show i love when i was watching one and this song started playing, i never have heard this song once but i broke down sobbing after months of not crying now i cant seem to stop.
Can I be your friend?
You're not alone. I hope you're ok.
+Kawaii Rainbows giant hugs. you are doing so well.
+Kawaii Rainbows im so sorry kawaii, my heart is sending you love and support right now. i am in the same exact boat. the same one. im so incredibly distanced from myself and from my reality and my surroundings (depersonalization and derealization), and the only thing that makes me feel anything is music. if you ever need someone to talk to, please dont hesitate to reach out to me and shoot me a message. thinking of you.
Are you by any chance a Cancer?
This song means so much to me as I can relate very much. It's about being trapped in mental illness. I learned it on piano and it's my go-to for a lot of things. Absolutely beautiful song.
its not about mental illness
Yes it is. The singer has a certain personality disorder that causes him to question reality.
Watched cruel intentions so much as a youngster and this brings me straight back
The funny thing about music is it can mean whatever you want it to...it may be about moments in ones life or emotional issues but for me i think of the struggles of interracial relationships and prejudicey...
That's so beautiful dude! What's more amazing about music and people's interpretations is that for a second there I looked at this song from a completely different perspective than what I originally had, that was an amazing feeling, thank you.
All music is
One of the most beautiful and personally meaningful songs I've ever heard!
When I listen to this song I think about how easily life can pass you by. About how calm it may feel but also how terrifying it is to feel stuck. Everything around you keeps moving and yet youre stuck on this memory.. this memory that scarred you so badly. It takes life away
This comment is amazing.. exactly what I'm going through thank you.
Yes, I totally agree with that. My ex husband came out as trans when I was pregnant with our second child. That enraptured him and he mentally checked out. It was the dissolution of our marriage and the death of my husband, my best friend. All the while having this beautiful life growing in me and knowing she would be born into a broken family, a broken mommy. Letting life pass me by while I lived that pain, almost unbearable pain, just stuck. Seeing life in black and white, unable to see joy in my babies that reminded me of a man that no longer exists.
Under construction: Im with You. I agree.Try listening WHEN SHE DANCED please by David Foster.In better words: As of my perspective" Its totally like if EVERY single thing is ok, people walking, working, doing same old, same old, Youre expressing your good mornings, have a nice day viewing same faces, smelling same fragrances, a repeat, rewind, repeat, rewing to think AND believe: I DONT GIVE A F. And pardon.Wish I could express myself better.Its 2019 and TRUST me Ive lived that feeling.You know, all cool, bloody fine BUT You give a F about it?".
Do You get me?
The perfect song, in these hard times. I love this song. Peace everyone. Stay safe.
The song to use when you can't describe the deep unrequited feelings you have for someone...
Anybody else just desperate to hear somebody tell you they love you?
90's nostalgia... sigh
This is one of the most mesmerizing songs I've ever heard. Beautiful
I really like this song and the movie "Cruel Intentions" as well. This is truly a good love song as it was in the movie. I am just now listening to this after 20 plus years now and introducing it to my girlfriend whom I love dearly more and more as I listen to it with her.
The song to use when you can't describe the deep unrequited feelings you have for someone...
Yes. Very very true!!
totally agree, makes me think of my own unrequited love 😢
totally agree, makes me think of my own unrequited love 😢
This
That may be, but the beauty of music is taking something and creating your own meaning and interpretation of the song.
A class of older girls did a routine to this song in my dance recital when I was around 6. The studio would put together DVDs of each recital, and every time I watched that year's, this song would give me such an eerie, melancholy feeling that I would leave the room until it was over. Great song that now has a special place in my heart, even though (or because) it scared me as a kid.
10 years...still crying after hearing this.
i fall apart when the cello comes in. so good.
This song makes me feel at peace with death. The knowing and the acceptance of having to let go. I am ready, I am.
Ok, but i hope you don't expecting to die in the near future. I hope your healthy and ok.
PS: Band of horses - the funeral (3:45 min) is also very good.
This made me feel at ease about letting someone in after being so closed off for so many years.
My son did a beautiful family video using this song as a backdrop. This beautiful and moving song plays while we watch precious video clips of a little boy walking in the back area of our condo, wearing his shorts and tennis shoes and baseball cap, carrying his baggie of watermelon, our faithful cat, "Nakia," following him, and he turns and speaks to her, and she stops to listen and to nuzzle him, and he continues on his little stroll in the sun, and she follows... He is three...
can you send me this?
These lyrics are just pure poetry
Music like this will get you through anything you're facing keep your head up and smile
Lowest part in my life right now. This song speaks to me in a way no one else could. I lost someone I loved dearly and slipped into this depression. Now I face the unknown, but not alone though.
I hope you get through it God bless
I walked down the aisle to this song (10 years ago!). I got to the altar at the “I am ready, I am ready” line.
AgentMucha awwww
This song is beautiful and haunting at the same time
Forgot all about this beautiful beautiful song, glad it was recommended
This song gives me chills thinking about someone I’m really in love with.
I always think of the movie cruel intentions when I hear this ❤ brilliant movie and brilliant song ❤
Listened to this song a million times when I was 16 years old …. Just turned 41 a week ago once again I’m listening at 16 found comfort because of the pain …. Life in general, now I’m listening to it because of all the pain I caused others 😢 the ones closest to my heart because the kid I was waited to long to fix the shit that was making him cry
This song was perfect match for the movie Cruel Intentions.
Brings me back to Cruel Intentions back in high school man. Good times.
Cruel Intentions.
Great song.
Beautiful lyrics and piano.
I have always loved the Crows and all of there music, but this one really hits you......
Everytime I hear this song, my heart's broken and my eyes fill with tears, like sea. Love it!
For the lyrics,"I am covered in skin, no one gets to come in"
I think it means that you shut yourself away from people mentally and don't let others get too close. When it gets to "pull me out from inside" I imagine you wanting to connect with the world but you need help. "I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding" might mean that people use you so now you are "unfolding" or in other words, falling apart.
I like to interpret these lyrics literally, and just really hope Hannibal Lecter, Ted Bundy, and the roach from Men In Black do not steal my face/skin/Edgar-Suit respectively. Disembowelment is cool though.
stevebean1234 oh my god.... Fa Fa Fa fava beans
+Emma Swan I imagine this song as speaking both literally and metaphorically, like some beautiful awkward sexual encounter and the emotions that go with it and how the same feelings apply in various parts of life. Life is very hard and complicated and beautiful.
i interpret the skin as a barrier or cage trapping the true soul of a person, nobody gets to see who we really are because they cannot see our thoughts and who we are on the "inside" so to me he wishes for some one to see his actual self instead of the coffee black, tongued tied and uptight individual he appears to be and for that person to pull him out from his shell so that he can be alive and no longer colour blind.... i dont even know it makes sense in my head. lol :)
Unfolding like something rapped in a cloth
This mades me almost unfathomably sad but equally as happy and nostalgic.
I want to go back to this time.
I could listen to this many times and still ball my eyes out, I love every word of this song.
You are beautiful. Made me think about this song 🥰
"This was not depression. This was not workaholism. I have a fairly severe mental illness that makes it hard to do my job - in fact, makes me totally ill suited for my job. I have a form of dissociative disorder that makes the world seem like it’s not real, as if things aren’t taking place. It’s hard to explain, but you feel untethered.
And because nothing seems real, it’s hard to connect with the world or the people in it because they’re not there. You’re not there. That’s why I rarely saw my family back then: It’s hard to care when everything feels as if it’s taking place in your imagination. And if you’re distant with people, especially women you’re romantically involved with, they eventually leave.
What makes my case even worse is that every night I go out on stage and have this incredible emotional connection between me, the band, and the audience. Then, just like that, it’s over. I go backstage, back to the bus, back to my hotel room, and sit there all by myself. That deep connection is yanked away in an instant. It’s like breaking up with your girlfriend over and over again, every night."
Adam Duritz - Counting Crows.
Sorry if it's already shared here, didn't read every single comment. I took this from the live at Pinkpop 2008 video comments here on RUclips, so all credit goes to the original poster. Since I can (unfortunately) relate to quite an extend, I wanted to share it here too....
They are on tour right now. This band is amazing live. Sadly, the date we have tickets for has been postponed. I'm hoping we get to see them again very soon. Every word he speaks, every song he plays during his shows, you FEEL. And you leave knowing that you have feelings.
This guys knows he’s in counting crows, right? I mean if you’re going to be that pretentious make better music at least lol
@@HkFinn83 At least he isn't some anonymous troll, wasting his time and energy, talking others down, to boost his own self worth.
@@MarcelGraumans who said he was? I said he was in a shitty band.
@@HkFinn83 Nevermind your opinion on Counting Crows the band/music, Adam in the quote wasn’t being pretentious… Dunno why you’re even saying that in this context.
Do you know a thing about depersonalization/derealization?
Masterful...amazing clean, pure, full emotions vocal and the piano...whole is just amazing piece of art. Ever heard so much emotion in the voice, in the vocal...not from this world...
It’s amazing how there can be so many different interpretations for this song to me. I always thought it was a broken person telling someone who is interested in them the truth about their lives. That it is traumatic thing this person has gone to and they’re telling this person that “I will love you like no other but you have to understand I’m scared and in pain to let someone in even though they want through the broken mess you’ve see
“Runaway” by Kanye is like that
there are people that once they are gone... they still haunt us.... but we continue repeating to ourselves... we are fine....when inside we are totally broken...
i just love this song so much!!! it brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it!
ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL, SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL
It's the piano that gets me
hindsight can be melancholy, amazing how a song returns you to a moment in your past life...😢🖤
This reminds me of my ex partner. We come together from time to time but she is so sadly scared of committing to us. I get sad when I am with her because I love her so much and this song reminds me of my sadness at not being with her and reminds me of how frightening closeness is for her. It's very painful to feel all this.
This song sounds like it could have been made this year. It sounds timeless.
One of the best songs I have ever listened too over and over
An absolute BEAUTIFUL song!!!🌹🌹
wonderful song for some moments in everybody's life
Absolutely a beautiful song .. this is what a masterpiece is made from .. you just get lost in this melody.. I absolutely love it
All these years later this is still one of my favourite songs ...... just beautiful ❤️
So beautiful song... Makes me cry....
Peu importe l’humeur que j’ai , quand j’écoute cette chanson ,elle me transperce le cœur et me rend nostalgique
Magnifique musique
I always think of the jaguar from cruel intentions!!!! Oh and the cocaine cross lol
1956 Jaguar Roadster Convertible...
is it ok if i cry to this song???
Misael Aguilar yes this was my moms wedding song and i listen to it every once and a while
the durpyslurpy i first listened to it watching the movie cruel i tentions... i loved the movie and loved the song
sure, if you a ghey azz biiiishhh and have a vagina.
Yep
@@randytomasso4139 your mum!!!
Cruel intentions! What an incredible scene!
Beautiful absolutely beautiful
It's interesting how depending on what mind-set you are in you hear something different. When I hear this song it feels romantic, gentle and it makes me think if the person I love.
Me too
This just reminds me of a part if my life when I was at my worse in my depression and self hatred. But somehow this song gave me solice. Brought out all the tears that I fought so hard to keep hidden from friends ans family. In a way made me feel better and like a release.
Still Listening To This In 2019 September Yessir 🎶❤️🙌🏾😍💯
this song takes my depression away briefly...
whole27 me to
***** true.
I love this song soo much , i heard it on Pandora and fell in love with it
So glad I don't associate this song with a movie. I literally fell in love with this beautiful piece of music with an open canvas of imagination. ❤
This song inspires me to write better music. It's so beautiful and poetic.
Nice
This song is a masterpiece
LOVE real songs like this!! 💗❤💗❤
Anybody else just desperate to hear somebody tell you they love you?
That's sad man. Hang in there.
Ben Greaney Dang youre not going to tell him you love him though? 😂😂😂😂
tryfe10 I love you.
Jake Rojas awww 😢😢😢
tryfe10 I love you friend.
Such a beautiful song. The vulnerability in his voice 💙
I love this song for so many reasons. My best friend at the time poured her soul into dancing this song when we were young. Emotions are amplified to an infinite degree at that age but yet to this day I can not just remember this song, I can feel it...
Dancing is another artistic medium that can be used beautifully to express intimate, unspoken emotions
Especially modern dancing ⭐✨
Thank you for taking the time to share your special memory with us 😊
I listen to this song just about everyday.
This is so beautiful. No other words, just beautiful.
I simply love❤ this song...along with "All I want is you" from U2
Both masterpieces...both give me the chills!!!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎼🎼🎼🎼
Only music does this
This song is so much deeper and real than the movie "Cruel Intentions".
my God this song is beautiful.
listening to this song makes me think about myself alot ... should listen more often to do so :)
I'm here because I've read a post in facebook by Counting Crows, and it goes like this.
"22 years ago, I saw an early screening of Cruel Intentions. After seeing the film, I told them “It’s weird but I think I just wrote the perfect song for that scene last night. It’s called ‘Colorblind’. We haven’t recorded it yet but I can demo it at the studio tonight to check it out.” Soon after, we recorded it and the rest is history. Happy anniversary to the whole team."
this song fucks me up every time, still one of my all time favorites, and im a hip hop guy, this is not even my style. Nonetheless im forever in love with this song, it makes me miss someone i never met (if that makes any sense).