This is one of those songs that you listen to and don't immediately like, but, you know that you're going to end up loving it and overplaying it. I'm deep in the overplaying phase and loving it.
I heard this song for the first time live the other night and instantly was wtf this is awesome. Live, the ending with guitar is insane. Recording doesn't do it justice imo
this was the song that was playing when me and my dad were in a car crash, usually it would put people off listening to it but it makes me realise how lucky i am to still be here ❤
Just saw them the other night and they ended the show with this song. Really tiny place and there must've been 100 people there. I was standing at the edge of the stage and could've touched the bass player by reaching my hand out. What a show.
These lyrics go sooooo fucking deep. The thought spineless "leaders" without a will to do something is more terrifying than having reptillian overlords.
NederHopp See for awhile I thought the meaning of the song was at first him yelling out his angers, then the later half is him asking essentially for one day to give up and forget life. Maybe to drink, to kill, to run. Then I read what it' actually about and I cried with how closely I personally related to it.
Well...here is what he said "It's written as if I'm rejected from society just about to do something awful. I wrote that at a time when I was feeling quite separate from, even against, society as a whole. I was feeling quite hateful towards my own country and my own place in the world, and feeling like I didn't really like Britain or what it stands for. I don't necessarily feel like that all the time, but I do sometimes. The song has this theme of fat pouring down the streets and clogging every hole - that's how I was feeling about the general public, me included. We're just this blobby, inactive, privileged, big, pale blob, and I wanted to use this metaphor of this massive fat-tsunami washing through the city streets and going into the gutters. That was how I felt; it was how I felt about a big do-nothing society that hadn't changed. It all comes back to being fat really... it's like one of the things that you just see; I'm kind of fat, and I don't like that about myself. A few of my friends have become conspiracy nuts in the past few years, and I flirted with that idea for a bit, but I realised that it's really romantic to imagine a world run by reptiles with a super-evil plan masterminding eveything. It's much scarier, and much more likely, that the people at the top are just fat, bald, old men, like soft-boiled eggs, that are just weak-willed, with no strong feelings (good or ill). They're lily-livered and easily swayed and quivering and wobbling. To me, that's a horrible thought, but it also makes me feel guilty: if I was at the top, would I be a weak-willed, quivering, chubby overlord? In terms of the song's darker stuff, with the line "I'm gonna kill a stranger", there is also the follow up line: "So don't you be a stranger...", which obviously means don't be a stranger, don't leave me, don't go away etc., and it that way it's almost a cry for help. But then it also means 'I won't kill you... if you're my friend'. It's got this double-edged feeling throughout. Then the song changes and I'm likening myself to a fat child in a pushchair, sort of helpless and inactive and no use to anyone in the world that needs help. I'm just idle, and no one wants to be idle, but we find ourselves in that position living in this country. We're passive, and we just get out our phones and move on. I wanted to say that in a sharp, insulting way to maybe make people snap out of that, to make them nervous and embarrassed. It's not horrifying, but it's a bit cruel, and I wanted to be cruel to people listening, and to myself. But then I'm saying "It's alright..." so it's again this weird accusatory-slash-helpful tone. The song ends with me saying 'just give me one night, one moment to feel like I'm on the right path', pleading to just feel like I am helping the world, that I'm not useless. I think people have definitely connected to that and that sentiment of not wanting to continue as a negative or passive force in the world. " ...if you were curious
Been a listener since Man Alive. I thought Photoshop Handsome was good. I thought Cough Cough was amazing. But I don't have words to express my love for No Reptiles
Slip from the trees To the dirt to the menace To the wild to the car Under snow, cut to ribbons Like a coral to your shin Like a manacle to swing Fresh from the breast Now a river running fat To the manor born a rat To the manor born a flea To a flood to a drain Now a rubber, now a chain I was in the war You were in the war Plump from the sugar-water pump With the city at your back To the cannon with a match From a milk into a mass grave Never mind that, I can take that Bones in a bowl Like a toad-in-the-hole Take the shape of the mould Like a mummy on a pole And a merry little head Bob around when you're dead I was on my knees You were on your knees And no reptiles! Just soft boiled eggs in shirts and ties Waiting for the flashing green man Quivering and wobbling just like all the eggs you know I'm going to kill a stranger So don't you be a stranger Oh baby, it's alright It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair Old enough to run Old enough to fire a gun Oh baby, it's alright It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair Old enough to run Old enough to fire a gun Oh baby, it's alright It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair Old enough to run Old enough to fire a gun Oh baby, it's alright It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair Old enough to run Old enough to fire a gun Just give me this one night Just one night to feel Like I might be on the right path The path that takes me home Wise enough to know myself Just give me this one night Just one night to feel Like I might be on the right path (Home) Old enough to fire a gun Just give me this one night Just one night to feel Like I might be on the right path The path that takes me home Wise enough to know myself Just give me this one night Just one night to feel
Today i was alone in a car, heartbroken, stricken by grief, paralysed by nostalgia. My breath was mostly short, sometimes absent even. My eyes inoperatively filled by tears rushing to the carpet of my honda civic. This song on repeat drove me back home safely. I live in a world where this song was written and produced. For that reason alone, life is invaluable. Gratefulness unyielding.
Went to a festival last weekend and EE were there. Genuinely wept tears of joy hearing this live again. First live music in 18 months was pretty special.
1982dpw I also heard this on Radio 1 originally but didn't appreciate how good it is it until I rediscovered it on RUclips the other day. One of the best songs I've ever heard!
in all seriousness, this sounds dumb and pompous from above but when you actually read through the meaning and listen to it a few times it's fucking heartbreaking
@KooPakoo Isnt it about the world being so shitty that conspiracy theories wouldn’t even explain anything? There is no reptile overlords, just a bunch of people roaming around in a meaningless system. Some of which are desperately trying to find a point to it all.
To me this is the saddest song in the entire album. Maybe 'cause I'm too pessimistic, or maybe 'cause I'm so awfully optimistic that seeing someone else feel so useless (even if I feel like this myself) makes me feel an incredible pain. It's a really powerful song, tho. This album as a whole it's too powerful. Lately, I'm not really in the mood to get too emotionally involved with the music I listen to (I've been experiencing too many strong emotions on my personal life, so in this moment I'm feeling more like just listening music to chill), but, today I decided listening to the rest of the album (the only song I used to listen is Blast Doors, I really love this song, it's my favorite) and the whole concept really hit me. It's kinda sad, even the more "hopeful" songs still makes me feel very... Anguished, I guess? But, again, maybe it's because I'm either too pessimistic too see things in a good way, or because I'm too optimistic too be able to handle seeing other people feel bad feelings in such a strong way. Well, Blast Doors will always be my favorite song of the album tho.
This is the first thing I have heard for a few years that sounds genuinely different, whilst also being musically and emotionally satisfying. Impressed.
One of the most powerful and emotional music videos ever produced. Beautiful and distressing all at once! And they’re all so pretty too! “Just give me this one night, just one night - to feeeel” MELT 💓
+TheKevlar4 Many people think that it is the latest Carly Rae Jepsen LP who is the pop LP of the year... It is not a joke ...many professional critics elected it as the best or one of the very best pop album of the year... and i should admit that i rather acquiesce... Everything Everything could be elected in the pop-rock category maybe...
Always singing 'No Reptiles'. If Michael drummed up the drums then he's genious. It's perfick - love the tension and harmonics...however, 'My Computer', amongst others, has clipped my lug (Raw Data Feel) Can I just also say that I heard a 6 years old boy singing 'No Reptiles'? True story
thank the lord that we still have bands like everything everything to enjoy.saw them at manchester 2015.they were fab.the crowd was pants.there was a group of about ten stood near us talking all the way through.philistines.
Saw them at sziget couple of weeks ago and they closed their set with No Reptiles. Been a fan of the band since the beginning but wasn't really caught up with their recent album and never heard of this song. I found myself crying watching all of those people in the crowd (they were VERY loud) singing their heart out to this song. One of best memories of the whole festival.
one of the most underrated bands in existence.
Del Brown and car seat headrest
@@okayweredonehere2159 YES
Nah, Anathema is
If I didn't play dirt3 in 2020 I would never have found this audio therapy
Totally!
This is one of those songs that you listen to and don't immediately like, but, you know that you're going to end up loving it and overplaying it. I'm deep in the overplaying phase and loving it.
Exactly
Love´d it from the first time i heard it tbh.... :)
I heard this song for the first time live the other night and instantly was wtf this is awesome. Live, the ending with guitar is insane. Recording doesn't do it justice imo
this is so real
WHY THE FUCK WEREN'T THEY NOMINATED FOR A FUCKING MERCURY IT'S BY FAR THE BEST OF THE YEAR?!?!?!?!?!
You've obviously not listened to enough music
Coming from a Kid Rock fan, at least I know what the term music is meant to resemble
Your deluded little mind may not be able to understand, but no. No we are not
keirthms its a 4chan reference and thats a low tier bait
keirthms u got to ask yourself sometimes, is it even bait anymore?
Just one of those songs you don't want to end
+Alice Hulkes Happy New Year :)
Or begin
no in between
+Duck Overlord exactly. Even 2:20 isn't quite in between. It's infuriating!
0:00
this was the song that was playing when me and my dad were in a car crash, usually it would put people off listening to it but it makes me realise how lucky i am to still be here ❤
Jonathan Higgs is an extremely genius man, I say.
This is the best band i have ever heard and the best song i ever listened to. It took me a while to get to know them, but im here.
twat
bill bixly iciiv
You need to listen to a lot more music man, then decide if this is really the best song you’ve ever heard. Seems a stretch.
this song is becoming more and more relevant each day
This comment is 4 years old and more relevant than ever haha
The chills from the latter section of this song are unmatched. amazing song
Best metaphors: "fat child in a push chair" and "soft-boiled eggs in shirts and ties."
"like a fat child in a push chair" is technically a simile
Haha u lookin like an egg yourself
Giddy like a baby in a centrifuge
Just saw them the other night and they ended the show with this song. Really tiny place and there must've been 100 people there. I was standing at the edge of the stage and could've touched the bass player by reaching my hand out. What a show.
EE showing that you can do complex music which still rips your heart out. What an incredible band.
This has to be one of the greatest songs ever written!
These lyrics go sooooo fucking deep. The thought spineless "leaders" without a will to do something is more terrifying than having reptillian overlords.
oooooooooooohhhh gud 1 m8
+keirthms do you have to make a negative reply to every comment? 😂
NederHopp See for awhile I thought the meaning of the song was at first him yelling out his angers, then the later half is him asking essentially for one day to give up and forget life. Maybe to drink, to kill, to run. Then I read what it' actually about and I cried with how closely I personally related to it.
Well...here is what he said
"It's written as if I'm rejected from society just about to do something awful. I wrote that at a time when I was feeling quite separate from, even against, society as a whole. I was feeling quite hateful towards my own country and my own place in the world, and feeling like I didn't really like Britain or what it stands for. I don't necessarily feel like that all the time, but I do sometimes.
The song has this theme of fat pouring down the streets and clogging every hole - that's how I was feeling about the general public, me included. We're just this blobby, inactive, privileged, big, pale blob, and I wanted to use this metaphor of this massive fat-tsunami washing through the city streets and going into the gutters. That was how I felt; it was how I felt about a big do-nothing society that hadn't changed. It all comes back to being fat really... it's like one of the things that you just see; I'm kind of fat, and I don't like that about myself.
A few of my friends have become conspiracy nuts in the past few years, and I flirted with that idea for a bit, but I realised that it's really romantic to imagine a world run by reptiles with a super-evil plan masterminding eveything. It's much scarier, and much more likely, that the people at the top are just fat, bald, old men, like soft-boiled eggs, that are just weak-willed, with no strong feelings (good or ill). They're lily-livered and easily swayed and quivering and wobbling. To me, that's a horrible thought, but it also makes me feel guilty: if I was at the top, would I be a weak-willed, quivering, chubby overlord?
In terms of the song's darker stuff, with the line "I'm gonna kill a stranger", there is also the follow up line: "So don't you be a stranger...", which obviously means don't be a stranger, don't leave me, don't go away etc., and it that way it's almost a cry for help. But then it also means 'I won't kill you... if you're my friend'. It's got this double-edged feeling throughout. Then the song changes and I'm likening myself to a fat child in a pushchair, sort of helpless and inactive and no use to anyone in the world that needs help. I'm just idle, and no one wants to be idle, but we find ourselves in that position living in this country. We're passive, and we just get out our phones and move on. I wanted to say that in a sharp, insulting way to maybe make people snap out of that, to make them nervous and embarrassed. It's not horrifying, but it's a bit cruel, and I wanted to be cruel to people listening, and to myself. But then I'm saying "It's alright..." so it's again this weird accusatory-slash-helpful tone.
The song ends with me saying 'just give me one night, one moment to feel like I'm on the right path', pleading to just feel like I am helping the world, that I'm not useless. I think people have definitely connected to that and that sentiment of not wanting to continue as a negative or passive force in the world. "
...if you were curious
@@masonlegs5099 Wow, nice!
Best song on the album for me, so raw and unforgiving but so strangely hopeful.
Been a listener since Man Alive. I thought Photoshop Handsome was good. I thought Cough Cough was amazing. But I don't have words to express my love for No Reptiles
Pyjama Sam! Didn't think I'd ever see that fella in the comment section :D
I can oly agree to that statement, I love this song.
I love cough cough!
I can't decide which song from "Get to Heaven" is the best, because this album is absolutely amazing. I love this band so much...
Dammit, this is the perfect auditory turducken of weird, catchy, sentimental, and funny
"auditory turducken" would be a good name for a band
Tour duck?
Slip from the trees
To the dirt to the menace
To the wild to the car
Under snow, cut to ribbons
Like a coral to your shin
Like a manacle to swing
Fresh from the breast
Now a river running fat
To the manor born a rat
To the manor born a flea
To a flood to a drain
Now a rubber, now a chain
I was in the war
You were in the war
Plump from the sugar-water pump
With the city at your back
To the cannon with a match
From a milk into a mass grave
Never mind that, I can take that
Bones in a bowl
Like a toad-in-the-hole
Take the shape of the mould
Like a mummy on a pole
And a merry little head
Bob around when you're dead
I was on my knees
You were on your knees
And no reptiles!
Just soft boiled eggs in shirts and ties
Waiting for the flashing green man
Quivering and wobbling just like all the eggs you know
I'm going to kill a stranger
So don't you be a stranger
Oh baby, it's alright
It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair
Old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun
Oh baby, it's alright
It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair
Old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun
Oh baby, it's alright
It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair
Old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun
Oh baby, it's alright
It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair
Old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun
Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel
Like I might be on the right path
The path that takes me home
Wise enough to know myself
Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel
Like I might be on the right path
(Home)
Old enough to fire a gun
Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel
Like I might be on the right path
The path that takes me home
Wise enough to know myself
Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel
Thankyou! 🖤👊
why the entire song
Because half the song would be weird? Odd comment
Now this is what i call a MASTERPIECE
Today i was alone in a car, heartbroken, stricken by grief, paralysed by nostalgia. My breath was mostly short, sometimes absent even. My eyes inoperatively filled by tears rushing to the carpet of my honda civic. This song on repeat drove me back home safely. I live in a world where this song was written and produced. For that reason alone, life is invaluable. Gratefulness unyielding.
Thank you for sharing this Paralysed by nostalgia is the reason I’m here . Also heartbroken, also consumed by grief ❤️
❤❤❤
Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel
like I might be on the right path
The path that takes me home
Wise enough to know myself
Went to a festival last weekend and EE were there. Genuinely wept tears of joy hearing this live again. First live music in 18 months was pretty special.
Just introduced to this band from "Middle 8" & quite frankly, I'm blown away. This is some of that music that just goes right through you.
I discovered them the same way. How are we so late to the party?
I have the most respect for how fast and high his voice is. Mad talent. Nothing like this band before or since.
Just heard this on radio 1, never laughed so hard at a song! But I'm actually hooked on it now! Tune of the year!
This is how I found it too, it's hilarious
1982dpw I also heard this on Radio 1 originally but didn't appreciate how good it is it until I rediscovered it on RUclips the other day. One of the best songs I've ever heard!
1982dpw i am not native speaker, could you please tell me why you laughted on this song? is it about lyrics?
@Austin Wright Radio 1 is broadcasted internationally but is a UK station. :)
these guys supported Foals at Eden sessions and when they played this live it just blew my mind how amazing it was!
Makes my heart hurt trying to feel things I don't know how to
N
I don't think it's possible for me to not instantly love their songs!! This is amazing
6 years ago or more ,,
Absolutely still current
saw them as support of foals in zurich, never heard of them before.. THEY ARE AMAZING!!
that combo. How are you not dead?
I am so close to the edge. Thank you Everything.
Best song I've heard in years. Hats off to these guys.
Is there another song this beautiful???
+Alberto Mirasola Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread
+Alberto Mirasola Choice Mountain
+Alberto Mirasola This whole album is a true masterpiece and I completely mean it. It's incredible.
+Harriet Hanson great tune. I've been addicted to Feet for Hands for the last couple weeks
+Alberto Mirasola Get to Heaven
The way the melody makes you really FEEL this song through your whole body.❤❤ walking to work in my own little world with this on👌
No band out there can touch EE right now. Absolute legends.
You do know Pink Floyd still tour?
King Crimson. Going for over 50 years. EE wouldn't stand a chance playing anything by them. Tool as well are way better.
this song makes me happy but cry
Cry because it is a powerful song
i know how you feel i love that feeling
I can't get enough of this band or this song.
I remember when I first heard this song I was left paralyzed with my jaw open, literally top 5 best songs all time
This is Everything Everything's "Fix You" ❤
in all seriousness, this sounds dumb and pompous from above but when you actually read through the meaning and listen to it a few times it's fucking heartbreaking
Moritz Neumann look up this song on genius.com. the band contributed a lot to the page and explained parts rlly abstractly but perfectly
Isn’t it about his friends becoming conspiracy theorists and believing the government are reptiles?
@KooPakoo Isnt it about the world being so shitty that conspiracy theories wouldn’t even explain anything? There is no reptile overlords, just a bunch of people roaming around in a meaningless system. Some of which are desperately trying to find a point to it all.
@@koopakoo3813 we all become these friends eventually
@@emilb5713 Where did I say I agreed? I don’t care if zucc is a lizard that’s just cool.
I always come back to this, I think it's my favourite song.
Strangest feel good anthem of the year.
God i love this track.
Thanks.. In 2013 torso of the week, 2015 distant past and now reptiles, you guys are great!
To me this is the saddest song in the entire album. Maybe 'cause I'm too pessimistic, or maybe 'cause I'm so awfully optimistic that seeing someone else feel so useless (even if I feel like this myself) makes me feel an incredible pain.
It's a really powerful song, tho. This album as a whole it's too powerful. Lately, I'm not really in the mood to get too emotionally involved with the music I listen to (I've been experiencing too many strong emotions on my personal life, so in this moment I'm feeling more like just listening music to chill), but, today I decided listening to the rest of the album (the only song I used to listen is Blast Doors, I really love this song, it's my favorite) and the whole concept really hit me. It's kinda sad, even the more "hopeful" songs still makes me feel very... Anguished, I guess? But, again, maybe it's because I'm either too pessimistic too see things in a good way, or because I'm too optimistic too be able to handle seeing other people feel bad feelings in such a strong way.
Well, Blast Doors will always be my favorite song of the album tho.
This is the first thing I have heard for a few years that sounds genuinely different, whilst also being musically and emotionally satisfying. Impressed.
Never get bored of this track...absolute masterpiece
This is so damn good for some reason I can't explain.
amazing band. explores uncharted space of lyrics and music. this is wow.
One of the most powerful and emotional music videos ever produced. Beautiful and distressing all at once! And they’re all so pretty too! “Just give me this one night, just one night - to feeeel” MELT 💓
One of my favourite songs of all time
I saw them at reading festival and was one of the best bands I've ever seen, sensational
Pop album of the year.
+TheKevlar4 Many people think that it is the latest Carly Rae Jepsen LP who is the pop LP of the year... It is not a joke ...many professional critics elected it as the best or one of the very best pop album of the year... and i should admit that i rather acquiesce...
Everything Everything could be elected in the pop-rock category maybe...
Starry&Bohemian
To be fair emotion was surprisingly pretty damn solid.
TheKevlar4 Do you mean the song or the whole Long Player ?
+TheKevlar4 Currents - Tame Impala
+Starry&Bohemian I always agree with professional critics because I have no valid opinions of my own
This is a masterpiece.
Saw them at a festival, they're so underrated
But nowdays people like music more like kanye and ariana lol
and then there"s people like us.
Was played in 10minute takeover on radio1 (Gregg James) dedicated to Annie Nightingale…heard for first time by me….now obsessed with the song.
Simultaneously hilarious and crushingly beatiful.. what a song man, what a song.
Still one of the most underrated bands in existence. I was lucky enough to see them live in 2018, and it was incredible ❤️
Listening to this in the middle of the night it’s just so cathartic
Can't get over the first time I heard this. Live in Exeter before the album dropped. Absolutely incredible. Core memory for sure
An astonishing piece of music.
Discovered this band a few weeks ago, I’m in love with their music! ❤
still gives me chills
it's not a song, it's an experience.
Saw you on Saturday in Cardiff and couldn't wish for a better song to close with. Incredible band. Even better live!
+Benjamin Jenkins Right there with you, they were outstanding
Should be No1 for 12 weeks and make them aload money, best single I have ever heard.
I went to see another band, this band happened to be the support. I had a pill, it hit me when this song came on. My life was changed forever.
It's so old and I'm so new, love this! It's new to me but not to the few, I'm in the wars, still standing, still believing things can change!
by 4:20 it gets too intense to handle.
what an unbelievable song!
I forgot where I was when I watched this. It sucked me in and made me forget about life. Beautiful! New favorite song!
I've said it before and I'll say it again: can't get this out of my head.
T E N S I O N
Brilliance. Pure sunshine
Please release a To The Blade music video, favourite song on this album
Best track ive heard in years' Brilliant
I was listening to this song when i hit 99 smithing in RuneScape it was the best climax in a song ive ever heard
Awesome 👍
Always singing 'No Reptiles'. If Michael drummed up the drums then he's genious. It's perfick - love the tension and harmonics...however, 'My Computer', amongst others, has clipped my lug (Raw Data Feel)
Can I just also say that I heard a 6 years old boy singing 'No Reptiles'? True story
G
Thanks. Did not think the yt algo rythm would ever bless me again for over two years. And now you guys ♥
Whenever I watch this I always genuinely get the feeling that everything will be alright. Truly a masterpiece.
Ouvi a primeira vez hoje e estou viciada
thank the lord that we still have bands like everything everything to enjoy.saw them at manchester 2015.they were fab.the crowd was pants.there was a group of about ten stood near us talking all the way through.philistines.
Keep coming back to this, like an old man in a wheelchair....
Just blows me away every time I listen to this totally amazing track by EE 👍👍👍👍👍
Jesus... this is like... good god it's good. This is beyond just art, this is life in a song.
December 2020. Still waiting for the drop.
Never felt as good as seeing them play this live at Brixton!
+RaphaelRed One of the greatest things I've experienced
This song is awesome... this band is awesome... Roll on 21st Nov O2 Manchester...
love this song
Saw you playing at The Corner in Melbourne for my birthday this year. Best show in ages and my wife and loved this song the best
This song gets better every year
This is the best song ever and I listen to this everyday and I love it Everything Everything is a very good band keep this band going.
Saw them at sziget couple of weeks ago and they closed their set with No Reptiles. Been a fan of the band since the beginning but wasn't really caught up with their recent album and never heard of this song. I found myself crying watching all of those people in the crowd (they were VERY loud) singing their heart out to this song. One of best memories of the whole festival.
Such a great song
saw these guys with joy formidable. the climax of this song stole the entire show. incredible.
Best song on the album
I saw these guys just over a week ago in Leeds supporting Foals and they were absolutely incredible!
I totally agree! Such a good night :)
Absolutely brilliant song..
Best song I've heard for a while, brilliant!
AWESOME!!! The best song I have heard in a long time!!!
My top 3 favourite songs
Brilliant song brilliant words
Absolutely love this song. Lyrics and euphoria! x