Buy on iTunes now: bit.ly/X4kI2w Music video by Matt Alber performing End of the World (Director's Cut). 2009 Silver Label, a division of Tommy Boy Entertainment, LLC
So many levels. The music itself. The haunting melody. The orchestration. The multi-valent lyrics effortless weaving between the story and the metaphor. And finally the masterful vocal interpretation. I've lost count of the times I've listened to it; focusing on one dimension, then another. This is why it's a masterpiece and will survive the test of time.
I cry every time the curtains come open. I'm over 40, and from a very very conservative part of the country. When I was a kid, this video, with men dancing together to a love song, would have been wildly controversial, to say nothing of the kiss. Things are so scary for my LGBT+ family right now, especially my trans family, but please know that however far we have left to go, we have come so far. I am finally, after 20 years of waiting, with someone who fits me completely. It was worth every day of not knowing who or how or when. This year at the fair we rode a ferris wheel together, we held hands together, we danced together and kissed in front of a whole tent full of people, and there was not a single dirty look or cruel comment. We got a shoutout from the band. It's the same state, just 25 years after I realized I love women. The only thing that has changed...is time. It's worth sticking around to find love, to find yourself. Please know that your rainbow family needs you.
I love you for this comment. I'm a trans guy as well. Thank you so much for making this community warm. We need accepting older LGBT+ folk like you:) thank you.
I remember watching this video and crying so so hard when I was 10 years old. I didn't know why this struck a cord with me like it did. I even showed it to my parents and they didn't understand it. 3 years later I realized I was a man. And I was transgender. This song was my dream - to be a man, and to be loved as a man. When I came out, my parents refused to put me in therapy and I lost all of my friends and the entire school shunned me. I pretty much lost everything, so I went back in the closet again. While I was in denial, I developed intense psychosomatic illnesses including "incurable" IBD, became suicidal, et cetera. Now at 21, I finally came out again:) I'm now 8 months on T and I look more beautiful than ever and I'm finally happy again. Everything in my life makes sense, and this song's lyrics finally make sense to me too. Being born LGBT+ is aching and painful and difficult, but at the end of the day, it is beautiful. I have fallen in love with a beautiful man who happens to be trans as well too. We both love vintage aesthetics, romance, and beautiful singing...one day, I hope I can show him this song and see if he feels it in his heart too.
What a tough path you've been on. Am so full of joy that you're finding your way, finding love, becoming the man you've been born to be and are embodying.
easy to ,Criticize Matt produced the video himself, his father pulled the curtain. He wanted to end it with the 2 men flying off in a hot air balloon, but the money to hire a ballon was way too restrictive. To me this is insanely beautiful, especially because it was self produced with no big Hollywood budget. No smoke and mirrors, just honesty.
I remember buying this video from iTunes over 4 years ago... it remains one of my favorite ones. It always makes me feel so happy, even when my day sucks.
This sublime song came from a dream and from inmemorial times. Thank you Matt Alber for bringing justice to another kind of love, and for making absolutely irrelevant 2000 years of prejudices.
im thankful for the noahs arc tv show and movie for bringing artists that i might otherwise not know or heard of like this song from matt alber into my life. what a smooth touching song .
Right, this melody has been haunting me since this video was released. Turns out it's queerly similar to Quando M'innamoro (aka "A Man Without Love"), the Italian smash melody from the late sixties, made into a hit first by The Sandpipers in Italian, and then by Englebert Humperdinck in English. Thanks, Matt, for reviving an old chestnut of a melody that still pulls at the heartstrings... :-) Joe, a fan
Nice clip. Beautiful song. Emotion and simplicity together in this song. Feeling, desire and affection together in a beautiful art exhibition. The singer is very good.
I already have the soundtrack that this was also featured on in the movie, Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom, but had to check it out here. It's such a truly beautiful song. LOVE IT!!!
Matt meet you Friday nite 9/9/11 at Meyer's Grove here in St. Louis, MO got your autograph and tickets to your show. We so loved your preformance that night on Saturday. It was so worth seeing you finally in person. My sincere thanks and best Jeff and Mark :)
Many years ago a friend in Az played this masterpiece for me and Matt trapped my heart. Little did I know that a few years later I would move to Portland Oregon and hear him perform live with me sitting no more than 20 feet from him. And as he began singing with the voice of an angel the crowd of some 250 people were all talking so loudly over him and so disrespectful. I have never done something like this before but I stood up and screamed at the top of my lungs BE QUIET! and the entire place went dead silent. Matt never missed a note. After his performance I got up the courage to introduce myself to him and sheepishly asked him if he’d like a boyfriend and he lovingly told me he already had someone (lucky guy) Not too many months after tho Matt accepted an invitation to my home and he let me prepare dinner for him and get this. He shared some very personal thoughts with me that I promised him I would never repeat to my dying day and I’ve never broken that trust. As I told him the first time I met him “I am your number one fan” I still believe I am. I’m glad to read here of so many others who feel the same way Matt is truly altogether lovable Miss you Matt wherever you are. All my best
That’s a great story. I’ve seen just enough video of him talking to know he has no pretentiousness and is very approachable. This song is simply amazing. I never tire of it, and I like to think that, had I been in your shoes during that live performance, I would have yelled at the crowd, too.
It hasn’t been 24 hours since I heard the song in the trailer for The Fall: Covenant of Grace, and I have played this more than 20 times, now. I knew in the first 5 seconds of that opening that this song was going to pierce my armor, penetrate my heart, to find that it’s has been residing in my soul, all along...longing. This song is me. This is us. I am so grateful to you Matt. Thank you.
I have watched this “The Falls” trilogy a half dozen times or more since “Covenant” was released in 2016. But, it wasn’t till 12/5/21 when “End Of The World” grabbed me and made me ugly cry.
Lyrics: I don't want to ride this roller coaster I think I want to get off But they buckled me down Like it's the end of the world If you don't want to have this conversation Then you better get out 'Cause we're climbing to our death At least that's what they want you to think Just in case we jump the track I have a confession to make It's something like a cork screw I don't wanna fall, I don't wanna fly I don't wanna be dangled over The edge of a dying romance But I don't wanna stop I don't wanna lie I don't wanna believe it's over I just wanna stay with you tonight I didn't mean to scream out quite so loudly When we screeched to a halt I'm just never prepared For the end of the ride Maybe we should get on something simpler Like a giant balloon But I've got two tickets left, and so do you Instead of giving them away to some stranger Let's make them count, come on Let's get back in line again and ride the big one Don't you want to fall, don't you want to fly Don't you want to be dangled over The edge of this aching romance If it's gonna end, then I wanna know That we squeezed out every moment But if there's nothing left can you tell me why That it is you're holding onto me Like it's the end of the world
I've seen this video over 100 times, and each time, I cry. Such a deep and tender-hearted meaning in every frame and musical note. Matt has created a masterpiece that will live on through the ages. God Bless You, Matt for such a treasure you gave us !
I suspect i said this before, but I value very much discovering Mr. Alber, and how i find some real harmony with his music and sentiments. For a gay guy who has been captivated and guided by the Big Sisters that the Indigo Girls have been for me, it's nice to also hear kind and heartfelt words from a fellow gay man. It's a difficult thing to be BOTH a sensitive guy, and and a gay one as well. The world you meet with an open heart and an unguarded soul, is set to be more hostile and assaultive towards you, and for many, that shock and lack of toughness to defend against it, is a cold slap to the face ,and one that some don't survive to recover from. It makes me SO happy that ANY person of ANY gender or sexual orientation can find sympathetic rhythms and pleasing chords that they connect with, when there seems to be less-and-less room for that these days, and less of an opportunity to find that, when the music business is so splinted and dispersed. I know I am oddly and overly ascribing a persona to what is really more of a fictional person really, but we all crave connection and validation, and where ever you can find that, that must be a gift to not ignore. I appreciate him just 'being', if that makes sense, and it really speaks to the real need to be both out as adults, and encouraging that for everyone. There's no pain like one inside you that's never addressed or healed, and the best way to not allow that to happen, is, pardon the cliche. but to ASK, to TELL.
Well said!!! Being vulnerable is so much more difficult on the soul than being crass. It's easy to put on the funny-man mask but it's hard to be one's self, fully and wholly, and show these delicate emotions. Especially if you know you are going to get hate just on the basis of how you were born
This song, this vignette, this dreamscape never fails to send me spinning -- off balance, suddenly awash in yearning and regret. It wasn't just one hesitation, just the one fumbled gesture,or lone misunderstood glance -- it's the sudden realization,, crystallized in this vision of two men caught in each others' arms,, how much of my young irreplaceable life was lived behind a curtain, with my hands tied behind my back. I know I'm lucky now-- marrried to the same man more than 30 years -- but this sharp shard of music makes it clear that, lodged among my memories, are the moments with the blond boy from Newport, or the redhead from Chicago, or the blue-eyed sailor in Iceland -- moments when I think that all of us heard the music, but didn't realize -- couldn't conceive - that it might be for us.
I am 80 years old, never fallen in love or deeply in love with someone. The only one I loved was my brother. Understand that I was not in love with my brother just loved him. How he is gone some 11 years and all my friends are gone. No family just relatives. I am saying this because there are some who are my age and older in the same boat as me. This is the first time I heard this song and I can say that I cried very deeply. Why I am alone with nothing to really live for but I will stay and continue. Have no pity for me as I chose this life and have no regrets. Thank you Matt for this song. I will play it many many more times.
There is so much loneliness in this world. I HAVE fallen in love before (three times with a few crushes sprinkled here and there), but I feel like I know what you felt. It’s such a powerful emotion, and I’m grateful there are songs like this to help us cope.
The song stands on its own greatness. Then, the perfect treatment and perfect director happens. None of the big budget, big name directors (cough David Fincher / Mark Romanek cough) could top this. End of the World is Grammy level material that never received due recognition.
Ditto PhireFoxRBLX.......can't stop re-watching. Absolutely stunningly beautiful, everything about it, the vocals, the story, the cinematography..........Wow.
I don't want to ride this roller coaster I think I want to get off But they buckled me down Like it's the end of the world If you don't want to have this conversation Then you better get out 'Cause we're climbing to our death At least that's what they want you to think Just in case we jump the track I have a confession to make It's something like a cork screw I don't wanna fall, I don't wanna fly I don't wanna be dangled over The edge of a dying romance But I don't wanna stop I don't wanna lie I don't wanna believe it's over I just wanna stay with you tonight I didn't mean to scream out quite so loudly When we screeched to a halt I'm just never prepared For the end of the ride Maybe we should get on something simpler Like a giant balloon But I've got two tickets left, and so do you Instead of giving them away to some stranger Let's make them count, come on Let's get back in line again and ride the big one Don't you want to fall, don't you want to fly Don't you want to be dangled over The edge of this aching romance If it's gonna end, then I wanna know That we squeezed out every moment But if there's nothing left can you tell me why That it is you're holding onto me Like it's the end of the world
This song was not only featured in 'Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom'...but it was also used in the trailer for the upcoming trilogy film--'The Falls: The Covenant of Grace'--too!!!
Matt, I have been discovered you at the beginning of the last chapter of The Falls. Marvellous voice, very romantic, incredible song. My deep and honest congratulations. I played your video several times a day since then. Simply, outstanding.
I would just like to let everyone know that Matt Alber has a fan from the Philippines, and that would be me. Teehee. :) His voice, his lyrics, his melody has reached even this little country.
U don't need to know the language to understand the meaning of such a beautiful touching music.I'm Chinese and proud to be who I'm.I'll never ever hide in closet any more
I listen to this beautiful song regularly, and am always sending friends and family to see it and hear it. So lovely and sweet, lik I am sure you are. Thank you so much, Matt! Kisses and greetings from Ireland. xxx
This was the one song that helped me come out of the closet. And I can't thank you enough for it. I can't help but to cry every time I listen to it. I have the most wonderful boyfriend now, and I swear I will marry him someday. And I swear I will sing this for him at our wedding. Thank you so much, Matt.
I can't hear this without getting weepy. You performed this with the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus this past weekend (3/28/15) and I am still soaring high from the experience. I can't wait to hear you live again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for an unforgettable afternoon.
On a funny angle, i kinda think the 1950's Mayberry's Floyd the barber on "The Andy Griffith Show" woulda loved this song and video ! . . . . . ... . . . #WeWereThere
To all of you posters, keep forwarding this song to all you know. I have been doing that for the past year. I feel all my friends deserve to hear this wonderful guy.
I never tire of listening to this song. It evokes in me some deep feelings that cannot be expressed. I thank the film "The Fall" for it's introduction in my life, forever grateful. Beautifully done Matt.
So many levels. The music itself. The haunting melody. The orchestration. The multi-valent lyrics effortless weaving between the story and the metaphor. And finally the masterful vocal interpretation. I've lost count of the times I've listened to it; focusing on one dimension, then another. This is why it's a masterpiece and will survive the test of time.
Matt... Goddammitt... Stop making me cry.
So incredibly touching. I just sent the link to my husband to be. This has to be "our" song.
love this video and song.
That moment when the barber opens the curtain to let in the sunshine is perfection. Such a beautiful song and so beautifully realized in the video.
Amazing song and video. I saw Matt perform around the time this came out and it was awesome. Can’t believe it’s been 15 years.
I cry every time the curtains come open.
I'm over 40, and from a very very conservative part of the country. When I was a kid, this video, with men dancing together to a love song, would have been wildly controversial, to say nothing of the kiss.
Things are so scary for my LGBT+ family right now, especially my trans family, but please know that however far we have left to go, we have come so far.
I am finally, after 20 years of waiting, with someone who fits me completely. It was worth every day of not knowing who or how or when.
This year at the fair we rode a ferris wheel together, we held hands together, we danced together and kissed in front of a whole tent full of people, and there was not a single dirty look or cruel comment. We got a shoutout from the band. It's the same state, just 25 years after I realized I love women. The only thing that has changed...is time.
It's worth sticking around to find love, to find yourself. Please know that your rainbow family needs you.
Wow. This video is simply wonderful. Thanks.
I love you for this comment. I'm a trans guy as well. Thank you so much for making this community warm. We need accepting older LGBT+ folk like you:) thank you.
Wow! What a statement--no less powerful than this song and video--more even for having been LIVED! Congratulations on your journey and your love!!
As an over 40 from a very liberal part of the country, I STILL feel this. Thank you.
@A Gannon That's so beautiful. I hope you are doing well and I wish you and your loved ones are happy, healthy and strong.
I remember watching this video and crying so so hard when I was 10 years old. I didn't know why this struck a cord with me like it did. I even showed it to my parents and they didn't understand it.
3 years later I realized I was a man. And I was transgender. This song was my dream - to be a man, and to be loved as a man. When I came out, my parents refused to put me in therapy and I lost all of my friends and the entire school shunned me. I pretty much lost everything, so I went back in the closet again. While I was in denial, I developed intense psychosomatic illnesses including "incurable" IBD, became suicidal, et cetera.
Now at 21, I finally came out again:) I'm now 8 months on T and I look more beautiful than ever and I'm finally happy again. Everything in my life makes sense, and this song's lyrics finally make sense to me too. Being born LGBT+ is aching and painful and difficult, but at the end of the day, it is beautiful.
I have fallen in love with a beautiful man who happens to be trans as well too. We both love vintage aesthetics, romance, and beautiful singing...one day, I hope I can show him this song and see if he feels it in his heart too.
What a tough path you've been on. Am so full of joy that you're finding your way, finding love, becoming the man you've been born to be and are embodying.
easy to ,Criticize Matt produced the video himself, his father pulled the curtain. He wanted to end it with the 2 men flying off in a hot air balloon, but the money to hire a ballon was way too restrictive. To me this is insanely beautiful, especially because it was self produced with no big Hollywood budget. No smoke and mirrors, just honesty.
I never knew that was his father in the vid as the barber. Also the info about the balloon is nice to know as well.
so i heard this on a movie and had to know who sang such a beautiful and powerful song ... simply put, amazing!
What movie? I'd love to see how it was used.
@@dj33036 The Falls: Covenant of Grace. Beautiful movie!
@@dj33036 it wasn’t the falls movie, it was actually a different one
my man passed away 2 years ago everytime I hear this song it just some how makes me fell better love u vince miss u sooooo
I remember buying this video from iTunes over 4 years ago... it remains one of my favorite ones. It always makes me feel so happy, even when my day sucks.
Can't get enough of this song makes me cry almost every time I listen.
I am so thankful my chorus got to sing backup with you on this song.
should have put this up for grammy consideration
This is so beautiful!
Frm the falls movie ❤️❤️
So wonderfully conceived and filmed! From the point the curtains are drawn back, the dance ending in the kiss. So beautifully sensuous and romantic.
I must be the only one who cries every time I hear this..beautiful
Song is beautiful although it can be melancholy. I am so grateful that I learned him through the falls trilogy. I’m a fan.
This song is just my mood today. :-(
This sublime song came from a dream and from inmemorial times. Thank you Matt Alber for bringing justice to another kind of love, and for making absolutely irrelevant 2000 years of prejudices.
im thankful for the noahs arc tv show and movie for bringing artists that i might otherwise not know or heard of like this song from matt alber into my life. what a smooth touching song .
Right, this melody has been haunting me since this video was released. Turns out it's queerly similar to Quando M'innamoro (aka "A Man Without Love"), the Italian smash melody from the late sixties, made into a hit first by The Sandpipers in Italian, and then by Englebert Humperdinck in English. Thanks, Matt, for reviving an old chestnut of a melody that still pulls at the heartstrings... :-) Joe, a fan
Nice clip. Beautiful song. Emotion and simplicity together in this song. Feeling, desire and affection together in a beautiful art exhibition. The singer is very good.
I already have the soundtrack that this was also featured on in the movie, Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom, but had to check it out here. It's such a truly beautiful song. LOVE IT!!!
I love this song more than words can say
Soulful, romantic, retro ... and wonderful!
i am in love
I love his voice he came to my school (Head Royce) today. Simply amazing
Amazing song, Matt, and amazing video, Robin. Honestly, just incredible.
Perfect.
LOVE!
Does anyone else remember this song from Black Gold's 2012 show?? It was really good and I still love this song!! BGCG'12
The song may be the best description of emotions related to a relationship that is likely - possibly - but maybe not - Ending.
DAMN! This man can SING!
love his voice
I adore your music
this song, this video and his voice make my heart melt...
Still 💘
Tears always! Matt is such a special man and stunning talent. Listen him often.
here come the tears oh my god
Holy shit. This is my life. Beautiful.
I run to my piano. This song this man so insperationnal ...
I'm in LOVE. I'm in LOVE.
i cry
A joy to watch ♡
Wow I love this! Saw that you're coming to Atlanta with Tom Goss!! Great video and visual story too!
I just recently discovered you, Matt. This is great, but damn, man: why do you want to make me cry?
After seeing and hearing this how can anyone be opposed to "Equality in Marriage"!?
No vineyarder, you are not alone. If this song doesn't touch your heart, you are really missing out.
Is there any chance for an instrumental version of this? Would love to sing it.
Matt meet you Friday nite 9/9/11 at Meyer's Grove here in St. Louis, MO got your autograph and tickets to your show. We so loved your preformance that night on Saturday. It was so worth seeing you finally in person. My sincere thanks and best Jeff and Mark :)
the last song i sent to my boyfriend and then we broke up :)
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Homosexuality, in its pure form, is and has been greatly underrated.
Many years ago a friend in Az played this masterpiece for me and Matt trapped my heart. Little did I know that a few years later I would move to Portland Oregon and hear him perform live with me sitting no more than 20 feet from him. And as he began singing with the voice of an angel the crowd of some 250 people were all talking so loudly over him and so disrespectful. I have never done something like this before but I stood up and screamed at the top of my lungs BE QUIET! and the entire place went dead silent. Matt never missed a note. After his performance I got up the courage to introduce myself to him and sheepishly asked him if he’d like a boyfriend and he lovingly told me he already had someone (lucky guy) Not too many months after tho Matt accepted an invitation to my home and he let me prepare dinner for him and get this. He shared some very personal thoughts with me that I promised him I would never repeat to my dying day and I’ve never broken that trust. As I told him the first time I met him “I am your number one fan” I still believe I am. I’m glad to read here of so many others who feel the same way Matt is truly altogether lovable Miss you Matt wherever you are. All my best
That’s a great story. I’ve seen just enough video of him talking to know he has no pretentiousness and is very approachable. This song is simply amazing. I never tire of it, and I like to think that, had I been in your shoes during that live performance, I would have yelled at the crowd, too.
I get teary and emotional every time I play this song/video. Matt, it is, and you are, so beautiful.
Me, too!
It hasn’t been 24 hours since I heard the song in the trailer for The Fall: Covenant of Grace, and I have played this more than 20 times, now. I knew in the first 5 seconds of that opening that this song was going to pierce my armor, penetrate my heart, to find that it’s has been residing in my soul, all along...longing. This song is me. This is us. I am so grateful to you Matt. Thank you.
The Falls trilogy and this song have impacted me so deeply that words cannot express. My heart is full.
I have watched this “The Falls” trilogy a half dozen times or more since “Covenant” was released in 2016. But, it wasn’t till 12/5/21 when “End Of The World” grabbed me and made me ugly cry.
@@Nacho-Mamma Thank you for bring me back to this timeless space of art that touches my heart so deeply and the tears continue to flow.
Decade and a half later... I still sob. Masterpiece.
LOVE IT ! Beautiful voice and very romantic....how blessed i am to have found someone to ride the rollercoaster of life 23 years ago :)
Lyrics:
I don't want to ride this roller coaster
I think I want to get off
But they buckled me down
Like it's the end of the world
If you don't want to have this conversation
Then you better get out
'Cause we're climbing to our death
At least that's what they want you to think
Just in case we jump the track
I have a confession to make
It's something like a cork screw
I don't wanna fall, I don't wanna fly
I don't wanna be dangled over
The edge of a dying romance
But I don't wanna stop
I don't wanna lie
I don't wanna believe it's over
I just wanna stay with you tonight
I didn't mean to scream out quite so loudly
When we screeched to a halt
I'm just never prepared
For the end of the ride
Maybe we should get on something simpler
Like a giant balloon
But I've got two tickets left, and so do you
Instead of giving them away to some stranger
Let's make them count, come on
Let's get back in line again and ride the big one
Don't you want to fall, don't you want to fly
Don't you want to be dangled over
The edge of this aching romance
If it's gonna end, then I wanna know
That we squeezed out every moment
But if there's nothing left can you tell me why
That it is you're holding onto me
Like it's the end of the world
I am here now because of the movie this beautiful movie called The FALLS: COVENANT OF GRACE. . I am in love with THE FALLS trilogy and this song. :-)
"I don’t wanna lie
I don’t wanna believe it’s over
I just wanna stay with you tonight"
I've seen this video over 100 times, and each time, I cry. Such a deep and tender-hearted meaning in every frame and musical note. Matt has created a masterpiece that will live on through the ages. God Bless You, Matt for such a treasure you gave us !
Thank you so much for bringing such beauty into the world with this song. It evokes so much emotion in me I cry every time I hear it.
I suspect i said this before, but I value very much discovering Mr. Alber, and how i find some real harmony with his music and sentiments. For a gay guy who has been captivated and guided by the Big Sisters that the Indigo Girls have been for me, it's nice to also hear kind and heartfelt words from a fellow gay man. It's a difficult thing to be BOTH a sensitive guy, and and a gay one as well. The world you meet with an open heart and an unguarded soul, is set to be more hostile and assaultive towards you, and for many, that shock and lack of toughness to defend against it, is a cold slap to the face ,and one that some don't survive to recover from. It makes me SO happy that ANY person of ANY gender or sexual orientation can find sympathetic rhythms and pleasing chords that they connect with, when there seems to be less-and-less room for that these days, and less of an opportunity to find that, when the music business is so splinted and dispersed. I know I am oddly and overly ascribing a persona to what is really more of a fictional person really, but we all crave connection and validation, and where ever you can find that, that must be a gift to not ignore. I appreciate him just 'being', if that makes sense, and it really speaks to the real need to be both out as adults, and encouraging that for everyone. There's no pain like one inside you that's never addressed or healed, and the best way to not allow that to happen, is, pardon the cliche. but to ASK, to TELL.
Well said!!! Being vulnerable is so much more difficult on the soul than being crass. It's easy to put on the funny-man mask but it's hard to be one's self, fully and wholly, and show these delicate emotions. Especially if you know you are going to get hate just on the basis of how you were born
This really touched me, Daniel. Thank you.
@@mattalber Warmth and grace in such a cold and graceless age.
Does anyone else think Matt is infinitely hotter all scruffy before the barber gets a hold of him? It might just be my preference for facial hair.
This song, this vignette, this dreamscape never fails to send me spinning -- off balance, suddenly awash in yearning and regret. It wasn't just one hesitation, just the one fumbled gesture,or lone misunderstood glance -- it's the sudden realization,, crystallized in this vision of two men caught in each others' arms,, how much of my young irreplaceable life was lived behind a curtain, with my hands tied behind my back. I know I'm lucky now-- marrried to the same man more than 30 years -- but this sharp shard of music makes it clear that, lodged among my memories, are the moments with the blond boy from Newport, or the redhead from Chicago, or the blue-eyed sailor in Iceland -- moments when I think that all of us heard the music, but didn't realize -- couldn't conceive - that it might be for us.
I can't stop replaying this and rewatching it .. :/
Over and over and over again....for years. Each time I do, I cry. Beautiful, beyond words.
I am 80 years old, never fallen in love or deeply in love with someone. The only one I loved was my brother. Understand that I was not in love with my brother just loved him. How he is gone some 11 years and all my friends are gone. No family just relatives. I am saying this because there are some who are my age and older in the same boat as me. This is the first time I heard this song and I can say that I cried very deeply. Why I am alone with nothing to really live for but I will stay and continue. Have no pity for me as I chose this life and have no regrets. Thank you Matt for this song. I will play it many many more times.
There is so much loneliness in this world. I HAVE fallen in love before (three times with a few crushes sprinkled here and there), but I feel like I know what you felt. It’s such a powerful emotion, and I’m grateful there are songs like this to help us cope.
This is gorgeous, and its own creation; that said, I can not help think of Rufus W. every time that I play it. (It's a compliment.)
The song stands on its own greatness. Then, the perfect treatment and perfect director happens. None of the big budget, big name directors (cough David Fincher / Mark Romanek cough) could top this. End of the World is Grammy level material that never received due recognition.
Ditto PhireFoxRBLX.......can't stop re-watching. Absolutely stunningly beautiful, everything about it, the vocals, the story, the cinematography..........Wow.
I don't want to ride this roller coaster
I think I want to get off
But they buckled me down
Like it's the end of the world
If you don't want to have this conversation
Then you better get out
'Cause we're climbing to our death
At least that's what they want you to think
Just in case we jump the track
I have a confession to make
It's something like a cork screw
I don't wanna fall, I don't wanna fly
I don't wanna be dangled over
The edge of a dying romance
But I don't wanna stop
I don't wanna lie
I don't wanna believe it's over
I just wanna stay with you tonight
I didn't mean to scream out quite so loudly
When we screeched to a halt
I'm just never prepared
For the end of the ride
Maybe we should get on something simpler
Like a giant balloon
But I've got two tickets left, and so do you
Instead of giving them away to some stranger
Let's make them count, come on
Let's get back in line again and ride the big one
Don't you want to fall, don't you want to fly
Don't you want to be dangled over
The edge of this aching romance
If it's gonna end, then I wanna know
That we squeezed out every moment
But if there's nothing left can you tell me why
That it is you're holding onto me
Like it's the end of the world
His best piece. His best work. It slays me.
This is my #1 soundtrack of my life. And the video is amazing too.
This song was not only featured in 'Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom'...but it was also used in the trailer for the upcoming trilogy film--'The Falls: The Covenant of Grace'--too!!!
Fuck I've been listening to this for years now, still get teary eyed. I hate the loneliness.
The Falls Covenant of Grace brought me here.
so same i watched the trailer and just needed this
Same here. 😊
Falls Covenant of Grace : I have to find this song. Cortana tried 3 times to get it right from the short clips in the movie.
Yo vi la trilogía hermosísimo
Matt, I have been discovered you at the beginning of the last chapter of The Falls. Marvellous voice, very romantic, incredible song. My deep and honest congratulations. I played your video several times a day since then. Simply, outstanding.
I would just like to let everyone know that Matt Alber has a fan from the Philippines, and that would be me. Teehee. :) His voice, his lyrics, his melody has reached even this little country.
i have been looking for this song for five years, im so fuckin happy.
One of the most beautiful songs in history.
Love … love this so much. I keep playing it over and over. Thank you!
U don't need to know the language to understand the meaning of such a beautiful touching music.I'm Chinese and proud to be who I'm.I'll never ever hide in closet any more
I can't believe this song is 10 years old.
I listen to this beautiful song regularly, and am always sending friends and family to see it and hear it. So lovely and sweet, lik I am sure you are. Thank you so much, Matt! Kisses and greetings from Ireland. xxx
Thank You -Thomas Lynn Pool
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Your lyrics are tearing me apart...
Y'all seen this elegant video? From Dwight
This was the one song that helped me come out of the closet. And I can't thank you enough for it. I can't help but to cry every time I listen to it.
I have the most wonderful boyfriend now, and I swear I will marry him someday. And I swear I will sing this for him at our wedding. Thank you so much, Matt.
The most beautiful boy meets boy love story ever filmed. Oh, and the song is beautifully timeless.
"Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom" movie brought me here!
I forgot all about that movie! I loved it and the show!
Same here
I can't hear this without getting weepy. You performed this with the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus this past weekend (3/28/15) and I am still soaring high from the experience. I can't wait to hear you live again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for an unforgettable afternoon.
So beautiful. I cried when they kissed.
I absolutely love this song and this video. Thank you, Matt Alber!
On a funny angle, i kinda think the 1950's Mayberry's Floyd the barber on "The Andy Griffith Show" woulda loved this song and video ! . . . . . ... . . . #WeWereThere
To all of you posters, keep forwarding this song to all you know. I have been doing
that for the past year. I feel all my friends deserve to hear this wonderful guy.
I never tire of listening to this song. It evokes in me some deep feelings that cannot be expressed. I thank the film "The Fall" for it's introduction in my life, forever grateful. Beautifully done Matt.