I like how, metaphorically and literally, Wirt and Greg narrowly missed death. The train that nearly hits them represents death, right? But they jump out of the way just in time. The Unknown is the space between life and the afterlife. If the brothers had died, they would have traveled through the Unknown to the afterlife. But they don't die: they miss the train, they escape the Unknown, and lastly Wirt saves himself and Greg (and Jason Funderburker the frog) from drowning. The old black train of death comes for them, but they get out of the way just in time.
@@evilgoose6768 The end can be seen in multiple different ways. Kinda like the ending of Coraline some people think she never actually escaped if you don’t know that movie… watch it. I think if you like OTGW you’ll probably enjoy it too.
dang its already been nearly 7 years it was released in 2014. I remember i watched it the first time around when it came out but i didnt fully appreciate its beauty until a few months back when i watched it once again. The art, the story, and especially the soundtrack. Has to be my favorite animated series ive watched man.
It's fascinating that despite being a "kid's show" which aired on cartoon network, Over the Garden Wall still carries this obsession with death which permeates throughout nearly the entire series. It really gives the show it's unique, almost melancholic edge
when you think about, the line "now where this old train's going you can't come back from, leave your baggage here cause we'll need it when your gone" is a really grim, yet accurate, way of representing death and how to be at peace with it. thus the song playing in conjunction to a threat of a sudden death , such as a train, makes the song all the more meaningful.
and the line "you don't need no ticket, boys, it'll take you when it's time" is very much a way to say "don't stress about death, don't overthink it. it comes for us all so let that be your excuse to go out there and live"
Lyric's hit different when you work a railroad job and the threat of getting hit by an old black train is very real "Oh come on now, young stranger, weren't you someone's son?" actually gave me chills
Maybe it's just me, but that line makes me think he's talking to someone who was going to step in front of that train intentionally... Trying to remind him that there's still a place for him in this world.
@@ShyGuyXXLits been nearly 10 years since this miniseries was first shown, and comments like this still make me realize how much Over the Garden Wall can surprise me
Fun fact: this song was inspired by an original work from 1830 performed by The "Carter Family". A possible descendant of my family. The song was called "The Little Black Train".
Whenever my depression is particularly bad this song helps me put my thoughts into perspective. “How’d you find this depot cause it ain’t where you belong”
There's an old black train a comin' Scraping long the iron You don't need no ticket boys It'll take you when it's time O come on now young strangers Ain't you someone's son? How'd you find this depot Cause it ain't where you belong You will pass a graveyard Stones worn by the years The train will stop a minute But don't let it be the year The coachman is my brother The engineer's my friend We'll get you more acquainted By the time we reach the end This journey is a long one It'll take you all around Life rushin' by your window Before it lays you down Now where this old trains goin' You can't come back from Leave your baggage here Because we'll need it when you're gone
Fun fact: In the original story of the show, Greg and Wirt were going to be riding a train, and they think it's taking them to their deaths, so they jump off the train into The Unknown. Later, they re-board the train, ready to accept death, only to find it isn't taking them to their deaths, its taking them back to life. I think they even referenced this in the song. "How'd you find this depot, cause it ain't where you belong."
@@aidanadkins5922 actually yeah, it seems to be an nod to the original plot, and the singer seems to be the conductor talking to Greg and Wirt and the words 'weren't you someone's son?' Seemingly pointed at Wirt, with the conductor recognizing him from the time Wirt's dad boarded the train, I mean.... We know Wirt's mom remarried and having his dad die when he very young could be why he's so anxious, just something I noticed.
I haven't seen the show in a while so while listening I'm trying to remember when this song was played and then I remember this is when Wirt and Greg were falling down the hill and got into the coma
There hasn't been anything that has made me cry in a long time, but something in Over the Garden Wall just gets me every time I listen to this song. This is now one of my most favorite things I have ever watched, thank you 💕
It's the innocence. Innocence like when we were children, before social media and the internet. Back when we read old books and had imaginations and spent outside exploring.
It's actually a cover of a Woodie Guthry song, but the lyrics are rewritten to match the shows events. They dug so deep into Americana for this series. What a beautiful piece of art.
Listened to this while riding the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad at eight o'clock this morning in the very foggy mountains. It was something with and without the song.
This song is just a complete... wow. The opening lyric is so smooth and old-sounding and beautiful and haunting. And every lyric after just hit's different, haunting and sad, and perfeclty communicates the inevitability of death. And this song is one of the most thoroughly American songs I have ever heard. From it's symbolism, to it's sound, it is as americsan as you could possibly get. This song is simply perfect, nothing could improve it. Every lyric hits harder than the last and just listening to it makes me want to cry. I could quote the lyrics and explain their impact, but then I might as well quote the entire song. Chills, completely, and it just hits you different. Fun fact, I was convinced this song was super old, or made just for the show, so I looked it up. Nope, turns out it came out in 2003.
It's that time of year again Maybe due to growing older, and losing loved ones, but this song definitely hits different. Sure, it's about death. But it's comforting, nothing to be scared or too sad about. It's just another journey we're all gonna have to take. This song came out in the 2010's, and captures the feeling of old folk songs perfectly. Just gotta add in some audio pops and crackles, and I'd swear it was a part of classic Americana.
okay so i read a theory that the line "Weren't you someone's son?" is supposed to be a reference how Wirt's dad is dead because the Old Black Train would have taken Wirt's dad, and could have vaguely recognized Wirt...
No one's gonna take this idea from my mind that the boys actually were killed by the train and the "loviest lies of all" is just the author saying that he would prefer to lie in the end - that the boys lived - while the truth is that they died.
That’s a sound interpretation, but I like the thought of them narrowly escaping death. The unknown being the limbo state. The lie is that it’s not all a dream. The unknown does exist and Gregg and Wirt did actually go through it.
it sounds similar to Woody Guthrie's music and the Carters family's work from the 1920s through the early 1940s so looking for these musicians will be helpful in fact this song is based on one of this eras songs called "little black train
Aight so the Unknown is just a dream within their coma...but in the comics Beatrice accidentally goes back with them...so it actually existed if only slightly, right?
They had to have traveled somewhere. Whether it be physically or spiritually. I personally think there’s too much evidence to support the fact that they died when they fell down that hill, and the Unknown was a form of Limbo. And upon defeating the beast (death) they were able to return to their bodies. The fact that they both remembered the same events means their spirits had to have actually experienced those events. And even this song - “You don’t need no ticket boys, it’ll take you when it’s time.” Trains are often used as a metaphor for death, and they don’t need a ticket because death will eventually get you when it’s your time. “Now, come on now, young strangers Weren't you someone's son? How'd you find this depot? 'Cause it ain't where you belong” Referring directly to the kids and asking why they’re there because it isn’t their time yet.
They died in the water or at least half-died and entered some kind of limbo/purgatory before eventually returning to their bodies. If you look closely when they're in the graveyard you can see Quincy Endicott's grave showing that it was most likely real.
@@CallmeOzymandias yes! and when they died they entered a crossroads in time as shown by the conjoined house ep where the two sides were from different time periods, so the characters were probably all real at some point (just my interpretation tho)
You may also like the work of John Prine. He was, sadly, taken from us last year from the virus, but he made music somewhat consistently from the sixties up until his death.
Brown bird and Gregory Alan Isakov are some favorites of mine. They're quite different from each other and not exactly like this, but they definitely have old-fashioned, folk song kinda vibes.
I like how, metaphorically and literally, Wirt and Greg narrowly missed death. The train that nearly hits them represents death, right? But they jump out of the way just in time. The Unknown is the space between life and the afterlife. If the brothers had died, they would have traveled through the Unknown to the afterlife. But they don't die: they miss the train, they escape the Unknown, and lastly Wirt saves himself and Greg (and Jason Funderburker the frog) from drowning. The old black train of death comes for them, but they get out of the way just in time.
Yeah where they were was in purgatory
@@colonelaid5206 That's not how purgatory works
Nah they definitely die. The ending is Wirt's personal heaven
@@evilgoose6768 The end can be seen in multiple different ways. Kinda like the ending of Coraline some people think she never actually escaped if you don’t know that movie… watch it. I think if you like OTGW you’ll probably enjoy it too.
@@lilhedgehog8576 I know it can be interpreted in many ways, but listen to the song "The Old Black Train" which you hear briefly in episode 9.
They only play a few seconds of this song in the show, but in just those few seconds I knew it was beautiful
this song has been stuck in my head since the first time I watched this show, almost half a decade ago now (which is so crazy)
dang its already been nearly 7 years it was released in 2014. I remember i watched it the first time around when it came out but i didnt fully appreciate its beauty until a few months back when i watched it once again. The art, the story, and especially the soundtrack. Has to be my favorite animated series ive watched man.
Wow.. time has caught up
you ain't lying such a great lil show
Mhmm same here, and woah it's already been that long
Yeah this show is old now
(sounds of children falling down a hillside)
insert water splash noise
Then concussion sets in
The editing in that scene really stuck out for some reason.
@@YggdrasilAudio yeah
Into a river into a coma
It's fascinating that despite being a "kid's show" which aired on cartoon network, Over the Garden Wall still carries this obsession with death which permeates throughout nearly the entire series. It really gives the show it's unique, almost melancholic edge
when you think about, the line "now where this old train's going you can't come back from, leave your baggage here cause we'll need it when your gone" is a really grim, yet accurate, way of representing death and how to be at peace with it. thus the song playing in conjunction to a threat of a sudden death , such as a train, makes the song all the more meaningful.
and the line "you don't need no ticket, boys, it'll take you when it's time" is very much a way to say "don't stress about death, don't overthink it. it comes for us all so let that be your excuse to go out there and live"
"Greg...where's greg...."😮
Lyric's hit different when you work a railroad job and the threat of getting hit by an old black train is very real
"Oh come on now, young stranger, weren't you someone's son?" actually gave me chills
the old black train comes for us all eventually
Maybe it's just me, but that line makes me think he's talking to someone who was going to step in front of that train intentionally...
Trying to remind him that there's still a place for him in this world.
@ShyGuyXXL suicide is a theme throughout the show so you might be right
@@ShyGuyXXLits been nearly 10 years since this miniseries was first shown, and comments like this still make me realize how much Over the Garden Wall can surprise me
Fun fact: this song was inspired by an original work from 1830 performed by The "Carter Family". A possible descendant of my family. The song was called "The Little Black Train".
Interesting
another immortal reveals themselves
Woody Guthrie's version is gorgeous.
this is a wonderful take on woodys original work. its a whole different spin on the metaphor.
@@PlutopianSociety I’ll meet you back here everytime.
Whenever my depression is particularly bad this song helps me put my thoughts into perspective. “How’d you find this depot cause it ain’t where you belong”
me too. it kickstarted a playlist of mine called "warm," will all the songs that calm me down in an existential sort of way
That’s a lovely way to think about it.
There's an old black train a comin'
Scraping long the iron
You don't need no ticket boys
It'll take you when it's time
O come on now young strangers
Ain't you someone's son?
How'd you find this depot
Cause it ain't where you belong
You will pass a graveyard
Stones worn by the years
The train will stop a minute
But don't let it be the year
The coachman is my brother
The engineer's my friend
We'll get you more acquainted
By the time we reach the end
This journey is a long one
It'll take you all around
Life rushin' by your window
Before it lays you down
Now where this old trains goin'
You can't come back from
Leave your baggage here
Because we'll need it when you're gone
Isn't it "don't let it leave you here"?
@@RS-il5mf it is, we all make mistakes lol
thx for the lyrics
Thanks 🎉
Thank you
the songs from this show are amazing lol
i’m glad wirt and greg are able to come back. they’re able to get off the train
Fun fact: In the original story of the show, Greg and Wirt were going to be riding a train, and they think it's taking them to their deaths, so they jump off the train into The Unknown. Later, they re-board the train, ready to accept death, only to find it isn't taking them to their deaths, its taking them back to life. I think they even referenced this in the song. "How'd you find this depot, cause it ain't where you belong."
@@aidanadkins5922 actually yeah, it seems to be an nod to the original plot, and the singer seems to be the conductor talking to Greg and Wirt and the words 'weren't you someone's son?' Seemingly pointed at Wirt, with the conductor recognizing him from the time Wirt's dad boarded the train, I mean.... We know Wirt's mom remarried and having his dad die when he very young could be why he's so anxious, just something I noticed.
I haven't seen the show in a while so while listening I'm trying to remember when this song was played and then I remember this is when Wirt and Greg were falling down the hill and got into the coma
Ten years I been watching this show over and over.
Pat McHale can pretty much do whatever and I'm there for it.
There hasn't been anything that has made me cry in a long time, but something in Over the Garden Wall just gets me every time I listen to this song.
This is now one of my most favorite things I have ever watched, thank you 💕
It's the innocence. Innocence like when we were children, before social media and the internet. Back when we read old books and had imaginations and spent outside exploring.
It's actually a cover of a Woodie Guthry song, but the lyrics are rewritten to match the shows events. They dug so deep into Americana for this series. What a beautiful piece of art.
Not quite my friend, this version of the song was created in 2003, the show was put up around 2014.
never watch the show but love this song to death, taking freight around the country makes the lyrics hit super hard
Watch the show, it’ll change you
Listened to this while riding the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad at eight o'clock this morning in the very foggy mountains. It was something with and without the song.
This song is just a complete... wow. The opening lyric is so smooth and old-sounding and beautiful and haunting. And every lyric after just hit's different, haunting and sad, and perfeclty communicates the inevitability of death. And this song is one of the most thoroughly American songs I have ever heard. From it's symbolism, to it's sound, it is as americsan as you could possibly get. This song is simply perfect, nothing could improve it. Every lyric hits harder than the last and just listening to it makes me want to cry. I could quote the lyrics and explain their impact, but then I might as well quote the entire song. Chills, completely, and it just hits you different.
Fun fact, I was convinced this song was super old, or made just for the show, so I looked it up. Nope, turns out it came out in 2003.
It's that time of year again
Maybe due to growing older, and losing loved ones, but this song definitely hits different.
Sure, it's about death. But it's comforting, nothing to be scared or too sad about. It's just another journey we're all gonna have to take.
This song came out in the 2010's, and captures the feeling of old folk songs perfectly. Just gotta add in some audio pops and crackles, and I'd swear it was a part of classic Americana.
I require this play this as I am being lowered into my final destination, six feet under.
BOSS I would do the coffin dance.
Crazy how the soundtrack sticks with all the kids who watched the show
Honestly one of my favorate songs!
this song makes me tear up its so beautiful and sad at the same time
i think this is the only song ive ever cried to when i heard my sister explain the meaning of it.
I have an existential crisis everytime I listen to this song.
Love this so much 🖤
Haha its a metaphor for death ;-;
kinda reminds me of freight train
Such haunting lyrics
Warner Bros it’s 11:04 in my time and you choose THIS time to upload this
brov they dont work on your time. But i do know you pain
Beautiful
Quite like this song the singer sounds like my father and I can imagine him playing this as he's talented with the guitar
okay so i read a theory that the line "Weren't you someone's son?" is supposed to be a reference how Wirt's dad is dead because the Old Black Train would have taken Wirt's dad, and could have vaguely recognized Wirt...
"Ain't you someone's son? How'd you find this place because it ain't where you belong" is going to take me out
"Weren't you someone's son" Nope, test tube baby with no parents
Here bc the original got taken down 🙄
True :c
srsly. what's up with that?
@@starlaschroeppel Money
Death will come for us all. So, choose today to be jolly.
No one's gonna take this idea from my mind that the boys actually were killed by the train and the "loviest lies of all" is just the author saying that he would prefer to lie in the end - that the boys lived - while the truth is that they died.
Huh I never thought about it that way, I don't like it but it has logic and sense behind it ... yea I could see that being true 👍
That’s a sound interpretation, but I like the thought of them narrowly escaping death. The unknown being the limbo state. The lie is that it’s not all a dream. The unknown does exist and Gregg and Wirt did actually go through it.
@@coolioschoolio4359 you think the unknown could be real.. I’d like to go there, when the time comes.
@@lilhedgehog8576 dont we all :)
@@coolioschoolio4359or maybe that lovely lie is that there *is* something else, rather than the terror of nonexistence that we struggle to even fathom
What gets me is that the show was originally supposed to take place on a train
wait 2021? what happened to the old one
If I was on the train I would want to hop off to explore!
The fact that there's no SubMas animatic with this song is a shame
Does anyone know what genre of music this is? I wanna find more songs like this but I don't know what to search for
Folksy Blues i guess.
it sounds similar to Woody Guthrie's music and the Carters family's work from the 1920s through the early 1940s so looking for these musicians will be helpful in fact this song is based on one of this eras songs called "little black train
the black train is death itself
3rd grade me watching this scene like (O_O)
Ykno i cant help but feel this song can be used as an amv for Infinity train
To me this song is Wirt when he’s older working as a train conductor with Greg and Beatrice in the unknown
Aight so the Unknown is just a dream within their coma...but in the comics Beatrice accidentally goes back with them...so it actually existed if only slightly, right?
Plus in the scene in the hospital when greg shakes jason funderburker theres a glow in his stomach from the bell
They had to have traveled somewhere. Whether it be physically or spiritually.
I personally think there’s too much evidence to support the fact that they died when they fell down that hill, and the Unknown was a form of Limbo. And upon defeating the beast (death) they were able to return to their bodies. The fact that they both remembered the same events means their spirits had to have actually experienced those events. And even this song -
“You don’t need no ticket boys, it’ll take you when it’s time.”
Trains are often used as a metaphor for death, and they don’t need a ticket because death will eventually get you when it’s your time.
“Now, come on now, young strangers
Weren't you someone's son?
How'd you find this depot?
'Cause it ain't where you belong”
Referring directly to the kids and asking why they’re there because it isn’t their time yet.
@@tiredofeverything2771 I never noticed that, thank you!
They died in the water or at least half-died and entered some kind of limbo/purgatory before eventually returning to their bodies. If you look closely when they're in the graveyard you can see Quincy Endicott's grave showing that it was most likely real.
@@CallmeOzymandias yes! and when they died they entered a crossroads in time as shown by the conjoined house ep where the two sides were from different time periods, so the characters were probably all real at some point (just my interpretation tho)
love u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anybody have any other music recommendations like this?
this is based on a woody guthrie song, so check him out! check out other american folk and blues singers too, like elizabeth cotton and pete seeger :)
You may also like the work of John Prine. He was, sadly, taken from us last year from the virus, but he made music somewhat consistently from the sixties up until his death.
Man, try "Dried Up Old Bones"! It sounds SO much like this song, I think you´ll like it
Brown bird and Gregory Alan Isakov are some favorites of mine. They're quite different from each other and not exactly like this, but they definitely have old-fashioned, folk song kinda vibes.
Try the original song nirvana sang on unplugged
Where did you sleep last night I forget who it was originally though but I love both version...
Man i wish i could find tabs for this song
Where's Sabin and his sweet wrestling moves when you need him?
Its there any spanish version of this song?
Personnel:
Based on a Traditional song
Justin Rubenstein: Vocals
Unknown: Guitar
I hummed this song and looked up folk train song and 50 different things and couldn't find it
Woody Guthrie says hello.
This gives Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibes for some reason.
Almost 300k views, 5 to go
Huh songs about death
😳
The Greg and Wert are dead and nobody can tell me otherwise.
godzilla won
@Myname Jeff Based
I was hoping he would since he lost in the og film.
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@@ComradeDragoon ......What?
@@teddybearkiller5271 I saw your comment 3 minutes after you posted it. It's strange since this video doesn't have a ton of traction or views.