alt-J - Get Better (Official Video)
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"Get better, my darling, I know you will"
From me to myself and everyone struggling with depression, the loss of a loved one, anxiety, or whatever this world has done against you. Everything will be alright.
❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful.
@Ven Thank you dear! 💜
I feel like nothing will ever change
@@alexnagy2044 you're welcome♡
My mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about a month ago, around when this song came out. Alt-J is a band my mom and I share love for. She took me to my first concert, which was Alt J. My mom passed away yesterday after a very short, but long hard battle with cancer. I’ve listened to this song about every day and oh boy I’ve cried so much listening to it. This song is beautiful. If anyone else has lost a loved one, my whole heart is with you. It will get better one day.
That's terrible, I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. I hope you have support from people around you and i wish you well
So hard to say goodbye … do we need to ? Can we just say, meet you down the path a ways? My heart aches for all going through a great loss. For me.
hope youre doing well now
Hang in there Kenz. This song must rip your heart out.
Bless your soul
For the last 3 years I've borne witness to my wife valiantly battle stage 4 metastatic breast cancer that has spread to her brain. I often feel like I am mourning the loss of who she once was and who she could have been as she is going through this transitional period with such grace. We still have hope she can hold on long enough for a cure, but this song cut me deeply. Man does it hurt.
Prayers for your all of you💜🙏
you’re in my thoughts and prayers brother 🙏🏽🤍
Love and light to you both
Stay strong!
fuck cancer
Really beautiful. One of my favourites.
Unexpected to see you here! You have good music taste :D
Wow! Mumbo, what are you doing here?
MY CHILDHOOD EXCUSE ME?!?!
Mumbo you have amazing music taste
Sksksks i didn't expect you here, mumbo! Ahhaah
im gonna be honest, at first i wasnt sure about this song, but reading the lyrics while watching the video made me realize how much of a sad and beautiful song this is
Same
Where did you find the full lyrics?
@@adc231098 it's a lyric video, the lyrics are in the video, just watch it instead of reading the comment section !
@@carotheplaylistmaker oh lol, I was listening to it on TH-cam music
Is definitely a good song, but certainly not a song that will attract a large audience.
This crushed my soul. As an ICU nurse I have seen so many people lost their loved ones, sometimes the empathy is just too much. But how they said, we’ll get better.
god bless you - so much respect for your job!!!!
Bless you for your strength, compassion, and natural instinct to help.
Bless you
Same here, also work in healthcare.. listened to the lyrics and it was like a sucker punch of repressed emotions from the past few years. All I could think of was all those loved ones just wishing, waiting, hoping.
And then I'd be putting that patient in a body bag a few hours later.
After discovering You in one of my darkest periods of life, I have a special connection with your music. It’s rare to see artists that are so dedicated to their craft, so hungry to make something not for cash or fame, but rather because they truly care about the craft. From Breezeblocks to The Gospel of John Hurt, your love for music always shows in what you put out. Nothing has a greater effect on my mood than your songs, whether it be uplifting or something I can cry to, your music is truly something special. I was worried we would never get anything new, yet still satisfied in all that your past music has done for me. After yet another very difficult year of my life, listening to your new music has been such a wonderful surprise that’s keeps me driven. I’m not sure if you’ll ever see this, and that’s okay, I just hope you really know how incredible and impactful your music is. Thank you, Alt-j
Beautiful story. Thanks for sharing.
Your words describe my feelings exactly x
Thank you so much for writing this! I feel very related to you at this moment.
Sooooo much related to ur words,i always drifted away in the grief of lost my husband,alt j is his favorite band, i immersed myself in alt j’s music after he left , trying to grab every little piece we have been through.and in this moment, i realized between us -something beautiful has been expressed, in death,nothing has been lost.U r always in the deepest part of my heart , Justin RIP, the one who once accompanied me a period of time and yet influenced me my whole lifetime
I hope they read this!
I am so late to the party, and I hate to post comments outside of my little subreddit… but I had a snake, Nepenthe, who died of sepsis about two weeks ago. And I know he was “just a snake” … but when I showed people my animals I always said “THIS one is my SON”
I know y’all are talking about losing parents and spouses, but if it isn’t too rude of me to do so… I just wanted to say that I am still pretending that Nepenthe is just out of sight in another room and I loved that animal more than I ever ever could have imagined.
For all you guys suffering greater losses - the sweet words you guys posted are helping me remember to take a breath, if my heart is shattering like this then I cannot imagine how you guys are carrying on. Thank you guys for the love sent my way and I am sending love back to y’all,
One person's grief and feelings don't detract from anyone else's - you are perfectly entitled to express this. I'm sorry about Nepenthe and hope you're doing better now.
Having a hard time holding it together and listening to this rn!!!!
No need to hold it together.
Let it out 🫂
Right!?!
Hello corporation
yeah completely bawled during first listen. feel wellings inside of me when i just think about it now...
That part "I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room" hit like a truck
Like a monster truck. I never cry but I’ve cried every time with those lyrics.
i swear i never cried because of a song but bro, thatvpart
Every time
Glad that I'm not alone with this
I cry everytime
Soooooo stoked to hear the full album!
Amen!
Evan
Cannot wait
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE ALL MY CHILDHOOD HEROS
Good to see you here! I knew I liked you for a reason~
I am on my break from substitute teaching and I am crying as I watch this music video. Hopefully I can pull back these tears before my next class arrives. Congrats, Alt-J. You've done it again with excellent writing and composition of sounds.
Aristotle stealing all your classes again?
..am so with u..^^ am teaching myself -most of the time caring bout the "troublemakers"- but figured one day when even the "ganstery"-kids caught me touched by some music, behing the schoolyard-mask there's so deep longing for true relations!! thanks for sharing and let inspiration flow..!!
I understand. I was at lunch at work and worried my coworkers would see my tears
I was just sitting at my desk, expecting nothing, being unsatisfied with myself and the way my past days were going, and then this song hit me. It hit me out of nowhere and it hit me at a spot, I didn't know I needed to be touched. Now I feel sad, mostly about how I waste so much time, worrying about whatever instead of appreciating the time, in which I can sit here at my desk, knowing that in the next room there is my loved one, probably smiling at their phone.
Thank you!
Seriously. I just went and gave mine a huge hug. Lol.
Beautiful
I CRIED. This is the first time I cry at a song. I cry at books and at movies, but a song? This is the first time! It's amazing. ❤️
for me, this is by far the most beautiful song from Alt-j.
thanks for this
"Get better, my darling, I know you will."
"Get better my darling, I know I will."
This really pulled my heart strings.. Sorry this story had a bad ending..
death is not necessarily a bad ending 💗
@@christychan4606 I can see where you're coming from. In fact, how you handle death can be good, as it's part of life.
But death is not a good thing inherently, and in the context of the song, It doesn't feel like It was a good thing.
i totally understand what you're thinking. my grandmother just passed away and she was in so much pain, my family and i are still grieving. but at the same time i'm glad that she is now in a happier place.
@@christychan4606 I'm very sorry for your loss, and I am happy that she was loved as she was by you and yours! My condolences! :(
I know It's not the same, and I'm not trying to compare, but my dog had a lot of health problems to the point he wasn't able to "live". Death was a mercy, in my view, and it made me reflect deeply on it. So you're right, sometimes death is not necessarily a bad ending!
our loved ones will always live on, they will always be in our hearts. this is a lovely song is one of the things that help us remember them💓
This song makes me want to hug everyone who is feeling any kind of sadness anywhere, for any reason, and tell them it's going to be OK.
A story of death and life. Perfectly crafted. Emotionally told. Life’s final conclusion can’t be avoided. But love ignited in life, can’t be completely extinguished in death.
Woah, that’s beautiful!!
You should write a poem, this gold
Beautifully put.
It captures the essence of how fragile and fleeting life is, and that we should cherish those we love in the time we have.
It is rare for me to cry. Even rarer because of a song. But alt-j has done it again.
I have loved this song for years and it never fails to move me when I hear it. I have never thought to seek out a video for it and this is legitimately one of the most beautiful things I have seen in my time on this earth. I am a puddle of awe, grief, hope, and everything in between. Thank you so much for creating the art that you do, lads.
Alt J is my love language. Thank you for creating
soo right!! cause "i just want to love u in my own language".. (3WW)..^^ share it out!!
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❤️
"love is the warmest colour" 💜
“Get better, my darling, i know i will.”
Minutes after my dad passed away from ALS, i brought his cat into the room so she could understand he was gone.
I take care of her now. The ending letting the cat come inside, while experiencing intense grief, is exactly what my life looks like at times.
I miss you daddy. Every day. You passed in 2020, but i feel like i lost you in 2019 when your illness took over.
Daddy, i am so sorry for what you went through. I am so sorry you were robbed of your dream of being a grandpa. I am so sorry I did not hug you and never let go. Sometimes i wish i had held on to you and gone with you.
I miss you every day daddy. Life has never been the same since. I will get better. I will get better. I know i will.
I discovered Alt-J 12 years ago, thanks to my dad. This group is the only one I have ever been tired of, the only one who has always walked beside me all these years. I became a teenager who listened to them, and then I'm becaming a young adult who is listening to them. I grew up with them and helped me manage melancholy, to consider her a friend rather than my enemy. Alt-J is something precious and beautiful. Every time I listen to their music, I feel connected to who I really am. It’s like a walk with the old me walking next to the current me, in a quiet place. It is to stop all the time around us, to drop all the constraints of daily life. For a little time.
"I still pretend you're only out of sight"
MY HEART MAN!
My antidepressants prevent me from ever crying. Except when this song plays. This song gets me every time.
this hurts my heart. i lost my father in law to COVID in the beginning of this year and the progression of "get better, i know you will" "i hope you will" "i know i will" is devastating because it's exactly true to what i and the family went through, especially for my MIL who lost the love of her life. i'll never forget her screaming in grief when we told her the news. i can't listen to this without my heart dropping into my stomach, even if i'm just idly listening while doing something else. this song is a beautiful encapsulation of what it's like to go through the hardest goodbye. thank you for this, alt-J.
Things that floored me:
- I know you will -> I hope you will
- “At this time” (typical ICU talk)
It’s in the detail that their lyrics break me
Oh God! This part "your nutella I'll keep in the cellar you were always a fan of that spread" is driving me crazy. It is so warm
My father had the liver cancer diagnosed in march 10th this year, around the time i discovered this song. I never payed much attention to its lyrics before, but right now it makes so much sense. He died this past july 8th, in the icu, alone, as i was on the airplane on my way to say goodbye to him. He really liked being on his cellphone laughing of many facebook videos and this song has been helping me through grief. I still pretend he's only out of sight in his room, laughing at his phone as i'm here, writing this comment and picturing the best days i had with the best father ever. Miss you, dad. So much. All the time. Get better.
This one absolutely kills me every single time 💔😭
"Get Better” is the union of two songs. The first was an improvised song I sang in 2018 to my partner. To her I sang, “Get better my Darcy, I know you can.” She filmed it and I kept revisiting the fragment with a plan to write more. The second was a chord structure I worked on in lockdown that focused on someone living through a bereavement. I felt a nervous heat when writing “Get Better.” The context of the Coronavirus pandemic lent my words a chilling weight and gave me a new sense of responsibility as a lyricist. Whilst the direct events described are fictional, I believe - or I hope - that it’s emotionally the most honest song I’ve written."
Heard it first on KEXP and was not clear on the story line - seeing it with the video really hits home with the full impact of the story arc of the song. I am sure that this song will speak to so many, both who have lots loved ones to other causes, and all those who have lost loved ones during this pandemic. For you to say it is the most “emotionally the most honest song” you’ve written is saying a lot considering your other songs - but it certainly is a raw examination of grief and recovery.
Thank you for this authentic connection - it will inspire healing by being heard.
Awesome song and another fantastic video. Absolutely love your work ALT-J. Looking forward to seeing you in May 🤩
Amazing!!! Such an amazing peice.
Thank you for weaving so much candor and vulnerability into this song. There are so many fine details between the threads: the revisiting of memories, hoping you can save someone with pen-scribbled I Love You’s, the stillness of moments marked by grief, and the heartache of baking and holding on to jars of Nutella.
I lost my mom recently, and this song made me feel so seen; it felt both like a stab to the chest and a heavy, warm blanket over the shoulders. You’re so gifted. Thank you.
their songwriting is so beautiful. the tone shifts so much just by changing the "you" to "i" in the chorus, amazing alt-j
When my dad died in a car accident, I felt like I couldn't cry for a full week. We were close, I loved him very much, and he loved me despite not being his biological kid. When this song came out, I was in my car driving home and hearing "I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room smiling at your phone" really tugged the last tether I needed to feel everything at once. I come back here when I'm missing him as a little reminder that it's okay to revisit the memories of loss if it helps you heal. Beautiful, beautiful song. ♡
The 90's point-and-click adventure aesthetic has me swooning 😍😍 it's so wholesome and nostalgic and heartwarming!
"I pretend you're out of sight in another room" jeez didn't know it was gonna hit that deep
Our black cat passed away a few weeks ago. This song made us cry.. beautiful.
This is one of those songs I really hope isn’t based on real events.
Joe just tweeted it's fictional
@@rory90FiVe what a relief…
It’s real for someone
@@KW-if9wp harrrd, true tho
@@KW-if9wp sheeshh bro, chill
They are now officially one of greatest bands of this bloody century. WOW
I never thought I'd have to dedicate this song. Today, 25/06/2024, my best friend died. She was the only person I've ever truly loved. She taught me how to be kind, how to be empathetic, and showed me that life is worth living. I already used to see her in everything I'd come across, and now that will be a painful thing to bear.
Friend, I'll play that new videogame that you won't be able to play. I'll feed a stray cat whenever I can. I'll take pictures of all the flowers and all the sunsets you couldn't see. I'll listen to all your favorite songs. I'll do it all and more, just for you. I really hoped you would get better.
My daughters introduced me to ALT J and their music is insanely good. I just finished watching this video and it works on so many levels because it immediately connects us with the underlying sorrow of loss that walks behind us. Never too far away. Beautiful and haunting. Reminds me of how fleeting life is and how every day is so precious. Each sunrise and sunset is a gift with our loved ones.
wow, that's so true.... thank you so much
for this wonderful words. Love from Germany!
I am a front line worker. It's been chaos this past year. Recently my step-mom who has been in my life for over 20 years was just taken off chemo and has about 3-4 weeks to live. This is a tough one. Thanks Alt-J. Much love.
Never heard such an emotional song..
It's a master piece
A few weeks ago, I delivered a module to medical students on Palliative Care, Grief/grieving, death and dying. Being a non-expert, this was way beyond my comfort zone, but I learned so much while preparing for and delivering this module. This song captures the very essence of these matters that we as physicians are very uncomfortable talking about, the dealing with emotions that we shy away from tackling in ourselves and others in the face of grief, loss and death. Thank you alt-j, this is brilliant and utterly heartful
His voice is like an exquisite, warm, velvet chocolate being poured into your soul. It takes me to far away places & makes me feel like I've lived another life that's not my own. I love this band so much
I have spent so long seeing the people I love in pain and in suffering. Hoping in the face of no control is really hard.
Opening up about my own world to others though-especially after this past year…
Finding hope for yourself is not as easy as the hope I find for others. But I’m trying to let myself take that risk-and hope for me.
Thank you Alt J.
Cried the first two times I listened to this and am sure it will resonate with many people in the same way. Thank you for capturing this moment for our generation, beautiful stuff.
Also reminds me a bit of Sufjan Stevens’ album, Carrie & Lowell.
I just cannot listen to this song without crying so beautiful.. I start cry everytime...😭😭 "I still pretend, your only other side in other room, smiling at your phone..." Rest in peace all lovely friends and family members..❤❤ Every year i say good bye to someone and think why im still here...
Tragic yet amazingly beautiful. What a song
alt-j is therapy. thank you guys, you are the best
This feels honest. It feels like a song made to be heard by the singer. It doesn’t try to please anyone’s taste but the one who wrote it. I look forward to the full album.
The ending is so beautiful,,,
the "I still pretend" bit is so painful as well, it hits so hard
this song makes me so emotional
Read this album is gonna be pretty dark. Super excited.
Where's the dark on this????
@@AltairGysich Death is kinda dark mate
U&ME is literally about having fun during good times???
@@luminos2002 na, just sad but not dark
@@rory90FiVe They said that that song doesn't reflect the rest of the album. So I don't know how many songs will be like U&Me, but it was said it's a pretty dark album.
I just lost my grandmother to cancer. She was such a graceful warrior for life. I miss her dearly and this song just made me bawl my eyes out.
This honestly might be their best song yet. The lyricism is top notch.
Praying anyone struggling with illness or loss of a loved one does get better, Sending so much love and healing energy 🙏✨
"get better!"
"i know i will."
the time after losing someone is the roughest. if youre dealing with something similar remember they are watching over you and love you so much and are so proud of you for everything youve accomplished.
Alt J is one of the most beautiful gifts to music.
Discovered you guys about 6 years ago. Had been homeless, addicted, and lost. Some of the most powerful and beautiful moments of my life have included your music. I don't know what led to the creation of this song, but it brings up emotions I wasn't fully aware I had. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. You do more good than you know.
This song is so soothing to a pain that is all too real. Hope we can all get better one day
J'en reste sans voix... Cela fait longtemps qu'un son ne m'a pas bouleversé à ce point... C'est juste déchirant
Des génies…
Aly j depuis mathilda sont juste... waow
Totalement d’accord ! 🙏
Very well put, I agree
stunning vocals here.
*Shout out to my Ex, for showing me this band back in the day.*
As someone whose soulmate died at the young age of 34 due to COVID in front of me; this is a really heavy one and it's spot on.
One minute she was there, the next minute she's gone. Your brain can't comprehend the unimaginable grief you feel and you spiral in an endless ocean of memories to fill in the gaps.
They, sadly really encapsulate the essence of that in this song to the highest degree
This is so moving. What a delicate, moving and honest song. This really touches my soul. I really feel the mourning here. Thanks Joe and Alt-J.
Absolute chills when I listen to this song.
I listened for the first time and I liked it. I listened for the second time and I started crying.
It feels so quietly soft and peaceful, so humble and so powerful at the same time. And it makes it even more painful.
The most moving band in the entirety of music.
I don't know how but just by listening it's getting better
Absolutely tearjerking.
That ending with the voicemail recording reminds me of one I had of my grandma before she passed. I used to play it daily. It made me feel she was still there. I really miss her.
The voice in the recording was a gut punch. Sobbed immediately.
@@genevievealmonte184 definitely! Heartbreaking.
Just heard Patrick Grant choose this track on Desert Island Discs. He sobbed as he talked about how it impacted on him, following the death of his dad with COVID. Just listened and watched the video. Seldom have I been more moved. 💔
I love when a song evokes so much emotion.
Thank you Alt-J.
So beautiful and sad ❤️ hope everyone who lost someone get better. I'm cheering for you all and myself
Damn, this makes me miss my Nana. Just a beautiful song 💚
This band and their music is just absolutely life saving.
This one hurts to listen to, anyone that’s gone through something like this, i’m so sorry for you. You have my love and support
I was not prepared to be crying at work, oh boy, this is really beautiful. Made me feel a lot about my recent losses
"Get Better!! :)"
Someday. Thanks Alt-J.
Crying like a baby right now😭... thank you Alt-J for putting words on our emotions ❤
This is so beautiful. My love and I didn't assume nothing because of my health problem. I have psychosis super controlled but she don't keap me after all the efforts we made and go ahead. I'm happy for that, not for me but for her because life is always beautiful and one day I will find my happiness too because I'm young and I will left the medication in the name of Jesus
Been here since An Awesome Wave. I'm bawling my eyes out. Absolutely love the new sound. Thanks y'all. Really needed this.
Anthem to my marriage. 😊😘❤️❤️
This song is just beautiful. My husband died 2 years today and listening to this has just left me in bits.
One of the best songs I've heard in a long time. So simple, yet so powerful.
"I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room"
We're all working on getting better - thanks for a beautiful song, Alt-J.
Listening to this song and reading the comments really broke me down. Why must life be so full of heartache?
Oh wow, I’ve read so many comments already about people discovering alt-j in a place of pain or huge discomfort and I find it so very interesting that for me it was exactly the same!
I discovered them as well in the middle of the biggest depression of my life and they were the reason I got out, they literally helped me through. I wouldn’t know where I’d be without their music. This video/song hit so hard, reminding me of my darkest times and the wish to leave this world (I’ve never said these words out loud until now). Seeing this video and the pain made me cry so hard.
I feel like alt j always drops something new whenever I kind of am in a new phase of life. This time it’s the first time I feel like I’m on the other side, I finally walked through this god damn tunnel but I can still see where I came from and appreciate the place where I am at now, especially because I never believed I would make it and just be content and happy.
Still seeing this the wound feels fresh and it still hurts to know this once could have been me.
I don’t know where I am going with this but thank you alt j to healing and helping us!
To every single person reading this to the end: you will get better and it will be worth it! I promise! Please don’t give up!! Not for all the others but for yourself and the joy you’ll be missing if you’re leaving this world too early! ❤️
same i discovered alt-j about 8 years ago and was so drawn to their music in such a dark period of my life which helped me through…currently going through the same and i’m just happy to have them as comfort
@@hakunamatata6500 so sorry to hear that! Get better soon ❤️
the last sentence made me cry. thanks for your words katharina, you deserve everything
@@ben5538 thank you for your kindness!
@@ben5538 I hope you’re feeling alright!
Alt j is the only band that has released a song that made me cry on the first listen
The way loss it's shown in this song is just so incredibly relatable, beautiful and heartfelt. I am crying right now. Thank you for this amazing song.
Thank you for making me cry so hard tonight. I've never cried for s long while and I needed it.
I lost my dad to Covid19 and every day since the release I listen to this song.
It unlocked feelings I didn't know I had.
(I still intend you're only out of sight in another room
Smiling at your phone )
(I still keep the ice cream he made for me in the freezer)
Je ne savais pas que j'avais besoin de douceur... Jusqu'à ce que j'entende ce nouveau titre.
Merci pour ça.
this actually made me tear up. beautiful song.
No matter how many times I listen to this, I cry.
My heart is shattered in a million pieces. Yet so beautiful!
I leave a small part of my soul here. Thank you so much
I so needed to start my work day with tears streaming down my face 🙃 Alt-J speaks to me on a primal level. There's something about Joe, so emotive with the voice. And ugh, this song is so sad and beautiful, and I can't wait for this album. I've been in love with Alt-J since 2007 and I don't see that ending ever 😅
Same here lol
This song is powerful. And before you ask, I have dust in my eyes.
I listened to this song a few times since it came out and I really liked it. Today while washing the dishes I read the lyrics while listened to it and started sobbing like a baby. Somehow I never really got the complete meaning of the song until today and it hit me like a truck. This song is so beautiful but so sad. The power of lyrics is mind-blowing
'I still pretend you're in another room, smiling at your phone' - it sums up grief perfectly, i cry every time i hear that lyric
Alt j has always been the one thing that describes my soul more than anything else. Nothing makes me feel more safe and understood. Every song is dear to my heart in ways I cannot describe, how many nights I have stayed up dancing with every fibre of my soul. I am elated about the new album and I know it will be as dear to my soul as all the others. This song is absolutely devine and makes me cry with an equal amount of joy and sadness, like the beautiful balance that is life. Thank you.