This piece of music covers a lot of generations, it is a protest, it is a hymn, it is a grim reality but at the same time a call for peace in the end....pop culture existentialism and philosophy united at the same time, a piece of art, thanks for composing this jewel....
Me in 2009 when I was 18: ooo this song is catchy! Me in 2021 and now I'm going on 30: God this song is so real. Achieved all my dreams and I'm miserable. My mom passed away. I'm boring like everybody else.
I see this as an end of innocence. How you grow up and have to pick a path and then no matter what you choose you just have to let it run it's course. I see it as saying that there's only so many options and as grown ups you have to just pick one. They chose to live fast and die young because the only other option was to go to work in an office. They felt trapped and pressured and in the end they lost their childhood to their decisions. But that's just how I see it. I understand the other ways of seeing it too.
I feel the definition of the song is basically in the title, time to pretend. Time to pretend basically equals Time to escape reality, you can do this by doing drugs, basically by dying.
I’m a black guy and a lot of African Americans would call me all kinds of things because I like this kind of music they think it’s white peoples music I say no way it’s not white people music it’s every body music love this kind of music no doubt.
U in the wrong area.... I live in a a highly mixed town. But my car my rules.. i never seen all my hard core friends all snap to sing the same songs I play. That’s cus with my system I don’t be like rap or country mine stays on nostalgia. 🤣 just call me nostalgia ❤️ that was an actual nick name I was given. I have a yellow truck so everyone knows everyone here in Stockton california
I’m afraid the black man has issues.........I’m white and when I put on Bob Marley none of my white friends have ever asked me why am I playing this black mans music.........never.
This song was played heavy in 2008 especially summer, such a simple and beautiful time in my life as a high school dropout. Those parties (what I can remember) will live in my mind and heart forever.
I remember my first time listening to this. I was watching the spider man homecoming trailer. I remember being in absolute awe as a young preteen. Man I miss those days sometimes. Wen life was simpler. Were there was no social hierarchy, no stress, not a care in the world. Man now that im older I really appreciate those times.
It came out right when I moved out for the first time and the energy and anxiety of the journey to adulthood and this evokes so many of my early adulthood memories and one of riding in the car with BFF and put my arm out of the car window. The lyrics and the melody of the song I think feel very close to home for how we all felt when we first moved out of our parent’s house
The really sad part of this is this is a song that's nostalgic about the good old days released during what are nowadays considered the good old days. I miss the 2000s like you wouldn't believe.
He does sing ''life can always start up again'', so its not as depressing as I first thought. He knows what lies ahead and is going into it eyes open. @@calistafalcontail
I interpret this song as being about a depressed person disillusioned with life, and coping with pain by trying to live a life of hedonism. Using drugs, gaining wealth, and having casual sex as a way of acquiring superficial happiness. And to forget about about their own problems and misery, ultimately not caring whether they live or die. This song sounds happy, but is actually pretty depressing. Serious lyrical dissonance here, which I personally love. Great song.
Thank you so much for being intelligent. This is my exact interpretation of the song, and it blows my mind that people are taking it so literally or taking nothing away from the song at all when there is so much to take from it. I love songs like this because it's disguised as a party song because, these days, party songs are the most likely to become popular radio hits. However, the words and the message behind the words are meaningful. If you stop dancing and drinking and actually LISTEN to what he's saying, you'll learn something about yourself and your lifestyle.
This is actually a really strong message. Thinking about the lyrics makes me wonder just how many people out there feel the need to lose themselves in drugs, sex, and money just to feel real. And how many others put masks on to hide what they're going through. Whether this is about Hollywood dipshits or not, it's still an awesome song, and if someone is blind enough to read into it and go "That's what I should do", they need to rethink the meaning of it.
THIS is how I look at the song. Sounds good and is fun to listen to but has deeper themes than most people realize. Some people are getting upset on here because they're taking the words at face value, but if you look deeper into it you'll realize it's actually a kind of depressing song.
This song is so enlightening it makes me cry in pure extacy. Best song for everyone suffering depression keep battling don't commit suicide do what your heart feels right and happiness will slowly enfold
+xxAnaconta reverse, when you are a teen, you want to be accepted, and pretend to be someone else.. but when you grow up, you feel free, but no everybody will grow up..
David Grinstein...Totally agree, people talking so philosophical about the society and shit, just haven't grown up yet...I used to be like that, that's my source.
The irony is that the band wrote the song in an attempt to mock the Hollywood/rock n roll lifestyle and then actually ended up living it… life is amazing and so is this tune…🙏🫶🏼💙
This song is great. Really depresses me though because it's so true... we lose who we were when we are young and now we have to act like everyone else in society or people will not accept us. And if they don't accept you, you will be lonely..
Career in the military. Never worked in offices. Never commuted. Been all over the world. Married a model, had kids, divorced. Retired now at 58 riding a Harley across the country. Life began a new... I did miss my father, my mother and sisters tho.
I'm 19, working two part time jobs for minimum wage, driving a broken POS Toyota, barely making enough for a living I don't even know what I'm doing with my life, I feel like I'm just aimlessly wandering through it
Great lyrics and riff - we're only fated to pretend if we follow our Western culture and social conditioning. If we educate ourselves to make money outside the system of working (i.e. trading the financial markets) and educate ourselves to maintain our health, and have good intimacy in our lives and children that will survive us and be our future, then we have a purposeful and fulfilling life. If we depend on and subscribe to the education we get in schools, universities, and at work, then we're fated to pretend within that system of conformity and ever-increasing competition. We cannot be ourselves and reach our true potential or have a family in a way that doesn't compromise our own lives too much within the system expected by Western society
it's a cry of hopelesness, in the sense, that even doe he says it and completely realizes the situation he still can't get out of it, , there is no strenght in the message even doe it's true and he sings about it.
I actually don't feel sad when I listen to this song. I feel actually numb to negativities. Most are striving to fit an ideal that we don't agree with. Few reach self-actualization because of societal construct holding us back. This song just resonates with that feeling and gives way to the feeling of denial and resultant self battle.
What a sad, honest, depressed lyrics to an uplifting melody, and it was played everywhere in 2008. Getting fame, regret it, do it anyway, and die by it. Say Yeah Yeah Yeah 😆
Ended up bawling to the part about the singer how he's going to miss his family and dog. I had a fallout with a friend that i liked and respected. I shouldn't have placed as much value in them as I did. I tried to patch things up but the person didn't want anything to do with me. The whole process broke me down. I wanted to kill myself, but I have other people to look after. A line later says about missing the time being alone. Loneliness hurts but its beautiful when we have time with ourselves and our interests. Anyway..wish everyone the best..
yup, losing friends is always very tough, you miss everything, but after a lot of time you grow out of being sad and end up growing as a person and having fun with just yourself again, it’s very hard but it really does get better!
I love it all. The pain for making the happy times so sweet. The boredom so fun is so much better. It all has it's place. Life is wonderful and such a gift. I love you all.
I'm so sorry for your loss Losing someone you love can really stink but always remember you are loved and appreciated, if you don't think so well a random 15 year old online spent his time at 3 am writing you this message, always remember I'm here rooting for you If ur still around (since this comment was like 6 years ago) add me on discord and I'll always be available to talk my account is Stelq#9621 Stay strong my friend I'm here for u🖤
I heard this on the radio and knew it was by mgmt(could tell by the vocals) and knew he said pretend. So I looked it up and am happy. We all get nostalgic and I think we all miss the way things used to be. I'll have to send this to my brother
I remember when I was a kid listening to this song because my dad would always play it and never really understanding the meaning but I was somehow really drawn to it. Not so long ago I wanted to re-listen to this song for the nostalgia and realised how real and deep the meaning really was and it just gave me the chill and tiered me up. I was so innocent back then...
My perception of the song is that they (the artist) or every other music artist, sign themselves up to a road where they have access to drugs, models, fame and prefer to live this fast paced life than a life where they sit down and do paperwork. But even though they have this life that most people find amazing, these artists have lost connections to friends and family leaving them with nothing but their fame. They reminisce about their childhood or simpler times but now it is too late to turn back and everything has to "run it's course." even up to their deaths. Anyone see it differently?
But it's universal in the sense that we all have to "grow up" one day and move out and strike a life out all on our own without our families and friends to really help us along and try to find that perfect job and love and establish your own family and this song makes it clear how absolutely shitty that is no matter how far you make it onto that wheel (at least in the states). And the only people who have fun in life are the ones who maintain those friend and family connections and try to make a difference and feel important. Some feel good by having someone to love, either physically, romantically, or platonically. While others none of these things matter and the only way to feel is to get drunk, get high, lose yourself to the cycle of drugs and alcohol to forget about the pain of your life.
Best song to skateboard down a hill to in the dusk of summer. It brings a certain piece to me. A nice breeze blowing, speeding down a hill on your favorite piece of wood, watching the sun set, while this song plays. Never had a more perfect moment. :)
Alot of people in the comments say that this song sounds like a good summer bit for me it reminds me of my dad teaching me how to snowboard when I was a kid. We would crank this tune and just cruise down the mountain having a good time. I have to listen to it every year when I'm up there
'We'll choke on our vomit, and that will be end' - best lyrics ever! it doesn't sound sad, but it's the saddest song i know. let's all be friends and enjoy the music
It's not a sad song like some are saying, it's basically reiterating what Bill Hicks used to say about how it's all a "ride". He was into psychedelics and understood this, same as these guy's. He would say "on the news today, a young man took acid and realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves."
I pray for anyone out there that listens to this song in a way that they relate. I know you have heard what I am about to write many times but I just want to say to somebody out there that has their ears open to hear and hearts ready to receive, Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart, ready to break the chains of addiction or any bondage to sin you have. Surrender your sins to Him and believe in Him. What He did on that cross was to save us even though we are sinful, He loves us and wants us to turn to Him. Don’t love death but love Jesus Christ. ❤️
I found this song a couple years ago and I’d say life was pretty good and as I listened to it more and more here and there I didn’t realize how much I lost until now. Seeing so many people express many things here seems normal. Wow
That line.. "I miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home"... Ouch, right in the feels. Every time.
Ok
Picks the right strings of hthe heart
Yep.
Haven’t seen my family for four years :/ for the best but that lyric is a hard one to sing
yeah man !
This piece of music covers a lot of generations, it is a protest, it is a hymn, it is a grim reality but at the same time a call for peace in the end....pop culture existentialism and philosophy united at the same time, a piece of art, thanks for composing this jewel....
That made this song as a meme bro
@@Masterhand69it’s an intentional satire of pop culture and celebrity culture yes, but the lyrics and the implications of them are still pretty sad
"I'll miss my mother and the weight of the world." Beautiful words.
Back when you had no worries
Yeah yeah yeah
i cry everytime this line comes up 😩
* “I’ll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world”
this song feels like the climax of a really great summer.
I Miss 2008.
Fck covid
@@kevinheatcoat2190 right here with ya. 07-08 were the happiest years of my life
@@chaseg 2021 And 2022 Has Been The Most Depressing Years of My Life.
@@kevinheatcoat2190 amen to that.
I miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone...
I Miss 2008 So Much.
One of the best song ever.. The vibe is incredible
big fax
This song sounds like an upbeat obituary. Bitter sweet and gorgeous sounds
I could listen to this song every day for the rest of my life and never get sick of it.
I feel the same. my best ever.
Me too
So can I 😀
Even if you realize one day the life you live is pretended?
+Emmy Gee I always wondered why this song felt like a drug but I think the fact that there are drugs in the lyrics has something to do with it....
Mein täglicher Ohrwurm 👍 Eines der schönsten Lieder aller ZEITEN. Respekt vor diesen Jung's. DANKE
let's all be friends and enjoy the music
Pretend to be friends 😂
We have to be friends, brothers and comrades!
*No. Pretend.*
Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives
the line "we will choke on our vomit and that will be the end" really sticks in my brain
THE SILLY bear thats how jimmi hendrix died
Giancarlo Rodriguez also how john bonham of led zeppelin died
Drugs
I love drugs
It’s how rock stars mostly die and bon Scott also
such a brutal-honest-tragic song.
The lyrics in this song are quite stunning. Just brilliant, really.
Me in 2009 when I was 18: ooo this song is catchy!
Me in 2021 and now I'm going on 30: God this song is so real. Achieved all my dreams and I'm miserable. My mom passed away. I'm boring like everybody else.
Walter white
2022 Reminds Me Of 2008.
Don't be miserable. Every second we're alive is a gift.
be strong man... Love on u and ur mom
2011 oh wow, this is a new genre to me, its awesome!
2018 I want to cry from sadness.
2023 I want to puke from sadness.
MGMT always have the coolest beats in their songs, I love it!
I see this as an end of innocence. How you grow up and have to pick a path and then no matter what you choose you just have to let it run it's course. I see it as saying that there's only so many options and as grown ups you have to just pick one. They chose to live fast and die young because the only other option was to go to work in an office. They felt trapped and pressured and in the end they lost their childhood to their decisions. But that's just how I see it. I understand the other ways of seeing it too.
Dude, that was deep.
I love that theory!
I feel the definition of the song is basically in the title, time to pretend. Time to pretend basically equals Time to escape reality, you can do this by doing drugs, basically by dying.
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peter parker?
I’m a black guy and a lot of African Americans would call me all kinds of things because I like this kind of music they think it’s white peoples music I say no way it’s not white people music it’s every body music love this kind of music no doubt.
U in the wrong area.... I live in a a highly mixed town. But my car my rules.. i never seen all my hard core friends all snap to sing the same songs I play. That’s cus with my system I don’t be like rap or country mine stays on nostalgia. 🤣 just call me nostalgia ❤️ that was an actual nick name I was given. I have a yellow truck so everyone knows everyone here in Stockton california
Music is for the masses. It transcends all limits placed on us by our society. So keep doing you!
So true. I’ll be banging mgmt or other bands in this genre and people tell me to change the song. No appreciation for this music with some people
Thats white music. Thats why i like it so much
I’m afraid the black man has issues.........I’m white and when I put on Bob Marley none of my white friends have ever asked me why am I playing this black mans music.........never.
This song sounds so innocent until you actually pay attention to the lyrics
yeah, its dark.
but ,hey , don't all MGMT songs sound innocent until you read the lyrics!? :P
ikr ?
this is true I want anylize the lyrics and think why marvel choose this song for my heroes trailer
+TechNOGeek Reviewz Because the actor is now fated to pretend he is a fictional hero for who knows how long.
This song was played heavy in 2008 especially summer, such a simple and beautiful time in my life as a high school dropout. Those parties (what I can remember) will live in my mind and heart forever.
Live on youngster!
This is exactly how I feel, thanks for putting into words.
I feel ya man
it doesn't sound sad, but it's the saddest song i know.
Wallflower Productions he talks about shooting heroin and devouring models who he has kids with how is that sad
Jacob Sanders poor little kiddo, you'll get it later...
I get it the fuck that's a old as shit pick I am saying that's not sad it's fucking life deal with it
Jacob Sanders it's all sarcasm, but whatever.
Abdala Styles your cute
I remember my first time listening to this. I was watching the spider man homecoming trailer. I remember being in absolute awe as a young preteen. Man I miss those days sometimes. Wen life was simpler. Were there was no social hierarchy, no stress, not a care in the world. Man now that im older I really appreciate those times.
It came out right when I moved out for the first time and the energy and anxiety of the journey to adulthood and this evokes so many of my early adulthood memories and one of riding in the car with BFF and put my arm out of the car window. The lyrics and the melody of the song I think feel very close to home for how we all felt when we first moved out of our parent’s house
Questa non è una canzone...è un colpo nel cuore ogni volta che l ' ascolto 🖤
danke, verbunden an eine meiner tollsten Zeiten ever, auch, wenn ich nicht mehr jung bin
The really sad part of this is this is a song that's nostalgic about the good old days released during what are nowadays considered the good old days. I miss the 2000s like you wouldn't believe.
Jaunty and upbeat sound with a depressing message. Clever song.
I mean life is not like that really...what this song is about is messed up lifestyle choices
He does sing ''life can always start up again'', so its not as depressing as I first thought. He knows what lies ahead and is going into it eyes open. @@calistafalcontail
I interpret this song as being about a depressed person disillusioned with life, and coping with pain by trying to live a life of hedonism. Using drugs, gaining wealth, and having casual sex as a way of acquiring superficial happiness. And to forget about about their own problems and misery, ultimately not caring whether they live or die.
This song sounds happy, but is actually pretty depressing. Serious lyrical dissonance here, which I personally love. Great song.
Thank you so much for being intelligent. This is my exact interpretation of the song, and it blows my mind that people are taking it so literally or taking nothing away from the song at all when there is so much to take from it. I love songs like this because it's disguised as a party song because, these days, party songs are the most likely to become popular radio hits. However, the words and the message behind the words are meaningful. If you stop dancing and drinking and actually LISTEN to what he's saying, you'll learn something about yourself and your lifestyle.
Tiffany Cole I think id rather dance and drink....along with the superficial happiness
perfect description
thats just cause of your anxity pills guys the songs about loving life and trying everything
It's about valuing your life enough to live it fully. It's about not dying afraid.
it sounded so cheerful until you read the lyrics
the most depressing song ever
yeah I know
The lyrics make this song one of the best songs ever.... Its called REALITY FOR MANY
Agreed sounded cheerful then turned into let’s shot some Herion
That’s something they make a game out of....example “Kids”, another great one.
This is actually a really strong message. Thinking about the lyrics makes me wonder just how many people out there feel the need to lose themselves in drugs, sex, and money just to feel real. And how many others put masks on to hide what they're going through. Whether this is about Hollywood dipshits or not, it's still an awesome song, and if someone is blind enough to read into it and go "That's what I should do", they need to rethink the meaning of it.
THIS is how I look at the song. Sounds good and is fun to listen to but has deeper themes than most people realize. Some people are getting upset on here because they're taking the words at face value, but if you look deeper into it you'll realize it's actually a kind of depressing song.
@Holly Guthrie -- PREACH!
Mr2ndAmendment It's a very depressing realization, I agree.
good job 3y later!
thanx, honest
This song is so enlightening it makes me cry in pure extacy. Best song for everyone suffering depression keep battling don't commit suicide do what your heart feels right and happiness will slowly enfold
Literally me crying in the car
This song must have some evergreen status by now. Still hits on many timeless social and emotional levels.
the " 1979" of the 2000's
I always loved you the best Sid..
Was literally thinking about that when listening
This song really hits home for the 20 and 30 somethings. It's such a banger but the lyrics punch you right in the gut
life after childhood is just a pretend game you pretend to be someone the rest of society wants you to be to be accepted
The xx - intro
chris loeung That song is good. But it's not as good as MGMT.
Be yourself must be the Greatest lie ever, be yourself its an emotional Black mail leading you to end up being the models the song tells us about
+xxAnaconta reverse, when you are a teen, you want to be accepted, and pretend to be someone else.. but when you grow up, you feel free, but no everybody will grow up..
David Grinstein...Totally agree, people talking so philosophical about the society and shit, just haven't grown up yet...I used to be like that, that's my source.
being an adult as of 25 and dealt with some shitty situations in life, this song gives some solace.
The opening notes for some reason always remind me of Everywhere by Polaris. That song slaps, and this one does too. Cool.
This song has no right to hit this hard in the feels man…
This song has the greatest lyrics ever written.
'We'll choke on our vomit, and that will be end' - best lyrics ever!
na get help
You can tell where Foster The People got their inspiration from.
are u from the police ? mind your own business Elp !
l love foster the people
@@peigneyagathe3366 that's a four year old comment lol
I don’t see it idk y
that was so true : )
but torches are super great tho
The irony is that the band wrote the song in an attempt to mock the Hollywood/rock n roll lifestyle and then actually ended up living it… life is amazing and so is this tune…🙏🫶🏼💙
Life imitates art
FACTS 🌟 👌
This is a song that either makes you extremely happy or makes you want to cry depending on how you are feeling
Who the f&@# feels happy listening to this?! 😂😂
What a beautiful song, so deep it is a great song❤
This song is great. Really depresses me though because it's so true... we lose who we were when we are young and now we have to act like everyone else in society or people will not accept us. And if they don't accept you, you will be lonely..
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute. Growing up sucks.
It's overwhelming but what else can we do?
Career in the military. Never worked in offices. Never commuted. Been all over the world. Married a model, had kids, divorced. Retired now at 58 riding a Harley across the country. Life began a new... I did miss my father, my mother and sisters tho.
@@nightraider0075 play the absurd game of life, that's all you can do
I commuted much longer to school, 6 days/week. Working is my relaxation.
I'm 19, working two part time jobs for minimum wage, driving a broken POS Toyota, barely making enough for a living
I don't even know what I'm doing with my life, I feel like I'm just aimlessly wandering through it
Great lyrics and riff - we're only fated to pretend if we follow our Western culture and social conditioning. If we educate ourselves to make money outside the system of working (i.e. trading the financial markets) and educate ourselves to maintain our health, and have good intimacy in our lives and children that will survive us and be our future, then we have a purposeful and fulfilling life. If we depend on and subscribe to the education we get in schools, universities, and at work, then we're fated to pretend within that system of conformity and ever-increasing competition. We cannot be ourselves and reach our true potential or have a family in a way that doesn't compromise our own lives too much within the system expected by Western society
MGMT is the perfect music for being young and wild :D
Miss you Melissa, Dad and Fifi 😢
The grand old days when we were free ❤🕊
I've cried every time I've heard this song.
it's a cry of hopelesness, in the sense, that even doe he says it and completely realizes the situation he still can't get out of it, , there is no strenght in the message even doe it's true and he sings about it.
I actually don't feel sad when I listen to this song. I feel actually numb to negativities. Most are striving to fit an ideal that we don't agree with. Few reach self-actualization because of societal construct holding us back. This song just resonates with that feeling and gives way to the feeling of denial and resultant self battle.
I miss the fan made BBC version video. Thanks whoever had it pulled. Thanks a lot. :(
Link?
Redline Rider I can't link it. They had it removed for copyright.
What a sad, honest, depressed lyrics to an uplifting melody, and it was played everywhere in 2008. Getting fame, regret it, do it anyway, and die by it. Say Yeah Yeah Yeah 😆
Happy song but with sad lyrics. It's a masterpiece!
It’s always the most upbeat cheery songs with the most depressing lyrics
as a child i yearned for the mines
As a child I yearned for the mines
As a child I yearned for the mines
@@curiousmario As a child I yearned for the mines
i want this played at my funeral i stg let people know even doe i didn’t do much in life i lived it happy
Ended up bawling to the part about the singer how he's going to miss his family and dog. I had a fallout with a friend that i liked and respected. I shouldn't have placed as much value in them as I did. I tried to patch things up but the person didn't want anything to do with me. The whole process broke me down. I wanted to kill myself, but I have other people to look after. A line later says about missing the time being alone. Loneliness hurts but its beautiful when we have time with ourselves and our interests. Anyway..wish everyone the best..
😣
I just lost friends too, but dw it'll get better my friend
yup, losing friends is always very tough, you miss everything, but after a lot of time you grow out of being sad and end up growing as a person and having fun with just yourself again, it’s very hard but it really does get better!
I love it all. The pain for making the happy times so sweet. The boredom so fun is so much better. It all has it's place. Life is wonderful and such a gift. I love you all.
this song is so awesome.
This song is the definition of "it hurts so good"
this song is a piece of art
Here after the new and definitely improved trailer for #AMinecraftMovie
A close friend of mine died recently...this was playing at his viewing, forever now this the closest thing i got to remember him...
I'm so sorry for your loss
Losing someone you love can really stink but always remember you are loved and appreciated, if you don't think so well a random 15 year old online spent his time at 3 am writing you this message, always remember I'm here rooting for you
If ur still around (since this comment was like 6 years ago) add me on discord and I'll always be available to talk my account is Stelq#9621
Stay strong my friend I'm here for u🖤
❤❤❤
Bringing them good vibes good vibes 🤫
Love these guys and their music.
Masterpiece.
I heard this on the radio and knew it was by mgmt(could tell by the vocals) and knew he said pretend. So I looked it up and am happy. We all get nostalgic and I think we all miss the way things used to be. I'll have to send this to my brother
As I child I yearned for the mines
This songs lyrics are some of the deepest Ive heard in a long while
Its been years but i still keep on coming back for this ❤️🖤❤️🖤
I remember when I was a kid listening to this song because my dad would always play it and never really understanding the meaning but I was somehow really drawn to it. Not so long ago I wanted to re-listen to this song for the nostalgia and realised how real and deep the meaning really was and it just gave me the chill and tiered me up. I was so innocent back then...
So much depth in this song
They don't know what they're talking about homie, this is a certified hood classic 😎
My perception of the song is that they (the artist) or every other music artist, sign themselves up to a road where they have access to drugs, models, fame and prefer to live this fast paced life than a life where they sit down and do paperwork. But even though they have this life that most people find amazing, these artists have lost connections to friends and family leaving them with nothing but their fame. They reminisce about their childhood or simpler times but now it is too late to turn back and everything has to "run it's course." even up to their deaths. Anyone see it differently?
eddyjt13 truest comment
But it's universal in the sense that we all have to "grow up" one day and move out and strike a life out all on our own without our families and friends to really help us along and try to find that perfect job and love and establish your own family and this song makes it clear how absolutely shitty that is no matter how far you make it onto that wheel (at least in the states). And the only people who have fun in life are the ones who maintain those friend and family connections and try to make a difference and feel important. Some feel good by having someone to love, either physically, romantically, or platonically. While others none of these things matter and the only way to feel is to get drunk, get high, lose yourself to the cycle of drugs and alcohol to forget about the pain of your life.
@@dgrentz7635 ya i agree with you
Broskie this is deep 🤯
I think you hit the nail on the head
Best song to skateboard down a hill to in the dusk of summer. It brings a certain piece to me. A nice breeze blowing, speeding down a hill on your favorite piece of wood, watching the sun set, while this song plays. Never had a more perfect moment. :)
Heard this song on 21 a long time ago, recently re discovered it
same here
I forgot this song existed till I rewatched the movie 21. It def brings back the feels. I love this song
Alot of people in the comments say that this song sounds like a good summer bit for me it reminds me of my dad teaching me how to snowboard when I was a kid. We would crank this tune and just cruise down the mountain having a good time. I have to listen to it every year when I'm up there
The more I listen to this album the farther it inches its way to the top 25 or so records of all time...for me at least
'We'll choke on our vomit, and that will be end' - best lyrics ever!
it doesn't sound sad, but it's the saddest song i know.
let's all be friends and enjoy the music
Anyone got here after the new trailer for a Minecraft movie? (Really looking forward to it!)
It's not a sad song like some are saying, it's basically reiterating what Bill Hicks used to say about how it's all a "ride". He was into psychedelics and understood this, same as these guy's. He would say "on the news today, a young man took acid and realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves."
I pray for anyone out there that listens to this song in a way that they relate. I know you have heard what I am about to write many times but I just want to say to somebody out there that has their ears open to hear and hearts ready to receive, Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart, ready to break the chains of addiction or any bondage to sin you have. Surrender your sins to Him and believe in Him. What He did on that cross was to save us even though we are sinful, He loves us and wants us to turn to Him. Don’t love death but love Jesus Christ. ❤️
first time I heard this, I was blown away. amazing lyrics. what a BELTA of a track.
love this song been looking for this song for the longest time LOL finally found it.
I found this song a couple years ago and I’d say life was pretty good and as I listened to it more and more here and there I didn’t realize how much I lost until now. Seeing so many people express many things here seems normal. Wow
the magicians anyone?
classic quentin perving scene :P
joka619 yessssssssse
joka619 YES I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
when he is spinning that coin and song starts.... it was like ecstasy.
Was a nice ass too
it`s funny when penny was like "Really dude". haha
It’s 2022 and I still love this song!
Gives me vibes of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Someone gonna use this in a blocky movie trailer or smth
Remember: the lyrics are about the singers imagining if they were typical rockstars
This song...is terrifying.....brilliant....and true
Really a brilliant song.
Such a nostalgic song
I’m feeling raw in the prime of my life
This is just masterpiece
This would be a good song to listen to before you first leave your parent's home.
+pokefan100 ... only to be found 6 months later in the streets eating ur own paintings like squidward.
+Juzo M.
Isn't that the truth.
that's weird, i was just thinking of someone listening to this when they run away from home
This is what I'm currently doing. Its a nightmare hahaha
This song probably makes kids want to leave home just so they can miss it.
I haven't listened to it since years! I first listened when it came out, and months ago I forgot it... nice to find it again! 😁
This a good song to go snowboarding too ouu going thru the trees…what a vibe it be 🙌🏾
I don't care what the song means or what it makes me feel. I just like it and want to listen to it.