You should try the Live from Abbey Road version with Lisa dueting with him... Perfection... th-cam.com/video/8IseGQIA2MA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tgItshbg1lNYwYVK
This slower version is beautiful but the original has seen me through some very cathartic moments after a violent ex-husband. Got home from hospital one day (pregnant) and played it all day. This is so much more mellow and I love it. I heard a busker singing this outside the Arndale in Manchester and it felt like a sign. Thank you Damien...
This is the most emotionally raw performance I've seen in my life. It literally makes me feel anxious and my heart beat because of such emotional pain.
The 'Live from the basement' videos are incredible. Probably some of Damien's best performances ever. This in essence is what music is about - broken down to its most raw & simplest form. What really comes through in these performances is the meaning of the lyrics and the emotion behind the delivery. Music is a connective medium. Damien really connects with the listener in all his songs. You feel his pain, you feel his joy. Each song is a well crafted episode(s) of his life. Inspiring.
I was first sent this song by my best friend in 2011. He has since passed away and this song strikes with great nostalgia and feeling for me. Music takes you back in time.
Mid 2022 and still going! So pure. Gets me to my knees how one can ear the sadness, pain and anger in his voice. Amazing performance by an amazing musician. Timeless
The way damien rice express emotions in all his songs and concerts, but mostly in this particular perofrmance... it just incredible, the dude's music is really really unique...
One of the most magical experiences that I have been a part of in my life was his concert. Just him, with a guitar, on a dark scene. Nothing else. I have to see him live again to relive the state that he put me in.
Holy crap. I've never heard this before, and...damn. This song made me cry a little, and I'm not one given to tears. I am so moved by this. Mr. Rice, you have a new fan.
I'm old enough to remember when this was first posted and over a decade later its still some of the most pure & strait from the soul lyrics ever uttered
This has to be THE best song ever! This performance is spectacular. I'm sure his emotions while singing this song leave most of you speechless as it does me.
I would probably disagree, the album version is more soft, and then BOOM the chorus comes which literally shocked some people, this version is definitely for a different mood though. So overall I like the Album version more but this version is for a different version of the same mood
Amazing live depth fuelling version of this song, I always loved the song from the album version but this one you can feel it to the max in your heart and soul
This song is amazing, it's just raw emotion, feeling, of pain, suffering, and love presented in such a direct, yet beautiful way. Pure gold, this is music in it's purest form.
There are just some songs that seriously feel like they were written for you. The way Damien's intense emotions come through all his songs is so beautiful because you know he's putting himself in that 'moment" It's like he's reliving the pain as if it just happened. I cry every time I hear this song because I have been with someone I loved so much but wished i could hate just so we can move on. It's massively painful. this song is the anthem for relationships that just wont end when they should!
Damien is the best thing to happen to music in a long time...with his writing and composing, I don't worry about the future of music, so long as he is around...Seriously, the man is brilliant..sigh
I think that this is one of the worlds greatest songs, i love the piano versions. It's so emotional, everytime a new feeling arises in myself. something undescribeable.. such a great song..
my god, my entire being trembles while listening to this song, it´s just the perfect soundtrack to what I´m going through.... It´s amazing how he is capable of showing that range on emotions in just a few minutes... it´s so beautiful, so true and so painful , it took my heart. Damien, you rule, one of the best musicians EVER.
Thank you for your comments, I totally agree, I sent this to a friend and said something very similar, it's such a power song, especially the way does it! He speaks to the unspeakable pain.
Does anyone else worry about this man? He is one of the best artist i have ever seen, so real. but i sometimes wonder what he has been through in his life to be able to produce these very special songs?
Man after 9 years of ups and downs she finally moved on.....i completely broke down and wept,i retreated to music and found this amazing performance,i feel the.same way.....the sad thing is she claims to be unhappy......i can't stop listening to this and 9 crimes
i have to second that, this is the most emotional version of rootless tree ever. you can just see the sorrow and anger thrue which this song was created in his face. he is near crying.
This song really speaks to me. It brings out alot of emotions in me from my past marriage that I thought were gone. It feels like the sad in my chest is crawling up my throat. My favorite line is "What I want from this is to learn to let go" because it is very hard for me to let go. Thanks for this song Mr. Rice.
those of us who have felt this way could never relate it in such an honest and heartbreaking way,...love how his soul just pours out in every note...this performance will still be admired 20 years from now,......gutwrenching but beautiful.
the pure emotion and heart in is music is perfect. he could suck as singing, but his emotion and "want" to send a message and shit is just amazing. all in all, UNDERRATED ARTIST!
Thank you so much for posting this. This has to be the best live performance I have ever seen (on video). This man is a legend and so under rated. No one can question his passion and emotion he puts accross in his music
Lyrics What I want from you is empty your head Well they say be true, don't stain your bed Well we do what we need to be free And it leans on me just like a rootless tree What I want from us is empty our minds Well we fake a fuss and fracture the times We go blind when we've needed to see And this leans on me just like a rootless So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you And all we've been through I said leave it, leave it, leave it It's nothing to you And if you hate me, hate me, hate me Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out Of this hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, let me out Hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, let me out What I want from this is learn to let go No not of you, of all that's been told But killers reinvent and believe And this leans on me just like a rootless So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you And all we've been through I said leave it, leave it, leave it It's nothing to you And if you hate me, hate me, hate me Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out Of this hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, let me out Of this hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, let me out Hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, let me out Hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out And fuck you, fuck you, I love you And all we've been through I said leave it, leave it, leave it It's nothing to you And if you hate me, hate me, hate me Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out Of this hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out Let me out Hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, let me out Hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, let me out It's hell when you're around Let me out, let me out, just let me out Hell when you're around
Thank you very much for posting this. I have many versions of this on DVDs I've collected, but I've never seen such a heartfelt performance by any artist in my lifetime. :>)
@FastforwardTheRewind i am completely and utterly the same. and have been for a year now. words couldnt even do justice to how much Damien rice's music has helped me
2024 and i'm still here...
Me 2 brother
Me too
same
just need someone to remaster the sound!
Too
This is the best version of this song! This song is the fuckin definition of good song writing. Damn, Damien Rice is amazing!!
+Unik Grg yes he is..
watch damien rice rootless tree korea ( search it like this ) that was amazing
You should try the Live from Abbey Road version with Lisa dueting with him... Perfection... th-cam.com/video/8IseGQIA2MA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tgItshbg1lNYwYVK
This slower version is beautiful but the original has seen me through some very cathartic moments after a violent ex-husband. Got home from hospital one day (pregnant) and played it all day. This is so much more mellow and I love it. I heard a busker singing this outside the Arndale in Manchester and it felt like a sign. Thank you Damien...
I hope you and your kid are better now!
Sending you love
@@Kelevelin P
I hope you are doing well. Please let us know how you are doing. And please take care of yourself...
This is a classic song timeless, and it should be heard by every single person in the world... I just love Damien Rice...
I don’t know how anyone with a soul can keep a dry eye during that song
This is the most emotionally raw performance I've seen in my life. It literally makes me feel anxious and my heart beat because of such emotional pain.
To the woman who Damien wrote this song about:
WE THANK YOU.
John Falco yes
There are versions of this song that has her singing it with him
@@RadTindall i dont think its Lisa he wrote about..
He definitely wrote this one for Lisa 🙌
@@whysoserious652 Have you seen the doodle on the cover of the single? He definitely wrote this for her.
The 'Live from the basement' videos are incredible. Probably some of Damien's best performances ever.
This in essence is what music is about - broken down to its most raw & simplest form.
What really comes through in these performances is the meaning of the lyrics and the emotion behind the delivery.
Music is a connective medium. Damien really connects with the listener in all his songs. You feel his pain, you feel his joy. Each song is a well crafted episode(s) of his life.
Inspiring.
Have you ever heard a better piece of song writing in your life and the voice of a angel
I was first sent this song by my best friend in 2011. He has since passed away and this song strikes with great nostalgia and feeling for me. Music takes you back in time.
Mid 2022 and still going!
So pure. Gets me to my knees how one can ear the sadness, pain and anger in his voice.
Amazing performance by an amazing musician. Timeless
I'm still listening to this amazing and emotional song after 10 years of me discovering it
Damien’s voice is beyond anything I’ve ever heard...His passion is absolutely beautiful...
OMG! when he goes "Let me out" louder and louder... mindblowing! so deep, so simple but honest...
Just love him...
The way damien rice express emotions in all his songs and concerts, but mostly in this particular perofrmance... it just incredible, the dude's music is really really unique...
I've never heard pain and hate sounds so beautiful till this song!
One of the most magical experiences that I have been a part of in my life was his concert. Just him, with a guitar, on a dark scene. Nothing else. I have to see him live again to relive the state that he put me in.
Holy crap. I've never heard this before, and...damn. This song made me cry a little, and I'm not one given to tears. I am so moved by this. Mr. Rice, you have a new fan.
I'm old enough to remember when this was first posted and over a decade later its still some of the most pure & strait from the soul lyrics ever uttered
This has to be THE best song ever! This performance is spectacular. I'm sure his emotions while singing this song leave most of you speechless as it does me.
He just shattered my broken heart, that i can't even feel the pain, how i will ever trust humans.
I relate to your comment personally
Best version I've seen. Best break up song ever.
2014 and still watching! Man this song has so much power, so much, and yet so much love! Amazing
Still here in 2017 and still hitting hard !
@@siddhantbali 2020 is here and so am I.
2022 and still going!
2019 and still sounds amazing
2021...song is absolutely amazing!
Closer to 2022, the best!
2022 checking in.
2023, songs describes my emotions better then my words could…
2024 reporting for duty.
Renders me speechless, every time. So beautiful.
I love how it always seems as if he's singing from the bottom of his heart.
Better than the album version if you ask me :)
Totally agree
Agreed
Yaa
Much better
I would probably disagree, the album version is more soft, and then BOOM the chorus comes which literally shocked some people, this version is definitely for a different mood though. So overall I like the Album version more but this version is for a different version of the same mood
Amazing live depth fuelling version of this song, I always loved the song from the album version but this one you can feel it to the max in your heart and soul
2022 ...still shivering
You hear him scream towards the end. It just chills you.
This will always be my favorite performance of Damien Rice
This song is amazing, it's just raw emotion, feeling, of pain, suffering, and love presented in such a direct, yet beautiful way. Pure gold, this is music in it's purest form.
This is the very first song I heard from him and I fell in love with all his music until now.
So incredibly beautiful, I feel all of his words.
There are just some songs that seriously feel like they were written for you. The way Damien's intense emotions come through all his songs is so beautiful because you know he's putting himself in that 'moment" It's like he's reliving the pain as if it just happened. I cry every time I hear this song because I have been with someone I loved so much but wished i could hate just so we can move on. It's massively painful. this song is the anthem for relationships that just wont end when they should!
Wow really can feel the emotions of these lyrics and his delivery was impeccable ..ty for
Damien is the best thing to happen to music in a long time...with his writing and composing, I don't worry about the future of music, so long as he is around...Seriously, the man is brilliant..sigh
I think that this is one of the worlds greatest songs, i love the piano versions. It's so emotional, everytime a new feeling arises in myself. something undescribeable..
such a great song..
my god, my entire being trembles while listening to this song, it´s just the perfect soundtrack to what I´m going through....
It´s amazing how he is capable of showing that range on emotions in just a few minutes...
it´s so beautiful, so true and so painful , it took my heart.
Damien, you rule, one of the best musicians EVER.
I am from Malaysia and I really hope I could listen to Damien's live one day after this Pandemic.
Dear every artist currently residing in the Top 40...this is music, this is genius, this is what you all would sale your soul to become!!!
So much emotion, this man can really show what he's feeling.
One of his best legendary songs his emotion and everything goes with it
oh my god.. I never heard such a intensiv strong version of rootles tree.
that was soo amazing
This is absolutely beautiful. There is so much raw emotion. His soul is pouring out in this performance.
This is... Amazing! So honest.. So pure.. Everything is this song is so pure.. What a music..
Sometimes the only way to love someone is to simply say , I love you & let them go !
Thank you for your comments, I totally agree, I sent this to a friend and said something very similar, it's such a power song, especially the way does it! He speaks to the unspeakable pain.
PERFECTION! Moves me... Makes me feel again.. Things you may not want to feel, but you know you need to...
poetry. frees me from demons
I feel you honey.
Does anyone else worry about this man? He is one of the best artist i have ever seen, so real. but i sometimes wonder what he has been through in his life to be able to produce these very special songs?
I wonder if he knows how appropriate this song is to so many peoples lives!?! It rocks me at every hearing.....
truly love this song
I have felt this way before
Man after 9 years of ups and downs she finally moved on.....i completely broke down and wept,i retreated to music and found this amazing performance,i feel the.same way.....the sad thing is she claims to be unhappy......i can't stop listening to this and 9 crimes
hey bud hope you are Fine now
petition for this recording to be remastered and added to streaming services
Has a song ever been sung with such passion and experience?
Ein wunderschönes Lied, ein sehr guter Text!
I'm just now discovering Damien and here he has written a song that literally describes my life right now.
Its just amazing how damien can make the worlds most beautiful musik with only a piano and his voice...
So beautiful and devastating 💔
3:42 is by far the most powerful 'fuck you' i've ever heard
I love how he reinvents his own songs so well
The best version of this song... I love it...It's full of emotions...
i have to second that, this is the most emotional version of rootless tree ever. you can just see the sorrow and anger thrue which this song was created in his face. he is near crying.
have to say that every time I see this emotions can't began to explain what I feel, It's such a strong song.
Damien Rice is so amazing!
This song really speaks to me. It brings out alot of emotions in me from my past marriage that I thought were gone. It feels like the sad in my chest is crawling up my throat. My favorite line is "What I want from this is to learn to let go" because it is very hard for me to let go. Thanks for this song Mr. Rice.
De vez en cuando escucho esta canción para caer bien al fondo . Bendito Damien y tu efecto
Very true, I don't know any artist who puts in as much emotion as Damien.
Brilliant lyrics and brilliant music artist 😊🎶❤️😊🎶❤️
This version gives me goosebumps every time.
This is just amazing. It never gets old
Obsessed with the beauty of this song. 🙏🏼
those of us who have felt this way could never relate it in such an honest and heartbreaking way,...love how his soul just pours out in every note...this performance will still be admired 20 years from now,......gutwrenching but beautiful.
what a beautiful song
This is so very sad. 😥 Such pain and sorrow, confusion and desperation. Painfully beautiful... 💜
hands down the most beautiful song i have ever heard
legendary, he pours his heart and soul into this
I love this songsmith.
Such an amazing powerful beautiful song.WOW!
Breathtaking...
Perfect writing and perfect performance...
Chills from beginning to end.
My best friend left me.Can't go on without him.
just makes me cry every single time i watch it. just so pure, heartfelt emotion.
I can literally feel him pouring out his heart, such deep emotion..
the pure emotion and heart in is music is perfect. he could suck as singing, but his emotion and "want" to send a message and shit is just amazing. all in all, UNDERRATED ARTIST!
Would give the video 6 stars if it was possible. Just amazing
ok this is incredible
Thank you so much for posting this.
This has to be the best live performance I have ever seen (on video). This man is a legend and so under rated. No one can question his passion and emotion he puts accross in his music
Lyrics
What I want from you is empty your head
Well they say be true, don't stain your bed
Well we do what we need to be free
And it leans on me just like a rootless tree
What I want from us is empty our minds
Well we fake a fuss and fracture the times
We go blind when we've needed to see
And this leans on me just like a rootless
So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
What I want from this is learn to let go
No not of you, of all that's been told
But killers reinvent and believe
And this leans on me just like a rootless
So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
And fuck you, fuck you, I love you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out
It's hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, just let me out
Hell when you're around
Thank you very much for posting this. I have many versions of this on DVDs I've collected, but I've never seen such a heartfelt performance by any artist in my lifetime. :>)
_amazing_
How can any human not like this song?
My favorite artist of all time
This is such a beautiful version of this song...really love it!!
never has a song felt so meaningful to me :(!
@FastforwardTheRewind i am completely and utterly the same. and have been for a year now. words couldnt even do justice to how much Damien rice's music has helped me
2021 just getting better each time
Damien plz come to Greece!!You are great...!
painfully beautiful! ♥