"I've been living on the crumbs of your love and I'm starving now" has to be one of the most anguished and heart-wrenching lines ever written. Loving someone from afar is a hunger that never passes and can never be satiated. They give us just enough to keep the hope burning because they love the attention, but they don't understand just how much they're chipping away at our ability to laugh and feel joy. They destroy us one smiling gaze at a time never caring that the cost of a smile is quiet suffering.
ALMOST? shit call me a crybaby... I cried the first time I heard this song because my first love left me when I joined the military straight up said "it's me or the army , because I can't deal with the risk of you possibly dying out there..." and that was that... I felt this song down to my core.... doesn't help that im a hopeless romantic and the emotion that Vance Joy has in his music will always keep me coming back for more of his beautiful work...
My pop loved this song, at 96yo we said goodbye for the last time nearly a year ago. Your memories live on pop,especially when I hear this song , . Rip pop x
That moment when a song manages to bring back memories and all the strong emotions you carried in those memories. They hit you so hard you almost drown in them. To get exactly the feelings you had formulated and heard in words is a wonderful comfort. I hope you people can relate to this music video like I did.
You told me 'boy look the other way' You told me 'boy bite your tongue' Yes that's not the way, Yeah that's not the way Ah that's just not the way that friends behave Ah that's just not the way that friends behave Oh no, no, no, No, no, no, no You lined me up Across the room Two falling sparks One willing fool And I, I always knew That I would love you from afar You told me 'boy look the other way' You told me 'boy hide those hands' Well I've been living on the crumbs of your love And I'm starving now And that is just the way that we remain Ah that will be the way that we remain Oh no no no No no no no You lined me up Across the room Two falling sparks One willing fool And I, I always knew That I would love you from afar You lined me up Across the room Two falling sparks One willing fool And I, I always knew That I would love you from afar It shouldn't come as a surprise What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now It shouldn't come as a surprise She got darling hazel eyes It shouldn't come as a surprise What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now It shouldn't come as a surprise What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now It shouldn't come as a surprise What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now It shouldn't come as a surprise What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
I've watched this video countless times, and have commented before but I've got to tell my story (to whoever cares enough to read it, I included) - This song really hits close to home. This was filmed in Australia, but it reminds me so much of upstate New York. I'm from North Carolina, the south (not the deep south but still). My dad is from NY and had a lake camp and shed just like this one in a no-name city of upstate NY. My dad forced us to go at least once a year and both me and mom hated it. The trip (14 hours by car) was miserable. My father was too cheap to pay for a hotel. Anyway, my grandparents live there, so we would go and see them in the summer to have "cookouts". We would all eat outside on a table with the sound of the waves lapping against the boat dock and sun filtering through the trees of the wooded area. I couldn't eat inside my grandparent's house because they have cats (I'm allergic - they chose cats over their grandson). So it was just me my mom eating alone on a table outside while everyone was indoors. Everything was the same as in this video, the whole family was there and my grandmother even came to check on my mom like in this video. I remember the sound of the boat hitting the doc inside as waves lapped on the lake. I remember the sunshine filtering through the leaves of the trees and the warmth. Everyone was always in a cheery mood, except my mom and I who were always "outcasts." I remember one night following a cookout, the neighbors (the district attorney of this no-name town) invited us over to roast marshmallows outside. So we went. I remember the attorney and his wife had two daughters who were beautiful. Though I appreciated their beauty, I didn't feel attracted to them. It was like something just wasn't right but I wasn't sure and didn't know what it could be at the time. I just never really "connected" with the girls that most guys would be wild over. I was about the age of the boy in this video at the time and even looked like him. Something was brewing with me and my mom and dad's relationship at the time was beginning to decline. My dad would be "flirty" with much younger women (including the attorney's wife) at the cookout. My mom just kind of sat back and watched. Fast forward 10 years and now it's just my mom and me in California together with the rest of the family still in the south/no-name upstate NY. I have the best mother I could ever imagine, she has supported me with everything. I came out to her while drunk in London and she took it really well. She told me to be safe and made me promise that if I met a guy, I would introduce him to her. Mom and I have a great relationship and we're so much happier here. I will never forget the past, the summers at the camp, the cookouts, the lake and cabin, the pretty girls I wasn't attracted to and my mother and I feeling like outcasts among the family. It's a bittersweet memory and this video is nostalgic. I guess I'm glad that I was surrounded by "family" as a child and was able to have those cookouts on the lake. It's a weird thing, but I know it was a stage that was supposed to happen in my life but now has passed, for better or worse. There are things I miss about the "old days" as things seemed so much simpler and traditionally normal back then. That being said I would never in a million years imagine living in southern California. I go to a college I actually sort of kind of enjoy, I'm making friends, I'm doing things. I'm not changing per se, I am becoming more myself and it feels pretty great. Update - showed this video to my mother and she had to watch it four times because it is such an eerily accurate portrayal of our lives.
Thanks for sharing your heartfelt story triggered by this emotional song, Charlie - so very touching and searingly honest. It made my day listening to this beautiful song, as well as reading your response to it :-)
Never saw better music video- uncountable ways of interpreting it, great match with lyrics and music. Not to mention emotions, which will awake even in cold- hearted man like me. Absolute masterpiece IMHO.
This is song is about James (Vance) having a girlfriend, but also having a crush on her friend. I saw him perform couple days ago, and that what've said before he played this song. All makes sense now!
I don't care about the real meaning of the lyrics but I'm jus bawling my eyes out thinking about how I'll never be with the straight guy I'm in love with.
Story Time: The boy in the red shirt had always liked the one in the blue shirt. They have been friends for quite a while. As he slowly started to mature through puberty he realized he liked the boy in the blue shirt more and more, and not just as a friend. He grew up, and all the small moments that he had with this boy with the blue shirt he glorified because he was the one to share those moments with him. But on the day of the annual picnic the day that he had planned to tell the boy with the blue shirt how he truly felt about him, even getting small signs from him like when he leaped on top of him to grab the ball he felt that when they were both alone at a nice place he would finally tell him. But their parents decided to tell one of their friends to come along as she was feeling lonesome and to also bring their daughter. When the daughter met these two friends she immediately fell in love with the ruggedness of the blue shirt boy. Little did the boy with the red shirt know that the boy with the blue shirt also started to grow feelings for this girl. The day went on and the boy with the red shirt realized that he was feeling less and less confident about telling the boy with the blue shirt. So he though up a scheme to get him alone. He tried to get them all to play hide and seek, but the girl quickly outwitted the boy with the red shirt to count, and the boy with blue shirt agreed. As the blindfold was put onto him, he was imagining all the things his eyes were acing to see, he imagined the blue shirt boy shirtless, licking ketchup off himself. After that the pitter patter of their feet left the room. As son as they left he finished counting he quickly undid the blindfold and went to go look for them following a obvious trail they had left behind. The boy with the blue shirt and the girl tried to get away from the boy with the red shirt so the girl can finally kiss him. Every time they found a hiding spot, they saw him in the distance and quickly shuffled to another spot, again and again they did this. Until finally they felt that they got far away from him, that the girl pinned the boy with the blue shirt to the ground and kissed him... but in the distance the boy with the red shirt saw the whole thing. His heart shattered he stood in shock, his friend which he was hoping to make all the more slipped through his fingers. His heart broke as he stood their, and the boy with the red shirt realized he should of not loved from afar... THE END (IF this gains 15 likes i will do one about the parents peace)
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I have been reading the comments, and have been trying to think of the subject of the song. But I think I'll stick with my immediate response: When I first heard this song, I was listening to his whole album, and immediately feel in love with this one and had it on repeat. My first response to this song was that it was friendship. Kind of like someone's falling in love with their best friend but they know it won't happen. That they shouldn't, and just look the other way. "Not the way that friends behave". I thought it was like that. Loving your best friend and it "shouldn't come as a surprise" to them. That was my immediate response, and it connected me to the song in the best, personal way.
The build up of the song at the moment in the video when the protag. takes off his blind fold... sends chills through me everytime. That part to the end of the song gets me going... my god.
it's also about the married couple & the lunch they have with friends. The wife realises that her husband shouldn't act the way he does around their female "friend", fantastic song with so many different perspectives, also the young girl & lad have feelings for each other even though they are family friends. The other lad is in love with his friend - the song is so clever how it is open to so many interpretation's. Vance Joy is genius 👌💛👍
Unrequited Love. Never thought I'd survive; but I did. It sucks so awfully bad. You will survive, it just hurts more than you've ever known. Gay or straight, the pain is caustic. Seems like it took forever to get over him..........
Loving someone form afar is painful... but someone has to do it, otherwise there would not be amazing works of art such as this video and song. And hey I thought I knew Vance's music. I didn't think I could love him and his music more, but this is beyond anything I felt before.
This song makes me cry every time, as I had a best friend, and I liked her so much (I’m a female). We were so close and my feelings continued to get stronger, although I knew it would never happen. So I was ‘loving her from afar’ and ‘living on the crumbs of her love’. I would get frustrated and angry with myself all the time during this period and have this song on repeat as it would help me get all of my emotions out. And the bridge makes me tear up so more, as my friend has hazel eyes and I was feeling what I was feeling. She was there but I knew I’d never be able to reach her. I told her, and she left me. Totally. To this day (ten months later) I’m still death stared. This song is such a sad story, but I’m also grateful for it as if I hadn’t let out my emotions, who knows where I’d be right now?
Im a gay guy and I burst into tears seeing this, way to many memories like this, at least to me kid finds has a freind he really likes and enjoys doing stuff with him but the guy has a girl and he wants to feel like he fits in only only too be screwed over, its a horrible lonly feeling, that some men and woman live with for a long time most of the time you dont even know your gay it isnt like a light switch it takes something more for a lot of people to realize it and once you do live usually becomes a lot more meaningful I just realized I was only a week ago at the age of 26.and since then Im finally happy and and enjoying .life and guys being gay doesnt mean you cry on the drop of a dime and the opposite isnt true if your straight express yourself for the love of god do it, showing emotion is a bad thing,,,
What I am currently going thru for a year and a half so far. We are so close, perhaps much closer than his girl. And although it will never happen, he gives me conflicting signs that keeps me happy, hopeful , and heartbroken at the same time. It's the same cycle over and over for so long that I am loosing apart of myself. I am so torn living like this yet at the same time I am happy around him... I haven't known myself for awhile and I wish I never would have met him. 😢 This video just hit me hard.
+chillen2000 you have to draw a line... clear all that it will be much better for you, it takes a little, all the healing but in the end it will all be good
Ahejballe It's been two years and I needed to read your comment. I am still in the same situation but I finally wrote him a long message last night saying "I can no longer be your friend and that I have to cut off and block any ties of communication permanently. I know I might not be love of your life and I understand that but you have always been the love of mine. I will miss our friendship but I can no longer take this pain. I haven't known myself for two years and I just want myself back. I'm sorry. Goodbye" After sending that message, I blocked him from my phone, emails, social medias and any other things that he could possibly get in contact me with. He was my best friend in FL since I first moved in that state 2 years ago. I never thought it would be just as hard as letting go. The heartbreak is so surreal that I feel physical pain. It's been rough and I just want it to end. 😕
Line me up, across the room, two falling sparks One willing fool, and i, i always knew I would love you from afar. I've had this stuck in my head all day, such a beautiful song.
When I often come across good songs like this, I am afraid to keep listening to it, because I don't want to get sick of it. But the force of good songs are too strong ! I can't stop listening to them
I want this storyline to develop more. Like what happens after this video? What about before this video? Who's the other couple at the table? Will the guy in the red shirt ever find someone for him? I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking things...
My god this music video is absolutely outstanding. The concept behind it and the story line go perfectly with what the lyrics are saying. Couldn't of been a better video.
Im so glad I bothered to listen to this. I kept listening to riptide assuming Vance Joy was just a one hit wonder but this song is amazing. I still haven't heard any of his others, most likely he has more hidden gems
In terms of the adults I originally thought that I should focus on the perspective of the husband. However I think the main character out of the adults is the wife. Her husband will never look at her the same way he looks at the blond woman. Like the boy, she will always love him from afar.
I started thinking this conclusion too. As close as she is to him in terms of marriage and physical space, she must feel so much farther away from him knowing he feels such an attraction and bond to another woman that she (the wife) likely didn't receive from him... So then the father, mother, and son are all loving from afar :) How depressing.
I agree with the one in yellow being the main character among the adults, she probably always knew that she would have to love her husband from afar. So sad. On a positive note, I love the way this video is shot. The whole style of it is so modern AND retro and it compliments so well.
To me it's two stories with the same backbone from in the song: The husband at the party makes a fool of himself pining for the younger woman from his past who could've been and the young man tries to deny his feelings for his male friend in realization he'll never requite. Both show what the song is really about: making a fool of yourself longing for someone that could never be.
It's pretty much a universal part of life (but not the happiest), Boy/Girl, B/B, G/G, does even matter??? Hurt is hurt; and hurt of the heart is wicked painful. Nice to see lots of you all respond positively; as this is not really popular subject matter among kids or adults. Most people won't even talk about it. Sad real sad.
I heard this song on spotify and wanted to watch the video. Good lord, it's so moving. My eyes keep tearing up everytime I watch or even think about this video...
I knew this song a couple of years before a met my ex boyfriend, with whom I had an almost 5 years relationship. He never came out so our relationship was a secret and I waited for him all those years. We broke up cause he wasn't into me anymore, although I've been in love with him since the beginning and until now. He's now with a girl and this song always comes to my mind when I think of them. She got darling hazel eyes and I always knew that I would love him from afar.
This is my favorite music video. The song is amazing and fits the each shot perfectly. I just love the whole concept and how they show different ways of loving someone from afar, it's just so cool (and the cinematography is beautifully done). Vance Joy is the best!!
Im in love with someone...he once loved me, but i took his obsession with me for granted. Now he's moved on, and i've just fell for him. He won't even make eye contact with me... Now I'll always know that I'll love him from afar.
Just sam him Live in Rimouski Canada and the guy is a fucking BEAST, he is an awesome live performer. He said that From Afar was one of the first song he ever played and it is about loving someone that have a boyfriend/girlfriend or that is far away from you, it's not about being gay or something like that!
What I am currently going thru for a year and a half so far. We are so close, perhaps much closer than his girl. And although it will never happen, he gives me conflicting signs that keeps me happy, hopeful , and heartbroken at the same time. It's the same cycle over and over for so long that I am loosing apart of myself. I am so torn living like this yet at the same time I am happy around him... I haven't known myself for awhile and I wish I never would have met him. 😢
Been there. cut him out like a cancer. and find friends who dont seek to abuse a position of power over someone. if you are that close and he knows you are gay, he might understand you have a growing ache for him. and is loving the feeling of being attractive... best thing i did is put some distance between us and than get out fo the house to meet other gay people.
+john Benvenutty Thank you. I have been working on that for the longest and it is just so hard. Trust me all I want is for this feelings to disappear. I just don't understand how this happened to me. Never would have thought that I am in this position. Love gives you hope and keeps you happy yet it also brings heartache and indescribable pain.
this song is from the time I didn't know Covid will come and I will be lying in my room listening to vance joy and his other indie melodies hoping the day will pass and I could live a normal life>>>
This is mine and my Fiancé's song. He just left yesterday for the army. I've had this song on repeat. I miss him like crazy and it hasn't been a full day since he left :(
No. Just no. Nearly nobody sees the right sense in this video/song! So the redhead (mother of the gay guy) is in love with her husband, but he actually looks at the other woman like he should look at her. So she is jealous because she thinks he does not love her anymore but she does not do anything against that because she doesn't want some trouble and she hopes that it will get better someday. So she loved her husband from afar. So the other story is about the young gay boy, who is in love with the other guy, which is in love with the young girl. In the beginning, where the gay guy played football with the straight guy, he thought he had a chance, but actually he had not. So he loved him from afar. Understand? Sorry for my bad english, i'm austrian and my mother language is german :D
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"I've been living on the crumbs of your love and I'm starving now" has to be one of the most anguished and heart-wrenching lines ever written. Loving someone from afar is a hunger that never passes and can never be satiated. They give us just enough to keep the hope burning because they love the attention, but they don't understand just how much they're chipping away at our ability to laugh and feel joy. They destroy us one smiling gaze at a time never caring that the cost of a smile is quiet suffering.
you can't put that on them though, you either gotta speak up, or learn to be friends and let it go
I'm sorry Will. I hope you find someone who loves you as deeply as you love them some day. ❤️
Another fun fact. This is his debut single. Before Riptide.
I like Riptide don't get me wrong, but I think all of his other stuff just gets overlooked and people are really missing out.
Sunny Baudelaire agreed
They are both fucking amazing songs though
Really??!!
over 2 years later and this is still my favorite music video ever. makes me cry every time.
How.about now? And sorry if I made you cry again.
I hope you find the love you deserve and can acknowledge without any distance.
Why do people make such beautiful, heartbreaking music videos? I swear I almost cried.
Bruna Tostes nowadays it’s all about rapping, money, drugs, and bragging
It hurts.
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ALMOST? shit call me a crybaby... I cried the first time I heard this song because my first love left me when I joined the military straight up said "it's me or the army , because I can't deal with the risk of you possibly dying out there..." and that was that... I felt this song down to my core.... doesn't help that im a hopeless romantic and the emotion that Vance Joy has in his music will always keep me coming back for more of his beautiful work...
I always cry to this song 🤷🏼♂️
My pop loved this song, at 96yo we said goodbye for the last time nearly a year ago. Your memories live on pop,especially when I hear this song , . Rip pop x
That moment when a song manages to bring back memories and all the strong emotions you carried in those memories. They hit you so hard you almost drown in them. To get exactly the feelings you had formulated and heard in words is a wonderful comfort. I hope you people can relate to this music video like I did.
You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy bite your tongue'
Yes that's not the way,
Yeah that's not the way
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Oh no, no, no,
No, no, no, no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy hide those hands'
Well I've been living on the crumbs of your love
And I'm starving now
And that is just the way that we remain
Ah that will be the way that we remain
Oh no no no
No no no no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
She got darling hazel eyes
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
If those two blondes that came late, never even showed up, the day would've been perfect. They messed up everything. :,)
Sooooo true
Dumb blonds
Lauren Ward xD
Truuuue
+Exotic Bird ouch
I've watched this video countless times, and have commented before but I've got to tell my story (to whoever cares enough to read it, I included) -
This song really hits close to home. This was filmed in Australia, but it reminds me so much of upstate New York. I'm from North Carolina, the south (not the deep south but still). My dad is from NY and had a lake camp and shed just like this one in a no-name city of upstate NY. My dad forced us to go at least once a year and both me and mom hated it. The trip (14 hours by car) was miserable. My father was too cheap to pay for a hotel. Anyway, my grandparents live there, so we would go and see them in the summer to have "cookouts". We would all eat outside on a table with the sound of the waves lapping against the boat dock and sun filtering through the trees of the wooded area. I couldn't eat inside my grandparent's house because they have cats (I'm allergic - they chose cats over their grandson). So it was just me my mom eating alone on a table outside while everyone was indoors. Everything was the same as in this video, the whole family was there and my grandmother even came to check on my mom like in this video. I remember the sound of the boat hitting the doc inside as waves lapped on the lake. I remember the sunshine filtering through the leaves of the trees and the warmth. Everyone was always in a cheery mood, except my mom and I who were always "outcasts."
I remember one night following a cookout, the neighbors (the district attorney of this no-name town) invited us over to roast marshmallows outside. So we went. I remember the attorney and his wife had two daughters who were beautiful. Though I appreciated their beauty, I didn't feel attracted to them. It was like something just wasn't right but I wasn't sure and didn't know what it could be at the time. I just never really "connected" with the girls that most guys would be wild over. I was about the age of the boy in this video at the time and even looked like him.
Something was brewing with me and my mom and dad's relationship at the time was beginning to decline. My dad would be "flirty" with much younger women (including the attorney's wife) at the cookout. My mom just kind of sat back and watched.
Fast forward 10 years and now it's just my mom and me in California together with the rest of the family still in the south/no-name upstate NY. I have the best mother I could ever imagine, she has supported me with everything. I came out to her while drunk in London and she took it really well. She told me to be safe and made me promise that if I met a guy, I would introduce him to her. Mom and I have a great relationship and we're so much happier here.
I will never forget the past, the summers at the camp, the cookouts, the lake and cabin, the pretty girls I wasn't attracted to and my mother and I feeling like outcasts among the family. It's a bittersweet memory and this video is nostalgic. I guess I'm glad that I was surrounded by "family" as a child and was able to have those cookouts on the lake. It's a weird thing, but I know it was a stage that was supposed to happen in my life but now has passed, for better or worse. There are things I miss about the "old days" as things seemed so much simpler and traditionally normal back then. That being said I would never in a million years imagine living in southern California. I go to a college I actually sort of kind of enjoy, I'm making friends, I'm doing things. I'm not changing per se, I am becoming more myself and it feels pretty great.
Update - showed this video to my mother and she had to watch it four times because it is such an eerily accurate portrayal of our lives.
I love when people post this kind of each person little life story, wish you the best man :)
i wish you the best!! :)
hey great story, much love to your mom. She must be an amazing woman. :)
It is just so beautiful how people can relate to art and viceversa. I live for this. We are all connected
Thanks for sharing your heartfelt story triggered by this emotional song, Charlie - so very touching and searingly honest. It made my day listening to this beautiful song, as well as reading your response to it :-)
This song makes my heart burst. It's full of beautiful secrets.
From 2:20 on is just beautiful. Hell, the whole song is beautiful, but damn, the last two minutes made me tear up.
"I've been living on the crumbs of your love, but I'm starving now"
What a heartbreaking line.
Never saw better music video- uncountable ways of interpreting it, great match with lyrics and music. Not to mention emotions, which will awake even in cold- hearted man like me. Absolute masterpiece IMHO.
This man is not only a lyrical genius but damn can he sing
I've never seen such a beautifully directed music video. The directors did a wonderful job matching and timing the video to the music.:)
This is song is about James (Vance) having a girlfriend, but also having a crush on her friend. I saw him perform couple days ago, and that what've said before he played this song. All makes sense now!
Was her friend a guy or a girl? 😳
James (Vance) doesn't come across as gay, so I'd assume a girl.
in reality you dont know if a persion is bi or gay, vance could be bi, I mean unless you really new me you wouldnt know I am gay
Well, if it's a man, it's fits the main plot, with the teenagers. And, if it's a woman, it fits the side plot of the adults 👍
+elderago ghhhhhhbv
I don't care about the real meaning of the lyrics but I'm jus bawling my eyes out thinking about how I'll never be with the straight guy I'm in love with.
straight guys AIN'T SHIT, you can and *will* do better
@@katekursive1370 That’s facts :(
Story Time: The boy in the red shirt had always liked the one in the blue shirt. They have been friends for quite a while. As he slowly started to mature through puberty he realized he liked the boy in the blue shirt more and more, and not just as a friend. He grew up, and all the small moments that he had with this boy with the blue shirt he glorified because he was the one to share those moments with him. But on the day of the annual picnic the day that he had planned to tell the boy with the blue shirt how he truly felt about him, even getting small signs from him like when he leaped on top of him to grab the ball he felt that when they were both alone at a nice place he would finally tell him. But their parents decided to tell one of their friends to come along as she was feeling lonesome and to also bring their daughter. When the daughter met these two friends she immediately fell in love with the ruggedness of the blue shirt boy. Little did the boy with the red shirt know that the boy with the blue shirt also started to grow feelings for this girl. The day went on and the boy with the red shirt realized that he was feeling less and less confident about telling the boy with the blue shirt. So he though up a scheme to get him alone. He tried to get them all to play hide and seek, but the girl quickly outwitted the boy with the red shirt to count, and the boy with blue shirt agreed. As the blindfold was put onto him, he was imagining all the things his eyes were acing to see, he imagined the blue shirt boy shirtless, licking ketchup off himself. After that the pitter patter of their feet left the room. As son as they left he finished counting he quickly undid the blindfold and went to go look for them following a obvious trail they had left behind. The boy with the blue shirt and the girl tried to get away from the boy with the red shirt so the girl can finally kiss him. Every time they found a hiding spot, they saw him in the distance and quickly shuffled to another spot, again and again they did this. Until finally they felt that they got far away from him, that the girl pinned the boy with the blue shirt to the ground and kissed him... but in the distance the boy with the red shirt saw the whole thing. His heart shattered he stood in shock, his friend which he was hoping to make all the more slipped through his fingers. His heart broke as he stood their, and the boy with the red shirt realized he should of not loved from afar... THE END (IF this gains 15 likes i will do one about the parents peace)
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Tony, which one is you? I'm guessing red shirt.
That was really good! Please write a story about the parents.
Tony Zibizo holy shit I understand it now... this shit should be a book
wow that was great!!!! you are such a good narrator!! congrats!!!
I think the song is more about an impossible love whether it's the gay boy liking his friend or the wife not feeling truly loved by the husband.
Spot on
finally somebody actually explains it correctly
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, people relate to it differently.
I agree with u.like the song thought.
+Luis Medina this was totally gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay .... LOL ....
I have been reading the comments, and have been trying to think of the subject of the song. But I think I'll stick with my immediate response:
When I first heard this song, I was listening to his whole album, and immediately feel in love with this one and had it on repeat. My first response to this song was that it was friendship. Kind of like someone's falling in love with their best friend but they know it won't happen. That they shouldn't, and just look the other way. "Not the way that friends behave". I thought it was like that. Loving your best friend and it "shouldn't come as a surprise" to them.
That was my immediate response, and it connected me to the song in the best, personal way.
Wonderful interpretation! Thank you for sharing.
The build up of the song at the moment in the video when the protag. takes off his blind fold... sends chills through me everytime.
That part to the end of the song gets me going... my god.
am I the only one who was more interested in the side plot?
it's also about the married couple & the lunch they have with friends. The wife realises that her husband shouldn't act the way he does around their female "friend", fantastic song with so many different perspectives, also the young girl & lad have feelings for each other even though they are family friends. The other lad is in love with his friend - the song is so clever how it is open to so many interpretation's. Vance Joy is genius 👌💛👍
I never get annoyed by this song and I can watch this video on repeat... Love your music Vance Joy! You bring joy to my life 😉
Unrequited Love. Never thought I'd survive; but I did. It sucks so awfully bad.
You will survive, it just hurts more than you've ever known. Gay or straight, the
pain is caustic. Seems like it took forever to get over him..........
Not gonna lie. I'm a straight guy, and this made me tear up.
Same 😕
+Hard Life To Love we didnt say we cried we said we teared up... Theres a difference
Oh i thought you wrote straight guy
Sorry lol
Nvm
This song reminds me of my dog that died a few days ago. Now it's an impossible love and I will always love him from afar.
'Well I've been living on the crumbs of your love, and I'm starving now'
Thank you. Regardless of anything else; thank you
Loving someone form afar is painful... but someone has to do it, otherwise there would not be amazing works of art such as this video and song.
And hey I thought I knew Vance's music. I didn't think I could love him and his music more, but this is beyond anything I felt before.
This song makes me cry every time, as I had a best friend, and I liked her so much (I’m a female). We were so close and my feelings continued to get stronger, although I knew it would never happen. So I was ‘loving her from afar’ and ‘living on the crumbs of her love’. I would get frustrated and angry with myself all the time during this period and have this song on repeat as it would help me get all of my emotions out. And the bridge makes me tear up so more, as my friend has hazel eyes and I was feeling what I was feeling. She was there but I knew I’d never be able to reach her. I told her, and she left me. Totally. To this day (ten months later) I’m still death stared. This song is such a sad story, but I’m also grateful for it as if I hadn’t let out my emotions, who knows where I’d be right now?
Hope you are better now :)
Im a gay guy and I burst into tears seeing this, way to many memories like this, at least to me kid finds has a freind he really likes and enjoys doing stuff with him but the guy has a girl and he wants to feel like he fits in only only too be screwed over, its a horrible lonly feeling, that some men and woman live with for a long time
most of the time you dont even know your gay it isnt like a light switch it takes something more for a lot of people to realize it and once you do live usually becomes a lot more meaningful
I just realized I was only a week ago at the age of 26.and since then Im finally happy and and enjoying .life
and guys being gay doesnt mean you cry on the drop of a dime and the opposite isnt true if your straight express yourself for the love of god do it, showing emotion is a bad thing,,,
Spot on.
What I am currently going thru for a year and a half so far. We are so close, perhaps much closer than his girl. And although it will never happen, he gives me conflicting signs that keeps me happy, hopeful , and heartbroken at the same time. It's the same cycle over and over for so long that I am loosing apart of myself. I am so torn living like this yet at the same time I am happy around him... I haven't known myself for awhile and I wish I never would have met him. 😢 This video just hit me hard.
+chillen2000 you have to draw a line... clear all that it will be much better for you, it takes a little, all the healing but in the end it will all be good
Ahejballe It's been two years and I needed to read your comment. I am still in the same situation but I finally wrote him a long message last night saying "I can no longer be your friend and that I have to cut off and block any ties of communication permanently. I know I might not be love of your life and I understand that but you have always been the love of mine. I will miss our friendship but I can no longer take this pain. I haven't known myself for two years and I just want myself back. I'm sorry. Goodbye" After sending that message, I blocked him from my phone, emails, social medias and any other things that he could possibly get in contact me with. He was my best friend in FL since I first moved in that state 2 years ago. I never thought it would be just as hard as letting go. The heartbreak is so surreal that I feel physical pain. It's been rough and I just want it to end. 😕
Line me up, across the room, two falling sparks
One willing fool, and i, i always knew
I would love you from afar.
I've had this stuck in my head all day, such a beautiful song.
And IM FEELING SO HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH!!!!!!!!!
This is a masterpiece
When I often come across good songs like this, I am afraid to keep listening to it, because I don't want to get sick of it. But the force of good songs are too strong ! I can't stop listening to them
I bet it never happened though. At least not for me
There is nothing like a long country drive through the country roads of Australia. It's the only way to feel your at home
“I’ve been living on the crumbs of your love, and I’m starving now.” 🥺😩
😔😔😔 shitting tears rn
I want this storyline to develop more. Like what happens after this video? What about before this video? Who's the other couple at the table? Will the guy in the red shirt ever find someone for him? I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking things...
Don't worry buddy! You're hot as hell! His loss! haha
Abcflc hahahahaha love this😂😂
My god this music video is absolutely outstanding. The concept behind it and the story line go perfectly with what the lyrics are saying. Couldn't of been a better video.
If you are in love, you are one of them in the video..
Im so glad I bothered to listen to this. I kept listening to riptide assuming Vance Joy was just a one hit wonder but this song is amazing.
I still haven't heard any of his others, most likely he has more hidden gems
I'm in the same boat. I can't wait to listen to all of his songs
Grace Priestaf Mess is mine, Emmylou, Play with fire, snaggletooth... All GREAT songs... Cannot wait for this album
Why does this post have over 60 likes?
Laura Powers Because over 60 people agreed/liked what rugby543211 said? Glad we cleared that up.
AfternoonAcoustic Obviously. And obviously that isn't what I meant.
When i saw the water and the tree it reminds me book "Looking for Alaska".
Oh shit... I used to listen to this all the time, and this video 100% communicates how I felt when I did.
Vance Joy is the best singer on this planet
In terms of the adults I originally thought that I should focus on the perspective of the husband. However I think the main character out of the adults is the wife. Her husband will never look at her the same way he looks at the blond woman. Like the boy, she will always love him from afar.
I started thinking this conclusion too. As close as she is to him in terms of marriage and physical space, she must feel so much farther away from him knowing he feels such an attraction and bond to another woman that she (the wife) likely didn't receive from him...
So then the father, mother, and son are all loving from afar :)
How depressing.
this video made me cry, because its so relatable, human and simple; its just life, and you cant do anything about it
😶👌😍Vance joy is just too perfect
This breaks my heart.
+Nicole Nicoleo ok
ok
ok
Mine too, always painful to watch, ugh.
I agree with the one in yellow being the main character among the adults, she probably always knew that she would have to love her husband from afar. So sad.
On a positive note, I love the way this video is shot. The whole style of it is so modern AND retro and it compliments so well.
This almost made me cry.
No music video nor song nor story or anything like that makes me cry.
OMG, the instrumentals in this are amazing!
To me it's two stories with the same backbone from in the song: The husband at the party makes a fool of himself pining for the younger woman from his past who could've been and the young man tries to deny his feelings for his male friend in realization he'll never requite. Both show what the song is really about: making a fool of yourself longing for someone that could never be.
This hits different
Now is The Way We Remain
It's pretty much a universal part of life (but not the happiest), Boy/Girl, B/B, G/G, does even matter???
Hurt is hurt; and hurt of the heart is wicked painful. Nice to see lots of you all respond positively; as this
is not really popular subject matter among kids or adults. Most people won't even talk about it. Sad real sad.
This song works perfect for pining!Bucky watching Steve and Peggy. And now I'm crying
Eli Blue-Norton OH MY GOD YES IM CRYING!
I really want to cry right now
I've been livin' on the crumbs of your love, and I'm starving now.
Damn…right in the feels
The lyrics of this song...the feels! :)
I'm pretty sure this is my favourite music video of the decade.
1:14 look at that great acting, lady at the back
I heard this song on spotify and wanted to watch the video. Good lord, it's so moving. My eyes keep tearing up everytime I watch or even think about this video...
moral of the story: don't invite blondes to the party
cheers
blondes have more fun - that’s a fun fact
This video has a very Australian vibe ... make me miss the country even more.
I feel for all of them...such a sad song. I can empathize with the wife- I've been in that situation...we're divorced now :)
damn those girls rolled up with nothing but chaos
I knew this song a couple of years before a met my ex boyfriend, with whom I had an almost 5 years relationship. He never came out so our relationship was a secret and I waited for him all those years. We broke up cause he wasn't into me anymore, although I've been in love with him since the beginning and until now. He's now with a girl and this song always comes to my mind when I think of them. She got darling hazel eyes and I always knew that I would love him from afar.
This music video is perfection
This is my favorite music video. The song is amazing and fits the each shot perfectly. I just love the whole concept and how they show different ways of loving someone from afar, it's just so cool (and the cinematography is beautifully done). Vance Joy is the best!!
agree!
You continue to be so sweet and creative. I'll always love you !
Im in love with someone...he once loved me, but i took his obsession with me for granted. Now he's moved on, and i've just fell for him. He won't even make eye contact with me... Now I'll always know that I'll love him from afar.
Go eat an orange
+Yasmin Thompson What a story, but its nonsense to love someone from afar.
+Myo swe U do realise she's doing a reference from the song??
+Myo swe why is it 'nonsense'?
It happens all the time and is a highly regrettable and painful experience; don't diminish them.
***** because people got to let it go and not be stuck in a one sided love.
so many deep, deep messages in this song. I love Vance joy and all of his gems.
i feel so much for this guy in the red shirt
This feels like a a gay song, and that's why I fell in love with it. Lovely.
One of my favorite music videos by far
By AFAR!
+Eliuss lol
I love how mother and son have same feelings
phoebe and Justin from home and away brought me here 😍😁
Debz Mcleod same! I've been trying to find their version I loved it
same! ♥
and me lol they sang it mint
I love Phoebe and Justin's version so much that I hope someone will upload the scene 😁
Which episode number is it? I'm gonna try and see if i can upload it myself if someone hasn't already 😊
Vance is the interspersion of the sentry!
All this guy's songs are home runs.
Oh god i cried. What an emotional film clip!
Hello from Brazil! Nice song track for a long ride, isn't it?
Nice rsrsrsr
Heard this for the first time on the movie 'Maybe It's You' and I can't get it out of my head
in conclusion, the visiting blondes ruined everything.
+chandler bing "ruined"
More turkey mr chandler?
totally hahaha
LOL!! 🤣😂😃
😂😂😂
So excited you're opening for Taylor!
Just sam him Live in Rimouski Canada and the guy is a fucking BEAST, he is an awesome live performer. He said that From Afar was one of the first song he ever played and it is about loving someone that have a boyfriend/girlfriend or that is far away from you, it's not about being gay or something like that!
I'd say songs are mostly open for interpretations. And the distance between you and someone you love doesn't have to be physical.
so powerful, pretty much have this video on repeat at the moment. amazing
this video is so sad i love it
NONONOTHIS CAN'T END LIKE THIS!!!!!!!! IT'S TOO SAD!
Anyone who is homosexual can probably relate to this....i am and i have a lot of painful memories
Trust me, you're hardly alone. Wishing you a happier future, and the Love of your life.
Mike
I wish you nothing but happiness!!!
What I am currently going thru for a year and a half so far. We are so close, perhaps much closer than his girl. And although it will never happen, he gives me conflicting signs that keeps me happy, hopeful , and heartbroken at the same time. It's the same cycle over and over for so long that I am loosing apart of myself. I am so torn living like this yet at the same time I am happy around him... I haven't known myself for awhile and I wish I never would have met him. 😢
Been there. cut him out like a cancer. and find friends who dont seek to abuse a position of power over someone.
if you are that close and he knows you are gay, he might understand you have a growing ache for him. and is loving the feeling of being attractive...
best thing i did is put some distance between us and than get out fo the house to meet other gay people.
+john Benvenutty Thank you. I have been working on that for the longest and it is just so hard. Trust me all I want is for this feelings to disappear. I just don't understand how this happened to me. Never would have thought that I am in this position. Love gives you hope and keeps you happy yet it also brings heartache and indescribable pain.
this song is from the time I didn't know Covid will come and I will be lying in my room listening to vance joy and his other indie melodies hoping the day will pass and I could live a normal life>>>
That kid just "Third Wheeled" it so hard :(
Favorite part "it shouldn't come as a surprise what I'm feeling now"
this accurately describes my life
+Lena Taylor same
Same here...
This happened to me like three times in a row. Love isn't for me.
This is mine and my Fiancé's song. He just left yesterday for the army. I've had this song on repeat. I miss him like crazy and it hasn't been a full day since he left :(
The pavlova got me really excited. Haha.
I was crying in all his songs because it was so beautiful
No. Just no. Nearly nobody sees the right sense in this video/song!
So the redhead (mother of the gay guy) is in love with her husband, but he actually looks at the other woman like he should look at her.
So she is jealous because she thinks he does not love her anymore but she does not do anything against that because she doesn't want some trouble and she hopes that it will get better someday. So she loved her husband from afar.
So the other story is about the young gay boy, who is in love with the other guy, which is in love with the young girl. In the beginning, where the gay guy played football with the straight guy, he thought he had a chance, but actually he had not. So he loved him from afar.
Understand?
Sorry for my bad english, i'm austrian and my mother language is german :D
Perfect description. 😜
^^^
I was kind of uncomfortable when they got tackled and he stared at him for a second.
Ryan Lennon Whats Wrong with being gay
Your English is actually really good.
Vance joy I want to live inside your videos in an eternal loop of beautiful, innocent pure emotion
Thank you for making real music Vance Joy and not generic sex pop music.
It shouldn't come as a surprise. Thats what you felt, thats what you're thinking about.
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