Sometimes I come to read all the beautiful comments from songs likes this and it really fills me with joy knowing all the nice and good hearted people out there. It doesnt matter where you are in the world, remember we are all connected as one. 🌌
I would like to thank M83 for making this song that has flown under my radar until last night. I have been in a rough shape lately due to my depression but have not been able to let go and shead some tears, and then this song came up on auto-play and I was captivated by the song and it made me feel enough to cry. I really needed that, thank you again.
*wherever you are in the world, just know that life will get better. you've survived up until this point, that means you can survive until the end. you'll find your way out, i promise*
I ran a half marathon today and this song was on my playlist. I remember looking around at everyone running and for some reason this song really encapsulated this transcendental feeling of mutual love, experience and humanity.
This song celebrates the beauty of things that end. Simple as that. It can be death, a relationship that didn't work in the end, a son leaving their parents house to make his own path... It celebrates the closure of things that, directly or not, starts another cycle, until itself comes to an end. And it is beatiful because, celebrating things that end means celebrating everything. Everything starts from a ending.
indeed, but it's also a reminder that life is death itself, a pain that might overcome us, or make stronger to accept the duality of the world and life itself, it's hard but we will make it through.
Thank you for your words. I lost my Mom last December and M83 music has been incredibly emotive to me. I am a kid of the 1980s, like Anthony, and there is such a deep presence of the sprite and joy of that decade. His play with vocals and long rich tapestry of sounds just calls me back there. I am trying to be positive and think of the new things that lay ahead for me in life, things that she will, no doubt help me do from her new home in heaven.
@@jessicamelchiorre2773 dear jessica. I don’t know you but i think I know how you feel. My mom also died 18 years ago…. Life feels still strange and sad without her. But it’s also enjoyable time to time. I wish you well…
Going through cancer for the third time,,, love knowing I get to hear beautiful music like this before something happens, God willing I get to hear it for many years to come
This song puts me to sleep when I was carrying my first child. It's like an instant lullaby that my baby and I appreciate. Unfortunately, 5 months in, miscarriage happened and I still listen to this every night and I know my baby girl is too. Thank you for this gentle piece of memory that I can live in over and over again. Love.
This song is echoing through the cosmos a trillion years from now. It is the memory of us being carried on the final beam of light from our long dead star.
The only few people who actually seached this masterpiece will ever find this song This is piece of nostalgia and memories on the best it such an underrated track.
If it didn't happened since you wrote this, then something is really wrong down there, but i guess it won't take so long from now...I make the wish to come back here in 10 years and then see that you've found the one that missing you today plus 2 or 3 little things called "kids" around you, going crazy about your pop-corn talents 😁🙏
For some reasons his music touches me so deeply that tears just stream down my face and I have no chance to hold them back. This is more than music, this is art, brilliant and timeless.
It’s more even than that - it touches something beyond us and affirms our humanity. It syncs us up to the essence of existence and elevates us above our mortality and puts us in touch with our souls
Ziyad Thunku Ousmand Marijuana won't help. if you want to experience what I'm talking about, stop thinking habitually. stop worrying and live in the moment. I think you might be surprised how joyful of an experience it is, and how beautiful life is when you stop judging everything.
I am 27 years old and never in my life have I been touched by music in the way M83 has touched me. I am not religious but this is what heaven must sound like.
I can't listen to M83 without feeling like crying, not just out of sadness but there is something about the powerful message that really makes me feel and I can't suppress it
This song is angelic... It's transcendent... It's peaceful and sad at the same time... Seeing these comments just reminds me how we're all still beautiful... Peace, luck and love to anyone reading this. 2021.
The only thing that even remotely challenges the greatness of this song are the heartfelt, candid, and deeply moving comments that attend it. This might be the best page on the Internet. Thank you to everyone for sharing your sorrow and joy. Much love.
This song is an expression of the deep touch in our souls, feelings, thoughts and emotions. It comes with beauty, lightness, depth and a true sense of what really matters to me. Thank you very much M83
Never in my entire life has a song so moved me as this one has. It has carried me through some of the roughest times in my life, losing my brother, feeling alone and lost. This song touches you deep in your very heart and soul and pulls you out of whatever darkness you may be sinking into. This song reminds me what it means to live and to love, to feel and to simply be. These words definitely don't do this song justice, for emotions such as those stirred by music such as this simply cannot be defined. What this song means...you just feel it, deep inside. Your soul smiles, your heart glows. You're one with life and love and everything around you. This song is the universe holding your hand and telling you that everything is going to be okay...because you are loved. Thanks M83. For giving life to this ethereal and exquisite piece of music, and for sharing it with the world.
Tori A. Yeah, that makes me think about this quote: "Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life in a clearer view again"
thats perfectly put. This song happened to me through the end of the first season of "Nirvana the Band the Show". Just fantastic, especially with that music.
The first time I heard this song was about a decade ago. I was watching the Top Gear Vietnam special and as the sun set on the beautiful country of Vietnam a small section of this song played. I never knew the song, but remember the feeling it gave me. Utterly content and blissful. I watched it again for the first time recently and I heard the song again and I felt exactly the same 10 years on. This time, due to the advancements we’ve made in 10 years, I could Shazam the song and find this full length masterpiece. It’s taken me 10 years to hear the full song, and it was worth every moment waiting.
Literally did the same thing right now. Would never of known this was M83, I’m looking to trail South East Asia at the next year! Certainly one for the playlist 👌🏼 - Edit: 2 years have flown by and still haven't had the chance, hopefully by the end of the year
Listened to this while i snowboarded the back country up in whistler BC, something about slashing through powder up in 15,000 feet elevation really is magical. I kind of cried a bit for the first time out of pure joy.
if more people can learn to perceive the universe in those terms,- with love, beauty, awe and wonder in our hearts, things will change... I believe this song exemplifies those feelings 💕🌈🦋
I remember myself 3 years ago listening to this song on repeat during bus commutes. I just stare out the window, my fist under my chin, watching the city lights, the moon, and the stars. This song is epic and one of my old m83 favorites. I knew this song is something big which deserves an epic video such as this. Thank you m83!
This is magical and takes you to a place like no other. I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety last year and really thought that was it for me. Listening to music like this gives me hope for the future and makes you reassess what is important in life and makes life worth living again. Thank you M83 for giving us this emotional rollercoaster with your music and for being a part of my life.
Es súper interesante darse cuenta que hay cosas, sensaciones, pensamientos, emociones, sentimientos, estados del Ser que no pueden expresarse con palabras, es el caso de estas melodías que expresan tantas sensaciones sin emitir una palabra...Sólo puedo expresar Gratitud Plena 💖⭐🌟✨🌟⭐💖
this song makes me feel like i’m nothing, like the whole world just stopped and stared for a moment, like i’m floating through space and time, it makes me feel like i am something...
You guys have no idea how better this song is if you listen through the whole Before The Dawn Heals Us (Aka, the best Sythpop album ever). It's so fucking amazing if you have the patience to listen the whole album, and while you're enjoying the energy.....boom! This song comes up and gives it the best ending to any album ever. I really recommend this, it made me cry a little.
Lost my father 2 weeks ago. I pray this is what he heard and saw as he slipped away. It was hard to watch him die... I got one last time to hold his hand and tell him I loved him. I miss him dearly as I am completely alone now. I have my regrets when we argued... I am writing to anyone who has regrets, anyone fighting with loved ones, anyone who has hate in their hearts... Lay down your hate, lay down your anger, ask to forgive and ask to be forgiven. Life is too short for so much baggage. Love you
I accidentally listened to this as I was randomly clicking videos on youtube while I was on the roof watching the stars, One of the best accidents ever.
It's so beautiful yet so tragic. That haunting image of the couple looking into each others eyes as they reach out to each other for the last time.... A song of pure heartache and longing.
I want that song to be played the last 9 minutes of my life while going through a slide show of all the beautiful things I have seen. Once it's over, I'm ready to leave this world.
It's midnight, my work shift starts at 07:00 am, I am finishing to listen to this song, i am 29 years old and I am sobbing uncontrollably. Have a Good Night.
Heh, life. Ya, some of their tracks on "You & The Night" have also done this with me. I'm going, "Wowie! This song and album art seemed to have M-E in mind, like, singularly."
M83's songs will always give me tat eerie anything-could-happen vibe but I wouldn't care because there songs prepare me for whatever comes next. I Iove them so frickin much!!
Good lord.....M83's music always makes me feel *_so_*...._grateful_ to be alive. This is truly _"spiritual"_ music, in the best sense of the word. There's something exalting about their music. It taps into that feeling you sometimes get....that achingly poignant feeling of being in awe at the crushing beauty of the world around you....with the realization that, one day, it will *_all_* come to an end. There's something infinitely sad..._and_ infinitely beautiful about knowing that. And this music captures that feeling better than anything. Their song "Wait" does the same thing for me. I love this.....
"Let me tell you a story. About a boy too old to be a kid and too young to be a man..." A Monster Calls is one of my favorite movies of all time. I started crying the instant I saw the trailer (the one featuring this song), before I had seen the movie. It touched me like nothing else had before. And I hope that it touches you, too.
well considering our world probably isn't ending any time soon the only way for all of that to happen would to be to cause it =ing psychopaths rj livingston
this is the best comment section I have ever seen, some people are so loving and others don't hate ever, that's what I like to see no hate no discrimination no problems, thank all of you guys out there with zero hate, that's how this world should be that's how all of us should be in our short lives, no matter if we have no affect even, to all haters out there embrace the words of the kind and loving so you don't hate anymore stop being angry at the world for something so small and enjoy your lives while your here, I know im a furry and all but why hate, some of us may never know why people hate, but that means your a great person.
This is true music. The feeling that you have found something so heavenly. It makes you feel happy and thankful. I want this song and outro to be played at my funeral. Just to let people know at my ceremony that they shouldn't be sad for my death but to actually be happy. Have a good life everybody. Wish you all the best.
I think the title indicates an acceptance of demise. The term "Lower" implies a gentle, calm closing of one's eyes, and the latter part of the title just gives away that someone is accepting death. The video first shows us a pulsating light, and it gets us questioning what it may be. Time is just ticking on, with the "tick" sound being repeated at the beginning. This just seems like the universe is moving on like normal. Little do we know, the light we once thought was benign and non-significant, it turned out to be headlights from a car that hits the viewer so abruptly, just as life does with us all. There is a visual and musical shift here, signifying the said major life event happening. The music gets much more chaotic, and goes from just the "tick" sound to a much more hectic cadence of sounds and instruments, showing how our lives become hectic and chaotic when a major life event hits us. It's amazing how they showed this through sounds, with absolutely no lyrics. The videos of test dummys were just to establish what exactly was happening, to explain the purpose of the man and woman soaring through the darkness. The man and woman obviously got in a car accident together, and the consistent shots of them are proof of that. As the video progresses, however, it shows them getting closer and closer, reaching out for one another, showing how they are falling (okay literally flying) together, because all they have ever wanted is each other. The final shot of them portrays them holding each other's faces, staring at one another. This is a visual and musical shift in the song, which then segues into the final portion of the song, which gets rid of the drums and just has the harmonious pitch in the background with a few other minor sounds. This leads into the denouement of the song, which is also representative of the resolution of life, as the chaos that erupted initially - fades. The lights at the end represent the man and the woman. They were separated as individuals, as there are two lights, both different colors. They join together after about a minute of them being apart, showing how they remained together even in the afterlife, and upon merging, they moved on with the rest of the (what seem to be) stars, because the universe moves on without people all the time. When a loss occurs, people are affected, chaos erupts, but everyone moves on, just as the final shot shows. The stars shown that pass them by can either be all of those who also met their demise in the universe, or it can be representative of the beginning of a life together. The two lights in the final scene, when merging, can also be the symbolic replacement of the man in the woman in the video. The video makes it kinda clear that they die, as the crash looks horrific for about six minutes. The lights binding together can be two individuals uniting, forming a couple. Once they merge, they may also be interpreted as joining the rest of the world, moving forward in life together, ready to find themselves in a similar situation that the couple in the video found themselves in - a fatal incident. Overall, I think the video focuses on the concept of life, which is that we will face struggles, we will fall, but we must regroup and join the universe once again. The video shows a death caused by an accident, but it can be holistically speaking to the aforementioned process of life. We die, we fall, but if we can, we rise, and we join society, who has long moved on from our downfall. Without a single word uttered in this song, I think it reinforces my theory of what this whole song and video means. No words can capture what it is like to lose, or be lost. Hence, a harmonious tune, a tragic scene, and a final beautiful shot of colorful lights does its best to encapsulate such an intricate, solemn topic. This song is so beautiful, and has gotten me through the worst of times. For those of you that stumble upon this in 2018 and years past that, let me know what you think if you read through this entirely. I have so much fun analyzing songs, and I hope someone else out there has a unique (or same) perception they would like to share.
You're writings and the time and effort you've put in to giving this explanation of this most amazing music is just mind blowing, amazing and much appreciated 👊✌💖
This really is the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard, there is no way to describe the feeling I get hearing it, I hope it plays as I move on from this world
*This song is everything to me!* If I could choose a song to play in the background as I walk towards God through the pearly gates of heaven... this would sooo be it 😇
ReLaaaks I don't care if you agree with someone who's opinion is meaningless to me, I do live life. Believing in something that centers me as well as provides me with a sense of peace doesn't deter me from living my life it actually enriches it.
What does everyone else take from the video? Even since I started listening to M83 in 2008, I've thought of them VERY deeply as like, existentially awake. This video makes me think of how like, there are so many REAL people who these types of things happen to (car accidents, shootings, disasters, whatever). But somehow, how its just business as usual for the universe, and for this crazy experience called life, which is SO much bigger than us... which IS us... that we will all too have our time... but that the universe and life and the process making all this possible will continue on... for fucking eternity
Ever since I started listening to M83 I feel like they are one of the few who can grasp the reality of everything and the whole universe and cram it into a song... Unbelievable. If our ancestors live to see the death of the sun this would play at it's funeral.
Makes you think don't it? I can't stop listening to this. Your comment hit my thoughts spot on. I have wondered for a while if I was the only one thinking like this. Guess not :)
Sunyata the title of the song alone makes me feel like dying is not that scary at all. it helps me feel and look from a different perspective that dying is as peaceful and bright, like a new beginning, as to 'die with the sun'
James Sowerby We will never "cease" to exist. We have been created, we make our marks behind, and when we die; we are marked into the history of the universe as a whole.
Honestly, I have to say that for God to take away all of our pain and sorrow, that would be taking away some of our most important catalysts in life. Pain and sorrow are our biggest teachers and can be the biggest catalyst for change 😁
these comments are 2 years old but i believe im not so late so i might just say that i believe love is our second language out of which we do everything good here on this planet...including music or maths.
In a time of sadness, upheaval, loss, madness and uncertainty, this music transports you to another time.. another place and where hope and happier memories exist.
My theory is that a couple got into a car crash. You can tell it's a car because you can see shattered glass, gasoline, and sideview mirrors. Also, I would guess that the couple is from the mid 20th century. Because, back then you could go flying out of a windshield and winshield glass could shatter. Nowadays we have better car safety. Also, they showed some old car crash test clips so that could also elude to the time being older than today. But, it could be modern day too because the "tik" sounds could represent texting sounds. Either way, it's a beautiful song with some beautiful cinematography. They definitely know what they're doing. The represented a couple's final moments into a beautiful end and new beginning.
i listen to m83 since a long time now, but just a few songs... today, i decided to listen to their full discography, because i realised how much i loved their work and how much it was beautiful. i saw the title of this music, and i knew it would be... something i couldn’t describe. and it was. actually, it was too much things. as i listened to the music, i read the comments, and i cried. it’s amazing what this song make people feel, what it gives them. there a lot of different feelings and images, but it was always powerful, kindly, beautiful, reassuring, and human. it’s literaly the best comment section of youtube. and i love this song and m83 so much. i’m a bit sad that i didn’t realise earlier how amazing they are, and how much i love their songs and music. thank you M83 and all the people in the comments ✨ (sorry for my english)
I discovered this song first time today. It touched my emotion like no other music. So beautiful it brings tears to my eyes. Your comment are really nice. M83 fan seems to be good people.
Most of m83's songs have no lyrics, but the sound alone expresses various moods and art. Every time I listen to m83's song, I somehow fall into my own world.
Anyone here revisiting this song cause this was your band band 10-12 years back? Time flies huh? Im Glad *You* Still Here and Still Remember this song. Take Care , Much Love and Whatever You Going through i Humbly wish you to get through it with peace. Take care ❤❤
This song reminds me of the sense of calm I had when I was flipping in my car. I remember thinking well it’s been a fun life bitter sweet and feeling like I would be fine. Strange sensation for someone who fears dying. This song brings me back to the very minute I felt that.
That is such an amazing story, it touched me in so many places! NOT, who gives a fuck.. go find some lonely guy at a bar to tell this shit to. He will listen for awhile... idiot
I always come back to M83 when life is tough. This song is a work of art.
I agree
Life should be tough or you are not pushing forward ❤
❤ me too.
Keep m83 even when life is good❤
Things are. Ya. At least there’s this.. love u
M83 has a way of making you feel some type if way...
its euphoria
Sadness
Endless happiness.
...that's so true…!
probably it is because you are aware of your own existence
Not really sadness
Ludovico Einaudi and Hanz Zimmer are masters of the same arts...M83 truly is music.
it's sex
When I'm low..
I come here...
Thanks M83
Sometimes I come to read all the beautiful comments from songs likes this and it really fills me with joy knowing all the nice and good hearted people out there. It doesnt matter where you are in the world, remember we are all connected as one. 🌌
Word. ☀️💚
❤️🖤
Love you
🙌💖🙌
Couldn’t of been said better
I would like to thank M83 for making this song that has flown under my radar until last night. I have been in a rough shape lately due to my depression but have not been able to let go and shead some tears, and then this song came up on auto-play and I was captivated by the song and it made me feel enough to cry. I really needed that, thank you again.
Love love love to you...
Keep on fighting, for all those living with similar conditions, situations.. keep on fighting for us all. I believe in you.
Don't bottle it up - there is help out there that works, though you might need to try variations to find the right effect for yourself.
How are you doing?
*wherever you are in the world, just know that life will get better. you've survived up until this point, that means you can survive until the end. you'll find your way out, i promise*
that was fucking inspiring man! best of luck to you!
:) ty been waiting for my ex 8 month its that time i have to give up and move on ty
thanks
Stfu
Thank you! As some one who is struggling right now thank you..
I ran a half marathon today and this song was on my playlist. I remember looking around at everyone running and for some reason this song really encapsulated this transcendental feeling of mutual love, experience and humanity.
This song celebrates the beauty of things that end. Simple as that. It can be death, a relationship that didn't work in the end, a son leaving their parents house to make his own path... It celebrates the closure of things that, directly or not, starts another cycle, until itself comes to an end. And it is beatiful because, celebrating things that end means celebrating everything. Everything starts from a ending.
Endings can be as beautiful as beginnings.
indeed, but it's also a reminder that life is death itself, a pain that might overcome us, or make stronger to accept the duality of the world and life itself, it's hard but we will make it through.
Thank you for your words. I lost my Mom last December and M83 music has been incredibly emotive to me. I am a kid of the 1980s, like Anthony, and there is such a deep presence of the sprite and joy of that decade. His play with vocals and long rich tapestry of sounds just calls me back there. I am trying to be positive and think of the new things that lay ahead for me in life, things that she will, no doubt help me do from her new home in heaven.
@@jessicamelchiorre2773 dear jessica. I don’t know you but i think I know how you feel. My mom also died 18 years ago…. Life feels still strange and sad without her. But it’s also enjoyable time to time. I wish you well…
Love your statement! Powerful! True! Thank you!
Going through cancer for the third time,,, love knowing I get to hear beautiful music like this before something happens, God willing I get to hear it for many years to come
I hope you get to listen to this music for a long time
I hope you are well.
I hope your still ok 💟
stay strong
God bless u and hope u pull through
This song puts me to sleep when I was carrying my first child. It's like an instant lullaby that my baby and I appreciate. Unfortunately, 5 months in, miscarriage happened and I still listen to this every night and I know my baby girl is too. Thank you for this gentle piece of memory that I can live in over and over again. Love.
Oh my god, my heart. You and your baby will always share that special connection and it will lead you to each other in the afterworld. ❤
Bless x
$hit, got somethin' in my eyes... not tears...just eyes watering
Only true art is able to pull this kind of trauma out of people. I'm so sorry, I can't even imagine what that's like. Love.
💜
This song is echoing through the cosmos a trillion years from now. It is the memory of us being carried on the final beam of light from our long dead star.
If this is all our species leaves behind, it’s still a damn fine legacy.
❤🙏🌎
Please write more, write my eulogy!
Ahh. Beautiful. Wondering if you write.
Well put
The only few people who actually seached this masterpiece will ever find this song
This is piece of nostalgia and memories on the best it such an underrated track.
I hope one day I’ll meet someone that makes me feel the way this song makes me feel
Honestly.
So do I. I cannot even describe to you in words how much I want that.
i doubt it
This song leaves me thinking and feeling different every time. I’m often left with a feeling of aww!
If it didn't happened since you wrote this, then something is really wrong down there, but i guess it won't take so long from now...I make the wish to come back here in 10 years and then see that you've found the one that missing you today plus 2 or 3 little things called "kids" around you, going crazy about your pop-corn talents 😁🙏
I want to cry listening to this song. It's beautiful, and meaningful without any words. It doesn't need any.
For some reasons his music touches me so deeply that tears just stream down my face and I have no chance to hold them back. This is more than music, this is art, brilliant and timeless.
It’s more even than that - it touches something beyond us and affirms our humanity. It syncs us up to the essence of existence and elevates us above our mortality and puts us in touch with our souls
this song brought me into the moment. something I struggle to find, a place where all suffering dies and the beauty of existing is absolute.
+Roar Blast quick! pass me the joint bruh!
+Ziyad Thunku Ousmand (Zee) alright ziyad relax
Ziyad Thunku Ousmand
Marijuana won't help. if you want to experience what I'm talking about, stop thinking habitually. stop worrying and live in the moment. I think you might be surprised how joyful of an experience it is, and how beautiful life is when you stop judging everything.
Roar Blast relax bruh! Shit..
Ziyad Thunku Ousmand lmao
I am 27 years old and never in my life have I been touched by music in the way M83 has touched me. I am not religious but this is what heaven must sound like.
I could have written this
Sorry if you didn't ask this.. Just another suggestion to find another artist like M83 : Hammock, Sigur Ros
give radiohead a go m8
bruh who gives a shit????????
Derry Andrean Don’t forget Dead Can Dance. They are pure beautiful devotion.
I can't listen to M83 without feeling like crying, not just out of sadness but there is something about the powerful message that really makes me feel and I can't suppress it
This song is angelic... It's transcendent... It's peaceful and sad at the same time... Seeing these comments just reminds me how we're all still beautiful...
Peace, luck and love to anyone reading this. 2021.
And to you too!! Its quite a journey and we can all be thankful for the awesome soundtracks along the way.
Peace, luck and love in 2023 & beyond.
M83's music never fails to make my stomach flip. I can always feel the songs in my soul.
Regan of
The only thing that even remotely challenges the greatness of this song are the heartfelt, candid, and deeply moving comments that attend it. This might be the best page on the Internet. Thank you to everyone for sharing your sorrow and joy. Much love.
This song is an expression of the deep touch in our souls, feelings, thoughts and emotions. It comes with beauty, lightness, depth and a true sense of what really matters to me. Thank you very much M83
Never in my entire life has a song so moved me as this one has. It has carried me through some of the roughest times in my life, losing my brother, feeling alone and lost. This song touches you deep in your very heart and soul and pulls you out of whatever darkness you may be sinking into. This song reminds me what it means to live and to love, to feel and to simply be. These words definitely don't do this song justice, for emotions such as those stirred by music such as this simply cannot be defined. What this song means...you just feel it, deep inside. Your soul smiles, your heart glows. You're one with life and love and everything around you. This song is the universe holding your hand and telling you that everything is going to be okay...because you are loved.
Thanks M83. For giving life to this ethereal and exquisite piece of music, and for sharing it with the world.
+Kim Crenella thank you for this comment. what a beautiful perspective, I will hold onto this idea.
Always remember - "This too shall pass".
+Maria L Don't interrupt, man..
Thank you for this.
If you listen with your heart open you will hear the truth of it.
Thank you so much
Wouldn't mind shutting my eyes one last time while listening to this beautiful piece of music.
same
i literally commented the same. why does this masterpiece make us think of the end?
Why do I suddenly go into an existential crisis and have sad and happy thoughts that make me want to cry for hours...
Tori A. Haha I know the feel, just at reading the comments et listening to the music I'm thinking about my life and stuff :p
Tori A. Yeah, that makes me think about this quote: "Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life in a clearer view again"
ThePvtHudson well shit.... That goes perfectly with this song 😶
+ThePvtHudson Beautiful quote my friend.
+Tori A. Because you're a girl obviously.
This isn't a song that you just listen to.
It's a song that happens to you.
It trully does! Awesome words, thank you for that!
Cheers, life is amazing!
Kinda like meditation.
thats perfectly put.
This song happened to me through the end of the first season of "Nirvana the Band the Show". Just fantastic, especially with that music.
The first time I heard this song was about a decade ago. I was watching the Top Gear Vietnam special and as the sun set on the beautiful country of Vietnam a small section of this song played. I never knew the song, but remember the feeling it gave me. Utterly content and blissful. I watched it again for the first time recently and I heard the song again and I felt exactly the same 10 years on.
This time, due to the advancements we’ve made in 10 years, I could Shazam the song and find this full length masterpiece. It’s taken me 10 years to hear the full song, and it was worth every moment waiting.
Cheers mate🙏🏻
Dont know why, but that last statement made me emotional
Literally did the same thing right now. Would never of known this was M83, I’m looking to trail South East Asia at the next year! Certainly one for the playlist 👌🏼 - Edit: 2 years have flown by and still haven't had the chance, hopefully by the end of the year
From Việt Nam with love, my friend, whoever you are.
Dude, I totally never realized that 🤣 huge Top Gear fan, thank you lol
Without a word even being said, this is the first time in a long time, a song has spontaneously brought me to tears.
I'm trying to tailor my playlist to only songs that move me. Nothing else will do.
Listened to this while i snowboarded the back country up in whistler BC, something about slashing through powder up in 15,000 feet elevation really is magical. I kind of cried a bit for the first time out of pure joy.
dude that's truly amazing,i hope you can experience that again at some point in your life :)
Those are the moments. Same experience when I drift off with my bike into the sunset right by the danube river in my hometown vienna
gay
+joker Why so serious?
i too had the the same feeling, coming out from the restroom of a heavy spanish buffet. cried out of sheer raw emotion. i..was free
I cant put into words what im feeling. A ballet of life, time, space, elements, omnipotence, eternal beauty, and peace
If the world ends, this is the song that should play in the background
Austin Burroughs I think we’d all feel a little more peaceful about it this way.
or "vaka", from sigur rós.
KKKAJKDAKSDAKSDASKD
if more people can learn to perceive the universe in those terms,- with love, beauty, awe and wonder in our hearts, things will change... I believe this song exemplifies those feelings 💕🌈🦋
I agree with you on this one!!!
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG FOR LITERALLY TWO YEARS NOW
IM SO HAPPY
I remember myself 3 years ago listening to this song on repeat during bus commutes. I just stare out the window, my fist under my chin, watching the city lights, the moon, and the stars. This song is epic and one of my old m83 favorites. I knew this song is something big which deserves an epic video such as this. Thank you m83!
/watch?v=ZwzY1o_hB5Y
you can thank me later.
did you miss the bus stop you wanted to get off(because of this song)?
ssparkey Simply breathtaking, thank you. M83 is made for such beautiful footage.
A pile of perfect sounds
I'm surprised to see you here! I didn't think you enjoyed my favorite band as well.
I was too tired to come up for a visit this weekend dad. Hopefully next weekend i'll show up and we can have a few beers!.
@@Dizzyinc1 Dad is everywhere
@@Noctecorvuz Dad doesn’t drink beer. Get some cans of FOOD.
@@DadFeels I'm glad we share a taste in music Dad!
This is magical and takes you to a place like no other. I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety last year and really thought that was it for me. Listening to music like this gives me hope for the future and makes you reassess what is important in life and makes life worth living again. Thank you M83 for giving us this emotional rollercoaster with your music and for being a part of my life.
😍😇🙃👍💕💖💕💖💗
Lee. How r u nowadays it’s 2021 ?
For over a year I've listened to this song and it gives me that same feeling that I got the first time I listened to this... Pure amazement.
Woah, you speak it Fatal!
True
I come here every day
it was a signal seeing this video days before my father's death, God keeps him warm and joyful in heaven
♥ god bless ~
May your old man rest in peace, brother!! ;)
He's now in a good spot
ameen my bro
That's beautiful. I'm sure he's proud of you.
Amen
¡Es Mágico! Quieres sonreír, llorar, sentirte libre, desahogarte, tener paz, reflexiónar, ser feliz... Es increíble!!
Es súper interesante darse cuenta que hay cosas, sensaciones, pensamientos, emociones, sentimientos, estados del Ser que no pueden expresarse con palabras, es el caso de estas melodías que expresan tantas sensaciones sin emitir una palabra...Sólo puedo expresar Gratitud Plena 💖⭐🌟✨🌟⭐💖
this song makes me feel like i’m nothing, like the whole world just stopped and stared for a moment, like i’m floating through space and time, it makes me feel like i am something...
You are 'something'...stardust diamond with a vibration that connects to everything!!!!
Wilshare Your grandmother had such a beautiful soul
You guys have no idea how better this song is if you listen through the whole Before The Dawn Heals Us (Aka, the best Sythpop album ever). It's so fucking amazing if you have the patience to listen the whole album, and while you're enjoying the energy.....boom! This song comes up and gives it the best ending to any album ever. I really recommend this, it made me cry a little.
You know those days where you are just exhausted by the wonders of existence?
Always come here when I feel that way.
It's a tragically beautiful/beautifully tragic world.
I know that feeling all to well
Lost my father 2 weeks ago. I pray this is what he heard and saw as he slipped away. It was hard to watch him die... I got one last time to hold his hand and tell him I loved him. I miss him dearly as I am completely alone now. I have my regrets when we argued... I am writing to anyone who has regrets, anyone fighting with loved ones, anyone who has hate in their hearts... Lay down your hate, lay down your anger, ask to forgive and ask to be forgiven. Life is too short for so much baggage. Love you
Thanks dude 😊
@@AT-vr6in Don't know what I did to make you say thanks, but your welcome. Take care of yourself
You too dude thanks for your words 🙏
Lindo relato e ótimo conselho, obrigado pelo breve tempo que teve de escrever esse comentário
Thanks bro. I’m sorry for your loss😢
I accidentally listened to this as I was randomly clicking videos on youtube while I was on the roof watching the stars, One of the best accidents ever.
Some stars eh? Lol
Wasn't an accident
It's so beautiful yet so tragic. That haunting image of the couple looking into each others eyes as they reach out to each other for the last time.... A song of pure heartache and longing.
I want that song to be played the last 9 minutes of my life while going through a slide show of all the beautiful things I have seen.
Once it's over, I'm ready to leave this world.
Same. I could ask for no better end to my life.
I wish you all the luck in the world for carrying out this wish. I can't imagine it would be easy to organize, but... for every will there's a way.
Ditto my friend
You dont know how that hits..
Soylent Green is people
This is a masterpiece, Friday night, listing to tunes and i stumble upon this.
It's midnight, my work shift starts at 07:00 am, I am finishing to listen to this song, i am 29 years old and I am sobbing uncontrollably. Have a Good Night.
Me and you both brotha.
Heh, life. Ya, some of their tracks on "You & The Night" have also done this with me. I'm going, "Wowie! This song and album art seemed to have M-E in mind, like, singularly."
How are you? From someone recently sobbing uncontrollably.
I care if you're okay. Promise.
Jesus is there when no one else is, much love ✝️
M83's songs will always give me tat eerie anything-could-happen vibe but I wouldn't care because there songs prepare me for whatever comes next.
I Iove them so frickin much!!
Good lord.....M83's music always makes me feel *_so_*...._grateful_ to be alive. This is truly _"spiritual"_ music, in the best sense of the word. There's something exalting about their music. It taps into that feeling you sometimes get....that achingly poignant feeling of being in awe at the crushing beauty of the world around you....with the realization that, one day, it will *_all_* come to an end. There's something infinitely sad..._and_ infinitely beautiful about knowing that. And this music captures that feeling better than anything. Their song "Wait" does the same thing for me. I love this.....
Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and Present.
And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Cloud Atlas!
Glad to know I’m not the only one who remembers that amazing film and also thought of it when hearing this
Cloud atlas !!! My friend a fantastic peace of art.
i like this
i like this
"Let me tell you a story. About a boy too old to be a kid and too young to be a man..."
A Monster Calls is one of my favorite movies of all time. I started crying the instant I saw the trailer (the one featuring this song), before I had seen the movie. It touched me like nothing else had before. And I hope that it touches you, too.
imagine blasting this on full volume as the world's ending
+flimbiscuit oh god.... incredingbly beautiful.....
+flimbiscuit Watching a supernova - a dying sun/star.
This is how heavy elements are made - like gold.
+flimbiscuit aaaannnnd you've created psychopaths, ('_'/\) nice job lol
bianian8 What?
well considering our world probably isn't ending any time soon the only way for all of that to happen would to be to cause it =ing psychopaths
rj livingston
this is the best comment section I have ever seen, some people are so loving and others don't hate ever, that's what I like to see no hate no discrimination no problems, thank all of you guys out there with zero hate, that's how this world should be that's how all of us should be in our short lives, no matter if we have no affect even, to all haters out there embrace the words of the kind and loving so you don't hate anymore stop being angry at the world for something so small and enjoy your lives while your here, I know im a furry and all but why hate, some of us may never know why people hate, but that means your a great person.
This is true music. The feeling that you have found something so heavenly. It makes you feel happy and thankful. I want this song and outro to be played at my funeral. Just to let people know at my ceremony that they shouldn't be sad for my death but to actually be happy. Have a good life everybody. Wish you all the best.
it feels like LIFE.. I can't even put it words. I feel everything
music IS life
I think the title indicates an acceptance of demise. The term "Lower" implies a gentle, calm closing of one's eyes, and the latter part of the title just gives away that someone is accepting death.
The video first shows us a pulsating light, and it gets us questioning what it may be. Time is just ticking on, with the "tick" sound being repeated at the beginning. This just seems like the universe is moving on like normal. Little do we know, the light we once thought was benign and non-significant, it turned out to be headlights from a car that hits the viewer so abruptly, just as life does with us all. There is a visual and musical shift here, signifying the said major life event happening. The music gets much more chaotic, and goes from just the "tick" sound to a much more hectic cadence of sounds and instruments, showing how our lives become hectic and chaotic when a major life event hits us. It's amazing how they showed this through sounds, with absolutely no lyrics.
The videos of test dummys were just to establish what exactly was happening, to explain the purpose of the man and woman soaring through the darkness.
The man and woman obviously got in a car accident together, and the consistent shots of them are proof of that. As the video progresses, however, it shows them getting closer and closer, reaching out for one another, showing how they are falling (okay literally flying) together, because all they have ever wanted is each other. The final shot of them portrays them holding each other's faces, staring at one another. This is a visual and musical shift in the song, which then segues into the final portion of the song, which gets rid of the drums and just has the harmonious pitch in the background with a few other minor sounds. This leads into the denouement of the song, which is also representative of the resolution of life, as the chaos that erupted initially - fades.
The lights at the end represent the man and the woman. They were separated as individuals, as there are two lights, both different colors. They join together after about a minute of them being apart, showing how they remained together even in the afterlife, and upon merging, they moved on with the rest of the (what seem to be) stars, because the universe moves on without people all the time. When a loss occurs, people are affected, chaos erupts, but everyone moves on, just as the final shot shows. The stars shown that pass them by can either be all of those who also met their demise in the universe, or it can be representative of the beginning of a life together.
The two lights in the final scene, when merging, can also be the symbolic replacement of the man in the woman in the video. The video makes it kinda clear that they die, as the crash looks horrific for about six minutes. The lights binding together can be two individuals uniting, forming a couple. Once they merge, they may also be interpreted as joining the rest of the world, moving forward in life together, ready to find themselves in a similar situation that the couple in the video found themselves in - a fatal incident.
Overall, I think the video focuses on the concept of life, which is that we will face struggles, we will fall, but we must regroup and join the universe once again. The video shows a death caused by an accident, but it can be holistically speaking to the aforementioned process of life. We die, we fall, but if we can, we rise, and we join society, who has long moved on from our downfall. Without a single word uttered in this song, I think it reinforces my theory of what this whole song and video means. No words can capture what it is like to lose, or be lost. Hence, a harmonious tune, a tragic scene, and a final beautiful shot of colorful lights does its best to encapsulate such an intricate, solemn topic.
This song is so beautiful, and has gotten me through the worst of times. For those of you that stumble upon this in 2018 and years past that, let me know what you think if you read through this entirely. I have so much fun analyzing songs, and I hope someone else out there has a unique (or same) perception they would like to share.
Simon Moore Thank you.
You're writings and the time and effort you've put in to giving this explanation of this most amazing music is just mind blowing, amazing and much appreciated 👊✌💖
Thank you so, so much. It means a lot to me knowing that someone actually took the time to read what I wrote.
Simon Moore wow took the words right out of my mouth beautiful
Thank you
I want to cry and smile at the same time.
Same
Tuc. Tuc Aahhahahh
cos this shit song got so many views
craughing
Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏
It's the song I wanna listen to when I pass away 💖✨
I used to listen to this song a lot when I needed to know everything would be okay and I just remembered it recently. It still works
No words just melodies crashing into each other ! Causing cosmic explosions to everyone’s ears !
Beautiful. Absolutely, irrevocably beautiful.
Anis A where u from at?
My soul's rawest yearning can be summed up by M83
This really is the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard, there is no way to describe the feeling I get hearing it, I hope it plays as I move on from this world
Before tonight, I have never heard M83 or of M83. Now I can't stop listening and crying.
It made me stop and to swim to the top and absorb more. I am transformed.
Welcome
I know what you mean... i have been crying....
*This song is everything to me!*
If I could choose a song to play in the background as I walk towards God through the pearly gates of heaven... this would sooo be it 😇
Kevin Lopez what if thats how she wants to live it? shut up and let people believe in what they what they want to believe in
smosh lover Thanks ikr... nowadays everyone wants to be a dictator
ReLaaaks I don't care if you agree with someone who's opinion is meaningless to me, I do live life.
Believing in something that centers me as well as provides me with a sense of peace doesn't deter me from living my life it actually enriches it.
ReLaaaks Yeah well you bombarding my post to share your opinion that I didn't request proves otherwise ugh!
Me too!
I hope it plays in the background as I am banished to hell
What does everyone else take from the video? Even since I started listening to M83 in 2008, I've thought of them VERY deeply as like, existentially awake. This video makes me think of how like, there are so many REAL people who these types of things happen to (car accidents, shootings, disasters, whatever). But somehow, how its just business as usual for the universe, and for this crazy experience called life, which is SO much bigger than us... which IS us... that we will all too have our time... but that the universe and life and the process making all this possible will continue on... for fucking eternity
Ever since I started listening to M83 I feel like they are one of the few who can grasp the reality of everything and the whole universe and cram it into a song... Unbelievable. If our ancestors live to see the death of the sun this would play at it's funeral.
Makes you think don't it? I can't stop listening to this. Your comment hit my thoughts spot on. I have wondered for a while if I was the only one thinking like this. Guess not :)
Sunyata the title of the song alone makes me feel like dying is not that scary at all. it helps me feel and look from a different perspective that dying is as peaceful and bright, like a new beginning, as to 'die with the sun'
Sunyata one day, we will all burn and Cease our existence 💔💔💔💔💔
James Sowerby We will never "cease" to exist. We have been created, we make our marks behind, and when we die; we are marked into the history of the universe as a whole.
My brother played me this song as we drove across the rolling hills of Montana on the trip of a lifetime. That moment will be with me forever
M83, your music soothes aching souls. Completely euphoric. This track in particular is simply astounding.
If angels could sing, it should sound like this...
you’re only sure you've lived enough after listening to this song while watching a sunset on an airplane.. believe me it’s insane..
And you cried a little and that's beautiful and totally ok
I would love that. More than anything. Maybe i'll get my license won day.
If you are listening to this beautiful song and reading this comment, may God bless you and take away all your pain and sorrow.
Honestly, I have to say that for God to take away all of our pain and sorrow, that would be taking away some of our most important catalysts in life. Pain and sorrow are our biggest teachers and can be the biggest catalyst for change 😁
Thank you, he is and he loves you.
Music is after all ... our second language.
+Mr Drone No, it's mathematics.
+Gamerat Mathematics is a universal language, as music is the language of our souls.
+Alex Mackay that sounds so beautiful, thank you
+Alex Mackay
The two go together, as Donald Duck learned in "Mathamagic Land."
these comments are 2 years old but i believe im not so late so i might just say that i believe love is our second language out of which we do everything good here on this planet...including music or maths.
8 minutes of bittersweet bliss. Music for mourning a lost friend.
Anyone here because they're actually a fan of M83? I know I am.
Been a fan for several years now....ever since hearing Oblivion after watching...Oblivion. ;)
Since Midnight City :')
im here because of the autoplay feature, but i very well might become a fan of m83
Glad to see people who know this stuff exist
Just found out about them actually...
But wow have I missed out on something... I feel bad :(
In a time of sadness, upheaval, loss, madness and uncertainty, this music transports you to another time.. another place and where hope and happier memories exist.
i find it more than coincidental that this song lasts about as long as it takes for light to travel from the sun to earth.
It's also exactly the same as the constant for ideal gases which messes with physics all the time.
But it doesn't.
Close enough. I'm sold.
not true earth is flat light hits the earth as soon as the sun rises
@@ungnome9405 true true, but only people born without brains can see this truth, truly sad for the rest of the people
My theory is that a couple got into a car crash. You can tell it's a car because you can see shattered glass, gasoline, and sideview mirrors.
Also, I would guess that the couple is from the mid 20th century. Because, back then you could go flying out of a windshield and winshield glass could shatter. Nowadays we have better car safety. Also, they showed some old car crash test clips so that could also elude to the time being older than today.
But, it could be modern day too because the "tik" sounds could represent texting sounds. Either way, it's a beautiful song with some beautiful cinematography. They definitely know what they're doing. The represented a couple's final moments into a beautiful end and new beginning.
If heaven had an elevator to get there the music inside would be this masterpiece.
I love how M83 goes for broke on almost every track. Each a compressed time capsule of the most epic and beautiful moments of your life.
It's just a song you sit down and listen while trying to hold back tears. Beautiful song something about this song makes it feel magical
Beautiful track and the drums are so well produced.
I literally did not notice the drums at first until I read this comment and then went to listen to the whole song again.
I am now 50 years old and happier than I’ve ever been, yet know this is the soundtrack to the short time I have left.
Short? You’ve still got many great years to live
i am 47 about to turn 48 and i am working on finally being happy with my life. this song makes me feel like i will actually get there.
Good for you. Happiness have dropped to record lows in the west.
@@AJ-vy4yu perhaps it is time for westerners to reevaluate what happiness is. because having a house and picket fence and 2.5 kids clearly isnt it
@@AJ-vy4yu i want to learn i want to experience this is what our true nature is and has always been. we need to stop getting distracted by dollars.
oh my god..so beautiful moved to tears
M83 are a masterpiece band.
When i listen to these masterpieces, i always go deep into galaxy dreams, but i’m awake.
This song is the most beautiful I've ever heard in my life. It would cure all pain and hurt in the universe I'm sure
This song makes me hopeful and peaceful and free.
i listen to m83 since a long time now, but just a few songs... today, i decided to listen to their full discography, because i realised how much i loved their work and how much it was beautiful. i saw the title of this music, and i knew it would be... something i couldn’t describe. and it was. actually, it was too much things. as i listened to the music, i read the comments, and i cried. it’s amazing what this song make people feel, what it gives them. there a lot of different feelings and images, but it was always powerful, kindly, beautiful, reassuring, and human. it’s literaly the best comment section of youtube. and i love this song and m83 so much. i’m a bit sad that i didn’t realise earlier how amazing they are, and how much i love their songs and music. thank you M83 and all the people in the comments ✨ (sorry for my english)
I discovered this song first time today. It touched my emotion like no other music. So beautiful it brings tears to my eyes. Your comment are really nice. M83 fan seems to be good people.
My rough collie, Logan, died of cancer and whenever i hear this i think of him. My sweet boy I'll miss you forever 💔
I miss you, Jennifer. I hope to see you again one day before neither of us are around anymore.
Cheer up, bud !
Share your Story?
Im sorry for your loss, I hope you will soon meet again in heaven
Any updates? Did you see her again?
@@mathewjarvis7748 Still waiting...
Maybe one day he'll tell us...
Or maybe....
He found Jennifer again.
Its an appropriate theme to end of OUR time here on earth.
This song makes me feel like I've finally made it to the end. I'm finally here. Where I'm meant to be
I remember hearing this for the first time- I was cooking dinner…. I got goosebumps… it’s just everything, from this track I discovered M83
damn.... I'm stunned by the beauty... so much beauty.... this song speaks to me....
You have the ability to make my life brighter and full of beauty through your music. I feel infinite.
Most of m83's songs have no lyrics, but the sound alone expresses various moods and art. Every time I listen to m83's song, I somehow fall into my own world.
Anyone here revisiting this song cause this was your band band 10-12 years back? Time flies huh? Im Glad *You* Still Here and Still Remember this song. Take Care , Much Love and Whatever You Going through i Humbly wish you to get through it with peace. Take care ❤❤
M83 is pure genius. Thank you for making music that never gets old.
M83 is the best band in the world 🌎
This song reminds me of the sense of calm I had when I was flipping in my car. I remember thinking well it’s been a fun life bitter sweet and feeling like I would be fine. Strange sensation for someone who fears dying. This song brings me back to the very minute I felt that.
Sounds like a life turning moment (no pun intended).
I heard when you are in the process of dying people experience a moment of calmness and peace, they just let go.
That is such an amazing story, it touched me in so many places! NOT, who gives a fuck.. go find some lonely guy at a bar to tell this shit to. He will listen for awhile... idiot
I cry every time I listen to this song. It’s amazing