Dermot Kennedy // Bring Me Down 

8 years later still wishing this was on Spotify 🥺

Wow, Birdy & Dermot, if I could pray, oh & if I could have any way, I'd definitely love a real collaboration 😍 😊🌹

Letting go of a love not realised, so painful.. thank you for these raw, deeply felt truths.

I first heard Bring Me Down 7 years ago and I still come back to it often. If it was a record, I would have played it until it was distorted. I'll never get tired of it.

8 years and I am still crying over this one ❤

This is what it feels like to let go of someone you love so fiercely. He writes music that speaks to my soul 🌙

How can a man's singing crush your soul and build you up simultaneously? He holds your emotions hostage with his music. His very essence is transcendent.

Still here wishing this would be released

Everything. At once. Thank you.

I thought i had exhausted the lengths of your discography and then BOOM! THIS?! OUH MY GOD what a splendid surprise lol

Wishing this was on Spotify 🥹

I don't know how to start this one. That's always a good place to start, with honesty. While all your music holds a special place within me, this song is the most potent. I had a dog. A Great Dane. When I got him as a puppy, he came up at me barking and growling then sat at my feet and looked up at me as if to say, "Oh, it's you. Sorry, I didn't recognize you." The warning of aggression was clear, but I'm skilled at handling animals with aggression problems. I knew if anyone else took him, it was a tragedy waiting to happen. That was all subconscious. All I thought at the time was this one was mine. I'm always drawn to the broken ones. For a long time, he was good. The best dog I've ever had. He learned so quickly and was so eager to please. He didn't like strangers, men, but living rurally and carefully handled when out, the risk was low. He was impeccably trained and followed my every word without hesitation. (After a couple of nasty dog fights between us when he was a teenager. No one was hurt, I won, all was well.) He was perfectly safe around me and my children. I had a move pending that would bring us closer to people. It was extremely stressful to bring him in populated areas. After resisting for six years because of the health benefits for Great Danes by leaving him intact, I gave in to the common and vet-directed advice to neuter him to lower his aggression. He was on the edge. Instead of backing him off, he tipped over the other side. About a week after his surgery, he attacked me in the kitchen, while I was cooking. He was digging in the trash for chicken bones, something he never did. I told him to leave it, one of the commands he knew well. Instead of responding, he braced and started growling. He'd never had a hint of food aggression before. I could easily take food from him. He wasn't letting this one go. I tried a few other commands he knew well, and he ignored every one. I was trapped and couldn't deescalate the situation. I glanced at the knives behind me. He lunged for my throat. I pulled back just enough to miss the bite. His teeth snapped in the air with a snarl, centimeters from my throat. He was about to lunge again; I called out to my daughter to call the dog. She called his name from upstairs. He turned and went toward her, relaxed and wagging his tail, his focus broken. (She was safe behind a gate.) A voice screamed in my head, "You have to put him down." I couldn't make that decision. He was as much my child as my human ones. Animals have always been my closest bond. My control was broken. My choice was now one dead child or two. I fell into a near comatose state for the next six months as I agonized over the inevitable. I should have put him down right away, but How do you kill your own child? You had just released "Without Fear". I had found you a little before that and greatly enjoyed what was available. Something about that entire album... I needed it. All I became capable of was listening to you on endless repeat, feeding my children, and watching my dog like a hawk. Without you... I do mean comatose in the movie sense of the word. Barely even capable of speech. I couldn't cry, think, do anything. With you, I could cry. I could think, a tiny bit. 'Bring Me Down' became the top repeat. I wished he would just bite me to make the decision undeniable. Six months and one tiny straw later, I could finally do the right thing. He'd lunged at my now ex-husband, a game my ex encouraged despite my protests that it was a dangerous game to play with an aggressive dog. His intensity and the hard snap of his teeth at my ex's throat said he wasn't playing. I couldn't call him off as I always did. I had to physically get a hold of him. My control was gone. I put him down the next day. Comatose was just the beginning of grief. Seconds beat six years of unconditional love. Coming on three years after his attack, I'm still not over it. Some music relates because the lyrics fit your situation. Your music relates because of something else altogether. I've never found it anywhere else. Maybe on the back of a horse. I won't ask you to put this on Spotify, though I'd love it there, as I can tell this song holds its own grief for you. It's a beautiful, powerful thing you captured, and I thank you for sharing it. I'm torn on sharing this with you as I loathe an audience, but we, artists especially, speak into the world and hope to hear a voice return other than an echo. I know you hear plenty of other voices, many other comments on the power and importance you hold in many lives, but I wouldn't be a poet if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have survived if it weren't for you. I owe you my life many times over. The least I can do is tell you. Thank You ♥️

Irish kev here.THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR GIFT.so beautiful inside n out.God bless.xo

Stumbled upon a clip of this song on Instagram. I’ve been a fan for many years and have never heard this song. My husband and I lost a friend to suicide in the fall of 2023. The weekend before his we lost him we were camping, talking around the campfire. He was expressing hopelessness. We were wrapping him in all our love and encouragement that this is temporary. There was a plan in place but it didn’t work. What we wouldn’t give to run away with him today. He did have so much to lose. I see it in his wife’s eyes and we feel it deep in our hearts every day. This song resonates with me so very much. I feel like you’re speaking from both perspectives simultaneously.

Always be my favourite song♥️ can't believe i only discovered dermots music after outnumbered was released. Anyway I will always support dermot from then, now and forever👍

Most humble, beautiful, person I’ve ever met! Hope the big gigs don’t change him! Never met a human in my life that’s blushed when complimented on his talent! What a man 😍

Something about Dermot and the piano, gets me everytime, or him and just his gutair

Can't believe this is 6 years ago. Dermot has been at it for so long. Just so thankful that he didn't give up.

This music talks straight to the soul

You are currently the brightest star among millions

To wonder if he ever thought during this time, that he would be where he is today? I don't know how I keep finding this older video, but I like it!!

I wish he would record this one and put it on the latest album. It deserves some shine time.

I love this one, I love them all, this shows us all, how far he's come! Such a beautiful pure soul at heart!

ONE of the most underrated songs i have come across!

Love looking back at where you started, fan since you have been busking love from Waterford,Ireland ❤

Oh my God.... most beautiful things I’ve seen

Today is my first day listening to him and WOW! I am moved so tremendously. His singing shakes me to my core. Simply beautiful!

Please, please publish that song on spotify! and the Killer is a coward and for Island, Fires and Family!

🎹 time stands • time stills 🎼 … incredible ♠️🤍

Einfach überwältigend, ich liebe es! Dermot du bist großartig ❤👍🫶

This is his earliest song I could find, but if someone knows an earlier please let me know. This reminds me a lot of "Glory" and I love it!

Here again 😍

I want every single song he has ever recorded on Spotify 😭 lov u man❤️

What we ever did to deserve you @dermotkennedy, I don't know. But whatever it is...so grateful.

I always love this one!! Absolutely Beautiful as Always!!

Baby Dermot 😭😭

I always discover the sensitivity in your voice and soul that you transmit to those who listen to you. 💗

Just Dermot and the piano, absolutely perfect seriously!! I die time and time again everytime with him and the piano, pure serenity!! XoXo

I just want this song to officially exist

Not heard this one before. Love all his songs 😍..... running away to be with you for you to keep running away. Is this another irony 🤷‍♀️ wow ! X x

You are beyond talented. As you sing your songs I hang on every word. So much soul and desire in your voice. I work for Bose and I have you on our company CEP Playlist. You are impeccable. I would love to see you live.

i honestly can’t wait until ur famous and I get to say I’ve been here for a while. Probably one of my favorite artists right now. Iconic

Dermot you really are a once in a lifetime artist. the only time i felt that way with anyone's music was listening to Coldplay for the first time!! Every song they did was dripping with passion and right now in this moment in time to see you get the respect and love that you truely deserve for your own music makes me very happy you are the man roll on the album of the year i can't. ❤❤👍

Your singing and playing skills are just amazingly outstanding ..love it

Beautiful this guy is special absolutely loved his work/music xx

Who in their right mind would dislike this :/

I would pay with my life to see this guy live.

So authentic ❤

Any chance you could get this and "The killer was a coward" and "Homely Ground" and "This woodland won't listen" on to Spotify please?

I've been listening to his music, from past too now,He has beautiful music and story telling, 💞

I cry every time.

So beautiful. Really wanna see more music from you.

your voice is absolutely stunning.

never listened to someone like that. thank you so much

Load your boat up and let it go Been talking too much about where you'll go And I told you the future's good I should have kissed you right there where you stood Where you stood On a cold morning Bring me down Bring me down Bring me down Bring me down I hope all that you know Will be left behind for me as I go And I hope all that you know Someday I'll know I'll know (oh) I'll know Bring me down Bring me down Bring me down Bring me down Run away with me and then we'll see who cares here Run away with me 'till we're lost in the evening air Come now, this summer, I hope that I know you in the end Come up, come meet me, I'll see you again someday my friend Bring me down, not yet Bring me down, not yet He still had stuff to do Bring me down, not yet Bring me down, not yet They still had stuff to do Bring me down, not yet Bring me down, not yet Still got so much to lose Talk to me, 'bout how there's never no hope Talk to me, 'bout how there's never no hope

So nice words he is so good

I fu*king love this video 😫😭

Incredible

I just discover your songs and I am already in love with your voice, I wish you a great career because you are a real gifted person and I hope a lot more people will see that !!!

Baby derm babyyyy

Another beautiful song I found, the 1st 'run away' part, man your voice is so pure, hard to explain. And the melody, especially before 'talk to me' sounds so amazing. Beautiful done.

Love you x

This... Is powerfully amazing. Give us more, we will gobble it up ;)

I can’t not wait for your new stuff I can’t get enough of your music!!

WHY AM I JUST NOW FINDING THIS

Bring Me Down [Verse 1] Load your boat up and let it go Been talking too much about where you'll go And I told you the future's good I should have kissed you right there where you stood Where you stood On a cold morning [Chorus] Bring me down Bring me down Bring me down Bring me down [Verse 2] I hope all that you know Will be left behind for me as I go And I hope all that you know Someday I'll know I'll know (oh) I'll know [Chorus] Bring me down Bring me down Bring me down Bring me down [Verse 3] Run away with me and then we'll see who cares here Run away with me 'till we're lost in the evening air Come now, this summer, I hope that I know you in the end Come up, come meet me, I'll see you again someday my friend Bring me down, not yet Bring me down, not yet He still had stuff to do Bring me down, not yet Bring me down, not yet They still had stuff to do Bring me down, not yet Bring me down, not yet Still got so much to lose Talk to me, 'bout how there's never no hope Talk to me, 'bout how there's never no hope

I absolutely love your voice and the swing you put on your covers, amazing, I could listen all day :-) well done

🙏🏻

Wow his voice is divine ❤

Unbelievable. Such soul ❤

You are truly talented! Hope to hear more from you on Spotify! Greetings from Italy!

Come up, come meet me, I'll see you again someday my friend ♥️

Favorite❤

please release this song Dermot, I beg you.

I'm so glad that i found you!!!! Love the feelling that you sing...trully obsessed!!!!👌🏻❤️

So glad I finally found this guy and his powerful words. ❤️

Love seeing the beginnings of this song. My absolute favourite.

Love you... Thank you for sharing your soul💖

I love all of his songs which relaxing me.

Just amazing. What an amazing voice 😍

this is so beautiful. you have such an incredible voice. i hope to see you on your tour.

I think im getting to see him in march!!! im freaking out

Beautiful

Can't get enough of his songs he is so amazing omg now I think I am in love 💕💕💕

This is so beautiful, it haunting

This song everytime ❤️

Thank you !!! 🎶

So Beautiful. I am so weak for the piano, and Dermont, just makes it that more incredible!!

Youre voice is incredible awesome!! Please release a new Album !! Love♥️

There's always hope ❤️

Your music reminds me of someone I met in my dreams many years ago! xxx

Liebe für diesen Mann ❤

Very nice can't wait to see your name in lights amazing song sung amazingly

I don't know how it is I haven't heard this one yet 😍

i love your music !

miss you love you my

Your talent 🖤☘️

Me impresiona la voz q tiene. Simplemente maravilloso.

I love him ❤️❤️❤️

I’m back watching this, no surprise there