Thank you for this song/video/album. I lost my best friend to heroine and I can't talk about it adequately but when I hear your music it's exactly what's on my mind. Seeing this video tears me to shreds, doing everything you can do but being just out of reach. Failure clinging to you, loneliness, sadness. I still think about him every day. Last November you guys played here in Buffalo and when you played this and Cigarettes and Saints, I openly wept, in public. It just felt like for a moment I wasn't alone in these awful feelings and I can't express enough that what you're doing is meaningful and please, keep doing it.
I'm here with you. I've lost two of my closest friends to suicide. One of them was a brother to me, and this music give words to the pain. I'm hoping I'll get the chance to hear this live. I guess... just know that we're fighting the same fight, and I, a random stranger on the internet, has your back. I'll keep you with me man.
***** Lol I wonder if the band thought of that when they made the video. I know they love their references to past albums. It's fitting that someone with a name like yours would find that too!
These guys deserve so much more attention. This song and music video are so damn powerful. The camera angle switching to the side and showing other people in the background is pure genius imo. It just shows this disparity between Soupy's reality who could not save his friend and the reality of the people just living their everyday life and starring at him while he "fights for his life".
From someone who's been in the military pushing a decade. I appreciate this. "Caught between the lies you've been fed and a war with your bloodstream. I should have been there when you needed a friend. I was off on my own again, selfish and stupid. If you call me back or let me in, I swear, I'll never let you down again..... We're no saviors if we can't save our brothers."
This could be their best song yet. Soupy carrying his dead friend is symbolic of the weight he's carrying that's regret that he didn't save his friend. Perfect for these times as heroin is taking more lives everyday. This one resonates well with me.
I've listening to this song like for some time already. November 29, 2020 I lost one of my bestest friend. He's been dealing with his depression for some time. I've made sure that he's fine before leaving him alone. The day he was gone, my neighbor shouted outside my house calling name saying that my friend is dead. I ran into his room, I expected that the ambulance brought him already. Unfortunately, he's still hanging on the ceiling. I was shocked. Cant believe a thing. You know what hurts the most during that time? I've been trying to save him, but in the end, I was the one who cut him down from the ceiling. Rest well, my buddy.
Listened to them, was pretty good but I didn’t get the hype. Saw them live a few nights ago… now I can’t stop relating to their songs. Idk Dan’s stage presence is something else
They are soo good. I watched them live the other da6, been my favorite band since highschool (won't be pathetic forever) and they are still and will forever be my favorite band.
A little less than a year ago, one of my closest friends died of cancer. Around the time that I found out that his cancer had progressed and gotten worse, I was working full time, starting school again after 5 years off and my Grandpa had just passed away. I was selfish/scared to see him. I saw him about two months before than and he seemed fine. I couldn't deal with anything else at that time. That was mid August. Then on October 28th, 2016 I got word that he was in the hospital and that it wasn't looking good. I saw him on October 29th. He was in a medically induced coma. I sat there for a bit, reflecting and then I said "We're all pulling for you" and I left. On November 1st 2016, he died. I have felt so much guilt since then for not seeing him before that hospital trip. I knew things weren't going well but I was selfish and decided not to deal with it. This song always reminds me of him and how I feel but it wasn't until I heard it live, acoustic and I could hear the emotion the in Soupy's voice that I just broke down crying. It was so powerful and moving. I've never had a song do that to me before.
This video reminds me of a lot of dreams I've had. I thought it was a little weird until about 2:25, and then I was just like "ahhh, yup, I've definitely had this exact dream." Simple and powerful.
This song is very close and important to me. I lost my best friend, my lil buddy. He was my rabbit Winter. A freak accident happened, I always consider it my fault. He was in my arms and leaped out from being spooked by something unknown. He landed wrong, paralysed his back legs. I took him to my room, made him comfortable. He lived for 3 days, hanging on specifically for me. He got sick from the constant cleaning we had to do...I told him im tears “Its okay to let go..You need to” he was gone the next morning..Looking at peace. Day of his death, cardinals. I had many strange expierences with cardinals. I am haunted by that day, that horrible day. They always say it’s not my fault, but I always feel so guilty or sorry. I miss him and cannot believe he’s been gone for 3 years. Still getting strange connections from cardinals since..I know it’s him.. I wanted to spend more time with him, but that being his last time spent with me. I wish I spent more time with him better. It’s always good to spend time with the ones you care for, because I’m telling you..shit happens.
This song and music video made me want to just hang out with my brother all day and play gamecube. the feels in the lyrics of this song and the metaphor in this music video are just so great man
it's really sad because a couple weeks ago i was eating my lunch outside with some friends and this guy comes out with this cardinal in his hand, she was dying, kept flying into windows, actually being really close to people, i think she was actually scared of the other birds or something.. she actually did end up flying away but i know she died and i dunno.. something poetic about it
I don't know what the video means, but I think I have an idea. Dan is carrying a friend who everyone has given up on, (this took me a while because I kept asking, "WHY IS NO ONE HELPING?!" anyway) and he refuses to give up, he keeps trying to get to the ambulance to help the friend. But at the very last moment, he realizes, "I can't fucking help him. I just fucking can't." And he stops as help just goes off into the distance.
I don't think all the song writing credit should just go to soupy, the rest of the band writes as well! (Besides without them, The Wonder Years, wouldn't be The Wonder Years.)
I feel like the guy Dan is carrying committed suicide. Jumped off a bridge and drowned himself in the river. Dan just looks back in life and just thinks, "No, I should have been there" So the video is him chasing the ambulance racing to save his friend (or possibly brother or something, which can relate to his bandmate) by catching the ambulance.... but it's too late. "So if you call me back or let me in I swear, I'll never let you down again I know the devil you've been fighting with I swear, I'll never let you down again" He wants so badly to be able to take it back, right the wrongs he made, and help his friend but he was too late. Dan realized what he was going through (i know the devil you've been fighting with) which I interpret as contemplating suicide and When the ambulance drives away he realizes he is too late. This song is full of emotion, and the video, although simple, displayed it perfectly, if the rest of the album captures the same emotions as this one, I think we will all be set.
This is the third part of a trilogy. You Made Me Want to Be a Saint, Cul-De-Sac, Cardinals. Each song explains one part of the story. Just read the lyrics of each song and it tells the story in full. Dan Campbell is a lyrical genius. I'm completely blown away...
Hopeless Records Does anyone know if the Vinyl will also include a CD? Last time I ordered a Vinyl it came with a CD version of the album and I would really like both, for listening at home as well as screaming along in the car.
"Cardinal crashed into my window, I think he might die I'll plan him a funeral, I'll read his last rites Cause I know what he saw in that reflection of light On the glass was a better life" Holy fucking shit
Sure, it kicks ass if you were 13 and liked really whiny pop punk akin to that of Panic! At the Disco. The Wonder Years from "Wont Be Pathetic Forever" onwards is good.
VaxXi well I think that band was much different than the one from "Won't Be Pathetic Forever". I think its pretty clear that "Get Stoked On It" was just some dudes writing funny songs and just having fun.
First found these guys through a gaming channel, then remembered them while listening to Sunrise Skater Kids. Damn am I disappointed that I forgot about this incredible song until just now.
My theory you ask? The guy in the music video being carried by soupy signifies Mike Pelone, a friend of the band who died in 2010. The ambulance is a symbol of the help Mike needed when he was addicted to drugs looking for his "pill bottle vision quest", the ambulance is also a symbol about Mike who was in the band "Emergency and I". Soupy wants him to call him back but he knows he won't "because nobody's listening" (cul de sac). Soupy refers to himself as being selfish, the guilt comes from him being to busy whilst recording the upsides to spend time with his troubled friend. And we all know what the devil in his bloodstream stands for. By the end of the video soupy can't get to the help, he was too late, unfortunately
Yup, It's pretty obvi that it's a nightmare situation, I mean common the ambulance driving away running with your friend with the EMT telling you to catch up, it's contradicting itself
It's crazy to think that this song hit so differently than the other ones, and cardinals II got me even harder. You guys are awesome. The new single is pretty good too. #GODDAMNITALL❤🎉
Cristian Hernandez Ya boy beat alpharad 2-0 in his 50k subscriber tournament ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) the man needs to spend some more time training in the lab and less at the science museum
No song more perfectly carries the heartache and absolute tragic feeling of losing my little brother to an overdose.."If you call me back or let me in i swear ill never let you down again!" 10-3-2020 miss you Ryty..
Dude I know how you feel, first heard these guys in like 08/09, didn't really listen to em ever again, (besides hearing this song 1 time back when it originally released from seeing it on my facebook feed) my girlfriend loves a band called hot mulligan, so I bought her tickets to see them on tour with the wonder years, in preparation to see them i started listening to them about 3 weeks before I see them tomorrow, completely blown away and saddened that I didn't watch their set at all the warped tours I went to. I love these guys
I dedicated this to my brother at his funeral in 2016 after he committed suicide at the same age our dad committee suicide and with the holidays I wrecked again and listing to this song makes help me remember him...
