I can't stress enough how you need to watch the music video for fall for me but still have the lyrics next to it. The lyrics are amazing but the video adds a whole new layer of soul crushing.
They should before hand find the blurb that's written throughout the video. Hearing the song then reading the statement as a whole after is gut wrenching. This man is a masterpiece.
I've been waiting for you guys to react to this one, it's different (Obviously) but more so than the rest, and the video is amazing. The message of knowing he's in a situation where he isn't being let in to the one he desires, and he continues trying, even though it kills him inside. I remember seeing a comment that each of the ribbons he ties is an attempt, and the main dancer is the only one wearing the ribbon, while the other dancers are he emotional layers.
I love how everyone is eager waiting to see you reacting to the Fall For Me music video/song, because they know how deeply emotional it's going to be. I love how you value all the little details lyrically and also visually in the music video. Can't wait for the next songs ❤
it’s an hour long, but you guys should check out ii’s interview with drumeo. not only do you get to re-listen to a lot of great songs, but he goes into detail on how he sets up his drum parts and expresses himself in the music with all of his influences. also, it was just flat out incredible to watch him play along. it truly was mesmerizing. he is truly a world class musician. i hope you guys can check it out!!!
This song is special to me in becoming a fan of them - I heard several songs like Alkaline and thought 'meh'. Then I watched this video and it changed me 😂 I came back to all those other songs and can not find what I didn't see in them before. And this song is just magical, the world that it puts you in.
I'm still full of the love you want always makes me think of the line in Granite where he says, You say you want me but you know I'm not what you need, but I am. He is saying, you are telling me about what you think you want and need in love and a relationship and I have all of those things here for you but you are choosing not to see that. Heartbreaking
I read an interpretation for the video and thought it made a lot of sense. He is haunted by a love he had, and he's trying to kill it/her. He continues to fail, proving her hold on him is stronger.
I highly recommend listening to “Is It Really You?” by Loathe and then listening to Sleep Token’s cover of it. Then follow that up by listening to “Dimorphous Display” by Loathe and then going through Loathe’s entire “I Let It In…” album.
I remember being totally slack-jawed when I watched this video for the first time and it got to the sword part near the end. It's a gut-wrencher (no pun intended) isn't it?
This is my girlfriend and I's song. It was the first thing I ever showed her so this song is special. It got even more special when they played it live and we both balled our eyes out. I hope that I can play it at our wedding because it truly did some magic for us
@@Rykerroad yes!! Thanks you guys. I've been ready for that since the first reaction to the summoning. Also I follow your channel pretty religiously and it's been quite a ride. I actually look forward to the reactions from day to day. Keep it up
I just knew "Seems your heart is locked up and I still get the combination wrong; Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not?" would hit hard. It's some of the best Vessel has written and that's saying a lot
This song has so many god-tier lines. I personally adore "Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed eternally some day", playing off the saying "shut the door, swallow the key". That's poetry in heartbreak.
Nice reaction guys. My interpretation is that the dancers represent Vessel's feelings - his unrelenting love - for the woman who doesn't love him back. He wants to stop loving her, so he tries to kill his feelings (the dancers) with the sword. But his feelings are too strong, and they overpower him instead. Every time he fails to numb his heart, he gains another ribbon to tie on the tree. (Only 1 dancer has a ribbon because he's already tried multiple times and failed; the other dancers have already given up their ribbons). I read somewhere else the suggestion that the setting of the video could be inside Vessel's heart.
The white ribbons represent innocent lives lost to violence and to never commit, condone or remain silent about violence against Women, girls and children. It also is worn in support for people who self harm as vessel has written song’s referencing self harm as he has self harmed in the past.🤍
The first time I got to see them in NYC last year, our friend from the UK (who flew in for the show) made bracelets for all of us with "TLYW" and a white ribbon tied around it, since it's her favorite song. It was just a small sea of white ribbons at barricade and Vessel came over and acknowledged the ribbons 🥹 it was wonderful, and the bracelet sits on my steering column in my car.
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE GODS FAVORITE but seriously thats the sweetest thing ive ever heard 😭😭 both on your friends part for making such special bracelets and on vessel for acknowledging them!!!!
They don't speak to fans at shows (save rare examples and even then it's been from a computer speaking program). They show their thanks through gesture @bridgettesims8814
"i know i say this alot but this might be my favorite one" yeah..sleep token does that to you. every song just grabs you and pulls you in, even when you think it cant happen to you. Vessels voice is just amazing. like a warm hug.
And there is so much variety in their music that so many songs hit in their own different way. I never could find a favorite because of that, it just brings you so many different emotions
@@tanasmom1969There's just something so human about feeling things together. We're not isolated beings even though some of us want that most of the time.
This song has one of my absolute favorite lines. "Seems your heart is locked up and I still get the combination wrong. Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not. Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally some day" The idea that this person is taking all of these peoples' love, but is refusing to give it back. The idea that accepting all of this without giving it back will kill you speaks so many volumes about his view of loneliness. Also this song live is devastating, and seeing this being sung by 12000 people at wembley when he lost his voice??? Gods... It was emotional.
Oh god I was just going to say that. I get goosebumps thinking about this at Wembley. Vessel weeping on stage and reaching out to us saying "I'm still full of the love you want" even though he couldn't sing to his fullest. It was heartbreaking.
Eric's reaction at "seems your heart is locked up and i still get the combination wrong" is so real, that line gets me EVERY time, gosh i just love the way vessel words things
I've always interpreted the line "too many swallow keys will make you bleed internally some day" to be a play on the phrase "lock your heart and swallow the key". Like, the person Vessel is speaking about constantly locks their heart up and swallows the key, but Vessel is trying to convince them that by doing that they're just harming themselves. Another note, the line "Are you simply saving your love for someone I am not" is THE most heartbreaking lyric ever.
This music video is the MAIN one I was waiting for you to watch because mixed with the lyrics you end up relaizing more and more each time. - My view of this song with the music video is that the dancers represent the same woman in different forms. (You have a type kind of thing) - He sees this 'one' girl and follows her and she ends up leading him to every 'version' of her he has encountered. - He is constantly trying to kill his love for this person through others (who are like her) over and over and ultimatley in the end he ends up hurting himself, over and over. - When he takes the sword out I believe its metaphorical for killing his love for this person. During that portion he sings 'and I'm still full of the love you want' repeatedly. - When he is defeated he starts the song over. Like how many people will start over with someone who is like the last person they were with or they keep going back to the same person.
My interpretation of the video is that it's Vessel's struggle with Sleep. This is like him being "inside" the trance and the red scenario always seems like the insides of a creature. He has a weapon. He can fight back. He tries. But he fails, the woman overpowers him and his fight ends. He loses. Then he starts over again because he's still struggling. Alkaline seems like he's deeper into it and starting to push away people, maybe that are trying to rescue by killing "vessel" so the human he was can be free. There's just so many layers and still leave it oven to interpretation. This band is just something else
Just my own interpretation of the sword scene; I think Vessel's aim isn't to kill the girls but to cut his attachment to them. They're frozen until he swings his sword at them and 'cuts' the invisible strings/ties binding them. But then the leader overpowers him and he falls to - and for - her again as he stabs himself in the heart. Thereby repeating the same cycle over and over.
Not only do I puzzle over where all the big drinking vessels come from, but where on earth they can be stored??! You must have mighty shelves! Great reaction and it does hit hard. They had some dancers on stage with at least 2 of the London concerts that I’m aware of. At Wembley they also joined in with Ascensionism and Rain.
He kills himself at the end of the video but ends up in the same place where the video began. He can't escape in some way. I kind of love this video. “swallowed keys” keys to escape the situation?! I never really put this video into the lore. I'm just realsing this. Damn 😂 I just really love this one ♥
This song live is truly something else! When I saw them for the second time, when he sings “and I still get the combination wrong” he screamed it and it was heart shattering😭😭
I will have to send it to your instas but I was fortunate enough to catch them last September. This song left a lot of us, myself included, ugly sobbing. It is perfection live. Loved this one the most guys. Thank you!
I can't tell you how much this moved me live when I saw them in Detroit September 2023, I don't think I've ever cried like that at a concert in my entire life. 6,000 people all singing this like a choir with Vessel, it was a spiritual experience.
Love the Sleep Token journey you have been on! And I just have to say, I live for Eric's comments at the very end of the video lmao, you guys are awesome keep it up!!!!!
The drums and piano coming in is my favorite part, and then complete with the lyrics “seems your heart is locked up and I still get the combination wrong, or are you simply waiting, to give your love to someone I am not? Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday. And maybe you believe that in the end you will be better off that way” fucking cuts so deep. This is my favorite Sleep Token song hands down
And thus, we begin with the long journey. Indeed best song of the album (in my opinion), after all, this song just broke me entirely and gave me tons of ideas and inspirations in my writing...ans it still hurts.
Also worth considering, as we watch Vessel swinging a sword while saying "I'm still full of the love you want" - the line from Take Aim "It sends me shivers, how you love like weapons kill"
I literally cry every time I hear TLYW, and watching Vessel & Co perform it live last in Anaheim was one of the most magical moments of my short 30 years on this earth.
Thank you Kyle for letting me re-experience the emotion of seeing this for the first time. Gorgeous visuals and soundscape, this is one that my daughter and I both love.
I absolutely adore this video. Beautifully done yet deadly poetic. Sleep Token aren't just a band anymore, they are an experience and your emotional reaction to it was just that. I can't wait for you guys to react to the video "The way that you were" it's so beautiful ❤️ and I have to ask but will you be catching them live at all in a few months? Seeing them in the flesh is just somethin else!! #worship 🫶🏻
Please ensure you watch the "Fall For Me" video in its entirety and read the lyrics displayed on screen. Afterward, watch it again while following along with the song lyrics. Since it's only a 2-minute song, you can easily watch it twice. Get your tissues ready 💔
I was waiting for this. So happy that you watched the video. Trying to love someone over and over and it doesn't work is very basic meaning i get from this one. I love it so much and really wish Sleep Token would make more videos
this song has really grown on me. its so beautiful. i believe its either his battle with sleep, or a battle within himself? the rest of this album just gets better honestly lmao
This is by far the best video and song I have heard in so long. I cried watching this damn video. You can feel his pain and love so much. Ugh absolutely soul crushing and beautiful.
Seeing Kyle’s reaction to this song/video was awesome. You can tell it really hit him! This was the song that actually began my journey down the rabbit hole, after hearing the summoning. It’s still top 3 for sure. The revelatory reaction when he saw the ribbons sort of mirrored my own, but it took a couple additional watches on my part to catch 😂. Another great reaction fellas.
Lyrically, I think this is one of my favorite songs of theirs, especially the second verse. Talking about trying combinations to unlock her heart and still not getting it wrong hurts too. He's tried everything and is still coming up short and that's just how life is. The next lines about swallowing keys gives me the feeling that he knows that the ways he's trying to appeal to her/Sleep is the wrong approach to unlocking their affection, knowing that no combintation will unlock a lock that requires a key. Visually, I really like the scene at 06:59 where she is leaning back to dodge his sword swipe. The imagery of them almost looks like opposite sides of a coin, which for me really drives home the idea from the intro line about lying an inch apart on their own continuum. So close, but so far.
This one hurts for real… arguably the best song in their discography. And the video adds great depth to the context of the lyrics. The relationship or the state of mind he cannot separate himself from no matter how hard and how much he tries… just gives me chills down my spine everytime
This has been my constant favourite ever since the album came out. "Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday" - what amazing writing.
So glad you guys finally got to this song. Absolute perfection, there isn’t a single thing wrong with this song. I did see comments saying Eric cracked, and it’s no joke, thank you for opening up and being brave enough to even experience the emotion for yourself personally, let alone doing it on camera for us. The both of you of course, no shade to Kyle brother, you’ve probably seen it before since he’s your brother, but he’s felt like the ‘hard egg’ to crack in terms of being so overwhelmed on camera, it’s just a special moment as a fan that’s been on the journey with you guys. This was seriously my most anticipated song for you guys to react to when I first found you guys, and I’m so thankful to have watched it with you. Stay safe and much love guys
Ok so of the “tree limbs” are suppose to be veins in a body and he’s tying white ribbons around them… white ribbons are meant to be used as a representation of purity or beauty, like a white wedding dress. The ribbons also represent wishes, but you find out he keeps repeating the whole video over and over so he’s essentially making the same wish. I also think the branches look like ruptured capillaries or veins, “too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday.
This is inside his heart. He's battling his emotions. There is only one he can't defeat; love. No matter how many times he tries, he can't kill the love in his heart.
