I’ve seen some people confused or not knowing who Boris is and who he is talking about so clearing it up, Boris is not his friend or a random person but The prime minster/the mayor of London at the time of this and it’s Wilbur just talking to Boris about how he’s leaving London and getting away from the toxicity of it.
I love how this ties the "story" of the album so well,, one of the songs mentions that he's not moved by anything easily, and then-- _"I figured out what can move me"_ but it's all wrapped softly in a melancholy ribbon because he's finally leaving that damned grey-scaled city-- and everyone he grew close to in it aswell, _"I'm sorry, but Boris, I'm leaving"_
I've been coming back to listen to Wilbur's songs from this album recently and I just realized something that didn't click before in my brain. George lives in London, and the reason Will and George met up in Brighton might be because the city brings bad memories-- Wilbur still dislikes London and he didn't want to go back even as a visit. I don't know why that hit me so suddenly or why it hurt, but it sucks that he's still a bit sore from it. I know he's okay now but some shit takes time to dissipate, and I guess I've been feeling like that recently too.
He moved to london to meet his girlfriend but they broke up. He went insane and was suicidal after seeing how many suicides happen in london but no one cares about it. The pollution in london gave him asthma symptoms hence the album name. I think its something like that
Probably because of it’s homesick lost nature and the fact that you may relate to that. You may feel unsafe or unhappy in your home or with friends or family. You want to leave but can’t really say goodbye.
I thought it was about leaving London, because borris is the prime ministers name and they talk Abt the unalive rates in the song at the end and how rude everyone is and doesn't help anyone and he names a few places in London that he really hates and how he's leaving
@@urmomlovesclover206 while yes it’s true this is what this song is about you can relate by not being in a place you like, either an unhealthy household or a country that makes your mental state decline. It doesn’t matter if you understand the lyrics it matters if you understand the heart in the song
I always seen to drown at this song's introduction. The thing Wilbur does with the cords just melts me, does anyone know how these are called? The letting go that echoes before the lyrics pop in?
If you still fawn over that, perhaps you could provide a timestamp or two when he does it because if im correct on what your talking about then I know a band called Crywank that does that quite a lot. :)
@@Musical_gamer69 the pubs part i don’t know anything about, but the tower part is in relation to a block of flats burning down in west london in like 2017 (grenfell tower)
@@Chiglewanwood i am INCREDIBLY late i’m so sorry - but the pub bit was probably just a general statement on how the government tries to shut down pubs to “reduce alcoholism statistics” without actually providing support for people that suffer from an alcohol addiction :P
out of all of wilburs songs somehow this is the only one that makes me cry like a bitch. It perfectly encapsulates the bittersweet feeling of escaping somewhere but still missing it. ive felt it so many times and this gets me so hard i can hardly listen to. it’s not often when music relates so much to my experiences n shit man this makes me go coo coo fucking insane.
This might just be me but the cloud from the train is slowly looking more like two legs sticking out from the archway. It made me even sadder when I saw that.
Oh my god. There's a lyric from La Jolla: You know it takes a lot to move me. It's the first lyric of the song. In this one, the first lyric is: I figured out what can move me. This hurts way more now.
Last night, we lost a legend. To some, a friend. To many, an inspiration. Rest in peace, Technoblade. You'll live forever in our hearts and our memory.
The fact that the recent events pretty much bringed him back to his "broken man" ycgma era He probably already killed himself but we will never get to know if its true... I dont know what now I dont know what i will do without the comfort that ycgma bringed to my life when i was at my lowest. Now im at my lowest but i dont have an album to cope to so i just use the album itself to cope about me hating it, its like a fucking ouroboros. why do all my heroes become terrible people? Why does everyone i look up to disappear after a few months? Why do i still come back and listen to this album? Why do i expect answers without real questions? What am i doing.
The truth is that chances are that he is either in therapy or he is dead and why all you heroes become terrible people is because deep down everyone has stuff that can deem them as a terrible person
This is one of those songs that feels so sacred it would feel wrong to give it any less than your undivided attention. Lying still, staring at the ceiling, like nothing exists beyond the melody.
as someone who has lived in london all their life and wants to move, this is the song that resonates w me. ‘they’ll burn down the towers before helping you’ refers to grenfell. when the fire first happened my mum drove past it w me the day later, i still remember the smell of smoke filling the air.
I figured out what can move me It's trains and hugs, planes and sushi And I'm sorry But, Boris I'm leaving I'm not good for anyone here We reached the end of a decade Greenwich morphs into an arcade Southwark turns into a highway Up to hamlets, a tax break Newham, Islington a headache And Richmond's still shit I can't believe that I'm leaving I can't believe that I'm leaving I don't think I want to leave you I don't think I want to leave you Here alone But they'll knock down the pubs before helping you They'll burn down your towers before helping you They'll charge for your healthcare before helping you They'll let you jump under trains before helping you And even though I'm finished I'm not quite done with it No matter how far I run south I'm always there My lovers, my colleagues My best friends and enemies I don't think I want to leave you
hi! i really like all of the lyric videos you do. i have a question. could you maybe do lyrics for wilbur's other album (the songs are "maybe i was boring", "for memories", "white wine in a wetherspoons," and "it's all futile! it's all pointless!") i don't want to annoy you, i just thought your lyric videos were really good and since you did one of wilbur's albums, you could do another one with fewer songs. thanks! p.s the discord notification makes me almost laugh every time and then i remember the pain wilbur must have gone through to have made this song
i can't even believe I've found a song like this. I lived in the UK and I know exactly what he's talking about. I feel so bad for the few good people there, it has a lot of toxicity. All that toxicity gave me anxiety and much more than that, really. I left the UK and really relate to this song. I personally don't have an opinion on the prime minister but I still feel bad for him for having to be there and for the very few good people I met there in these 2 years. Really hoping the best for everyone in the UK who feels the same way, especially the artist who clearly described the feeling of seeing all that from living there. I love this song, can't believe I only found it now.
This song has a special place for me. It describes how I’m feeling even when I can’t I’ve tried to “leave” several times but every time I come back and decide it’s not worth it So, thanks Wilbur
Hey PVRK, I've listened to one of your videos lately that is now deleted (their name was Superliminal OST // chill lounge) or something like that. May I ask why it was deleted? If able, maybe drop the video's source or the songs related to it
While the others make me sad, this one has definitely pushed me the farthest towards tears. The nostalgia element And something I just can’t put my finger on
@@rigmustdie You click the playback speed button and there should be a little thing that says custom next the the words playback speed, then it should be a little scroll bar thingy
I’m sorry Boris will forever be one of the most important songs from my transition from being a kid to growing up, I left my online girlfriend of a year because of the manipulation I faced and now I got away from that but I can’t stop looking back, I miss her, I want it all back, I don’t want to be with the girl I’m with now but it feels like I’m trapped by my own hand, she relies on me for everything and it feels like if I leave she’ll go back into that hole I pulled her out of but staying with her has caused me to lose so many friends, I’ll always have our friends to keep backing me, a group of six seemingly inseparable but I miss my old friends, the ones I lost because I let everything change me, I have very few friends that we share now and I can’t even hangout with them outside of school, and I almost lost the one friend I have left who saw me go from a sad fat little kid to the person I’m proud to be today, she saw all of my past, and despite the amount of times we have broken each other’s trust, we still cared about eachother and yes my girlfriend has problems with them but they never did anything to me, I’m tired of choosing her over the people who were truly there for me, those who don’t drain me for everything I have, i can’t even make new friends it seems, almost anytime I try and make friends she always seems to be upset and thinks I hate her and want to get away from her. I don’t blame her for her paranoia and anxiety but it’s what has started all of these bad things to happen. I can’t even talk to her about because everytime I try and tell her somethings wrong she cries and it feels like she makes it about herself, I love her but I hate her more than anything at times, I know it’s not right but every so often I start really missing my ex, she wants nothing to do with me, she’s happy on her own with her own boyfriend all the way in Minnesota, while I’m stuck in California, despite the constant sunny weather everyday feels like a dark overcast and I just want it to be over, not in ending it all kind of way but just away from everything, I just want my old friends back, talking about how much we wanna make a band together and slowly learning our instruments so we can jam out together. My girlfriend wants to make music and jam together too but she’s too nervous to even play infront of me despite the fact she used to be in a band and she’s been playing longer for me and it just feels like she doesn’t want too or isn’t even competent enough to learn simple songs and she told me it’s cause people use to make fun of her for it but it just feels attention seeking. A lot of the stuff she does feels attention seeking but I don’t say anything cause then she feels like she has to lie and mask around me ni matter what I say she just doesn’t understand what I’m trying to tell her. I know I’m in the wrong, I want her to break up with me for my sake and hers, I’m a very violent person and I don’t deserve to be in this relationship I get angry easily and I genuinely can’t control myself during this and I end up hitting her, I’ve given her bruises and accidentally snapped her jaw out of socket, thankfully we were able to undo it together but it scares me that this is what I do to her but she still pushes it aside and loves me unconditionally, it’s scary to know that no matter how much I hurt somebody they come back to me, even if I want them to go away, I don’t want to hurt my girlfriend anymore but she just lets me, I don’t want that anymore, and the last time I brought this up I told her that she might have ti break up with me because I’m angry and violent she almost drowned. If you read this far down thank you, it means a lot, it’s nice to know that my voice is heard even if I am in the wrong for feeling or doing these things it’s just nice to know somebody listened.
Don't mind me "I'm sorry, but Boris, I'm leaving" "I'm not good for anyone here" "I can't believe that i'm leaving" "I don't think want to leave you here alone" "They'll knock down the pubs before helping you and burn down your towers before helping you. They'll charge for your healthcare before helping you, They'll make you jump under trains before helping you." "My lovers, my colleagues, my bestfriends and enemies.... I don't think i want to leave you..."
lyrics I figured out what can move me It's trains and hugs, planes and sushi And I'm sorry, but Boris, I'm leaving I'm not good for anyone here We reached the end of a decade Greenwich morphs to an arcade Suffolk turns into a highway Up to Hamlet's a tax break New Islington, a headache And Richmond's still shit I can't believe that I'm leaving I can't believe that I'm leaving I don't think I want to leave you I don't think I want to leave you here alone But they'll knock down the pubs before helping you And burn down your towers before helping you They'll charge for your healthcare before helping you They'll make you jump under trains before helping you And even though I'm finished, I'm not quite done with it No matter how far I run south, I'm always there My lovers, my colleagues, my best friends and enemies I don't think I want to leave you
it is. this entire album is about wilbur debating leaving london. he's addressing boris johnson specifically because at the time of writing, Boris was the mayor of london and not the prime minister
