Nothing like listening to an eight year old video of Will Wood and hearing a piano solo from an old song that turned into the entirety of The Main Character
The miracle of Will Wood is that every now and then you come across a video that is several years old with less than 10k views, and he looks wildly different every time
0:01-3:33 I'll Never Amount to Anything 5:14-8:58 White Knuckle Jerk (Where Do You Get Off?) 9:36-13:29 Front Street 13:30-15:11 Kill Me if You Can 15:20-18:25 Self- 18:34-22:19 Man, I Love Being Drunk 22:54-26:16 Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, N.Y. (Bones) 26:39-27:03 Lysergide Daydream 27:03-30:07 Thermodynamic Lawyer, Esq, G.F.D.
It also turned into The Main Character, i have a unlisted video someone uploaded of the song and there's a bit that sounds literary the same as Man, I Love Being Drunk
I love that this concert happened before any of his tapeworms albums dropped. nobody really knew him or that most the songs he played would become beloved classics
this video always makes me emotional because he clearly had so much talent back then and yet he didn't even half the recognition that he has now, I'm so proud of him
I keep seeing you on these videos, and it’s weirding me out but is also kind of comforting that I’m not the first or last to go down this fantastic rabbit hole
what a fucken life ted has lived, first body image issues in his teens, hides his problems in drugs and then gets into an abusive relationship .. all for it to end with the storyteller just to leave the stage im emotional
Wild that this is the only version of I'll Never Amount to anything still around. It's such a good song, but I get why he wouldn't want to perform it anymore
@@imp-tweekakarainbow_washov8991 Based on his latest single and the stuff hes talked about for his upcoming album, Id say its too doomer for what hes trying to do and say these days. Its a song thats clearly written from a dark place full of despair, which is why it resonates with a lot of people, but Wood clearly is trying to get away from that, at least partially
something i like abt the first song is how much hes grown as a person in the past seven years. like seeing him heal over time even if ive only known about him for like three years is kind of nice
@@cinguloapathy Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where his eyes used to be. Dumbly, he shambles about, as the chemical bonds fall apart :)
this man rarely uploads his own videos and most records of him are just vids of him in random places where he looks entirely different from his last videos
anyone remember that one deleted live performance where will was at an Inn? Honestly i just wanna hear that really old version of Laplaces Angel again where he starts off with "Jenny was a dominatrix, who couldnt walk in high heels"
I highly suggest everyone watching this to read the “everything is a lot” record paragraph that comes with the vinyl. After reading this it makes this specific performance super eerie, especially it being on avenue A.
Lysergic Dream is my favorite song off of Everything's a Lot; to deteriorate directly into Thermodynamic Lawyer the way he did is such big hutzpah energy
Song Timestamps (idk titles to unreleased ones it's just to keep it mind) 0:00 - 3:32 "I'll never amount to anything" 5:13 - 8:57 White Knuckle Jerk (Where do you get off?) 9:35 - 13:28 Front Street (epic transition) 13:29 - 15:10 "Kill me if you can" 15:20 - 17:08 Self- (epic transiton) 17:09 - 18:22 "Ryan I wonder" 18:33 - 22:18 "Man I love being drunk" 22:54 - 26:15 Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones) 26:39 - 30:06 "This song's for Ted" Lysergide Daydream ---> Thermodynamic Lawyer, Esq, G.F.D.
@@cinapses8348 The actual title is "Another Song About How Bad I Am At Life" but I can't find it anywhere but here. I believe there were other videos of Will performing it but they have since been taken down
0:01 I'll Never Amount to Anything 5:14 White Knuckle Jerk (Where Do You Get Off?) 9:36 Front Street 13:30 Kill Me if You Can 15:20 Self- 18:34 Man, I Love Being Drunk 22:54 Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, N.Y. 26:39 Lysergide Daydream (but played crappily) 27:03 Thermodynamic Lawyer, Esq, G.F.D.
The lyric change in this version of Skeleton Appreciation Day where "so ana stands and rends the rancid meat" is "so rip toff and please show me" is interesting (ik it's just an old version of the song btw, not a change). The Ana lyric is much more personal and somewhat dark as it being a direct reference to a struggle with anorexia however with the lyrics in this one it gives the song more of a meaning of just a general struggle with body dysmorphia. Will has said that the song can be interpreted but I just find it interesting how one line can change the meaning of a song. Anyways
I actually think the lyric was changed to be less personal to him because it made him uncomfortable or something, the original demo of the song had both lyrics
having a 'jerk' can also be like seen as 'jerk off' and,,, yeah,,, also 'white knuckle /JERK/' could be seen as a reference to uhhh,,,,,, self pleasure
Yeah I too would be a bit creeped out if "somebody who I met once" played me a song about their inability to fuck me. Geez, I thought he was talking about Aikido or something!
Man, look at him now though. So much positive personal changes. Like, you can tell this is him, but he seems so much healthier now. Yeah he nearly killed himself a few times but I mean… As a surviver of that shit, I’d say that’s pretty impressive.
0:00 - 3:32 "I'll never amount to anything" 5:13 - 8:57 White Knuckle Jerk (Where do you get off?) 9:35 - 13:28 Front Street (epic transition) 13:29 - 15:10 "Kill me if you can" 15:20 - 17:08 Self- (epic transiton) 17:09 - 18:22 "Ryan I wonder" 18:33 - 22:18 "Man I love being drunk" 22:54 - 26:15 Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones) 26:39 - 30:06 "This song's for Ted" Lysergide Daydream ---> Thermodynamic Lawyer, Esq, G.F.D. (real comment is somewhere down there. copy pasted)
it kind of seems like he's having a harder and harder time the longer the show goes on here... if thats what it was like before, i'm glad he doesnt force himself down to that emotional state just for some songs anymore
So uhhh, anyone wanna help me decypher the lyrics of "kill me if you can" ? Forget it, i found it Sick and twisted existential fiction I said "How am I gonna get through life like this?" Head-bobs nodding and i'm not about the body And i'm not about klonopin or heroin Fix and twisted and a mid-night schizophrenic "How am I gonna get through my life like this?" Neurotic, catatonic, idiotic, not enough psychotic season to corroborate the sin Take me towards the light When it leaves my eyes Give me a sec to catch my dying breathe Forgive me if I cross the flatline From the grain up to the casket Hope it's not too much to ask to come kill me KILL ME, PLEASE! Six-feet deep from six-foot tall Dumb bomb and givе it so i'll lose it all Please comе kill me! Kill me if you can (thanks Raymices )
I think I got the majority of the lyrics down right. Hopefully. At the end there will be a * indicating what other possible words it could've been, and the ^ will be for the meaning of the lyric change ------ Sick and twisted, existential affliction* I said, "How am I gonna get through life like this?" Head bobs nodding in and out about the body* And I'm not about Klonopin or Heroin Fixed^ and twitchin',^ bitch's fittin'^ like a schizophrenic How am I gonna get through my life like this? Neurotic and catatonic, idiotic not enough psychoticism to corroborate the sin Take me towards the light When* it leaves my eyes Give me a sec, to catch my dying breath Forgive me if I cross the flatline From the cradle^ to the casket Hope it's not too much to ask to come Kill me Kill me, please! * Six feet deep from six foot tall Jump off and give in so I'll lose it all Please come kill me! Kill me if you can ------ 1*: This could say fiction but affliction seemed like a better fit 2*: This whole line I'm unsure about, as it doesn't make sense but it sounded more accurate 3*: This could say but it leaves my eyes 4*: This could say "*I'm* Six feet deep from six foot tall" 1^: Fixed as in, a drug fix 2^: Side effect of certain drugs in excess amount can be twitching, and to my knowledge a cliche about people addicted to drugs is that they're constantly twitching and seem off. 3^: Fitting as in, throwing a fit 4^: Grain up to the casket doesn't make sense, but since cradles would symbolize infants it would make more sense for the line to mean from birth until death.
the rest of the recordings of it were taken off of youtube, it seems like this is the last one left but im sure some people have it downloaded still somewhere
Lyrics for "I'll Never Amount to Anything." If I don't understand certain parts or get something wrong, help would be appreciated. My parents paid for college and I wonder why To have me be a comic flipping burgers on the side You can't have an apartment making $8.75 Let alone car insurance after two DWIs I don't think I could write enough songs to stay alive I would turn to prostitution but I don't think I'd get by My brains so fried I don't think I could pass a drug test And if my Daddy weren't a lawyer I'd probably be in jail by now (It also helps being white) Everybody's loving this emotional wreckage baby What's the p-point of trying I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to nothing My therapist said "Focus on the now and here" So I savor all the flavor when I p-pound a beer I get heart palpitations and p-p-panic attacks But I don't think I could trust myself around Xanax My therapist said I should take my meds But that's exactly what the government wants me to do I switch banks every time I overdraw my checking account I'm at a point where $100 could change my life (But I'd spend it on drugs) (Unknown) this emotional rollercoaster What's the p-point of trying I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to nothing In 1st grade they tell you can be the president But I can't even get people to follow me on Twitter I drink and I smoke and I never use a rubber And also I play the lottery Raised in Suburbia to die in the streets My parents still say that they're p-proud of me I'll be a sewer of emotionally draining shit And it'll take more then a manhole to shut me out (Heh-heh, manhole) You lose your luggage at my emotional baggage, babe Poster boy of eugenics I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to nothing Woah-ho-oh-oh anything I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to anything I'll never amount to nothing
