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4,562,765 Views • Dec 27, 2020 • Click to toggle off description
Directed by Jason Merrin
Animation by Venturia Animation Studios
Produced by Rachel Liu
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Lyrics:
I put on a play in my old house
In my cape, jumping on the old couch
Putting up lights when it’s cold out
Mom and dad, both seats sold out
Show you my play
Haven’t seen the old house lately
Wonder if they found my spaceship
I don’t want my own love wasted
Tell me this is what you’re saying:
If you both outgrew one another
I could start now, looking for a lover
But if love dies, do I fucking bother
I just really really really really really wanna
Show you my play
And I don’t wanna do it for Dad
At Dad’s new place
I worked really really really really hard
Lemme show you my play
And I don’t wanna do it twice
Cause it’s not the same
I’ve been on dates, bringing flowers
Tryna’ be great for an hour
You and me might go sour
But if we don’t hold out, then we’re cowards
I put on a play in my basement
Mom and dad smiling faces
But now I don’t know if they faked it
Guess everything is complicated
If you both outgrew one another
I could start now, looking for a lover
But if love dies, do I fucking bother
I just really really really really really wanna
Show you my play
And I don’t wanna do it for Dad
At Dad’s new place
I worked really really really really hard
Lemme show you my play
And I don’t wanna do it twice
Cause it’s not the same
You did everything everything everything that you could,
We do everything everything everything till it’s through
I’ll do everything everything everything when I’m you
But when I show you my play
Will you pretend you didn’t know
If I make a mistake
It’s gonna get really really really really bad
Before it’s okay
But maybe you’ll forget it all
While you’re watching my play
Views : 4,562,765
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Dec 27, 2020 ^^
Rating : 4.961 (888/89,965 LTDR)
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
This gives off “don’t throw out my lego’s” vibes right now
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“it’s gonna get really really really bad before it gets okay” is honestly the realest life advice
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This song randomly came up on my Spotify. Hadn’t heard of you. Now just sitting here gutted. What a devastatingly poignant expression of how divorce affects kids not just at that moment, but also as they go out into the world and try to find love for themselves...♥️♥️♥️
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The innocence of a child not understanding what's going on but still trying to use their imagination to ignore the outside pain that their parents inflicted by separating just hurts, the animation of him "Opening his imagination" but it slowly being ruined by the separation, and he desperately trys to go ignore it and just go to his happy place but the parents finaly break him at the end, breaks my heart
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Woah that ending got me choked up, the way he had to split himself in half to be able to spend time with both parents. It really feels like you’ll never feel whole again when your family breaks apart.
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If you listen closely at the end when he says “will you pretend you didn’t know if I make a mistake.” He skips a note. Through the whole song it is C E G C E G E Eb and then goes onto the next progression that starts with D but at the end it skips the Eb.
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I’m sorry, but you cannot just drop that ending on us like that.
I w a s n ‘ t r e a d y f o r t h a t .
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me: oh yeah, the songs not that emotionally devastating anymore.
ajr, showing their childhood get ripped apart: fuCK
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I’m hoping the moving company didn’t throw out his legos
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Mom: "My child is fine.."
Their child: looping My Play for the past 5 hours
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"It's gonna get really, really, really, really bad before it's okay."
Love that line. It has the perfect amount of childishness to it, really putting you in the shoes of that little boy living through the fallout of his parents' divorce.
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"I bet our parents always stay in love
Always stay in love" - Birthday Party
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As a child of divorce, this was an emotion I’ve never been able to articulate by myself. But this, this is it.
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As a divorced mother this song is everything I feared my kids were feeling, and likely still are feeling. I can't stop crying. What a powerful song. AJR you are on another level entirely.
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I can't listen to this without crying. This entire song is exactly what my parents' divorce felt like. I once used the line "I feel like the last toy in the toybox and my parents are fighting over me" to my aunt. That last visual where he zips himself in two... yeah it's that. It's exactly that.
But also don't think just because this song hits close to home that it's not a banger. I jam out while sobbing, and that's okay.
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he’s just trying to hold onto fun innocence while they’re literally packing for divorce around him. 😭
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Me: i think i can finally listen to this song without crying
This music video: think again
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That ending hit me like a truck. As soon as I saw him get split in half I completely broke down. HUGE props to the artist for drawing this and HUGE props to AJR on making this song.
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I can't describe how accurate this is to someone whose parents are together. However, I can tell you the lyric "And I don't wanna do it twice cause' it's not the same" is probably the one I related to most, because almost every single time you mention your divorced parents, the response is "Well at least you get two Christmases". 🙄 And my response is "Yep. At least I get two Christmases."
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@godzread8330
3 years ago
Honestly, that ending just hurts with how accurate the feeling it describes is. The video adds so much more to the song, unbelievable.
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