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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Nov 26, 2018 ^^
Rating : 4.946 (1,974/145,580 LTDR)
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
The first time that I ever heard Elena's voice, she sang, "I sometimes wish I'd stayed inside my mother, never to come out." To see her now find the courage to share herself, the self that she sometimes struggles to like and accept, with the whole world-as she is, no choreography and no script-is beyond art, beyond beauty, truly transcendental. It's mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing yourself with us!
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Something specifically about the way she dances in the crowded scenes, surrounded by people but unseen by them, dancing like if she doesn't keep pushing her energy into movement she'll scream, evokes so much emotion for me. Elena, her bandmates, and the makers of the video are incredibly talented
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Those breakbeats at @2:25 hit DIFFERENT. Prolific. An epoch. This song is sad AF but it low key makes me happy.
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🌹 Lyrics 🌹
And in the night
It was a drunken stutter
Started as a next to nothing conversation
And then he’s tearing me out
Taking me apart at my friend’s house
I was uncomfortable
I was hurt
Still with blue innocence in his eyes
I felt my reasoning was harsh
With every stab wound and exhale
I promised myself that I would never lose my youthful fears of grown up men
I’m scarred with cruel intentions
I thought of another the whole time
Who would have never stared me like that
See he saw me as a human
This one thinks I’m a slaughterhouse
He pretends that he’s understanding
And you know in the grand scheme of everything
He’s probably called a nice man
Or an ordinary kind of man
Or a stereotype with strong hands
I’m so sad at how little joy I realized within my time with my ex guy
Before these statues arrives
Romance is dead and done
And it hits between the eyes on this side
The grass is dead and barren
And it hurts between my thighs on this side
I could begin to open up and risk desire
For I move slower and
Quieter than most
I grew up too quick and I still forgive too slow
Oh I wish there was another way
Romance is dead and done
And it hits between the eyes on this side
The grass is dead and barren
And it hurts between my thighs on this side
See me here
Meet me here
I don’t care
If it’s not repeated
I want to know who you are
For every second we outrun the moon and dread the sun come up
I want to know who you are
So I don’t have to check my stuffs still here when you’re gone
I want to know who you are
I want to know who you were
Romance is dead and done
And it hits between the eyes on this side
The grass is dead and barren
And it hurts between my thighs on this side
This side...
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The spectrum and analysis of human emotion and grief on Ex:Re honestly cements how mature in nature Elena’s lyrics are and the themes she’s been tackling as a whole since Daughter began. Ex:Re in its stripped down rawness reminds me of Daughter before If You Leave like on earlier EP’s before they became big. It’s so stripped back and forward with its lyrics. While that may put off some people who might find it unexciting and at times repetitive, people who’ve appreciated how dark Daughter is from their very beginning will find as if they’ve discovered them for the first time here.
This album for me personally felt intimate and personal especially with my own history of trauma and heartbreak and loss, the songs here were almost ghostly in their expression and Elena here is steadily haunting in her delivery. Romance was a good choice for the main single as it’s the most similar in style to Daughter and feels like it could be a single from a Daughter album, heck it sounds like a song that should’ve been on Not To Disappear. Listen to this album on a beach at night and close your eyes, you won’t be disappointed. Elena has always helped me through the darkest moments of my life.
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@jamess.t.2816
4 years ago
"i grew up too quick and i still forgive too slow" that line always hits so hard
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