'Power making promises it never meant to keep' I've seen this in the visual album and I just had to come see if there was a standalone video. It's just incredible.

I was there when this was shown as part of the Buffer Film Festival in London in October 2021. As an artist, Malinda is - for want of a better phrase - pure amazingness.

As a child I used to read classical novels which described the effects of war in people's lives that era...your beautiful song reminded me today the same indiscribable feelings i got about war as a child....this is so amazing and music is top notch ❤

When my daughter, who is 4 now, was 5 months old I had to leave on deployment. The night before is one of the hardest nights of my entire life. I can relate to this song so much such a beautiful concept and production thank you for this.

@lovealwaysmom

Жыл бұрын

Being a single mom of 2, daughters now in their 20's, I know heartache, yet nothing like what you must have gone through. Your heart must have been bursting the moment you got to hold her in your arms again.

@SNAKEEYESCCRTDGMING

Жыл бұрын

I can only imagine the tough road you had being a single mom of 2. Youu probably know better than most how fast the time goes by and how important it is to be present in the moment. For me, yes I was very excited to comeback so I took an Uber from the airport and showed up unannounced to surprise my family. When I left, my daughter and me were very close and when I came back that first day she started crying when I tried to hold her. About a week or so later, we were good and are very close to this day.

@cjac4288

11 ай бұрын

I know the feeling also. Been on 3 deployments already and wasn’t easy leaving saying good bye to the wife and kids and it’s still not. Hardest part now is even if leave for training they’re still scared that it’s another deployment and have to reassure them that it’s only training and will be back.

What a bittersweet song. I have tears in my eyes and goosbumps. Well written Malinda and big props to the animators!

My father was born in 1915. Since then, there has not been a single year when my country has not sent soldiers overseas to fight. This song hits hard - thank you for putting it so beautifully.

@Bobcatspiritdude

8 ай бұрын

All for greed, power and bloodlust . Such a shame 😢🙏🙏🙏

This song should be required for all people! People need to remember that what happens anywhere on this planet has an effect on all of us. Malina keep telling the people the truth and soothing our souls. #MALINDA

The visual story telling here and the lyrics🤌🏼✨ so beautiful

Deeply touching, moving! Was a young boy when it ended and still have memories of the impact on people. Beautiful work Malinda, your beautiful voice portrays both the attempt at understanding and solemnity of irrational political conflict perfectly, thank you for this. 💚😌

This is an absolute masterpiece in filmmaking and music. That's it, it's a masterpiece

This is powerfully moving. It completely captures the gentle grief of watching this happen from behind a screen and knowing that there is next to nothing that you can do.

This is beyond incredible! Never stop being amazing!

@lunawright6845

Жыл бұрын

⬆️this⬆️

This video and song are so beautiful, they make the horror and despair of the story being told much more bearable. Art at its finest 💚🤍

Just heard this live, and its even more powerful in person.

This is a beautiful song and one that truly resonates with me. Seeing the same thing happening for generation after generation...

I cried when I was listening to this song for the first time, and I cried now. Thank you for all you do.

This song makes me cry every time I hear it, and it positively moved me to tears with your Chicago show. What an absolutely beautiful, poignant song.

already one of the most hauntingly beautiful and touching songs on the album, but this animation is something else. wow. beautifully done, music and animation both

This was really moving especially if you have been through such a period of violence. Beautifully done, words cartoon and your moving voiceover. Hugh Somerset UK

The War Was In Color.... I loved this song when I was growing up. Both of my grandfathers were soldiers and now so many of my friends and family. Theres a sad joke in our group that its herititary. It runs in your blood... This video was gorgeous Malinda... and made me tear up... thank you...

One of my favorite songs on the new album! Great collab!

Wow. Malinda, thank you for this. You and the people who helped you bring this to life really did a great job of bringing what sounds like a deeply personal story to life.

Malinda ich kann es immer wieder sagen jeder songs ob gecovert oder von dir selbst es ist einfach nur wunderschön danke das es dich gibt bitte mach weiter so und eins weiß ich das du noch weitere schöne Songs machen wirst Bis dahin weiterhin alles Gute und viel Erfolg ich freue mich auf die nächsten Lieder von Dir

Thank you so much for posting these clips from the visual album, this was one of my favorite parts

I just found this, and I was riveted. I have never seen animation like this before, and your lyrics are powerful! Very well done!

Amazingly done. Never stop. Your voice is stunning.

Such heartbreakingly true lyrics, Malinda, and you deliver them beautifully.

Video , testo , musica tutto top grade si fonde alla perfezione , ci si ferma ad ascoltare e a riflettere

I feel like the animation adds so much more depth to this song. Great job, Malinda, as always! ❤❤

Superb animation and a powerful song, thanks for sharing it 😎👍💙

Subtle Song of the Sea vibes ❤

Malinda, your music resonates to me. The beauty of your creations speaks of emotions, experiences, hardships, joy the rainbow of all emotions. I'm pleased to say I will see you in person this October in Portland Oregon.

Beautiful, Malinda. Thank you so much.

You are an amazing singer. I've been out of it and kind of meandering, but your voice relit my world. Music sounds fun again. You are probably my new favorite vocal artist. Thank you.

Still one of the most powerful animations I've ever seen.

Really moving and I have goosebumps. I found this song on spotify and I cried so much.

WOW!! Powerful! Even brought a tear to my eye.

👍Beautiful and touching dear !!!!

In the 1970s news reporters filmed everything and it was all broadcast on TV. We had just moved town. I was maybe eleven. I came home from school and Dad had left the TV on while he went off to do something. After hanging up my coat I wandered into the TV room. On it was an image of a Vietnamese woman holding a baby. In the next moment she is shot and collapses into the dust with her child. I came to pieces. In my bedroom and in tears I swore to be on the side of peace. It hasn't always been easy, but I just turned 60 and I'm still doing it. I would love to show you some of my protest signs! Great song! I hope when you are sixty you are still writing about what is good and true and kind.

Wow, powerfull

I cried so hard, this song is amazing, and the video just Stundung. Thank you!

@davesmith1245

11 ай бұрын

AND I HOPE YOUR SHED SOME TEARS FOR THOSE MILITARY HEROS WHO SUFFERED AND DIED FOR YOUR FREEDOM A THEME THAT WAS LEFT OUT OF THE SONG.....PRAY FOR THEM...TO MAKE UP FOR THAT...>

Down with the wars! Up to the peace!

Everything you do, is wonderful

Classy music w/ a divine voice showing Malinda needs to be scoring films!

Beautiful, touching, and poignant song. I hope humanity one day learns, there is nothing gained from allowing those in power to start wars.

@Sableagle

Жыл бұрын

"This is a song off the new album. It was written about the people that fought in the Gulf War." { some cheering } "It's a song about how _shitty_ war is," { cheering fades into embarrassed silence } "and about how shitty war is that it's started by politicians and it has to be finished by ordinary people who don't really want to kill anyone." { whole crowd cheers *hard!* } Iron Maiden, Monsters of Rock, Castle Donington, 1992, introducing _Afraid To Shoot Strangers._

Woah!!!keep up the work Malinda!!!!!❤

Love this so much and phenomenal ❤️

Haunting. Moving. Beautiful.

Well done! This is extraordinary ❤

Stumbling upon this beautiful,and masterful artist was the best accident ever!!This video is so cathartic and the story telling is so well done,I'm blow away!

You’ve done a good thing, thank you ❤

There’s something about animation. Do more!

Thanks!

Wow. Just wow. The power is poignant.

Amazing... Thank you!

Beautiful song, beautiful animation! Keep it up, Malinda! ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

That was beautiful. I can't wait to see you in Raleigh!

This has moved me to tears and to prayers.

Very moving.

This is so powerful, it reminds me so much of Neil Young’s Greendale. I would love this to be the beginning of a whole album.

amazing!!

Very powerful lyrics and haunting melody. I love it!

Wow, just wow!!!

So So Beautiful bring back memories Thank You so much

1994: "Another mother's breaking heart is taking over. When the violence causes silence, we must be mistaken. It's the same old theme, since nineteen-sixteen." 1992: "The horrors that will lay ahead: the desert-sand mound, the burial ground. When it comes to the time, are we partners in crime?" 1991: "Look at the world we're killing, the way we've always done before. Look: in the doubt we've wallowed. Look at the leaders we've followed." 1984: "As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song, to the tune of starving millions, to make a better kind of gun." 1980: "Well, the suff'ring, the sorrow, the glory, the shame, the killing and dying, they were all done in vain." 1976: "We were young and full of life and none of us prepared to die, and I'm not ashamed to say the roar of guns and cannons almost made me cry." 1971: "And the young people ask: 'What are they marching for?' and I ask myself the same question." 1965: "Oh, I must have killed a million men, and now they want me back again, but I ain't marching anymore." 1963: "Fear to bring children into the world. For threatening my baby, unborn and unnamed, you ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins." 1920: "To children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." 1867: "Where are the legs with which you'd run, when first you went to carry a gun? Indeed your dancing days are done. Johnny, I hardly knew ye." 150 years we've been trying to warn ourselves, and 150 years we've not bloody listened. We've probably been trying for twenty times that long.

@featherofajay4667

Жыл бұрын

Stuff like that has probably been communicated since the dawn of humanity itself. But humans are known to never really learn. Not what’s important, anyways.

Wow I don't have the words to describe it. Just beautiful and sad. Reminds me of my grandfather and uncles that had to go to war.

That was powerful and amazing.

Thank you for sharing this with us

Oh my god!! This is an incredibly moving piece my soul frrls for this little girl representing all innocence that is so easily shattered! 🙏🫶🌟✌️

Very beautiful song and lovely animation. Thank you for sharing.

My grandma passed when she was 91. I was still a little child but at least I got to know her a bit. I have many times wished she lived even longer so I could have gotten the more mature of her stories and insights. But I think she would have loved this song. She was a resistance fighter in her youth, got captured, managed to flee and had to go into hiding for a while. I only know a little from my mother about the impacts those things had on her. After the war she had my uncle almost exactly a year after the war ended and I know she also did some very interesting family research although I know some of it got lost.

this is so touching

This a stunning piece of work. I love the animation. the msg is one I've understood for years. I don't know how many people would view it now (06/2024), but I believe a release now under different new clic bait + without the animation caveat reach more people. And yes, my name is a reflection about how I feel about our world. Ciao

I remember watching you a couple years back in Twisted Translations! I’m so happy you’ve started releasing your own music!

Malinda, this is amazing.

Amazing song and video

Wow amazing ❤

AAAAAA MALINDA CONCERT IN MY AREA YESSS

Beautiful ❤❤

Wow!!!

Beautiful

OK made me cry. Too often wars are not the surface, but run deep in all of us. Too often we carry it with us. Too often the hurt doesn't go away. Thank you, A Vietnam vet

Is so stunning and beautiful

Crying….but amazed❤️

beautiful

the truth don’t always set you free

Veramente bellissimoil video e altrettanto bella la musica....tocca il cuore❤...🫶GRANDE MALINDA

so. good. JUST SO GOOD.

Love 💕

Well done

please cover BARRETTS PRIVATEERS. its a wicked folksong/sea shanty. very popular in atlantic canada, right up your alley

I love You Malinda....😂😂

Wow!!! 😢

💕💕💕🎶🎶🎶👍

Amazing and awe inspiring I could feel your heart in this one. Sadly I am all too familiar with the grand mother view and the fear that her grand daughter had just lost her child hood. For me though it is not only wars of national sovereignty that haunt my dreams and thoughts but also wars of Social sovereignty that we are facing even now in America. It is part of the reason I have remain single and childless all my life even when the choice of love and family where presented to me. I am afraid to help bring a child in this world of enteral struggles and judgments.

PLEASE! Sing my Lagan Love! That has been my lullaby since I was 13 yrs old❤

For me it was the Gulf War. I was 8 years old, at my cousin's house when they turned on the TV. Gulf War coverage on all 5 channels. [Australia, December 1990].

Love it wonderful Tony Manchester UK 🥰🤩 hug's

wow

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