mewithoutYou - "Tortoises All the Way Down" (Official Audio)

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"Tortoises All the Way Down" by mewithoutYou off the album [Untitled] out now via Run For Cover Records
Lyrics:
Watchmen w/ their eyes closed, ransom and a scripture by the picture of your face,
messages the rhymes chose, blueprint for contrition in a cigarette case
Everybody knows, son.
everybody knows what you’ve done.
Everybody knows, son
everybody knows exactly what you’ve done.
Charles was alive then, towering like a mountain at the silver trumpet blast
William still alive till when our altars are all emptied of his offerings to the last
Everybody knows, son.
everybody knows just what you’ve done.
Everybody knows, son
and so again it goes you can’t end what you’ve begun
Surely as the sun early on the east side comes
before my sleepless eyes your features metamorphosize
Surely as the sun early on the east side comes
If only you had known how soon you’d be on your own,
how suddenly they’d cast the stone
When the mouths of praise and blame start to sound the same,
and you’ve asked they please not come back around
& yet they happen by, you can offer my reply:
“there’s tortoises all the way down.”
since the night you came dressed up in your righteous name
all you claim to see doesn’t mean a thing to me.
Surely as the sun early on the east side comes,
I know I’m not the only one
whose blindfold-and-a-scale-ship refused to sail
and yet failed since each search for solid ground
You sing to me at night as the moving finger writes
on tortoises all the way down
you think that glass of wine could cancel half a line?
but it won’t wash our words out this time
& I’m not the only one who’s got nowhere to run
cause everybody knows, son.
everybody knows just what you’ve done.
Everybody knows, son
everybody knows what you’ve done.
while all hiding inside our painting-of-a-house-hung-up-inside- that same-painted-house-which-ever-implies-another-painted-house-inside lives,
serpent-in-the-sky-lives!
servants-of-the-least-high!
most-tortoiseless lives!
would you meet me sometime soon, son, down by the riverside?
there’s room enough in my paradise,
my empty little mind
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  • @batu4367
    @batu43674 жыл бұрын

    that last 40 seconds is one of the greatest 40 seconds i have ever listened to

  • @KardavoxAcademy
    @KardavoxAcademy10 ай бұрын

    I'd be nothing without this band. And if I can write something even a fraction as perfect as this, I dunno. I'll just.....it would be a good feeling.

  • @marka.9815
    @marka.98155 жыл бұрын

    This is my favorite song from this Album right now and maybe my favorite of all. The lyrics seem as if Aaron is talking directly to me. "I know I'm not the only one"

  • @DennisMHenderson

    @DennisMHenderson

    9 ай бұрын

    iAlways feel liek "he's" talking2me2; Saturn, teh Goi of teh Choos.

  • @cassandraarroyo3681
    @cassandraarroyo36815 жыл бұрын

    "When the mouths of praise and blame start to sound the same". I get it, I truly get it. This song is beautiful.

  • @snakeofbrass
    @snakeofbrass9 ай бұрын

    my favourite mwY song constantly changes, at the moment it's this one, but every song they ever made is flawless. truly a band like no other

  • @moosesnWoop
    @moosesnWoop3 жыл бұрын

    Revisited this album after two years. A whole different country, city and culture is attached to this album - the nostalgia hit me so hard. Love this about music and albums in general - instant teleportation to a time/memory/feeling

  • @outtacloud80

    @outtacloud80

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wild cause , I just started listening to it bout a month ago. I never knew. Now I'll come back in a year . Kinda adds to it , hope you make it there.

  • @mattbyrne8139
    @mattbyrne81395 жыл бұрын

    So beautifully dark... definitely my favorite off the album

  • @Zargabaath
    @Zargabaath4 жыл бұрын

    God this song is so fucking great. I've listened to it so many times in the last year or so. How it only has 21k views is mind-boggling.

  • @augustycizauzo6372

    @augustycizauzo6372

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah they have to be the most underrated band ever. This song stuck out to me but I didnt understand until I looked up the phrase, now listening the lyrics are truly among the best of Aaron Weiss’.

  • @marley2219
    @marley22195 жыл бұрын

    shout out to captainpajamapants

  • @dctcorey20

    @dctcorey20

    5 жыл бұрын

    He really should be hired to do their monthly videos. the ending to that video + this song was weirdly perfect.

  • @natewikman

    @natewikman

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@dctcorey20 who is that?

  • @spartan117lego

    @spartan117lego

    5 жыл бұрын

    If only he had a compilation of just his outro music

  • @Vexatedcanicus

    @Vexatedcanicus

    Жыл бұрын

    @@natewikman he's a guy that used to do compilation videos of inside gaming/funhaus, a gaming channel. But some of his videos had great music for intros or outros. I was introduced to this band by his video, with this song being the first. Years later I'm still obsessed over mewithoutyou

  • @moosesnWoop
    @moosesnWoop3 жыл бұрын

    "Whose blindfold-and-a-scale-ship refused to sail And yet failed since each search for solid ground You sing to me at night as the moving finger writes On tortoises all the way down" This alliteration and delivery of these lines - it's just;

  • @KaliYuga030

    @KaliYuga030

    3 жыл бұрын

    The rhythmics of the lyrics and how they're delivered... it's mind-melting really. It's been a while since someone's lyrics and singing got me hooked so profoundly.

  • @crabsackmccringle1687
    @crabsackmccringle16875 жыл бұрын

    Heaviest gd ending I’ve ever heard

  • @bonivermectin4087
    @bonivermectin40874 жыл бұрын

    I'm not used to hearing a full song with Aaron just singing and no screams, this is so absolutely gorgeous. Definitely made me emotional. Will miss mwY so much. Hopefully they go on creating more stuff in new projects

  • @KaliYuga030

    @KaliYuga030

    3 жыл бұрын

    Damn...I just came across this band, and today I was seriously thinking if they might be producing something new already...and then I come to read this. Disbanded, of course. Foolish me.

  • @andymigz7000
    @andymigz70004 жыл бұрын

    Watchmen w/ their eyes closed, ransom and a scripture by the picture of your face Messages the rhymes chose, blueprint for contrition in a cigarette case Everybody knows, son Everybody knows what you've done Everybody knows, son Everybody knows exactly what you've done Charles was alive then, towering like a Mountain at the silver trumpet blast William still alive till when our altars Are all emptied of his offerings to the last Everybody knows, son Everybody knows just what you've done Everybody knows, son And so again it goes you can't end what you've begun Surely as the sun early on the east side comes Before my sleepless eyes your features metamorphosize Surely as the sun early on the east side comes If only you had known how soon you'd be on your own How suddenly they'd cast the stone When the mouths of praise and blame start to sound the same And you've asked they please not come back around & Yet they happen by, you can offer my reply: "There's tortoises all the way down." Since the night you came dressed up in your righteous name All you claim to see doesn't mean a thing to me Surely as the sun early on the east side comes I know I'm not the only one Whose blindfold-and-a-scale-ship refused to sail And yet failed since each search for solid ground You sing to me at night as the moving finger writes On tortoises all the way down You think that glass of wine could cancel half a line? But it won't wash our words out this time & I'm not the only one who's got nowhere to run Cause everybody knows, son Everybody knows just what you've done Everybody knows, son Everybody knows what you've done While all hiding inside our painting-of-a-house-hung-up-inside That same-painted-house-which-ever-implies-another-painted-house-inside lives Serpent-in-the-sky-lives! Servants-of-the-least-high! Most-tortoiseless lives! Would you meet me sometime soon, son, down by the riverside? There's room enough in my paradise My empty little mind

  • @ftvike
    @ftvike5 жыл бұрын

    As someone that researches ancient cosmology this song hits me at the core. Turtles/Tortoises represented toroidal fields and their shells display cymatic designs. Why do you think they said the earth rests on turtles and go all the way down? Fractals, Fibonacci, pi, phi, golden ratio. The ancients knew and it seems mewithoutYou does too! Much love Aaron

  • @vasilis1380

    @vasilis1380

    5 жыл бұрын

    kander I see you around, glad you’re listening to some awesome music, now if only they were tuned to 432hz ;p Peace and love

  • @moosesnWoop

    @moosesnWoop

    3 жыл бұрын

    hahah wait till you hear and read their other stuff

  • @markgarrett7428
    @markgarrett74285 жыл бұрын

    I wish 3:53 went on for another two minutes

  • @7ngel
    @7ngel5 жыл бұрын

    This definitely reminds me of some of peeps songs.

  • @vasilis1380
    @vasilis13805 жыл бұрын

    Flat earth reference(it’s turtles all the way down!). I think these guys know. Brother, sister album cover definitely alludes to ancient Christian/Hebrew cosmology(flat(fish) with a tower at the center(mt meru) with a local sun/moon(same size)). Also the lyrics “the sun and the moon, are my fathers eyes.”, only makes sense once you discard heliocentric cosmology. It used to confuse the heck out of me, because we are told the sun is much bigger than the moon, so it painted a picture in my mind of a god with one large eye and one small, but that’s not correct lol :p Peace to you all and god bless. May you find the truth if you seek it.

  • @Confluence358

    @Confluence358

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure why you think turtles all the way down is a flat-earth reference...

  • @vasilis1380

    @vasilis1380

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sola712 look up Hindu cosmology. Youre welcome. Also in Hebraic and Christian cosmology(and all major religions actually), we are living in a flat realm with a dome enclosing us. Not that that’s what I believe but “turtles all the way down” has been a flat earth meme for hundreds of years. Peace!

  • @Confluence358

    @Confluence358

    5 жыл бұрын

    No, the phrase "turtles all the way down" is a specific reference to the problem of infinite regression. It has nothing to do with being a "flat-earth reference" anymore than it is a "turtle reference." Now, yes, the phrase itself is a reference to a dialogue with someone who holds a mythical cosmogony, but the point of the saying is to show the absurdity of an infinite regress. The first instance of the phrase involving turtles (before that it was "rocks all the way down") seems to be from the 19th century, from someone named Joseph Frederick Berg.

  • @Confluence358

    @Confluence358

    5 жыл бұрын

    To be more clear, what you're saying is the equivalent of saying that "Catch for us the foxes" is a reference to running after foxes... No, while the phrase is, taken literally, about foxes, the meaning of the phrase is from a passage in Song of Solomon and is meant metaphorically. In this way, "Turtles all the way down" is a reference to a story in which one speaker believes in the World Turtle, but upon asked what is beneath THAT turtle, replies, "well, it's turtles all the way down!" So while "world turtle" pertains to mythical cosmogony, the phrase "turtles all the way down" is a reference to the story that illustrates the problem of infinite regression.

  • @vasilis1380

    @vasilis1380

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sola712 are we here to change each other opinions on cosmology or to enjoy some good tunage!? I respect your opinion, and perspective. Sorry my connection to ancient cosmology flipped you out lol. These guys are obviously into a bit of mysticism so why would they overlook realm cosmology? 200 years ago nobody thought we were living on a spinning ball, now after all of nasas fake space bs everyone *knows* we live on a useless speck of dirt in an infinite nothingness. Obviously the creator isn’t necessary for such a creation of big bangs and accidental evolution. Why do you think there are so many atheist now a days? They’re monkeys living on a spinning ball. Life assumes no meaning at that point. From where I stand I feel that we are the center of the universe. Flat or not we could just as easily be geocentric, with a local sun and moon. Peace.

  • @nails0416
    @nails04165 жыл бұрын

    who the hell listen to this song?

  • @OldMayt

    @OldMayt

    5 жыл бұрын

    what

  • @bitchesbrewx

    @bitchesbrewx

    5 жыл бұрын

    You should listen to Julia, Julia.

  • @javiermerino7579

    @javiermerino7579

    Жыл бұрын

    me