I think the woodsman is by far the most tragic character in the show, imagine spending years (maybe decades), keeping the light of what you think is your loved one, walking alone looking desperately for one kind of tree to chop to keep them alive, only to know after so much that the lantern you have been keeping alive is actually the life of the person that took the person you loved away, and also knowing that you have been actually chopping down the souls of lost people and using it as oil, he passed through so much that it feels nice to know that he found peace in the end.

@sondjuchiha975

2 жыл бұрын

peace huh? mfs never gonna sleep again

@Nidflea

2 жыл бұрын

And the most frightening thing is that his daughter was actually alive, so the situation is even more tragic, but fortunately he met her in the end

@KopieOG

Жыл бұрын

@@Nidflea i mean, theres a chance that the guy died, and he is in an afterlife meeting his daughter

@eksprolek2924

Жыл бұрын

@@KopieOG the unknown is an afterlife, prugratory

@KopieOG

Жыл бұрын

@@eksprolek2924 thats just a theory

This has got to be thr best cartoon I've ever watched. That's a rock fact.

@hasanelrabih283

3 жыл бұрын

Greg, what cartoon are you talking about? I think you need some sleep, Greg.

@gunjeebus3453

2 жыл бұрын

@@hasanelrabih283 over the garden wall is the cartoon lol what are you talking about

@Puddskye.

2 жыл бұрын

@@hasanelrabih283 somebody's pressed

@sampeacaml9307

2 жыл бұрын

@@hasanelrabih283 Hehehehe. ^^

@Blind_Eye046

11 ай бұрын

@SUBbetter Still better.

“I DIDNT KNOW THATS WHERE THE ADLEWOODS CAME FROM?!!!” “Would that have mattered?”

For those who don't know, Samuel Ramey (who voices the beast) is a VERY famous bass-baritone opera singer, who's recorded many many times before, including a Grammy Award-winning recording of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro on Decca, conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Edit: I also just discovered that he's the most recorded bass in history, so...yeah!

@ramonmosate2209

Жыл бұрын

i’m doing an opera with the legend in like 4 days🫡

@RequiemAeternam01

Жыл бұрын

@@ramonmosate2209 Cool! What opera?

@antijackcoalition5154

Жыл бұрын

@@RequiemAeternam01he probably isn't

@ismellmandude6401

9 ай бұрын

Ironically he almost always plays bad guys by his own admission, including Satan/other Satan-like figures. So this is just his nornal routine. Even crazier that he sung this when he was 72.

@RequiemAeternam01

9 ай бұрын

@@ismellmandude6401 Yeah he was famous for his depictions of Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera of the same name and other dark, overbearing characters

Are the children singing supposed to be the children who got turned into trees?

@SodaNaranja

3 жыл бұрын

It's Greg singing in my opinion

@gromitplush

3 жыл бұрын

@@SodaNaranja s a m e

@DUKEHadToDoItToEm

3 жыл бұрын

@@SodaNaranja it is, he even uses the same phrases when talking to his brother and there's a version of potatoes and molasses sung to this same tune, but in latin Although you could interpret it as the fate of other lost children, as it does sound like a chorus

@wibblewobble1566

3 жыл бұрын

the first half of the song is the beast telling people to submit and give up hope. and the second part is the people who have submitted to the beast. i think the beast is supposed to represent the devil

@malmalfactor3544

3 жыл бұрын

@@SodaNaranja The children singing in this version are not Greg, but are former tree victims, the repeated part after Potatus et Molassus includes Greg in the crowd, this one does not.

Mr beast took planting 20, 000, 000 trees too far

@supahjadi8944

3 жыл бұрын

hahahahhaha

@snarkycommenthere9027

3 жыл бұрын

very funny!

@thealmightyloaf5380

3 жыл бұрын

Oh f*ck

@now_thats_pretty_niftyyt5628

3 жыл бұрын

my guy that is genious

@konosuba-fan

3 жыл бұрын

Just saw the same joke from 5 months ago, not funny didn't laugh.

I like to hear the children’s chorus as the beast singing too, but with the voices of the children who’ve fed the lantern instead of his own.

I feel like if I heard this while lost in the woods, I really would just give into whatever force was trying to take me. It’s like a siren song for the hopeless.

@jadetheslime3140

2 жыл бұрын

same here, that chorus would just drag me into the forest.

@shirouchi_mfs

2 жыл бұрын

Not to sound edgy, but i must admit, this is my comfort song, just as The beast character himself is. Since i read someone associating him with "suicide", i feel kinda at peace listening to this. Especially when i'm a person scared of death, and i do sometimes have these "dark" thoughts. When i think of this song, it gaves me hope that there's someone who will greet me at the end, telling me that there's a light for the lost and the meek. All the time i just don't feel at peace with my own mind, even at home so... Thanks for coming to my ted talk 😭

@Skinned_fried_n_cut_up_potato

2 жыл бұрын

@@shirouchi_mfs I was going to explain why you shouldn’t be afraid of death but I don’t really know how to explain it, I’m just not.

@kittypeanut4102

2 жыл бұрын

@@shirouchi_mfs i'm sorry that you felt like this, even so, i can really understand some of your feelings, i think that's why i love this song too.

@ItchyPeenar

2 жыл бұрын

@@shirouchi_mfs much of the show was about not giving into dark temptations solely because it would be easier than confronting the issue or accepting what is lost. Idk what ur story is or why u feel that way. But it not only makes sense that u would feel that way about the beast but also recognize it for what it is and represents.

Come wayward Souls, That wander through the darkness, There is a light for the lost and the meek. Sorrow and fear, Are easily forgotten, When you submit to the soil of the earth. Grow, tiny seed, you are gone to the tree. Rise, 'til your leaves fill the sky, until your sighs fill the air in the night. Lift your mighty limbs, and give braise to the fire.

@viniciusneves436

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend

@wormengine

Жыл бұрын

it's braise to the fire

@Benjuicyy

Жыл бұрын

>Still has The Beast as a profile pic years after the cartoon aired Extremely based

@FBJoey

Жыл бұрын

@@Benjuicyy and it will stay that way

@FBJoey

Жыл бұрын

@@wormengine done

This song is so haunting and meaningful within the show. In it, The Beast is not some sniveling, venal creature, it sings along in a proud barotone. Death and darkness are not weak things sniveling in your ear, they are full and proud and confident and beckoning, almost inviting. Add in the children, which are probably The Beast's faces, or the edelwood trees, singing, and wow. This song really does feel like that if you heard it in the woods, you would just follow The Beast into the darkness.

Just having the fact that this song gives away tons of clues of what happens in the series for instance take this for example. "Sorrow and fear~ are easily forgotten~" *Meaning that the beast feeds off of those emotions.*

@bookofnihil2872

3 жыл бұрын

Because you can't feel emotions when you ded

@cosmopoiesecriandomundos7446

2 жыл бұрын

That's not necessarily true. It could just be that trees have no feelings

@dxrkerrxses

2 жыл бұрын

@@cosmopoiesecriandomundos7446 They said it in the storyline I believe, the beast feeds off of your sorrow or fear. (Haven't watched the show in a while)

@combustiblemicrowave3633

2 жыл бұрын

@@dxrkerrxses he turns you into an edelwood tree for his lantern. when he says "sorrow and fear are easily forgotten" he's convincing you to lose hope and technically commit suicide

@anarchy8968

2 жыл бұрын

to turn into a tree, you either have to be soaked in deep hopelessness or get sick. it might be mentioning the former

*”I didn’t know… I didn’t know this is where the Edelwood trees came from!” - Woodsman*

@BlueMoon56832

Жыл бұрын

That part was so dark This show was a masterpiece And so hauntingly dark Even the parts without the beast have this.....feeling of being just a bit off that makes it unsettleing Like the dream episode of adventure time Or the adventure time episode with the deer

The beast is a representation of those who died forgotten The woodsman are those who cling to the past no matter what, even if it's futile

@Edward-vc7le

Ай бұрын

The Beast is an allegory for suicide. Specifically a reference to The Forest of Suicides from Dantes Inferno - this being the poem that Over The Garden Wall is based off of. That's why he is a tree, because in the poem those who die by "abandoning all hope" have their souls tossed aside into the forest, and from their soul a tree grows.

Fan theory: they asked him what the lowest possible note he could sing and they wrote the song around that.

@Zodle_the_dodle

6 ай бұрын

😂love this

@tomekspawacz7877

2 ай бұрын

Melody is from verdis requiem

I saw someone say that it would be interesting if Wirt and Greg didn't have memories of The Unknown when they crossed back over, but that Wirt would have an unexplainable fear of opera whenever he hears it afterwards.

Blasting Company deserves a lot more fame for this soundtrack

A few years ago, before my sister went away to college and we were still able to spend Halloweens together, we compiled a Spotify playlist of songs to play around Halloween. Among the songs, she added "Come Wayward Souls." One evening when we were playing the playlist, this song came up. I had never seen OTGW before or heard this song, but I was taken aback by the eeriness and beauty of it and asked her what it was. This song is a big part of the reason I ended up discovering OTGW for myself. It will now be my second Halloween spent without my sister, but it's become a tradition for me to watch this series at least once every October.

@AnguishedMan

Жыл бұрын

noone asked

@galacticbananastopmotions7292

Жыл бұрын

@@AnguishedMan F off

@TheScholarOfLemons

Жыл бұрын

oh, she's in college, knowing youtube comments, i thought she was dead

@GranSinderesis

Жыл бұрын

@@TheScholarOfLemons Same dude, until i read it again.

@ismellmandude6401

9 ай бұрын

My brain forgot that you said she went away to college at the start and by the end I was about to offer my condolences, until I realized I was just being dumb.

Since this song is based on a church song i can disguise it as a church song

@pfeifenderleidender7320

3 жыл бұрын

What church song is it based off?

@AustinKh

3 жыл бұрын

@@pfeifenderleidender7320 its a Christmas carol you find on church every Christmas called "o holy night"

@jamestomlin5525

Жыл бұрын

@@AustinKh oh? Sounds more like a sirens call to me

@LordTelperion

8 ай бұрын

Noël.

The part where the children start singing was personally the most powerful SECOND for me in the whole show. Hearing the beast's depressing tune as the woodsman descends into the woods, the lights slowly deeming until the background is black. We've heard the beast singing in the over the garden wall prior, but this time, like the role of the beast itself in the show, it's not in the background. It's the focus. And only then does it dawn how morbid this creature actually is, and how grim is the situation. And then, has the tone is in true darkness, the children start to sing. And we see Greg, who was a voice of hope from the beggining, even when things were ridiculously dangerous, and even when it felt like he is absolutely oblivious, give up. And he doesn't begin to give up, he's dying. Furthermore, just to make the image more painful, this is the one part of the song where the composition of the song and the scene make us remember what hope we had. The only light on screen is shining on Greg. And the voice of the children causes the melody to shift a couple octaves upwards, making the voice of the beast that much clearer. No matter how much years passed since I saw that final episode, I am still nearly at tears whenever this scene hits. And it's horrfiyingly beautiful.

It is wholly unknown wheather this character is a Wendigo, a Devil, or something that was once human. But this Beast is a great villain

@nudgemepapi2804

2 жыл бұрын

Haha unknown get it

@jacobschnabl6353

Жыл бұрын

If anything I think he’s most likely a lich. The lantern is his phylactery, and he feeds on souls that are fed to it. But I agree it’s better when it is ambiguous on what he is. That is infinitely more interesting than any concrete answer

@rimfire8217

Жыл бұрын

@@nudgemepapi2804 I think I did that unintentionally.

@berkaltuglu8140

Жыл бұрын

A lich

@sierra1513

9 ай бұрын

If you knew anything about Wendigo you would know it is certainly not a Wendigo

This is one of the heaviest songs I've heard in an animated series

@LordTelperion

8 ай бұрын

A warped version of Noël.

Amazing , this series is beyond of any cartoon i have watched , so mysterious , so pure ,and funny ...in few words wonderful .

I saw this show on its debut, it was *awesome*

This song is amazing, and such a scene setter

Never heard a vibrato so spaced out.. cool

Lyrics: Come wayward Souls, That wander through the darkness, There is a light for the lost and the meek. Sorrow and fear, Are easily forgotten, When you submit to the soil of the earth. Chorus: Grow, tiny seed, you are gone to the tree. Rise, 'til your leaves fill the sky, until your sighs fill the air in the night. Lift your mighty limbs, and give praise to the fire.

The one dislike is the woodsman, change my mind

@josephfletcher823

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, its from the beast, the woodsman was just sad and confused

@bellaren2274

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephfletcher823 *but how can the beast dislike his own song??????*

@josephfletcher823

3 жыл бұрын

@@bellaren2274 he's embarrassed

@teacat

3 жыл бұрын

@@bellaren2274 his voice just sounded different when it was recorded

@fizzy69o.0

2 жыл бұрын

And maybe Wirt

carry on my wayward souls

@bananaboo2083

3 жыл бұрын

I thought about it too haha

Just saw the show for the first time last night. I can't stop listening to the songs jfc

Gotta be on my top 10 favorite Villain Songs~

@jeremytung1632

2 жыл бұрын

You might like the nowhere kings then.

@zk2741

Жыл бұрын

@@jeremytung1632 Agree

@Reddeath7665

Жыл бұрын

Hush now

O' Holy Night, almost identical

@ArcherBro

3 жыл бұрын

As a subtle way to indicate the Beast is a Satanic archetype, they gave this song the same cadence as O Holy Night. What better way to say "this guy is the devil" than making his theme an evil version of a hymn?

@nightowl8477

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArcherBro - the whole show occupies this limbo between the familiar and the unfamiliar; the known and the unknown. Stories like the madman who falls in love with a portrait, or paintings like the Animal School. Even the brothers' fall into a river bank evokes images of an 'uncanny valley.' And it doesn't stop with the visuals - every track of the score is eerily familiar to something you've heard before, but slightly tainted. Like here, with O' Holy Night, or The Fight is Over with T-Rex's Ballroooms of Mars. Phenomenal show.

@ArcherBro

3 жыл бұрын

@@nightowl8477 This show is the kind of masterpiece that comes along once in a generation.

@nightowl8477

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArcherBro - I realise another aspect of the uncannyness every day. Even with it being set in The Woods - all the trees looking so familiar, yet you've never passed them before. I've never associated fear of the unknown (i.e. the uncanny) with the fear of being lost in the woods.

@alexandrapedersen829

3 жыл бұрын

Which, fun fact, the Beast's voice actor has also recorded: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6Cg0rGhabbAZLQ.html

I just finished my yearly Over the Garden Wall rewatch. Every time I watch it, it gets better

The beginning of this sounds (melodically) just like Verdi's Requiem mass. The second movement-Lacrymosa!

@LocutusBorgOf

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it actually does, I can't tell if I noticed that before, which is fascinating, but yes, it has a very very similar melodic curve

@marillmusik

2 жыл бұрын

@@LocutusBorgOf I appreciate that you know how I mean! Honestly that piece just hits different, a true masterwork!

@LocutusBorgOf

2 жыл бұрын

@@marillmusik I wonder if Samuel Ramey has sung the Verdi Requiem, he must have right?

@marillmusik

2 жыл бұрын

@@LocutusBorgOf I wouldn't be surprised. But I know singing it was one of the best things I've ever done musically!!. 🥰

@LocutusBorgOf

2 жыл бұрын

@@marillmusik I've yet to sing it, my brother has played it though, first Oboe

imagina que vas en el bosque y te encuentras a alguien cantando de esta forma

@finland9794

3 жыл бұрын

Si te ofrece una lampara de aceite, no la aceptes

@angelzapata8743

2 жыл бұрын

Eso quiere decir que estaremos muertos para ese momento...

I was crying when I saw Greg and hearing this song

all cartoon charecters have similar traits to the devil you know. the beast, bill cypher, and the lich are all perfect example of this.

@thefilmrookie3099

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact, Patrick McHale, the guy responsible for over the garden wall. His main contribution to adventure time, was creating the Lich.

This sounds like something from Little Nightmares II, with a young child facing off against a pure cold-blooded monstrosity, backed by the souls of all that fell at the beasts hands. It's beautifully sad, fighting to the last soul.

@maryg1180

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree with you, I also thought about that game while listening to this

@quvuergatulyai980

8 ай бұрын

Yes bro

@starryknife

7 ай бұрын

I LOVE LITTLE NIGHTMARES!!!

I all these years. I never noticed the hand on the left.

This song fills me with such a sense of fear that it's kind of painful.

@jamestomlin5525

Жыл бұрын

Regret for me, as somone that's once thought of giving up and letting go via walking in front of a train; I deeply sympathize for those that are lost. Wish I could help them find their way back, back into better forests and meadows

Imagine being 8yo and singing this in choir for [as] and then finding out it was an uber depressing near death scene

@IHateSmilingFriendsTheTVShow

Жыл бұрын

Cartoon network*

This is the perfect processional hymn for when you’re burying a tiny coffin out in the woods.

this song just hits different

*“…She was never in the lantern, was she Beast?”*

He may be the bad guy but he has a beautiful voice

@GregJamesMusic

9 ай бұрын

It’s Samuel Ramey, an opera singer known for his villainous roles. In other words, EXACTLY whom you’d want to play a villain who can bend people to his will by singing.

Such powerful music in this weird little cartoon.

@veralynn8334

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, both the show and the BS is awesome

This song chills my heart.

probably the greatest cartoon I've ever watched

i just love this show sm

I call this the Halloween version of Oh Holy Night

hauntingly beautiful

This song stabbed my heart

The beast is part of team trees in a very unusual way

Quick: listen to the gospel song "O holy night", and pay attention to the melody. You'll not regret it.

@YDublaj

2 жыл бұрын

yeah they are similar but i choose 'come wayward souls'

@thesnatcher3616

2 жыл бұрын

Holy Night is MUCH more optimistic than this song.

@nimbusshadow-wings

2 жыл бұрын

i regret it

@katerynaiontseva3254

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I didn't realize this before

@JudyGarlandRulez152

2 жыл бұрын

Bro! That's wild! I just listened to it.

Bellísimo

@Rtx-ml3rr

3 жыл бұрын

Br?

Il migliore cartone animato della storia.

Me molesta, me molesta que Cartoon Network jamás podrá volver a transmitir una serie tan buena como esta

@Cintiantunes

Жыл бұрын

Why?

#teamtrees

@DinoAnimations15

3 жыл бұрын

XD

is sad because the woodsman are all the souls from kids that lost yourself in the forest :(

If I ever heard this lost in the woods I'd yell to the darkness: I hear you beast, let us see who soul is lost tonight. you hear me! Put me down , or give me reason to rise. XD

Samuel Ramey rocks!!

Okay I don't know how I got here, all I know is that I must now watch this cartoon.

@veralynn8334

2 жыл бұрын

yes you must, is the Cartoon Network's masterpiece

Música linda demais

@user-xt4gh7tn9p

2 жыл бұрын

sim, e bem macabra

I listened to Verdis Lacrymosa and immediately thought of this song

The beast is my favorite character in over the garden wall

Anyone else think this sounds like verdi’s lacrimosa

@joeradford1055

3 жыл бұрын

I definitely hear it, especially in the first part.

@LocutusBorgOf

3 жыл бұрын

YES, which is great since Samuel Ramey probably sang Verdi's Requiem

Yes

Chapter 10 Very very dark

Personnel: Written by Brandon Armstrong, Joshua Kaufman, Patrick McHale, and Justin Rubenstein Samuel Ramey: Bass Vocals Audio Clayton: Vocals, Backing Vocals Austin Hoke: String Quartet Joshua Kaufman: Piano

It sounds so triumphant, yet so hopeless

Such a lovely voice range tho 😮

I watched the show just recently and I thought it was weird that this song sounds familair, then I learned that the songs tune (the vocals) match with o holy night which makes it way much more creepier… another creepier thing is that the child vocals sound a lot like greg’s voice (spoiler) which also symbolizes greg falling for the beast’s trick and almost becomes a Elwood tree ….

o holy night, the stars are brightly shining it is the time of our dear saviours birth long lay the world in sin and error pining 'til he appeared and the soul felt it's worth interesting adaptation of the melody, I love it

just finished watching the show for the first time two weeks ago, and of course now im obsessed with the soundtrack

Sixth waltz in the soundtrack!

I came back for this song due to the dev of Ultrakill revealing a WIP for Layer 7 Violence Music. I'm so glad I look at hundreds of fandoms.

Как только я слышу эту песню, у меня слезы текут невольно...

O Holy Night

Wait...If this is all purgatory, How does Greg Jr still have the bell that glows when hes shaken?

@giganium1723

Жыл бұрын

wait he does?

@luv_sic

Жыл бұрын

@@giganium1723 yes

@sierra1513

10 ай бұрын

The barriers between worlds grows thin as samhain approaches

Uff

This is mr beast’s team trees anthem

kinda sounds like hugh jackman in le miserables-

@whomstami7365

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t tell if this is a critique or a complement

daniel has been here

Out of context it sounds like it’s about suicide Now I wonder if that was a theme of the actual show and I just didn’t notice

When you're a Sapling.

How very evil of the beast to have greg sing such words, he would never wish such things😢 wirt knows this

Poor Greg

What are some others tunes like this? O' Holy Night / Noel, but are there any others?

vIbRaToOoOoOoOoO

The Lich is an awesome villain, but The Beast is cooler because he sings opera. this is a joke, theyre both equally great.

@thestrongestlivingcreature

7 ай бұрын

Ron Perlman is a better voice actor, but obviously Samuel Ramey is a better singer

A warped version of Noël.

Amphibia and epic Mickey ost come wayward souls

The dung eater do you like

This for me beats Gambal.

Name for this kind of singing?

I don't know of other versions, but the Romanian one is way creepier.

Verdi requiem Lacrimosa

Todas las Almas deben controlarlo todo ellos

So, whoever sees this comment, listen to the Erlking song, then tell me what the difference is between the beast and the Erlking is other than species

Depressivo