"Red Lights" by Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long

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From the album "Debris" by Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long
Vote now at www.shanekoyczan.com and decide which song from "Debris" gets made into a video!!
Video submissions email (details below): submissions@shanekoyczan.com
Album Available at: www.shanekoyczan.com/store/debris
Patreon: / shanekoyczan
KZread: goo.gl/hm1qJz
Soundcloud: / debris
Red Lights:
Words by: Shane Koyczan
Music and lyrics by: Glenna Garramone
Shane: voice
Glenna: piano, voice
Jesse: bass, voice
Jordie: cello, voice
Corwin: electric guitar
featuring Comox Valley All Sorts Choir led by Jenn Forsland
Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long are:
Shane Koyczan: words and voice
Maiya Robbie: guitar and voice
Jesse Lee: bass and voice
Jordie Robinson: cello and voice
Glenna Garramone: piano and voice
Making a new video and you get to decide which one!!!
Many of you already know that we put out the new album just a short while ago. Thank you all for supporting it... we've gotten some incredible reviews and wonderfully positive feedback. I really love this album. I love it so much that I couldn't decide on which video to make next. See where I'm going with this yet? We opened with a video of "For Many" and are now considering which piece should follow it up. In all likelihood this will be the last video I produce (They're an increasingly expensive commitment with no monetary return... I do them because I love doing them... just can't afford to keep doing them.) So with all of that out in the open I want to invite my fans to make this decision. Your support has meant so much over the years and I'm often asked why I haven't done a video for this piece or that piece... trust me I would do videos for all of them if I could. How it breaks down is this. We're going to release the album on KZread and Soundcloud. Two tracks per week with just a static image of Scott Waters wonderful cover art. When all of the pieces are finally online voting will begin on www.shanekoyczan.com.
There'll be a list of the tracks and each visitor will be allowed to cast their vote for the piece they'd most like to see made into a video. Please keep in mind that we don't have access to grants and are not crowd funding this project. Our budget is a modest 8k which I pay for myself. So please don't expect Michael Jackson's Thriller. Another angle to this little tidbit is that we will be accepting submissions from creators who might be interested in making the video. Animators, graphic designers, filmmakers... Pixar... whoever you are... If this is something that interests you and you believe you can work within the budget... it's all yours. Submit some of your work to submissions@shanekoyczan.com; the band and I will go through and decide which style we'd like to see applied to the chosen track. Something you should consider before making any commitments is that the 8k is in Canadian funds, which is currently laughable outside of Canada, so I hope you're up for a challenge. If you do feel like cushioning the meager budget you can make a pledge on my Patreon page / shanekoyczan . This will likely be the first and last project I release via this site but every penny helps. Okay... I've talked your ear off long enough. Hope you've all been making beautiful steps toward your bliss in this new year. Hope to see you all in it.
Cheers, Shane

Пікірлер: 83

  • @shayakdesigns
    @shayakdesigns8 жыл бұрын

    I love all of his poems. The first time I heard one, it was "To This Day" in class. It made me feel a tidal wave of emotions. This man is truly amazing. We need more people like him in this small world of ours

  • @stoppedposting8239

    @stoppedposting8239

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @dececho1735

    @dececho1735

    2 жыл бұрын

    the wave of Emotions still comes

  • @iTopCati
    @iTopCati8 жыл бұрын

    oh my god.. i have followed you ever since "to this day" your work is so profound.. this is just beautiful....

  • @crazypenguinlady7866
    @crazypenguinlady78666 жыл бұрын

    Hasn't been a comment on this video in about 2 years from the looks of things but this man got me through cancer treatment, his poetry is so uplifting and I swear it's cleansing. No matter how low I am his work always brings me back to a smile.

  • @dominichutchison1322

    @dominichutchison1322

    11 ай бұрын

    5 years later i genuinely hope for the best for you ma'am.

  • @marsm6221
    @marsm62218 жыл бұрын

    My good sir, you are the inspiration that I look to each day that goes on. You're the person that I look to when I'm down and you are the inspiration for me and my writing. Thank you for your beautiful words, for your encouraging words and the words that are spoken from the heart, and not from the mind. Thank you, Sir

  • @annabelledenniss8625
    @annabelledenniss86258 жыл бұрын

    There's this spark that you've lit up inside me in places where i didn't even know i had places. Your words are pure magic

  • @shelelleby8474
    @shelelleby84748 жыл бұрын

    Your voice is so gentle and soothing and the poems that you write touch everyone in a special way that makes them feel loved

  • @sadiejean9625
    @sadiejean96258 жыл бұрын

    these poems make me feel whole again

  • @whoretex356
    @whoretex3568 жыл бұрын

    You're such inspiration 💞 thank you so much for making this

  • @jaystav123
    @jaystav1238 жыл бұрын

    I saw him before. I was in BC and I met him at the movies. It made my day

  • @sanv3275

    @sanv3275

    6 жыл бұрын

    jameson stav what?! Really?!

  • @laylarisse1931

    @laylarisse1931

    5 жыл бұрын

    You are so lucky!

  • @sav1331

    @sav1331

    4 жыл бұрын

    I saw him in bc too in a restaurant! 😃

  • @gbeaver57
    @gbeaver578 жыл бұрын

    I listen to this to fall asleep. All his work is wonderful.

  • @graciebinette4341
    @graciebinette43418 жыл бұрын

    So glad that we went over To This Day last year in class. Ive fallen in love with your work since. I cried the first time we watched the To This Day projects in class but now it makes me feel better about myself.

  • @alixandrialee3557
    @alixandrialee35577 жыл бұрын

    this one definitely brought me to tears and I couldn't tell if they were happy or sad cause I felt pain in my heart but couldn't help feel a smile across my face

  • @lilliankobzdej
    @lilliankobzdej8 жыл бұрын

    Oh my...I can't..I don't really relate to bullying as I'm homeschooled, but I still love your work. Inspiring young men and women to keep going. Not to let themselves get thrown away, not to let other people bring them down, and not to bring others down with them. Thanks you Shane Koyczan for inspiring millions, including myself.

  • @harutomonada9615
    @harutomonada96157 жыл бұрын

    This is sad music put into words that someone can actually express

  • @itzkaylabruh7271

    @itzkaylabruh7271

    7 жыл бұрын

    Haruto Monada i agree.

  • @nawtjbejb
    @nawtjbejb6 жыл бұрын

    "Love doesnt undertand distance because even when your away from it your still in" -Shane Koyczan

  • @Julie-ye1yi
    @Julie-ye1yi8 жыл бұрын

    I'm only 14 and I've never been able to explain the way I feel until I started listening to your poems their so amazing Shane I'm glad I saw till to this day in class

  • @demuredaemon4684

    @demuredaemon4684

    7 жыл бұрын

    Julie I'm with you.

  • @ZekDraco

    @ZekDraco

    4 жыл бұрын

    I’m 14 and this is deep. Sorry, just trying to lighten the mood.

  • @arafluko3487

    @arafluko3487

    2 жыл бұрын

    Happy 19th.

  • @amyfallsforfictionalmen
    @amyfallsforfictionalmen8 жыл бұрын

    My ears are in love 🎧❤️

  • @annemcewen2995
    @annemcewen29958 жыл бұрын

    My heart just broke - beyond beautiful.

  • @laylarisse1931
    @laylarisse19315 жыл бұрын

    Shane, I am so glad I found your poems. You have helped me and so many others find hope and happiness in your words. We love you.

  • @dexidin1335
    @dexidin13358 жыл бұрын

    I love all of your work so much, it's helped me with a lot thank you.

  • @daedelusscoles4510
    @daedelusscoles45106 жыл бұрын

    I heard about you during school, it's cool that I get to learn about people like you that can help me cope with issues.

  • @slicedgrapes
    @slicedgrapes5 жыл бұрын

    Shane koyczan was one of my best discoveries ever.

  • @AlexRider589
    @AlexRider5896 жыл бұрын

    "Despite the road throwing rocks at my bedroom window and begging me to keep it company, the road and me...we are lonely even when together. But you. Whether I've spent one month away from you or one minute, love doesn't understand distance. Because even when you're away from it you're still in it."

  • @cynthiemorris524
    @cynthiemorris5246 жыл бұрын

    I don't know why I never listened to this as much as some of the others, it's beautiful.

  • @pika_king664
    @pika_king6643 жыл бұрын

    This work is great and ive been binging it to relax on the days when I'm stressed

  • @infochan9333
    @infochan93337 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Shane

  • @bacrou3776
    @bacrou37767 жыл бұрын

    I've been away. It might be more accurate to say that I've been here while you've been there, and there was where I always wanted to be, but wasn't. As if want knows what I need but need doesn't. Need never knew you. The way I'm still not sure I do. Guess I'm still learning. Still conserning myself with the things I don't know. I don't know... I don't know if your breath is the wind, and I'm just the kite. I don't know if you still need me, but if you do I'll be home tonight. I'll be home tonight. Despite the road throwing rocks and my bedroom window begging me to keep it company. The road and me? Are lonely even when together, but you... Rather I've spent one month away or one minute, love doesn't understand distance because even when your away from it, you're still in it. And though I'm not sure how that I know now that every red light secretly wishes it were a green light. And I'm wishing those wishes get granted so that they will speed me home, tonight. I will wake in the morning with the road tugging at my restlessness. And regardless of this I will reminisce only of last night when you closed my eyes and touch became sight, and my hands moving slowly over you as if I couldn't stop staring. Out arms around us as if we couldn't stop wearing each other to bed and in the morning, The sun bled through the blinds only to remind us we still have eyes, and we kept them closed. Not to fend off the day or keep away the light but to remind us of what last night looked like, tonight.

  • @Bilbrey.
    @Bilbrey.8 жыл бұрын

    amazing as always Shane .

  • @vazak11
    @vazak116 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful!

  • @celesticforce2367
    @celesticforce23677 жыл бұрын

    I love this so much. Your voice is so perfect for this! :3 keep going!

  • @needtobeeditedvideos6750
    @needtobeeditedvideos67506 жыл бұрын

    You are great, I hear lots of your stuff but never KNEW who you were until I look up "To This Day" and found you! YOUR SO GOOD AND INSPIRING!

  • @candlelover2321
    @candlelover23215 жыл бұрын

    This got me crying like 🌊☔️

  • @christehbandit3669
    @christehbandit36697 жыл бұрын

    He brings me hope more then anyone they make me feel again

  • @jaquilynnsalado2118
    @jaquilynnsalado21188 жыл бұрын

    i loved "to this day" when i seen it , it made me think of my stopry and how not long ago so i started writing my own story and poems i really wont u to read them maybe one day you will but to this day I hate getting left behind 😐😔

  • @oliviabailey8164
    @oliviabailey81646 жыл бұрын

    i love your work. love. the first time i was introduced to it was over a year ago when my english teacher sent me the link. it was a really hard time for me. watching your videos always gives me a sense of peace, acceptance, and hope. I AM AN ARTIST AND I WOULD LOVE TO HELP!

  • @hotchickensandwich1951
    @hotchickensandwich19518 жыл бұрын

    I love this

  • @TheJazzy166
    @TheJazzy1668 жыл бұрын

    amazing

  • @galaxy_gamerxxxsuper_gamer9107
    @galaxy_gamerxxxsuper_gamer91075 жыл бұрын

    It was beautiful 😢❤️

  • @Tigerlover-ln1hw
    @Tigerlover-ln1hw7 жыл бұрын

    You are my hero!😭😭😭😭

  • @mawunyaakpebu3399
    @mawunyaakpebu33996 жыл бұрын

    How i wish I get to see Shane...

  • @cooperativerat8081
    @cooperativerat80817 жыл бұрын

    DUDE YOUR AMAZING!

  • @cooperativerat8081

    @cooperativerat8081

    7 жыл бұрын

    Opinion on gay marriage and any story to help get through the bullying from it?

  • @VynilS_og
    @VynilS_og8 жыл бұрын

    esto es,muy profundo, me hace llorar como no tienen una idea. Esto...esto es magnífico

  • @Lem-fg7yq

    @Lem-fg7yq

    8 жыл бұрын

    Ekzacto mushasho 😢

  • @rozzy3528
    @rozzy35287 жыл бұрын

    this describes my life. I'm sad an happy. but now I need to go and to school tomorrow. I know I'm not alone. some of us like me are here. id like to tell you. while they make fun of us. know. we are the ones who have success. we are all together. separate but together. we can get through it. believe.

  • @warmishbug9583
    @warmishbug95838 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @jakemeades356
    @jakemeades3567 жыл бұрын

    Love your work! Ever in need of a mix engineer, let me know! UK based but the internet is a great thing! :D Your work connects with me in a way no other spoken word ever has, love it! move pen move was the first i heard from you a few years ago, still hooked

  • @kittypawsparks4172
    @kittypawsparks41726 жыл бұрын

    💕

  • @gingerlemon865
    @gingerlemon8658 жыл бұрын

    I could do without the song. This was beautiful though.

  • @AethersVoide
    @AethersVoide7 жыл бұрын

    I was always the arrow they purposely broke and threw away to chose what they say were 'better' arrows. My group is the rejects we are the arrows trying to hit the target of fame and being liked and not discarded. But we never made it. The target was the popular kids. We never made it we never got shot far enough. We always broke when we didn't make it. The ones that did make it changed forever. I'm glad I haven't made so far.

  • @swervydervy9177
    @swervydervy91778 жыл бұрын

    You're coming home, and you're coming home soon. I know I tried to leave early without consent and I'm sorry, sorry for the pent up anger and sadness that has followed me around like a cliched fog, ad I know I'm like a dog that must be led so I don't get lost in this mess of a world. Show me your love, give me some hope because I NEED YOU, KNOW IN THIS TIME AND I AM SCREAMING TO REALISE THAT I am loved, I am known. Tear down the thorns inside me that have grown and the briars that have tried to choke me from the inside out, I tear them to the ground. Because my garden is a temple and I'm trying to practice what I've been shown but I can't do it on my own. I need your help, I need your grace, show me the way. And soften my heart so I may cry, like those past nights when I would scream to the sky and the screen hoping somebody would see my need and realise that I am still a child. Not knowing why, questioning this lie that is life, what ifs and false promises, abandoned hope when I learned that I was just another trope in this act that some call life. But life suggests life, and I am more dead because my locked up heart cannot feel and the pain is slowly eroding these iron chains that have kept me locked away for so long. And the false show took over, I had time to pretend my joy could never end. A smile personifies my death. And the moon is waning. The time is soon. There is not much left of me. And soon I will be lost for ever, faded away into the blank mist of forgotten names and lives, discredited by the phrase "It was a suicide" as if it was such a shameful sin. And if it was then you should be the ones to take the blame, who caused the pain. It seems that you are only remembered so that you can then be forgot. And my t's I cross, my i's I dot with my blood, signed, a suicide note, a bittersweet end. Blown along by the wind hither and thither, finally coming to a rest. A place without motion, without noise. Nothing. The eternal sleep, the never never. And I'm sorry, I'M SORRY TO ALL OF THOSE WHO CARED because you tried, you realised that there was something, a spark inside of me trying to stay alive. Don't cry. Because the day will come soon that you will forget, and I will be maybe only occasionally remembered in a passing mark, or once a year as you see my birth date coming up on the calendar. And maybe you'll remember that unicorn you gave me, a collective gift from a group of friends. But I am gone now, and old memories are no more. I can no longer see you, we rarely speak. But do not grieve. Know that I love you, and will forevermore. Of this you can be sure. I love you, I always have loved you, and I always will love you. Soon I will be going home.

  • @thatcollegeguy9585

    @thatcollegeguy9585

    8 жыл бұрын

    love it

  • @swervydervy9177

    @swervydervy9177

    8 жыл бұрын

    I don't even understand it completely it was just a soul ramble. "Soul ramble" that term is amazing

  • @swervydervy9177

    @swervydervy9177

    8 жыл бұрын

    I'm still depressed. How are you? (I know it's weird for people to talk to each other via youtube comments, but I just really need to talk to someone right now so I don't go insane. Sorry if I'm weirding you out or whatever) Srsly tho I have no one else currently so I'm just going to keep typing and hope that it helps. I'm really sad right now, but then again I guess I'm always sad. Still though. Actually I should probs go to bed it's late bye

  • @christianr3184

    @christianr3184

    8 жыл бұрын

    +swervydervy its never too late to talk to some1

  • @swervydervy9177

    @swervydervy9177

    8 жыл бұрын

    To be honest I've gone past the point where it helps anymore

  • @iLoveTurtlesHaha
    @iLoveTurtlesHaha5 жыл бұрын

    I wish I could write like this but I can't. I know I could learn to but I have other things I need to learn - like coding. Maybe one day.

  • @nathanqquackenbush
    @nathanqquackenbush8 жыл бұрын

    i hate that i'm the asecs that people make fun of, then i remember that i'm more durable than nike or jordans and i know with all the hard work i do ill make it in the long run unlike the other kid who dont do there work just to "Fit in".

  • @jumbokid7139
    @jumbokid71397 жыл бұрын

    When are you going to post again

  • @gb_o2271
    @gb_o22716 жыл бұрын

    I’ve been away It might be more accurate to say that I’ve been here while you’ve been there And ‘there’ was where I always wanted to be but wasn’t As if Want knows what I need but Need doesn’t Need never knew you The way I’m still not sure I do Guess I’m still learning Still concerning myself with the things I don’t know I don’t know Don’t know if your breath is the wind and I’m just a kite I don’t know if you need me but if you do I’ll be home tonight *song* I’ll be home tonight Despite the road throwing rocks in my bedroom window and begging me to keep it company The road and me, we are lonely even when together But you Whether I’ve spent one month away from you or one minute Love doesn’t understand distance Because even when you’re away from it, you’re still in it And though I’m not sure how I know now That every red light secretly wishes it were a green light But I’m wishing those wishes get granted So that they’ll speed me home tonight *song* I will wake in the morning with the road tugging at my restlessness And regardless of this I will reminisce only of last night When you closed my eyes and touch became sight My hands moving slowly over you as if I couldn’t stop staring Our arms around us as if we are wearing each other to bed And in the morning the sunlight bled through the blinds Only to reminds us we have eyes We’ve kept them closed, not to fend off the day or keep out the light Just to remind us what last night will look like Tonight *song*

  • @poknari
    @poknari7 жыл бұрын

    CAN I HAVE THIS LYRICS?

  • @jumanahxxx4586
    @jumanahxxx45868 жыл бұрын

    where can I find the lyrics to this?? I've been looking everywhere

  • @MultiCoolSteve

    @MultiCoolSteve

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Jumanah Xxx They should be on his website.

  • @jumanahxxx4586

    @jumanahxxx4586

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Alixtraz i looked but i couldn't find them

  • @MultiCoolSteve

    @MultiCoolSteve

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** Weird, you're right. I can't seem to find them on his website or anywhere else either. :c

  • @valscrim
    @valscrim7 жыл бұрын

    No one needs me...... 😭💔😔No one cares of me.....

  • @warmishbug9583
    @warmishbug95838 жыл бұрын

    Now do one with Eminem

  • @Trident_Euclid

    @Trident_Euclid

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Warmishbug 958 Hahaha

  • @jasonbrooks4219
    @jasonbrooks42198 жыл бұрын

    doesnt play

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