Lyrics: I'm a fish inside a birdcage My brother always sings me songs With his beak he tries to soothe me He makes me feel that I belong He has a wild imagination And tells me things That must be true Like there's a world where I can take flight Where i can freely move So carry me from these walls Brother of mine Show me the world outside It has to be true I'm counting on you To be my wings and my eyes As I breathe into our silence There's a voice that comforts me It's a voice of understanding It's the voice of empathy Wings of feathers, tails and fin tips We feel it works so differently You gave me more than I could ask for Indistinguishability So carry me from these walls Brother of mine Show me the world outside It has to be true I'm counting on you To be my wings and my eyes So carry me from these walls Brother of mine Show me the world outside It has to be true I'm counting on you To be my wings and my eye

@N4iN4rTvT

Жыл бұрын

Very nice

@loa1674

11 ай бұрын

Bro put the lyrics under a lyric video 😭 love the dedication tho, good job

@daffodil8252

10 ай бұрын

@@loa1674 You should see me in every lyric video's comment sections (not mines) trying to find that one person who posted the lyrics so I can follow along 😩 I'm my own happiest demographic

@Rainchu89

7 ай бұрын

@@daffodil8252I appreciate it

I feel like the song means, along with some of the other messages, they're both in a cage. The bird talks about the place where the fish could fly, but in the end the bird is in a cage too.

@ilikecows8262

Жыл бұрын

Fffddds

@ilikecows8262

Жыл бұрын

😢😢🎉😅😢😮😢

@dyppityjoop5912

Жыл бұрын

but the bird also controls the fish, as the fish solely relys on his older bird brothers words to see the world. the brother is 'his wings and his eyes', so the fish is wholly dependent on his brother

@elliottdowis9934

Жыл бұрын

@@dyppityjoop5912 the brother who is also in a cage, looking out at the world.

@rat_queen7431

10 ай бұрын

@@dyppityjoop5912True, but I don’t think it’s with poor intentions. I think it’s more like the situation I have with my older sister, we don’t have the best parents so she mostly raised me. I became dependent on her, I wanted her to be my wings and my eyes. I wanted her to lift me up to safety and explain all the horrible things happening around us so that I could understand. We were in the bird cage and I trust her with my life.

this song reminds me of being in an abusive household and your older sibling or older friend acts more like a parent then your actual parents

@_.-._.-.

Жыл бұрын

That's where I'm at, I'm TERRIFIED to leave home because sometimes the abuse feels safer than being on my own, but my older sister is constantly telling me how much I'll love living away from here, and I almost believe her.

@SpookyPumpTheBestPump

Жыл бұрын

@@_.-._.-. trust me. Moving away from an abusive household is terrifying but so relieving.

I feel like this relates to me and my sis. I have autism and always struggled making friends, but despite that my sister was my only friend through it all and gave me indistinguishability through her eyes.

@F_NerdShark

Жыл бұрын

Oh I completeky get it. I also have autism and half the time I can’t tell if someone genuinely likes me or if they’re making fun of how odd I am. I wish you the best of luck :)

@YourPenguinFriendMilo

Жыл бұрын

I immediately thought of my little brother during this song. We're both autistic, but I am far better at masking so as children bubba would always follow me, my lead. To this day we're still each other's best friends

@peskybee3565

Жыл бұрын

ME TOO! I don’t know where I would be without my sibling.

@Bobjonesbones

Жыл бұрын

When I first heard this song I had the same thought but with my older brother I’m also autistic

Thanks for doing this!! 🙂 really appreciate it

@ivanov9245

2 жыл бұрын

The official account commented omg

@kitsuneWC

6 ай бұрын

Underrated bands are more likely to respond! I

I feel like this song is about false hope The brother tells him ideas of pure fiction that he can be basically anything but in the end the fish in a birdcage is just that a fish it will never fly like a bird no matter how much it imagines of doing so. But even so the fish doesn’t know any better so he takes his brother’s word as fact like- “ he tells me things that *must be true* “

@Tarsab3r

Жыл бұрын

I think the flying for the fish is swimming in the ocean

@rivercat26

Жыл бұрын

I think he's talking about the ocean

@Unknown_GooseGyaru

5 ай бұрын

@@rivercat26 But the bird doesn’t know what the ocean is, after all he only sees the sky.

@rivercat26

5 ай бұрын

@@Unknown_GooseGyaru all kinds of birds live by the ocean, swim in the ocean, and eat food from the ocean

I love how the song can be interpreted in many ways, that's what makes the song so relatable for me

As someone who struggles with constant dissociation, this song reminds me of my relationship with the people closest to me. They're always telling me that i'm real, that everything is real, but i can't be sure of that. So, like the fish, i just have to trust in what my birds are telling me

This song just feels so good in the ears

I feel like the metaphor of the fish inside a birdcage is referring to having autism. The world can be tough, especially with the sensory issues, it’s not fit for people with autism. People on the spectrum often feel like they’re different from others in their early stages of life, they’ll often describe feeling like a monster or an alien compared to others and they’ll describe feeling misunderstood. Sometimes, you’ll be lucky enough to meet people who understand you, the brother in the song represents family or/and friends who don’t necessarily see you as different, they’ll treat you like a ‘’normal’’ person, compared to most people who’ll treat you entirely differently and call you ‘’weird’’. Now I’m not diagnosed so I won’t say I’m on the spectrum, but I did kind of live the same situation growing up. Everyone treated me like an unknown species and called me weird and stupid and they all gave me dirty looks even tho I genuinely didn’t act inappropriately, I was just not ‘’normal’’ to them. I didn’t have anyone who understood me so I had to create these people in my brain who treated me equally. Everyone who grows up in that situation wants to be seen as normal. You’ll start off by thinking you’re special and feeling like the main characters but as time goes on you grow up and start to hate yourself thinking ‘’why can’t I be normal?’’ and, eventually, you’ll start to hate the concept of being the main character because you just want to be seen as an average person and stop being the center of attention (in a bad way). This song really hits home because all of the hopes my imaginary friends gave me growing up were obviously lies, I just wanted comfort so I made up a future that couldn’t be, as time went on I started to doubt anything would change and that’s kinda how I would personally describe how the trust in the brother fading away slowly in the song felt for me. I really love this song because everyone has a different view on what the lyrics mean, it’s open for interpretation and that’s what makes it beautiful, everyone who’s different in their own way can feel a connexion to it. It’s honestly impressive how a song about a fish in a birdcage gave us so many emotions.

@imsleepdeprived5366

Ай бұрын

As someone with an autistic little brother who I raised emotionally that calls me mom, I was looking for this comment. I struggle with hating him knowing my entire life has revolved around him, while feeling trapped with the fact I love him too much to abandon him. Its hard not faulting him for my destroyed childhood and the fact I will be all he has after our mom is gone.

@imsleepdeprived5366

Ай бұрын

And its sad because he takes care of me as much as he can, hes a smart young man and I know he will never be everything he coulda been.

Theres so many ways you could give these lyrics meaning but one of my fav lines to think about it "its a voice of understanding a voice of empathy" + "feathers, fins, and wingtips all feel the world so differently" The bird and the fish are both in cages and in the beginning the bird is using their own experiences and imagination to weave stories that the fish escapes within-- but different individuals experience and view things differently-- so even tho the fish may have experienced the same stuff the bird does, they can also allow the bird an escape by using the stories from their perspective and how they feel

This is a conversation between a goldfish and a parakeet. The goldfish doesn't know the parakeet doesn't know what it's talking about. The fish is being educated by the bird about the world. We live in birdcages, we can fly, etc.

I see this as a kind of "crabs in a bucket" story - neither the bird nor the fish will ever actually be free. The bird has put the fish in a position where it's at its mercy, and the fish is being grouped with birds it doesn't belong with, but it feels subservient to them and has been manipulated into believing it belongs.

I feel like this song should be in the umbrella academy

I know everyone's thrown in their two cents about the song's meaning (as they should, it has lots of different meanings). To me, this is a song about faith, and although we live in brokenness and are different, those who have faith have a wild imagination, with all being equal and people being able to escape this cage of sin/brokenness/whatever. From the perspective of someone who wants hope and a voice of empathy. And, whether or not the birds faith is true, to the fish, it has to be.

I like to think each of the verses is sung by each brother until there's a duet at the end

I have a feeling that the bird ate the fish. The song said he soothes him with his beak. He also says I'm counting on you to be my wings and my eyes. What if it's some sociopathic story.

(sorry for the rant very hyperfixated) this reminds me of a repeating character in my dreams, she is usually all blurry, i can only see pale skin and long brown hair, she would paint with me and get me out of nightmares. she's like the brother mention in this song. i havent seen her in a while, but to be fair i havent dreamt in a while either. i also have dreams of being other creatures, usually a cat or a bird, running on all fours or flying, i miss it. it feels freeing, i dont really like reality, also i experience malaptive daydreaming.

so... what if one is blind and can't walk or something like that and they are relying on the older sibling to tell them how the world looks?

@rivercat26

Жыл бұрын

That's a good idea, but I like to think it's about hope. Like, the fish is a person who's in a terrible spot, maybe their life is falling apart, maybe its something external like war or economic collapse. Whatever it is, they're helpless to fix anything and they've lost faith. The bird is a friend (or sibling) who's also incapable of solving the fish's problems, but inspires the fish to hope things will get better. The fish can't see the light at the end of the tunnel (or the ocean outside of the birdcage) so the fish relies on the bird to see it (being its eyes)

Not me searching: “fish in a birdcage oh brother of mine”

This song is so beautifully haunting

That’s so good…… Very poetic ❤️ And I love the violin

the fact that the background of a video is a RUSSIAN DOOMER-STYLED PHOTO OF A LIVING HOUSE KILLS ME

@dr.max777

Жыл бұрын

why

@WenzelClan

3 ай бұрын

I had the exact same thought lmao😂

The brother is my future self

@F_NerdShark

Жыл бұрын

I love that idea

@ibrahimkoross6154

Жыл бұрын

@@F_NerdShark thanks!

This song is so lancer and Susie coded in this essay I will.

I’ve never been one to really think of anime when I listen to music but god this song reminds me so much of Al from Fullmetal Alchemist ;-;

I have a very interesting interpretation of this song as a trans older brother to a trans little sister. We both grew up somewhere unsafe to be trans. Im 8 years older than her and I moved away a while ago. We've been reconnecting and I let her talk to my trans friends so she can see that we can grow older. Knowing deep down that if you were in a welcoming community you wouldnt stick out like a fish in a birdcage. Shes also trapped there until shes older and the line "where I can freely move" hit immensely hard. My father almost moved with her to florida and so this song makes me feel like the bird shes counting on to help her navigate the world when shes finally able to. Additionally, me telling her itll be okay and that shell be "free" someday when I still fear for myself feels like Im in the birdcage too.

I think this songs meaning is that he is a fish in a bird cage

Here for Nikolai Gogol

you picked a really good background picture!! thanks for uploading

Kinda worried if the song is about a bird telling the fish there's a place he can fly. Meaning the bird can turn him into an angel by eating him O_O

@moss.notpanic

Жыл бұрын

very interesting interpretation... its fascinating to me how people can get such different vibes from the same song

@eisflamme2438

Жыл бұрын

there is a place were fish can fly. its called water

@batsydarlingcomic

Жыл бұрын

The fish can "fly" in water

@eisflamme2438

Жыл бұрын

@@batsydarlingcomic Yes, thats what i sayd as well

@deborahminter6231

Жыл бұрын

😂

*i’ve been waiting for this for so long*

This is a catchy song!

The fish could "fly" or swim if he was in the right place.

UNDERRATED ASFF

This song is reminding me very hard of the Brothers Lionheart

Song is giving two brothers. An older and younger siblings. While both trapped in capativity. The older brother shares tall tells of exciting times from his youth and his friends. The whole time the older brother trying to protect and get the younger one to escape. Once they're able to put together a plan and escape. Right as they were both escaping. The older brother knew already he wouldn't make it and didn't tell the younger one. The older one tells him to keep going and don't look back. The younger terrified and scared but does as the older says. In his escape finally able to make it out and walks out in woods for a while. The younger remembers the last words his older brother told him. And even for moment almost feels like he's there even if he's not. Feeling almost like thr spirit of his older brother guide him. Years later when the younger is grown up. He shares tales of him and his older brother to the village children and this is one of them..

I love this oml

There was a time when my older brother meant the world to me. He and I played video games together every day, he always took me out to hang out with some of his friends, we would organize nerf battles with our cousins... I knew that to be life for my entire childhood, just foolishly thought that he'd be a part of my life until the day we both die... At some point he got a toxic girlfriend that pulled all his attention away from me, then even after he broke up with her, he moved out not too long after. I very harshly and suddenly had to learn in that moment, my life will only ever be what *I* make it. I can't depend on my brother to "be my wings and my eyes", and I certainly can't count on all the dreams we spoke of ever coming true. My brother ultimately got his wish in life; A bird who managed to fly out of his cage... But now, I'm the fish who doesn't want any vast freedom or wings to fly. I just want to be in a proper fish bowl where I can be happy, rather than continuing to dry out in a cage that I was never meant to live in.

I love the intro so much!!!!

Thank you so much!! If it's okay, could I know the font you've used in this video? Sorry if I'm bothering!

@daffodil8252

2 жыл бұрын

It was a pleasure to make! And the font I use is "Bodoni Moda llpt Italic" I hope I could help :))

Good song.

Thos is relatable-

What if the "brother" he's talking about isn't older than him? What if the little brother is the optimistic, hopeful one that takes care of the older brother?

I absolutely love this cover!!

banger

i love thisss

I like to interpret this Song as if the fish Is a Person that "doesn't fit in", when in reality, the Place where he's forced to stay (the Cage, which i interpret as the society) doesn't fit him. And i feel this way. Completely. But the interesting part Is that the "Brother" Is also me. I'm telling myself to see the world outside, to be my "wings and eyes", while everyone else Is telling me to fit in the birdcage This Is how i interpret this Song on a personal level :P

@deborahminter6231

Жыл бұрын

The fish is just in the wrong place, so he can't spread his "wings" or fins.

@ludovicamostardi9206

Жыл бұрын

​@@deborahminter6231yep, but this Is also how i feel. I feel like i'm in the wrong Place, and i can't "spread my wings"

Who is here for Will and Jacob?

HORDAK VIBES

Very good song :^D gg ez

@daffodil8252

Жыл бұрын

🤺

It actually says "We feel each rock so differently" not "We feel it works so differently" :)

everyone with their two cents abt what this song means-but is there a solid definition for it? a disabled person being told “you’ll just get through it one day” until they find people just like them and realise they don’t have to be able bodied/neurotypical to be acceptable? a song stemming from the phrase “if you judge a fish on its ability to fly it’ll spend its entire life believing it is stupid”??? my autism brain desperately needs the solid definition

@daffodil8252

Жыл бұрын

The song writer said about this song: "The idea behind fish in a birdcage is that the fish is an able bodied creature with the potential to "fly" just not in that environment. I relate to that personally, being an artist confined or caged into a place where I cannot "fly" or live up to my full potential because of the caging of my environment." Hope that helps!

@deborahminter6231

Жыл бұрын

The songwriter talks about the meaning of the song.

For some reason this reminds me of God and how I trapped in a cage but God will be my eyes and be my guide

reminds me of tally hall