The War On Drugs - Holding On [Official Video]
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- Official video for The War On Drugs "Holding On" from the album A Deeper Understanding, available now on Atlantic Records.
Directed by Brett Haley
Concept by Krysten Ritter
Starring Frankie Faison & Adam Granduciel
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What a privilege, to be alive when a song this beautiful exists.
How nice when every year it surprises you with unexpected music
@@GabrielWJensen wdt it b nice
@@GabrielWJensen to drop the color lines
Even when in heaven, songs will be the most beautiful
Indeed !
2023 and this song is still on repeat! This is what I call music!!
Glad I'm not the only one that does songs on repeat.
Talk about joining the club! 😊🎉
Their last 3 albums are on constant rotation. My fave overall is Deeper Understanding, but even I Don't Live Here is pretty close. " Harmonias Dream" " old skin" " thinking of a place" all perfection
@@dawnpatrol700 I'm with you. Deeper Understanding is my favorite as well!! I can't describe the vibes I get from it, it's just perfect!!
@@drickzee if someone would have told me anytime prior to 2017, that my favorite band, favorite album, favorite song of all time hadn't came out yet, I would have been sceptacle. In 2014, Delta Spirit's "Into the Wide" came pretty close, but Deeper Understanding would blow it away. Check out "into the Wide" and "from now on" by Delta Spirit. Right now I'm diggin " the pressure" by Delta Spirit from their newest
Fifa 18 Playlist. From the first time I heard this song, I will never forget it.
The most underrated song of all time, it’s a masterpiece
Beautiful song and clip
If the War on Drugs lead singer offers you a ride, then you better take it.
clownnookie
Anytime ...
the old man's smile gives me life
The best song on FIFA 18!
FIFA 17 😅
This song would be a major hit in the 1980s
FIFA 18 showed me this masterpiece
2024 still a banger
if you like The War on Drugs you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home To Sleep In, it gives me strong war on drugs vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard in a long time
What can I say? It's bloody sad that this majestic clip has almost 1 thousand dislikes, it's just ridiculous. This is melancholic uplifting, life-affirming music, When you listen to this and watch the video at the same time is like a bomb of serotonin invading you. It's a great gift that we can re-watch whenever we need to. For that I say thank you very much for your contribution to a better world with your creation.
It's so sad free speech is allowed isn't it?
haters gonna hate all it is.
@@bp6421 What a cheap cop out. Who said anything about 'hate' on this video? You.
The video shows how my generation treats one another. Not yours. You guys are the ones filled with contempt.
I love.to imagine that the horse we see at the beginning of the video is the man's deceased wife and then at the end...he goes and join her
So everyone should have the same opinion as you?
CZcams needs more options beyond "like." This is one of the most moving songs and videos I've seen.
Diner, golden retriever, pool hall, old friends, old truck, relive lovely memories. That's a good day.
Don't forget to brush your teeth, Sir.
Eres un pendejo, por solo exisrir !
@@oscarsamaniego2888 Why? He's right. Obvious you haven't lived.
And den smoke up a fatty bleezy as one mofuckin nightcap yooo!
Best days
We should embrace this band, hold them up like a beacon of light because music like this has been in the wilderness for decades, they are an absolute treasure
I Wholeheartedly Agree , Well Said , These Musicans are Fine Art Craftsmen & Creative Geniuses ! 🏆
I do it every day! Love them
Love these guys. Do you know any other good bands which compare?
@@hospitalcleaner U2
@@vilavem1652 cool I'll check them out oh god its awful
On a day like today my mom passed away from cancer 13 years ago, in all that time my dad has always remembered her, holding on to the good memories of her. The first time I watched this video I couldn´t help crying because its full of beauty. In the end I am sure my dad will find again his one true love.
It's the simple things that create the invisible world of nostalgia. Only you will know forever.
Exactly. This song transmits to me nostalgia
Very well said my friend. Yes indeed!
So my feed loves me today. Very rare a song much less many has me wanting to feel encapsulated with in it's warm loving Vines.
what well written comment ;')
One of the best bands I've heard in my 70 years!
has a similar feel and vibe to Mark Knopfler at times, of Dire Straits fame!
Very underrated album
Been listening to this album almost none stop since it came out
Chris Wright love Mark Knopler.... Ragpickers dream
They sound like a Waterboys tribute band.
3 years old, and the music & video still bring a lump to my throat & a tear to my eyes. So beautiful...
the first time I heard this was 3y ago. my gf back in time was living in another city. she had cancer n she was in hopital ,she called me for the last time. so I hit the road at a rainy night, then this shit played while i was drivin. Idk how My tears never left me that night. anw whenever i hear this song, Hits me hard af m8
@@seeker5547 I'm sorry for your loss, mate. This song also hits me too
This is definitely the song that my kids one day will say “my dad used to listen to this all the time” and I’m all for it. Can’t wait
This never ceases to move me. It deals with loss in a perfect world. From early on, we see one of the neighbors greet him while walking in the street. I see that the director did something absolutely fantastic by reversing the video, so it shows he is going up north rather than down south.
Then we get into the café where the waiters embrace him with a beautiful, warm touch and give him a beautiful smile that feels so welcoming, before one of his friends shows up to join him.
I'm thinking he must have lost his wife recently, and everyone is just showing him support and letting him know they are here for him.
Then we see him being introduced to some people, whom I assume he didn't know or didn't know well, and they play some pool while smiling and joking with each other.
After that, we see another perfect human act when a total stranger offers to give him a ride. They have some nice exchange, and he picks up the camera, which happened spontaneously, and starts shooting.
The best part of this video is when they stop and walk up to the gazebo. He is asked to pose for the camera and smile; then we see that beautiful smile. But I think they wanted to convey something else in this video. How places and events jog our memory and sometimes seemingly transport us to a totally different time and place. And I think this is what the director wanted to say.
When he takes his sip of coffee in the restaurant.....the look of relief on his face knowing he will get through.
The two horses at the end, joined again in death. It was a perfect last day
I know what I will be holding onto. This band. Forever.
I just wanna eat soup to the rhythm of this song.
Q pena q esta canción no sea mundialmente conocida es una locura Gracias FIFA por ponernos esta cancion hace 4 años
Y que fifa es?
@@chale._.504 fifa 18
Las canciones de FIFA 18 son buenísimas 🤩
Fasho came across this song in Fifa 18
Gracias FIFA por hacer conocer buena música
Empathisches Video trifft auf wunderschönen Song. Sowas macht mein Leben schön !
I haven't been emotionally moved like this from music in a few years. I am happy. Life is good.
chewyrocker me too...and yep!
Life really isgood well said
Like poetry😂😅
Well my friend from the past lemme introduce to you 2020 times ain't looking so good out here🙃
First time I heard this I was full of tingles with a lump in my throat and close to tears. I'm not crying your crying!!
I love their music so much, their album "lost in the dream" takes me back to my uni days, my music producer friend had it on vinyl, we used to sit around playing card games having a few beers and spliffs playing music, its one of those moments in life you don't realize are one of the best moments you will ever have, I remember the set up of living room perfectly to this day, I wanna throw them some love while I'm here, try searching Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home to Sleep In, it's there music and it gives me strong The War On Drugs vibes, they did it all themselves on their laptop and its honestly so impressive
5:10 onward is some of the best music I’ve ever heard
I feel the same
To me, that was the last day he lived. And he lived it in full. He died that night in his sleep. The one horse in the beginning was his late wife. And the two horses running in the end was now both of them.
if you like The War on Drugs you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home To Sleep In, it gives me strong war on drugs vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard in a long time
Agreed!
This is art....
Does anyone know where this was filmed?
Brewster NY, I was playing billiards with Frankie in the pool hall scene
theband231 which one are you?
Shorter guy, bald, goatee
theband231 cool! That must have been fun to film!
Damn what a beautiful video.
I love the visual story throughout the video. To me, the scene in the diner and his first sip of coffee, I believe he realizes that life goes on, even if you lose your significant other, spouse. Thanks to TWOD for creating another masterpiece.
if you like The War on Drugs you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home To Sleep In, it gives me strong war on drugs vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard in a long time
I'm a die hard English prog rock fan... but I've got to admit, this band has really got under my skin. 👍
if you like The War on Drugs you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home To Sleep In, it gives me strong war on drugs vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard in a long time
Thanks for the info mate
The War on Drugs just understand. I love them
Seth MacLeod x2
Seth MacLeod this comment
Best band of the decade
Death Grips
Thank you Fifa, without you, I wouldn’t find this beautiful Rock Band that reminds me of the good old days
i'm a teen and i find it so cool and euphoric to be around with seasoned folks enjoying the same music and band.
Great my friend!
hello bro wsp
This song takes me back to the days when we felt the world under our feet. Nowadays, we just browse the world at our fingertips. Real shame.
just had to make the world cry this morning. beautiful story and video
A song of pure beauty, of lost time and love, and of warm memories. Lost love being the hardest yet most beautiful for us. Cherish those you love, those you've lost, and those you still have.
if you like The War on Drugs you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home To Sleep In, it gives me strong war on drugs vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard in a long time
I didn't know this song was on FIFA 18 but I know for experience that they always curate amazing tracks.
The War on Drugs needs to be listened by more people, I'm glad all of this gamers listening to them now! Let's spread their music!
This clip really brings it home for me.
My goodness. The ending really gets you. Beautiful video.
Problem is it's absolutely unrealistic when you take an era and time into context which then makes this video sort of a pretentious phony one but that's only if you think about it historically
They change the miniature i guess??
Trev Mac lol are you a historian?
Trev Mac I am
If I made a list of my favourite ever 5 top music videos: This is in it. I adore this video with everything in my heart!
This music is so additive.. i listening 3,4 times a day... anyone?
This video has more depth than any film I've seen in decades. Incredibly emotionally resonant. Beautiful song and video. We're lucky to have The War On Drugs around in this day and age.
to me this video has a very profound message. solitude and loneliness/sadness are poor bedfellows. If you're down, depressed etc etc GET OUTSIDE. Make a conscious effort to find beauty in the commonplace and and everyday human interaction. You never know where it will lead.
guerillagunsmoke I'll be there
It seems also like he's going to retake his wedding picture with just himself as a symbol of starting over and being ok alone.
Yeayyy i'am agree with you
Depression and anxiety take work to get through. Practice new better habits even if they're tiny it's something. Never give up.
I cheered up as soon as that Labrador showed up!
1:32 this part always puts a smile on face!
Seeing both the man and the golden retriever smiling is such a beautiful moment. Best scene in the music video. This song is just amazing, hear it almost everyday. 💙
A song so good, you don't even realize you needed to hear it again, until you do... And every time - you appreciate it.
if you like The War on Drugs you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home To Sleep In, it gives me strong war on drugs vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard in a long time
“Is an old memory just another way of saying goodbye “ that really makes you think.
Yes, to me it's the most beautiful line in the lyrics.
I dont get it
@@victorfernandez1507 I recently broke off a long-term relationship and lots of memories have come up since about places we went, moments spent together and it feels as if those images are ways or maybe even opportunities of saying farewell to that person in both mind and heart. That is how I interpret that lyric.
I feel that way about dreams. I will have a dream about the person, and when I wake up I am ready to say goodbye to the emotional baggage form the breakup or loss etc. Close the door so to speak.
It says something about this cultural moment that the Sincerity depicted in this video feels cutting edge.
This a very relevant video of today that shows the power of unity over the divisiveness of race.
Chris Bernardo It's too bad most people will never know who this band is because they are trapped in their top 10 music loops
'sincerity depicted in this video fell cutting edge'...couldn't find these words in my head but you nailed it well
This Just Makes Me Cry and Highly Spiritual Happy😢😂
Only 1:16 and I already have tears.
Damn, this is so emotional : the music, the lyrics, the video. Real masterpiece.
@@GabrielWJensen silence beta
This is beautiful. I cried, too: it is all the more meaningful to me when I think of someone precious to me who recently lost her husband of 44 years.
Don't make me cry at work dammit! Wonderful band and such a great video.
Read what you said and still watched it.....now I'm gathering my composure lol.
:'ccccc
pensé que era el único... 20 minutos después y aun sigo en el mismo estado... que grandes son
mifune141 get back to work. 😷
mifune141 happens to me too
I discovered this song 6 years and it has never lost his magic, every time I’m listening it warms my soul
if you like The War on Drugs you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home To Sleep In, it gives me strong war on drugs vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard in a long time
Amazing song... Beautiful!
Instant Classic
That's exactly what I thought. Classic.
Classic???? I think i remember seeing this video and hearing this song when it was called The Valley Road and/or Across the River by Bruce Hornsby & The Range in the 1980's..Hell same horse and house even..lot's of bands borderline plagiarizing the 70's and 80's hoping keen eye's and memories forget
Tiago Magalhães Indeed! This could be easily one of the best songs in the last 10 years
I think it was his last day. Maybe he knows it because of the appearance of the white horse. Look at him, he's enjoying the day with full senses. Takes a last photo and goes to sleep with the pillow in his arms. In the last scene you see two horses. Maybe it's him and his wife.(or carriers of their souls)
Beautiful video and song. 💙 Can't stop watchin it.
I AGREE WITH YOU. THIS BAND IS GOING TO THE TOP !
Spot on, mate. That's exactly what I think it means.
That's how I interpreted it. I had a feeling I knew what was going to happen but I cried anyway!
I agree, thats how i interpreted too
Yes I agree whole heartedly
just checking in to make sure this song is still good. yep, yep it is.
And always will!
Question: does anyone else think that it was his last day?
He saw the white horse at the beginning, possibly representing his late wife, and he then lived that day to the fullest, finishing it off by placing the new photograph inside the frame of the old, before the video ends with two horses reunited?
Absolutely agree! Also, the white horse could be a representation of the "Pale Horse" (Death) as well.
Yes, it was...beautiful song
Good call.
It’s basically how I wish i could go ...
Get a sign...go see the little things, and people, you love best over a day...
Fall asleep,
And move on.
I love this actor.
I believe every moment.
He was mourning his wife's passing, and this was the day he moved on.
Instant classic!
Glad to see I'm not the only one who is balling like a baby after watching this.
Shredding Splinters you're obviously into hoops, being a baller and all.... ;)
This song gives me hope in 2020. We all long to hold onto the past but at some stage we need to find our new future. Hope, love and kindness and we will find our way.
Maybe my answer to someone asking me my favorite song. I feel like 6 years is enough to be sure, and it still gets me every time.
if you like The War On Drugs you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home To Sleep In, it gives me strong War On Drugs vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
I've replayed this literally 100 times today .. incredible band
This is the kind of music my dad raised me to love.
Your dad plays FIFA?
You have a great dad ..😊
Ican Lexus nah, I think more of 'Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits road trip' type stuff like that.
You must be proud of him.
Mhm
RIP Kiwi the cat she loved when this song came on during our late night fifa18 games.
Just when I thought nothing can top this song, I come across this video. And it is Commissioner Burrell no less! Just lovely...
Retirement didn't suit him much
This surely has to be the most beautiful clip I've ever seen.
"Once I was alive and I could feel; I was holding onto you, and I redefined the way I looked at dawn inside of you". So powerful.
A friend of mine recorded some of this record in LA at his studio. He told me about them after it had been finished. I listened and my mind was shattered. They are a sound unto themselves. So original and haunting.
What a beautiful story this video tells. We all need each other.
Magic. Not everybody understands it.
Thanks War on Drugs for making me bawl at my desk.
Thanks RADIODOBLENUEVE . The best radio rock in Lima- Peru.
My pre-K students LOVE this song! They get up and start dancing whenever I play it.
Spread the love
Good song
This song makes me want to dance too
Once I was alive and I could feel
I was holding on to you
And I redefined the way I looked at dawn inside of you
I went down a crooked highway
Alone outside the line
I've been rejected, now the man has turned and I'm out of time
Ain't no way I'm gonna last
Hiding in the seams, I can't move the past
Feel like I'm about to crash
Riding on my line, I keep keeping on
Once we were apart and I could see red
Never trying to turn back time
Never meant to bring my pain to the front and into your life
Now I'm headed down a different road
Can we walk it side by side?
Is an old memory just another way of saying goodbye?
Ain't no way I'm gonna last
Hiding in the seams, I can't move the past
Feel like I'm about to crash
Riding the same line, I keep keeping on
And he never gonna change
He never gonna learn
I keep moving on the path, yeah
Holding on to mine
When you talk about the past
What are we talking of?
Did I let go too fast?
Was I holding on too long?
Ain't no truths from the past
As silent as the sea
And it holding on too long
But you're right in front of me
And I'm moving on a cast
Shadows on my seam
I keep moving with the changes, yeah
Ooh
Don't know why but im in floods of tears watching that.
I feel so emotional about this band, the best thing to come around in a long time.
Steve X just wait if u are them live in person! amazing!
"floods of tears"... Man, that is so much it !! I go through unstoppable rivers of tears everytime I watch this masterpiece!! But tears of a different kind you know? Tears of the soul. So much sincerity, purety, a complete accelerated journey through bereavement. I love it !
fifa songs hit different
if you like The War On Drugs you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Stay At Home To Sleep In, it gives me strong War On Drugs vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
Tanks chom 97.7 montréal to let me discover thie amazing band ! Mon groupe du moment !
This is a real band, they play and touch your feelings, other bands just play for money.
check wondertrees. im freek musbach from amsterdam tryin to get close to this in our own way do check my friend!
True my guys really true I love them bands and artists especially when they give good energy through their music
Here is my take on the video. For the sake of describing the narrative we will call the main character in the video Frankie since it’s the actor’s name. Anyways, Frankie is born and raised in a small town where everyone knows each other. So does a young and beautiful woman. Each in their own way they are loved and very well respected throughout the town. The woman had a specific passion for horses; perhaps even a white horse like at the start of the video. She was probably a horse trainer in her life.
So Frankie and the woman fall in love and it’s simply like a fairy tale. The whole town loves it as Frankie and his lover are always the life of the party. He builds a beautiful home on the outskirts of town for them to grow old together and live out a happy life, but she gets very sick. It breaks the whole town’s heart but devastates Frankie. She passes away and he sinks into a depression and never leaves the house. He grows old, alone and sad.
Then one morning he wakes up with no intention to leave the house or do anything. He is simply “HOLDING ON”, hence the name of the song. Then he sees it! A horse exactly like the one his lover was passionate about! He steps out of the house and feels her spirit around him, around the horse even! He sees the trail that may have been caused by the horse and decides to follow it! Which leads him to see everyone, he sees people he has not seen for years and everyone consoles him and he experiences a closure; especially at the gazeebo where his picture was taken.
That night Frankie knows he doesn’t have to hold on anymore. Frankie doesn’t have to hold on to the pain, sorrow, regret and misery. He sleeps on HER said of the bed (compared to his side at the start of the video) and simply embraces the memories he had with her. He passes away in his sleep and joins her in the end. That is why you see TWO horses at the videos conclusion. They are together at last.
Cameron Cotroneo wow so filled with emotion, I have no words you said it all
now i understand!
Well said. 👍
I saw it the same way. Thank you for putting it into such beautiful words :)
Spot on! At least with my take on it too. A lot of folks are not picking up on the "died in his sleep" aspect and I did not notice that he's on the wife's side of the bed at the end....
I definitely adore the WOD's clips.
We are existentially alone.
I don't know why but when I listen to that music I feel like I return 30 years back in time to my childhood and it feels so good...
Had the pleasure of playing billiards with Frankie Faison in the pool hall scene. Great guy, Great song, Great video, Great Band
+theband231, awesome. I missed this earlier.
I don't what i liked best, the music or the video. Brought both tears in my eyes.
What a stunning band. Thank God music this good still exists. It's rare but it's still around if you look for it.
The War on Feelings
In times when I am under the pressure, when my hauntingly idle and suffering red eyes would be fighting an ocean in between the waves, that is when I hope that this mind, that is stuck in reverse, will find the strength to be lost in the dream, thinking of a place where eventually I will find something worth holding on.
Now this is a real fan! :D
That is banging! Love it
Wicked awesome!
Akshat Chopra hey, it's your destiny
Akshat Chopra you just gave me the best night
I played fifa 18 and its 2021, I am sad and this song reminds me of my past, best song ever
He had a great day, he lived on for many years to come!
Adam G & the rest of the band - these guys are making America great again 🙌🇬🇧❤️
There's something strangely satisfying about the video. And the song compliments it perfectly. I've seen wonderful songs getting ruined by stupid music videos. But in this case, feels like they both were the perfect fit for each other!
This song is amazing...
Had the privilege to see them live in Amsterdam Ziggo Dome in 2018. This was the first song they played. Absolutely outstanding!
This video makes me so happy! The old man's life, the camerawork, the song.
IT IS~
Seeing people get along and spend happy moments together is so uplifting. There's so much negativity surrounding us that watching this feels like a breath of fresh air
Life IS Hope..never let It die
Golden Retriever is a 10/10 goodboi
Glad to see someone has decided to make some great music again
This song makes me want to shift to a small town in the States and live a simple but enriching life!