Toh Kay - They Broke Him Down

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 30. 04. 2013
  • Shhhh, don't tell Victory Records. c;
    Tomas Kalnoky's version of "They Broke Him Down" off the 'cancelled' The Hand That Thieves album.
    Pentimento Music Co.
    Full album download - www.mediafire.com/?a4adkhbo8cj...
  • Hudba

Komentáře • 68

  • @samwenzel398
    @samwenzel398 Před 2 lety +50

    My friend just overdosed after a decade long fight against heroin. The last band he recommended to me was Toh Kay. He was such a kind soul and that was represented in the music he loved. I hope he finds the peace he had yearned for. Man, I wish you didn't relapse.

    • @billymayes09
      @billymayes09 Před 2 lety +5

      Stay strong friend. I've been there myself

    • @Mattman0310
      @Mattman0310 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Lost my brother to the same thing back in November after a decade of struggle. We use to drive around listening to streetlight, he always would freestyle rap during the break in they broke him down. When I put it on I can still remember his adlibs and its like he's still with me.

  • @MacCrowley6
    @MacCrowley6 Před 10 lety +60

    i had no idea that Tomas did an acoustic version of The Hands That Thieve album.... excuse me while i binge on this all day.

    • @casbah2075
      @casbah2075 Před 4 lety +10

      actually all his songs start as acoustic and he converts them to Ska-Punk (yes, i know im responding to a 6 year old comment)

    • @aych33
      @aych33 Před 3 lety +4

      @@casbah2075 never too late for someone that comes even later

    • @lucaswitdalidov7655
      @lucaswitdalidov7655 Před 3 lety

      It’s actually what started the dispute between them and victory records. Which resulted in them breaking their contract n got them sued for $5mil

  • @mr.mcdeath9604
    @mr.mcdeath9604 Před 7 lety +51

    After two and a half years being with my girlfriend, she left me. I got home from work and her stuff was gone, looked like I got robbed. She took the orphan kitten we raised together. That day I listened to this song for hours with beers in my hands, and oddly enough it comforted me but made me feel so sad...

    • @Lunisford
      @Lunisford Před 7 lety +5

      Don't drink away your issues too, but sad song do help a lot , it makes sad people happier!
      Just think about it this way, it was her choice and if you loved her enough you'd let her do her thing, saddly enough.
      But think good and keep on!

    • @Ryan-zt4kd
      @Ryan-zt4kd Před 6 lety +2

      hope you're doing better buddy

    • @LemonyVengeance
      @LemonyVengeance Před 6 lety +11

      My wife of 11 years left me in the same way. gutted our home, took our 4 children and move 300 miles away. That was 18 months ago, and the spite that she holds and is attempting to brow beat me with knows no bounds.
      Streetlight's Hands that Thieve was the only thing that pulled me through those initial 6 months. Solidarity, brother. You have people you don't even know that will lift your arms up.

    • @andreudedonato1147
      @andreudedonato1147 Před 6 lety +2

      That's hard... I'm glad you could overcome it

    • @Raybro16
      @Raybro16 Před 3 lety +5

      My best friend of nearly 8 years split with me and blamed me for his problems despite everything we've been through together, all the good times we had, all the times I've helped him through his struggles, his depression and suicide attempts. After all of that, he blamed me for it all and hates me for it. He just... threw what we had away like it was nothing.
      I miss him.

  • @JakeGrajewski
    @JakeGrajewski Před 10 lety +31

    Dear god, I always love the more emotional or emotionally difficult songs written by Streetlight manifesto, but damn does Toh Kay really nail all they are trying to convey with this song.

    • @MacDaddyPuma
      @MacDaddyPuma Před 9 lety

      You know Toh Kay is their lead singer right?

    • @JakeGrajewski
      @JakeGrajewski Před 9 lety

      Yup and I wonder if he writes the songs like this first and redoes them into ska.

    • @carlostherealg733
      @carlostherealg733 Před 9 lety +2

      I heard somewhere that he normally writes his songs and plays them on the acoustic first before he does them with the band

    • @JakeGrajewski
      @JakeGrajewski Před 9 lety

      Carlos Ibarra I would believe it. Think how hard it would be to get all of the band, especially a ska band, together to write the music.

    • @JakeGrajewski
      @JakeGrajewski Před 8 lety

      MacDaddyPuma and writes all the songs, he also wrote Kaseby Nights when he was in Catch22!

  • @julesmcgrules3860
    @julesmcgrules3860 Před 5 lety +6

    Holy frickin crap... This is a deep song. I fucking love this man's lyrics.

  • @rootofdissent
    @rootofdissent Před 6 lety +2

    I was born in Jax fl, saw them first their on their first tour(streetlight), my mom is from Paris France where I still have family. Streetlight is my favorite live band and it pains me they were robbed on their first tour in both cities, which lead to the "please stop robbing us" tour...which I also saw. Love the way Toh Kay released an acoustic version of the last contract album with streetlights label available for free as a fuck you to the label. Great lyrics, amazing musicians, great attitudes, and intelligent retaliation=rolemodels for life

  • @billymayes09
    @billymayes09 Před 2 lety +1

    This is literally my favorite song

  • @calebkiirichkow4781
    @calebkiirichkow4781 Před 8 lety +8

    Good song to listen to when your depressed

    • @ripbob1780
      @ripbob1780 Před 8 lety +5

      i can recommend some more

    • @christophergabriel9518
      @christophergabriel9518 Před 7 lety +1

      Rip bob go on

    • @noelhann5262
      @noelhann5262 Před 4 lety

      Christopher Gabriel sick and sad again, point/counterpoint, with any sort of certainty, a better place a better time. Just explore some of their stuff, a lot of it can help.

  • @aymodaslacker8852
    @aymodaslacker8852 Před 3 lety +12

    Did I mention he was dreaming
    When the Devil came to town
    I was awoken by the screaming
    But nobody heard a sound
    And the lies we tell at breakfast
    Won’t match the lies we share for lunch
    And the lies we serve for dinner, they’re the tallest of the bunch, yeah
    Did I mention he was cold
    When he finally lost control, of the ghost
    And the epilogue I dreaded
    Now seems likely to console
    And I’m still not understanding
    The things he did before he left
    But the one thing that will haunt me
    Is right before his final breath, when he said...
    “Oh they broke me down
    Yeah they broke me down
    So I can’t be your saint you see
    ‘Cause I won’t be hangin ‘round”
    And they broke him down
    Yeah they broke him down
    So I stood there and I held my breath
    ‘Cause I knew that it wouldn’t be long till they broke me down
    And no one holds a grudge dear like I do
    I see it through
    And you may not remember
    It was nothing much at the time, but I kept it bottled inside
    Oh, and we all know how that goes
    I’ve given up on letting go
    So here we are
    With nothing left dear
    And now you’ve left here
    And I was last to know
    Holy smokes
    Some say he’d given up the ghost but he wouldn’t do that
    I think he’s hiding in the background
    Of his favorite photographs
    And he’s living as a beggar
    Or maybe a millionaire
    But the one thing that I’m sure of
    Is he felt some comfort there
    That’s fair, because they broke him down
    Oh they broke him down
    So he can’t be my saint no more
    He won’t be hanging around
    Oh no....
    And they broke him down, yeah they broke him down
    He said, “I can’t be your saint no more, ‘cause I won’t be hanging around”
    And they broke him down
    Yeah they broke him down
    So I stood there and I held my breath
    ‘Cause I knew that it wouldn’t be long before they broke me down

  • @angercorp.4066
    @angercorp.4066 Před 3 lety +2

    This song sounds like what losing a loved one feels like, which I'm assuming was the point, it's perfect

  • @timt9199
    @timt9199 Před 5 lety +4

    listening to this on new year 2019... :)

  • @renewiering8474
    @renewiering8474 Před 10 lety +5

    sooooo pretty......and then the tears kept flowing

  • @LoboPal
    @LoboPal Před 11 měsíci +1

    Stevie, if you see this, I'm coming looking for you man. I don't know if I'll find you, but I'm gonna look, because no one else understood.

  • @muncyd
    @muncyd Před 11 lety +4

    The best Toh Kay cover off "The Hands That Thieve", in my opinion.

    • @skyelewis5765
      @skyelewis5765 Před 7 lety

      Dustin Muncy Along with With Any Sort of Certainty

  • @lastpsycopath
    @lastpsycopath Před 11 lety

    hauntingly beautiful amazing work Kalnoky. Much love sir

  • @chaos9830
    @chaos9830 Před 5 lety +4

    love it at 1.25 speed

  • @clvrblzzrd8333
    @clvrblzzrd8333 Před 5 lety +2

    they broke him down

  • @AmmehWard
    @AmmehWard Před 8 lety +11

    This song is so pretty..

  • @bobaorc7839
    @bobaorc7839 Před 2 měsíci

    This song makes me think of my father. I don't care what anyone says. I picked the right parent to live with. I hold all my memories of him, the good and the horribly bad, deep in my heart. Miss you so, so much, dad. If I knew I was going to miss you even a fraction as badly as I do now, I'd have spent more time with you. I hope you found peace in death, and I forgive you. Goodbye.

  • @oneirescence
    @oneirescence Před 5 lety +2

    Knowing Nirvana's influence on Tomas, I like to think this song is written for Kurt

  • @ruthpayne9146
    @ruthpayne9146 Před 8 lety +5

    Ow my heart. I love this. I hate this.

  • @clvrblzzrd8333
    @clvrblzzrd8333 Před 5 lety +1

    everyone has these deep songs and my smol ass is just like ily

  • @moebacca
    @moebacca Před 11 lety

    So beautiful... 1984

  • @Awesomness401
    @Awesomness401 Před 10 lety +3

    I think this song might be about Sergio from "hey Sergio"

  • @davidburke5053
    @davidburke5053 Před 4 lety +2

    Switching to 1.25x speed at 1:57 hits different

  • @madmonty6099
    @madmonty6099 Před rokem

    New streetlight 🔥🔥🔥

  • @alifae2021
    @alifae2021 Před 3 měsíci

    😢😮

  • @miyakolum
    @miyakolum Před 11 lety

  • @Asstronut
    @Asstronut Před 4 lety +2

    2:20

  • @timothyhall2465
    @timothyhall2465 Před 7 lety +1

    Lost a great band cause everyone kept stealing their equipment damn

  • @Hanz7812
    @Hanz7812 Před 11 lety

    The tune reminds me of "creep" by Radiohead.