Passenger | To Be Free (Official Video)
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Hey guys !
We have a really special song and video for you today - special for me at least …. For a number of reasons ….
The song is called “to be free” and it tells the story of my dad and his family .
Ziggy (my grandad) was German and Molly (my grandmother) was polish .
They were both jewish and living in Germany when the second world war was about to begin .
Luckily they managed to escape to a refugee camp in France where they spent the duration of the war .
Once the war was over they , like so many other jewish refugees , left Europe for America .
They ended up running a chicken farm in New Jersey in a town called Vineland which is where my dad and his siblings grew up . Needless to say with very little money and so much trauma it was an extremely difficult childhood for them .
My dad left Vineland as a teenager and went on to travel the world before finally ending up in England .
As I was growing up I heard snippets about their ordeal although understandably it wasn’t something that people wanted to talk about in any detail . Over the years I’ve pieced together a rough idea of what they went through and just how appalling and terribly sad the whole thing was .
Its something that I never thought I’d write a song about . Its such a delicate story that subconsciously I feel I’ve always steered clear of telling it .
However , whilst on holiday towards the end of last year I picked up my guitar and started playing . These lyrics came to me and all of a sudden I realised what song I was writing .
Im not ashamed to say that I wrote and sang and cried as the song tumbled out of me . I’ve never had an experience like it . It came from such a deep place and it was a bizarre feeling to be pulling it out and putting it in to a song .
For the video , it felt only write that we go back to New Jersey to film it .
We chose a little beach town called Avalon . Its a place that I went to many times as I was growing up as my aunt and uncle owned a little beach house there . I hadn’t been there in over ten years and honestly I didn’t have much of an idea of what the video should be - I just felt like it was the right place .
A few days before filming it we were in New York and hanging out with Emily - a friend of Jarrad Seng photography who happens to be a world class ballet dancer (as you will see) we told her our plans (or lack there of) and she unbelievably kindly offered to choreograph something . I can’t thank her enough . Not only did she give up her time , drive over to Avalon and dance on a freezing cold beach for hours but she managed to portray such beauty and somehow capture the essence of the song perfectly . An unbelievable talent and a kindness that I will never forget . Thank you Emily xxx
I’d like to dedicate this song and video to anybody who has gone through or is going through a similar situation . For anyone that has been displaced . For anyone living in a new country , learning new customs and language .
America , like so many other countries , was built on immigration . Never has it been so important to remember and celebrate this fact .
Thank you for your time and I really hope you enjoy the video .
Mike x
p.s a massive thanks as always to Jarrad Seng . What an incredible job to capture this in one take ….. unbelievable !!
Wow.
Remarkable man, your father. Beautiful song, this. And Emily's dancing one can look at, it feels, for hours.
Mike I am touched by your deep sense of compassion for people with whom you have such a close connection, sharing their suffering. How we deal with hardship is often what makes a person beautiful and inspiring, and you certainly manage that. So thank you
If only you could wave your wand at this dangerous time and inspire everyone to pull together, to go out of their way to make sure that they do whatever is possible to do no harm to our fellow human beings by passing on the dreadful virus... I wonder if a song could pull at the heart strings of enough people to make that difference
Hej Pasenger wielkie dzięki za tą muzykę!! Jestem z Polski jak Twoja babcia skąd serdecznie cię pozdrawiam 👌 👌
I’m a Brit now living in Brazil. Still learning the language and customs. I came here to be with my wife, she is my world, saved me when I thought there was no hope, and give me purpose. Your music is so beautiful and meaningful. Thank you.
This song brought tears even before I read this comment. Songs that brings tears to my eyes are very special to me and I remember those songs for the rest of my life
She dances every step for a reason. Some get washed away by the ocean that is bigger then her, but others are imprinted in the sand far from the reach of waves staying forever. Nevertheless she dances not bothered whether she leaves a mark or not. but simply cause she loves it. This is the way life should be lived .
Love is this
I liked your observation, it made me take a new look at this beautiful choreography. Making this moment even more meaningful in this beautiful song of the passenger.
Thanks for explanation
Deep
This comment really should be fixed by Passenger :)) it`s the perfect description and understanding for this song
. Passenger, take a moment and appreciate that :))
This is so relatable for anyone who has immigrant ancestors. My grandparents left war-torn Northern Greece after the Second World War. When my Papou(grandfather) arrived in New York, he didn't know any English; he had only a second-grade education because he was a shepherd. He arrived in New York and took a train to Ohio, where his Uncle, who sponsored him, lived. He asked the conductor, "Mansfield?" at every stop from New York to Ohio because he was terrified he would miss his stop.
He worked at a Coney Island and thought he had the greatest job on earth. No snakes crawling up your pants, no German tanks rolling through town, militias burning down your village or killing your family.
A modern day poet whose honesty speaks to the souls of anyone willing to listen. Thank God for Passenger and his messages. Beautiful in the richest sense. ❤
I saw Passenger sing this song live a few weeks ago. He told us that it was inspired by the story of his grandparents and one of the most heartfelt songs he's written.
This man is so underrated, he should be known because of how he is so inspirational
What i'm tring to say is that he is one of the most modern day beautiful singer i have ever heard of, he doesn't sing about sex, drugs, and all the other bs pop and rap has to sing just for a little bit of cash
It's better to keep him like this ,because fame probably destroy him and well have another justin bieber
Deze man is zo begaafd en bezit zoveel muzikale idealen dat elke song boeiend is.
@@CarlosMartinez-ve6iu I somehow don't think there's any danger of that. He came to that fork in the road years ago, when he could have decided to keep making commercial songs like Let Her Go, which is very catchy but has no real substance to it. Instead he has made dozens of even more personal and enlightening songs (and I don't believe him when he sings that only twelve get sung) that have touched the hearts of millions of people. What better measure of success can you think of?
You can say that again ♥
His lyrics just dive into your soul and comes out as a tears...amazing voice!!!!
Oh my, you said it so well. My comment a second ago resonates to yours.
"Searching for a place to be free"
-the story of all refugees that left their broken homes swiming in the oceans and and finally reach to the other side of the beach at last they are free :')
They didn't Die from the water but from the coldness and cruelness of the world
At least they are free from it , in a better place above the skies
Remember this story for the seek of humanity
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No one could deliver a song like this as beautiful and as sensitivity as Passenger. Great work.
Perhaps the only singer in the world whose voice penetrates deep into our souls and names them ❤❤❤
continue to surprise us with amazing songs and heavenly music 🎼🎼🎼
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The Folk music of Passenger helped me through my dark times.
Check out Radical Face.
I can't possibly have a favourite Passenger song because they're all so extraordinary, but if I HAD to choose...This is so...everything a song should be - an emotional story told so beautifully through music
Just simply a pure golden voice! I love all that he sings
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i love you Passenger ,, You are the greatest singer alive 🖤🖤
thats the dream!
to be free and dance without caring about anybody or anything.
Ohh.. no words .. This song is just sooooo beautiful... and so pieceful!! The lyrics are so sad but it happened to my grandparents too. Love you Mike xxx❤❤
❤️ ❤️
Good Night 🌜🌛
What I love about his music is that it can be interpreted anyway the listener wants to...for some it might be sad or true or happy...but it's always beautiful...
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Hi Mike, my name is Innocent from Zambia, Southern Africa. You are probably never going to see this comment. I am leaving it here for viewers the next 100 years. So here goes.
Dear "GUYS this Man is a Legend".
Thank you so much Mike, thank you so much for your songs and stories.
I survived terrible times with the comfort of your music.
I have listened to alot of music and lots of musician but his voice is just Magical 🧙♂️ So unique. 🤗
you haven't changed, truly a pure gold you are.
The level of honesty in your music mike is just incredible
Floating on a breeze it’s me loving it and feeling beautiful casual and free...aww love 💕
Your voice Heals me Thank you
His songs reflect the reality of this world. I love him.
Most underated and the most talented musician i know. Love u passenger ♥️♥️♥️♥️
I’ve listened to this song 3 times & I cried 3 times. I never cry so easily. It’s such a beautiful story in a beautiful song. I love it 💖 Thank you Mike for sharing. Please do come back to Prague x
So thankful that we have Passenger in the music world. It says sonething about todays society that he is not appreciated like he should, but he has his own public and he is bringing us the life as it is. He belongs to the greatest!
Beautiful! !!!😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤
I was paid 104000 dollars previous year by working online and I did that by working in my own time for few h /day. I used work opportunity I came across from this website i found online and I am so thrilled that i earned so much extra income. It's very user-friendly and I'm so happy that i discovered it. Here is what i did... *growthbig92.com*
If I was ever thankful for music, yours would be on top. Have loved it for 5 years.
I want nothing else but for you to never stop making music... and pleeeease do a cover of "Can't help falling in love".
Beautiful song,beautifully performed,beautiful dancing and neat story behind the song!
Passenger's songs always make me feel calm and free ♡ Thanks for your music.
Incredible. I know it's too easy to blow smoke up peoples arses. Especially when they're musicians and that jazz but of all the music I've ever listened to of all the genres I've gotten into, your music as a whole grips me. Each and every single time.
This track has become one of my favourites of yours in less than a complete play through.
Your lyrics are perfect and I don't know another artist that could even come close to doing justice to the meaning behind this song.
Inspirational mate.
Couldn't agree more mate
Beautiful song, beautiful video and a beautiful story! Thank you Mike for sharing the history behind it all. I love your music and feel blessed to be alive to hear more.
No one writes and sings songs as heartfelt as him.
GHOSTED by THE CRUE.
Still can't get over this one.. everything fits the sound and music. Amazing.
I have got chills from head to toe...
Exactly!!
"I'm a feather on the breeze"....love that picture of freedom.
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I danced like that with the sea last year in Spain. Love your voice, it has this virtue of insinuating itself down in the depths of the soul where life dwells...
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Too beautiful for words, especially coupled with the gorgeous contemporary dance and choreography with a pure white dress with sand and water, it really depicts the family's journey ❤
I’m in love with this song
😫
What a song! What a dance! What a video! And what a story behind it all!
Thank you Mike & thank you Emily! ❤
What an incredible tribute you have done. How you thought just to add one interpretive dance. It was simple and complicated at the same time. You were given the gift of music. You have multiplied it many times over in your sharing. Thanks Mike.
Every song you write has such a deep message! You're so unique..
Just a masterpiece of choreography of the dancer AND the camera work - especially that the camera operator leaves narry a footstep (or perhaps maybe just one or two) on the beach and perfectly captures every movement of the dancer without fail and without a single cut. I would love to know how many times they rehearsed this and how many takes before they shot live and how many takes it took once they did. In any case, brilliant technical work, just beautiful!
As for the song, I first heard it and fell in love with it in First Ave in Minneapolis and it deserved a video as beautiful as this to accompany it. Thank you so much to all involved.
Wow what a beautiful song, the dancing seems to bring some sense of innocence to the song for me.
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Love sounds exactly like this.
The moment you showed up on the end, chills
Sensational melody 💛
I like how this artist is one of little that actually tries to teach you something through lyrics..
Husky voice, brings thrills to the spine. Awesome, beautiful
Watching the live stream where you talked about the story behind this song was just amazing. Thank for sharing your stories with us Mike.
We are all but Passengers on this ride called life!
Peace + Blessings to all.
I just had a bad time, problems with the ones I love, and with myself, and then a few minutes ago this song came, but i don't know if I can be free, even if I want to
Thanks for the song
hello seeks to be well with you to be able to be well with the people you love and with what surrounds you only so you can be free and happy.From Portugal
Just hang in there dude. It will get better, I promise.
Just like me now. I'm in a really bad mood, cry so much, and i don't know how to solve this problem.
David Baldo the answer to your problems is a hidden problem behind the one you see , look a little deeper and you will be free
thu hang hopefully your problems are sorted by now , if not I used too look at the sky at midnight and feel so low . But then I realised it’s not me .
I wish I could write poetry so beautifully... I'm In tears. There is something good about humanity.
Deep. Catching. Current. Heartbreaking. Absolute masterpiece. Hats off.
Startlingly intimate and real. And a meaning we can know and feel. Thank you.
Que linda canção! Emocionante a letra, a voz, a melodia, a coreografia... sou fã desse cara!
Schon lange nicht mehr gehört, und wieder ist da diese Gänsehaut - ein wahnsinnig schönes Lied !!!!!!
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he's one of the few singers i can connect with.. i love him so much it's crazy.. every one of his songs can bring tears to my eyes.. not because it's sad but cos i feel too much.. i dont even know what that means
Vineland, New Jersey, farm land stretching
Far as the eye can see
Not much down there, but sun-scorched pastures in
Nineteen-fifty-three
The war is over, they came searching
For a place to be
They left the Rhineland, they lost their homeland, and
All their family
Like feathers on the ocean breeze
They went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea
Never know where they'd come down
Or who they'd be
Like heather on the hillside
They were bruised and they were battered by the breeze
Searching for a place
To be free
Sun burn summers and frost by winter
Kids were plainly dressed
Left the farmhouse when he was old enough, and
Headed out west
From California to Southern Africa
And all the way to France
And on to England to meet my mother in
Nineteen-eighty-one
A feather on the ocean breeze
He went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea
Never known where he'd come down
Or who he'd be
Like heather on the hillside
He was bruised and he was battered by the breeze
Searching for a place
To be free
Oh, and like a seed
That is flying in the wind
In search of water, soil, and sun
And the birds and the bees
To have it all along
Now here I am, thirty-three years down
Two-thousand-seventeen
I've seen the Rhineland, I've been to Vineland, I'm
A feather on the breeze
Fantastic. So proud of the piano arrangement by our son.
Your son?
@@elenasony no, my son
Magic of passenger...🤗🤗❤️
Love the sea, salt water. Salt in hair, on tooth, on tounge, on skin is fine feeling and peace inner that.
If we are lucky we find our place to be free , beautiful song
This might be your most touching work, we had the pleasure to hear it live at Dranouter last weekend, where it struck us the first time. This personal story captures present-day issues perfectly, sadly.
I think this story is about his father
I don’t know how you make such deep music, every recording is moving, you are unique.
To those people who are still listening to the sweet cracking voice of passenger, hold on: better days are coming sooner ❤️
I hope so. I'm experiencing tough period of my life😢
@@sabinarizvanli5667 ❤️❤️
Wow....what a song....just listen and enjoy with magic of passenger
Chelsea fc 'til I die .. the mans amazing 😍 .. from another Chelsea and passenger fan 👌😄
I love Passenger❤
Saurabh Pandey I wish we had such artists in our country as well..
ROSHAN MULLA yeah..right man!!!..😢
A big artist sing a wonderful song in an atmospheres of precious colors
The dancing was so beautiful that I forgot to listen to the words (and one must always listen to the words in Passenger's songs). So I will watch it again.
*Passenger you have that mania of singing beautiful songs I love your voice* 😍
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He. Deserves. Thousand. Grammys!!!! What a lyricist and singer !! ❤❤❤❤❤
Passenger your voice are totally difference from others ...you are so amazing , i love your song your voice your words each and every single word are meaningful
This is so beautiful!! Thank you for sharing this piece of art
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Amazing as always. I don’t know why but I would have loved to hear some waves too just to add to both the song and the video.
george saguna and a bird maybe
Bibek Bhujel sure if that makes you happy. I suggested the waves as the start of the video has seems disjointed from the visuals.
Great tip!
This is absolutely perfect , honestly a massive fan. Please come to South Africa🇿🇦❤️
Some people leave an impression even if it’s just footsteps in the sand.
This song and singer leaves an impression imprinted in the heart. ❤️
Thank you for beautiful music and video. Watching this and listening to your song is like a meditation.
Excellent! I love it, and how you chose a dancer to really dance! (not weird) its beautiful
in love with that dancer , imagine dancing so peacfully in a beach with such a beautiful sunset with the wind through your hair.
wooo i just read the titel .....this is how to be free
pure heaven! his music is just love❤️
Beautiful... Thank you Mike, again, I love ALL your songs... they're soothing me...
His vocie is so so good..😍
His voice is brilliant !
Oh my gosh, that's a wonderful song, so and this dancer is awesome.
jore silva pereira you italia
From the first notes I heard way back I fell in love with your music. This is years later and I find myself going back to it over and over . This song and the story behind it is really touching. Will buy the album the moment its available in Cape Town.
Beautiful.
I know this is such a late post, and I don’t know who will see this, but I wanted to write this post.
It is my opinion that this song is quintessentially a Jewish song. The most obvious part is the verse about Passenger’s grandparents, both survivors of the Holocaust.
Just as important, I feel, is the constant roaming expressed throughout the song, as the singer expresses a multigenerational feeling of aimlessness and alienation that comes from both the freedom to travel the world and the knowledge that you’re not truly home anywhere you go.
While this may not be true of all Jewish people, it is quite true that the dual themes of persecution and wandering homelessness tie into the history of the Jewish people as a whole, as they have been constantly shoved away with threats, force, or both since practically the beginning of their religion.
At least, that’s my take on it. Feel free to find your own meaning in the song.
I've just seen your comment. Good that you have felt free to express yourself
I love the song 😍
@@ivonnesuzanne9249 I mean, I’m not Jewish myself, but I know Passenger has Jewish ancestry on at least one side of his family(he all but says his father’s parents are Holocaust survivors in this song), which is where I based a lot of my conclusions from. Hope I didn’t offend anyone
@@noahandrulis9077 I don't think you have offended someone. I'm not Jewish either. I knew that from Mike through this song, which I simply loved from the beginning
@@ivonnesuzanne9249 since neither of us are Jewish, I don’t know if we can accurately guess if I offended any Jewish people with my comment.
@@noahandrulis9077 ok you're right
The only Artist whose song I like before listening!
For me, as many young people it touches deeply our compassion to make the world better, step by step around us!
OMG...tears. Such a touching, haunting, and beautiful song. And Emily danced the lyrics . Bravo to both of you.
Linkin park & Passenger are true legends... Anyone is agree?
masterpiece from a true artist !! I can't stop listening to it Searching for a place
To be free oh my god that's what I am doing now! peace
I love you Mike. You're the one keeping me at ground, always.
This is such a beautiful song, just like all you do, Mike (passenger), you are a wonderful song writer and signer.
No words, you've done it well and perfect
Like always. Spectacular
Wow! You can hear the emotions. Whats powerful message! Love it! ❤️
babe lets go to the ocean and be together i love you i told him he done me wrong and i want you