The Stories Behind Parkway Drive's Lyrics

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  • čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
  • Winston McCall reveals the secrets behind Parkway Drive's lyrics.
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Komentáře • 129

  • @nick_Kom
    @nick_Kom Před 7 lety +189

    Distance was born when the sea and the sky grew apart,
    Loneliness was born the day I let you go.
    All of Winston's lyrics are absolutely amazing,but Blue and the Grey is simply a lyrical masterpiece.

    • @1alexanderkup1
      @1alexanderkup1 Před 7 lety +13

      maan, that song is a masterpiece

    • @clemz26
      @clemz26 Před 7 lety +4

      I think so too ! It sucks that they do not play it live very often :(

    • @willhayes8229
      @willhayes8229 Před 7 lety

      Kle-ment and if they do its recorded on a phone that has bad quality

    • @jo3yepicness
      @jo3yepicness Před 7 lety

      Have a guitar solo cover of it on my channel lol. Definitely an amazing song.

    • @amnesios3263
      @amnesios3263 Před 6 lety +9

      The whole "Atlas" album is a masterpiece

  • @jamesgrenard
    @jamesgrenard Před 7 lety +280

    "It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years"

    • @meteldragon
      @meteldragon Před 6 lety

      James Grenard is that from a parkway tune?.

    • @meteldragon
      @meteldragon Před 6 lety +1

      James Grenard never mind it's come to me

    • @AfterlifeVODs
      @AfterlifeVODs Před 6 lety +6

      the river, i agree its the best

    • @pr4zaVIDZ
      @pr4zaVIDZ Před 6 lety +3

      That's actually based on a quote by Abraham Lincoln

    • @evancameron1121
      @evancameron1121 Před 6 lety +1

      James Grenard I was literally just about write that for the best lyric, and then I scrolled down😂😆😂😆😂😆.

  • @XpliCTPaiN
    @XpliCTPaiN Před 6 lety +48

    Winston's best lyrical masterpiece is in Wishing Wells imo.
    "The last thing you wish for"
    "Is the Face,"
    "Is the face to face the pain"

    • @thescroncho8945
      @thescroncho8945 Před 5 lety +12

      How can you paint a picture of a paradise lost to eyes that know only a wasteland?

    • @zachryan2986
      @zachryan2986 Před 4 lety +3

      just bodies through the teeth of the combine

    • @olliewhitham6084
      @olliewhitham6084 Před 3 lety +1

      nah horizons

    • @digvijayrajawat9234
      @digvijayrajawat9234 Před 3 lety

      Deliver Me

    • @charityjustmyself4994
      @charityjustmyself4994 Před 2 lety

      Haha 😂 simple humans….. messages are passed and sometimes telepathically ….. seeing this only confirms I am my true authentic self with only one ☝️ In all manners of speaking in the past lifetime , memories from this lifetime and the FUTURE IS GOLDEN NO ONE CAN STOP 🛑 A FORCE THAT STRONG! These musicians were a premonition lol 😂 they might not even know it themselves however I saw so so so many artists without my eyes. Across the. Sea 🌊 yes yes he is my truest blue my deepest love…. Safest arms of love , the hands 🙌 that have grazed album 💿 covers of just his hands one in which the candle 🕯 he holds is me still. This little light of mine …. Eventually you start feeling the things that make you feel good 👍…. Those Peter Pan, Christmas 🎄 morning when you actually have presents 🎁 and a tree 🌲. Pine 🌲 my least favorite! Oak trees 🌳 that’s what this weeping willow has been waiting for. The hands 🙌 I can feel safe in those hands 🙌 are home. Makes me giggle 🤭. Parkway so mundane however I bet the DRIVE in the passengers seat 💺 is heavenly. My cure….. I’m reaching

  • @BreadBoys
    @BreadBoys Před 4 lety +10

    wishing wells was probably their best song to date

  • @MechanicRaptorJesus
    @MechanicRaptorJesus Před 4 lety +7

    ‘’There is nothing as empty as waiting to die. We spend our lives wasting as time eats us alive.‘’
    -Horizons

  • @YoureAPillock
    @YoureAPillock Před 7 lety +14

    Winston is such a fucking legend.

  • @lamborgatti-4783
    @lamborgatti-4783 Před 7 lety +23

    i remember i felt connected with winston during the slow part of horizons

  • @edgarallanswole
    @edgarallanswole Před 5 lety +6

    “Still I’m choking on the words I should have said 1,000 times; and I’m crushing every memory and I’m holding until there’s nothing left to save.”
    Horizons is FILLED with awesome lyrics - Frostbite just happens to be my my favorite.

  • @zacharyrusso1467
    @zacharyrusso1467 Před 7 lety +23

    I want to meet Winston so fucking bad man, you are my fucking idol!

  • @jo3yepicness
    @jo3yepicness Před 6 lety +17

    And it has come to pass
    A past set in stone now breaks like glass
    The failings of yesterday
    Become the catalyst to seek my change (one of my favorite lyrics)

  • @Deevoo90
    @Deevoo90 Před 6 lety +27

    "Burn your heaven, flood your hell " (Wishing Wells)

  • @MrFatbad
    @MrFatbad Před 6 lety +72

    "what will you tell your children, when they ask you what went wrong, how can you paint a picture, of a paradise lost to eyes that know only a wasteland". Not my favorite PWD song, but definitely my favorite lyric.

  • @emilyrobinson1476
    @emilyrobinson1476 Před 5 lety +12

    "One life
    One shot
    Give it all you've got"
    My fave lyrics right now ❤

  • @michaelkim9993
    @michaelkim9993 Před 4 lety +3

    "Against the grain, against the odds, against the world. Forever the underdogs." -Wild Eyes

  • @Jurr
    @Jurr Před 7 lety +28

    3:14 I wish he'd laugh like this when they play that song live x'D

  • @foxclover6
    @foxclover6 Před 5 lety +2

    They're the best for turning any phrase as he said, best lyrics of any metal band

  • @ufukinwotm8434
    @ufukinwotm8434 Před 6 lety +5

    The lyrics to blue and the grey will always give me goosebumps

  • @anarautio
    @anarautio Před 5 lety +48

    I wanted to hear the stories behind the lyrics, not how he writes lyrics.

    • @TheMarcPhotography
      @TheMarcPhotography Před 4 lety +3

      True the title of the video doesn't reflect what's being showed.

  • @jackalynwoodruff9729
    @jackalynwoodruff9729 Před 7 lety +67

    3:10 is my favorite. 😂

  • @iGenius98
    @iGenius98 Před 6 lety +7

    "For the vision burning before me, Is one of former glory
    An icon cast in the light of freer times, Now writhes in a bed of lies" The best for me

    • @BazzGamez
      @BazzGamez Před 6 lety

      I thought of exactly the same line man

  • @ceratedraptor6299
    @ceratedraptor6299 Před rokem +1

    Wreckage has some badass lyrics, the “I am” verses 🔥
    And Alone too:
    “Evening Tide, What do you hide? What do you hide?”

  • @Obiib
    @Obiib Před rokem +2

    While one thousand eyes stare back at me
    But the ones that I'd die for are the ones I can't see
    -Atlas

  • @BC.28
    @BC.28 Před 5 lety +9

    This is a strength born in misery. A focus cut of this insanity. I fight my way from the gates of hell...
    I hold onnnnnn

    • @petehillie1
      @petehillie1 Před 3 lety +2

      Karma has such fantastic lyrics! i love "Losing ground, let the steel of my resolve
      Be not bested by the sum of my fears"

  • @nickstewart9592
    @nickstewart9592 Před 4 lety +2

    Greatest band I've ever heard will forever love you guys.

  • @cameronshepherd5165
    @cameronshepherd5165 Před 6 lety +48

    Is it me.. or does Buzz Lightyear look like Winston??

    • @minksrule2196
      @minksrule2196 Před 6 lety +2

      Cameron Shepherd great, now I will never watch toy story the same way again!

    • @sixsouls
      @sixsouls Před 6 lety +4

      Y'know what's funny? I kinda think he looks more like Woody hahah

    • @akbarfajarmaulana5986
      @akbarfajarmaulana5986 Před 4 lety

      @@sixsouls his head more like buzz, but his chin more like woody hahah

  • @Joseph-R
    @Joseph-R Před 6 lety +1

    can't say he has a smartest lyric, but dealing with the feeling of loneliness and depression his lyrics for Alone really resonated with me, " Shifting light outlines my battered form.
    Stranger to the world, alone in my abandonment.
    A gaining army of white horses, stark warning before the icy front.
    The deceiving calm betrays all signs of impeding change." These lines perfectly reflected how alone I felt and dealing with suicidal thoughts. Everything felt cold and dark and my suicide just felt like something creeping in. Even though to everyone I looked fine, I almost killed myself and barely survived. Thankfully I survived and have a much stronger and positive outlook on life but I will never forget how much that song meant to me.

    • @chillednshit
      @chillednshit Před 6 lety

      Hope you're getting by man. Sorry to hear you've dealt with so much suffering. Onwards we go mate.

    • @parkwayfan84
      @parkwayfan84 Před 5 lety

      That's how I felt last week. I emotionally hit rock bottom. Pretending to be fine. Telling everyone I'm fine, just so they won't feel my pain, bc I didn't want them to know how I was feeling. I still struggle with it but trying to think more positive. Listening to Winstons lyrics makes me now try to help myself get over that. Ik the pain is still there but Its "either I could just die and not do anything about it and let the fear take over" or "die knowing I tried to overcome my fear and lonliness replacing it with more positive effort"

  • @csongorzsedely2434
    @csongorzsedely2434 Před 7 lety +32

    he is full of Bear Grylls xD

  • @webbo3985
    @webbo3985 Před 7 lety +8

    Forever my favourites

  • @ninjagenjin9510
    @ninjagenjin9510 Před 5 lety +1

    Your bad ass😀 love your lyrics and your music inspires to fight this battle of life🤗

  • @williammcclellan6421
    @williammcclellan6421 Před 6 lety +1

    I don't wanna die I don't wanna die
    I don't wanna die...I DONT WANT TO DIE....... And as the color leaves the sky we are left in reverence of the frailty of it all..
    And everything in between
    Pretty fucken good

  • @raimondibro
    @raimondibro Před rokem +1

    For every cry me a river bitch, we get
    "See this war never about giving up, just giving in
    Because you only live once
    But you spend your whole life dying
    So when it all comes crashing
    Know you're not alone"
    I listen to this part of dream run non stop lol.

  • @MavalocKing5050
    @MavalocKing5050 Před 7 lety +17

    Such a great band! If I had to choose their "smartest lyrics" ever written, I'd say it's their song Crushed. Writings on the Wall had some pretty sick lyrics too.

    • @ericjohnson5147
      @ericjohnson5147 Před 7 lety

      MavalocKing5050 Spot on

    • @jamesalexander1441
      @jamesalexander1441 Před 6 lety

      Amen, whenever the worlds bullshit gets me down I always throw that track on now, because it's on-fucking-point about all the pathetic political and corporate bullshit/lies/hate/greed/corruption/war for the almighty US dollar going on in the world.

    • @larrycollinslarrdogg8277
      @larrycollinslarrdogg8277 Před 6 lety

      wishing wells is fucking brutal

  • @agiel.2114
    @agiel.2114 Před 7 lety +3

    Love the lyrics and the music :) keep going ^^

  • @aristotlehernandez4767
    @aristotlehernandez4767 Před 7 lety +4

    Parkway Drive is still the best band round. 🤘🤘

  • @dom-ru5cc
    @dom-ru5cc Před 7 lety +2

    I'm glad I watched this, I have so many songs I need to let go of

  • @jamesalexander1441
    @jamesalexander1441 Před 6 lety +3

    Stephen King (arguably one of the greatest writers in history) said a similar thing about his writing process:
    "I never write ideas down right away, if I have an idea I'll keep it to myself, and if I still remember it weeks, months, or even years later, then I know it's gold, and that's when I'll write it down." or something along those lines.

  • @kylereed9627
    @kylereed9627 Před rokem

    I'm gutted he avoided delving into actual lyrics he's written.. I image he's maybe embarrassed to actually say them out loud as it's such a personal thing but I'd love to know what he believes are his best. Ire is far from my favourite PWD album but I do think it features some of his best -
    Be my deathless song..... fill my aching lungs. Breathe your life into me, because I drown in your shadow like salt in the rain. If my fear is tomorrow, your memory’s the fight in my veins.
    SO beautiful. He's very good at what he does.

  • @lightbearer.94
    @lightbearer.94 Před 3 lety +1

    “”You wouldn’t know love if it crushed your fucking chest!”

  • @luckydc
    @luckydc Před 6 lety +1

    Winnie sacrifices cats under a full moon for inspiration...

  • @rikusundqvist1345
    @rikusundqvist1345 Před 7 lety +5

    Anyone else thinks he looks like a younger version of Harvey Specter? :D

  • @filvil3181
    @filvil3181 Před 6 lety +1

    Top bloke from Straya mate!

  • @cmays209
    @cmays209 Před 7 lety +2

    They still got it

  • @willcoRed
    @willcoRed Před 4 lety +3

    Misleading title, still cool interview though.

  • @minksrule2196
    @minksrule2196 Před 7 lety +21

    "I am a cat"

    • @MrThegreatali
      @MrThegreatali Před 6 lety +2

      Minks Rule you're a mink...

    • @minksrule2196
      @minksrule2196 Před 6 lety +1

      MrThegreatali but I felt like a cat when I write that.... That's all the matters...

    • @RoadRunner217
      @RoadRunner217 Před 6 lety +3

      Bam! Nailed it.

  • @MetallicaKing48
    @MetallicaKing48 Před 6 lety

    When you put your heart into your work, your mind is not going to remember much of it.

  • @josuecervantes5592
    @josuecervantes5592 Před 6 lety +1

    Crikey mate that's wild

  • @beheadingtheprophets4145
    @beheadingtheprophets4145 Před 6 lety +6

    He looks like Woody from Toy Story.

  • @xCocoaWolf
    @xCocoaWolf Před 6 lety

    Fucking legend.

  • @Arouxayis
    @Arouxayis Před 6 lety +2

    it's kinda odd hearing him speak because i never have heard him speak in a conversation sort of way.

  • @hellfirebloodcrossproducti4394

    1:56 I do exactly the same

  • @charityjustmyself4994
    @charityjustmyself4994 Před 2 lety

    Hanging on for love 💕… when you know you know. Omfg 🤬 damn seriously cry me a river bee 🐝 hive lmao 🤣” sometimes the screams and tears 😭 need to
    Come out, it’s the cleansing you see. How many times must we shed our skin? Rotten microbe 🦠, I want to die in peace ☮️ and love 💕.

  • @ericdoris1781
    @ericdoris1781 Před 6 lety +1

    Sounds to me like you didn't write none of it but I do like it

  • @nikol317
    @nikol317 Před 5 lety +1

    Your life's not worth it's WEIGHT IN FLESH

  • @Daniru95
    @Daniru95 Před 7 lety +1

    Winston good))))) I very love))))))) :D

  • @charliechristian1097
    @charliechristian1097 Před 3 lety

    It's because God is writing Winston's songs for him

  • @DJZombieChipmunk
    @DJZombieChipmunk Před 5 lety

    whoever edited this apparantly did not know parkway drive is a hardcore band but okay

  • @rafik.animation
    @rafik.animation Před 5 lety

    Because you're a cat Winston....

  • @roryom
    @roryom Před 6 lety

    His lips are grey af

  • @carryme711
    @carryme711 Před 6 lety +1

    Blah blah oceans and shit

  • @Norman-Bates
    @Norman-Bates Před 5 lety

    First 3 albums kill, last 3 albums are Shite