For me, this song is about capturing those last few moments before you die. Everything is a jumbled mess - you're terrified but have an odd sense of serenity. Your mind, your identity... everything you ever were is dissolving away and all you can do it accept it. You can fight it all you want, but in the end we're all just dust. We're all just chalk. The album is a piece about life and death, and all the emotions inbetween. It's so raw and engaging. I wish everyone could see how beautiful it is
the "will i be okay?", the laughing, screaming, talking.. it's almost like hearing someone's life flashing by in pieces, memories being skipped and replayed, but also disintegrating. the beginning with the drumbeat resembling a beating heart and a fighting voice, trying to hold on to life. and then the synth taking over, creating a hollow atmosphere, a slow, melodic goodbye to life. this is an amazing way to end an album and a very symbolic song.
Every time I listen to this song I get this unhappy feeling. As if someone or even an animal is dying and screaming out in pain but at the same time a slow melodic background plays.
this is a really dark, sad and melancholic but also a beautiful, strong and helpful song... It helped me in my sadness about the suicide of my best friend... help - what crystal castles always do to me.
For those who are not just into music but into sound as a form of superior art as well, this is it. this is heaven and hell, pure bliss. I don't care were the sound comes from. I don't care how many people it takes to do it. I dont care if it just takes to push one buton. My ears care for the sound itself. Probably one of the best pieces in 2010 if not the best.
William Gabriel I see you have good taste in music, my friend. Based on your comment, the fact that most people pass this song up but you didn't, and that sweet sweet Joanna Newsom picture. Muh man!!! * fist bumps *
for me that moment was freeing- to look down on my body and truly realize that I exist not just in it but out of it and beyond. Can't put it into words.
This song makes me feel happy and sad because I relate this song to a death of a child, and that is sad, but at the same time it makes me feel fortunate, which makes me happy...
I dont know why, but somehow, this song makes me think of the end of world, especially the clash of all the civilization of any man kinds or human being, we will all disappear. The repeating "reweaew" sound(i dont how to describe it, but i assume you know what i mean) is like we are all decomposing. When it comes to the nature, we're just nothing but some kind of organic substance, we all cant get away with the rule of the universe, the nature. When we die, we'll all decomposed like a chalk.
dont laugh at this but i like to imagine this with this song playing in the background: its during the time of the american revolution and rebel troops are losing hope from beating the british when they see a vision of a huge city with supertall glass towers and lots of flying cars seen from a distance. they marvel at the future american city and know they have to fight for the future generations.
Yea you could say most people would hate the shit out of this song. I in the bother hand love it, it's just so unique and beautiful. It makes me remember of the death of a God, an epic battle only seen once in a lifetime with the most epic ending possible
The intro: A strange alien creature being chased by a savage race of humanoids. The rest of the song: The creature screaming for help as it dies silently in the night.
Or maybe this song shares a really sad part of Alice's life..I'm thinking..maybe when she was young she was a victim of rape. By the vocals saying "mom mommy help." She felt danger, maybe from one of her uncles or even her father.."mom will I be okay?" Maybe her mom tells her she's fine and leaves her with her uncles and as the mom leaves the house I she screams "noooo!!!" .... ?? I'm really curious for the back story of this song.
This song ends the dichotomy between Life and Dead, which in my opinion is what the whole album is about. For me this represents the fleetingness of life. Everything has an end. We're just simple chalk in the universe. But at the same time, i feel life in this song. These sounds remind of little bacterias getting born while other bacterias die, it's just as life is. Very deep indeed.
@LukaHomme That comment made this song for me. For a split second, I could feel myself dying. I felt the panicked frenzy to grasp onto anything and everything I could possibly preserve. There was so much adrenaline, so much fear, but then everything was calm and I felt a sense of peace. It had to be one of the longest seconds of my life, but also one of the most enlightening.
Idk why but every time I hear this song I picture a mom that was trying to drown her kid and the kid screaming why? Mom will I be okay? Mom! Mommy! Nooo!!!Through the water. So sad and creepy at same time but if someone really knows the meaning of this song let me know!:)
I've always imagined that this is a song about mermaids drowning and being attacked by supershark creature things. Beneath that, it's a love story- at the end you hear some weird sounds and that's a mermaid calling out for it's slain lover, trying to save it, but it can't....and at the very end when the sounds stop, it's just that being sinking to the bottom of the ocean, watching their lover be ripped to shreds as they drown and sink the bottom.
I think it would be fun to hang out with Crystal Castles for like a week being involved in touring with them. I am sure I would have to go to detox after though, lol.
this is my first time listening to cc and ive been listening to them for the last hour or so and i realizes that some one should do a mashup of cc and the deftones. I'm a huge deftone fan and i love them for their lyrics and eerie music, just like cc.
To me, I see this song being about a young girl that lost her mother at young age, the lyrics of 'Mummy? Are you ok?' and the 'Noooo!!!' suggest that something has happened to her mother. I then see her growing up with other problems and turning to drugs and alcohol, hence when there are very distorted sounds/lyrics in this song.
This song makes me think of a person, not a baby, but just an ageless person, who is inside a uterus drowing inside the amniotic fluid, and as i hear this person drowning, i watch the life of this person starting at the person's birth and ending as I can finally see the person drowing.
i kinda feel the song is my mind c'uz at first there is so mucho truoble but then it just get to calm down but my truobles doesnt disapear they just dont feel too heavy
@666XkrmaX666 I can imagine this is what you hear when you're dying and all your memories of laughing and yelling are being erased. Sound a bit like dolphins as well :P
i hear "third floor" i guess this song isnt about drowning, a person who fell from third floor. also this person is a mother, her kid is screamin "mommy!" and the kid says "NO" and she dies.
To me it sounds like something bad happened. Then she starts screaming and crying in emotion. Like someone you cared about just might die... but then that's just me.
@LukaHomme personally i feel like this song and album are about less then that. But really good music has a way of going past the subjective form its in and "becoming" whats on your mind. Personally I'd say this album is about trying to find love, in the wasteland, but realizing your place instead. this song to me is like saying, fuck, im made of chalk, everything i touch/write on/interact with will have my ugly, white mark. But i cant break away
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For me, this song is about capturing those last few moments before you die. Everything is a jumbled mess - you're terrified but have an odd sense of serenity. Your mind, your identity... everything you ever were is dissolving away and all you can do it accept it. You can fight it all you want, but in the end we're all just dust. We're all just chalk.
The album is a piece about life and death, and all the emotions inbetween. It's so raw and engaging. I wish everyone could see how beautiful it is
the "will i be okay?", the laughing, screaming, talking.. it's almost like hearing someone's life flashing by in pieces, memories being skipped and replayed, but also disintegrating. the beginning with the drumbeat resembling a beating heart and a fighting voice, trying to hold on to life. and then the synth taking over, creating a hollow atmosphere, a slow, melodic goodbye to life. this is an amazing way to end an album and a very symbolic song.
i always thought the middle/end sounded like someone drowning. awesome perspective!
a mother falls from third floor, her kid screams and she dies. we are the mother, this is what we hear
Wow, that's cool... I liked how you interpret this.
Every time I listen to this song I get this unhappy feeling. As if someone or even an animal is dying and screaming out in pain but at the same time a slow melodic background plays.
this is a really dark, sad and melancholic but also a beautiful, strong and helpful song... It helped me in my sadness about the suicide of my best friend... help - what crystal castles always do to me.
For those who are not just into music but into sound as a form of superior art as well, this is it. this is heaven and hell, pure bliss. I don't care were the sound comes from. I don't care how many people it takes to do it. I dont care if it just takes to push one buton. My ears care for the sound itself. Probably one of the best pieces in 2010 if not the best.
this feels swimming in a pool made of a gazillions of memories, images and thought bubbles... eerie and so beautiful.
This song is so important.
this song always makes me wanna cry
Doe Deer True
i consider this one of their most powerful songs....
*dolphin giggles and swims away*
this song gives me some seriously crazy goosebumps, and sort of makes me really happy and really sad at the same time
I will never be able to listen to this song without crying.
2:44 BETTER THAN A FUCKING BASS DROP MAN.
William Gabriel I see you have good taste in music, my friend. Based on your comment, the fact that most people pass this song up but you didn't, and that sweet sweet Joanna Newsom picture. Muh man!!! * fist bumps *
Life is fragile, like chalk, that's what I see from this song
1:59 Mommy are you okay?
2:25 Ma? MOMMY!
2:39 Ma? MOMMY!
2:44 NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I imagine listening to this song in 20 years and crying
for me that moment was freeing- to look down on my body and truly realize that I exist not just in it but out of it and beyond. Can't put it into words.
this song strums my heart strings.
This song has so much emotion.
This is what it sounds like when Dragons are giving birth.
This song makes me feel happy and sad because I relate this song to a death of a child, and that is sad, but at the same time it makes me feel fortunate, which makes me happy...
I went to see them live last year, and they ended the show with this song. Now every time I listen to it I want to cry.
I dont know why, but somehow, this song makes me think of the end of world, especially the clash of all the civilization of any man kinds or human being, we will all disappear. The repeating "reweaew" sound(i dont how to describe it, but i assume you know what i mean) is like we are all decomposing. When it comes to the nature, we're just nothing but some kind of organic substance, we all cant get away with the rule of the universe, the nature. When we die, we'll all decomposed like a chalk.
I think the message in this is that life is fragile, like chalk.
dont laugh at this but i like to imagine this with this song playing in the background:
its during the time of the american revolution and rebel troops are losing hope from beating the british when they see a vision of a huge city with supertall glass towers and lots of flying cars seen from a distance. they marvel at the future american city and know they have to fight for the future generations.
gotta love those green eyes at the end!
This isn't negative and apocalyptic at all. It's warm and comforting and cuddly.
There, there, Shamu. Don't cry...
An expression of genius.
I feel like this piece, those sounds are almost eating my insides... Pure heaven...
it sounds like a dolphin trying to talk like a human :3
anyway, this is awesome!
Yea you could say most people would hate the shit out of this song. I in the bother hand love it, it's just so unique and beautiful. It makes me remember of the death of a God, an epic battle only seen once in a lifetime with the most epic ending possible
Es sorprendente la forma en la que una canción puede cambiar todo un estilo de vida: empatía, es lo único que deseo tener por todos los seres vivos.
i hear these disgusting, adorable creatures in a cave filled with crystals and light with no source.
The intro: A strange alien creature being chased by a savage race of humanoids.
The rest of the song: The creature screaming for help as it dies silently in the night.
Or maybe this song shares a really sad part of Alice's life..I'm thinking..maybe when she was young she was a victim of rape. By the vocals saying "mom mommy help." She felt danger, maybe from one of her uncles or even her father.."mom will I be okay?" Maybe her mom tells her she's fine and leaves her with her uncles and as the mom leaves the house I she screams "noooo!!!" .... ?? I'm really curious for the back story of this song.
it's Ethan's vocals
absolutely beautiful
still mindblowing.
it feels like.. finding peace through.. waves of chaos
This song ends the dichotomy between Life and Dead, which in my opinion is what the whole album is about. For me this represents the fleetingness of life. Everything has an end. We're just simple chalk in the universe. But at the same time, i feel life in this song. These sounds remind of little bacterias getting born while other bacterias die, it's just as life is. Very deep indeed.
@LukaHomme That comment made this song for me. For a split second, I could feel myself dying. I felt the panicked frenzy to grasp onto anything and everything I could possibly preserve. There was so much adrenaline, so much fear, but then everything was calm and I felt a sense of peace. It had to be one of the longest seconds of my life, but also one of the most enlightening.
Idk why but every time I hear this song I picture a mom that was trying to drown her kid and the kid screaming why? Mom will I be okay? Mom! Mommy! Nooo!!!Through the water. So sad and creepy at same time but if someone really knows the meaning of this song let me know!:)
That is the meaning of the song according to Crystal Castles
I've always imagined that this is a song about mermaids drowning and being attacked by supershark creature things. Beneath that, it's a love story- at the end you hear some weird sounds and that's a mermaid calling out for it's slain lover, trying to save it, but it can't....and at the very end when the sounds stop, it's just that being sinking to the bottom of the ocean, watching their lover be ripped to shreds as they drown and sink the bottom.
this song made me cry.
Oh Jesus
I never picked upon that, thanks man
I LOVE THIS SONG , ONE OF MY FAVORITES
Soo surrealist!!, I liked it.
I think it would be fun to hang out with Crystal Castles for like a week being involved in touring with them. I am sure I would have to go to detox after though, lol.
This is just too fucking perfect
lovely
@LukaHomme RIGHT! that is exactly what i feel when i hear this song. It's the way it makes me feel, is why i love Crystal Castles ll so much.
Was listening to this at about 3 am last night in bed on my ipod. Gotta say, i was a lil creeped out
this is my first time listening to cc and ive been listening to them for the last hour or so and i realizes that some one should do a mashup of cc and the deftones. I'm a huge deftone fan and i love them for their lyrics and eerie music, just like cc.
I don't see what's so wrong about the intro. I like it . ; u ; ♥
To me, I see this song being about a young girl that lost her mother at young age, the lyrics of 'Mummy? Are you ok?' and the 'Noooo!!!' suggest that something has happened to her mother. I then see her growing up with other problems and turning to drugs and alcohol, hence when there are very distorted sounds/lyrics in this song.
i can honestly relate to that, i have lost my mother when i was 6 years old...
lol such contrast between the top 2 comments. love the song
the best.
I don't know what it is, but I like it. A lot.
Psychedelic!
it sounds like some alien love language
some unique stuff. :)
the picture at 1:03 is amazing
i read this just in time with the music to match what you saw
This song makes me think of a person, not a baby, but just an ageless person, who is inside a uterus drowing inside the amniotic fluid, and as i hear this person drowning, i watch the life of this person starting at the person's birth and ending as I can finally see the person drowing.
The beginning makes me feel so strange,like how I feel in dreams of mine.
Sounds like when Pinoccio was thrown to the sea.
i want that picture of her at the end..........sooooooo baddddly
Oh My Magic...
this is the creepiest song i like
why im crying??? it is bad?? it is sad?? i dont understand.... my tears.. my heart.. my soul.!
im a big fan of cc's distorted sounds and lyrics. but this is just a tad overboard. but ill download it anyway.
@LukaHomme I think you have an outstanding ability to read that deeply into a song that sounds like it's been made using a £90 Yamaha keyboard.
genius
this should be in a horror movie soundtrack
@casstiana YESSS!!! Buffalo needs them!!!
goosebumps
It sounds like a giraffe gurgling mouthwash- Priceless tune
Its more like the decohering of a mind. The last moments where memories and identity are dissolving away.
@LukaHomme :D thanks i now have a new appreciation to this album
OMG thats crazy man xD
i kinda feel the song is my mind c'uz at first there is so mucho truoble but then it just get to calm down but my truobles doesnt disapear they just dont feel too heavy
I hate Ethan but I love his fucking awesome shit
sounds like dyeing aliens and dinosaurs.....????? who kares its DIFFERENT!!!!
@666XkrmaX666
I can imagine this is what you hear when you're dying and all your memories of laughing and yelling are being erased.
Sound a bit like dolphins as well :P
exelente
13 DIAS AHHHHHHHHH
i hear "third floor" i guess this song isnt about drowning, a person who fell from third floor. also this person is a mother, her kid is screamin "mommy!" and the kid says "NO" and she dies.
just like spore talking :D
@Captain5337 Eh Thanx, but I found where I could download the whole Album :P
it reminds me of like baby dolphins or birds interacting or something
To me it sounds like something bad happened. Then she starts screaming and crying in emotion. Like someone you cared about just might die... but then that's just me.
@LukaHomme personally i feel like this song and album are about less then that. But really good music has a way of going past the subjective form its in and "becoming" whats on your mind. Personally I'd say this album is about trying to find love, in the wasteland, but realizing your place instead. this song to me is like saying, fuck, im made of chalk, everything i touch/write on/interact with will have my ugly, white mark. But i cant break away
sounds like a swarm of bees atacking dolphind in the deginning
@LukaHomme You are right man....
the beginning park is sortaa fuckingg scaryy..the second part calms me downn..
If you like this, also check out M83 - "My Own Strange Path"
I like turtle🐢
this sounds like ego death
@Massakre8492nd thats what i was thinking too , sounds like possibly drowning
1:40 i need a link to this picture he looks beautiful here... or,give me links to all the pictures!!! amazing video!!!
@Cozmagoth17 hell fuckin yeah. she has DSL's