Dar Williams - What Do You Hear In These Sounds

Music video by Dar Williams performing What Do You Hear In These Sounds. (C) 1997 Razor & Tie

[@BrookePatricia]

Here from the book The Body Keeps the Score ❤

[@shawnawolf907]

Same!!

[@KalmateTurista]

Also same!

[@waymorelonesome6446]

The Green World should have sold a million copies and made Dar a household name.

[@JBH123]

If there were any justice in this world, this video would have millions and millions of views. Lord knows there are many millions of people out there who would benefit tremendously from the kind of conversations this song describes.

[@KalmateTurista]

Just heard this song for the first time! It's quoted at the beginning of chapter 13 of "The Body Keeps The Score". It instantly got 2 views back to back from me, and I'm definitely sharing it ❤

[@Paigeturnernyc]

Your music brings me constant joy! can't wait to see you again. 3x so far! This song IS therapy 🙌

[@nathanielday9376]

My favorite parts of this wonderful song are what I take to be little therapy in-jokes -- the 50-minute hour, "try the other parent," "what -- you think I'm angry? does that mean you think I'm angry?!" I can't hear any of these without smiling

[@giantdipper]

The stories that nobody hears

[@wkdgrneyes]

I remember watching this video on low quality internet in 1998!!!

[@persona2grata]

I have always loved this song. Never been to therapy but it's a beautiful song about feelings.

[@deanallen927]

Aw man.........I love her!!!!

[@squirrelwalsh3183]

Wow, this was gloriously 1990's.

[@TheRealThomasPaine1776]

I hear you!! I lived in VT and scored front row to see her at smallish oprah house, can't remember the town, Windsor? Very cool

[@tobywebb3625]

What a (genuinely😊) fascinating and rewarding interview. This channel is making me footy smarter. Keep it up Team!🎉

[@adamatova]

She's so smart.

[@henlaojim]

Dar Williams: "...who invented roses." Allen Ginsberg: "America, the plum blossoms are falling." Two lines that always bring a tear to the eye. I have no idea why.

[@luvanani]

Never get through the verse with the East Berlin analogy dry-eyed when adding the video to the lyrics. Such a poignant song!

[@emilymunoz7093]

SAME

[@markw4206]

Actually, I don't think I get through several verses of any of her songs dry-eyed. She just has a way of reaching in and yanking out your heart to show you what you'd been hiding from.

[@wanderlust342]

I fell in love with this song when I was 15 and now at 21 it just seems so much more meaningful. Which makes me love it even more :)

[@RediceRyan]

I discovered this 7 years later, when we're both 28

[@odatmatt]

I took this song and played it at my therapist a few times, just to let her know that she wasn't the boss of me, my sounds were. 2'd star to the right and straight on till morning!

[@markstanford3328]

your most profound work...annointed more than you can realize...I gleen more truth every time I listen...that's what I hear in these sounds...

[@MyLatestEscape]

Damn, that;s such a beautiful song.

[@naomiscott6652]

Thanks for sharing this with us, your voice is beautiful A voice of Civility we need these days . I can listen all day a beautiful way to calm the mind

[@tommyhaynes521]

It's really refreshing to hear something outside the usual lyrical content of most songs. Great music too

[@ianberman6486]

I don't go to therapy to find out if I'm a freak I go and I find the one and only answer every week And it's just me and all the memories to follow Down any course that fits within a fifty minute hour And we fathom all the mysteries, explicit and inherent When I hit a rut, she says to try the other parent And she's so kind, I think she wants to tell me something, But she knows that its much better if I get it for myself And she says . What do you hear in these sounds? What do you hear in these sounds? . I say I hear a doubt, with the voice of true believing And the promises to stay, and the footsteps that are leaving And she says "Oh, " I say, "What?" she says, "Exactly, " I say, "What, you think I'm angry Does that mean you think I'm angry?" She says "Look, you come here every week With jigsaw pieces of your past Its all on little soundbites and voices out of photographs And that's all yours, that's the guide, that's the map So tell me, where does the arrow point to? Who invented roses?" And . What do you hear in these sounds? What do you hear in these sounds? . And when I talk about therapy, I know what people think That it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrink But oh how I loved everybody else When I finally got to talk so much about myself . And I wake up and I ask myself what state I'm in And I say well I'm lucky, 'cause I am like East Berlin I had this wall and what I knew of the free world Was that I could see their fireworks And I could hear their radio And I thought that if we met, I would only start confessing And they'd know that I was scared They'd would know that I was guessing But the wall came down and there they stood before me With their stumbling and their mumbling And their calling out just like me, and . The stories that nobody hears, and I collect these sounds in my ears, and That's what I hear in these sounds, and That's what I hear in these, That's what I hear in these sounds. . .

[@meribeier8530]

Thank you posting the words as I sometimes have issues hearing what the lyrics are. Very well written and performed

[@wwonka52]

I saw her a few years ago, and she was fantastic!!. I may see her again in Jan. "14" in northwest CT.

[@kenseville9469]

This is the song that made me think differently about mental health. Thanks Dar.

[@dearenergycoach]

Great song. Love the video too. Thank you

[@radical_accpt]

T9wnship 6th grade... I don't remember if you had written this, sister-aunt cousin Queen. But your songs 🎵 have been in my pocket for my entire life. You have mentored me through many dark times & bright 🌞 ones and LIGHT, respect 🙏 appreciation and care to you ❤️ & all my relations. Mitakuye Oasin. Mnohaya Lita. ¡Abundancia! May the blessings 🙌 ✨️ 🙏 BE.

[@mariakyliefenty9186]

one of my childhood favorite songs

[@Bobby_OWilliams]

For years this song has been very theraputic and did me good. Much of Dar's earlier art has been so to me. I literally experienced some of these particular verses. Amour et merci beaucoup, Dar!

[@truthseeker2989]

Very powerful...thanks for sharing. :o)

[@halestorm123]

🖤

[@TheRedsoxCeltics]

Very nice music! Great song writing! Just discovered her recently.

[@ninnyl]

Love it girl!

[@MoneyLovesMe11]

I like it!!

[@SmoSte]

I hear music!

[@queenmoline]

Fucken hippiness at it's finest!

[@johng4250]

I say what, she says exactly. That about sums up the shrink job

[@tinastanley4444]

I dedicate this to Cathy

[@SmoSte]

Who invented roses?

[@flyingfox707b]

I am looking for an early song of her's "All my heroes are dead". Can anyone help, please?

[@starofinanna]

Ladies and gentlemen, Susan Moss' Elvis.

[@womanwitchandgoddessfounda7621]

i cannot find this album..can you help?X

[@markw4206]

It took till 1997 for someone to write a song about therapy, but Dar sure nailed it! That said, I think I prefer the live videos of her singing it to this music video. It feels a bit overacted? Anyway, fabulous song.

[@babyfishfel]

Terrible video, terrific song.

[@elietheprof5678]

I hear laurel.

[@mikelee8937]

My own take is that it's doubt in dogma,, but true believing in humanistic thought.

[@thundergrace]

i hear harassment and stalking

[@thomasalber8609]

Awwwww, an American Kate Bush Brill !

[@rebecca8525]

Thomas Alber If anyone’s an American Kate Bush, it’s Tori Amos. I do love Dar Williams, though. She’s one of my favorite singers!

[@jimrader5299]

I once had a friend who dug dirty feet.

[@guitarcat5]

..pretty bad hair day too!

[@AdamJDuncan]

Shame this song was ruined by the beat-deaf production

[@utoppings]

I don't go to therapy to find out if I'm a freak I go and I find the one and only answer every week And it's just me and all the memories to follow Down any course that fits within a fifty minute hour And we fathom all the mysteries, explicit and inherent When I hit a rut, she says to try the other parent And she's so kind, I think she wants to tell me something, But she knows that its much better if I get it for myself And she says What do you hear in these sounds? What do you hear in these sounds? I say I hear a doubt, with the voice of true believing And the promises to stay, and the footsteps that are leaving And she says "Oh," I say, "What?" she says, "Exactly," I say, "What, you think I'm angry Does that mean you think I'm angry?" She says "Look, you come here every week With jigsaw pieces of your past Its all on little soundbites and voices out of photographs And that's all yours, that's the guide, that's the map So tell me, where does the arrow point to? Who invented roses?" And What do you hear in these sounds? What do you hear in these sounds? And when I talk about therapy, I know what people think That it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrink But oh how I loved everybody else When I finally got to talk so much about myself And I wake up and I ask myself what state I'm in And I say well I'm lucky, 'cause I am like East Berlin I had this wall and what I knew of the free world Was that I could see their fireworks And I could hear their radio And I thought that if we met, I would only start confessing And they'd know that I was scared They'd would know that I was guessing But the wall came down and there they stood before me With their stumbling and their mumbling And their calling out just like me, and The stories that nobody hears, and I collect these sounds in my ears, and That's what I hear in these sounds, and That's what I hear in these, That's what I hear in these sounds.

[@milkyway-fb9ni]

Thankss