deadmau5 feat. Chris James - The Veldt

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Joel Zimmerman, more commonly known as deadmau5 (pronounced 'dead mouse'), is one of the world's most respected electronic music producers of modern times. Enjoying international chart success with his 2x platinum-certified single "Ghosts 'n' Stuff," as well as "Professional Griefers," "Sofi Needs A Ladder" and "I Remember," he has also released seven critically acclaimed albums. The multiple JUNO Award-winning and GRAMMY®-nominated artist's ability to push the boundaries of his talent grows at an equal rate to his fan base, which counts 15 million and more over his combined social media channels. His latest music offerings include “Pomegranate” with The Neptunes, “Bridged By A Lightwave” with Kiesza, “Channel 43” with Wolfgang Gartner, “Hypnocurrency” with REZZ, “When The Summer Dies” with Lights, “Hyperlandia” featuring Foster The People, “this is fine.” with Portugal. The Man, “XYZ” and “My Heart Has Teeth” featuring Skylar Grey.
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[@tomydurazno6243]

Cool, only thing missing is a little voice stuttering at the begining

[@john6147]

Lmao 🤣

[@craigsmith9676]

😂😂

[@roberthole4867]

Just saw that video

[@dimmuborgir788]

LOL

[@tabberbbenedict]

Hahahahaha! This song reminds me of stuff I do and do not want to remember, always a good sign but thanks for this laugh! Also watch out for that ferocious black 🐈

[@SharksSJ408]

This is just such an incredibly powerful piece of music. A once in a generation kind of song.

[@-Tidgy]

Still can't believe some guy came up with these lyrics during a live video of Joel's and he used them in his official song, it does make it so much better though.

[@craighancock2562]

Still my fave DM track of all time.

[@durrantmiller8810]

+Craig Hancock Do u mean EDM (Event Driven Marketing)

[@springboxlp1370]

+Durrant miller He meant deadmau5 but i liked your joke lol

[@durrantmiller8810]

B. Tickles its not my joke thats what deadmau5 calls EDM

[@springboxlp1370]

Durrant miller Oh nice haha! :P

[@KingGustav99]

+Craig Hancock This ain't really DM

[@Tobinn253]

This is soo nostalgic

[@mehmoodqadir]

Don't know why this track gives me the feeling of purity and innocence.

[@jWestray95]

Man it's music like this that makes me love EDM. It's music like 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' (sorry Sonny) that started the whole "fuck it lets just go wub wub" and now it's just trappy pop deep house regurgitation.

[@chrisjenkins963]

there's music beyond the social circles of 16 year olds

[@midasdiepstraten4866]

"fuck it lets just go wub wub". Even the ''wub-wub'' isn't as bad as it is advertised. It's actually really difficult to make such a track. Also, it isn't just Wub-Wub there's way more to it if you'd listen with a little more attention.

[@theviniso]

Skrillex is not the problem, I am not a fan of him but his talent is undeniable. The problem are those guys making Big Room and things like that.

[@maxbrown4879]

the whole wub wub isnt that bad just get over that that is what a lot of edm music is now. u go and try to make one of those

[@sajenin3659]

I love both deadmau5 and Skrillex.

[@rohangupta8208]

8 years, and still I'm here. ❤️❤️

[@aliveandwellinisrael2507]

I remember watching the livestream where Joel first heard Chris' vocal contribution. His reaction was great!

[@DanielGonzalez-cu4zq]

Legend! Deadmau5

[@damenblackgrave2189]

Been listening to this track for tranquility since about 2014, or so. Still an absolute queller of storms. ❤

[@thathenry12]

The Magic and power this song has on me is insane it will literally relax every single muscle in me, my mind and I always feel like I'm in my own universe all alone when I close my eyes and am hearing this song.! Got to hear Deadmau5 live in 2017 and this was the last song he played and I BROKE DOWN.!! It was really a magical moment. Thank You Deadmau5 and Chris James for creating this masterpiece.

[@madhivadhanans1815]

Deadmau5's music isn't just music If listened to with the right receptivity; it can transport you into a different dimension altogether It puts you into a trance like state

[@mrsneyra2226]

My getaway soundtrack ❤❤❤❤

[@BGTech1]

I think the goal of this song was to capture and the magic of being a kid, and this song does that pretty well

[@Lxyaltyhvh]

Listening to this as I write a literary analysis essay of this story for school : )

[@PaulHunt3]

one heck of a collaboration - sheer brilliance

[@darrentsai2700]

從B.C & Lowy來的

[@XuShen-p4q]

+1

[@kwong1426]

+1

[@crystalmclaughlin1637]

Awesome song I will never forget my 1st deadmau5 concert and then the pandemic hit pretty awesome time I had and in front row

[@Maddiejay94]

New favorite. Wowwww❤

[@Maddiejay94]

The frequency is just so HAPPY. And NEW AND catering To those who need it.

[@JaaceB]

It's missing some vocal stuttering at the intro, but other than that... perfection

[@imicca]

congratulations, you're going to Hollywood mate. if you know, you know :)

[@farcry3master382]

Who is still here? I love you all.

[@EpicGamers9111]

The song is very good but I hate the story made me felt really bad for the parents

[@ninotsesion]

whats the story?

[@StupidLazyStupid]

It's about a family who lives in the future and the kids have a room that lets them create any environment they want, so they create a savannah, or veldt, and the parents get eaten by lions. This is because the parents want to move to the country and leave this house behind. The kids don't want to leave, so they kill the parents. I feel bad for them too.

[@0foxman0]

google "the veldt" it's the first result

[@BrianKasher]

I remember reading this story in high school. The birds are a bit scary.

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

Kids are supposed to be stupid man, what do you expect :D

[@brettnorris3140]

im so glad i discovered deadmau5, even though its so late *facepalm*

[@aneemesh7524]

Me too dude, we're late to the party. Better late than never tho.

[@cheesesteak983]

Deadmau5 is awesome!! Much better than Marshmello imo

[@Anotherfunnyword]

I think some vocal stutter effect thrown in would have tied this whole track together. Especially at the beginning there.

[@dannyzavala5833]

Wow

[@ElCapitanJones]

And to think that this song was able to be released because Chris shared his vocal mix on Joel's stream and he actually played it. That just blows my mind.

[@jWestray95]

Right??! I was surprised Joel was like "fuckit i'll let the jury decide" 30 seconds in... "MOTHER FUCKER!"

[@jarrettjames8375]

so awesome

[@ARavingLobster]

The craziest part is that he considered not even checking it

[@mloren-something]

I think Ray B and Joel Z deserve a big shout out in this, J's hizzzhowz. Yes , chris provided ingredients to a large recipe. Wait is he "the voice" from "stir up the cambells, soup is good food?"

[@nikkicoetser1595]

...this is the true humility of a genius. If it's next level...it's fuckn next level bro...no matter who you are!

[@justinkirkpatrick4888]

Who else is still here in 2024?

[@夜雨聲煩-l3i]

I’m in

[@李有錢]

I’m in now

[@hoooly_27]

我

[@owenbarnebey1543]

Not me

[@harlanpepper489]

Yo

[@frimjay4557]

Heard this in a McDonald's toilet, actually liked it and Shazammed it. No regrets.

[@Sunmoon1997]

In the toilet

[@frimjay4557]

Yeah. I was measuring the force of the flushes to see if they could withstand the mass and force of my turds.

[@KineticWasEpicVideos]

FrimJay With your hand?

[@frimjay4557]

user 7823472d48 No, I was using my boner-hiding apparatus.

[@KineticWasEpicVideos]

FrimJay In the world that the children made?

[@jjaapp18]

I just watched the video of Joel finding the guy who did these vocals. Great song.

[@GauravKumar-bf2rq]

who's the guy?

[@jjaapp18]

Gaurav K Really?

[@zep2150]

definitely not Chris James ;)

[@aristoteliskoutsouridis1903]

His name is darude, search him up !

[@iamthebull5SH]

Ayy I watched that live on his stream. It was awesome!

[@MrH1207]

I heard 30 seconds of this song when I was 12, and my Ma spent 2 hours finding it for me... rest in peace Ma, we all miss you and your endless kindness ❤️

[@predatorpool2986]

Even my ma passed last year They're always a part of us brother As long as we breathe... Stay strong

[@MrH1207]

@@predatorpool2986 I'm really sorry to hear that my Brother, they're gone from this world but they haven't gone far

[@MrH1207]

@P Mc I would heart this comment if I could! You're absolutely right though, it's just nice to reminisce about the old days!

[@szczepanpogromca4044]

Damn Im on one of these 4am nostalgia runs and your comment just made me burst out crying. We love you ma and we will make you proud of us!

[@_INUIT]

😢😢😢

[@yusufchowdhury9548]

good thing that deadmau5 got a hold of chris.

[@andresfarrera376]

Lol

[@ReaktionEDM]

chris got a hold of deadmau5 actually js

[@tmthylthm]

You're wrong, sorry.

[@ReaktionEDM]

okay dude

[@kester135]

ReaktionEDM I watched the stream the viewers found Chris, told Joel, Joel contacted chris.

[@nairb2]

This song is perfect for those late night drives down the highway, when there’s nobody else around, and you just reflect on the beauty of life

[@egg750]

brian fidel I’m with you on that , but I don’t have a car , still reflect on stuff . The break down is angelic

[@teboxi]

Gotta love those therapeutic night drives.

[@dairekelly3421]

gay

[@gabrielepincitore3650]

What about strobe under a starry night or All I have? Or even Right this Second while the plane's taking off

[@egg750]

daire kelly I know you are , h.i v the lot Haha

[@maximusrusso8758]

When people say electronic music has no emotion

[@justinekessner2645]

HAVE U EVER HEARD OF THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS. I'VE LOVED THEM SINCE 1996!!!

[@michelledrury4109]

Amazing. Now this is music. Real music

[@ChrisSchiHM]

Yes! You're right! In the break on 4:50 min i became goosebumbs! again and again. No actor can make this better!

[@dududadadede96]

If you guys want the most emotional electronic song. The BPM is a bit high though. Introversion - dystopia

[@aryd4147]

Maximus russo for real, I get goosebumps from this song.

[@zoegold]

It’s 2022…I’m 71:years old…playing this on an endless loop. Glorious!

[@StarStuffTV]

Hope you're well Zoe

[@ricky38251]

Still alive bro ?

[@Toonami69_]

Where you at you good?

[@brandontodd3630]

Are you still jamming

[@chrisanthosvlasiadis2097]

ill be playing till im 501

[@winterlark3986]

It’s 2023 and this song sounds brand new all over again. Perfect beat, vocals, techno ❤

[@bamf6603]

yeah i havent heard it for couple of years now too

[@WashingtonMatos-pi6ko]

Brazil 🇧🇷#curitiba top

[@Rastasandrainbows]

deadmau5 is timeless

[@МаксимПавлов-т7л]

This is not Techno😅

[@Rastasandrainbows]

@@МаксимПавлов-т7л lmao i didn't even see that part of their comment x3

[@jinzo3159]

the way he discovered the singing from chris james was a 50/50 he cudv literally not clicked his shit on twitter & now this song is one of my favorites

[@Baiyze]

jordan lozano some things are just meant to be

[@estebanstrangiato]

*could've... as in "could have"

[@spce777]

cudv

[@freerider3434]

Needs more vocal stutter but otherwise fantastic

[@ratwithrifle143]

I see what you did there

[@Erichx14]

yeah it needs to be more clever there i dont know

[@freerider3434]

@@kleinemaus6094 It's a joke, dive deeper into the songs origin and you'll get it.

[@matthewstonhouse156]

love the comments that are taking you seriously. But yep, more vocal stutter and cowbell if possible pls.

[@freerider3434]

@@matthewstonhouse156 Gotta love that moralizing: "Allow unique to exist!" wiggling his index finger around :D

[@bigsmooth8946]

2024 checking in. Only discovered this song because of the reaction video and man was it a blessing.

[@Death88758]

Same,thank you tiktok for doing something good for once

[@stevekjr9563]

Samesies. What a delightful song. Especially vocals.

[@bgold54g]

I knew of this song for a long time before I ever watched the reaction video of him finding Chris. Such a great video it is.

[@aphantom6834]

Yep ❤

[@lasrswordja]

This story is extremely fucking dark.

[@Skurkey]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story)

[@lasrswordja]

www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/bradbury_veldt.pdf

[@kevinjacob5777]

lasrswordja dark as fuck

[@Eueu]

***** uh no... wtf? it's a story of 2 children named peter and wendy who "never grow up" because they were so psychologically tuned to rely their lives on the "nursery" which projects anything they want. their parents were just clueless what it could do to them. ray bradbury wrote the story to tell people about what technology could do to people and how children are so easily affected by conditioning

[@swish007]

***** yeah this. the parents' only crime i suppose was neglect. the kids made a world that happened to be dangerous and it ended up killing the parents. To the children though it was THEIR world and they would do anything for it, it meant so much to them.

[@GnomeKr]

Don't mind me, i'm just filling up my nostalgia cup before the end of this decade.

[@HarshKumar-kp9zd]

you are my bro

[@NOVAsteamed]

Its hard to swallow inst it? Gosh 2020, I cant handle this

[@SerAbiotico]

With all the videocalling and stuff due to social distancing, now we're kinda a digital family °o°

[@HungrySkullMedia]

Take me back

[@RogansDMTpipe]

🤗

[@abraxiadj]

almost 4 years? man...

[@springboxlp1370]

+Santupi *sniffles with nostalgia*

[@dinozauriukas100]

+B. Tickles nostalgic deja vu

[@bonelesswhiskey2865]

+Lazerphos Try being 19 going on 20, :P

[@DuffmanBE]

+Jaeger Brunswick Try being 26. :'(

[@bonelesswhiskey2865]

DuffmanBE im terrified of old age now :c

[@sc2toast]

This is a song that came out when I was 19..... I'm 30 years old and it brings me back to a time I cant describe anymore. I am so happy being 30 years old and how nice my life is now, however, this song brings me to a time in my life where things were a bit more interesting... like I didn't know where I was going and what the hell I was doing. Something you kids should take advantage of. It. Believe me, things only get better. Make your younger years worth it. You'll be happy later on. Cheers all!

[@brandonduguay539]

Say no more, friend. I turned 31 this month and was a full on EDM head back in those days almost obsessed. Anyhow, for me at the time this was one of deadmau5' newer tracks that no other artist could hold a candle to at the time. A magical time to be young, indeed.

[@philm1175]

If you got hit by a supersoaker at Veld in Toronto, high chance it was me! fuck I love this tune!

[@Dalto11]

30 years old here as well, you summarized exactly how I feel about this song. It's my all time favorite, and that feeling - it's ability to take me back - is largely why.

[@gabrielamayerova117]

Krásne napisane

[@Toonami69_]

I went to Vegas alone for an early 24th birthday this year 🥹 I’m glad I did I’ll never forget what I gifted myself. I love being alone often and most times it turns out to be the best times of my life. My friends.. I cut those off they’re not on my level of fun. I saw deadmau5 live at zouk in Vegas too. Best memories !!! Makes me wanna tear up now haha

[@evanjarvis7261]

I don't know what it is about this song, but it has the unique ability to calm me down, no matter how stressed I get. Something about this song makes me feel like everything will be alright.

[@MythicSuns]

Evan Jarvis A good melody and good sound design probably play a part in it. What's ironic though is the fact that the lyrics and song title are about a really dark Sci-Fi short story called The Veldt which was written by Ray Bradbury.

[@evanjarvis7261]

Ben Knight I know. I love that story. Maybe part of the reason that I like the song haha.

[@dennycote6339]

Yup...holy shit yup

[@TG-12]

OMG! I feel the SAME way!!😎

[@thathenry12]

Exact same thing with me.! This is probably the only thing on this planet that controls me down and relaxes me.

[@Daydreaminginmono]

This is a song you feel, you dont listen to it

[@yanikpicardleduc]

great point here, most of my friends dont get that

[@Daydreaminginmono]

Yanik Leduc Its gradually being lost

[@henry58214]

agree with you

[@ericdealba2814]

This song might be good for a view montge am i right

[@Daydreaminginmono]

Pretty sure i used it for a video game killing montage

[@rickkynino3393]

This has to be one of the most beautiful songs of the 21st century. I remember when i was just joining university and i discovered this song during my electronic music era, dubstep, drum n bass progressive house…ahh man times were gooood..wish we could loop time the way people worldwide have looped this song.

[@fuzzywinkle8310]

I remember being fresh out of high school and bought my first car. It was a convertible mustang fox body and I’d just cruise through the hills blasting this song. Man simpler times… I miss it

[@JamesThomas-kx5sj]

This song is Deadmau5 magnum opus. It's literally perfect

[@djdarklyceum]

Really well put. I love so many of his other songs for different reasons but this really is his Magnum Opus.

[@NivedNair15]

I came here to bless my ears after Gucci gang

[@dasoulfoodbuffet]

Dont forget to say 5 Holy Mary's and 10 Deadmau5's. The blessings will be rich.

[@joshuakim5751]

Unfortunately guccigangitis is incurable. I hope you lived a good life

[@waynewesterfield2130]

Oh Lord Gucci Gang is just awful compared to this wonderful music. Consider yourself lucky.

[@Trickey2413]

Lil pump > Deadmau5 :>)

[@IanBoscolo]

IM Wercs Stupid ignorant.

[@IngridSoldevila]

Happy life, with the machines ♪

[@cavanitoti6428]

we r in the same page ingrid lol on this one

[@IngridSoldevila]

Yess

[@eeermakHD]

***** xD win

[@gansterjao]

***** you are the fucking devil bruh

[@callumjessamine2450]

***** That, I think, wasn't his point. His point was the story this is based off (Link: www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/bradbury_veldt.pdf ) ends in the 2 children killing their own parents to keep their technology, the house, the room, all of it. He's not saying, I'm gonna presume, ALL technology is evil, just that the story, which was basically the children merging with the machine, ended in the creation of murderers of their own parents. As if possessed by the devil, but it was all this technology.

[@AlexHMusic]

memorie5

[@kwonjeffrey]

5tupidity

[@99999george]

kill my5elf

[@TitaniusAnglesmith]

Fuck y'all. I'm special see: no 5.

[@snowyparker1462]

5ame

[@Agustin-kc5ho]

yeah, you put a 5 :v

[@oamost]

hey. wherever you're in the world: I love you and I wish you happiness.

[@TDGCmote]

The Local Shop thank you. I wish the same for you as well, keep being cool.

[@tropicaltrapfire0344]

Thanks! I really needed that. 😊

[@jfb_surfing]

[@someniceguy9264]

Wish the same to you

[@LeonBlast_g59]

;-;

[@jasertio]

Happy life with the machines scattered around the room Look what they made, they made it for me happy, technology Outside the lions roam, feeding on remains We'll never leave, look at us now So in love with the way we are, here The world that the children made The world that the children made Every night they rock us to sleep, digital family Is it real or is it a dream, can you believe the machines Outside, the beating sun, can you hear the screams We'll never leave, look at us now So in love with the way we are, here The world that the children made The world that the children made, here The world that the children made, here The world that the children made Here The world that the children made Here The world that the children made, here The world that the children made

[@henno6207]

The synths are so perfect, feels like I can see them. Like perfectly rounded edges.

[@Maoki]

idk why but this makes complete sense haha

[@owenn0437]

🍂

[@RabidDogma]

Perfect visual description, 100%

[@Vistrus]

It needs more vocal stutter but other than that it's great

[@Wizowtreestump]

Same here. I have synesthesia so the synths are little orange and purple balls just bouncing around to the beat.

[@BastianHyldahlFilms]

This is my first Deadmau5 song, untill i found this song i didnt really know who Deadmau5 was but now i know that he is an awesome music producer.

[@Likesouh]

PrimaVodka My first Dmau5 song was Ghosts n' stuff.....typical

[@heavymetal5930]

So there I was and alone with you were my first two.

+ScolderTheWolf Mine was not exactly this one

[@Coinpease]

+PrimaVodka It's deadmau5, he stylizes it with a lowercase d.

[@jirkasvoboda]

+PrimaVodka And if you find out what's behind this awesome song... I bet you will shit bricks! ;)

[@shrekogreton6405]

I love the double meaning of the lyrics. One meaning is that of the Ray Bradbury story. The other is of a metaphorical description of the electronic music scene.

[@EDToasty]

I love the short story :D

[@cooperkasich836]

"The world that the children made"

[@Gehab]

Friend just showed me this. I'm hooked.

[@fafafagat]

Gehab Dude has a tick and 100k subs. No one comments. I feel obliged to omment for some reason. Sup famous guy!

[@kaladin7487]

fafafagat Been a sub of his for a while, didn't expect to see him here :D

[@RFIGAMING]

Wait what i been listening to this on utube and i just found your comment today 😂random shit ever my dood

[@grayhound5863]

2018 !!!

[@jamesrobertjr8002]

Speechless

[@MrIpodtouchey]

I was sitting in English class today and we were reading short stories, needless to say i was thumbing through the book of short stories and "the vedlt" by ray bradbury showed up in there. Jesus fuck did i ever get goosebumps.

[@subgnarh4542]

i saw that too

[@alphafemale99]

holy shit, dude. I'm not sure if i preferred not knowing where the lyrical inspiration comes from, or if I like the song better now that I know.

[@TheStrandedMonkey]

I'm just stating this out , the short story is made by Ray Bradbury , in the music video (it's either the start or end , it says , R.I.P Ray Bradbury)

[@rivengle]

***** The story is dark, but very interesting. And it's beginning to happen already. Some parents are so lazy that they entirely depend on their tablets and phones to entertain their children.

[@XxCriealisxX]

i think its kinda cool that he in a way turned the story into a song

[@13thLiberator]

This is one of the few songs that makes me cry. I first heard it when I was 25 and living on my own in Florida (moved from Virginia) to be a Flight instructor at a small airport. While I lived there I had met a beautiful waitress that was also into deadmau5 and we hung together in downtown Orlando clubbing. Sadly, she passed away a few years ago when I left Florida to be an airline pilot. She was in rehab. The song is real tearjerker for me...

[@mdombro69]

I feel for u sry bud much love

[@khanyisandzelani2148]

sorry to hear that bro. God bless you

[@beastmode415816]

hope we fly together one day and listen to Deadmau5 bro

[@4DMIIR]

Wonderful story but I'm sorry for you.God bless you!

[@mikekariuki9523]

Stay strong bro

[@chimaera2372]

The way Deadmau5 and Chris James met was absolutely perfect.

[@humbertolepelch]

i watch that video as inspiration. crazy how he was discovered. makes it seem like it can happen to me

[@ladyowl9187]

Reddit brought me here 😆🖤

[@KosherMoney]

Reddit brought me here!

[@hellen2405]

Reddit brought me here too 🤣

[@TheSnahks]

Just saw it on Reddit as well lmao

[@dullscythe_]

7 years passed..... Still feels like it was released yesterday ❤️❤️❤️

[@Cristroxx]

Exactly

[@KentaEvans]

Of course

[@highonlife8180]

8 years ago..

[@miamitoatlanta]

I remember when this video released, what a journey it's been ❤️❤️❤️

[@Liqwidbutterfly0925]

Yes it does

[@NtionicoM]

3:30-4:30 Wow. This whole minute is to me the best part of the song. An absolutely gorgeous breakdown of everything with some beautiful strings, and great field recording type background. I want to listen to this part looped forever. An absolutely beautiful piece of music

[@laurentoti76]

Yeah. I love this part too!!

[@messixavibarca4ever]

Yep. Music is heaven for our soul. Just incredible.

[@MorningGloryDancer]

Ditto!!!

[@rimasinno4860]

This part gave me coldplay vibes!

[@AlexLipo]

Indeed... i feel the same..

[@gabos7892]

"this fucking guy.." -DeadMau5

[@hazenhutchinson5378]

This was mine and my best friends favourite song, sadly he was killed in a car accident going on two years this year. Fuck what I'd do to have him back here... Love you forever brother.

[@vaudvillevillain_]

I actually read this book (The Veldt). It's actually a really good read. Reading the book gave me a new sense of love for this song. Once you read the book, you will listen to this, and find what this really is... art.

[@christieneutz249]

What's the book about? Is it about the simulation theory? I think this song might be deadmau5 take on that subject

[@jack0609]

@@christieneutz249 it’s about an automated house with a nursery that projects life like images the children think of the African Veldt and it can’t really change and the parents are worried and try turning off the whole house which upsets the kids

[@jacobblyth]

I love how other people know about this book

[@gregsalisbury9783]

@@jacobblyth had to read it in English class freshman year of high school. Had no idea that deadmau5 wrote a song about it until a couple years later lol.

[@augustinadriancristea5873]

The Veldt - the very first story (other than the introduction) the Ray Bradbury's sci-fi masterpiece "The Illustrated Man", 1951 I think. I read this collection of fantastic and straightforward short-stories when I was 14. It really changed my perspective on fiction. "Can you hear the screams?!" "Happy technology!" "Living with technology!" Perfect summary of the story. Bravo to deadmau5 and the writer of the vocals! Peace&Love y'all, live life outside of an apartment!

[@Witblitz7]

Still my fav song from Deadmau5.

[@1stToBeHuman]

you're aware of "strobe" right?

[@NoobFLProducer]

Mines deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember (extended version) :)

[@benparker2321]

It's not overrated at all. I can listen to it for days repeat cycle.

[@benparker2321]

Bern Skon Why worse? I need more information on that.

[@benparker2321]

Bern Skon It's not boring! Wtf. It's the time it takes for the drop that builds up the power of it and that makes it so fucking great.

[@IAmPatulio]

Happy life, with the machines Scattered around the room Look what they made, they made it for me Happy technology Outside the lions roam feeding on remains We'll never leave look at us now So in love with the way we are Here, the world that the children made The world that the children made, here The world that the children made, here The world that the children made Every night, they rock us to sleep Digital family Is it real, or is it a dream? Can you believe in machines? Outside the beating sun Can you hear the screams? We'll never look at us now So in love with the way we are Here, the world that the children made The world that the children made, here The world that the children made, here The world that the children made Here, the world that the children made, here The world that the children made Happy life, with the machines Scattered around the room Look what they made, they made it for me Happy technology Outside the lions roam feeding on remains We'll never leave look at us now So in love with the way we are Here, the world that the children made The world that the children made, here The world that the children made, here The world that the children made Here, the world that the children made, here The world that the children made

[@wazzbeer]

@@ranemalone9636 Roam

[@soup7917]

nice copy and paste

[@lykekyfd9287]

Thanks

[@user-tf4zk9zs8w]

Haha, he actually made him get rid of the stutter effect!

[@Death88758]

Glad he did,seems more professional,the stutter it's not bad but it doesn't belong in this track

[@Andrew-xz8yp]

When this song recently came out, I was around 14 years old, modern warfare 2 was all I played, sitting in my room with nothing to worry about only school, I experienced my first love and girls were starting to come into my life, I wish I could go back to these days as they were much more simpler

[@7890dan11]

Those really were the best times. I think going back now would get boring pretty quick, because you've grown so much and can take on bigger and better challenges now :) Cheers

[@josephcabrera7626]

It's been 8 years? This always feels new.

[@chil111]

I feel you man, but at the same time that's what makes it so beautiful. Don't be sad that it's over, but be glad it happened. ✌🏻

[@edenboychyn6847]

Very similar experience. All I did was play Skyrim, hang out with friends, and bike everywhere that summer, and I too, found someone special. Simpler times knowing we had it great but didn't realize it at the time.

[@stephenbartlett9858]

Your not the only one

[@8bitsloth]

Such a happy song for such a twisted story.

[@kathykeith9757]

yeah .. like this world .. something does not match up … lol

[@anthonynguyen2661]

Lmao true , the song is at its best form if u never read the short story

[@prima808]

Ikr, before I realized the actual story behind it, I thought it was a happy song 😆

[@jedrooney4302]

@@anthonynguyen2661 It ruins the entire thing

[@ttfno4923]

I was wondering why it was named the same thing I studied in English and yup, its based on the story.

[@ZzyzxMatrix]

This is 11 years old?? Holy sh*t this is a timeless masterpiece!

[@gabrielamayerova117]

Takých je vela

[@nicolasribeiro8485]

Times runs so fast brother, enjoy the journey

[@SPECIALK24]

Check out aural synaps

[@NeptuneCrystal-qf4pe]

I’m 12😅

[@ZzyzxMatrix]

@@NeptuneCrystal-qf4pe don’t do this to me!!! 😂

[@H0LYSHIZZ]

When your high this song takes you to a alternate universe 👌🏿

[@MarwanKhaled94]

***** I almost had an orgasm.

Zachary Donato When your high you think pizza it's a piece of art, sooooooooo. This song is amazing by itself

[@Dman677]

true haha cx

[@Psythik]

+Zachary Donato Especially psychedelics. Listening to uplifting tunes such as this one on LSD is the next best thing to achieving nirvana.

[@OwNeD05]

+Zachary Donato Gotta try to do this.

[@carlosorozco776]

Don't know why but this song makes me feel sad and happy at the same time ..

[@mynameisfatmike6742]

Read the short story if you haven't already. "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury, it's what the song is based off of. Very happy and sad story; more creepy then anything I suppose.

Its called nostalgia wtf

[@meneerdepeer1603]

I don't get why everyone think it's creepy? I have read it and i don't think that it's creepy.

[@mynameisfatmike6742]

You don't find it creepy that two small children become so desensitized to violence that they conspire to have their parents murdered after the parents try to discipline them? Maybe you have been spending too much time in the playroom... ;)

[@meneerdepeer1603]

Haha, you really don't know whats creepy i think. I have sawn things you really don't want to see. I find it a very nice story instead.

[@charliesimon7595]

I found this song 8 minutes and 41 seconds ago and i love it already

[@freedomgundam95]

This banger is 10 years old now... time flies

[@o0GodZila0o]

doesnt it just, feels like yesterday

[@vincecool72]

That stuttering voice still missing (if you know what I mean) xDddd

[@kmkriskm]

@@o0GodZila0o It does my friend

[@subheg2373]

Happy life with the machines scattered around the room Look what they made, they made it for me happy, technology Outside the lions roam, feeding on remains We'll never leave, look at us now So in love with the way we are, here The world that the children made The world that the children made Every night they rock us to sleep, digital family Is it real or is it a dream, can you believe the machines Outside, the beating sun, can you hear the screams We'll never leave, look at us now So in love with the way we are, here The world that the children made The world that the children made, here The world that the children made, here The world that the children made Here The world that the children made Here The world that the children made, here The world that the children made

[@daniel36476]

Just Thanks Man!

[@tropicaltrapfire0344]

This song is a very interesting take on Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt". It reveals a perspective we never thought about before.

[@rose348]

sounding like my life atm smh

[@TheNumberZeroGaming]

R.I.P. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) :(

[@9Epicman]

i LOVE this song however people dont understand about the fucked up thing that it's talking about. Deadmau5 is referencing the short story "The Veldt". in the story, an electronic house that a family lives in makes the children fall in love with it. in the house, there's a room called the Veldt. it's basically a room where you can dream of something and then it happens. The kids dream of playing with lions. This freaks the hell out of the parents and the parents try to shut down their play room. the kids get angry also when the parents decide the electronic house is taking control of their lives. by now, the kids are psychotic and want to stop their parents from shutting it down. so they beg their parents to use the veldt one more time and lock them in with their lions they brought to life. ray bradbury was writing fucked up stuff.

[@robertbuzzini]

Im in 8th grade and just read the Veldt in class!! Its a messed up story when you really look at it.

[@AlbertBalbastreMorte]

+9Epicman Is that in the Martian Chronicles book?

[@robertbuzzini]

+Albert Balbastre-Morte Its a very old short story.

[@Starry_Wave]

+9Epicman Well Ray Bradbury did write the book "Fahrenheit 451" so off course The Veldt was fucked up.

[@dinozauriukas100]

+9Epicman Looking at the story it's amazing, I got to buy the book!

[@clasedegraff]

I can't get over the origin of this song. Still butterin' my biscuit 12 years later... absolute gold.

[@mystic3643]

Alright, off to the gaming playlist with you.

[@TheBigWI93]

You just gave me a project for the next hour. Thanks. 😂😂

[@nameiztakenmc]

Mystic LMAO

[@reda1727]

Just Watch Deadmau5 after he found the guy who did the vocal !!! wooow amazing !!!

[@stefanopx5811]

omg i cant stop pressing repeat

[@Stars11222]

No need to listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=uiUAq4aVTjY

[@KenzanIsPeak]

It's been 8 years? This always feels new.

[@LordKenshi]

This is the best song ever! better than a Justin Bieber song!

[@safaripete9978]

these are the fans we dont need.

[@ZLKeeper]

Pat Cher who died made you chief of the fanclub? what if you're talking to an 8-year-old girl who just fell in love with some good music..? WE? don't need ANY fans. WE also don't need you to speak for US. love is what we need. don't hate, playa; celebrate :) she's right. this is better than a justin bieber song. don't you agree? don't you even think... it's better than EVERY justin bieber song!? :O happy technology :)

[@theveb7]

***** Blitzcrank, is that you D: ?

[@chiaseedpudding3463]

Sarge Pepper Exactly

[@khrisnakhristian5419]

do not compare justin with my god

[@BrOkEnSkAtEr1295]

Bro its been a little over 4 years since this song came out, I can't believe how fast time goes by

[@Muse1618]

Two years later...

[@Type_RJR]

@@Muse1618 5 more years later

[@DaftPunkVision]

ah yes. the nostalgia is high with this one...

[@DrewJPS]

It is for Joel. Hence...

[@ThatGuy-ep7xq]

+DaftPunkVision Nostalgia from a song from 2012? What?

[@DrewJPS]

+ThatGuy Nostalgia isn't restricted to time. Odd though that may seem.

[@ThatGuy-ep7xq]

Drew Layton By definition? Sure. The feeling itself? Don't know. Never experienced nostalgia from something that just happened. I guess my nostalgia is just different from what you call nostalgia.

[@phrawstlulz]

+DaftPunkVision High is with the nostalgia.

[@iSpotCars]

The real meaning of this song is about the short story "The Veldt." It is about a family that lives in a house full of technology. However the children get obsessively attached to a room called The Nursery. It is a room that makes the setting be what the children wanted. They made it the veldt, a part of the African Savannah, with virtual lions. However, when the parents try to take the children out on a vacation, the children lure the parents in an then lock them from the outside. The lions then come out of this virtual dimension and eat the parents, and the kids live on. It's pretty disturbing.

[@evanbrady2399]

🚙

[@Blake-ze6vt]

Deadmau5 impregnated my eardrum.

[@moozycla6]

It brought tears to my eyes, somehow, I don't know why. But, *Deadmau5* was so excited about this, that I literally cried for happiness instead of him!

[@stevecunliffe2151]

+Moozy Mathers I just watched the vid where he finds the vocals I guess thats what you were referring to there. I felt a similar kind of rrespect like how important it seemed to him. He takes his work very seriously and I respect that so much.

[@moozycla6]

Steve Cunliffe Indeed.

[@rose348]

still does for me omg

[@johnmccracken6497]

I copied and pasted it for ya: Ray Bradbury. The Veldt "George, I wish you'd look at the nursery." "What's wrong with it?" "I don't know." "Well, then." "I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it." "What would a psychologist want with a nursery?" "You know very well what he'd want." His wife paused in the middle of the kitchen and watched the stove busy humming to itself, making supper for four. "It's just that the nursery is different now than it was." "All right, let's have a look." They walked down the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them. Their approach sensitized a switch somewhere and the nursery light flicked on when they came within ten feet of it. Similarly, behind them, in the halls, lights went on and off as they left them behind, with a soft automaticity. "Well," said George Hadley. They stood on the thatched floor of the nursery. It was forty feet across by forty feet long and thirty feet high; it had cost half again as much as the rest of the house. "But nothing's too good for our children," George had said. The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon. The walls were blank and two dimensional. Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in color reproduced to the final pebble and bit of straw. The ceiling above them became a deep sky with a hot yellow sun. George Hadley felt the perspiration start on his brow. "Let's get out of this sun," he said. "This is a little too real. But I don't see anything wrong." "Wait a moment, you'll see," said his wife. Now the hidden odorophonics were beginning to blow a wind of odor at the two people in the middle of the baked veldtland. The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air. And now the sounds: the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures. A shadow passed through the sky. The shadow flickered on George Hadley's upturned, sweating face. "Filthy creatures," he heard his wife say. "The vultures." "You see, there are the lions, far over, that way. Now they're on their way to the water hole. They've just been eating," said Lydia. "I don't know what." "Some animal." George Hadley put his hand up to shield off the burning light from his squinted eyes. "A zebra or a baby giraffe, maybe." "Are you sure?" His wife sounded peculiarly tense. "No, it's a little late to be sure," be said, amused. "Nothing over there I can see but cleaned bone, and the vultures dropping for what's left." "Did you bear that scream?" she asked. 'No." "About a minute ago?" "Sorry, no." The lions were coming. And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of efficiency selling for an absurdly low price. Every home should have one. Oh, occasionally they frightened you with their clinical accuracy, they startled you, gave you a twinge, but most of the time what fun for everyone, not only your own son and daughter, but for yourself when you felt like a quick jaunt to a foreign land, a quick change of scenery. Well, here it was! And here were the lions now, fifteen feet away, so real, so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide, and the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mouths. The lions stood looking at George and Lydia Hadley with terrible green-yellow eyes. "Watch out!" screamed Lydia. The lions came running at them. Lydia bolted and ran. Instinctively, George sprang after her. Outside, in the hall, with the door slammed he was laughing and she was crying, and they both stood appalled at the other's reaction. "George!" "Lydia! Oh, my dear poor sweet Lydia!" "They almost got us!" "Walls, Lydia, remember; crystal walls, that's all they are. Oh, they look real, I must admit - Africa in your parlor - but it's all dimensional, superreactionary, supersensitive color film and mental tape film behind glass screens. It's all odorophonics and sonics, Lydia. Here's my handkerchief." "I'm afraid." She came to him and put her body against him and cried steadily. "Did you see? Did you feel? It's too real." "Now, Lydia..." "You've got to tell Wendy and Peter not to read any more on Africa." "Of course - of course." He patted her. "Promise?" "Sure." "And lock the nursery for a few days until I get my nerves settled." "You know how difficult Peter is about that. When I punished him a month ago by locking the nursery for even a few hours - the tantrum be threw! And Wendy too. They live for the nursery." "It's got to be locked, that's all there is to it." "All right." Reluctantly he locked the huge door. "You've been working too hard. You need a rest." "I don't know - I don't know," she said, blowing her nose, sitting down in a chair that immediately began to rock and comfort her. "Maybe I don't have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don't we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?" "You mean you want to fry my eggs for me?" "Yes." She nodded. "And dam my socks?" "Yes." A frantic, watery-eyed nodding. "And sweep the house?" "Yes, yes - oh, yes!'' "But I thought that's why we bought this house, so we wouldn't have to do anything?" "That's just it. I feel like I don't belong here. The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African veldt? Can I give a bath and scrub the children as efficiently or quickly as the automatic scrub bath can? I cannot. And it isn't just me. It's you. You've been awfully nervous lately." "I suppose I have been smoking too much." "You look as if you didn't know what to do with yourself in this house, either. You smoke a little more every morning and drink a little more every afternoon and need a little more sedative every night. You're beginning to feel unnecessary too." "Am I?" He paused and tried to feel into himself to see what was really there. "Oh, George!" She looked beyond him, at the nursery door. "Those lions can't get out of there, can they?" He looked at the door and saw it tremble as if something had jumped against it from the other side. "Of course not," he said. At dinner they ate alone, for Wendy and Peter were at a special plastic carnival across town and bad televised home to say they'd be late, to go ahead eating. So George Hadley, bemused, sat watching the dining-room table produce warm dishes of food from its mechanical interior. "We forgot the ketchup," he said. "Sorry," said a small voice within the table, and ketchup appeared. As for the nursery, thought George Hadley, it won't hurt for the children to be locked out of it awhile. Too much of anything isn't good for anyone. And it was clearly indicated that the children had been spending a little too much time on Africa. That sun. He could feel it on his neck, still, like a hot paw. And the lions. And the smell of blood. Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the children's minds and created life to fill their every desire. The children thought lions, and there were lions. The children thought zebras, and there were zebras. Sun - sun. Giraffes - giraffes. Death and death. That last. He chewed tastelessly on the meat that the table bad cut for him. Death thoughts. They were awfully young, Wendy and Peter, for death thoughts. Or, no, you were never too young, really. Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. When you were two years old you were shooting people with cap pistols. But this - the long, hot African veldt-the awful death in the jaws of a lion. And repeated again and again. "Where are you going?" He didn't answer Lydia. Preoccupied, be let the lights glow softly on ahead of him, extinguish behind him as he padded to the nursery door. He listened against it. Far away, a lion roared. He unlocked the door and opened it. Just before he stepped inside, he heard a faraway scream. And then another roar from the lions, which subsided quickly. He stepped into Africa. How many times in the last year had he opened this door and found Wonderland, Alice, the Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magical Lamp, or Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, or Dr. Doolittle, or the cow jumping over a very real-appearing moon-all the delightful contraptions of a make-believe world. How often had he seen Pegasus flying in the sky ceiling, or seen fountains of red fireworks, or heard angel voices singing. But now, is yellow hot Africa, this bake oven with murder in the heat. Perhaps Lydia was right. Perhaps they needed a little vacation from the fantasy which was growing a bit too real for ten-year-old children. It was all right to exercise one's mind with gymnastic fantasies, but when the lively child mind settled on one pattern... ? It seemed that, at a distance, for the past month, he had heard lions roaring, and smelled their strong odor seeping as far away as his study door. But, being busy, he had paid it no attention. George Hadley stood on the African grassland alone. The lions looked up from their feeding, watching him. The only flaw to the illusion was the open door through which he could see his wife, far down the dark hall, like a framed picture, eating her dinner abstractedly. "Go away," he said to the lions. They did not go. He knew the principle of the room exactly. You sent out your thoughts. Whatever you thought would appear. "Let's have Aladdin and his lamp," he snapped. The veldtland remained; the lions remained. "Come on, room! I demand Aladin!" he said. Nothing happened. The lions mumbled in their baked pelts. "Aladin!" He went back to dinner. "The fool room's out of order," he said. "It won't respond." "Or--" "Or what?" "Or it can't respond," said Lydia, "because the children have thought about Africa and lions and killing so many days that the room's in a rut." "Could be." "Or Peter's set it to remain that way." "Set it?" "He may have got into the machinery and fixed something." "Peter doesn't know machinery." "He's a wise one for ten. That I.Q. of his -" "Nevertheless -" "Hello, Mom. Hello, Dad." The Hadleys turned. Wendy and Peter were coming in the front door, cheeks like peppermint candy, eyes like bright blue agate marbles, a smell of ozone on their jumpers from their trip in the helicopter. "You're just in time for supper," said both parents. "We're full of strawberry ice cream and hot dogs," said the children, holding hands. "But we'll sit and watch." "Yes, come tell us about the nursery," said George Hadley. The brother and sister blinked at him and then at each other. "Nursery?" "All about Africa and everything," said the father with false joviality. "I don't understand," said Peter. "Your mother and I were just traveling through Africa with rod and reel; Tom Swift and his Electric Lion," said George Hadley. "There's no Africa in the nursery," said Peter simply. "Oh, come now, Peter. We know better." "I don't remember any Africa," said Peter to Wendy. "Do you?" "No." "Run see and come tell." She obeyed "Wendy, come back here!" said George Hadley, but she was gone. The house lights followed her like a flock of fireflies. Too late, he realized he had forgotten to lock the nursery door after his last inspection. "Wendy'll look and come tell us," said Peter. "She doesn't have to tell me. I've seen it." "I'm sure you're mistaken, Father." "I'm not, Peter. Come along now." But Wendy was back. "It's not Africa," she said breathlessly. "We'll see about this," said George Hadley, and they all walked down the hall together and opened the nursery door. There was a green, lovely forest, a lovely river, a purple mountain, high voices singing, and Rima, lovely and mysterious, lurking in the trees with colorful flights of butterflies, like animated bouquets, lingering in her long hair. The African veldtland was gone. The lions were gone. Only Rima was here now, singing a song so beautiful that it brought tears to your eyes. George Hadley looked in at the changed scene. "Go to bed," he said to the children. They opened their mouths. "You heard me," he said. They went off to the air closet, where a wind sucked them like brown leaves up the flue to their slumber rooms. George Hadley walked through the singing glade and picked up something that lay in the comer near where the lions had been. He walked slowly back to his wife. "What is that?" she asked. "An old wallet of mine," he said. He showed it to her. The smell of hot grass was on it and the smell of a lion. There were drops of saliva on it, it bad been chewed, and there were blood smears on both sides. He closed the nursery door and locked it, tight. In the middle of the night he was still awake and he knew his wife was awake. "Do you think Wendy changed it?" she said at last, in the dark room. "Of course." "Made it from a veldt into a forest and put Rima there instead of lions?" "Yes." "Why?" "I don't know. But it's staying locked until I find out." "How did your wallet get there?" "I don't know anything," he said, "except that I'm beginning to be sorry we bought that room for the children. If children are neurotic at all, a room like that -" "It's supposed to help them work off their neuroses in a healthful way." "I'm starting to wonder." He stared at the ceiling. "We've given the children everything they ever wanted. Is this our reward-secrecy, disobedience?" "Who was it said, 'Children are carpets, they should be stepped on occasionally'? We've never lifted a hand. They're insufferable - let's admit it. They come and go when they like; they treat us as if we were offspring. They're spoiled and we're spoiled." "They've been acting funny ever since you forbade them to take the rocket to New York a few months ago." "They're not old enough to do that alone, I explained." "Nevertheless, I've noticed they've been decidedly cool toward us since." "I think I'll have David McClean come tomorrow morning to have a look at Africa." "But it's not Africa now, it's Green Mansions country and Rima." "I have a feeling it'll be Africa again before then." A moment later they heard the screams. Two screams. Two people screaming from downstairs. And then a roar of lions. "Wendy and Peter aren't in their rooms," said his wife. He lay in his bed with his beating heart. "No," he said. "They've broken into the nursery." "Those screams - they sound familiar." "Do they?" "Yes, awfully." And although their beds tried very bard, the two adults couldn't be rocked to sleep for another hour. A smell of cats was in the night air. "Father?" said Peter. "Yes." Peter looked at his shoes. He never looked at his father any more, nor at his mother. "You aren't going to lock up the nursery for good, are you?" "That all depends." "On what?" snapped Peter. "On you and your sister. If you intersperse this Africa with a little variety - oh, Sweden perhaps, or Denmark or China -" "I thought we were free to play as we wished." "You are, within reasonable bounds." "What's wrong with Africa, Father?" "Oh, so now you admit you have been conjuring up Africa, do you?" "I wouldn't want the nursery locked up," said Peter coldly. "Ever." "Matter of fact, we're thinking of turning the whole house off for about a month. Live sort of a carefree one-for-all existence." "That sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?" "It would be fun for a change, don't you think?" "No, it would be horrid. I didn't like it when you took out the picture painter last month." "That's because I wanted you to learn to paint all by yourself, son." "I don't want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do?" "All right, go play in Africa." "Will you shut off the house sometime soon?" "We're considering it." "I don't think you'd better consider it any more, Father." "I won't have any threats from my son!" "Very well." And Peter strolled off to the nursery. "Am I on time?" said David McClean. "Breakfast?" asked George Hadley. "Thanks, had some. What's the trouble?" "David, you're a psychologist." "I should hope so." "Well, then, have a look at our nursery. You saw it a year ago when you dropped by; did you notice anything peculiar about it then?" "Can't say I did; the usual violences, a tendency toward a slight paranoia here or there, usual in children because they feel persecuted by parents constantly, but, oh, really nothing." They walked down the ball. "I locked the nursery up," explained the father, "and the children broke back into it during the night. I let them stay so they could form the patterns for you to see." There was a terrible screaming from the nursery. "There it is," said George Hadley. "See what you make of it." They walked in on the children without rapping. The screams had faded. The lions were feeding. "Run outside a moment, children," said George Hadley. "No, don't change the mental combination. Leave the walls as they are. Get!" With the children gone, the two men stood studying the lions clustered at a distance, eating with great relish whatever it was they had caught. "I wish I knew what it was," said George Hadley. "Sometimes I can almost see. Do you think if I brought high-powered binoculars here and -" David McClean laughed dryly. "Hardly." He turned to study all four walls. "How long has this been going on?" "A little over a month." "It certainly doesn't feel good." "I want facts, not feelings." "My dear George, a psychologist never saw a fact in his life. He only hears about feelings; vague things. This doesn't feel good, I tell you. Trust my hunches and my instincts. I have a nose for something bad. This is very bad. My advice to you is to have the whole damn room torn down and your children brought to me every day during the next year for treatment." "Is it that bad?" "I'm afraid so. One of the original uses of these nurseries was so that we could study the patterns left on the walls by the child's mind, study at our leisure, and help the child. In this case, however, the room has become a channel toward-destructive thoughts, instead of a release away from them." "Didn't you sense this before?" "I sensed only that you bad spoiled your children more than most. And now you're letting them down in some way. What way?" "I wouldn't let them go to New York." "What else?" "I've taken a few machines from the house and threatened them, a month ago, with closing up the nursery unless they did their homework. I did close it for a few days to show I meant business." "Ah, ha!" "Does that mean anything?" "Everything. Where before they had a Santa Claus now they have a Scrooge. Children prefer Santas. You've let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children's affections. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents. And now you come along and want to shut it off. No wonder there's hatred here. You can feel it coming out of the sky. Feel that sun. George, you'll have to change your life. Like too many others, you've built it around creature comforts. Why, you'd starve tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn't know bow to tap an egg. Nevertheless, turn everything off. Start new. It'll take time. But we'll make good children out of bad in a year, wait and see." "But won't the shock be too much for the children, shutting the room up abruptly, for good?" "I don't want them going any deeper into this, that's all." The lions were finished with their red feast. The lions were standing on the edge of the clearing watching the two men. "Now I'm feeling persecuted," said McClean. "Let's get out of here. I never have cared for these damned rooms. Make me nervous." "The lions look real, don't they?" said George Hadley. I don't suppose there's any way -" "What?" "- that they could become real?" "Not that I know." "Some flaw in the machinery, a tampering or something?" "No." They went to the door. "I don't imagine the room will like being turned off," said the father. "Nothing ever likes to die - even a room." "I wonder if it hates me for wanting to switch it off?" "Paranoia is thick around here today," said David McClean. "You can follow it like a spoor. Hello." He bent and picked up a bloody scarf. "This yours?" "No." George Hadley's face was rigid. "It belongs to Lydia." They went to the fuse box together and threw the switch that killed the nursery. The two children were in hysterics. They screamed and pranced and threw things. They yelled and sobbed and swore and jumped at the furniture. "You can't do that to the nursery, you can't!'' "Now, children." The children flung themselves onto a couch, weeping. "George," said Lydia Hadley, "turn on the nursery, just for a few moments. You can't be so abrupt." "No." "You can't be so cruel..." "Lydia, it's off, and it stays off. And the whole damn house dies as of here and now. The more I see of the mess we've put ourselves in, the more it sickens me. We've been contemplating our mechanical, electronic navels for too long. My God, how we need a breath of honest air!" And he marched about the house turning off the voice clocks, the stoves, the heaters, the shoe shiners, the shoe lacers, the body scrubbers and swabbers and massagers, and every other machine be could put his hand to. The house was full of dead bodies, it seemed. It felt like a mechanical cemetery. So silent. None of the humming hidden energy of machines waiting to function at the tap of a button. "Don't let them do it!" wailed Peter at the ceiling, as if he was talking to the house, the nursery. "Don't let Father kill everything." He turned to his father. "Oh, I hate you!" "Insults won't get you anywhere." "I wish you were dead!" "We were, for a long while. Now we're going to really start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we're going to live." Wendy was still crying and Peter joined her again. "Just a moment, just one moment, just another moment of nursery," they wailed. "Oh, George," said the wife, "it can't hurt." "All right - all right, if they'll just shut up. One minute, mind you, and then off forever." "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!" sang the children, smiling with wet faces. "And then we're going on a vacation. David McClean is coming back in half an hour to help us move out and get to the airport. I'm going to dress. You turn the nursery on for a minute, Lydia, just a minute, mind you." And the three of them went babbling off while he let himself be vacuumed upstairs through the air flue and set about dressing himself. A minute later Lydia appeared. "I'll be glad when we get away," she sighed. "Did you leave them in the nursery?" "I wanted to dress too. Oh, that horrid Africa. What can they see in it?" "Well, in five minutes we'll be on our way to Iowa. Lord, how did we ever get in this house? What prompted us to buy a nightmare?" "Pride, money, foolishness." "I think we'd better get downstairs before those kids get engrossed with those damned beasts again." Just then they heard the children calling, "Daddy, Mommy, come quick - quick!" They went downstairs in the air flue and ran down the hall. The children were nowhere in sight. "Wendy? Peter!" They ran into the nursery. The veldtland was empty save for the lions waiting, looking at them. "Peter, Wendy?" The door slammed. "Wendy, Peter!" George Hadley and his wife whirled and ran back to the door. "Open the door!" cried George Hadley, trying the knob. "Why, they've locked it from the outside! Peter!" He beat at the door. "Open up!" He heard Peter's voice outside, against the door. "Don't let them switch off the nursery and the house," he was saying. Mr. and Mrs. George Hadley beat at the door. "Now, don't be ridiculous, children. It's time to go. Mr. McClean'll be here in a minute and..." And then they heard the sounds. The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats. The lions. Mr. Hadley looked at his wife and they turned and looked back at the beasts edging slowly forward crouching, tails stiff. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley screamed. And suddenly they realized why those other screams bad sounded familiar. "Well, here I am," said David McClean in the nursery doorway, "Oh, hello." He stared at the two children seated in the center of the open glade eating a little picnic lunch. Beyond them was the water hole and the yellow veldtland; above was the hot sun. He began to perspire. "Where are your father and mother?" The children looked up and smiled. "Oh, they'll be here directly." "Good, we must get going." At a distance Mr. McClean saw the lions fighting and clawing and then quieting down to feed in silence under the shady trees. He squinted at the lions with his hand tip to his eyes. Now the lions were done feeding. They moved to the water hole to drink. A shadow flickered over Mr. McClean's hot face. Many shadows flickered. The vultures were dropping down the blazing sky. "A cup of tea?" asked Wendy in the silence. Back Close Window SpyLOG

[@simple_jonson2240]

10/10 read

[@TheDeltaEnforcer]

so ive already read the story. I should NOT have clicked show more...... so. much. scrolling.

[@Kat.CA1]

John McCracken we read this in school and it made me think of this song! Had a feeling the song was written about the book.

[@Starcantdraw]

The story is creepy... And that's why I like it

[@5ynic]

+John McCracken Thank you so much. I read this as a child and have not been able to remember enough details (inc. that it was Bradbury's!) to track it down. Great to discover it also inspired Joel, and grat to re-read it. Now to track down a Bradbury anthology that includes this :)

[@MKeehl23]

«Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt” and Dai Sato's anime, “Ergo Proxy” share a common theme, both of these stories show how depending too much on technology is not good for us both physically and mentally. In both of these narratives, the humans begin relying on technology so much that they cannot do things for themselves. In “The Veldt” the children always had machines do everything for them, but when the technology left, they did not even know how to tie their own shoes. In Ergo Proxy, one of the main characters, Re-I Mayer, makes her personal robot do all the menial tasks like driving and preparing food for her. Because of this, when a robot was chasing her and getting close to killing her, she couldn’t drive away and instead crashed her car and was almost killed. In both cases, the humans relied on their technology too much and as a consequence, they couldn’t properly do things for themselves.»

[@vasjaruiz3766]

I love this song so much .

[@junebug9594]

I love you..

[@Nathsters]

junebug9594 LOL

[@vasjaruiz3766]

junebug9594 I love you, too? xD

[@keithbowman379]

junebug9594 DRAMA BOMB :D

[@Alucard666QC]

I used to be like you , then I decided to read to story about this song ... now Its different D:

[@kne100]

My Girlfriend told me she hates "Deadmaaafive " *Face palm* but how.... how can someone hate Deadmau5 :c

[@khrisnakhristian5419]

king of troll that's why.

[@kne100]

Nahh, she isn't trolling. -.-''

[@khrisnakhristian5419]

im talking about joel, bro.

[@TannerUlrich69]

Khrisna Khristian He's trolling.

[@seankinsellasean]

How could anyone with that hair be straight?

[@ethantercier6057]

8 and a half minutes of pure happiness

[@benmuia2278]

@Ethan Tercier Too true

[@OnceUponReddit]

How's life?

[@m0nkuu]

Almost 2 and a half years later, this is still my favourite song ever. Still brings a tear to my eye.

[@tomp7401]

Same so much Nostalgia of 2012 especially Veld music fest where Deadmau5 Played this amazing song

[@completelytwisted4811]

Preach it this song is pure bliss

[@MashrufKabir]

I don't know how Joel does it. I am gonna miss this guy when he dies lol

[@omarbaltazar8482]

***** kinda fucked but nice at same time just lets not get to ahead of ourselves

[@MashrufKabir]

come here Yeah..

[@Matt-ky8re]

10 years ago I was abroad in London and heard this track for the first time. Every few nights me and my friends would stay up until 4-5am listening to this track and other deadmau5. It’s honestly fucking incredible how music acts as a portal. It’s such a powerfully beautiful agent in this wild life of ours. I’m grateful everyday for these sounds.

[@auntyshmoney]

whenever I walk home from school I listen to this song and walk at the rhythm. thanks for existing, deadmau5, you really changed my life for the greater good through music. xx

[@DarkAngel96]

I listen to this when I'm depressed

[@aidenfindley8918]

This song helps me a lot :)

[@TrixxSDS]

+DarkAn9el05 same here :/

[@isaurocano5616]

Nothing to do. Perfect combination of voice, rhythm and sound like no other of Deadmau5. Awesome masterpiece

[@davemayer6128]

finally I've been cured.