Keaton Henson - Small Hands

[@guts7185]

omg the one part when the rabbit is shivering and alone... Gets me every time ;(

[@kailutz4901]

It is comparable to tearing at my hearts strings with a dagger

[@revekkaestacado437]

yung James that part got me too. and the owl :(

[@jowisz9061]

It's the sadness part i think

[@patrickghilotti3984]

Wtf

[@dramaticromantic6446]

I'll never get over that bunny trembling like that

[@Kaftannn]

This song hurts. And it's a good feeling for some reason.

[@hannaharcanjo4663]

I agree with you

[@VLNTN333]

its like a sense of nostalgia and longing for something out of reach

[@alicefish8348]

it's like looking back on a period of time that really really hurt. and yet now you know that you managed to survive, and you've managed to get to by, but you still look back and remember how bad it hurt/never thought you'd manage to forge a life but ..you somehow did.

[@DriverSurpriseMe1]

+david garcia Definitely! The etymology of the word nostalgia comes from the Ancient Greek words 'nostos' and 'algos', the former meaning a return and the latter a painful yearning. The impossibility of a return is made so much more painful through the realisation that the the memory longed for has been romanticized in our minds into a perfect ideal that never even existed! The bleak is always the most beautiful.

[@aliishtiaq1889]

Very well put!

[@hillendskier]

"dot my 'i's with eyebrow pencils, close my eyelids, hide my eyes, I'll be idle in my ideals, think of nothing else but I." That right there is some of the most creative lyricism I have ever heard!

[@sevenhoursbehind2048]

Willem Claude De Blonde tru

[@mobirai4865]

Can you explain the meaning of these lyrics please ?

[@leleelvis7979]

Could you explain

[@pedrohenriquea.1477]

+lele elvis It shows how lonely he is, it's a word play with "i", how he is just by himself. Dot my "i's" with eye*i*ball pencil, hide my eye*i*s, close my eye*i*s *i*ll be *i*dle in *my* *i*deas, think of nothing else but *i*, i, i. (The * is to represent the "i's" that he put, to focus that he's just by himself, sorry if i made it complicated)

[@user-yx9gi2dc6t]

@@pedrohenriquea.1477 you did perfectly, thank you

[@Permanentertainmentchannel]

I think "Small Hands" is about a song about not being able to handle so much of our emotions at the same time. We usually think people with "bigger" hands are capable of holding so much more when everyone have small hands. Its only when we think that enough is never enough so we lose things we never meant to lose. We lose grasp of things that were there and even overlooking things. Only when you take that last thing in your hand and it starts to overwhelm and that one thing, no matter how small will overfill your small hands causing everything to fall out. You collapse and there's really onlt ever one thing to do; to close your eyes and to offer what you dont have in hopes of starting over once again. We all have small hands but thats not always a bad thing, in fact it reminds us our vulnerability inside each one of us

[@assistantdirector7599]

Well said brother

[@tommiewesley9479]

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[@tommiewesley9479]

It's about ugly people physically ugly people.

[@brieplays5433]

@@tommiewesley9479 wtf man are you ok

[@snakeberry7105]

@@tommiewesley9479 everyone will have different perspectives on what message the song is trying to give.

[@mattvalcarc]

There's a certain sorrow that Keaton projects with his music that strikes a cord in me, it really makes me appreciate my own sorrow.

[@quietstream8206]

Matt Valcarcel This will probably be one of the very few songs in my life that can make me tear up. gg

[@ren09rn]

Jim Who My sentiments exactly.

[@atheermesfer5023]

Jim Who omg you said exactly what I couldn't turn into words.

[@grarglejobber5773]

cord means a bundle of wood. Chord is the word you're looking for.

[@Punkpsychobilly]

Certain sorrow? This song is downright heartwrenching. The video makes it even worse. If you’ve ever had someone who you love more than you love yourself ripped away from you, you’ll understand.

[@johncrane3060]

They're fucking rag dolls why am I crying like a baby

[@blacktornado1509]

lol

[@revekkaestacado437]

John Crane Same here..

[@fungames8098]

John Crane 😂

[@adalinerosewood]

because beauty and melancholy are everywhere

[@a-r-jamie6575]

LMFOA BRUH

[@theloonylady]

HOW CAN A SNAIL HAVE SUCH UNDERSTANDABLE SORROW?!?!?!?!?!

[@alicehunger5563]

Stupid human.

[@bellag4183]

@@alicehunger5563 lol

[@i-am-very-real]

super late but I get you

[@shihabmahamud4512]

Maybe They Have Felling

[@Arun_Kumar_x86]

Wow u commented 7 years before? Wow

[@janedemunbrun7032]

Re watched this again. Thought maybe I wouldn't cry this time. I was wrong. The rabbit shivering gets me every time. It really shows what being alone feels like.

[@rexnuth]

+Jane Demunbrun To me, the frog makes me cry worse than the shivering rabit. The rabit remember the warmth its lover once provided, but the frog is gone. It doensn't move, it doesn't jump, or look out for danger. The frog makes me cry so badly because the frog is empty, alone, and doesn't even have sadness to keep it company.

[@janedemunbrun7032]

im not crying ((again)) what are you talking about

[@momerathsx]

+Jane Demunbrun The owl gets me. That little face.

[@alicefish8348]

+Jane Demunbrun ugh they're all heartbreaking. watched this multiple times and trying to decide which one hurts most. initially it was the frog, then the bunny, now i think the owls -going from snuggling and moving in sync to just sitting still, is awful. so yeah, all are super astute.

[@SinaMuscarina]

same here ...

[@CedarCypher13]

Wasn't expecting to have my heart absolutely shattered by the music video. This song feels like rain damp air in a place you can never go back to

[@pol1ni]

This song reminds me of my brother, who died of depression on march, 2023. I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since

[@boogiesloth09]

i have heard this song a million times but i've never seen the video so i thought i would check it out it was beautiful but that rabbit crying and shivering by itself was the saddest thing i've ever seen.

[@alivia3614]

same!! lol ik it’s a 10 year difference but i’ve listened to the song for the past few years.. didn’t even know there was a music video :(

[@PhantomLAM]

I didn't expect this to be as dark as it turned out to be...damn good song.

[@CB-ce6bk]

neither did I :-D I thought it could have been about children learning from their parents or something like that, but this video got me shaking anyways

[@wtf_elliee]

Screw you Henson for writing something so heartbreakingly beautiful.

[@agentk62]

Ellie Schwoop Agreed

[@simismile7453]

Ellie Schwoop I feel as though you possess a beautiful soul.

[@albablabla]

My eyes are burning. This is art.

[@khbikhib]

fascinating aint it :D ?

[@anitabeer5127]

Anything that grabs you and evokes s a reaction like that, I'd call art. Well done Henson. I first heard his music on a British show called," Derek." It is a special episode and his song breaks your heart.

[@FantomTheCat]

The music video is just a bunch puppets yet I'm crying.

[@YukiKunikida]

I know, it's all great made. Amazing work.

[@goyjin5676]

Wow Youre an idiot and the fact that your comment has 100 likes is depressing

[@willynillyyy9538]

@@goyjin5676 i - pretty much out of nowhere but go off i guess

[@luizabinaj3030]

This song helped my while I was grieveing my dad, it reminds me of how empty and with no sense my life felt at the time. Like life couldn't go on, but it actually has. Every time I listen to it, it reminds me of how unprotected and lonely I felt against the world.

[@pol1ni]

all that grief will become love with a space in your heart where it can go, it just takes time and a lot of patience, you can’t force yourself to feel better when you are not in a good place

[@joshyates9382]

"Please forget me, you were right dear. I am cold and self involved, and though I'll miss you recent lover, I am weak and therefore fold" That line makes me reflect on myself and how I've been so selfish in relationships. Its lyrics pulled from my mind that I was too scared and stubborn to bring into existence by speaking them aloud. Thank you, for sparing me that and allowing me to open my eyes

[@JJ-cb2ld]

The first time i heard this song I had goosebumps covering my entire body, I could hardly breathe. My dream is that one day I will meet a girl that truly understands how brilliant this song is.

[@El_Gato_Waton]

Dude, I met that woman. This song was de last we listen together in 2017. I hope you meet a girl more cheerful than you

[@onuralpkurtoglu7063]

I met that woman too, but then we severed our ties. And now I can't share this song with any other :')

[@joshyates3765]

He is trying to convey something here and by reading the comments, it sounds like he accomplished his goal. Most artists are trying to project a certain emotion throughout their music. He astoundingly not only hit the mark, but seems to have shattered the target.

[@TheMounde]

Keaton Henson brought me here

[@alexanderblades2399]

Amen

[@fungames8098]

Acchanowa wow lol

[@AboveTHATUSA]

from Turkey this is art..

[@mayaconnor8851]

This feels so real. So human. If that makes sense.

[@jinakwon1375]

Despite it being about puppet animals. You’re right. Straight up.

[@niroopotsav]

absolutely

[@discothedino2330]

I wasn't crying. I was rolling around on the floor bawling my eyes out.

[@YouOnUsPath]

🥺 10y ago, still there...

[@rubyandra2]

This man is without a doubt an artistic genius and deserves so much recognition for this and all his music

[@ForEverAScorpio]

I never expected someone I've never met to help me so much

[@otheroranotherone]

Full Lyrics: Miss you terribly already Miss the space between your eyelids, Where I'd stare through awkward sentences And void through awkward silence Miss your teeth when they chatter, When we smoked out in my garden When we couldn't sleep for all the heat, Soft talk began to harden Miss your small hands in the palm of mine, The fact they're good at making Miss you sitting up incessantly, And the fact you're always waking in the night And night And I, I hope for your life You forget about mine Forget about mine Miss your teeth dug in my shoulder, As we rolled in early morning, Miss your arm dying beneath me, As I lay there, simply yawning Please forget me, you were right dear I am cold and self-involved And though I'll miss you, recent lover I am weak and therefore fold Get distracted by my music, Think of nothing else but art I'll write my loneliness in poems, If I can just think how to start Dot my I's with eyebrow pencils, Close my eyelids, hide my eyes, I'll be idle in my ideals, Think of nothing else but I I And I And I I hope for your life You can forget about mine Just forget about mine Oh, mine Mine

[@jorehb]

Thank you

[@micheganjelliott7147]

The snail at 2:30 is what made me in tears.

[@GenesisBolanos]

this song always makes me cry, best work of Keaton Henson in my opinion

[@mahsoukaina9916]

i had tears dropping all over my face while watching this ... ur voice is very deep and brings me back all my sad memories .... rip replay button

[@rachellejanssen2655]

it's like he's almost crying while singing, which makes me tear up D': everything about this song makes me sad!

[@jettgem]

All the comments talk about how much people relate to the rabbit and how it perfectly expresses how it feels to be alone, but honestly, I relate so much more to the frog and I feel its just as fitting of a representation of the feeling. The rabbit says to me: horror, terror, grief. The rabbit is alone and its distraught but it's also full of raw panic because it just woke up to watch it's den mate get violently attacked and dragged away and there's no guarantee the fox won't come back (which is why I think we later see that the den is empty, because it fled. Away from the grief, the fear, the sorrow). The frog however, has already escaped the clutches of the snake, its alone in that pond and it just looks so frozen, the world is turning around it but the frog is deathly still, like there's nothing left to live for - like its completely alone. When I see the frog I feel this crushing depression that I'm so familiar with myself, like you have no one and nothing to reach to. When the frog disappears, I feel this underlying symbolism of someone who's given up. Who's drown.

[@wademack531]

Look, I'm a big tough football playing guy, but man this song and this video... i couldn't help but cry.

[@paroxysm8588]

Keatons music gives me a certain energy thats hard to put my finger on, it's not a melancholy feeling, nor is it inspiration. It sends tingles across my head and down my back, I suddenly have something in my eyes and a terrifying sense of nostalgia! His art, his suffering, put into lines that can bring out something inside of me that can move moutains and cause chaos. I suppose in its own way his poetry, his pain, makes me... happy, I feel a sense of moral and peace. Maybe its because I know I am not alone, and so many others. Physically, maybe even emotionally I am, we are, but never mentally.

[@run4passion]

The most emotional portrayal on loneness I've seen in a video.

[@felicityfoo6240]

Am I the only one who cried watching this?

[@duckthurgood3651]

Definitely not. Every time

[@jowiceful]

+felicity foo i would cry but my make up is too cool.

[@seedicc3307]

+Natalia Suder =))) it makes my day omg

[@dovestone_]

No 😰

[@Galvenox]

+felicity foo I cried the very fist time I heard it. now not so much, but it's still very special to me.

[@RolfParkerHoughton]

If only all puppet films were nearyl this good. The music is truly great, and thanks to the exquisite editing, the music is married to the puppetry. But the puppet film we have here, could perhaps still be a masterpiece, even with other music.

[@Tardigradeblast]

This song made me feel something so strange that i couldn't express, its everything, oh my, my heart is just too weak to listen to this, why i am i crying!!

[@Lovegood1997]

so, so sad. never cried so much because of a song.

[@Lylathemaltipoo]

*wipes tear* "NO YOU'RE CRYING"

[@jada-kai]

I am not crying...these aren't tears... I have not been reduced to a sniffling mess. Keaton you are a musical genius.

[@oliviagoglia6139]

im so madly in love with this song. it makes me feel alone and safe all at once, it's truly amazing and i can't express it in words

[@Victoriya]

Does anyone else notice that this song is a perfect combination of bright eyes - first day of my life (musically) and bright eyes - the calendar calendar hung itself (lyrically) ? It's insane

[@yosewise]

It really does!

[@MsDreamySky]

This song has literally kept me up at night

[@pabloizaya4933]

Same is happening to me right now

[@gennerobootz6490]

It’s worse when your deeply in love with someone who is trying to figure themselves out

[@ImprovingSlowly]

I have never felt so alone.

[@hernantirado6968]

Every single song of him is touching me at this moment... i hate you and love you for that... thanks keaton.

[@koubrrr]

i brought myself here. i once searched small hands for the buzzfeed video with ashley and this gem came up. this song is a treasure i found myself. i love this song.

[@maddie3720]

really hurt my heart watching this, I can’t watch the full thing without crying. I wish I could find the words to write poetry as beautiful as this.

[@jthb]

Life is best when shared with others The sorrow we feel shows we had great times with that person

[@isobellaevans6901]

This song makes me want to go and tell all the people I love how much I appreciate them

[@NathanielBoyce-z3v]

Music for the heartbroken. And Keaton was so young... ...But then I remember. I was younger than he was.

[@kaytlynkoala199]

This video depressed me so much I loved it

[@hannahp1155]

Keaton I have been listening to this song for years and have finally watched this music video and I am so sad

[@tea5805]

"Think of nothing else but I Ill write my loneliness in poem If i can just think how to start Dot my "i's" with eyebrow pencils Close my eyelids, hide my eyes Ill be idle in my ideals Think of nothing else but I" Thats genius lyric writing right there

[@dorcasnyambura7562]

please explain this... thanks

[@lizziethompson4131]

@@dorcasnyambura7562 sorry, this comment is two years old but basically it’s a play on the word ‘I’, in the words I, write, i’s, eyebrow, eyelids, eyes, idle, ideals, and I again the sound I is present. It’s highlighting his loneliness, I believe, and possibly covert narcissism by highlighting the word I. (I’m not entirely sure though)

[@Irileth16]

i´m crying so hard this left me in pieces.

[@Juju-tb8vs]

i watch this any time i need a good cry. it makes me feel so alone, but comforted.

[@zonaaaa]

Good Music always find you so somehow. Indeed!

[@AbhilashNoxBaruahnx1ee7]

Quite simply, one of the most brilliant lyrics I've came across in 3 years. This song is Gold!

[@marleerandel8322]

This is honestly one of the saddest and most beautiful things I've seen

[@Squiffy8]

That shivering bunny gets me every time.

[@TheRosaChannel]

The bunny is what really gets me. I recognize that feel, man.

[@antoniodt96]

This is not a song. This is an adventure.

[@Chellips]

I'm crying right now OMG

[@karenlantz7873]

Why was it that every time i watch this my eyes start balling out in tears. Its like when a very sad part of my life being replayed in a music video and a man with a beautiful and very expressive voice is telling me the story like he knows everything about me

[@littleLins3000]

"You can love someone so much, but you will nerver lover people as much as you can miss them." - John Green

[@Lol0918]

every time I watch this video I sob, whenever I feel everything is falling apart I come to this video to relieve myself from all my pent up sadness. I just start crying so hard it hurts

[@theziraa]

This is one of the saddest and most comforting songs I've ever listened.

[@frannychoo2]

this song gets my crying every time and i love it with my entire heart

[@eskimokid]

How has an artist with over a quarter of a million views on most of his videos not got a wikipedia page? He is simply amazing. Thank you Keaton.

[@taranash783]

This song has always been such a masterpiece and I hope it never goes away. Even 5 years later it can make my heart feel things no other music can.

[@cccourtney95]

You know a song makes you emotionally fragile when the music video featuring animal puppets makes you cry. I lost it at the shivering bunny. oh god...

[@mariapalitho]

I have never felt so alone. Is killing me. This song reminds me of that.

[@Mr_Doodleydoo]

It hits me pretty hard sometimes, knowing that these lonely days are someday going to be what I look back on as the beginning of adulthood. I think the trick is taking that feeling and acting on it

[@reem_ebrahim]

It makes me cry EVERY TIME why do I still watch it?

[@syrinebenyoussef4594]

I cry whenever I listen to his songs ... You just take my breath away , Keaton Henson!

[@salamanstir5531]

this song is so sad but weirdly melancholic in a good way :( which hurts

[@cheekyletta]

oh got this hurt me. I feel like i've been shot.

[@sylwia30114]

same...

[@crying_gengar1676]

same 😢

[@grarglejobber4263]

That's only your ego. The souls loves sorrow as it loves happiness :')

[@JoyAnne63]

Grargle Jobber Beautiful sadness

[@simismile7453]

Jessie Letta I think many people relate to this. Unexpectedly getting hit with such deep emotions. It so quick and sudden that you have no time to bring up those emotional walls and prepare. Its so blunt and beautiful.

[@camdensvec]

his voice always makes me sob. i feel the emotion he’s trying to invoke in me

[@ngc2005]

OMG, is one of the most beautiful and moving videos I've seen!...I loved the puppets, nice concept

[@SunnysFilms]

This video always made me sad, but it never made me cry before until I lost my mom. I spent so much time her and it's all gone.

[@luizgusthavo114]

Such a depressive music. So beautiful, so sad.

[@ioannismaragoudakis44]

The tears are pouring out. God, this was sad beyond belief.

[@imreadydoctor]

There is a metaphysical law of attraction between people named "Henson" and puppets.

[@sonraanlatirim]

Keaton Henson, you are amazing.

[@menahileman]

This fucking video is so emotional. I get goosebumps everytime I watch it.

[@jonotmama1063]

What I understood from this was that even if the most important thing in your life suddenly disappears, you have to move on. (And sometimes, most times, that can lead to you finding something possibly better.)

[@SKELETONORCHESTRA]

I cry every time.

[@shashanksai3196]

Heard this song in the movie 'X Y'. Instantly loved it. Its on of those songs that hit really good while watching that scene.... (U know like Rider song with Now you see me Card scene)

[@genifervega3357]

oh god, this is so beautiful it hurts.

[@SrErikCore]

Keaton is the best musician of this galaxy ♥ Is my inspiration, is prodigious (:

[@evangelinemurphy1460]

this has been my favorite song for a long time but I've never brought myself to watch the video. now that i have, my heart is breaking even more. i was not expecting the video to be like this, but it was beautifully done. who knew puppets could make me feel so much

[@deiondrastafford571]

A Brilliant Young Mind brought me here.Such a sad and beautiful song!!!💯

[@RAAHitsAmy]

The video for this is so beautiful. It has so much meaning! Comparing this to music today puts everything to shame. I love this so much!

[@alexlex14x]

I'm sitting here flooded with tears, watching the video for the 5th time. this is heartbreaking.

[@fortunemabaso5486]

I love this song......its so amazing cant stop playing it

[@riripan6647]

A Brilliant Young Mind brought me here!

[@MariaRamirez-fq2bu]

this video makes me cry

[@alecstouffer4607]

okay?

[@tartanpetals6264]

I can't listen to this song anymore. Not because its bad - it's bloody brilliant, but this helped me through a rough patch. I can't listen to this anymore because I connected to it and felt comforted through it when life all seemed so bleak. Thank you and you're so very talented, Keaton is all I can say x

[@DeeAyBee]

Damn dude, that was brutal. I'm not crying, you're crying.

[@apolloween]

"Love an artist and you'll live forever"

[@theinnoverse]

a brilliant young mind - x+y brought me here, i love this song so much!

[@marlienepas8732]

Oww yeah🤩🤩🤩