Steven Wilson - Happy Returns (from Hand. Cannot. Erase.)

The new video from Steven Wilson for "Happy Returns", originally from the Hand. Cannot. Erase. album, the song also features on the personally curated Transience album
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Steven Wilson, four-time Grammy nominee, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and one of the hardest working artists in music, will be touring his Hand. Cannot. Erase. in North America for November 2016. Wilson has also announced two dates in India for December.
Kscope label mate, Bruce Soord (frontman for The Pineapple Thief) will be performing a solo set as opening act for the first 9 shows (starting in Portland and finishing in Dallas), after which, John Wesley will take over for the final 4 shows (starting in Atlanta).
Tickets are selling out quickly for the thirteen dates of the tour, so make sure not to miss out by heading to Wilson's site for tickets - stevenwilsonhq.com/sw/tour-dates/
"Happy Returns" was filmed and directed by Youssef Nassar and features the model, Karolina "Carrie" Grzybowska, who were both involved in the video for "Perfect Life" from H.C.E.
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[@lucasljorge]

the solo, the clip, the girl, the parentheses, the song... So much feelings...

[@stevesmith3990]

'The years pass like trains, I wave but they don't slow down'. Wonderful words, so true.

[@johnhoppin7928]

one of the greatest lines ever

[@shiftyjesusfish]

it feels like just yesterday I first heard this....difference is this time this line brought tears to my eyes. they dont slow down at all.

[@psychocolate]

the years just pass like trains i wave but they don’t slow down

[@DanhIkarus]

Are you Vietnamese? If so then xin chào :v

[@psychocolate]

@@DanhIkarus xin chào nhau giữa con đường

[@fabianaraya8836]

@Space Monkey tuuuu ru ruuuu

[@richierich1587]

Doo doooo dooo dooo Leto lo la la

[@Afterdark68]

Most powerful and most beautiful line here..

[@solitarysoul7604]

"i'm feeling kinda drowsy now, so i'll finish this tomorrow." Every time. Every. This brings tears. So so sad.

[@LoyalLady318]

"Hey brother..." it'll soon be 29 years since you left, 30 forever. After all these years, wonder who you'd look like, and how wonderful life would be if you were still here. March 19 you'd have been exactly the age Dad was when he passed. You broke his heart. Yeah, it was stomach cancer, but still, I'd never heard him cry and wished I was the one who'd died, to give you back to him. Stupid, yeah, I know. Grief over my big brother is something I'd rather have passed on! Hope you can hear me when I talk to you, sometimes crying...looking forward to hearing your laugh again, and thank you for everything, especially the last HUG...I swear I can still feel it at times. See you most likely sooner rather than later! Ttfn

[@SoumitraVadnerkar]

I wish there 'd a place where you all can meet someday and then live together forever.

[@LoyalLady318]

I've seen and been in THE Light...I'll again where my family waits; one day there will be a Happy Return! Until then, my how "Time Flies!" :-)

[@rkrokberg]

"It feels like I'm living in parenthesis" hits like a train every single time.

[@wiggy009]

I don’t know what that means tbh

[@chedadora3559]

​@@wiggy009It means feeling trapped, stuck, imprisoned, helpless.

[@rainycakes]

@@wiggy009 it's like your whole life is just an afterthought.

[@indecoler]

I cried when I saw this song live. It was such a special moment for me. 'Happy Returns' resonates very deeply with me.

[@paulmcconnell7631]

Me too

[@sarthakshukla1946]

This song reminds me of my time in Poland. The first time i saw the video was live in one of his concerts and just guessed from it that it might be Poland and it actually did turn out to be. Spent quite a while there with my ex and we both used to love Steven. Just brings a lot of nostalgia.

[@sidkul2k]

I can listen to this song a million times and yet get goosebumps at the solo at 4:01 Such a genius, Wilson. Such a genius! What a beautiful album. I can listen to it forever :)

[@highartalert6927]

First time ever something sensible has been said by a Heendu Bra-hmin. Kudos!

[@amrinderpalsingh8373]

Guthrie's magic

[@tobimm2]

@@amrinderpalsingh8373 That's Wilson. Guthrie follows at 4:28

[@MrRaphaelWagner]

Loneliness perfectly synthesized in music.

[@equimanthorn89]

"Hey brother, I feel I'm living in parentheses And I got trouble with the bills Do the kids remember me? Well I got gifts for them, and for you and sorrow But I'm feeling kind of drowsy now So I'll finish this tomorrow." these lyrics and the solo that follows it always puts a lump in my throat. one of the saddest songs Steven Wilson has ever written. the man is a musical genius...

[@Dehangus]

equimanthorn89 I always wondered what living in parentheses meant

[@Dehangus]

equimanthorn89 I always wondered what living in parentheses meant

[@Darktan2112]

Well, parentheses are used to insert an afterthought into an otherwise complete sentence, so I think it basically means her life is an afterthought. It works great with the fact that parentheses encapsulate something; so not only is she an afterthought, but she's encapsulated within her afterthought-ness as well.

[@hirdeshbisht7635]

@@Dehangus : In simple terms, the person is living in boundaries (Created by himself/herself, society or life)

[@Dehangus]

@@hirdeshbisht7635 I like darktans idea, but it could be that simple. Thanks for the input though, I haven't thought about this in a long time.

[@mahdiajorlou]

It stills hits me, after almost 6 years.

[@jadelomas8011]

This is the one song on the album that gets me every single time without fail. It's great to see a music video that's so transparent about HCE's concept, kind of puts some of the pieces together. Once again, another masterpiece from Steven Wilson. No, I'm not crying... My eyes are sweating..

[@Azrafer]

Release Regret #9! its video is damn brilliant!

[@chorizo06]

the best!

[@SirPwnographer]

Had the pleasure to listen Regret #9 twice last weekend here in Mexico. He played it in both dates!

[@kunalsharma2363]

Yes still waiting

[@micophilrey95]

My lovely city Poznań! thank you Steven

[@isourav13]

Not usually fond of music videos, but Steven Wilson's music videos are an exception. The solo playing in the background while the girl was dancing gave me goosebumps.

[@rayl3441]

Trains are used by Steven Wilson alot, I think in part because it's a metaphor for being connected in modern society yet still isolated as people don't socialize on trains even though they're stuck face to face.

[@Afterdark68]

And also nostalgia.

[@nihilitys]

No it's just because he spent his childhood living in a house that's close to a train station

[@PTCrucial]

This song is so good it’s just ridiculous. He is a genius. He speaks to my thoughts my dreams my hopes and my insecurities.

[@dmtgallardo]

This one in particular gives me the fucking FEELS 8(

[@alansanchez810]

Many happy returns brother, today you would be turning 38 years old. This is your first birthday not on earth and I truly miss you in ways you cannot imagine. I can't listen to this song without crying my eyes out. Hope they take good care of you up there. Love you.

[@OrbitarBand]

i know your pain friend, i lost my identical twin brother March 3rd 2023 and our birthday was November 1st it was so hard to get through that first bday without him.. he would have been 30 passed away at just 29 years young.

[@DavisJose]

I come back to this song, this video especially and just let it work it's magic on me. Just giving myself into the song. Feeling it. Not simply listening to it. But genuinely getting it into my mind... That's how much this song relates to me, even after so long. And so much.

[@KosmosDream]

Antidepressant ad before this video. This song is a better remedy for despondent thoughts. Thanks Stevie !

[@kbrewski1]

I saw 2 shows on the Hand Cannot Erase Tour because I knew it would be an emotional show and I wanted one show where I got wrapped up in the story, and one where I could sit back a bit more and just take in the music. With most if not all the songs being played, at one show straight through in order, it was truly an impactful emotional experience. For those that might not know, to truly understand this great album its worthwhile to know the background story. Wilson saw a documentary film about this young English girl who was found in her apartment deceased, and they determined she had been dead for 3 years. She was a skeleton at that point, surrounded by christmas gifts she was wrapping. It was one of these large low income concrete faceless apartments, and no one, not even her family members, had bothered checking in on her for over 3 years. The landlord never checked because the TV was on for 3 years and she autopayed her rent. The cause of death remains a mystery, could have been a drug overdose, but no foul play. She just expired from the world and no one noticed. That sad story is what led Wilson to write the Hand Cannot Erase album. I bought the documentary film on DVD and its so sad and shocking. She led a fairly normal life, and then she was gone and forgotten. Thus, being at the live concerts with the videos was very impactful and I welled up quite a few times, especially at the end. Just a powerful personal story, and Wilson is a genius to set it to powerful emotional music. This song, obviously at the end, was the most emotional and I had to try hard to contain it in the live shows. Such a poignant powerful song. And the line "Hey brother, I feel like I'm living in parentheses...", my god. I still well up every time I hear this song and see this video. For those interested, the documentary film is called Dreams of a Life, and the women's name was Joyce Vincent.

[@johnhoppin7928]

This song crushes me every time. I adore it.

[@pablotorobala954]

A perfect closure for A HUGE MASTERPIECE. A True New Classic. H.C.E. Top of the Top. A real genius indeed.

[@caelenselke-minogue]

The little voice break @ 0:49 in the word "lie." So subtle, and yet heart-wrenching....

[@bhagyashree666]

This song makes me fall in love with depression.

[@arkadeepsharma]

Oh no, nothing should make you fall in love with depression. This song, however, makes me fall in love with melancholia. Depression brings me down, melancholia elevates my sadness and lets me see the beauty in it. There's no beauty in depression.

[@caelenselke-minogue]

@@arkadeepsharma Well said! I love to listen to melancholic, heavy, or dark music (especially Porcupine Tree) There's so much beauty and depth in sad music.

[@hinder90]

I'm obsessed with her

[@interlacedlight6756]

Steven, the band, Youssef Nassar, Kscope, "Carrie", .... thank you so much, this is an absolutely masterpiece! I have had the pleasure to see "Hand.Cannot. Erase." in May '16 in Athens, where I was invited to make photos. Normally I stand with both feet firmly on the ground, but there was a magic in the room... it's hard to describe. It was like a dream. Anyway one of my best concerts, if not the best ever!

[@luciernagaluri7823]

this album has gone straight to my heart . Thank you Steven. 💜

[@FredBorbor]

Damn Wilson! You always make me cry :'(

[@MrMichele365]

Steven eres un maldito genio, amo todo lo que haces espero regreses pronto a México!!!

[@Tascamaniac]

Those few notes starting at 02:29 are among the most dramatic music ever recorded on a guitar. Not fancy or special at all, but nothing less than perfect in its context. It gets me every single time.

[@fawzimourad]

I look back since the album release and realize how much we are connected to the music and the story now, we've been through a lot together and it's heartwarming : )

[@RidwanAhmedArnob]

Less than 3000 views and I am one of the lucky ones! Saw him live in concert this week, my life is complete for the time being. Beautiful album, beautiful video.

[@amrinderpalsingh8373]

NH7 Weekender? I was there bro

[@santiagohernandez9025]

I am currently in my university years and I really felt I was living in parentheses with my family before the pandemic. When covid came I had to move back with my parents, near my brother and his family, because of online classes and since then I've felt part of my family again. I even became friend of my nephews. I felt frustrated of 2020 and all the changes it brought, but now I gotta say not everything was bad.

[@01loicd]

Goosebumps everytime at 2:30

[@ClaraTsukishiro]

I'm feeling kind of drowsy now, so I''ll finish this tomorrow. :')

[@hlzambrano]

I thought I was the only one that have felt that. There is also a light scream between 4:01 and 4:02

[@sneezingwizard]

"Yea~" :')

[@SirPwnographer]

Never noticed the pill she takes at 2:29 until last night on one of the two dates I had the pleasure to attend past week... This song always brings tears to my eyes whenever he plays it live.

[@tzuyuhypetrain9791]

2:30 and 4:02 is pure euphoria better than Ketamine

[@prajwol.001]

Brought tears to my eyes and made me smile at the same time !!!WOW

[@petedog9581]

This is so heart-breaking but common... the forgotten people. RIP JVC. Steven made you important for eternity. "Life is shot, art is long."

[@lokomiusek]

Great nod to Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures at 02:50. Both excellent and moving video.

[@rubenguerra3538]

En vivo es una experiencia maravillosa. Do the kids remember me? Well I got gifts for them, and for you more sorrow...

[@musick777]

I've heard this album multiple times and even seen him play the whole thing live. but for some reason just now, the first verse just hit me right in the gut and moved me. Dang it.

[@adam872]

Not alone there mate. This song on the whole album is an incredible piece of art.

[@AkeFreak]

Happened to me this morning.

[@muan5518]

Matt Vargo it reminds me of myself...its just sad

[@ameyyramachandran7176]

That's how you know it's good music my man

[@yashsanghvi2805]

Steven Wilson is obsessed with the word trains isn't he?

[@manuelconceicao7933]

He likes trains

[@elishifrin2553]

Yash Sanghvi Cigarettes too

[@chinmoychatterjee130]

Trains, cigarettes, impressionistic, melancholia

[@josephbennett4236]

Well known for it, Yash.

[@avnichoubey8868]

How to earn

[@einsamervogel7546]

Once more... these feelings

[@javierjones]

Brilliant in every sense.

[@_MrPink_]

The soul in this track cannot be charted. Steve gets it, as he always has, as he always will. LOVE.

[@scratchyhamster]

One of my favourite songs from HCE, simple yet beautiful.

[@rahuljoshi198]

If I'll be living thing in year 2080, I swear I'll still be listening to this song. This is just perfect. Much love and respect SW. Hope to see you again here in India soon.

[@ElMabrak]

kkkkkkGAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! THE FEEEEEELS MAN, THE FEELS!!!

[@josuehernandezislas8762]

Este tema es verdaderamente bellisimo, desgarrador y sublime, lo digo de pie, Steven Wilson es un maestro en la música

[@So-Be-It_85949]

Na Na Na Na Na Na Hey Brother Happy Returns 💌

[@thehardtruth2014]

A beautiful video to compliment my favourite song from the album. Great work Steven and Co!

[@atina1278]

My whole lifetime in a one song. Emotional

[@Benson1984tube]

Greatest lyrics ever from SW.

[@moinshariff5594]

Can't wait to watch the Prog God express his true Divinity 😇😇 Already feel blessed 😇

[@martinpowell5769]

Absolutely beautiful song, will never get tired of listening to this

[@madhureshbhola2030]

So is she the same girl who was when 13, had a sister for six months who had arrived one February morning, pale and shellshocked, from past lives she could not imagine, who was 3 years older than her, but in no time they became friends. They’d listen to her sister's mix tapes; Dead Can Dance, Felt, This Mortal Coil… She introduced her to her favourite books, gave her clothes, and her first cigarette. Sometimes they would head down to Blackbirds moor to watch the barges on Grand Union in the twilight. She said “The water has no memory.” For a few months everything about their lives was perfect. It was only them, they were inseparable. But gradually, she passed into another distant part of her memory, until she could no longer remember her face, her voice, even her name? And then she grows up and now her brother lives in some other country, and barely talks to her and every time they talk, she feels drowsy because of the different time zones and it's her sleeping time and she fails to finish telling him everything she wants to? OH MY FUCKIN' GOD! THIS IS THE SADDEST THING EVER! If she's the same girl who lost her imaginary/sick sister when she was 13, and NOW THIS? MAN, THIS IS SAD!

[@justinrichmond-decker9037]

I don't picture it as a phone call, I think she's writing him a letter. She's so depressed she can't even write a full letter to her brother without going to sleep. Now THAT is sad. "Do the kids remember me?" really gets me

[@kauanabrahao2711]

Actually, I think she dies before finishing the letter. As the album is based on Joyce Vincent's history, "She was an asthma sufferer, and an asthma attack have been suggested as a possible cause of death [...] she was lying on her back, next to a shopping bag, surrounded by Christmas presents she had wrapped but never delivered. It is not known to whom the presents were addressed."

[@asloii_1749]

Constant chills

[@PicnicAtTheTesco]

I never knew there was a video to this song. I need to go grab some tissues, I got tears coming

[@ShaneTregurtha]

Damn! ..got me twice Wednesday night (live NZ) ...and just got me again ...Beautiful :-)

[@AYURBHATTA]

Powerful to say the least

[@hmcdonnell23]

Supremely talented and to think I only discovered SW/PT around 2009 by complete accident but so glad I did. I'll be at the SLC show on 11/11.

[@pavlonwilcz5650]

shit it took me five years to listen again and bust into tears. so much burden in some five years

[@jameswcollett]

This makes me cry. That's a powerful song....

[@philipmazonson4694]

this song is so beautifully heartbreaking 💔

[@permanenceinchange2326]

Now I've known this song for so many years, but not this clip... Didn't realize the link with Perfect Life also. Knowing this, it gives it much more depth... blows me away again...

[@milicanikolic5704]

I always imagined this song to be about 2 brothers,this video surprised me a bit.

[@MuriloRenkse]

DUUUU RUUU RUUU RA LARAU LARA LARA LARAU

[@ElHadary12]

BR \o/

[@MuriloRenkse]

:)

[@jucio]

Br tbm acha SW chato ? kkkkk

[@MuriloRenkse]

Acho ele um gênio. Apesar de não gostar do inicio de carreira dele, os primeiros albuns do porcupine tree acho bem chato, depois do Stupid Dream que fica bom.

[@its1573]

finally appeared ❤❤❤

[@anubhavbora7126]

Steven Wilson you are my man crush ❤

[@MrAkshay8opeth]

are you going to the pune or banglore concert?

[@anubhavbora7126]

AKSHAY KARTHIK wait!!! there is a Bangalore concert too ?😓 it's only Pune and Shillong right?

[@MrAkshay8opeth]

+Anubhav Bora i think its in banglore too . . check his tour dates

[@SuperAnirudh10]

day after pune.... he'll be in bangalore man

[@prakashanand]

He s coming to Bangalore... on 4th Dec 😬

[@lukasart5179]

Piękny utwór, no i w Polsce nagrywany :) A ta pani to Polka, w dodatku poznanianka. Plusik za to.

[@kijeqqq]

Oo to nie wiedziałem 😅 myślałem że ona jest z Wielkiej Brytanii

[@NilotpalKalita28]

Watched this live

[@ziyadelmansouri9630]

I love you steven wilson

[@DavidVotrubec]

This music gives me goosebumbs.

[@1971Sdiaz]

Wonderful video. Very touchy and awesome.

[@paolafolcia1478]

Mamma Mia!!!!! What a singer....

[@MrDuneedon]

H.C.E. is fucking brilliant, start to finish. What an album.

[@TheMetallplayer]

Closest I have ever been to cry at a live concert with this song

[@C20H25N3Ofya]

Exactly the same for me. Everyone talks about Routine getting to them, for me it was this one.

[@psiquealine]

Álbum fantástico. Amo Steven Wilson.

[@eynd569]

Just awesome :-)

[@nbravo2507]

wonderful!

[@sismoman]

same video from the tour! thanks so much!

[@rashikislam3985]

THIS GUY

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Beautiful

[@bhagyashree666]

sucha beautiful song

[@mikelasquetty852]

Many memories runs by... :')

[@michelenessesio4988]

Eu to no chããããão

[@ElHadary12]

BR \o/

[@michelenessesio4988]

\o/

[@Evandrocjmt]

O Steven Wilson é tão foda, que eu me lembro perfeitamente de quando encontrei as músicas do Porcupine Tree pela primeira vez no KZbin, logo em seguida eu encontrei o projeto paralelo dele, Blackfield. Como eu não conhecia a voz dele ainda, passei uns 3 dias pesquisando as músicas de ambas as bandas e achei tudo muito maravilhoso, depois fui perceber no próprio vídeo da música Blackfield a foto do Steven Wilson e fui me tocar que era ele também. O cara é tão foda, que não importa por onde você conheça ele, ele vai te impressionar com qualquer música!!

[@Voliveira96]

Conheci o Porcupine Tree em 2009. A primeira música deles que ouvi foi "Feel so Low" do Lightbulb Sun, que nem me chamou tanto a atenção (embora hoje eu ame). Mas depois ouvi Blackest Eyes e foi puro amor! Steven é um gênio. Engraçado pensar que o primeiro disco solo dele que ouvi foi o Grace for Drowning, e eu nem curti tanto (mais uma vez, hoje eu amo). Mas quando ouvi o The Raven..., fui arrebatado. E quanto ao Hand. Cannot. Erase, já pode ser facilmente considerado um dos meus discos favoritos de todos os tempos!

[@michelenessesio4988]

eu conheci o Steven Wilson também pelo porcupine tree qndo eu tinh 13 anos, comecei a ouvir prog a partir dai, primeira musica foi normal dali em diante me apaixonei e to assim até hoje ❤

[@federicorodriguez416]

Temazo!

[@lukasart5179]

Przepiękny utwór.

[@joelyagar]

I feel I'm falling once again, but now there's no one left to catch me...

[@GabrielxxQueiroz]

Amazing

[@MariaDiazskn]

Last letter before she died. I wonder if she knew...

[@MetallicA00789]

I think that is exactly the kind of irony that Steven is trying to evince with "...so I'll finish it tomorrow." Once again, right in the feels.

[@kbrewski1]

The cause of the women's death was unknown because she wasn't discovered until 3 years after her death, a skeleton, surrounded by unwrapped Christmas presents. Probably a drug overdose, but truly unknown since the body had decomposed. So she could be drowsy from sleeping pills, but we will never know....

[@waldemarpierzynski1449]

Greetings from Poznan !

[@valeriadif6982]

I cried.

[@NathanFerrazzi]

4:28 This simple phrase. Master Govan 🙌🏼

[@taffyjones281]

Wonderful

[@turismo133]

NO-MAN. NEW ALBUM. C'MON.

[@Michael_Michaels]

0:54 "Years pass like trains, they don't slow down..." So true... -_-

[@mallegavenegasmarcoantonio4103]

Que temazo por el amor de Dios....Steven Wilson en estado de gracia.

[@sofi182]