Will Wood - Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave (Official Lyric Video)

[@michaelkeiler877]

I love how every will wood song is either the kind of song to listen to while you stare at the ceiling and sob, or its the kind of song you just have to dance too no matter what is going on.

[@snow-ld8yx]

its always both at the same time

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

I do not appreciate being called out on the whole stare at the ceiling and sob thing, thank you very much.

[@xXPowerSurgeXx]

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 lol

[@axollworm5370]

You’re right I danced to this song while sobbing once

[@smackincheese9285]

Mmm yes *mania*

[@gorgan6801]

Will wood sounds like if someone made a Theatrical Musical about someone's Mental Breakdown

[@estromberg5153]

If you do happen to be looking for a theatrical musical about someones mental breakdown may I recommend Preludes? It's got some brilliant piano in it and the tendency to mix a bunch of different genres together. Idk it just seems like the type of thing a Will Wood fan might enjoy and I reckon it's pretty underrated

[@TheJasmine172]

@@estromberg5153 God, thank you so much! Will Wood's genre is just my absolute favorite. I've been looking for similar groups.

[@thegoblinking279]

@@estromberg5153 just looked it up and, wowie, dave malloy of natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812 fame? this is guaranteed quality!

[@estromberg5153]

@@thegoblinking279 Yes!! I love The Great Comet but all of Dave Malloy's other work is so underrated

[@J.L.smith5712]

thats like half of the songs on the season1 soundtrack of the space parables

[@upumpkin]

Will: Doctor, what's my prognosis if the studies show that? Doctor: *saxophone noises*

[@unhingedunit562]

PLEASE THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT

[@grey_cybernetix.1299]

THIS SENT ME TO MARS PLSSSS 💀💀💀

[@tenebriis9732]

It do be like that

[@koromoro6682]

There’s a joke about doctors and their handwriting in here somewhere

[@morganstauter8660]

I think about this comment a lot, I hope you know that

[@serenaatallah641]

I love that "back in the days of lobotomies, shock therapies and mad scientists" is sung in the prominent melody from Love Me Normally and also from the end of the opening song. It's so cool the way he slips in motifs from other songs so seamlessly. Also the horns in this song give me strong streetlight manifesto vibes.

[@colin5227]

I..... did not notice this!!!

[@serenaatallah641]

@@colin5227 it took me a few relistens to realize this myself! will Wood's a wizard.

[@panl0]

and the piano bit from blackboxwarrior too !!

[@Grey_di.ant_420]

I also love the fact that he includes the bell curve in so many of his songs, such as "Love, Me Normally" "Laplace's Angel" and this one, all songs seeming to center around normality and staying "sane" and appearances

[@dimonddefender567]

Also after is Blackbox warrior

[@specialkatielee]

I see a few people asking about the title. Marsha Linehan created Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a very prominent form of therapy nowadays. One thing it emphasizes is dialectics: two things that seem opposite but can be true at the same time. ("My feelings are valid" and "my behavioral expression of this feeling is inappropriate to the situation" or-- an example I got from google-- "I want to be loud" and "You need me to be quiet")

[@cornybram845]

I went through DBT, I didn’t know that’s what the title was referencing, thanks!

[@pineapplesdonotbelongonpizza]

That so accurately describes this album I will be listening to it in the middle of a library and I just wanna strip down on my socks go feral and dance like a monkey but I cannot

[@nualahalpin6119]

it's also specifically known to be a more useful treatment for cluster b personality disorders than CBT, which is well known for being. not good for cluster b disorders. I'm p sure he references this in black box warrior

[@slyskyes590]

Why the extra K in thank though?

[@nebula_unauthorized3093]

ohh, is that why the song switches between the perspectives sort of?

[@spoony8497]

I'm surprised I don't see anyone talking about how good his lyricism is. simple stuff like "how many milligrams of you are still left in there?" or how he constantly takes analogies and common phrases and turns them on their head. there's so many layers to everything he writes

[@thilsiktonix]

I agree!

[@Xoolerz]

I’ve been wondering why people aren’t talking about the way he writes as well.

[@neilcicieregamybel0ved]

I LOVE the way he writes lyrics. its so unique

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

"It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive" stood out to me cause it lines up (if that makes sense)

[@laszlosomogyi932]

4:24 "you-dentity"

[@tessaminick8745]

"You're not your thoughts, you're not your brain, you're just the character you've made" Hold up there you never said you'd punch me in the gut like that--

[@ballpointpen7728]

literally stabbed me

[@THE_BagelMan]

@@ballpointpen7728 literally dropped a nuke on me

[@random_dragon]

Will Wood just killed your entire family-

[@maximum_axiom]

@@THE_BagelMan literally took a crowbar to my face

[@hindigente]

Literally rearranged my neurons' topology, killing my old self in the process.

[@laworder5861]

........yall im so slow i didnt realize the thumbnail was supposed to be a pill bottle until now

[@atmosphericman]

I NEVER NOTICED OH

[@OliviaHynes-j5l]

WHAT THE HELL HOW DID YOU SEE THAT

[@peg7439]

"... Disease is in the eye of the beholder?" what an amazing fucking line. god damn.

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

I know right????

[@beranx]

I have never found a song in my entire life that so accurately described my psychiatric trauma. I feel every ounce of this song inside me, from being stuck to my couch for years wallowing in depression and self pity, to being forced to take psychiatric medication from the age of 6 to the age of 19. To stopping them all cold turkey, and finding bad habits to take their place. To being wrongfully diagnosed, multiple times, abused emotionally and physically by psychiatrists, psychologists, ABA therapy, my own family, and multiple other adults growing up. I became so attached to labels and rooted my entire identity in being depressed, broken, and absolutely fucked. I feel myself at 16, heavily unwell reading People magazine in a psychiatrist's office. This song is layered so many times over for me. I feel like I was lobotomized growing up. I feel like at 22 my life is just starting because the first 22 years were all lost to me. It's not the way I was raised.. I can be better than this. From an autistic weirdo who finds so much solace in your music- thank you.

[@Malik-ig3ml]

Thank you for this comment. I feel like the overwhelming majority of Will Wood's fans use his songs as an excuse to romanticise mental illness rather than listening to what they have to say about the psychiatric community, perceptions of mental illness and the negative feedback loop of misdiagnoses and overprescribing. It's actually a little sickening when I see people in the comments of these videos reveling in some unspecified mental illness they apparently have. Its the kind of behaviour that ultimately contributes to the things Will Wood chastises in this album.

[@FungIsSquish]

I honestly thought this song mocked those who criticize modern psychiatric care/medicine

[@VeryGoodDad]

Hope you're doing well friend

[@bobosegabab]

Hi dude

[@thilsiktonix]

fucking real. I don't know what it is about this song, but it just... speaks to me. Psychiatric abuse is horrible and if I'd found this two years ago I probably would've hated it, namely because it'd remind me too much of that stuff, but now I'm able to embrace it and embrace the fact that psychiatric professionals are still human and still capable of fucking up just like we all are.

[@Deemee-ed]

you're the most underrated artist I could ever find

[@bugboy69]

i would like this comment but it has 222 likes (2econd 2ight 2eer) so i cant

[@FilthyCasualty]

@@bugboy69 Like the comment (if you haven’t) the joke is gone.

[@Toxicpixels23]

@@FilthyCasualty unliking it so I can help put it back

[@gambinogirlforever]

True

[@lauren.5237]

seriously!! his stuff is so good

[@burtmacklinfbi5988]

this is what happens when your card declines at the therapist’s office

[@bloodsweatandbeers4684]

They lobotomize you and give you a beer

[@AnnoyingPyroMa1n]

they wheel in will wood and his saxophone

[@tynasabido6734]

You have the most confusing titles, it's so hard to recommend you to other people but I'm still living for the titles

[@random_dragon]

I had someone ask to tell them the name of one of his songs and I look it up and go, "suburbia overture greetings from Mary bell township--"

[@frog4049]

@@random_dragon i shorten it to suburbia overture i cannot 😭😭

[@random_dragon]

@@frog4049 lmao, I usually do, too But sometimes I'll read it out, just to mess with someone, or prove a point-

[@rtlpejelagarto]

@@random_dragon imagine trying to recomend The Song With Five Names

[@random_dragon]

@@rtlpejelagarto "hey, you should listen to the song with five names!" "Haha, what are the five names?" *inhale*

[@indys1]

how much did you spend on stock footage

[@shr1mpsush1]

I estimate: Several Google searches in a summer afternoon.

[@cook7931]

Enough.

[@charlotte-yp7ti]

i JUST noticed "you could sing a pretty malady"! the wordplay on this album...

[@tituslafrombois1164]

If you think the wordplay here is good you should check out Hawaii Part II

[@glonx639]

@@tituslafrombois1164 That wordplay is so clever I can usually barely comprehend it.

[@ositodraws]

Titus Kent love both those bands, both AMAZING

[@higsopus576]

Titus Kent such a good album

[@kaysidegamer5996]

@@tituslafrombois1164 Let me guess, you also like Spirit Phone and Mother Mother? I like your gay pride bands!

[@arne8DDD]

This song feels like they based the lyrics on the yearly conversation I have with my dad

[@fam0uslastw0rds37]

is your father also your eccentric doctor that happens to be around 100 years old?

[@stardusttodust25]

Mood omg I swear my dad said the first chorus almost word for word unironically before

[@goblingirl7248]

This song makes me feel a lot better when I hear it. I’ve taken so many medications and been through so much crazy shit in life that hearing someone passionately sing about how you can live through this while still being yourself is almost all I ever needed to hear. Thanks you Will Wood and everyone else who’s made this song possible.

[@beezeisacommunist8205]

the “ain’t your you-dentity at stake does aspirin kill you with the pain you’re not your thoughts you’re not your brain you’re just the character you’ve made up in your head down in your heart what feel like separate body parts come together to believe they’re you and not just chemistry” part hits different when you’re going through it

[@That_Ozian]

4:17 just noticed the motif most prominent in black box warrior plays there

[@howaboutnow1895]

Both have kind of evil therapist vibes too.

[@benenbrady9503]

One of my favorite things about will wood is all of his albums have a lot of motifs and it's fantastic

[@random_dragon]

@@benenbrady9503 I'm pretty sure he's said that he does this on purpose He likes to include lyrics and notes from one song in another, and kind of tie them all together, sort of making a story

[@benenbrady9503]

@@random_dragon Yeah, that makes sense. I love it

[@viper_2]

@@random_dragon what is impressive is they all are unique. Like you can tell it’s will wood but the songs sound different but linked

[@syntaxzombie9450]

One thing I really enjoy and appreciate from WWTW songs is the crazy amount of references in all of their songs. Not to sound like a knowitall, but Marsha is the name of the main authors of the therapy method Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and it's used for people who have more serious emotional problems like anxiety, depression, and borderline. It's focused on mindfulness practices. My psych degree is useful for something after all!

[@MelodyTCG]

DBT did wonders for me so glad someone brought this up about the song.

[@thilsiktonix]

DBT helped me a lot as well, but then I proceeded to lose a great deal of myself and repressed all of my memories. I currently struggle to feel empathy, I'm an anxious mess, I'm terrified of everything, I can barely sleep at night, I have flashbacks on occasion, (I'm currently sleep deprived), and everything has gone to shit. I need more DBT

[@syntaxzombie9450]

@@thilsiktonix hey friend, I hope you get the help you need! Many of us are struggling or have struggled with similar stuff.

[@numbers72927]

Oh, my first therapist was helping me start DBT! (Before she left, and now the current one is leaving too....)

[@ValeElPatetico]

I was drawing but this is much more important

[@4can]

same

[@josiemaguna4867]

Yo me too

[@princesssparrow4530]

Holy shit you too?

[@bamonix]

Same bro

[@zesty_zaney81]

And by saying that you have gathered all artists that are fans of Will Wood. As am I.

[@cool-guy-wannabe]

imagine you go in for a therapy appointment and the therapist just plays this.

[@MCVessels]

Eleven times.

[@beanconnoisseur5527]

@@MCVessels stranger things can happen with a therapist

[@maximum_axiom]

@@beanconnoisseur5527 Twelve times.

[@cats-a-lot3609]

Lmao

[@numbers72927]

I'm at the therapist RN! 😄 What a coincidence!

[@random_dragon]

In case anyone is wondering, there's a few videos of Will Wood performing from this album, in what looks like someone's lawn For this particular song, he actually gives a pretty good explanation as to what the song is about and what it means

[@dontasklongstory]

It is someone's lawn

[@Wendogic]

reminder that Will Wood is a god among us all

[@pwanutbutter]

among us..

[@Wendogic]

@@pwanutbutter oh my god what have i done

[@catsandcaffine3635]

@@Wendogic amogus

[@Wendogic]

@@catsandcaffine3635 among us? more like a chungus--*gets shot*

[@miketutorials_6870]

mogus

[@Francisco-bu9ew]

I love that this song sounds like your typical 90's rock song, while critisizing ideas and methods used at that time. This song sounds like something our parents would have heard when they were young while expresing some ideas we probably heard from them.

[@ni1111]

I'm so happy my favorite song got a lyric video, now I can sing with it when I feel terrible

[@anxnymousgoat4286]

I felt this comment in my soul

[@dolphidelaware]

oooo kinetic typography, very nice to look at - i especially love when you contort the letters like the line "and a little conformity never hurt nobody, but lately i've been worried that you're losing yourself"

[@magicalblinkoplayhouse3893]

This was a particularly chaotic lyric video, I love it.

[@abyssalnightmare551]

Both "Back in the day we didn’t need no feel good pills and no psychiatrists, we just bled out in our baths, and god dammit we liked it!" and "What can I say except don't heed no evil wills of moral nihilists, I said back in the days of lobotomies and shock therapy and mad scientists, now don't you make me waste my breath..." go way too hard and also perfectly sum up how old people talk to you when you tell them you have a mental illness.

[@thilsiktonix]

fucking exactly

[@lucy.4437]

this is a ✨ m a s t e r p i e c e ✨ now i'm gonna cry

[@realcoolcreepergamer2464]

No.

[@LemonAid_osc]

2:13

[@survivalflower3226]

This whole album gave me the gift of finally feeling normal to be myself. After all these years I felt I had to hide myself because people wouldn’t accept me. I constantly seek acceptance when I should’ve looked for it in myself. Thank you❤️

[@krysanthemum6528]

The song is already so good and emotional, but having a video just makes it easier to absorb it and really truly focus on it and the meaning behind each little bit. Phenomenal job. Thank you, Will and everyone, for the musical composition. Thank you, Angelica for the visual composition. Just a beautiful and hard-hitting piece. Times are weird right now, and we all need something ‘Normal’ to help settle our souls or give us answers. This album has certainly been doing so for me.

[@Liza_padal]

I don't know why, but listening to this song I cried. Perhaps because of Will's sincerity and wonderful voice. thank you so much for your music Will.

[@joshnelson8125]

I feel like sincerity is a cornerstone of a lot of Will Wood’s music, and as such I don’t think you’re alone. In fact I know this for a fact, as I cry at the end of Suburbia Overture, and if I don’t I’ll always at least tear up a bit

[@Phantom_Moonlight]

As someone who loves psychology, specifically counseling psychology, i love his songs so much. That and they are a complete vibe

[@StArzY_rEaL]

Will wood songs either make me feel like a old disney villan or make me wanna cry

[@N1ghtl1ghts]

Sometimes both

[@DIMM4_]

3:48 no matter how much I scream this lyric, I can never hit the note on shock therapies.

[@random_dragon]

I clicked and was immediately ready to cry, because I love this band and am so happy about the new album

[@nnekoid]

I can't even begin to describe how much this song means to me. From every misdiagnosis, to sitting in psych wards, to all of the medication I've been put on; nothing quite explains the way I'm feeling better than this song does. This song makes me realize how much I've dwelled on why I'm experiencing stuff instead of just.. fucking living and trying to make it out alive you know LOL. It really has been an eye opener to how we want an explanation to every little thing we experience when in the end were just.. Living and experiencing shit, and personally, I don't think there's a pill out there to help anyone hit that realization. So, thank you. Thank you for helping me finally come to terms with the fact I'm just human and sometimes not having an explanation is okay. Thank you for helping me realize it's okay to live and experience shit without having to put labels or explanations on it all. It means a shit ton

[@caitlinhsu9074]

1:47 I JUST REALIZED THIS (and the thumbnail) IS A PILL BOTTLE

[@shr1mpsush1]

This the most "Will Wood" song that Will Wood has ever made. I love it

[@rinuwu7541]

To all the people that listen too Will Wood's music, how's your mental health???

[@wes9847]

150mg Botulinum Toxin 300mg Apple Juice

[@radicool8328]

Banana

[@jackolantern9034]

weird

[@strawberryskeletons1770]

Well it's there I think, right, probably.

[@coralvillain490]

No

[@meatsquish]

this song hits me right where i need it to. i relate to it in a way I haven't related to a song in a very long time. it makes me want to prove to everyone and myself that I am more than my mental conditions

[@xambersand2002]

I really love the way the lyrics flow and are put together, though the timing is a bit off sometimes, but other than that phenomenal job!

[@saltboy4841]

wrong it is perfect

[@xambersand2002]

@@saltboy4841 you're correct, however it could have been even more perfect

[@glonx639]

I think the offbeat timing is meant to replicate a typewriter. Since there's a significant button delay on them and one is shown at the very start.

[@thefuturemustknowwhereyouv1405]

i absolutely adore the bit after the little blackbox melody, will you’ve created an amazing thing.

[@madeleinep.828]

I keep coming back to this song but god damn, it’s seriously one of the best and most cleverly written songs of our time. Pure talent, pure magic.

[@altermist7016]

lyrics to copy: They could prescribe you any illness you'd like If you define the terms of your ailments You could sing a pretty malady like a black canary But a crow don't know the smell of carbon monoxide How many years have you been on that couch They could've quilt'd you in the throws by now You draw a line in the sand where it ends and you begin But the tide rolls in, so who knows? Oh well And a little identity never hurt nobody But lately you've been focusing too much on yourself So how many milligrams of you are still left in there Cause back in my day we didn't need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists No, we just drank ourselves to death, and god damn it, we liked it Who makes the call? What's a symptom, what's a flaw Can it be both? Well I suppose that's an answer Would you give up your humanity for just a touch of sanity Cause God knows it's not like it's cancer And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure For the symptoms of being alive It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure But very few patients survive And a little conformity never hurt nobody But lately I've been worried that you're losing yourself So how many milligrams of you are still left in there Cause back in my day we didn't need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists No, we just bled out in our bath, and god damn it, we liked it Doctor, what's my prognosis if the studies show that Disease is in the eye of the beholder Tell me "so it goes" We depress to impress, I guess In layer after layer to get off our chests It's cold out now, we can take it off later Better safe than sorry, and we both know the danger So doctor, could you run another test Got a feeling that this time I might just pass it Well, if you raise the average We'll all sing when the bell curve rings In lyrics symptomatic of the way we think If our harmonies don't sync, we can change our voices A chorus on condition of our diagnosis Back in my day we didn't need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists What can I say, except don't heed no evil wills of moral nihilists I said, "Back in the days of lobotomies and shock therapy and mad scientists Oh don't you make me waste my breath. God damn it" Ain't your you-dentity at stake Does aspirin kill you with the pain You're not your thoughts, you're not your brain You're just the character you've made Up in your head, down in your heart What seem like separate body parts Come together to believe they're you And not just chemistry It's not the way that you were raised Or what the advertisements say Not what you pay for, what you pray for What you want, or what you say And I see your tendency to redefine disease by what you need And I'm afraid I can't prescribe the diagnosis that you seek And something tells me that you need Forgive me now if I misspeak But something tells me that you like And something tells me You prefer To be sitting there flipping through those old issues of People Well that's our time, see you next week

[@datamancy138]

APPRECIATED

[@spiderscout8407]

YOU ARE THE BEST KIND OF PERSON

[@minty_rosedeer]

I might be looking too far into it, but the scene in 1:30 with the rabbit could be a subtle nod to the novel/film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In it, a character describes his fellow members of the ward as rabbits instead of people. And if I recall correctly Will has stated that as one of his favorite books(or perhaps just one he'd recommend?) So that very neat if it's intentional

[@lettucedaydreams1178]

this song invokes such a strong mix of emotion in me,,, nostalgia, dread, hope, theatre kid and mania

[@cryptid176]

This song hits home a little harder than it should

[@Z1Ish]

This song is amazing. I personally haven’t had bad experiences with the mental health industry, for the most part at least, but I really feel the contrast between most of the song and the last verse. At least to me, most of it feels like the way old people will talk to you about mental Illness, but with the “we just drank ourselves to death” or “we just bled out in our baths”, to highlight the absurdity of their claims. The last verse is a stark contrast, showing genuine concern and compassion to whoever is being sung to. Feels like what would have happened if my grandparents and dad came around.

[@kwentongpotchero6750]

I hope you never *will*

[@cvintar9555]

relatable

[@Bboychriz82]

I want Will Wood to make a musical

[@Ehh97]

Damn i love your songs. There is no other band i can think of where i like pretty much every song you put out. Freaking incredible Also this song really proves that Will Wood could probably write a bitch'n musical. This has some chaotic Dear Even Hanson vibes

[@herpderp3916]

I only stumbled upon Will Wood's stuff relatively recently, but this is probably one of my favorite songs from him, both for the energetic show tune style and for how much it speaks to me. While I do deal with depression and anxiety, I'm not as bad off as some, but it definitely impacts me. There are days I would genuinely prefer not to have any emotions at all, because the highs never seem to be worth the lows. My medication tends to leave me feeling a little "grey" at times, and it's that line "would you give up your humanity for just a touch of sanity" that probably resonates with me the most.

[@adam137016]

This is my favorite song on the album, also the other 9 but especially this one.

[@graham6678]

This song is like if billy Joel was born in 1990

[@bigphatdingus212]

Actually if I remember will wood says or refers to billy joel as being on eof the best lyric writers, so maybe will took some inspiration

[@2and1things]

Maybe that’s why I’ve attached to the normal album so quickly! Billy Joel is my favourite. They both do lyricism in such an incredible way.

[@homosoftommorow]

Yeah this song just sounds like if Billy Joel had BPD.

[@baldvee]

my first thought when the song says “tell me ‘so it goes’” was that it might be a reference to a billy joel song of the same name but that’s probably a reach bc that’s a pretty common phrase anyways and its one of billy joel’s more obscure songs. i def get billy joel vibes from a lot of the normal album tho which is cool bc i love both of their music

[@edgelordmcgee]

I love this song, and god it's even better to get to see the lyrics because I'm terrible at processing them while I listen, even though I know most of them by now.

[@g.f.723]

BACK IN THE DAYS OF LOBOTOMIES AND SHOCK THERAPY AND MAD SCIENTISTS 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@justbianca08]

i love listening to this song and remembering that he said in an interview that the extra k in thank is a misspelling when he was printing tshirts with the name

[@symma3121]

I know no one is going to see this but at the end of the song with the therapist's monologue the piano is noticeably stronger than the singer like in the end of Suburbia Overture and in the documentary of the normal album will wood states that in Love me, normally (ending of Suburbia Overture) the piano is the listener and the singer is your neighbor having a bad time SO what if in the end of Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics the piano is supposed to be the listener trying to drown out the message of the therapist because in all honesty what the therapist says is a heavy does of reality which a lot of people wouldn't want to hear

[@PyroJoe1]

You have a beautiful mind, I love that interpretation

[@ancientalienss]

thanks will, very cool! gonna go cry in a corner now

[@АнастасияВоробьева-л2д]

I can't say that this one is my favourite (really hard to decide) But it speaks to me the most Love it Thank you!!

[@shumeiyang1024]

Dangerous song to listen to in public because there's a 90% chance you won't be able to resist singing the last chorus of the song and the lyrics are... unorthodox

[@madeleinep.828]

I’ve memorized every word to this song and this is most likely my greatest life achievement

[@Algoody421]

this might be the greatest song ever written... like seriously... fuckin incredible. hilarious, yet completely on point... just insanely talented. First song Ive ever heard from you, wont be the last... KEEP KICKIN ASS MAN!!!

[@tylerh4055]

Can’t wait to hear this song live some day

[@leahs.9941]

fucking LOVE this. perfect balance between legible lyrics and a will wood video

[@awkwardhugs7022]

Their music is just perfect and I love this band so much, definitely​ one of the best things I've found

[@jameschamberlain854]

Almost 2 years later still one of my favorite songs.

[@spacekidlox]

This is how I imagine someone’s life flashing before their eyes is

[@lamp7641]

Glad to see one of my all time faves getting some love. Wish this song had come out a few years earlier and saved me a few teenage existential crises. . .

[@randomlafourche]

The bridge makes me ascend

[@SerialAnkleBiter]

Thank for this song.

[@Urbestieian]

I thinkk you meant “thankk you for this song”

[@dead_acc_t]

2:42 yes yes yes YES

[@jacobsanchezvega3918]

Just a peace of gold

[@Sammythbark_2763]

I love how the video has clips that give humans emotional stimulation and cuts to the procedures at the time

[@GrigoriFederov]

So, is it possible we could get a break down of the meaning behind this song? Pretty sure the title refers to Marsha Linehan, and to me it looks like she's supposed to be the one singing the song? Not sure. Any input would be helpful.

[@jackie6467]

since no one has answered u in months, i’ll try my best lol. i believe this song is mainly a contrast between common harmful views of older and younger folks toward psychiatric medicine and services. the older pov being cynical, thinks all pills turn humans into zombies, disregarding how mental health services today heal ppl who would’ve lived terrible lives and/or cut their lives short without any treatment, and who generally just suffered back in the “good old days.” the more modern pov is that “everyone is a *little* bit mentally ill” idea with an inflated sense self importance and uniqueness, and it focuses so much on the diagnosis and medicinal treatment that all other mechanisms of coping and healing are lost. and that pov often undermines how mental illness can affect one individual much more severely than another. then there are the themes of symptoms vs flaws and the obsession with the idea of receiving a certain diagnosis for smth u actually just *want* to have. this song has more questions then answers, and encourages the listener to to just keep on contemplating these ideas of what makes us mentally ill, what makes us seek treatment, individualism, self obsession and overanalyzation, do we seek diagnoses to validate our flaws, does medication change who we are, etc.

[@jackie6467]

oh and i don’t think this is about a specific person or real experience, it just has the implied setting of a therapy/psychiatrist appointment kinda similar to the more abstract blackboxwarrior. i believe will once said that his song titles are more of an extension of the song then smth that sums up or describes the song, make of that what u will.

[@FIcantchoose]

I think it's raising a few points of view that are commonly used against and in favor of the current state of mental illness treatment. How sometimes people seek a diagnosis even if they're alright just to stick to it like an identity instead of to improve their life, but it'd be worse to be judgemental of people that might possibly be doing that and risk denying someone who could hurt themselves by not seeking diagnosis than to be open-minded and have a few more people diagnosed than there actually should be. How mental illness and treatment has been redefined multiple times and although it's less stigmatized and more ethical now it's a good idea to keep an eye out for harmful things that might seem okay right now like lobotomies were back in the day. How meds are not all that clear cut and there's the concern of if you'll still be yourself at all with them or if you'll just be a better you. But then again who are we to dictate what is an identity even How sometimes the treatments we get only makes us fit in the statistic bell curve of what society believes as "normal" and might target our personal flaws instead of the things that are actually causing us distress (Personal Note: on that point comes to mind the example of those that want to "cure" autism while a considerable amount of autistic people just want to be accepted) Then the song's end suggests that the person the doctor's talking to just likes to sit reading old magazines while they wait for their appointment and might not really be ill, but will still be welcome when they return for the next one

[@zipffydando9321]

How does my brain come up with a new interpretation for this song near enough every time I hear it. Its been 2 years. incredible

[@jame1890]

Thankk.

[@agateomania712]

Me at the beginning of vid: oh I’m ready to cry At the end: aaaaa yep this hurt,,,,

[@JayUwU04]

too busy bopping to cry

[@mayo3344]

Why? What is the song about?

[@JayUwU04]

@@mayo3344 fh fuck fuckin music didnt you listen to it

[@Yummatum]

The Normal Album got me break dancing and crying at the same time

[@Yummatum]

Oddly makes me want to eat snow.

[@EdD.Velazquez]

Oh boy just wait till you get to "In Case I Make It"

[@SilentSFM]

One of my favourite songs!

[@joemetzengerstein8519]

Having a lyric video really helped to focus and absorb the multiple meanings in this wild ride of a song. It really speaks to me in many ways and I'm happy to see more content of one of my fave artists! :3

[@OnlyTheAzure]

Will may not do music videos very often, but even his lyric videos are a form of art.

[@lexie.ward.]

I love this new album more than words. I think I’ve listened to it at least 30 times since it’s been released. Loving all the new videos too!

[@edgelordbazooka9461]

AGGHH THIS IS PERFECT

[@edgelordbazooka9461]

@Suu want some snacks?

[@agnieszkasalach4395]

Kinda curious for some reason, what are your avatars from?

[@edgelordbazooka9461]

@@agnieszkasalach4395 they're from the video game Persona 5 the Royal of the character Maruki Takuto :)

[@hannaa7741]

i love his songs

[@hyenawithgun1395]

????? this premiered seven minutes ago but some comments are really old???

[@WillWoodmusic]

Patreon.com/therealwillwood

[@hyenawithgun1395]

Will Wood oh lmao I just became a fan

[@Wyad311]

Thankks Will Wood, very cool

[@csharkop]

this song is a pretty good example of my mental health, that fast paced jumpy beat, the bits that don't seem to fit or go anywhere, the lyrics that seem almost nonsensical but have a fairly clear message, even the random stock videos. yes, I need therapy, I'm working on it.

[@blable46]

“you can sing a pretty melody like a black canary but a crow doesn’t recognize the smell of carbon monoxide” holy shit that’s a hell of a metaphor

[@ohcee_]

this is such a beautiful song with an equally beautiful music video, thank life for will wood

[@JamsDX]

POG

[@whatever1515]

this is very Will Wood of you Mr. Wood

[@anonhikkastiy]

lyrics??? i am literally going to ugly cry over how good and meaningful and VITAL this song is??

[@MakingPancakes]

Ok will.. pop off,

[@Trixie0026]

I love this song! And the lyric clip fits so well with the mood this song gives! But for some reason my brain makes a weird conection between the song "A diagnosis" from the musical tv show "crazy ex girlfriend" and this song... and I dont understand why! (Musically, both songs are polar opposites!)

[@joanneharris4006]

saw the notification and dropped EVERYTHING-

[@koikun]

this is a bop, always was.

[@roadworkaheadsign3707]

I need to know if 0:11 is nathan phillips square in toronto EDIT: it’s nathan phillips square in toronto with the water drained omg omg omg I’m going there tomorrow