#hey there delilah
Hey There Delilah MV - Dream & George
every time I hear this song now I think about this video and get all teary-eyed
(also pretty neat that you can prtscn literally anywhere in the video and get a fantastic wallpaper from it >u> )
criminally underrated, please go to the video and give it some love, it is so deserving of all the attention <333
I’m still learning how to play
What happens when Robyn shows up to your Robyn party in Brooklyn?
This week on Last Row Music Show we talk about two legendary music fans who escaped from a nursing home to attend a heavy metal festival, what songs should be adapted for the screen instead of Hey There Delilah (3:29), Max Martin’s musical (7:45), Lance Bass trying to buy the Brady Bunch house (10:20), Travis Scott and Mac Miller’s new music (14:05), and Russ Marshalek joins to tell us what happens when Robyn shows up to your Robyn party in Brooklyn and makes you the face of her short film (16:47)
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I maintain that Hey There Delilah by Plain White Tees is a 450% better song if it’s about a guy who’s lost custody of his daughter
Literally every lyric has so much more Energies if it’s sung to a child I’m gonna die on this hill. “Hey there, Delilah /Don’t you worry about the distance /I’m right there if you get lonely /Give this song another listen” and “Hey there, Delilah/ I know times are gettin’ hard /But just believe me, girl / Someday I’ll pay the bills with this guitar / We’ll have it good /We’ll have the life we knew we would / My word is good” like? He’s trying to get his daughter back? Idk if she’s with the other parent or in foster care or what but it’s So Much I have a lot of feelings about this. The repeated promises, “I’d walk to you if I had no other way” and“I’m right there when you get lonely” when, like, obviously, he’s not, and he’s just sort of desperately hoping that she still understands that he loves her, and that she doesn’t feel abandoned. And then, “Delilah, I can promise you /That by the time that we get through / The world will never ever be the same /And you’re to blame” that’s so fucking sweet? That’s such a sweet thing to say to your daughter. Romance is over. Noncustodial parental love songs are where it’s at.
This is what “death of the author” means. We know that’s not what the song was written about, but what if it was? What if we explored the lyrics as though the speaker was a heartbroken father missing his daughter? It changes EVERYTHING. And it’s so good.
Anyway, OP you are wonderful and I love you.
We’ll have the life we knew we would.
what if i what if i tore the world asunder for one person what if i caused incalculable suffering across the universe for one life
