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“or wallow in a drinkless world and wither on the bough” is the most poetic and arguably powerful version of “then perish”

Pretty much all of his songs sound like if somebody found a collection forgotten fairytales. I love it.

*Me and my little shoulders appreciate this song greatly.*

A delightful accidental surprise to find Cosmo Sheldrake! My 68 year old life made better with these charming songs!

Cosmo is the piper and we are his rats lol love his music

Oak and ash and thorn: cult of nature Dreams sweet in sea major: cult of the night and stars Solar waltz: cult of spring and time

I'm convinced he's a 17th century bard trapped in modern times

if someone told me that this man is just Apollo masquerading as a human, *I'd beleive them wholeheartedly*

The shift in tone of him talking about the bees pollinating everything "so all things can grow" to rotting and decomposing, again, "so all the things can grow" is so eerie

He sounds like a mysterious man leading children into a new unknown world in an old forgotten fairytale, he’s like the reincarnated Pied Piper

I first found Cosmo Sheldrake from his song "The Moss" and am now trying to listen to all his songs. The only problem is that I cry every time I hear them.

I really enjoy this song, it feels to me very much like a rebuttal of "Come Along", a kind of "morning after" to the high that that song is. It's a return to "reality" that shows that we can't truly "run away from the humdrum". Without hard word, there's no crops, and without rot (fermentation) there's no alcohol. Without alcohol, there's no feasting, a motif I've notice reoccur in Sheldrake's work. The idea that we cannot play if we never work isn't necessarily new, but the addition of rotting is very interesting. Not only do we need hard work, but we need rot, decay, mortality for us to be happy.

You have inspired me to become an artist. Nearly every day I would do out into the garden, put on this song and sketch everything natural that I could see. If not your music, My art would never be like it is today.

Nobody’s gonna see this but I’ll have a go anyway... This song is literally saving me. I was having a horrible panic attack one evening as I suffer from chronic anxiety and I usually open up KZfaq and watch videos to calm myself down. This song came up in my recommendations and I thought it was a speed draw of the fish and creatures on the cover because again...anxiety and not being able to think straight lol. This song started and I just kinda ... stopped. Idk I started listening to the harmonies and beautiful tune and I just kinda managed to resume normal breathing. I stopped crying and just shoved my head phones in harder and just listened. This was a few days ago but I’ve listened to this song like 100 times over the past few days. It just makes me feel like I’m not even human and I can just listen to this absolutely dreamy and beautiful song and not worry about all the stuff that’s going on in my life.I’m not usually into this kind of music lol... I listen to a lot of the killers and Artic Monkeys and things like that but I can safely say that this is one of my favourite songs... so again nobody is gonna see this lol but I just though I should say something as a thanks for this masterpiece :] and I know I’m like 2 years late ahah but the YT algorithm is a beautiful thing✨💚

French Lyrics : Eh bien, le temps qu'elle a fait comme le temps qu'elle fait (Well, time she did as time she does) Elle est passée le long de son chemin (She passed along her way) Et l'aube, elle s'est glissée comme une fille effrayée (And dawn, she crept like a frightened girl) Hors de l'emprise nocturne (Out from the nighttime's sway) Mais au cours du joyeux mois de mai (But in the merry month of May) Son jeûne solennel apprend (Her solemn fast does learn) Pour le printemps, il a jailli comme le printemps (For spring, it sprung as spring it does) Et mettre les abeilles au travail (And put the bees to work) Et ils doivent travailler et ils doivent travailler (And work they must and work they shall) Pour que tout grandisse (For all the things to grow) Car s'ils ne le font pas, comme le temps le sait (For if they don't, as time she knows) Ils se flétriraient sur le rameau (They'd wither on the bough) Et quelle honte de telles choses seraient (And what a shame such things would be) Pas de vin merveilleux pour toi et moi (No wondrous wine for you and me) Ni cidre, ni hydromel, ni soupe (No cider too, nor mead nor soup) Pour que nous fassions tous plaisir (For us to all make merry) Donc pourrir, fermenter et décomposer (So rot, ferment, and decompose) Donc, tout peut grandir (So all the things can grow) Oh vautrer dans le monde sans boisson (Oh wallow in the drinkless world) Et se flétrir sur la branche (And wither on the bough) Oh quel fardeau poussiéreux (Oh what a dusty burden) Ce nectar et le pollen (That nectar and the pollen) Comme Atlas avec les cieux (Like Atlas with the heavens) À l'arrière de sa tête (On the back of his head) Et s'ils devaient vaciller (And what if they should falter) Et hausser leurs petites épaules (And shrug their little shoulders) Eh bien, le temps, elle passerait tout de même (Well, time, she'd pass all the same)

your voice feels like a hug but in audio form if you get what I mean. It's comforting, reassuring, and has a lot of emotion, I guess.

I’m picturing a circus of bees performing for a crowd of flowers. It’s a melancholic yet beautiful scene. What a gorgeous piece of music!

This song makes me wish I knew how to waltz and had a dancing partner

why do his songs give me pre- nostalgia

Once I heard"come along" I was hooked Great job, my new favorite artist

Well time she did as time she does She passed along her way And dawn she crept like a frightened girl Out from the night time's sway But in the merry month of May A solemn fact does lurk For Spring it sprang as Spring it does And put the bees to work And work they must And work they shall For all the things to grow For if they don't as time she knows They'd wither on the bough And what a shame such things would be No wondrous wine for you and me No cider too, nor mead nor soup For us to all make merry So rot, ferment and decompose So all the things can grow Or wallow in a drinkless world And wither on the bough Oh what a dusty burden That nectar and that pollen Like Atlas with the heavens On the back of his head And what if they should falter And shrug their little shoulders? Well time she'd pass all the same

I never knew what the phrase "poetry in motion" meant until I listen to you, my god

*whispers* imagine him singing Scarborough fair.

I was watching the clouds pass with this song as my only companion, I was alone feeling the grass on my body but i've had never felt so infinite in my life, the time was meaningless and all that I was doing was to see the shapes of all that clouds that were going in a row while I was listenig to the music, like if I were in some kind of carnival, some beautiful and magical carnival. Thank you cosmo for have done a song that makes me feel this way.

Is this what wandering Bards and Poets sounded like...? I feel like I regressed by 400 years... Where I am enjoying a little tid bit of entertainment, albeit somber, delivered by a fellow who barely has anything but his talent, amidst a life that although equally pitiful, is one I can live with. Such an amazing song, with poetic lyrics.

Imma be real with you chief, you're the first artist that I've ever actually really loved

My serama chicken Sinclair died in my arms today. This was the last song I sung him. I love your music so much,, it just has something to it that makes it so surreal. Thank you for making this.

This is how I, personally interpret this song. Time, passes, as time does. It always has, and always will. Time is a thing that no one can control. I think Cosmo is using bees to describe us, in a way. Or any creature in general. It's not about how much time we have left, but it's about how we use it. I think he's saying that we should use our time as much as we can and work as hardly as we can allow ourselves. We should make the most of what we have. No matter how we use our time on this Earth, when we're gone, we're gone forever. No matter how we handle life, it doesn't last forever. Accepting this and appreciating what we have will make our lives easier. No matter the meaning, this song is so beautiful. I love it so much.

I hope you value yourself as much as everyone here values you. Great work!

Still a wonder with hypnotic words that somehow never grow old to my ear, your music truly has a magic tinge to them, here four years later I still haven't grown tired of listening to your music on loop. Actually inspired my long forgotten poetic side, I appreciate the songs as much as I appreciate your creativeness and awareness of everything around us good and negative. Keep up the astounding work!

Everything is dark. Only some lights illuminate the night. While you, in the car, are watching the people around you. You seem to be inside a bubble that is from another world. Everything seems to be a story. Magic. Magical. Like this song.

This song makes me so emotional over things I'd usually see as mundane. Like, this song treats the work that nature puts into creation with such reverence and respect. The honey, yeast, bacteria, and fruit that we use to make alchohol is made by something's grueling and endless effort for us to enjoy. Comparing a bee caring nectar and pollen to Atlas hold the world on his shoulders makes me wanna go outside and start crying at a beehive or something. AND AND how nature and time treats us with the same indifference because even without human intervention these things would happen anyway! I've never felt so very small yet so very loved.

this is so underrated holy shit this is amazing I feel like apollo is singing to my soul man this resonates with the sun

What a strange euphoria you invoke with your music Cosmo, the sound takesme to a place I have been and continue to be yet haunts me like a waking dream, this music sweeps me off my feat and seemingly wisks my soul off to a distant and familiar place, like something Miyazaki would imagine.

This is absolutely beautiful. It's one of those songs I want to keep to myself even tho it's absolutely worthy to recommend.

I went down the rabbit hole of youtube looking for music to inspire me. Wow. Cosmo Sheldrake. After listening to several of your videos I had to comment. This genre of beautifully composed orchestra music, your vocals. I have not heard anything like this before. This, was what i was looking for.

I'm a sucker for waltzes, and it's really unfortunate that you don't see a lot of new waltz songs these days. Thank you for making this amazingly beautiful song

this song makes me feel like im in a interestellar place, out of the earth, near to some star, like a astronaut just floating in space...

This is the best song about bees I've ever heard in my life

This is one of those songs that makes me want to melt into a pool of happiness It is also a song I want to memorize and sing for my friends in my old age.

that first minute right up till the lyrics start sound SO much like a Ghibli waltz from Howl's Moving Castle or Spirited Away--- Joe Hisaishi's grandiose, "lumbering" rhythms he uses to depict something massive and ponderous, with that beautiful brass section, are often like that. Pure beauty! You are so talented and I feel so at home listening to your music.

Stumbling upon your music was a wonderful way to pull me from my writer's block. Thank you, I hope you continue to make such hypnotizing works.

I want to live and breathe inside this song.

Listened to this on my walk to school this morning. A truly magical experience when paired with the Arizona sunrise

my mom really appreciates the fact that this song is an actual waltz. thanks for giving her and i something to bond over :)

As a dabbling musician, I want my music to be just as wonderful and whimsical as these masterpieces.

Please, could you just go on forever like this? Sharing a new wonderful song each day?

Just like stalkers tango, I wasn't ready for this to be an _actual waltz_

I adore the emotional ambiguity here. I feel that's really respectful to the listener.

I can't describe the feeling I am feeling here. Or the vibes the whole album gives me. It's like nature?? But a certain type?? Like beetroot kvass is night, birth a basket is day, but literally every other one im not sure for. This one has flowers and bees though.

I want to waltz to this song but by myself. Just, an empty, mystical ballroom, some girl in a dress waltzing to this music coming from an unknown source. It seems so magical to me. If my future isn't the feeling of this song, I don't want it.

My son introduced me to your music, it brings out thoughts ...we were driving back from Mizzou and I was thinking of my wife, standing in the Heart OR, holding a heart or helping to stitch up a patient with blood everywhere ...your music took me right into the room as I watched her work to save a life ..

i listened to this high and imagined a gigantic mushroom walking with a forest of black trees atop its head

We are all helpless to entropy, save for the bees and flowers, who's beauty is ever renewed.

This song let me stop, feel all the sadness and ends in the world, cry a bit, then soak in the knowledge that life is perfect in its chaos. So... Thanks.

this sounds like you’re dancing barefoot in a field somewhere outside of a medieval village. the sun fills your eyes and illuminated the world around you.

Well, time she did as time she does She passed along her way And dawn, she crept like a frightened girl Out from the nighttime's sway But in the merry month of May Her solemn fast does learn For spring, it sprung as spring it does And put the bees to work And work they must and work they shall For all the things to grow For if they don't, as time she knows They'd wither on the bough And what a shame such things would be No wondrous wine for you and me No cider too, nor mead nor soup For us to all make merry So rot, ferment, and decompose So all the things can grow Oh wallow in the drinkless world And wither on the bough Oh what a dusty burden That nectar and the pollen Like Atlas with the heavens On the back of his head And what if they should falter And shrug their little shoulders Well, time, she'd pass all the same

This song can go on for 30 minutes and I wouldn't mind in the least

THE MUSIC THIS GUY MAKES IS......*muaaa!* (just breathtaking)

I don't think I can explain how beautiful these songs are. However, they move me, and after reading the lyrics. Playing more and more of them. They give me this melancholy that almost moved me to tears. A sad joy that makes me long for a past I may never have had, and I love that.

Felt like one of those old school wandering musicians/circuses/plays/etc. They’d come to town and all the people from all around would to watch. All with wonder and curiosity to what the whole spectacle was about. Art in its truest form. No politics, no darkness. Just love for art and it’s many ways to entertain.

Cosmo sounds like a immortal Bard that's lived for thousands of years singing of everything he's witnessed.

When i listen to this song,my brain imagines a sunrise on a beach,but not an ordinary one. An Eclipsed Sun,i also imagine a man dancibg alone,in a slow,orderly,waltz-like dance while playing the violin,and then a jump cut to a side close up of a mouth as the lyricks kick in,and then rach instrument as they come (come come) along. Its quite peculiar,but then at the "work they must" line,i imagine a cut to the eclipse,and then yhe camera clipping back to the mouth,only to turn and reveal the dancing man,singing on the same beach,staring into the sunrise,singing,holding his violin and bow,and then he dances once more as the beach comes along and washes his footprints away. And then at yhe "rot,ferment,and decompose" line,i see a single white flower in a forest,growing,and then wilting,and decomposing. And then back to the dancing violin man. And then it ends as the man dances,for all of eternity,on this eclipsed beach,performing a Solar Waltz. And then,fade to black as the dance,and song,end.

I DEMAND COSMO GETS MORE LOVE

Okay, I need someone, anyone, to perform this with. Maybe not the whole orchestra but just the key instruments would be spread in the room and one of us would sit stationary with a guitar or lute or liar or similar in the middle, singing, and the other(s) wanders around and plays one instrument after another. And in the moments of instrumental patterns or during readjusting/changing of instruments, we behave like we lived together for centurys, sort of a married couple and sort of the cicle of day and night. It's an extremely specific vision, I know. I just thought it would fit the song so well.

y e e t. Another beautiful tune- Who am I kidding, at this point, you can’t expect anything but beauty from this dude! Keep it up, man.

Damn. This song is really about the way humans treat the earth, but at the same time, the interlocking of nature and the inevitability of time. Regardless of what happens, be it terrible or wonderful, time will pass as time she does.

... this music makes my imagination explode, new characters to draw, new stories, the one that was forgotten by himself, and each time was lost in the small emptiness of his mind

This is a carnival waltz, and I genuinely want to waltz to it

Something about the way the "No soup" sounds just hits different. Idk why, it just does. Beautiful 10/10

This song makes me feel like I’m following a bard through an enchanted forest ☺️

The best word for this song is delightful. It feels like dancing in the clouds in a starry bright sky.

Okay, I have to admit. I have never in my entire life have heard anything like your music before. It's like getting lost in a forest, it's beautiful, mystical, creepy and different at the same time. You are quite underrated, and I don't know why.

Today is a rainy Saturday morning in 2024. I put on the Much Much How How and I. I am back in 2018, after my breakup. I am listening the Solar Waltz. I learn that time moves on and the cycles continue until they're broken. Thanks Cosmo.

id like to have this playing at my wedding 🥰🥰🥰

I could listen to this music for hours and not get tired of it. It’s so enchanting and when you listen and close your eyes it takes you to another world. As an artist that has had art block for awhile now, I have so much inspiration just from this music

What a great song about bees (It really is a great song)

POV: You accidentally wandered too far into the forest and now you're being stalked by fae

all of your music gives me almost zelda or like elfish forest vibes and i love it

This song is weirdly calming :) I love it

Once again I have to thank my discovery weekly for letting me hear such a sweet voice.

I love how these songs tell a story

This song fills me with so much calm and peace. I love it, but it saddens me that not many people know about this beautiful song.

This is a waltzing sea shanty about bees

Oh how I love a song about bees!

his voice kinda reminded me of Woodkid such a charming beauty

So beautiful and peaceful... It's been long time since i have heard such wonderfully nostalgic song... Należy Ci się uznanie Cosmo Sheldrake. Ukłony w twoją stronę...

You have no idea how much I love this song

With all these songs you should do every Wes Anderson movie from here on out.

Love this song 🎵

this is being played at my non existing wedding.

This is a song for when they have a party in Moominvalley, there are no doubts.

i heard this song when i was tripping balls on pain meds and it changed my life

All of your songs are perfectly put together in a way where they can be about the simplest things like bees and the hardest things to grasp like accepting some things are in the past and need to be let go, but both at the same time

This is a masterpiece.

Why is every song that includes waltz in it's name always go so hard. No actually I take it back, why do all waltz in general go so hard.

Sometimes, youve got to wonder if others feel the same things that you do when u listen to this piece. Its difficult to know, however, since the feelings it gives off are too complex to put into words.

This music is unlike anything else that I have heard before. It's just indescribable.

used to listen to this when was heavily depressed and dissasociating. dont know if it help but was very much big dreamlike vibes.