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Imagining a tardigrade drinking whiskey and wearing tiny socks.

THIS DUDE GOT A SONG ABOUT TARDIGRADES?!?!? i love you

Cosmo is one of those musicians that I'm certain has some depth or message to his songs but I refuse to acknowledge it. I choose to believe this dude just loves biology and puts it to a melody

i think that the lyrics are beautiful because on one hand people are saying that if they were a Tardigrade then they'd live out their lives and explore. While on the other hand actual Tardigrades just want to live in their shrubbery.

it makes me think of a very short little knight who is incredibly resistant, but after one mission with the king he basically is like “nah i think i’ll stay home”

Tardigrade Song

Sounds like something that you'd hear in a Medieval-type Tardigrade village, being played in some old Tardigrade Tavern while next to a Tardi-fireplace

This song is basically the plot of "The Hobbit" if Bilbo Baggins were a Tardigrade instead of a Hobbit...

wait is this song actually about water bears??? like those microscopic little weird multi legged wrinkly creatures?????

This song inspired the most unfair D&D boss I have ever conceived of. Thank you.

Kinda wanna draw a tardigrade wearing a shirt that says: basically, I am smol

This song feels exactly like a sea shanty. There’s even an effect that sounds like someone turning a ship’s wheel. You can imagine a bunch of sailors singing this at sea.

This song inspired me to buy a microscope, collect moss from the window of an old van, and successfully view a real life tardigrade shuffling around in a drop of water.

I'm sad that KZfaq only lets me like this once.

I've always felt the tardigrade (aka water bear) needed it's own song. Didn't know it already had one.

Tardigrades are pretty much immune to anything

when you were looking for a perfect tardigrade jam and you FOUND IT!!!

I've heard people say this sounds similar to alt-J, and while I can hear it, it sounds more like a Scandinavian folk song to me than anything else.

this man tricked me into listening to a song with content that would be found in an educational parody for the hip biology teachers to play to a class of cringing high school freshmen.

i can't dance to save my life, but this strikes me as the sort of song that would inspire a cool dance routine.

Pov: You're lying in bed, it's 3:28 in the night. You just fell asleep listening to music, maybe five minutes ago. But you wake up, headphones in your ears, to this song. You're not tired anymore. With an awakened heart you lie in the dark, listening to it, sure to sleep afterward, dreaming of things no men can imagine.

So now there's tardigrades on the moon, and I thought you all should know that.

Alot of people are saying how this song sounds like the moss witch makes sense becuase tardigrades leave in forest moss

Dang I thought a Tardigrade was a bird

Theory: Cosmo Sheldrake is actually a fae communicating with us through songs 🐸

Lyrics: If I were a tardigrade I'd move out from home Why live in the shrubbery when you could have a throne? Pressure wouldn't squash me and fire couldn't burn These are the things that I never will learn These are the things I never will learn... Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai, lai Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai I live in the shrubbery, for that's all I crave (Ah ha) I don't want these excitements to see me to my grave (Ah ha) I can live life in vacuums for years with no drink (Ah ha) And put up with hardships more than you can think And put up with hardships more than you can think... Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai, lai Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai If I shed all my liquid and let myself dry out I'll shrivel and sleep for some 15-odd years I'd wake up, come water, and get on with living With time in my pocket to pass by the day If I were a tardigrade I'd move out from home (Ah ha) Why live in the shrubbery when you could have a throne? (Ah ha) Pressure wouldn't squash me and fire couldn't burn (Ah ha) These are the things that I will never learn These are the things I never will learn... Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai, lai Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai, lai Lai, lai-lai lai-lai, lai-lai lai-lai... For I am a tardigrade (Ah ha) And I'll stay at home (Ah ha) I'd not trade it for anything (Ah ha) Not a knife, a cup or a throne (Woo ooh, ooh ooh ooh) Well, all I want is my shrubbery (Ah ha) And my little patch of moss (Ah ha) With my whisky in the cabinet (Ah ha) And my feet all clothed in socks And my feet clothed in socks... Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai, lai Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai, lai Lai, lai-lai-lai lai lai, lai-lai lai-lai lai lai

i can't tell whether Cosmo has deep and important meanings behind all of his songs, or he just has a deep love for nature and frankly, i do not wish to know.

a few years ago i got bored and didnt want to play anything with my brothers, so when they asked me what animal i wanted to be (for a game) i immediately said "tardigrade". its been an inside joke ever since, i have a tardigrade shirt and a small box of tardigrade mints. my mom just sent me this song and it is. its perfection. for me when i become a tardigrade im all lazy, and this song perfectly captures how cool tardigrades are and why id like to be one-

For the longest time I misheard "were" as "wear" and just assumed tardigrades were a type of clothing

I've been listening to these song for a week straight now back to back and I'm still nowhere near tired of them. What is this wizardry?!

I had the itch to look Cosmo up on wikipedia. After seeing his dad's and brother's professions, his music all became more clear. I know a father and brother doesn't define someone, but it certainly does leave some influence.

I've just heard this song in a programme about tardigrades on BBC Radio 4. I'm being educated in many ways! Fascinating creatures.

I too like drinking whiskey whilst having feet clothed in socks.

I made the mistake of looking up what a tardigrade is, because I'm not a native english speaker and didn't know... Why are small things so scary and basically immortal? On the other hand... this song makes a lot more sense now...

Thought tardigrades were birds. Imagine my surprise when I saw a microscopic thingie that's on the moon now! Very cool

We are the knights who say Ni! And we demand a shrubbery!

Holy. Shit. My brain was just... it's now blown. This music is SO. AWESOME!!

I learned about a new animal today c:

this song honestly does describe tardigrades quite well

This is straight grade A jams right here.

Honestly, this song is like me with my mental health. I can survive a lot of pressure and fire, but only by shutting down like a tardigrade, so I prefer to avoid those situations so I can actually live my life.

that feeling when you are terribly afraid of tardigrades but terribly love this song

I know full well that this song is about a gross micro animal, however, I love this song not only for the melody, but for a more personal reason. As a kid, I used to have this rabbit toy. If you pulled down on its feet, it would play music! It used to comfort me a lot as a kid, and I still have it to this day! When I heard this song for the first time, I burst into tears, because the "la la" bits of the song sound eerily similar to the rabbit toy. Even the music accompaniment. I even played the song for my dad. He agreed, and also cried. Sorry for the paragraph, but, uh, I just thought I'd share that. This song slaps regardless though

Today I feel like posting my interpretation of this song, so there we go. It's about a person that wishes they were stronger to resist the hardships of life (like a tardigrade, that are famous for being practically unkillable, kinda) but then looks back at all the things they have gone through and survived, concluding they are already strong as a tardigrade and would not trade their life and experiences for anything because it's what has allowed them to be in the position they are right now, and is contempt with that.

The perfect song for vibing in the shrubbery with my tardigrade companions.

I was two seconds in when I became obsessed.

Tardigrades could take over the world if they wanted, unlike humans tardigrades aren't greedy

He has the type of voice that, in any other type of song, I wouldn't be able to stand, but with these songs I love it

song tdlr; There are two characters in this song, The Human, & our little friend, The Tardigrade. The human wants to be a tardigrade so he can be invincible, but the actual tardigrade just wants to stop being exposed to the vacuum of space

Thank you for making this song that compelled me to learn about tardigrades, i now know way too much useless info about tiny water hippos.

I feel like an elusive bard with a keytar has encircled me with giant tardigrades while bears and wolves are singing in the thicket

Cosmo has this tune and vibe that you instantly know it's them. I don't know how.

A few days I woke up and this song was immediately in my head before any other coherent thought. Since I was only half awake, though, I thought my alarm was ringing because I had to go meet my tardigrade friends. (I still didn't even know what tardigrades were at that point)

I'm sitting here wearing a skull t shirt being my general kinda goth self while listening to a cute song about a tiny creature and I love it.

I love the song, and tardigrades are nuts.

Cosmo Sheldrake's music give me the feeling of going fishing with my dad or grandfather (he named his boat after me 😌), sometimes my brother or cousins. Depending on the time of the year we'd go to this place with very clear water where you could see the fish biting the line and sometimes we'd even see sharks, other times we'd go stand on this massive wall by the harbour. I remember being a young child and seeing a man catch like fifty fish and they were all on the land flopping around my his feet. Said it was for his cat.

Me arguing with my friends who love technology while i want to be in the forest collecting bones and experiment on insects and plants:

This song got me dancin inside a forest finding mushrooms

This song is full of win.

Perfect song for writing D&D campaigns.

0:40 ok I need to talk about this. YOUR VOICE IS AMAZING AND HOW UR VOICE JUST DRIFTS AT THIS POINT IS AMAZING HOLY HELL………anyway this is a great song and it’s apart of my childhood which is amazing

I saw this guy at beatherder a couple of days ago, this was the song that made me want to follow his music. bloody awesome stuff

literally Bilbo Baggins' inner dialogue

Me and my worm on a string, Arsenic, love this song :3

one of the most underrated songs on Earth like what

This sounds like a sea shanty from another world

This song always gives me hobbit vibes, all of his songs invoke such awesome stories in my head! Probably my favorite artist 🖤

i really love this song, considering tardigrades are literally immortal. when he says "if i shed all my liquid and let myself dry out i'll shrivel and shrink for some 15 odd years" there was a space ship that crashed with live tardigrades in it, and they could possibly still be alive. when someone conducted an experiment with a tardigrade replicating the moons low pressure. the tardigrades actually curled up and stop moving. "id wake up come water and get on with living" now, amazingly when he rose the pressure again the tardigrades just began to move and wriggle as if nothing had happened "i can live life in vaccuums for years with no drink" once again, tardigrades dont need water. and in the experiment seen above, the tardigrades pressure was actually modified using a vaccuum. i just think thats cool

"I live in the shrubbery, for that's all I crave " That's all I crave too, I want to live in the shrubs too!

That tardigrade really said “bring me a shrubbery”...

I'm glad that this one is getting more recognition, it's one of my favorites :D

A great musician from a family with very varied talents.

This feels like swimming up towards the light

The way he sings in this song just feels so bubbly and alive

This is pure genius.

a brilliant song to an awesome creature

cottage core anthem

As Magnus, Taako, and Merl battle these guys, this is the song that plays

Tardigrades deserve this kinda appreciation.

**inhale** SO- IMAGINE THIS- A little woodland faerie, with a mushroom hat and dress, dancing in the evening. Her cottage has a warm fire, and she sits in front of it with her socks and a glass of whiskey. Nothing can hurt her, nothing worries her. She enjoys her small life, wanting nothing more than to frolick in the woods and bushes. She sings a sweet, yet haunting tune.

Turns out after months of listening to this song I just found out a tardigrade is a water bear, not someone who is tardy, now it makes a lot of sense

I cant believe I barely just found this song. I love it so much. I have a tardigrade plushie and now a song to sing to him

the mainly instrumental bits, such as 3:35, just make me so happy. It sounds so mystical, but also silly, and reminds me of wind chimes and bird feeders. It makes me feel like I’m going to go float up on a cloud, greet a dragon, then go nap in a mushroom hut I paid for with patterned seashells.

sure, you're resilient, can survive the harshest and worst environments, always come up on top and nothing can truly hurt you. you can achieve greatness. but why by all goodness would you want to do all that unpleasantness if you're just fine and comfy with what you have?

Goblincore peeps: *Y E S*

The first song I heard that is about water bears AND it's absolutely awesome

My favorite microscopic sea shanty.

I've loved tardigrades for as long as I've known about them. That a song exists about them is just *chef's kiss*

No longer do we discuss how dogs wear pants, now we discuss how tardigrades wear socks.

Cosmo’s music genuinely makes me happy

I had no clue what a tardigrade was before listening to this and thought this was some strange metaphor for a man's life. Maybe it still is :P

As a biology/environmental studies nerd, I got so excited when I found your music. Not only is the subject matter of the song wonderful, but I love your sound and lyrics, aaaa! :)

This song feels like a dude who is experiencing the feeling of wasted potential. He could do more. He knows he could become what ever he wants but he stays home fully aware that he could survive the hardships

This is some good Upbeat Tarvern Telling A Story Music

I really love this song. It ticks all the boxes. I have listened to it loads of times.

I'm literally obsessed with cosmo he made me realize my spiritual beliefs and what I want to do with my life I will remember this man on my death bed

these are the things that i never will learn... inhale THESE ARE, THE THINGS, I NEVER WILL *LEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-*

Love this song, since I love tardigrades... Beautiful ode to Tardigrades!

Found cosmo because of this song. Gotta say this inspired me to be an instumentalist like thou. Even opened my vocabulary a bunch. Much love