inspiration behind the song, from an interview. The taxi driver had told us she used to be a long haul delivery driver and then went into a lot of personal details. She would take cocaine and crystal meth to stay awake so that she could drive all across the states on just one go. Then, one day, she overdid it and took too much meth and blacked out. Later, she found herself waking up one day suddenly in a strip club. She looked up and asked one of the strippers dancing what state she was in and what date it was. Turns out a whole month had gone by. She was no longer in the right state and had completely loss her truck. That whole month went by with zero recollection of what happened but she had this deep haunting feeling that she had done something terribly wrong, maybe even murder.

This song's backstory is wild as hell

3:30 begins sounding like a videogame trailer with like a shit ton of fairies and mystical stuff then like getting into a whole different storyline where you have to fight beasts then find out that everything was a hallucination and you were fighting for nothing, just make believe things to feel comfort for being alone.

Somebody needs to use this track in a movie at some scene where some shit goes down at a club in slow mo

Is it weird that for me this one sounds more like glass animals than the original?

This is unbelievably beautiful, I usually don't like slowed down music but holy shit

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚙𝚜

A moment of silence for those people who haven't discovered glass animals yet

*depression intensifies* *but it's pretty*

LYRICS: In the summer Took my gun And made him go to Neverland He was something My old husband He was all you'd ever want Did you say somethin' What'd you say? Was that your voice or was that me? Little voices buzzin poison Backward noise drom everything Dr Swango Says I'm psycho Says they all from Neverland They'll never ever let me be Was that your voice or was that me? Dirty Dustin Said he saw him Playin' ball with Dizzy Jim Dizzy Jim Had never spoken Whispered back "You murdered him." My heart strings broke and it was me I pull they stretch infinitely In the summer silence I was getting violent In the summer silence I was doing nothing Play with me my love In the summer sun I'll be waiting it Your favorite Cheshire grin Lay with me my dear In the evening clear I'll be dreaming in My paper pale skin In the summer silence I was getting violent In the summer silence I was doing nothing

101 people didn‘t get violent in the summer silence. Update: Use this as lyrics comment. [Verse 1] In the summer, took my gun And made him go to Neverland He was something, my old husband He had all you'd ever want Did you say something? What'd you say? Was that your voice or was that me? Little voices buzzing poison Backward noise from everything Dr. Swango says I'm psycho Says they all from Neverland They'll never ever let me be Was that your voice or was that me? [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2] Dirty Dustin, said he saw him Playing ball with Dizzy Jim Dizzy Jim had never spoken Whispered back, "You murdered him" My heart strings broke and it was me I pull, they stretch infinitely [Chorus] In the summer silence, I was getting violent In the summer silence, I was doing nothing In the summer silence, I was getting violent In the summer silence, I was doing nothing [Bridge] Play with me, my love, in the summer sun I'll be waiting in your favourite Cheshire grin Lay with me, my dear, in the evening clear I'll be dreaming in my paper-pale skin [Chorus] In the summer silence, I was getting violentIn the summer silence, I was doing nothing In the summer silence, I was getting violentIn the summer silence, I was doing nothing In the summer silence, I was getting violentIn the summer silence, I was doing nothing In the summer silence, I was getting violentIn the summer silence, I was doing nothing [Outro] In the summer silence, in the summer silence In the summer silence, I was doing nothing

Im already a hard-core fan of glass animals, so this made my day, bro, thanks.

On the original video, someone made a comment about this song being about a 1950s housewife poisoning people who she disliked with cherry pie or other bakes and reading their obituaries with a smile the next day. It led through her eventual decrease into insanity until she attempts to kill her young son and realises what she's done. It was so well written and I'm not sure if the comment is still there but it's all I think of when I listen to this song and it's just so damn good.

Honestly? This gives me the feeling of that final straw. When you finally just feel euphoric after the fact you’ve lost it. You’ve lost that personality and person you once were. And I LOVE it

I have a feeling this is gonna get turned into a bunch of animation memes

I love how once you know the backstory, this songs hits even harder. Like they kinda captured the feeling of it omg

This reminds me of Peter Pan and I don’t know why

I always think of someone waking up in a different dimension that has no sound and is just them and a child in baseball gear. The dimension is just an unending field of wheat.

This is my favorite song on the album and omg I love this. The lyrics are so enticing and make you feel like something is just off and this video really gives it that mood.

2:44 - 3:33 is so haunting. jesus.

Having actually gotten into this song, this remix of it is absolutely insane and is just a perfect example of how to improve a song beyond amazing. Honestly easily one of the best remixes I’ve heard of all time, the buildup and release at the end is nothing short of just incredible.

Every time I listen to this I imagine devils and angels dancing around a huge bonfire with each other. Rum in hand, laughter in the air, garments strewn about haphazardly and not a care in the word. They all just abandoned their masters for a night of debauchery.

"oo! a new slowed down song!" *clicks* *becomes insane*

3:56 ok but this hits different

This song made me fall in love with Glass Animals and this version is so beautiful! Really captures beauty in insanity to me

god this is so good, i hate slowed down music so much but this right here? this is so fitting, its so glass animals

The “wow”in the background is the reason I live

You have no idea how much I love this

damn this goes so hard omg thank you for this

i'm playing this aloud and it sounds like it's coming from all around my room! dude, thanks for this edit, it sounds great!

who needs a mental breakdown when u can just listen to this on loop

Is it me or does this fit perfectly with lord of the flies?

I did not know it was possible to fall more in love with a song as if it was the first time you heard it

there is a cult of people with this profile picture and you cant proove me wrong, so far i have met 3 others than myself

I wasn't a fan of Mama's Gun before, but now this edit is literally my favourite Glass Animals song to date! Thanks!

I love the comment sections under these videos so much. Reading comments from people who actually think about a song, how the song makes them feel... it's amazing. Haha, idk.

Glass animals deserves so much more recognition

*thought of a show while listening to this: it's a little half assed, bear with me* Every three years, during summer, somewhere in Texas a supposed serial killer starts a murder spree once again, only to fizzle out whenever summer ends. No matter how many times police have tried to sniff out the culprit, no traces have been left, no suspects have been found guilty. The movie takes place in the point of view of a young boy, in his mid to late teens. He's not too phased by these mysterious, yearly murders, but is not unaffected by them. One fateful afternoon, his parents are slaughtered, by what can only be explained by the mystery killer of Texas. From then on, he takes it upon himself to find the culprit, and thus he starts searching, visiting crime scenes, taking every single piece of evidence he can find. Yet in the end it is revealed, that he is the killer, his memories of committing homicide somehow disappear when the day ends, and has no recollection of it after summer ends. Horrified by his own actions, he turns himself in. While in jail, his strange murdering habits stops. He is free from jail after years, during summer. Though unnerved by the specific season, he goes back to his hometown, only to see it empty, abandoned in a wreckage. Apparently another slaughter had broken out; perhaps he didn't commit the crimes after all? He goes out of his way to investigate once more, discovering the fact that this murder cycle in texas has been a thing since a very, very long time ago. He somehow breaks this strange curse and all things seem normal. But later on its revealed, he was the only murderer Texas ever had, the boy went insane after discovering his own crimes back then, and is now in a mental asylum, he hallucinated all of the events that had taken place after he discovered his murderous habit. Thus the show ends on a bitter note.

How does this not have more love. The song sounds so good this way, too

Listen to this while walking alone in the middle of the night. It makes you feel a certain way I can't describe.

Is this what being high sounds like

listened to this so much the original sounds like nightcore

this gives me a very enchanting but haunted feeling.

I love the vibes this song gives off

Not enough comments for this masterpiece!

Oh yes This, this is nice.

at first, didnt hit me that hard, but then that whispy, background-ish thing got stuck in my head, absolutely haunting. i don't mean the high pitched whispy one, i mean the lower one that is kinda hard to hear and doesn't go on the whole song.

Oh maaan this is so cool! You should definitely do more glass animal songs I feel like they are some of the best to be slowed down like this!

I say this with full honesty, and truthfulness, *This hits different.*

Ah the video that introduced me to the majesty that is Glass Animals. Can't believe it's only been 15 months.

okay 1. amazing, beautiful. I f-ing love slowed songs 2. how do humans even do this beauty-- 3. *I'm crying wtf*

This made me go from circle to orb.

underrated

The whole video is normal, you're the one actually going insane

2:39 ignore this it’s just so I can replay my favorite bit of the song lol

oh this is perfect for story building

This music is brainwashing me

this has always been my favorite from them, hits different slowed

The vibe I get from this song is a group of friends decide to take a walk to the woods at night. But at some point they discover something they shouldn’t have found. It makes one of them go insane and kill one of the other kids. But after the kid is killed, the other returns to normal. The rest of the group had already fled, but the one that killed the other remains, and this is the song that plays in their head after they calm down.

I may not be gone insane, but this song to me is quite catchy, giving me this backstory of Alice in Wonderland vibes... huh, maybe I have gone insane come to think of that, who knows? lol

love this. also terrified now. great job!

Favourite favourite favourite song on the album, what a piece of art

2:42-5:05 this song is frickin amazing I can’t with how ethereal it is

this song is criminally underrated

dude thank you, i really needed this

I adore the flute parts..it’s so calming..and this songs meaning..

This version is insane as hell

this sounds like a melancholy space ghost coast to coast

This song along with some other glass animals songs is brilliant! It gives off this calm, quiet, but terrifyingly powerful vibes. Like hoe deadly is something that seems like could never hurt you and it makes all my imagined animatics n stuff just that much more majestic

I feel like I can overcome all of my fears with this song

this reminds me of schizophrenia

I know this video is old but PLEASE drop this on spotify

This sounds so much better slowed down! Damn, I like this song so much more now!

This song is starting to become a bit too relatable guys 😍

Listening to this in the dark with good headphones on is an ethereal experience

I sense an OC animatic in the making that will never be finished because one, no clue how to edit music in and two, not enough patience to make something like that.

I had goosebumps listening man you did such a great job. I love it

This is the only song I can listen to a slowed version of for extended periods of time. This is something else.

bro i love this

Listening to this full blast while walking on a treadmill at the gym and projecting into a different plane of existence

my fav glass animals song!! thank u this is beautiful

This is the only version i listen to of this song. I always come back to it on those quiet nights where there's a feeling of uneasy calm, but still remaining in the night due to the haunting welcome

Eargasm.

I'm getting chills listening to this... wow ❤️

There's something about this that gives off legend of zelda vibes

Honestly this version is better since it sounds more haunting.

Hi this song was the auditory equivalent of waking up somewhere unfamiliar and having your vision go blurry in the midst of a psychotic break. 12/10

this song is defiantly the hero becoming the bad guy and going bad shit crazy

There were birds chirping around the place as they did all the summer, but I couldn't hear them. I couldn't hear anything. No, not anything, there was a voice. It's strange, I can't recall who it was but it was as familiar as the cold breeze in a winter morning. The distant whisper was faded, faint, but inside of my head at the same time. It told me to open my eyes. And there he was. Or it. His face all mangled, couldn't be recognized by his own mother, rested on the dirty floor of that cranked up apartment. The body was somewhere else, but I couldn't remember where. "Lay with me, my dear" the whisper said. Shivers ran through my spine. His face moved, vaguely resembling what a smile could've been if he wasn't in such a poor state. A smile that lured me into obeying. Ignoring the blood and trying my very best not to vomit there and then, I sat on the floor at the bloody face's side. And I did nothing. My hands were full of red but I just sat there and watched the hours go. That strangely familiar voice kept on telling me things I knew and things to do, but I just sat there, letting day and night take the summer away. No chirping of the birds, not anymore, just the silence of summer's heat waves. The song inspired me to write this, I hope you liked it, and if you got this far, thank you very much :)

Ok ok so if yall play "The Arcana" yall would know that the music in the game is really cool and often has flute in it. I can really picture this song being in the game like MY GOD! ITS SOOOO GOOD!

You posted this on my bday last year, which makes it even better :)

Someone needs to make a well produced book / movie about the backstory of this song frrr 😏☝️

For some reason playing this song and doing your makeup before school is the most relaxing thing

This sounds like stars at night in a field

Please do more like this, it’s absolutely beautiful 🖤✨

This goes hard whenever you're in a crowded area and it feels like you're in a video game.

I imagine someone in a sleepless death,wondering their thoughts,never ending travels,until something hits them,they arent awake,nor asleep not alive nor dead,they are not existing nor imaginated,they are one spec of sanity,one spec of star,one spec of life,they meet someone,or shall i say something,wandering as they are,they travel together,learning,teacheing,surviving,one of them wanders too far and is left alone once more,they search far and wide for the one just as sane as they,they never stop searching for what made them A L I V E.until it ends.everything was a show,they wake up to a bland world once more.

I just listened to this version of this song and then couldn’t move for about a half hour I’ve listened to the song so much that slowed down it makes me feel super weird Listening to it feels like what it feels like to listen to glass animals while falling asleep

jesus! that eargasm!!!!!! that slow version!!!!!!

A masterpiece