M83 has a way of making you feel some type if way... its euphoria Sadness Endless happiness.

*wherever you are in the world, just know that life will get better. you've survived up until this point, that means you can survive until the end. you'll find your way out, i promise*

I always come back to M83 when life is tough. This song is a work of art.

Sometimes I come to read all the beautiful comments from songs likes this and it really fills me with joy knowing all the nice and good hearted people out there. It doesnt matter where you are in the world, remember we are all connected as one. 🌌

I want that song to be played the last 9 minutes of my life while going through a slide show of all the beautiful things I have seen. Once it's over, I'm ready to leave this world.

i find it more than coincidental that this song lasts about as long as it takes for light to travel from the sun to earth.

This song celebrates the beauty of things that end. Simple as that. It can be death, a relationship that didn't work in the end, a son leaving their parents house to make his own path... It celebrates the closure of things that, directly or not, starts another cycle, until itself comes to an end. And it is beatiful because, celebrating things that end means celebrating everything. Everything starts from a ending.

This isn't a song that you just listen to. It's a song that happens to you.

I hope one day I’ll meet someone that makes me feel the way this song makes me feel

Going through cancer for the third time,,, love knowing I get to hear beautiful music like this before something happens, God willing I get to hear it for many years to come

This song puts me to sleep when I was carrying my first child. It's like an instant lullaby that my baby and I appreciate. Unfortunately, 5 months in, miscarriage happened and I still listen to this every night and I know my baby girl is too. Thank you for this gentle piece of memory that I can live in over and over again. Love.

I would like to thank M83 for making this song that has flown under my radar until last night. I have been in a rough shape lately due to my depression but have not been able to let go and shead some tears, and then this song came up on auto-play and I was captivated by the song and it made me feel enough to cry. I really needed that, thank you again.

If the world ends, this is the song that should play in the background

I am 27 years old and never in my life have I been touched by music in the way M83 has touched me. I am not religious but this is what heaven must sound like.

This song is echoing through the cosmos a trillion years from now. It is the memory of us being carried on the final beam of light from our long dead star.

When I'm low.. I come here... Thanks M83

I think the title indicates an acceptance of demise. The term "Lower" implies a gentle, calm closing of one's eyes, and the latter part of the title just gives away that someone is accepting death. The video first shows us a pulsating light, and it gets us questioning what it may be. Time is just ticking on, with the "tick" sound being repeated at the beginning. This just seems like the universe is moving on like normal. Little do we know, the light we once thought was benign and non-significant, it turned out to be headlights from a car that hits the viewer so abruptly, just as life does with us all. There is a visual and musical shift here, signifying the said major life event happening. The music gets much more chaotic, and goes from just the "tick" sound to a much more hectic cadence of sounds and instruments, showing how our lives become hectic and chaotic when a major life event hits us. It's amazing how they showed this through sounds, with absolutely no lyrics. The videos of test dummys were just to establish what exactly was happening, to explain the purpose of the man and woman soaring through the darkness. The man and woman obviously got in a car accident together, and the consistent shots of them are proof of that. As the video progresses, however, it shows them getting closer and closer, reaching out for one another, showing how they are falling (okay literally flying) together, because all they have ever wanted is each other. The final shot of them portrays them holding each other's faces, staring at one another. This is a visual and musical shift in the song, which then segues into the final portion of the song, which gets rid of the drums and just has the harmonious pitch in the background with a few other minor sounds. This leads into the denouement of the song, which is also representative of the resolution of life, as the chaos that erupted initially - fades. The lights at the end represent the man and the woman. They were separated as individuals, as there are two lights, both different colors. They join together after about a minute of them being apart, showing how they remained together even in the afterlife, and upon merging, they moved on with the rest of the (what seem to be) stars, because the universe moves on without people all the time. When a loss occurs, people are affected, chaos erupts, but everyone moves on, just as the final shot shows. The stars shown that pass them by can either be all of those who also met their demise in the universe, or it can be representative of the beginning of a life together. The two lights in the final scene, when merging, can also be the symbolic replacement of the man in the woman in the video. The video makes it kinda clear that they die, as the crash looks horrific for about six minutes. The lights binding together can be two individuals uniting, forming a couple. Once they merge, they may also be interpreted as joining the rest of the world, moving forward in life together, ready to find themselves in a similar situation that the couple in the video found themselves in - a fatal incident. Overall, I think the video focuses on the concept of life, which is that we will face struggles, we will fall, but we must regroup and join the universe once again. The video shows a death caused by an accident, but it can be holistically speaking to the aforementioned process of life. We die, we fall, but if we can, we rise, and we join society, who has long moved on from our downfall. Without a single word uttered in this song, I think it reinforces my theory of what this whole song and video means. No words can capture what it is like to lose, or be lost. Hence, a harmonious tune, a tragic scene, and a final beautiful shot of colorful lights does its best to encapsulate such an intricate, solemn topic. This song is so beautiful, and has gotten me through the worst of times. For those of you that stumble upon this in 2018 and years past that, let me know what you think if you read through this entirely. I have so much fun analyzing songs, and I hope someone else out there has a unique (or same) perception they would like to share.

imagine blasting this on full volume as the world's ending

A pile of perfect sounds

I ran a half marathon today and this song was on my playlist. I remember looking around at everyone running and for some reason this song really encapsulated this transcendental feeling of mutual love, experience and humanity.

Never in my entire life has a song so moved me as this one has. It has carried me through some of the roughest times in my life, losing my brother, feeling alone and lost. This song touches you deep in your very heart and soul and pulls you out of whatever darkness you may be sinking into. This song reminds me what it means to live and to love, to feel and to simply be. These words definitely don't do this song justice, for emotions such as those stirred by music such as this simply cannot be defined. What this song means...you just feel it, deep inside. Your soul smiles, your heart glows. You're one with life and love and everything around you. This song is the universe holding your hand and telling you that everything is going to be okay...because you are loved. Thanks M83. For giving life to this ethereal and exquisite piece of music, and for sharing it with the world.

Wouldn't mind shutting my eyes one last time while listening to this beautiful piece of music.

The only few people who actually seached this masterpiece will ever find this song This is piece of nostalgia and memories on the best it such an underrated track.

I've never felt so many emotions in one song...

I want to cry and smile at the same time.

The first time I heard this song was about a decade ago. I was watching the Top Gear Vietnam special and as the sun set on the beautiful country of Vietnam a small section of this song played. I never knew the song, but remember the feeling it gave me. Utterly content and blissful. I watched it again for the first time recently and I heard the song again and I felt exactly the same 10 years on. This time, due to the advancements we’ve made in 10 years, I could Shazam the song and find this full length masterpiece. It’s taken me 10 years to hear the full song, and it was worth every moment waiting.

For some reasons his music touches me so deeply that tears just stream down my face and I have no chance to hold them back. This is more than music, this is art, brilliant and timeless.

This song is angelic... It's transcendent... It's peaceful and sad at the same time... Seeing these comments just reminds me how we're all still beautiful... Peace, luck and love to anyone reading this. 2021.

this song brought me into the moment. something I struggle to find, a place where all suffering dies and the beauty of existing is absolute.

Listened to this while i snowboarded the back country up in whistler BC, something about slashing through powder up in 15,000 feet elevation really is magical. I kind of cried a bit for the first time out of pure joy.

M83 is the best band in the world 🌎

it feels like LIFE.. I can't even put it words. I feel everything

Why do I suddenly go into an existential crisis and have sad and happy thoughts that make me want to cry for hours...

Music is after all ... our second language.

Before tonight, I have never heard M83 or of M83. Now I can't stop listening and crying.

"Let me tell you a story. About a boy too old to be a kid and too young to be a man..." A Monster Calls is one of my favorite movies of all time. I started crying the instant I saw the trailer (the one featuring this song), before I had seen the movie. It touched me like nothing else had before. And I hope that it touches you, too.

The Best Song in the entire Universe

This speaks to my soul.

This really is the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard, there is no way to describe the feeling I get hearing it, I hope it plays as I move on from this world

this song makes me feel like i’m nothing, like the whole world just stopped and stared for a moment, like i’m floating through space and time, it makes me feel like i am something...

What does everyone else take from the video? Even since I started listening to M83 in 2008, I've thought of them VERY deeply as like, existentially awake. This video makes me think of how like, there are so many REAL people who these types of things happen to (car accidents, shootings, disasters, whatever). But somehow, how its just business as usual for the universe, and for this crazy experience called life, which is SO much bigger than us... which IS us... that we will all too have our time... but that the universe and life and the process making all this possible will continue on... for fucking eternity

You guys have no idea how better this song is if you listen through the whole Before The Dawn Heals Us (Aka, the best Sythpop album ever). It's so fucking amazing if you have the patience to listen the whole album, and while you're enjoying the energy.....boom! This song comes up and gives it the best ending to any album ever. I really recommend this, it made me cry a little.

Without a word even being said, this is the first time in a long time, a song has spontaneously brought me to tears.

¡Es Mágico! Quieres sonreír, llorar, sentirte libre, desahogarte, tener paz, reflexiónar, ser feliz... Es increíble!!

My theory is that a couple got into a car crash. You can tell it's a car because you can see shattered glass, gasoline, and sideview mirrors. Also, I would guess that the couple is from the mid 20th century. Because, back then you could go flying out of a windshield and winshield glass could shatter. Nowadays we have better car safety. Also, they showed some old car crash test clips so that could also elude to the time being older than today. But, it could be modern day too because the "tik" sounds could represent texting sounds. Either way, it's a beautiful song with some beautiful cinematography. They definitely know what they're doing. The represented a couple's final moments into a beautiful end and new beginning.

it was a signal seeing this video days before my father's death, God keeps him warm and joyful in heaven

Lost my father 2 weeks ago. I pray this is what he heard and saw as he slipped away. It was hard to watch him die... I got one last time to hold his hand and tell him I loved him. I miss him dearly as I am completely alone now. I have my regrets when we argued... I am writing to anyone who has regrets, anyone fighting with loved ones, anyone who has hate in their hearts... Lay down your hate, lay down your anger, ask to forgive and ask to be forgiven. Life is too short for so much baggage. Love you

The edge of oblivion smiled back at me, Familiar and mocking. Recognition rising from soul memory, I’ve been here before. “…depths so dark not even the dead can escape.” I test the waters with a gloved hand. Cold. Void of feeling. An emptiness so elegant in design one can only stare in wonder at the creator’s mastery of time and space. Another finger, a chill down my spine. The pressure builds and I know what comes next. Those eyes know what comes next too. A sense of dread washes over my broken body. I’ve always hated this part. My bones ache with a sacred pain as I immerse my whole body in a single motion. The coldness is mind numbing. The pressure unbearable to my fragile frame. The darkness begs to be broken. I fall without time or direction. An endless, tumbling waltz through utter blackness. Thoughts pass into formlessness. Worlds end and I know nothing more. …..

Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and Present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Anyone here because they're actually a fan of M83? I know I am.

i listen to m83 since a long time now, but just a few songs... today, i decided to listen to their full discography, because i realised how much i loved their work and how much it was beautiful. i saw the title of this music, and i knew it would be... something i couldn’t describe. and it was. actually, it was too much things. as i listened to the music, i read the comments, and i cried. it’s amazing what this song make people feel, what it gives them. there a lot of different feelings and images, but it was always powerful, kindly, beautiful, reassuring, and human. it’s literaly the best comment section of youtube. and i love this song and m83 so much. i’m a bit sad that i didn’t realise earlier how amazing they are, and how much i love their songs and music. thank you M83 and all the people in the comments ✨ (sorry for my english)

This song is an expression of the deep touch in our souls, feelings, thoughts and emotions. It comes with beauty, lightness, depth and a true sense of what really matters to me. Thank you very much M83

This video shows that what is deadly, can also be beautiful.

M83's music never fails to make my stomach flip. I can always feel the songs in my soul.

If you are listening to this beautiful song and reading this comment, may God bless you and take away all your pain and sorrow.

The beauty of music is an eternal transcendent potential, and mankind pokes holes in this fabric of potential from time to time, creating a vacuum that sucks you into an emotion that is beyond your volition or control. We don't create or interpret the meaning, we stumble upon it and bring flesh to its eternal, beautiful pre-existence 🎶 🔥 ✨

The only thing that even remotely challenges the greatness of this song are the heartfelt, candid, and deeply moving comments that attend it. This might be the best page on the Internet. Thank you to everyone for sharing your sorrow and joy. Much love.

Not an ending, but a beginning...

If this isn’t played at my funeral I’m not coming

I used to listen to this song a lot when I needed to know everything would be okay and I just remembered it recently. It still works

This song makes me feel ok with my current existential crisis

I miss you, Jennifer. I hope to see you again one day before neither of us are around anymore.

God, I wish to meet the people in this comment section.

As a child, I thought of death. And even now, during covid, death is timeless. It does not discriminate, and it’s the same for every living creature on earth. To me, there is no heaven or hell, no afterlife. You just become one with the universe, a drop of water mixing into the ocean once more. Timelessness.

If angels could sing, it should sound like this...

I want to cry listening to this song. It's beautiful, and meaningful without any words. It doesn't need any.

I am now 50 years old and happier than I’ve ever been, yet know this is the soundtrack to the short time I have left.

I had write up an arbitration case on a terrible car accident that resulted in two casualties. This particular case got to me, and I think this popped up as a suggested youtube video after some time on the phone about the details and how to write it. This song is forever linked to that incident, and the video is most fitting. I want to cry everytime I hear it. I know the two drivers will replay their decisions that night for the rest of their lives and my heart goes out to them and all the families affected.

So I decided to step outside and play this song on my phone as I gazed upon the night sky. What we see could not be there as we are looking at ghost of dead stars. Will we be remembered like our close sun or fade away like the stars far far away.

I remember myself 3 years ago listening to this song on repeat during bus commutes. I just stare out the window, my fist under my chin, watching the city lights, the moon, and the stars. This song is epic and one of my old m83 favorites. I knew this song is something big which deserves an epic video such as this. Thank you m83!

M83 so good i had to meditate on it. Ohhhhhhh the scenery is beautiful under these eyelids. This thing expands your imagination. 😮😮😮😮😮

I listen to this song and watch this music video because it gives me a small glimmer of hope that I might see my Mom again one day. Thank you.

I wish I could personally stand in front of you and tell you how much I love you, and how much you have changed my life... I listen to you when I'm falling apart, when I'm high on psychedelics, when I want to end my life, when I'm painting, and when my life changes significantly. You are my foundation, my breath of fresh air, and the magic that dances between my toes. Thank you for existing, thank you for your undying love for magic that you create from your souls, and ultimately, thank you for gifting this miracle to this world... I cannot tell you how much it means to me that you make music. Thank you for following your dreams and passions. I would not be here otherwise if you hadn't. Thank you for changing my life. I sincerely wish one day I'll be able to express my gratitude to you... I love you all so much with every depth of my heart and soul.

I can't listen to M83 without feeling like crying, not just out of sadness but there is something about the powerful message that really makes me feel and I can't suppress it

I cant put into words what im feeling. A ballet of life, time, space, elements, omnipotence, eternal beauty, and peace

Beautiful track and the drums are so well produced.

this is the best comment section I have ever seen, some people are so loving and others don't hate ever, that's what I like to see no hate no discrimination no problems, thank all of you guys out there with zero hate, that's how this world should be that's how all of us should be in our short lives, no matter if we have no affect even, to all haters out there embrace the words of the kind and loving so you don't hate anymore stop being angry at the world for something so small and enjoy your lives while your here, I know im a furry and all but why hate, some of us may never know why people hate, but that means your a great person.

I'm listening to this on repeat as I am choking back tears because I'm about to leave my fiancee of ten years. We are supposed to be married in 3 months but I feel I have to walk away, she never told me what she's been doing the last six months, and said how I felt didn't matter because I couldn't pay into the wedding. I pay most of the bills and rent, do the yardwork and fix the cars. This is a long time coming of years of use and abuse.

I'm coming back from the horrible illness and I am so happy that I can feel the joy of listening this song again:)

Beautiful. Absolutely, irrevocably beautiful.

This is magical and takes you to a place like no other. I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety last year and really thought that was it for me. Listening to music like this gives me hope for the future and makes you reassess what is important in life and makes life worth living again. Thank you M83 for giving us this emotional rollercoaster with your music and for being a part of my life.

This Is the definition of music

My brother played me this song as we drove across the rolling hills of Montana on the trip of a lifetime. That moment will be with me forever

I accidentally listened to this as I was randomly clicking videos on youtube while I was on the roof watching the stars, One of the best accidents ever.

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG FOR LITERALLY TWO YEARS NOW IM SO HAPPY

M83 has been with me through so many things. I remember sifting through the CDs at Borders bookstore, I went there often with my mother, when I found a copy of M83's debut album. The cool thing about Borders was that you could listen to lengthy samples of the CD before you purchased it. As soon as I heard M83 I was in love. I was a teenager then. When I was 21 my mother passed away from cancer December 30, 2008. Shortly after in the beginning of 2009 my brother and I attended an amazing performance by Anthony along side the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Disney Opera House. This song here is one of my favorites of M83 as it embodies everything I think Anthony tries to convey: the beauty and fullness of life with all of it's heartaches and pains. I am so incredibly thankful for this artist. Also thanks to Nicolas Fromageau for those first 2 albums.

After listening this song, death doesn't feel like an ominous event to be scared of. Just a part of life. Makes me appreciate the present so much more while staying optimistic for the life after this one

you’re only sure you've lived enough after listening to this song while watching a sunset on an airplane.. believe me it’s insane..

My soul's rawest yearning can be summed up by M83

This song makes me think of the angels praising God in heaven endlessly…Glory glory glory to the lamb who is and was and will always be!!!

who needs therapy when you have M83 songs?!!

When it's time to take my last breath, as I run to you, I will not look back. Leaving behind all the things that made the old me and looking forward to being free. I will say, "it was a great run, but now it's time to really know the truth behind all the tears". As the light fades and I take my last breath, it's time to rest.

I had to put my cat to sleep today. he was the greatest cat you could ever as for. I love you Marvin R.I.P. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BUDDY. ALWAYS IN MY HEART SO I'LL NEVER BE ALONE

This song feels like you're connected to the whole universe

I love how M83 goes for broke on almost every track. Each a compressed time capsule of the most epic and beautiful moments of your life.

*This song is everything to me!* If I could choose a song to play in the background as I walk towards God through the pearly gates of heaven... this would sooo be it 😇

You know those days where you are just exhausted by the wonders of existence? Always come here when I feel that way.

My entire life flashes in front of my eyes every time I listen to this masterpiece.

It's just a song you sit down and listen while trying to hold back tears. Beautiful song something about this song makes it feel magical

Its an appropriate theme to end of OUR time here on earth.