I'm not the intended demographic for this song (late 40s construction worker, family man, etc.), but this really hits my heart. Sometimes the hour-long commute is the alone time I need in between worlds, as said. "Music sets you free", is something a good friend once said to me, and I believe that to be true. This song captures that sentiment in a beautiful way, whether it's though ear buds on the ECR train or 1500w of 6x9s and subwoofers on a lonesome highway, it's the same thing.

This is a certified bus classic

1:11 you can't hide "a song about life" from me that easily

Everytime I see Larvaecandy's stuff I just think of Vylet Pou

i love larvecandy's art, i spent minutes just staring and taking in everything about this image

Listening to this song for the fourth time in a row, read the main part of the description three times over. And y'know... I'm trying to not talk about my own life so much in places where it doesn't feel appropriate. But it's nearing midnight, the moon is high, the sky outside the window is dark and has no stars. This song is a wonderful reflection on public transport, I thought I'd reflect on and share my own experience with public transportation, and my life in general I suppose. Buses have been such an integral part of my late adolescence, and of my life now. At fifteen, I left home for the first time. I was maintaining a secret relationship with another boy, hidden from my family, hidden from his family. We would mainly meet behind the secondary school, at the rocks of the sewer-infested river under the bridge, at the dump. But well, one of my cousins caught us, and told my family. For months they would make me feel unwelcome, call me names and slurs, insult me, preach to me that I'm a sinner and will burn in hell if I don't repent. I felt like utter shit in that household, I'd try to get out of the house as early as I could, but after school ended I would knew I was going to be made to feel like shit again come home. So I left. And for some months, I was a homeless kid on the streets. I became a prostitute, I was temped to start using the hard drugs around but I didn't want to. So I started taking dramamine because 'it's a pharmacy drug, surely it isn't as dangerous'. I became hooked. And then the relationship between that boy and me began to tense. We both weren't in good headspaces, and unfortunately that shown itself in abuse and violence. Both of us abused each other in every way you could think, verbally, physically, mentally, sexually. It made the already miserable me even more miserable. And so, just as I left home, I decided to leave the city. I took my first bus to the neighbouring city. I still remember that ride well, sixty five pesos to stand up in a small crowded bus, going somewhere with nowhere to go to. First time it really felt I was taking charge for myself. I remember looking past a couple peoples' heads out the window and thinking to myself 'goddamn dude, you really are gonna rawdog this huh?' It was such a strange, daunting feeling. Leaving the nest for the first time, not knowing what the hell you're gonna do once you arrive. Nervous, anxious, full of self-doubt, but at the same time feeling free, wild, audacious. Such a youthful contradiction, feeling brave and big because you took the big step yet scared that you aren't ready for what's to come. And I wasn't ready. I fell back into the streets, selling my body and using the money on fueling my drug addiction. I became a drifter, going from city to city. Sevilla, Córdoba, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Palenque, other cities I could name. And from city to city, I would take the bus, I couldn't afford any other way. Each time not knowing where I was going, just going because I needed to leave wherever I was. I never thought about it, I would just feel like it's time, gather the money, head to the station and just pick a city only because they're leaving that day. That period of my life lasted around two and a half years. To make the story short and not say too much about it, I was seventeen. Through some of the worst things I've experienced in my life yet, I realized I have to try to get clean and fix my life or end up dead like so many of the people I once knew. And so ever since, I've been trying to get my life together. I turned twenty back in October. Been two years clean from dramamine, but still I'm fighting not to relapse. Shamefully living back with the family, hopefully beginning of next year I can finally fuck off to the US. That boy and I have since broken up under good terms, and now I have a my dearly beloved girlfriend who gives me a reason beyond myself to keep trying to get better. In the description, Vylet talks of how she initially used the route to get home faster and then grew to appreciate the solitude of it. For me, the buses were my passage to trying to find home. I was homeless, not just because I was literally living on the streets, but because I had no emotional home. Each time I rode the bus to a new city, I remember this certain... sobriety overcoming me. Not just because I was usually sober on the bus, but watching the view outside the window, realizing that I didn't know where the hell I was going, what the hell I was doing... there's a certain romance to it. I smiled on the bus most of the rides, daydreaming to myself potentially finding something this next time. Public transport has enabled the path I've taken in life, both literally and emotionally. Despite the turbulance, the trauma, the pain of that period in my life, I have so many fond memories, I met so many people I'm glad I met when they were alive, I still talk to some of the ones who are still alive. Some of those drug-fueled nights were beautiful and horrifying in equal measure, life-affirming in how close we felt to death. And none of that would have been possible had it not been for cheap buses bridging the cities and towns. It's one of the things I love most about Chiapas that I will miss when I return to the US, the feeling of freedom that buses gave me as a fucked up, useless teen, aimlessly jumping on buses to the next city. I still don't have an emotional home, a home at all really, I'm just waiting to head back to the US, been waiting for over a year now. But I'm still young, one day I'll meet my dearly beloved in the flesh, I look forward to that day with a smile on my face. Maybe one day I'll find my path to a place I can call home. That was a lot to reveal about myself, but y'know... that's what a great piece of art does, it gets you emotional, it makes you reflect. And Vylet, if you do read this for whatever reason, you succeeded in that. The combination of this song and the silent night, it got me emotional, and compelled me to share all this. And I have to thank you for that. This song is truly wonderful, you mastered this blissful, dreamy emotion in music. I remember the first time I listened to CUTIEMARKS in its entirety, a month after release, even though that album is hit or miss for me, from the great songs on that record, I knew you were going to be something special. And you are something special, at least to me. ANTONYMPH and the yak song both dropped right when I needed them in my life. You inspired me to try creating art of my own again. You helped me dare to dream to make the musics in my head a reality. And even though I haven't gotten there yet, I feel as if I can actually make it all a reality with enough time, patience, work, effort. Thank you for this beautiful song, and for the art that you make.

Listening to this on a shuttle to the airport rn, hell yeah

As a former SF commuter myself, I always had those certain commutes that felt so peaceful I had almost wanted to stay on the train for another forty minutes. I used to love seeing the sights I recognized daily, people in their own lives, and so many people getting the train to get to the airport, where I wondered where they were going. And now funnily enough, I'll probably listen to this music on a train or bus somewhere, like I have your previous albums, just watching that world pass by.

for me, there's always been this extravagant bridge i'd pass by when i was young, the design being really unique. it was so memorable, before i never saw it again after moving. fast forward many many years later. i have a job now, going on deliveries on roads and to places i've never been !! i decided to listen to this song for a second time, and i glance at the map again. the song is playing, and i look up to find myself ON THAT SAME BRIDGE from my childhood !!!? which is CRAZY considering what this entire song is about ?!!! I LOVE THIS SONG !!!

GOD batty's art is so perfect for this mixtape

This song resonates with me like no other. I’d always listen to your music while taking the bus ride home from school. Always felt nice just being alone and not having to worry about anything else for a bit

el camino real is the source of so many memories for me

Loving this song Canni! I only started taking public transit regularly in mid 2021 for my 2nd semester of uni... Before that I was afraid of taking the bus due to sensory issues (its movement and the uncertainty of knowing when it's gonna come didn't do wonders to my at the time undiagnosed autism), and I'd be very anxious whenever I had to take the bus. At first I only dared to take the metro due to its smoother rides, but over the last few years I've been getting over my fear of riding the bus to the point that I'm currently writing this comment in one! Public transit truly is great once one gets used to it... Seeing my mum and dad drive all my life has lately made me realize that not having to focus and worry about other drivers is truly liberating, and has made me enjoy a slower lifestyle that's better for my mental health :3

So cute! I went to school nearby and was always that way to grab food or grocery shop. I know El Camino Real is long so it's not saying much, but I don't live in the area, just moved for college, so it's part of a segment of time in my mind. I'll never get to move up there with the prices, and couldnt stay cuz of the same. It's nice to hear something so dreamy and "at home" from the area. Didn't use public transport often unless I was in San Fran, but the one time I did (buses and trains) was for Wrestlmania 31 when they had it in San Jose xD. I have great memories of the camaraderie of strangers that day.

the song and vocals sound so angelic and dreamy and calming it's beautiful,, kinda reminds me of a lot of the songs that were on the vylet pony essentials gauntlet which makes sense because those songs could be inspiration for this! i love this song so much, the comforting feeling is really what i need right now in my life, i'm so excited for the new songs, and i feel like somehow these songs are meant for me to hear right now because i'm struggling in life right now and this song actually makes me feel a lot better and really comforts me for some odd reason. i can't thank you enough, vylet for what you do!!

vylet vibin??? real

this is genuinely one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard

vylet never misses

i really have to appreciate your music. thank you for all the things you make, they all put a smile on my face.

O no, I missed the premiere! This song sounds unreal... super sentimental, and ethereal. I am excited to see what else this new chapter brings :)

voice sounds angelic in this one

i love the art here. especially those 90s pattern bus seats!! me on the bus fr...

something about larvaecandy's art that really like, speaks true to the name honestly. it feels like you could chew into the image like a gusher

in her drain era

i henceforth declare by law that this song must be played in all buses

This really reminds me of taking the bus back to my parents’ from where I live now in northern Minnesota. It’s a similar time, 2.5 hours, and the road through all of the scenic pines is gorgeous. There’s often no cell service along the route, so it’s a time to unplug and watch the view (less unplug and more de-internet, I usually bring along music and a book. It’s really cool that despite being on different sides of the country, the bus experience is still the same.

I love this song, and agree with others who say it has an ethereal and wistful feel. I'm dealing with a lot of homesickness having moved far away from my home to be who I am, and this helped those feelings.

I have to take a bus to uni that takes an hour and a half. It's the only time I can safely maladaptively daydream. The tone of this song honestly conveys how it feels perfectly!! I' super excited for your next releases! :oD

Your vocal work in this song is genuinely incredible.

This is brings us to the fourth overall best video. 54BusJourney31A2013T369NUA from Kirin's Bus Vids. This is a really cool bus, guys. If you ever need to go somewhere, take this one, wherever you need to go.

this song made me explode into stardust and also ascend, thank you vylet pony for inventing music

This was already nostalgic!😅😊

The audio at the end of the song makes me think it's told from the perspective of someone reminiscing on their deathbed. And like, rationally I don't know if someone on their deathbed would necessarily be nostalgic about their childhood bus commute, but when I listened to this song, I was like "wow I absolutely would be nostalgic about that on my deathbed". I guess that's what it means when people say that music transports you? But yeah. Great song, very beautiful.

this song reminds me of the hour long bus ride to the city i did for university for a year. i was lived in my own little world for 2 hours a day. the world passing by in the window made for amazing visuals. this song would be perfect for curling up and just watching the trees pass

This song reminds me of taking the trains to and from the airport when I was a traveling field tech. Those days at the airports seemed like the loneliest. Crazy that im returning to it in 2 weeks

godd larvecandy's art with this song works so well. it feels like the song was meant for it and vice versa. both are so pretty. thank you for another banger

The vocals on thissss

HOOWWWW is it you never miss!!!!

yesss Muzak. p.s. also thank you for introducing me to Larvaecandy, I'm already in love with their art!!

I love listening to this on loop while I'm reading manga.

Song was as calming as the comforting image to go along with it!

I love the art style of the thimbnail on this one!

I adore this so much. It has such an ethereal and nostalgic feeling, almost feels a bit SNES-like but still I can see how it's tied to those personal experiences with trips in public transportation. I know the feel of getting lost in your head while listening to beautiful music and looking through the window.

Something tells me this album will be my next favorite thing to listen while in the bus for hours

WE MAKIN IT OUT THE HOOD W THIS ONE

WE LIVE NOW WOOOOOOO

I thought the end part was in like a hospital but then I realized it’s a bus 😭

This is really good. It has CUTIEMARK vibe to it.

i love this so much

Would recommend

been getting into ur music the past month and everything i heard sounds fantastic . i absolutely love how much variety all you work has !

awesome

Temazo 👍

this was a great song! thank you vylet pony

dope

Such a cool artwork

Love all your song!!

love you Vy

very good

The vocals on this song are especially beautiful and ethereal!

Vyletの曲は抽象的なムードに満ち溢れていて美しい 日本でも人気になって欲しい

Love ur chill music so much. Its so whimsical

bountiful and gorgeouse as always Vylet, keep it up

i can't think of much thoughtful to say right now, but this is beautiful

Love this banger omg, reminds me of my uni days, traveling on the bus early in the morning... there was something whimsical about it sometimes ❤

Ooooh is this a 19th BDay present for me? I’m excited. Anything Vylet is quality ❤

This is really cool honestly!! I especially loved the description! This song also starts with a sound reminiscent of Deltarune

The flutelike synths around 0:10 remind me a lot of the Spore soundtrack, anybody else?

eeeeeeee it's so good!! ^D^

nice

I also use public transportation in my daily life some times having to do 2h travels, and i can relate that you may often end up daydreaming, this song remind me of these moments. Also doesn't "El Camino Real" mean The True Way?

Every Vylet Pony song slaps!

The day I finally decide to learn the lyrics to this song is the day that not even God will be able to stop me

woop woooooop

Leaving a comment for the algorithm

sorry i wasnt there for the premiere :(

hearing some yeule vibes in this

some real yummy sounds in this one

Vylet's making a secret Christmas songs?

thIZ IZ ZZO PEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK

❤❤

new music for vylet pouny users

i can't believe i made it to that stream, really helped me get through my insanity-cooldown(Thanks Larvaecandy for pushing me near my breaking point(had to stop being a brony for 3 days straight) with the last fan-made animation and your attempt at fixing it with this nice illustration) moment.

this sounds so nostalgic but idk what music it's reminding me of, it's got the same far-off quality as music playing in the mall or on a school bus, also vylet sounds like an angel

please hold on

Hey, I severely doubt it was intentional so I just wanted to point out that the song is already listed on Apple Music. I didn’t try to listen to it but I just wanted to say something about it in case there’s something up there.

piolet goney

This song is about the bus time Vylet went on drove bus go in and music

vyglet pony

oh you got the ether fs

As a bus driver, i would love for a pone to ride my bus

Open all the doors When they're closing Drizzle on the glass Keeps me hoping Beauty in the wheels That keep turning Caffeine in the cup Stops the hurting I love everything Is it lucid? Scenes of every day Turned to loose ends Going by so fast Still a memoir Visions of the past Still you go far In the world between worlds In the world between worlds Passing envy of The homesick Finding home in what Feels listless Longing for the lull And the love Of the life Of the lonely soul Purgatory of Thе humdrum Haven to the Wisps of tandem Peering through thе mist Through the fog Where the spirits Dwell Face that sunk A thousand ships Roads, now seas We explore (In the world between worlds) Captain won't you Wake me when it's time? Spare no chime With dreams like mine (In the world between worlds) Picture every face I had once known Do you know my name? Could it be so? Could you know my eyes When you said it? I wear every stitch Of your panic Pulling every petal From yourself Preaching from the Branch where I once fell Transient, the first Of communions Dreaming of a Pointless reunion Face that sunk A thousand ships Roads, now seas We explore (In the world between worlds) Captain won't you Wake me when it's time? Spare no chime With dreams like mine (In the world between worlds) Remember Remember Remember (In the world between worlds) Remember Remember Remember Remember (In the world between worlds) Remember In the world between worlds In the world between worlds

WOOOWWIIEIRIEIWIEEIE

This image is literally me

vylet

violet pone

what does ECR stand for?

YEAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA

vyler

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