I forget which famous writer said something like "if you see something and you want to talk about it afterwards that's good entertainment but if you want to talk about life afterwards that's art." This album has been breaking that art line for me. very powerful.

this is an absolutely heartbreaking masterpiece

Nick is a real poet, this song has one of the most heartbreaking lines ever written... "'I used to think that when you died you kind of wandered the world In a slumber til you crumble were absorbed into the earth'' I can't even imagine how painful and personal the process of making this album was, but i'm glad he did it... now we all have an album that is a true masterpiece.

Nick Cave is one of the finest artists in music.

The most emotional song I've ever heard in my life.

The most touching piece of music from an amazing album that should have never needed to exist.

if you wanna bleed, just bleed but if you wanna leave, don't breathe . yes, we love you, nick .

I saw the movie last night. I too lost my son - his words, emotion, and raw grief resonate with me. Very powerful and moving film.

This version is different from the album but it's still haunting. I feel like Nick is about to break during certain moments but pulls through. Simply beautiful.

I think this is my favorite song on the album so far

We're sorry Nick, we all love you.

Beautiful. The sense of dignity and courage under such a weight of heart aching sadness and loss. To take such blackness and forge it into something so... beautiful! x

This song was what finally broke me when I heard it for the first time at the theater. It's hard listening to it so I can't imagine how much harder it must be for Nick Cave to sing it...

I saw him live with The Bad Seeds earlier this year. I cried like a child when he performed this song. Nick Cave is a magician on the stage, able to pull out every emotion there is.

I’ve never been able to listen to this song without weeping.

Nick Cave, an artist.

"if you wanna bleed, just bleed" , utterly genuine

The first time I heard GIA it was during the premiere of OMTWF the documentary. To call it a Masterpiece is an understatement. I was stuck to my cinema seat and felt my blood pressure rising. Choking and trying to hold back but everything failed in that moment. The tears fell and kept falling. RIP dear Arthur. NC has never been more realistic with his fans and this was the moment he truly showed his vulnerability as a parent and as a human. Immortal classic. One of the reasons why the album ST was #1. Here's wishing that GHOSTEEN makes #1 as well. Bravo NCATBS Bravo!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏 💟💗💙💚💝💜💛💫

Without Nick Cave. I honestly wouldn't have a shoulder to cry on. So many...

I have heard this song more times than I'm able to keep track of, but have never been able to get through it without crying.

Well, after a month or so from first listen this could be named as one of the best Nick song ever.

I have a really tough relationship with this album. I still have my friend's message on FB wall saying "Nick Cave releasing this album in Oct will be my best birthday present" and then he died few days later, 2 months before his BD. 2016 was fucking hell. My dad died, my friend died. This album is all about death. I couldn't make peace with death for quite some time since 2016. Now I do, but this album is still the purest expression of the worst kind of pain to me.

The best album I've heard in the year and perhaps one of the best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Beautiful, elegant and very sad. It made me mourn.

Best song from the best album of the year

oh okay thanks nick I guess I just lay down and cry

Absolutely heartrending. So much raw emotion in every note. This is my favorite song off Skeleton Tree. Thank you Nick Cave for making such a deeply moving album.

The unfogettable, harrowing, visceral, melancholic and mind blowing centerpiece of ST is a masterpiece work of art that will live on for infinity. As I had predicted, ST got the much deserved and coveted #1 spot. This track and its contemporaries are the reason why. From Australia & Canada to UAE & USA, NCATBS has touched the very core of fans universally. The music speaks from the deepest consciousness of the heart, hence has resonated the world over. Thank you Mr Cave & friends! Love & Light!

THANK YOU for this.... for everything.... We´re with you all the way and we LOVE YOU VERY MUCH, dear Nick....

My heart can't handle the grief

I'm crying now, nick you are such an amazing artist and I'm so sorry you're going thru this. I hope this album helped you even in the slightest getting thru the grief

my favorite song from this album. love you forever, Nick 💔

MASTERPIECE.WALK IN PEACE ARTHUR.

This is probably my favorite song from the new album (even tho it's really hard to choose). I think this song perfectly describes Nick Cave's music. If I wanted to explain to someone who Nick Cave is and what music he does with the new album I would definitely play them this song.

I genuinely wept watching this. Nick has never lost his magical touch with music. Such a beautiful song 💖

I saw Nick perform this live in concert - it is so soul wrenching to listen to live. :(

Every part of this track, each detail, leads the listener to the feeling of its dark & true depth

I was mildly interested in the album and the band in general when Skeleton Tree came out but I didn't really get the music then. A couple of years have now passed and I love the album and their other works with all my heart. I feel like I've matured along the way

I don't know how many times I've listened to this song this week. I can't stop. It's so beautiful and profound.

I keep coming back to this Truly magnificent. I can't give it any higher praise.

Just lost me angel younger sis a week ago & this hits hard & is done so beautiful xoxo

This song is so beautifully crafted. It drags and tries to figure itself out. The viola/violin? comes in when he's figured out what to say, but they're not there anymore. The chorus goes unsung leaving this hollow chasm to wait out the storm in.

Thank you Nick, your pain is pure poetry!

Nick du bist der Beste.Für mich schon mehr als 20 Jahre.

Makes you go all quiet.... Beautiful but heartbreaking

So sad, but beautiful at the same time.

I can’t with this song 😭 Full body goosebumps, a masterpiece but so devastating

I knew the world it would stop spinning now since you've been gone..... This lyric is so true.... Lost my mother two weeks ago from cancer and I have no idea how time goes by when you're sad and empty

Thank you for saving my soul tonight.

My favorite track and also the most heartbreaking in my opinion.

My favorite album of the year, and these videos have been fantastic.

So beautiful that it hurts ❤️

I watched him sing this live 2 nights ago, he seemed ok as in not too emotional but it was beautiful and I feel for the loss of your son. Nothing can be as awful as that. God bless you Nick. You are an amazing artist and person x

Right on time, Nick.. I need your music more than ever..

A glimpse of his unguarded inner self during the worst of times. Hell lurks within us all, thanks for showing us that, Nick.

Im late to the party as i discovered Nick recently. I love his writing and music. Its so different to what i listen to but i connected to his words straight away.

Christ, this breaks my heart.

I've heared this song live last night. I've cred my eyeballs out

Not sure this is the best song from this record, but I know this record is from another place entirely...

The guy on the camera trolley sipping from the styro cup at the end just kills it

Поставила эту песню на закольцовку, слушаю уже двадцатый раз подряд и все плачу и плачу...😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

I talk a lot about what a genius album this one is and what an incredible talented artist Nick Cave is but i wanna mention that this movie is a masterpiece on its own too. When I was watching 3D movie in the theater I kinda tripped away starting 2:30 and never even glimpsed at anything else but screen. I normally hate 3D and avoid it at all costs thinking that they use 3D because they can't make a point without it. But this movie was the best 3D I ever experienced. And black and white fucking rocks!

The melancholy in this song is almost too heavy to bear ...but I just can't stop myself going back to it. Over and over.

One of the best alive performers, yet videos get only few hundred thousand views. What poorly educated times we live in :/

I think the most delicately beautiful and poignant song from the record. I wonder if his wife said don't touch me in her grief after the tragic event.

And with the amazing Warren Ellis, they're just so in sync it's beautiful, you can feel the close bond between them.

Some go and some stay behind Some never move at all Girl in amber trapped forever, spinning down the hall Let no part of her go unremembered, clothes across the floor Girl in amber lumber slumber shuts the bathroom door The phone, the phone, the phone it rings, it rings, it rings no more The song, the song, the song it spins since nineteen eighty-four The phone, the phone, the phone, it rings, the phone, it rings no more The song, the song it's been spinning now since nineteen And if you want to bleed, just bleed And if you want to bleed, just bleed And if you want to bleed, don't breathe A word Just step away and let the world spin And now in turn, you turn You kneel, lace up his shoes, your little blue-eyed boy Take him by his hand, go move and spin him down the hall I get lucky, I get lucky 'cause I tried again I knew the world it would stop spinning now since you've been gone I used to think that when you died you kind of wandered the world In a slumber till you crumbled, were absorbed into the earth Well, I don't think that any more The phone it rings no more The song, the song it spins, it spins now since nineteen eighty-four The song, the song, the song it spins, it's been a spinning now And if you'll hold me I will tell you that you know that And if you want to leave, don't breathe And if you want to leave, don't breathe And if you want to leave, don't breathe a word And let the world turn The song, the song it spins, the song, it spins, it spins no more The phone, it rings, it rings And you won't stay Don't touch me Don't touch me Don't touch me Don't touch me

that heart-wrenching voice in the background.......yes

Found out about this track from the book. Glad I clicked through and had a listen. Haunting stuff!

love this song

Tried really hard to appreciate this song (and others on the album) when listening to it in the car on the way home from work. Have to admit I skipped it most of the time and went back to something more familiar on the 'The Boatman's Call'... When the context of life changed with covid I suddenly got it, I got the emotional intensity of the song and it made me realise Nick Cave is ever bigger a genius than I'd thought. Didn't know you could dig so deep and explore/expose your pain so perfectly.

I can't wait for Skeleton Tree official video

Really touching, I cry whenever I listen to this. Love you Nick , Susie and Earl.🖤

Could be the best song ever.

One more time with feeling is one of the best documenary i've ever seen.

Nick...... 💖

Yeah, this is my favorite from an overall outstanding record

hit me hard, again

I suppose that with the phrase "Girl In Amber" describes his wife.I find really poetic,and very delicate the use of the specific words to describe her grief.I don't know if she is an artist like he is,but probably she is not thus she cannot be relieved from that feeling with the same way as he does e.g recordings,concerts etc.That's why he "dedicated" her that song.

I love it so much. Girl in amber, Distant sky and Magneto are real masterpieces

My favorite song from the album 🙏❤️

Don't touch me. I couldn't stand anyone to touch me when my sister passed away. I wanted the world to stop, never to move on..

I´m crying so much. Nick is in pain :(

I saw Distant Sky yesterday, and this song just made me cry. So beautiful

Thank you for your honesty, cutting and filled with so much love.

My favorite from Skeleton Tree. I'm really emotionally attached to this song...

forever nick cave and the bad seeds!your music....aaaahhhhh!!!

So sad, so beautiful. Nick's new songs touch me deep inside. To imagine how much he must be suffering... I love you, Nick. My thoughts are with you.

Yes! Deep and beautiful, great soul! ❤️

I am not sure if this was the song that broke me, but I left the theatre sobbing. Sobbing for myself and for Nick.

Depuis plus de dix années que j'écoute ce grand artiste, il me touche toujours autant, merci pour les belles et perturbantes mélodies

AND IF U WANNA LIVE DONT BREATH ...A WORD,,,,JUST STEP AWAY AND LET A WORLD TURN.....

Perfection 👍❤👌

Love the way this video has been shot. Great direction.

Some of those shots remind me of Gaspar Noé's "Enter The Void". Great video.

...great , great ...GREAT!!

So sad, so beautiful. Nick's new songs touch me deep inside. To imagine how much he must be suffering... I love you, Nick. My thoughts are with you...

I don't believe in angels. but I believe in a kind of god, who guided him (and the seeds) through writing this song!

Bloke at 4:20 drinking his cuppa not quite feeling it.

When I'm sad, there are only two musicians I listen to: Nick Cave and Tomaž Pengov

Je découvre à peine ce titre, un extraordinaire coup de cœur, une émotion vibrante, vivante. Les frissons parcourent la peau, envahissent les sens, je me laisse emporter tel un sentiment pur et charnel. Voilà exactement le propre d'un artiste, capable de nous transporter jusque dans l'âme. Non, je n'en fais pas des tonnes, la musique dans son entierté, a ce pouvoir de préserver toute la beauté de notre monde et surtout, ne jamais l'oublier. Merci à vous salut à toustes