Pain is absolutely a teacher, and a ally, and an enemy. I was 33 when I injured my back and was told that the last years of my life would be spent in a wheelchair. Suddenly I was thrust into a new life filled with pain. I'm 48 now, and it's a miracle that I've made it to this point. It took about the first 3 years to finally accept that my old life was over, and then it took about 8 years to come to peace with the fact that I will have life-altering pain every day until the day I die. For years I had given up on living, and I was just passing time in an existence with both feet in the coffin, just waiting for my time to be up. I will never do anything to hurry the end along, but death and I are good friends, because when my time comes it will finally mean an end to the suffering. Even with all the pain, being bipolar, having ocd, and also having parkinson's disease tho, I want to tell people to not lose hope. I spent years wishing I wouldn't wake up the next day, having lost all meaning and direction in my life. But I found my way through all the trauma, to the point now where I'm in the best physical shape I've been in since high school, and to where now I have family and friends in my life who make my life worth wanting to live. I know it can be a nightmarish hell of agony and torture physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. There is always an end to the darkness that exists as long as you are willing to continue looking for it.

It is welsh. It translates to: salwch yw fy athrawen - illness is my teacher fe dorrodd fy ngwên - my smile broke mae fy esgyrn teimlo'n hen - my bones feel old yma yw gorwedd corff ren - here lies the body of Ren

Someone told me the lyric forensic is a double for "for-ren-sic" now that's SICK!!

There are four quick references in a row that everyone misses. Well, most people get one or two of them, but no one seems to catch all four. The seraphim is a reference to Isaiah Chapter 6. Isaiah protests that he's not worthy to be a prophet of God because his words are impure. The seraphim burn his lips with hot coals to purify his speech. Clapton, y'all got. Tears in Heaven was a song he did about the death of his son. Hendrix had a song called Voodoo Child. Kendrick Lamar did a song called Humble.

So many Easter eggs in here that you'll eventually find. Double and triple meanings. Every lyric has some context to his story.

Seraphim are red fiery winged angels (6 wings) who, with Cherubim, are among the first hierarchy of angels and surround the throne of God ministering to him at all times. Another great Ren reaction. Peace and love.

Thank you for the reaction. One of the best things about Ren is his intellect and that he's an autodidact (self-taught). Seraphim is an angelic being, not a monster or a demon. They're described in the old testament, in the chapter of Isaiah. Onomatopoeia is a word that makes the sound of the thing it describes; examples are boom, buzz, hiss, honk. The first time I heard the metaphor of a rose growing in a crack of concrete was in the song "Spanish Harlem" by Ben E. King. That song's lyrics were written in 1961, though I think the metaphor originated much earlier than that.

Tears of heaven was the song Eric Clapton wrote for his infant son who fell to his death out of the window of their apartment in a skyscraper in New York.

This being the first song on the sick boi album is a very impactful way to start it out. Also, LyricVids do these lyric videos for ren, this is one of my favs they've done for him 😊💜💜

“My bed that is a womb for this mess” uhhh

I know it's a serious topic, but I love the beat. I bang this one in the car on the regular. Great reaction, guys!

He’s in the Devils stomach while G_D hangs? Jeez that’s tough! I love how his songs are so sad about his condition, but he always does something to signify Hope. That beat definitely went from like sad violins to an EDM beat. Just like in trouble so hard the first 3/4 of the song breaks down his Pain year by year but then he talks about fighting the Grim Reaper and the glow of the stem cell doctor! I mean he’s so unique and creative. I love this track. I guess it doesn’t hurt that I’m Italian and he says Parmesan.! I think the Drs murdered his ambitions with misdiagnosis and he was begging them to test his blood for pathogens and they wouldn’t do it and told him it was in the head. The tears in heaven about his son dying. An amazing song if you guys don’t know it. He’s an all time great guitarist as well. Lots of people think he is the best ever. Then he says Hendricks, a completely different style, but a lot of people think he is the best guitarist ever! And we know how nasty Ren is on the guitar! Fire review! NYC represent!!

Great breakdown and interpretation of the lyrics. 🙌. Love the music in this track and the poetry. Just realized this in the line "Surgeon incision, murder ambition". Ren has said many times over that he is very ambitious. Therefore, His illness murdered his ambition. Ren has used Lord of the Rings references in many of his songs. (Mordor Lord is in Losing It)

Uruk Hai are Saruman's army of orks, just the wrong spelling. Ren's tracks are full of nerd bars.

This is my story. I had cancer and even though I’m in remission or suffering from the post chemo health problems and then I got long-term Covid and those two things together wrecked my immune system and my body. Now I have ME. Which Ren also has and I struggle with fibromyalgia so basically daily pain and exhaustion. I did enjoy your live stream the other day. I’m the one that got you to watch bongo bong. Thanks for entertaining me when I’m stuck in bed.

This is one of his own favourite tracks...i love the changes of tempo and the lyrics are very powerful, great reaction

Cymru am byth! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Thank you ❤ 🐱, Julz & Trix ❤ for your 🐷 Ren - 🕖 Seven Sins reaction! #ren #sevensins #sickboialbum Ren is Welsh, originally from Wales, and the intro is in the Welsh language. It translates to: Illness is my teacher / It broke my smile / My bones feel old / Here lies the body of Ren This song itself is an intro to the 2023 💉🐷💊 Sick Boi album, so what you noticed is him announcing what's to follow.

I have heard this song over 70 times now. I STILL bob and weave to the beat every time! "Bones are the home where the devil rests" (Lymes disease attacked his bones). "I watched him tie a rope and jump". He cried, begged, pleaded, and eventually gave up on and curse his god/god's (they were dead to him). He then, bowed to his new god (his disease) and begged for mercy..... His bed was both a "tomb" and a "womb"; that births new problems and ailments... Lucky number 13 (CD was released on Friday the 13th. I have seen this number 13 relate in a few ways listed I cannot remember). Forensic = For Ren's sick!

Nice reacton guys. So much in here, just so much buried. I like the one in plain sight "crime scene, forensic"... for Ren Sick

hey you guys really know your musical history, respect to that, music is life. stay humble.

Some reaction suggestions after this one: -Power -Hold on -Humble

A lot of us have been suffering way over 13 years. I’m grateful Ren’s pain has improved. I hate that he still suffers at all. He’s such a light in the darkness for so many of us. I’m so greatful for Ren. I will never take him for granted. I live in the prison of my body in the prison of my home. He has brought music and laughter back into my life. He allows us to see the world through his eyes. I don’t think the healthy Renegades (who I love) fully comprehend how much he does for us. Only because they can still experience things for themselves. Great reaction guys. 😉❤️✌️

This is the song that greeted everyone when they put on the Sick Boi album. It’s one of my favourite Ren songs.

Thank you for doing this song, it really describes what someone in PAIN is going thru… Can’t imagine induring this for 13 years

😮Do u know how long I've been impatiently waiting for yall to get to this one!!?? Finally!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Seven Sins is my favorite song by Ren by far for a multitude of reasons, from the lyrics to the change in flows….this is the genius of Ren by far.

From one NYer to another thank you… every time I don’t hear this song for a bit it pops up out of the blue and I think how great it is! Thanks!🫶🏻

He is still sick, that’s why he’s in Calgary, he was receiving IV drips twice a day

It blows me away that this was only meant to be a short intro on the album and turned into a full-fledged masterpiece. Just a last minute thing, ya know? Love this one. Thanks guys!

One sin for every day of the week, that shut me up... hug from the Netherlands ❤

Live with fibro and bpd pain is a companion, the enemy, the teacher. It took 30yrs to get a real diagnoise but just knowing what is accutily causinf the physichal and mental pain has finally help me find acceptence and some peace. I am not my diagnoises nor am I defined by my pain but I am finding away to live with it. to anyone going through the fight to be properly diagnoise, keep going it is wea🙏🙏rth it, you are stronger then you know, blessing's be to you all.

Graphically it is intense... it imposes itself, it enters through the eyes without asking for permission imposing itself through the color and brightness of the graphics and typographic size, and delivers the message without excuses... Do you want to hear it?!... Read it?!... Feel it?!... So there you have it!... Wonderful! Thanks

Serafim (plural) are angels.

Ren has said that this song is the one he is most proud of. His favorite. Great job guys ❤❤

Absolutely one of my favs from Ren! You guys should watch his videos 1-8 about his struggles on his other channel Ren Makes Stuff.

Love, love, love this song. One of his absolute best! 🤩🤩

I would accept any physical pain to avoid emotional pain. It seemed easier. The change came when I took on therapy and faced pain to take my life back. No longer a stalactite, now a student. We were trained to freeze. Never ever speak up, never, ever try to defend yourself. I felt those fists, that fell like a crashing pilot. Never again. I went to therapy, I face down the emotional pain. I know now I can handle it. Ren has been my instigator, and I love him for it. The crushing weight of tons of suppressed feelings is no longer on my back. Regaining my physical health requires me to regain my emotional health. Now, I'm paying myself back.

Loved the into "were StrawHat dynasty, and this is the StrawHat show" also really enjoyed hanging out on the live the other day. You're both legends 👍👍

This is such a great opening to the Sick Boi album and leads beautifully into the Sick Boi track. Great reaction guys….💜🔥

This is one of my absolute favourite Ren songs. So much truth and so relatable for those of us who live with chronic pain. I have similar health conditions to Ren so really feel what he is saying in this. Also, Seraphim are red-winged angels, the highest tier of angels in Christianity and the fifth tier in Judaism. Uruk hai is from Lord of the Rings. Really enjoyed your reaction 💜💜

Ren is still in treatment for his autoimmunity. He has pain in his legs and feet still although maybe not as severe as before. He powers through. He's a legend! ❤ Thanks❤

I love you two im a twin and when my sister was alive she was in a car accident and she passed but u two make me remember her and not cry u bring me back to our happy times i will forever be part of your fan base....youuuuse guys are so new york u make me proud of my homestead i miss it i live in music city central and i do my podcast independent miracles...i would love to give u guys an episode with ur permisson i did one with ren ill send it so u can see i live in NASHVILLE SCENE

I was 14 when I had strange marks appear all up my back, looking like I’d been whipped. I’d gone through blood tests, hormone tests, mri scans x rays. And the conclusion the doctors came up with was I needed therapy as I was imagining it. After fighting for 7 years trying to get someone to listen my older brother introduced me to a new friend who worked at a research hospital. I stayed there for a month, I went in wih no diagnosis, I came out with four diseases in my spine and 2 in my joints. Obviously depression and anxiety on top of that. I’m now 41 and the pain is horrendous. RENs music really gives hope and just being able to relate to so much of his music can change your mindset. Anyone fighting with constant pain or even doctors not listening, don’t give up.

Tears from heaven is a Clapton song written after dealing with the death of his toddler/preschooler son. The child fell out of a high rise apartment building window, in NY I believe.

❤❤❤ Was waiting for you to react to this one, one of my favorite Ren songs, thank you ❤

Pain and I are like this 🤞. I feel at times that Ren has written songs about me. More than just relatable. The medical pros use a scale of 1 to 10 to have you rate your pain and I've never said 10, 9 many times, but I feel like someone could douse me in gasoline and strike a match and that could take me there. RSD/CRPS, Fibromyalgia, Osteo and Psoriatic arthritis to name just a few of the issues I deal with. The CRPS is the beast though. I went about 6 years dealing with it before finally getting a diagnosis. I tried different docs from western medicine, eastern medicine, holistic medicine and got nothing because of the illness not being well known at the time. There is more known about it now, but still not enough to have any concrete treatments. I'm dealing with it better now, but still spend 2 to 14 days a month in horizontal mode due to CRPS flare-ups. That's my story of pain in a nutshell. 💛🤘🤙✌️

You missed FOR-REN-SICK Thanks fellas. I enjoyed the LIVE you guys did this past weekend.

Great interpretation!! ✌🏻🤟🏻This song is a banger!! 🔥🔥

onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like its meaning !!

Ren believes greed is the worst sin of them all

I worked at the top of my industry, million dollar choices every day. I worked too hard for sure but I felt great. Woke up as usual, swung my legs sluggishly over the edge of the bed, went to stand up and my chin plowed carpet. 28...28 to 35 no help, no diagnosis. Pai every day, the only relief was getting so numb I couldn't feel it fo an hour knowing that it had to wear off and be worse. I met god. 70% recovery on the spot Why not all of it? Ask him. These days I manage it, I have to be careful or it will get worse again. I fence now, took up skateboarding, I suck at it but every other 48 year old with my condition is in bed or a wheelchair so I don't care.

Great job guys. Was looking foward to this rection as Seven is is my favorite song!❤

I see the surgeon incision/murder ambition as him saying he wants to surgically remove the pain himself and that is kinda a murderous ambition❤

1991 was the year clapton’s son died, he was 4 years old.Clapton did not work for quite a while after

You guys are so good at picking up the meaning in the words and expressing the underlying messages. Love it, and love u guys 💜

My favorite on the Sick boi album. I live with pain like that every day for the last 15 years. I’m mostly upbeat but after having a knee operation 2 weeks ago and that pain added to my chronic pain is hitting me at the moment 😔. Thanks for doing this one Twins.

T… I love you like/love cats man… 🙏 … much respect for that bro… Awesome reaction (as always) it’s so good you brothers have each other to bounce ideas off each other but also you do seem to support each other, and you guys don’t always 100% agree but we can see you have respect for each others thoughts …. Also respect for that. Hope you are both well Take care Daz Ps, my best furr friends name was BLADE, he was in my life for 17yrs 7 months, he was an independent weapon, most of his life we lived in the city and he was always in fights with street cats but he was always the boss, then we moved to the country in his senior years and he had to deal with a total change in lifestyle, from fighting with street cats to being in the country dealing with dogs, foxes, snakes… and strange creatures like horses, kangaroos, wombats….. but he took all that in his stride, he went all the way to the end with dignity, lung issues took him out, he was the ultimate warrior in life and the most vulnerable and emotional companion to us when he was comfortable and inside…… Shit…. Sorry to ramble…. I’m sending this comment but I hope no one really reads this though…. Just saying…. Our little furry friends can be family more than family sometimes

It would make sense. Ren often does a reference to other artists he respects.

I had a rush c-section, during which the surgeon nicked my right ovary with a scalpel and sewed me up. When I stopped breast-feeding, the ovary fired up and the pain started. It was awful-all day every day. For three years, I thought I was dying, certain that nothing could hurt that bad and not be deadly. Doctors guessed this and that before deciding it was all in my head. By the time they found it, I was putting fentanyl patches on my body for the pain. So yeah, I get this.

This is always the first Ren song i play lol.

I have been in and out of doctors with them patting me on my head, telling me it’s all in my head. I was out on Prozac at age 12. Diagnosed with Bipolar 2 at 18, later in my late 20’s told I was misdiagnosed and had Borderline Personality Disorder and put on a cocktail of meds, in and out of psych wards only to find out in my 40’s I had Inattentive ADHD. Then, about 16 years ago I became extremely tired, I couldn’t get enough rest, then I started having random stabbing pains all over my body that turned into constant pins and needles, vertigo settled in….doctors pretty much told me it was all in my head. It was possible that mental conditions can manifest these kinds of problems. I couldn’t finish my degree, couldn’t work, got on disability.(Don’t even get me started about the mental cactus fuck that comes with. Your self-worth disintegrates into nothing because you don’t feel human…you don’t feel like a functioning member of society) Three years ago, my legs started swelling, then I would get up and my legs wouldn’t work. Id get up and just fall. The bottom of my feet would go numb, or someone would touch me and it would, literally, hurt. I started getting these absolutely horrific sensations, a cold wet feeling like my skin was seeping, ants crawling on my skin, the feeling of tiny fish swimming right under my skin, and one that feels like a moving undulation throughout my body. I started seeing black spots, peripheral vision is now gone, my vision is deteriorating fast, my gait is sloppy, and I should be walking with a cane but my pride won’t let me. A doctor FINALLY sent me to a Neurologist, (said Neurologist thought I was full of shit, thinking I was fishing for a diagnosis because I asked a lot of questions. Not because I am a hypochondriac, but because I had to do my own research and I knew it wasn’t all in my fucking head.) and Neurologist took some pictures of my left eye. I never went back because of the asshole, but…. I was diagnosed with demyelinating disease. After years of begging I finally got my MRI and, what I had suspected all along…. MS. They think I may have a form called Smouldering MS, which isn’t a great thing to have. Your brain will atrophy. I found Rens music when I needed it the most. I was questioning my sanity, my life, my reasons for living. Recently, when he shared his story, I bawled like a damn baby. It was like he was telling my story, down to the part where he thought he had parasites, to a yeast overgrowth….the similarities down to the minutiae. No one around me understands the importance of his music to me, and I guess they wouldn’t. I feel heard, understood, and seen for the 1st time in a long time. He and his community gave me hope and a light when my world was at its darkest and I was my most lost.

You guts gotta react to " Eden". Not really a song, but the story of Eden, Adam and Eve

You've hit the goldmine of creation. Red Seraphin put hot coals on Jobs' lips.

This is his journey through his psychosis a lot of things he says are things he experienced during that time. Obviously he suffered with unimaginable pain every day but the opening line about clawing the laminate he actually did, the line about god tying a noose he actually saw in his head etc…

Seraphim is a monstor in Revelations! OK. I choked on my drink at that point. Urukai Master Plan. In LotRO, Saruman was ordered by Sauron to build and army to rival Mordor. Sauruman cross-bred elves with orcs to form a race of warrior orcs called the URUKAI. Tolkein envisions this as a metaphor for Nazi Germany breeding a master aryan race to help conquor the world.

Sing that Welsh ren. Great reaction boys 😊

I’ve been looking forward to this one!!

Yesss this song is wicked 🔥🔥. And yes my strawhat fam that is indeed Welsh at the start 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Really enjoyed the reaction guys. Just curious... What would you list as your top 5 anime? I'ma take a guess and say Dragon ball Z and One Piece made the list?? 🤔😁 .. Also a suggestion. You should listen to Ren and Sam Tompkins - Improvising around Stevie Wonder. It's such a vibe 🎤🔥✌️🖤

Great reaction and analysis. You caught a lot of the references and I like your thoughts and interpretations. And I really like this song..

Seraphim (from Hebrew: "Sarap" - to burn with fire) are a type of angel. They're the personal attendants of God, and considered to be the highest ranking type of angel in Christianity.

When he say forensic...he means for rens sick

Oh btw, your cat gets BIG eyes when you choke it like that lol

IMO the surgeon incision/murder ambition line is referring to his self harm episodes.

seraphim is a type of angel actually

Hi Guys, Hi Papa😻

Great reaction ❤

Ren is talking about begging a surgeon to have a lobotomy a line in Genesis, but he would not be able to make music so it would murder his ambition.

Check out Eden by Ren its one i didn't see that you guys have done yet. It gave me a new prospective on life. Im 39 i have suffered more then most people should at my age. First my mom passed away 20 years ago today and my dad passed away 2017 after a 2 year fight with cancer i have woke up half my life wishing I didn't but im still here only difference is now i wake up grateful that i got to wake up this morning

Seraphim are a kind of angel.

😂 wtf I gotta know if this is post or pre beard cutting recording?

At 17 a record label contract was a major success but now after all he has survived and battled to emerge to make even more amazing music on a different level I don’t think he needs a record label. He currently has growing recognition with full control of the direction he takes with his creative flow. I think it would damage his creativity to have a label trying to control what he should produce and how often. He can allow the music to freely pour out of him the way he’s feeling it. As it should be.

REN also is a fan of anime. ❤

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"In God we trust. God tied a noose to his neck and he walked to the edge and he jumped. Angels wept. I beared witness watching the whole thing unfold from my bed." This was when he was hallucinating from his pain and illness. He saw this. Imagine???

i love lord of the rings

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I'm pretty sure you're right on the Tupac comment, my friend

I am from the same area as ren he grew up 10 mins from me

The worst pain I’ve ever felt was finding out that my 6 week old daughter was being abused by her “sperm donor” pretty much since birth and I had no idea. How did I not know?? Why didn’t I protect her? Why did he do it? She’s almost 4 now, permanently disabled but such a happy girl. I still feel that pain just as deep as I did back then though.

Correct! Welsh

Ren's health is better. Ren's quality of life is better. YET.... he has stated that due to the damage of Lyme to his entire body, he may Never have a pain free day for the rest of his life. He also dreams of a day he can eat freely again. Now he lives on maybe 4 foods forevery meal. They do not supply even minimal neutrition. His nutrition comes from Iv's

Given birth twice and lost a little brother to his own choice... yep. Both physical and emotional. But the physical pain was short lived, which I'm grateful for.... nothing I can compare Ren to, ya know?

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You have to check out Ren suic#@de and Dax dear alcohol

fyi: if you dont like lotr you might be an npc.

Thanks for pointing out the fact that Ren is still going through his symptoms even though he appears successful and functioning. Here is to all those who put on a brave face to get through the day but often suffer silently. ❤️‍🩹

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