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  • couple at 2:45 = cutest couple EVER.

  • Love it, Thank You for sharing :)

  • "I know that we're broken, it's been unspoken, for such a long time"

    The original version is quite a bit darker than this poppier version. You don't often get to say a Polyphonic song is "dark". This is good though as well.

  • who is the original artist of this song?

  • Polyphonic Spree is the original artist, but the album version is a bit more haunting than this one.

  • it's soooooo cute

  • I love thia song

  • nice song, como siempre dije buenos gustos para la musica:)

  • @jade210587 no solo para la musica...

    <hueeeeee!!!!

  • @3rdseal no. this was a version released to ge the entire denton/dallas crew involved and create a video that encompassed the view of what the band is.

  • @cntlscrut absolutelly i agree

  • great band, great video,any one know if they are touring the UK anytime soon

  • WHY ISN'T ANNIE CLARK IN THIS VIDEO!?

  • great (:

  • i love this band :) i only have their first album tho :( whats their second (or third haahah) called?

  • the first album is called the begining stages of...

    the second album is called Togeather We're Heavy

    the third albub is called Fragile Army

  • this version of "we crawl" is slightly different from the album version - does anybody know if this has ever been released on a cd? really love it from the beginning to the end....adorable!

  • i haven't been able to find it and much prefer it to the album version...with that said, you can download this video on itunes for 2 bucks and burn the audio onto your own cd. and then make it an mp3!

  • cool video. there some hot ladies in this band! my homegirl Buffi J is their cellist.

  • peaceful song! i wanna live like this tune

    (3u0)

  • watch my new remix of"i got feeling!!ona love!!

  • The Spree cool band, they just get it right! look forward to when your on tour back in the UK

  • They do get it right! It's like more bands should understand it, but few do. They are original, vibrant, celebrations of spirit! Beauty in motion! I saw them live at a Peaches Record shop in Greenwich Village, back in 2002. They were just getting a name for themselves, but what a great, wild, chaotic, beautiful thing their set was there! Be well.

    Peace,

    \A/

  • scott is right crazy & insane i guess ... bu t really nice song !

  • Tim looks like the long lost love child of Benicio Del Torro and Gean Simmons! Sorry - just had to throw that out there before my head exploded with not saying it. Weird, i know....

  • There are some hot chicks in this band.

  • how is "whilst" middle class, and why do you care? What do you even mean by that?

  • Wonderful, so unpretentious and natural. Love it.

  • Jenny your beautiful and i love the song...so proud of you..miss you bunches..nshannon

  • Love this song...Way to go guys...My little Jenny all grown up she so beautiful...I miss you.. nshannon

  • This video is lovely.

  • isn't this a great video? :) absolutely LOVE the smile at the beginning with his wife... :)

  • I've loved the Polyphonic Spree since I first saw them on Austin City Limits.

    They speak of a joy that is elusive and worth the pursuit.

    This video makes me smile and cry.

    Thank you spree!

  • i love this video. and I would love to use it at my wedding. ;0)

  • ahhh we all live separate lives.....together we try but at the end of the day we exist within our own heads.....we see people we interact we feel emotion off people but we can never ever get out of our own heads.

  • Anyone know if these cats are still around?

  • It only, in the end, matters how the music moves you. If you cry, if you laugh, if it pisses you off, if it makes you change your ways then it has done its job. If not, it doesn't mean that it isn't good. All it means is it didn't move you. There are plenty of songs people love that I can't stand. But the difference between me and cuttlefish down there is I don't post my inane, pseudo-violent bullshit on a video that I happened to not enjoy. Sorry. Ranting. Anywho, good song!

  • shit guys.

    nobody has to be reminded that the world is full of assholes and murder ,even darkness.

    Dont you think these guys know?

    OF COURSE THEY DO.

    But they try to overcome it through a positive way by writing theyre lyrics and music. And really good music by the way.

    like oclicko said, optimism is only a point of view, and youre not forced or entitled to use it

  • I admit im very negative. So I've been trying to be optimistic more. I now have 2 possible jobs and I'm slightly more happy. It helps, some people don't want to try it soley because of there "image".

  • everybody is entitled to optimism. this is a very good expression of it.

    some of you should try optimism out. it does wonders in most cases.

    love the video. very sweet to see them in plain clothes with their families.

  • good song shit vid

  • from my understanding Tim DeLaughter has experienced a fair bit of death i his life. Whilst I only know the vaguest details about the guy, what I heard was that the positivity in polyphonic sprees music was a direct response to some pretty rough stuff that he was going through so suggesting that he "needs to die" when this band is actually supposed to be a reminder that he doesn't seems pretty harsh to me. some might say insensitive.

  • ok just regret what i said earlier...

    this is a great song

    excuse my english

  • Ok, so suddenly, I feel good about me, abouth my family and life, about my friends and the world I live in.

    You gotta admit that this music (really good music I might say) makes you wonder why in hell did you had a fight with your own brother last night... and those sort of things...

  • Everything seems so good...

    but hey, as Donnie Darko would say:

    "don't you think we need some darkness, that is part of our natural development?"

    not very fan of live happy and don't bother about anything...

    So.. Fuck this shit!... I'm not listening to this anymore, it's like drugs.

  • great song and vid (=

  • Awesome video :]

  • Is the black lab at 2:07 the same dog in the "Port Now" video?? Which everyone should watch!! Great song and video, this one and "Port Now"!!

  • I agree with you. I saw this comment and looked it up yesterday and I automaticly fell in love with the song. Look up "port now by sirka ragnar" if you like this song.

  • I can't get enough of this song, I'm going to have to loop it.

  • Same here. This is one of their best standout songs.

  • we need more music like this

  • This video just floored me. It really made me forget about the negative things in life and gave me one of those "we're all just stuck on this rock trying to make it work" feelings.

  • I adore this song!

  • my uncle jay is in that band he plays the trumpet his name is jay hes famous yea too bad hes movin to new york

  • Thank You... this was the first time i heard this song .. . i was in a bad place.. after hearing this... its going to be fine thanks can not begin to describe how much better i feel cause u all.. but all i can say is Thanks from the bottom of my heart

  • That's what the Spree is all about.

    Tim DeLaughter, the founder of the Spree had a good friend die of a drug overdose. DeLaughter was in Tripping Daisy and the forementioned friend was in T.D. DeLaughter feels the need not to dwell on the death and bring hope and happiness to as many people as he can through his music. Or something like that.

  • we're all in this video.

  • amazing

  • theyre performing @ my skl on friday 4 free. i thnk i mite go...

  • you should, they're awesome live!!

    enjoy it!

  • dont think just go

  • It makes the world a little less heavy.

  • ironic, their album is called "Together We're Heavy". :D

  • I dont know what it is about this song, but it always makes me smile

  • Nice backpass by the kid at 0:59. Yeah, OK, maybe I like soccer a little too much...

  • haha ther son is goin out with me I LOVE OSCAR XD

  • i wish the band would come to Britain a bit more often. These guys are so different, it's very refreshing to hear there sound.

  • I've only just discovered them and you are so right! There's nothing different here anymore. It's all dance music and refugees from talent(less) shows. This, in the country that produced The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Small Faces, Led Zeppelin, T. Rex etc. etc. etc.

  • I replied to you but my reply went off on its own!

  • I've seen some great bands in my time. Soundgarden, Faith no more, Primus, Pearl jam, page and plant, Nirvana, the chili peppers as well as many, many others, but none have blown me away live on this stage as much as this band. Anyone that hasn't seen them live, needs to experience it...

  • For a group with so many numbers and such an epic sound, it's quite amazing how humble they all seem. Even if you COULD chalk it up to misguided religion. (Which isn't proven or hinted at)

  • this song always makes me feel better when I'm sad :) :)

  • this band is fucking sick. got their own style, its amazing.

  • wtf are you rambling on about?

  • rofl this is why you shouldn't smoke weed kids...you sound like a rambling fool on the intrenet lolol

  • ya los esperamos ansiosamente en mexico city .... thanks thanks por venir !!!!

  • Lovely song ... humbling :)

  • :)yay

  • Saw you all in Vancouver, best concert ive ever seen. thanks for the memory's

  • YAY YOUTUBE ARGUMENTS!!!

  • we're small...

  • speak for yourself.

    yes i just made a penis joke.

    this is some great music

  • *easily, drr

  • easy my new favorite music video

  • This version is a bit different than the one on the album. A bit poppier for lack of a better word.  I'm undecided on which one I prefer

  • i know every onw on the band my sister baby sits the kids if you dont belive me i will make a video of the house and put it on my youtube act

  • I  know the lead singer really well. My parents went to school with him and his kids go to my school.

  • I dig it!!!

  • nice song! i feel warm

  • Discovered 'The Polyphonic Spree' by watching a rerun of 'Scrubs'. I have a good 'radar' for pop music and this song along with 'Light and Day' should be reissued and promoted again on Top 40 radio. 'We Crawl' is beautiful and fits well with the hard economic times facing us all at the end of 2008. I knew nothing of the band and figured that was his wife and children in the video. You can feel the love. Tim is my age and it's great to see he values his family and his friends in the group!

  • It really was a great group. Probably best in the world 2004-05. They are a little different now live, but this guy is a genius songwriter eh?

  • I agree with you! I assume since he's a family man now...that takes a lot of his time and energy for now. He has great talent and would love to see him one day in the future  have a number 1 song on the charts.

  • Douche

  • such a uplifting song.

  • This song is really beautiful. Just a great energy about it.

  • gracias gracias y muchisisisisimas gracias por este video tan hermosissisimo. que gran banda es la polyphonic. cuanta onda tienen, que cool que son por diosss!!!

    que discaso es the fragil army. que increible es mental cabaret, get up and go, guarenteen nightlife,younger yesterday, etc. GRACIASSS!!!

  • proof: i listened to this about 759 times in the last 24 hours.

    i love the warmth and positivity of the video.

  • Love this song!

  • Great video, filled with great ideas. Neat using all the kids. My how we've grown...

  • "Fill your ego and bring you every inch of the way,

    I know why you need to kill all the pain there

    Sympathize with me cause here I am

    Rolling on my head"

    They look happy 2 me. My family is practicing Catholic and are more disturbing. At least they are all happy Except Tim who bear's the weight, but I still see a smile :) Beautiful song

  • ahahah, its kristen!

    go girl!

    if i still lived in dallas, i would have found a way into this band, too.

    that lucky lady.

  • What happened to capital letters and punctuation? Apparently, our educationaly system has gone to hell.

  • Same goes for you sir, "educationaly system"? Just don't speak.

  • Was that an attack on me? I didn't realise I had to be literate to enjoy music. Hell is a figment of your imagination.

  • What a fun comments page!

  • oh boys boys (or girls) just calm it and enjoy

  • Hell yeah Canon HV20

  • Is Potsi smoking at 2:42 ?

  • yh she is

  • is shot from approx 2:04 at the DOUBLE WIDE?

  • Why do I get the feeling you're full of shit?

    Must be Daddy's MK programming...

  • Explain 'MK' programming.

    If you get the feeling I'm full of shit, it must be as a result of your sad devotion to this shallow experiment in pop-culture-opportunism.

  • Well, you come on talking like an asshole to everybody & make groundless accusations about local musicians who are just 'doin their thing'. It's alright- it's completely normal for people who are confused by something to feel angry, fearful, or threatened by it.

    Oh, & as for the MK programming- it's just too bad that you're not on the internet or anything- then you could just google it yourself like a big boy...

  • Accusations? Yes. Groundless? Well, thanks for giving me my best laugh of the day.

  • Everything I said is absolutely, undeniably true. You are in the "don't want to believe bad things about my favorite band" group, so fine. Mostly, I just don't understand how this band gets any interest when there are groups like The Beach Boys, The Flaming Lips, The Danielson Famile, Bjork's current touring ensemble, and Broken Social Scene out there making actual good art with true 'polyphony' and original ideas, as opposed to fast-food versions of the real thing.

  • LOL- the Beach Boys haven't made any 'polyphonic' music since 1967.

    You are an idiot.

    All hail the 'indie' dork!

  • tim just happens to have many musically and vocally talented friends with which he wanted to create a sort of giant jam session/choir (hence the robes) and thats it he is no david koresh, jim jones, sun myung moon or anyone else he it a musically driven person who wanted to esperiment with the sound of alot of his talented musician friends thats it.

  • Well come up with some facts to prove it, Encyclopedia Brown.

    I would wager that you don't have any since if you did, you'd have used them instead of just playing the 'smarter (ha) than thou' dickhead.

    I've known Tim informally for over 15 years. A little weird, yeah, but definitely not Jim Jones. If you think that, then you obviously know fuck-all about cults OR music.

    Anyway, why don't you piss off & go tease some kids or kick a puppy?

  • I understand that the Beach Boys haven't made any polyphonic music in the last 35 years or so. Their puniest effort from that period, in my opinion, is far more interesting than this music. Look man, I haven't laid out any hateful insults or dumped any emotional garbage on anyone here. That was you. You say you know Tim, fine. That doesn't change the fact that he has done a lot of shitty things to a lot of kind, talented people over the course of his career.

  • I never said he was Jimmy Jones, nor did I say the band IS a cult. There are many similarities, however. Forcing everyone to sign a contract surrendering all intellectual property rights to Tim against the threat of being fired, leaving band members on the side of the road in foreign countries with no money, stealing ideas (for which he's had to settle out of court with former band members), leaving peoples' names out of the credits for albums they recorded on, etc., etc.

  • "I've known a few people who were in this band, and it IS very much like a cult."

    Anyway, the biz stuff you've mentioned isn't any different from someone like James Brown or Frank Zappa. You're 0-2 here.  Just stop.

  • "very much like a cult," NOT "is a cult." Zappa never treated anyone like that. He dropped people for missing cues or for showing up drunk and/or high. Zappa didn't need to steal ideas. There's no comparison there. Even if he HAD done that, it doesn't set a free-reign precedent for every bandleader that comes after him. Tim Delaughter is a megalomanical half-talent, but you like his music, and that's fine. Your taste for his music doesn't change who he is.

    Pissing off,

    Feelsfor

  • Excuse the typo..."megalomaniacal."

  • you keep trying to validate your point by throwing out that you know previous band members and you kinda know tim. im majoring in psychology and thats one of the self validators you are using noone else believes you you are saying it to believe yourself you dont know anyone from the band so stop trying to validate you opinions by lying

  • Allow me to be the first person to report to you that majoring in Psychology does not necessarily equate to knowing a damn thing. If you want to check my facts, why don't you go to Good Records and ask Chris Penn, who has been Tim's little bitch for the last fifteen years. He manages Good Records for a little over $20,000/yr with no health benefits, while Tim and Julie just bought an enormous new house.

  • Point is this: all of the facts I've cited can be checked. Why don't you go the source and do some of your own research before calling me a liar, based on some haphazardly applied concept from your undergraduate studies.

  • Okay, now THAT is a valid complaint. If you want to take Tim to task as CEO of GoodCorp (yes, that is a joke), then by all means do that. If you want to call him a creative robber-baron, do that. If you want to say he's "like" a cult leader, do that. Those polyglot accusations, however, dilute any point you may have been trying to make.

  • Sorry for the 4-month delay in responding, but I actually did piss off as requested, and just now saw this comment. I'm confused. What is your working definition of polyglot?

  • In this case it refers to the varied and rambling accusations/diatribes of some douchebag who has nothing better to do with his life than to try to revive a FOUR-MONTH OLD argument he was having with a stranger- on Christmas Eve, no less- all because he's some worthless fuckwit who needs to talk shit about other people in order to feel worthwhile.

    BTW- If you were as linguistically savvy as you think, you'd be aware of 'polyglot's' colloquial uses.

    FAIL.

  • Easy there, tiger. I never claimed to be a linguist, and forgive me if I've never been introduced to the obviously rampant colloquial use of polyglot. First of all, I'm not "talking shit". I'm giving information. Second, a question: Do you make a general habit of hurtling insults at people you've never met? Third, I'm not sure you effectively used your prized "colloquial" version of the word polyglot. Fourth, alright, let's have it: which name-calling are you going to engage in now?

  • #1- No, you are, in fact, talking shit.

    #2- We met before- four months ago when you first started talking said shit.

    #3- If that is your almighty estimation then I am far from the only one.

    #4- Just this one:

    Later, TROLL.

  • Woah woah woah... I thought you were arguing if Tim was a creule heartless Bastard or not... Not each others language skills... Anyway, continue... It's fun to watch

    P>S Please don't drag me into this, I will open a can of 'Whoop-Ass' on you (Metaphoricly, of course)

  • Admit it- you misspelled cruel on purpose, didn't you? Sneaky, sneaky... XD

    Didn't you know? That's what people do on "teh internets." On a certain level, there's always a relationship inferred between someone's literacy and their overall intellectual integrity. And specifically, the perception is often that poor language skills = poor thinking skills.

    This actually makes sense in that this whole medium is based on language, so proficient use of it naturally takes on increased value...

  • Wha...?

  • Exactly.

  • wow you use big words. your a pretty cool guy.

  • No, I don't...

  • I didn't actually, it was a typo... lol

  • chillax abit dude, its just the internet

  • umm. your an idiot.

    and you say they get payed next to nothing.

    great artists such as the Polyphonic Spree probly don't care about the income. They're true artists.

  • nicely said my friend

  • RIIIGHT, because "true artists" don't need money to buy food or clothes. They also don't have any desire to ever own their own homes, or buy decent cars. "True artists" survive on art alone, and have none of the needs or desires of regular folks...EXCEPT Tim Delaughter, who makes a nice living tricking people like you into thinking he's a "true artist." Artists, YES even "true artists," need and want money just like everyone else. Join the real world, dude.

  • YOU'RE right. :P

  • you're so right, its all about money and getting rich.

  • Proof please.

    Otherwise your full of shit.

  • I'm old enough to remember moshing and crowd surfing to Tripping Daisy at small clubs around Dallas. I love the Spree because it reminds me of Daisy's skill at bringing the music to a frenzied crescendo. I hate the Spree because they always pull back from that peak and leave me with rock blue balls. It's beautiful music though. This song is really well crafted. Good job, Delaughter and Company.

  • Dude!! Awesome comment-they get right to the edge and then let off! You are so right on. But it's by design!! 2:10--2:30 I fee llike I'm on a roller-coaster! Without the vomit of course....

  • Dude. Tripping Daisy sucked. I remember being Amazed when a record store in DC had a huge 'Bill' poster. :P

    You probably thought the Edge was the shit back in the George Gimarc days...

  • Weren't you in a NKOTB video?

  • Weren't you in a Toadies video?

  • Actually, no. I was too busy going to see Course of Empire & Dead King's Pillow gigs.

  • hah Tim's wife was also the crazy lady in the "I Got A Girl" video for Tripping Daisy

  • Their hairdresser took his hatred of the world out on their hair.

  • I've heard this band is a religious cult.

  • who cares his music is fantastic xDD

  • and you know what they say..

    Everything you hear is truth..

    And no one EVER just judges upon looks..

    Same way that guy from blues clues died from a herione over dose

  • thats a common misunderstanding due to the robes. They were em cause 23 people in street clothes would be "to distracting"

  • there's 32 =] All playing trombones and triangles and all sorts :) <3

  • lol

  • nicht schlecht, interessante Kombination,

    intersting editing

  • WTF how do you dudes know so much about the band members names n such? It's kinda creepy.

  • Beautiful Inspiring Song and Video. The Polyphonic Spree Is my Favorite Band by far

  • Inspiring.

  • 1:25 who's gorgeous smile is that? and again at 3:07

  • I think that's Pottsi...

  • WTF? Pottsi?