The Frames - Lay Me Down

[yeposa]

425000 views? seriously? Every person on earth should listen to this. it's just perfect.

[5amorphe5]

@pixiwl only the song for me.

[shifyscarface]

God remember no disco. Good times.

[TheDustieV]

one of the best live bands you'll ever see Hansard is a legendary frontman

[SirBigBrain]

lol a failed copy of corey taylor's mask at 0:28

[irishmusiccentral]

@SirBigBrain It's an Aztec face mask.. "commonly used in religious and cultural ceremonies of many peoples, such as the Kachina".

[SirBigBrain]

@irishmusiccentral lol thanks for that, didn't know ;)

[rockguru14]

@SirBigBrain corey taylors gay man haha

[PuddintyCat]

Love it! Makes me think about my dad! Definitely doing a cover of this!!!!

[AuntPearlsGlorybox]

This songs remains for me one of the most beautiful I have heard. It seems to link me into the Ireland of my ancestors in some mystical way?!

[mdurandel]

We are the bandit brothers of a bandit mother, the wild eyed boys of tomorrows yesterdays

[aliciaann72]

On a Live version of the song,he states it is about burning old love letters. So, to me... it speaks of letting love go but knowing it still sacred.

[aliciaann72]

For those asking what the song is about...

in a Live version, he talks about it being about gathering old love letters (from an ended relationship) and burning the letters together. So, to me.. it talks about the end of a relationship and letting go of the "earthly" tangible aspects of it. But, knowing that the relationship was indeed special and sacred.

[MrAnthonyUseryJr]

this song is wonderful

[N0TS0SUBTLE]

Why isn't this band HUGE! Maybe they won't sell out :))

[karlporter2]

anyone know where i could get my hands on one of these masks?? they were giving them out at the signing tent at witness in 2003, maybe earlier, but i must have lost mine. would love to buy another one!

[pajiad191]

this song is in the soundtrack for Bill Heath's "Sinners" it's a movie about the people who ski in Colorado and the Canadian Rockies. I originally saw it at the Boulder Adventure Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado. It is an excellent film with a superb soundtrack and I recommend it most highly.

[lawdieg23]

still magic

[ilisek9]

great..!!!!...:)

[iamzero79]

love the Frames. Are they still active? They sound better with MaryJane guiding the band.

[TheRetroReactive]

When i saw The Cake Eaters ( great movie ) i heard this song and i was like wow what a calming peaceful song.

[FrozenSolidTwo]

The Cake Eaters

[Pendor42]

appearently he bought himself an an x plots for graves up on a hill in the mountains side by side for her birthday when he was broke one time. she got upset n missed the point. so he wrote this tune to explain.

also their called the frames cause they had lots of old bikes knockin around their back gardens etc after they were kids an first started jammin

how many frames does it take to change a lightbulb?

none they stand around and listen to glen talk until some1 else comes along an dz it

[ooozeGonnaSubscribe]

great!! <3 it

[nabbie09]

love it, love it, love it x

[kaari1]

Great song!!! check out "you" by Inouwee if you like this one:)

[retardedfishmonkey46]

is it just me or are the framas sooo much better live :)

they have that something extra :D

[MrConway92]

Miz138.. You're a total wanker.. Get a life.

[Joqular]

no.

[temsonx]

ye thats why wer all on one of his tunes...

[inisfallen10]

awesome

[Ewan1990]

Ive got an mp3 of damien rice and lisa hannigan covering thi, its very good!

[focuswrc10]

I think Glen tells a couple of different stories from time to time about this song. The one I heard was that it's about the great value of a simple life spent working everyday, coming home to the one you love and staying with them until the day you die when you'll be happy in your grave beside them.

[emanre3]

freat song, so catchy, very good music

[RichieW]

no disco! wow teh memories!

[ihatemygirlfriend]

Happy memories, in the day, lost in thoughts, lost in time.....tanx

[eddyjacobsensongs]

Found this song when searching youtube, never heard about it before...it sounds really nice

[itricke]

I just watched cakeeaters an saw that Glen Hassard wrote this song. I love him you should check out the movie "Once" Im ganna have to check out more of this bands music should have done it sooner.

[cullchoons]

@itricke they're one of my favourite bands ever, really great

[wasiimabbas]

movie was good and this song is breathtaking

[tuburagui]

really great song!

[ch23huang]

kristen stewart was phenomenal in The Cake Eaters

[Amadrieclya]

@ch23huang agreeed

absolutely!

[twilight12l]

love this song..heard it on the cake eaters. fell in love with this song and the movie!

[Vintagetwilighter]

heard it in that film too.

The Cake Eaters was breathtaking =)

thanks for uploading this.

xx

[NoiselessSounds]

Heard it in The Cake Eaters.

LOVE both the movie and this song!

Amazing..

[yeposa]

i absolutely LOVE this song

i heard it on "The cake eaters"

great song great movie <3

[fantablo]

Oh my God... the gig at the time was supported by Mundy, Damien Rice and MIC CHRISTOPHER!!!:O... I am sooo jealous of anyone who was there!!! I really want to see them live as soon as I can. They are pure class and nobody or no band can do what they do. Such gentle, amazing lyrics with ingenious melodies. Irish legends.

[spiralism3]

for flickety,

who found this song,me and us with her own divinity and a little bit of help at this end.

x

[coach69carter]

ta an frames go hiontach ! agus ta me i mo conai i baile atha cliath agus is maith liom gaeilge.

im from the city centre and alot of people speak irish u jus av to kno wer to look !

[xxkaiiteexx]

This is there best song i Must say, Its amazing, I normaly hate a song the more I lsiten to it, but not this one :)

Lay me down in the hollowed ground<3

[firstaid10101010]

THEIR NOT THERE!

[hammythehippy]

...what the hell was that buzz at the end of it?!great song

[irishmusiccentral]

the 'buzz' was the intro to the next music video "The Grand Lunar" by galway band band 'Cane141'.

[XTwilightyX]

Yeh tahts why i came looking for this song..:P..I Loved it in the cake eaters..(:

[jo0jo092]

same!:)

[lalagurrl1994]

it was on the cake eaters with kristen stewart :)

[TirNaNog1979]

Great song, the melody and words are haunting... the line 'lay me down in the hollowed ground where my Father waits' is very poignant.

[tylerhahn]

in my time living in dublin i didnt once hear gaelic actually spoken! but apparently someone actually can speak it!

[TheLevy666]

Gaeilge actually. And you won't find many people speaking it in the cities. you have to go very rural to find it actually spoken commonly. It's taught in all the schools though.

[CeliaXDD]

really? when i was there my frind and me were in a taxi and i was feeling awful cos i couldnt understand a word of what the taxi man was saying. then my friend told him we were not irish and then he start speaking in english instead of gaelic plus you can see gaelic everywhere in the city. thats my experience tho

[poxbag1]

which city was this? i live in dublin and i'd get out of a taxi straight away if the taxi driver started speaking to me in gaeilge

[hyungsup2]

I think it's highly probable that the man was from north side of dublin. The accent over there is quite strong.

Never saw an Irish guy speaking Gaelic. Well some people do for the craic making fun of me when I'm the only one who doesn't understand Irish :) I should have learnt it when I was young :)

[luisasoler]

This song is so beautiful. I love The Frames.

[watchedpotneverboils]

The tenor banjo at 1:50 I think is really cool.

[ConvalescentBliss]

man, this is really... relaxing!

[waakkeuppp]

how old is this song? i've never heard it until now. i love the style.

[irishmusiccentral]

originally released in 2001, but probably written a year or two before that.

[seacheagles]

@irishmusiccentral interesting fact: at one of his shows, he said the song was written for his girlfriend when he was 16. It was one of the first songs he wrote!

[humanshieldchorus]

this is a super eight camera right? i bought one

[sferris15]

i fuckin love the frames! the first concer i ever went to was them in the olympia back in 2004!! It was amazing!

[darnhey]

Cuinís cailín bainné bóthar.... yeah...

Oh how I miss the frames...

And i was gonna say "bring back no disco" as a joke... but i think it IS back...

[phantomjmc]

is aoibhinn liam THE FUCKIN FRAMES!!!!!!!!!!

[DontMakeMeMadGRRR]

go halainn! =D

[tizzy0]

I love the violin and cello, they just add so much to this beautiful song

[thepretender99]

an rud is fearr a thagann o eireann ar feadh blianta!!!

[Thebestcigarette]

Amazing song!x But then so is all of there stuff, fucking amazing!x

[SocailistPoet]

Do you know tour dates?

[fa2bio]

thank you...

[youreadhere]

the story to this song because none fo you seem to be sure!

glen hansard was going out with a goth nd for her birthday he bought her a grave as a birthday present! she got really mad and dumped him so then he wrote this song! true story! he said it on the late late show to any of you who know what that is!

[bmaLrevilO]

jeez, even i think its a bit far to actually buy her a grave....

[bohrtaag]

they were 16 (he said) and she wAs a goth, so there u go.. :)

[mohanicus]

ha,ha thats a mad story!!!!!!!!!!!

hes brilliant.

hate the late late.

pat kenny is a twatter!!!!!!!!1

[lorikeet88]

so why did he buy the grave; did he want her to break up with him?

[klenny123]

I get it. I mean, she was a goth after all...

He he he

I thought it was really sweet in a creepy kind of way.

[LowryMcGann]

The girl obviously had no sense of humour. Her loss, our gain with the song!

[childrenoftherevolut]

go on the irish!!

[RicorianGuardian]

really nice, soothing song. but whats with the day of the dead stuff?

[acivilcampaign]

The song's lyrics use death as-- I don't know, metaphor. 'Lay me down in the hallowed ground' etc.

[irishmusiccentral]

I think the general theme is "Even if I'm dead, as long as I'm beside you, I'll be happy."

' Lay me down/In the hallowed ground/Down by your side I will stay '

[mcdonaghmark]

The song is written about a dog the band use to see waiting in the same spot looking down the road. They reckoned the dogs owner has died and the dog is waiting for him to return. The dog will stay faitful to the end and lay down beside his owner.

[SMRDOI]

just like greyfriars bobby in scotland.

[soniahenie]

No, that's "What happens when the heart just stops"

[dandyisme6]

actually, that is the song what happens when the heart just stops. this is about a teenage boy who likes a goth girl, and so he decides that if he buys cemetary plots, she will fall in love with him. thats what he said at his concert, anyway.

[phantomjmc]

this song is lay me down u are thinking of what just happenes when the heart just stops

[focuswrc10]

I think Glen tells a couple of different stories from time to time. The one I heard was that it's about the great value of a simple life spent working everyday, coming home to the one you love and staying with them until the day you die when you'll be happy in your grave beside them.

[Pendor42]

@RicorianGuardian de masks as far as i know are a reference to mick christopher who was a good friend of the band and died after fallling down a stairs around 05 i think. also the tune "hay day" made famous by the guinness add in 07 was his mother fulfilling his (dying?) wish to be heard. as far as i know that is

[bobostonepony]

@Pendor42 ya but if you watch the video you see a listing for their show, with Mic Cristopher opening.. so this video could not have been recorded after his death.

[thekingflood]

Class IRISH tune PTBI.............

[c02615223]

lay me down beside my daddy

[Zepphead93]

Once is an awesome movie!!!!!

[minedarea]

It was such a shame that they got rid of No Disco. I loved it. Those were the days. Lay me down.

[ghasemnosdadian]

They came to San Diego and I missed them. shit...

[acivilcampaign]

Ugh, me too.

[DandeB88]

Jesus, this is certainly in nostalgia flavour. No Disco and on the scroll it mentions Mic Christopher playing a gig. Ah them were the days...staying up late to watch No Disco!

[necoroy]

I hope they come to play in Brazil....

[xmandyxmoox]

soothing.....

[LilyAPassion]

I love their vids.. they're so melancholic

[katuusss]

They won the second prize in MTV for the best video (few years ago)-their beauty is in simplicity-That´s why I love them-and their music is great!