The Be Good Tanyas - Junkie Song

[Whisperin100]

grats you are diferent ! ..hope you enjoy it .

[thebannie]

nice song, and very sad. the images seem to be of a mix of homelees people and junkies

[Muffmonster007]

Past mistakes don't auto make you a bad person. Life is day to day and you decide who and what you are.

Nice tune from an excellent band, real reason I'm here.

[1skunkus]

When I was an addict myself in San Francisco, on a Thanksgiving night in Union Square i still went and asked the finest restaurants if they would lend to a cause of my own to what might be left over if I could give to the poor. I was loaded up with BOXES, turkey legs and danish, loads of it. each homeless person I went to, I kneeled down and said "take your pick". I must of fed 10-15 people as there wasnt a whole lot, they kicked out quick in that area. still I enjoyed doing it.

[LeyLey41]

Been there...now...over 8 years later...freedom from active addiction..miracles do happen...I carry it to the next suffering addict...everyday, every chance I get....

[ravenwolf1952]

wonder why facebook took this off,hmm censership in america

[LeyLey41]

@ravenwolf1952 I posted it & they didn't take it down....

[ravenwolf1952]

welcome to america,nowdays,

[WestsideWilly13]

So much judgement in this world.. could u imagine the mountains they could climb if they just had love or someone who believed in them instead of critisizing all they know just to feel something? Pity we live in such a judgemental society where corporate conglamerates get richer and don't want to wrinkle their Armani suits by lending a hand. Sad. I pray for all of those who have lost their way. Beautiful song.

[luderick62]

Great video, great song. Are not the lyrics "give some change, look you in the eye" ?

[WaitsWeights]

@luderick62 thanks. Um, potentially, yes, I suppose that could be the lyric..

[Onills]

@luderick62 I don't think so brother ! If you listen very carefully, you'll hear sometimes ^^ Anyway, this music is truly unique, so powerful and so beautiful ! It makes me want to believe in humans...

[JaayneeLenoree]

@luderick62 It could also be, "yet sometimes, I look you in the eye"

both sound right.

[Mscindula]

thanks for the awareness. chilling to watch

[TheSnoberscool]

This is one of my fav songs, I love this song. I sing it every time when I am alone and upset, I cry and cry. I want to be friend with those homeless and helpless and hopeless people. I wish I could do something for these homeless people, But my love and prayers are always with them. This song is the most moving song ever. God bless all of those homeless and Hopeless people. <3

[TeeKay19]

It's a great song, and w/ the pics you added, I really can't express the emotional impact. I go back a few years and remember the impact of the Velvet Undergroud's "Heroin" which was very cynical and in an ironic way romanticized smack. Junkie Song is much better and more to the point, also it doesn't blame the victim, which is the same spirit as the pics you added. This humanizes people - it's a screwed up world that drives people to this, which includes child victims as portrayed here.

[ltomolo]

No words can accurately describe the beauty, the tragedy and the humanity of this song. I am deeply moved every time I hear it. Seeing what accompanied the audio was equally powerful and haunting.

[alisonmelia1]

makes u want to do everything u can possible... and not take anything u have for granted.

[AnandaFaith]

well done - powerful use of the song and images

makes me hear the words in a new way

touching

[theleverpulled]

Wonderful job on the video. Suits and serves the song perfectly.

[JadeValentine92]

Just Perfect !!

[Dustydime]

beautiful like the salt from a tear when you taste the bitter sweet dripps that flow from your eyes as you feel lifes bite in every sadness that you see.

[psyentyst]

The downtown eastside is a rough place to be.

[natrach164]

this is an absolutely magnificent expression, completely pulled on my heart strings...

thank you

[LisaNguyen616]

this video is sobering. thanks for posting it.

[najbjergpoulsen]

Doing some volunteer work this summer.

Let me tell you poor people have a great sense of humor....

a smile from a homeless is worth, 1 million smiles from a rich.person.

Great song btw :)

[ATurtleFairy]

Powerful song and video. Thanks for posting.

[VenusInPisces]

Totally captures my feelings, I couldn't have said it better

[vainsmith]

this song makes me extremely sad. the images used as well. but its one of those songs i could listen to over and over again. & for that i am emotionally drained.

[demonking653]

@vainsmith The hardships of life.

[666jimmysmusicgirl]

@vainsmith i know what you mean, i can't stop crying but i just listen to it over and over again like i'm obsessed :'(

[BadAlice101]

This fills me with sadness

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

Great song from a great band.

[mungia1500]

Thanks for making this video. This is one powerful song...

[hongkongluna]

everyone's in pain. look close.

[valburge]

Getting on toward 20 years up now, and my amends I make to people I can't make amends to is to give to street junkies whenever they ask. Every dollar I give is a dollar that doesn't need to be stolen, so it's making amends for when I had to steal to get by.

Thank God I'm clean. Thank you for posting this.

[jasongamble81]

Good for you, been there too people don't realize how easy it can happen no one set's out to become a junkie I still have so much guilt, that is wat threatens my sobriety

[valburge]

You'll find something constructive to do with the guilt eventually, and that'll help. Hang in there xx

[1skunkus]

@valburge I'm right there with you, 8 years clean of meth. on top of my world, hang in there, not sure about you of course but i myself was one of these pictures, if you were too, then the past is then, today is what counts, plan for tomorrow, cheers.

[Darforl]

Been clean for a year now. this song makes me feel proud.

Never been homeless but still.

[zOMGLaserGunzPewPew]

Gratz, nearly to the year marker myself. It's nice to be free.

[DarlingSerenity]

Congratulations.

[MITCHWILD]

WOW! that had an effect that will last.

That is what good music does for you.

[fubarcat50]

ok, you probably will not like this, but i am a recovering addict, not junk, but close---- but sympathy does not help--- take a close look here--- treatment and clinics, as well as a semi-legalization are required. But no one can kick alone--- so make a friend, and yes, it is painfull

[cynicinaminute]

whenever i listen to this i cry. its about Sam's brother. There is another song like it called Song for R

[bingo113]

worked the trumpet part out :D

[WaitsWeights]

kudos!

[ricmalbex]

What a sad but meaningful song...I think we all know someone that is or been affected by this...too many.....

The video tells all.

[marycigarettes]

seriously beautiful singing....and the saddest song ever.....oh my?!

[msgque]

it's very hard to see this.

it makes me sad.. but so is the world and we make nothing!

[Chazjaz2]

Very sad and heartbreaking. Very well done.

[Cranxa]

my girlfriends mum knows someone who has lived on the streets for 68 year!

im not even lying =/

[y5ellow2009]

It is like that, yes.

[laurenjeanjordan15]

i went to vancouver this year for a missions trip on the down town east side (east hastings) and this describes everything we were all feeling as we were helping

[jasongamble81]

The Be good Tanya's are from Van, so I am sure that they have seen it too, as have I is is not something you ever forget

[dhinis]

Amazing! Just heartbreaking.

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[yelyarb]

ps - great video, I just watched it three times in a row.

[yelyarb]

The day we accept the shared element in the people and things around us, compassion becomes a necessity. How can we not love something when we realize it is a part of us? Humanity seems to be waking up to the idea that we aren't separate from the world, 'bout time =D

[ZZtaurusZZ]

i'm an ex junkie awful life man, it's just a waste.

[PandaonVeranda]

I have loved this song for years... it is so beautiful and really makes you think.

Thank you for putting in the effort to make a video deserving of it.

[Mausticker]

super Song just true how life is

super Lied traurig aber wahr

[Onlydreamin1959]

Such a sad, sad song. I know somebody who is there and it's horrific. Thanks WaitsWaeights. It's tough but it's real.

[allie174]

What an amazing song.. because its soo true!

[madcrafty1]

Olu Dara on trumpet really hits this so hard, the song is beautiful and he puts it over the top, it's the antithesis of the trumpet that comes in at the end of "When a Man Loves a Woman" as a musical dork counterpoint, that's what I feel.

[yelyarb]

never knew who was playing there, thanks!

[bluegreenmonkey]

This song touches home. BGT's are from Vancouver and its Skytrain statiions. Big junkie and homeless population, especially in one area in the Downtown Eastside. But every city has its own area like this.

Good job WaitsWeights. But I'd love to see a video with local clips. I wish they'd do an official vid like that with this song. One of my favorites. So haunting and sad.

[KCwellard]

Gayyyyyy

[PMK1002]

great work! its amazing what can be achieved using the software that comes with your pc....

hear that folks...get making videos!!!!

thanks for taking the time to make this, again,

great work! 5*s

[catwotsits73]

squibakou did you make this video??? I think its goes perfectly well with the song... hard,heart breaken images.. i love dis song too

[Squibakou]

It has taken me 3 hours to be able to pull off the picking to this! Agh! I love this song.

[WaitsWeights]

Well... now you have to record a cover version for us! :)

[Squibakou]

Are you being sarky? (I don't mean that offensively)

[WaitsWeights]

No, I'm being serious..

[Squibakou]

if i ever have enough money to buy a video camera or recording equipment I will. or i'll just find someone to borrow it off of. k thanks. :)

[Onlydreamin1959]

This is an absolutely heartbreaking video. I think you've touched some people, here. very well done. I might not get some of those images out of my head, though. That's the mark of a message that's been spread succesfully.

[ak47doubletap]

This could have easily been me - just one more step - and there I'd be / probably dead now. Stil owing taxi fare .

[commonthread2]

I remember living in a house with 3 junkies and they were awake and hitting up in the morning with the curtain open and the sun shining and China white all over the washer ...and I thought why is one of them banging in his leg?What 's he saying to the neighborhood ?He became a Christian 2 years later I do not know if he still alive ...If its Crack or junk sometimes their skin pops like some of those photos because the drug is to strong and burns their skin like blood blisters...

[Mauricelove]

if you have children this should not be remotely close to you. you had your chance, now its theirs. they didnt ask to be born.

[jamesjames201]

wtf?

[Onlydreamin1959]

If you have children, then you're involved. You love them, you wish them the best, you love them despite the junkie they have become. And yes, junkies deserved to be loved. Perhaps more so than people who are straight and don't have problems with housing, health care, legal rights, and the accessability of medical help for their problems (methadone, etc.). We birth them, but we can still fight for them. You may not have asked to be born, but you can be healed.

[MrEllenwork]

@Onlydreamin1959

loving a junkie doesn't seem to help.

[commonthread2]

this is real and if you lived around it you know bless their hearts

[happylilvegimite]

wow thats some powerfull shit!

[shitz37]

omg, arm @3:13!

[DS2026]

How? What's going on? Why? Am I doing something wrong? Some of these pictures are kids!

[Freshette]

Thank you for putting this together. Lovely song, heartbreaking reality.

[acka666]

I love it!!!It's so sad but realistic!!

[jimmihowfar]

my all time favourite song x

[3VILmonkey]

Poignant.

[ArrowSnake]

struck a chord, thanks for posting

[flutterbymebutterfly]

Heartbreaking stuff...thank you for posting.

[Chemicalogic]

thank you, this song is among their best.

[WaitsWeights]

You're welcome. :)