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  • Beautiful voice. Seriously...

  • This guys voice makes me happy.

  • Love how Maynard knocks the vocals up a notch.

  • i just cant get enough and i dont know why i do the things i do. just wanted to say this song among many other songs from apc help me at times and for that.....i say thank you apc....pls come back to redrocks!

  • enter the out of tune keyboard @1:17

  • please release me is the best lyric just how it meshes with that part of the song. im stoned

  • no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

  • President Franklin Roosevelt: Nov. 21, 1933 “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.”

  • one of my favs of all times amazing song.

  • greatest perfomance!!!!

  • I love Maynard, but hes out of tune most of the song..

  • still very healing, thank you........

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  • Tool's Danny Carey is the best drummer ever but the APC guy is great,too.

  • Maynard sounds way better live with Perfect Circle than with Tool.  With Tool he can be drowned out by the music. I've seen both bands live and APC has a cleaner crisper sound live than tool so it does maynard alot of justice. Shame he's not with them anymore

  • @donocide

    Not with who anymore?

    Maybe you need to do a little research.

    You will find a pleasant surprise.

  • um last i checked i was seeing apc at rock on the range and in detroit and ummmm...maynard's still with em bro theres no apc without him

  • If at any time Tool or APC sounds bad on youtube, 10 times out of 10 its the camera

  • maynard it´s a fu*****g genius...... !!!!!!!!

  • what a funky version of this song.. i like it! this is my favorite APC song, but he has a tendancy to be a bit out of tune at both tool and apc shows in general

  • Even without Maynard this song is so gorgeous, I love the bass and guitars. Throw in Maynard's lyrics and exquisite vocals and this song is absolute perfection. Maynard's words have gotten me through some really tough times and have helped keep me alive. Remember, we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion, you will come to find, that we are all one mind capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable. I choose to live.

  • this motherfuckin' man... so many hours of enjoyment and memories, thanks Maynard, APC, and TOOL of course

  • i am surrendering to the gravity and the unknown <3

  • This song truly shows the range of Maynards voice......he's such an underrated singer in my opinion. I woder how often, or if at all, Maynard took singing lessons. Someone pick me up on this......

  • @nolson4062 I heard him say in an interview once that he never took any formal vocal training. Self taught I guess.

  • He broke his right foot and is playing the bass drum with his left.....ya, he's a pro.

  • @subcoolfl He's a fuckin beast is what he is.

  • Is Josh playing on a double kick set?

  • My favorite song from APC. Fucking beautiful

  • This is amazing quality. Thanks for posting.

  • When I hear this song my worries melt away. Describes everything Ive ever been through.

  • Come on Maynard, it's time for a new epic APC album, and since you made us wait so long, please make it a 2 disc.

  • @monsterhockey7 most of the people that work with maynard find him a challenge to work with....hence the constant rotation of APC members. I read somewhere that songs on Mer De Noms had to be readjusted (keywise) to fit for his vocal range.

    I love APC....but think eMotive is a bit of a cop-out. They did some good stuff on that album but the reasons are obvious why it is the most unpopular of their recordings.

  • Yeah this group is good for the mind .It helped mellow me out when alot of drama was going on !

  • GOD his vocals in this song are so good. i didn't see that coming.

  • Incredible fucking music, how I wish they would all get together to play anothere tour!!

  • This song is fucking amazing!!! Great song to drink too.

  • one of the most beautiful songs i ever heard in my 36 years of been walking on this world

  • I saw them during this tour in Manchester. I've still yet to see a single concert as good, though Pearl Jam at Leeds in 06 was very close!

  • god, I love this song..

  • i love apc and tool, i just wish for tool's live shows maynard would sing with the clarity he does for apc. and now i await the shit talking...

  • He sings very clear live with puscifer too...

  • @nedak Jesus he fucken belts his voice out iwith Puscifer. With most shows being in smaller theaters than with tool, yuo really get to hear is voice, absolutely astonishing! 

  • I wonder if he's wearing his I heart Brad Wilkes wife beater. I love that shirt. It makes me laugh anytime that I think about it.

  • my gosh he is amazing its not everyday you hear a show in which the vocalist sings an octave higher with no problem!! its amazing kudos MJK kudos

  • This song is my life at the moment

  • I Choose to Live!!!

  • bitchin.. just bitchin.. gawd.. love 'em.. to the core.. right on.

  • yeah the guitar goes along with his voice before the last chorus... Sounded so rad

  • my all time favorite song.

  • Those fiber optic trees in the background are cool.

  • APC remind me a lot of Porcupine Tree in a way, although Maynard is a much better singer than Steven Wilson.

  • He should've wrote the song like that...with those extra tunes xD so gooood! I'm high btw.

  • Wow I love it. Is it just me or does he start singing the harmony part throughout different parts of the song? Really brings an extra level to it I think :)

  • simply beautiful. Im proud to say the song almost bought me to tears it wus so good. I wud pay anything to see this concert live

  • very good performance, don't write shit about Maynard, he was, is and will be absolute genius!

  • Fuck you fanboy...

  • I choose to live.

  • To me he is doing it different. Giving it a turn....

  • not to pull your halo down, around your neck and choke you out,

    but I choose to LIVE.

    amazing performance by an amazing one of my influences.

    Brandon, All Aspects

  • You're aware that the lyrics you put are from two different songs right? The first like "not to pull you halo down, around your neck and choke you out" (on a side note I don't think those are actually the lyrics) are from the song The Noose and then the I choose to live lyrics is actually from this song Gravity.

  • obviously moron, im a musician, i wasnt trying to quote one song, just a group of artists themselves

  • You're the fucking moron. You didn't even correctly quote the lyrics. I don't get what the fuck your attitude is about you little fuck. If you're going to talk shit at least quote the god damn lyrics correctly. The line you quoted from The Noose is just plain wrong and doesn't exist in the song. It doesn't take a musician to be able to read the lyrics that have now been posted online for many years, idiot.

  • .... sigh... i wasnt spouting lyrics is what i was trying to say, im not gonna get heated at retard who doesn't know anything about artistic vision, but, sadly i suppose wherever he is people are going to have to bear his company... but the fact of the matter is, the world would be a better place without sheep like you :)

  • Absolutely perfomance by James

  • Wow ! Maynard has clothes on in this one...lol

    Love APC & Maynard

  • hahah, not a popular comment, sorry guys no offense intended, just a joker. I love Maynard too, just think people get way too infatuated with the people and forget about the music.

  • MAYNARD'S voice is the best ..

    the song is better live...

  • wow...sure you are and i taught bruce lee martial arts

  • hahaha lol @ jackthasack

  • SIMPLE AMAZING.

  • the way the guitar sounds at the very end gives me the chills it so good.

  • I cant hit em either pal, dude who the fuck are u to even, compare youself to MAYNARD, u are an idiot, Pozer, cocksucker........fuck off

  • My god, what I would do to have a voice like that...

  • same here.

  • wow mjk struggled with that one ah the affects of aging i cant hit em either ol pal lol

  • funny how some songs on Thirteenth Step (gravity and blue) sounds way better on the record....all that guitar layering and effects make such a different!

  • simplemente lo mejor gracias por esta canción APC...

  • amazing

  • Best Circles song

  • You called them "Circles"??? Yeah that or APC

  • :) well spelling a perfect circles is pretty longer

  • This song actually made me cry regardless if i am 21 years old... It had helped me with those days of being depressed... Also Disposition from Tool has the same effect but with you being out of place....

  • Totally man, Maynard has the ability to break you down into pieces, only to bring you back together, stronger than before....

  • are you on drugs? just say apc is good u dont have to get all poetic :]

  • music = art

    poetry = art x = x

  • erm... ur my hero for pointing out the obvious....

  • @ChronoPhoenix  haha exactly

  • Beautiful. I draw a lot of strength from this song :)

  • same

  • I gotta say... this is the best amature live recording Ive ever seen on youtube... most other amature vids have terrible sound

  • lift me back up to the sun....I choose to live...

  • simply amazing vocals... so beautiful

  • such good harmonies at the end.

  • the most powerful voice, singing about the most powerful force. could only be mjk. its nice to see him sing with just his voice and not cover it up with a bunch of effects. kick ass vid.

  • I agree, its a pretty decent performance of a damn a good song. but this isn't perfect on Maynard's behalf, he hits a fair few off notes and at points its kind of painful i.e. 4:08 and 4:12. By all means I'm not saying I could do any better I think he's a fantastic vocalist and is normally spot on with pitch.. just a couple of slip-ups here and overall not his best performance.

  • @Rupenpatell he changed that on purpose. half of the song was an octave higher with a slightly different melody. the examples you gave are proof of it.

  • @Karmanetics0

    Gravity is actually the weakest force, but omnipresent.

  • @Karmanetics0 Strong nuclear force is stronger.

  • @Karmanetics0 Agree all the way!

  • i have to see apc live,hope to someday.king diamond as well,then im done/happy.

  • they had some extremly emotion evoking music

  • Fantastic...

  • I love this song ^^

  • Thanks Kube2. This version is amazing.

  • help me survive the bottom.. sick vocal structure

  • wow, fucking awesome song!

  • lift me back up to the sun, i choose to live,nice words

  • The albums don't even compare to APC live. I really hope I get the chance to see them one day.

  • I CHOOSE TO LIVE, APC 4 EVA!!!

  • Always makes me feel like I'm floating when I hear this beautiful song....Perfect.

  • Vanishing has the same effect, I love APC.

    has anyone else heard theyre all willing to work with each other again? Supposedly APC has a contract for one more CD, tho they dont have deadline to meet so it could take around 3 years to come out considering the members are all extremely busy as of lately.

  • I didn't hear anything about a contract.. I read they had already signed onto a three-album deal with Virgin when they formed and they wrapped up that obligation with the release of eMOTIVE.

    None of them said they're done, they just said they haven't gotten around to talking about where to take it next.. Although Maynard gave a definitive "no" when asked if they would record another album in the future, I would take that with a grain of salt.

  • aye. i totally feel the same

  • i love APC.

    I love Gravity.

  • I remember when I saw this song live quite a few years ago knowing that one day it'd mean much more to me than it did at that point and as time passed it did.

  • that was meant to TunerLegend17

  • maynard could billow gravity away with that voice..

  • this song kept me from killing myself 2 years ago!!

    what inspiring lyrics!!

  • thanks! what a really nice thing to say...asshole

  • wow, you're a d1ck.

  • i choose to live...

  • @BrenyaReese when death is better than life.... thats when you pick up your closest tool or perfect circle album and get lifted into infinity

  • @BrenyaReese I hope I won't ever find a reason to do that. I feel weak lately, but hopeful. I just want a job.

  • @BrenyaReese Then you're a total loser

  • @BrenyaReese jajajajjajajajajaja que puto

  • @yisusscraist SPEAK ENGLISH YOU FUCK

  • @SMDB82 no en todo el mundo se habla inglés y no creas que es el idioma universal pendejete, traducelo pinche baboso.

  • i choose to live

  • lift me back up to the sun.... nice song

  • I love how most of the live APC clips I see on Youtube stem from the Hershey show... and I love how I was fucking there to witness such greatness.

  • Amazing so beautiful. I could listen to his voice forever!

  • Dude I fuckinglove him!!!

  • amazing song. i think maynard goes into a trance while he sings..gets lost in the music. awesome

  • I choose to live :)

    Yes I agree, I love the dreamy/space sound they produce.

  • Dreamy!!!

  • just great!!!

  • maynard has such a good voice :) A perfect circle rules

  • wish i could see maynard better tho he has the best voice in rock and if he was god id believe in him

  • ah, but he IS god.

  • im god too

  • simply beautiful

  • where is this?

  • Hershey 2004.

  • This is the same show from aMOTION where they performed The Noose right?

  • Maybe, Ill check the next time I watch the show.

  • "I choose to live."

    This song is the silver lining to a very depressing but beautiful album.

  • Your expression for this song clearly expresses the true element that this album brings out.

  • 100%right. I listen to Weak and Powerless before this and its gold. i also like to throw in Vanishing, as I interpret that song as describing the way a person begins to fade away as he or she becomes more and more addicted to drugs and sucked into that world and away from ours. Aenima was the first real album he produced that was a complete package,although its theme was a little jagged.13th and Lateralus are tru masterpieces that should be listened to th whole way through as 1 big piece of art

  • This is defintly one of my favorites on 13th step !

  • This is my favourite off 13th Step :)

  • esta cancion es hermosa

  • 3:05 to 3:40... Chills,chills and more chills...

  • I think I just had multiple mental orgasms.

  • Brandon Boyd is fantastic, but go back and listen to some old Tool. Tool fans will always pick Maynard, no matter how much they like Incubus. I imagine it's the same with anyone.

    There's a song by Tool called Bottom. Look up the album version and listen to the note he hits at 5:52 seconds into the song.

  • you dont even need to go back that far- the peak part of the patient...

    wow- that's a lot of p's

  • Brandon Boyd (from Incubus) comes close to Maynard.

  • Eric Victorino from Strata is really good in my book.

    -he would come close to brandon...not maynard.

  • Vocally yes... Creativly,yeah right...

  • u dont know nothing man...

  • Yeah I love old Incubus stuff but Brandon lacks the sort of growly metalesque vocals that Maynard uses in the heavier parts of APC and Tool songs.

  • Not exactly. Maynard is hardly a sham but he sure does keep himself cloaked in all of his talent.

  • maynard does have an incredible voice indeed, but seriously folks, have ya ever heard ben harper live.

  • Aaron Who? somebody needs a check-up!

  • my personal pc favorite

  • Can you believe there are humans on this Earth who think Aaron Lewis has a better voice than this? People, seriously, get off the crack!

  • i agree maynard is the best male vocalist out there , no one comes close

  • yeah the only person who comes close to maynard is jeff buckley, but alas he is no longer with us.

  • r.i.p. the man deserves his props. the grace himself

  • gets better evertime. listen close on the album for this harmony, its so refreshing