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  • I have to admit I tend to overlook everything else in favour of his lyrics, but boy can he sing.

  • I could listen to this man all year, non-stop. I wouldn't care what he says. He could just be openly insulting me and I would just sit there nodding and smiling. Beautiful, beautiful man with a beautiful, beautiful voice. I almost always cry at the last verse.

  • This song fucks me up. And it generally always comes on my playlist after Canvas Bags so one minute i'm waving my lighter in the air and singing my lungs out about the evils of plastic and the next i'm sobbing into my own sock. An ability he has which i love him for. Beautiful song. <3

  • This song is so incredible. I love Tim Minchin - he's absolutely brilliant

  • @madamepoohpooh LIKE

  • Why is there even a dislike button for this song...and why not a LOVE button <3

  • 14 people have survived a drowning..

  • That was the most beautiful downward spiral into depression I've ever experienced. *tear*

  • this has very quickly become one of my favourite songs ever. Tim is such a tallented songwriter. Thankyou for such a beautiful song.

  • 14 people dont get that not all tim minchin's songs are a piss take :L

  • Overuse of metaphors; funny, very meta

  • @demonicwill666 if only there were someway someone could put it on the internet so you could download it.

  • @Morrighaine

    itunes and Amazon both have it

  • @zfinet3 I was being sarcastic. I can't believe I had to tell someone that on the internet, on a song by a famous comedian.

  • @Morrighaine

    My bad. Chill. I'm sorry I didn't recognize your sarcasm, it must the font your using. I thought it was a actual question. Just trying to help out a fellow Tim Minchin fan.

  • @zfinet3 lol Thanks i didn't know where truthfully... he he he it's not as obvious to me ¬.¬... anyway thank you!!! XD

  • This song is utterly beautiful anyway, but with the backing band - just perfect.

  • this is his only song that is not a joke?

  • @DarkSnP Check out White Wine In The Sun

  • @DarkSnP Also "Not perfect" has some jokey lines but it's a touching song

  • @DarkSnP the only joke was about coughing...and I didn't even laugh.

  • @DarkSnP He wrote some stuff before he got big, but I think it was only a demo. Search 'Too Much Rope Tim Minchin' and you should get it. I think there are two parts.

  • @tommy5x He also released an album with his band timmy the dog before he got big

  • wow! beautiful song

  • the lyric about "broken bones in my playing hand" just kills me every time-

  • @TheEDZEPPELINBAND You perv! ;)

  • @Zalytunz now how is that PERVY?I'm a musician, and broken bones in my playing hand is about one of the worst things that could happen(I know from experience)-and that makes YOU the perv-now go wash your mind out with soap!!!

  • @TheEDZEPPELINBAND Yea I agree. Musicians have heaps of free time, so if we can't wank we go crazy.

  • holy mother of someone, this is the best song ever

  • Holy crap, every time he reaches the chorus saying I'm drowned and the underwater clips ensue, I honestly feel as if I'm slightly asphyxiating...

    Never had that, music moving me so much...

    Amazingly done, first song I heard from Tim that doesn't have really hillarious lyrics, albeit the humour is there if you listen carefully...

  • Just sumed up the last ten years of my life......just found you, don't you ever leave...rock my socks forever

  • I love how Tim can right seriously, deeply and thoughtfully, but yet input his own humour in one way or another, as in this song; so subtly that it's not even noticeable unless you look for it.

    A truly amazing song.

  • @DancingHippo332  write*

  • I prefer the accoustic version, to be honest, but even so this is utterly stunning

  • i need to make a billion accounts just so i could like it enough :') favourite tim song ever!! (maybe apart from canvas bags but for totally different reasons!)

  • I actually love this song :') It's truly amazing :')

  • Exactly same comment as I posted for 'better be home soon', brings tears to my eyes. Actually just ordered a copy of the film so can't wait for it to arrive. Love you mate, u're a genius! xxx

  • Love this song <3

  • This song isnt just funny..

    its really REALLY good..

  • abit of 6/8 in there

  • love it

  • @joeyj187 Similes are a type of metaphor.

  • @scruffles Debatable. They are typically considered distinct from one another. Not worth going into on a YouTube clip of a Tim Minchin song though. ;)

  • @scruffles No. Please don't post this on the internet. Then people will think it's true. =(

    Anyway, I agree with Joeyj187 that it's not worth getting into a debate under a Tim Minchin song; but a quick English lesson for those who are interested:

    Simile - The use of "like" or "as" to compare two things. "Your love is like fingernails on a chalkboard."

    Metaphor - Comparing two things by saying that one thing is another. "Your heart is an empty room." (Deathcab for Cutie).

    Hope that helps.

  • I think he's drowned.

  • pity tickets cost so much :(

  • possibly some of the most sentimental and lovely lyrics about the powers of love. Gorgeous Tim! <3

  • So why haven't your army ants invaded iTunes yet? Or is there another evil master plan?

    Just saying, digital man.

    (Or i can just keep using YouTube as my content keeper, since streaming is cheap).

  • My God, the master of the emotional phrase has arrived.

  • Almost believed it was R.E.M at the beginning.

  • This version is good, but I absolutely adore acoustic one <3 It's more powerful :)

  • This is one of my favourites, its my ring tone :-)

  • or...

    if you have the song,... you could say,  I have drowned by tim minchin.. (inferring that you drowned near him) although truthfully stating you own the song.

  • Drowned by tim minchin sounds like something no one can claim they have been.

  • the title of this song sounds like a new viral video :/

  • Found it! For anyone else wondering its called 'Not Going Anywhere'

  • Amazing song... I'm counting down the days until I see Tim in March!!

    And does anyone know what the other song that Tim sings in the film is? Its in the same scene at the gig (and also on the special features menu on the dvd!)

  • Jesus Christ I fucking love you Tim.

  • You know, I only just discovered this song a day or 2 ago, and it's just beautiful. Its nice to seem Tim doing something different like this and makes you really appreciate his voice, even more, if that's possible! It's such a musically pretty song :) It's one of those songs you keep playing because you can't believe the magic you've just heard.

  • I can't stop listening to this. What a tune. Tim you multi-talented swine! You are awesome!!

  • someone get jack black and tim together now, and make them form a band called, Timacious D,............DO IT NAOW

  • is it just me that thinks Tim looks like Tobin Bell with his hair back like that?

  • WHO THE FUCK DISLIKED THIS?!

    YOU BASTARDS!!

  • This is the first serious song of Tim's I've heard and it's bloody awesome. Tim you are amazingly talented.

  • I love him as a comedian but every time I hear this song, I think of how great he can sing. If he ever put out a series of serious songs, I know I'd listen to it.

  • To fucking good. Smug basterd! I may have to get out of the music buisness and work at burger king! You demolish my ego every time i hear you play

  • When will you be in Toronto ? My friends and i sit here and hope that someone of your artistic capabilities and humor will come to this fine country of ours

  • @AntonioPistola He was actually here in Toronto during the Just For Laughs festival! He did a show with Bo Burnham. I died a little inside, it was so brilliant.

  • The only song about love/"relationship" that ever made any sense... to me because I've only fallen in love deeply once which was a terribly tragic series of events and fuggit I'm almost sixty and it was a long time ago but still resonates. Damn Timmy made me feel again fuggin arse

  • That chick is hot

  • The title of this video sounds like a news headline.

  • @LawtonsChair TBH, if Tim drowned me... I wouldn't give a crap (after before or even during). You know why? Because if that happened... It would mean I'd have met him.

  • Dear Tim, this song is probably your best song. Are you going to make more songs like this one? You are talented musician and comedian. Like most of your songs. Keep yourself up! :)

  • This song is awesome! :D

  • I really like the solo piano no-harmony version of this song a lot better.

  • Both Tim Minchin and Russel Brand need to get more popular in the USA. We only get shit artists. No Axis of Awesome or Tim Minchin. Dx. UK and Australialand have all the good people.

  • Great song, and music video.

  • I love u Tim keep going!!! So wanna see u soon hope ur in UK. Best Intelligent Musicomedy I have ever known (Redheads and Ninjas forever!) xx

  • I love you.

  • i love tim! wanna give him a great big kiss xxx he is amazing! and has a lucky wife xxx

  • 1 thumb up + favorite + subscription = you are awesome

  • Hmm. He's getting more and more like Ben Folds

  • @scrotemaninov Not really. You realize the entire song revolves around the solitary line "Your love is...the overuse of metaphor"? That's the point where the rest of the song finally makes sense, and we all crack up (as usual).

  • Tim, you are one of if not the most amazing artist on youtube!!

  • Song reminds me of my ex-girlfriend...

  • his best song yet in my opinion

    amazing!

    xx

  • This song is so freaking awesome :D I love it, I've been singing it for like 5 days now <3 cant wait till you come to Brighton in December I am so going to buy tickets when they come out :D

  • I adore this song, its beautiful, and perfectly describes how i'm feeling right now.

  • i just love this song so much. absolutely beautiful <3

  • Would be amazing if he released this, I love all his other stuff just think that any non Tim fans (strange folk!) would also like it :-)

  • Such a good song!!

  • Beautiful..

  • I absolutly love this song!!! its always the first to be played wen i get on the comp!!! he is a genius!! <3 <3

  • This is the first time i have heard Tim sing a serious song (not that he is not serious with his other songs, there is always a point!), but this is fantastic, I would like to hear some more stuff that he has done! All of his songs that i have heard are built with very cleverly put together lyrics, intricate music and great performances! Well done Tim.... Keep them coming!!!

  • I like this version a loooot more than the original. Maybe just cause its got harmonies and stuff.

  • What a powerful, moving song. My iTunes purchase was complete before the video ended.

  • I looooooooooooooooooooove this song !! I heard it for the first time yesterday and I fell in love with it. Of course, I've searched immediately the movie, I found it and watched it also yesterday.

    I love you, Tim !

  • Further proof that Tim Minchin can do everything.

  • Tim; i thought you said you wouldn't make serious songs. I love you both as a songwriter/musician and as a comedian, and you could easily make it into the world of music!

  • I adore this song!!!!!! It's amazing-a-ling!! =D

    Anywhere I can get this film in the UK? I've looked literally everywhere and people either look at me like I'm an idiot or say they don't have it... Which sucks either way =/

  • @iamamywaterhouse CD Wow if you've got a spare £30 and a DVD player that'll play Region 4 DVDs as it's not been, and probably won't be, released in the UK.

    Linzy

    x

  • @timminchin Major Sad-Face

  • @iamamywaterhouse EBAY! lol

  • @ffscantfindausername I've already tried!! The only Tim Minchin stuff on there are the comedy DVD's....

    I'll just have to keep on looking!!

  • @iamamywaterhouse what country are you in? as I can see it on Ebay

  • @iamamywaterhouse

    I was able to watch it online... i just serched it on google. you might try that?

  • @Tamashi88 Good idea =)

  • @iamamywaterhouse You can buy it in HMV now x

  • @iamamywaterhouse Tim, i luv you man but this is the internet, why pay 30 quid when information is free? The internet is our collective counciousness and the Pirate Party of Sweden's got iamamywaterhouse back: go to thepiratebay type "two fists one heart" and share the stream of our unified minds ;)

  • @iamamywaterhouse ; Illegal downloads

  • I'm a big fan of Tim Minching, but dont like this song :S

  • @JofusSunshyne try the accoustic version, just him and his piano, i find it more powerful :)

  • @iamamywaterhouse im not usually pro piracy... but if you really can't find it: 4shared

  • @iamamywaterhouse I found a Youtube video with all of Tim's scenes in the film. So in other words, i've seen the best parts of the film!

  • If there were any doubt that Tim could make it as a straight pop star...

    I love this song.

  • oh mah gah. this is just amazing. Tim, you just get better and better.

  • is there anywhere you can get this in commercial release? This is amazing. Love it.

  • @CrimsonOrinthia Either on iTunes as a single or it's part of the soundtrack CD for 'Two Fists, One Heart'.

    Linzy

    x

  • mehm ''/. the lad i like told me this was a song for me.. (if you get me) but he has a girlfriend :'( i just want to cry :'( ! x

    but i love this song!<3 its beautiful x

  • Hi Tim thank you so much for the friendship, I heard about you just moments ago n the 1st video I've watched of you in a live performance - poem called STROM, Loved it rated 5* n Faved SO, this makes my 2nd video & I gotta say I never thought you were this good in singing too. Keep rockin have fun n take care

  • Tim is amazing

  • lol so cool

  • I was Drowned by Tim Minchin. It was a mercy killing. Keep up the awesome work, Tim!

  • gives me goosebumps everytime

    ; )

  • Wonderful to hear/watch this in its original context... it just fills my heart up everytime I hear this haunting song... thanks for writing it Tim, and I love that you posted it on Valentines Day :) xxxx finni

  • tim this is definitely my favourite song of yours. everytime i hear it it gets stuck in my head for days. cant wait to see you live one day

  • tim is 100000 times better in real life and he is alot funnier

  • @destayler94 And he's such a nice guy when you meet him, shit, he even endorsed my YouTube channel by recording an outtro for me! Well, I filmed it on my phone, but nonetheless!

  • lucky

  • Awesome work Tim! Keep it up!

  • This is an honest (and beautiful) love song. It's great how you can go from writing some of the funniest songs I've ever heard to something truly moving such as this and White Wine in the Sun. How might one go about seeing this film?

  • I dont get this... I struggle to make out the lyrics though. I juts hope he isn't being serious :S

  • The meaning of this song "IMO" is that 'your love' is a tragic part of life that is unavoidable, and that 'he' might as well just accept it.

  • what a beautiful song

  • To be released as a single, to be sure, to be sure.

  • tim me and my fiance were wondering when you're next expected to come to the states. i know it's quite a smaller demographic here for you but we are big fans of yours... we both greatlu appreciate your talent... we love your ability to make comedic songs as well as these powerful ballads...

  • great

  • Tim, this is such a beautifull song.....i am a really big fan and was wondering when you are next doing a show near west berkshire and me and my friends would all love to go as we missed you at the reading festivel as we did not know that you where preforming there......we only found out the day after you preformed.......we were depressed for weeks....much lovexxx

  • @chailizard  listen carefully

  • Yeah was quite funny the second time.

  • @chailizard

    It wasn't meant to be! DOH!!!!! :-O

    But it is an incredibly powerful song - and sung from the heart - like only Tim can do!

    Beautiful Tim - Just beautiful............. XXX

  • i love it <3

    powerful song.

  • I find it odd, how I never go on Youtube, and I go on the first thing that comes up on Youtube, and you appear to be on it. :) Hi.

  • xD youtube is full of win

  • excelent, not heard this version. was one of your akting roles for this film?

  • @surelyjamie yes Tim is in this film so it must be worth watching =]

  • so sweet.

    thx from germany.

    thx for the upload.

    so sweet.

  • cheers dude, definatly have a look.

  • Like it.

  • Brilliant lyrical imagery.

  • woah.

    ive only ever heard this with just tim and piano.

    but its my favourite of his songs, and this is just beautiful.

    cheers

    ~*~

  • One of my favourite songs ever :)! I wake up to it nearly every morning haha xx

  • It's a beautiful song.

    Thank you.

  • 5/5

    Love your work.

  • Excellent song, Tim!

  • Thats the Packed too the Rafters girl, I can't think of her name. She is great.

  • amazing!

  • Instead of breathing air

    I'm crushed by despair.

    Love you.

  • Wow, Tim! I've heard this song before, but it really gave me goosebumps this time. Absolutely gorgeous.

    Btw, I've written a paper on you for my Style in Writing class (a 500-level college course). We had to choose a performer and talk about his or her performance style, and I chose you. Now you know you've hit the big time! :D I just hope my paper does you justice, lol!

  • @DaniNouveau did you pass?

  • @tjv323 Sure did! :D

  • Great song Tim,

    My real name is Storm but try not to hold it against me, k?

  • lovely, as always :)

  • I love this song so much :] It's so pretty with all the backing music ^_^

  • The Boyfriend of five years sang Drowned to me this valentines. Thankyou, Tim.

  • Tim, you're great in every way.

  • This is the reason I got the film :) Adorable version. His voice blends so well here.