Swell Season - When Your Mind's Made Up (just before suicide)

I filmed this about two minutes before a man jumped from the roof behind the stage and killed himself. I hope it conveys some of the intense beauty of The Swell Season's music and the type of evening that was taking place when it ended abruptly with a thud as the man hit the stage roughly where the violinist is standing in this video. It went from such an emotional high to a tragic low in an instant.

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[vstart]

really tragic. but now that i learned about this song playing right before he jumped it makes me wonder if it had anything to do with his action. such poignant lyrics.

[chinapaulo]

@vstart Yeah, he jumped right between When Your Mind's Made Up and Falling Slowly (based on recent set lists). That can't have been a coincidence.

[supersingerevan]

@Malcolmdeeb Dude...come on. Don't make a pun out of suicide. I know people who were very close to him, he was a real person. Lots of stuff is ok to make fun of, but an actual suicide? Not so much.

[TheMattinara]

I can feel it. I totally understand the power of music.

And this song always affects me physically, and mentally.

I try to put myself in an emotionally unstable persons shoes.

could this song push me over the edge? No. But it may seem like the perfect soundtrack for going over the edge. This man was going to kill himself with or without glens lyrics. He just made the choice to "go out with a bang". this was his soundtrack for suicide. not the reason for suicide.

[TheMattinara]

@Zanders115thDream dumb shit?  nuff said.

[helleuw]

@dodgedart74 wrong

[DGog224]

@dodgedart74 read the banner next to the stage.  it is the venue and the correct date. stupidface.

[Zanders115thDream]

Proof that shitty folk music makes people want to kill themselves.

[smitty010493]

@dodgedart74 thats funny, cause it didnt

[dodgedart74]

the suicide happened during the day at an outside hall, and to a different song.

[lehman]

@chinapaulo Do you have video of the suicide since you pirated this song.?

[marblewaterfall]

It's strange thinking of what the man was thinking at the time that this was filmed. It makes me sad.

[dedlykiller]

You shoulda showed him go jumping...it would get more views