Elohim - Skinny Legs Lyrics

Kinda weird.

Well that was weird. And now my head hurts. That little girl is such a good actress, though, between this and Hallucinating.

Holyshit, how did you come up with your name?

Never lose the child in yourself

Wow this little girl is the beautifulest acter I've ever seen keep up your work good job

This and 'Hallucinating', too many parallels to my real life. My jaw dropped at the end and I only realized I had to close my mouth when the song was over.

Ive never been so touched by a song so much, ive never related to a song to much this just hits me on a completely different level. thank you <3

Luv that kid ....made me cry .....😢

Very cool ,......

Im hallucinating

this is so beautiful man

that her daughter? if so thats a good way to do work and still spend time with your kid /respect

No, she is an actress

This song gives me the strength to move through the dark .

Who is the little kid I feel like she is in all of elohims music videos

your music is making me feel understood im breaking down right now in an exposed way. im on disability for paranoid schizophrenia, PTSD, schizotypal, agoraphobia, self harm addiction and other stuff. thank you for sharing your struggle. it really does touch people, i hope you're really proud, you are so brave. thank you so much. 😰

Am I the only one who got Melaine Vibes from the beginning?

This is the song I always come back to when I'm having a mixed bipolar episode. Fits so well.

I love reading everyone else’s theories behind the meaning of this video so I will share mine :)
I think the child symbolizes her innocence and elohim symbolizes anxiety/mental illness. The way the child is manipulated by el to dance a certain way (to behave a certain way) is how your mental health can make you do things you don’t want to do and aren’t comfortable with doing..In the ending scene, how the child forces el’s arms around her is kinda like the fear of seeking treatment/help, it’s so scary imagining opening up to someone and changing so much, you just kinda want try and find comfort and a way of living with this thing that’s been yours for so long. when the child pulls away with blood smeared across her face I see it as the awakening—the realizing you need help and realizing your mental illness isn’t who you are.
again this is just a summary of how I interpret this video that I just love soo much. thanks el, for making magic 💜

Such a good video

I just searched "how to get skiny legs" well that's what i got lol

This sums up my history with OCD and the struggle I still experience to be okay. The child in the video with her is like my own inner child and the person I was back then intermingling with myself now. Obviously, this is my own interpretation not trying to speak for her just sharing my experience with this piece of art

aaaa, me encanta la estética del video, la letra, el sonido. Todo en general. Good Elohim your music touch something in my chest

this is fucking wack but i love it

This is so aestheticc💖💖ilysm

Same little girl in hallucinating

Is that the same girl as hallucinating?

I saw this live in Portland last year!!!! Then you came and shopped at the Whole Foods my wife works at, but she was too shy to say hello ♥︎

Nod to prodigy with this one. Too sick

She’s definitely going to blow up... you have talent 😭

If completely left unchecked, humanity devolves to something devastating.

... can we just be Elohim together already.. or what? <3

Beautifully haunting.

Is that the little girl from hallucinating ??

@Elohim Wow ..Elohim thank u for replying my comment... I luv u😍😍

My inter child, I held you so much this new world is not for you... bye

It makes the most sense to me when interpreted as follows.

The girl is the narrator and the woman represents her eating disorder. In the beginning, The girl runs to ED for comfort, security, and protection (laying together at 0:16, holding her hand at 1:39). But as time goes on, it starts to control her (1:52 when the woman moves her arms and jerks her around). Feeling controlled is a common experience for ED sufferers. When she tries to escape, it chases her down (2:50) - a nod to the addictive nature of disorders, as behaviors can't be quit cleanly or easily. Alternatively you could also see the running scene as a more literal thing, eating disorders can drive people to over-exercise. Despite the abuse, she returns to ED because she has such a strong emotional bond (2:47), but it doesn't love her, she has to manipulate it into loving her. She thinks she's finally made peace with it (choreography at 4:09), that she can coexist with the disorder but still be happy/healthy - she's in a state of denial, she loves her habit too much. When she finally realizes that her ED is destroying her, she pulls away, no longer able to deny that it's an abusive entity, and you can see the feelings of betrayal and conflict in her eyes (4:19, incredible acting for the record). But still, recovery is hard, and it takes one hell of a fight (4:49) to be free from an eating disorder .

Now, this could also be applied to another disorder - addiction, anxiety, compulsions. But I relate it to ED because of the title and because, to be honest, this is exactly how I would portray my personal struggles with ED. like, it's extremely accurate. The complicated love/hate dynamic, turning to it for both comfort and punishment, and the fight to leave/escape. And the lyrics sound like the physical symptoms - "the more I feed my fears the more i see them", "blacked out too many times", "woke up in a pool of sweat", "i'm solid in my bones, just need some tuning", "i've gotta get it together to save my life", "nailed down with my hand on my chest"

Omg, I felt the exact same way about everything, also the screen as a representation of the media so stuck on her head, I've struggled both with anorexia and bulimia, and this video spoke to me in a lot of levels, I literally cannot stop crying, also I think that I'm having a relapse and this made me felt not so alone, it's really a piece of art.

“Treat my life with love and respect. All we are is all we are.” ♡

i am so happy i found elohim what an amazing voice

wtf? :v

Now she's what i call an artist

????amazin....g?

Aight chief ima have to give this one a no because i am way to scared and i think im gonna go book myself into a hospital

MAN THIS IS CRAZY AWESOME THE LITTLE GURL IS AN AWESOME ACTRESS

Love it ...(hElLA ANxIety)

I started with pigments and she talks too much and I never looked back since. Love you Elohim and I love your music!!

wtf. why is the kid soo creepy

she's not creepy

No mameees que es estoooo
Me encantoooo hptaaa

I interpret this as a take on pure ocd and anxiety. the child is a positive emotion or memory and the older girl is the ‘demons’ and the ending where Elohim smears blood on the girl shows that the happy part of her is being tainted and ruined, because the mental illness is making everything seem dark and twisted

Amazing

I feel like I am in the video as I really find myself in this emotions as a child. And I think I know exactly what this is about and thank you for that <3

gives me Melanie Martinez vibes from her unreleased song, night mime

really? i don't get that slightest vibe. this song stands out all on its own

To me this is about growing up with a mentally ill parent. The child wants to understand the parent and ends up bending over backwards to accommodate/avoid the mother's issues while struggling to find who she wants to be outside of what her is and tunes her to become. At the end, the child finds out how to avoid the mother's illness by moving along with her and eventually even tries to help stabilize the mother, realising she can influence her parent too, sadly at the end she realises that her mother cannot be changed and unless she distances herself, she will continue to be hurt

Wow. This hurt. Never looked at the video before. Fantastic representations

Half of me wants to just keep her art in secret. Listened the first time and I fell in love. 💓

youtube recommended you to me, and i've never been happier with their recommendations. you're super relatable at least to me, im so hooked on you, im having a marathon through your channel

Buena cancion

Beautiful video

ELOHIM I WANT YOU TO LOVE ME BACK

The little girl reminds me to Cassy from Skins. She's so cute.

i wanna get high to this shit and break out the glow sticks

She just wants to be loved.

I feel like she’s symbolizing the battle with her childhood trauma. That’s what I’m taking from it. I’m literally in tears. This is haunting and well done.

The same little adorable girl from hallucinating!

I get it now. The girl is the ego.

I just saw Elohim at a concert and knew nothing about her. But wow, one of my fav new artists. Its kinda funny that I just started taking xanax and had a panic attack just trying to get to that concert. All of her songs do a great job being relatable to what it's like dealing with varying mental illnesses. It's nice to see someone use their struggles and turn it into something productive.

I don't know know what her intended message was behind this video, but this is how I interpreted it to my own situation.

I view Elohim as anxiety/depression/whatever you want to put to it and the little girl is her. The relationship between the two starts out slow. The girl isn't that concerned yet because your mental illness doesn't just happen over night. Then shes suddenly crying and screaming so maybe some major trauma happened. She acknowledges that the illness is happening and wants to stop it before it's too late. The controlled dancing starts and shes taken for a ride at the mercy of her illness.

Now shes attempting to break free and justify to herself why everything should be ok, while also talking about drifting back into whatever has a hold on her. This most likely isn't her first attempt at escaping.

Picking up the pace and making a dash for it now, but only ever being allowed a small freedom before being dragged back. This is the interesting part to me because after attempting to run so many times she turns to embrace and rest on the shoulders of Elohim. They even hold hands. She's too tired to fight it anymore and the relationship is now one almost like Stockholm Syndrome.

The ending is self reflection and realizing all the damage that's still being done to her. Most likely the cycle will start again.

After years of depression and pills I've tried I have to say that monitoring your thinking is by far the hardest, but one of the most important parts of dealing with mental illness. Your brain is incredibly powerful by thoughts alone.

ver a la niña en los videos me recuerda a Sia, pero esto si está creepy jaja

The ambient actually scares me. Help.

i thought it said 'skinny legend' and i almost hollered

Mum... I'm scared

basically the adult wounded the child

i wonder if the producers saw elohim's face for real

I think I might just have been brainwashed...

i am so happy i found elohim out like oml the music is incredible and has incredible meaning

I’ve only just found Elohim, someone who has known about her for awhile tell me about her! ☺️ Is the girl that covers her face in the videos Elohim? And do we know why she covers her face? Is the little girl her daughter?

is your sister?

Alguém coloca essa garota pra atuar em um filme peloamordedeus

Who did video? Wow....

Did the girl sang this I'm confused because she's in every music video

this is enchanting

I don't worry about what the song and video might mean.

No matter what the intended meaning is, it will always be interpreted differently to every person. I will definitely see this a different way than elohim, but I'm sure if I know the real meaning I'd understand it.

Don't try to find meaning in someone else's interpretation. Find meaning in your own. What do you think this song is about?

Inner child work and struggle?

aprecious

The ending was pretty upsetting and sad.

So much detail in this remarkable video. Especially in the beginning and end. So many ways someone can interpret this video. 😘 Well done 💖💖💖💖💖💖 I fucking love videos that have deep meaning behind them.

Heard hallucinating. 💕just had to keep listening! I'm having eargams.. 😛💕

EPILEPSY WARNING!!

Thank you lol

I think it's about some kind of mental illness. The child version of her can represent who she is inside. The innocent part of her who only wants to be happy and healthy and the adult version of her is the one who keeps pushing her around and then nearer to the end of the video she starts loving herself but then the demons get to be too much maybe?

I can't believe I'm only discovering Elohim now. You're a work of art.

Why does nobody know what this is why is it so goof how do people not know about this

This child actor is amazing

Hello seizures

I believe this is symbolic of abuse, and the effects it has on you for the rest of your life, and it couldn’t be more accurate. Elohim is truly an artist.

it took her quite a long time to cry ahhaha i luv it so cool ❤

I love this child

caralho tu é maravilhosa demais. apaixonei.

amazing song reminds me of a bad trip