Mew - Witness Lyrics






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And nearly the time for empty rain
Describes me better
Or maybe the you and the I and your night sky eyes
Would mean we fold, fold, collapse

And I can see through
Waves hand, one less you
Without it was torn in two
They coloured our lips
Green flash lit
As if we lived out in nature

Listen, they’re shouting the slogans we forgot
As time went with us
I know now
We were never young in the mesh of youth
And we are told, told to love

And I can see through
Waves hand, one less you
Without it was torn in two
They coloured our lips
Green flash lit
As if we lived out in nature

Scarred with no pain
Slow day, blown away
I’m a reprobate
Our ways don’t change





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  1. F.... A....

    Scarred with no pain
    Slow day, blown away
    Im a reprobate
    Our ways dont change

  2. c.... ....

    I love how Johan and Bo fit perfectly with the crowd, while Silas and Jonas are, well, being themselves, i guess, lol.

  3. B.... N....

    Nikmat luar biasa

  4. o.... ....

    Sounds like bloc party

  5. B.... u....

    miss u bo

  6. R.... P....

    Bo 's guitar sounds like a thunder

  7. g.... p....

    sounds like old mew

  8. A.... S....

    oh, Bo..

  9. M.... T....

    yeaah mew come to indonesia,

    M.... T....

    Muhammad Thariq kapan. itu 2009 kan

  10. E.... G....

    2:37 only good part of the video

  11. A.... M....

    +- is the best mew album after frengers and no more stories.big fan from 🇲🇾.🤘🏻

  12. A.... ....

    Mew is going back to their roots for this song. Reminds me of their Frengers age. ROCK ON!

  13. z.... y....

    we miss u Bo!

  14. a.... ....

    2:09 blonde jessica biel

  15. S.... W....

    I wish I was there 😍

  16. M.... R....

    i loved *u *

  17. B.... E....

    last bo video

  18. W.... C....

    He sounds like the singer from Interpol during the verse.

  19. r.... w....

    Order
    And nearly the time for empty rain
    Describes me better
    Or maybe the you and the I and your night sky eyes
    Would mean we fold, fold, collapse

    And I can see through
    Waves hand, one less you
    Without it was torn in two
    They coloured our lips
    Green flash lit
    As if we lived out in nature

    Listen, they’re shouting the slogans we forgot
    As time went with us
    I know now
    We were never young in the mesh of youth
    And we are told, told to love

    And I can see through
    Waves hand, one less you
    Without it was torn in two
    They coloured our lips
    Green flash lit
    As if we lived out in nature

    Scarred with no pain
    Slow day, blown away
    I’m a reprobate
    Our ways don’t change

  20. j.... ....

    what i would give to see mew again :c

  21. F.... Q....

    A video with such great people!!!!!

  22. R.... a....

    Jonas will always be my fav high school crush

  23. D.... C....

    i love this song

  24. I.... C....

    i wish each of their songs are 9 minutes long because their melody arrangement is so addictive to my ears.

  25. I.... C....

    love. their. songs. period.

  26. G.... ....

    I love the fact that Jonas is actually moving around for once. I bet he could dance if he wanted to.

    G.... ....

    GingerTheArttist he danced in 156 and twist quest :)

  27. K.... C....

    COOL BAND

  28. M.... W....

    Check Out a band called from Indian Lakes

  29. D.... H....

    Can't wait to see you again in Mexico :(

  30. B.... E....

    No Bo NO Mew

  31. P.... M....

    Smells like mew spirit

    P.... M....

    Mews like mewage mewrit.

    P.... M....

    Give the Oscar to her!! 4 of them!!

    P.... M....

    hahahaha I love *Mew* but I thought the same when I saw the video 😂😂😂😂😂😅😅

  32. T.... C....

    Guys any idea what guitar effects does bo use to create overdrive yet twangy guitar sound?

    T.... C....

    I watched him play about a year ago, He just use a normal Tube Screamer 9. I think his guitar and custom built amp are the main source of the sound.

  33. T.... W....

    I Love you

  34. N.... J....

    great great song

  35. C.... S....

    should be 10.000.000 viewers.

  36. K.... J....

    Normally Mew's song lines hit me in the heart. This one is far away from my heart.

  37. J.... P....

    The opening vocals (0:35) sound a bit like Mew x Interpol.

    J.... P....

    Nah. Mew X Enter Shikari

  38. n.... c....

    every single track in this album should be sale in a price of a single album

  39. r.... c....

    Love it! Even the acoustic live!

  40. b.... e....

    smell like teen spirit video

  41. E.... L....

    *has casual rave at my desk studying...*

    E.... L....

    +Emily Lewis dont worry i did the same

    E.... L....

    +Emily Lewis I'm with you! I'm in the video, and ever since we shot that video, no song has ever made me rave like this one. It just gives you such a huge energy boost! I'm rocking and jumping and air-drumming and everything even if I sit in a chair when I hear it. Others who were in the video agree with me, sure it was already a good song, but now it's just really something special! :D

  42. R.... L....

    Am I the only one who think this song sounds like Bloc Party, especially on Johan's bassline

    R.... L....

    I think most bass lines, including Bloc Party's are not unique. Both bands have been around about the same time. Both bands do their own thing.

    R.... L....

    +Richard Lucky well they did have Russell Lissack work with them on this album

    R.... L....

    I was just thinking that. :3

  43. F.... ....

    Make your way back to Kuala Lumpur again please my dearly kesayangan!

  44. M.... H....

    some much energy you have there bo

  45. I.... ....

    No deja de sonar en mi cabeza :D

  46. A.... S....

    Chingona!

  47. e.... d....

    play this video 5x, play this song 20x today. love the beat. thought that only mew can create this arrangement.

    e.... d....

    +epy demic Hearing his song 20 times on one day would utterly deplete me of energy. :D

    e.... d....

    +SelvesteSand lol. couldnt imagine how its like when mew concert play witness and crowds "headbanging" like on this video

  48. N.... M....

    finally found one of those good music

  49. A.... E....

    Con Mew me sucede lo mismo que con otra decena de grupos, su música es impecable, pero no logran transmitir, a pesar de que sus canciones resultan muy agradables al oído. Los daneses han tardado seis años en protagonizar un nuevo retorno discográfico, así que el producto está sumamente cuidado. Los daneses ofrecen con "+-" la cara más amable del pop rock, el título si lo quisieramos traducir caprichosamente como más es menos resultaría muy acertado. En el esfuerzo se quedan canciones como "Witness" donde recuerdan a Two Door Cinema Club; "Satellites" en la que se acercan a Death Cab For Cutie; "Water slides", próxima a la electrónica de Cup Coty o "The night Believer" con la colaboración de la cantante Kimbra. Lo dicho mucho esfuerzo, pero no convencen.
    Música independiente novedades.

    A.... E....

    +Anselmo Echeverria Ni aun con Frengers o And the hand Glassed Kites? Este +- es probablemente mi menos favorito de los discos de Mew pero creo que en los 3 anteriores hay un "songwriting"; mucho mas fuerte, y los experimentos son mas exitosos. Canciones como sometimes life isnt easy o snow brigade me parece que transmiten bastante emociones, o su eterna Conforting Sounds, Frengers en especial siento que es su mejor colección de canciones, una joyita escondida de híbrido entre rock alternativo, progresivo, shoegaze, pop rock y pop. Los dos siguientes son también muy buenos, Kites tirando mas para el rock progresivo mas clásico, y no more stories a uno mas moderno con un montón de influencias.

    A.... E....

    +Anselmo Echeverria Que flojera me dan, sinceramente, gente que trata de intelectualizar y comparar cosas que solo deben sentirse, y lo que tu sientas no define lo que los demás sienten; si hay algo mas subjetivo en este mundo, es la música (aun cuando se haga matemáticamente) punto.

  50. D.... P....

    great song....maybe a little too obviously Interpol derivative, but thats fine with me.

    D.... P....

    +Derek Perkins I don't hear anything resembling Interpol in this song. Interpol is the most boring band I have ever seen and heard live and none of their songs had this energy that 'Witness' delievers.

    D.... P....

    umm interpol it's one of my favorites but i dont really see it...maybe because jonas' voice it's ultra different from banks'

  51. A.... N....

    my fav band ever! MEW!

  52. j.... ....

    Finally get to see these guys live tonight!

    j.... ....

    +j1legend Was it amazing, hah? :D

  53. O.... ....

    Smells Like Mew Spirit

  54. R.... S....

    So Mew! Combining melodious unique but still sing-along-able vocal part, 'broken' drum beat, various fill on guitar, and the static stable simple picking on bass guitar...

  55. D.... G....

    Just saw them at Greenman Festival they were absolutely fucking mind blowing. They opened with this. The audience was non responsive really either they were totally encapsulated by how amazing it was or just weren't movers either way was one of the best gigs i've ever seen.

  56. B.... D....

    mew or muse

  57. T.... K....

    COOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLL as always!!! wish there are more Mew's MusicVideo with Bo inside #fingercross

  58. x.... ....

    Damn, I'm completely jellybeans of everyone there!

  59. A.... H....

    Bo looks very Mad in this video...
    just like us mad seeing him leave the band

    A.... H....

    +Aryo Hilali To be honest, you could feel it coming. He looked aggritated and distant on stage in his last gigs with Mew and he wasn't participating in alot of interviews regarding + -.
    It was still a shock to see him leave, but the writing was definitely on the wall to be seen. It's weird that just a couple of months before his departure, I met and had a chat with him and he seemed happy. Guess that changed.
    In a weeks time I'm gonna witness Mew for the third time and for the first time it will be without Bo Madsen, the guy who made me pick up the guitar.

    A.... H....

    +K XKX yeah. I also witnessed them back in June exactly before Bo left. It was my second time with Bo, and seemed there's nothing wrong as they were just launched + -. I didn't notice the interviews about + - tbh so I didn't know Bo wasn't participating. And of course it'll be weird seeing Mew again on stage without him. But hopefully you'll still enjoy your 3rd time with Mew!

    A.... H....

    @Aryo Hilali
    They did alot of promotion (interviews etc.) here in Denmark and Bo wasn't participating in many of them. But I'm sure I'll still enjoy them! Thank you! :-)

  60. I.... P....

    Hmm... It seems like the artistry of mew does not preclude more conventional manifestations thereof.

  61. K.... S....

    Who is that hot guy at 2:37 i mean what a body

    K.... S....

    +Kasper Sponholtz You mean the bearded shadow in the right side of the screen at 2:40? I agree, he's a catch!

  62. D.... P....

    que onda veo que mucha gente pone bo y carita triste   acaso dejo la banda???  si alguien puede decirme se los agradecería

    D.... P....

    Pues yo iré, bueno, solo si a mi hermano no se le enfrenta un problema (es que soy de Guadalajara gg) Aunque no sé si podré ir a otros conciertos de otras bandas que me gustan mucho (System Of A Down, Asking Alexandria, Coldplay)
    ¡Oye @Diego Perera​! Mi hermano los escucha *-* (me refiero a FOALS) :')

    D.... P....

    @Vianey M BL    ojala puedas ir  !!  no sabia que venia coldplay  por esas fechas también viene muse ! 

    D.... P....

    Oh, Muse ya confirmó, pero Coldplay confirmará en unos meses :) Pero en serio me gustaría ver primero a Mew:3 & a Bo. Oye,¿Sabes cómo se llama el guitarrista que ocupará el lugar de Bo por un tiempo? Me gustaría conocerlo @Diego Perera​
    & perdón si no contesté antes, es que me fui de visita con un familiar. Aunque dudo que al Corona Capital pueda entrar yo.

    D.... P....

    @Vianey M BL     oye mándame tu face mejor para seguir platicando  =)  [email protected]   

    D.... P....

    Mi Facebook es: Vianey Monserrat Berryman.
    Es que no puedo enviar mensaje en Hotnail g.

  63. J.... P....

    Silas on drums ❤❤❤❤❤

    Wishing you well, Bo... Hope to see you soon in the future.. (let it be "For the time being" only...) #BOlieve

    J.... P....

    @John Philips Nufable is it really true about Bo leavin Mew ?? 😨😨😫😫

    J.... P....

    @Yaqin Lubis He already "left" last month, if I'm not mistaken. "Left" meaning, the band didn't gave a clear statement whether he really left the band or is taking time off away from the band (like a hiatus)

  64. M.... M....

    This album's videos don't feel quite right to me. It's almost like they don't fit the songs (excepting Water Slides). In this one... Certainly, Jonas isn't that kind of frontman, and the song is powerful, but not that much.
    The album is still awesome, tho.

  65. k.... k....

    this song sounds to me  a bit interpol

  66. V.... M....

    The Best band in the world!
    Mew.. :') Simplemente perfecto.

  67. M.... ....

    Frengers forever!.

  68. m.... ....

    But.... I'd rather like to see Jonas in a chair, or something more.. fitting ;)

  69. m.... ....

    I like how mostly we only see hair from the crowd! It's "the spirit", not faces who count. :)

  70. J.... S....

    What a superb tune! Mew crushes this pop-fueled gem

  71. M.... S....

    Bo・・・(T_T)Come back sometime・・・

  72. L.... L....

    Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..... Madsen...... I am Mad now...

  73. S.... W....

    NO BO NO SHOW

  74. o.... o....

    my fav track in +-. You can see how Mew loves their fans, it's genuine. wish i was in this vid too! - Love from Seoul

  75. p.... c....

    I wish Bo was still with the band ;(

  76. H.... T....

    MEW ♫ ♪ ♭ ♬ ♩  SON LOS MEJORES

  77. H.... T....

    Nos vemos en el Corona Capital 2015 de la Ciudadde México ♫ ♪ ♭ ♬ ♩

  78. G.... G....

    A very good song, different style but with the same particular Mew sound.
    Great!

  79. E.... H....

    Amazing amazing experience! Wouldn't mind doing it again.. How about My Complications next time?

  80. s.... ....

    This reminded me of the last weeks Ruisrock perfomance when I was jumping and dancing to 'Witness'...I hope you visit in Finland soon! 
    My biggest dream is to meet you after your show! So many other Frengers has group pics with you..last week I tried my best to find you..well maybe next time!

    s.... ....

    +saarakankare If you wanna meet them, then come to Denmark and see them live. They sometimes do small gigs were they mingle with crowd afterwards, DJ's and have some drinks and laughs. They are down to earth guys, only Jonas is a bit shy and tends to stay backstage for most of the time, which I can understand.

  81. G.... G....

    i have nothing but respect to the music ever since frengers..
    but this music video is bad.. really really bad...

    G.... G....

    Look again my friend. It's fun, they are having fun. Why not?

  82. S.... S....

    The video looks like Smells Like Teen Spirit

    S.... S....

    @Ivan Malek Cool version maybe ? :D

    S.... S....

    @Ivan Malek that was their intention, ha

    S.... S....

    Yeah I was just thought about that. reminds me with Nirvana :D

    S.... S....

    +Ivan Malek Looks Like teenage Spirit

    S.... S....

    +Ivan Malek I don't get it. I don't see it. What, because it's a little dark and a little blurry? Because there's a crowd? That goes for so many music videos...

  83. A.... L....

    all the hair flying around reminds me of a shampoo comercial. i dig the song though

  84. A.... ....

    It kinda reminds me of Comforting Sounds but with people around, I loved that. And also... BO♥

  85. p.... k....

    Bo selalu keren b*ngsat di tiap video clip MEW

  86. T.... O....

    One can only assume is that this video was meant as an homage to 'Smells Like Teen Spirit"

    T.... O....

    @Thom O'Neil How so? I don't see any clear resemblance other than that there's band playing and there's a crowd. You have that in many videos, and the crowd isn't near the band in SLTS...

  87. J.... L....

    WE WANT MICA IN HD

    J.... L....

    YES PLEASE

    J.... L....

    With the word "HD" I think he's talking about the music video. ;)
    I also can't really decide if the Frengers version of Mica is better than the original or not, sheer audio quality aside.

  88. A.... S....

    2:09 so they hired this dragon lady from Games of Thrones?

    A.... S....

    @Angelika Samoraj What, because she's blonde? I don't think it looks like her. :P

    A.... S....

    to me she seems quite similar, but hey, we don't have to think the same way ;)

  89. r.... r....

    Bo!! Its good to see you!

  90. K.... ....

    Compared to their other music videos, this one seems...too normal. Not necessarily bad, just nothing special. Love the song though.

  91. J.... A....

    Thank you for sending me an email announcing me you made a music video consisting of you playing the song with a crowd. I've only seen that 10.000+ times before by 10.000+ bands. Went out of ideas, guys?

    J.... A....

    + James Allen Stewart I see. Yes, you are right, that is admittedly the exact definition of biased. I stand corrected.
    About the video still: in this case I would think they probably wanted to try a more commercial take than usually. The edges of any kind of artistry in general have a tendency to soften by age, and I think this is what has happened to them as well. It´s does not necessarily have to be seen as bad... Just life.
    I see it like this: when one is young, one hasn´t yet grown together with the world and therefore has easier time to be totally against mainstream, or avantgarde, or however you want to say it... As one gets older one gets to see more, know more people, and hear different life stories. This in the best cases leads to understanding many kind of people and inevitably also to expansion of one´s artistic vision. The result to this can often be seen as dilution of radical qualities of one´s work. That´s when people start to talk about how that and that artist has become commercial or has lost their creativity. Sometimes of course that may be the case, too. But what if sometimes it is an actual proof of a life lesson learned?

    J.... A....

    +James Allen Stewart Sounds like you didn't read my comments. First thing I said was that I thought the same thing as you about the idea of performing for a crowd when we were about to shoot, so I wasn't pre-fed an opinion. And then I evaluated and changed my mind afterwards. Evaluated the procedure and the result.
    And being a huge fan of Mew doesn't make me like all their videos. Satellites, for example, isn't as good. Water Slides is just plain bad. The animated The Night Believer video is really bad, too. There are other Mew videos I like better even though I'm not in them. So my opinion of this video was neither preconceived nor is it unreasoned. I already gave you some good reasons, but let me elaborate on them:
    *- This is not just "a band performing for an crowd".* -- Fact: They're not up on a stage in front of the crowd, performing for them as if at a concert. They're mingling with the crowd. And more importantly, the crowd isn't just watching a performance, they're performing. They're the central part of THE performance that's being filmed here. There's a difference here, and that is not an opinion, that's a fact. Whether the difference is *significant* is up to your opinion, but the difference *is* there. The performance is not just a concert. It's not about performing the song. It's about performing the energy in the song. The crowd isn't just being told to act as if it's a concert, like all those other videos. Faint by Linkin Park comes to mind, one of my all-time favourite songs from one of my all-time favourite bands. THAT is a band performing in front of a concert crowd (even though that video too does something new, with the shift from stage angle to audience angle near the end). But this video is not just a band performing a song and a crowd rocking out to it. The director had specific things in mind with the crowd's performance. He would tell us to jump as high as possible at specific times, go specific places at specific times, move our bodies and wave our hair in specific ways, film the same things from different angles and even at different speeds, because he wanted to create this energetic and chaotic video footage, and it's present in the way the video is cut and edited as well. They most certainly used the crowd's enthusiasm in a creative way, as you suggest they should. He didn't just film the crowd, he instructed it to create something specific. That's creative. The video created isn't about the band performing. It's about displaying the energy of the song. It's about portraying the song itself as a video.
    *- I've actually never seen a video quite like it, so I don't get why it would be cliché.* Fact: I've never seen a music video do this. Not this specific thing, a video directed in this way to portray the song itself as a video, utilizing a crowd in the way this one does. I've seen videos with certain vague descriptions in common, like "band playing song with a crowd", or "people having a dance party", but never one where the director uses the crowd this way OR achieves this end result of the video representing the identity of the song through sheer energetic movement and chaotic cutting. Cliché means following the standard procedures on how to do something, but this guy definitely did some things differently to fulfill his personal vision. "Band playing song with a crowd" may be a cliché in itself, but he didn't do it in a cliché way.
    - You may still think all this is irrelevant and that this is just a band and a crowd. But I honestly don't. :)

    J.... A....

    +Kasper RDS Too bad you didn't meet Jonas -- maybe he had a bad day or something. Neither him nor Silas are really very shy, except Silas can appear very shy in interviews. :P A friend of mine who has sort of worked with them and met them many times says Silas is the most open one of them in her experience.
    But yeah, Johan and Bo were the most forthcoming ones at the video shoot too, even though all of them stuck around to talk to the fans for a LONG while after. For example, at one point, Bo took initiative to fetch the soda bottles around the corner and hand them out to people while the director was talking and Bo had sensed we needed a break the director wasn't about to give us. Johan came and sat down to me on the ground and started talking during one of the breaks, as if we were friends. Not just talking away to be in focus, but initiating a friendly conversation.
    And yeah, Bo leaving... big surprise. I talked to him about making a full length version of the The Seething Rain Weeps for You part of the Changes medley. He liked the idea and said he'd go home and work on it. I was so excited. This was less than a month before he left, probably around 2-3 weeks before his last concert. Another friend of mine had talked to him about the upcoming Roskilde Festival concert, and Bo was so hyped for that. His departure was announced two days before that concert. :(

    J.... A....

    after all that shit talking - when was the last time you saw a live concert?! haha you're an old fart, sorry!

    J.... A....

    the song is about youth, you fucking oblivious idiot

  92. T.... ....

    Nice Song!

  93. S.... ....

    witness me to valhalla!

    S.... ....

    Hahaha..mad max fury road

    S.... ....

    +Shadow47 OMG! I just watched that movie, literally 20 minutes ago. Glad I can understand it lol.