Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul Lyrics

I wish more people of my generation were into this incredible band. This song should be heard by everyone.

I've discovered this song someday last summer, and on that day I replayed it thousands of times, so much I started thinking "Man, I'm gonna get so sick of this song now, probably never will return to it." But sure enough, after millions of listens, here I am hearing it again. I almost do not wish to hear it for the first time again, because each time feels like it.

Richard Barbieri is a magician.

Even though it's very broken and hurt I like my soul. I just want a soulmate for it.

53 ppl who don’t have musical soul.....

This song dude..................idk why trains is more popular. Not that i dont like trains.

BUT THIS SONG DUDE !!!!!!!!!

I pass every new year's eve hearing this ,here I am again

best PT song... hands down...

Love the live version as well. Just has this great atmosphere and mystique

Fantastic.

It's beautiful because the lyrics speak truth

I'm a shade... And easy to ignore...

Great song

The beauty of any songs is that u can mean it anyway u want. Thats why deep songs without actual meaning are so good to listen and artists don’t bother to open up about lyrics. Once the mystery of any art is solved and everyone knows the hidden treasure, there is no interest anymore.

people. pls dont run away looking at the song's length.. trust me you'd wish it was longer.

I do wish it was longer! 😅

Verisiah Stallen I do.

It s a pure progressif rock...what i like..👍😊

This music to me recalls the landscape of Tatooine... Vast empty stretches hiding who knows what mystery underneath the sands.

love...

Why is he still waving at the ducks on the shore?

I need to find the origin of the thumbnail. Who is he? Please help..

I am familiar with the song.

What is the point?

Similar bass line to the song Scribble Paper by Little Dragon.

This is a masterpiece. Most people won't get it. But they have to try harder & wake up to the world of tunes.

Oh my...it's perfection

What a masterpiece! When great lyrics meet great music and the execution is up to these levels...what more can you ask?
BTW "no art worth a damn was created out of happiness"...

Check out the Live version of this on "Arriving Somewhere" with Gavin on drums....

I love the keyboards book-ending this piece.

OMG! 40 seconds, I wanna stop this and react to it in my channel. NO!!! How have I missed this song!!!!?!?!?!

Actually a perfect tune.

Hold on, a Porcupine Tree song I've never heard?

fucking amazing

When I typed 'Buying a new-' all the other options were car, bike, rolls royce, lamborghini, puppy, laptop....and I went for .... soul

I don't know why after reading this comment i automatically smiled :)

Predivna je mogućnost prenošenje glazbe, koja je omogućena s vaše strane, i zvonka radost koja dušu budi, jednostavno je predivna!

Porcupine Tree you absolute beauty !

This is a phenomenal song.

I was reading some H. P. Lovecraft to this song and now it's the only thing it reminds me of...it's a good thing, not bad.. ^^

That ending is KILLER. Sounds like an upright and it's killing me.... 💙

The album cover is me listening to this song

Hello my new frimd

4:20🎶

Greatly nice

The synthesizers playing in the background from 5:13 onward reminds me of Meditation by Edward Artemiev (Stalker OST)

I' ve been a fan of Pocupine Tree and Steven Wilsons solo Projects since my teens (thanks to my father). And have seen Steven Wilson live for a few times. Hand. cannot. erase. was the best show I have whitnessed my whole entire life. I am not a person who cries often when listening to music. But man, I bawled my eyes out at this show... I sadly never listened to the entirety of Porcupine Tree songs. Stumbled across this one today. Man what a great song I have missed all those years. One of the best songs I have heard in the last years. Thanks for uploading it. Without you @Mustafa Jamal I would not have stumbled across this song :)

I cannot believe how good PT's music is ... and this is the 'rejected' stuff!

when it comes to releasing, marketing is one of the strong factors that labels and the band include.

that is one kick-ass Bluetooth speaker

I'm the worst of my kind

Toby Littlejohns hey, you know this song, you love it, just this fact makes you better than so so many people.

@Gökhan Yazan cheers man, you're right, porcupine tree rock!

I love this track, it's so melancholic and so Steven Wilson.. Brilliant!

Fear of is on repeat atm. Stephen Wilson is an acquired taste, but that album requires no fandom.

This song made me spend my 2018s in coma! This one got me beautifully depressed, that it didn't crush me up... It got me tenderly suffocated, that didn't lemme run out of my breath. It's an enigma that can never be understood but just can be felt, just by the wounded! It can help oneself get better and also worser!

Wow---genial!

Jeszcze wczoraj nic nie wiedzialem o tym zespole i muzyku,jak to mozliwe przeciez interesuje sie muzyka juz dziesiatki lat,dlaczego nie ma tej muzy w TV i Radio ? Wilson to niesamowity Genie ! Ta muzyka to prawdziwa muzyka to opowiesci historie opowiedziane wprost bez sztuczek dzisiejszych czasow

Umrzemy nie wiedząc o większości rzeczy, które byśmy pokochali. Możemy pocieszać się tym, że mamy przewagę nad naszymi przodkami w postaci internetu

@Julia Zw Za to mamy wiele zlych rzeczy ktore przodkowie nie mieli,pozatym nie mysle ze ktos kiedys popelnil samobojstwo bo nie mogl latac lub szybko sie porozumiec..A co najwazniejsze dalej choroby szaleja i ludzi zabijaja,malo kto dozywa 100 z ta cala wielka wiedza,brakuje ciagle jeszcze tej wlasciwej wiedzy aby ludzie byli madrzejsi i zdrowsi.Ale co do muzyki to internet przydaje sie w 100%

That intro has its own place

I'm a shade and easy to ignore

how sad and depressing the musique is beautiful the words are death. why change soul?

I just recently discovered steven wilsons the raven that refused to sing and stumbled over this masterpiece

welcome to infinity

Scarred as we are, ugly to our own selves,
hoping we are beautiful to someone else,
Yet we persevere, hiding in a guise,
distracting ourselves with glittery attractions, goals and hopes,
All the time wishing there was some way on earth,
to buy a new soul.

To buy,
no.

Money can't
buy real
precious
things.

But clear it,
yes.

(Beware of
fake
cleaners!).

there is mood to this song

Masterpiece !!

Just when I think I've heard every song by Porcupine Tree, I am surprised by another gem.

Check out the live version, it's even better.

Cuantos en Colombia escuchando esta maravilla ? ...

Long live Porcupine tree! <3 Love from Bangladesh! <3

Its great that atleast a few bangladeshis listen Porcupine Tree!! ❤

What is this song?ohhh holy God of creation....what a beauty ❤️what a piece of relief,what goosebumps...

Holy shit-ass, those lyrics.

I'm wndrng if "people" even know the existence of the most underated band in the history of music.
Most people r n a box they built themselves, if 1 manages 2 escape the mind prison they live in. They will only run 2 the safety of their mainstream bubble

Any time I mention Steven Wilson or Porcupine Tree, or Blackfield to anyone who seems to have an interest in music as a whole....nobody has ever heard of any of them. Sad.

Nothing wrong with mainstream. There's all kinds of music out there for all kinds of different moods. Would be a shame to restrict yourself because something is mainstream or not mainstream. Goes to everyone.

"Here's a hymn for those that disappear." I've heard this song over and over, and this line gets me every time. There are so many ways these days for people to disappear. Most of us have already disappeared, under a media onslaught and a mountain of internet information. So many people sitting alone in darkened rooms, not knowing quite what to do, just waiting futilely to be discovered. In my opinion, 'Buying New Soul' was written as an anthem to all those millions of people who will never get their fifteen minutes of fame.

I'm a shade and easy to ignore

I’m a shade and easy to ignore

underrated as f**k

this song makes me wanna be somebody else.

You are someone else

It's currently 6: 30 am and I have chills on my body in summer.

Excellent song by a FUCKING EXCELLENT BAND

Magicall sadness but no one can understand feeling what this song is about.

Thank you for this. Saw Steven at RAH 2018 and 2016. Totally blown away by everything he does with some of the best musicians around. This is the most beautiful calming song I have ever heard.

One of the saddest songs i have heard god damn

Dried up, a guitar upon my knee
I should have sold out when the devil came for me
Dig a hole and throw it out to sea
Break the code, how happy I could be
I still wave at the dots on the shore
And I still beat my head against the wall
I still rage and wage my little war
I'm a shade and easy to ignore
White wall, I had to paint a door
I always find that I've been through it before
Close it up and throw away the key
Break the code, how happy I could be
I woke up and I had a big idea
To buy a new soul at the start of every year
I paid up and it cost me pretty dear
Here's a hymn to those that disappear

This song is everything. The future. The past. The could have and the should have been.

I like how you said that.

Givin us an Elliott Smith vibe

PT always makes me feel so philosophical about life... I love it.

'I am shade, easy to ignore': Sums up my whole life! :(

If I buy a new soul , it's going to be of Steven Wilson's! :p :)

I don't find this easy to ignore....... Thanks!

M sold my soul to porcupine

wow ...

Something about names that look like ours must also make us like this song.

The 10 guys who disliked the song propably haven’t bought a new soul

True that:)

I'm just gonna say that, it lasts 10:26 minute. And I never say that 'I'm bored' while I'm listening..

Living in Pune, next to a river, reading a book randomly on 'White Magic', it says "When the shadow heath responded in meditation deep the work proceeded. The lower light is thrown upwards"

Impresionante cancion, me hace reflexionar y creer que se puede empesar de 0

Siempre se puede empezar de cero, de hecho no medimos la vida si no en inicios.

the correct song title is "buying new soul"

Should have been on Stupid Dream or Lightbulb Sun ...

Just yet another example of the Musical Genius that is Steven Wilson. 😊
One of two True Highlights On Recordings along with the full length version
of Even Less Which are just 2 Of so many masterpieces without doubt.
I have been listening to SW and Especially Porcupine Tree since I was introduced to his/their
Sublime music back in 1999 and still I am Amazed every time I listen to them.
If you haven’t yet discovered No-Man then you are doing your ears, Heart and Brain
a disservice GO... ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Steven Wilson never ceases to amuse me. Takes me out into this reality, making quite an unparalleled impact unlike the rest.

Are there real human beings who hate Porcupine Tree? Especially this song! Really? And that too 9 of them! :(

Masterpiece. One of the greatest pieces of music of all time, including the lyrics.

Today, I woke up to get ready for school. Walked to the bathroom to brush my teeth, and while I was doing so a close friend of mine told me to immediately skype her, so I did. She had a devastated look on her face. She told me one of our friends committed suicide, and was found last night, and we both started crying. At first I went back to bed and started crying with my face against the pillow as if I was trying to hide my tears from everything. Then I went to school, all of our teachers were crying, we didn't go to any classes and just stayed in the library and cried our eyes out the entire day. We saw the toughest of our teachers with eyes red from shedding tears. We made our friend's family a memorial card with sketches of things that he liked.

And now I'm home in bed, thinking this is all just a dream, insisting that the fact that no one will ever see his face again isn't real.

This is the song I am listening to while I do so, because it makes death seem as beautiful as it can.

I fully understand where you were at in this moment in your life. Death is hard to deal with in and of itself Suicide is an entire different demon, Ive been in that spot a few times in my life, I lost 2 of my very best friends to suicide. So your comment made me want to reach out and say i hope you were able to heal from this devastation I know some time has passed the pain will never fully subside, at least it hasn't for me but it has gotten manageable. Hope all is well.

Ive heard it called " a permanent solution to a temporary problem" but I had a friend and his problems weren't going away. Today, they both are at peace. Stay strong!

Cool story fag

sw talks to the topic in a few of pt,s songs. im lucky - own house, nice family etc, the younger generation many don,t have that, try and give real engagement, compassion and a kind word of encouragement now and again  to them is a start.

I had a similar situation when I just entered 11th grade back in 2006. Came to the school one morning to find a bunch of my new mates completely dissolved because a friend of theirs had leaped off a skyrise in the city center (I didn't know her tho, she went to another school). Became pretty much of a silent day...

Is there timpani on this?

Masterpiece.

One of those sublime introes that lifts our soul a feet higher ...blissful song ...long live PT ❤ love from India 💜