Vance Joy - From Afar Lyrics
You told me, "Boy, look the other way."
You told me, "Boy, bite your tongue."
Yes that's not the way,
Yeah that's not the way
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Oh no, no, no,
No, no, no, no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You told me, "Boy, hide those hands."
Well I've been living on the crumbs of your love
And I'm starving now
And that is just the way that we remain
Ah that will be the way that we remain
Oh no no no
No no no no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
She got darling hazel eyes
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now [4x]
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Vance Joy From Afar Comments
My pop loved this song, at 96yo we said goodbye for the last time nearly a year ago. Your memories live on pop,especially when I hear this song , . Rip pop x
I always thought the boy in red loved the blonde girl, and his friend broke his heart by ending up with her. Didn't see anything gay in it.
it makes me think of call me by your name
Looks like Ruidoso NM
How sad yet so beautiful
I would not blame the gay boy for being confused about the other guy. Just look at him in shorty shorts and shaven. He's just screaming gay.
The first time i lived this song, tougth about a history very similar to this. Like that about the boy and his imposible love (his friend).
2:16 - Eleven from Stranger Things when she is older
I don't particularly like Vance Joy, but somehow, when I feel discourage and sad, I listen to one or two songs of him before going to bed and it really calms me down❤
Loving someone form afar is painful... but someone has to do it, otherwise there would not be amazing works of art such as this video and song.
And hey I thought I knew Vance's music. I didn't think I could love him and his music more, but this is beyond anything I felt before.
Darling Hazel Eyes!.
TKQ
This hits different
Story time: boi gai
this is the side of the story no movies show. the main lead characters falling in love and its the perfect ending for them. but what about the people getting hurt i between. no one really cares or thinks about them.
Love his films clips. So Aussie!
This feels like a a gay song, and that's why I fell in love with it. Lovely.
I don't care about the real meaning of the lyrics but I'm jus bawling my eyes out thinking about how I'll never be with the straight guy I'm in love with.
straight guys AIN'T SHIT, you can and *will* do better
All this guy's songs are home runs.
That pav looks gooooooooood
I'm pretty sure this is my favourite music video of the decade.
Timeless
*I love a good LGBTQ+ ❤️ story!!*
Oh i love vance joy 👍👍
Omg this is so heartbreaking. 😥 I can’t....
“Well I’ve been livin’ on the crumbs of your love, and I’m starving now”
Who thinks of a line like that?!
I've watched this video countless times, and have commented before but I've got to tell my story (to whoever cares enough to read it, I included) -
This song really hits close to home. This was filmed in Australia, but it reminds me so much of upstate New York. I'm from North Carolina, the south (not the deep south but still). My dad is from NY and had a lake camp and shed just like this one in a no-name city of upstate NY. My dad forced us to go at least once a year and both me and mom hated it. The trip (14 hours by car) was miserable. My father was too cheap to pay for a hotel. Anyway, my grandparents live there, so we would go and see them in the summer to have "cookouts". We would all eat outside on a table with the sound of the waves lapping against the boat dock and sun filtering through the trees of the wooded area. I couldn't eat inside my grandparent's house because they have cats (I'm allergic - they chose cats over their grandson). So it was just me my mom eating alone on a table outside while everyone was indoors. Everything was the same as in this video, the whole family was there and my grandmother even came to check on my mom like in this video. I remember the sound of the boat hitting the doc inside as waves lapped on the lake. I remember the sunshine filtering through the leaves of the trees and the warmth. Everyone was always in a cheery mood, except my mom and I who were always "outcasts."
I remember one night following a cookout, the neighbors (the district attorney of this no-name town) invited us over to roast marshmallows outside. So we went. I remember the attorney and his wife had two daughters who were beautiful. Though I appreciated their beauty, I didn't feel attracted to them. It was like something just wasn't right but I wasn't sure and didn't know what it could be at the time. I just never really "connected" with the girls that most guys would be wild over. I was about the age of the boy in this video at the time and even looked like him.
Something was brewing with me and my mom and dad's relationship at the time was beginning to decline. My dad would be "flirty" with much younger women (including the attorney's wife) at the cookout. My mom just kind of sat back and watched.
Fast forward 10 years and now it's just my mom and me in California together with the rest of the family still in the south/no-name upstate NY. I have the best mother I could ever imagine, she has supported me with everything. I came out to her while drunk in London and she took it really well. She told me to be safe and made me promise that if I met a guy, I would introduce him to her. Mom and I have a great relationship and we're so much happier here.
I will never forget the past, the summers at the camp, the cookouts, the lake and cabin, the pretty girls I wasn't attracted to and my mother and I feeling like outcasts among the family. It's a bittersweet memory and this video is nostalgic. I guess I'm glad that I was surrounded by "family" as a child and was able to have those cookouts on the lake. It's a weird thing, but I know it was a stage that was supposed to happen in my life but now has passed, for better or worse. There are things I miss about the "old days" as things seemed so much simpler and traditionally normal back then. That being said I would never in a million years imagine living in southern California. I go to a college I actually sort of kind of enjoy, I'm making friends, I'm doing things. I'm not changing per se, I am becoming more myself and it feels pretty great.
Update - showed this video to my mother and she had to watch it four times because it is such an eerily accurate portrayal of our lives.
I love when people post this kind of each person little life story, wish you the best man :)
i wish you the best!! :)
hey great story, much love to your mom. She must be an amazing woman. :)
Why are his songs so relatable in so many ways? ;-; I took this song in like 2-3 different circumstances and I can relate to each one of them like wth lol
Who invited the blonde ladies for Christ's sake! They are such troublemakers.
I'm in the same situation =(
Gorgeous. Just gorgeous.
This song makes me cry every time, as I had a best friend, and I liked her so much (I’m a female). We were so close and my feelings continued to get stronger, although I knew it would never happen. So I was ‘loving her from afar’ and ‘living on the crumbs of her love’. I would get frustrated and angry with myself all the time during this period and have this song on repeat as it would help me get all of my emotions out. And the bridge makes me tear up so more, as my friend has hazel eyes and I was feeling what I was feeling. She was there but I knew I’d never be able to reach her. I told her, and she left me. Totally. To this day (ten months later) I’m still death stared. This song is such a sad story, but I’m also grateful for it as if I hadn’t let out my emotions, who knows where I’d be right now?
This video break my heart... for the boy and the mother :( Boys are stupid always
Thats me on the red shirt. being fool by a girl tht i loved.
HA GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
Não canso !
4:05 hahaa
This song hit too close to home. I’m currently sobbing in my room to this song on full volume. Wow.
Average Human Bean Same here
Music straight from my soul, right from the start
i love call me by your name
I always thought this song was about being brutally friendzoned
I don't how people have crush .Otherthan because of lust i rarely like any girl.
You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy bite your tongue'
Yes that's not the way,
Yeah that's not the way
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Oh no, no, no,
No, no, no, no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy hide those hands'
Well I've been living on the crumbs of your love
And I'm starving now
And that is just the way that we remain
Ah that will be the way that we remain
Oh no no no
No no no no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
She got darling hazel eyes
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy bite your tongue'
Yes that's not the way,
Yeah that's not the way
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Oh no, no, no,
No, no, no, no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy hide those hands'
Well I've been living on the crumbs of your love
And I'm starving now
And that is just the way that we remain
Ah that will be the way that we remain
Oh no no no
No no no no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
She got darling hazel eyes
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
Call me by your name vibes
relatable on so many levels
This music video is perfection
Relates me so much
same tho
Shit. I really can't bear having my heart torn out today. Gee thanks, Vance.
This song made me realize that this is a comment
This song is so much about my whole life .... a girl always 'from afar' because I always felt never good enough .... always just a dream and the leftover crumbs ... now too late.
Love this song.
The actual story of Gerard and Frank.
"I've been living on the crumbs of your love and I'm starving now" has to be one of the most anguished and heart-wrenching lines ever written. Loving someone from afar is a hunger that never passes and can never be satiated. They give us just enough to keep the hope burning because they love the attention, but they don't understand just how much they're chipping away at our ability to laugh and feel joy. They destroy us one smiling gaze at a time never caring that the cost of a smile is quiet suffering.
for songs like this the name of this "group" should be vance sad lol :'(
Cool car the old HT Holden at the start. My old man had the exact same model and colour.
damn i feel bad for the kid, those the other kids were having such a blast
beautiful
You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy bite your tongue'
Yes that's not the way,
Yeah that's not the way
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Oh no, no, no,
No, no, no, no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy hide those hands'
Well I've been living on the crumbs of your love
And I'm starving now
And that is just the way that we remain
Ah that will be the way that we remain
Oh no no no
No no no no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
She got darling hazel eyes
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
Camille
This hits me so fucking hard in the guts oh God it's accurate
I wonder what I did in my previous life to deserve a fate such as this. Few things are more lonely than being gay :|
Favorite part "it shouldn't come as a surprise what I'm feeling now"
I was crying in all his songs because it was so beautiful
this song still made me cried
Best video ever.. so sad
The gay guy and his friend is hot af just saying <3 XD
This music video is confusing like what is going on?I
I suffered a bad breakup and Vance joy fills me with so much joy it's unreal
VOSS NO TENES AGUANTE SOS VANCE JOY Y VIGILANTEEEEEEEE!
Roses are red, and violets are blue
One day we'll cruise down the gulch avenue
It's red vs red, and blue vs blue
i always knew that i would love you from afar
it's also about the married couple & the lunch they have with friends. The wife realises that her husband shouldn't act the way he does around their female "friend", fantastic song with so many different perspectives, also the young girl & lad have feelings for each other even though they are family friends. The other lad is in love with his friend - the song is so clever how it is open to so many interpretation's. Vance Joy is genius 👌💛👍
Why couldn't those 2 hot Aussie chicks be the gay ones in the vid?
i listen to this every valentine's day
well that was haunting.
there isnt anoher song that can describe what i feel as well as this one.
sucks
From Afar]
You told me boy look the other way
You told me boy bite your tongue
Yes that's not the way
Yeah that's not the way
Ah that's not the way that friends behave
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Oh no, no, no No, no, no, no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You told me boy look the other way
You told me boy hide those hands
But I've been living on the crumbs of your love
And I'm starving now
And that is the way that we remain
Ah that will be the way that we remain Oh, no, no, no No, no, no, no
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now It shouldn't come as a surprise
She got darling hazel eyes
It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
I just met them at Lollapalooza Brazil and I'm totally in love with them.
<3
Cos i think it fell off
._. Is my head even on now
Is it just me or do other people think of their young childhood listening to this
I have an important essay to write that's due tomorrow but at the moment the feels train is more important. So excuse me while I go cry in a corner.
Anyone else think there's something between the woman in red and the woman in yellow? They don't show them kissing, at the beginning, like it's supposed to stay secret.
This song is my life❤️
Thank you for making real music Vance Joy and not generic sex pop music.
wow i'm so sad
can someone explain the music video to me
This is it. This is my life.
Femme fatale
1:53 me when people steal my food(lol)
I'm I the only one noticing the lack of diversity on his videos? it makes me p sad
Elena Ro the guy in the red shirt is gay
Henry Abbott I mean I don't see people of color anywhere in his music videos
Elena Ro true, I was just saying. But that doesn't mean lack of diversity is a problem.
1:58 bitch inbound
this gay boy is so Troye Sivan
2:25 the girl looks like shes on meth
Home and away brought me here. Loved Phoebe and Justin's version
Tanya Clarke I live in England & I can't watch Justin & Phoebe's version it won't play. I need someone from the UK to upload it x
I uploaded it. I am from England
Home and away brought me here
David Shea me too