Before You Were You Video

The brand new video for "Before You Were You". It took a while but with circumstances the way they are and the world the way it is, we do our best. Long overdue, this was always a song that we felt deserved a video and an opportunity came up towards the end of summer to film it.

The recording is from the album 'End Of The Strangers', which was released way back in 2019. The song is from even further back, 2009. That's why the "credit crunch" line is in there. It deals with the cyclical traps humans seem to be in - the way nothing really changes, only an illusion of change, but ultimately everything remains the same. The reason for this... we are always making superficial adjustments, trying to fix the reflection in the mirror, and never looking to the basic root problem.

When we say "you", what does that actually mean? What is "you"? "Before You Were You" asks the question what was there before this "you" we refer to. When you were a baby, before your head was filled with ideas and concepts, all given to you by someone else.

"Oh this world, there's nothing you can do" is not the negative statement it may at first appear to be. It's a recognition any attempt to change the world is bound to fail because you don't know who you are. You are trying to change something without understanding the true nature of yourself and the world. This is seen none more so than in politics: "Promises, leaders keep you dreaming, of a better time, but nothing ever comes". Politicians are themselves deluded and they then delude the public with their empty promises and constant emphasis on the future using the tool of hope. No matter who is in power, or in what era, or what system (capitalism or otherwise), the end result is always the same; the vast majority of people are in suffering, not living well and not having a good time on this planet. Each politician feels they will be the one to change things but they never do because they don't know themselves, hence why they go into politics in the first place.

The video, as we always do, attempts to capture the mood and atmosphere of the song, hence the mix of an outsider looking in at the problem, the madness, trying to rewind back within yourself before all the knowledge was programmed in, and discovering the joy and freedom of this realisation.