Crystal Castles - Empathy

From the Album: Crystal Castles (II)

[nightnectar]

Back in 2010, I was working as a dishwasher. The job sucked. But the feeling of playing this album on the night drive back home, windows open and welcoming the LA air, is an exact moment of content that can't be replicated.

[jimvanmeer]

Crystal Castles were easily a decade ahead of their time.

[gaigecramer]

Crystal castles 10 years ahead of their time is actually crazy. If they were releasing this music now they’d blow up big time

[Crappydude]

Respect for crystal castles for making the scariest and chilliest songs

[andreacamacho]

RIP Crystal Castles. The worst thing is I didn't see them live.

[spectredan]

Been listening to this song since I was in high school. Crystal Castles helped me through a lot of dark times in my life, I am proud of any of the younguns who've landed here.

[athrv]

Crystal castles living 10 years ahead from this generation 🧬

[namelessjake]

One of the sickest beats yet! Goosebumps the whole time!

[padurarugabriel]

Sadly I discovered them in 2023, but still lucky I can listen to some good songs from them, still can't believe that this song was released 10 years ago, a banger

[harryprice]

Drinking with my best friend years ago, playing Castle Crashers and Rainbow Six, going to Sheetz to get food and then waking up late to do it all over again the next weekend. Some of the best days of my life.

[jinkazama]

Premise to interlude
Wait til all bones protrude
You're con-vexed, you're convert
There's a stain on your shirt
Semi-sweet, semicide
The remorse you can't hide
Now we molt past our skin
And make room to begin

Symmetry
You must work in symmetry
You must earn their empathy

Symmetry
You must work in symmetry
You must earn their empathy

Down down cities fall down on me

The final chrysalis
Self-controlled consciousness
Now it feels imminent
Done for your benefit
Eat right out of their hand
Its concaved all your glands
We're encouraged to forget
Preference to be force fed

Symmetry
You must work in symmetry
You must earn their empathy

Symmetry
You must work in symmetry
You must earn their empathy

Down down cities fall down on me

You must earn our empathy
You must earn our empathy
You must earn our empathy
You must earn our empathy

[comeawaywithme]

Easily one of my top 10 fave songs of all time. The nostalgia it brings is impossible to express. My early 20s in 4 minutes.

[uninterestingInsanity]

This was the first crystal castles song i ever heard, i was around 7 and i fell in love with the song. Its been 6 years and its still a banger!! ^_^

[TYNeditz]

It's 2023 and I want see attention who's still listening to this masterpiece

[seeriktus]

From what I've read many people agree that this song is about us all becoming "robots" in the pursuit of "empathy".
In an NME interview ethan said she speaks the lyrics as a robot.
It's as if we're all destroying our own individuality in order to fit in.

[lioness_of_Senegal]

I can't get this song out of my head, I don't know what to say, it's so amazing🖤

[evanhill]

I can’t believe I just discovered this band, they were way ahead of their time, I’m so addicted to this album!!

[insanemadcat]

Why are things never as deep as music like this. Where is the club scene that fits such music, where is the masterpiece of a show that has this as a theme song and deserves to have it? Where is the life that is escorted by this song in the background?

The slow walks that you'd see

The fucking awesome montages that could be.

Crystal Castles, you know how to make music

[deebee]

I remember using all my money to buy this album from hot topic the day it dropped. I was 16, in 2010. I went home and put it into my DVD player and listened to it twice all the way through in the dark, laying in bed. I will never forget that feeling. I have an unbelievable amount of memories and emotions to this album, and terrible experiences from meeting him and the damage he brought to my life. I will though forever treasure this album and song.

[abrarhanifkalpo]

This has been here for 10 years but i didn’t know. Damn it hits harder than anything. Thank you yt shorts