Motion City Soundtrack - 'Hold Me Down'

The video for "Hold Me Down"

[nikocb]

"You're the metaphors I can't create to comprehend this curse that I call love."

Ugh.. kills me every time.

[kristyhernandez]

i cant believe its 16 years old...god we got old ha

[shanemeyers]

This song literally brings me to tears every time I hear it alone

[curtconnors]

"I love you...however" kills me every time

[TK-ukqg]

Funny how you forget about a song for 11 years but still know all the words....also I'm literally crying right now.

[spencerdc]

Tony’s drumming is always so tasteful.

[robertv]

This song still hits after all these years.. im in my mid 30's.. this brings me back to my teenage years.. High School love! Ha! If only we KNEW what was to come in the future.. take me back when times were simple! It was just skateboarding, Halo 2, limewire, MySpace, putting music on my iTouch, and just living the moment.. Who's here in 2025?! 🎉

[InfClouds]

What really gets me is that everything after "I found a letter that said" is supposed to be someone else addressing the singer/listener, not from the singer/listener themselves.

[captcharisma]

I don't think I can every forget this song. Such real emotion. Takes me back

[TheGarrettPM]

Some of the most well written lyrics ever

[notatrollanoob]

I’m here as an adult to thank this band for getting me through my troubled teen years 😇

[taebby]

A 17 year old song and it feels like it hasn't aged a day...how time goes by... I'll always love MCS 🤘

[tazmon]

it's interesting how compelling it is to tell the stories we relate to music as if a sense of solace is born not from the art, but the catharsis of sharing our collective pain to a world we expect will never see.
it's been over 10 years. from blooming high school chemestry to the failure of proposals and all the love and lust in the between. sharing beds, swapping saliva and stories, finding connections, losing touch and money and home. i still cry.

[sebastienleroux]

This song is a masterpiece. This is great music. It's out of time. Everytime I listen to it, I have goosebumps everywhere on my skin. This is by far the best MCS song (but Last Night is my favorite). I'm so glad to had the chance to see them play this song one last time. I will never forget that. Ever. Thank you guys for everything.

[walter]

At 37 breaking up with the punk girl from my youth still rings true. We're both old, married, and happy. But this song still rips.

[WagBagActual]

"You're the echoes of my everything,
You're the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You're the laziness of afternoon,
You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom.
You're the leaky sink of sentiment,
You're the failed attempts I never could forget.
You're the metaphors I can't create to comprehend this curse that I call love..
How will I break the news to you?"
... One word... GENIUS!!!
I ♥MCS lol :D

[Eung-Homie]

I remember breaking up with my girlfriend in high school and just sitting behind some gas station somewhere for like 5 hours and listening to this in the freezing gray weather. I know it's not what the songs about but after not hearing this for like 5 years, the murk shifts and stirs and memories bubble to the surface, cant be helped.

[clydemarlee]

i know not many people may have the same question as i used to, but this place was filmed in california, mammoth mountain
and if you're reading this, you got good taste, you gotta try the weakends or even if it kills me. ♥

[daevilillegard]

This song is timeless and beautiful
It's precious and I associate it with a time in my life with someone I loved very much
It's beautiful, it can hurt
But it's perfect the way it is

[mellllll]

“You’re the echoes of my everything.
You’re the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You’re the laziness of afternoon.
You’re the reason why I burst and why I bloom.”


Every single time these are the lyrics that get me. ❤

If you feel this way,
Don’t go.