Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

"White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes

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[GG]

I don't know how the pentatonix cover is more popular then the original, this one has so much more feeling to it, so much more soul, I love the original so much and it is absolutely perfect

[bonymacaroni]

Funny thing- when im happy this song makes me sad, but when im really sad this song makes me happy.

[benluecken]

The Fleet Foxes always make me feel such strange emotions. It's like i'm nostalgic for something I've never experienced

[moozartney]

This is definitely a song you have on repeat at least three times so you can get a chance to sing along to everyones harmony.

[Elizabeth-ilps]

I'm not sure anyone realized this but claymation takes for-freaking-ever. This video is a work of art.

[louisacowell]

It's a tiny little touch but the clay figure of Robin holding a rabbit but then looking down after they're all old again and realising it's disappeared really gets me. Beautiful bittersweet video to go with a beautiful bittersweet song.

[darrendrew]

So when I saw this video on 2009, I was blown away by the creation of it. So skip ahead a month later Im at an art showing for a friend [in Seattle] and i start talking with this guy and I asked him what he did for a living to which he replied "Stop motion Animation" I said" No way that's awesome. I recently saw this video by Fleet Foxes." where I then went on to describe what I loved about it and how it was amazing. and he said "Thanks, I made it." which blew my mind and the conversation went even deeper. He showed me the sets and models [that were lost when some psycho set his work loft on fire.] but needless to say we have been really good friends ever since and we even worked on a few projects together.

[lorena_rose]

This is honestly one of the most perfect songs written. There are so many ways you can interpret this song. It makes me feel so many feelings at the same time.

[vminweddingcaterer]

this would be perfect in a weirdly surreal and dark and sad but also heartwarming indie movie

[benjensen]

Enjoy your life right now! Whether it's in high school, college or through the process of buying a house, just enjoy it all because later in life you'll want to turn back time to those days! Simply, Enjoy _LIFE_

[maddymq]

I think I finally understand the meaning of the song. Or perhaps it’s just my interpretation. You live life mindlessly, following your everyday routine, until one day you look back and it’s this feeling of shock. How much has changed and how you’re no longer the same ambitious kid. But all you can do is keep ‘following the pack’.

[michaelwilde]

My God this is the perfect metaphor for man's struggle to control the hands of time. Hauntingly beautiful cause no matter how hard we try the wheel keeps turning. But this is what makes life beautiful, knowing that we are here if only for a short while.

[deflatedbasketball]

All y'all are debating between this and the cover, but you're forgetting how nice this music video actually is.

[annika]

Robin Pecknold said this song was about all of his best friends losing their innocence.
In the beginning of the song, he is following his friends which are all children as described in the song. The red scarfs are their "loss of innocence" as red represents danger and violence. When he turns around, he sees that another one of his friends is lost as he falls in the snow staining it red with blood. This represents the "loss of innocence" as well because white represents purity and innocence and he has stained it red.


*"From first grade to high school I spent every day with the same bunch of kids. And it was weird to see how people I had known so long would change so quickly - suddenly they're drug dealers. I hated it. How did our friendships become less important than wearing a backwards baseball cap?"*


*-Robin Pecknold*

[DLxFC]

The turning back time wheel, but not permanent, is like a dream looking back into your days of youth and energy when everything was perfect. With the diagnosis of an extremely rare disease recently at the age of 21, I often feel like I’ve been transported to being 80 years old. My mind is like this wheel. Where there was once a worry free world where I was perfect. Forever locked away.

[NIOIN]

Thanks sweet tooth that bring me back to my good old days again. What a memories!

[jonahdavis]

Too many people pass up how truly poetic Fleet Foxes are

[ThatGuy-yc]

I always thought this song was less “Christmas song” and more “oblique murder ballad”

[chidiuto]

This is such a classic song.
Many years after and I still get the chills.

[kaitlingibbs]

Almost a year ago I had my first car accident to this song. I had actually been having a bad day until the very moment I saw a sunset and was caught off guard. The car hit mine at just the perfect spot and the impact caused my radio and speakers to distort- there’s something about hearing a jovial song distorted from the impact of an otherwise melancholic event. I’m not saying this to be depressive, I’m just trying to recover from that very incident a year later. Not to say that I was hurt physically, because I wasn’t. This event just singlehandedly threw me in the bout of depression and anxiety. I’m saying all of this a year later, where parallels seem to keep occurring from that time in my life last year and everything I do reminds me of this same exact moment I was living. I don’t know what this means or if anyone will see this but I just wanted to get it out.
If that makes any sense.