Pianos Become the Teeth - I'll Get By (official video)

This video was recorded while the band toured the UK with Balance and Composure in 2012. It was directed by Ryan Mackfall at Crash Burn Media.

[nadabizness]

I lost my husband of 23 years August of 2023 to cancer....this song always is in my head when I think about him, which is nonstop...

RIP Siggy. I miss you.

[jonathanmitchell]

This song still kills me and probably always will. But you know it hurts for a reason, and that's part of being alive. If you can feel it you're still here.

[strifebane]

My fiance was in a terrible car accident over the holidays and passed away on Christmas day after fighting for her life for a week in the ICU. She was my soulmate and my best friend and I spent the first 26 years of my life looking for her only to lose her after a year of being together. This song is the first thing I have heard that says so many of the things I have wanted to say but couldn't find the words.

[parhelio.archivo]

I don't know if I should cry about the song or how beautiful this comment section is.

[juancf.]

Lyrics:

I used to listen to my life,
I was so put together,
I chose what I wanted to be in that age of chasing sand,
the age of believing in everything,
but I couldn't save you,
I couldn't save what was taken away,
and I'm still singing, and you still can't stay.
You "loved life, " and those words have lasted,
I just wish I would have had ears for more than what you said
because I still feel the lack long after.
Such a light body, such a quiet gait leaving behind the weight of the world,
I'll always think it was too early to lose your shine,
I guess the means that ends us means nothing,
I just hope it's the peace we all need,
Because I could love and drown in your God damned smile lines,
but I think I burnt up watching you rallying to stay alive,
and I guess that's fine.
It seems we all get sick,
we all die in some no name hospital with the same colored walls,
and I guess that's fine,
but I want to swallow, I want to stomach, I want to live.
It's been a rough while and some days are worse than others,
there's no proper way to feel, no mirth, no levity, no amazing grace,
just a flame on a lake floating away,
I can't let you lay,
I want you to know, I'm learning patience against my will,
I want you to know, I'll get by, always barely scraping
with just a hunger, with just a heart apart,
it's a hell of a thing.

[citibankuhmurgay]

Dad died yesterday in front of us. Resuscitated 4 times revived 3 times. It's weird, I could save the people who need me but I couldn't save the people that I needed in my life. Don't worry dad I'll get by.

[IsmfofTommy]

Keep your head up, you'll get by. You always have.

[omgitsduane]

I saw these guys the other day without any idea of who they were, and the way he screams these words out was the most touched i've ever been at a gig, without knowing a single word.

[cococurie]

I love you Grandma Barb. Thank you for taking us in. I'll always love you.

[nathan-roque]

My sister passed away 3 weeks ago from cancer (she was 37, young). There's nothing like this pain and this album puts it into words as close as it can be. I used to listen to this album every day when I was going through a tough time in high school, but now this album hits completely different. It brings the grief out but in a way its strangely consoling. I miss you Sara. My only consolation is that you are better now.

[NicTube]

These lyrics hit so differently many years later from a different perspective and from a very similar experience to this. It's devastating and beautiful.

[DWaltzz]

you guys have no idea how much this song means to me. I lost my older sister to a car accident in 2011, i listened to this song a lot after she passed away. This album and the one before. This band helped me get through a hard, hard time in my life. I find myself listening to them again today, thankful they were there for me in my time of need.

[kracked]

my mother died from cancer last year. I miss her. I think this song consoles me a little bit in a strange way. I guess it helps dig through the grief and makes you feel less alone with it. love the vocals and especially the drums in this as well.

[dixoncider]

I miss you more than words can say grandma.

I hope everyone here finds peace and love through the loss.

[Jeremiahbullfrg]

This song came out a year after I lost my dad to cancer my senior year of high school…I showed it to my mom and read her the lyrics. We cried together. She wanted to play it at his funeral but we didn’t bc of his family and the genre. I wish we did. Still jamming it 10 years later, came back to it bc I’m currently losing my 93 yo grandmother to congestive heart failure….

[missdarkmoon]

Saw them last night in Santa Cruz with la dispute. Never heard of them before but they made me cry they were so amazing. You guys may have just become my new favorite band

[sebastianspiller]

I love the honesty and the genuine vocals in this song.
In every song, really. But this one in particular.

[teneciabradford]

When I was 15, my adoptive mother lost her fight to cancer. I was put into a a hospital about two years later and a worker showed me this song and ever since it’s been her song. This song not only represents how I felt for the years of wanting her to stay but the years of knowing she was going. How my entire life fell apart and changed. This song made me change myself yet again to I could survive.

[KNEEDEEP]

Sad people making sad music for sad people 

[xPELICANx]

Sometimes I spin this record and just sit still. I absorb the music, the lyrics, the atmosphere, and the emotion. I pretty much always cry because it's both depressing and peaceful. Between personal loss and struggles, the lyrics, and then reading comments here on YouTube, it's impossible not to.

This is one of those "I'm glad I didn't do it" albums.