Perfume Genius - 'Dark Parts'

Video credits:
Featuring Carmen Hadreas-Boggs

Director / Editor -- Winston H. Case
Director of Photography -- Sam Heesen
Producer -- Greg Finch
Post FX -- Stephen McNally

A Palo Duro Production

[hendrabp]

"I will take the dark parts of your heart into my heart" the most tragic yet beautiful lyric i've ever heard.❤️

[klh]

I love the ghosts that are in the background thru the whole thing - just like trauma, it's always there, if your lucky its gone the second you look back up. But it's still there

[alen]

The hands of God were bigger than grandpa's eyes
But still he broke the elastic on your waist
But he'll never break you, baby
But he'll never break you, baby
Oh oh oh oh oh oh...

The hands of God were bigger than grandpa's eyes
But he's long gone

The love you feel is strong
The love you feel is stronger

I will take the dark part
Of your heart into my heart
I will take the dark part
Of your heart into my heart

[jasminegabrielle]

My mother was sexually abused by her father. Thank you for such a beautiful and compassionate reminder that the love we have for each other as a family is stronger than the fear and pain of what he did to her. You've helped me love my Mum more and get past the wounding of his actions passed down.

[kae]

I always loved this song... but I have reached a point where I understand it deeply. And it made me cry for the first time. Beautiful song, more than I had once thought it to be...

[PhilPhilBowers]

I just watched this video with my mother the morning after my brother committed suicide. Thank You Perfume Genius for giving us strength in tears and each other.

[sthlmo]

this makes me feel sad, but a good, calm, hopeful kind of sad. not the kind of sad that makes you cry and scream so loudly and painfully that can't make another sound, but the kind of sad you feel when you're lying in bed looking up at the ceiling, tearing up but only silently.. not making a sound, just focusing on his words and trusting them wholeheartedly. it feels extraordinary to have something so beautiful to believe in. thank you, mike.

[fathampton]

I don't know if you will remember me or not, but I talked to you after your show in Salt Lake City about how great the video for Hood was and you told me you had a new one coming up with your mother in it and you hoped I'd like it. Anyway, This is me telling you that this song and this video are simply perfect. Thank you so much for being so damn thoughtful and beautiful with the stuff you make. It is really adding a lot to the lives of people like me.

[vascanj]

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS SONG FOR LITERALLY 2 WEEKS HAVING RANDOMLY REMEMBERED IT. I FINALLY FOUND IT HOLY GOSH.

[kreplak]

Such a powerful, beautiful, touching song. Rare for a song to just pull at my heart so strongly.

[benlidster]

The love of dogs and human bond transcends everything in my eyes. Beautiful

[samsoda]

''I will take the dark part of your heart into my heart.'' Beautiful and tragic. When I hear that line I think about images of a pregnant woman rubbing her belly knowing that whatever she went through or experienced and the effect it has on her mentally could get passed on to her child. Maybe even fear and/or guilt that your child might go through the same thing since they're basically one half of you. And then I visualize the fetus growing and the actual birth. Weird non logical scene of the mothers dark blood coming from her heart going into the child creating a heart-literally. It just makes me think how connected we really are with the humans who made us, who's DNA we share. It makes me feel! It's been a while since a  lyric like that has ever made me think or visualize my own concept of a song in a very very long time. You're a fantastic song writer Mike, a true genius. Thank you. 

[jbhos]

Beautiful.  Shed a tear thinking of my mother.

[TheNimasan]

one of the greatest talents at the moment bar none!!! 

[mcdoug]

Wow, your music is incredibly good and your mother is absolutely stunning. Congratulations Mike
  

[kassiegmusic]

I just discovered him today. How amazing. So much emotion and raw talent. My heart feels equally heavy and happy.

[tsukiji_wasabi]

I love how Mike can evoke such deep emotion in so few words
I have to see him live someday!!

[jb]

His love and support of his mother touches my heart in a profound way. This song stays with me. Year after year, I go back to his work and this song is always my emotional rescue.

[lamecrowd]

Thrills in his voice, thrills on my skin & brain

[dillabong]

My favorite song, off of one of my favorite albums of all time, from possibly my favorite musician of all time. Therefore, one of my favorite songs ever conceived. Tragically gorgeous.