Gotye - Bronte (Official Music Video)

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Video credits:
Directed and animated by Ari Gibson at Mechanical Apple
Background art: Jason Pamment

Music credits:
Produced by Wally De Backer
Mixed by Francois Tetaz, assisted by Wally at Moose Mastering, Richmond, VIC
Fretless Bass: Lucas Taranto
Drums, percussion, strings and steel drum samples, lead and backing vocals: Wally
Contains a sample of Banana Boat Song as performed by Leo Addeo and Orchestra.
Used courtesy of RCA/JIVE Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment
Contains a sample of Mozambique as performed by Les Baxter. Used courtesy of EMI Music Australia Pty Ltd.

LYRICS

Now your bowl is empty
And your feet are cold
And your body cannot stop rocking
I know
It hurts to let go

Since the day we found you
You have been our friend
And your voice still
Echoes in the hallway of this house
But now
It's the end

We will be with you
When you're leaving
We will be with you
When you go
We will be with you
And hold you till you're quiet
It hurts to let you go

We will be with you
You will stay with us

[Nathorama]

10 years later, this still hurts on a emotional level that still hasn't lost its punch when I first listened to it.

[TheNashNetwork]

This is legit the first song ever to make me cry.

[heynow]

My dog was called Brontë and she died at 17. This song's captures every feeling I had at the end perfectly. Hope everyone is dealing with the grief of a lost one as best as possible. This song hits me hard personally. X

[cryin.gfrog]

I was looking into my cat’s eyes when it happened. I saw his lights go out and felt him go cold. I told him I was sorry, and I’d find him again, over and over. I haven’t thought about that in a long time. Thanks Gotye.

[Stonehenge-Man]

I'm 34 years old now, and I realize that the theme of this music video applies to every time period of one's life.

[twinArmegeddons]

I sung this to my dog while he was dying in my arms, and now when I watch or listen to it, it makes me remember the precious baby I had in my life but now he's gone, and that he'll always be with me no matter what.

[AztekGhost]

Gotye didn't deserve to be a on-hit wonder, his music is extraordinary :(

[breakdancinfool]

3 minutes that always make me cry. I mourn the loss of my childhood innocence, the simplicity of a world full of wonder and magic that somehow made perfect sense, the absence of moral ambiguity, absence of uncertainty, the safety and nurturing home I could always return to and the lack of fear and worry. I grieve for the loss of my childhood. I can still feel how loved I felt then - even lonliness wasnt nearly as lonely as it is as a grown man. This song and video makes me feel who I was then, and sad at the impossible distance between that me and the me I am today.

[supersaiandemon]

The death of a pet, the nostalgia of childhood, the distance that is inevitable between parents and their children, this song is all of this.

The song is loss. Plain and simple. Loss. Take your pick of what is lost. It will be the right answer.

[daveryder]

Every single line of this song is like a knife in my heart. My wonderful dog, my best friend of 13 years, had to be put to sleep last weekend. He was in a lot of pain. Even eating would make him cry out. I held his head on my lap as they injected him, and finally he relaxed...I bawled like a baby and just cradled him for quite some time.

"We will be with you and hold you till you're quiet. It hurts to let you go."

[alljuice]

this video means so much to me for no reason

[Voltigeur]

"You will stay with us"😭😩 thoes words... always have me choking back tears

[nicoolio]

I wanna fall asleep to this every night. It's quiet and dreamy and peaceful. It also breaks my heart a little. Beautiful.

[soi]

I had a friend for 20 years. I watched him born, I was 15. When his mom let me, I held him in my hand. He was small.

I let him run and kept him safe. He loved to run.

One day he got sick, he was older. Kidneys. Common for them.

I bought all the medicine, changed diets, did everything.

I told myself I would know when it was time. One day my friend laid down in the bath tub.

The last day we had, I held my best friend when they made him sleep. Before he went, he looked right into my eyes, turned, and went to sleep.

20 years.

[camieyt]

This video represents the feeling of moving on and everything that we have to leave behind and then remembering it all years later and trying to go back but never finding what you once had again. Sad truth

[chomeboy]

this song has reminded me of my late wife for so long. it still hurts and I had to stop listening to it for a while... But fortunately for me, i'm happily remarried with a wonderful family and a first biolgoical child. I adopted her two other children and they all mean the world to me. But man.. this song ... such beauty.

[DACFalloutRanger]

this is still the most emotional song I've ever heard

[LastBastian]

I am a 40 year old man. I haven't cried since I was 12.

This song and video makes me well-up like nothing else in the last 20-odd years

[ClassicDepravities]

"now your bowl is empty" really hits me. out of all the lyrics, that's the one that gets me. her bowl WAS empty, for months. After mindy left, i couldn't do anything for months and everything reminded me she was gone. even now, i can't think about mindy without getting teary-eyed. love you baby girl <3 20 years wasn't long enough for a cat that good.

[FantasyLord]

Just a month ago we said goodbye to our beautiful Kuvasz mix, he was with us for 14 long years, nearly half of my life.
I literally went out from work an hour earlier to be by his side as he was put to sleep, as he could no longer stand on his feet since his kidneys completely failed.
As I was hugging him while he slept deeper and deeper, I remembered how I held him when he was just 2 months old. He passed on surrounded by his family, in a deep sleep. I will never forget you, Lord ❤