Apparat - Black Water Lyrics






Shapes still melt into the snow
Looking down at scattered bones
I used to keep a slender hope
Till they spread above the stone
Till they spread above the stone

I pulled the trigger by mistake
Floundering at the aftermath
Slowly recognise the scale
We will be ephemeral
We will be ephemeral

Fact isn't what you see
Not anymore, what it used to be
Fact isn't what you see
Not anymore, what it used to be

Fact isn't what you see
Not what it used to be
I'm flowing like black water
To us, insurgency





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  1. A.... L....

    This song reminds me of how I have evolved and how in love I am with my girlfriend. I think the term ‘girlfriend’ is too little for her, she’s my everything, my world, soul, universe, everything I need or could ever ask for. I know this isn’t what the song is about but art is interpreted separately from the artist and viewer, and I just can’t wait to see my love again

  2. P.... S....

    impulse brought me here

  3. Y.... A....

    Im here because of Impulse Season 2 Episode 8 Townses confession video

  4. M.... V....

    This song always finds its way back to me.

  5. D.... r....

    Thanks God <3

  6. j.... a....

    I would like to invent words of love, to show you that every day, you haunt my mind, and that I think of you infinitely.

  7. C.... S....

    This video was made together with my wife who cleared out all the useful things I was saving in the basement. Thanks honey!

  8. F.... S....

    Damn I miss 2011 so much, the time where my brain finally was ready to explore and expand my musical knowledge as a teenager. I'm so glad I grew up with this kind of music, I want to label it with a genre but I won't since it'll stay special and unique for me if I don't. Thanks to the people making me tear up while I'm smiling and thinking I'm so proud and thankful to be alive. Have a good day and lots of love.

  9. B.... F....

    Impulse ep 8 Townes

    B.... F....

    season?

    B.... F....

    @Videos23 23 season 2, I forgot to put KSKSKKK

    B.... F....

    @Brenda Fernandes ok

  10. k.... ....

    Ah, out of my playlist here is one of my 3 favorite songs ^^

  11. S.... U....

    I will never be thankful enough to the person who made me know this and other beautiful songs. Thank you, Veronica

  12. A.... C....

    What do you call this genre of music?

  13. a.... y....

    rip gracey blood

  14. K.... C....

    How can anyone dislike it?

  15. M.... A....

    Apparat is life,its magical.

  16. A.... T....

    I’m afraid of my past, terrified of the future, and I’m uncomfortable in the present.

  17. M.... ....

    I miss skins :(

  18. c.... a....

    keep coming to this universal beauty

  19. M.... G....

    New Apparat album is out, only been 8 years! This is a great song, it's like Ulrich Schnauss mixed with old Colplay. I'm always impressed with Sascha's singing, seeing as he's German and hardly has a hint of an accent when singing.

  20. d.... w....

    I was introduced to apparat in 2008 a year after Walls came out. It’s been quite a journey.

  21. h.... b....

    This is super briliant

  22. w.... ....

    too cold to affect my feelings

  23. S.... ....

    I still think of Skins when I hear it. All the sad scenes

  24. N.... H....

    Apologies for the blow-up. This track is ridiculously good. Dang. wish I knew of it earlier. true beauty, again

  25. N.... H....

    no offense, please. The cadence is definitely not unlike a certain Snow Patrol track and a certain Collective Soul track. Abso gorgeous. A little akin to the meter of some earlier Coldplay, too

  26. N.... H....

    Beautiful track. Just populated to my playlist tonight. Had a nephew that offed himself Oct. 2016. Yeah, painful but awkwardly cathartic listen. Great post. Thank you😆😕😆😭

  27. J.... M....

    And back in 2015 I was standing in crowded cinema pavilion where Sasha was the only Ray of light I could see and then he sang this.... Gosh!

  28. J.... W....

    When I left so many people after finishing secondary school this is what I listened to. After I lost so many friends because of a bad relationship I listened to this song. Now that I'm probably going to be going away from my last few friends to go to uni I listen to this song. There is no other song that better encapsulates that feeling of bittersweet (& sometimes just bitter) loss than this song. This song will always be special to me.

  29. C.... �....

    Me acabo de spoilear skins

  30. t.... m....

    a lot of very complex double meanings within the entire song. not easy and direct to interpret

  31. S.... R....

    This is pretty surreal with headphones - the 'creaking' and high-pitched beep in the background sound like they're happening either below you or somewhere behind you.

  32. R.... G....

    Very rarely has a music video been so simple, yet captured the song so perfectly. A flimsy, unstable structure, overheated, and ready to collapse. We will be ephemeral.

  33. T.... C....

    <333333333

  34. F.... B....

    Still in 2018

  35. W.... D....

    Skins brought me here too ;-)

  36. �.... S....

    Oh no :'v

  37. L.... ....

    She loved me..and I..
    Yes..that's why I'm here.
    Easily one of the hardest hitting scenes on Skins, maybe only rivalled by Sid and Tony's goodbye.

    L.... ....

    Easy top five slay me scenes

  38. n.... p....

    Don't grow up, Gracey. It's shit. 💔💔💔

  39. P.... I....

    ♫ ♥ ♫

  40. V.... G....

    Grace? Skins? I just know Apparat ;)

  41. M.... S....

    Skins duele quema

  42. M.... S....

    Quiero regresar en 40 años y seguir amando esta cansion

  43. k.... ....

    könnt ich stundenlang in die fresse hauen und wird immer noch nicht sauber

  44. �.... �....

    Best track everithing and averywere.

  45. d.... o....

    Great! And this...https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9YjRzZShqc

  46. A.... Y....

    I'm gonna assume skins is a show

  47. V.... ....

    Killian <3

  48. Z.... ....

    Sound like M83 right?

  49. P.... �....

    Art of flight brought me to Apparat sins then... M83, Three corners of the earth, Apparat,...

  50. M.... R....

    i listen to this when i feel like i should kill myself and it makes me cry so much :’(

  51. M.... R....

    i listen to this when i feel like i should kill myself and it makes me cry so much :’(

  52. C.... E....

    Simplemente relajante,para esta noche tan silenciosa y fría :)

  53. p.... k....

    Immer wider toll... snif

  54. T.... K....

    I'm late to this party. Full Moon brought me here (female pro snowboarders doc, those girls rip). This is up there with the best of M83. Heartbreaking.

    T.... K....

    Trevor Klassen hell yeah same here, those girls man, shred. That whole film gives me chills, I would love to ride with them.

  55. R.... L....

    So much more than a music about the death of a character in a adolescents serie, fuck off skins

  56. N.... T....

    milan music week brought me here <3

  57. B.... X....

    The Secret Circle ♥

  58. N.... V....

    Un chingo de energia

  59. D.... P....

    Candide Thovex

  60. M.... S....

    Shapes still melt into the smoke
    Looking down at scattered bones
    I used to keep a slender hope
    'Til they spread above the stone

    I pulled the trigger by mistake
    Floundering at the aftermath
    Slowly recognise the scale
    We will be ephemeral

    Fact
    Isn't what you see
    Not anymore
    What it used to be

    I'm flowing with black water
    Into a loss of surgency

  61. M.... G....

    Man, I forgot about this song.

  62. f.... f....

    I'm going to die to this song one day

  63. R.... P....

    rip Grace

  64. F.... B....

    Grace :'(

  65. t.... d....

    Baileys

  66. D.... B....

    Grace Violet Blood, you'll always be in our hearts.

  67. K.... M....

    Rich:Where's Grace gone.
    David: Vary sad to say. Actually he died yesterday afternoon.
    Rich: I just spoke to her I speak to her all the time.
    David: Me too. What else is there to do?
    Rich: She never woke up did she from the accident?
    David: That's why we went to Switzerland To see if they can wake her up. Just wasted to try it you know.
    Rich: So all this time she was.
    David: They said there was no one left inside
    David: I just thought. What would she think of me of turning of the stupid Machine thing. What she think?
    Rich: She would have thought you were her dad and that's what your supposed to do
    Rich: She love me and I
    David: Yes that's why I'm here

  68. G.... M....

    Beauty.

  69. �.... �....

    парни ....жгите звёзды....

  70. S.... S....

    Like a warm wave of comfort washing over you, saying,

    it's alright.

    There's still so much more to happen.

    Just wait.

  71. M.... U....

    Everyone's here from Skins.. I'm here from the Bailey's advert.. thank god to Shazam 🤘🏽

  72. a.... ....

    gives me that Life is Strange vibe

  73. Y.... G....

    It's my favourite sing of the day

  74. �.... �....

    I love this genre. Always makes me feel like I'm in a dream....

    �.... �....

    You are

    �.... �....

    Perfect for car trips :D

    �.... �....

    I just woke up, I was like "I had an amazing dream, let's search for 'dreams' on YouTube" and then I felt the urge to listen to Apparat. Hadn't listened their music for a couple of years, but here I am now. I know exactly how you feel. :)

  75. c.... ....

    Play this at my funeral..

  76. O.... R....

    Shapes still melt into the smoke
    Looking down at scattered bones
    I used to keep a slender hope
    'Til they spread over the stone

    I pulled the trigger by mistake
    floundering at the aftermath.
    Slowly recognise the scale
    We will be ephemeral

    Fact
    Isn't what you see
    Not anymore
    What it used to be
    I'm flowing with black water
    To a less assurgent sea__♫

    O.... R....

    "'Til they spread OVER the stone"...

    ...You know, just as they spread stone over a coffin after it's laid into a grave.

    and

    "FLOUNDERING at the aftermath."

    Because the whole thing was a mistake.

    O.... R....

    So is this song about him/her killing someone and then regretting it?? I have no clue

    O.... R....

    Pretty much.

    And the last line: listen to it carefully. The way Sascha wields his syllables in the singing makes a more convincing argument for him to be saying the phrase "To a less assurgent sea," or "to less assurgency" -- NOT "to another surging sea."

    'Assurgent' is a word that's fallen out of popular usage, but it means 'rising up' or 'pronounced.'

    About killing and regret? Yes. The subject of the song has learned his lesson painfully, and is seeking to abandon the context he was in (I'm flowing like black water to a less assurgent sea). "Shapes still melt into the smoke, looking down at scattered bones" -- that line pretty much describes what happens when you are removed from a combat zone via helicopter.

    Blackwater was a paramilitary company the US hired in Iraq. (I am an Iraq war veteran.) You should note that the US has plenty of its own military bases in Germany -- where Sascha is from. As far as I can tell, that's where the title and main concept of the song comes from ("Black water"), and it describes events like this:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre

    But in this particular case, it sounds like it was an issue of "friendly-fire" mortality. The subject of the song would need to be present at the funeral in order to "keep a slender hope" (that the victim is alive) "'til they spread over the stone."

    O.... R....

    Thanks man!

    O.... R....

    @zznarcolepsy wow...

  77. L.... L....

    life is retro mind phase stuck in time outside what worries most after all why so serious?

  78. G.... E....

    Rich and Grace had the most perfect example of how a teens relationship should be✨

    G.... E....

    Te voy a romper bien el orto 😏 Pasa el wats

  79. V.... ....

    heartbreakingly beautiful.

  80. L.... ....

    reminds me of david sylvian,s black water

  81. A.... R....

    It's so wow, i love this song! :)

  82. G.... E....

    Princess Grace and her Metal man😭🌙✨💛

    G.... E....

    La tengo grande!!!....😏

  83. q.... ....

    madre del amor hermoso

  84. s.... p....

    en que escena sale??

    s.... p....

    Shaoli walker Skins temporada 6 en el capítulo 2, la última escena, soy tan específico porque es mi capítulo favorito de toda la serie

  85. A.... A....

    This is undoubtedly the worst death of the entire series: /

  86. D.... M....

    Fuck you, Skins, you always killed the best characters :/

    D.... M....

    This was the most tragic death of all: /

  87. s.... ....

    Holy shit it's those cult antennas from stalker call of pripyat.

    s.... ....

    im just downloading Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979) - 1080p x265 HEVC - RUS (ENG S

  88. R.... W....

    just wow

  89. e.... ....

    everyones talking about skins??? and i heard this song on a documentary that i watched in science class smh

    e.... ....

    I came hear after hearing Goodbye in DARK xD

    e.... ....

    What's skins?

    e.... ....

    emily no one cares bitch

    e.... ....

    @Kostas Tsakalidis a British TV Show

    e.... ....

    Te voy a romper bien el orto

  90. x.... p....

    this song make me cry every time i hear it

    x.... p....

    Same here

    x.... p....

    La tengo grande!!! .... 😏

  91. a.... ....

    A Few Words Trailer brought me here. Amazing song. Thank You!

  92. C.... x....

    this song
    and skins saved my life

  93. o.... c....

    rip grace

  94. k.... ....

    The kind of song I could bring on a desert island..

  95. B.... ....

    She died yesterday afternoon"

    "I just spoke to her, I speak to her all the time"

    "Me too"

    B.... ....

    What's thw film?

    B.... ....

    Grace <3