Open on YouTube
Simplify lives in a world of soft color, opening with a woman in a red dress and a man walking past each other on a warm orange backdrop. Then the view pulls way up, and a tiny guitarist plays beside an amp on a plain yellow ground. A lone man in white stands in all that empty orange space. A small band starts to play, drums and guitars together.
Before long, the empty ground fills with dozens of tiny people seen from above. The pink ground is covered with people, their shadows stretching beside them. Musicians and dancers line up across the frame. Long rows of people stand together against a pink sky. People dance together on an orange background. The same face is repeated over and over in neat rows. A man plays a red guitar in front of a crowd of guitarists.
A man jumps high in the air above others. Rows of people sing together against a pink background. Seen from above, the people spread out into neat rows. Tiny dancers spread across the yellow ground, arms raised. A crowd gathers around a man in a white T-shirt. A woman dances in a blue skirt at the end of a line.
The colors cool to pink and blue as people walk away in a long line. Two small figures stand far apart on a blue background. The blue fills with tiny figures again, scattered like confetti. They cluster together in the blue like a flock of birds. A crowd in yellow and white shirts fills the frame. Then two people hold each other in a hug. At the end, two tiny figures are left on the pink, far apart. It is a sunny, simple video, and it lets the people and the color do the talking.
Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZuEdsr2s7M
Favorite this description
This post is Young the Giant — Simplify. Favoriting follows this post. It stores the artist and song and does not change the official description.
Log in to favorite
Follow the lyrics
Everything I say only seems to complicate it
Every other fight is just another night wasted
Two men in light outfits stand on a pink sand plain, one holding a guitar.
Are we gonna lose?
A lone figure walks across a flat yellow plain, casting a shadow.
Is this gonna last?
Worry about the future, worry about the past
A small figure walks on an empty yellow plain.
Think we're gonna break before I get a chance to say this
Don't wanna live without you
A small group of musicians with instruments is seen from above on an orange plain.
Staring in your eyes, everything simplifies
Leave it all behind, everything simplifies
Many small figures on an orange plain.
All we need is nothing more
(When everything simplifies)
You and I need nothing more, everything simplifies
A band with a drum kit plays on a yellow plain, seen from above.
Stressing over this, stressing over that, we're falling
Like the whole world is banging on the door I'm calling
Rows of identical men in tan shirts stand against an orange sky.
Are we gonna lose?
Rows of identical men in orange shirts line the bottom of an orange sky.
Is it gonna last?
Worry about the future, worry about the past
A guitarist with a red guitar plays in front of rows of identical guitarists.
Filter out the noise, focus on my voice and fall in
Dancers leap and move against a pink sky.
Staring in your eyes, everything simplifies
Leave it all behind, everything simplifies
A band with a drum kit plays on an orange plain, seen from above.
All we need is nothing more
(When everything simplifies)
You and I need nothing more, everything simplifies
Many small figures on a yellow plain.
Why must we complicate
Every breath we take?
Small figures under a purple sky.
Why can't you see we'll be alright?
Nothing disappears
A large crowd of musicians with guitars stands together under a dusk sky.
Even the pain we've been through
But all I need is here
A man in a vest stands alone against a blue sky.
Don't wanna live without you
All we need is nothing more
Two small figures on a blue surface.
(When everything simplifies)
You and I need nothing more, everything simplifies
Many musicians and drummers are scattered across a blue surface, seen from above.
Add a note about this description
You must be logged in to post a comment.