Devin Townsend 'Gratitude' Official Promo Video
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Devin Townsend – ‘Gratitude’ – track #4, taken from the forthcoming album ‘PowerNerd’ Stream & order the album here: https://devin-townsend.lnk.to/PowerNe... ‘PowerNerd’ will be available in several different formats, including a Limited 2CD+Blu-ray Artbook (featuring the album, bonus tracks and Devin’s first-ever Dolby Atmos mix), Limited 2CD Digipak in O-card, Standard CD, Gatefold 2LP & Digital Album. “Gratitude is a simple song in the vein of 'Life' or 'Stagnant' (from Ocean Machine and Terria, respectively) that acts as a simple way to continue the theme of PowerNerd. During the making of this album, there were a lot of hurdles that we went through as a family, and the tendency to look at one's lot in life from the vantage point of being a 'victim' seems to be an easy hole to fall into. I wrote this song during a very difficult time, yet the idea of gratitude is not meant to be ironic in any way. I’m grateful for the lessons, I’m grateful for the swings and roundabouts of life, I’m here for it. Retaining equilibrium during challenging times is a job in and of itself, and in a sea of nihilistic thoughts, having one's creative output as a tangible expression of gratitude is in many ways the whole point for me at this stage. In any event: I feel like I’m dumb as a rock, and life is so incredible and absurd, that I just feel the urge to say 'Thank you' for all of it. If the quality of people who surround me and this work is of any indication, we're pointed in the right direction. Thanks =)” Lyrics: You see me on top of the world now, Gratitude… Gratitude! We’ve got believe Things will only get better So you got to breathe…and say thank you Mother, please let the kid enjoy Mother, please let him be a boy You see me on top of the world now, Gratitude… Gratitude! So easy on top of the world, I’m glad it's you… Gratitude! I’ve just come to say goodbye (You don’t want it to die) But I’ve had a great life… …thank you Mother, I’m hauling heavy loads And mother, I long to be alone You see me on top of the world now, Gratitude… Gratitude! So easy on top of the world, I’m glad it's you… Gratitude!
Recorded live at London's The Roundhouse in December 2019, this featured Devin and friends perform the 'Empath' album and then some. After a lifetime of caring - sometimes too much – this is Devin free and unchained, rising to yet another challenge that he had set himself on that strange December night... “With this particular Volume 1 band,” says Devin, “it was about working through situations that seem implausible and either pulling them off or falling flat on our faces.”
Shot by videographer and good friend of the band Mike "ZimZim' Zimmer between March and April, 2016 during the Transcendence album recordings. "Transcendence" was released on Sept 9th 2016 and can be ordered in various formats here: https://www.musicglue.com/devintownsend Scandinavia: http://www.omerchnordic.com/devin-townsend-project Australia: http://omerch.tspmerchandise.com/jmproducts/filter/index/?cat=374 DEVIN TOWNSEND online: http://www.hevydevy.com http://www.facebook.com/dvntownsend http://www.omerch.com INSIDEOUTMUSIC online: www.insideoutmusic.com www.youtube.com/InsideOutMusicTV www.facebook.com/InsideOutMusic www.twitter.com/insideouteu www.myspace.com/insideoutlabel Mike Zimmer: Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg-ZJw4ZitMc6-zrOcKZ7hg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zimzimy Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZimZimY5000