Ubi-do, I wanna be like you

If taken literally this reminds of 'changelings' where infants are replaced by 'fairies' who eventually grow up 'strange'

*Watches horror film* I'm not scared, that was so weak. *Watches steampianist* I cannot sleep.

Before even watching I'm just wondering how Oliver is going to be tortured in this song

oliver sound like he's crying it's making me want to cry oh n o

I was going to take a nap and then this song arrived and I cried in grieve for my beloved sleep

I think this song is about a sociopathic child. The coldness that the creature feels is just his lack of humanity. When he sings to the rabbits about wanting to be like them and having their features, it is him envying being "normal", the rabbits representing the masses. He ends up sucking them into his misery, which is illustrated as him eating them. The boy that the creature devours at the end is the only human in the story. So, he must be the sociopath's image of what the ideal person would be. When he consumes that boy, he is trying to imitate and adopt his behaviors, which ultimately ruins their relationship and hurts the boy. This is kind of a half-baked theory, though. :3

It’s crazy how vocaloids can have more emotion in their voice than real singers

I'm late as shit to this, but I honestly think the thing about the baby being abandoned in the woods isn't exactly right. We see the crib, the view being from a child, with the mobile hanging above. We see this at the beginning AND at the end. At the end, we see it begin to fade in and out, with a vague reddish tint. This imagery is coupled with a wet, slimey sound, conveniently matching the beat of the song. But that sound is awfully reminiscent of a heart beating - a heart that slows and stops. This implies that the infant died in the crib, not in the woods. I think the Thing was in fact an infant, but one that was unfortunately claimed by SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Sometimes babies just fucking die. No reason. They're safe, comfortable, they're watched and taken care of, but they still just die. It's sad. There's no medical reason we've found for it. The Thing was an infant that died unexpectedly for no reason, and came back as a shambling mass. Is it a ghost? Who knows. This does leave the question as to why it's in the woods, and I don't exactly have much of an answer. Maybe it slithered away from home? Or maybe it woke up long after the house it died in was torn down? Or maybe it was just an artistic decision? Who knows. In any case, this song still slaps two years later.

This reminds me of those stories about changeling creatures that steal a child's identity and lives for a certain amount of time being cared for by the humans. There's also a bird that does this (not change appearance, just tricks a different bird to care for it), forgot what it was called tho. Edit: It doesn't happen with one bird, it's called brood parasitism apparently.

Honestly I love how this is like if someone wrote a child’s story and steampianist came and made it morbid.

Me: *looking at my pet rabbit in his cage* dude you better not try anything.

All these years passed, but... *Can we talk about the fact that Oliver sounds so real and cute in this song?*

I got a theory for this song :3 Ok so I think it is about a baby who was abandoned in the forest outside of their family’s house, and died without ever really being able to experience much life, so they turned into the ‘Thing’ hence why it starts out in the forest. I believe this abandoned baby had a brother also and the people who take care of the child sang lullaby’s to him while the baby was left outside. Babies are curious and most of the time thinks of other living beings as ‘friends’ therefore the rabbits that also live in the forest as ‘friends’. The ‘Thing’ is jealous, sad, and confused about how other living things get so much love, and what aspects about them help them to be loved. Wanting to have the love that it never had, the ‘Thing’ wants those aspects of its ‘friends’. And it continues to try to take their appearances, trying to do the impossible and come back to life to receive the good parts of life the baby was never able to experience. It loves them like a baby would, but it wants life more. And continues killing them (including its past brother) in hopes of being able to come back alive and be loved. (That’s at least what I got from the song :P)

Love the creepy factor of this. If told from outside perspective it would just be about a monster eating rabbits and kids. But having the pov of the monster there is a uncomfortable sympathy with this creature who feels alone and scared. That sympathy is cut with lines that hit at a deeper sinister nature, like “struggling only makes the huge much tighter” it serves as a preferred version of the comfort the monster needs. All around a fantastic song and video.

This is such a good song! It reminds me a bit of your older songs but your tuning style is distinctly different now (for the better). The PV is also beautiful and creepy as always! Time to listen to this on my way to classes like a weirdo.

Here’s my theory on this song: (Trigger warning) So basically where it all starts is with a young single woman who had an unwanted pregnancy, and gave birth to what she hoped would be a baby girl, but it was a boy. I think that this song is set in the early 1900s where ultrasounds weren’t invented and children spent most of their days playing outside or in the woods, hence the reason why the child meets the rabbits in the woods. “A distant lullaby, dying from my side.” This indicates that the mother is not there for her child as she is not ready and doesn’t want to take care of him, and leaves him in his cradle alone. A distant lullaby could indicate that the mother is singing to herself elsewhere in the house, and how the child wishes she could sing to him instead of leaving him alone. Thus the child sees his mother’s presence as dying, or as if the mother is dead because she is not around. This could be correct, because you see a cradle with a mobile above it, and no one is to be seen. This could probably mean you are looking from the baby’s point of view. “A glow is amiss, fleeting from my side.” This is basically how children usually idolise their parents, seeing them as something amazing, like a glowing light. The glow could represent the mother, running away from her duties as a parent, or, it could represent how the mother’s glowing eyes don’t ever look into her child’s, therefore they are fleeting from the side of the cradle. You see eyes in the forest, so the child could visualise his life as a dark forest, and his mother’s eyes the only light that can’t really be seen. The eyes are on a blob though, so this could represent how the mother views her child, as the eyes look sad. “Alone in a cruel world, leaves me cold and curled.” (The child is at least 8 now). This could mean how the child feels alone because he has no friends due to his appearance, as his mother does not care for him, and the society that they live in won’t accept the “lower class”. And it could mean that he feels alone due to no family around, since the mother is not present often, and there is no father and siblings to keep the child company. Humans usually curl up for warmth, as the mother neglects the child she probably wouldn’t tuck him in when he goes to sleep, so he curls up to keep himself warm. “But then, friends, warmth.” The child is wandering through the woods at night, and he sees two rabbits, so he views them as friends because they don’t run away from him. He plays with the rabbits and starts to attempt to take care of them, but it would be a disaster, because he was never taught how to look after others, his mother being a bad example of this. He strokes the rabbits and experiences warmth for the first time, and he feels welcome in the woods. “A glow returned once more it seems.” This could mean that the look he is giving is being returned by the rabbits, as they are looking at him in a way he thinks a mother should. “I want hair like yours, I want hands like yours.” This is pretty obvious, as he is talking to the rabbits and wishing to have adorable features like them. The child begin to think that the way he look is why his mother doesn’t love him, so he decides to stay with the rabbits to imitate their looks. The second verse is the opposite of the first one, because he now feels at home with the rabbits, Skip a few seconds... “Don’t struggle, there is no point.” The child has become so desperate to be love he grabs the rabbit suddenly and strangles it. That’s why he says struggling only makes hugs tighter, indicating that he will only squeeze harder if the rabbit continues to struggle. He finally kills it and wears the hide over his shoulders. (Kids are dumb, what did you expect?) he says to the rabbit that it will never be alone, as he thinks it will go to heaven and be happy, whilst giving him what he “needs” to be loved by his mother. “From now, friends, warmth.” He thinks that he will have friends and warmth because he is wearing a white rabbit hide, and that will gain him attention, however it only made others hate him even more for killing an innocent animal. The child goes back to the house to show his mother but the mother is nowhere to be found, until the child enters he bedroom and finds her hanging from the ceiling. She had killed herself due to mass amounts of stress being a young single mother. That’s why the song depicts bloodied hands, and the child’s eye widened in shock to see his mother dead. The end of the song you see the cradle again but tinted red, which could mean the child is thinking back to how his mother treated him as a baby, therefore he thinks she deserves it. This is just my theory and it’s kind of weird but I hope you enjoyed! I know I’m hella late but oh well.

Tbh I relate to the Thing because I was just so clingy to other children my age as a child to the point that they were worried and creeped out. All I ever was to be was like them, to act normal and to act like a good kid. But they all always kept going away from me back then, and I always felt it was my fault, even though I was just trying my best to be a friend.

*steampianist uploads new Oliver song* Me: *Justs sits and watch the video for days

As I go over this song, I feel like its lyrics have an undeniable resemblance to the case of the "Chalava". So, this will be a little uncomfortable or triggering to some people. According to some Indian legends, when an unborn child dies and does not go through the proper rituals to depart from this world, their soul remains in the earth. Since the spirit was an unborn child, it could not have a proper form, and so they take any form that they can, which is usually evil. But remember, the spirit of the Chalava is still a little child. They have the desires of love, family and companionship like all children. But early unborn children lack proper development of organs. So like the blob of darkness shown in the music video, maybe this Chalava died at a really early stage of life - too early to have organs like hands, hair or eyelids - let alone tear glands. And for that reason, it envies children who have these. Basically, this song is about this spirit of an unborn child wanting to be like other children, in that case.

I think this is about a giant friendly black gloop who just wants warmth and a true form other than a pile of gloop. So hoping that they would get one of those two things, he accidentally absorbs some bunnies as well as a boy. This is a really crappy theory but whatever.

The worst thing in the world. Being late to a new song by Steampianist!!

this reminds me of how people often adopt attributes of people they're fond of. The thing in the video thinks all things such as people and bunnies are friends and consumes their attributes as a way to become like them. When it realizes it isnt working they move on to another organism.

"Thing" Lyrics a distant lullaby, dying from my sight a glow is amiss, fleeting from my side oh why, oh why alone in a cruel world leaves me cold and curled but then friends warmth eyes that gleam a glow returned once more it seems I want hair like yours I want hands like yours I want fingers that curl in the cold like yours I want eyes to stare And to cry When I'm feeling scared like you Just like you Soft lullabies, never leave my side Glowing warm fur and gleaming round eyes Isolated no more My friends Don't struggle there is no point You'll never be alone From now Friends Warmth Never leave Struggling only makes the hugs much tighter I want hair like yours, hands like yours Fingers that curl in the cold like yours I want eyes to stare And to cry when I'm feeling scared like you I want hair like yours, hands like yours Fingers that curl in the cold like yours I want eyes to stare And to cry when I'm feeling scared like you

this song sounds like someone realizing the things they don't have and how they feel betrayed by the world. driven by obsession, they look for these qualities in other people, keeping them around because that's the only way they'll ever feel complete. claiming them as their own, they feel as though they have acquired these traits as their own.

Why has nobody thought of this? What if the "thing" is the gost of a baby? It seems to have the mentality a new born would have, always saying "I want". It would also explain why he is so fond of the rabbits. The ghost might've possesed the boy and rabbits because he wanted to be "just like you". Also there's a baby's view of a crib at the beginning and end of the video.

Well... a new song eh? You know what that means kiddos, time to listen to it on repeat for 10 hours straight!

clues I gathered from this song: a sad puddle wants human features and warmth and friends, yet strangles everything to death if it gets to

I literally screamed *yes* when I saw this omggggg

Песни Оливера помогают мне чувствовать себя лучше. Спасибо.

Something rather chilling: The lyrics from 2:33 onwards (after Thing has 'befriended' the boy) are much more fluid and melodic, implying that it's assimilated some of the boy's intelligence/fluency with language as well as his physical features.

So... I think this is about a parasitic twins? All the baby imagery, plus the inclusion of rabbits (maybe fellow eggs in the womb?) make me think of pregnancy. Most embreotic symbolism depicts the fetus as having curled hands, and babies usually cry when they’re distressed or scared, not when they’re sad (I assume, cus I don’t think babies have the mental capacity to be “sad”, but correct me if I’m wrong). The absolute colorlessness and dark tones can be the darkness of the womb (and while Oliver’s songs tend to be black and white Twaddles had at least some color and Wisteria had white backgrounds). So the way I interpret this is that there was a strong Twin (or sibling of multiple “bad” fetuses) and one that was weaker. The weaker one eventually drains the life and nutrients out of the stronger twin, as represented by the Thing sort of just oozing around the boy instead of it being a battle of strength. The Thing reassures the boy he will not be alone, I suppose due to the idea the boy is now a part of The Thing. It ends with birth, the Thing blinking in the crib. A second theory is that the Thing is a changeling, replacing the baby in the crib, with the eyes opening in the crib at the beginning being the actual boy, and the eyes at the end being the changeling. Feel free to add/give me your thoughts!

My interpretation of this is that the Thing is the consciousness of the baby. They have just been born so their knowledge of the world is practically nonexistent, hence the darkness. The rabbits and the boy are symbolic of how the baby wants to experience being alive (hence the I want etc etc etc) because they want to experience and understand what it means to have those things. However the baby is weak and they die in the crib before getting to experience life. To me, the squelching noise at the end of the song is the baby's heartbeat as it gradually slows and stops.

A song about Mimikyu??? Anyway, loved the tempo change, ollie sounds cute af here.

This is genuinely creepy. Like, what the actual hell. steamy you're the very very best. best halloween gift ever.

Yeeeeah a new Steampianist song 😍

It reminds me kinda of my autism. Trying to fit in but always seemingly left out. So you start looking to others and mimicking them to try and get friends, but it doesn't work except with a tiny handful of people. Always looking to other people to try and make a personality that people will like, to the point sometimes it feels like you have no personality of your own

This song actually gave me some inspiration for one of my characters' backstories. Basically, he felt very cold and disconnected from the world until, one day, when he was a young boy, he got a pet rabbit. He loved the rabbit more than anything in the world, but there was always that feeling of emptiness in the back of his mind. One day, tired of feeling nothing but cold, he killed his pet rabbit to feel something. Alas, it didn't work. Sorry if I sound like I'm ranting but I just wanted to say thanks for inspiring me a little asjfalkshfldg

Oliver sounds like an angel, but he's the biblically accurate ones. So he's scary.

i love the transition in time signatures towards the end♡ oliver's vibrato also sounds beautiful at 3:01

the haunting melody, the sad story behind the lyrics, the creepy art. Everything about this is so good!

The vibe that I’m getting from this is: curious eldritch being wants to know what it’s like to be mortal

It's always Steampianist that evokes that sensation of pure dread and disconsolate you, but also have that good music at the same time lol. I envy that terrifying/amazing ability

I just choked-

I love songs like these, because while they are creepy, they have a strange beauty and calming feel to them.

I personally think this is about someone with a personality disorder that is expressing their feelings and saying “I want hands like yours” and I want “eyes to stare and to cry when I’m feeling scared like you” this is important because the person is expressing how they’re disorder doesn’t allow them to be like others and especially *feel* like others and this being just wants to fit in and be *“normal”*

Это завораживающе прекрасно и одновременно жутко)

I feel bad to the little shadow slime :(

The crunching sound is so unsettiling

This kid be 13 and have a more depressing life than all villains combined- Like does he go through this stuff on a daily basis-

THE FIRST LINE STARTED AND IM ALREADY CRYING GOD BLESS

gosh diddly darn i got chills

I got chills from listening to this! I absolutely love the tuning of Oliver here, he sounds so sad and desperate. Morb's illustrations and lyrics are wonderfully morbid and set the scene beautifully. If this was rushed, I would have had no idea. Great work, both of you!

OLIVER FITS SO PERFECTLY IN GENRES LIKE THIS AND I LOVE IT

ok but like the bunnies just made me go "BIG BIG CHUNGUS BIG CHUNGUS BIG CHUNGUS"

this is absolutely fantastic my dears! in fact, would you all be interested in potentially having this song featured in VOCAMERICA once we get our Oliver model completed?

This songs makes me think about Dreamtalia, when Reve tells the others to stay and stuff. *cries on the inside*

pLEASE don't tell me this about is what I think this is about... that crib that thing I love this song, but my heart is in goddamn shambles

Such nice song, Happy late Halloween! ^^ Morb is incredible, she can draw all types of things, from cartoon-like drawings to realistic ones such as the bunnies here... (*w*) That's what I call talent lol

even though it's rushed it's such a masterpiece !! made my day tbh

THIS IS THE BEST SONG YET!!!!! :DDDDDD edit: How did I get 90 likes on this?! :OOOOO

The song doesn’t even have to make any sense. I will always be scared shitless by steampianist

its just like wisteria! its twisted and spooky! i like it! keep it up! ( i feel theres a dark story behind this song just like wisteria.. i wonder what this means with the crib and all)

imma be completely honest rn, I thought this song was about the venom symbiote when I first heard it

Omg Steampianist senpai uploaded a new song, caN THIS DAY GET ANY BETTER

There is a lonely boy who lost himself so much, that he doesn't perceive himself as a human but as a "thing". The only friends he has are those rabbits, who give him a feeling of warmth and companionship. But the boy is already so disturbed that he cannot handle his "feelings" other than to project them onto his friends. He only can feel himself through others. He only can feel his fear an pain when he inflicts it on others. That's why he "hugs" the rabbits. He strangles them to fear and then to death so he can feel their fear and pain. Horrible and sad. Great piece of art. Altough I would prefer something less horrific. 😔

I think this creature might be a "chanak" a legend from Philippines, chanaks are baby that died in a mother's womb or baby that dies early in birth and lives mainly in woods or forest because some mothers will abandon them cuz their unwanted or unplanned. Chanak looks out for their prey by crying like an actual child and when someone approached them, they'll eat them or sometimes they do want to go back to their own mother and kill them for revenge or because they genuinely want to be with their mother. And the "thing" in this music is wanting a features of a living creatures that he no longer posses, this must be a perspective view of chanak wanting to live like a human like they once before. But they never felt humane about it, they just consume their desire which is lives. If you guys want to see what a Chanak look like, you can see it in Trese Netflix anime series, it might help you

The best song for the mimic doesn't exis-

GG Steam, you beat yourself once again. The way you play with Oliver in this amazing! Also, morb did an awesome job at the art! I just love the style so much

I feel like this is about monsters under the bed, but the song is told from their point of view. Like they are outcasts that just want to be a part of normal life.

He sounds so beautiful in this..

👍 Oliver is my fav

I'll spend a few weeks listening to this song until decorating, she's great! The work you do with the impeccable Oliver. I hope someday you'll do some song with him and Len

2:03 it's just a friendly hug

This is perfect holloween music change my mind

So this is the same person that created secrets of wisteria.. 😦

I don't have any sort of interesting interpretation to share like other people here, but I'd just like to say that the melody of the song and the instruments used in it, most notably a music box, reminds me very much of a fairy tale or other sort of dark children's story. Y'know, the kind of story where a child leaves their warm home and sets off into the darkness on some fantastical, frightening quest. Befriending and escaping monsters, traversing lands not meant for someone so young, eventually finding their way back home. That sort of thing. I don't know how much that relates to this song, but regardless, I like it a lot. :)

I'm the only one that actually thought of the film "The thing" because the similarities of the two "things" copying or trying to be other life forms is kinda notorious. Sorry, i just love horror films.

Another amazingly creepy song, this one sporting a theme of twisted innocence it seems, awesome work as usual!

OH MY FUCKING GOD

I'm totally in love with the animations ;-;

0:01 DID THEY JUST MORB?!??!! THEY SAW IT COMING THEY SAW THE MORBIOUS BEFORE WE DID!!!

the fact that this is sang by a vocaloid, so not a human and its not even alive, the "I want hair like yours, hands like yours" "eyes to stare and cry" sounds different

This was 4 years ago... Dam

I absolutely fell in love with this song since it was uploaded. I hope that we can get an Off Vocal release one day! I would love to cover this one day!

Heres what I imagine the song is about: There's this "thing" (very similar to the titular thing from the move "the thing") that ends up on earth, rejected from society and cast aside by everything. But then, the thing finds a family of rabbits. The rabbits do not fear the thing right away, so it see's the rabbits as friends. The thing becomes interested in the family of rabbits, and things get dark quickly. The thing is able to imitate and assimilate other livings beings, and thats what he does to the rabbits, one by one. Afterwards, he comes across this one strange being, a young human boy. He see's the boy, and the other humans that surround him, and he grows interested yet again. or at least thats my interpretation :D

CAME AS SOON AS I SAW!

This honestly made me so sad. It actually reminds me of a character I made, they're actually also kind of a black mass with eyes too.. They're a parasitic sort of creature, many similar to them roam and infect healthy people, turning them practically into zombies. Living, infected zombies. They sort of gained a consciousness after someone experimented on them, mixing healthy, normal citizens of the kingdom they rule until they ended up with my OC. They have no wish to harm anyone, but sometimes things happen.

Why do I always relate to the creepy things that crawl in the dark lolol I love this so much~!! It inspires all sorts of things in me that I don't know what to do with. (Nothing bad~ Nothing bad~ I'll probably end up just writing a cute romance story or something)

I love it when Oliver is so amazingly used with his high pitched voice. Best boy. Best producer.

Almost everyday I keep listening to your secrets of Wysteria song

I feel like ive seen this kind of monster before... But I can't remember... I do know that its always covered in hair, appeared through an ouija summoning, and has a musk to it.

3 am LETS DO THIS!!!!

omg!! it's awesome!!! good work and happy halloween X3 (seriously I love this song!!)

Yes I've been waiting for so long

*I W A N T T H E W O R L D*

The squishing/squelching at the end really reminded me of The Botanist. Are you and Morb working on a PV for that one? Not to sound greedy or pushy, but that’s one of my all-time favorites of yours without an animation. ;w; All of your works are just amazing.

i look forward to these every year ohmygod i'm so happy

Thanks for Belarusian subs. It's very cool. We don't speak our language our usual days and don't know it well but it's nicely. Greetings from Belarus!

this gives off that weird nostalgic vibe even though you've never seen it before