Water From Your Eyes Covers Ween for Mental Health Awareness

Listen to their emotional version of “If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All)”

January 11, 2024January 12, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All), Sounds of Saving, Water From Your Eyes, Ween

Water From Your Eyes (Image: Charlie Gross)

Mental health non-profit Sounds of Saving (SoS) and the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline are kicking off their 2024 “Song That Found Me At The Right Time” programming with a new collaboration featuring the New York experimental indie-pop duo Water From Your Eyes.

In the latest installment of the ongoing series, the tandem of Rachel Brown (they/them) and Nate Amos (he/him) cover “If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All),” the closing number from Ween’s 2003 LP Quebec and discuss their individual and collective mental health experiences, which range from substance abuse to suicidal ideation.

“The reason that I even started making music by myself was ’cause I was really mentally unwell, but I didn’t really know how to communicate,” Brown explains. “I was like really depressed and suicidal for most of high school. I spent a lot of time thinking that there was no other option besides to have terrible thoughts that ruined my day. I did therapy for a long time. I feel like it gave me the tools, and just the knowledge that you can actually change the way you think. I just started writing songs ’cause it was like the only place that felt appropriate to be expressing the things that I was thinking about.”

“Water From Your Eyes makes music that is sometimes undefinable but that captures the zeitgeist – experimental, dancy, jagged, melodic, sad and dry-witted,” Sounds of Saving said in a collective statement. “They released their dark yet satirical album Everyone’s Crushed in 2023 to critical acclaim but here at SoS we have been devoted fans since seeing them perform a few years back when they opened for Cate Lebon. Their humorous approach of tackling solemn subject matter caught our attention. We were thrilled when they agreed to work with us. Their spin on this Ween song, about the bitter and painful end of a relationship, makes the track even more emotional and fatalistic as Brown’s vocal delivery, though candy sweet, crushes you.”

Sounds of Saving is a non-profit organization at the intersection of Music and Mental Health. They have dedicated themselves to use music in all of its diverse splendor as a conduit for mental wellness and a source of healing during a time of crisis. Their goal is to reduce suicide rates, and the “Song That Found Me At The Right Time” series anchors the mission.

If you or someone you know is moved by it and/or needs mental health support, reach out to SoS at gethelp@soundsofsaving.