Dawid Podsiadło — Let You Down (from the Netflix series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners).
Music Video directed by Ilya Kuvshinov and produced by STUDIO MASSKET.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners premieres tomorrow only on Netflix.
You can find the song on streaming services: https://dawidpodsiadlo.lnk.to/LetYouDown
Lyrics:
Feel the rhythm of the streets
Neon lights and neon dreams
Bloody fists they feel no pain
When there’s so much more to gain
Hunting season if you will
Tell me where’d you’d rather be
I can hardly see the moon
Hope we’ll get there pretty soon
Trying so hard to release
You out of the misery
Hold on to your wishes
If you can’t hold on to me
Forgive me for letting you down
Forgive me for letting you down again
Guess I’m not strong enough
Right now
They will finally feel the flames
Flames that run down through my veins
I will make this city burn
We’re not planning to return
Trying so hard to be free
To make you see what I see
Hold on to your wishes
If you can’t hold on to me
Forgive me for letting you down
Forgive me for letting you down again
Guess I’m not strong enough
Right now
Forgive me for letting you down
Forgive me for letting you down again
I guess I’m not strong enough
Right now
Let you down
Oh, let you down
Let you down
Oh, let you down
ABOUT CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS
The series tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in Night City — a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he stays alive by becoming an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.
CD PROJEKT RED, the company behind the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, is producing the series with Rafał Jaki (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher: Ronin) as Showrunner and Executive Producer, with Satoru Homma, Bartosz Sztybor and Saya Elder serving as producers. The team at CD PROJEKT RED has been working on this new series since 2018. Acclaimed Japan-based animation company, Studio Trigger, will serve as the animation studio on the series and bring the world of Cyberpunk to life with their signature, vibrant style. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series along with creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designer and animation director Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal), and the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (GRIDMAN UNIVERSE series, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Star Wars: Visions 'The Elder'). The original score will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).
Feel the rhythm of the streets Near lights and near dreams Bloody-faced, they feel no pain When there's so much more to gain Hunting season, if you will Tell me where you'd rather be I can hardly see the moon Hope we'll get there pretty soon Trying so hard to release You out of the misery Hold on to your wishes If you can't hold on to me Forgive me for letting you down Forgive me
For letting you down again I guess I'm not strong enough Right now They will finally feel the flames Flames that run
down
Through my veins I will make the city burn We're not planning to return Trying so hard to be free To make you see what I see Hold on to your wishes If you can't hold on to me Forgive me for letting you down Forgive me
For letting you down again I guess I'm not strong enough Right now Forgive me for letting you down Forgive me
For letting you down again I guess I'm not strong enough Right now Oh, my love Love Love Oh, let you down
Oh, let you down
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PSA: You can now listen to the new song by Dawid Podsiadło & P.T. Adamczyk, “Phantom Liberty”, on: 🎶 YouTube: https://youtu.be/u15tEo0wsQI 🎶 Spotify and other streaming services: https://dawidpodsiadlo.lnk.to/PhantomLiberty
Night city, never stop impress me :")
This MV, and Anime itself has proved Johnny Silverhand's line on how true that was. "Happier ending? For people like us? Wrong City, Wrong People."
Fun fact for people that don't know: New Gig was added in Phantom Liberty where you help Sasha's (Girl in Video) sister save her husband.
4:01 I love this part where it shows that she's dead, but the droplet of the rain poured to her left eye, and it dripped down as if she was crying. The way of storytelling, symbolism, and deliverance is just chefs' kiss and yet tragic. She didn't get to cry, but the rain helped her portray what she was feeling at the hands of death... RIP Sasha.
her smile in the end... it was worth it. probably the most genuine feeling she felt after losing her mother.
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
In 4 minutes they managed to introduce a completely new character, Sasha, tell her story, make us care about her and feel devastated by her tragic fate. Bravo.
Ladies, gentlemen: If there ever was a good storyboard with a compelling story told in under 5 minutes, this is it. This is a masterpiece in storytelling. In only short 4 minutes and 43 seconds, the story introduces a new character, makes you care about it, and makes you suffer with their fate. A Mastercraft right here.
It is amazing how in sync the animation is with the lyrics. "We're not planning to return" is sang just as Sasha apologizes to Maine for her actions. "Forgive me for letting you down" starts for the first time as Sasha flashes back to her mother's coma. This can be interpreted either as her own childhood guilt, or as the words that her mother could never speak. I'm just scratching the surface, so just know: this is a masterpiece.
The ending left me with a deep void inside. Edgerunner truly embodies the essence of a tragic tale.
Man... I am a 30 year old man and there is something about this song in particular that it literally breaks me on an emotional level like no other song I have heard. Actually amazing the power of music.
Telling a story in 4 minutes like this is rather rare
Russian-born director in a Japanese animation studio makes a clip on a song with English lyrics, written by a Polish artist. It promotes a Japanese anime made in tandem with Polish game based on a setting of American author.
The fact that this song and the Phantom Liberty song are my faves, goes a LONG WAY in showing how skilled and talented is Dawid Podsiadło. Bravo to all involved!
I am shocked at how no one realizing how much these lyrics perfectly fit David and his promises
I love how this has the same theme you see a lot in Cyberpunk/Shadowrun-type media. The moment a gig becomes personal, it's over. People who do this kind of 'runner job for a living, they measure risk pretty well and they always ensure that they have a way out (otherwise they never would have lasted long enough to become professionals) but the moment something about the case personally involves you, you can't let it go anymore. You run out the clock, you let your escape-window close without you and you start taking crazy risks. It happened to Johnny, it happened to Sasha, it happened to V.
Imagine having the worst day ar your work and this comes up in your Playlist on the bus
Imagine you just finished watching Edgerunners and came here to find the ED for the anime only to have your heart totally wrecked for the second time. I know because that happened to me too.
Cyberpunk has so much more to offer. I hope they continue expanding on it and push further projects back. Let them find a foundation/plan before jumping into it. I bet the planning phase had many ideas that were being circulated which could appear now.