![Watsky- Strong as an Oak [Cardboard Castles] @2watsky](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ryq_NaO_eXw/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded January 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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Director: Jackson Adams - jacksonhadams.com
Director of Photography: Alan Gwizdowski - gwizphoto.com
Production Designer: Natalie Groce
Producer: Cara McKeown
Executive Producer: Brad Simpson
1st Assistant Director: Kyle Musselman
Steadycam Operator: Dean Smollar
Assistant Camera: Frank Mobillio
Gaffer: Alex Lizotte
Editor: Joe Shahood
MUSIC
Produced by Kush Mody
Trumpet- Max Miller-Loran/ Buckets- Chukwudi Hodge/ Acoustic guitar- Brandon Intelligator/ Bells and Harmonica- George Watsky
Engineered and co-produced by Nils Montan
Mixed and Mastered by Mike Denten at Infinite Studios
Chorus
Everything is A-OK
Because I'm strong as an O-A-K (Oak!)
But money don't grow on trees (nope)
And I'm B-R-O-K-E (Broke!)
Verse 1
Them rims them rings them things, you can bring em out
I just had my debit card declined at in N out
The line is flipping out. Giving me evil eyes
Fuck the soda, re-run it with just the cheesy fries
cause i don't think money is THE devil
I'm not sinking, i'm just kicking it at sea level
I got my floaties on
I'm focusing on all the wonderful stuff with the force of Obi Wan
Kenobi Bro, I'm broke although I won't be woebegone
Cause even though my bank account is low or overdrawn
I'm down to mow yer lawn
I'm getting open I'm soaking up every moment and so we
should make a toast we won't be sober til the broke of dawn
because beer is cheap
and because love is free
I'm buzzin feeling like every friend is a cousin, G
And someday we'll be reminiscing on some wasn't we
Just so down and out
But we were happy then (cause)
Chorus
Verse 2
why should I sit on my ass on the couch and be asking why life isn't equal?
with lesser possessions I'm light as a feather and so I can fly like an eagle
Cause everyone dies and I wonder why leaders in power would lie to their people
be planning like they could be fitting a camel up into the eye of a needle
but dammit I'd i settle for fitting a 94 Camry inside of my driveway
i'm sick of the image I'm living my life and i'm doing in my way
I'd rather be making the choices I'm proud of than chasing a mountain of money
But if that mountain comes to me, I'm climbing it
Gotta a brick and I'm laying it down
got a shovel, I'm breaking this ground
because I'm in red
but it's only a color that I will be painting this town
Because when I make it then I dedicate it to friends I stayed with who would do me favors even lend me paper when I couldn't pay for a little takeout
to the fact
that whatever you think that it means
I be here and I'm living my dreams
And it's cause of the people I leaned
on when I came apart at the seams
So gimme the moon
And gimme the spoon
I'm licking it clean
Until there just ain't nothing left
But who will lend a hand
http://smarturl.it/CardboardCastles
buy Cardboard Castles on iTunes NOW!!! ^^
http://smarturl.it/Watsky.Google
Cardboard Castles on Google Play ^^
TOUR TICKETS ON SALE TODAY!
georgewatsky.com/tour
steelwoolmedia.com
@gwatsky
Director: Jackson Adams - jacksonhadams.com
Director of Photography: Alan Gwizdowski - gwizphoto.com
Production Designer: Natalie Groce
Producer: Cara McKeown
Executive Producer: Brad Simpson
1st Assistant Director: Kyle Musselman
Steadycam Operator: Dean Smollar
Assistant Camera: Frank Mobillio
Gaffer: Alex Lizotte
Editor: Joe Shahood
MUSIC
Produced by Kush Mody
Trumpet- Max Miller-Loran/ Buckets- Chukwudi Hodge/ Acoustic guitar- Brandon Intelligator/ Bells and Harmonica- George Watsky
Engineered and co-produced by Nils Montan
Mixed and Mastered by Mike Denten at Infinite Studios
Chorus
Everything is A-OK
Because I'm strong as an O-A-K (Oak!)
But money don't grow on trees (nope)
And I'm B-R-O-K-E (Broke!)
Verse 1
Them rims them rings them things, you can bring em out
I just had my debit card declined at in N out
The line is flipping out. Giving me evil eyes
Fuck the soda, re-run it with just the cheesy fries
cause i don't think money is THE devil
I'm not sinking, i'm just kicking it at sea level
I got my floaties on
I'm focusing on all the wonderful stuff with the force of Obi Wan
Kenobi Bro, I'm broke although I won't be woebegone
Cause even though my bank account is low or overdrawn
I'm down to mow yer lawn
I'm getting open I'm soaking up every moment and so we
should make a toast we won't be sober til the broke of dawn
because beer is cheap
and because love is free
I'm buzzin feeling like every friend is a cousin, G
And someday we'll be reminiscing on some wasn't we
Just so down and out
But we were happy then (cause)
Chorus
Verse 2
why should I sit on my ass on the couch and be asking why life isn't equal?
with lesser possessions I'm light as a feather and so I can fly like an eagle
Cause everyone dies and I wonder why leaders in power would lie to their people
be planning like they could be fitting a camel up into the eye of a needle
but dammit I'd i settle for fitting a 94 Camry inside of my driveway
i'm sick of the image I'm living my life and i'm doing in my way
I'd rather be making the choices I'm proud of than chasing a mountain of money
But if that mountain comes to me, I'm climbing it
Gotta a brick and I'm laying it down
got a shovel, I'm breaking this ground
because I'm in red
but it's only a color that I will be painting this town
Because when I make it then I dedicate it to friends I stayed with who would do me favors even lend me paper when I couldn't pay for a little takeout
to the fact
that whatever you think that it means
I be here and I'm living my dreams
And it's cause of the people I leaned
on when I came apart at the seams
So gimme the moon
And gimme the spoon
I'm licking it clean
Until there just ain't nothing left
But who will lend a hand
![Watsky- Strong as an Oak [Cardboard Castles]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ryq_NaO_eXw/mqdefault.jpg "Watsky- Strong as an Oak [Cardboard Castles]
http://smarturl.it/CardboardCastles
buy Cardboard Castles on iTunes NOW!!! ^^
http://smarturl.it/Watsky.Google
Cardboard Castles on Google Play ^^
TOUR TICKETS ON SALE TODAY!
http://www.georgewatsky.com/tour
http://www.steelwoolmedia.com
@gwatsky
Director: Jackson Adams - http://jacksonhadams.com/
Director of Photography: Alan Gwizdowski - http://www.gwizphoto.com
Production Designer: Natalie Groce
Producer: Cara McKeown
Executive Producer: Brad Simpson
1st Assistant Director: Kyle Musselman
Steadycam Operator: Dean Smollar
Assistant Camera: Frank Mobillio
Gaffer: Alex Lizotte
Editor: Joe Shahood
MUSIC
Produced by Kush Mody
Trumpet- Max Miller-Loran/ Buckets- Chukwudi Hodge/ Acoustic guitar- Brandon Intelligator/ Bells and Harmonica- George Watsky
Engineered and co-produced by Nils Montan
Mixed and Mastered by Mike Denten at Infinite Studios
Chorus
Everything is A-OK
Because Im strong as an O-A-K (Oak!)
But money dont grow on trees (nope)
And Im B-R-O-K-E (Broke!)
Verse 1
Them rims them rings them things, you can bring em out
I just had my debit card declined at in N out
The line is flipping out. Giving me evil eyes
Fuck the soda, re-run it with just the cheesy fries
cause i dont think money is THE devil
Im not sinking, im just kicking it at sea level
I got my floaties on
Im focusing on all the wonderful stuff with the force of Obi Wan
Kenobi Bro, Im broke although I wont be woebegone
Cause even though my bank account is low or overdrawn
Im down to mow yer lawn
Im getting open Im soaking up every moment and so we
should make a toast we wont be sober til the broke of dawn
because beer is cheap
and because love is free
Im buzzin feeling like every friend is a cousin, G
And someday well be reminiscing on some wasnt we
Just so down and out
But we were happy then (cause)
Chorus
Verse 2
why should I sit on my ass on the couch and be asking why life isnt equal?
with lesser possessions Im light as a feather and so I can fly like an eagle
Cause everyone dies and I wonder why leaders in power would lie to their people
be planning like they could be fitting a camel up into the eye of a needle
but dammit Id i settle for fitting a 94 Camry inside of my driveway
im sick of the image Im living my life and im doing in my way
Id rather be making the choices Im proud of than chasing a mountain of money
But if that mountain comes to me, Im climbing it
Gotta a brick and Im laying it down
got a shovel, Im breaking this ground
because Im in red
but its only a color that I will be painting this town
Because when I make it then I dedicate it to friends I stayed with who would do me favors even lend me paper when I couldnt pay for a little takeout
to the fact
that whatever you think that it means
I be here and Im living my dreams
And its cause of the people I leaned
on when I came apart at the seams
So gimme the moon
And gimme the spoon
Im licking it clean
Until there just aint nothing left
But who will lend a hand")
![Watsky- Nothing Like the First Time [poem]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tW0iiriacSg/mqdefault.jpg "Watsky- Nothing Like the First Time [poem]
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shot by Alan Gwizdowski
engineered by Nils Montan")
![Watsky- Stick to Your Guns ft. Julia Nunes [x Infinity]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uN8DM7TyYvw/mqdefault.jpg "Watsky- Stick to Your Guns ft. Julia Nunes [x Infinity]
x Infinity album download: http://radi.al/xInfinity
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Music produced by Kush Mody
engineered and mixed by Andrew Oedel
Mastered by Howie Weisenberg and Gentry Studer
Cello- Daniel Lim
Lyrics: http://genius.com/10009351
Directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada
Producer: Kimberly Stuckwisch
Director of Photography: Albert Salas
Production Designer: Fernanda Guerrero
Editor: Taylor Brusky
VFX: Ryan Ross & Andres Jaramillo
Additional VFX: Tanner Merrill
Hand-drawn animation by Danny Madden
Sheep costumes designed by Cristina Bercovitz
Sheep costumes constructed by Cristina Bercovitz and Annie Chernecky
Sound Design: Michael OConnor
Interlude music composed by John W. Snyder
Color correction: Tyler Roth at Company3
2nd Unit DP: Alonso Mejia
Sheep choreography: Carlos Lopez Estrada
Executive producers—Ian Blair & Kimberly Stuckwisch for DIKTATOR
Executive producers—Corinna Martínez & Alonso Mejía Silva for Contenido Neto Producciones
Young boy: David Guerrero
Sheep performers:
Bryan Cárdenas, Horacio Balanzario, Miguel Sánchez Urueta, Antonio Soria
Sheep Stunts: Avelino Lugo
1ST AD— Elena Fajardo
Production manager— Hernán Mejía Silva
Production coordinator— Karina Lozano Salazar
1st AC—Miguel Argumedo
2nd AC—Antonio Torres
Video assist—Daniel Campos Garro
Video assist assistant—Brayan Alexis Torres Calamateos
Data managers—Edwin Esmeral & Karla Torrero Russo
Producer’s assistant—Tim Ferrari
PA’s—Avelino Lugo Martínez & Irving Riojas
Runner—Ximena Delgado
Locations manager—Ricardo Ramírez
Locations assistant—Carlos Olvera
Makeup artist—Sandra Miguelli
Makeup assistant—Zelene Fernández
Wardrobe design & stylist—Fernanda Vélez
On-set assistant—Carmen Delfín
Gaffer—Armando “Conejo” Herrera
Staff—Israel Herrera, Karim Alarcón Ayala & Arturo Martínez
Techno crane operators—Fernando Salazar, Ricardo Rojas & Ismael Díaz
Generator op—Víctor Cañada Mercado
Gear truck op—Agustín Rosales
Gear truck assistant—Francisco Galán
Dimmer op—Rubén Fuentes
Lights op—Luis Bernal
Dolly op—Fernando Castillo
Truss rigger—Alberto Betanzos
Lead man—Fernando Gómez
Decorator—Alberto Guerrero
Swing—Jorge Villafuerte
Transportation services—Santiago Ayala Ramírez
Drivers—Luis Enrique Morales & Carlos García
Security—Omar Cuadra
Catering by Sopa de Letras—Guadalupe De Luis Gonzalez, Yolanda Villeda, Concepción Maxtha, Antonio Maxtha & Samantha Jimenez")
![Watsky- Lovely Thing Suite Part 2: Knots [x Infinity]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uwXOB_kW300/mqdefault.jpg "Watsky- Lovely Thing Suite Part 2: Knots [x Infinity]
Summer Tour Dates: http://www.georgewatsky.com/tour
x Infinity album download: http://radi.al/xInfinity
http://facebook.com/gwatsky
@gwatsky
Directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada & Diego Huacuja
Animation Director & Art: Diego Huacuja aka deachete
Animators: Pablo Díaz, Carlos Miguel, Alberto Bala, Diego Huacuja
Compositing: Diego Huacuja
Supporting animation and design: Jesus Vargas
Produced by Basa (basaestudio.com)
Song written by George Watsky, Ryan Whyman & Kush Mody
Additional writing by Samora Pinderhughes
Produced by Kush Mody
Grand Piano—Ryan Whyman
Violins- Philip Marten, Rachel Ostler, Nicole Sauder
Violas- Laura Jesson, Tim Richardson
Cellos- Max Mueller (orchestra manager), Daniel Lim
String Bass- Freddy Hernandez
Bass Guitar- Kush Mody
Mixed and engineered by Andrew Oedel
Grand Piano engineered by Nils Montan
Additional vocal engineering by Sean Paulson
Mastered by Howie Weisenberg & Gentry Studer
Lyrics:
What a tangle
What a strangling knot to be caught in
To be exiled here
To be stuck in Berlin with Vienna so near
Yet so far from the Emperor’s ear
What a strange and impossible sum
To be old while to still be so young
to have sung before speaking a word
to be heard, to be hailed, then to fail, to be done
To love but to be so naïve
To trust and to be so deceived
To mourn, forlorn, to be torn from you
Scorned for another who suffers no grief
To curse God, seeking lightning, and to still be ignored
To hide in this room, now too rich to afford
To hear armies of creditors bang at the door, always yelling for more
and to have nothing to sell that could help
Except for the Steinway that sits in the corner
For Arthur it all came too easily
to learn the scales in every key
to play the etudes and the suites
the nocturnes and The Fantaisie
to master the sonatas, minuets, and symphonies
to seek the truth fits and starts
to strike the middle F like it’s an arrow through the heart
to wing the right hand like a dove (the peaceful flutter of a dove)
and with left a violent shove (some moments will demand a shove)
to needle gently yet relentlessly, a steady foot upon the pedal
and to clench the iron first inside the velvet glove
to learn to whisper and to scream (the whisper justifies the scream)
to let each yearning finger breathe (no, nothing lives unless it breathes)
to burn, to worship, to mislead
to pose a question with a pinky on a key
to flee, to fight, to bleed, to float, in air, nothing solid underneath
to rap those heavy knuckles on the gate to heaven til there’s nothing to achieve, but...
To go retrieve the length of cable hidden in the cabinet
to metamorphasize the twisted rope into an alphabet
to lay the lazy C upon the shabby wooden floor to rest
to send the end across the top and bend the C into an S
to curve the tail beneath the S to turn the tangle to a B
to hug the wretched root around the fibers suffocatingly
to wrap again, to wrap again, to give the coil seven loops
to penetrate the yawning hoop, to tug the loose appendage through
to yank the knot until it’s ready for the job it’s got to do
to toss the braid above the ceiling beam and to affix the noose
to bid adieu to all of you
until there’s nothing left to do but climb the chair
to cinch the collar
find the edge
to step into the air")
