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Smoked this city Down to the roach
Thought by now It'd feel like home
I'm always reachin For my coat
Where else Would I even go

This cities Where I learned to drive
I'm a frequent At the local dive
Must've Played there bout A thousand times

They still can't Spell my name right

I don't mean To be a light weight
But I'm having trouble Keepin up

What is it I want?
If I got it would it be enough?
What is it I want?
Am I askin the wrong questions?

Breakin sweat By six A.M.
Home before She says goodnight
See you changin In the mirror
I've never been This happy or tired

I always thought It'd be different
Then I Remember what Hampton said
You're the people Not the pig!
Hang me With the landlord If I forget

I don't mean to be some bourgeois
Havin troubles Trynna keep this up

Last night I dreamt
I was in a gold filled tub
Divin like Scrooge mcduck

and it felt pretty good

What is it I want?
If I got it would it be enough?
What is it I want?
Am I askin the wrong question?

I always said I'd be someone
Well I talk too much
Like I said I wouldn't Fall in love
You went and called my bluff

What is it I want?
If I got it would it be enough?
What is it I want?
Am I askin the wrong questions?

This cities taken Most my life
Lord knows That car crash tried
Doc said I could've died
Don't tempt me With a good time

I don't mean To be a light weight
I'm just havin trouble Keepin up

Overall Meaning

The opening lines of d/dt's song "Weight" set a nostalgic tone for the rest of the song as the lyrics reflect on the relationship between the singer and the city. The repeated line "Smoked this city down to the roach" can be interpreted as a metaphor for using the city to its fullest and eventually burning out. The singer acknowledges that they thought the city would feel like home by now, implying that they have been living there for a while. However, the fact that they are always reaching for their coat suggests that they are restless and never fully settled.

The second verse of the song reflects on the singer's experience in the city, highlighting the places they frequent and the things they do. The line "I'm a frequent at the local dive" adds to the nostalgia as it suggests that the singer has been going there for a long time. Despite playing there a thousand times, the singer notes that "they still can't spell my name right," implying some level of disconnect between the singer and the rest of the city.

The chorus of the song poses a series of existential questions, asking "What is it I want?" and "Am I asking the wrong questions?" The singer seems to be struggling with finding meaning and purpose in their life, wondering if they are pursuing the right goals. The line "If I got it would it be enough?" suggests that the singer is unsure if they will ever find true satisfaction.

Overall, "Weight" is a introspective song that reflects on the relationship between the singer and the city, as well as the search for meaning and purpose in life.

Line by Line Meaning

Smoked this city Down to the roach
I've been here for so long, I've consumed everything there is to see or do.

Thought by now It'd feel like home
Despite my familiarity with this city, I still feel out of place.

I'm always reachin For my coat
I feel restless and always ready to leave this city.

Where else Would I even go
I don't know where else I could possibly belong.

This cities Where I learned to drive
I've spent so much time here that it's where I learned a fundamental life skill.

I'm a frequent At the local dive
I spend a lot of time at this bar, it's one of the few places I feel comfortable.

Must've Played there bout A thousand times
I've performed at this dive bar so often that I've lost count.

They still can't Spell my name right
Even though I perform there often, they still don't recognize who I am.

I don't mean To be a light weight
I don't want to be seen as weak or insufficient.

But I'm having trouble Keepin up
I'm struggling to keep pace with my own expectations and desires.

What is it I want?
I'm unsure of my own desires and goals in life.

If I got it would it be enough?
Even if I achieve what I think I want, will it be enough to satisfy me?

Am I askin the wrong questions?
Maybe I need to reevaluate what I'm asking for in the first place.

Breakin sweat By six A.M.
I'm up early and working hard every day.

Home before She says goodnight
I'm so exhausted that I go to bed before my partner even has a chance to say goodnight.

See you changin In the mirror
I'm growing and evolving as a person.

I've never been This happy or tired
I'm working hard to achieve new things and these conflicting emotions are a result of that hard work.

I always thought It'd be different
I had high expectations for what my life would look like at this point.

Then I Remember what Hampton said
I recall wise advice that puts things into perspective.

You're the people Not the pig!
I'm reminded that it's the relationships and connections I have that matter most in life.

Hang me With the landlord If I forget
I want to stay grounded in what's truly important, even if I have to be reminded of it.

I don't mean to be some bourgeois
I don't want to be seen as pretentious or overly wealthy.

Havin troubles Trynna keep this up
I'm struggling to maintain my current lifestyle.

Last night I dreamt
I had a powerful dream.

I was in a gold filled tub
I felt wealthy and indulgent in my dream.

Divin like Scrooge mcduck
I was living a life of luxury, like the character Scrooge McDuck from Disney's DuckTales.

and it felt pretty good
I enjoyed the sense of escapism that the dream provided.

I always said I'd be someone
I had high expectations for myself growing up.

Well I talk too much
I tend to overshare my thoughts and opinions.

Like I said I wouldn't Fall in love
I made promises to myself that I couldn't keep.

You went and called my bluff
I was forced to confront my own insecurities and vulnerabilities.

This cities taken Most my life
I've dedicated a significant portion of my life to this city.

Lord knows That car crash tried
I survived a traumatic experience and was lucky to make it out alive.

Doc said I could've died
I received a warning from a medical professional that I am not invincible.

Don't tempt me With a good time
I'm apprehensive about risking my health and safety for the sake of enjoying life.

I'm just havin trouble Keepin up
I'm struggling to live up to my own expectations and the pressures of life in this city.

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Written by: D.C.R. Pollock

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The Organic Chemistry Tutor

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1y↑1

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Liam Tolkkinen

2y↑151

My calc professor never covered this, she just expected us to understand what the difference was! This video was a huge help so I thank you for clearing it up for me!

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2y↑8

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Gabriel Gamez

1y↑2

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4y↑537

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4y↑1

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4y↑15

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4y↑2

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TheImpactedGamer

3y↑63

I have taken University Calculus 1 and 2 and this has always confused me. Whenever I'd ask a teacher they would just say its the derivative of y in respect to x but that means nothing! This video has finally made me understand something that I just had to guess at for over 2 years of calculus and almost a full year of calculus based physics

Minley Fox

3y↑36

This is a good explanation but is missing something that produces confusion among the comments.
It is correct that d/dx (y^3) = 0.
It is in general also correct that d/dx (y^3) = 3*y^2 dy/dx. However, it should be clarified that this notation only "works" if y is a function of x.
Thus, it should be better written as: d(y(x)^3)/dx = 3*y(x)^2 dy(x)/dx.

Jeremy Hofmann

2y↑7

It helps me to translate these notations into programming language statements. So dx/dy could be called with differentiate(x, y) where differentiate(expression, respect_to) is a function that accepts an initial expression and applies the “respect to” variable to each differentiated term in the expression.

Funyuns Ferret

1y↑2

Huge respect to you man!
You're educating millions arround the world online. We can't thank you enough
Love from India ♥️

EpicTurbulance

3y↑10

Thank you, you have really helped make Calculus look easier. We don't really go through this in Education. And the fact you use dy/dx instead of f' and g' helps me understand too. Now I know why d/dx is written and have learned better about how derrivatives with respect to a specific variable.

Zo Jirushi

3y↑20

Thanks that first part was very helpful I was always curious to know the difference between dy/dx and d/dx.
Now I know dy/dx tells us what the answer is and can also be written as y' and f'(x).
While d/dx is telling us to differentiate inside brackets.

Edilson Ruach

Exactly

Matheus Castello

3y↑31

i wish my teachers explained it this concisely, i never knew what to do when i saw dy/dx and now i know! thank you very much

Andrea Pinedo

3y↑3

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Zo Jirushi

3y↑2

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Yrok

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Shamsideen Jamiu

4y↑10

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AMANDA L.F.

it is once you get it :)

Nancy Hernandez

I see this a lot...d/dxtanx or tanx d/dx. What's the difference between the two? And do you have any good books that explain this? Thanks

Nekkz

29w↑1

I completed my engineering grade having trouble understanding this simple notation because no professor was kind enough to explain it properly... Even when asking for explanation, no one ever came to this great way to explain it. Quite sad. Thank you.

Vidisha Reddy Vuppula

3y↑4

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Anas Waer

Just wanted to say that you've helped me a lot
in different subjects in high school and college. I am very grateful, Thanks

Nick Scopre

3y↑3

This was actually very helpful, my school just kinda skipped derivative notation and this is saving me before my implicit differentiation quiz, so thank you very much.

Jarski l

I finished damn college 2 months ago and they never taught how to do this.
They just told to throw the stuff in calculator without explaining what even is going on

Mark Chen

2y↑3

My German physics professor just "blitzed" through everything without talking about this. You just saved my life! Thanks a lot.

Andrew Holtan

2y↑1

Great tutorial. Thanks for showing that math concepts can be comprehended if the basics are portrayed in clear, easy to comprehend steps.

Matthew C

44w↑1

This is fantastic. Ive always struggled with this because its rarely explicitly explained.

Uma Govindarajan

2y↑1

Thanks a lot.. I'm an Indian here in India for many highly tough competitive examination exams like
JEE, NEET these are concepts are most important and play a vital role...... Once again thank you so much for explaining this clear.... 🤗🥺❤❤❤

Brandon LaVeau

2y↑2

Also, just a note. You might wonder why
d/dy[x^3] is 3x^2 * dx/dy. Well the dx/dy term comes from the chain rule. Good thing to remember so you can understand the concept rather than just memorize how the dx/dy term got there.

Philip Rosescu

33w

Thanks for this. I need to revisit the chain rule. What does it say in short? Trying to make sense of why you need to slap that dx/dy onto there

Chris O'Connor

4y↑31

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Ariana Eilish

3y↑2

Which uni?

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3y↑17

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3y↑6

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The Big Yeeter

which university?

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@Ariana Eilish
I don't think so

Ahmed Reda

Man, God bless you! I have just started my master's this semester, and one course is all about derivative notations. AND I ALMOST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND A THING UNTIL I WATCHED YOUR VIDEO! SO THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

DeGeneration Z

2y↑8

Dy/dx --> denotes a derivative of the function y with respect to x.

D/dx--> states that you should take the derivative of the function in the proceeding adjacent parentheses.

Dy/dx=d/dx (y)

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Thanks

nyuhs executioner

4y↑69

Just wanna say...

You saved my life on my high school days and im very grateful for that ^_^ thank you

randht

If most teachers thought this way so many students will not be dropping math and science classes. Thanks for your help.

TheTooginator

38w

I am another grateful viewer! I’ve heard many explanations of the difference between dy/dx and d/dx, but yours was the first I understood!!!

If I understand correctly dy/dx=2x is a statement (this IS the derivative), whereas d/dx=x^2 is a command: differentiate x^2.

Arti Mishra

4y↑14

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Anushree

3y↑1

Tomorrow morning I've my exam, and this saved me my time. Short and sweet. Thank you so much. There was a big confusion between them & I guess it's very clear now. Thanks!

Wolfickle

4y↑2

Thank you for this dude..I am currently having Calculus in online classes so this helps a lot more than my ignorant teachers with bad internet!

한승윤

2y↑1

Your video was amazingly helpful! Thank you for posting such magnificent lesson. But may I ask you one more question?
So the expression d/dx[y] means differenciate y in the view of x. And because deritative of y is simply 1, the answer would be dy/dx.
But would it be a flawed explanation if I say 'd dissapears while differenciating y, and dy emerges because the function is about variabe y'?

gunnerrn

40w

You are litterally carrying me through my calc course, thx so much

George Sadler

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squash 101

The first minute I learned more than I did in a 3 hour lecture :'}

James Brodski

4y↑1

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Farzana Masois

3y↑1

Have you ever wondered why the derivative of y is dy/dx?

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Zyan Karim

4y↑4

when differentiating with respect to a different variable, I always assumed that the argument had to be a function of the the variable we are differentiating by, otherwise the derivative would be 0. for example, if we take d/dx [y^2] and y is not a function of x, then it can be treated as a constant and the derivative is 0. But if it is a function of x, then it would be 2y•dy/dx. is this right? or was I mistaken

Minley Fox

Yes you are right. A non-ambigous writing is: d/dx [y(x)^2] = 2y dy(x)/dx

AMANDA L.F.

this really helped, thanks for being articulate. I understand so much better now :) I was like wth do all these letters mean when I'm doing the same thing lol

Joseph Vallejo

2y↑1

Have a midterm tomorrow and this explained so much more than anything in the class 😭

Pedrosso

3y↑2

after seeing the first few sec, my assumptions are:
d/dx f(x) = the derivative of f(x)
dy/dx = the derivative of y
dy/dt = the derivative of y in relation to t
dx/dt = the derivative of x in relation to t
d/dy f(y) = the derivative of f(y) in relation to y

Jurie Gryffenberg

26w

This is the best explanation I have heard ever and yet it is something so simple!

Yoann Buzenet

@1:17 I have a question regarding the writing dy/dx. So I get it is the derivative of y relative to x. But why do we write it dy/dx ? There is no division, but we use a fraction to illustrate it ? Why is that ?

Joshii Fruit

Thank you for this! Really helped me a lot

nikolay salutski

40w

fantastic! thank you so much for your very inductive explanations 😇

Matt Morris

man, i never understood where this came from, and i'm already past relative rates.
i legit canceled coursehero (worthless) for this channel. wolfram alpha, chegg, and organic chemistry tutor is THE ticket to math.
shame i'm not still a biochemistry major, and switched to computer science, or this channel would be my degree lifeline entirely lol

Leen El mir

3y↑1

Sir thank you for all your effort, you have a natural gift for knowing how to explain

Zo Jirushi

agreed he is great at explaining!

Kiran Lalani

4y↑237

this is saving my life during online school where you don't learn shit

LEMOWONAPI MAXIMILIAN

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YouTube Thanush

33w

Thank you man it was very helpful for me pls post videos explaining the part after this

Dr PK Math

Cool. Notation is so important to know for sure!

Alice Senz

4y↑6

FINALLY THIS MAKES SENSE. GOD BLESS YOU

Philip Rosescu

33w↑1

What’s the point of multiplying by the derivative notation (eg. dx/dy in the example at 5:39)? What does that signify? Why isn’t it just 3x^2 + 5t^4?

謝衡鞍

4y↑1

honestly, why can't the teachers at school just explain it this way

MeloAndDiiv

what about a function which says y(t) = x^2(t) - What does it exactly say?

YKS21_TM

Kanka integralde gösterseydin bir de çok güzel olurdu, eyvallah

Jay Sethi

Great explanation, thanks

walleR

4y↑1

i just finished my calc 1 test yesterday and tq for all ur vids throughout my semester

APPLE JUICE ANDY

Wow you made it make sense in 5 mins when I couldnt get it for the past month

Buddhist Peace

3y↑1

Didn’t really explain why when there isn’t a variable y in the function but we are doing the derivative of the function r with respect to y. You now put dt/dy. What does this mean since the function r didn’t even have a variable y in it

Blackbody Economics

4y↑1

Ya, that helps quite a bit. Honestly though, I'm not a super fan of Leibniz's notation. But, everybody freakin' uses is - so whatever. Maybe I'll find it useful at some point :P
I just don't see how it's any more useful than LaGrange notation.

Híu

This really helped me out. MANY THANKS TO YOU

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Your existence is a blessing to millions of people around the world.

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1y↑1

Bro
I'm on.the best college in Egypt(the Cairo uni)and i study computer
And I only.knew what this means by u
Big thanks for u

Rainnnbow

25w

You literally saved my maths.... Thank you so much

Tom Austin III

Bioenergetics comes with a sick memory. If you always lift a 40 pound weight, a 55 will shock you. I always study in 4 minute segments and take a breathing break, and I can't break that. I naturally stop and get tired every 4

ameera

i finally understood what to do because of this

Angelo Castro

"THANK YOU FOR WATCHING"

NO MATE, THANK YOU FOR TEACHING

♡Minji♡

tysm but I really need to know what dx/dy is and how to calculate it

Evil G

27w

That was so, so helpful. Thank you

Mileina Gomboz

4y↑1

Please make a video on Differential Equations and Mclaurin Series expansion

shalini tiwari

Please make video on reduce mass😇

Yandhi420

5:10 curious - why would one differentiate wrt to y in an equation without a y variable? what does this intuitively mean?

Saki

Will you create a video on fractions word problem.

Jarski l

Omg I think I finally got the basic idea of this.
They never explained this. They just threw it on you and expected you to know.

Fdajax

26w

Using ' e.g. x' y' makes it easy for implicit differentiation

aly hamdy

So helpful ☺️

Elite Wasi

31w

Thank you, tomorrow my exam, i stuck in a basic calculation required only this but i don't have more time, thank you for your short video..

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Jason Guasp

Thanks a lot, it's really helpful

Forward

another piece of the vast puzzle just dropped into place! Thanks

José Sousa

4y↑14

I am not even learning this at school I just like his voice

Minhazulabedin Akib

wow!
the best explanation ever.

Brian Leung

I owe this guy a lot

Instant Chanel

I have been search for a long time for this vidio🥶
I always confused on my physic before i see this vidio
Good job :)

Taotao Fu

3y↑9

The first 2 minute solve my biggggest puzzle since I entered university.

Shubham Gupta

3y↑1

Are u studying this in college??
We ppl here in india study calculus in 11 standard

Firdosh Parbin

Love love love love love love loveeddddd it.......cant thankyou enough for this video

Duckscito Master

47w

i only knew d/dx cuz we did a unit on tangent lines in precalc

Yousof Mehrabi

Really brilliant 👏👌

Man

doesnt dy/dx mean difference in y over difference in x im confused

Golden A

The BEST BEST BEST tutor ever!!!!!! Lots of respect and thanks!!!!!!!

Toby Anderson

This super basic and very important stuff is glossed over in Uni, it becomes a real pain in the ass when you have to use it to interpret physics formulas.

Boy pandhesal

3y↑1

I can't thank you enough 😭

Tristan Viklund

27w

when i put d/dx(y^3) into calculators they give me 0. Are we asuming that Y is a function of x in this video and using the chainrule or what?? pls someone who is good at math