I had no idea this song existed until today. I was exploring an abandoned amusement park and saw "In the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream, we must sing" spray painted on a wall.
Exactly. Weird “coincidence” that I’m really getting into Zen Buddhism and then I stumble upon this song, not because of some RUclips algorithm, but because I was just trying to re-experience some early-mid 2000s emo bands, and never really got into Bright Eyes.. but now I like them, lol
Whenever i get to the part where the man says “we’re going to a party” I just bawl my eyes out. The idea of a stranger showing such kindness to someone in their last moments is so overwhelming. The happiness of the song only serves to make me cry even more.
@@jaybrick8973 some people think that when you die, you reincarnate in another person. So... technically, your last day on earth is the day you're supposed to born (happy birthday! :D )
Me too! it's so funny being so close in thoughts right here in such a specific thing, and know we will never met each other considering the endless world of probability, like if you think about that this moment was waiting bilions of years to happen and now, it'll fade in the past forever. I love Lsd.
It is kind of life isnt it?? I mean we are all hurdling towrads the inevitble end... the undiscovered country... and what are we going to with this mysterious gift of life? I guess we can have a birthday party
This is kind of a beautiful message. As they’re falling, they know they can’t beat gravity, they know there’s nothing they can do about it, so they just decide to accept their fate and live while it lasts. As scary of a concept as death is, it’s inevitable. Live as much as you can in your time on earth, and when your time comes, greet the unknown with open arms.
Rest In Peace, Carl. Thanks for the amazing adventures. Hope there’s a lot of pudding for you up there. Say hi to your mum from all of us. Take care, brother.
same. well, i heard it once on my moms radio. but it registered when i heard it on TWD. oh my god. the visuals and just this song having so much to do with his character and how kind he was broke me. the way he smiled and did what he had to do knowing it was ending, but he smiled. god. this song is so incredible, and i’m so glad i was introduced to it. the tempo of it and just everything is so emotional.
lol "let that sink in." yeah, it's not that impressive. bob dylan was 20/21 when he wrote the majority of the freewheelin bob dylan, which had real substance and impact. i love conor but he's no genius. just a pretentious, brooding depressed guy who says a lot of pseudo-intellectual bullshit to sound deep.
@@bluraine7739for me personally, that line hits hard, my dad died (he shot himself) and my mom was very nurturing, so it's almost a perfect representation of my parents, although obviously Conor had a different meaning when he wrote it. I think it's really amazing how people can find so many different meanings in the same lyrics.
We run from ourselves to fit into the restraints of society. We fail to truly know and interact with those around us because of this. The only thing that pulls you out of that is being near death. You abandon society's rules because soon you will no longer need them, and without them we're able to fully embrace each other.
I know that thousands of folk discovered this from the walking dead but it's still an amazing song that helps you to notice that you shouldn't treat life like you should protect it, you should just make the most of it, even if it could be a short life
This melody of this song had snuck in and out of my mind over the last 16 years. I truly loved it when it first came out, a departure from anything at the time, which was an interesting time in my life, to say the least. it - as well as other songs and bands - helped me grapple with my existence of which wasn't where I wanted to be. As I got older and eventually had a son, I would think about it and try to remember the words, but couldn't quite put it together enough for google to emit a correct response. I wanted to let him listen to it, as it's one of our things, listening to 'old' music on the way to school, or road trips, or just laying in bed. somehow today, when this song seems to mean the most to the world, a random high school friend on facebook - whom I haven't actually spoken to in 24 years - shared an old concert lineup of a bunch of bands including... Bright Eyes and it all came back to me!
13 years old? Jeez...Still remember this and Bright Eyes discography getting me through my angsty teens. Hoping the show in September in Glasgow will still be going ahead ❤
Oh my goodness... totally forgot about this song. I would like to infinitely thank my brother for showing me Bright Eyes. This band has changed my thoughts, my heart, my life.
My boyfriend just introduced me to this band and let me tell you this so far is my favorite song of theirs. He told me about how they started singing and how old they were and so on. Let me tell you this. I was so super impressed by them. Such great singers!!❤❤❤
Missing an old friend right now, she past away this Christmas. We hadn’t spoke in years, but she loved this song and it reminds me so much of her. Even more now.
This video is the best Bright eyes video by far. I love how Connor starts his albums with these little tales that can be interpreted in about a million different ways.
"While my mother waters plants" (giving life) "my father loads his gun" (taking life) and were all stuck, powerless in the middle of it, do we even know right from wrong anymore in this world?
I showed this song and video to my grandmother a month before she passed around Christmas last year. She loved it,needless to say for 82 years old she couldn't of been any cooler :)
Nathalie, I agree- I get so happy but I get so terribly sad at the same time. I love the mix of emotions. I think this song lets me let go of my walls.
+StanleyCornfield I think that line is my favourite and I think its positive and negative. It conveys how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things and I find it uplifting in a way. Don't worry about all this mundane shit when we are just barely a blip in the timeline of the Universe.
That intro is so powerful, the whole song is but as soon and he tells her how much he loves her I'm already bawling. This song moves the deepest part of me. It's a flawless work of art, I just wish it was longer.
I literally can't listen to this song without tearing up, it's only this song. My dad explained it to me once because I didn't read into the lyrics and ever since then it isn't the same. The message and lyrics are amazing and sad but I just can't listen to it without tearing up
Ever since my childhood dog and grandfather died last year, I've developed a severe fear of death, but this video and song oddly enough brings me a lot of calm. "I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one." I'm not the only person who will have to face death one day, no matter if it's my own life or one of my loved ones. I'm no special case, it's not like I'll be granted some sort of guaranteed afterlife. It's incredibly easy for our egos to get in the way of how we perceive our own passing, when in reality, we're just like every other living thing on planet earth. One day, we'll become one with it just like everything before us, and you know what? That's nothing to fear. It's Beautiful if anything. I'm not sure what happens when we die, but I hope we get to see our loved ones, even if only for a brief moment.
let me tell you my personal experience. you get obsessed, you post lyrics on your Facebook about it that no one likes except some sympathy likes and also likes from creeps who just wanna fuck you. Years pass, you're a lot more popular and fun. you go through your timeline history, you read a status. a song. you need to read again to realize oh it's a bright eyes song. you find it on RUclips and play it while you see their other songs that you have had forgotten in the suggestion. you plan to watch them after this one and then you read a status like this and you share your experience to them
I'm a grown man, and I have memories of me in 2004 or 05 making people listen to this song in my living room, in my campus apartment. I just needed them to feel it like I felt it. Idk if they did. In any case. happy 20 years of making me remember my most awkward moment, good song. lol
Someone told me that my music sounds like Bright Eyes. At the time, I hadn't really heard any of Bright Eyes' songs. This was the first song I listened to and it really stayed with me. It officially hooked me on their music and it's a song I keep coming back to from time to time. In retrospect, that comment someone made about my music is now a huge compliment to me.
I listen to bright eyes from time to time so I can feel sad... this song does it for me everytime... I thank my girlfriend for showing me the phenomena that is Comoros Oberst. His powerful voice and lyrics put a number on my feelings...
Just casually cleaning up a huge bite mark in my chest, while writing letters to everyone I love and taking pictures with my sister before I die. -walking dead season 8 episode 9
Oh, did he die T.T ? I never finished watching the series. (also I just googled and I see It's still airing?! they've been really fighting the zombies for whole-ass 10 years omg. Is it still good to watch?)
I remember finding this song 8 years ago on my lab top back when I was 16. It was the same day my brother brought home his girlfriend from Chicago who’s now my sister in law. Weird how a song can take you back to just one certain day.
I see so many people here expressing their feeling of happiness they get by listening to this but I find it extremely melancholic. Like...extremely melancholic. Especially at the beginning, it's weird: "We're going to a party". Goddamn it, this guy presented the fact that an inevitable death is a party, this ain't no happy feelin', this is sad and ironic at the same time
Everyone seems to be here from the walking dead, meanwhile I’m getting nostalgic because I remember when I was a little kid, maybe 7 or 8 I asked my dad what this song was about and he had to explain it in the nicest way possible... heh. I love this song.
I was listening to all the sad tracks of bright eyes because i was depressed and then this came up and my mom called me upstairs because they ordered pizza and im all fine now. wow lol
That's a great story. I had my phone plugged into the speakers next to my lizard's tank and the happy music scared the shit out of him, and he jumped off his branch.
We must talk on every telephone Get eaten off the web We must rip out all the epilogues From the books that we have read And to the face of every criminal Strapped firmly to a chair We must stare, we must stare, we must stare We must take all of the medicine Too expensive now to sell Set fire to the preacher Who is promising us hell And in the ear of every anarchist That sleeps but doesn't dream We must sing, we must sing, we must sing While my mother waters plants My father loads his gun He says death will give us back to god Just like the setting sun Its return to the lonesome ocean And then they splashed into the deep blue sea It was a wonderful splash We must blend into the choir Sing a static with the whole We must memorize nine numbers And deny we have a soul And in this endless race for property And privilege to be one We must run, we must run, we must run We must hang up in the belfry Where the bats and moonlight laugh We must stare into a crystal ball And only see the past And into the caverns of tomorrow With just our flashlights and our love We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge And then we'll get down there Way down to the very bottom of everything And then we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it Oh my mornings coming back The whole world's waking up This city bus is swimming past I'm happy just because I found out that I am really no one
So there was this woman and she was on an airplane, and she was flying to meet her fiance seaming high above the largest ocean on planet earth. She was seated next to this man she had tried to start conversations, but the only thing she had really heard him say was to order his Bloody Mary. She was sitting there and she was reading this really arduous magazine article about a third world country that she couldn't even pronounce the name of. And she was feeling very bored and despondent. And then suddenly there was this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out, and they started just falling thirty-thousand feet, and the pilots on the microphone and he's saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh my god... I'm sorry" and apologizing. And she looks at the man and says "Where are we going?" and he looks at her and he says "We're going to a party. It's a birthday party. It's your birthday party. Happy birthday darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much." And then he starts humming this little tune, it kind of goes like this: 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4 We must talk in every telephone Get eaten off the web We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read And in the face of every criminal Strapped firmly to a chair We must stare, we must stare, we must stare We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream We must sing, we must sing, we must sing It'll go like this: While my mother waters plants My father loads his guns He says death will give us back to God Just like this setting sun is returned to this lonesome ocean And then they splashed into the deep blue sea It was a wonderful splash We must blend into the choir Sing as static with the whole We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul And in this endless race for property and privilege to be won We must run, we must run, we must run We must hang up in the belfry Where the bats and moonlight laugh We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past And in the caverns of tomorrow With just our flashlights and our love We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge And then we'll get down there, way down to the very bottom of everything And then we'll see it, oh we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it Oh my morning's coming back The whole world's waking up All the city buses swimming past I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one
“You be good, Ok? For Michonne. For dad. Listen when he tells you stuff. You don’t have to always. Sometimes kids gotta show their parents the way. This was dad’s before it was mine. Now it’s yours. I don’t know, just-just having it then, it always kept dad with me. It made me feel as strong as him. It helped me. Maybe it’ll help you too. Before mom died, she told me I was gonna beat this world. I didn’t. But you will. I know you will.”
I’ve listened to this song so many times now just so I can fully hear and understand the lyrics. Fantastic song, and quite sad/beautiful at the same time. I’m not sure how I feel. Love it regardless!
I would have maybe never known this song if not for twd. And I am a huge lover of music, and so glad I was turned on to this amazing message of true honest life. Great message in this song of what is wrong and how to correct it in this tune! Love it!going to go listen to the rest of their stuff now!
Heidi Hanes check out first day of my life (and the entirety of I’m wide awake it’s morning) as far as the rest of their stuff goes I really only care for four winds from the album cassadaga. That said, the singer Connor oberst has some great solo work and some good stuff working with other bands like the mist of valley gang. Edit: mystic*
+AbusivePersian I think it's a song about freedom. Freedom from the crushing obligations that life holds. Those things are important but in the end we are all going to our birthday party one day live it up till then.
+John Holbrook also freedom from all of the image society places on you. Freedom from the pressures of everything. Freedom from having to do things to fit a bigger picture. whenever you get down to a nihilistic point of view, you start to learn what really matters.
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Thank you for everything Carl.
I was looking for this 😭 I miss him. It’s not the same without him
I've been putting up with this since I was 8...
@@Bellisaaajust saw the scene, went here immediately to look for this comment
Tysm😢😢
Rip carl😭
I love how this is the happiest song by the Bright Eyes and it's about dying in a plane crash
depends on how ya look at it
Great song, but not the happiest.
Corey Liddil definitely not the happiest he has a song literally called all be your friend
Corey Liddil though I’m pretty sure Amy and the white coat is there happiest song
V-Rex and u are so right! Just watch the walking dead season 8 episode 9
I had no idea this song existed until today. I was exploring an abandoned amusement park and saw "In the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream, we must sing" spray painted on a wall.
That is very cool.
RCSJ11 That sounds super creepy but awesome as fuck.
RCSJ11 For the last 7 months, I've been completely unaware people liked my comment lmao
RCSJ11 lol you need to be more aware
smilyface38 he saw the likes spray painted on a wall in an abandoned amusement park
“I’m happy just because I found out I am really no one” These lyrics make me cry every time.
It's a solid lyric 🤙🏼🖤
don't worry about him, he's a little confused, you are most definitely someone 🙌
100%
@@slothbearanonymous transcendental Buddhism concept of self
Exactly. Weird “coincidence” that I’m really getting into Zen Buddhism and then I stumble upon this song, not because of some
RUclips algorithm, but because I was just trying to re-experience some early-mid 2000s emo bands, and never really got into Bright Eyes.. but now I like them, lol
Whenever i get to the part where the man says “we’re going to a party” I just bawl my eyes out. The idea of a stranger showing such kindness to someone in their last moments is so overwhelming. The happiness of the song only serves to make me cry even more.
Why does he say going to a birthday party ?
@@jaybrick8973 some people think that when you die, you reincarnate in another person. So... technically, your last day on earth is the day you're supposed to born (happy birthday! :D )
@@jaybrick8973 the way i interpreted it, he was just saying whatever came to mind to give the woman next to him some peace of mind.
Me too! it's so funny being so close in thoughts right here in such a specific thing, and know we will never met each other considering the endless world of probability, like if you think about that this moment was waiting bilions of years to happen and now, it'll fade in the past forever. I love Lsd.
same. even when i hear it on spotify i just see this scene in my head and it makes me choke up.
Coming back here the day after The Walking Dead finale.
Forever grateful to the show for introducing me to the magic of Bright Eyes.
The only good thing they did haha.
same
I've found that there are so many shows that use some of bright eyes stuff, conner has been at it for such a long time
@@tylercooper1551 what are some of the other shows?
@@Spotto26 offhand I can't fully remember, I'm going to research it and I'll report back
"We're going to a party, it's a birthday party. It's your birthday party darling. We love you very very very much" .. and I'm bawling like every time
It is kind of life isnt it?? I mean we are all hurdling towrads the inevitble end... the undiscovered country... and what are we going to with this mysterious gift of life? I guess we can have a birthday party
👀
Me too 😭
same
This is kind of a beautiful message. As they’re falling, they know they can’t beat gravity, they know there’s nothing they can do about it, so they just decide to accept their fate and live while it lasts. As scary of a concept as death is, it’s inevitable. Live as much as you can in your time on earth, and when your time comes, greet the unknown with open arms.
Thankyou for this 💓
The grim reaper is a good friend of mine. Thank you for saying this ❤
This made me cry ❤
always keep on hugging your loved ones and let them know you love them.
As a wise man once said “you can’t fight change, you can’t fight.. gravity”
Rest In Peace, Carl. Thanks for the amazing adventures. Hope there’s a lot of pudding for you up there. Say hi to your mum from all of us. Take care, brother.
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OMG 😭😭
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Solid reference there's definitely pudding for him on the other side
I was half asleep on the plane and this came on shuffle, but still one of my favorite songs after all these years ❤️
So you listen to this song that takes place on a crashing plane on a plane
Lol
What a coincidence
Its all fun and games until you realize this song isn't on your playlist
And then I'm like "Oh! And Bowl of Oranges!" and the rabbit hole continues.
I always listen to this before getting on a plane
Ahahahaha!
SAME
Quirky.
You should listen to Aeroplane over the sea also
I do too, and hand the headphones to my wife, she gets mad but laughs too
"I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one." I guess we shouldn't take life too seriously...
+TaleOfValors None of us are making it out of this life alive. So might as well live to the fullest while we can.
+Johnny CashedOut ...well, at least Buddhists get reincarnated.
Is there any more liberating thought than dropping all that self-importance? I think not
+Jason Brotherton that was one of the most beautiful sentences I've ever heard, what a great motto
TaleOfValors no one's perfect
My friend died in a plane crash four days ago, and this song has been hugely instrumental in helping me get through it. I love this song.
David Smith rip.
This is all kinds of bullshit.
john wrath lmao
No one cares we came here to listen to music not you're BS story
Hugely INSTRUMENTAL?
Heh i get it
Never heard this song before Carl's End ...I have made it clear, i want this song played at my funeral....RIP Coralllll RIP
im glad you are a fellow fan of the walking dead
@@jamesgleeson7290 ditto
same. well, i heard it once on my moms radio. but it registered when i heard it on TWD. oh my god. the visuals and just this song having so much to do with his character and how kind he was broke me. the way he smiled and did what he had to do knowing it was ending, but he smiled. god. this song is so incredible, and i’m so glad i was introduced to it. the tempo of it and just everything is so emotional.
Overrated show
I just watched this scene. Like literally not even a minute ago 🥲
I want this song to be sung at my funeral.
Same
Same
If you die within 30 years I can make that happen, I'd always wanted to be the stranger at the wake
Same
Conor Oberst was 22 years old when he wrote this. That’s pretty damn impressive.
Hes a genius i hope i can write something as good as this one day
It kind of pisses me off haha. How the hell was he so wise and philosophical at that age. Just brilliant
lol "let that sink in." yeah, it's not that impressive. bob dylan was 20/21 when he wrote the majority of the freewheelin bob dylan, which had real substance and impact. i love conor but he's no genius. just a pretentious, brooding depressed guy who says a lot of pseudo-intellectual bullshit to sound deep.
@@lachrymarum_ bruh
@@lachrymarum_ - Sure, but comparing almost anybody to Dylan is just plain not fair. :-)
I play this song when I’m having psychosis and it helps ground me and stay in a positive mindset about the world.
Found this song from the walking dead and couldn't get it out of my head, it's amazing
fr i jus seen carl die i’m crying
Same here! Great song!
ayy same
what season???
keep your moouth
"While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun." Amazing on so many levels.
What do you think that means
@@bluraine7739 I think of the divine yin and yang / creation destruction stuff....but thats just me
@bluraine7739 its mother nature and father time.
My favorite line as well.
@@bluraine7739for me personally, that line hits hard, my dad died (he shot himself) and my mom was very nurturing, so it's almost a perfect representation of my parents, although obviously Conor had a different meaning when he wrote it. I think it's really amazing how people can find so many different meanings in the same lyrics.
We run from ourselves to fit into the restraints of society. We fail to truly know and interact with those around us because of this. The only thing that pulls you out of that is being near death. You abandon society's rules because soon you will no longer need them, and without them we're able to fully embrace each other.
+Bob The Ruler - TRUE...
Best analysis of the song that I've heard
Facebook was basically for college kids when this came out. Myspace was in its prime. Its odd to think of where we are now as a society in 2021.
LIKE HOW OLDER ANTS ABANDON THEIR COLONY TO SEARCH FOR YUMMY FOOD FOR THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEYRE ABOUT TO DIE
This song made me cry, that started when the old man said we are going to a birthday party, happy birthday darling!
No doubt about it
Made me cry for years.
Brian Hu “we love you very very very very much! “
I know that thousands of folk discovered this from the walking dead but it's still an amazing song that helps you to notice that you shouldn't treat life like you should protect it, you should just make the most of it, even if it could be a short life
It's amazing. This song makes me so calm every time
Good for bright eyes making ir on twd
RIP Erin. You were the first person to show me Bright eyes among many other bands. You were too good for this world , left way to soon.
This melody of this song had snuck in and out of my mind over the last 16 years. I truly loved it when it first came out, a departure from anything at the time, which was an interesting time in my life, to say the least. it - as well as other songs and bands - helped me grapple with my existence of which wasn't where I wanted to be. As I got older and eventually had a son, I would think about it and try to remember the words, but couldn't quite put it together enough for google to emit a correct response. I wanted to let him listen to it, as it's one of our things, listening to 'old' music on the way to school, or road trips, or just laying in bed. somehow today, when this song seems to mean the most to the world, a random high school friend on facebook - whom I haven't actually spoken to in 24 years - shared an old concert lineup of a bunch of bands including... Bright Eyes and it all came back to me!
This has always been one my all time favorites to play. The upbeat tempo contrasted by the deep lyrics really makes it a masterpiece.
13 years old? Jeez...Still remember this and Bright Eyes discography getting me through my angsty teens. Hoping the show in September in Glasgow will still be going ahead ❤
Me too. I'd play it on repeat
@@quietlife6881 100%. Beautiful song.
Easy
. lucky. Free. ❤
Oh my goodness... totally forgot about this song. I would like to infinitely thank my brother for showing me Bright Eyes. This band has changed my thoughts, my heart, my life.
sarah longbrake this is just random notification in case you forgot about this song again :)
Another one
This song’s been bringing tears to my eyes for 16 years ❤
I heard this years ago but never knew what it was
My boyfriend just introduced me to this band and let me tell you this so far is my favorite song of theirs. He told me about how they started singing and how old they were and so on. Let me tell you this. I was so super impressed by them. Such great singers!!❤❤❤
that song is incredible. so many emotions at once... holy crap...
Missing an old friend right now, she past away this Christmas. We hadn’t spoke in years, but she loved this song and it reminds me so much of her. Even more now.
Listening to this song in 2016. Bright eyes makes me happy and sad at the same time.
+Natalie Currie Yes ! This is what makes his music so beautiful. This music also ages very well
I agree, the term I believe is "bittersweet". Older death cab has the same effect for me :)
Older death cab always does it for me 💜
@24fretsoffury Plans always gets me :)
Mmmm plans :)
This video is the best Bright eyes video by far. I love how Connor starts his albums with these little tales that can be interpreted in about a million different ways.
"While my mother waters plants" (giving life) "my father loads his gun" (taking life) and were all stuck, powerless in the middle of it, do we even know right from wrong anymore in this world?
I showed this song and video to my grandmother a month before she passed around Christmas last year. She loved it,needless to say for 82 years old she couldn't of been any cooler :)
Everytime I listen to this song it just makes me so so happy and I just can't stop smiling and I don't know why
Nathalie, I agree- I get so happy but I get so terribly sad at the same time. I love the mix of emotions. I think this song lets me let go of my walls.
Nathalie Leonor Really happy, but also really sad. "I'm happy just because.... I found out I am really no one"
+StanleyCornfield I think that line is my favourite and I think its positive and negative. It conveys how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things and I find it uplifting in a way. Don't worry about all this mundane shit when we are just barely a blip in the timeline of the Universe.
If you care! You do something, you don't just hope. It takes more than that.
~ *Carl Grimes*
my eyes sure are bright after all the crying.
thank you, bright eyes. thank you, twd. i needed this.
this song is about my mother.
That intro is so powerful, the whole song is but as soon and he tells her how much he loves her I'm already bawling. This song moves the deepest part of me. It's a flawless work of art, I just wish it was longer.
11 years later and I still find new meaning in his music. Conor Oberst is a genius
I don't know how they get to say all these sad things in such a cheerfull way... You can cry and dance at the same time...
I literally can't listen to this song without tearing up, it's only this song. My dad explained it to me once because I didn't read into the lyrics and ever since then it isn't the same. The message and lyrics are amazing and sad but I just can't listen to it without tearing up
‘we’re going to a party, it’s a birthday party. it’s your birthday party darling. we love you very very very much..’ just brilliant
Ever since my childhood dog and grandfather died last year, I've developed a severe fear of death, but this video and song oddly enough brings me a lot of calm. "I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one." I'm not the only person who will have to face death one day, no matter if it's my own life or one of my loved ones. I'm no special case, it's not like I'll be granted some sort of guaranteed afterlife. It's incredibly easy for our egos to get in the way of how we perceive our own passing, when in reality, we're just like every other living thing on planet earth. One day, we'll become one with it just like everything before us, and you know what? That's nothing to fear. It's Beautiful if anything. I'm not sure what happens when we die, but I hope we get to see our loved ones, even if only for a brief moment.
Conor's voice is fantastic and you're crazy if you think otherwise. My favorite musician of all time.
BEAUTIFUL.
"I've found out im really no one".....Wow.The saddest but sweetest relief
someone help im becoming more and more obsessed with bright eyes
+Callum Wales Let it happen babe!
just accept the inevitable
+CallumWales
Me Toooooo...
let me tell you my personal experience. you get obsessed, you post lyrics on your Facebook about it that no one likes except some sympathy likes and also likes from creeps who just wanna fuck you.
Years pass, you're a lot more popular and fun. you go through your timeline history, you read a status. a song. you need to read again to realize oh it's a bright eyes song.
you find it on RUclips and play it while you see their other songs that you have had forgotten in the suggestion. you plan to watch them after this one and then you read a status like this and you share your experience to them
Callum Wales The Arc of Time
I'm singing this for my mother's birthday, just because she loves this band so much. Thank you, Saddle Creek, for making a dark yet happy song.
I'm a grown man, and I have memories of me in 2004 or 05 making people listen to this song in my living room, in my campus apartment. I just needed them to feel it like I felt it. Idk if they did. In any case. happy 20 years of making me remember my most awkward moment, good song. lol
it hits so many emotions i cannot explain this.
i've loved bright eyes and this song especially for years.
Someone told me that my music sounds like Bright Eyes. At the time, I hadn't really heard any of Bright Eyes' songs. This was the first song I listened to and it really stayed with me. It officially hooked me on their music and it's a song I keep coming back to from time to time. In retrospect, that comment someone made about my music is now a huge compliment to me.
❤❤❤❤❤❤😊
The first refrain was a quote I used for the opening of my first novel.
This song is a deep part of what I love about music.
I can never make it through this video, without falling apart emotionally. Every.Single.Time.
I clicked on this song because the title was interesting and oh wow this might be one of my favorites ever. It’s been stuck in my brain ever since
my 14mo daughter loves this song and this video. it always calms her and helps me get her to sleep
Kind of dark, considering it's meaning. Their use of metaphor is honestly why I love this song so much
Blake Edwards shut up
+Endless Static rofl xDDDD
I sang this as a lullaby to my daughter and she still loves it and finds it comforting
I listen to bright eyes from time to time so I can feel sad... this song does it for me everytime... I thank my girlfriend for showing me the phenomena that is Comoros Oberst. His powerful voice and lyrics put a number on my feelings...
damn man 11 years ago
Into the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love we must plunge... we must plunge ... we must plunge.
“While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun” has to be one of my favorite lines in a song
Ive been listening to this song for 10 years or better...today it had a deeper meaning...thank you conor oberst
God. Is it just me or am I the only one who finds the lyrics to this song amazing that describes everything wrong with this world?
ecleavist You're hilarious.
Completely agree. I love Conor's lyrics. He says exactly how he feels
I love his voice too, when I 1st heard this song I cried the lyrics spoke to my heart!
I love this song, but the lyrics are just incredible.
It's true
I want this song played at my funeral. I also hope each and every one of you will sing this if you're ever in a plane crash.
Just casually cleaning up a huge bite mark in my chest, while writing letters to everyone I love and taking pictures with my sister before I die.
-walking dead season 8 episode 9
Do I cry or laugh
I'm crying
Used to listen to this song all the time in college and I just remembered it. Brilliant.
Carl thanks‼️😭😭
Thank you walking dead for bringing everybody to this amazing band!! Probably their best song but ya gotta listen to the whole album peps!!
This song plays when Carl gets bit on walking dead and its hella sad
Ah ok. I knew I heard this song befor but couldn't remember where. Thanks
What a sad moment in that series
Oh, did he die T.T ? I never finished watching the series. (also I just googled and I see It's still airing?! they've been really fighting the zombies for whole-ass 10 years omg. Is it still good to watch?)
@@slavka1792 No, for me it's not so good anymore.
Ik right I started crying
I want this played at my funeral RIP CG!!!!
no song has ever made me cry like this one
I remember finding this song 8 years ago on my lab top back when I was 16. It was the same day my brother brought home his girlfriend from Chicago who’s now my sister in law. Weird how a song can take you back to just one certain day.
I see so many people here expressing their feeling of happiness they get by listening to this but I find it extremely melancholic. Like...extremely melancholic. Especially at the beginning, it's weird: "We're going to a party". Goddamn it, this guy presented the fact that an inevitable death is a party, this ain't no happy feelin', this is sad and ironic at the same time
That’s life and death. Pretty amazing, and strangely beautiful
Everyone seems to be here from the walking dead, meanwhile I’m getting nostalgic because I remember when I was a little kid, maybe 7 or 8 I asked my dad what this song was about and he had to explain it in the nicest way possible... heh. I love this song.
Same, my parents used to play this a lot when I was 7-8
My older sister introduced me to them
Good use of this song for the opening scene of the Walking Dead episode "Honor."
Conner is such a genius, have loved his stuff for ages
Checking in after many many years, and that intro is still up there with the best ever.
I was listening to all the sad tracks of bright eyes because i was depressed and then this came up and my mom called me upstairs because they ordered pizza and im all fine now. wow lol
+Hassaan Tauseef i'm glad :)
That's a great story. I had my phone plugged into the speakers next to my lizard's tank and the happy music scared the shit out of him, and he jumped off his branch.
gangs
Hassaan Tauseef this happened to me today omg
Hassaan Tauseef Then you weren't sad. That's not real sadness.
We must talk on every telephone
Get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues
From the books that we have read
And to the face of every criminal
Strapped firmly to a chair
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare
We must take all of the medicine
Too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher
Who is promising us hell
And in the ear of every anarchist
That sleeps but doesn't dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing
While my mother waters plants
My father loads his gun
He says death will give us back to god
Just like the setting sun
Its return to the lonesome ocean
And then they splashed into the deep blue sea
It was a wonderful splash
We must blend into the choir
Sing a static with the whole
We must memorize nine numbers
And deny we have a soul
And in this endless race for property
And privilege to be one
We must run, we must run, we must run
We must hang up in the belfry
Where the bats and moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball
And only see the past
And into the caverns of tomorrow
With just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
And then we'll get down there
Way down to the very bottom of everything
And then we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it
Oh my mornings coming back
The whole world's waking up
This city bus is swimming past
I'm happy just because
I found out that I am really no one
So there was this woman and she was on an airplane,
and she was flying to meet her fiance seaming high above the largest ocean on planet earth.
She was seated next to this man she had tried to start conversations,
but the only thing she had really heard him say was to order his Bloody Mary.
She was sitting there and she was reading this really arduous magazine article about a third world country
that she couldn't even pronounce the name of.
And she was feeling very bored and despondent.
And then suddenly there was this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out,
and they started just falling thirty-thousand feet,
and the pilots on the microphone and he's saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh my god... I'm sorry" and apologizing.
And she looks at the man and says "Where are we going?" and he looks at her and he says "We're going to a party.
It's a birthday party. It's your birthday party.
Happy birthday darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much."
And then he starts humming this little tune, it kind of goes like this: 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4
We must talk in every telephone
Get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read
And in the face of every criminal
Strapped firmly to a chair
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare
We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing
It'll go like this:
While my mother waters plants
My father loads his guns
He says death will give us back to God
Just like this setting sun is returned to this lonesome ocean
And then they splashed into the deep blue sea
It was a wonderful splash
We must blend into the choir
Sing as static with the whole
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
And in this endless race for property and privilege to be won
We must run, we must run, we must run
We must hang up in the belfry
Where the bats and moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
And in the caverns of tomorrow
With just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
And then we'll get down there, way down to the very bottom of everything
And then we'll see it, oh we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it
Oh my morning's coming back
The whole world's waking up
All the city buses swimming past
I'm happy just because
I found out I am really no one
Thank you my dude
This song is perfect for Carl's death
Different lyrics say "Sailing high above the largest ocean". Still not sure cause it sounds like seaming lol
@@BeatDemon08 it is
Thank you
Still remember the first time I listened to this song the first time. Magical, wondrous and beautiful. Reminds me of my 13-year-old self.
"I'm happy just because I've found out I am really no one" (very true and very deep)
So... she was in the aeroplane over the sea?
Donovan Stollsteimer you don't know how much I appreciate this comment
Neutral milk hotel ❤❤❤
begone you heathen
I can't express how happy this comment makes me
*1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4*
you ever hear a song that changes your life forever?
Rip my main man carl you may be gone but not forgotten
Josey Bojangles why you hurt me like this man
fr man 😭
I love his brilliant ability to write so well💙💜💚💛
“You be good, Ok? For Michonne. For dad. Listen when he tells you stuff. You don’t have to always. Sometimes kids gotta show their parents the way. This was dad’s before it was mine. Now it’s yours. I don’t know, just-just having it then, it always kept dad with me. It made me feel as strong as him. It helped me. Maybe it’ll help you too. Before mom died, she told me I was gonna beat this world. I didn’t. But you will. I know you will.”
The first 1:38 gives me douche chills. After that it's a good song.
+Jay Gee I actually like that part, though he could have made it without 'surfer dude'-style. But the intro builds up the feeling to the song imo
I’ve listened to this song so many times now just so I can fully hear and understand the lyrics. Fantastic song, and quite sad/beautiful at the same time. I’m not sure how I feel. Love it regardless!
here after the most recent episode of the walking dead.
love you, carl :’)
love you forever carl
ahhh one of my all time favorite songs,- my sister introduced me to Bright Eyes after seeing them live in Aotearoa/New Zealand
I would have maybe never known this song if not for twd. And I am a huge lover of music, and so glad I was turned on to this amazing message of true honest life. Great message in this song of what is wrong and how to correct it in this tune! Love it!going to go listen to the rest of their stuff now!
Heidi Hanes check out first day of my life (and the entirety of I’m wide awake it’s morning) as far as the rest of their stuff goes I really only care for four winds from the album cassadaga. That said, the singer Connor oberst has some great solo work and some good stuff working with other bands like the mist of valley gang.
Edit: mystic*
Please do another bright eyes album I miss them, they got me thru hard times and emotional turmoil.
In memory of Carl Grimes
You will not be forgotten 😭😭🤧 2010 - 2018
He was one of the best characters tf
One of the most compassionate. He's just in it for the blood.
Brad Coleman 😭
Josey Bojangles you mean the best actor
Carl was 8 years old?
Who's here cos they love Bright Eyes and had no idea it was on TWD?
had no clue the walking dead even used this track. I heard this years back.
Me.
Yep
It's better that way.
Never was there a better hymn for existential crisis than this song ❤
lowkey skateboarded out into the sunset on a cloudy night to this song and had the most out of body, vibing, expirience ever...
this is one of the best songs ive heard its weird but really cool
Rip Carl 😩😭
sad
That's what it's from!!!
Rip😭😭
Bri Nycole 💔😭
Only death I truly cried because we are the same age and I he was handling it so well 😭
why does this song make me cry so much
+AbusivePersian I think it's a song about freedom. Freedom from the crushing obligations that life holds. Those things are important but in the end we are all going to our birthday party one day live it up till then.
+AbusivePersian depressing? dont think so...
+John Holbrook also freedom from all of the image society places on you. Freedom from the pressures of everything. Freedom from having to do things to fit a bigger picture. whenever you get down to a nihilistic point of view, you start to learn what really matters.
+Howard Naong - I know, right...
Oooh great memories! I love you conor! Your songs brought joy, hope, sorrow and lash out anger through very difficult times.
I'm here from Hobo Johnson's Jumper interview. He said this was "the best album ever made". Thanks Hobo
CORAAAAL