The Decemberists - The Engine Driver (from Picaresque)

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  • Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024

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  • @oscarsoji6624
    @oscarsoji6624 3 года назад +31

    My now ex-wife was the one who showed me this band, we used to go for a drive while we were listeng to this album, I do miss her, too bad i realize how much i love her a bit too late.

    • @db8erfreak
      @db8erfreak 5 месяцев назад

      Never too late mate

    • @firejaw6459
      @firejaw6459 4 месяца назад

      @@db8erfreakSometimes, it really is.

  • @joegkushner
    @joegkushner 8 лет назад +104

    My favorite lines from the song,
    "And I am a writer, writer of fictions
    I am the heart that you call home
    And I've written pages upon pages
    Trying to rid you from my bones"

    • @nickrandles1102
      @nickrandles1102 4 года назад +3

      Oh do I know what that feels like.

    • @lucystarlight8887
      @lucystarlight8887 3 года назад +5

      "And if you don't love me let me go"
      Wish it were that simple huh?

  • @Iridescence93
    @Iridescence93 5 лет назад +36

    i like the lyric " I am a money lender.....Take my hand for tender". Very clever pun.

    • @rodddossantos1437
      @rodddossantos1437 4 года назад +1

      Tendor, dear. “Tendor”

    • @probably_talon1075
      @probably_talon1075 4 года назад +10

      ​@@rodddossantos1437 "Tender" as in offered money-not the drug "tendor" which makes no sense in the song's context.

    • @rodddossantos1437
      @rodddossantos1437 4 года назад +2

      Probably_Talon My bad. You are correct. My misspelling for ever! What’s a drug “tendor” though? Never heard of it.

    • @generalstore7515
      @generalstore7515 9 месяцев назад

      @@rodddossantos1437 yes, you have it completely out of context, but that's fine too Noun. tendor m ‎(genitive tendōris); third declension. stretching, straining, tension.

  • @sleepymongoose6663
    @sleepymongoose6663 7 лет назад +57

    "The Engine Driver"
    I'm an engine driver
    On a long run, on a long run
    Would I work beside her
    She's a long one, such a long one
    And if you don't love me let me go
    And if you don't love me let me go
    I'm a country lineman
    On a high line, on a high line
    So will be my grandson
    There are powerlines in our bloodlines
    And if you don't love me let me go
    And if you don't love me let me go
    And I am a writer, writer of fictions
    I am the heart that you call home
    And I've written pages upon pages
    Trying to rid you from my bones
    My bones
    My bones
    I'm a money lender
    I have fortunes upon fortunes
    Take my hand for tender
    I am tortured, ever tortured
    And if you don't love me let me go
    And if you don't love me let me go
    And I am a writer, writer of fictions
    I am the heart that you call home
    And I've written pages upon pages
    Trying to rid you from my bones
    I am a writer, I am all that you have home
    Home
    And I've written pages upon pages
    Trying to rid you from my bones
    My bones
    My bones
    (And if you don't love me let me go)
    And if you don't love me let me go
    (And if you don't love me let me go)
    And if you don't love me let me go

  • @slf1800
    @slf1800 8 лет назад +30

    A beautiful song - you don't have to be living it to appreciate.

  • @coreylipow180
    @coreylipow180 Год назад +7

    This song is brilliance. Easily one of Decemberists' best songs. Why so few views?

  • @xevissimo
    @xevissimo 11 месяцев назад

    The depth of that song has moved me to the point of tears. On a day dedicated to meditation, I managed to connect with my essence, sometimes elusive. Amidst life's complexities, we build shells that make us forget those seemingly simpler days. However, I've learned that sometimes all it takes is to breathe and focus on the present.
    I shared this song today with a friend because its melody not only symbolizes my adolescence but also triggers a cascade of memories in my mind and heart.

  • @SageLakshmi
    @SageLakshmi 10 месяцев назад +1

    This song got me through such a hard time in my life.

  • @jenleit9679
    @jenleit9679 7 лет назад +30

    I want to exist in the tiny, sinewy tendon in Colin Meloy's heart

  • @FabulousKilljoy
    @FabulousKilljoy 5 лет назад +24

    I love this song.

  • @oldgreasychips
    @oldgreasychips 7 месяцев назад +1

    there is an essence of diddles organ from legend of mana that brings potent nostalgic bliss...

  • @foretdecouchage
    @foretdecouchage 6 месяцев назад +2

    this was the first song i ever heard of theirs i was 14 and absolutely sold 🥰🥰😍😍

  • @nickrandles1102
    @nickrandles1102 4 года назад +6

    This song changed me

  • @seanrowshandel1680
    @seanrowshandel1680 11 месяцев назад +1

    I'm not asking, "What do you need?", but you can announce it in words.

  • @Grass-seedling
    @Grass-seedling 2 года назад +1

    This is just VIBES so good oml

  • @foretdecouchage
    @foretdecouchage 6 месяцев назад

    got tickets to see them in july i'm GONNA CRY THE WHOLE TIME

  • @diouranke
    @diouranke 3 года назад +8

    🔸There are powerlines in our bloodlines 🔸

  • @matthewbalfour2298
    @matthewbalfour2298 8 лет назад +13

    So beautiful. I'm a banker (money-lender), get shivers when that bit comes up.

    • @Doziethegreat
      @Doziethegreat 6 лет назад +1

      Matthew Balfour Are you a money lender too?

  • @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos
    @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos 2 года назад +37

    I was introduced to this song by a young woman who heard in it her feelings for another man. In time, I would come to hear in those same notes, perhaps underservedly, my feelings for her. We drivers of engines, our tracks are winding ones. They join and fork and join again in an inscrutable labyrinth guided by inexorable switchmen: our triumphs and tragedies, our gambles and resignations, virtues and vices, neuroses, certainties, hesitations, mistakes, miscalculations, and indeed every descision, temperment, or proclivity we ever adopt. But the engine drives ever onward, perchance to never cross those same tracks again. Unlike the inertial mass of coal and steel that is the present, the past is a fragile thing indeed, and yet so difficult to truly scour away completely. And perhaps that is for the best. There is a bittersweetness in retracing the worn and weary lines of pleasant memories long faded.

    • @cmjuliep
      @cmjuliep 2 года назад +3

      Wow....this is better than the song, actually. Beautiful.

    • @patcooper793
      @patcooper793 Год назад

      My wizened and jaded stance tells me to be wary of overly romanticizing these sorts of songs, if you relate to the time period this is someone who needs something to cling to, without our modern conveniences and down in the dregs, which I am not

    • @kaleenakelly
      @kaleenakelly Год назад

      ​@@patcooper793I miss the days of romantic pining love, but still I am jaded in that I would never love for the lust alone, it would be practical. But I do know men like the speaker of the song in the modern day. These songs are my new crush songs for my 30s, they balance out the ignorance of the honey moon stage and prepare me for what is likely to happen.

    • @dbp20111
      @dbp20111 Год назад

      You might like this vid I made for engine driver, to have written such a poetic comment figured maybe you would appreciate it, just a hunch, its probably that fourth most recent on my channel, basically just my family watches, but once in a blue moon i randomly share on Internet hope you don't mind

    • @flynnwashburne9358
      @flynnwashburne9358 8 месяцев назад

      Slap yourself.

  • @ShanonSinn
    @ShanonSinn 8 лет назад +5

    Resonates for sure. Been a Decemberists Easter day.

  • @CaptainAwesome7400
    @CaptainAwesome7400 3 года назад +26

    So will be my grandson
    There are powerlines in our bloodlines.
    This line speaks to my family.

  • @kafkca
    @kafkca 4 года назад +1

    La Roue (1923), directed by Abel Gance.

  • @donaldpromnitz4787
    @donaldpromnitz4787 3 года назад +3

    "I have four chins..."

  • @FuzzSprinkle
    @FuzzSprinkle 2 года назад +3

    Hemingway?

  • @TsunamiDragonEX
    @TsunamiDragonEX 10 лет назад +21

    If they don't love me, why won't they just let me go?

  • @johnnyconstantino3749
    @johnnyconstantino3749 3 года назад +6

    My friend was an engine driver he let me know. .....

  • @Rick-t9n
    @Rick-t9n Месяц назад +1

    I'm still trying to rid You from My bones....

  • @eddiaz93
    @eddiaz93 8 лет назад +39

    I'm listening to a song that's essentially instructions and figuring that I need to let her go. Problem is that I think I love her.

  • @majou666
    @majou666 Год назад

    Jim Knopf und Lukas, der Lokomotivführer.

  • @Kopesedek
    @Kopesedek 2 месяца назад

    They all want me, but don't love me, they won't let me go

  • @Cumpooter
    @Cumpooter Год назад +3

    For me the song brings back memories of an overpowering heroin and now fentynal addiction that cost me the love of my life. She stayed around longer than most would but finally moved back to her hometown and got married to tattoo artist. I still play it sometimes when I realize that all is well and where it should by in my mothafuckin kingdom nowadays yo

  • @jaredsmallwood7736
    @jaredsmallwood7736 3 года назад +3

    Is this about Electro from Spiderman? "Powerlines in my blood lines"

  • @ProfessorChomsky
    @ProfessorChomsky Год назад

    It's just magnificent x

  • @johnnygreer9105
    @johnnygreer9105 4 месяца назад

    2024!

  • @raquelamodio97
    @raquelamodio97 Год назад

    Good timez interesting internet robot LOL

  • @tonykartracer8032
    @tonykartracer8032 6 лет назад +3

    One of their better songs, this one....... if not the top one next to "Oooh oooh oh oooh ooh". Ya'll know it! :P

  • @darsoulr
    @darsoulr 8 лет назад +1

    this and dear avery wish I hadn't of written to personal

    • @FabulousKilljoy
      @FabulousKilljoy 5 лет назад +7

      What were you on when you wrote all of these comments

  • @benaspinall252
    @benaspinall252 2 года назад +1

    I am a writer of fiction

  • @davidroberts123
    @davidroberts123 3 месяца назад

    Miss not saying anything just having an inside laugh to myself about how free everyone was but some one had to give me schizophrenia god demon man women who knows at least decking me in face I could see my accuser's

  • @darsoulr
    @darsoulr 8 лет назад +4

    starting in twenty ten I have horrible images of a pot with shit a coin and food remenenants my family being hurt and other bot so nice thing....sometimes free porn.....hell can't be much worse.....

  • @RichardGonzales-vl8eg
    @RichardGonzales-vl8eg 4 месяца назад +1

    Im still writing...trying to rid her from My bones.