Joanna Newsom - Only Skin (with lyrics) [full length]
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Only Skin by Joanna Newsom from her 2006 album "Ys". Album version. As I can now upload videos longer than 15 minutes, I thought I'd finally upload the song in one video.
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It makes you wonder how she gets through live sets. Like it's one thing to write and create this song, and quite another to memorize and perform this along with other complex songs on the set list. Like 17 minutes of obscure lyrics... no conventional chorus, very few repetition... Truly impressive. This song is a modern masterpiece.
Antonia Glaser i actually did some research on her cause it astounded me as well.. she apparently learnt to memorize long, elaborate pieces of poetry while she was in university i believe..how, i have no idea.. there has to be some methodology she's developed that we're just not aware of.. because you're right, there's no conventional chorus, very few repetitive lines.. it's astounding.
+EclecticStranger Memorising poetry is one thing. What's really astonishing is memorising the music. Her harp playing skills are no joke. Her singing neither. Just goes to show that she's a modern day musician. I don't consider bands (rock bands etc.) as real musicians. She wrote songs as complex and beautiful as post romantic Piano Concertos. And she wrote many many of them. I believe most of the views here have only been superficial, not realising the depth of her music.
+Antonia Glaser I 100% agree. I have memorized the lyrics myself, but I sure wouldn't trust myself to sing it in front of a live audience. Don't even get me started on her harp playing.
+Antonia Glaser i've never heard her sing this live...prob a good reason why :p
Joanna forgot the lyrics at Latitude festival years ago and asked for a reminder twice them (if I remember rightly) eventually had to give up. It just made her adorable. It was an amazing performance: she was first on stage as she had another gig in London on the evening. The whole festival was at the main stage at noon. There was a guy waving a huge flag and the crowd was so quiet respectful there was a whisper passed from the back, through the whole field, until it got to him and he rolled up his flag, turned round and silently mouthed 'sorry'. Awesome.
Who elses' Spotify wrapped would be sooooo different if Newsom was on Spotify?
I listened to this song so much when my Dad was dying. It was the only thing that felt right. I remember listening to it in winter, watching the snow fall against the black night. Such a beautiful song. It was the only album I could listen to at that time.
This feeling of relating to only one song for so long is hypnotizing. I understand you completely.
Sorry for your loss
On the night I lost a friend unexpectedly, I found myself listening to this song over and over, still in the depths of shock.. I also felt like it was the only music that spoke to what I was feeling, this feeling I'd never felt before.. It was like a meditative oasis where life and death are a natural cycle and to just accept.. 'fire moves away..' it was an anchor, expressing the pain I felt but also consoling it.
I'm so sorry for your loss ❤ it's amazing that strangers across the planet found solace in the same sound
Thank you Joanna 🌱
Your father is now with Jesus Christ.
the line “scrape your knee: it is only skin makes the sound of violins” at 5:00 evokes such a powerful emotional response from me, i don’t know why. joanna newsom is so mind-blowingly talented, i don’t think talented even covers how magical she is. my heart legitimately feels changed after absorbing this song.
Elsie Campbell makes me cry every time
It gets me everytime, too. For me, it means, that it's okay to get hurt, to throw oneself in a possibly hurtful situation. You are strong enough to heal afterwards. But without allowing yourself this part of life, you will never be able to enjoy the happier times.
Yea that line start a crescendo that is so emotional to me. Then comes "The seagull weeps 'So Long' ". Literally brings me to tears every single time. I hold her music so close to my heart.
That same part, just after at like 5:35 where she transitions to the other melody after she say’s humming a threshing song gives me goose bumps and chills every time I hear this song. She is such an experience to listen to that I don’t even really like to listen to her with anyone else around. (Not for inappropriate reasons)
I know I'm late to this comment... But the way she says violins sounds quite like violence, possible wordplay and double meaning.
The. Lyrical. Master.
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To me, this song is about the delight and fear and anguish and anxiety of love in sickness, loving the sick, and loving while sick ourselves. How this world is so enormous and heavy and beautiful and intoxicating and smothering that it wrecks and ruins us. How the infinite tiny miracles are barely enough - they are enough, but just barely - to keep us breathing. And so much more. This song is one of the greatest works of art to ever be created, and for the last eight years I've been extremely grateful to have it.
she said this song was a recap of everything that happened in Ys told in a story. That's why it's such a ginormous song.
the title was the last thing to be done, it came to her in a dream after the wrote the album.
The more you listen to the song to more complex it becomes. I just now realized she referenced stone fruit multiple times in this song and it actually has a place in the story
"Smell of a stone fruit being cut and being opened"
"Silently from all the blooming cherry trees in tiny nooses safe from everyone"
"Suck all day on a cherry stone"
"Dig a little hole not three inches round, spit your pit in the hole in the ground"
Oh wow I never noticed that before in this!
Dogs chasing birds also comes back... Toothless hound-dog choking on a feather in the beginning, then the bird against the picture window and dogs still run roughly 'round little tufts of finch-down.
I almost feel confident in saying I need not listen to any other song she's ever produced to say she is the most impressive musician in a long, long time. I love and listen to all various types of music... but this song still impresses and captures me more than anything. What a humble, beautiful, and gifted artist!
doctorliman the whole album is wonderful!!
"I love you truly or I love no-one" always makes me cry. Most of the time almost all of this song does, but that line gets me every single time.
This song is always stunning, when the male lyricist kicks in and the song just rides down like a rollercoaster into the end, it's just so god damned good.
This is the best description of the end of the song I could ever imagine. That's exactly what it's like.
bill fucking callahan. they were dating at the time.
Aren't all the lyrics to this song written by Joanna?
You mean vocalist
This album is a constant. It will never sound dated because it is from outside of time. It will always be as amazing as the first time you heard it.
that little anecdote in the middle about the brown bird gets me every time. I forget that part is in this song and then I'm floored by how captivating it is.
exactly. the part when the bird stood in her hand, dead, for a 'lifetime or two'.
@@obscurecult She'd lain still as a stone, they were sure she was dead but then she saw the treetops and off she went!
My cat recently died and I held her limp body in my hands, so hoping that she'd jump up again and purr. The section about the bird punches me in the gut every time. I worry I didn't give my cat a good enough life in my boring apartment. The bird flying up again at the sight of treetops - I wish I could give my girl that. But she's gone.
Come across the desert with no shoes on, I love you truly or I love no one.
If you don't live me now you will NEVER live me again. Eye can still hear ya saying you would never break the chain.""
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"sky was a bread roll,
soaking in a milk bowl
and when the bread broke,
fell in bricks of wet smoke"
How much better can imagery ever be than this?
"Come across the desert with no shoes on.
I love you truly or I love no-one"
My gods, that line really hit me like it hasn't ever. The speaker in this song and the love she has for that man (I'm taking a jab at what this song could possibly be about) is quite remarkable. I love Joanna Newsom's music so much!
joanna sounds so good when she sings "then there was a silence you took to mean something"
She sounds so ethereal at ''when I cut your hair, and leave the birds the all of the trimmings"
this might be the greatest piece of music ever written. as far as I'm concerned. just so breathtaking
Linguists: Isn't Cellar Door a pleasing phrase?
Joanna Newsom: Awful atoll, Oh, incalculable indiscreetness and sorrow, Bawl bellow, Sibyl sea-cow all done up in a bow
Sometimes, such as now, I listen to this song and just end up with my jaw open in awe that someone could create something this astoundingly beautiful.
And to think I came upon Joanna in a little review in a newspaper I picked up on a train. Had that not happened, I would have missed this glorious artist! After all these years, this is still one the most remarkable songs I've ever heard.
I discovered her from Owen Pallett’s cover of Peach Plum Pear. Forever grateful they did that cover and led me to her.
Sometimes when I’m especially tired (or especially hounded), I hide here in this song. The rich tapestry of music and lyrics keep me safe. Yes, it’s a good space to step aside and catch my breath. Thank you Joanna!
Everytime I leave this song alone for a while I think, "maybe it wasn't that great."
It's always so much better than I remember.
I love Joanna Newsom because I know that it will literally take most of (if not all) of my life to truly listen to, understand, and visualize all of her music.
Scrap a sassafrass eh Sisyphus!
Beautiful. A song my brother and I sang when we were younger, so it's really nostalgic for me. It's a nostalgic story-telling song in the first place, so it only adds to the effect. This song can bring me to tears, with it's incredibly vibrant imagery. I love it, definitely a favorite.
I believe this song is her best. And I agree. She is the best songwriter of my lifetime, too. I've always loved this song but seeing the lyrics alongside reawakened my fascination with the intricacy of her sung poetry.
13:35 and onward is probably the best part of the whole song and that's really saying something considering just how incredible the rest of the song is
One of the best lyrical pieces of our times!
Love the part with the East-Asian style musical influences! 6:07 - 7:35 particularly reminds me of the stories of the Ming ji prostitutes from the novel Peach Blossom Pavilion.
That is my absolute favorite part😍
cathy and duby greatest “silently from all the blooming cherry trees”
In love with everything Joanna ever did, and lately this one especially. Since I'm currently on lockdown like half of Europe, it's the closest thing I can get to travelling far away.
I have listened to this song at least 900 times since I first heard it over 14 years ago and it has never failed to fill me with wonder. If I could listen to this on my death bed I will and I will pass on with a happy mind ✨️
God, the transition from 6:00 gives me chills every time.
i love everyone’s theories on the themes and meanings of this song......to me i think it’s about femininity and a woman’s burden of healing :-)
Glorious, epic song about romantic love and all the pitfalls and levitations it carries within it by its nature.
"Why would you say I was the last one?" I think that line intrigues me more than any of the others in this song, solely because it's returned to several times, which seems to place a sense of importance on it. I wonder what "the last one" is referring to, and why it seems so affecting to the narrator.
I think it's about her being the last woman this man would ever love, as he would keep telling her she is the "last one". But the songs seem to imply he is unfaithful, or that their relationship is fading, so it feels like she is repeating that line as she mourns that it was not true when he spoke it.
@@MVA11p I can see how that fits the rest of the song. It certainly fits my interpretation. Thanks!
@@MVA11p perfectly said
@@MVA11p @Arno MansionV You put it so well! I take it to mean the same thing. I love relating this bit to a line in Divers where she says "I don't know if you love me most but you loved me last." Over there I think it means that the narrator's lover is dying and over here it's their relationship that is dying. I bet it was on purpose. Joanna never writes something that doesn't hold some meaning.
Massive high-five Christian. That particular transition is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful i have ever heard in a piece of music - and yes, chills every time. Feel it right down my spine and hairs stand on end!
I just find it hilarious that she can write and perform such an artistic piece, and her husband gets an Emmy for "Dick in a box" :D The Emmys are literally a joke.
What the actual fuck. Why?
The Emmys are an award show that awards other tv shows. Why would they award a song? They awarded Dick in a Box because it was a comedy skit, not cause it was a song.
@@SKsaturn I guess someone should tell the Emmys that they need to rename the "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics" to "Primetime Emmy Award for a Comedy Skit."
I remember listening to this in a bus going through a heavy storm. It's a recommended experience, trust me
5:33 - 6:00 is one of the most beautiful moments in all of Ys if you ask me
Marcos Ioannou totally agree.Such an amazing moment
I agree that's my favourite section of the song. Magical.
This song to me is perfect. It’s beautiful.
My favourite song in the whole world
This song just broke me. The whole tale of saving a sick bird and having the determination and knowledge to give it a proper death is beautiful! WHAT BROKE ME- having the miracle of "saw the trees tops, cocked her head and up and flew" followed by reality- "but back in the world...dogs still run roughly around little tufts of finch down"
having that opposition of romantic and beautiful "what should be" truth", followed by "no that bird died and the dogs are eating it"...seriously. metaphor much?
little bits of the themes of eternal recurrence that are later more pronounced in Divers. still a beautiful and perfect song
I feel like i'm listening to someone's life story in song. Like an entire movie of story in a single 15 minute song.
An epic poem of love and war.
Probably the greatest song ever recorded.
This song makes me feel emotions I didn't know I could feel
The all my bones and onwards, tears me down, instant tears....Well actually the whole song makes me cry
Some Years ago, I had a terrible cold. I was laying in the in the sun and listened to Only Skin and Emily. While I listened, I was shivering the whole time. After that I stood up and my cold was completely blown away. Like a miracle.
This is so beautiful. In combination with Joanna being in possession of an unfathombly deep pool of creativity and the experiences she shares... this composition is an exceptional journey.
7:52 she's just showing off at that point
The bit about candy and spiders are my favorite
Me, too. If I had ever in my life felt like I feel when I listen to these 16 small minutes of music, in a church, or temple, or I'd have fallen to my knees, maybe become a monk. (So, I guess I'm glad I have not felt about religions of the world, this way, felt this awe at the beauty of its creation, this Art.) God, Newsom, I'm not a celebrity-stalker, but could I have your autograph? Thank you. Life is thundering blissful toward death in a stampede, so I'll see you there in a second!
does she know all her songs by heart?!? wow, what a bard
It's so cute how her voice squeaks in the beginning! I absolutely love everything she has ever done.
years ago i knew all the words to this song. revisiting it now, trying to sing along, i cried
So much power, so much femininity
This song is captivating. Each time you listen to it you notice something which helps you appreciate it magnificence even more.
According to her site, part of the last verse is "could move you to such heights" instead of "couldn't move you to such heights", just fyi
This song never fails to move me to tears
I keep thinking I’ll change my mind every time I listen, but nope, this is one of my favourite ever songs
it means...what you need it to mean
To me, it almost sounds like her man went mad, and though she tries harder and harder to take care of him, she can't.
+Lilly Kopp I hear hints of life and death, sickness and health, abandonment, betrayal, love, loss, and yes, madness too.
"i love you truly or I love no one" you are right but he/she doesnt care. it's about loving someone unconditionaly. no matter where or to whom her/his lover will go, he/she knows that he/she will always love him.
i thought it was about a cheating man who she still loves. she decides to forgive him. in the beginning he gives her an std
To me it sounds like he's gone mad from PTSD after returning from a war, "There was a booming above you, Black airplanes flew over the sea, You froze in your sand shoal,
Prayed for your poor soul"
back in 2006, she put this song down as a monument of modern pop-crafting, it's an unsurmountable epic bomb
6:00 love this part.
My fucking soul. Only listened to this about 3000 times and hits me just as hard every time.
This part makes me shudder. I actually play that part before I do my peak training sets. Yes, a meathead with 600lbs on his back is cranking Joanna through his head phones. Gives me a better adrenaline and euphoria than heavy metal.
God how good this song is...
Impresionante, seguiré la carrera de esta mujer, si es que ella compuso todos los arreglos la pondré a la par de Bjork. Que belleza de canción, no es nada sencillo hacer algo así, mis respetos hacia su composición.
9:30 can't help but sob
Why would he say... she was the last one?
no words can describe what this song has meant to me over the last 12 years... but some of the lyrics in the video are incorrect just fyi
I don't know why but this song makes me think of a witch or a great forest spirit performing a spell or some sacred dance, IDK it just seems like a magical song to me.
how odes this has 700 views, when i have watched this over a 1000 times???
Amazing, totally and utterly amazing!
my favourite song since i was 7 years old, haha
These are some powerful lyrics.
We are restless things
Oh my god, I just wish it would last forever T_T SO GOOD!
15 years later and still my favorite
Toothless hound dog choking on a feather.
my favorite song ever
masterpiece
Good video! I'm liked and share 574 times :D
I love her Music so much...
is this joanna best ever song i think it is
i agree this just a great great song
thank you so much for uploading this
one of the best ever...
I love you truly, or I love no-one.
Took the words out of my mouth.
5:56-7:34
This song always leaves me blissfully confused
only the best.. amazing joanna. sing out your odd and enchanting beauty
7:02 omg so beautiful
Found this song from the Marge Simpsons video lol
lol me too now I can't stop listening to it.
Me too
The more I listen to this song the more I understand It makes me so sad :c
Perfection, basically.
I know the last syllable of recorded time…. It’s here in this song….
Feel your way through the dark…
Peat and Re-Peat until you feel the flow of the water…
This will take time…
Not instant gratification….
Join me here
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9:20 really gets me going
Love the part from 13:38 - 15:08
It's just beautiful, just for the sake of beauty, the use of language, poetry + music together that say, I was here, love Joanna Newsom. I agree with Billy, comment below, the lyrics mean whatever you say they mean. I think there is one word that describes this feeling, but I am not eloquent enough to call out that word. I just want my nieces (my daughter is the one who showed this song to me, so she already knows, and she publishes her own poetry on a regular basis) to hear this, and study on it. There was this world. A girl was born. She learned how to read and write. She learned music, how to play, read music, and sing. SHE MADE THIS. The line I quote most often--(I mean I did it again, this year, just to make a point in a conversation) out of dozens I feel are worth quoting is this, life is stumbling blissful toward death in a stampede. That's what this song means to me. It goddamn stuns me into raw humility. All of us will die. Soon. And you can live as long as you can, be as happy as you can, love another person as hard as you can. The End. Maybe you can leave this song behind when you die, but...I don't think too many people can do this. I will continue to enjoy listening and reading and observing the works of Art that we all contribute, and have a nice day, fellow human beings! Hey, remember, it's you and me, until the end! :-) (I don't mean that in any religious way, calm down; I'm an Epicurean.)
As a sick male oh she sounds so gorgeous. So happy for her more music to come for a long time we hope.