'I wrote this for a baby, who has yet to be born, I hope that wombs not too warm, cause it's cold out here and it'll be quite a shock, to breathe this air, to discover loss, so I'd like to make some changes, before you arrive, so when your new eyes meet mine, they won't see no lies, just LOVE' I remember listening to this a year ago when I wanted to die but these lyrics made me think of my unborn brother and here I am a year later rocking him in his chair. Thankyou Bright Eyes.
I think this song is the opposite of depressing. Ok, in the beginning it can be, but then he finds a reason to live, if not for himself but for his family and his newborn baby nephew. Amazingly uplifting song imo
discovering conor in 2021 through down in the weeds, and going through his entire discography has been a journey. happy to end up here, on this comment section
I love you Taylor and I really miss you. I wish I knew why you had to go and I wish I could have stopped you. You were too beautiful for this ugly world. I wish I could have helped you. I can hear you laughing and see your smile and feel you hug me when I close my eyes. R.I.P. my dear, sweet, friend.
i barely found out Oberst is coming to Arizona, finally. I'm literally in tears knowing I finally get to see the man that saved my life. I'm 23 and have been following him for... I don't even know how long. this song used to be my suicide song, and I'm finally past that darkness. i have an entire sleeve dedicated to this man, half to this song in specific. I highly doubt I'd be alive without his music. I'm so excited/overwhelmed. he's truly a gift. 💜💜💜
This song means way too much to me. And all I can say is that tears never felt so good and hurt so much. But I'm alive. Maybe it's because of this song, or maybe not, but it took away just a little bit of the loneliness.
i liked this comment 3 years ago. im sad that 3 years later im back here reading the comment section. im sad that i remember this being the first good upload i found in summer of 2010 sophomore year. god damn. okay bye lol
I haven't heard this song in years. It reminds me of a time I was really depressed in college and I would always listen to this song and it would make me feel better. Listening to it now gives me chills and brings me back to that time. Nostalgia
My brother always dedicated this song to me and said it was exactly how he felt. He was riddled with depression and suicidal thoughts. It's always hit home.
Haven't listened to this one in a year. Everything's different now, but it's comforting. Never thought someone could understand my emotions the way Conor can. And is it bad that reading the comments on everyone's depression makes me happy? We sort of all ended up here together in the same place because of a song. I think that's something pretty amazing.
I don't think it's bad, it creats a sense of welcome and placement to me, like, yeah we're all miserable but this isn't a battle that's we're alone in and there our others out there that can understand and if they can overcome it so can I
Bright Eyes helps me in times and ways that others can't. His music will always be with me, and I am thankful for it. Each song is a perfect capsule for various emotions. I get chills and tears everytime I listen to this song. I love Bright Eyes.
I went through mental breakdown less than 48 hours ago and I was near another one just now and I found this song and it keeps me together right now. My thanks to the songwriter.
I didn't know it was even possible to write something so honest and beautiful. Simply amazing, it speaks up for many who can't themselves. Beautiful, just beautiful.
listened to this song one year ago when things were going downhill and i felt so helpless. things got better and been searching for this song for a week now i'm here. love this song a lot.
This song helped me get through some very difficult moments of my life back in high school. Like some others on here, it was a sort of anti-suicide song for me. For anyone else going through a similar trajectory, just know that there ARE brighter days ahead (no, not easier, but brighter). Much love.
This song saved my life. Thank you Conor, you've done more for me than I could ever repay you for. When my heart hurt so very bad and my soul begged for relief from misery, this song helped me place my feelings....and deal with them. bless you conor
I forget how much I love bright eyes until I listen to one of their songs again! All of their Albums are so different but I love them all! This song is so sad but he finds hope.
THIS is the kind of music that should be known and famous, its not about sex, drugs, partying or anything like all the shit that everyone loves. its actually really emotional and people can relate to all of it.
When I was at my absolute darkest, and I hated everything and I couldn't take it anymore, this song helped me. It's a little silly now when I think about it, but this song really helped me drag myself up. I am always thankful for that.
That's a lot of weight to put on anyone - especially a new human. I hope you haven't made your "salvation" by their existence to be their problem to face like most people with your mentality do
This is exactly how I feel.... It's making me cry, but keeping m going at the same time. I've been feeling like this for so long but haven't told ANYONE. Listening to this just helps so much though.
this song used to get me through so much when i was younger. it just reminds me of all those long nights and i'd just fall asleep listening to it on repeat.
This song gave me a reason to keep going. My cousin and her husband, both of whom I’m really close to had a daughter when I was about 18, a point in my life where I just couldn’t do life anymore, or I guess I was closer to not wanting to live anymore rather than not being able to go on with life, a bunch of different factors were in play as to why. Depression being number though. I had attempted it a year earlier by overdosing on pills. I was literally at the same crossroads as the one in this song. I listen to a lot of Elliott Smith and stumbled across this song just a few months before my cousin’s daughter was born. It felt kinda surreal to be completely honest, for a song to actually be speaking to me and describing my exact situation. I felt a lot of emotion weld up inside me. And that’s when I understood what suicide really does to everyone wether they be family, friends, or even an unborn child. We always seem to forget that even a child still in the womb, hears every sound in the environment the mother is in. They respond to voice and loud noises. They can developed affections or avoidances toward particular people that were around the mother while the baby was in the womb. They also become distressed when the mother is distressed. I’m super close to the mother and father so... I’m sure we all can agree that when we commit suicide we’re running from something in lives and come to believe the only escape is to not fix the problem but make the problem no longer our plan by removing ourselves from the equation and we think “that’s that. Problem gone! Now I no longer have to that way!” We go away, the problem is there. The “problem” is an idea, a concept, and concepts don’t die; they only morph and become infectious. You didn’t stop or destroy your pain by ending your life. You just smashed it into shards of glass that caught burrow into your loved ones’ hearts. Digging deeper and deeper until they either extract it or unfortunately continue the cycle of pain and loss; and even if they extract that shard of glass out of themselves... that hole never heals it only becomes a void of sadness, anger, longing, and guilt because they’ll always wonder how they could have missed the signs, not seen how unhappy you were. What could they have don’t to help you. To prevent someone they loved from ending a life they themselves cherished. As harsh as this is going to sound... Suicide is and always will be a self decision because while we get to escape whatever hell we believe ourselves to be in, people we said that we love and truly love us have to pick up the pieces of their lives and forever live with a pain that we ourselves just tossed at their feet as we ran left them holding the bag. I accept and acknowledge my pain. I continue to live in a world I gave up on a long time ago, for them. Their happiness is infinitely more important than my pain, because their pain will be infinitely worse than mine is right now. My cousin’s daughter is now 9 years old, and their family now lives next door to me. So I get to watch her grow up, and get to be reminded everyday why I’m still here today. She’s too much like her mother personality-wise though and it gets one my nerves because now I have to deal with two of her.
This shit still makes me cry. Damn. I remember when I first heard this I fucking sobbed my eyes out. I saw a flower withering and I was embarrassed by its honesty I hope that womb's not too warm it'll be quite a shock to breathe this air to discover loss 😭
This song is getting me through so much right now. If Bright Eyes didn't exist, I cannot say I'd be alive right now... You have all taken the words out of my mouth. But at least we're all in this together, no matter how alone we feel.
I was on a path of destruction. I was young. No one would listen . This song saved me. My oldest nieces birth at the time had just happened. I will be 36 this Sunday. I made it. Don't quit. You are not your past tradegdy . Victim or victor.
This song just makes me feel so many emotions I didn't even know were possible, including an almost blunt and twisted joy that I'm not alone in feeling this way
Erin, thank you for posting this! Just giving myself one more day has kept me going, seeing your videos and your progress and your successes, also gives me hope.... ❤️
This song and Mathew by bombadil saved my life when I was a teen. Kind of forced me to think about the people I’d leave behind. To this day when I start to drift into that spiraling depression, I think about those two song in order to keep myself from going through with it. “If you decide to leave, soon I will follow” I have a good friend, and he is even worse off than me, bipolar disorder, and this line makes me think of him. I can’t do that to him, I hope I am that to him too. /blog post
There's very few songs that posses this type of powerfull emotion. that makes me sad, but at the same time happy to know someone is still making real music
So glad that this song exists. It changed my life. And one of the best decisions I ever made, was to get "No Lies, Just Love" tattooed across my chest.
this song takes me back to times when only music, and nothing else, could make me feel better and i wanted to fall asleep and not wake up...yet it still makes me so happy. it's just pure love.
Somehow I made it and now I'm rounding the corner to the spring of 2016. I celebrate 5 months of sobriety on march 10th and my life is better than it's ever been. Renewal, rebirth.
I'm so glad I didn't do it all those years ago. I thought there was nothing to look forward to. I heard the song, but I didn't listen.Boy was I wrong. Life finds a way, always. I will always love this song.
Thinking about ending it all but the My salvation it came, quite suddenly When Justin spoke very plainly He said "Of course it's your decision, But just so you know, If you decide to leave, Soon I will follow" Makes me want to reconsider
My life may have not been easy. It feels as though every negative thing that could happen to me, has. Recently, I just came home from college and received the news that my 16 year old sister is pregnant. While it may be hard to face at first, this song is a lovely reminder one how that child will still need love when he/she comes into this world. Love saves us, and will hopefully help keep the baby away from the "cold" aspects of this world. Thanks for posting.
I love this song.. It's inspired me so much and I can relate to it with a big chunk of my heart... That is why I got the lyrics as tattoos on my wrist, as quotes to live by. "No lies" On my right, "Just Love" on my left. I love Bright Eyes... Amazing.
wow just when i thought i had heard all the best bright eyes song i stumble upon another classic, had to fight myself from crying, big lump in my throat lol, added to favorites straight away
@theatre4evergirl I figured that part of the song implied that it was his brother "When Justin spoke very plainly" followed by "I wrote this for a baby Who has yet to be born My brother's first child" I figured that he did it for his brother. Correct me if I'm wrong
"I sat watching a flower as it was withering, I was embarrassed by its honesty. I'd rather be remembered by a smiling face not a fucking wreck that's taken as its place" is exactly how I feel about having a chronic disorder that's only getting worse, ngl.
Tiny Peach. This was one of my son's favorite bands. He turned me on to them. I wish they could have kept him alive. And this one hits really hard for me as my name is Justin. I didn't get the chance to tell him if he did I may soon follow. The only reason I haven't is I don't have the courage.
Among all the positive "life saving" comments I'd like to add my sob story. So my sister and I had a troubled childhood growing up and both suffered from suicidal thoughts and ideation. I kept my own a secret from the age of 11-16 maybe she was the only person that knew for many years and as a result of having shitty parents we were extremely close to one another always supporting one another as best we could. When we first talked about our suicidal thoughts she had quoted Justin here and said "if you decide to leave then soon I will follow" and for most of my young life that was the only thing that kept me living. She was a pediatric nurse and aspiring doctor, with a lot of friends and overall a much more valuable person within our society, saving lives and making others happy. I was always a bit of a trainwreck, constantly struggling with alcohol and drug abuse, financial woes, dropout, burnout, whatever, a bad apple. So I always felt like I would be doing the world a disservice if because of me my sister chose to end her life. Almost 5 years ago at the age of 25 she took her own life. It was declared an accidental overdose but after all we talked about and the way her house looked after her passing I knew it wasn't an accident. I think she definitely wasn't 100% about her choice when she made it at some moment she was past the point of no return. It still haunts me to this day that I never saw it coming until it happened it was never supposed to happen in that order, I was never supposed to live in a world without her and yet here I am. I feel kinda like she defrauded me, always keeping me hanging on and in the end getting to exit herself. A year or two ago I'd be singing the same tune as most others in this comment section that it eventually gets better and it's not worth making your loved ones suffer etc. Which is all fine and true but I worry I'm getting to a point where there's no one left to protect from my eventual departure. Most people would be better off without me and she's not even around to be that yellow bird.
To me in he talks about change, hope and honesty in times of no hope and depression. but that is just me... great song and strong lyrics love it... wish I could be that honest
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"and I sat watching a flower, as it was withering, and I was embarrassed by, it's honesty"
one of my favorite lines,but I love the whole song
'I wrote this for a baby, who has yet to be born, I hope that wombs not too warm, cause it's cold out here and it'll be quite a shock, to breathe this air, to discover loss, so I'd like to make some changes, before you arrive, so when your new eyes meet mine, they won't see no lies, just LOVE' I remember listening to this a year ago when I wanted to die but these lyrics made me think of my unborn brother and here I am a year later rocking him in his chair. Thankyou Bright Eyes.
lion lion ah my dude, this made me cry.
I think this song is the opposite of depressing. Ok, in the beginning it can be, but then he finds a reason to live, if not for himself but for his family and his newborn baby nephew. Amazingly uplifting song imo
That's what I thought when I listened to the song
discovering conor in 2021 through down in the weeds, and going through his entire discography has been a journey. happy to end up here, on this comment section
love u
Bright Eyes kept me alive
andy bearsack saved my life
+Ian Kelly Andy Biersack makes shit music and is a shit person.
+NinetyPercentJesus tru
taking care of myself kept me alive
Tiny Peach +
Bright Eyes is truly the music you listen to when you are feeling sad and depressed.
aka the music I listen to 24/7
Nadine Botterman Me too...
Nadine Botterman i get that
Without this song, I'd probably be dead now. No words can express my gratitude.
+abeautifulcancer .music This song has saved my life as well and I'm glad you are still here. :D
I'm glad you're still here as well
andy bearsack saved my life
This song will save me again and again
Music can be so healing and unifying! ❤️ Glad you're still going!
I love you Taylor and I really miss you. I wish I knew why you had to go and I wish I could have stopped you. You were too beautiful for this ugly world. I wish I could have helped you. I can hear you laughing and see your smile and feel you hug me when I close my eyes. R.I.P. my dear, sweet, friend.
Big chungus
Bright eyes.. This is the band that Kept me from losing my mind with depression.
Voodoo Heart me too, my man. Bright Eyes will always, irrevocably hold a dear place in my heart for this reason.
i barely found out Oberst is coming to Arizona, finally. I'm literally in tears knowing I finally get to see the man that saved my life. I'm 23 and have been following him for... I don't even know how long. this song used to be my suicide song, and I'm finally past that darkness.
i have an entire sleeve dedicated to this man, half to this song in specific. I highly doubt I'd be alive without his music. I'm so excited/overwhelmed. he's truly a gift. 💜💜💜
Wonderful Testimony to his music.
This song makes me cry EVERY TIME. Since I heard it probably close to 10 years ago now.
This song means way too much to me. And all I can say is that tears never felt so good and hurt so much. But I'm alive. Maybe it's because of this song, or maybe not, but it took away just a little bit of the loneliness.
He is one of the best artists known. Makes you happy and sad at once.
❤
no words, just tears
i liked this comment 3 years ago. im sad that 3 years later im back here reading the comment section. im sad that i remember this being the first good upload i found in summer of 2010 sophomore year. god damn. okay bye lol
Every single line gives me chills.
I haven't heard this song in years. It reminds me of a time I was really depressed in college and I would always listen to this song and it would make me feel better. Listening to it now gives me chills and brings me back to that time. Nostalgia
My brother always dedicated this song to me and said it was exactly how he felt. He was riddled with depression and suicidal thoughts. It's always hit home.
Haven't listened to this one in a year. Everything's different now, but it's comforting. Never thought someone could understand my emotions the way Conor can.
And is it bad that reading the comments on everyone's depression makes me happy? We sort of all ended up here together in the same place because of a song. I think that's something pretty amazing.
I don't think it's bad, it creats a sense of welcome and placement to me, like, yeah we're all miserable but this isn't a battle that's we're alone in and there our others out there that can understand and if they can overcome it so can I
i dont think it is at all. and i wish you happiness!
This man is a poet
Holy crap. That song unexpectedly hit home.
Bright Eyes helps me in times and ways that others can't. His music will always be with me, and I am thankful for it. Each song is a perfect capsule for various emotions. I get chills and tears everytime I listen to this song. I love Bright Eyes.
I went through mental breakdown less than 48 hours ago and I was near another one just now and I found this song and it keeps me together right now. My thanks to the songwriter.
I didn't know it was even possible to write something so honest and beautiful. Simply amazing, it speaks up for many who can't themselves. Beautiful, just beautiful.
listened to this song one year ago when things were going downhill and i felt so helpless. things got better and been searching for this song for a week now i'm here. love this song a lot.
This song helped me get through some very difficult moments of my life back in high school. Like some others on here, it was a sort of anti-suicide song for me. For anyone else going through a similar trajectory, just know that there ARE brighter days ahead (no, not easier, but brighter). Much love.
Makes me cry...every time.I love this song...I love Bright Eyes!!!
This song saved my life. Thank you Conor, you've done more for me than I could ever repay you for. When my heart hurt so very bad and my soul begged for relief from misery, this song helped me place my feelings....and deal with them. bless you conor
I forget how much I love bright eyes until I listen to one of their songs again! All of their Albums are so different but I love them all! This song is so sad but he finds hope.
This is just beautiful. So much meaning and heart into the lyrics. I've been there before, this song makes me feel stronger for who I am today.
THIS is the kind of music that should be known and famous, its not about sex, drugs, partying or anything like all the shit that everyone loves.
its actually really emotional and people can relate to all of it.
why are these lyrics so true? this is the first time I've heard this song but right after the first chorus I broke down crying and haven't stopped
When I was at my absolute darkest, and I hated everything and I couldn't take it anymore, this song helped me. It's a little silly now when I think about it, but this song really helped me drag myself up. I am always thankful for that.
I dedicate this song to my newborn whom since the day I found out he was coming he changed my life forever taking away my shelf harming habits.
im glad you stopped harming shelves, otherwise there would be nowhere to put the dishes away
That's a lot of weight to put on anyone - especially a new human.
I hope you haven't made your "salvation" by their existence to be their problem to face like most people with your mentality do
This is exactly how I feel.... It's making me cry, but keeping m going at the same time. I've been feeling like this for so long but haven't told ANYONE. Listening to this just helps so much though.
this song used to get me through so much when i was younger. it just reminds me of all those long nights and i'd just fall asleep listening to it on repeat.
The emotion in his voice..
I always come back to this song late at night when i have my thoughts to my self and my headphones on. Great song.
Drunk, depressed, dont know what to do. Perfect song.
This song gave me a reason to keep going. My cousin and her husband, both of whom I’m really close to had a daughter when I was about 18, a point in my life where I just couldn’t do life anymore, or I guess I was closer to not wanting to live anymore rather than not being able to go on with life, a bunch of different factors were in play as to why. Depression being number though. I had attempted it a year earlier by overdosing on pills. I was literally at the same crossroads as the one in this song. I listen to a lot of Elliott Smith and stumbled across this song just a few months before my cousin’s daughter was born.
It felt kinda surreal to be completely honest, for a song to actually be speaking to me and describing my exact situation. I felt a lot of emotion weld up inside me. And that’s when I understood what suicide really does to everyone wether they be family, friends, or even an unborn child. We always seem to forget that even a child still in the womb, hears every sound in the environment the mother is in. They respond to voice and loud noises. They can developed affections or avoidances toward particular people that were around the mother while the baby was in the womb. They also become distressed when the mother is distressed.
I’m super close to the mother and father so... I’m sure we all can agree that when we commit suicide we’re running from something in lives and come to believe the only escape is to not fix the problem but make the problem no longer our plan by removing ourselves from the equation and we think “that’s that. Problem gone! Now I no longer have to that way!” We go away, the problem is there. The “problem” is an idea, a concept, and concepts don’t die; they only morph and become infectious.
You didn’t stop or destroy your pain by ending your life. You just smashed it into shards of glass that caught burrow into your loved ones’ hearts. Digging deeper and deeper until they either extract it or unfortunately continue the cycle of pain and loss; and even if they extract that shard of glass out of themselves... that hole never heals it only becomes a void of sadness, anger, longing, and guilt because they’ll always wonder how they could have missed the signs, not seen how unhappy you were. What could they have don’t to help you. To prevent someone they loved from ending a life they themselves cherished.
As harsh as this is going to sound... Suicide is and always will be a self decision because while we get to escape whatever hell we believe ourselves to be in, people we said that we love and truly love us have to pick up the pieces of their lives and forever live with a pain that we ourselves just tossed at their feet as we ran left them holding the bag. I accept and acknowledge my pain. I continue to live in a world I gave up on a long time ago, for them. Their happiness is infinitely more important than my pain, because their pain will be infinitely worse than mine is right now. My cousin’s daughter is now 9 years old, and their family now lives next door to me. So I get to watch her grow up, and get to be reminded everyday why I’m still here today. She’s too much like her mother personality-wise though and it gets one my nerves because now I have to deal with two of her.
Song reminds me of 2005; this song helped me through it.
This shit still makes me cry. Damn. I remember when I first heard this I fucking sobbed my eyes out.
I saw a flower withering and I was embarrassed by its honesty
I hope that womb's not too warm
it'll be quite a shock
to breathe this air
to discover loss
😭
plumear congratulations, you still can feel. :)
plumear you aren't the only one. Tried to commit suicide and a family member was born on my birthday and this song came out. Changed everything.
This song saved my life. Thank you Conor x
This song is getting me through so much right now. If Bright Eyes didn't exist, I cannot say I'd be alive right now... You have all taken the words out of my mouth. But at least we're all in this together, no matter how alone we feel.
Cause it's cold out here
And It'll be quite a shock
To breathe this air
To discover loss
I was on a path of destruction. I was young. No one would listen . This song saved me. My oldest nieces birth at the time had just happened. I will be 36 this Sunday. I made it. Don't quit. You are not your past tradegdy . Victim or victor.
This song just makes me feel so many emotions I didn't even know were possible, including an almost blunt and twisted joy that I'm not alone in feeling this way
I'm still waiting for the spring's persuasive rays to come...
Me too girl
Erin, thank you for posting this! Just giving myself one more day has kept me going, seeing your videos and your progress and your successes, also gives me hope.... ❤️
You're welcome! I'm so happy it all has helped. I'm glad you listened to this. This song means a lot to me ❤️
A favourite song today, thank you so much, I do love singing emotionally powerful songs
This song and Mathew by bombadil saved my life when I was a teen. Kind of forced me to think about the people I’d leave behind. To this day when I start to drift into that spiraling depression, I think about those two song in order to keep myself from going through with it.
“If you decide to leave, soon I will follow” I have a good friend, and he is even worse off than me, bipolar disorder, and this line makes me think of him. I can’t do that to him, I hope I am that to him too.
/blog post
i'm 21 and this song is the best sad/ peaceful/ true song i've heard in my entire life. Thanks Bright Eyes
🎉🎉🎉🎉 the best and the greatest lyricist of our time🎉
I can relate to this song in numerous ways. Definitely one of the best songs ever.
There's very few songs that posses this type of powerfull emotion. that makes me sad, but at the same time happy to know someone is still making real music
.• This jam kept me alive. I still listen to it often to remind myself where I came from .•
So glad that this song exists. It changed my life. And one of the best decisions I ever made, was to get "No Lies, Just Love" tattooed across my chest.
this is my favourite song of bright eyes, actually my favourite song by anyone. I can relate to this a great deal
I got the quote, "No lies just love" tattooed across my collarbone. This song, and that quote give me hope. One day things will be better.
Hope things are better for you
this song takes me back to times when only music, and nothing else, could make me feel better and i wanted to fall asleep and not wake up...yet it still makes me so happy. it's just pure love.
I remember first finding this song as a reckless teenager thinking the world had nothing for me...crazy...17 years ago.
Addiction depression anxiety rebirth renewal. Happened to me in the march of the winter. Currently. Ongoing battle but I hope to see the spring.
+stefanie fox Did it come ?
Somehow I made it and now I'm rounding the corner to the spring of 2016. I celebrate 5 months of sobriety on march 10th and my life is better than it's ever been. Renewal, rebirth.
Glad to hear that, stay strong :)
stefanie fox how about now? ❤
stefanie fox it's been two years since you posted this but i hope you've seen every spring since then ❤️ i know you dont know me but you are loved
I'm so glad I didn't do it all those years ago. I thought there was nothing to look forward to. I heard the song, but I didn't listen.Boy was I wrong. Life finds a way, always. I will always love this song.
"We all get tired eventually",. Nough said!
This song always brings tears to my eyes
Thinking about ending it all but the
My salvation it came, quite suddenly
When Justin spoke very plainly
He said "Of course it's your decision,
But just so you know,
If you decide to leave,
Soon I will follow"
Makes me want to reconsider
Such a beautiful song
i cry whenever I hear this song. touches my heart so much.
no words just I love him even more now, so brave,so honest, so real. been there .
this song is eerie ....in that is soooooooclose to what is /was in our lives.....
My life may have not been easy. It feels as though every negative thing that could happen to me, has. Recently, I just came home from college and received the news that my 16 year old sister is pregnant. While it may be hard to face at first, this song is a lovely reminder one how that child will still need love when he/she comes into this world. Love saves us, and will hopefully help keep the baby away from the "cold" aspects of this world. Thanks for posting.
I found it curious how we all end up together with similar problems and found this salvation
Songs relate so much. And even more when the names he uses are from my life too... No songs really touch that much ....
I love this song.. It's inspired me so much and I can relate to it with a big chunk of my heart... That is why I got the lyrics as tattoos on my wrist, as quotes to live by. "No lies" On my right, "Just Love" on my left. I love Bright Eyes... Amazing.
wow just when i thought i had heard all the best bright eyes song i stumble upon another classic, had to fight myself from crying, big lump in my throat lol, added to favorites straight away
My first bright eyes song... Conor saved me
this is sunshine Stevens signing in on Mr mustsaches account , I THINK BRIGHT EYES IS ONE OF THE MOST TRANSCENDENTAL BANDS OF ALL
@theatre4evergirl
I figured that part of the song implied that it was his brother
"When Justin spoke very plainly"
followed by
"I wrote this for a baby
Who has yet to be born
My brother's first child"
I figured that he did it for his brother. Correct me if I'm wrong
"I sat watching a flower as it was withering, I was embarrassed by its honesty. I'd rather be remembered by a smiling face not a fucking wreck that's taken as its place" is exactly how I feel about having a chronic disorder that's only getting worse, ngl.
Stay strong amigo, your doing a damn good job against all odds, and for all the people who are important to you and might never say it; we love you.
Not this fucking wreck that's taken my place.
Ugly Casanova I read this comment as he sang it.
Tiny Peach. This was one of my son's favorite bands. He turned me on to them. I wish they could have kept him alive. And this one hits really hard for me as my name is Justin. I didn't get the chance to tell him if he did I may soon follow. The only reason I haven't is I don't have the courage.
This is so relevant to my feelings all of the time, I almost want to cry when I listen to it.
I listen to this every spring.
Among all the positive "life saving" comments I'd like to add my sob story.
So my sister and I had a troubled childhood growing up and both suffered from suicidal thoughts and ideation. I kept my own a secret from the age of 11-16 maybe she was the only person that knew for many years and as a result of having shitty parents we were extremely close to one another always supporting one another as best we could. When we first talked about our suicidal thoughts she had quoted Justin here and said "if you decide to leave then soon I will follow" and for most of my young life that was the only thing that kept me living. She was a pediatric nurse and aspiring doctor, with a lot of friends and overall a much more valuable person within our society, saving lives and making others happy. I was always a bit of a trainwreck, constantly struggling with alcohol and drug abuse, financial woes, dropout, burnout, whatever, a bad apple. So I always felt like I would be doing the world a disservice if because of me my sister chose to end her life.
Almost 5 years ago at the age of 25 she took her own life. It was declared an accidental overdose but after all we talked about and the way her house looked after her passing I knew it wasn't an accident. I think she definitely wasn't 100% about her choice when she made it at some moment she was past the point of no return.
It still haunts me to this day that I never saw it coming until it happened it was never supposed to happen in that order, I was never supposed to live in a world without her and yet here I am. I feel kinda like she defrauded me, always keeping me hanging on and in the end getting to exit herself.
A year or two ago I'd be singing the same tune as most others in this comment section that it eventually gets better and it's not worth making your loved ones suffer etc. Which is all fine and true but I worry I'm getting to a point where there's no one left to protect from my eventual departure. Most people would be better off without me and she's not even around to be that yellow bird.
Connor always has and always will be pure poetry. No lie, just love.
I had to write an essay about something that has influenced me, and I chose this song. It will always be beautiful to me.
His lyrics evoke emotions that I have only felt in dreams, hard to explain I guess, but I love it.
Damn. This hit home.
so many great songs
I've come far from that place and don't care to visit it again. I need a reminder once in awhile though. This song helps.
triggernd und stärkend gleichzeitig. einfach unglaublich.
To me in he talks about change, hope and honesty in times of no hope and depression. but that is just me... great song and strong lyrics love it... wish I could be that honest
i'm so jealous of his ability to tell a story through lyrics.
this song breaks my heart.
my most favorite.
On a really bad day back in sophomore year of high school I found a bright eyes CD in a thrift store and I've been in love ever since.
Stunning lyrics...
I dedicate this song to the one I love.
It was you. It was always you.
*3:55** one if the single BEST FREAKS LYRICS EVER*
this song is so sweet
It's flawless, just like most other songs by Bright Eyes.
This would get me through another night
Still just love.