I was told by my Primary Care Physician that I'd be lucky to make it to 21 due to my organ failure. 50/50 chance of making it. My 21st birthday is on July 19th. A little over a month away. This song is one of the blessings that helps me push through every day. God bless everybody watching this. I can and WILL survive, so will you. Much love. Edit: As of December 15, 2020 at 10:23 PM Pacific Time, I’m still kicking. 22 years old. Here’s to making it through 22 more. Edit: November 17, 2022 at 3:61 PM Pacific Time, Still fighting. I found out I have a 5 year old. Please, nobody give up. Think about the ones that love you. Edit: December 22, 2023 at 9:48 PM Pacific Time. Another year coming to an end. Cherish these final moments of 2023 with the ones that matter most to you, if this world knocks you down, persist and keep on getting back up. That's how winning is done! I plan to see 26. Much love from Seattle
I’ve sung along with this song in 2017, when I lost my job and my girlfriend got cancer. I sang along again in 2019 when I got a new job, I married my girlfriend, and her cancer returned. Tonight I’m singing along after 5 wonderful years of marriage, with a great job, and a 3rd cancer diagnosis for my amazing wife. I’m so appreciative of the hope and determination this song provides, but I would like an extended period of time when it has no applicability to me.
And yet we haven't learned a thing...are we gonna make it though this year, if it kills us? Storm from X-Men doesn't survive...her tombstone from the old cartoon series reads "2021".
If I make it through this year, Kathy I will take you to Jerusalem next year for the feasts and dancing. If I make it through the year and Kathy is my motivation to do so, then I can take her to feasts and dancing in Jerusalem so there is good things to look forward to.
@@CaucasainAsian I'm so happy to learn it has an actual meaning (although I knew it had something to do with Passover, I'm not Jewish). I went to a concert recently, and it's the line he gave to the audience to sing.
@@whychoooseausername4763 I’m not actually Jewish either, but Christian, however for both the Passover has a deep meaning of hope. For Jews it’s a prayer that one day God (or fortune) will restore a people to their homeland via the Messiah. For Christians it’s a prayer for Christ’s (the Messiah’s) return and the recreation of Heaven and earth. Either way it’s a prayer of praise and hope; hope because we want God’s promise to come quickly, Praise because we know that it is inevitable because God has prophesied it through the prophets. In a similar way, the MC of the song knows that change will come eventually. he will be able to get out of his house, all he needs to do make it through this year.
this song has kept me alive at multiple points within the last decade. when i'm low, i always come back to it. i'm going to make it. i've done it for 10 years. here's to another.
I’m so sorry. Honestly. I’m not here to give you the pep talk. This song got me through my youngest son being diagnosed with a debilitating psychiatric condition when he was 6. He’d close the year out in the Children’s Psych ward after attempting suicide…at 6…. Voices were telling him to do this. At the exact same time, my dad had a massive heart attack that would lead to his death. Our house was foreclosed upon. One of our cars stolen and in the final act of that year; I lost a job that I’d worked my entire life for…mostly because my boss was a poorly functioning alcoholic who was adept at passing the buck. I survived but it all really changed me. Maybe that’s the best we can ask for.
Build a feel good playlist or even better a digital scrap book on Google docs with links, embeds and attachments of everything you love. I have videos, photos, poems, book excerpts, journal entries etc.
I was diagnosed with throat cancer in Oct 2021. Started 2 months chemo & radiation. Listened to this so much. As it became my anthem. Last pet scan no cancer. Thank you John Darnielle!
Thats pussy shit..... a real man accepts the cancer, walks deep into the wood, builds a cabin and waits for the sweet sweet relief of death. Buy a dress and hack off your junk, Sally.
I was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer in 2011. It was heavy on my play list too. Clear since August 11 years ago. Glad you kicked it. Fuck cancer.
One of my favorite things about this song is reading the comments. Every year you get new ones about how this song helped them get through a difficult time. My time right now isn't that difficult, but its still helping, because screw everything, I'm going to make it through this cold and these financial woes and I'm going to live to see the world become better. Not just for me, but for those who I care about too.
Agreed. I love music, but rarely is there a song I connect with as much as I connected with this one during the pandemic. I had developed a severe anxiety disorder and was going through a rough time waiting for the meds to finally start working, so I dug this song out and used it as a mantra. I was going to make it through that year if it killed me. I made it through and I'm in a much better place now. I still send this song to friends when they're going through something tough.
I've listened to this every New Year's Eve for the last 5 years, which have been some of the hardest of my life. But it gives me the confidence to get up and get going for the new year. Thank you, John Darnielle, for making some of the finest music for lonely idiots that's ever been penned. Happy New Year, everyone. You're gonna make it through this one.
i didn't think i'd make it to 15; then i didn't think i'd make it to 16. i thought there was no way i'd see 17 and it seemed so genuinely inconceivable to me that i'd ever live to be an adult. i turned 20 just a couple months ago and it still sort of surprises me, but i made it through every year up until now and i hope we all make it many more. happy new year to anyone reading this!
We made it to 21 and now we’re halfway to 22. Got an apartment, just started a good job. Getting more independent from my family who hurt me. Moved in with my life partner. I will make it through this year and the next, health struggles, family issues, and the world at large be damned
Hope you have an amazing life perfect stranger. (listen to ‘I hope you’re happy’ Blue October - song about wishing those around you a happy life) go forth and make your life your own full of happiness & joy ❤
You are doing great! Live is hard, but know a random stranger thinks that your struggle is valid and real and human and powerful! YOU WILL COME OUT STRONGER. Live your life. Love your life! This year is only a stepping stone.
This was my best friend henry Marshall’s favorite band. He passed away about 6 years ago. He always stuck by me bo matter how fucked up my life got lol I’ll never forget us sitting in my car in a grocery store parking lot in chapel hill and then seeing John walking by and we jumped out of the car “HOLY SHIT YOUR JOHN DARNIELLE!!” And he said “yeah and your.... smoking weed in your car.” Lol it was the greatest memory I have with my best friend. Rest In Peace Henry
Thank you for sharing, what an awesome moment you got to experience with a very special guy. May his soul rest in peace. My heart goes out to you brother. God bless you my friend
AYYY WE DID IT! If you are reading this, you can make it through any year. There is someone out there that cares about you, and I'll see you next year.
my AP Lit teacher recommended this song to me the year my brother was in the hospital, and would eventually die. Anytime I was sure that year was going to win i'd listen to this song as sort of a defiant rebellious form of hope. So. Very thankful for that teacher and very thankful for this song.
I had a 7-year battle with depression. It was at its absolute worst in January 2013 and I have such a strong memory of sitting on the floor of my half-decorated bedroom, watching the sunset while listening to this song - trying to remind myself that the world is so beautiful, and so much more than a dark endless void - and trying to tell myself to keep going. If I could just make it through 2013, I could get through another year, and another and so on. In 2016 after some extensive therapy, I started very slowly getting better. I’ve considered myself ‘better’ now for four and a half years… but every January I still come back to this song, just as a humbling reminder that I’m one of the lucky ones who made it through.
I have swum in the same river as you for just as long as you (perhaps longer). Oft' times it seems the desire to move forward is truly insurmountable. I know, from your words, you understand what I'm saying. I will not pretend to give you vapid, nor sage advice. I will merely say these words ... you are not alone; you have *never* been alone; there are more of us than you can possibly imagine; it is hard being a human. Even the most vacuous among us know that life isn't easy. So... what to do about it? How to keep going? I don't know. But I will say this ... John Darnielle knows what it is all about. His song knows what it is all about. His words are simple, yet inspirational - in a comforting and non-preaching way. I've received inspiration from his lyrics. Perhaps you will as well. I am going to make it Through this year If it kills me.
@Tasha You're an amazing human being, I look up to your story and am encouraged by the words you've written. Keep it up! Keep on being an inspiration for others who are suffering as you once were. God Bless ✌
@GYPSY KING FURY This isn't a dick measuring contest. Those also sucked. Don't pretend like a world wide quarantine/lock down while people are dying and FEMA is setting up mass hospitals in arenas.
I just looked this up to share with a friend who had a medical nightmare of a year in 2023, as this was my go-to for the year I spent on interferon for hepatitis C, fighting Cigna to not get medication coverage dropped partway through the 48 week course of pills and self-injections. I had to work full time on ladders and scaffolding while feeling sick, weak, and dizzy because we tie health insurance to employment in this corrupt-ass country. I made it, though, Hep C free and healthy coming on 17 years.
I lost a friend community, two of my cats (one of whom was my best friend), dealt with medical issues and a breakdown, and had some family estrangement right under the fucking wire in 2021. I clung to this song repeatedly, when I really didn’t want to but had to keep going. And it helped. It always helps. Here’s to 2022 friends. I hope we all make it another revolution around the sun together.
@@erika3421 2022 was actually so much worse it’s unbelievable. I had a coma, a stroke as complications from COVID. But I am committed to 2023 being about flourishing and I’m proud of having survived 2022. Thank you so much for checking in. It was incredibly kind and I’m moved that you did. I hope your 2023 is everything you hope it will be.
Today is January 1. The new year, and my birthday. I have absolutely no one. My relationship with my family is tenuous at best. I’ve honestly wondered why I should bother anymore. And then I hear songs like this and it honestly helps. It really, really fucking does. Maybe it’s the wind talking, or maybe I’m just tired and sentimental, but I honestly don’t know where I would be without this band and they’re fucking amazing music! It just goes to show that the simplest things can hold so much meaning. I’m going to make it through this year if it fucking kills me. A mantra I repeat myself every new year.
Ppl who haven’t experienced trauma (esp medical) don’t get how you have to spin it sometimes in your brain so you can get a laugh once in a while out of the situation. I listen to this song at every stressful major life change at full volume and scream the lyrics in my car.
I hope John is financially secure, he deserves it. He really has an uncanny ability to write songs that intimately relate to a certain sect of peoples experiences. Im one of them and he puts my own experiences into words i never knew applied to me. but they do man... they do.
every year on new years eve/day i listen to this song on repeat. it started off when i was at my lowest, just trying to get myself to stay sane and alive for yet another year. this is the first year i'm listening and looking back on the year i've had thinking "damn. i really DID make it through this year" and looking forward to the next one instead.
For like the last six or seven years my friends and I sing this at midnight every new year. Sometimes it's all that gets me through, but it always gets me through.
When I was 17 I spent an entire night on a pavilion near the Parthenon in Nashville. My friend and I were new in town and we recently got ripped off for like 40 bucks trying to buy weed at a gas station but there was a homeless dude named eric who had some weed and bought us a fifth of vodka. We spent all night talking to him and one of the things he said a lot was “any day you wake up on this side of the dirt is a good day” and that’s stuck with me for years. His friends said he got arrested that morning when we went to see him again and thank him. I hope Eric is okay and still on this side of the dirt.
The line, "There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year" hit me hard. After losing my son last February it's hard to find hope when I think of another pregnancy and another baby. I hope there will be feasting and dancing instead of mourning this time.
Every new year, so long as the prior year didn't kill me. ;) Though, I can't help but put this song on after a rough day. Its one of the few songs that's helpful to hear after a day like that.
Just "broke" out with someone, for some reason this song helped me remind all the signs that showed how much of a coward and sleazy bastard he was, despite how much "mature" and "spiritual" he pretended to be. Thanks man, there's still a lot of this year's left.
Darn you John Green, now I have another band I have to listen to. Between this, hankgames, vlogbrothers, and crashcourse you are killing all my time. -A chemistry teacher and (new) nerdfighter from Ohio.
Jan of last year, I was lost. Beaten down by the gods of bad marriage and a bum job. Newly 28 and living in Harlem. Now, I just directed my first film, bought by FranceTV, and I'm currently sitting with a wonderful Brazilian girlfriend, drinking wine in Paris. Chin up folks!
Brennan Stultz Salud brother, 20 years ago I was pulled off he side of a bridge by a Glaswegian truck driver, next year I'm marrying a beautiful redhead choreographer and making a living from my art, who would have thought it!
2022. I'm stuck abroad away from all my friends and family against my will but I'm very happy. It's been a really weird year but through it all I've made some amazing friends in a different continent and had some great experiences at home. I hope everyone else has a great year. We're going to make it through this year if it kills us.
Every year on my birthday and on New Years I put this on On a personal level, in the last year I've become a happier person despite all the shit that's gone on My mental health is getting better, my family are all safe, I'm doing well at university So I hope that 2021 brings more of that and less of... everything else Happy New Year, I'll see you in a few months
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Remember, kids! If nothing else, it's okay to keep going out of spite alone
Big facts
I fucking run on spite 24/7 mate, probably unhealthy but I'm not going for long
@@peachlace8422 you okay dude?
@@greenteadude8958 Wondering the same..
My existence is currently fueled by spite for 2020
I was told by my Primary Care Physician that I'd be lucky to make it to 21 due to my organ failure. 50/50 chance of making it. My 21st birthday is on July 19th. A little over a month away. This song is one of the blessings that helps me push through every day. God bless everybody watching this. I can and WILL survive, so will you. Much love.
Edit: As of December 15, 2020 at 10:23 PM Pacific Time, I’m still kicking. 22 years old. Here’s to making it through 22 more.
Edit: November 17, 2022 at 3:61 PM Pacific Time, Still fighting. I found out I have a 5 year old. Please, nobody give up. Think about the ones that love you.
Edit: December 22, 2023 at 9:48 PM Pacific Time. Another year coming to an end. Cherish these final moments of 2023 with the ones that matter most to you, if this world knocks you down, persist and keep on getting back up. That's how winning is done! I plan to see 26. Much love from Seattle
did you make it?
Happy 22
How's it going?
I hope you’re still here Antonio
Congratulations and keep going!
When your personal existential crisis is interrupted by a global existential crisis.
No crisis is ours alone 🤔😉😐, but I’m with you for whatever it’s worth. 💯❤️
Por que no los dos?
"Hey wtf man its my personal time"
@@joejia1410 exactly, right?..
boundaries, bro!
@@matthewsimmons4597 no sprecho el woggo compadre
I’ve sung along with this song in 2017, when I lost my job and my girlfriend got cancer. I sang along again in 2019 when I got a new job, I married my girlfriend, and her cancer returned. Tonight I’m singing along after 5 wonderful years of marriage, with a great job, and a 3rd cancer diagnosis for my amazing wife. I’m so appreciative of the hope and determination this song provides, but I would like an extended period of time when it has no applicability to me.
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I gauge how life is going by how many times I've listened to this song in a month.
Ferrealllll
Hahaha it’s true
For me it’s more like how many a day
How's it going these days?
Same
Im 71 f--ing years old, lived through lots of years of great music and this damned thing speaks to me more than 99% of the rest of that stuff.
congrats on surviving so long in this crazy world!
Mountain Goats rock! As an old-timer, check out Cubs in Five. And a recent one--Training Montage.
Wow… as a 17 year old I can’t even comprehend living that long. I thought 17 was old!
51 and absolutely agree.
Happy New Year everyone, we're going to make it through this year
Happy new years dude
It's gonna be a long one...leap year this time, one extra day to stay alive. I'm going to make it through this year, if it kills me!
I listen to this on New Year’s Eve every year. It’s never meant more than it does this time. Good riddance 2020.
And yet we haven't learned a thing...are we gonna make it though this year, if it kills us? Storm from X-Men doesn't survive...her tombstone from the old cartoon series reads "2021".
FACTS
Sammmmmme. Drunkenly singing this just before midnight on new years is my yearly tradition.
@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 which X-men? Marvel has retconned them a bunch
Lmao, fuck off with your desperate, empty attempt at relevancy.
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I came off a bit harsh
I’m 19, just became estranged from my parents, and have been listening to this song on repeat. Thank you Mountain Goats.
Stay here, ok?
Hope you’re doing ok a year later ❤️
How did the year go?
I know I'm 2 years late, but sounds like you could use The Sunset Tree
Probably homeless by now
the line "and there will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem" gives me chills every time.
As someone you celebrates Passover yearly, that line still hits hard.
me too! such a great way to use the Passover prayer
If I make it through this year, Kathy I will take you to Jerusalem next year for the feasts and dancing. If I make it through the year and Kathy is my motivation to do so, then I can take her to feasts and dancing in Jerusalem so there is good things to look forward to.
@@CaucasainAsian I'm so happy to learn it has an actual meaning (although I knew it had something to do with Passover, I'm not Jewish). I went to a concert recently, and it's the line he gave to the audience to sing.
@@whychoooseausername4763 I’m not actually Jewish either, but Christian, however for both the Passover has a deep meaning of hope. For Jews it’s a prayer that one day God (or fortune) will restore a people to their homeland via the Messiah. For Christians it’s a prayer for Christ’s (the Messiah’s) return and the recreation of Heaven and earth. Either way it’s a prayer of praise and hope; hope because we want God’s promise to come quickly, Praise because we know that it is inevitable because God has prophesied it through the prophets.
In a similar way, the MC of the song knows that change will come eventually. he will be able to get out of his house, all he needs to do make it through this year.
this song has kept me alive at multiple points within the last decade. when i'm low, i always come back to it. i'm going to make it. i've done it for 10 years. here's to another.
annnnd it's getting me through yet another death. fucking christ.
I’m so sorry. Honestly. I’m not here to give you the pep talk. This song got me through my youngest son being diagnosed with a debilitating psychiatric condition when he was 6. He’d close the year out in the Children’s Psych ward after attempting suicide…at 6…. Voices were telling him to do this. At the exact same time, my dad had a massive heart attack that would lead to his death. Our house was foreclosed upon. One of our cars stolen and in the final act of that year; I lost a job that I’d worked my entire life for…mostly because my boss was a poorly functioning alcoholic who was adept at passing the buck.
I survived but it all really changed me. Maybe that’s the best we can ask for.
@@seanmckeownyoungdon't you get tired of lying? Just wondering.
Build a feel good playlist or even better a digital scrap book on Google docs with links, embeds and attachments of everything you love. I have videos, photos, poems, book excerpts, journal entries etc.
We’re here because we’re here. Here’s to 2024, let’s hope it’s better than the past three years
I was diagnosed with throat cancer in Oct 2021. Started 2 months chemo & radiation. Listened to this so much. As it became my anthem. Last pet scan no cancer. Thank you John Darnielle!
Congratulations on being cancer free!! 🎉
Thats pussy shit..... a real man accepts the cancer, walks deep into the wood, builds a cabin and waits for the sweet sweet relief of death. Buy a dress and hack off your junk, Sally.
That's so good to hear, congratulations!
Congratulations, wishing nothing but the best buddy
I was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer in 2011. It was heavy on my play list too. Clear since August 11 years ago.
Glad you kicked it. Fuck cancer.
One of my favorite things about this song is reading the comments. Every year you get new ones about how this song helped them get through a difficult time. My time right now isn't that difficult, but its still helping, because screw everything, I'm going to make it through this cold and these financial woes and I'm going to live to see the world become better. Not just for me, but for those who I care about too.
Agreed. I love music, but rarely is there a song I connect with as much as I connected with this one during the pandemic. I had developed a severe anxiety disorder and was going through a rough time waiting for the meds to finally start working, so I dug this song out and used it as a mantra. I was going to make it through that year if it killed me. I made it through and I'm in a much better place now. I still send this song to friends when they're going through something tough.
I've listened to this every New Year's Eve for the last 5 years, which have been some of the hardest of my life. But it gives me the confidence to get up and get going for the new year. Thank you, John Darnielle, for making some of the finest music for lonely idiots that's ever been penned. Happy New Year, everyone. You're gonna make it through this one.
2020 do be needing this song tho
Joseph TREE we really do be needing this in 2020 doe 😳
100%
Just got here with the same thought
Lol!
my Anthem to get through heavy exams Fall Semester 2019... simpler times.
i didn't think i'd make it to 15; then i didn't think i'd make it to 16. i thought there was no way i'd see 17 and it seemed so genuinely inconceivable to me that i'd ever live to be an adult. i turned 20 just a couple months ago and it still sort of surprises me, but i made it through every year up until now and i hope we all make it many more. happy new year to anyone reading this!
I felt the exact same way- I also just turned 20 a few months ago. fucking crazy, isn’t it? glad you’re still with us :)
@@oscarwildin8143 a very very (very?) belated happy birthday to you!! we've made it this far, so here's to many more 🥂 :)
5 minutes away from my birthday. was never supposed to make it to 30. this song did a lot to get me here.
happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you dead yet?
@@AIartslideshows Yeah 30's easy, but 32...
Hell did not think I would make ikt to 21!!!!!
@@justinaustin4315same
We made it to 21 and now we’re halfway to 22. Got an apartment, just started a good job. Getting more independent from my family who hurt me. Moved in with my life partner. I will make it through this year and the next, health struggles, family issues, and the world at large be damned
Hope you have an amazing life perfect stranger. (listen to ‘I hope you’re happy’ Blue October - song about wishing those around you a happy life) go forth and make your life your own full of happiness & joy ❤
You are doing great! Live is hard, but know a random stranger thinks that your struggle is valid and real and human and powerful!
YOU WILL COME OUT STRONGER. Live your life. Love your life!
This year is only a stepping stone.
This was my best friend henry Marshall’s favorite band. He passed away about 6 years ago. He always stuck by me bo matter how fucked up my life got lol I’ll never forget us sitting in my car in a grocery store parking lot in chapel hill and then seeing John walking by and we jumped out of the car “HOLY SHIT YOUR JOHN DARNIELLE!!” And he said “yeah and your.... smoking weed in your car.” Lol it was the greatest memory I have with my best friend. Rest In Peace Henry
very cool RIP Henry
Thank you for sharing, what an awesome moment you got to experience with a very special guy. May his soul rest in peace. My heart goes out to you brother. God bless you my friend
AYYY WE DID IT! If you are reading this, you can make it through any year. There is someone out there that cares about you, and I'll see you next year.
I am alive and not afraid
my AP Lit teacher recommended this song to me the year my brother was in the hospital, and would eventually die. Anytime I was sure that year was going to win i'd listen to this song as sort of a defiant rebellious form of hope. So. Very thankful for that teacher and very thankful for this song.
Good taste
I had a 7-year battle with depression. It was at its absolute worst in January 2013 and I have such a strong memory of sitting on the floor of my half-decorated bedroom, watching the sunset while listening to this song - trying to remind myself that the world is so beautiful, and so much more than a dark endless void - and trying to tell myself to keep going. If I could just make it through 2013, I could get through another year, and another and so on. In 2016 after some extensive therapy, I started very slowly getting better. I’ve considered myself ‘better’ now for four and a half years… but every January I still come back to this song, just as a humbling reminder that I’m one of the lucky ones who made it through.
So glad you stayed
We’re all lucky to have you here still… truly
I have swum in the same river as you for just as long as you (perhaps longer). Oft' times it seems the desire to move forward is truly insurmountable. I know, from your words, you understand what I'm saying. I will not pretend to give you vapid, nor sage advice. I will merely say these words ... you are not alone; you have *never* been alone; there are more of us than you can possibly imagine; it is hard being a human. Even the most vacuous among us know that life isn't easy. So... what to do about it? How to keep going?
I don't know.
But I will say this ... John Darnielle knows what it is all about. His song knows what it is all about. His words are simple, yet inspirational - in a comforting and non-preaching way. I've received inspiration from his lyrics. Perhaps you will as well.
I am going to make it
Through this year
If it kills me.
Watch this every few years, the song helps, but almost 10 years later somehow it's getting harder than ever
@Tasha You're an amazing human being, I look up to your story and am encouraged by the words you've written. Keep it up! Keep on being an inspiration for others who are suffering as you once were. God Bless ✌
This song brought me through my darkest year yet.
You made it through this year and this decade. Here’s to the next one.
this aged well
*Relics... of a more hopeful time... this is beautiful *
I'm guessing your regretting this comment, maybe you jinxed the whole year, but maybe you're a psychic.
What gets me every time about this video is how the drummer's just tap-tapping away with his arms still tied. That was genius.
Always come back to this one when life throws it all at you. It always seems to help.
new year's day 2024 - good luck everyone 🤞
I feel like this song describes the world in 2020
Just what brought me back to this video, it's eerily prescient.
@GYPSY KING FURY This isn't a dick measuring contest. Those also sucked. Don't pretend like a world wide quarantine/lock down while people are dying and FEMA is setting up mass hospitals in arenas.
this is the perfect anthem for 2020
The other day one of my neighbours was standing on his deck belting this song out on his guitar to the whole neighbourhood. It was appropriate.
@GYPSY KING FURY I hope whaterver is going on with you gets better because you seem mad for valid opinions
Congratulations! If you are reading this, you have survived the year 2020.
happy new year, 2024
I've been listening to this song every New Years at Midnight for the past 8 years. Still Alive. This is how you live forever, folks.
2 minutes left of 2020, I hope yall have a wonderful 2021. you all deserve it
We did it guys. Happy new year.
Don't know about happy but yeh
Happy New Year with the only New Years tradition I have.
With this New Year’s Day being a Saturday this song is even more fitting. Here’s to hoping 2022 is better than the past two years
not even half way done with 2022 and this comment made me cackle like a demon. I'm sorry friend, it is most certainly not better.
@@spamwisegamgee8796 2023 hopefully it's better
2021, you were wretched. I pray that 2022 is a better year for all of us. I will see you feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year.
Back again for 2024!! I think this is my 5 or 6th year listening to this on new years!! Happy new years everyone! 🎉
Wishing you all the best!
Fighting cancer is hard. 2018 is here. I WILL watch this video on January first, 2019!
I know I'm just a random dude on the internet, and drunk, but I'm here for you broseph.
Update?
Let us know if you made it
Still alive?
I'm getting worried. oh no
To my fellow survivors of 2020,
We made it.
I just looked this up to share with a friend who had a medical nightmare of a year in 2023, as this was my go-to for the year I spent on interferon for hepatitis C, fighting Cigna to not get medication coverage dropped partway through the 48 week course of pills and self-injections. I had to work full time on ladders and scaffolding while feeling sick, weak, and dizzy because we tie health insurance to employment in this corrupt-ass country. I made it, though, Hep C free and healthy coming on 17 years.
I lost a friend community, two of my cats (one of whom was my best friend), dealt with medical issues and a breakdown, and had some family estrangement right under the fucking wire in 2021. I clung to this song repeatedly, when I really didn’t want to but had to keep going. And it helped. It always helps. Here’s to 2022 friends. I hope we all make it another revolution around the sun together.
Happy new year - hope that 2022 went better and 2023 brings you nice things.
@@erika3421 2022 was actually so much worse it’s unbelievable. I had a coma, a stroke as complications from COVID. But I am committed to 2023 being about flourishing and I’m proud of having survived 2022.
Thank you so much for checking in. It was incredibly kind and I’m moved that you did. I hope your 2023 is everything you hope it will be.
I have watched this like a million goddamn times now, and it still puts a smile on my face. Every time.
Today is January 1. The new year, and my birthday. I have absolutely no one. My relationship with my family is tenuous at best. I’ve honestly wondered why I should bother anymore. And then I hear songs like this and it honestly helps. It really, really fucking does.
Maybe it’s the wind talking, or maybe I’m just tired and sentimental, but I honestly don’t know where I would be without this band and they’re fucking amazing music! It just goes to show that the simplest things can hold so much meaning.
I’m going to make it through this year if it fucking kills me. A mantra I repeat myself every new year.
Almost everyone I cared about is long gone, we are the ghosts, I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Hope things are better for you now
I had a stroke at 34. Diagnosed with a super rare brain disease. Had 2 craniotomies in 2014. This was my anthem. Everyone thought it was so "dark".
Ppl who haven’t experienced trauma (esp medical) don’t get how you have to spin it sometimes in your brain so you can get a laugh once in a while out of the situation. I listen to this song at every stressful major life change at full volume and scream the lyrics in my car.
Wow man. Rock on!
We did it!!!
Great song! That line "twin high maintenance machines" gave me the chills.
Cheers to all who made it through 2021, even though at times they weren’t sure they would 🍻
Everybody excited to watch on 12/31/20 as this song gets 50 million plays in the last 5 minutes before midnight?
Without this song, I don't think I would have made it through grad school.
I was searching for ukulele songs about goats, and I found myself here, with these crazy-bitter songs, and I love them.
Check out going to Georgia ! It's another great song by these guys
I gotta ask.. why were you searching for ukulele songs about goats??
Ignorance is bliss Jeff
are there any ukulele songs about goats?
@@m.miller8011
Many.
I hope John is financially secure, he deserves it. He really has an uncanny ability to write songs that intimately relate to a certain sect of peoples experiences. Im one of them and he puts my own experiences into words i never knew applied to me. but they do man... they do.
Hugh Jass: Agreed. Nuf said ;)
Go buy his albums and novels!
I bought his first one, so far so good. And yep, I bought it cuz you said so. Why not? Lol
one of the best choruses I've ever heard. so simple, yet incredibly powerful.
We did it, everyone. We did it.
We did it!! We made it through another year, even if it killed us. Cheers! ❤
every year on new years eve/day i listen to this song on repeat. it started off when i was at my lowest, just trying to get myself to stay sane and alive for yet another year. this is the first year i'm listening and looking back on the year i've had thinking "damn. i really DID make it through this year" and looking forward to the next one instead.
this is the third year in a row that this is the first song i listened to in the new year. guess that makes it a tradition :)
I'm here on my birthday and New Year's every year. I'm so proud of you.
For like the last six or seven years my friends and I sing this at midnight every new year. Sometimes it's all that gets me through, but it always gets me through.
You know, when I yelled this on January first of this year, I didn't think I was manifesting anything, but here we are
Saw them Wednesday night at Pier 17 in NYC. Never been better. Go Goats.
Every day above ground is a good day. May we see many more.
When I was 17 I spent an entire night on a pavilion near the Parthenon in Nashville. My friend and I were new in town and we recently got ripped off for like 40 bucks trying to buy weed at a gas station but there was a homeless dude named eric who had some weed and bought us a fifth of vodka. We spent all night talking to him and one of the things he said a lot was “any day you wake up on this side of the dirt is a good day” and that’s stuck with me for years. His friends said he got arrested that morning when we went to see him again and thank him. I hope Eric is okay and still on this side of the dirt.
The line, "There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year" hit me hard. After losing my son last February it's hard to find hope when I think of another pregnancy and another baby. I hope there will be feasting and dancing instead of mourning this time.
So sorry. Your son is with you always & he will see you feasting & dancing again. ❤
It’s not the same. It’s wonderful. It’s not the same.
happy new year everyone, we are gonna make it through 2020 if it kills us
@Quinn McGee Hi I’m from slightly further in the future, letting everyone know we made it through 2020.
every year this song punches me in the gut. im mad, and im tired, but im here.
Hey happy new years everyone. We did it.
Happy new year, another year I didn’t kms lmao. God bless 2022 cause idk how much longer I can wait.
Proud of you! Make it through the next one!
It's 2023 in a couple of hours.
Once more into the breach, ya fuckin' maniacs!
just found this , excellent very appropriate for 2022!
I made it! Even if 2015 was bad and the number won't change anything... This year WILL be better, that goes for everyone.
+Brook Sideclose But you get better at dealing with everything, and stop taking peoples shit which is good
+Brook Sideclose what you are is trying too hard.
+easybuttonairsoft Gawd was it bad for me. Another 2015 will put in me in the ground.
+Erich Bishop I had a rough year too. Keep trucking though.
sorry bro
Probably the only song to be near 100% relevant since release.
Cheers to another hopefully good year 🍻
Happy 2019 y'all, let this be the year we all shed our earthen corpses and arise transcendent as the crystal skeletons we all hold within us
Mason's channel nemA
ARISE!!!
ruclips.net/video/nDdPaSfM_90/видео.html - your remix is ready, sir.
Nicolas Cage is that you?
It's the end of 2019 and I'm vibing with your transcendent energy ⚡
The Sunset Tree is basically an entire album of "John Darnielle's stepfather was a bastard"
+David Lev Well, duh. :)
According to John, the irony was that he was a liberal political activist who was homophobic and a tad bit racist.
Except for Pale Green Things. That's the one where he sorta humanized him and then made us feel like pricks for hating him so much.
+Christian McCord
From his interview with Marc Maron
"Do you forgive him?"
"No. But I wish I could."
And? Your point is? I love Jonathan. 😊
I know I'm not the only one that plays this every new year.
I Play it every day.
Attention Deficet Hyperactive Director Every hour since four weeks before its release.
YES
once a year, at least.
Every new year, so long as the prior year didn't kill me. ;)
Though, I can't help but put this song on after a rough day. Its one of the few songs that's helpful to hear after a day like that.
Just "broke" out with someone, for some reason this song helped me remind all the signs that showed how much of a coward and sleazy bastard he was, despite how much "mature" and "spiritual" he pretended to be.
Thanks man, there's still a lot of this year's left.
Happy 2021, y'all!
Mid-December. We're almost there!
First time Ive ever heard this song. September 2019. Love it.
We made it through that year!
This song came on at just the right time. My anthem to get through the rest of this stupid, devastating year, if it kills me.
Here’s to 2021. We made it though this year- keep going. We can do hard things.
Happy new year everyone. See you all again soon. 🤟
POV : there are 16 hours left before 2022 and you're exhausted.
I like to listen to this song when the year ends. Happy new year everybody.
Happy new year brother =)
i was born on the 2 of JAN im a new year baby
@@Nonononono3844 it's been okay. How was ur year?
@@Nonononono3844 awe I'm sry to heart that i can imagine this was tough year for a lot of people
The only way to ring in a new decade.
Darn you John Green, now I have another band I have to listen to. Between this, hankgames, vlogbrothers, and crashcourse you are killing all my time.
-A chemistry teacher and (new) nerdfighter from Ohio.
DFTBA Chris!
DFTBA
DFTBA 👍🏻
dftba my dude
I can't find anything on RUclips about these. I guess, I'm stupid. Back to juce wrld and percs.
Happy new year folks. We fucking did it!
Jan of last year, I was lost. Beaten down by the gods of bad marriage and a bum job. Newly 28 and living in Harlem. Now, I just directed my first film, bought by FranceTV, and I'm currently sitting with a wonderful Brazilian girlfriend, drinking wine in Paris. Chin up folks!
Brennan Stultz Salud brother, 20 years ago I was pulled off he side of a bridge by a Glaswegian truck driver, next year I'm marrying a beautiful redhead choreographer and making a living from my art, who would have thought it!
❤
2022. I'm stuck abroad away from all my friends and family against my will but I'm very happy. It's been a really weird year but through it all I've made some amazing friends in a different continent and had some great experiences at home. I hope everyone else has a great year. We're going to make it through this year if it kills us.
i'm 27. whenever i've hit rock bottom over th years, this is the song that kicks me into gear. thank you, tmg.
Every year on my birthday and on New Years I put this on
On a personal level, in the last year I've become a happier person despite all the shit that's gone on
My mental health is getting better, my family are all safe, I'm doing well at university
So I hope that 2021 brings more of that and less of... everything else
Happy New Year, I'll see you in a few months
Thanks for sharing Dan, I hope that 2021 kicked ass for you. See ya 2022!
Well this was a rough one for me Dan, but I hope things are great for you!
Struggling to make it. But I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me.
Currently 42 and the years haven't killed me yet, lost too many friends though. Making it is joyous yet painful as well. Cheers to all of us.
I am just discovering and getting into The Mountain Goats...and this song...and this video...damn...thank you John! I'll be listening.
DFTBA
Well, here we go again. If we can't greet 2021 hopefully, at least we can meet it bravely.
Happy 2022 to anyone stopping by for the reassurance
Best of luck to ya in the latest chapter of the apocalypse! We've made it this far....
One of my husband's favorite songs... I miss him!
This song kept me going through the darkest days. Thank you!
Bring it, 2017.
Fuck yeah! With you, brother.
My best friend and I have a tradition to sing this song at midnight every year at the top of our lungs.
SlimThrull this year will not beat me down! I will win!
SlimThrull well i fucked it all up big time. You're good?
I made it and it didn't even kill me to do it. I guess that's a win.
This man saved me from myself...thank you john
Happy NYE 2022, y'all. We're still here.