I like how everyone here is just saying "I've listened to this for ten years, got me through high school!" I'm fifteen and now it's helping me get through high school. The torch of emo/gothy/outcast high school kids is still burning strong, let me assure you.
I am 24 I was a sad gay punk/hardcore kid and i have loved concor since I was like 13 and I right now using his words to describe my thoughts... there is not a more perfect lyricist
There is no OR he said he liked her shoes..he asked her name AND she asked the time..It has already been written..It's done..there is no changing it..She's gonna ask the time..and who said anything about dating? if anything ask her if she's the girl who is too sad to give a fuck BUT THE REAL QUESTION...are you gonna be the boy who is so drunk he doesn't talk? now that would be nice..
Anyone else here in 2020 cause you need good wallow in my sadness music for this pandemic? Not even having a breakup, but this is good lay in the dark crying and being sloth like music if there ever was.
I'd forgotten how much I listened to and loved this song when I was a freshman until I found a random scrawling of "I want a lover I don't have to love" in an old notebook. Hello, Nostalgia.
Wow this song just popped in my head out of nowhere and your comment is 5 years old and now I'm scared of how much time has past in life..🥺😂 Just came outta nowhere dude and I don't know what I was even doing to make the song appear.
God. I'm about to turn 35 & this song immediately sent me back to when I was 13. Next thing I knew, my hair was overly straightened covering my left eye, eyeliner got 3x heavier, I was wearing a A Perfect Circle t-shirt over a collared short sleeve button up with knock off jincos & my converse
Ahhh! Just turned 36 in February. Everything is so different, eh? Depressing and nostalgic at the same time. Wherever you are in this world, I hope your upcoming birthday is nice! Happy early birthday my fellow millennial.
There was nothing like going to a nightclub in downtown with all your friends to listen to bright eyes or cursive during their heyday right when they were creating this music and putting it out, it felt magical at the time to get high for the first time and make out with girls as we listened to bright eyes play on a stage not so far away but you don't appreciate it at the time
I love his voice. So many people don't understand it, you know? It's precious, and broken, frail, intimate and beautiful. Bright eyes would suck without the broken lament of the beautiful Conor Oberst
Beautiful and unique. This is called art. He is not concerned on the ''beauty'' of the sound, he use raw, pure emotion, and make you feel it. Make you feel the song.
A girl Kathryn sent me this song freshman year in high-school, on AIM chat lmao...here I am 15 years later, except now I know every Bright Eyes song by heart.
Years ago I would listen to this song over and over, connecting to something about its lyrics. Even though I have changed over the years it brings on a new meaning :D
Same. Personally I was crushingly addicted to heroin and Xanax. For 10 years. There’s part of the addicted psyche that romanticizes the experience. The tragedy. The obsession. The ritual. Music can absolutely fuel that cycle. Elliot smith did it for me as well.
this music is so touching...he uses his words so wonderfully. i could never put such moving words together in perfect balance like this... i can even say how much this music warms me in the way he truly deserves. im sorry
Me too, but mine included telling mutual friends that Conor was never gonna make a go at a music career, when he'd just released his first album on the old Lumberjack, pre-Saddle Creek label. It just seemed like a 15 year old couldn't possibly know that much about life and relationships. Which was kind of a messed up thing to tell his friends and future bandmembers/lablemates. But they were my friends too, and at least whenever I have to think about what I've ever been the most wrong about the answer is an easy one.
And you shall think back to those days when you listened to Bright Eyes in high school like many of us. Enjoy it! In my case it was great discovering Bright Eyes at such a vulnerable and isolated time in my life because many of their songs resonated with me. Whatever the case for you continue to enjoy their music.
This karaoke version of the video is so much better than the official one. I can't explain why exactly, but it captures the desperation so perfectly. Can you imagine the energy in the room if someone sang this as a karaoke track? Holy fuck.
Well, this is my first time hearing this. No nostalgia shizzle. I really love it though... Amazing. His voice has that edge that's so raw but beautiful at the same time.
I agree with everything said in this post. Think of how awkward that would be at a bar on karaoke night, everyone is having an awesome time, and somebody sings this. Great song, though.
Damn dude. Memories. I remember I went to see Conor playing a solo acoustic show at House of Blues back in Vegas back in early 2005 and he spit all on the crowd a few times. I got it on my face and I couldn't help being like *zomg*
But you, but you... You write such pretty words, But life's no storybook. Love's an excuse to get hurt. And to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do. Then hurt me, Then hurt me, Then hurt me... my favorite part i felt him on that part i love this song and will continue to listen to it.
I just started a rabbit hole. Can’t believe. I forgot about bright eyes. They use to be my shit in high school.. wow nostalgia... I’m feeling it hard right now.. wish I could go back quite often.. I’m gonna be listening to bright eyes more 😍
I think this is one of the greatest songs ever written. Every single thing is perfect about this song. Oberst understands these lovers, these broken, harsh, shallow people, the corrupted society of these people and their habits that they've submerged themselves into....
Living in NYC 2002-2006. This album ("Lifted") and "Im Wide Awake its Morning" were the soundtrack to my heroin induced misadventures. Terrible time in my life, but somehow the music applies a romantic side to the memories. Real or imagined?
+Johnny Burtle thats crazy, i was a heroin addict in portland and digital ash was always on my walkman at the time. his lyrics are brilliant. i totally understand what you mean.
+Johnny Burtle no it's real. plus i know that every fuckin day i still dont think i'll ever love anything in this whole world more than dope and opiates in general. even the bad horrible totally insane moments i will romanticize. especially when those moments correspond to a certain song that was playing or how i felt in the moment. sigh. you're very lucky to be like 10 years out of addiction. im never getting there, cannot imagine what would be left to live for without that to look forward to...
+bongriiips dont say that brother! getting clean will be the 2nd hardest thing you've ever done. the first being an addict. after a while clean it's worth it. Just knowing my mom can sleep now because she knows I won't be dead when she wakes up is reward enough. Have you tried getting clean yet?
+bongriiips I know exactly how it feels to truely beleive the depths of opiate addiction are all that remain of you're life. their wasn't a single part of me that beleived I would make it another year. But I promise you, theirs hope, theirs life, and theirs happiness. Once you get you're life back again you will appreciate everything you have so much more. get back to me. I can't hear you say things like that and do nothing. Theirs help out there. my name's Daniel, talk to me brother.
there's some beauty in how this video will always be older than what i used to believe to be my final year hahahah gotta make sure to check it every birthday as some sort of celebration
This sounds like a song I needed when I was in 9th grade. Halfway through college I think I still need a song like this. Also when you don't figure out and explore your sexuality until you're 20+ years old there's a lot of pent up angst in your soul lol
whoa. this is everything to me.this explains me, the band, the words the lyrics the beat the rythmn the heart and soul that goes into what... nothing? no just bright eyes the world us me you everything is nothing ....
My 32, 33 yr old daughters played their teen songs on our way to see Smashing Pumpkins last night. I remem'd many from those wonderful days and this gem was one. Magical.
I couldn't tell you the last time I heard this song. Probably when I was 14. I'm 29 now and decided to watch the OC start to finish, and one of the episodes plays this song but another artists sings it and it got my brain going crazy like why does this sound so familiar but not exactly like I think it should? I gotta look this up. So I did and saw bright eyes and it all clicked in my little emo brain lockbox of songs I thought were long lost...so glad I came across it again to add to my playlist. Now if I could just remember all the long lost songs 😫
It’s a story. He was on tour. Severely depressed. He met a woman at a show. They hooked up. They meet her dealer to get some heroin (the kid with the chemicals). Then she entices him to follow her and get high with her. The band tries calling him the next day (the phones ringing, the vans leaving) but he wants to forget everything else and stay with her. It’s a really grim story. Classic rock and roll lifestyle.
I'm thirty years old and this song is just as relevant to me as when I was 16.
I'm 31 and I keep comming back to it.
@@13slot28 I'm 33 and singing alone like I did when I was snorting cocaine with my girl who was too sad to give a fuck
thirty four.
I just turned 40 and this takes me back to my 20's in a heart beat
I agree. Found Conor when I was 16 and am 32 now. Now I relate through different life experiences but his voice still invokes the same emotion
I like how everyone here is just saying "I've listened to this for ten years, got me through high school!"
I'm fifteen and now it's helping me get through high school. The torch of emo/gothy/outcast high school kids is still burning strong, let me assure you.
I am 24 I was a sad gay punk/hardcore kid and i have loved concor since I was like 13 and I right now using his words to describe my thoughts... there is not a more perfect lyricist
At my school my group was the emo, guitar playing stoners and all we listened to was bright eyes and sublime... Happy Times.
Too bad you weren't in high school in the early 2000's there were so many emo and goth kids
what are you talking about I graduated in 2010. My school was kind of dominated by Scenie weenies
Emo and goth are dying out.
Bright eyes makes me sad over a break up that never happened
i know like wtf
truth
poser sad actress
There is no OR he said he liked her shoes..he asked her name AND she asked the time..It has already been written..It's done..there is no changing it..She's gonna ask the time..and who said anything about dating? if anything ask her if she's the girl who is too sad to give a fuck BUT THE REAL QUESTION...are you gonna be the boy who is so drunk he doesn't talk? now that would be nice..
Oh and great comment Aneeva..I feel you..
"bad actors with bad habits, some sad singers, they just play tragic"
favorite line ever.
He better not be talking about my boy Elliott Smith
Some people have a natural hability perceive social behaviour.
@@dannye7612 why do i feel your right
Mine too
Who else listened to this every single day of high school?
lol
Indeed. First heard this like 16 years ago now. Realizing that kinda fucks me up actually :\
Me 😂😂😂
Lol 34 now. Can confirm.... 😂
31 now and yeah I listened to it every day on my dope first gen ipod lol
"Love is an excuse to get hurt and to hurt"
AstOnokGaming *woman in video falls*
This is the best part. Lol
Facts
Great lyrics. Very true
Do you like to hurt? I do I do then hurt meeee
Anyone else here in 2020 cause you need good wallow in my sadness music for this pandemic? Not even having a breakup, but this is good lay in the dark crying and being sloth like music if there ever was.
Yess kinda I’m in 2021 I think I thought I was okay but ofc I never notice I’m pushing stuff away until I’m crying at 3 am
This is my home
Hope you feel better today Shelby ❤️
@@kyriestone5850 hey it's okay
love you shelby. :(
This is a fantastic song, 16 or 60....alone or in love, it captures a moment more than memories can. Love's an excuse to get hurt.
Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Such a painfully true line..
I'd forgotten how much I listened to and loved this song when I was a freshman until I found a random scrawling of "I want a lover I don't have to love" in an old notebook. Hello, Nostalgia.
Heard a version of this song on the OC show - memories! :-)
This song is from the soul
Damn wish I knew this song when I was a freshman!
I loved it back then too, and it's crazy cause it actually resonates with me more now. This is real life shit now. Lol
Wow this song just popped in my head out of nowhere and your comment is 5 years old and now I'm scared of how much time has past in life..🥺😂 Just came outta nowhere dude and I don't know what I was even doing to make the song appear.
There's hardly videos this old on youtube. I truly appreciate that Bright Eyes never took this down or 'upgraded' it
I might be wrong, but I think this is just a karaoke file.
Probably one of the most profound songs of my life.
lol theres a depressed boyhood essence that bright eyes articulated perfectly back in the day. like nothing else.
15 years later and the meaning still slips my mind.
God. I'm about to turn 35 & this song immediately sent me back to when I was 13. Next thing I knew, my hair was overly straightened covering my left eye, eyeliner got 3x heavier, I was wearing a A Perfect Circle t-shirt over a collared short sleeve button up with knock off jincos & my converse
Ahhh! Just turned 36 in February. Everything is so different, eh? Depressing and nostalgic at the same time. Wherever you are in this world, I hope your upcoming birthday is nice! Happy early birthday my fellow millennial.
Happy birthday to you both!
Oyea turned 38 in January 😂
There was nothing like going to a nightclub in downtown with all your friends to listen to bright eyes or cursive during their heyday right when they were creating this music and putting it out, it felt magical at the time to get high for the first time and make out with girls as we listened to bright eyes play on a stage not so far away but you don't appreciate it at the time
Howso? Never seen perfume before, any good?
Bot!
Thats aloy of words for a shitty band
YeahStu I loved cursive too!!!
scenekidsDIE3 I respect you right to an opinion but I do not respect your opinion
I love his voice. So many people don't understand it, you know? It's precious, and broken, frail, intimate and beautiful. Bright eyes would suck without the broken lament of the beautiful Conor Oberst
this song is makes me feel like relapsing.. like so many memories
over 20 plus years later and the emotions ...yeah almost obsessed for years ....Thank you Connor Music like this what makes my blood pump.
Beautiful and unique. This is called art. He is not concerned on the ''beauty'' of the sound, he use raw, pure emotion, and make you feel it. Make you feel the song.
yeah, a song about using people is just lovely
definitely self awareness
@@alyssabearr lovely lyrics are not an obligation to writers. There is no deceit when there's a warning
I'm totally in love with Bright Eyes, they're my new obsession. They write such great story/songs.
this week in Songs I Didn't Know I Needed
Even when the ex that broke me haven't spoken in such a long time, and I am totally over him, this song kills me every time.
I've got a hunger and I can't seem to get full.
I need some meaning I can memorize
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind
My favorite verse in a song going on 15 years now.
Stephanie Marie and so is the nature of life
MYSPACE PROFILE SONG
was mine too :D
A girl Kathryn sent me this song freshman year in high-school, on AIM chat lmao...here I am 15 years later, except now I know every Bright Eyes song by heart.
I've loved this song for 10 years and I still adore it just as much as I did the first day I heard it
❤ same
Years ago I would listen to this song over and over, connecting to something about its lyrics. Even though I have changed over the years it brings on a new meaning :D
still listening to this in 2016 like a badass
ikr 😋
I mean these lyrics...
Bryan Hess 2017 bitttch
still listening to this in 2017
Still listening 2024!!
Still gives me goosebumps in 2021 always will.
I'm in constant need for someone to hurt me. That's why I love this song
The lustful days of highschool. I remember going to shows of local bands having some of these same exact experiences. What a song and what a band.
I miss Bright Eyes so much. I can’t believe it’s been 8 years since they put out an album.
Listening to emo/pop punk songs from over a decade ago feeling nostalgic and reading everyone else's nostalgia comments.
Here doing this in 2021… making me wanna reawaken my emo phase
I'm sitting here. and I don't know what to think. I am happy and sad at the same time.
Me too. I hope that now, five months later, you feel better.
+Cassadi Williams I am feeling better, I love you ❤️
I use to listen to this song every day in middle school. I just thought about bright eyes for the first time today, and I love this song still.
Years pass by - nostalgic music touches the soul even more painfully. Fan of this band since 2012.
this song fueled my addiction. it did not help me get through anything lmao
Facts! &Girl Connor was a huuuge alcoholic lol. I went thru my own addictions.... smh at all these "positivity" comments.. hope you're good now!
Omg me too i listen to this i get flashbacks and my body wants to be young and high again...
Different strokes for different folks.
Same. Personally I was crushingly addicted to heroin and Xanax. For 10 years. There’s part of the addicted psyche that romanticizes the experience. The tragedy. The obsession. The ritual. Music can absolutely fuel that cycle. Elliot smith did it for me as well.
this music is so touching...he uses his words so wonderfully. i could never put such moving words together in perfect balance like this... i can even say how much this music warms me in the way he truly deserves. im sorry
This song gives me visceral chills in every limb.
my sad drug induced high school memories brought me here……oh bright eyes
Same. At least our music taste was good
1414TTT my sad drug induced 40s brought me here lol
This songs makes me feel like maybe I’m not crazy after all
I'm 14 and this is deep
Me too, but mine included telling mutual friends that Conor was never gonna make a go at a music career, when he'd just released his first album on the old Lumberjack, pre-Saddle Creek label. It just seemed like a 15 year old couldn't possibly know that much about life and relationships.
Which was kind of a messed up thing to tell his friends and future bandmembers/lablemates. But they were my friends too, and at least whenever I have to think about what I've ever been the most wrong about the answer is an easy one.
Every single song from Bright Eyes is such sad, catchy, and has amazing lyrics.
I haven’t been this in love since forever!
This song takes me back to high school.
love how all the comments say how this song helped them get through high school, haha it's still getting me through high school
+Stephanie Medina I am 31 still listening to it. It never stops love, carry on
And you shall think back to those days when you listened to Bright Eyes in high school like many of us. Enjoy it! In my case it was great discovering Bright Eyes at such a vulnerable and isolated time in my life because many of their songs resonated with me. Whatever the case for you continue to enjoy their music.
I'm 25.....I feel so old lol going to be 26 in a few weeks damn let's not look at high school pictures
i just found this, and I'm 17 :) good to know that theres still good music to discover out there!
If you like music like this check our Placebo! One of my favourite bands I got really into when I was like 13-17
Listen to I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. You won't be disappointed!
Theres a whole world of amazing music out there waiting for you to discover it. Enjoy.
check out Okkervil river, the album black sheep boy is amazing
the aeroplane over the sea
the knife
vulgarnaught
A piece of solid advice. Listen.
Deviant highschool memories still flood back two decades later
This lyric video is really aesthetically pleasing holy cow!
I remember like 15 years ago having this on repeat
Same here. 2005-ish.
This is one that doesn't age, just like "Such Great Heights"..
Ahh yes The Postal Service
yeeeeees!
@@Jess-uh7fq sorry but that song is "eternally Sam's" hehe
Uhh, I think you mean Like the entire “give up” album
whoa. i used to sit on the bus & listen to this on the way home from school #nostalgia
This karaoke version of the video is so much better than the official one. I can't explain why exactly, but it captures the desperation so perfectly.
Can you imagine the energy in the room if someone sang this as a karaoke track? Holy fuck.
Ok I'd LOVE to hear this done at a karaoke bar! I've got a friend who kicks ass karaoke style, and I can only imagine him singing this!!!
Jamie Brown I didn't say no one should do it. ;)
Jack Frost It sounds the same to me, just with poorer audio quality.
I was talking about the video, not the audio.
Jack Frost lol I was thinking the exact same thing!
Well, this is my first time hearing this. No nostalgia shizzle. I really love it though... Amazing. His voice has that edge that's so raw but beautiful at the same time.
I agree with everything said in this post. Think of how awkward that would be at a bar on karaoke night, everyone is having an awesome time, and somebody sings this.
Great song, though.
That electric piano is addictive~! 😝
Damn dude. Memories.
I remember I went to see Conor playing a solo acoustic show at House of Blues back in Vegas back in early 2005 and he spit all on the crowd a few times. I got it on my face and I couldn't help being like *zomg*
Ahh thanks Troian for showing me such wonderful things as this everytime you suggest a song.
First time I heard this I was in 7th grade and it was on MySpace. I remember I thought it was so magical sounding.
this song is a special one
Eargasm! ♡.♡
This song feels like college in dead of winter. Dark at 5, drunk by 9, out till 4 am.
But you, but you...
You write such pretty words,
But life's no storybook.
Love's an excuse to get hurt.
And to hurt.
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do.
Then hurt me,
Then hurt me,
Then hurt me...
my favorite part i felt him on that part i love this song and will continue to listen to it.
I just started a rabbit hole. Can’t believe. I forgot about bright eyes. They use to be my shit in high school.. wow nostalgia... I’m feeling it hard right now.. wish I could go back quite often.. I’m gonna be listening to bright eyes more 😍
I've always loved this song and will continue to
"Love is an excuse to get hurt ... Do you like to hurt??? i do i do, then hurt me"
At the end, he wants a lover that he wants to love.
I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a 12 year old comment before! ❤️
I think this is one of the greatest songs ever written. Every single thing is perfect about this song. Oberst understands these lovers, these broken, harsh, shallow people, the corrupted society of these people and their habits that they've submerged themselves into....
It's been 11 years, are you still listening to Bright eyes?
Reminds me of Brand New for some reason, like the girl's perspective in Sic Transit Gloria. So good.
2021.... 35 now, and i still relate to this song lol
Living in NYC 2002-2006. This album ("Lifted") and "Im Wide Awake its Morning" were the soundtrack to my heroin induced misadventures. Terrible time in my life, but somehow the music applies a romantic side to the memories. Real or imagined?
Real but no less tragic
+Johnny Burtle thats crazy, i was a heroin addict in portland and digital ash was always on my walkman at the time. his lyrics are brilliant. i totally understand what you mean.
+Johnny Burtle no it's real. plus i know that every fuckin day i still dont think i'll ever love anything in this whole world more than dope and opiates in general. even the bad horrible totally insane moments i will romanticize. especially when those moments correspond to a certain song that was playing or how i felt in the moment. sigh. you're very lucky to be like 10 years out of addiction. im never getting there, cannot imagine what would be left to live for without that to look forward to...
+bongriiips dont say that brother! getting clean will be the 2nd hardest thing you've ever done. the first being an addict. after a while clean it's worth it. Just knowing my mom can sleep now because she knows I won't be dead when she wakes up is reward enough. Have you tried getting clean yet?
+bongriiips I know exactly how it feels to truely beleive the depths of opiate addiction are all that remain of you're life. their wasn't a single part of me that beleived I would make it another year. But I promise you, theirs hope, theirs life, and theirs happiness. Once you get you're life back again you will appreciate everything you have so much more.
get back to me. I can't hear you say things like that and do nothing. Theirs help out there.
my name's Daniel, talk to me brother.
To me, this is legendary song. I really like this song. The words, the voice sounds so good...
Bro... it's 2020 and I still listen to this-
Local Trash me too my dude
@@flimsy_paper_girl572 When will I stop _XD
I brought me here. Such a beautifully lonesome song.
I can relate
kallie kennedy me too.
Same
Me: I like your shoes. Lady: Thanks. Can I follow you? Me: O_O
i love this song...i just keep hitting replay...Bright Eyes is really good with their lyrics!
I heard this song for the first time yesterday... one of my favorites now! I love it!
"Love's an excuse to get hurt, and to hurt"
true .. true.
"I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind i have always seems to slip my mind"
This is great. When you can relate to the lyrics of a song...you like it even more.
This song encapsulates my early 20's
You write such pretty words, but life is no story book. Loves an excuse to get hurt.
All his songs are flawless.
there's some beauty in how this video will always be older than what i used to believe to be my final year hahahah gotta make sure to check it every birthday as some sort of celebration
This sounds like a song I needed when I was in 9th grade. Halfway through college I think I still need a song like this. Also when you don't figure out and explore your sexuality until you're 20+ years old there's a lot of pent up angst in your soul lol
This song reminds me so much of early high school. Simple days.
Will always love this song 💜
..... unbelievable... this song is amazing..
I remember when I actually had something to say to the world. Now there's just nothing.. I'm pretty sure being depressed all the time ruined my life.
This got me through some dark days...
Today? Not so dark, smiling even.
charming charmer Congrats on overcoming those hard times!
whoa. this is everything to me.this explains me, the band, the words the lyrics the beat the rythmn the heart and soul that goes into what... nothing? no just bright eyes the world us me you everything is nothing ....
My 32, 33 yr old daughters played their teen songs on our way to see Smashing Pumpkins last night. I remem'd many from those wonderful days and this gem was one. Magical.
Let's just keep touching. Let's just keep, keep singing...
Love it, thanks Troian!
Hhahaa you too? #Troianators♥
I couldn't tell you the last time I heard this song. Probably when I was 14. I'm 29 now and decided to watch the OC start to finish, and one of the episodes plays this song but another artists sings it and it got my brain going crazy like why does this sound so familiar but not exactly like I think it should? I gotta look this up. So I did and saw bright eyes and it all clicked in my little emo brain lockbox of songs I thought were long lost...so glad I came across it again to add to my playlist. Now if I could just remember all the long lost songs 😫
you right such pretty words but lifes no story book.. omg i love how he sings that part!
This makes me wanna watch Skins again
2019... and everyone feels the same
I haven't heard this in a decade.. damn ❤️
I remember being a kid in 2002/2003 and hearing my older brother blast this from his bedroom. He definitely had an emo phase.
It’s a story. He was on tour. Severely depressed. He met a woman at a show. They hooked up. They meet her dealer to get some heroin (the kid with the chemicals). Then she entices him to follow her and get high with her. The band tries calling him the next day (the phones ringing, the vans leaving) but he wants to forget everything else and stay with her. It’s a really grim story. Classic rock and roll lifestyle.
Is that true?