when i was a teenager, probably 15 or 16, i was going through a really hard time and felt very lost and worthless. My dad played this song for me and we drove around for a while and just cried together. This week, i drove up to his hometown and listened to this on repeat in his car. I love you, Dad
My dad used to drink and cry to this song 😣 I played this song for him as I held him while he took his last breaths against his fight with lung cancer 😔
I used to think a break up meant you stopped loving the other person. But it's more tragic than that: the love never really dies. But neither does the pain and resentment. The relationship becomes cluttered with things other than love, up to the point where love has no room left to show itself.
You hit the nail. At some point it becomes impossible to live your love and be happy with it. Most of the time you spend together you feel bad afterwards or during. The relationship turns toxic. That's not the meaning of life.
I'm 57 years old and this man is my hero. He has managed to reach into my soul and create song after song that represents everything that I feel, think and breathe. No holds barred, no barriers, completely outside the box, FUCK THE PRODUCERS... He stuck with what he believes in... way ahead of his time and finally became main stream. His first CD was produced by him in his basement on a four track recorder. Then his PR man gave a copy to as many record stores as he could. Orders could only be taken inavance
After wishing so hard for something that can never be...this song is the sound of pure acceptance of the truth. And nothing is more beautiful than the truth.
@World's Biggest Booty Hoes that's more how I interpret this song, my teacher showed me this song when I had to leave an abusive relationship and that's how I relate to this song on a personal level. Also, great username.
@Suanne Strider - Yes it is but you have to be careful with that quote -- it makes it sound like the Buddha was a sadist without any context ha! The Buddha said existence was 'Dukkha' which is perhaps better translated as unsatisfactoriness rather than suffering per se. And yes, I'm 'that guy' on the internet, apparently! ;)
Well good luck with it. Honestly I hope you can. I got there too, but I kept falling no matter what I did. Finally, I had to turn myself off. Lost who I was, a whole life in a landfill. Existence is not life, and I hope you find and feel life; it is irreplaceable. 🙂
Damn dude I don't usually gives thump ups but damn... this album is so personal and has it's time and place, because the point, as u said, is progress, evolve, whatever... this hole isn't meant for sticking around Ramshackle land coulda been on this albim
2 years later... did your life find better avenues since you sat there 2 years ago and seen your turning point? I hope it has. Life is too brief to settle for suffering. Cheers Bobby.
Amazing artist. I always sang this to myself as "Maybe I'm lost" and only just recently learned it's actually "Baby You're lost". Well I'll always sing it my way.
Hi if ur seeing this, just remember that you're worth it and dont give up regardless if you're fighting for a lost cause. itll get better in the end. i promise.
You know how is it...when you feel just soooo identified with a song...that you can't help but listen to it over and over and over...That's what Lost Cause did to me...
Lyrics Your sorry eyes cut through the bone They make it hard to leave you alone Leave you here wearing your wounds Waving your guns at somebody new Baby you're lost Baby you're lost Baby you're a lost cause There's too many people you used to know They see you coming they see you go They know your secrets and you know theirs This town is crazy; nobody cares Baby you're lost Baby you're lost Baby you're a lost cause I'm tired of fighting I'm tired of fighting Fighting for a lost cause Thereâ??s a place where you are going You ain't never been before No one left to watch your back now No one standing at your door That's what you thought love was for Baby you're lost Baby you're lost Baby you're a lost cause I'm tired of fighting I'm tired of fighting Fighting for a lost cause
There's a place where you are going You ain't never been before No one laughin' at your back now No one standin' at your door Is that what you thought love was for?
Sea Change is an amazing album. My favorite. His personal relationship struggles spawned an amazing vulnerable album. I think everyone on this planet can relate to it on some level!
this one hits really close to home because the year it came out i was going through a pretty rough experience working as a giant pyrotechnic piñata. still hurts
Girlfriend broke up with me and I had to move to another town, listened to this album the entire drive.Thanks Beck for always being there when I need ya
Last time I pulled this out was when I broke up with my long term girlfriend. Probably 10 years ago. Now having been married for almost that long its time to bring it out again. I am the lost cause. They eventually all learn that and I aint mad at em. Thanks Beck for helping me through the hardest times.
It's not over . Well one life might be. But just create a new one. It's easier then you think. Well actually it does take some mental gymnastics but don't blow your fucking head off. I'm ranting any way hmu if you want to live
This song came on the radio one day as I was driving home. It very accurately describes how I feel about my own life. "I'm tired of fighting...for a lost cause."
This song came from the heart. It’s certainly one of Beck’s more acoustic songs, and it feels very personal and it’s about such a sad subject matter. One of my favourite songs of his, partly due to the honesty of the lyrics, its like personal insight into a love lost situation.
The first line kills it. This sad song hooks you with the first lyrical line "Your sorry eyes, that cut through bones" which pretty much what anyone can think of their loved one. its the eyes that you will always remember. Be they a lover, child, a friend or even an unfulfilled love whom you just have to let go.
One of the many things I like of Beck's music and videos is that they're timeless... I mean, I feel like this song was released in the early 90's but it came out in 2002... I can see myself listening to this song in the middle 90's or (Mellow Gold era, maybe) in ten years more and still will be refreshing and catchy, and the video too, like all Beck's videos. Beck is a genius... Cool music, cool videos... I want my 90's-00's back seriously!
There was a person that I loved for years. I could do everything for her, but she didn't really care for my feelings or never wanted my help or effort with her problems. Now she has moved away to another country and has just started a new life. This song fits perfectly to this case, but it was hard to realise that she was a lost cause, though I've been feeling tired of fighting for her
A girlfriend introduced me to this song when I was 22 and it became a symbol of our dying relationship. I'm 41 and I always come back to it in times of crisis.
This song came on when I spent the night at my best friend’s house in high school on SNL. I remember liking the song immediately and have listened to it for over two decades now. Some songs just resonate.
This song is about emotional betrayal - someone allowing you to invest in them when they never intended to invest themselves in you. It’s about being gaslighted - lied to by someone who strings you along with crocodile tears, but can’t be responsible at all to their own relationship. It’s when you had enough of trying to make a relationship work with a sociopath.
@@brmbkl - Not having a good enough bullshit detector & not knowing how to use it. I just spent a 4-day weekend not being a doormat for anyone & I had a perfect time :)
Omga, I just ended my relantionship because of this. I was thinking I was toxic that I was jealous, I was trying to be perfect for him, but he didnt do the same for me, he was using tinder, lying to me, I was giving so much love and he was just so immature to not being emotional responsible. I love him a lot, and I tried my best but sometimes love is not enough.
This is how I view it too. When you realise you're with a serial abuser who is probably "waving their guns at somebody new". My Narcissistic ex dumped me after 2 years by text like the coward he was, admitting he was a lost cause. Probably the only time he was completely honest with me. I sent him this song.
"There's too many people you used to know. They see you come, they see you to. They know your secrets. And you know theirs'." That hit me really close to home. I needed this tonight.
What a great tune. I had a crazy ex with many problems. This resonated so well. Looking back maybe I wasn’t the best. People are complex but this helped a lot. Nice to revisit
Indisputable in my opinion. I love his other albums as well, but this one is special; the songs on it come from very deep within his heart, showing his softer side, a whole other side from what we’re used to. It’s so beautiful, powerful, heartbreaking. It’s a masterpiece and one of my favourite acoustic albums ever. It’s like heartbreak makes him write awesome songs.m
This was my favorite song my freshman year of college back in the fall of 2002. Crazy that it was recommended on RUclips after all these years. Can't believe that was 22 years ago now.
@@williamglenn777 It definitely was. Felt like it was the last of the good old days as technology quickly escalated the world into a different place. I'd love to go back to that time period.
I saw this song played live by a country band (a serious country band: Cowboy hats, cowboy boots, pearl button shirts and rodeo belt buckles. Not even a sole John Deere baseball cap.) They didn't do anything to make it sound like a country song. It was a faithful cover of the song, perhaps the most faithful in tone and instrumentation I've ever heard, but the good-old-boy country crowd accepted it like a dive-bar staple, and a lot of people got up to slow dance. While the band was playing a woman handed out blown-up balloons, and when you popped the balloon you'd find a treat inside: A piece of candy, a 'round tooit' (for a free drink at the bar), a dollar bill, coupons for fast food, fortune cookies, stuff like that. It was a little surreal for a country set. It validates my idea that Beck is a hot mess of radical conformity. Culture and counter-culture, quietly packaged as avant-garde. To be different, while demonstrating that being different really doesn't matter.
Listening to my husband (going through a divorce and now reconciling and today breaking it off) listen to this song downstairs. My heart hurts. I made mistakes. I'm sorry for them. I'm a flawed person. He is also a flawed person. He makes mistakes. I wish we could make this work. It's been 8 almost 9 years now. I am fighting for a relationship he dosen't want anymore and I think hasn't for a while. I hope one day he realizes I love him more than I love myself. With the demise of our relationship I hold onto the last but of hope there is. Hearing this song..makes my heart ache.i just want it to be better. Fixed. I want our love to be healed. I might make mistakes along the way but I would do anything. I will always choose him, even when he doesn't choose me. I love you Adam and I'm sorry I was not good enough. All I can say is I try.
I'm going through a divorce too. 6 years and a child. My love was also strong, but when time passes, we learn that we deserve to be loved. Despite all the flaws. You wrote that you love him more than you love yourself, and I felt like crying. I suck at self care, but we do need to learn to love ourselves. If we can't love ourselves despite our flaws, no wonder others have hard time. We need to work on redirecting the love inwards, forgive ourselves more, be proud of ourselves more. You can find someone who loves you for who you are, and your heart will find a new cause.
It's about surrender and the feeling of leaving something behind so loved but extremely detrimental to one's self if they stayed. Change out of necessity, not for just the sake. You could interpret or apply this song to anything and any way imaginable, because change is the constant in life and sometimes the things we hold dearest or fight blindly for no matter what it is, are not really the things or people that we thought they were. Been dealing with my mother who has stage 4 lung cancer and brain tumors. But she has a rare or scarcely diagnosed form of dementia on top of that. Trying to help someone who lives in their own little world, especially your own mother with a terminal disease, sometimes is the hardest and biggest battle you'll ever face. I don't "fight" it anymore, but I haven't given up either. This is exactly where the saying "pick and choose your battles...." comes from. It hurts like hell, but you have to realize and understand when it's time to move on, or get stuck in a constant cycle of misery that the devil himself wouldn't wish upon anyone.
His Sea Change album reminds me of when I would drive 17 from Myrtle Beach to Charleston and back. Perfect weather. Window down. Beck playing on the stereo. No worries.
I friend of mine told me, "This is how I feel right now" , playing this song and I thought it was beautiful. It's great to have song writers like Beck. This song is all emotion. I love it.
Most people are simp[ly a lost cause. So all honest folks that look within will appreciate this . The narcs, and evil ones will simply dismiss this. Life is a lost cause we all die and are eventually forgotten...😓
Hearing about his breakup and then seeing this video for the first time was so emotional. I remember watching it with my ex and his brother forever ago and we all teared up.
...the hard feeling...of being left by the one you love...or leaving the one you love...wear your wounds for they are a badge of honor...that takes you home....
One of the most magnificent video ideas that really jerks your heart strings. It's like Beck's very heart is exploding and nothing can stop his free-fall.
Why is the falling effigy of Beck so sad? It's just a bunch of fireworks and paper, but it fits the tone of the song perfectly. Whoever came up with the idea to film that in slow motion with all the various stages it goes through is a damn genius. Seriously that was a cool idea.
There's too many people You used to know You see them coming, see them go as You know their secrets And you know theirs This town is crazy but nobody cares This whole album is a masterpiece and one of my favorites of all time.
I know this song is about a breakup but whenever I hear it I think of my dad. My whole life I wanted him to be happy with us, his kids, I always tried to make him happy and a part of my life. Now that I’m an adult I’m just tired of fighting for him to be happy and for him to care about me bc no matter what I do I’m just not going to be that important to him and it’s impossible for me to make him happy. I’m tired of fighting for a lost cause”
when i was a teenager, probably 15 or 16, i was going through a really hard time and felt very lost and worthless. My dad played this song for me and we drove around for a while and just cried together. This week, i drove up to his hometown and listened to this on repeat in his car. I love you, Dad
Thank you
😥
@Beck thank you beck
@Beck Jonesburg, MO
I love you dude or dudette.
I love Hip-Hop Beck, Electronic Beck, Funk Beck and Rock Beck, But Folk Beck is his ultimate form.
This comment is Where It's At
Ultimate form hahahahaha I couldn't agree more with that
Cool!
back-to-back Beck beckons
Hahaha, yes. But, also, Hip-Hop Beck x Folk-Beck 😂
we need more 'all hope lost' type songs like this. they don make me feel better, but they make me feel right.
i can believe its not butter I can't explain why but you are absolutely right.
Not better... But not alone. Understood.
they at least make me feel *something*
Try The Antlers' "Putting The Dog To Sleep"
Couldn’t have said it better
Best concert I've ever been to. A lifetime ago with someone special.
My dad used to drink and cry to this song 😣 I played this song for him as I held him while he took his last breaths against his fight with lung cancer 😔
I'm sorry for the loss of your Dad. Stay strong. Be the best you can for as long as you can.
😥
Dude no way..
Sad
Sorrt for ur lost buddy I can be related with u, few days before my dog past away and this song got 2 me so hard
I used to think a break up meant you stopped loving the other person. But it's more tragic than that: the love never really dies. But neither does the pain and resentment. The relationship becomes cluttered with things other than love, up to the point where love has no room left to show itself.
You hit the nail. At some point it becomes impossible to live your love and be happy with it. Most of the time you spend together you feel bad afterwards or during. The relationship turns toxic. That's not the meaning of life.
Well said.
Damn bruh!!! That was knee deep hurting.
👏
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This is the kind of songs that weren't written out of thin air, those songs have a first and last name
I'm 57 years old and this man is my hero. He has managed to reach into my soul and create song after song that represents everything that I feel, think and breathe. No holds barred, no barriers, completely outside the box, FUCK THE PRODUCERS... He stuck with what he believes in... way ahead of his time and finally became main stream. His first CD was produced by him in his basement on a four track recorder. Then his PR man gave a copy to as many record stores as he could. Orders could only be taken inavance
Same age, this guy blows me away as well. He's up there with the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin and all my heroes. Beautiful talent ❤
Sea Change is an absolute masterpiece, and this song is its crown jewel.
After wishing so hard for something that can never be...this song is the sound of pure acceptance of the truth. And nothing is more beautiful than the truth.
That hard feeling of being left alone by the one you love. That is this song. That is life.
@World's Biggest Booty Hoes that's more how I interpret this song, my teacher showed me this song when I had to leave an abusive relationship and that's how I relate to this song on a personal level. Also, great username.
@Suanne Strider - Yes it is but you have to be careful with that quote -- it makes it sound like the Buddha was a sadist without any context ha! The Buddha said existence was 'Dukkha' which is perhaps better translated as unsatisfactoriness rather than suffering per se. And yes, I'm 'that guy' on the internet, apparently! ;)
Exactly.
it's about leaving someone, not being left
Best of it yet is that it gets fucking better!! 😈🤩
This is legitimately a part of the 5 songs that can consistently bring me to tears if I don’t leave the room.
I have to try and not listen to it around people.
tell me the other 4 please
@@mikepryor7467 probably the first 4 songs on the album before it
@@TheMicturation it’s an incredible album
Yup❤
This is the song to play when you're tired of suffering and ready to try to pick up the pieces, and move on...I've reached that point.
Well good luck with it.
Honestly I hope you can. I got there too, but I kept falling no matter what I did.
Finally, I had to turn myself off. Lost who I was, a whole life in a landfill. Existence is not life, and I hope you find and feel life;
it is irreplaceable.
🙂
This song is a real breakup man.
Damn dude I don't usually gives thump ups but damn... this album is so personal and has it's time and place, because the point, as u said, is progress, evolve, whatever... this hole isn't meant for sticking around
Ramshackle land coulda been on this albim
2 years later... did your life find better avenues since you sat there 2 years ago and seen your turning point? I hope it has. Life is too brief to settle for suffering. Cheers Bobby.
Or just wanna hear a banging tune
Beck, the older I get, the more I appreciate your art. You are a very interesting human. Thanks for everything.
Amazing artist. I always sang this to myself as "Maybe I'm lost" and only just recently learned it's actually "Baby You're lost". Well I'll always sing it my way.
Hi if ur seeing this, just remember that you're worth it and dont give up regardless if you're fighting for a lost cause. itll get better in the end. i promise.
You are a depressed big guy.
1:53 I appreciate your kind words. You are a strong soul, no matter what people say. Thank you.
Promise?
In my loneliness and despair, I found a song that broke my heart as much as it healed me.... Thank you Beck!
You know how is it...when you feel just soooo identified with a song...that you can't help but listen to it over and over and over...That's what Lost Cause did to me...
your sorry eyes
they cut through bones
This is Beck's best song and it's not even close
Lyrics
Your sorry eyes cut through the bone
They make it hard to leave you alone
Leave you here wearing your wounds
Waving your guns at somebody new
Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause
There's too many people you used to know
They see you coming they see you go
They know your secrets and you know theirs
This town is crazy; nobody cares
Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause
I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause
Thereâ??s a place where you are going
You ain't never been before
No one left to watch your back now
No one standing at your door
That's what you thought love was for
Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause
I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause
Yu Ye Thank you
There's a place where you are going
You ain't never been before
No one laughin' at your back now
No one standin' at your door
Is that what you thought love was for?
Yu Ye d
Yu Ye isn’t it “ baby i’m a lost cause “ or “ maybe i’m a lost cause “
@@anasantana122 No.
one of the greatest songs of all time
the video is great...when the heart pops out
@420 Friendly They're right
@420 Friendlythis is absolutely one of the greatest songs of all time. It even made Rolling Stones list of greatest of the century (so far)
@@leslieschmidt4744 a heavy heart falls fast
It’s really good!
Sea Change is an amazing album. My favorite. His personal relationship struggles spawned an amazing vulnerable album. I think everyone on this planet can relate to it on some level!
One of the greatest songs I've heard from the 2000s. Just a hauntingly beautiful song..
This is just beautiful.
Amen and Awoman
+Max Weaver why
+Jake Trigg white night.
@@maxweaver141 Max, why “to all men” (Amen), but only “to a single woman” (Awoman)? LOL
this one hits really close to home because the year it came out i was going through a pretty rough experience working as a giant pyrotechnic piñata. still hurts
Juan Juri best comment ever
Haha
The best comments on RUclips are usually stumbled upon, just like I did with this HoF entry
Same... 👊
I can relate. I’ve been a neon piñata for 22 years. Really hurts.
I usted to tell my self this song was for me from me, I was a lost cause until I took the right way and I went to rehab
Stay strong and don't give up xx
Never late for us
Check what you say about rehab but he went further then that on this song open your mind a little bit more
Blessings martina....
Thought I was the only one
Girlfriend broke up with me and I had to move to another town, listened to this album the entire drive.Thanks Beck for always being there when I need ya
In my opinion, Bob Dylan and Beck know how to express it this completely. If you know this song... welcome to Island of Misfit Toys.
Beck is just awesome. No need to mention anything else. Awesome. Thanks, Beck.
Last time I pulled this out was when I broke up with my long term girlfriend. Probably 10 years ago. Now having been married for almost that long its time to bring it out again. I am the lost cause. They eventually all learn that and I aint mad at em. Thanks Beck for helping me through the hardest times.
Sorry to hear. I'm going through something similar. :(
This song cured my happiness
Are you a Morrissey fan too?
I remember watching this on the night he played it on Leno. We all watched together. Good times. Beck is one of a kind.
I'm sick of fighting for a lost cause :'( This is such a great song right from the heart. Beck is an amazing artist.
When you’re listening to this, you know it’s over.
Sorry.
It's not over . Well one life might be. But just create a new one. It's easier then you think. Well actually it does take some mental gymnastics but don't blow your fucking head off. I'm ranting any way hmu if you want to live
This song came on the radio one day as I was driving home. It very accurately describes how I feel about my own life. "I'm tired of fighting...for a lost cause."
KEEP DRIVING,DON'T GO HOME.
@@gertfroebe3175 Huh?
@@gertfroebe3175 ?????????????
BEFORE OR AFTER 9/11?
This song came from the heart. It’s certainly one of Beck’s more acoustic songs, and it feels very personal and it’s about such a sad subject matter. One of my favourite songs of his, partly due to the honesty of the lyrics, its like personal insight into a love lost situation.
The “is that what you though love was for” is such an amazing few seconds of music
Gives me goosebumps.
In a career full of brilliance and great music, this song and album will live on forever.
The first line kills it. This sad song hooks you with the first lyrical line "Your sorry eyes, that cut through bones" which pretty much what anyone can think of their loved one. its the eyes that you will always remember. Be they a lover, child, a friend or even an unfulfilled love whom you just have to let go.
Beautiful just Beautiful 💖💖
So fucking sad :(
"Your sorry eyes, they cut through the bone"
I never understood Beck for the longest time. But when I first heard Beck strip it all down on "Sea Change" and this song, I "got" Beck.
Beck always makes such honest music
One of the many things I like of Beck's music and videos is that they're timeless... I mean, I feel like this song was released in the early 90's but it came out in 2002... I can see myself listening to this song in the middle 90's or (Mellow Gold era, maybe) in ten years more and still will be refreshing and catchy, and the video too, like all Beck's videos.
Beck is a genius... Cool music, cool videos... I want my 90's-00's back seriously!
There was a person that I loved for years. I could do everything for her, but she didn't really care for my feelings or never wanted my help or effort with her problems. Now she has moved away to another country and has just started a new life. This song fits perfectly to this case, but it was hard to realise that she was a lost cause, though I've been feeling tired of fighting for her
I have one of those... I still see her occasionally. Not sure she ever got truly happy. I did, and am.
Got to be the most heart breaking songs of all time. Truth hurts cause it does make it hard to leave you alone .
A girlfriend introduced me to this song when I was 22 and it became a symbol of our dying relationship. I'm 41 and I always come back to it in times of crisis.
This song came on when I spent the night at my best friend’s house in high school on SNL. I remember liking the song immediately and have listened to it for over two decades now. Some songs just resonate.
Jodie will forever be remembered in this song, you went through so much in your life, always know you are never alone.
A long time ago brought me here. Digging up the past to bury it once more.
Same here...
🚬
:'(
Amen. ♥️
Yep, bury it!
Now here is an artist, making beautiful music for the memories that touch our soul.. thanks
This song is about emotional betrayal - someone allowing you to invest in them when they never intended to invest themselves in you. It’s about being gaslighted - lied to by someone who strings you along with crocodile tears, but can’t be responsible at all to their own relationship. It’s when you had enough of trying to make a relationship work with a sociopath.
tears, or other smoke and mirrors. sometimes no tricks at all, just feeding on hope.
@@brmbkl - Not having a good enough bullshit detector & not knowing how to use it. I just spent a 4-day weekend not being a doormat for anyone & I had a perfect time :)
Omga, I just ended my relantionship because of this. I was thinking I was toxic that I was jealous, I was trying to be perfect for him, but he didnt do the same for me, he was using tinder, lying to me, I was giving so much love and he was just so immature to not being emotional responsible. I love him a lot, and I tried my best but sometimes love is not enough.
This is how I view it too. When you realise you're with a serial abuser who is probably "waving their guns at somebody new". My Narcissistic ex dumped me after 2 years by text like the coward he was, admitting he was a lost cause. Probably the only time he was completely honest with me. I sent him this song.
Or a narcissist
"There's too many people you used to know. They see you come, they see you to. They know your secrets. And you know theirs'." That hit me really close to home. I needed this tonight.
this town is crazy
Where is Dracula when we need him.
NERD@@mikepryor7467
IN YER BUTT\
@@BushyHairedStranger
What a great tune. I had a crazy ex with many problems. This resonated so well. Looking back maybe I wasn’t the best. People are complex but this helped a lot. Nice to revisit
shut up
This one? This one hurts & heals. Every. Single. Time.
Sea Change is with out a doubt his best album... My opinion.
i agree
Yep
Yeah bro
Indisputable in my opinion. I love his other albums as well, but this one is special; the songs on it come from very deep within his heart, showing his softer side, a whole other side from what we’re used to. It’s so beautiful, powerful, heartbreaking. It’s a masterpiece and one of my favourite acoustic albums ever. It’s like heartbreak makes him write awesome songs.m
Agree with you 1000%
I've just started listening Beck and this song made me cry like a child that lost his mother at the mall
This was my favorite song my freshman year of college back in the fall of 2002. Crazy that it was recommended on RUclips after all these years. Can't believe that was 22 years ago now.
2002 was a pretty magical time…
#ff1987
@@williamglenn777 It definitely was. Felt like it was the last of the good old days as technology quickly escalated the world into a different place. I'd love to go back to that time period.
I saw this song played live by a country band (a serious country band: Cowboy hats, cowboy boots, pearl button shirts and rodeo belt buckles. Not even a sole John Deere baseball cap.) They didn't do anything to make it sound like a country song. It was a faithful cover of the song, perhaps the most faithful in tone and instrumentation I've ever heard, but the good-old-boy country crowd accepted it like a dive-bar staple, and a lot of people got up to slow dance. While the band was playing a woman handed out blown-up balloons, and when you popped the balloon you'd find a treat inside: A piece of candy, a 'round tooit' (for a free drink at the bar), a dollar bill, coupons for fast food, fortune cookies, stuff like that. It was a little surreal for a country set.
It validates my idea that Beck is a hot mess of radical conformity. Culture and counter-culture, quietly packaged as avant-garde. To be different, while demonstrating that being different really doesn't matter.
Beautiful. Beck is a real artist, with real talent, who never seemed to take himself too seriously.
This song is amazing, perfectly arranged, a deep search of the right sound....and last but not least, wonderful video!
Well done Beck!
La melancolía es la alegría de estar triste ... Es lo que me hace sentir esta canción ...
Bought this LP when it came out. Feeling it with my wife of 22 years now.
Listening to my husband (going through a divorce and now reconciling and today breaking it off) listen to this song downstairs. My heart hurts. I made mistakes. I'm sorry for them. I'm a flawed person. He is also a flawed person. He makes mistakes. I wish we could make this work. It's been 8 almost 9 years now. I am fighting for a relationship he dosen't want anymore and I think hasn't for a while. I hope one day he realizes I love him more than I love myself. With the demise of our relationship I hold onto the last but of hope there is. Hearing this song..makes my heart ache.i just want it to be better. Fixed. I want our love to be healed. I might make mistakes along the way but I would do anything. I will always choose him, even when he doesn't choose me. I love you Adam and I'm sorry I was not good enough. All I can say is I try.
I'm going through a divorce too. 6 years and a child. My love was also strong, but when time passes, we learn that we deserve to be loved. Despite all the flaws.
You wrote that you love him more than you love yourself, and I felt like crying. I suck at self care, but we do need to learn to love ourselves. If we can't love ourselves despite our flaws, no wonder others have hard time. We need to work on redirecting the love inwards, forgive ourselves more, be proud of ourselves more. You can find someone who loves you for who you are, and your heart will find a new cause.
Patty Selix so I take it you’re single? 🥴
It's about surrender and the feeling of leaving something behind so loved but extremely detrimental to one's self if they stayed. Change out of necessity, not for just the sake. You could interpret or apply this song to anything and any way imaginable, because change is the constant in life and sometimes the things we hold dearest or fight blindly for no matter what it is, are not really the things or people that we thought they were.
Been dealing with my mother who has stage 4 lung cancer and brain tumors. But she has a rare or scarcely diagnosed form of dementia on top of that. Trying to help someone who lives in their own little world, especially your own mother with a terminal disease, sometimes is the hardest and biggest battle you'll ever face. I don't "fight" it anymore, but I haven't given up either. This is exactly where the saying "pick and choose your battles...." comes from. It hurts like hell, but you have to realize and understand when it's time to move on, or get stuck in a constant cycle of misery that the devil himself wouldn't wish upon anyone.
Thanks from the person with an impact font meme of a smoking cat with aviator sunglasses.
His Sea Change album reminds me of when I would drive 17 from Myrtle Beach to Charleston and back. Perfect weather. Window down. Beck playing on the stereo. No worries.
SWeeet!
I friend of mine told me, "This is how I feel right now" , playing this song and I thought it was beautiful. It's great to have song writers like Beck. This song is all emotion. I love it.
Most people are simp[ly a lost cause. So all honest folks that look within will appreciate this . The narcs, and evil ones will simply dismiss this. Life is a lost cause we all die and are eventually forgotten...😓
Hearing about his breakup and then seeing this video for the first time was so emotional. I remember watching it with my ex and his brother forever ago and we all teared up.
Here from "the summer I turned pretty". Such a beautiful song.
...the hard feeling...of being left by the one you love...or leaving the one you love...wear your wounds for they are a badge of honor...that takes you home....
I'm here because I like Beck.
I'm here because I'm a lost cause
+Gabriel Quezada that was the most beautiful response
+Gabriel Quezada same
Same here
yup
One of the most magnificent video ideas that really jerks your heart strings. It's like Beck's very heart is exploding and nothing can stop his free-fall.
Looking forward to the Manchester show tonight, love this song.
"Your sorry eyes cut through the bone" Jeesh, Beck, those words cut right to the core of me!
This is the most exquisitely sad songs i've ever heard... I love it.
Simple and to the Point! One of his best works.. to me anyways. I'll always love Beck for this song!
R.I.P Nathan, i was listening to Beck and this came on and all I could think of is you. Can’t wait to see you again ❤️
The fearless heart loves without limits and mourns each lost cause••
imagine being the one' this album was written about...what a role to play;
Because through her ruin, it lead to such a treasure '
Very true
One of my favourites of his. To me, it shows his softer, more open side. Love hurts when it’s gone and you need it. Such is life. Beautiful song
This song was like magic to me when it came out.
So many times ...and the same end.
Beautiful song!
"Sea Change is the most heart- felt album I've ever heard from any artist. Simple, profound, honest, beautiful. A fitting title as well." td
to all the lost causes in this world, i'm with you
Beck has been my soundtrack to my life ❤❤
Why is the falling effigy of Beck so sad? It's just a bunch of fireworks and paper, but it fits the tone of the song perfectly. Whoever came up with the idea to film that in slow motion with all the various stages it goes through is a damn genius. Seriously that was a cool idea.
Why do you think it's an effigy of Beck?
It's also MUCH better than the other version, which is just plain lame! Dunno why he felt the need to make a second version in the first place.
@@davidl570 label pressure, no doubt
@@brmbkl Dang, should've thought of that! Of course. Kind of sad when artists are forced (or at LEAST feel forced) to do that.
@@MP-tf7cc because it has Beck’s face
There's too many people
You used to know
You see them coming, see them go as
You know their secrets
And you know theirs
This town is crazy but nobody cares
This whole album is a masterpiece and one of my favorites of all time.
This song just makes me recognize how I feel about certain people and situations. This is definitely one of my favorite Beck songs
I was not a Beck fan until Pandora played this song now I can't get enough of him.
Absolutely beautiful song
This song Bites into my feels and chews on them for a while... Beck is allowed in here
On my worse days this is the sound track of my internal dialogue; troubling beautiful conversation!
There is no lost cause!! There is always hope!! Such a sweet song!! thank you!!:) Love you!!!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR KINDNESS! LOVE YOU!! SO SWEET!!:)
This is the best song from the best album he's ever put out.
I know this song is about a breakup but whenever I hear it I think of my dad. My whole life I wanted him to be happy with us, his kids, I always tried to make him happy and a part of my life. Now that I’m an adult I’m just tired of fighting for him to be happy and for him to care about me bc no matter what I do I’m just not going to be that important to him and it’s impossible for me to make him happy. I’m tired of fighting for a lost cause”
Beck's versatility simply astounds me...I'm always impressed by his work. Pure genius.
Amazing visuals, lyrics and all of the above. I once thought this guy was a joke. "Odelay" is one of the best albums of all time.
Song ages so well
I love this song so much. So plaintive. I've been on both sides of this. Beautiful.
Love this whole album. Sweet, sad, melancholy.
This album is a beautiful and sad masterpiece
Now this is one true “ARTIST” ..............thanks 4 what u left us,that ..leave us.”..SnapPing our fingers,and taping our toes...thank you-BECK
This is nicest beck song I;ve found yet
This song is an electric blanket