Andrew Q Fits so well. i'm going through a tough time at the mo and that pod has bought me to tears twice (Sheldon..., and Galit) and i'm only halfway through. then this track comes on...
A beautiful video and a beautiful song. I discovered it through listening to the Heavyweight podcast. So poignant, so relatable. Reminds me of Syracuse, New York in the early 1980s. I'm surviving the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in a small town in north Alabama, USA. Best wishes, mankind.
Music strarts at 00:50 Now that the furniture's returning to its Goodwill home With dishes in last week's papers, rumours and elections, crosswords, an unending war That blacken our fingers, smear their prints on every door pulled shut Now that the last month's rent is scheming with the damage deposit Take this moment to decide If we meant it, if we tried Or felt around for far too much From things that accidentally touch Hands that we nearly hold with pennies for the GST The shoulders we lean our shoulders into on the subway, mutter an apology The shins that we kick beneath the table, that reflexive cry The faces we meet, one awkward beat too long, and terrify Know that the things we need to say Have been said already anyway By parallelograms of light On walls that we repainted white Sun in an empty room Take eight minutes and divide By ninety million lonely miles And watch the shadow cross the floor We don't live here anymore
I was lucky to be an emotional teenager when this album released. Learning the ennui of how the world shifts and changes and leaves us behind, and how we repeat the same thing to the places and people we learn to love, was traumatic. It seems like this has always been one of my favourite songs. I'll never be able to sing along without having to stop to feel some big emotions.
What is awesome about this song is its universalness- I still, in 2013 in the US, do crosswords, and listen to rumors and read up on an unending war. And there continue to be 90 million lonely miles (93+ actually) between ourselves and the sun. The tragedy of love that is strong breaking apart entails much of what is articulated in this song- furniture returning to a Goodwill home, walls of a shared apartment repainted white to get a deposit returned, universal lyrics. Sad but yet so beautiful.
i found this song when i was in 7th grade, i loved it, but i forgot about it for years i'm so glad that this video is up. thanks. it really means allot to me.
I live in Winnipeg too, and while there are problems (which you won't escape in any other city), it's still a great place. I'm a transplant to Winnipeg and I prefer it to to other places I've lived. Not to mention that the murder capital is someplace in BC.
@applesauceisgreat Haha, i've lived there for 6 months and i loved it. I like cold weather, and i don't really care about unfriendly people(maybe cuz i'm kinda unfrendly too, haha). And, well, all that you said about violence doesn't sound so bad for me, i live in Brazil, man! hahahaha I really miss to walk at the forks during the winter smoking a cigar, and then go to Tim Hortons and drink a coffee.
Anyone know what the guy is saying at 5:19? "I wouldn't know how to live in ..."? Right afterwards, he's talking about living in Poland, my country, but the dotted name does not sound familiar.
Jonathan Goldstein's podcast "Heavyweight" has this as the theme song - I love it.
Andrew Q Fits so well. i'm going through a tough time at the mo and that pod has bought me to tears twice (Sheldon..., and Galit) and i'm only halfway through. then this track comes on...
A beautiful video and a beautiful song. I discovered it through listening to the Heavyweight podcast. So poignant, so relatable. Reminds me of Syracuse, New York in the early 1980s. I'm surviving the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in a small town in north Alabama, USA. Best wishes, mankind.
This song never failed to gut me at the end of every Heavyweight episode. Even moreso now that Spotify killed it -we really don't live here anymore.
Just finished the first season of Heavyweight, such a human, awesome show. This song fits it perfectly
THANK YOU! This song just came up on a Spotify radio station, and I was going crazy trying to remember where I knew it from.
Music strarts at 00:50
Now that the furniture's returning to its Goodwill home
With dishes in last week's papers, rumours and elections, crosswords, an unending war
That blacken our fingers, smear their prints on every door pulled shut
Now that the last month's rent is scheming with the damage deposit
Take this moment to decide
If we meant it, if we tried
Or felt around for far too much
From things that accidentally touch
Hands that we nearly hold with pennies for the GST
The shoulders we lean our shoulders into on the subway, mutter an apology
The shins that we kick beneath the table, that reflexive cry
The faces we meet, one awkward beat too long, and terrify
Know that the things we need to say
Have been said already anyway
By parallelograms of light
On walls that we repainted white
Sun in an empty room
Take eight minutes and divide
By ninety million lonely miles
And watch the shadow cross the floor
We don't live here anymore
Thank you for posting the lyrics. Brilliant!
This song. Holy shit.
I was lucky to be an emotional teenager when this album released. Learning the ennui of how the world shifts and changes and leaves us behind, and how we repeat the same thing to the places and people we learn to love, was traumatic.
It seems like this has always been one of my favourite songs. I'll never be able to sing along without having to stop to feel some big emotions.
What is awesome about this song is its universalness- I still, in 2013 in the US, do crosswords, and listen to rumors and read up on an unending war. And there continue to be 90 million lonely miles (93+ actually) between ourselves and the sun. The tragedy of love that is strong breaking apart entails much of what is articulated in this song- furniture returning to a Goodwill home, walls of a shared apartment repainted white to get a deposit returned, universal lyrics. Sad but yet so beautiful.
mickkjh hello 2013, sincerely 2017
Quinton J hi 13 and 17 with love 19♥️
2021 👋
@@fiona0470 almost 2024 ❤
i found this song when i was in 7th grade, i loved it, but i forgot about it for years i'm so glad that this video is up. thanks. it really means allot to me.
John K. Samson spews forth pure GOLD, love this band!
I'm ridiculously proud that they're from
my city. (:
I loaned these guys my Moby CDs and never got them back.
LOL
I love that the speed of light math is correct.
Thanks Johnny G!
Awesome band from an awesome city!
Love this band Winnipeg is proud!
I love the weakerthans cant wait till they finish in austrialia and come to southern ontario
love this band. they have a Hong Kong following!
Amazing.
Great. Super great. Thnks for sharing.
i came accross this song on Pandora last night. it is rad!
LOVE this video :)
@jkmyers15 I can add: see also: Fitchburg, MA, Lowell, MA, etc.
Take this moment to decide, if we meant it, if we tried....
I live in Winnipeg too, and while there are problems (which you won't escape in any other city), it's still a great place. I'm a transplant to Winnipeg and I prefer it to to other places I've lived. Not to mention that the murder capital is someplace in BC.
greetings from Heavyweight
I live somewhere too.
@applesauceisgreat Haha, i've lived there for 6 months and i loved it. I like cold weather, and i don't really care about unfriendly people(maybe cuz i'm kinda unfrendly too, haha). And, well, all that you said about violence doesn't sound so bad for me, i live in Brazil, man! hahahaha
I really miss to walk at the forks during the winter smoking a cigar, and then go to Tim Hortons and drink a coffee.
Now that the last months rent is scheming with the damage deposit, take this moment to decide...
If we meant it, if we tried. Or felt around for far too much; for things that accidentally touch.
Anyone know what the guy is saying at 5:19? "I wouldn't know how to live in ..."? Right afterwards, he's talking about living in Poland, my country, but the dotted name does not sound familiar.
He says "Fort Rouge". It's a neighbourhood in southwest Winnipeg.
@@evankrosney6759 Thank you!
Who else thinks this song is super annoying at 1.5x speed but pretty damn good at normal speed?
I think it sounds GREAT at 1.5x. 1.6x, even. But 1.0 is pretty good too.
to be conclude : BORING, DEAD city