This beautiful, deep song made it all the way across the ocean up until a Dutch local radio station, where Gretchen Peters' album Essentials was declared the Album of the Week. Since that moment, me (and thousands with me) are aware of this great artist. Thanks for bringing this songs to the world and showing that storytelling in a song is an art that is still mastered nowadays.

Wow. Chills. Silhouette video especially striking. "No one saw me come and no one saw me go. Only the blackbirds and you."

I heard this for the first time tonight watching Gretchen on Music City Roots... What a song!!!

Wow.

I love this song, moody and dark. The lyrics speak of a terrible crime, which make this haunting and beautiful.

Simply Brilliant. Thank you.

Love this song and the animation.

What a beautiful video to accompany this great song!

Just heard Ms peters on Irish radio this Morning for the first time.Delighted to hear a fantastic act I was unaware of! I hope Ms Peters enjoys her visit to Ireland this Wednesday(14.10.15)

Wonderful song, brilliant animation!

Beautiful video and beautiful song Gretchen!

The dark side of me and segments of my past connects me to this song. I love it.Never would have done this but in my deep thoughts,,,abuse creates these kinds of scenarios.

@Ma_Ba

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you also listen to her "Independence Day" on the topic also.

Went to see Gretchen last night in Rhyl North Wales and she moved me and my husband to tears when she sang When You Are Old. The words were amazing and the whole concert was truly amazing. Go and see her live if you every get the chance. You won't be disappointed.

Love this song and this video rocks

Great song great animation

❤️!!!

Wonderful!

i'm going out today and buy this cd, she;s really good, she has a darkness to her songs kinda like a female johnny cash. the songs tell a story with great music too. she's got me hooked on her music,

Yay! Happy to see this released. It's one of our little girl's favorite videos (she's too little to understand the subject matter)! :D

Nice October tune. Me, I'm especially partial to the scarecrow vibe. Love the the look of the video very"harvest-y "matches G's voice so well!

@IlovemyOleander

2 жыл бұрын

@Robert William Thank you!

@IlovemyOleander

2 жыл бұрын

@Robert William I live in Nashville, TN. Although I’ve lived in other places, I am a native Nashvillian. What song drew you to Gretchen?

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The blackbirds came at dusk and they roosted in the cane raised such a ruckus that it shook my windowpane And I’m covered up in dirt and I stink of kerosene and no matter what I do I can’t get clean last thing i remember was your footsteps in the hall whisky in your voice and a shotgun on the wall now there’s shadows in the shadows, there’s trouble in the cane and there’s things you do that you just can’t explain Uneasy lies the head - unfaithful is the heart ungrateful and unlucky and untrue And no one saw me coming, and no one saw me go Only the blackbirds and you come harvest in the cane fields the sky turns black with smoke so I took our father’s gun and a heavy piece of rope and I left you lying there like rotten fruit upon the ground and I lit a torch and I burned the whole thing down Uneasy lies the head - unfaithful is the heart ungrateful and unlucky and untrue And no one saw me coming, and no one saw me go Only the blackbirds and you our father was a farmer he planted fields of cane he planted seeds of evil and we harvested the shame Oh but I’m the last one standing there’s no one left to tell and when it’s my time I’ll see you both in hell

@catherinetodd

8 жыл бұрын

"He planted seeds of evil and we harvested the shame." "I'll see you both in hell."

The lyrics in the transcript are so wrong that they're hilarious. Who the heck does these things anyway?