This is quite a song. I heard it on the radio today; it gives me the chills, not so easy to do for a guy who's 70 now. Thank you!

@Sans-7-c8x

Жыл бұрын

My dad is 70, he'd never give this a chance. Kudos! They are an amazing band.

@multicaruana

Жыл бұрын

@@Sans-7-c8x Thank you for the good words. Maybe my tastes in music have been a bit more off-beat than your dad's-I've liked everything from John Prine to the Violent Femmes !If you have anything to recommend let me know!

@bonniemillhone6180

Жыл бұрын

They never disappoint! Great song!

@liamskeo1768

Жыл бұрын

@@multicaruana Silver jews

@adamkubiak9760

10 ай бұрын

@@liamskeo1768 I looked them up thanks!

This song feels like finally driving home after a life changing event.

@nicelady4069

Жыл бұрын

After leaving the hospital when my husband of 15 years suddenly passed away in the night. Heart attack, with my love now that was meant to be and nothing feels like it should, I should be happy, but no. I've too much grief. ✌️💚🕊️

@joekraft5913

Жыл бұрын

@@nicelady4069 I hope that life suprises you and heals you in the most suprising and wonderful ways stranger, peace.

@Roethke777

Жыл бұрын

You said it perfectly.

@xochitlmoreno-dz7rf

Жыл бұрын

This is exactly it!

@sirsimonthesentry4787

Жыл бұрын

@@nicelady4069I know that feeling, I remember that drive home so well. Coldplay Clocks was playing. Sending virtual hugs.

This song is that weird sad feeling, something like mid life despair, time is going by and you’re getting older and can’t shake how temporal existence is

@leetarrant5630

Жыл бұрын

LC absolutely yeah been feeling that a lot lately I'm 60 next year, it's scary if I'm honest

@wenmockan

Жыл бұрын

I played it on piano yesterday and kept crying reading the words. I’d love a more acoustic version at some point

@user-ic1ii7ky8p

Жыл бұрын

Mid-life? I feel that despair every 10 years, lol

@quentincrisp6933

Жыл бұрын

Right on! Join the club!

@davidlancaster7784

11 ай бұрын

Welcome to The National! 😊

Can’t go back and can’t move forward. The memories you thought you’d forgotten. Your babies, your departed loves, your youth, the fear. Something is missing

I've done a lot of crying lately....many times over this song. I have lost almost everything and everyone in my life . Mostly of my own doing. I want it all to go away and I want it all to end. Then I hear a song like this and read your comments and the tears come out. And then I get the courage to say...call my 7 year old daughter who I miss like hell. And the strength to keep going.....

"The radio is painful, the words are clipped" such a powerful image. He is so far away that the signal is getting lost. But, more than that, the songs he's hearing don't get their proper ending - hence the pain. They are left unfinished, even if you know them by heart, so much is left unsaid, undone, clipped. Nobody gets a clean out.

It's amazing how The National keeps infusing this much pain and beauty into their music. I love this so much.

@wvufan1011

Жыл бұрын

100% 💕

@Stringer13ell

Жыл бұрын

Racial pride flag 🤮. Why do you link black people with aids like that?

@davidwhittaker730

Жыл бұрын

Yes I totally agree

@thereisnodarkside

Жыл бұрын

It hurts so much

@Odesskiy100

Жыл бұрын

I suppoort lgbtq+

Handprints in concrete at the softest stages. What a lyrical masterpiece!

Time to bring out those sad dad dance moves 🔥🔥

@wasabijoe323

2 жыл бұрын

I'm just imagining bob belcher waddling around by himself

@acerv0

Жыл бұрын

Cries in Sufjan.

@Kento617

Жыл бұрын

FACTS

@Pcrimson1

Жыл бұрын

LOL! I'm 62. I'm going to see them (again), next month. I'm sure moves be sad, but I'll be glad...

@thewasatch208

Жыл бұрын

The struggle is real..

My friend passed away from suicide a few weeks ago. I was so stunned that I didn't even know how to process the news. This song came on the radio later in the night, and it was the first time in that entire day of having heard what happened that I was finally able to let out the tears. It came at a much needed time

@AntonAdelson

5 ай бұрын

Hug. I'm crying just from yours comment. Dine be alone! You're NOT alone!! Not just you, but anyone who's reading. Know that!

Matt is really channeling some Leonard Cohen on this one

@AntonAdelson

5 ай бұрын

That's who I thought at first! Are all of his songs like that? How are they usually?

@vervor

3 ай бұрын

he's quite often channeling Cohen

Their music is so cinematic. One of thew few acts, along with Springsteen, where a song triggers an entire movie in my head.

@patrickdoyle81

Жыл бұрын

I never realized how Springsteen The National is until now.

@jimwilliams3816

Жыл бұрын

"Stolen Car," only 42 years further along in life? ...crap, did I just type "42 years"?? 😲

@carltimmons3198

Жыл бұрын

One who "gets" the National "gets" life. So astute.

I was just jamming to this, then stopped to actually listen to the lyrics. Now I'm sitting here crying. But god, if it isn't beautiful

As a dad of two young daughters, this hurts and heals at the same time. My wife and I love each other, but have our problems. We move so fast, I forget to enjoy the small moments like bath time, this song perfectly summarizes all of the emotions and makes it ok.

@Sans-7-c8x

Жыл бұрын

They are the kings of "Sad dad rock" Love them!

I’m sorry I didn’t try harder. You gave me the best years of my life. You deserved more than the weird goodbye.

This might be the best song I’ve ever heard on the first listen. Wow. Needed this more than ever right now.

@mandyb0725

Жыл бұрын

Seriously. Definitely the best song I’ve heard all year

@tammiknott9845

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

Simply wonderful, a song about leaving the past behind and moving on, but not always being able to. As I'm in my mid 60s ,this beautiful song struck a chord with me.

Oh grief…that shadow on my heart that pushes tears through my eyes when I’m alone and remember…they never make me feel any better; just broken. When they just don’t know what comes next, and the confusion, and the reaching for something…and suddenly gone…what goodbye isn’t weird…?

i always find my heart drawn back to the national at every autumn and beyond. this is perfect timing before September. so lucky to live in a time of this band 🧡

@Gunner171984

Жыл бұрын

I agree. The National reminds me of autumn 🍂

@melissavrell9063

Жыл бұрын

So true!

@davisjustin1313

Жыл бұрын

Mr. November indeed.

@TheDinousek

Жыл бұрын

For me Boxer is the quintessential Autumn record, even though it was released in May.

@indie15

Жыл бұрын

@@TheDinousek nice! mine would be high violet. will you be seeing them on tour?

Such a great song and such a great title. Goodbyes ARE weird because it’s so hard to accept that things are over- a life, a relationship, a stage, etc. How can a person, a life, a love be here and then just not be here? That’s why grief is so hard and so weird. I love that they point that out.

My dog was put to sleep around a year ago. After 17 years of being around with us, it was time. But it's definitely been a weird goodbye since them. I'm now looking ahead as I know he joined us a long time ago and gave us his everything, as we did the same with him I miss you zeus, and thank you to the sad dads for putting a song that captures this goodbye

I'm pretty much speechless. One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

been listening to this song on loop for days straight; it's so poignant ... melancholy-tender, alive-painful, visceral, evocative, so vivid

@carltimmons3198

Жыл бұрын

all attributes of "that" song. the one that we most relate to, that as if it took the words right from our lives.

@paulthehuman8447

8 ай бұрын

Amazing vocal choices throughout. Let's you think it's someone recanting a tierd tale. Next, it's confused-innocent + whatever you hear. I came here to look for a clip /stare at the lyrics/get an explanation. But I just think I know exactly what he/they mean, I have lived those snippets of memory given in the lyrics and I don't think I could describe those times with words. I felt so old and alone, but I was young... !? Well the song made me stop what I was doing anyway. And now it's in my top played on ●ify

Poetry set to music. Melancholic and ethereal. Emotions and memories float in front of me and pass by.

Love this song. I lost my puppy tragically and this song has helped me with the goodbye. Grief is painful

@ChandraAWilson

5 ай бұрын

The love exists forever 🤍

I had a very hard journey of grief this past year & this song just captures it all so well

this song genuinely feels like poetry recited with accompanying music. there is so much meaning in each throwaway line damn.

The lyrics just crush in this. I’m on repeat with this 24/7

national and bon inver together, it is impossible to go wrong...amazing song, amazing (sad dads) vibe, nostalgic and actual at the same time

This is my new favorite song.

This one hit me like a freight train, just like About Today and Light Years. These songs dig deep and pull up some old, barely remembered grief from within me and I am crying the best kind of tears that can only be brought on by soul-crushingly beautiful music. It hurts, but it the hurt is just so GOOD! Kudos!

I'm crying like a baby, in my truck, at a construction site I'm working at. Lost my dog of 12 years two days ago, and just generally feel like I'm failing, at everything. Damn.

@babaroga73

Жыл бұрын

You are. We all are. It's ok. It'd get better.

@jobeans4760

Жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry for your loss - it's awful when our furry loved ones leave us. I hope this finds you in a better headspace. You're not failing. Life can be hard; loved ones pass; things go wrong. That's not failure. It's just what happens, to all of us. Go easy on yourself.

@AdamWhitney

Жыл бұрын

@@jobeans4760 thank you

@horse5407

Жыл бұрын

@@jobeans4760What a beautiful way of giving encouragement.

Exceptionally beautiful song

Your songs are always moving. There are many good songs in the world, but there are very few songs that move people like you. That is why I long for you and I always listen to your songs.

@bobbymagee640

Жыл бұрын

Amen

This band is my EVEYTHING!!

This song hits in a bunch of places. Weird goodbyes are tough to process, feels like a painting that wasn't finished or a journey that got cut in the middle. Well I can't explain it well, obviously, but these guys do a gorgeous job of it.

@MsStacimarie

Жыл бұрын

I’d say you explained it perfectly… it’s just like that.

@conorgrogan

Жыл бұрын

@@MsStacimarie well that's very nice of you to say, I appreciate it, thank you.

This song is forever one of the two songs that reminds me of my dad passing from cancer.. I first heard it during his brief fight and quick passing.. the other song is by the national as well. About today.

* Another great National song to conjure a mental time-machine of sad and bittersweet nostalgia.

I love this song so much

there is something to be said when music strikes your soul so deeply and you cannot do anything about it!

Can't stop listening to this. Brings me to tears. So damn beautiful, elegant & sad ❤ This might be the best song I’ve ever heard on the first listen in years.

@teajelmore

Жыл бұрын

Same

@berndfaust1736

8 ай бұрын

Es geht mir ganz genauso! Besser kann man es nicht beschreiben ❤

This song made me cry..

Those piano notes before the vocals start can make anyone recognize a National song even if it's been years since you heard one of their songs. Love it!

hearing this was the first time I was wondering how artists manage to sing some of their songs without crying. It's a beautiful piece. I was listening to upbeat and Halloween stuff while cleaning the kitchen and suddenly this came on. Despite not liking ballads, I was instantly taken in by the atmosphere this voice and words convey. Listened a few times on repeat, ended up crying. What a beautiful song.

This song is absolutely gorgeous. AMAZING !!!!!

As we age (grow) there are many types of grieving to do in so many ways. Thanks for lighting the way with stunning exactness.

After my break up in 2018, The National and Bon Iver were my soundtrack for that year. This song sums it all up in a beautiful way.

Hearing this masterpiece on the day my mother passed away due to cancer!! It feels so beautiful to connect to this song and feel like the bands you have always loved care about you in many ways

@alipareedanse12

Жыл бұрын

i’m thinking of you! hope you’re okay

@hannahgriffin374

Жыл бұрын

My dad passed away from cancer about a month ago and I felt exactly the same hearing this song

@zeckhariahbedhiafi8738

Жыл бұрын

@@alipareedanse12 thnak you so much for caring !!!!

@zeckhariahbedhiafi8738

Жыл бұрын

@@hannahgriffin374 i uderstand you !! may your dad rest in peace and i truly care !

@fguedes123

Жыл бұрын

Love and strength from Portugal!

Ever hear a song and you instantly know there's no way there's a better song from the same artist. This is that one song for The National. ♥

Dont stop making music The National....always great sound and lirycs!!

After just separating from my husband on Friday, this song hits differently for sure. A mixture of sadness but also knowing that there’s more to come in the future which will help move past the confusion that is life…

And there…. Right there.. music peaked and became magic… pure and simple magic

Despite all the horrible shit that humans do to each other and to our beautiful planet, we (slightly) redeem ourselves by making absolutely amazing music like this.

Why haven't I heard of this Group before today?? I LOVE their Music! It really touches my Soul! ❤

@carmenbonniciabstractartist

10 ай бұрын

Me to. It's so beautiful. It makes me so sad but in a sweet beautiful way.😢😢

can't stop listening to this masterpiece. thanks for putting into words and into music what some goodbyes sound like. you guys never disappoint.

I wasn't prepared for how deeply this song would affect me, beautiful and sad all at once, you've done it again ❤️

Just when we needed them

I need this, like i need oxygen.

@ThatShadowPrism

Жыл бұрын

I almost need it more

Love that voice! First time I heard a song by The National it brought chills to my skin! It was Morning Dew! I like Bon Iver too, great pairing!

@loryn4725

Жыл бұрын

The voice reminds me of jermaine from flight of the conchords...actually the whole vibe of the song does except sad

@ktraughb

Жыл бұрын

"I am easy to find" and "nobody else will be there" give me the same effect as this song. Absolutely beautiful.

@jezgarrett9059

Жыл бұрын

Listen to the Big Red Machine albums. It's Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Aaron Desner (The National). It's a similar vibe to this.

i have been listening to this ever since i heard it in the morning !! i am so hooked ! subtly addictive and brilliant lyricism !! while i am listening i feel like my heart has been pulled out of my chest and shoved back in as it ends and I can feel it emanating a strange euphoric , dreamy yet so painful feeling all over my body ! other worldly !!

@auntiecreeps1414

Жыл бұрын

The National always affects me that way. I can’t listen to About Today and several others without openly weeping. 💔 But yes, so addictive.

"The grief it gets me" This is something we all can relate to. Haven't we all lost something during the pandemic. Thanks for this gem... maybe we can heal.

@Misslost

Жыл бұрын

I haven't. Narrowing it down to one illness really oversimplifies this amazing track.

@cro649

Жыл бұрын

@@Misslost You have lost something during the pandemic, I can guarantee it. It may be a person, it may be time or liberty, it may be a layer of innocence or bodily autonomy. It may be currency, from associated inflation, it may be a sense of reality from all the parroted information. You may have lost patients or you may have lost patience for those who were believers or those who were sceptics. You may have lost faith in statistics. Either way we all lost something.

This is the most beautiful thing I have heard in a long time ♥️ So glad that bands like the National still exist between all this mainstream music playing on the radios

This song feels way longer than it actually is, and I somehow like that about it. Well done

This has a 90s vibe to it. I like the vibe very much!

Two of my favorite artists bang out a hell of a song. Bravo!

They keep growing. It never stops hurting.

Opening a Wound and Healing it at the very same moment wonderfully beautiful experience.

This song gets me everytime...growing up with my grandparents, my paps door frame had the inches and ages, handprints when new concrete was poured for the porch n basement. Coming back home* when it was time to care for them, but going back and forth to take care of my kids and back to my grandparents. Memorize the bathwater, one day just stepping into the tub will be an impossibility, and you'll long for the ability to take care of yourself. Memorize the air, our elders more often than not are isolated and stuck at home missing the sunshine and fresh air, without that you feel less than human/like a ghost, wondering 'was there ever even a time before this?' Comfort kits/comfort measures are the weirdest goodbyes you could have with the people you love and care for most in this world. This song wrecks me everytime. ♡

Dschungelcamp 2024 wir waren dabei, wer noch 😍 ?

@plmunderground2168

6 ай бұрын

War dabei :) Gerade in der letzten Sekunde noch geschafft den Song herauszufinden. Musikauswahl war generell top! Auch schön war, dass man im Abspann noch sah, welche Nasen überhaupt für das ganze Spektakel verantwortlich waren. ;-) Man übersieht recht gerne, wie viele Leute da involviert sind.

@dr.neilwatts412

5 ай бұрын

Cringe den Song aus so einer Müllshow zu kennen.

@OrangeProduction0

5 ай бұрын

@@dr.neilwatts412 geschmäcker sind verschieden 😊

great song and wish it was on the album!

I used to listen to this song while showering before leaving to write my board exams, this song soothed me through all the panic and anxiety I was facing.

This song is the damn soundtrack of my life right now. It so clearly describes the twilight of my marriage. Losing my wife to another man. She was the light of my life. I'm in so much pain but at the same time I just want this nightmare to be over so I can move forward.

@CC-rz9lw

Жыл бұрын

Wrecked reading this. I’m so sorry. Reading this with this song 😭😩. Been there 2x…the pain is real…but over time…it gets better…to the point where when you hear her name…it won’t bring that smile anymore…😓

@Rick-hp6fu

Жыл бұрын

@@williamwood7138 Thanks. Today is our 14th anniversary. I'm having a hard go at it as very few people know and when asked, I give them a generic "fine" answer.

@jananilcolonoscopu4034

Жыл бұрын

@@Rick-hp6fu Hope you're holding up, unknown man on the internet. In a way, you are me and I am you.

@shilohivy4590

Жыл бұрын

I am so so sorry to hear this. I have been married 13 years (23 total) and he’s it for me. Forever. I don’t know how you are hanging on but god damn it you deserve happiness. I hope she was just blocking you from the one who becomes that for you.

@Rick-hp6fu

Жыл бұрын

@@shilohivy4590 Thanks for the kind words. It really means a lot. I struggle greatly at times to deal with it and have a ton of anxiety but therapy has helped me cope. Realizing and accepting that I cannot control what she does, only what I can do, has allowed me to forge ahead and not seek the quick way out. My kids need me and I need them. I'm fucking tearing up as I write this. There is light at the end of the tunnel and we'll be divorced soon. I just need to make it through the holidays. I hope you hold on to what you have and cherish it. I never thought it would happen to me. Take care of yourself and your family.

Getting a Sleep Well Beast vibe. And I LOVED Sleep Well Beast. 👍

Recuerdo que en el último concierto de The National en CDMX, Matt preguntó, ¿Quieren bailar?, el público gritó, y él contestó, nosotros no hacemos música para bailar. Amo está banda inmensamente.

@HugoVentura

Жыл бұрын

La mejor banda del multiverso

one of the best choruses matt's ever written.

great. thanks a lot. now I got to listen to this 800 times today. I got stuff to do man

i wasn't so sure i would like it until the voice started - it's absoutely stunning :O

@thevictor5116

Жыл бұрын

i know bro i got goosebumps when his voice started

Just stunning, tingling goosebumps and a tear!

I heard it for the first time on the way to my uncle's funeral, during what happens to also be the first year of my only child's life, so it's hitting me in all kinds of different ways. The feelings really come at you from multiple directions with this one.

The first few lyrics of this song, sung to me as a new dad. Move forward now... I've loved The Nationals for a long time now. Although I can't agree with many of the undertones for the old songs, as I've gotten older. I still love The Nationals. Seen you guys twice live, and will again. I love how you bought out a new song like this one.. That can still make me love your music.

Me in 2012 would have died at the thought of this dream collaboration. Me in 2022 appreciates it like fine wine. Which is probably even better.

I love this band, I love you Matt, Scott, Aaron, Bryce and Bryan you guys have filled the gap in my heart with your lovely songs, I hope you come to Mexico again this time I have money to come and see you, best of wishes to all and excellent new year

been listening to this everyday since it came out. Somehow feels to me like these motivational mantras people talk out loud to themselves in front of a mirror. Maybe not as bleak.. " I don't know why I don't try harder -I've been going down some some strange water".. but we keep moving forward now

This came up today on the radio just when I was thinking how much I miss my big sister, died at 57 of brain cancer...feeling a little bit less alone now. The grief never goes away.

@BillyJoel_

8 ай бұрын

Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here.

“Your coat’s in my car, I guess you forgot. It’s crazy the things we let go of.” What timing to hear and see all these lyrics right now…

great song and wish it was on the album!. This song feels like finally driving home after a life changing event..

@LylacBPX

10 ай бұрын

The song is in Laugh Track, their newest album.

And just when I thought that my heart could not feel any heavier... 💔 But also lighter and more relieved at the same time. Thank you.

@mandyb0725

Жыл бұрын

♥️💕💕

i'm ready for baritone daddy to make me sad again

@mustafasadmansakib

Жыл бұрын

amen

@jimwilliams3816

Жыл бұрын

Lyrics weren’t bullsh*t for me. I’m betting you’re younger than Matt, or maybe you ace all your relationships.

@kmdempsey1

Жыл бұрын

Daddy? Weird u would say that? Ick,yuck

@kmdempsey1

Жыл бұрын

@@bulkyzero it's beautifully done.

@baffledking9902

Жыл бұрын

@@jimwilliams3816 yeah man, we experienced (early 30s) folk know.

Another spike to my soul that I just can't stop listening too.

the national albums come out at the same frequency as my relationships fail, new ex, new the national album

Can't wait to listen to this song whenever it's raining..at dawn ..reminiscing about everything

Funny how listening to music made by strangers while sitting alone in a room somewhere in the world can somehow make you feel like you may not be alone. That you may exist. That tomorrow may someday come.

Brings me to tears everytime..

I never thought about this collaboration, but omg. I had tix to both bands then covid hit and both shows were canceled. Probably my two favourites if I had to pick

@joshuamessinger

Жыл бұрын

Justin Vernon produced bloodbuzz Ohio

@eldondrift8910

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuamessinger I didn’t know that, that’s one of my favourites too 😂

@joshuamessinger

Жыл бұрын

@@eldondrift8910 I'm actually wrong. I'm not sure why I thought that. He was on Conversation 16 though.

@jorn9666

Жыл бұрын

@@eldondrift8910 plus, listen to the two albums of Big Red Machine, if you haven't already. It's Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon in one band. Fucking great, too

@mustafasadmansakib

Жыл бұрын

Justin already has a side project with Aaron Dessner called the Big Red Machine.

Beautiful stuff. One of the best among the new songs, right next to Tropic Morning News. Already looking forward to the new album, looks like it's gonna be a great one!

@PaulWolfe1

Жыл бұрын

Grease in Your Hair is amazing too kzread.info/dash/bejne/hKqJssaHZ8fZhrA.html

This song is so beautiful!

I love you the National!! You are my favourite band for over 10 years, was fantastic to see you in Gelsenkirchen, Germany this summer!

Just love this song. 'Memorize the bath water'....you got me hooked already.

this is beautiful, as everything they do, can't wait for the album

The National sure does know what’s up with living and dying and keeping on with living. Yeah…memorize the bathwater.