Thank You so much!!! i'm transposing it to guitar, but i'll play it on piano too. I couldn't figure out if that was a G or an F# in the bass line. electric pianos have like a weird undertone effect that confuses me if there's any form of chromatic changes. Thanks so much.
This is exactly correct. I had to leave the show in Nashville because of the drunk douchebags behind me singing atonally to the music. I was there to hear the fucking concert.
@MaxstertheBard211 Don't take his lyrics too seriously. He's a humanist. He doesn't, for a fact, believe in a deity. His lyric's spirituality are concerned more with the ideas around pantheism. Watch some of his newer interviews.
I understand why he mixes it up like that, sing alongs piss me off too but it just sounds way better the other way in my opinion, this is good but not as good.
@kookykaymo yeah thats part. but also he said something about how he thinks a song is never fully finished. So live he decides to change it up to a different way he thought after he recorded it.
@BurningOrchids He changes his opinion a lot. Remember, he's been making music since he was 14, with Bright Eyes since 17, and he's now 31. My understanding from his more recent stuff is he's in this Neo-Spirituality sort of phase. But at the same time, some of The People's Key's lyrics really point to some sort of faith. Definitely not mainline Christian, but some sort of redeeming god figure... I guess the most you can do is pray and hope he figures it out.
@coloringbooker no, this is bright eyes. You can see Nate on piano and in other videos of this concert you can see mogis too. But one of the members of the MVB is here, i think hes playin the bass, but im not sure.
WOW! i just got one of those little guitars, and i wondered if anyone else used them. I never knew conor used one. I feel like it was a great investment now haha.
@coloringbooker you mean in this video or just now? in the video its with Bright Eyes, this was pre-Mystic, I do believe. its a Bright Eyes show. hope that helps!
@fuckme1nce The way I personally see it, there is no definite meaning. I'm sure maybe when he was writing it, it was specific to something in his life but now its basically yours. What I'm trying to say is that music is open for interpretation, so in my opinion the meaning is whatever it means to you. And theres no right or wrong or definite answer. =) Thats whats so amazing about music and art in general. Sorry if I'm no help at all haha
This is possibly one of my favorite Bright Eyes songs. A part of me hated how short it is, at first but at the same time it means so much and is so powerful despite being short. Very few songs have the power of this one, with just the emotions and lyrics and everything. <3 Also I love the lyric change as well and that he does that live and can pull it off without it taking away from the original, if anything its even more special. Conor is a genius...such a beautiful mind.
