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
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
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
@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! ;)
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 was my favorite song my freshman year of college back in the fall of 2002. Crazy that it was recommended on RU-vid 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.
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.
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.
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 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."
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.
Most people hear this song and think about their ex, I hear this song and think about my mother, and how she can't change her life and leave my abusive father. I tried everything. I even suffered myself, twice - once from my father when I was a little child, and once from trying to help her to leave him. I can't convince her, I can't force her to divorce. She'll never leave him, and I must move on with my life.
This post hits right in the gut. This couple I know need to get away from each other just like you say your mom needs to get away from your dad, but it’s not going to happen and I fear she may wind up hurt or even dead, and he’s going to be in jail.
I hope not.. but I can imagine playing this on repeat though the end of November. And yeah, that would be the first of many swan songs for the county I love... and I see this is four years later, same song.
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!
This song takes me back to a time when I pulled some levers I shouldn't have pulled. But, I pulled them, and am better off for doing so. You can't leave yourself. You get to carry everything. Sorry.
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It is imposible for me to express how much i love this song
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.
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.
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”
...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 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.
I'm glad David Cage decided to have Jody sing this song during the tribecca film festival demo. Ellen Page's voice is amazing and suits her character's situation perfectly, in turn bringing massive amounts of emotion out of her. After hearing that, now hearing this, it's easy to see how the emotion is so easily brought out with a song as tremendous as this. Thank you Beck.
Sad has to be done well enough to overide the sadness into something else, it's one of the signs of a truely fine artist ... the something else is up to you.
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.
Great tune. Loss, in the form of love, death, etc.. will steal the spring from your step, the wind from your sails. But, loss is inevitable in life. The key is to get back up, and move on. Tough to do sometimes, but necessary. It's always up to you.
My dog died to this song, now every time I hear a bark I think of Spot. It was his favorite. This song is about lost dogs(Typical fake youtube comment on songs)
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.
This international hit song, like, totally reminds me of being in love with Vincent Ferrane, living in Paris, France, post 09/11/2001, when, i was still in my young twenties
Truly great song. Truly amazing music video with one hell of an impact. I saw him perform this song on the Conan O'Brien show when the album was first released. I listen to the song and really payed attention to his performance. I believed him as he sang, I remember thinking that. This is still one of my desert island albums.
As much as I like Beck's versatility and his disposition never to repeat himself, I think Sea Change was by far the greatest album he'd ever put out. I'm sure he would have had an awful lot of more fans had he continued on a similar path in future albums.
I finally found this song after so many years, I can't explain why but the melody and the music video especially always stuck around in my head, and now that I do remember it I kinda wish I hadn't. I realized the reason it stuck around so long in my head is cause mom would always play it around the time she had divorced my dad. The reason I found it is cause I mentioned what I remembered the video looking like and she found it, and we just listened to it and cried. She mentioned she hadn't heard it in over 15 years and it just made me think. It was something else but part of me is kinda glad it happened, we bonded even further over our loss
I AM tired of fighting, and scared of just how tired I am... Not that it matters. The only ones who would have missed me are already gone... Sorry. Bad day... It happens, they pass. My boyfriend says he would miss me, but he would be so much better off, he doesn't even realize... He shouldn't even have to listen to crap like this. I WANT to believe he loves me, but I can't feel worthy, so... Days like this will be the death of me. Haha... (Gallows humour, sorry...😳)
