This is his therapy album and it shows. Not that its bad, but the pain from earlier albums isnt there anymore. Its an album of homesickness and unpacking issues to deal with them in ways besides rage. The evolution of this band has been incredible to watch.
i'm hungarian and when i first saw the year '1956' in the title i instatly thought of the revolution in '56 Budapest. then listened to the song and it kicked me. my grandfather was kind of a policeman that time, but he lived in the country. my grandmother was home with the children during the revolution and she couldn't contact him. the 'wind' and the 'bending windows' are perfect metaphors of what happend during those few weeks. he escaped, made it home because he didn't want to kill his own compatriots. ...and after it every one carried on. after dinner do the dishes mother hums the coffemaker hisses
The first time I listened to this song and heard "There's a woman who got thrown from her car into a barbed wire fence She was six months pregnant" I think my heart broke.
does anyone notice how perfectly well the pacing of Jordans voice matches the rhythms being created by the music, cue to cue, rhymed line by rhymed line...it blows me away and i hope im not the only one who notices
There's not a day that you don't run through my thoughts, I miss you in every passing moment of my life now that I've faked to seem as if I'm happy and settled. We were destructive, but there was something in that uncontrollable storm that we called love that you had became forever scarred into me. Unruly but, maybe in another life.. In this band did I find some unfathomable comfort in our downfall, circa 2016. Thank you.
Its like all the fucked up shit in the world put into lyrics in the most beautifully heart breaking of ways. Losing a child, a child who was lost to cancer, a church that is abandoned and the loss of faith, falling through the ice, a storm that causes so much destrustion, losing your lover, being stabbed by your own child, having a child with schizophrenia, having an abusive spouse, a person who commits suicide. Some people might just say its morbid and depressing, but honestly a long time ago when I first started listening to La Dispute, it was after my boyfriend had passed away. I was not in a good place, and it really helped me with a lot just because of the fact that I finally knew that there was people out there who related to my pain. Even tho most people dont go through those exact tragedies, I still think its beautiful for those who can relate to the kind of pain and loss expressed in this music.
+maxie louise actually first reactions after falling through the ice is about a relationship falling apart. Pretty crazy, when i hear it and read the lyrics, because i had been there. But yea, La Dispute covers so much so well
+Ethan S. Actually pretty much every song on Rooms of the House is about a relationship falling apart, this one aswell. This is probably the most obvious line: "Couldn't keep a thing the same way when the storm blew in and the furniture rearranged."
@@DerTomatenToaster This songs about an f5 tornado that hit Michigan in the 50s not including the staggering 47 that hit during that time as well my guy. but it's still a powerful euphemism for divorce
@@willbinney9248 I mean... duuh? The song about a storm is actually about a storm - Next you're gonna tell me 35 is about the bridge on a highway collapsing? Crazy stuff!
I was at a la dispute show and the best part was at the end of this song I made eye contact with jordan and we sang coffee together and he smiled a bit
A good friend of mine introduced me to La Dispute, I was instantly impressed. I first heard Woman (reading) and I just heard pure emotion. The lyrics are pure poetry and when I discovered this song, I was blown away again. Their music is art and I couldn't be more hyped they're touring next year in the UK. Look forward to this energy on the stage!!
There's only a handful of people I feel comfortable listening to la dispute with. Idk why, I have a weird fear and don't like people listening to my music, especially if it's any type of hard core
I compleatly understand. I only know one person I would have ever shared music I identify with this much, and he is a stranger now. So i get it random RU-vid stranger.
I don't know about you, but for me personally their music has helped me through the worst times of my life, and that is a very sensitive and vulnerable part of myself that I only let those extremely close to me into
this whole album is like when you take an evening walk and think a little too hard about the lives of the people living in the lit up houses you pass. Or looking at an old scrapbook filled with film photos of relatives you were a few decades short of meeting! I don't know of any other albums (yet!) that capture that specific feeling as well as this one does, and it's been a decade
I’ve always listened to this song on Apple or Spotify, but watching the music video has me dead. It’s such a dread filled song with a baby running backwards and that’s killing me
My grandparents survived this tornado one year before my dad was born. I do believe it's the most recent (and final) F5 in Michigan. Hopefully we never get an EF5.
Knowing how their other songs usually have double meanings, I really question if this song is ONLY describing the story of the storms... "I swear I saw lightning in your eyes", just something in that line in particular is so powerful. I think that it's a metaphor to a break up, or divorce. 2:38 it switches to first person, and he's saying that the furniture got rearranged, everything changed. Is it just me? Or do you guys get that deeper shit kinda vibe?
He's talking about an unstable, or broken home. Stay calm, keep down, preoccupy yourself, pretend it doesn't happen. (There are moments of collapse). This song produces an unsettling feeling because he wants to describe the imbalance in everyday life in a home full of sudden storms
The furniture rearranging he talks about often in his songs. Could be divorce, could be mental illness, could be trying to put something back together that keeps getting torn up all the time. To make it prettier on the surface for a temporary time
eh, i think its just about a storm. the whole lightening in your eyes refers to his happiness/surprise that she picked up after calling so many times with no answer. i can kinda see the moments of collapse maybe giving away that its more than just a song about a storm but the end is all jumbled up bits which i think try to convey how things afterwards seem like a big blur. who knows though
Saw you guys live and it was hands down one of the best experiences I've had. Your music has kept me afloat in my darkest times. Thank you for this blessing
There are bridges over rivers There are moments of collapse There are drivers with their feet on the glass You can kick but you can’t get out There is history in the rooms of the house After dinner do the dishes Mother hums The coffee maker hisses on the stove The steam a crescendo The radio emergency bulletins And everywhere wind You took the train down to Terre Haute, Indiana Visit family, your childhood home Give your mother her grandkid and father a kiss Put your luggage in your bedroom in the kitchen sit With your husband still up in Hudsonville Until the weekend when his shift ends at the furniture mill Running water for the dishes and the coffee on the stove Heard a warning from the corner on the radio And the glass starts to rattle in the window frames So you went underground Took the staircase down To the cellar full of hunting equipment Held your baby in your arms Read the labels on mason jars Try not to think about your husband in Michigan Stay calm Keep the radio loud Take care Wind howls Father piles blankets in the corner by the furnace Mother lights candles It’s a miracle the baby doesn’t cry Back home doing yard work outside Husband being stubborn under dark skies Saw the fence by the neighbor’s shed split Saw the kitchen windows start to bend in So you went down to the back steps then to the basement There were bookshelf plans on the workbench And a flashlight shining bright all night Try not to think about your son and your wife And the lightning that scattered the night sky And the wind bursts that tore up the power lines And the workbench in the basement Where you sat and tried to wait out the night You called for three straight days Still with your family back home Up in Hudsonville the worst of the storms touched ground And the phone lines were down Turn the radio up Theres a woman who got thrown from a car Into a barbed wire fence She was 6 months pregnant Both her and the baby lived You tried but the line or… I remember those nights I couldn’t get through to you When quiet storms came Rattled the window panes Couldn’t keep a thing the same way But the storm blew in and the furniture rearraged I can see lightning there and a funnel cloud And her mother said, “I swear I saw lightning in your eyes When that call got through To the other side.” Stay calm Keep the radio loud Stay down There are bridges over rivers Sirens in the distant Wind howls Keep down Then After dinner do the dishes Mother hums Wires snap Metal gets twisted Theres the rattle of the window glass bending in Take the children down Terre Haute Coffee Thanksgiving Stay calm Keep down At the workbench Stay And the coffe maker hisses Stay calm Keep down Turn the radio There are There are moments of collapse.
when I was rather young, about 7 (this was 1998) in michigan, we had a really bad storm, we lived in a town I wont really specify outside of Flint, the storm ripped the town apart, power lines and poles ruining houses, no power, we had a lot of large trees all over the place, my home had three, the one on the side of the house, a 4 story willow tree went down, if it had fell towards the left it would had crushed our house, instead it went down on the right and took out the side of the lawn and our fence that connected with our neighbors. The pine tree that was equally tall had the top of it chopped off by something. The shop behind the house, a carpet store suffered the fate we almost took part in. It was a terrible storm, when it ended we drove around town looking at the damage. over half the town without power. that was the first of many throughout the 20 something years I lived in Michigan. I got out right before the bad winter storms started happening. First year I lived in Florida, a storm during the winter hit Grand Rapids, everything froze, town went out of power, my cuz from Gaylord worked on restoring the power, it was a mess. I thought maybe the weather shit would come to an end, sadly Saint Augustine was the hotspot for two major hurricanes as of recently.
The storm in '98 - was it late Jan or early February? I live in Canada and our whole city shut down for two weeks because of a horrible ice storm that year. Same one?
saw this act at the starland ballroom in nj for the first time since i started listening to them over a decade ago. i expected there to be a lull during the newer tracks. when the oldies came in they were like gold. but a track like this -- well, i should say... it made the crowd's response to every other song disappointing. that moment in the middle -- the glimmer of hope -- the most important crux of the themes present on this record -- that we will get through this -- bottled up in all the stranger's hearts around me; line by line, getting louder, until the break, they chanted "you called for three straight days / still with your family back home / up in hudsonville the worst of the storms touched ground / and the phone lines were down / turn the radio up / there's a woman who got thrown from her car into a barbed wire fence / she was six months pregnant / both her and baby lived / you tried, but the line or... / i remember those nights / i couldn't get through to you then" and so on :)
Does anyone know where the video footage for these videos is from? Are these like, home movies from the band or are they from a film i'm just not making the connection to, or like what.
Okay but I understand that this is probably a huge metaphor or something, but just the way it talks about the storm in general reminds me of tornadoes, which may be what they were going for, but to be quite honest this song sort of scared me.
TheMistya12 It's a song about a tornado outbreak in the midwest. The wife is indiana where tornadoes are touching down.In Hudsonville a strong tornado levels the town
Yeah so after I googled the song title, I found out there were a series of tornadoes that touched down in Hudsonville, Michigan during April 1956. The song is telling a story of a woman who is trying to reach her husband who is still in Hudsonville, not knowing whether or not he is still alive. She is in Indiana visiting her parents with her kids by chance (which has tornadoes going on there as well.) The setting takes place in the woman's basement trying to stay calm, alive, informed, and calling her husband. After 3 days, her call finally got through. If you want more proof, the lyric at 2:54 says "I could see lightning there and a funnel cloud."
I just starting listening to this band. The lyrics really mean a lot and are really deep... Also in the begging he kinda sounds like Morty from Rick and Morty, just saying. But overall this band is great :)
Hello from Russia! I can't understand some facts in the song called Hudsonville, MI 1965. What happened to the wife in it? Why did she go somewhere (probably, to her husband) during the storm?
Before the storm the wife went to her parents' in Indiana for thanksgiving. The husband was to meet them once the weekend came and he finished his work week. It was before he left to meet them that both towns had tornadoes
