Why is it that more artists don't have the balls to write like this! Jason Isbell is everything Nashville pretends to be, AUTHENTIC!!!!! Best fucking songwriter on the planet period end of story!
Longtime Jason Isbell fan and public school teacher here. Thank you, Mr. Isbell, for capturing so well one of the most pressing issues of our day. "Swear you’ll save the world when I lose my grip/Tell me you're in control..." Such power and empathy in these words. The entire song provides a cathartic experience for me. "Something's changing inside my head."-- I feel this so much, as a teacher, a mother, a citizen in a dying community, and a volunteer at my local jail. I weep for our world.
Thank you, for what you do! It's almost like he's singing those lines to you, eh? I'm also a longtime fan of his and I was an inmate for a few years as well. Once you see the other side of life, it's hard to unsee it. Keep your head up and keep rockin' 🤘
Great song, lyrics and message. It is slowly happening but Country music is on a path to do more than sing songs about drinking beer. Good on you 400 Unit for doing your part.
@@theJimgenie626 you can argue all you want, but Jason introduces them as his “rock ‘n roll band”. He also tore up his membership to the Country Music Association a few years ago.
Youngest son’s birthday today… I’m also a teacher. I can’t get through this song without falling apart. My boys are homeschooled because active shooter drills should not be something any child should have to go through.
Wow Jason. Elementary classroom teacher and parent here. This hit me square in the gut, as usual; but this was soo different. So…. On target. What the hell do we do.
This Chorus! Is 🔥 As always, he gets his sentiment across so perfectly with so few words. This will resonate with alot of people. It does with me and I don't even have school age kids. It's an exceptional conversational piece.
Jason Isbell through his gift of songwriting is the reluctant arbiter of the 21st century. From Dress Blues to Save the World Jason represents the effects that unspeakable tragedies have on all of us.
The world doesn’t need any more American style saving.Just acknowledging some of the unconscious stresses , like wondering if your child is going to be murdered at school, or the fear of becoming sick or injured when you have either no health coverage, or are paying too much money for it, or the fearful propaganda Fox News is selling for the nationalist political party, these are all stresses near peer countries don’t have to deal with. It’s past time to mitigate climate change problems. There is no need and no time to deal with the problems increasingly large corporations are creating in the US, as deserts are forming, fires are burning down desperately needed forests, aquifers are being drained, and all the rest of it too many people seem unaware of.
This is the horror every American parent feels now, when is the madness gonna stop, so honest, parents can only rely on each other not to go mad when trying to keep our children safe. Jason never holds back and writes songs that cut deep.
Wow...nail meet hammer. Just heard this for the first time. We just had our first kid 3 months ago. He was born abroad and our friends/family cant understand why we dont bring him "home" to raise him. This song here is exactly why. It is no longer safe in the USA and we don't want to live with fear.
Very cool, and we needed this. People take songs there own way, and it sounds like he's giving answers here. Preventative measures. To step in when you see those red flags like so many do, but do nothing. Be aware of your surroundings and know your exits. No matter if I'm right or wrong, we need much more of this.
I don’t how this song has eluded me thus far but I’m sitting here at work listening to it alone and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Even looks like my house in the cover photo.
Weathervanes: A collection of songs about life and death for grown-ass people. Truer words could not be spoken about this album. The music is very simple and accessible. The lyrics are powerful and carry so many messages from multiple perspectives. That ain't easy to do in a 4-minute-long song. Get it people!
Received my copy of the disc on Monday and I've been through it several times. Amazing! I don't know how long this string of great albums will last but I'm really enjoying the ride. Thank you Jason, Amanda and the fantastic 400 Unit.
Wow I just started listening and the lines about a school shooting and the cops letting them die That’s the Uvalde shooting And just wow those lines are powerful Especially since it feels so recent
"Can we keep her here at home instead, can we teach her how to fight. Something's changing inside my head, something's drowning out the light." Wow.......
The awesome lyrics are contemporary, but the sound reminds me of my highschool days in the 80s. There's nothing like a Jason Isbell song out there today.
This sounds wonderful and mystical. Mysterious and earthbound. Thanks, I'm headed to my classroom now. About 35 children in kindergarten at an afternoon program in a poor area of South Jersey. The foundations founder is a famous actor. Now thoughts of Parkwood come back, and I'm on shaky ground!!! I'm getting to meet the son of a famous musician at the end if this month. I don't want to miss this or my sweetheart in the philipines... my issues snd not Jason's. Sorry. Jason's music got me through covid and before that time period. Watching 24 frames from the top floor of a university hospital brought me inward and satisfied. The 400 unit is why I stay. Such a talented group! Best wishes always Robert zeligson
The terror of being a father in today's world, and in this world in general. Confiding in your wife, and begging for reassurance that she'll take care of the kids if the fear drives you crazy.
Just saw JI and the 400 unit in Austin a few weeks ago. I was on holiday from New Zealand and the Dallas shooting happened when I was there. My friends and family freaked out. Come and live in NZ guys! No school shootings here!! 🇳🇿
I'm an elementary school teacher, and we had an active shooter prank call a few weeks back. Between that and everything on the news, this song hit hard. It's hard to feel hope for the future during times like these
'Swear you'll save the world when i start to slip, you'll be the first to know.' This is a call to arms for the family, friends, teachers... who realize the ones who are on the ledge of a catastrophe. Speak up and take action, you can save lives.
yes, but we have to have someone else listen to us and be willing to help. not that he's not right, but mental health care in this country is anything but healthy or caring.
Great work Jason. This is a solid song, and really resonates with me having a 7 and 4 year old. Looking forward to High Sierra, thanks for always making your way out to Northern CA / Northern NV
It's a worst fear come to life and you worry daily if their school is next. We haven't gone very far at all with technology and such it seems if we can't keep our children from doing this. We have to let them know there are alot of times in life where you feel so sad or helpless you want to do something drastic, or you're so pissed off you feel crazy, but those are normal fuckin emotions everyone gets at some point and if you try you can work through them. Theh will come and go. I told my son that when he was 11 and he told me later no one told him that he school. Also said he wished they had pressed buisness and economics more... However, he said they barely touched on why we act how we do and why people act out like they do. He said he felt happy, sad, angry, etc., all within the same thirty seconds. I said welcome to your hormones, they can help or hurt you so learn how to control them. Everyone has a temper, but I don't understand how it comes to hurting others. Jason is the man though! Been following him for 15 years solid I know
OMG! This man’s artistic output is superhuman. I’m sure there are others, but I can only think of one other example where the quality does not fade from album to album - The Beatles. On a heavier note, Michael Jason Isbell is genuinely terrified that our children (Mercy)are not safe these days - in school and in public. Fear not - the activism fighting gun violence is growing exponentially. It HAS to- Every mass shooting does not just rain PTSD down on our communities, it creates hundreds, sometimes thousands of new anti gun violence advocates. We will prevail!!!
I’m a huge fan of JI&The400Unit and also a big fan of Dawes, and my first impression of this song was that it has a very Dawes like feel, which is a damn good thing! Jason & Taylor Goldsmith are two of the finest writers in music today!
Amazing album! Great to hear Isbell help people realize we have more than a racist white city cop problem….we have an extremely serious “police culture” problem EVERYWHERE in this country!
There have many signs lately, I don’t mean to imply just Isbell. But music and songwriters have always answered my most endurance questions. I’ve been lucky to be in their presence.
Goddamn, brother! I saw the title, and, considering the time of the release and your recently released awesome orange t-shirts (a cause I passionately support as well), I could guess what the topic or topics might be. But, then, I was like, Jason you never fail me, please don't let this sound as cheesy as the title does. The picture looked awesome [a silhouette of your family (or any family--I can see my beautiful, kind, and innocent 8-year-old daughter who lives with me there even if we are only two)....but still "Save the World"...Lennon would have had a hard time pulling off that kind of utopian title...but, you turn the title on its head and back over again immediately because the title becomes both ironic and sincere like some R.E.M. song titles---the covers were absolutely phenomenal on Georgia Blue, and I hear just little hints of R.E.M. in the chorus... Anyway, you have taken the chaos of feelings that parents experience at present, and you can't let the kid know that you are anxious about that and distilled them into an always honest, heartbreaking but hopeful mix of rock and ballad.... There's too much to say about all of it--the poetry of your lyrics grows more complex without ever seeming false or pretentious, and you create genuinely moving and human reactions to serious topics while also dealing with serious social issues.... It's brilliant that you never really name the culprit (almost like Hemingway), but it's obvious...the answer is obvious...the song never says it but it leads you toward the obvious solution.... From this single dad and a lot parents, thank you for this!
