There’s something similar to be said for being lost in the woods and seeing the same tree over and over, yet you trek on in the same direction, certain that you know where you’re going until you pass that same god damn tree again. That line though, definitely powerful.
This was my jam in high school. Trying to explain it to people was also my favorite thing. "Imagine a guy singing to a girl who broke up with him and the girl is telling him that the relationship was never what he remembers it as, but with Mario sounds as the backing music."
+Thomas Knowles That's great that you were able to stay strong and I hope you are doing well now but may I ask what the Sub Pop comment was referring to?
+omfgh4x TPS was LA, not even a Seattle scene for their music at dispersal, they set up through early social media and hit major cities. subpop still hasn't payed for betraying Cobain, so it shouldn't be a surprise that TPS would sign in their "home town", why? what do you mean?
I'm sorry to hear that man, this was mine and my ex fiancee's song (her pick, not mine). I still can't get over her a decade later, even try to rekindle things from time to time in weird moments of desperation, but she didn't love me when she cheated and as much as she wants to act friendly she doesn't want me now either so I feel at least a bit of your pain. I hope you are doing okay man.
I didn't touch this album for years post-divorce. I listened to a lot of agonizing lofi hiphop. But this album became like Chernobyl to me. Just now coming in to the exclusion zone 3 or 4 years on...
@@johnmurray1508 i do the same. Sometimes I need to tell myself to snap out if it and listen to more up beat music but lofi and certain old songs like this just make me feel something
I remembered when my mom used to play this album, mostly this song in particular, in the car all the time when I was a kid, it was the early 2000s and my dad had divorced her, I grew very attached to this song and enjoyed it but didn't think about the lyrics too much because I was naive. I'm in my 20s now and re-listening to this for the first time in many years and now have a better understanding of the lyrical concept, it made sense to me why my mom used to always put this song on at the time. It's kind of saddening now I fully understand the relation between this song and my mom's feelings over the divorce, but I'm also glad she introduced me to this band and be a part of my childhood. So thank you, mom.
I think my favorite part of this song is that during his verse, there are not many effects. However, during her verse, there are so many effects. Subtle symbolism that expresses who feels empty after the breakup.
If this is redundant, apologies. That's Jenny Lewis and she's incredible. She has many other musical collaborations. One of fav being the now broken "Rilo Kiley." If you like Jenny's voice check them out.
@@JohnDoe-qu5ik It's Jen Wood on the album version, although Jenny Lewis does background vocals on other songs and has performed it live as seen on RU-vid. I have the physical album with liner notes.
I love this song because of the strong characters and the subtle humor. The male's hyperbolic professions of his pain ("will someone please call a surgeon? who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart") are just so perfectly contrasted to the female's over-the-top logical attitude to the situation ("I've made charts and graphs that will finally make it clear; I've prepared a lecture, for why I have to leave"). Many of us have been on both sides of this situation, but seeing it from an external perspective really gives it a lightness that is both unfamiliar and refreshing.
Will someone please call a surgeon Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart That you're deserting for better company? I can't accept that it's over And I will block the door like a goalie tending the net In the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry So just say how to make it right And I swear I'll do my best to comply Tell me: Am I right to think that there could be nothing better Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together? I feel I must interject here You're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself With these revisions and gaps in history So let me help you remember I've made charts and graphs that should finally make it clear I've prepared a lecture on why I have to leave So, please back away and let me go I can't my darling I love you so Oh, oh Tell me: Am I right to think that there could be nothing better Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together? Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures I know that I have made mistakes And I swear I'll never wrong you again You've got a lure I can't deny But you've had your chance so say goodbye Say goodbye
Jenny Lewis is one of my absolute favorite song writers/performers and having her on this song just makes it that much cooler in my mind. She’s seriously the coolest
I just found this out recently, and I hate to break it to you, as it threw me for a loop, it's not Jenny Lewis. Jen Wood sings the duet with Ben. Jenny Lewis is all over this album but 2 tracks she isn't on are this one and one other. She does it live with em and I've spent ages assuming it was Jenny Lewis but its not. Unreal huh?
@@davidlindsay9564 actually jen wood does backing vocals on one song (such great heights) but jenny lewis also sings in that song. this is the only song with just jen wood and not jenny lewis.
When I got divorced in 2004, it was The Postal Service which helped me through it all. I made 3 great friends that year also. We called our group, the Going Postal Service.
I've found my MP3 again today and when I started to listen to all those old songs, this one came up. Can't believe I forgot this song, it was always my favorite!
when this album came out i was blown away. There were no genres like this. this song especially stuck with me. now 16 years later going through grown up bull shit and just breaking up from a long committed relationship, this song is too accurate. this dude is all fumbling around grasping at one more chance, talking about how perfect things can be. then she breaks in and snaps him back to reality, how it really was. i go to win back my ex girlfriend and she got charts and graphs and shit. i do revise the history and have gaps in my memory about shit i pulled. this is such an incredible song from an amazing album from a fun time in my life
Sister use to play this band on the way to school when I was in 6th grade and anytime I hear it I get big nostalgia , those were the days.. talking to girls was the biggest rush ever, now I work 60 hours a week..
Used to listen to this from my iTouch with skullcandy earpods in high school 2011… now I’m 27 and those first 15 seconds takes my breath away every time. Life is a trip.
As an emo highschooler I can say that the one thing I loved about this song was that the male was able to feel so much emotion and heartbreak, where the female wasn't the one being emotional. She was being rational about why their relationship wasn't working, thus making the heartbroken guy look like some kind of a fool. In doing so she also came off really cold and distant. But he still carries on being a hopeless romantic for her. I remember as a lonely emo highschool girl, I used to listen to him and wish I could take her place and grow old with him instead. Now that I'm older I've wound up with someone who's equally as much of a hopeless romantic as me, and we're really happy together ♥
The opposite. The point is she probably tried and tried and told him a million times. Now she is leaving he is showing his emotions. Perfect song. He had a short memory! 😢
Man I remember being 17 I was addicted to heroin and my parents were about ready to throw me out. I remember sitting in my room withdrawing like crazy crying like a baby to this album this album meant a lot to me over the years even before being 17 me and my sister would listen to this during the summer at my dads. By far my favorite album ever
i remember buying this album in 7th grade and i skipped school and just layed down upside down looking outside the window when the sun was hitting in my room and listened to this album over and over again so relaxing now im 23 and still love them!!
I first heard this song in elementary school, a boy played an acoustic cover and sang the whole song for a talent show. He did an amazing job and was probably the reason that I started playing guitar myself. That was about 13 years ago now. This song is beautiful and I wish that cover he did was online so that I could link it!
This song.....omg do I have memories that are attached to it. I remember meeting my first boyfriend and we bonded over this album. We are still together till this day. I feel like this was right around the time where pretty much everyone accepted two men or women could be in love without feeling disgust or hate. Everytime I hear this album it brings me back to the beginning. I was 24 and he was 25. I'm 39 now... Time flies.
First girl I ever loved. Man, still feels the same way almost 20 years later even though I’m obviously over her. My dad told me, you’ll remember this one forever. It’s your first. He was right. Life is a wild ride. 💔
I listened to this in 2005 as a senior in highschool. The lyrics made me feel like I was desperate for love. Now at 35 it's a reminder of how silly that desperation was.
Seconding everyone that was all about TPS in high school :') Fell in love with this whole album. Nothing Better has such a dreamy quality with clever lyrics, I love when the girl enters.
I loved this song since the 6th grade and it’s so sad and ironic how 14 years later this song matched my life. One year later and I still feel both parts to the song.
An 8yr relationship ended when she said it was done....4 months later I hear this in a long time and these lyrics make so much sense now...yet I still mourn this breakup. Such an powerful song
this was the first song I showed my gf at the time, the first softer side of my music liking. that I showed her. and when she broke up with me a year later, she cried when I put this song on in the car..
Love seeing that so many other people have the same love for this song from back in high school (jr high for me~). This album was the soundtrack of my adolescence~
This was the song I looped after my first major break up. It helped because both sides of the songs were like the two different parts of my heart arguing with one another. “I need them in my life! No wait, now I remember all the awful things they did!” ultimately I agreed with the final sentiments of letting go, and years later I’m happy looking back on it. Such a nostalgic song for me.
“Would someone please call a surgeon Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart That you're deserting for better company?” Love those lyrics, even though they are painful.
I’ve always been aware of its genius but god damn is this record brilliant. This song has so much thought put into it. They all do. For being a band that’s held together by the us mail service, they managed to take it very seriously and popped out an absolute gem
It brings me straight back to laying on a bench outside my highschool in 2008. That feeling of leaves falling all around as I drank my cold coffee, ah, it brings me back.
I used to go through girls back when I was in my teens and 20s like I didn't care. Now being 32, I want things to just go back to how they were but with this frame of mind knowing I should have treated the loves of my life better. I broke hearts when I was young..and now mine has been breaking for almost 8 years.
I use to listen to this thinking of the girl i will love forever. She got away. I am convinced my spirit will wander the earth still searching for her love till eternity.
Its ironic that when me and my girlfriend got together we both loved this song. Now that i messed up our relationship. This song has a horrific similarities on what it is now.
I love this song, absolutely adore it and this album will go down as one of the best of all time...but can anyone tell me which sport has both a goalie and quarters??
thanks to my ex for once again coming back into my life just so she could abruptly leave without explanation. again. at least she gave me an excuse to put this song on repeat.
@@blape7245 yeah it is Ben gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie. I don't usually listen to this kind of music but my friend introduced this song to me years ago and it was just randomly playing in my brain today
