The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight [OFFICIAL VIDEO] 

Here we are 2024.... I'm with the love of my life for 25+ years. This album has been core to our soundtrack. Live well Posties....

Me at 16, having never gone through a breakup and never lived on my own, listening to "I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving" and picturing my non-existent gaudy apartment in Brooklyn: aw yeah I feel this

Real talk, how many of us are listening to this drunk while reminiscing on a simpler time?

End of 2023 and here I am. This album came out a couple months after I walked away from the greatest love of my life. It was mutual and something that was just part of growing up. We had the nicest, best apartment I have ever lived in and after a decade of best friendship and six years of profound love we had simply succumbed to the natural consequence of time; growing and changing into people we had not known before but could not avoid becoming. I remember the feeling of being 27 and coming to understand the sadness and joy time brings and the sweet, beautiful pain of letting go. We parted ways on the best of terms and I think it probably was the most magical & mystical love of my life (being realistic), and looking back over all these years to that time I think we both identified with the line, "I was the one worth leaving". Thank you my beautiful, sweet "K" for being a diamond in the rough, and thank you Postal Service for one of the greatest records ever made. Sending peace, love, and healing out to all :)

One of the most vivid lyrics ever. The experience of visiting my former lover in her new town and realizing that she was gone forever. "The only thing keeping me dry is you seem so out of context...." My experience with it was 40 years ago and this song still makes my heart hurt. Bless The Postal Service for putting these feelings down in words.

This song makes me feel helplessly depressed and so alive at the same time.

This song drips with nostalgia from a very inexperienced, simple, and comfortable time in my life where I thought I knew exactly the rate at which the earth rotated and where I stood on it...sigh....

Twelve years ago sitting in my freshman college dorm room playing this song on over and over again. My heart aches everytime I hear it. And after twelve years, the truer it all gets.

Damn this album is so good. I first listened to it when I was 15 in high school, I’m now 33 and haven’t listened to it in probably a decade… man time flies… brings back so many memories

I can remember sleeping on my friends carpeted floor apartment wishing I could help them feel better while they were also giving me a place to stay. I was a teenager watching someone in their 20s dealing with crippling depression and alcoholism. They showed me this album in that space and it still holds those string memories

Still bumping this in 2019 “The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights, sending autos swerving into the loneliest evening” best part of the song both the words and the best beat pick up

Listening to it in D.C. itself while walking through the night by a gaudy apartment complex. It's real.

If there's any group that needs to make a second album, it's this group.

The build-up thats starts around 2:10 and explodes at 2:43 is just one of the best examples of how intense a song segment can get, and how the anticipation and expectation for a memorable sound can make someone jump around and choke at the same time. It's emotional perfection. Jimmy Tamborello shows there his genius.

Drinking whisky tonight and hitting all the songs I listened to after getting Dear John’ed in Iraq in 2008.

Jenny Lewis’ parts are far and few between but the things she does are so important. Imagine this song without the “”where I am” in that angelic tone. Her voice is a crucial part of some of the biggest moments on this record. She’s awesome

"It seems so out of context / in this gaudy apartment complex" Gaudy. What a good word.

Literally one of the greatest albums of ALL TIME

Smeared black ink Your palms are sweaty And I'm barely listening To last demands I'm staring at the asphalt wondering What's buried underneath I'll wear my badge A vinyl sticker with big block letters Adhering to my chest That tells your new friends I am a visitor here, I am not permanent And the only thing Keeping me dry is You seem so out of context In this gaudy apartment complex (Where I am) A stranger with your door key Explaining that I'm just visiting (Where I am) And I am finally seeing Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving D.C. sleeps alone tonight You seem so out of context In this gaudy apartment complex (Where I am) A stranger with your door key Explaining that I'm just visiting (Where I am) And I am finally seeing Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving The district sleeps alone tonight After the bars turn out their lights (Where I am) And send the autos swerving Into the loneliest evening (Where I am) And I am finally seeing Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving

Brings me back to 2008 when I was 19 driving to work in the dark at 4 am alone on the highway. I always loved how the faster beat in the second half of the song went along well with the lines passing on the highway. Perfect unison with the beat. I recommend it for late night drives

Im here because I am going to the their concert in October 2023 to see them play this whole album.. I was seven when this album came out, 27 now, all thanks to my bro!

Man I know they dont make music now but their music still resonates with my soul. This is the sound of how I feel in my head. I am not sad, just melancholy. Empty but going.

Youth is one hell of an era and this album will forever be a part of that time no matter what happens to me.

I used to listen to this song on repeat when me and my highschool girlfriend broke up our first quarter in college. It feels so different listening to it almost 20 years later. I'm in DC for business and drunk so it hits even harder. Awesome song

I recall after breaking up and not being emotional a few days. Driving home a few hours in this song came on Alt Nation. I cried so heavily until I arrived home. But still this song made it beautiful and I loved it for that reason. It unlocked apart of me. Thank you Postal Service for your erm..? Service? Lol

My brother loved this song I lost him July, I come here to see him again. I’ll never forget the memories he gave me and all the memories we hold together this song is beyond powerful to our relationship I miss him so much and would do anything to have one more day with him I love you daniel

Listening to this song for almost a decade. I remember the first time I heard it, the day, the weather, the smell of the air..everything. An incredible song that has everything!

Big love to everyone here. What a nice common bond - this song, the nostalgia, the sadness and loveliness all at once.

I have been listening to this song for 12 years and I just will never get tired of it. How can a song do this. Every time I hear it, it's like it's the first time and I don't want it to end.

Wow I remember being a little 10 year old kid who made freinds with hipster adults (which I learned later on have the best taste in music). .That's how I found The Postal Service They gave me burned CDs with bands like postal service and neon Indian and Gorillaz.Nostalgia is the only word I can use to describe this song and every other song by The Postal Service.Their band may have stopped making music but their feel and their way of enticing a somewhat positive and melancholy vibe will never die.

March 2024. Still one of the best albums ever.

God this song. Fell in love with it when I was 14 and now I'm 25 and falling in love again.

Well if this doesn't kick up the biggest cloud of nostalgic dust.......

I am a visitor here. I am not permanent.

Damn this hit me.. I'm 21 & I remember listening to this as a tween just cause it was dope to skate too. Now I understand it so much more. Deep shit..

My memory is listening to this album at Christmas time on my headphones and portable disc player in the back seat riding with my family through the snow to Chicago to my aunt's house for Christmas eve dinner.

Who remembers when renting an apartment was affordable?

Reminds me of the times before social media really blew up...

I was 21 and in college when this came out. So many memories... Some good, some bad. I'd give a year's salary to be a ghost in the car with me and my friends riding around at night...

This aged like a fine wine for me...

I'm 32 and I just remembered a forgotten past life from about 15 years ago. It's crazy how you forget parts of your life.

This has been my favorite song for years, even when I don't listen to it for a while it will just pop back in my mind.

This song at first for me many years back then was about my first love and after all this time now in 2024 it reminds me more about my friends and the many individuals I've met through out my life. Having house parties or after the club/ music concerts... partying until 5 am, my best friend I lost in 2020 OD and this song just now reminds me of him and the many late night randomness we did when we we're young. I miss him dearly.....

Its like a time machine.. oo dear how much i miss my friends.. miss those old glory days...

This song is easily one of the best songs I've ever heard. It invokes so many emotions from such simple words. I love it so much

First semester of college my public speaking prof had us present a song that was meaningful to us as if it was us speaking. I went with this one and got an A. Stood up there with a picture of some sidewalk chalk art depicting a cavern under a sidewalk up on the projector behind me and one of those name tag stickers just saying visitor. The words felt true to speak then and still do now. I am a visitor here, I am not permanent.

This is literally my all time favorite song. i feel when i tell people that, they don't believe me, but i'm being honest. it really is. This song speaks to me in so many ways. the album itself is my favorite as well. listening to them makes me so happy. their music makes me feel as if my heart is going to jump out of my chest. but they can also make me sad. knowing that i'll never get to see them in concert breaks my little indie heart. anyway, the more older i get the more accurate this song becomes. I feel like the district can be anywhere or anyone. I'll stop rambling now and sleep alone tonight.

I think every sound in this song, brings back a memory from when I was 13-15 yrs old. and then I read the comments and think about how we were all listening to this in different stages of our lives. how fucking beautiful is that!

I can't hear any of their songs without having to traipse through the memories of a very dark time of my life. It still doesn't stop me from listening to them. Never been another band like them.

Fuck I used to listen to this group when I was 13yo - 15yo. I am now 30yo. So nostalgic! but a reminder that life's to short and spend every second wisely.

4:07 AM. Nostalgic, sad and lost. 2022, still so relevant. Chefs kiss.

I remember this song from college and now I’m 40. I miss that era in my life.

this song is engraved in my soul because my mom played this when we lived in Seattle when I was like 4 . I have a very sincere memory of driving on the freeway at night , above the city where you could see the skyline ahead and if you looked below the neighborhood homes of people. where we were going I don't know. but it's a very old and important memory for me that I hope is the way I enter heaven. with my mom, listening to this song one more time before we both move on from this world . I'm sorry I lied so much mom and I'm sorry If I never make it big ..

Who else use to listen to this CD with their girlfriend or boyfriend back in the day and comes back here to listening to this album again while reminiscing over how beautiful and deep this album is as well as a lost lover?

Man this takes me back to the early to mid 2000s. I totally forgot about the postal service, im glad I stumbled upon this video.

This is the #1 song played at my funeral and my all-time #1 song.

this song still sounds SO fresh in 2022 - I was SHOCKED to learn it was released in 2003 after recently finding it/this group. They were doing real indie long before anybody out there today!

This album aged very well

we're still here.

This song is the reason I started making music

This song brings me back to high school... back to my first true love and the hardships. Crazy how music attaches to the soul like this.

god i hate listening to a song i love and then reading youtube comments

2019 and still emo

"The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights." I was thinking of this song today.

I love ps and dcfc every song really opens up a prior relationship and feel as if they are so deep sometimes it just hits you like a ton of bricks. This song sums up my divorce and although painful I love them dearly for putting out possibly one of the best songs ever.

Was watching Looking For Alaska and this song came on and had to find it again.

i’m 17 and this is the first time i’ve heard this song. fallen in love

Sometimes u have 2 put urself in check and question ur own actions. Thank God 4 giving us the ability 2 look upon ourselves thru other ppls eyes

2021 still here Ben and Dntel. A single album that changed the world. Your creativity won't ever be forgotten. Thank you guys for being awesome.

Been a very long time, good to hear this again. Reminds me of some great times.

Make this your morning alarm. Good day to be had. How could ya snooze such a song

So pumped to see them again in Maryland this year.

“Tell your new friends: I am a visitor here. I am not permanent.”

My ex girlfriends morning alarm tone from nearly a decade ago. One of my first loves. The girl and the song.

Its 18 years ago, cant believe that the time flies so high.

Songs like this bring back so much nostalgia, and a lot of times in a very sad way. Nostalgia mixed with a new perspective on the song now that years have passed and wisdom has come. Hits diff

ben gibbard is awesome. i love all his death cab stuff and the postal service :)

The guy before me put it best. Reminessing on simpler times when a heart ache was just a heart ache, not something that could uproot the whole damn world..

That's it. Buying tickets to the 20th anniversary show coming to town. It's a couple months from now and I already know I'll regret it forever if I don't catch them playing Give Up live in its entirety.

I remember sitting in my dad's apartment looking over Houston city, watching the sun rise and listening to this song play over his sound system while he shaved in the bathroom. I was 7 then. It feels like it's been so much longer than 14 years, but also like it was yesterday.. I still feel like that little girl when I listen to this song. It still sounds like a sleepy Houston sunrise. I don't think I'll ever be unable to love this song.

This song is like a time portal. As i listen my chest tightens, each breath feels heavier than the last and my mind begins to drift back to 7 years ago when i was that stranger in the apartment complex... was i the worth leaving?

this song reminds me being 14. I'm 23 now... it hurts that I can't rewind time 😢

I remember this album so well. I was 9 listening to this song with my uncle. Time flies 😢

The spirit of this song resides in that first harmony that carries throughout the song after and touches my soul every time I hear it.

This gives me a feeling nothing else has ever given me

This is one of those tracks where it’s in between crushing and soothing. I can feel my fifteen, sixteen year old self getting into cars with girls that would be just a moment in time. Parties that you thought would go on forever. Walking the night with people that you found so interesting. Only to find…

MySpace days, thinking about past relationships, much simpler times. Thank you🤙🏼

Here I am, 13 years later, weeping just like I did then.

This album is a timeless classic that will forever live in my heart, mind and soul.

Having listened to music of all genres compulsively for 25 years. I can safely say that in my opinion this is the best song I have ever heard.

She still bangs. For us alive and mature enough to understand It was in my original RU-vid 'sleep playlist' when RU-vid was still in it's infancy my senior year in high school. Believe me though , I never went to high school, I went to school high.

So pumped, seeing them live for the first time in an hour!

how the heck did i go on living with out knowing there was a video for this song

I'm going to see them in LA! So excited! 💕😊

Fantastic show last night at the MVP Arena in Albany NY. Treated myself for my 69th Birthday....what a gift! Amazing, fabulous....touching notes lifting, flying, slowly lyrical giddiness and comforting familiarity - show of a lifetime! Thank you.

OH man, watching a series called Looking for alaska and this song played and bought back so many memories! here before the influx of Looking for alska fans come in :)

My love for The Postal Service Brought me here.

They played this on the radio last night and I'm glad I remembered it and found it here. A very beautiful song

This song is 20 years old. Just timeless

I fell in love to this song.