When my mom and I were really struggling, and we had no furniture in our place except a folding table, two chairs, and a couple of blow-up mattresses, my mom would plug some speakers into her laptop and blast this in the morning for us to dance to before I left for school. There was 6 month span in 8th grade when it was just us, and my dad was still in Costa Rica, trying to sell our house. But my mom's "morning mixes" kept every hard day starting good..... I love this song.
One of my favourite things about TH-cam is reading the comments sections of song videos and seeing other people’s memories associated with the song in question. The memories are as vast as the people who share them but speaks to the ways we can all connect with one another as people. 😊
This was our song. My husband passed away a little over 3 weeks ago now and I just keep listening to this on repeat. One day I’ll be with you my love 💜
Hey, don't write yourself off yet It's only in your head, you feel left out Or looked down on Just try your best Try everything you can (Sound familiar 😄)
I think because it's a mix (electronica/singer-songwriter) that not many have dabbled in. I mean I can only think of David Gray, Duncan Sheik, and Everything But the Girl off the top of my head as far as acts that have successfully blended the two. I'm sure there are others but it was something I hoped to hear more of but not a lot of artists have done it.
This brings me back to driving the family on vacation with my little girls singing along in the back seat. I never realized how lucky I was and how fleeting those great moments really were. They are both married adults with lives and family’s of their own now. I’d crawl through broken glass to just look in the rear view and see their little heads bouncing to this song again.
That actually makes my heart happy to hear that. As I'm a dad forced out of his home by an unlogically upset now ex fiance and I only get to see my children for about an hour a day. I'm still dealing with loss of her presence in my life so hold on to those around you as tight as possible friend
Some songs just make me cry and I don’t even know why. It’s like it’s purging the sadness from my hurting soul. This is one of those songs. Thank you postal service for this medicine
My buddy and I listened this in my dad’s “Mancave” converted garage-office in 6th grade in 2008. Playing halo 3 and having the time of our lives. He died January 9th this year and this is one of the only things I have to take me back. I miss him so much.
I wish my dad would reply to my messages or even speak to me, Weird considering he was nothing but an abusive piece of shit when i was young (29 now) but i want to keep a somewhat relationship going.......oh well great song
It's 2022.. Almost 19 years.. I go years sometimes without listening to some bands and when I stumble across them again, it's like a happy reunion filled with smiles and hugs... and I suddenly remember all the lyrics again...
Randomly saw an article on Google today noting how The Postal Service only dropped one album ever, and I was like “wait why does that name sound familiar??” Man this song reminds me on my night drives in my friend’s car when we were in high school with the sense of untouchability and profound wonder that the world had left to offer. Beautiful how music can take you to specific times in your lives.
LYRICS HERE! I am thinking it's a sign That the freckles in our eyes Are mirror images And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned And I have to speculate That God Himself did make Us into corresponding shapes Like puzzle pieces from the clay And true it may seem like a stretch But it's thoughts like this that catch My troubled head when you're away And when I am missing you to death And when you are out there on the road For several weeks of shows And when you scan the radio I hope this song will guide you home They will see us waving from such great heights Come down now, they'll say But everything looks perfect from far away Come down now but we'll stay I tried my best to leave This all on your machine But the persistent beat It sounded thin upon the sending And that frankly will not fly You'll hear the shrillest highs And lowest lows with the windows down And this is guiding you home They will see us waving from such great heights Come down now they'll say But everything looks perfect from far away Come down now but we'll stay They will see us waving from such great heights Come down now they'll say But everything looks perfect from far away Come down now but we'll stay They will see us waving from such great heights (Come down now)
I remember hearing this song once, I was four going home on the freeway looking out the car window and seeing the buildings and empty fields. sun almost setting and mild traffic. this memory stuck with me, mainly because it was the first and last time I've heard it, until now
This happens to me ALL the time! At least a few times a week I wake up with a song in my head I haven't heard in years (sometimes since childhood) and I'm always super surprised that I even remember the song. But at least I know I'm not alone, I've never met anyone else that this happens to lol
Playing this for my first love. Being young and in that blissful love that only youth can provide. Having been sober for a year we were each others drug and got hooked.
I made myself move my junior year of high school so I could get my Mom out of her addiction. We had to skip town it was so bad, I spent my senior year in a far away HS alone. This song also JUST came out. It was everywhere for a minute, it was my soundtrack at the time. Helped me cope. That time in my life was to say goodbye to so many things. I love you, Mom. I hope you'll forgive me for not forgiving you.
This song meant everything to me in 2014, there are just certain indie songs that helped me drag my ass to school and this song helped me deal with depression. This hit harder than I ever thought it would. I just time traveled for a glimpse, into my adolescent youthood. Troubling years, felt so alone with the exception of this song.
holy shit, how did i just find out that the lead singer in the Postal Service is the same guy as the guy from Death Cab for Cutie? no wonder they sounded the same. oh god, i am an idiot.
Just heard it tonight, after a long time, on some alternative radio station and decided to search for it here. Shows you the power that radio still has to influence.
+Daphne Ward I remember hearing this on the radio one day and I was hoping the dj would say the name of the song and he did, and then I looked it up when I got home, that was like 8 years ago I think
Everything’s alright for me lol it became not alright then I found comfort in not being alright thus I became alright. I don’t romanticize the past because life is beautiful and the passage of time and change is inevitable. There’s a way to help yourself you just have to find it. Edit: you also have to realize that because of your youthful innocence you weren’t aware of things not being as good as they seem. This has been my TedxTalk
I had neither heard of this song or Postal Service until I heard Streetlight Manifesto's cover of it.....I'd been listening to Streetlight for years before this album of covers they did.....real horns, real guitar, real bass, real drums >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> techno crap all day, every day
Ahh yes, when i was little my older sister would turn this up in the Saturday mornings in her computer, she had these long surround sound speakers and it was booming. I would dance with her on the bed to this song. Life was simpler before smart phones and internet took over our brains, good times ❤️
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This song brings me back to brisk autumn mornings walking to the school bus in high school. The sun still yet to dawn and that night time sense of twilight still in the air. It's amazing how a song can make such a mundane memory into something I cherish.
The video for this song so perfectly matches the aesthetic of this song. There is something so clean and satisfying about the making of silicon processors, and it goes extremely well with this song!
One of my most fond memories of high school. I was a theater kid, and we used this song in Romeo + Juliet. When Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time, the ball room of people dancing just froze and this opening played. We nailed that scene. So much fun. Crazy to think we've been out of school longer than we were in, feels like yesterday.
Yes, it is. I first discovered it on Video Juke Box, among the usual pop, hip-hop, and metal videos. There's just something strange, innocent, and beautiful about it.
@@1oolabob it really is a strange video. The video projects the opposite of the song and it's intimacy. I think the creepiest part is when the camera zooms in on the chip.
@@kennethshort2016 why is it creepy lmao. the transition is probably the coolest part of the vid. pretty good for its age (and probably budget as well)
I’m 38 now.. I remember listening to this when I first started smoking weed fresh out of high school - the world was so vast I couldn’t even comprehend how I was supposed to navigate it / it’s been a long and very difficult time with a lot of beautiful moments - I’m standing alone in my bedroom it’s 2 am - when the song ends I’ll go back to not knowing how I feel / but for now, while it’s playing - I feel good
what's truly amazing about this song is that it still feels new, even twenty years after its release-learning this song is older than me was surprising! the instrumental is extremely reminiscent of indie pop from the 2010s, and that goes to show that this song, and album as a whole, has been influential for the many musical acts that followed it.
i think the counter melody in the intro (not the plucky plops in the foreground, the melody in the background) is actually the sound of floppy drives moving back and forth to make a pitch.
I remember being 19 having a crush on my college professor. She was 27, nothing happened between us, but I did enjoy talking about music with her. She introduced this song to me. I don't take many photos but I do associate music with my memories. Everytime I hear this song I'm reminded of being in my late teens and in my first year of college.
We are definitely the same age obviously...I remembered driving home blasting this, late nights in my first city apartment reading and writing emails to one of the great loves of my life....we were secretly lovers
Couldn't get enough of this song 20 years ago. Saw them perform live last Saturday night at Riot Fest. Absolutely immaculate performance. Didn't realize Ben played the drums. He was brilliant.
I'm old enough to remember when The Postal Service released this album in '03. I remember it being really impressive. Postal Service got a lot of shit at the time, but they really anticipated what indie pop in the late-00s and 10s would sound like.
It was the song of freedom and love for me, as I had just graduated high school, the summer this was released. I was working at Papa John's Pizza and in an undefined relationship with a girl at the time. She and I just clicked in first period on the first day of freshman year and had been best friends since. That summer, as I delivered pizzas around town, this song filled my car as the thoughts of young love and friendship filled my mind and heart. Her and I had a chance of becoming more than friends, but as the summer ended, so did we, entirely. Everytime I listen to this song, I'm transported back to being 18, singing along with my friends, feeling the glow of uncertain love, and the freedom of a full tank of gas. I have no regrets of the past as they have made me who I am. This song is a reminder to me to always enjoy the moment.
keep coming back to this music video time and time again. Hasn’t left my playlists for 9 years. The postal service/death cab for cutie literally made me who I am. Beautiful song. I’ll keep coming back to comment every year
I remeber days at the skatepark when I would burn CDs and skateboard around with a Walkman in my backpack and almost every cd I burned had this song on it! I miss when tines were more simple. Less tourists, cheaper prices, lots of friends, all the energy in the world, going to school, singing this song all the time. Now I turn 30 next month and I have my son who just turned 1 and I get to re-live memories with him threw him and am gonna he the best father I could possibly be 😭❤️
Studying electrical engineering for almost 4 years now and the first time I see a silicon wafer + accompanying factory outside of a textbook drawing is in a music video...
The nostalgia that comes with this song is served bittersweet. I feel a slight comfort and deep sadness while having a weird smirk on my face as this song takes me back to being a pre-teen, not having a single serious worry in the world and full of hope for what the future held. 20 years later, it hurts so much thinking of those times while I almost smile about it too. I miss my childhood house, my old room, my family, all of my friends, and the overall happiness life seemed back then. Life is not bad for me now, but I do really struggle with nostalgia as time seems to distort itself as we get older. Remember to stop and take a mental snapshot if you feel it may be "one of the good moments".
When Me and My Brother Were Young (from like age 2 to age 6) my parents would always play this when we were on long travel trips at night or when they just wanted us to go to sleep, And When They played it at night it would always make us fall asleep. Our parents nicknamed it "The Pacifier". After a long time my parents and my brother and I forgot the song Name. So I spent SEVEN.FUCKING.YEARS!!!! Looking For This Song! AND I HAVE FINALLY FOUND IT!!!! (Started Searching at age 6 and I am now 13)
That's crazy because I'm 21 and I remember hearing this song when it first came out in 2003 (I was 8 and you were probably barely born). Since a kid as well I was searching for the name of the band and didn't find out 'til many years later in adolescence! My twin brother and I would only be able to listen to this song when it came out in the radio, because TH-cam wasn't made 'til 2005, and we knew the word to every lyric when it came out! I love hearing it when I'm in nostalgic.
Space Music lmao, it's understandable. I first heard this song around 09 thinking it was modern (at the time). And now I found out this song is 13 years old. Crazy stuff, and good music lol
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When my mom and I were really struggling, and we had no furniture in our place except a folding table, two chairs, and a couple of blow-up mattresses, my mom would plug some speakers into her laptop and blast this in the morning for us to dance to before I left for school. There was 6 month span in 8th grade when it was just us, and my dad was still in Costa Rica, trying to sell our house. But my mom's "morning mixes" kept every hard day starting good..... I love this song.
that's so wholesome
Sometimes music is what can heal our soul
That’s a good idea. Sometimes the mornings are stressful I want everyone to leave happy
❤️
She had it right.
One of my favourite things about TH-cam is reading the comments sections of song videos and seeing other people’s memories associated with the song in question. The memories are as vast as the people who share them but speaks to the ways we can all connect with one another as people. 😊
same
@@deepdriedinkelvin agreed
Bruh.
Truth
Right??
This was our song. My husband passed away a little over 3 weeks ago now and I just keep listening to this on repeat. One day I’ll be with you my love 💜
sorry for you loss, keep bumping your guys music
😢😢😢😢
💙
He'll be looking out for you. Be happy. Enjoy your life. You'r not alone ❤
Thank you all for your kind words.
The melody to this song, especially the chorus feel like they’ve always existed somewhere in the universe. It feels like the perfect tune.
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Hey, don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head, you feel left out
Or looked down on
Just try your best
Try everything you can
(Sound familiar 😄)
idk why but it almost sounds like adventure time at the start.
@@brandonadam1665 kinda like that floating feeling when you first fall in love
Lil peep sampled it for his song white tee thats why its familliar
I cant believe this song is almost 20 years old, it still feels new.
It’s 20 years old?!?! Where the heck does the time go?!?! 🤯
@@AndrewBonicaRR Flies by in a snap when you're not looking. This song came out in early 2003. Great song though
Seriously....
And its still healing after 20 years 😍
I think because it's a mix (electronica/singer-songwriter) that not many have dabbled in. I mean I can only think of David Gray, Duncan Sheik, and Everything But the Girl off the top of my head as far as acts that have successfully blended the two. I'm sure there are others but it was something I hoped to hear more of but not a lot of artists have done it.
Used to get real high and listen to this.... Still do.. But I used to too
Hell yes
+Ryan B. That Mitch Hedberg ref. Good on you man. Good on you.
just got my marijuana card blazed an indica j and listened to this
Haha I used to love death cab. Liked postal, don't remember if I ever heard this one but I am indeed blazin lol
+Schuyler Silverstein I'm sure you don't remember sky boy....over and out
My older brother would play this song in the car while he drove me to middle school always. Good vibes.
Star traveler I remember those rides with my older brother. He was a big influence on my music.
May your older brother RIP. He is watching over you now from such great heights!
@@jrawlins5246 he's still alive hehe but thanks anyway friend👌
Star traveler that’s cute
Same! He had the coolest blue Ford Falcon
This brings me back to driving the family on vacation with my little girls singing along in the back seat. I never realized how lucky I was and how fleeting those great moments really were. They are both married adults with lives and family’s of their own now. I’d crawl through broken glass to just look in the rear view and see their little heads bouncing to this song again.
@john just play the song and imagine them young whenever they are near by.
Fuck that hurts cmon man I came here for happy tears. They're only little once.. a truth that has me struggling.
That actually makes my heart happy to hear that. As I'm a dad forced out of his home by an unlogically upset now ex fiance and I only get to see my children for about an hour a day. I'm still dealing with loss of her presence in my life so hold on to those around you as tight as possible friend
@@SquatchCoD420 hope things get better for you.
😢 bro..
HOLY SHIIIIT, I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG FOR 17 YEARS.
👏👏👏👏👏
gen z will never realize how lucky they are to just Shazam a song ;)
Welcome back to bliss
Yes.
It didn't get lost.
Some songs just make me cry and I don’t even know why. It’s like it’s purging the sadness from my hurting soul. This is one of those songs. Thank you postal service for this medicine
Samesies ❤
Perfectly said
Run by snow patrol is one of those types of songs .....for me anyway
Probably what you associate with the song. Music literally resonates deep within us.
Insightful, try Under the Milky Way by The Church.. you'll feel the same purge.
You know an albums something special when you've been listening to it regularly for 13 years
Khushal Faraday-Bhakar love this comment
yessir
totally agree
Since I was a little little kid that's the coolest thing ever
Yup, 15 year old me was into some good music
This song is awesome with earbuds cause it bounces between ears and just gives you good vibes!
Well, thank the Beatles for that 😊
@@usergiodmsilva1983PT It gives me a headache with their songs, since they didn't understand you can't go 100% in one year and 0% in the other.
This song used to air on Fuse TV, I have many fond memories of it. This album was ahead of its time and still is. True indie classic.
God bless Fuse TV.
Believe it was used on their Rock countdown commercials
True 🐬
Everyone that was a part of Fuse should be proud of what they did
Fuse TV rebooted MTV. Thank you.
My buddy and I listened this in my dad’s
“Mancave” converted garage-office in 6th grade in 2008. Playing halo 3 and having the time of our lives. He died January 9th this year and this is one of the only things I have to take me back. I miss him so much.
Man, that sounds hard... sorry for the loss of a good bro.
My condolences, friend
Hang in there. RIP young man.
I wish my dad would reply to my messages or even speak to me, Weird considering he was nothing but an abusive piece of shit when i was young (29 now) but i want to keep a somewhat relationship going.......oh well great song
cidney noiz maybe it’s time to let go man, but whatever happens I wish you the best of luck brother
It's 2022.. Almost 19 years.. I go years sometimes without listening to some bands and when I stumble across them again, it's like a happy reunion filled with smiles and hugs... and I suddenly remember all the lyrics again...
I think that's because music at it's core is spiritual
this song is from 2001 , 23 years now
Ok kid
Randomly saw an article on Google today noting how The Postal Service only dropped one album ever, and I was like “wait why does that name sound familiar??” Man this song reminds me on my night drives in my friend’s car when we were in high school with the sense of untouchability and profound wonder that the world had left to offer. Beautiful how music can take you to specific times in your lives.
Well said my friend.
You do know this band is mostly the members from Death Cab For Cutie?
Totally!!! Well said. Sigh
LYRICS HERE!
I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images
And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God Himself did make
Us into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
And when I am missing you to death
And when you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now, they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay
I tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon the sending
And that frankly will not fly
You'll hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
And this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay
They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay
They will see us waving from such great heights
(Come down now)
😭😭😭😭😭😞😞😞😞😞🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧
❤️❤️❤️
No words
First time I've seen someone post the lyrics as a comment and not get any of it wrong! ❤
😅3j m m
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I remember hearing this song once, I was four going home on the freeway looking out the car window and seeing the buildings and empty fields. sun almost setting and mild traffic. this memory stuck with me, mainly because it was the first and last time I've heard it, until now
that feels like a scene from a movie
Welcome back
Honestly, the song popped up in one of my dreams recently and I had not heard the song since middle school about 15 years ago.
This happens to me ALL the time! At least a few times a week I wake up with a song in my head I haven't heard in years (sometimes since childhood) and I'm always super surprised that I even remember the song. But at least I know I'm not alone, I've never met anyone else that this happens to lol
Same thing just happened to me, crazy how our brains work
The way the Elio trailer used this song is phenomenal
Right?!?! Soo awesome!
Absolutely. I recognized the beep boops and nostalgia flooded my brain
Nah that was lil peep
Glad I’m not the only one here from that trailer
@@namesgambyyeah. More interistingly, those notes perfectly fit the nighttime atmosphere of those first few scenes.
my mom played this almost everyday before school for as long as i can remember this is a great song and will forever be a favorite memory of mine.
Wait dude this is literally the most nostalgic song I’ve ever listened to holy shit my childhood
I also feel that way even though i discovered this song yesterday.
right this song is so nostalgic it's weird
@AleXYX i went and listened to home and woahh
Same
It is I can't stop listening to it because it reminds me of not caring about much just being a kid
Playing this for my first love. Being young and in that blissful love that only youth can provide. Having been sober for a year we were each others drug and got hooked.
I made myself move my junior year of high school so I could get my Mom out of her addiction.
We had to skip town it was so bad, I spent my senior year in a far away HS alone.
This song also JUST came out. It was everywhere for a minute, it was my soundtrack at the time. Helped me cope.
That time in my life was to say goodbye to so many things.
I love you, Mom. I hope you'll forgive me for not forgiving you.
sending my hugs to you
This song meant everything to me in 2014, there are just certain indie songs that helped me drag my ass to school and this song helped me deal with depression. This hit harder than I ever thought it would. I just time traveled for a glimpse, into my adolescent youthood. Troubling years, felt so alone with the exception of this song.
Same
Wow , it had already been out for a decade then, I was jamming out to this song the day i bought my first car in 2004
holy shit, how did i just find out that the lead singer in the Postal Service is the same guy as the guy from Death Cab for Cutie? no wonder they sounded the same. oh god, i am an idiot.
Omg. I just figured that out right now too! lol
+Jay_bird2310 if you like that look up Dntel he's the guy who makes the background music and he's amazing
Yes, yes you are.
+M Diaz HOLY SHIT
wow wtf I didn't know either
+M Diaz
This song just pops into my brain every once in a while, and man I am glad I never forgot about this beautiful song.
This entire album made my high school years! What I wouldn’t do to be 17 again, carefree and happy.
Imagine being carefree and happy at 17 meanwhile I'm struggling to keep my head up 🤣
I know in the future I’ll look back and say I was carefree at 17 compared to my 30s but right now it’s not feeling that way
You only need to want it. The Moment only Counts. Not incompatible with Being Lucid,Aware Times changed if Humans changed the wrong Way.
Would you give up all the money and good life experiences after 17 to go back to 17? Genuine question.
@@drmiguel3299my best year of life was 17
This song injects itself into my life in the most sychronistic rythym. I'd call it eerie if I didn't know what it was.
“Perfectly aligned”
Binaural
miss this kind of music
Listen to Owl City, lol
Sean Kyle, why?
@@chloefxg i discovered postal service recently and realized fireflies was a bad knockoff of them
Classic Pinball lol same
😪😪😪😪😭😭😭😭🤧🤧🤧🤧
Just heard it tonight, after a long time, on some alternative radio station and decided to search for it here. Shows you the power that radio still has to influence.
Very true :)
Elio
2016 and still listening to this, music is truly timeless
+Daphne Ward Reminds me of simpler times lol
srsly doode
+Daphne Ward I remember hearing this on the radio one day and I was hoping the dj would say the name of the song and he did, and then I looked it up when I got home, that was like 8 years ago I think
+Dan Hopkins djdnsksjsn
Currently listening in 2133.
Remember when everything was alright? Yeah, I miss those time.
I realize, now, nothing was ever ok.
Everything’s alright for me lol it became not alright then I found comfort in not being alright thus I became alright. I don’t romanticize the past because life is beautiful and the passage of time and change is inevitable. There’s a way to help yourself you just have to find it.
Edit: you also have to realize that because of your youthful innocence you weren’t aware of things not being as good as they seem. This has been my TedxTalk
I had neither heard of this song or Postal Service until I heard Streetlight Manifesto's cover of it.....I'd been listening to Streetlight for years before this album of covers they did.....real horns, real guitar, real bass, real drums >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> techno crap all day, every day
@@ronshouse4205 you do you mate
@@carlagarcia7962 exactly. It's important to realize that nostalgia is longing for a past that never existed.
Lol this used to be the jam played on my MYSPACE.
*nostalgic feels begins*
Cole Vien oh man.... I remember how huge of a deal it was when we could have more than a top 8 😁😁😂 half my life ago now, haha
@@AConquerorsVendetta Haha yeah those were the days. I remember feeling special when someone placed me in their top 8 lol
This was my MySpace jam!!
Ahh yes, when i was little my older sister would turn this up in the Saturday mornings in her computer, she had these long surround sound speakers and it was booming. I would dance with her on the bed to this song. Life was simpler before smart phones and internet took over our brains, good times ❤️
I recently discovered The Postal Service. In 2019. One of the major music events in my life so far.
Albollo UwU never too late to discover good music
Me too and it's very beautiful
Never too late
Then you need to discover Streetlight Manifesto, who did an outstanding cover of this song, with actual instruments, not electropop
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Who's rewatching this 2020 Feb,
and thinking:
damn, that's some fine quarantine suits. Gotta get myself a piece of that!!
Yeah the video fits now more than ever
Whole albums appropriate
it's march
Does anyone understand what exactly is happening in this video?
Damn
One of the best and most unique music videos I have ever seen, fitting perfectly with the musix
This song turns 20 years old in less than 3 months...
Where has the time gone😑
Well, I think it's time to sing happy birthday :D
Bro idk.. turning 35 at the end of the month. 😓
The time has flown by way too fast
It won't be too long before we will become silhouettes.
It’s been there, most people just don’t appreciate it.
This song brings me back to brisk autumn mornings walking to the school bus in high school. The sun still yet to dawn and that night time sense of twilight still in the air. It's amazing how a song can make such a mundane memory into something I cherish.
The video for this song so perfectly matches the aesthetic of this song. There is something so clean and satisfying about the making of silicon processors, and it goes extremely well with this song!
One of my most fond memories of high school. I was a theater kid, and we used this song in Romeo + Juliet. When Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time, the ball room of people dancing just froze and this opening played. We nailed that scene. So much fun. Crazy to think we've been out of school longer than we were in, feels like yesterday.
What I’d give to have seen that 😭
Sure does shits wild. Been outta highschool now for 16 years sure miss these days
Thank you Elio for brining me back to this nostalgia
This song never left my playlist. It just doesn't get old!
Definitely on my desert island play list
I first discovered this band around 2004. Still my all time favorite band. My heart aches to be back in those days.
>>Olga Solis: You need to meet people. Make friends. Your life isn’t up there, Elio. It’s down here.
This song can never get old or any less beautiful right down to the imagery. It was perfectly executed. Well done PS!
2016, and I'm still listening!!
so do i..incledible music
me too
same
me too
Ben Gibbard is everything
Love this song. When I lived in nyc as a teen this was the soundtrack to garden state.
A special time in my life.
I would say the comment section on TH-cam is the most read media in the world at any given time and the most entertaining too
Can we admit this is one of the best music videos ever
Yes 🐬
@@DelphinusOrcastra 🐬
Yes, it is. I first discovered it on Video Juke Box, among the usual pop, hip-hop, and metal videos.
There's just something strange, innocent, and beautiful about it.
@@1oolabob it really is a strange video. The video projects the opposite of the song and it's intimacy. I think the creepiest part is when the camera zooms in on the chip.
@@kennethshort2016 why is it creepy lmao. the transition is probably the coolest part of the vid. pretty good for its age (and probably budget as well)
Awesome video and song. I love it.
Done by iron and wine...
Why a slower tempo? It's awesome the way it is.
Okay...cool.
I saw this in high-school I'm 31 now. I still love this band I'm blessed I can say I talked to him in convo and didn't fan boy out.
I’m 38 now.. I remember listening to this when I first started smoking weed fresh out of high school - the world was so vast I couldn’t even comprehend how I was supposed to navigate it / it’s been a long and very difficult time with a lot of beautiful moments - I’m standing alone in my bedroom it’s 2 am - when the song ends I’ll go back to not knowing how I feel / but for now, while it’s playing - I feel good
Same.
watching this at 3 am getting nostalgic is not healthy
I’m watching this at 2:40 am and getting nostalgic
5:38 in the morning FUCK!!!
Its 310 now. Haha
@@Ren-rq1yx 00jbbbbvhh0
12:56 am!!!
"I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images
And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned"
F me I cry every frickin time.
hey buddy is the pain any less now?
I cry too 😭
100%
Love 💓
But it it is better to have loved , than to never loved at all ...... 😌
@@abhaymishra30 never
wth it played as soon as I saw 5his comment
2020....still makes me emotional.
It's true tho, this song is still making me cry at one am cuz I can't sleep
agree
Me too, but how and why?!
@@GardenMinistry. power of music
OMG SAME 😭😭😭😭😪😫🤧🤧😓😓
my brother showed me this when i was in kindergarten and back when he was also in highschool. hearing this again brings nostalgia to my head.
I'm listening to this song right at this very moment on a Mexican radio station called Ibero 90.9 ✨🇲🇽💜
chécate la versión de Iron and Wine está más chingona la neta
Came here from Elio trailer. Nice music.
Literally watching this from my desk.... at a semiconductor fab.
what's truly amazing about this song is that it still feels new, even twenty years after its release-learning this song is older than me was surprising! the instrumental is extremely reminiscent of indie pop from the 2010s, and that goes to show that this song, and album as a whole, has been influential for the many musical acts that followed it.
I'm 62 and love this. Good music is good music.
i think the counter melody in the intro (not the plucky plops in the foreground, the melody in the background) is actually the sound of floppy drives moving back and forth to make a pitch.
Still one of rhe most meaningful songs ever written. Such beautiful lyrics ♡
Who still bumps this in 2024!! 🎉🎉🎉
He'll ya,and I'm 59.The BEST one hit wonder
Sounds better now somehow.
Just watched them perform this whole album live last night in Cardiff and it was amazing ❤
I found this song in what I call a "song search" here in 2024 I do song searches weekly
Who doesn't?
I have Boldly come back from Such Great Heights.
"I used to think I love you, now i know it ain't true"
Youd only be the 8000th person
beamer boy
now i know its not true 50 on my boxe sr bitch ik you see me shining in my white tee its easy
now i know its not u
And the moment I heard the sample, I knew I'd love peep forever
This song was such a beautiful choice for Elio
I remember being 19 having a crush on my college professor. She was 27, nothing happened between us, but I did enjoy talking about music with her.
She introduced this song to me. I don't take many photos but I do associate music with my memories. Everytime I hear this song I'm reminded of being in my late teens and in my first year of college.
Shouldve tapped that.
Dude I can relate so much to relating songs to memories, i tend to add peoples favorites songs as a way to remember them on my playlist
@@17Jroach Sweet
We are definitely the same age obviously...I remembered driving home blasting this, late nights in my first city apartment reading and writing emails to one of the great loves of my life....we were secretly lovers
Couldn't get enough of this song 20 years ago. Saw them perform live last Saturday night at Riot Fest. Absolutely immaculate performance. Didn't realize Ben played the drums. He was brilliant.
this song will fuck you up if you listen to it with headphones when you're high. I do it every single time
+apollumni you are such a fucking poser.
same
I listened to this 20 times in a row and it started to get old. Just kidding, it never does!
I'm old enough to remember when The Postal Service released this album in '03. I remember it being really impressive. Postal Service got a lot of shit at the time, but they really anticipated what indie pop in the late-00s and 10s would sound like.
This song powered me through so many difficult study periods. Love this song forever.
It was the song of freedom and love for me, as I had just graduated high school, the summer this was released. I was working at Papa John's Pizza and in an undefined relationship with a girl at the time. She and I just clicked in first period on the first day of freshman year and had been best friends since. That summer, as I delivered pizzas around town, this song filled my car as the thoughts of young love and friendship filled my mind and heart. Her and I had a chance of becoming more than friends, but as the summer ended, so did we, entirely. Everytime I listen to this song, I'm transported back to being 18, singing along with my friends, feeling the glow of uncertain love, and the freedom of a full tank of gas. I have no regrets of the past as they have made me who I am. This song is a reminder to me to always enjoy the moment.
Wow! Love the comment. Very profound and beautiful.
keep coming back to this music video time and time again. Hasn’t left my playlists for 9 years. The postal service/death cab for cutie literally made me who I am. Beautiful song. I’ll keep coming back to comment every year
Yes death cab for cutie 💓
RIP to my dog Max. I miss you baby boy. I hope you found the biggest stick in heaven😔
My condolences
I lost my sweet Max 2 years ago. I hope they found each and are having a blast in heaven 💖.
@@notahater34 I hope so too❤️
Here that everyone? It's the leader of uh Earth
These guys are definitely the best thing to come out of a mail room
This song warms my heart. ❤
listening to the beginning of this song with headphones on is a trip :D
Classic/10
Fandiddly the GOAT
Elio bringing us all back together
I remeber days at the skatepark when I would burn CDs and skateboard around with a Walkman in my backpack and almost every cd I burned had this song on it! I miss when tines were more simple. Less tourists, cheaper prices, lots of friends, all the energy in the world, going to school, singing this song all the time. Now I turn 30 next month and I have my son who just turned 1 and I get to re-live memories with him threw him and am gonna he the best father I could possibly be 😭❤️
I love all the beautiful memories people are posting in the comments regarding this song and what it means to them.
24 years old and just found this gem. Now I don’t know what I’d do without it.
Check out Owl City-fireflies
Maybe someone could love you even though they don’t know you or your problems because love is an action in motion and not only a word.
We are capable of loving everyone, even those with evil in their hearts.
This song has made me feel good from the moment I first heard it nearly 20 YEARS AGO when I was only 8. Still today it brings me the same peace ❤
Studying electrical engineering for almost 4 years now and the first time I see a silicon wafer + accompanying factory outside of a textbook drawing is in a music video...
It's beautiful, isn't it?
The nostalgia that comes with this song is served bittersweet. I feel a slight comfort and deep sadness while having a weird smirk on my face as this song takes me back to being a pre-teen, not having a single serious worry in the world and full of hope for what the future held. 20 years later, it hurts so much thinking of those times while I almost smile about it too. I miss my childhood house, my old room, my family, all of my friends, and the overall happiness life seemed back then. Life is not bad for me now, but I do really struggle with nostalgia as time seems to distort itself as we get older. Remember to stop and take a mental snapshot if you feel it may be "one of the good moments".
this comment is everything I couldn’t type
One of the greatest songs ever!
This song made me get up and dance. THIS IS WAY TOO GOOD!
we connect like wifi
cares free gucci
Yeah because 'eyesight' rhymes with '802.11' and not 'wifi' you absolute lettuce
This Mortal Coil just ignore the fact you were wrong :^)
This Mortal Coil that's not the fucking lyrics though so that's completely irrelevant to the original comment
This Mortal Coil bro ik u smart the wifi shit was a reference to lil peeps song - white tee which samples this for the beat
My parents listen to this song a lot and I think about them whenever I hear this. It makes me happy
Tell Me Lies! Thank you for introducing this song and band to the younger generation.
The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie are timeless. Enjoy!
literally listened to soul meets body before this
They’re going on tour!!! 🤩
For some reason I will never forget this song Cheers from south el monte California September 2024 💪🇺🇸
When Me and My Brother Were Young (from like age 2 to age 6) my parents would always play this when we were on long travel trips at night or when they just wanted us to go to sleep, And When They played it at night it would always make us fall asleep. Our parents nicknamed it "The Pacifier". After a long time my parents and my brother and I forgot the song Name. So I spent SEVEN.FUCKING.YEARS!!!! Looking For This Song!
AND I HAVE FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!
(Started Searching at age 6 and I am now 13)
Same with my parents. I just found the song on one of my moms old laptops. So many memories
"one of your mom's"?
That's crazy because I'm 21 and I remember hearing this song when it first came out in 2003 (I was 8 and you were probably barely born). Since a kid as well I was searching for the name of the band and didn't find out 'til many years later in adolescence! My twin brother and I would only be able to listen to this song when it came out in the radio, because TH-cam wasn't made 'til 2005, and we knew the word to every lyric when it came out! I love hearing it when I'm in nostalgic.
Hasrax still too young, don't swear so much
Space Music lmao, it's understandable. I first heard this song around 09 thinking it was modern (at the time). And now I found out this song is 13 years old. Crazy stuff, and good music lol
I'll NEVER stop loving TF outta this jam!👍😁
Solid song, i forgot about this! listened a lot to it when i was younger ♥