44 here, 45 in August. This song always did take me back to sweet melancholy days as a teen. I’ve often thought of my ghost walking those old streets I would walk
This sentiment was expressed to me by Toad's lead singer about 8 years ago. He said that his songs had all grown up and lived lived or their own, and when he performed now they were like adult children visiting home. Cool guys.
I married my husband in 1991. We lived this era together as a young couple, had our son in 1995. My husband died of a sudden heart attack after a plane trip for business caused a blood clot to his heart. He died the day after Thanksgiving 2018. I been going through old songs we used to listen to together on here. This was one we played often. I miss him terribly.
I am so sorry for your loss. My husband died 10 years ago and I often find myself on youtube, searching out the music we loved. It brings back good memories.
I’m in Canada, one day in 2023 I was on hold with the pharmacy at Shoppers Drug Mart and this song came on…..it was over from there, tears of nostalgia just came pouring down!!!
Just out of collage, living with my future wife the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. Bought a brand new 93 Chevy 4X4 , we would wash it in the front yard together with this CD playing, this song was our favorite track. I lost her a couple years ago to a sudden heart attack and life just came to a stop for me. She gave me a son and the best years of my life and a truck that I refuse to part with. I miss you Sandra.
So sorry for your loss 😢 It takes great courage to share pain and grief. Celebrate the fact you will see Her again and reunite in Glorious Heaven. I pray you find comfort and peace and I truly believe our loved ones who have past are truly looking over us❤
Girlfriend shared this song on a cassette play list in 94 with me. Long story short, i loved this song, we married, built a life together and she passed of a sudden aneurism in 2022. Her motto ... Live, Laugh and LOVE. This song will forever remind me of her.
It's amazing how much emotion comes flooding back when I hear music from this era. I'm 53 and heard this today in a big store while shopping and it literally stopped me dead in my tracks. My son was 3 and my daughter wasn't born yet. My life was in such staggering transition. My (now ex) wife hated me, and I was trying to grow up and be responsible after years of being a wild free spirited idiot. I was fairly recently clean and sober (and stayed that way), and it seemed world was clearer, yet I was so disillusioned. That time seems like a lifetime behind me, but despite the disillusionment of that time, I remember it with such fondness. It's hard not to wish I could go back knowing what I know now. So much life wasted I wish I could go back and live to the fullest if given another chance.
Some people go their entire lives without realizing what you have at age 53. Make the best of everything you have from today forward, enjoy life but make sure everything you do has value and is meaningful so that you never look back at 53 from your 60's or 70's and feel as you did about your 20's and early 30's.
wow, Scott Russel, I know exactly what your saying. Such great music and feeling, that I want to feel again, cause back then making alot of bad choices I didn't grasp have fleeting life is. Let's go back there together. I was a fun girl back then.........
In 1995, this song woke me on my alarm to my final day as a high school student. The song was perfect for my mood; bittersweet. I had it in my head the entire day, knowing I would never see most of these people ever again ("we said we'd send letters, and all of those little things"). Almost 30 years later and its still reminds me of that bittersweet day. I connected with some old friends from HS. Found out some were dead and I just wonder about the rest. Life is really fleeting. We can't hold on to a time or era, its gone before you know it. Thank you TTWS for one of the best memories of my life.
Just turned 49. Hearing this immediately takes me back to the long haired free spirit skateboarding college kid I was back then. Despite that I didnt live enough when I could have and didn't see the all the opportunities to do so when they were there. My advice to anyone young today is to live more and brood less. And don't forget the great music that accompany your experiences - they will be the stewards of your memories.
Nah, coming from a "former" Goth... Brooding and Living aren't mutually exclusive. But yes, non-superficial music should be your background in every phase of your life.
I’m 43 and I was a grunge poor kid from upstate New York , dyed my hair green when Greenday came out . Wore a lot plaid shirts with ripped jeans and vans sneakers . I was happy and care free . My best friend lived near by we had great summers listening to the latest alternative albums but everything changed in 1998 she moved away and I stayed . I sometimes walk through my hometown remembering the old days wondering where all the kids went and what are they doing now
what I like about most of bands of the 90s is they just look like people you would know from everyday life not trying to look or act like rockstars, just regular guys
You are so damn right buddy, beautifuly accurate. Only things that seems to be good in my life now is coming across individuals like you who witnessed the 90s scenario and talk about it with so much soul.
This son. Makes me cry. I can remeber My mom My dad My. Sisters. I My dad pass away 20 years ago and with This song. Is like i can. SEE him i miss him so much My God ...❤❤ I hope everybody here. Enjoy this beutiful old song
In 1993, I had the single on tape. Played it for 3 hours on a car trip and about drove my best friend crazy. When she was dying in March 2019, I played this song, and she smirked at me and squeezed my hand. I teased her that I could loop it. She smirked and shook her head no. lol. I'll always think of her when I hear it.
Sorry she passed. As someone who usually just rolls their eyes at the sad stories on youtube to make the songs seem more significant, I didn't do that with yours.
Reminders such as this gets me aching for the 90's and a much simpler life and times as we lived thru the 90's. I can't help but wish for them back!!❤❤❤
Last week, my friend Valerie passed away. She was a big fan of Toad the Wet Sprocket. She even had a tattoo on her arm of a toad holding a wet sprocket. Today would have been her 50th birthday. Happy birthday Valerie.
Man. I was in HS, my mom and dad were still alive....it was a good time, one that I never thought would end. All things do. Thank God for great music and memories.
I once thought I would never get to hold the hand of a little girl standing in the surf keeping from falling, but my dream came true. I don't know if she will remember that day the older she gets, but I know that that day with the fog rolling in and the other little boy that kept bumping into me is ingrained like granite into my memory. This song totally reminds me of it even though written many years before I knew what I wanted. I dream now that everyone's dreams come true, time is fleeting but memories forever, love.
There’s just something about that chorus and those harmonies that are hauntingly beautiful. One of my all time favorite tunes right here. Toad is so underrated of a band.
I was so fortunate to live by the Pacific Ocean for 5 years. The ocean has a way to make you feel small and open your eyes up that you are just one niche in Gods ultimate plan
I grew up listening to this song but only recently did it truly become so special to me. I went to Ireland and booked a tour by myself to visit the Giant’s Causeway up in Northern Ireland. I sat near this girl on the bus from Dublin who also came alone, she was from London and I America. The lyrics almost perfectly depict our situation. Once we reached the Causeway we spotted the ocean and walked among the ancient volcanic stones together. Laughed, told stories, shared our different experiences. We hiked to the edge of the cliffs and just stood in awe. After about an hour we got back onto the bus and began the long journey home in our respective seats. We finally arrived back in Dublin and as we got off the bus we quickly bid each other farewell and wished each other luck in the rest of our lives. Later I tried to search her up on social media to no avail as I’d only gotten her first name and we took no pictures together. Now when I hear this song I think of her and how eerily it encapsulates that day. We both wrote our names on the fence at the end of the cliffs. Hope you’re doing well Maude.
I’ve been there myself. It’s a special place. Hold onto those experienced and the memories they give. They are presented for a reason. At least I believe so.
Jesus Christ this song is pushing 30 frigging years old. I remember my brother buying this album for me when It came out, I was in 9th grade. It's so cliche to say but it really does feel like only yesterday. How is that? You blink and 30 years go by. I try to explain this to my teenage children, try to make them slow down, stop rushing life. You just can't understand it until its gone.
That has been the lament for ever...listen to your parents..They said this. They listened to their parents...they said this...and a guy almost two and a half thousand years ago said "Life is short and Art long; the opportunity fleeting, experience deceitful, and judgment difficult" (Socrates: 470-399 BCE)
I actually DID try to understand it when I was younger. I tried to pay attention to everything going on with me and around me. And you know what? It still flew by in a flash.
Whatever you do...Dont Blink again! trust me, even if you were born like me. a person who appreciated being young and didn't ever want to grow up... the second half goes by way faster!
I woke up w this song in my head. I dont know why this is so powerful today but i feel the need to say that Jesus loves us so much. All we have to do is have faith. Faith to walk on water.❤
This song brings me back to being a kid in the 90s. Such bittersweet memories. Little did I know how much I'd miss them. Takes me back in time to when I'd go on trips w.my dad. Need to do that again soon 🙏💜
I met my ex-husband in February 1990, married him in November 1991 at 20, divorced in December 2018. Most days I’m over it and am fine, then a song like this brings those early years back in an almost visceral manner. I think it’s not just the heartbreak, but the passage of time, too.
This isn't a song. It's a memory, set to the internal beat of our personal time. It invokes that memory a bit stronger every time you hear it. Listen, and see what memories within you it pulls out.
I often hear comments about how the 80's was the last decade of really good music. What so many people forget is that there was a slew of excellent music from the early 90's that somehow got lost in the craziness that was the late 90's when our lives changed forever because of this thing called the Internet. Then 9/11 really changed things forever. From about 90 to 95, I was in audio heaven because of groups like Toad the Wet Sprocket, the Gin Blossoms, 10,000 Maniacs, R.E.M., the Indigo Girls... This song is an excellent example of what treasures the early 90's gave us.
I've often had the same debate with people, about when things hypothetically 'dropped off' with regard to great pop/rock music, and I think the truth lies closer to it slowly fading off over several years. As Mozzer said back in '87.... "The ashes of pop music are all around us if we will but see them." I agree in the sense that we could already see it was beginning to turn in on itself by the mid-late 80s, and nothing much new or groundbreaking was going on as there are (obviously) only so many chord/melodic structures and interesting lyrical topics to write about before it gets stale. So, although there wasn't a lot of boundary pushing going on, I think you're dead right in suggesting that there was still some fantastic music being written throughout the early-mid 90s.... and a lot coming from U.S bands at that.
I think what I miss most is just the lost art of songwriting. The 90's brought SO many talented singer/songwriters to us. These days, radio plays the same generic formula over and over. It sells. So, they keep making the same song. How I miss hearing a song and being moved by the words. The first two Counting Crows albums blew my mind, Alanis, Tori... People with something to say. They definitely inspired me to write songs very early on. I still play the Indigo Girls first album all the time. Such smart people with incredible harmony. Blood and Fire! OOF!
toad the wet sprocket is a very underrated band, and their album fear is the most underrated album of the 90s. it's a shame these guys don't get the credit they deserve.
+AksilChabul uh, I know what it means. it means that it gets underestimated and viewed as being less important and valuable than it really is. this band is definitely that. back when this song and their album came out in 1991, the year alternative rock and metal made its mainstream breakthrough, almost everyone overlooked them because they were always talking about nirvana, pearl jam, metallica, rhcp, soundgarden, and alice in chains. This band was hardly mentioned during that time, and not many people talk about them to this day. so yeah. they're definitely underrated, because not many people realize how good this band is.
Can't listen to this song without breaking out in tears. I lost my dad a couple months back and we used to listen to this song driving around in his jeep Cherokee. I try not to beat myself up but it's hard cause the night before he passed he asked me to hang out with him and the rest of my family and I decided to play video games with my friends instead. So now I'm here and I'm gonna listen to this song over and over again until I have no more tears to cry.
I blamed myself for years when I had the thought to go check on my Dad because he was in the garage late at night past his bed time, but I reassured myself everything was probably fine. I found him hanging in the garage the next morning. I felt like if I was there it would have made a difference and I would still have my best friend. I don't think he knew he was my best friend. You can't undo what's done, so no use to make yourself feel miserable. Besides, your Dad would would want you to be happy--not sad. He would want you to remember the times you did have together, not the moments apart. You didn't purposely not say goodbye. But, I get it, you miss your Dad. It will take awhile. Give yourself some time.
reminds me of when my mom used to sing, she was terribly out of tune (she was mostly deaf), but she was so happy. i would give everything to hear her sing once again❤️
I agree - I have often wondered if they would have been more successful if they had chosen a different name for the band. My favorite group of the 1990s - hands down.
@@markbryant4932 Lol, I agree (about their name, & that they were awesome). Back when "All I Want" first came out, they'd play the song on the radio *alot* but of course _never_ told the group's name, so one day I called the radio station, told them some of the lyrics of the song, and he told me "That's Toad the Wet Sprocket." I was like, "um..... *_who??????_* He told me I wasn't the first one to react that way when hearing the name of the group, lol.
As a young man I always went tired of older people memorizing moments in combination with songs from that time. Now I understand, because this is one of the songs that gave me hope in the struggles of youth and family issues. This song gave me a feeling of freedom, hope and to not give up. Now as I am older it gives me the same good feeling. Thanks Toaders.
"Don't even have pictures Just memories to hold Grow sweeter each season As we slowly grow old" Growing up before iPhone when you just had moments with people that come and go through your life, they have their memories, and you have yours.
I always heard this song in highschool. To this day when I listen, it brings some kind of peace to get through the darkest times. It's certainly a hauntingly, beautiful song.
I am 50 years old. I remember this song for the first time, sitting in my barracks room at Ft. Bragg, NC. I was in the 82 Airborne Division. I remember watching this for the first time on 120 Minutes. I went to Camelot the next day, bought the cassette tape, and blasted it in my new Ford Ranger and driving back home for XMAS in Florida to see my parents. I was only 20 years old. Such great memories of friends that have moved on. Driving through my old neighborhood and the schools I went to since I was a child. These songs are not just old songs, but old memories that I love to visit at night alone. Reminds me of my roomates in the Army, jumping out of planes, and the nostalgia of slowly growing up in the military.
My heart nearly burst when I read that you were at Fort Bragg and 82 Airborne and your age. I hadn't read your name until after I'd read that much of what you'd written. For a second, a glimmer of hope shined for me. A young man I knew back then, a lifetime ago, was at Fort Bragg and 82 Airborne. It would seem around the same time as you were. We parted ways probably 30 years ago and I've waited all this time for him to come back. He said he would. I still have his "blood wings". In my mind I think I'd like to give them back to him if nothing else, but in my heart maybe I would just keep them for what is left of my life and keep on dreaming. Brian James Anderson is his name. (No relation between us. Just a cute coincidence.) Anyway, I just thought I had to say something. I wonder if you knew Brian?
@@heatheranderson6403 Good morning. Sadly, I don't remember that name. I remember lots of people that I have served with. I think maybe only 5 I really keep in touch with. I was only 18 when I joined the Army. I wanted to jump out of planes, and that extra money a month was a lot to a 18-19 year old. I got to Fort Bragg in August of 1992. It seem like a lifetime ago, all the memories. I think those year I was stationed there were the best of my life. Having different roomates come and go. I served a total of 11 years.
So many stories and I was just 11, 12, 13 years old. Know nothing of life. Now I am 41 and through these songs I can travel to times where I was just innocent. Only music can give me this. So good!
I hear ya! I'm 46 this year and I remember playing this in several bars/pubs during the 90s as a lead singer along with all those 90s tunes! Modern music is mostly hurting compared to then.
Thanks for mentioning it. I just bought tickets to see them this summer. That experience never would have happened in my life if you hadn’t left that comment.
I love this song since is was released. Thank God for these little big melodies that fulfill our hearts. It's one of those songs that we have like in a box of songs that connect directly to our souls. Thank you, Toad The Wet Sprocket!!!!
I discovered this band about 4 years ago, I found their cd album Dulcena in a dumpster when I was walking in a park, and it made me listen to them ever since. I'm only 17 yrs old and I am grateful for that moment!
That summer of first love, summer 92. This song. Standing outside by my car when I didn't want to go home. I always thought "someday" I would see you again, but I learned that you passed away last year.
@@cnaiv5 just listened to it. appreciate you sharing it. I kept thinking about the part that says this is the place where everything’s better and everything’s safe and hoping your friend has found that place. you really honor her memory.
My dear 90's, I was 17 years old in 1991, I do not regret having done everything I did, and mom, you were still with me and I miss you when listening to this song again.
In the late 90s I was in boot camp in the Marine Corps on the South Carolina coast. There was a short stretch where we were marching through the woods and popped out along the beach and it was exceptionally beautiful, peaceful and serene, an amazing change from the extreme misery. This song instantly popped into my head, and to this day, no matter how rough things might be in my life at the moment, I can put this song on and instantly find peace. Toad the Wet Sprocket, thank you for such a lasting positive influence!
I’m a combat veteran with severe depression and PTSD. Trump’s second election feels traumatic. The only thing keeping me above water is listening to this and “All I Want” at least five times a day.
I was 7 when this song was released in 1991. I remember liking it but forgot about it as the years passed. I rediscovered this song 17 years later in the summer of 2008. At that time, I just started my career as a nurse. I was excited for the future but was anxious and lacked confidence around patients. It was during that time that I met Pam. We were both new nurses working on the same floor. We connected instantly and developed a close friendship. I must have played this song on repeat a thousand times that summer. Pam unfortunately passed away in March of 2019. I still listen to this song today; it transports me back to 2008 - the beginning of a career and a lifelong friendship. ❤️
My son asked me to listen.. we often share music... The lyrics are profound... the group is way cool.. I've already played it three times and have now stashed it in my Son folder...Music bonds many family relationships.. He's a damn good man...Couldn't be more proud.
UH Fall semester 1992, alone, new city, new university, excited and afraid all at once, and for some reason I clearly recall this track playing in the dorm cafeteria. Never thought much of it, but decades later, the nostalgia just hits me.
Please don't take this as an insult but this is my dog's favorite song. I really enjoy it as well. Dogs are not stupid. It is funny, when I play it for her she jumps on the sofa with me and gives me that "I love you look". As soon as the song ends, She starts badgering me to play it again- when I do, she lays back down with a smile and gives me that "I love you" look again. Dogs know great songs when they hear them. I know you wrote this song years ago, but to my Dog and I it is still beautiful. Thank you.
@@starshake8998 A good life boils down to memorable moments with loved ones, nothing else matters. This song reminds me of that. Maybe my Dog is a genius.
Umm..I sing this to my cat lol.. I've loved this song for 20 plus years. She starts acting crazy and comes and gets in my face while I sing it to her lol. She's a only touch and love me when I say to and then don't even think about doing it for too long type of cat lmao so I love it when she comes and sits on my lap and boops my head when she hears this..
This isn't merely a song, but rather a conduit to a less confusing and troubled time. A time before many of us really experienced personal loss. How could we have possibly known of the storms that lay ahead? Thankfully, we all have music like this to take refuge in. Cheers!
Awww man this got me tonight. Great damn song💜 11/18/2024 💜 I just got out of the hospital 3 days ago and still have a long way to go. I'm going to definitely be listening to this. 💜
I moved to Spokane, Wa. in1991 to finish my externship for my degree in Radiology . This song is so ingrained in my heart from that time every time I hear it, all those memories come flooding back! So touching!
Takes me back to the time when my late wife and our first born walking on Folly Beach, SC. looking at the light house there. Wish I had taking more pictures of those days. Such a wonderful time in my life.
I live about 20 Mins from Folly. Ain't it something how music is like a time machine? I can even remember smells and what the sun felt like. As I've gotten older.. this song has meant so much more to me.I miss the 90s.. My youth.. and the people that I've lost along the way. But this song brings me right back to them somehow.❤
@sarahwalters4428 Yes I do miss the 80's and 90's, I still go out to Folly to just look at the lighthouse when I can. Hard to do in the Summer cause it so crowded there and traffic is a nightmare.
@angelohughes6879 omg THE TRAFFIC!! It's absolutely inane.. like Christmas traffic but all THE time. I live in summervile so traffic is like 6 nightmares with holiday traffic sprinkled in lol.
@sarahwalters4428 Oh yeah I know, I used to love going to Summerville back in the 80's and early 90's. Today I just deal with it. I go there for my doctor or go to the YMCA. But miss the way it used to be.
I once asked my wife to make sure this song was played at my funeral. Thought we’d be together until the end. After 6.5 years together and 5.5 years of marriage she packed up and moved out with the help of her brother today 12/24/19. Merry Christmas everyone. I’ll shoulder this hoping no one will ever experience this on Christmas Eve again.
Johnathan Bancroft sorry that happened to you brother. Just live your life to the fullest. If you know your heart is pure with genuine love it’s her lost at the end of the day. Happy holidays
I remember being a teen and hearing All I Want. In 98 before turning 18 I got the album. Soon as I heard this I thought of my parents timeshare at OBX. I think this is their best song and it's beautiful
I worked freight at a local home depot while in college. I remember stocking the garden center and this song would come on around 3 am. While the memories weren't fun, this song takes me back. For some reason I always loved when this song came on. That was only 3-4 years ago, but it feels like an eternity.
remember I broke my left arm in 1991. I was 3 years old but I remember it clear as day. My grandma asked me if I could get up on a chair and reach to turn off the radio. She was an elderly woman in her late 80s and couldn’t do it. I got up on the chair, the chair tilted back and I landed on my arm with all my weight. Come to think of it, this is the song that was playing on the radio at the time of the accident. I’m 100% certain of this. I think I must have a very photogenic memory because now that I think hard about it, the sound of it sounds just like it. Like having déjà vu all over again. My god.... has time gone by so fast?. I just turned 33 this month of December and it feels like that event at age 3 doesn’t fully demostraste 30 damn years transpired. I was listening to 90s rock and this son popped up as suggested 😆 well, life sure is full of nice surprises, innit?. Sadly, my grandma passed away 2 years later in 1993 because of a brain tumor.
It's so bittersweet hearing this, I was very happy back when this came out. Now, divorced,kids grown,lonely, just sentimental for sure.Yet I am glad to have these precious memories;).
Mom’s passing / weak from cancer and this made my heart open and cry. Reminds me of my teenager years and just how the transition from full of life to her illness happened. Being near the Ocean does help heal and I feel like song “flesh becomes water” well …. It resonates …
Crazy how time flies. One minute, you're a carefree child, and before you know it, you're 44.
Wish i could back for a day.
I came here for the comments and the very first one I saw was yours.... I just turned 44 two weeks ago. I hear you brother!
Ugh I'm 43
44 here, 45 in August. This song always did take me back to sweet melancholy days as a teen. I’ve often thought of my ghost walking those old streets I would walk
In 44. We grew up too fast. 😢
This sentiment was expressed to me by Toad's lead singer about 8 years ago. He said that his songs had all grown up and lived lived or their own, and when he performed now they were like adult children visiting home.
Cool guys.
This song just keeps getting better 2024
Damn right it does.
25 years down the road it still gets me. Such an amazing song.
@@edortega7671 Can we call the lead singer Toad
I married my husband in 1991. We lived this era together as a young couple, had our son in 1995. My husband died of a sudden heart attack after a plane trip for business caused a blood clot to his heart. He died the day after Thanksgiving 2018. I been going through old songs we used to listen to together on here. This was one we played often. I miss him terribly.
My sympathies to you and yours. Life is strange. May you keep him alive in your words, deeds, and heart.
My condolences Tammie...
You always will he's looking down at you and you will see him okay he knows your missing him
I am so sorry for your loss. My husband died 10 years ago and I often find myself on youtube, searching out the music we loved. It brings back good memories.
Big hug to you Tammie✨
I’m in Canada, one day in 2023 I was on hold with the pharmacy at Shoppers Drug Mart and this song came on…..it was over from there, tears of nostalgia just came pouring down!!!
Occasionally I have to kick myself when I notice I’m jamming out to the music that is being played in the grocery store 😂😢
Interesting I heard this song at shoppers drug mart too in 2020 loved it
This song reminds me of my kids who I haven’t seen in years.
@@1234TokyoJohnthat's so sad. I'm sorry
@@1234TokyoJohn You're probably better off.
This song was a special gem humanity wasn’t ready for.
Very true...
In general Toad the Wet Sprocket was a band they weren’t ready for. It’s a timeless sound that seems to fit every decade and none at the same time.
It's beautiful
My purpose has been fulfilled - finding and hearing this song
Play this at my funeral
They're never ready
@@morelhunter3966 considering their influences were 80s. I guess. Anyone ever listen to Aztec Camera? Definite influences.
I'm soon to be 68 years old. I've only recently discovered this song. When music is this good, it becomes timeless.
Wood becomes a boner
This is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. They have other good songs as well, especially "All I Want". Underrated band.
Boom. You nailed it. I’m approaching 60 & I come to TH-cam to find gems. You summed it up perfectly.
funny age huh??! I'm 68 also!! I wouldn't of changed anything!!
They didn’t think that at the time.
Just out of collage, living with my future wife the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. Bought a brand new 93 Chevy 4X4 , we would wash it in the front yard together with this CD playing, this song was our favorite track. I lost her a couple years ago to a sudden heart attack and life just came to a stop for me. She gave me a son and the best years of my life and a truck that I refuse to part with. I miss you Sandra.
I'm so sorry
So sorry for your loss 😢 It takes great courage to share pain and grief. Celebrate the fact you will see Her again and reunite in Glorious Heaven. I pray you find comfort and peace and I truly believe our loved ones who have past are truly looking over us❤
Condolences, friend....🙏❤🩹
Apparently they didn't teach you to spell in "collage"
@@coreyg7364 Why the "back biting", man? The dude lost his wife...have some sympathy and consideration for that. Are you an Einstein?
Girlfriend shared this song on a cassette play list in 94 with me. Long story short, i loved this song, we married, built a life together and she passed of a sudden aneurism in 2022. Her motto ... Live, Laugh and LOVE. This song will forever remind me of her.
Oh I'm sorry for your loss. But I'm old and know without a doubt your souls will reunite.
Maybe she's letting you know she's watching over you.
So sorry for your loss 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
We never know do we.....and smile just the same
So sorry for your loss. So happy for your love 🙏
It's amazing how much emotion comes flooding back when I hear music from this era. I'm 53 and heard this today in a big store while shopping and it literally stopped me dead in my tracks. My son was 3 and my daughter wasn't born yet. My life was in such staggering transition. My (now ex) wife hated me, and I was trying to grow up and be responsible after years of being a wild free spirited idiot. I was fairly recently clean and sober (and stayed that way), and it seemed world was clearer, yet I was so disillusioned. That time seems like a lifetime behind me, but despite the disillusionment of that time, I remember it with such fondness. It's hard not to wish I could go back knowing what I know now. So much life wasted I wish I could go back and live to the fullest if given another chance.
Some people go their entire lives without realizing what you have at age 53. Make the best of everything you have from today forward, enjoy life but make sure everything you do has value and is meaningful so that you never look back at 53 from your 60's or 70's and feel as you did about your 20's and early 30's.
Scott Russell rings a bell for my life I still cry each time I hear it
Scott Russell man life is crazy and a big journey isn't it.
wow, Scott Russel, I know exactly what your saying.
Such great music and feeling, that I want to feel again, cause back then making alot of bad choices I didn't grasp have fleeting life is. Let's go back there together. I was a fun girl back then.........
This was wonderful in its own way.
“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.” ― Andy Bernard
So true! Even for the NARD!!! LOL
start skydiving ,you will be in the best days of your life ,promise
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There’s not, other than live in the moment. And tell people you love ❤️ that you love them . Time is like a speeding train & you can’t out run it!!
These are the good old days ;)
"Dont even have pictures, just memories to hold, grow sweeter each season, as we slowly grow old" Gets me everytime, Love this song
5 years older .... hope you are well wherever you are
Stunningly beautiful verse
I had pictures until someone threw the boxes of photo albums away and still 18 years later, won't even tell me why. I hope I die before I get too old.
That verse is everything ♥️
The album version of the song ends right after that verse, FYI. No chorus.
In 1995, this song woke me on my alarm to my final day as a high school student. The song was perfect for my mood; bittersweet. I had it in my head the entire day, knowing I would never see most of these people ever again ("we said we'd send letters, and all of those little things"). Almost 30 years later and its still reminds me of that bittersweet day. I connected with some old friends from HS. Found out some were dead and I just wonder about the rest. Life is really fleeting. We can't hold on to a time or era, its gone before you know it. Thank you TTWS for one of the best memories of my life.
Thanks for this story. I relate so much.
YEAH but you avoided the JET ENGINE
Thank you for sharing
Class of 95 here! Best class of the 90s
Beautifully written and totally relatable, thanks for sharing (class of '96 here, what a time it was to be alive!)
Don't even have pictures, just memories to hold, that grow sweeter each season, as we slowly grow old. That's life right there.
Just turned 49. Hearing this immediately takes me back to the long haired free spirit skateboarding college kid I was back then. Despite that I didnt live enough when I could have and didn't see the all the opportunities to do so when they were there. My advice to anyone young today is to live more and brood less. And don't forget the great music that accompany your experiences - they will be the stewards of your memories.
Nah, coming from a "former" Goth... Brooding and Living aren't mutually exclusive. But yes, non-superficial music should be your background in every phase of your life.
So true...live more, brood less. Time flies and something you realize you didn't lived your youth to its full potential.
...well said!
Yes. That's sad but it's true!
I’m 43 and I was a grunge poor kid from upstate New York , dyed my hair green when Greenday came out . Wore a lot plaid shirts with ripped jeans and vans sneakers . I was happy and care free . My best friend lived near by we had great summers listening to the latest alternative albums but everything changed in 1998 she moved away and I stayed . I sometimes walk through my hometown remembering the old days wondering where all the kids went and what are they doing now
what I like about most of bands of the 90s is they just look like people you would know from everyday life not trying to look or act like rockstars, just regular guys
regular guys with real talent
And they are always dressed like a Peebles mannequin.
That was kinda the aesthetic back then tho
So really they look the part
You are so damn right buddy, beautifuly accurate. Only things that seems to be good in my life now is coming across individuals like you who witnessed the 90s scenario and talk about it with so much soul.
YES!!!! thank you!!! I been trying to put my finger on it yes regular guys organic real not this "look at my followers" crap.
This son. Makes me cry. I can remeber My mom My dad My. Sisters. I My dad pass away 20 years ago and with This song. Is like i can. SEE him i miss him so much My God ...❤❤ I hope everybody here. Enjoy this beutiful old song
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I'm so sorry
In 1993, I had the single on tape. Played it for 3 hours on a car trip and about drove my best friend crazy. When she was dying in March 2019, I played this song, and she smirked at me and squeezed my hand. I teased her that I could loop it. She smirked and shook her head no. lol. I'll always think of her when I hear it.
Sorry she passed. As someone who usually just rolls their eyes at the sad stories on youtube to make the songs seem more significant, I didn't do that with yours.
Kacisunset....my prayers
She's there, right now, in that heaven of her best memories! This song is playing.
❤️🕯️
@@atuliti u
Reminders such as this gets me aching for the 90's and a much simpler life and times as we lived thru the 90's. I can't help but wish for them back!!❤❤❤
So well said 😊😊
Have my love since 1998, so I get it.
@@janeesposito7882❤👍😊
Last week, my friend Valerie passed away.
She was a big fan of Toad the Wet Sprocket. She even had a tattoo on her arm of a toad holding a wet sprocket.
Today would have been her 50th birthday.
Happy birthday Valerie.
May Valerie Rest in Peace. You are in my prayers. 🙏❤️
I'm a Black Woman and I absolutely Love this Song and so does my Big Brother❤ Great Song👍
Music transcends all racial barriers. Always has. Music sees race as irrelevant. As do I. It's the least important thing about anyone.
There music crosses all ethnic lines. This simply is a great band
There are no racial barriers especially when it comes to great music. My wife and I have a playlist from 50 cent to the Beatles.
Music sees no colors! That’s why it’s amazing ❤️🎶🎶
@@willennis414 Same here!
This is one of the finest songs ever written in the history of ever.
Epic…. Even 30 years later.
Man. I was in HS, my mom and dad were still alive....it was a good time, one that I never thought would end. All things do. Thank God for great music and memories.
You're so right!
"Don't even have pictures,
just memories to hold,
which get sweeter each season,
as we slowly grow old...."
If only we grew old slowly. It happens so fast it all but gives you whiplash.
quickly growing old, but thanks for playing this in my youth, Toad
True that (@^@)!!!
I once thought I would never get to hold the hand of a little girl standing in the surf keeping from falling, but my dream came true. I don't know if she will remember that day the older she gets, but I know that that day with the fog rolling in and the other little boy that kept bumping into me is ingrained like granite into my memory. This song totally reminds me of it even though written many years before I knew what I wanted. I dream now that everyone's dreams come true, time is fleeting but memories forever, love.
Written in a very different time. Now people have pictures of everything including their food...
How will that affect their memory?
The 90’s was the last great decade of music
Plenty of great music since the 90s! Where are you looking?
Turn off the radio. Tune out what’s “popular”, and go search. It’s out there
It sure was!!!
It was so definitive for us Gen X'rs.
every generation says the same thing
There’s just something about that chorus and those harmonies that are hauntingly beautiful. One of my all time favorite tunes right here. Toad is so underrated of a band.
Yup
Definitely
True they were underrated but should have lasted a lot longer
Toad as a band were always so casual and friendly no Rockstar attitude
I completely agree with you!
I was in Greece with my girlfriend who was an incredible person, and I heard this song for the first time, and loved it ever since. great memories.
When this song came out; I walked in the jungles of war. If it weren’t for this song I wouldn’t be here. Driving me on to get home. Thank you
Thank you!!
thank you for your service❤
Thank you for your service 🙏🏾
I was so fortunate to live by the Pacific Ocean for 5 years. The ocean has a way to make you feel small and open your eyes up that you are just one niche in Gods ultimate plan
We are a mote in God's eye
But a very important and significant niche to God, who loves you very much. John 3:16.❤
It's 2024 and we all have scars. Live well my friends.
Needed this statement
This is one of my favs from the lads down under. It is a "Healing Song". Cool video too.
yes my friends we are still here 🙏🏽🍻
Just TURNED 47 this last June.
Went High School (91-95.)
*I left part of my soUL in the Early-mid 1990s, I've yet to get back.
I grew up listening to this song but only recently did it truly become so special to me. I went to Ireland and booked a tour by myself to visit the Giant’s Causeway up in Northern Ireland. I sat near this girl on the bus from Dublin who also came alone, she was from London and I America. The lyrics almost perfectly depict our situation. Once we reached the Causeway we spotted the ocean and walked among the ancient volcanic stones together. Laughed, told stories, shared our different experiences. We hiked to the edge of the cliffs and just stood in awe. After about an hour we got back onto the bus and began the long journey home in our respective seats. We finally arrived back in Dublin and as we got off the bus we quickly bid each other farewell and wished each other luck in the rest of our lives. Later I tried to search her up on social media to no avail as I’d only gotten her first name and we took no pictures together. Now when I hear this song I think of her and how eerily it encapsulates that day. We both wrote our names on the fence at the end of the cliffs. Hope you’re doing well Maude.
I’ve been there myself. It’s a special place. Hold onto those experienced and the memories they give. They are presented for a reason. At least I believe so.
Jesus Christ this song is pushing 30 frigging years old. I remember my brother buying this album for me when It came out, I was in 9th grade. It's so cliche to say but it really does feel like only yesterday. How is that? You blink and 30 years go by. I try to explain this to my teenage children, try to make them slow down, stop rushing life. You just can't understand it until its gone.
Chris day so true
Yes indeedy
That has been the lament for ever...listen to your parents..They said this. They listened to their parents...they said this...and a guy almost two and a half thousand years ago said "Life is short and Art long; the opportunity fleeting, experience deceitful, and judgment difficult" (Socrates: 470-399 BCE)
I actually DID try to understand it when I was younger. I tried to pay attention to everything going on with me and around me. And you know what? It still flew by in a flash.
Whatever you do...Dont Blink again! trust me, even if you were born like me. a person who appreciated being young and didn't ever want to grow up... the second half goes by way faster!
My wife and I have been married for 19 years, and this is our song.
Thank you guys!!!
OMG, I woke up the other day and this was in my head and I was like WTH, I have not heard this in years. I had to hear it again for real.
I woke up w this song in my head. I dont know why this is so powerful today but i feel the need to say that Jesus loves us so much. All we have to do is have faith. Faith to walk on water.❤
You are Highly Favored...
Amen🙌
This song brings me back to being a kid in the 90s. Such bittersweet memories. Little did I know how much I'd miss them. Takes me back in time to when I'd go on trips w.my dad. Need to do that again soon 🙏💜
suffering through major depression; song like this really help out sometimes.
Most of the Western world is on the same boat.
Sea Shanties can help too! There are some great compilations here on TH-cam :)
You are not alone toadies help us all💖 stay strong please much love sent you're way...
Idk, Dulcinea about murders me every time I listen to it when I'm down...
Hang in there Jason Wilder. Thinking of you in 2022. Wherever you are out there.
I met my ex-husband in February 1990, married him in November 1991 at 20, divorced in December 2018. Most days I’m over it and am fine, then a song like this brings those early years back in an almost visceral manner. I think it’s not just the heartbreak, but the passage of time, too.
Ok why’d you divorce him then…. Always want the ultimate without understanding it’s not there
I can relate 😔
Let’s be honest - best and by far at that time, and an all time great.
This isn't a song. It's a memory, set to the internal beat of our personal time. It invokes that memory a bit stronger every time you hear it. Listen, and see what memories within you it pulls out.
yup
CHANTAYINSTRUMENTALSONGBETCHALLNEVERFIND
Goddamn, son. I thought I had a way with words, but you encapsulated my feelings about this song better than I ever could have.
Well done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 with the comment. I feel the same way.
snidelywhiplash I know, right?
I often hear comments about how the 80's was the last decade of really good music. What so many people forget is that there was a slew of excellent music from the early 90's that somehow got lost in the craziness that was the late 90's when our lives changed forever because of this thing called the Internet. Then 9/11 really changed things forever. From about 90 to 95, I was in audio heaven because of groups like Toad the Wet Sprocket, the Gin Blossoms, 10,000 Maniacs, R.E.M., the Indigo Girls... This song is an excellent example of what treasures the early 90's gave us.
100% agreed!!!
I've often had the same debate with people, about when things hypothetically 'dropped off' with regard to great pop/rock music, and I think the truth lies closer to it slowly fading off over several years.
As Mozzer said back in '87.... "The ashes of pop music are all around us if we will but see them."
I agree in the sense that we could already see it was beginning to turn in on itself by the mid-late 80s, and nothing much new or groundbreaking was going on as there are (obviously) only so many chord/melodic structures and interesting lyrical topics to write about before it gets stale.
So, although there wasn't a lot of boundary pushing going on, I think you're dead right in suggesting that there was still some fantastic music being written throughout the early-mid 90s.... and a lot coming from U.S bands at that.
lol 80's
I think what I miss most is just the lost art of songwriting. The 90's brought SO many talented singer/songwriters to us. These days, radio plays the same generic formula over and over. It sells. So, they keep making the same song. How I miss hearing a song and being moved by the words. The first two Counting Crows albums blew my mind, Alanis, Tori... People with something to say. They definitely inspired me to write songs very early on. I still play the Indigo Girls first album all the time. Such smart people with incredible harmony. Blood and Fire! OOF!
@@ambertorres1411 Totally agree!
toad the wet sprocket is a very underrated band, and their album fear is the most underrated album of the 90s. it's a shame these guys don't get the credit they deserve.
I'm goin to them this summer!
+mitcheltheman13 You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
+AksilChabul uh, I know what it means. it means that it gets underestimated and viewed as being less important and valuable than it really is. this band is definitely that. back when this song and their album came out in 1991, the year alternative rock and metal made its mainstream breakthrough, almost everyone overlooked them because they were always talking about nirvana, pearl jam, metallica, rhcp, soundgarden, and alice in chains. This band was hardly mentioned during that time, and not many people talk about them to this day. so yeah. they're definitely underrated, because not many people realize how good this band is.
I agree. Their name was part to blame for that sadly.
Princess Bride
I so love this song but for whatever reason it makes me sad.Their song All I Want is awesome it has that sad feeling too.I'm 63
Can't listen to this song without breaking out in tears. I lost my dad a couple months back and we used to listen to this song driving around in his jeep Cherokee. I try not to beat myself up but it's hard cause the night before he passed he asked me to hang out with him and the rest of my family and I decided to play video games with my friends instead. So now I'm here and I'm gonna listen to this song over and over again until I have no more tears to cry.
I blamed myself for years when I had the thought to go check on my Dad because he was in the garage late at night past his bed time, but I reassured myself everything was probably fine. I found him hanging in the garage the next morning.
I felt like if I was there it would have made a difference and I would still have my best friend. I don't think he knew he was my best friend.
You can't undo what's done, so no use to make yourself feel miserable. Besides, your Dad would would want you to be happy--not sad. He would want you to remember the times you did have together, not the moments apart. You didn't purposely not say goodbye. But, I get it, you miss your Dad. It will take awhile. Give yourself some time.
Frosty Bud
I lost my father in 2017 to Parkinson’s Disease. He died as I was transitioning out of the Army. I wish I could have been by his side.
Frosty Bud my song for my dad was long December
@@Gr13fKvlt I lost my dad to diabetes. My grandpa had Parkinsons but it was the alzeihmers that took him.
@@taniavisca5552 counting crows, thats awesome. My dad really liked mr jones
I was about 18 when this song came out. I'm 46 now and the lyrics mean so much more now than they did then.
Maybe you were younger , this came out in 91 so you if you are 46 you were younger.
@@bengarrido638 I didn't hear it until after their 94 album. I guess I wasn't listening to enough radio before then.
I was 12-13 in 1991 and now 44, still listening this and a lot others today and teaching my 9y daughter what's the good music.
@@bengarrido638 Most people came to know this song and the band after the alternative radio explosion in 1993-94. I know I did.
Same
reminds me of when my mom used to sing, she was terribly out of tune (she was mostly deaf), but she was so happy. i would give everything to hear her sing once again❤️
Don't think this is meant to be a sad song, but I cry whenever I hear it 😢
I was homeless when this came out this song kept. Me alive
I've been to shelters myself glad you're not homeless now I live in a hotel praise God and Jesus that you're alive
I really do hope your life is better now.
I am happy you are doing well
as I was. I lived by the ocean too, the peaceful scene and we survived
@@mikegonzales150 wow..sorry for your past troubles..
Can happen to anyone
Such a timeless classic.
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One of my favorite bands from early / mid 90's. Timeless
This is one of those examples of how a great bass player can make a song. It wouldn't be the same without that bass line weaving through this.
It chokes me up that the world/human race is still sentimental. Everyone’s stories here are beautiful.
The nostalgia is so deep i could nearly weep
I know I could, miss the 90’s like crazy
I wept like a baby drinking my 6th Live Oak Hefeweizen
Yes, it is..
I couldn't agree more.
I am from India... a 3rd world country.... I feel exactly the same. And now you know two things -
1) You are not alone.
2) You are dead right.
This band is crazy underrated!! They're sooo freakin good. Would love to see them live
I agree - I have often wondered if they would have been more successful if they had chosen a different name for the band. My favorite group of the 1990s - hands down.
@@markbryant4932 Lol, I agree (about their name, & that they were awesome). Back when "All I Want" first came out, they'd play the song on the radio *alot* but of course _never_ told the group's name, so one day I called the radio station, told them some of the lyrics of the song, and he told me "That's Toad the Wet Sprocket." I was like, "um..... *_who??????_* He told me I wasn't the first one to react that way when hearing the name of the group, lol.
Indianapolis July 2nd
Caught them with Gin Blossoms in 1992 at the LA Palladium. It was incredible!
Saw them a few years ago playing at a local brewery, was mind blown that they were playing there, T shirt signed by 3 of them ...
As someone who lives in Washington, near the San Juan Islands, it makes me feel so good to know this song was inspired by our lovely state.
Did not know that. I'm just across the line in BC's Southern Gulf Islands. Same-same, but different.
Freshman year of college I discovered Toad in 1991. Was blown away.
As a young man I always went tired of older people memorizing moments in combination with songs from that time. Now I understand, because this is one of the songs that gave me hope in the struggles of youth and family issues. This song gave me a feeling of freedom, hope and to not give up. Now as I am older it gives me the same good feeling. Thanks Toaders.
I forgot how awesome this song is!!
"Don't even have pictures
Just memories to hold
Grow sweeter each season
As we slowly grow old"
Growing up before iPhone when you just had moments with people that come and go through your life, they have their memories, and you have yours.
TtWS is actually criminally underrated.
I listened some of their other songs, but none are as good as this one
I was 12 when this came out. I can't believe it's been that long. I could cry.
I always heard this song in highschool. To this day when I listen, it brings some kind of peace to get through the darkest times. It's certainly a hauntingly, beautiful song.
I am 50 years old. I remember this song for the first time, sitting in my barracks room at Ft. Bragg, NC. I was in the 82 Airborne Division. I remember watching this for the first time on 120 Minutes. I went to Camelot the next day, bought the cassette tape, and blasted it in my new Ford Ranger and driving back home for XMAS in Florida to see my parents. I was only 20 years old. Such great memories of friends that have moved on. Driving through my old neighborhood and the schools I went to since I was a child. These songs are not just old songs, but old memories that I love to visit at night alone. Reminds me of my roomates in the Army, jumping out of planes, and the nostalgia of slowly growing up in the military.
Thank you for your service.
My heart nearly burst when I read that you were at Fort Bragg and 82 Airborne and your age. I hadn't read your name until after I'd read that much of what you'd written. For a second, a glimmer of hope shined for me. A young man I knew back then, a lifetime ago, was at Fort Bragg and 82 Airborne. It would seem around the same time as you were. We parted ways probably 30 years ago and I've waited all this time for him to come back. He said he would. I still have his "blood wings". In my mind I think I'd like to give them back to him if nothing else, but in my heart maybe I would just keep them for what is left of my life and keep on dreaming. Brian James Anderson is his name. (No relation between us. Just a cute coincidence.) Anyway, I just thought I had to say something. I wonder if you knew Brian?
@@heatheranderson6403 Good morning. Sadly, I don't remember that name. I remember lots of people that I have served with. I think maybe only 5 I really keep in touch with. I was only 18 when I joined the Army. I wanted to jump out of planes, and that extra money a month was a lot to a 18-19 year old. I got to Fort Bragg in August of 1992. It seem like a lifetime ago, all the memories. I think those year I was stationed there were the best of my life. Having different roomates come and go. I served a total of 11 years.
So many stories and I was just 11, 12, 13 years old. Know nothing of life. Now I am 41 and through these songs I can travel to times where I was just innocent. Only music can give me this. So good!
I hear ya! I'm 46 this year and I remember playing this in several bars/pubs during the 90s as a lead singer along with all those 90s tunes! Modern music is mostly hurting compared to then.
This is a beautiful song.
Talented musicians.
Forever classic. 💗
I'm so glad I got to see Toad The Wet Sprocket this past summer. When they played this song, I turned into a sobbing mess.
Thanks for mentioning it. I just bought tickets to see them this summer. That experience never would have happened in my life if you hadn’t left that comment.
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I love this song since is was released. Thank God for these little big melodies that fulfill our hearts. It's one of those songs that we have like in a box of songs that connect directly to our souls. Thank you, Toad The Wet Sprocket!!!!
Somebody told me, this is the place.Where everything’s better and everything’s safe❤️
I discovered this band about 4 years ago, I found their cd album Dulcena in a dumpster when I was walking in a park, and it made me listen to them ever since. I'm only 17 yrs old and I am grateful for that moment!
The 90's were awesome
A sad comment on whoever discarded it.
Written in their twenties but of wisdom of someone who is lived a full life.
That summer of first love, summer 92. This song. Standing outside by my car when I didn't want to go home. I always thought "someday" I would see you again, but I learned that you passed away last year.
In memory of a friend of mine who passed this September. She loved this song and we sung and played it together on guitar.
I’m truly sorry for your loss. I hope when you hear this song it will make you smile when you think of her.
@@TanukiSC Thanks. I finally loaded up a recording of our little cover version, here. th-cam.com/video/RlUPPnKe68k/w-d-xo.html
@@cnaiv5 just listened to it. appreciate you sharing it. I kept thinking about the part that says this is the place where everything’s better and everything’s safe and hoping your friend has found that place. you really honor her memory.
@@TanukiSC Thanks for your kind words.
My dear 90's, I was 17 years old in 1991, I do not regret having done everything I did, and mom, you were still with me and I miss you when listening to this song again.
In the late 90s I was in boot camp in the Marine Corps on the South Carolina coast. There was a short stretch where we were marching through the woods and popped out along the beach and it was exceptionally beautiful, peaceful and serene, an amazing change from the extreme misery. This song instantly popped into my head, and to this day, no matter how rough things might be in my life at the moment, I can put this song on and instantly find peace. Toad the Wet Sprocket, thank you for such a lasting positive influence!
Hollywood Marine
I lost my husband 9 months ago. This song takes me back
This song is perfect. Love in the 90s
Well said, the best 90s song.
This song is incredible, specific, and always brings me back to a tiny 6 week period of my life at the age of 17.
Who's listening, in 2020!!!, and NOW..."2021"!!!, Getting ready for 2022!!!❤
Who knows!
ME!
Me. I use to have this (cassette) tape.
🙋
You and me
I’m a combat veteran with severe depression and PTSD. Trump’s second election feels traumatic. The only thing keeping me above water is listening to this and “All I Want” at least five times a day.
I was 7 when this song was released in 1991. I remember liking it but forgot about it as the years passed. I rediscovered this song 17 years later in the summer of 2008. At that time, I just started my career as a nurse. I was excited for the future but was anxious and lacked confidence around patients. It was during that time that I met Pam. We were both new nurses working on the same floor. We connected instantly and developed a close friendship. I must have played this song on repeat a thousand times that summer. Pam unfortunately passed away in March of 2019. I still listen to this song today; it transports me back to 2008 - the beginning of a career and a lifelong friendship. ❤️
Don't even have pictures
Just memories to hold
Grow sweeter each season
As we slowly grow old
My son asked me to listen.. we often share music... The lyrics are profound... the group is way cool.. I've already played it three times and have now stashed it in my Son folder...Music bonds many family relationships.. He's a damn good man...Couldn't be more proud.
This song reminds me of a much simpler time in my life. A beautiful day and happiness abound. I'll never forget that feeling
UH Fall semester 1992, alone, new city, new university, excited and afraid all at once, and for some reason I clearly recall this track playing in the dorm cafeteria. Never thought much of it, but decades later, the nostalgia just hits me.
Please don't take this as an insult but this is my dog's favorite song. I really enjoy it as well. Dogs are not stupid. It is funny, when I play it for her she jumps on the sofa with me and gives me that "I love you look". As soon as the song ends, She starts badgering me to play it again- when I do, she lays back down with a smile and gives me that "I love you" look again. Dogs know great songs when they hear them. I know you wrote this song years ago, but to my Dog and I it is still beautiful. Thank you.
That's awesome. 😄💗
@@starshake8998 A good life boils down to memorable moments with loved ones, nothing else matters. This song reminds me of that. Maybe my Dog is a genius.
That has me smiling big time, thanks
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Umm..I sing this to my cat lol.. I've loved this song for 20 plus years. She starts acting crazy and comes and gets in my face while I sing it to her lol. She's a only touch and love me when I say to and then don't even think about doing it for too long type of cat lmao so I love it when she comes and sits on my lap and boops my head when she hears this..
THIS IA A BAND THAT SHOULD BE INDUCTED IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, THE BEST BAND OF THE NINETIES BY FAR..
This isn't merely a song, but rather a conduit to a less confusing and troubled time. A time before many of us really experienced personal loss. How could we have possibly known of the storms that lay ahead? Thankfully, we all have music like this to take refuge in. Cheers!
So TRUE!!
I had youth. I had my parents. I had my life ahead.
Top musica
beautifully written
@@AatishThakurArtz Thank you sir.
Awww man this got me tonight. Great damn song💜 11/18/2024 💜 I just got out of the hospital 3 days ago and still have a long way to go. I'm going to definitely be listening to this. 💜
I moved to Spokane, Wa. in1991 to finish my externship for my degree in Radiology . This song is so ingrained in my heart from that time every time I hear it, all those memories come flooding back! So touching!
Takes me back to the time when my late wife and our first born walking on Folly Beach, SC. looking at the light house there. Wish I had taking more pictures of those days. Such a wonderful time in my life.
I live about 20 Mins from Folly. Ain't it something how music is like a time machine? I can even remember smells and what the sun felt like. As I've gotten older.. this song has meant so much more to me.I miss the 90s.. My youth.. and the people that I've lost along the way. But this song brings me right back to them somehow.❤
@sarahwalters4428 Yes I do miss the 80's and 90's, I still go out to Folly to just look at the lighthouse when I can. Hard to do in the Summer cause it so crowded there and traffic is a nightmare.
@angelohughes6879 omg THE TRAFFIC!! It's absolutely inane.. like Christmas traffic but all THE time. I live in summervile so traffic is like 6 nightmares with holiday traffic sprinkled in lol.
@sarahwalters4428 Oh yeah I know, I used to love going to Summerville back in the 80's and early 90's. Today I just deal with it. I go there for my doctor or go to the YMCA. But miss the way it used to be.
I once asked my wife to make sure this song was played at my funeral. Thought we’d be together until the end. After 6.5 years together and 5.5 years of marriage she packed up and moved out with the help of her brother today 12/24/19. Merry Christmas everyone. I’ll shoulder this hoping no one will ever experience this on Christmas Eve again.
Johnathan Bancroft sorry that happened to you brother. Just live your life to the fullest. If you know your heart is pure with genuine love it’s her lost at the end of the day. Happy holidays
Hi Johnathan. Boy, I know exactly what you are experiencing, same thing for me. Tough road ahead but got to keep the hope. Stay strong.
Sorry that your wife did that to you. Especially so close to Christmas.
I remember being a teen and hearing All I Want. In 98 before turning 18 I got the album. Soon as I heard this I thought of my parents timeshare at OBX. I think this is their best song and it's beautiful
I don’t know why but the solo part at 1:51 always makes me wanna cry, those notes just Bring something out of me!
Deceptive simplicity, for sure!
I worked freight at a local home depot while in college. I remember stocking the garden center and this song would come on around 3 am. While the memories weren't fun, this song takes me back. For some reason I always loved when this song came on. That was only 3-4 years ago, but it feels like an eternity.
Dang reminds me of when I was just 16. Now I'm 41. All of us gen X are getting old.
Hahahah. 47!
Yup... these guys, Gin Blossoms, Counting Crows, all the soundtrack of my youth amd still my dominant playlist.
42 Generation X can't never get old 😉 We are forever young
remember I broke my left arm in 1991. I was 3 years old but I remember it clear as day. My grandma asked me if I could get up on a chair and reach to turn off the radio. She was an elderly woman in her late 80s and couldn’t do it. I got up on the chair, the chair tilted back and I landed on my arm with all my weight. Come to think of it, this is the song that was playing on the radio at the time of the accident. I’m 100% certain of this. I think I must have a very photogenic memory because now that I think hard about it, the sound of it sounds just like it. Like having déjà vu all over again. My god.... has time gone by so fast?. I just turned 33 this month of December and it feels like that event at age 3 doesn’t fully demostraste 30 damn years transpired. I was listening to 90s rock and this son popped up as suggested 😆 well, life sure is full of nice surprises, innit?. Sadly, my grandma passed away 2 years later in 1993 because of a brain tumor.
I know 😂😭😭😭😭
It's so bittersweet hearing this, I was very happy back when this came out. Now, divorced,kids grown,lonely, just sentimental for sure.Yet I am glad to have these precious
memories;).
This song is so good you feel it in your bones!! I’m almost 34 now and can enjoy it again everyday after being such an older
Song.
It's November 10th 2024, right now. Let's walk on the ocean together and see what we can find.
Mom’s passing / weak from cancer and this made my heart open and cry. Reminds me of my teenager years and just how the transition from full of life to her illness happened. Being near the Ocean does help heal and I feel like song “flesh becomes water” well …. It resonates …
Just added this to a Spotify Playlist I am sharing with my daughter as she returns to college... definitely something to be shared with the young...