The Killers - Quiet Town
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Lyrics:
A couple of kids got hit by a Union Pacific train
Carrying sheet metal and household appliances
Through the pouring rain
They were planning on getting married
After graduation
Had a little baby girl
Trouble came and shut it down
Things like that ain’t supposed to happen
In this quiet town
Families are tight
Good people
They still don’t deadbolt their doors at night
In this quiet town
When we first heard opioid stories
They were always in whispering tones
Now banners of sorrow
Mark the front steps of childhood homes
Parents wept through daddy’s girl eulogies
And merit badge milestones
With their daughters and sons
Laying there lifeless in their suits and gowns
Somebody’s been keepin’ secrets
In this quiet town
They know how to live
Good people who lean on Jesus
They’re quick to forgive
In this quiet town
Now whenever I’m near the town
I’ll find some reason to give
And I will walk with the dead and the living
Where I used to live
And every time I see my parents
In the prime of their lives
Offering their son
The kind of love he could never put down
Well part of me is still that stainless kid
Lucky
In this quiet town
Salt of the land
Hard-working people
If you’re in trouble
They’ll lend you a hand
Here in this quiet town
The first crop of hay is up
School let out
And the sun beats down
Smoke billows from a Sunday train
That cries away from a quiet town
Music video by The Killers performing Quiet Town. © 2021 The Killers, under exclusive license to Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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I know Tiffany’s brother. He said their family sat down to listen to the song and cried the whole time. He said he didn’t think so much of the song would actually be about her, at first he thought just a quick line referencing it. Their mom still can’t bring herself to listen to it. Really nice family.
Hi, can you please explain how these accidents came to happen?
@@geoborgreece sounds like the first lyrics describes the collision. Wet rain and a train. For primary collision factor (speed, turning movement or fail to stop) I don’t know
Thanks for sharing
@@geoborgreece I don’t really know about the second couple but Tiffany and her boyfriend got pregnant in high school and planned to get married once they graduated. 6 months later they were driving late at night and got hit by a train and died.
@@scarlettrussell1977 wasn’t late at night. It’s was on school lunch break. 12:15 pm. They had the radio on or something at least that’s what the cops said. Small towns don’t have railway arms that block the road so you have to watch the lights and listen for the trains whistle.
It’s insane how under rated this song is.
not by you or I @maroku007
holy god, the youtube comments section ‘underrated’ fetish/pathology simply will not be denied. what causes this psychologically?
After all those years, the Springsteenzation of the Killers is finally complete.
Well said.
Just what I was thinking. I do miss the 80s inspired Hot Fuss days though.
Unfortunately all the way through. Sam’s Town (previously most compared work) had Springsteen threads but was still very unique in their own sound and lyrical context.
not sure if i like it
well is american music all Springsteen? They just returned to their root, actually discovered their roots cause they have neve done that, it was all inspired by british music, their begining... go listen to Oasis if you want that style again
I'm not from Nephi, but I'm from the next town down the highway. These songs could've been about any of these rural Utah towns. It's so cool to hear one of my favorite bands singing about where I grew up. This song and album feel like a personal gift.
I played high school baseball games in Nephi. If I wanted to go "up north", I would drive through Nephi and across those train tracks. It was the halfway point between college and home, where my brothers would generously fill up my car with gas as we headed back home from my mom's house.
"The first crop of hay is up, school let out and the sun beats down.
Smoke billows from a sunday train, that cries away from a quiet town."
I know what that hay smells like, and I know what those trains sound like.
I think this will resonate with a lot more people than we think, rural America will resonate to this deeply.
Well said Russ! Many memories for sure. I’ve crossed that train track so many times. I even fell asleep at the wheel and went down the ravine in the nephi hills. With my two little kids. We all survived miraculously. My heart goes out to the ones this song is about and anyone else who has lost a loved one. What a tragedy! I also love the killers. They were the first concert I ever attended. Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing this :)
This song makes me nostalgic for a place I've never been.
Parents weep through daddy’s girl eulogies and merit badge milestones/ with their daughters and sons lying there lifeless in their suits and gowns…..just as heartbreaking a lyric as I’ve ever heard. This album is a masterpiece. Thank you guys!
we live in such haunting times ~
Seriously. I first heard this song in my car and when I heard that lyric I literally had to pull off the road to compose myself. Such a powerful piece of music.
this song hits a parent in two ways: first, that brief yet deeply moving image about losing children to opioids - adult children, brandon's age, who were lost to addiction but for their parents they will always be in their hearts as daddy's girls and boy scouts
Isn't that how all parents think of their children when they're grown? But that's all they have left of them now.
And then at the end, he sings of walking with the living and the dead through a visit to his hometown, thinking of his parents raising him there
giving him the kind of love he could never put down (in words), and how part of him is still that stainless, lucky kid
So he can think of himself that way, too
Like those lifeless daddy's girls and merit badge earning boys surely once were, too. Stainless and loved, but not so lucky.
Just amazing well written.
That crushed my heart
Brandon Flowers and The Killers are one of those unique set ups that don't settle for a standard verse chorus verse chorus end. The songs have something different from beginning to end, whether its a coda, an extended chorus or something else, but you can't leave the song before it's done. And as for evolution, no other band has done it better, somehow sounding exactly as they did 20 years ago yet sounding so different with every album.
Falou tudo!
I don't know if I would've made it through college if it weren't for ITM and Pressure Machine. This band is literally what keeps me going everyday, I just can't express how much they've done for me. Got one more semester and I'll be home free all thanks to these guys.
Congrats and good luck!
You can do it! Almost there.
You hang in there and take care of business. You are strong and you got this! Music is everything to me. Has been since I was about 2 years old... my Daddy loved music and back in tha day we would cruise around listening to Changes ONE Bowie HOT ROCKS Rolling Stones and everything by George Thorogood... we also listen to an incredible singer song writer STEVE FORBERT... I am giving away my age but if I may recommend you check Steve Forbert... he kinda wrote the soundtrack to my childhood...
the killers is the only band that make me wonder who are the people on the song, where it happen, why he choose it, and them the whole album is about it, feels complete to me.
The Killers are one of the most consistent bands I've ever listened too.
Tantos años y seguimos aquí, adorando sus canciones.
Cuánta razón 🥰
son el soundtrack de mi vida. :')
acaba de comenzar ,que paza,no es los beatles
@@lenny632 Acaba de comenzar??
Ya we do❣️
This is one of the best songs ever written in the history of music!
The miracle of this song is that even though he/they obviously wrote it with Nephi in mind, it seriously takes me right back to the quiet town where I grew up. The verse about his parents hits straight to the heart. RIP, Dad.
Just hoping the Killers never grow old…their songs are just simply beautiful and inspirational. Listened to all their songs…12 years and counting 🔥 😃
"And I will walk with the dead and the living where I used to live". This line got me goosebumps. Remembering my passed mother and I feel grateful for what I had.
Quiet time for the humanity!!
The Killers love you!!!!
The killers mean so much. Nostalgic anthems of my youth. I really like this American roots (the boss influence) Feels right. It's needed. It's important. Thank you.
I'm not from Nephi, but I lived in Spanish Fork as a kid, which is another rural Utah town. This song fills me with nostialga for those simpler times, back before I had to worry about things
I didn't know this gent, but grew up in this same town. I know EXACTLY how he feels with the "small town" feel. I moved away, but family still lives there and I visit once in a while. Moved to another "Quiet Town" and wouldn't trade it for the world
What I love about the killers is they are inspired by so much music and appreciate it, and yet they are their own band and have a sound that isn't all the same. There are songs on every album that are amazing. Although I tend towards the more dance-y ones that challenge you to sit still while they play, for example, I can never ever tire of any mix of Mr. Brightside, this is a great song, and learning it's a true story, well, it's a great tribute to his town and the families, and many of us can relate to growing up planning your escape from your hometown only to be nostalgic looking back on how you grew up and the people you grew up with and how they influenced you.
The Killers do music that goes in all kinds of directions - yes, there's a Springsteen influence along the road, but also all kinds of other musical influences, most of which I also like and appreciate. Although I know most of us will gravitate to a sound that most appeals to us, I hate the idea that you can only like one genre of music and everything else is crap or that other idea that only a certain era is "good" and all new music "sucks" people can have when they get to a certain age - if that ever happens to me, that's my sign that I've lost my zest for life. I especially hate that idea that you're an original true fan and that anyone who didn't discover a particular band or sound as soon as you did is a poser or that any band that is influenced later by a sound is a a copycat and must be shunned - there's nothing more exciting than hearing a great musician for the first time no matter if they are brand new and you heard of them first, or they are from 50 years ago and you weren't alive when they came out. You miss out on so much fun, cool and just plain good music that way. Every so often a friend will mention liking such and such band and I wonder how that could be because I didn't like it, so I'll go back and have a listen only to discover they're right - So much of it is personal and what you connect with most at certain times in your life. Besides, I just don't get why Springsteen is so polarizing, he tells stories about American life that are pretty spot on and moving. Although his music wasn't the main music I listened to growing up, I never wanted to change the station when he came on, he tells good stories set to music - Good lyrics & good musical composition. Same for the Killers, they just tend to mix up their sound a lot more than other bands, but I don't think that's a bad thing - all of what they do seems authentic to the Killers as musicians, I think it keeps them interesting.
Anyway, thank goodness for TH-cam during the pandemic, I can't live without music --Love the history, the old, the new, the experimental - and you can find it on TH-cam (with video!) so you could feel kinda like you were going to a show when there weren't any shows...
This is such an unbelievably good song that recaptures so many feelings and what small town America is really like
the most beautiful song of all time. I listen to it 100 times a day
Gracias the killers 🙌🏻, Monterrey, los tacos "el primo" y yo los extrañamos. 🇲🇽
The Killers are super great, thanks for keeping up the hard work and writing great super great songs. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is waiting on y'all.
This is one of the best songs I have heard in years.
Melhor banda de rock da atualidade, não canso de dizer, não canso de escutar e de contemplar! Obrigada por tanta arte, garotos! The Killers já faz parte da minha vida ❤️ Saudações do Brasil, a todos os meus amigos nordestinos, a todos os meus amigos latino-americanos 🥰
Que alegria encontrar seu comentário aqui! Amo The Killers desde a primeira ouvida. Beijos da Bahia 😘💓
Kkkkkkkk os cara não podem vir uma mina comentando que já ativam o modo gado
@@thetechfilesoficial que bacana!! Também sou de Fortaleza com muito orgulho haha! (:
@@notsoproudmary beijos 🤗😘
Nossa que legal,sou nordestino e amo The killers tbm♥️, parabéns pelo seu bom gosto musical
The evolution of their catalog is incredible. What a great song 👏👏👏
I don't know how that works but listening to this track makes me wanna do good to people!
Can't be bad can it😁
It's honest and pure music
It's because there is so much kindness in his storytelling.
Thoughts upon first listening:
These are my people. I understand the mindset, the culture. I'm in tears.
Every lyric is written on the clay tablets of my heart from my own life lived. This song echoes familiarity.
"Hard working people, if you're in trouble, they'll lend you a hand." I brought that with me to every place I've lived and have been surprised at times to find it is not part of the cultural fabric of all other cities and towns. I have sorely missed casseroles passed over fences and people figuring out how to help a troubled neighbor get through a tough time. "They know how to live. Good people who lean on Jesus , they're quick to forgive." Seeing the good in others, doing your best to do your best in all the places of your life, remembering there is more to this life than only this life. Forgiving so quickly you'll be called foolish by the rest of the world. You're not naïve, because you have felt the heat of the refiner's fire.
Even so, there is a dark side to those places and those people hold their troubles deep inside, with the stain of shame. "Somebody's been keeping secrets". So many secrets, the shame that demands the secrets be hidden and preserved is an inherent weakness in Quiet Town.
"And I will walk with the dead and the living" Our dead are among us. *Our dead are never dead, until we have forgotten them*. That belief is at the nucleus of the faith that moves the feet of those who walk in Quiet Town.
Beautiful experience, this song. Nostalgia, and my long held memories swirling around me. Thank you for this song.
***
The letter on the hill made me smile... because that's a familiar sight in these small towns :)
And
That first audio story clip ... the train is a way out of this life. Train going nowhere. One way train. Train outta town. Sometimes being from Quiet Town, you feel like you've got to get out, away. But a small part of you will ache for it for the rest of your life.
ETA: those fireworks at the end, that's a celebration on July 24 :)
Hey Lotus what is that letter on the mountain, can't make it out?
@@anthonybreakey9437 It’s a “J” for Juab county
@@Mamahendu3 Thanks Kara, I thought maybe it was one of the train victims initials. Appreciate you clearing that up.
@@anthonybreakey9437 I'm not from Juab county, but it's not uncommon in Idaho and Utah to put initials on those high desert hills representing the town, county, or local high school/town college :)
Beautifully written and so heart-wrenching, from one small, quiet towner to another. I know what they mean when they say, “you can never truly go home.”
I'm from a small town in Texas and I feel this so much. I lost a friend in highschool. Not to a train but to an overdose on pills... The other topic in this song. So for me it's a double punch talking about loss and drug issues in rural towns. I mean
"They still don't deadbolt their doors at night" is 100% the town I went to highschool in. And this album made me both reconsider my experience in my Small Town and take a drive to leave flowers on my friend's grave
I am from the Northwoods Inn upper most Wisconsin I haven’t taken the keys out of my car in the 20 years I’ve lived here can relate My kids went to the same schools as all their friends all the way through till high school and I have to say I wouldn’t trade it for the world nor will I leave
The killers are right in there element since they've been on the 80s train forever ⚡🎸😎
The Killers and The Strokes.. The 2 bands that I can't ever get enough listening to, and never disappoint in deliver great music 🎸🔥🤘🏻
They’re my two favourite bands too !! I just wonder what could happen if they collaborated.. greatness of music would happen.
LO AME , DIOS .
SON TAN BUENOS EN ESTO , THE KILLERS BEST BANDA DE ROCK .
Casi, pero los Foo's tienen la corona
@@ramonosorno8319 q decía, yo estoy hablando de the killers , si no piensa lo mismo, mejor no conteste mi comentario,,
@@brigitte4477 esto ya ni es rock xd
@@itslazypunk6793 el rock viene en muchas formas, no solo en guitarras distorsionadas, ya ves a Moderatto.xd
Crying eyes out “my parents in the prime of their life, offering their son the kind of love i can never put down.”
If "Imploding the Mirage" was masterpiece, then "Pressure Machine" is masterpiece vol.2
GREAT LP.
No hay otra cosa melodiosa en la faz de la tierra que no sea la música de The Killers.
Los amo y gracias por deleitarnos y crear esas experiencias de vida a travez de su música.
Un fuerte y cálido abrazo desde Guatemala. 🇬🇹
❤🇬🇹
Que feliz me siento de saber que habemos guatemaltecos que no hemos caído en las garras de la música "Urbana" 🇬🇹 💙🤍💙
@@la26841 comparto mucho tu comentario, gracias por ello. Siempre he esperado encontrar fans de the killers para compartir al respecto y me da tanto gusto poder encontrarles aquí. Espero podamos tener la oportunidad de coincidir y compartir en esta vida oyendo estas hermosas melodías.
🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹
It has been a long time since i have told anyone, "you need to listen to this album." (And not the abridged version.) Was not expecting what i got on first listen, and didn't know how much i needed an album like this until i heard it. Great concept and well done.
Loving the vibe of the already released samples and this song. So happy for new music from my favorite band!!!
A beautiful song.
Bell'album pieno di sonorità springstiane
No tengo palabras. Parecía una canción de notable, pero cuando ha entrado la harmónica, se me ha encogido algo dentro. Brutal como hacen viajar desde el sofa, pura magia.
Veo puros comentarios en español. Me alegra mucho ver gente latinoamericana apoyando a la banda! Esperamos pronto su regreso al escenario en nuestras tierras 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽
when this album first came out I wasn't a big fan, so I never really gave it much of a listen aside from In The Car Outside. Fast forward to now, a year later, and I can't explain why but it has seriously grown on me. The more I relisten to it the more I want to break down crying
This song is an ode to how tragedies affect you when you are from a small town where “everybody knows everybody.” I’m from a small midwestern town. In my freshman yearbook I still keep the memorial pamphlet for a boy who died the summer before his senior year. His motorcycle collided with a semi. I didn’t know him personally but knew several people who knew him. Every so often, I think about him. Listening to this song makes me homesick in a beautiful way.
Long live the killers,ive seen them recently in dublin for the 2nd time and what great musicians they are and Brandon at the front,a great song this.
Es increíble, simplemente hermoso.
Greetings from Bolivia.
I was a little kid in that town and remember the funeral. Such a sad day and their little girl was so cute. Everyone's hearts ached for the couple that passed away. Wow this is really hitting hard bringing back memories of multiple people i knew that passed away on the train tracks.
I don't know if it is inappropriate to ask, but how did so many kids get hit by trains in this town? Some type of mechanical failure or..?
@@MoahGentle that's a great question.. I'm really not sure nor do i think anyone is. I think the album addresses part of it. The other half might be the location of the crossing near Burraston Ponds between Mona and Nephi, substances, and certain social trends that are unique to SMALL quiet towns when kids are bored. I really don't know.. Each situation is different and I'd hate to assume anything. The amount of young deaths seems to be disproportionately large for the population in that area. One thing that hits home on the record is the west hills/mountains near by where some classmates passed away in some freak accidents. The list of accidents that cause death or life long injury is just unusually large for a place that small.
@@matta.4816 this reminds me of Derry from IT
@@MoahGentle because people are IDIOTS. You can't get hot by a train unless you trespass on railroad property or try to beat the trains at a crossing. A train doesn't just come off the tracks hit you then keep going
En momentos tan difíciles, siempre llegan con buena música, gracias.
This whole album is absolutely gorgeous, I am so close to getting out of my small town with no opportunity for the youth. I finally found an opportunity out of my town without sacrificing my body, mind and spirit. I hate this town but even I know this is where I was raised and I want to comeback and revitalize it so the youth will have a easier time living and no one will get left behind. I have always enjoyed these heartfelt lyrics from music and the Killers, which makes sense, looking back on how Battle Born was the first album I ever listened to.
I think Brandon, whatever goal he was trying to achieve with this album, he did it.
So much Bruce in this album, it’s my favorite influence heard in Killers lyrics and music.
Вот это подарок в пятницу тринадцатого))))) Аж настроение поднялось. Спасибо Вам ребят и творите дальше❤️
God I fucking love this band. I’ve been listening to you guys since I was 5 (I’m almost 17 now). You guys are amazing, never stop doing what you’re doing. Please.
Maybe it's the animation, something about this song is reminding me of Christmas in L.A.
seriously wild that this is about my home town
The harmonica is really pleasant...
OMG! Quiero el álbum yaaaaaaa! ♡
Esse álbum está impecável, que trabalho incrível! Chorei assistindo ao clipe, valeu a pena esperar. Minha banda favorita! Obrigada por essa obra de arte 🖤🖤🇧🇷
E essa música tira lágrimas cada vez que ouço. Toca a alma da gente. Desde 2008, quando os “descobri”, eles têm feito a trilha sonora da minha vida. Dificilmente ouço outra coisa; todos os dias eles se fazem presentes no meu dia. E que bom que é ter uma banda que envelhece e amadurece conosco. Uma dádiva e um presente permanente! Poucas pessoas têm essa sorte 🙌🏼❤️😎🇧🇷…
Just beautifully done 👌🏼
Beautiful song Greif is so very devastating This Song has Helped me 🙏
I love this Song!
Los amo tanto ❤️ ni siquiera termino de escuchar la canción y ya me encanta
im not crying you're crying
The killers nunca decepciona! 👏👏👏👏
Saw them in concert last week. This song needs to be on their setlist!
Reading all the comments on here I'd say I'm not the only Latin American to love this band.
Such a good song!!! Congrats guys!! You did it again ♥️♥️♥️
I was looking forward to this and finally the best thing that could have happened to me came out :)
El nuevo disco , lo escuche a las 5 am, camino al trabajo por un carretera, la sensacion no se puede describir, grande the killers . Saludos desde chile.
This album is so good , keep repeating it everyday. My favorites are sleepwalker, in another life, pressure machine, quiet town and terrible thing.
From my point of view, this album is their best one yet. It really touches my heart.
Listening to new Killers songs is like opening Christmas presents.
Necesitaba escuchar algo tan único como lo hacen ustedes, amo tanto su música , sus letras increíbles e inspiradoras. 🥰💜🎶
Perfect 🤩❤️❤️
Absolutely gorgeous. What a beautiful tribute to the sorrow and beauty that exists there.
I recently drove through Nephi and had no clue about BF being from their. So weird but I'm happy I to have found out through this song.
Eu amo com toda força está banda, esta música, e todas as outras, gratidão por tudo que produziram até hj, amo vcs de alma!
The Boss should cover this...
I once heard something that described the Killers perfectly. They used to be a guitar band with some synth. Now they're a synth band with some guitar. Pressure Machine flips that upside down. I don't think I've heard synth anywhere on the album, and you know what? I don't mind. Especially if you don't mind.
The start of this song has a rhythmic synth line??
@@darrenbrown8877 ok, yes you got me. But the rest of the album has very little synth
Love this band.... Portugal 🇵🇹🇵🇹🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Been a fan of the killers since I was old enough to listen to music. Have several CDs in my car I jam out too. Their music continues to get better and better!
Dec. 30 2022 3:30am I got a call from the ER Lewisville TX... they said my daddy was there. It was a 30 minute drive. QUIET TOWN came on the radio & I replayed it over and over. Just fell in love with the song. When I arrived, I was lead to a "Quiet Room" & was told my daddy was dead. He was hit from behind by an 18 wheeler going 80mph. This song was the last song I heard before my daddy was gone forever. It makes me happy and the same time it makes me cry like a baby.
I'm so sorry for your loss. This song will always be a touchstone for you.
@@yogifromflorida Thank you for your kindness... and yes that song will always bring me to that moment. Oddly enough, when my grandma passed in 2006, the song I played The Killers "All These Things I've Done" over & over driving to the airport.
I am really sorry for your loss too.
It is always a sad thing to loose someone we love but it's better if a so beautiful song can make you remember the good times with your dad.
Be strong.
@@panpanlepinpin Thank you for taking time to be kind. I miss my daddy so much... I am going to see their show at Choctaw Casino in Oklahoma in March... it will be KILLER. Winks. Light & Love
My deepest condolences for your loss. I do the I-35 passing Lewisville for my daily commute and it's not a fun drive by any means. Hope you are doing ok...take care!
Mejorando con los años… seguro estará a la altura del imploding the mirage… grande the killers
Please please play this on the 4th July at the O2 in London. It's such a diamond ❤❤❤
So perfect
Man.this song hit me so hard...like a train...with all the covid shit,family and much more..fuck..best wishes from switzerland...xxx
Best track on the album
Flipping class.
Sublime.
Thanks TH-cam recommandation !
LYRICS
[Intro]
Oh yeah, oh no, the train, the train. Every 2 or 3 years, the train kills somebody. Every 2 or 3 years, yeah. Everybody knows about the train, OK? You hear it constantly. Eh, I- I think the train is a way to find your way out of this life, if you get hit by it
[Verse 1]
A couple of kids got hit by a Union Pacific train
Carrying sheet metal and household appliances through the pouring rain
They were planning on getting married after graduation
Had a little baby girl, trouble came and shut it down
Things like that ain't supposed to happen
[Chorus]
In this quiet town, families are tight
Good people, they still don't deadbolt their doors at night
In this quiet town
[Verse 2]
When we first heard opioid stories, they were always in whispering tones
Now banners of sorrow mark the front steps of childhood homes
Parents wept through daddy's girl eulogies
And merit badge milestones with their daughters and sons
Laying there lifeless in their suits and gowns
Somebody's been keepin' secrets
[Chorus]
In this quiet town, they know how to live
Good people who lean on Jesus, they're quick to forgive
In this quiet town
I love The Killers
So, it's based on true stories? ❤️ touches 💚
Quel clip, quel morceau...et quelle interprétation. Perso je suis bouleversé à chaque fois
De regreso The Killers en este 2021, que canción.
This makes me forget about all the small things I stress about
Rosé and løren introduced me this amazing band ! Love this song!!!
This song remember me the old The killers
Such an eerie and beautiful song.
3:07 you can see the Starlite Motel mentioned in Matter of Time
Só eu que choro com essa música ?
Sou apaixonada ❤