Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - "Take Off Your Sunglasses"

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  • @Babeoftheabyss
    @Babeoftheabyss 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Wow
    I discovered this song while washing dishes at an apartment I lived at in Upland, in about 2009. This song came on the stereo on 88.7 kspc. I fell in love with it and have listened to it almost religiously since. I can't believe it's the end of April, 2020 and it's less than 100,000 views
    Come on people. This is the epitome of good music

    • @Misslovelyrita3
      @Misslovelyrita3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I used to DJ at KSPC in college and would play this song all the time! Maybe you were listening to my show!

    • @jackhegarty6646
      @jackhegarty6646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      same

    • @FromIronbark
      @FromIronbark 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      2021 and just discovered this song washing dishes at home... why I haven't heard it before I don't know. I need to wash more dishes.

    • @Babeoftheabyss
      @Babeoftheabyss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lmao. Kspc is zee best. Still listen to the videogame music show. Appreciate you guys!

    • @Babeoftheabyss
      @Babeoftheabyss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FromIronbark lmao

  • @giotapapazisi7593
    @giotapapazisi7593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Lyrics
    My baby went out with her family to a ski resort in Colorado
    Well she put on her skis and she slid down hill
    Yeah she slid downhill in her bright red mufflers
    My baby went out with her family to a ski resort in Colorado
    And left me all along for a couple of weeks,
    Well she called me up, she said I love you in the middle of the night
    I said In the middle of the night everybody loves everybody else these days
    She said Oh, in the middle of the day I love you very much
    I said Everybody loves each other these days
    I said I don't ever get to go on any vacations
    I said I've gotta go to work every day
    I said You get to slide downhill in your bright red mufflers
    She said I love you, oh I love you in the middle of the day,
    And she said
    Take off your sunglasses
    I don't wanna take my sunglasses
    Take off your sunglasses
    I said baby the sun is bright
    I need my sunglasses
    And then I woke up in the middle of the night
    One night and I felt so unworthy
    I said I woke up in the middle of the night
    One night and I felt so unworthy
    It didn't bother me too much, I think I am unworthy
    And everybody's unworthy of everybody else these days
    Everybody's unworthy of everybody else these days
    And I don't need to think about things I don't want to think about
    She called me up in the middle of the day
    She said I love you in the middle of the night
    I said In the middle of the night
    Everybody loves everybody else in the middle of the day
    She said
    Take off your sunglasses
    I don't wanna take my sunglasses
    Take off your sunglasses
    I said why don't you take off your sunglasses
    She said I already have
    I don't want to think about
    Things I don't want to think about in the middle of the night
    In the middle of the day I don't want to think about
    Things I don't want to think about in the middle of the night
    I don't want to think about it
    I don't want to think about it
    I don't want to take off my sunglasses
    Everybody's unworthy and
    Everybody loves everybody else and
    Everybody takes off their sunglasses
    Oh baby I don't want to fall into the patterns
    Oh baby, she said
    Take off your sunglasses
    I don't wanna take my sunglasses
    Take off your sunglasses
    I said that's like me asking you to take out your shoelaces
    So she took out her shoelaces

  • @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos
    @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This song perfectly encapsulates what it feels like to unknowingly take out your depression on a loved one.

  • @rachstone9491
    @rachstone9491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    This song is some kind of genius I'm too dumb to understand all I know is I can't stop playing it

    • @user-ip8rk9tp8j
      @user-ip8rk9tp8j 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same! Obsessed

    • @mateusz3162
      @mateusz3162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      everybody can't stop playing every each song these days

    • @danterosenberg7506
      @danterosenberg7506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Facts. That's exactly how I feel.

    • @DarlaJeanDarltonIII
      @DarlaJeanDarltonIII ปีที่แล้ว

      It seems like hilarious and groovy nonsense at first right but I eventually came to believe the sunglasses are a metaphor for his [negativity], the shoelaces are likewise an aspect or complex of her personality that he incorrectly assumed she would have just as stubbornly refused to let go of, but in a wholesome, depressing, profound turn of events, she does it.
      I used to laugh to this song and now I legitimately cry.

  • @mikarosen
    @mikarosen ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love her so much
    Her new album is so good

  • @chrisburdett2460
    @chrisburdett2460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Summer 2022 and just discovered this song from Ezra. Thanks Stuart at FM4 in Austria for playing on my morning commute. Now I see the video and just love how many pairs Ezra wears during the “interview”!

  • @byg0lly
    @byg0lly 9 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS SONG

    • @kobalt3095
      @kobalt3095 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      who asked

    • @byg0lly
      @byg0lly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kobalt3095 why r u a cyber bully

  • @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos
    @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos ปีที่แล้ว +3

    For years, I felt like this song spoke to a deep, personal understanding of my own struggles with depression. In that time, both Ezra and I have come out as transgender. Maybe there was something to that feeling.

  • @danvelina
    @danvelina 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I always come back to this song, I love how it doesn't have dislikes and it's been 8 years since it was published lol

  • @gerryradford4812
    @gerryradford4812 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How is this person not HUGE !! Dylan. Bowie. Bolan esq Plus original stuff. A STAR IS COMING. GX

  • @Kilaga
    @Kilaga 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Got the same vibe when I heard first time “hurricane” by Bob Dylan and it’s awesome

  • @PitMaravich
    @PitMaravich 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I NEVER FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS SONG

  • @sabinejonathanjordan-lott3268
    @sabinejonathanjordan-lott3268 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love this song, sooooooooooo funny!!! Love the whole Retro Bob Dylan thing too, great song & concept!

  • @nickjames628
    @nickjames628 ปีที่แล้ว

    This should have more views than anything else on the whole dumb internet. The comic timing and genius in this music video is un-nameably and uncannily good. All these years later is it just as thrilling

  • @garethsparks1045
    @garethsparks1045 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I got into her last week and there's so much good music going back
    The thing she does with the vocals here reminds me of like, roky erickson - sweet honey pie. Theresnoassociationorcombinationofatomsthatdontagree

  • @cliterally1791
    @cliterally1791 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm so thankful for some music without crazy metaphors. just a straightforward story about a girl and her sunglasses!

  • @matthewaustin7458
    @matthewaustin7458 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a talent! Amazing. Keep rocking Ezra!

  • @leme2794
    @leme2794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    puuff años que no escuchaba este temon, Inside the human body excelentísimo disco escúchenlo completo

  • @werewolfteeths
    @werewolfteeths ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my favorite music video of all time

  • @ckv954
    @ckv954 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:34 omg I’m in love with this part

  • @scottshaw1070
    @scottshaw1070 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Lou Reed + Pixies = Awesome!

    • @TheMightymolar
      @TheMightymolar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed. With a large helping of Bob Dylan.

  • @cryyourangerout
    @cryyourangerout 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ahh this song 💘

  • @kjeltinger9076
    @kjeltinger9076 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great song and such a funny video! :D

  • @shawntingstad4254
    @shawntingstad4254 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dig it! Thank you KK!

  • @gothwhiteinc
    @gothwhiteinc ปีที่แล้ว

    Great tune 🍻

  • @katebarsod
    @katebarsod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great song! Great video, it looks like a deleted scene from Pink Flamingos!

  • @jw66jw
    @jw66jw 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Still a great song after all these years, a shame the band never made it big, they were quite talented. Guess Ezra decided to take off his\her\their\its glasses.

  • @borcz100
    @borcz100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow - I believe this!

  • @juanfranciscobrizuela
    @juanfranciscobrizuela 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ezra was here back in 200 fucking 9, what a legend

  • @Pixie.Plumeria
    @Pixie.Plumeria 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Why does this give me the same vibes as a Beatles interview??

    • @FifthKingdom
      @FifthKingdom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because you're basic

  • @dikshantaluitel752
    @dikshantaluitel752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    If it weren't for Sex Education, it would have taken more than 11 years for me to come across this song.

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631
    @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Take off your sunglasses!

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631
    @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love you too much love you love you

  • @jordive7736
    @jordive7736 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I Love that song! Boníssimaaa

  • @mjwade6085
    @mjwade6085 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "I said, I never get to go on any vacations I gotta go to work everyday!"

  • @markecklund5725
    @markecklund5725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cool song. I hope the Warren Zevon estate doesn't sue. Sounds an awful lot like "Splendid Isolation "

    • @Miguel-pd3no
      @Miguel-pd3no 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol.. really? I'm familiar with Zevon. Seriously?

  • @williamcreech405
    @williamcreech405 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i walked in on this guy giving it to my boy jay clark in the middle of the day... he ain't unworthy ;

  • @laughlater4562
    @laughlater4562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Found this song on accident and my life was changed hehe

  • @RemyGriffinTrans
    @RemyGriffinTrans 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mod vibes x

  • @rigomoscoso7939
    @rigomoscoso7939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Twin showed me this long time ago...

  • @daveyplinth
    @daveyplinth 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    LOVE IT!!!

  • @margaritanajera6655
    @margaritanajera6655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ya

  • @Mlikes
    @Mlikes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    MAN I LOVE THIS GUY , HIS LYRICS AND VOICE (AND A LITTLE LESS THE MUSIC) MAKE ME ADORE THE MUSIC STYLE :P

    • @77sebaseb
      @77sebaseb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      it's a "her" or "they". Ezra Furman indeed is a woman!

    • @jared_wp
      @jared_wp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@77sebaseb just to clarify ezra is a transgender woman, that’s not to say that reduces the legitimacy of her womanhood. however, as of the recording of this song she was living as a man and so the original commenter was correct in their gender assumption. indeed even at the time of them commenting ezra identified as genderqueer and so, again, they were correct in their comment. however, now she identifies as a woman. (of course their is the point to be raised that she was always a woman but only realised this in her life due to societal pressures, norms and an eventual journey of self discovery - however for the contexts of the original commenter in terms of which pronouns are correct at their time of commenting and the time of recording the song and filming the music video, they were correct in the usage of pronouns). i hope that clarifies it for you and please feel free to let me know if any of my information is wrong as i’m always happy to learn :).

    • @77sebaseb
      @77sebaseb 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jared_wp no, your information is not wrong. :) Thank you very much at this point for your effort and the clarification of the facts. Of course, I was already aware of all this. My comment, that should be clarified here, was less a "rebuke" of the commentator than a clarification. Statement. Passing on information. Call it what you like. In fact, while writing my original post, it had not occurred to me that my statement could be seen as an affront or reproach. Sorry at this point, also to "PFH". The main thing is that he/she/they has achieved and touched us somewhere with his/her/their music.
      And that is a good thing.
      Stay safe.

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631
    @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can't you take me

  •  6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    ezra without lipstick noo wayyyy

  • @canerkus5508
    @canerkus5508 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    like bob dylan - like a rolling stone

  • @cliterally1791
    @cliterally1791 ปีที่แล้ว

    and she never did 😎😎😎😎

  • @samirahoseini1608
    @samirahoseini1608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Such a tired music video😂 but i looooove this song 😍

  • @cryyourangerout
    @cryyourangerout 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🐦

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631
    @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sunglasses

  • @askidbarrett
    @askidbarrett ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder how the Ezra of today rates this masterpiece

  • @0002pA
    @0002pA ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Are you telling me this song is nearly half my age... and yes I do feel exceptionally old ok.

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631
    @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh, guesses high? Everyone is.... Huh? Take off your sunglasses

  • @zuckmeoff3035
    @zuckmeoff3035 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    COREY WORTHINGTON

  • @chrisgotachannel
    @chrisgotachannel ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i'm not the marrying type but if I were I would want this to play at my gay wedding

    • @MARIUS2776
      @MARIUS2776 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nobody cares

  • @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631
    @lairofun-dereksyoutuberecr631 ปีที่แล้ว

    Take off your sunglasses

  • @chrissarles1686
    @chrissarles1686 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This guy is EXACTLY like the violent femmes. If you’re here because you like Ezra, go, NOW and listen to blister in the sun by VF’s you’ll love it

  • @hiltun3n
    @hiltun3n 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    ok

  • @MikeSmith544
    @MikeSmith544 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Channeling Bob Dylan and Jacob Dylan

  • @Tanasoulmusic
    @Tanasoulmusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Casey Neistats himm

  • @MrKellyHiggins
    @MrKellyHiggins 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is no way that stupid band is better than Ezra.