Ben Gibbard - What Sarah Said (Live on KEXP)
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- KEXP.ORG presents Ben Gibbard performing "What Sarah Said" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded September 12, 2018.
Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Alaia D'Alessandro & Kendall Rock
Editor: Scott Holpainen
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benjamingibbard...
I don't know how he can sing this without crying cause I can't listen to it without crying.
NeilHolmes72 was literally just thinking this
I know exactly what you mean. I can't even talk about the song without tears in my eyes. This song gets me every.single.time.
@@ibon87510 I realized that when I listen to plans I dread hearing this song. its devastating.
In earlier performances of the song live he would cry actually. Been trying to find a video of that for a while now
Yep.. replace the name with whom you love and it hits home.
this must be one of the best songs ever written.... it's amazing how underrated it is...
jemt1290 agree so much, it seems these days great songs are to be discovered vs presented to you
I am listening to him since 2008. I can still recall the first time I heard this song. Brings me back. It crazy how he is underrated.
I agree. Right up there with If We Were Vampires.
I came here to cry, leave me alone.
I do the same
❤
This is such an honest and heartfelt song that can only be written from a first-person experience. Having lived through watching my wife pass from cancer this song is almost too hard to listen to. I find myself revisiting it every few months to 'ground' myself. In my opinion it is the ultimate song to describe such a loss. It's one of those "if you know, you know" situations and it's probably a blessing that so few don't...
I'd known about this song for about 5 years when my beloved cat died. It tore a rift in my heart to see her go, and this song allowed me to cry out my feelings, which made her passing easier. The line of "i would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all" isn't as applicable to a cat per se, but the sentiment of knowing you had them by your side for a period of time that ended instead of never having had them there at all really struck a chord with me and still does to this day.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I experienced something similar with a partner in my early 20s. It’s very surreal to have a picture painted so vividly of an experience as difficult as the processes of watching someone slowly pass onward. Thank you for sharing.
I played this for my dad when he got out of ICU. He said he wasn’t going anywhere and committed suicide in 2020. This is so hard to listen to but too beautiful to ignore
@@wacquemacaque2403 well put. My mom just committed suicide a few weeks ago. So glad I flew out to see her in the hospital bed even tho she wasn’t responsive. She passed that same night. I sent her this song years ago and she really liked it. Now it hurts. It finally went from a painful experience of the imagination to a very realistic painful experience of the imagination and soul. Fuck man. I digress
Years after this song came out I had to witness those descending peaks taking my child farther away from me, It took some more years after that before this song actually sank in. I never truly really listened to the lyrics before or possible even skipped the track completely. This is the DCFC tear jerker for me. Does it every time... But it cleanses & allows me to deal with it.
I'm seeing them live for the second time this Saturday in Paradiso Amsterdam. So fuckin' hyped! And in a way glad this song hasn't been on their setlist for a long while ;-)
I’m crying right now while casting a prayer asking for strength and guidance to get through this lonely and scary life after loosing My Wife & Our Baby Boy ‘Coz of Cancer😞
i hope everything's fine
Still going through a painful & dark path.. but I keep on trying to stay sane and intact. Thank You Brother 🙏🏻
@@Veorick Stay strong, my good sir. I pray for your wife and son to find peace. May their memories of love guide you through these painful times.
@@minovskyparticles1834 Thank You So Much Sir… May God Bless You and Your Family Always.. 🙏🏻
I am 70 years old (young) and have been through rock n roll, hippy/psychedelic, blues,soul, Tamla. but these are without doubt one of the best bands I've listened to. love the music and lyrics
I like how the commentator says, "we're moving over to the piano," like she's expecting Ben to sing something cute. Then Ben sings one of the saddest songs ever written, and the heart of everyone in the room completely breaks in half in part because of the message, and in part because of how incredibly well this is performed.
I understood this song at 15 but now I FEEL it. I never wanted to. Daddy, you said you’d never leave us
As a daddy myself I’m sure he would want you to know he’s still with you in spirit and he loves you.
Did anyone else catch when he sings die for the first time, it’s a reflection of a flatline?? So beautiful and beautifully written
I never noticed that. Great observation!
It's subtle but undoubtedly the intent of his line.
Wow well spotted
Thank you for this comment. I have literally listened to this song over a thousand times and never thought about that. I appreciate you naming it. How beautiful.
on the album version from the part you've mentioned onward are the final words in the song repeated until it ends, and it sounds like it's designed to represent the ending of a life. "so who's going to watch you die?" ben backs away from the mic to insinuate this phrase is his inner monologue. the bassist stops playing completely, adding fragility to the sound. jason's tense-sounding drums in the intro also loses all of its power and goes to simple hi-hat and snare ghost notes, perhaps to represent the subtle lifelines of the functions of the human body and how weakened they are at this stage of this person's life, and at this point the entire band are working strongly together to make this sound that represents said life fade away; like a human becoming weaker and frailer until their body stops functioning and flatlines. the song is very thoughtfully designed and beautiful to the point it dredges emotion from me even in times i felt like i could handle it. plans will likely remain one of my favorite albums for the rest of my life.
No hyberbole, best songwriter of this generation.
Kyle Hartnett 100%
Suffer the Fool Ben Gibbard; Ben Howard; Gregory Alan Isakov and Justin from Bon Iver
John Darnielle and Josh Ritter are so good though
@@wshutson0304 110%
I lost my mother a couple of days ago and this song is helping me to cope with the stabbing pain in my heart. I love and miss you mom. Thank you Death Cab
I am so sorry for your loss. I too lost a love one in the last year and it hurts but we have to keep going for them.
Hope you feel a bit better two years later ❤
I just lost my mom a few weeks ago. I feel your pain in a way. Tough song to listen to for sure.
I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying.
What an incredible song. Listened to this on repeat for 3.5 hours through a snowstorm once while driving.
And it's still the first time I've heard it every time I hear it.
Language is the most powerful weapon when used properly...This guy is a fucking genius. Period.
This is one of the saddest, most intense and most beautiful songs ever written. If I ever get the chance to see this live I'm 100% sure I will cry like a baby.
We all do. I’ve seen it a few times. I saw them with explosions in the sky at Madison square garden, the sea of tears was insane, I’ve never seen more people cry at a show or in one place in my life. Crazy thing is. I think it was crying out of joy, not pain
@@alexanderjames04 Such a magical experience, so many people connected through their emotions from music at the same time in the same place 💙
I'm Sarah....
@@sarahjane1560 what do you mean?
To play this on piano and sing it at the same time takes a lot of talent. Ben’s just the man.
It's been 5 years since my grandfather died. He was my biggest support in my beginner years of learning to play my guitar. I would sneak out of school to drink at his place and he would help me financially with classes. He helped me not to give up. Then I watched him die. Later, i gave up my playing. Now, 5 years later i got a guitar as a present from my friend, and i picked up playing again. I started first practicing again this song, and it goes out to him
This song breaks me every single time. Breaks me.
I love this man. The world is a better place bc of him just existing in it
I still remember where I was the first time I heard this song well over a decade ago because I was so floored by the imagery and precise vocabulary in the lyrics that manifested simultaneously bleak and mundane but also tragically beautiful and love-filled images in my mind's eye. I can't think of many other songs that have moved me so thoroughly. I still get tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat when I listen. xo
Listen to The Mountain Goats, they do similar stuff
Same. This song literally hit me in the chest all those years ago. The imagery and melody together give this fantastic bitter sweet feeling that I don't think I've quite felt from any other song.
well put. I remember hearing this song when first listening to plans, and i was just stunned. Had to put it on repeat and the lyrics just hit every note from literal imagery in that emergency room to lessons about life and love. The line that gets me every time is, "i would rather lose than to never have laid beside at all". I hadn't listen to this song in awhile and the short 4.5 mins reminds me to be grateful and cherish the time we have. A beautiful thing music and art can do
Over a 4 week period in 1997 I watched my mother pass away in a hospital. When I first heard this song, and to this day, there has never been another song that every line I can vividly relate to 100%. The "descending LCD peak" line gets me everytime especially.
My mom ruby passed in april 2022, she loved piano music
Thank you for this song 🧡🎵🙌😖🙏😭🥺
This reminds me of when the lady came in for end of life care. After her presentation I looked at my wife and said "we don't need that, you still got gas in the tank for me, right babe?"
She said "no" and my heart sank.
I'm so sorry.
@@skullsaintdead thank you, I received so many well wishes from people that didn't even know us this message and those others really help. Thank you so much.
@@calhoun81670 my heart just broke for you. Sending you love
Christ, I can't even get through these comments dry eyed. I'm so sorry for your loss
I hope you are recovering from your loss better each day
My father died a couple of years ago and he lead a life that when he passed, there were hundreds of people there with him. He made such an impression on people. Helped so many. I listen to this and can't help but think no one will be there to watch me die someday, and how sad of a statement that is.
This song will absolutely never lose value to any audience.
"I know that you were the truth I would rather lose than to never lay beside at all"
I’ve loved Ben since I was 10 years old, here I am 16 years later and he’s still enchanting me.
i cant stop crying
This song is so moving, spirit wise that I sung this song today and then I watched and played back the video of me singing and I couldn't help but have tears falling down my cheeks.
I Love You So Much Mom aka Ruby Suzette -Rose, my bestest friend and the closest to me in this life. The one who nurtured me who was Alyways there for me😭who could comfort me, at any time with her presence alone. Her voice still rings so sweetly and eloquently in my memory 💜🙏
I don't often listen to this song cause it's so sad, but everytime I do listen, it's just wow.
This man is a lyrical genius and a human treasure.
This song might be the best lyrically written song I've ever heard. Every word adds such specific details to such a unique, yet relatable, experience that so many people can relate to. Ben Gibbard is amazing!
I heard this song years prior before my sister, Sarah, passed away. When I first heard it my heart sank because not having her with me scared the hell out of me. Fast fwd to a few years later, she was no longer with me. This song is beautiful, im always sobbing when I hear it. Really does hit home.
I can't imagine my life without this song.. can you imagine being born a few decades before this song... like I can't picture a life without this song am I insane am I crazy... yes probably
It’s a great song, but... yeah. You need someone to talk to. :)
I have been here, in there...
so many times...
I don’t feel anything
anymore ~
Beautiful decay of the human experience. What a beautiful way to express when we leave this 3d life.
The raw emotion of this song in a stripped back setting is almost unbearably sad. But you can't ignore it even if it makes you cry. just an incredible song. Ben is a genius with words. He has written some of the most heartfelt and in my my opinion greatest lyrics ever, and his voice is so pure.
This should be our soundtrack as we are fighting covid-19 corona virus 😭😭😭
😔
This song means so much to me. I haven’t experienced it or anything but it’s just so good. This album is phenomenal imo! I heard marching bands of Manhattan on the radio while I was really down, I was in my 20s I believe. But the song effected me so much I went straight to wal mart and bought the album. Ever since then I’ve been a hardcore death cab (Ben Gibbard) fan!
benny boy with those vocals, damn. stronger than ever
And it came to me then that every plan
Is a tiny prayer to father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU
That reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself
That I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD
Took you a little farther away from me
Away from me
Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines
In a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend
On a faulty camera in our minds
And I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose
Than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground
As the TV entertained itself
Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round and everyone lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said
That love is watching someone die
So who's gonna watch you die?
I can't think of a song with more of a gut punch opening stanza
Best lyrics to any song ever written
I’ll never forget you Sarah.
No words.
this song is for my unborn daughter.. Bethlehem..
It may not compare to others but we just had to put one of our dogs down this past weekend, it was the hardest thing I've had to do but I remembered this song and watched her slowly die peacefully. Thank you death cab it brought out the emotions and frustrations that I couldn't and wouldn't show. Rest in doggy heaven my little one.
I don't care what they say... losing a pet can be just as bad as a human. More so in some cases. I thought I was going to die when my cat Marble died. We buried her out back but we moved away from that house in May of this year and I really didn't want to leave her in that backyard was strangers but my family wouldn't let me transplant her but I guess that wouldn't have worked anyways because we now live in apartments but I could have buried her in my neighbor's yard cuz she has like an acre of just brush and trees
Pet loss is intense and IMO just as real & tragic & hard as losing any other loved one. ❤️
My cat Ollie is my best friend. No lie, just the thought of knowing he is almost 10 yrs old makes me cry. The bond & love of animals is one of life’s greatest gifts. ❤️
A beautiful song written on Piano, and talented musicians that provided a rock beat and guitars to deepen the mood.
Sheeeeesh dosent get any better
I sometimes avoid listening to this song if I'm in a bit of a trough - too difficult - but have been listening to it since it was written and will always return to its simplicity and poetic beauty x
I'd have been there crying in the audience. This song is so emotional and beautiful. Truly great
Gorgeous song
Love is watching someone die 😭 just a few months ago I watched my mother die and the pain, hurt and tears are unending.
Aww. I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a mom is a huge deal because they carried you in their belly and knew you the best. My mom died November 7th 2019. We sat at her bedside until she took her last breath. She died of a UTI that went septic
a lyrical and musical masterpiece....it's this song that gives me pause, a decrescendo of the world's madness for all seconds of its duration, lifting me into some other version of life until the last fade out and i'm snapped back into the present tense.
One of the best and most depressing songs ever written. Sucks we got people like lil pump that sell more records that these talented folks
Fuck Ben...
amazingly strong!
A classic for a reason
I challenge you to find a better sad song than this.
All i want- Kodaline
Memory by The Call
They’ll only miss you when you leave-Carissa’s wierd
Andre Luiz
My favorite version:
th-cam.com/video/-cOCmC_m23E/w-d-xo.html
They are amazing.
Don't like the thought of sadness being a competition, but another real heartbreaking song about grief would be Real Death by Mount Eerie
this song remember me my two first loves, the first girl of i was in love and the first song i felt in love.
This song gets me every time.
This song just takes your breath away
i love how this guy sings his own songs and plays his bands parts while he does it
Thank you KEXP!!!!
We had a close call a few weeks ago when my wife of 22 years had high blood pressure and docs couldn’t figure it out. Ended up taking her to emergency and they rushed her to surgery. Had a mass of fluid built in her pericardial sac. She almost had a heart attack. Could have easily died there at our kitchen table. Then after 5 days in icu I saw a body bag take some poor family’s loved one out while I saw my wife withering. Thought she wasn’t going to pull thru. She’s home now but still slowly recovering. They found out it was caused by a dead thyroid. So now she’s on all kinds of meds for the rest of her life. And her quality has greatly changed. Before this she had a lung infection and several spots they are watching closely. No cancer discovered at this time so we have been thru a lot this last couple years. She is 62 and im 53. I have horrible back trouble with a degenerative disease and my lumbar is falling apart. There are days I can barely walk. We run a successful custom home building company we built from the ground up. But I don’t know how much longer I will be able to keep going. I plan early retirement after all the health problems and will lay it down in a couple more years.
This song pinged a lot of things like the heart monitor and seeing my wife on oxygen when her absorption fell to the low 80 percent. It’s scary seeing the one you are so madly in love with wither and loose control of her words and simply fall asleep in front of you and there’s not a thing to do but pray. And you feel the prayers do nothing. But I know they did because she’s home now and not 6 feet under. But I can’t help to wonder how much more time she is going to have before something really bad happens and then I’m left behind. My mental health I don’t think will be able to handle it. We are physically falling apart and as the years roll by it only gets worse. So I learned to stay close to her and cherish every moment. Argue about nothing and love every breath we have together. Neither have a lot of family and so it is very important to never let anyone or anything destroy what we have. We live a closed life and stay at the home 99 percent of the time. Sarah is right love is watching someone die. The song says it all.
Beautiful 🎵🔥Soooo lovely
My dad had a stroke and is still in hospital I felt like I was just watching him die he looked so under weight skin sticking to his bones... 2 agonizing days n nights in the ER I let him know how much I loved him even tho we don't agree with some things ... I have to stay strong but when I come home I play this song and I break ...I'm not ready to lose my dad
Eu te amo muito, Ben! Obrigada por tudo 😔💕
Never gets old.
Obrigada The Affair por me apresentar essa música!
I literally cant listen to this song without crying. So good tho
Tough song to sing while playing the piano. He sounds great too!
I always forget how amazing his song writing is
Absolutely true
This guy gets it
I cannot understand in almost every great and amazing artist there's always some comment that say how UNDERRATED he/she is bla bla bla! NO SH*T man you need to stop! tired of this type of crap comments! Ben Gibbard and the band Death Cab for Cutie earned what they deserves. 5 or 6 grammy nominee, sold out show until now, still make great album in 2023, even we're from far land Indonesia has listen to their music since 2006 and maybe many friends listen to them far before and make a huge fanbase here. And that's NOT EVEN CLOSE to be underrated category! you kids think he have to be beyonce or ariana grande to not become underrated?? keep your "underrated" comment for yourself, that's insignificant and never relate!
One of the best best band
WOW!!! Amazing!
Oh my God..
This song... every time...
Minha música preferida ❤
I’m crying
es quizás de los mejores temas que se ha escuchado?
Perfect.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
“Cause love is watching someone die, so who’s going to watch you die”
Heavy
Really makes you appreciate a pop filter
It's not that really, he was just struggling to sing the lyrics because his voice isn't the same so some words, tones and pitches have to be forced through louder than others.
👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️powerful lyrics
I need some way of knowing for certain that I avoid the 10 psychopaths that clicked thumbs down on this.
I miss you, Sara
Love is watching someone die.......
Still, no comfort in the waiting room...
There never is, but every time I go, I try
I was in that room so long I sometimes wake up sitting up.
10 people who disliked this have no soul
I am also thinking of what Sarah said and I don't even know her
Fucking beautiful
Fuck, that was amazing.
u okay to keep going?
There's no other choice.
I don’t know how
Brave song. Not maudlin at all. Love the bridge bit. Just super.
This song should be a tribute to jay Briscoe jam in pugh
U hv a beautiful voice and obviously a talented musician. This song, though perhaps not technically difficult to play or sing, needs to reflect a certain haunting voice stuck b/n shock of reality and what was to once to b normal life’s casualties ~
Music never has or should be only about being technically difficult, like any other art it's about expression. Ben Gibbard can get more emotion out of a few simple chords then tons of musicians that think they need to use every trick in the book.
I hate this song, because I love it but I don't want to feel this kind of sadness; watching someone you love die in front of you shouldn't sound this beautiful.