“Oh emptiness, tell me ‘bout your nature, maybe I’ve been getting you wrong” Once we accept grief we can understand it and once we understand it we can live with it
thank you for writing this. my two dogs ran away on June 17th, and July 3rd they were found dead in a culvert. I have had a hard time accepting their absence and letting myself grieve. but maybe ill start allowing myself to grieve now
"songs" and "instrumentals" sound like two secret folders on a musician's computer. You know... these folders filled with a bunch of introspective tunes that no one else was ever supposed to hear. Glad you shared them with us, Adrianne.
My wife and I lost our daughter due to a miscarriage and this song which I just found has an amazing emotional power. I couldn’t stop crying. Thanks for writing this. Someday’s I wish I could just hold my baby girl.
When I got to the end of this song, I felt like it ended prematurely, and I wanted more, then I realized that that's the whole point. Left me feeling kinda sweet and blue.
Adrianne's music and especially this song is saving my life. Without going into detail, listening to this song makes me feel that my life is worth living. Few things can do that and I'm searching for them. 💜
I think she plays Em to Gm in the chorus (the only time she does so), and I'm utterly fascinated by the amount of emotion she rings out of her voice and that one delicate change. It's so subtle but it carries through the rest of the song and long after. Simply sublime.
Over the last year of my life, this song has become my favorite of Adrianne Lenkers. The idea of emptiness being something horrible and undesirable is so cruel to maintaining peace in your life. Appreciate the silences you have and learn to love the process of learning yourself. Thank you for such a beautiful song.
Today I was going on a bus while listening to this beautiful song. The sun was shining though the slowly falling snow. I got so choked up!.. Embracing of the subtle beauty of the world. Thank you, Adrianne, for making the air resonate in such an extremely beautiful way! Greetings from Minsk:)
Words can't describe how much I love Lenker.She's a real artist,poet,singer and most of all a true free beautiful spirit. In this vid, when I heard the melody flowed from her fingers and her throat , combined with such beautiful scenery, I felt my soul was washed.Thanks Lenker,for bringing the beauty I always pray to see in my life.
I have the exact same feelings listening to this song. And this whole album. Never thought I’d see someone else sharing in that. Made me feel a lot less alone. Thank you for being so open. I hope you can find a way forward with healing and peace.
thats so cool how they filmed the take that they choose and made it into a video, truly a moment captured in time lol. gives the song so much more of a world to live in knowing exactly where and when it happened!! so awesome 😊
@@BrendanCalliesComposer im assuming it's still this take that appeared on the album, it's just gone through mixing and mastering and they dubbed it over
Your voice and song makes me long for arms to fall into. A place to find comfort when the mind is struggling to find meaning. I know, it’s not the meaning of the song, it just has this atmospere speaking to me in that matter. I hope, Adrianne, you will continue to bring your expressionate beauty into the world and I wish you well, from soul to soul.
I've listened to this 4 times over so far...utterly beautiful and I found myself suddenly releasing tears while hearing this wonderful song and performance.
@@adelinmarette3588 c, f, em, g prob. The same four chords in the last fifty years of folk and ragtime blues. It’s not the chords, it’s how you play them. You can play a chord or you can really play a chord
@@Noizedas I know it's been a month, but the g is actually g minor. That's what gives the "tell me about your nature" line its power, I feel. Just a little bit different
"then the next night, dreaming i could feel your skin. but the dream escaped so easily, and i woke up to the road again." it hurts and iits real, and i want it to change, but it wont, and ii wantt you to stay, but nature might take you back into her arms, and when that happens, if it does, i'll have to learn to live with it.
Once I tried to write a song about something that this song gives me, but I couldn`t...now Adrianne did it for me. It`s simple, but it hits right in the feels. Thank you, I feel like I needed it. It`s already on my favorites list!
What a dream that was I almost couldn't wake because I was frozen in bed with a zombie girl Vacant as a closed down fair Sleep paralysis, I sworn I could've felt you there And I almost could've kissed your hair But the emptiness withdrew me From any kind of wishful prayer Oh, emptiness Tell me 'bout your nature Maybe I've been getting you wrong I cover you with questions Cover you with explanations Cover you with music Then the next night Dreaming I could feel your skin But the dream escaped so easily And I wokе up to the road again How your words ring through Something kinda sweet and blue And I knеw that you'd been understanding Everything that I'd said, too About emptiness Tell me 'bout your nature Maybe I've been getting you wrong I cover you with questions Cover you with explanations Cover you with music What's on your mind? What's on your mind? What's on your mind? What's on your mind? On your mind
The 5 chord is made minor so that its resolution to the 4 is more satisfying. But that's just a theoretical explanation. Why notes and their relations make us feel anything is a tough and mysterious question that I think anyone would be hard pressed to give a good answer to.
This song turned me into a bee (Thank you for a resonant, rain-soaked, deeply felt album, Adrianne. Your music always helps bring clarity-I couldn’t have pre-ordered this album with more enthusiasm. Warm wishes from eastern MA.)
I truly love this song, it touches my heart and makes me feel whole and comforted. And it is such a beautiful piece of music. You sing it so vulnarably and passionately at the same time. Really love your voice and I am so thankful that you have written this and shared it with us.🥰
Simply beautiful! Adrianne, you remind me of Joanna Newsom, Dolores O'Riordan, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, 'Two Of Us' by The Beatles all at the same time, whilst being distinctively yourself; that's no mean feat! Had the pleasure of experiencing you live in France 14 months ago, a night that will stick with me forever.
Your Melody and lyrics, they come from Nature. You have the best heart of all hearts. I can feel the wind and see the grass waving at me when I listen to this masterpiece, even in the darkest of rooms and days. ❤️
“Oh emptiness, tell me ‘bout your nature, maybe I’ve been getting you wrong”
Once we accept grief we can understand it and once we understand it we can live with it
This one has a little spice to it
thank you for writing this. my two dogs ran away on June 17th, and July 3rd they were found dead in a culvert. I have had a hard time accepting their absence and letting myself grieve. but maybe ill start allowing myself to grieve now
"songs" and "instrumentals" sound like two secret folders on a musician's computer. You know... these folders filled with a bunch of introspective tunes that no one else was ever supposed to hear. Glad you shared them with us, Adrianne.
V ironic bc they weren’t ever on a computer
@@jacobm8530 what do you mean?
They weren’t made digitally
My wife and I lost our daughter due to a miscarriage and this song which I just found has an amazing emotional power. I couldn’t stop crying. Thanks for writing this. Someday’s I wish I could just hold my baby girl.
I think of Darcy every day. She didnt make it. I see her in her twin brother though. Wilcoś ¨a ghost is born¨ makes me think of her.
@@paulcallan8769 Im so sorry Paul. I feel so broken still, but this song gives me a small comfort.
You are holding her my friend and its beautiful. She will be something to carry that can't ever be let go
Love to you x
@@frxdispatchgaming1043beautiful comment
When I got to the end of this song, I felt like it ended prematurely, and I wanted more, then I realized that that's the whole point. Left me feeling kinda sweet and blue.
“But the dream escaped so easily/And I woke up to the road again”.
Beautiful.
She’s an absolute generational talent.
Adrianne's music and especially this song is saving my life. Without going into detail, listening to this song makes me feel that my life is worth living. Few things can do that and I'm searching for them. 💜
Just so you know... Me too.
I feel like this was heaven sent.
It’s definitely worth living❤️sending love and smiles☺️❤️🙏🏽
I keep on truckin only because new music is always just around the corner. I live to hear softly, before the dark silences my ears
i feel the same way
I think she plays Em to Gm in the chorus (the only time she does so), and I'm utterly fascinated by the amount of emotion she rings out of her voice and that one delicate change. It's so subtle but it carries through the rest of the song and long after. Simply sublime.
Im a thrash metal guy .... but i really like her voice it has a whispyness to it very calming and tranquil great work
Over the last year of my life, this song has become my favorite of Adrianne Lenkers. The idea of emptiness being something horrible and undesirable is so cruel to maintaining peace in your life. Appreciate the silences you have and learn to love the process of learning yourself. Thank you for such a beautiful song.
Today I was going on a bus while listening to this beautiful song. The sun was shining though the slowly falling snow. I got so choked up!.. Embracing of the subtle beauty of the world. Thank you, Adrianne, for making the air resonate in such an extremely beautiful way! Greetings from Minsk:)
this is incredible
Words can't describe how much I love Lenker.She's a real artist,poet,singer and most of all a true free beautiful spirit. In this vid, when I heard the melody flowed from her fingers and her throat , combined with such beautiful scenery, I felt my soul was washed.Thanks Lenker,for bringing the beauty I always pray to see in my life.
echoes of Mr Tambourine Man. love it
Really ? The similiarity evades me. But a nice song all the same.
oooo i hear it, thats one of my favorites of dylan’s
Now that you mention it...
Yesss! I said this to my daughter today! Wow.
Reminded me of bob dylan too, but I love adriennes balance of tangible and surreal much better
"But the dream escaped so easily
And I woke up to the road again".... Perfection
I wish i had the authenticity and control to love my mom openly. I love her so much. I wish i could just be myself
I have the exact same feelings listening to this song. And this whole album. Never thought I’d see someone else sharing in that. Made me feel a lot less alone. Thank you for being so open. I hope you can find a way forward with healing and peace.
your songs are a gift. this feels like a tiny window into your soul. thank you.
The new album is emotionally authentic. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.🖤
This is one of those songs that since the first time I listened to it I was like “fuck it, I wish I had written this”. It’s just so so so beautiful
the trees pictures are so relatable and remiind me of home this song hits a part of me i struggle to find by myself
thats so cool how they filmed the take that they choose and made it into a video, truly a moment captured in time lol. gives the song so much more of a world to live in knowing exactly where and when it happened!! so awesome 😊
Nope it's dubbed
@@BrendanCalliesComposer im assuming it's still this take that appeared on the album, it's just gone through mixing and mastering and they dubbed it over
Your voice and song makes me long for arms to fall into. A place to find comfort when the mind is struggling to find meaning. I know, it’s not the meaning of the song, it just has this atmospere speaking to me in that matter. I hope, Adrianne, you will continue to bring your expressionate beauty into the world and I wish you well, from soul to soul.
Her music literally got me through this year, and i'm seeing her in concert with Big Thief next year, SO excited!
Just Reading the lyrics made me cry.
I'm getting a hysterectomy and starting a PhD and for some reason this song represents this wintry part of my life in some perfect, intangible way.
can't believe such pure and beautiful voice exists... even the word 'beautiful' is too ugly to describe such voice
This just blew me away. I’m in a different place now
“Cover you with music”
Beautiful song
actually wept through this song... a few times
hope you're feeling better!
I feel changed by this song. Stunningly beautiful. What a dream that was...
I've listened to this 4 times over so far...utterly beautiful and I found myself suddenly releasing tears while hearing this wonderful song and performance.
And that's it. I just cried easily
I got addicted to this song. Can't stop listening to it when it was released. It's so beautiful!
When her voice comes in. Wow.
Now I can see the chords. Been waiting two years for this to be recorded.
Any chance you wrote them down?
@@adelinmarette3588 c, f, em, g prob. The same four chords in the last fifty years of folk and ragtime blues. It’s not the chords, it’s how you play them. You can play a chord or you can really play a chord
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@@Noizedas I know it's been a month, but the g is actually g minor. That's what gives the "tell me about your nature" line its power, I feel. Just a little bit different
My comfort song the last year, it has a special place in my heart.
So enchanting, felt the first sunlight when a new days comes, oh emptiness I cover you with this!
This is one of the most beautiful songs I´ve heard
This song makes me feel inexplicably nostalgic and bittersweet.
Oh my god. What a beautiful, heartbreaking song about love and relationships.
her music is so therapeutic
"then the next night, dreaming i could feel your skin. but the dream escaped so easily, and i woke up to the road again."
it hurts and iits real, and i want it to change, but it wont, and ii wantt you to stay, but nature might take you back into her arms, and when that happens, if it does, i'll have to learn to live with it.
you will learn to live, but will still cry on nights like these, and thats ok. he is here and in your heart, both. just feel for him.
Some of the vocal lines are reminiscent of early Dylan!
Hey! Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me...
Man I thought that too, bit of mr tambourine man style rhyming.
Once I tried to write a song about something that this song gives me, but I couldn`t...now Adrianne did it for me. It`s simple, but it hits right in the feels. Thank you, I feel like I needed it. It`s already on my favorites list!
So inspiring. I want a draw an animation by hand for so many of your songs.
Maybe that is what I will do for the rest of my life.
What a dream that was
I almost couldn't wake because
I was frozen in bed with a zombie girl
Vacant as a closed down fair
Sleep paralysis, I sworn I could've felt you there
And I almost could've kissed your hair
But the emptiness withdrew me
From any kind of wishful prayer
Oh, emptiness
Tell me 'bout your nature
Maybe I've been getting you wrong
I cover you with questions
Cover you with explanations
Cover you with music
Then the next night
Dreaming I could feel your skin
But the dream escaped so easily
And I wokе up to the road again
How your words ring through
Something kinda sweet and blue
And I knеw that you'd been understanding
Everything that I'd said, too
About emptiness
Tell me 'bout your nature
Maybe I've been getting you wrong
I cover you with questions
Cover you with explanations
Cover you with music
What's on your mind?
What's on your mind?
What's on your mind?
What's on your mind?
On your mind
💚🍃
awwww
I wish I could like this more than once.
the best thing that happened in the pandemic...
i love this community
This is that other place. Where music becomes magic.
So wonderfully moving and unpretentious. A real tonic.
Lovely, got a "Mr Tambourine man" vibe
Everything about this is just so beautiful
She really just makes it so easy to taste her mind.......she is such a pure joy to vibe too.
thank you so much for sharing your world with us
adrianne and ariana releasing music at the same time isn't something i feel emotionally prepared for
Who's Ariana?
@Vanessa S I think they meant Ariana Grande. She've just released her new album, "Positions".
@Vanessa S Cool.
@Vanessa S tips to become this cool?
@@shinybeast8946 probably the best comment i've seen in a while
Thank you Adrianne, Thank you
stella im so happy you just introduced to my new favorite artist
the chords during "tell me about your nature" make me feel giddy? someone tell me why
same!
because it's what the soul yearns for
that part brings a tear to my eye every time
the power of minor!!!
The 5 chord is made minor so that its resolution to the 4 is more satisfying. But that's just a theoretical explanation. Why notes and their relations make us feel anything is a tough and mysterious question that I think anyone would be hard pressed to give a good answer to.
Your vulnerability is an art. 💙
I feel like she's obviously the best in the world rn,
This song turned me into a bee
(Thank you for a resonant, rain-soaked, deeply felt album, Adrianne. Your music always helps bring clarity-I couldn’t have pre-ordered this album with more enthusiasm. Warm wishes from eastern MA.)
This song moved me.
She’s so talented. I ❤ her and Angie McMahon these days. Real people with incredible words and sounds. ❤
Thank you Adrianne, you are my delicate thunder
beautiful said
Girl Crush. I love singing with Adrienne. It's aLL in the weave. What a Glory! So GOOD. Thank you!!!!
this song is like a nest that I can crawl into for rest and respite. Xx 🪺🫶🏼
Beautiful, I've been in CA for a long time ... this reminds me of home, Missouri. Not sure why, it just does, and I keep coming back to it.
So smooth love it
perfect as always from this lady
amazing songwritting and performance GODDDD, just beautiful music
kind of a Bob Dylan vibe on this one too
This blew me away 🥺
havent heard her play yet and i already like it
Such a gorgeous song. Love you Adrianne!
Ok this is my favourite song rn
I truly love this song, it touches my heart and makes me feel whole and comforted. And it is such a beautiful piece of music. You sing it so vulnarably and passionately at the same time. Really love your voice and I am so thankful that you have written this and shared it with us.🥰
Y’all are loved and worthy ❤️
Beautiful melodies. I enjoy it.
hauntingly beautiful and makes me wish i could play guitar. thank you xx
Love this song.
Sobbing with this :(
This is so beautiful I was trying so hard not to cry :'
Oh my god, so beautiful.
I feel this song as if it were the side B of "out of your mind" from abysskiss... ❤️ gorgeous records
Simply beautiful!
Adrianne, you remind me of Joanna Newsom, Dolores O'Riordan, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, 'Two Of Us' by The Beatles all at the same time, whilst being distinctively yourself; that's no mean feat!
Had the pleasure of experiencing you live in France 14 months ago, a night that will stick with me forever.
Your Melody and lyrics, they come from Nature. You have the best heart of all hearts. I can feel the wind and see the grass waving at me when I listen to this masterpiece, even in the darkest of rooms and days. ❤️
It's lovely.. like the last fifty musical years haven't happened..🙂
a literal angel
serenity
Lauren Tsai brought me here & I'm so glad she did! 💕
I recently discover you and it was for me like when I discover mac demarco. Mac demarco is my favorite artist
This is intensely beautiful. I really love it
Beautiful /Très beau. I love it
yes!
i love your music so much
Amo esta canción, me es muy nostálgica skjfkd
I love this song
im usuall more of a rock and metal guy, but i am pretty flexible in tastes, and this is just beuatiful beyond words.
this and faith healer...... please it's too much
Truly