"perth" is one of the only songs that has me crawling back to it for emotional support. It drops me to my lowest and induces nostalgia but at the same time it feels like a pat on the back of encouragement. It's like rebirth, makes me want to keep on living life and to treasure every single moment. I'm grateful that I am alive today.
After finding out Vernon wrote this partly in memory of Heath gives me chills. Somehow Heath's soul found a way into Vernon when he wrote this song and you can hear him as a child running in Australia and the oceans he looked across, his admiration for capturing the essence of existence in his camera, you can hear his voice...his passion...his love of life in every note.
Nwolnsbby Just watched the documentary the other day. Speechless on how wonderful of a human being Heath was. He had some feeling he didnt have much time left.. like he knew he had to do the best of each day. Huge loss for the world, may he be in a better place💛
I'll never forget the first time I REALLY listened to this song, I had heard it on playlists here and there but never gave it what it deserved. I'll never forget laying in bed closing my eyes and just letting the music play. this song is more than music it's one of my favourites of all time. This song makes me feel emotions I've never felt before and I can't help but tell everyone I know to listen to the art that we have had bestowed upon us.
This post speaks to me. I can't even say I'm a Bon Iver fan. But his music...affects me in a way that no other artist does. I cry almost every time I listen to this song.
THIS. i was laying in bed the first time i heard this song. i felt as if my soul was running away i literally jerked upright to catch it LMAO idk how to explain it but it was life changing
I relate so much, I always overlooked this song until one drunken night in the bath I listened to is all the way through and cried my eyes out. Great night.
This song gives me such feeling of melancholy, yet I'm glad to be living at this precise moment. With all my faults and hard-goings... I'm strong enough to still be here. I'm special... Everyone living is special. We are life. We are living. Without you or I, this world would be so different.
Non conosco la storia di questo autore , ma.il suono della chitarra e preponderante e.le parole hanno.una vena di tristezza con la musica una storia molto.tormenta.❤❤❤❤😮
R.I.P. Heath a truly beautiful soul taken too early. I hope wherever you are you are happy and peaceful because this world will never be the same without you
2:31 onwards, oh my god. Every single time it kicks in I get goosebumps and my heart beats faster. It is actually so incredible. And to have the video and the visual effects at the same time, makes it even more amazing.
When I first moved out of the country to the big city, this song happened to be playing as I drove through downtown on my way to my first apartment for the first time. It was sight unseen, and a move to save my life. I was close to ending it. It happened to be raining at the time, and the sight of so many lights shining in the sky and reflecting off of the black ground astounded me. I realized that each light represented some kind of life. Whether it was someone living in a high rise, or someone toiling away late in their office. I truly cannot explain the depth of the sensation that washed through me at that moment. I think the closest I'll ever get, is that it was simply the feeling of destiny. I really believe that it was fated. All of the secret energies of the universe converged towards me in that one moment. This insignificant child who was lucky enough to feel it. That one special moment was meant to change me- body and soul.
Everytime for no reason at all I want to hear this song, it's just bring me feelings that I cannot describe but it's similar to saddest and nostalgic for some reason.
I just shazamed this song from a beautiful documentary on Dutch television, because I have been searching for this tune since 2011! I had finished medical school and had a couple of weeks off before my graduation ceremony. And I brought my two little sisters with me to a Hillsong concert and while awaiting for the concert to begin, I heard the instrumental version of this song and it immediately got stuck in my head. But I never found the song, until tonight... 13 years later! And now I understand the connection between Perth and Hillsong, both Australian. Have a nice day and God bless.
Thank you Daniel Ricciardo for introducing me to this song. And thank you to Bon Iver for writing such a nostalgic and poetic piece of music that captures every inch and detail of home, even if you're not from Perth. I moved away from my hometown, recently, to a big city and whenever I feel a sense of longing or homesickness, I simply put this song on and take myself back to the streets of where I grew up. Music is a funny thing but it sure is beautiful.
I was introduced to Bon Iver around 4 to 5 years ago. This song immediately struck me. It never becomes boring and I listen to it all year round. Any time of day. I don't talk to the person who introduced me to this music anymore but I will forever be grateful for his recommendation😊
This is my all time favorite song and has been since 2014, still haven’t gotten tired of listening to it. I saw them live in October of last year, and when they started playing this song I burst out crying, it was just amazing
It’s a sadness and nostalgia then the instrumental at the end is like falling in love after loosing someone. Like it’s okay to live your life again and to appreciate that your still here. Idk how tf they for all this in a song but god damn it’s one of my all time favorites.
this melody...it's so different, makes me feel like im slowly flying away, to a better tommorow, to something good...it's so calming, i feel like it's telling me that everything is going to be alright in the end...
Everyone commenting how they got here. A few years ago, some show (I don't even remember which one) also brought me here. But that's not the important part. The important thing is that I came here and never left. I've been listening to Bon Iver every day ever since that day 3 or 4 years ago and I still think it is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
I know I may be new to the whole Boniver/Justin Vernon crowd, but GOD DAMN this band is pure!! I could never hate a song produced by them with the passion that they bring to my ears.
After seeing them perform this song live… that percussion in the second half makes me tear up every time. They were so unreal. Nothing like being able to feel that whole song throughout your body.
I started listening to Bon Iver recently because of their recent collaboration with Taylor Swift. Initially, I was only looking for songs that use his deep voice because I was obsessed with Exile (Taylor Swift), but I found myself listening to their entire discography, and I love it!
Heath Ledger you will be always in my heart, in our hearts ♥️ I miss you so much and forever I’ll think about you hearing this song. Rip sweet angel with beautiful smile, voice and soul
Despite of the clear Spring sound of this album, this song gives me a lot of Winter vibes, and I think It's made on purpose. For Emma, Forever Ago was made with a very winter sound and Perth is the first song of this second album, so, I think this song sonically reflects the pass of winter to spring
I'm tearing up across your face Moved us through the light To find your name It's something faint This is not a place, not yet awake I'm raised of make Still alive, who you love Still alive, who you love Still alive, who you love In a mother, out a moth Furling forests for the soft Gotta know been lead aloft So I'm ridding all your stories What I know, what it is Is pouring, wire it up You're breaking your ground
A while ago I sad in the plane from Berlin to Denmark. It was night. I had this song in my ears, while watching Copenhagen by night as we flew. Beautifull lights and darkness mixed together. In all this i thought about the person I am in love with. Made me drop a tear
I literally don't know any context of this song nor did I know about the band but when my boyfriend showed me this song recently, it just fills me with a massive feeling of nostalgia every time I hear it but I don't even picture anything to feel nostalgic about, Is just like the pure feeling smashed onto my face and almost makes me want to cry. I dont know if that's only me but wow... It's a pure masterpice
Oh man, I used to have great taste in music as a kid. I just found my old iPod from when i was at school 12 yers ago and have been going through the songs. This was on it. What a beautiful track. All i listen to now is whatever spotify recommends.
I miss you Heath. We miss you. The world isn't the same without you, and a part of me feels empty without you here. Your work will forever live on with us, the only thing you left us with. I hope you're happy where you are. I hope you're ok
This song invades my brain every now and then, through some random route. It always takes me way too long to figure out where the little guitar pieces swimming around my head came from, and again and again i realize it's here. This song has such a presence in todays music.
Has me reminiscing about the people i once knew and who are no more maybe someday someone will think about me while listening to this song, after im gone
This reminds me of the tesseract in Interstellar~ "Love is the one thing that we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space"
lol If you want some metal look up Opeth or Dream Theater that is hard hitting drums. Mutemath puts drums in some of their music too. This song reminds me a little of something they would write.
I have heard a loooooooot of music of different genres, almost everyday I listen to different songs and I collect the ones that I like more. But Perth is just in another level. This is the only song that make me feel like this
I LOVE how much Justin LOVES HE HOME. LOVE IT. It' so genuine. Seeing his videos filmed in WI and MN and his WI tattoo. Being born in Texas but raised in WI I feel sooo proud to say this amazing man and his band come from and represent here.
"perth" is one of the only songs that has me crawling back to it for emotional support.
It drops me to my lowest and induces nostalgia but at the same time it feels like a pat on the back of encouragement.
It's like rebirth, makes me want to keep on living life and to treasure every single moment.
I'm grateful that I am alive today.
well said!
A perfect description of the songs's spirit, thanks.
Damn... seldom does a TH-cam comment go this hard. Well said
After finding out Vernon wrote this partly in memory of Heath gives me chills. Somehow Heath's soul found a way into Vernon when he wrote this song and you can hear him as a child running in Australia and the oceans he looked across, his admiration for capturing the essence of existence in his camera, you can hear his voice...his passion...his love of life in every note.
Nwolnsbby Just watched the documentary the other day. Speechless on how wonderful of a human being Heath was. He had some feeling he didnt have much time left.. like he knew he had to do the best of each day. Huge loss for the world, may he be in a better place💛
Well said with beautiful words
Spirits
Whose Heath?
@@Newdisaster Sorry, I'm referring to Heath Ledger. :)
I'll never forget the first time I REALLY listened to this song, I had heard it on playlists here and there but never gave it what it deserved. I'll never forget laying in bed closing my eyes and just letting the music play. this song is more than music it's one of my favourites of all time. This song makes me feel emotions I've never felt before and I can't help but tell everyone I know to listen to the art that we have had bestowed upon us.
This post speaks to me. I can't even say I'm a Bon Iver fan. But his music...affects me in a way that no other artist does. I cry almost every time I listen to this song.
im a rap fan but this song i listened to back in 2013 thats why i remember it...had few of gems like these but ill never find them again
THIS. i was laying in bed the first time i heard this song. i felt as if my soul was running away i literally jerked upright to catch it LMAO idk how to explain it but it was life changing
I relate so much, I always overlooked this song until one drunken night in the bath I listened to is all the way through and cried my eyes out. Great night.
@@jwh2f you're a fan.....one that gets it. We are here for that same thing buddy 😊
one of the best guitar melodies ive ever heard..... really really special this
the best.
Absolutely.
Amen to that.
This is great, try to listen Lucio Battisti-Emozioni
It's the guitar, man that riff is phenomenal, goosebumps!
and drums
This song gives me such feeling of melancholy, yet I'm glad to be living at this precise moment. With all my faults and hard-goings... I'm strong enough to still be here. I'm special... Everyone living is special. We are life. We are living. Without you or I, this world would be so different.
When you wrote this I was 13. Now im 22 and understand
Non conosco la storia di questo autore , ma.il suono della chitarra e preponderante e.le parole hanno.una vena di tristezza con la musica una storia molto.tormenta.❤❤❤❤😮
R.I.P. Heath a truly beautiful soul taken too early. I hope wherever you are you are happy and peaceful because this world will never be the same without you
Can imagine Heath smiling with pride at this masterpiece. 14 years today, may he forever live on within our hearts 🌠
Melancholy, nostalgia, acceptance. So many feelings!
I wish I could have that feeling again when I heard this song for the first time. What a surreal feeling it was. I was amazed by the creation...
2:31 onwards, oh my god. Every single time it kicks in I get goosebumps and my heart beats faster. It is actually so incredible. And to have the video and the visual effects at the same time, makes it even more amazing.
When I first moved out of the country to the big city, this song happened to be playing as I drove through downtown on my way to my first apartment for the first time. It was sight unseen, and a move to save my life. I was close to ending it.
It happened to be raining at the time, and the sight of so many lights shining in the sky and reflecting off of the black ground astounded me. I realized that each light represented some kind of life. Whether it was someone living in a high rise, or someone toiling away late in their office.
I truly cannot explain the depth of the sensation that washed through me at that moment. I think the closest I'll ever get, is that it was simply the feeling of destiny. I really believe that it was fated. All of the secret energies of the universe converged towards me in that one moment. This insignificant child who was lucky enough to feel it. That one special moment was meant to change me- body and soul.
It's really beautiful. I understand what you feel. Though I didn't mived out of the country even though I want to, I still understand what you said.
@@aniketjain2781 kinda random but I love how understanding you are
Thanks for listening to me ramble about stuff that makes me happy lol
Everytime for no reason at all I want to hear this song, it's just bring me feelings that I cannot describe but it's similar to saddest and nostalgic for some reason.
This song will live just the way Heath Ledger will live forever.
I heard he died
ImmorTTal(e)
Always rember leath hedger. Lived more than all concerend
@@jessepinkman6183 I love Mitch hedberg rip
@@yungleary He's been dead since 2008. Where the hell have you been?
I just shazamed this song from a beautiful documentary on Dutch television, because I have been searching for this tune since 2011! I had finished medical school and had a couple of weeks off before my graduation ceremony. And I brought my two little sisters with me to a Hillsong concert and while awaiting for the concert to begin, I heard the instrumental version of this song and it immediately got stuck in my head. But I never found the song, until tonight... 13 years later! And now I understand the connection between Perth and Hillsong, both Australian. Have a nice day and God bless.
I don't know how someone is capable of making such beautiful music
Heath would’ve loved this 💙 Missing him so much
Why does this make me want to cry? I feel so... home when I watch this with this song.
Heath, you will be forever missed.
Such a legend 😢
Thank you Daniel Ricciardo for introducing me to this song. And thank you to Bon Iver for writing such a nostalgic and poetic piece of music that captures every inch and detail of home, even if you're not from Perth. I moved away from my hometown, recently, to a big city and whenever I feel a sense of longing or homesickness, I simply put this song on and take myself back to the streets of where I grew up. Music is a funny thing but it sure is beautiful.
This makes me want to live
Purple Baroness Wrong effect on me then
this comment made me cry
Makes me wanna cry more... all the precious i lost or pushed away...
Serdar Sakalli Same here brother
Chills everytime... Crazy how we can feel Heath's soul through this song. You did an amazing job here Justin Vernon.
The pulsation of a connection, the solemnity of a goodbye, the weightlessness of a creation
I was introduced to Bon Iver around 4 to 5 years ago. This song immediately struck me. It never becomes boring and I listen to it all year round. Any time of day. I don't talk to the person who introduced me to this music anymore but I will forever be grateful for his recommendation😊
Damn.
Every time I hear that opening guitar riff, I die a little inside.
Six strings so full of pain.
I love it.
Can never go wrong with listening to this album... One of the best...
The voices at 00:40 just made my heart sink. So beautiful.
Oh yeahh :]
ohh yess the far away voices echoeing
This is my all time favorite song and has been since 2014, still haven’t gotten tired of listening to it. I saw them live in October of last year, and when they started playing this song I burst out crying, it was just amazing
This is the most beautiful song i have ever heard. Ive heard it about a million times over and each time it nearly brings me to tears
happy birthday, heath. we miss you. thank you for all your great work and creativity. you are so great.
The whole song is amazing, but 3:23 - 3:40 is genius. The way the tune subtly changes from what it has been.
It’s a sadness and nostalgia then the instrumental at the end is like falling in love after loosing someone. Like it’s okay to live your life again and to appreciate that your still here. Idk how tf they for all this in a song but god damn it’s one of my all time favorites.
Rest In Peace Heath Ledger 🙏🏻 You will live forever in our hearts ♥️
this melody...it's so different, makes me feel like im slowly flying away, to a better tommorow, to something good...it's so calming, i feel like it's telling me that everything is going to be alright in the end...
Heath Ledger, you'll be remembered as a Great Joker of all time, and also for this song , love now and always
Everyone commenting how they got here. A few years ago, some show (I don't even remember which one) also brought me here. But that's not the important part. The important thing is that I came here and never left. I've been listening to Bon Iver every day ever since that day 3 or 4 years ago and I still think it is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Hits deep in the soul everytime
if this song isn’t played at my funeral, then i haven’t lived out my legacy.
for sure my funeral song
omg hi there fellow narufan 😍
Amen
If it isn’t played at my funeral then I’m not going
Sitting here alone in my room and have a depressed moment, this song just makes me feel better in every stage. Thank U!
I know I may be new to the whole Boniver/Justin Vernon crowd, but GOD DAMN this band is pure!! I could never hate a song produced by them with the passion that they bring to my ears.
YESSSIR
One of the best off Bon Iver Bon Iver tbh
This and holocene...
What’s worse is if it’s actually called “Bon Iver, Bon Iver” or “Bon Iver”.
holocene was better imo. but this song is really fucking good
is the best
Gracias Jwulen por enseñarme esta hermosa cancion, ahora sigo a la banda
After seeing them perform this song live… that percussion in the second half makes me tear up every time. They were so unreal. Nothing like being able to feel that whole song throughout your body.
I started listening to Bon Iver recently because of their recent collaboration with Taylor Swift. Initially, I was only looking for songs that use his deep voice because I was obsessed with Exile (Taylor Swift), but I found myself listening to their entire discography, and I love it!
Me too! Although I have to say I’m not the biggest fan after finishing their entire discography, I absolutely love this song and “Hey Ma.”
Welcome!
I miss you Heath I miss you
:( he was so beautiful
Me too 😪
"Cinematography by Justin Vernon"
Damn, he's a true artist!
If world peace was to be attainable, it would be through the listening/expression of music, and Bon Iver and Sigur Ros are on that wave to deliver it.
Heath Ledger you will be always in my heart, in our hearts ♥️ I miss you so much and forever I’ll think about you hearing this song. Rip sweet angel with beautiful smile, voice and soul
That instrummental just make me feel so unique
Since I heard this song it always been on my top 10 of most listened songs every year.
i want to play this song inside my brain. one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
Well you do, technically
I dedicate this song to my cat, who recently passed away, love you forever my old companion, Zoe 🖤.
3:03 = perfection......❤
Bon Iver is finally going to play in HK. This song is going to be a glorious moment live.... yessir
Despite of the clear Spring sound of this album, this song gives me a lot of Winter vibes, and I think It's made on purpose. For Emma, Forever Ago was made with a very winter sound and Perth is the first song of this second album, so, I think this song sonically reflects the pass of winter to spring
Hands down !!
I'm hypnotized
I'm tearing up across your face
Moved us through the light
To find your name
It's something faint
This is not a place, not yet awake
I'm raised of make
Still alive, who you love
Still alive, who you love
Still alive, who you love
In a mother, out a moth
Furling forests for the soft
Gotta know been lead aloft
So I'm ridding all your stories
What I know, what it is
Is pouring, wire it up
You're breaking your ground
The Brandylion close but no.
not even close
*These are NOT the lyrics*
Like, at all.
I'm here for the first time, i'm crying. Thank you RM, this is gold
Karla Lujan ARMY! Finally! I thought army's would be spamming the comment section tbh
Omg when did RM recommend this song
2016 May and still here for that beginning part. Just addictive
Come back on 2019 bro this song is calling you.
the best Bon Iver song imo. just breathtakingly beautiful and so much power.
Love Bon Iver comment sections
A while ago I sad in the plane from Berlin to Denmark. It was night. I had this song in my ears, while watching Copenhagen by night as we flew. Beautifull lights and darkness mixed together. In all this i thought about the person I am in love with. Made me drop a tear
I literally don't know any context of this song nor did I know about the band but when my boyfriend showed me this song recently, it just fills me with a massive feeling of nostalgia every time I hear it but I don't even picture anything to feel nostalgic about, Is just like the pure feeling smashed onto my face and almost makes me want to cry. I dont know if that's only me but wow... It's a pure masterpice
Oh man, I used to have great taste in music as a kid. I just found my old iPod from when i was at school 12 yers ago and have been going through the songs. This was on it. What a beautiful track. All i listen to now is whatever spotify recommends.
This will always have a special place in my heart
I miss you Heath. We miss you. The world isn't the same without you, and a part of me feels empty without you here. Your work will forever live on with us, the only thing you left us with. I hope you're happy where you are. I hope you're ok
This song is simply amazing! So much emotion.
Justin carries all the sadness we feel and translates that to music.
Glorious.
This song invades my brain every now and then, through some random route. It always takes me way too long to figure out where the little guitar pieces swimming around my head came from, and again and again i realize it's here. This song has such a presence in todays music.
Has me reminiscing about the people i once knew and who are no more
maybe someday someone will think about me while listening to this song, after im gone
Wow, a little piece of our world through a kaleidoscope. Simple yet beautiful. Best viewed on a full screen in my opinion.
One of the songs that I will never forget while I am living. Many feelings ❤️ thank you
I heard this in the biography of Heath Ledger, I knew it was bon iver. How success doesn't exist but still makes people blind. R.I.P. to everyone.
Right up there with some of the best songs of all time.
my favorite Bon Iver song
This album is insanely gorgeous. He really did a good job transferring that aural beauty into these 10 magnificent videos. Absolutely stunning.
Yea, this gotta be my favorite from them. The guitar is undeniable
Thank God for Bon Iver and his incredible ability to fit so much feeling into songs.
Rest easy, Heath. Another beauty from Bon Iver.
This reminds me of the tesseract in Interstellar~ "Love is the one thing that we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space"
where my Perth, WA homies at?
Scarbs
g'day mate, swan view
far away in europe but always there somehow...
Hey here 🤙🇦🇺💋
right hereee
I miss you so much Heath . Happy birthday
I'll never forget the first time I watched this video. I was 17, in the computer lab at my school. Just in awe.
Wow such a magical song. It's like there is the whole world's feelings in it !!
3:37
"Some people are just bigger than the world has room for."
-Benjamin Chase Harper
2:31 gives me goosebumbs
This is Indie-folk/metal. Love the percussion so much.
lol If you want some metal look up Opeth or Dream Theater that is hard hitting drums. Mutemath puts drums in some of their music too. This song reminds me a little of something they would write.
metal ?....oh honey u make me laugh
bro. what? you are genre confused my man
Brendan McDonald Bon Iver is an American indie folk band founded in 2007 by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Iver
Great Wiki search work there, Sapio. You have mastered the internet haha
I only recently discovered Bon Iver, but I love it. Beautiful. God bless yall.
@NSTheWiseOne my favorite quote of all time: "Who needs drugs when music can make you feel on top of the world?"
Heard this live at Forbidden Fruit 2017 in the rain and I think I must have a spiritual experience
I never noticed the guitar sound in 4:06 until now, Minnesota WI starts with the same melody so it continues to the next song of the album
I have heard a loooooooot of music of different genres, almost everyday I listen to different songs and I collect the ones that I like more. But Perth is just in another level. This is the only song that make me feel like this
Its one of the perfect Song in music history..
The percussions are so satisfying!
I LOVE how much Justin LOVES HE HOME. LOVE IT. It' so genuine. Seeing his videos filmed in WI and MN and his WI tattoo. Being born in Texas but raised in WI I feel sooo proud to say this amazing man and his band come from and represent here.
Just the most haunting piece of music I have ever heard, makes me physically ache it’s so beautiful.
3:26 one of the greatest moments in the history of music.
I've never heard of Bon Iver until now and now I would like to hear and see more of his music.
Definitely my favorite song from him!
Rest easy Heath Ledger I love you!❤😞