I found some money lying around in a gutter in Manchester, UK, when i was very, very broke. I could have spent it on booze - and i was very tempted - but i had heard Aimee Mann was in town so i bought the tickets and took my long suffering wife. She loved the gig. When this song came up we were standing quietly at the back of the room. My wife was amazed at my outpouring...and frankly, so was i. But she helped. Very much. Nearly 25 years later. Thank you Aimee. x
@Jerry Lynch, It's very deep & touches your heart ♥️AND soul, just a beautiful song! I sincerely hope your doing well! Everytime I see Magnolia, I think it should have won BEST OSCAR for Picture of the Year & there IS SO MANY ACTORS that deserved an Oscar for their performances!! Such a tale-tell of LIFE, LOVE, LOSS & SUFFERING! A beautiful movie & I really love it too! ♥️😇♥️
I'm a huge fan of your work. The imagery was immensely powerful and I believe now more than ever more people need to see your presentation especially those that reside in Palestine and Israel. But also robotic aliens can benefit too. Your creativity really took my breath away.
I sat on my kitchen floor in January, sobbing and sobbing with this on repeat. I don't know how to make things better exactly but I can try. So I try to look after myself better. I try to make sure I connect with people and if they don't return well it was down to them and not me, I tried. I seem to be in a better way now so I'll keep at it.
Rehab, counseling, weights, yoga, jogging, volunteer work, church, meditation ect. ect. Do ANYTHING positive that you know you should be doing and don't effing stop doing positive things till you figure it out and you're happy.
It's taken me 49 years to figure out that the best self care, for me, was to stop trying so hard all the time. I put on my favourite films, eat delicious food, do what I want when I want (which turns out isn't much). I was exhausted! Do what you truly want to do, not what all the books tell you to do xx
20 years later, going through a really really hard time in my life, and hearing this waking up one morning had me sobbing into my pillow. And you know what? I feel much better. Because things have to get better from here. Thank you Aimee.
Doesn't get much better. Beautiful song, even better voice. Aimee Mann is infinitely better than most people in the charts these day. Sigh. Never got the recognition she deserved.
Apertravel She's got a net worth of four million and a very loyal fan base. She's doing g just fine. Besides, the doped up masses don't deserve genius like this. Meanwhile we're looking into the face of the Goose Snow Cone!
This was the song for me to seek help for addiction. I plan to print off the lyrics and hang them on my wall for my first year of sobriety. “It’s not going to stop” kept echoing throughout this year, but I’m two days away from my one year.
This movie means so much to me.... so much more than even some people have. It's still and will always be my favorite movie of all time. And this song.... perfect to purge some crying if need be.
Currently i watch Community and hear this music in this series for the first time. Yesterday, I watched Magnolia for the first time, not knowing that played here too. Coincidence? I think not.
We have something incredibly long, very confusing, and a little homophobic. And really, really, specifically, surprisingly, and gratuitously critical of Israel.
Hey...I'm guessing since this comment, it's 18 years since your loss. I just hit 12 with my mother. I was 25 when she died and I'm 37 now. I hope you feel better. I still don't but I'm hoping one day I will
Whenever I feel like destroying myself I listen to this and immediately feel like continuing the game of life. God, I wish I could create beauty like this. Thanks Aimee.
I traveled to Brooklyn to stay with some friends and go to NYC for the first time in October of last year... shortly before that I discovered this song. I listened to this song on the flight across the country. I remember, somehow, I met this beautiful woman at a party, convinced her to a date the next day. I made her a CD, this song was on it for sure. We made it back to her place... we put my "autumn 2009 mix" on... memories forever. Especially this song. Will always remind me. Amazing time.
Oh my gosh. I haven't heard this song in over a decade. What a beauty! I had almost forgotten about it. So glad I rediscovered it. I feel like those people in the YT comments that say ive been looking for this song for 20 years. haha
because this song is an accurate description of life for many of us. Like Jack Nicholson said in as good as it gets "Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good."
Too good for this world! This song was breaking me,making me cry and all the pain got unleashed! Terrible pain and tears...but after i was contemplating. I changed a lot of my failures & mistakes. It was healing me from the ice that was covering me for years! Probably one of the sadest,deepest felt songs i ever heard! The dying father & the prodigal son,the pill addicted and the drinker...the ones that want to be good but live was hurting them profoundly...what a MOVIE! And what a SONG! I never forgot,still comes tears when listening,ghosh. But now its more happy tears...because i UNDERSTAND!❤🎉🤷🏼♂️
The film Magnolia had a real effect on my life. It changed the way I saw other people and their struggles and just the shit everyone goes through in life, and that I need to be nice to everyone because everyone you meet is dealing with heavy things all the time in their life.
This has to be my favorite song on the soundtrack of this movie.. Aimee's Vocals haunt and move me when I here her. Thanks Aimee for the gift that you give your fans..
It’s funny. When I feel low, wisening up seems impossible and I bawl my eyes out to this song. When I’m feeling positive the song pushes me to try harder. I’m glad (to read in the comments) it works the other way round for those who are in a dark place. I hope every day to come is easier for you.
It's so silent but exploding in your mind. Thank you Madame, thanks to your song I've written my credo poem. I've gave up and I've started sticking to really important things.
I don't know what's more beautiful... this, save me, her cover of one or Magnolia in which PTA managed to beautifully weave all three into a wonderful tale about the pursuit of happiness.
This song gives me the feels every single time I hear it. The emotions it evokes make me uncomfortable to say the least. I am a recovering addict who has left a wake of damage in my past. I finally wised up. Things are not perfect or even how I'd like them to be, but at least I'm not addicted to something that was going to kill me sooner than need be. If you are struggling with alcoholism/addiction, do yourself a favor-reach out for help-you can't beat them on your own. The heaviest thing in the world can be a cell phone-but pick it up anyway. Call someone and share what you're experiencing. and ask them if they can help you find the hep you need. No matter how bad you have made a mess of your life and hurt those around you-you deserve a chance to change. You deserve a chance to heal, you deserve a chance to love and to be loved. You deserve to live. Be well my friends...
March 2021, i had a few days with no alcohol or klonopin, & this thought came to me: "... if i don't drink, & do pills, that doesn't mean my life's gonna be all great or something, it's life, any weird thing can happen, who knows how it will go, but if i don't stop, & keep going like i have been, i've got a pretty good idea where that's going to go." & then i ran into an old neighbor who had a few years sober, & i told him about that thought i'd just had, & he said, "naw, you don't have a pretty good idea of how that goes, you know exactly ..." & he was right, & we're still here, dealing with whatever life has for us ... 🙏💜🕯️🌱🐾👣🌿🌎🕊️ Edit: have 2 other song/poems ... ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ 1. Kae Tempest, Peoples Faces. th-cam.com/video/gYBaNahELn8/w-d-xo.html ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ 2.poem by Chelan Harkin, The Worst Thing We Ever Did. th-cam.com/video/kJIcPdKwKas/w-d-xo.html ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️
For me it was shooting cocaine, but I heard this song for the first time years after I had quit. I have listened to this so many times because it is a reflection of who I used to be, and Steeles, my resolve to never go back. I am a wiser man.
My name is Claudia. This song and the movie Magnolia mean a lot to me as well. Not because one of the characters shares my name but because of the experiences I share with her. My dxug of choice was never you know what she was doing but opiates. No better or worse of a choice of escape. This song and movie have helped me find pride in myself again and the courage to change me and my life. God bless everyone struggling out there as I still do but I'm still here kicking and if I can even help one other person out there to keep kicking too then maybe my life and theirs will be worth something. Happy 2022 to everyone!
Anyone having reached the realization of having a choice to go down 2 paths and being aware of the consequences of one and wising up to taking the other less traveled, chooses the latter with courage that is love. It is about letting go before getting better.
I don't think it's about giving up, more like letting go of your own stubbornness in refusing to accept a bad situation and make the decisions needed to move on to a better place.
just give up, in my opinion is not referring to quitting, its about surrendering, choosing life, when to continue with status quo, both mentally and physically, would mean certain death.
People don't want to hear this but I really think she means just "give up" because it's hopeless to fight whatever you're fighting. But she really means, I think, is rationalizing the sequence of events, so whatever is happening is going to continue happening, until you understand that you can't fight it and just give up. It's not at all clear what in the song is being "given up." The conflicts in the film are a series of unhappy coincidences, but the rain of frogs is literally outside of logic. That's why I think it's juxtaposed with the sequence of the police officer falling in love after all the terrible, unhappy things are revealed. The characters in the story don't seem at all involved but they are all intertwined and there is a love story at the center of it, but nobody watching the film could see the movie being that. I suspect that's kind of what the director was going for. You don't really know where the story is going, so stop trying to know, or, "give up."
Yes. This is exactly right. Give up and Wise Up. Give up trying to find ground. In the search for ground, we are running away from the discomfort and dis-ease, which seems like the right thing to do, but when we look for ease or comfort, it is usually in temporal and short-lived things, people, and events. There is a kind of self-loathing in this. When we Give Up, we are actually allowing our vulnerability to be cracked open like a cave shrouded in darkness for millennia that suddenly is filled with yellow noise, sunlight. Where did the darkness go? Dark-filled for millenia and out of nowhere the black and dank cavernous hole is enveloped by light. Awareness clears away confusion making us fresh and clean again wich was our birthright. Like the addict who meets their bottom, rusted and worn, they are empty vessels, ready for the light of wisdom to fill them. Ready to wise up. To rise-up. To know that there is wisdom in groundlessness. To know that escaping is temporary, but leaning in is long-term. The Stoics are great examples of living a life of meaning instead of a life of happiness. This happiness ambition we have culturally been indoctrinated into is misguided and may very well be partly why we turn to dopamine delivery systems, instead of placing value on being free from all passions because intrinsically not being temperate in our response to things we are only harming ourselves.
I feel like this should be in the House M.D. soundtrack haha, I came across the song in a hospital commercial and it's stuck with me ever since :) Great song.
This song has the ability to bring me back from all the white notice and return to Innerstanding again. A place where the inner can heal the outer world in beautiful vulnerability.
The greatest truth in a movie and a most amazing theme song..such wisdom in these verses. Just as it is that easy, it is just that hard. It is up to you, you must wise up. For the family that never was.
If I'm not mistaken, the story is JT Anderson (Magnolia producer) heard this song and decided to create a movie around it, he was so moved. That's how Aimee got the whole soundtrack, and is the meaning of the whole movie
@@windh Oh, Christ! Sorry! P.T. Anderson, not "J.T.". What a fucking mistake! "By the time he started writing the script, Anderson was listening to the music of his friend Aimee Mann.[8] He used her first two solo albums and demo tracks for her upcoming third album, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo, as a basis and inspiration;[12] he said he "sat down to write an adaptation of Aimee Mann songs"." Take the links off the wiki page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_(film) You're an asshole
This is a really powerful song, what exactly that means, is different to everyone. I'm certain Aimee wasn't able to see the impact it would make on so many different people. Either way, a great song, by a great writer!
+Patricio Quiroga magnolia is not a bad movie: you can see the really tom kkkruise;) : superficial,stupid,like reality,like the member of scientology;)! Is not enought for you? The song is great! You dont like magnolia? Who cares! Stay well hombre! Che no pasà nada! Hasta la victoria!Siempre!
@@danhartwigPerch I was lost in my addiction for over 4 decades until I wised up to the fact that I wasn't hurting myself I was hurting a those who loves me. Today I'm 16 months clean and sober from alcohol and drugs. Hopefully I have finally wised up
don't ever let anyone ever say to you you shouldn't regret anything. Don't do that. Don't! You regret what you fucking want! Use that. Use that. Use that regret for anything, any way you want
When I was a kid (I was born in 1973) I was always in love with Aimee Mann. I had the walls of my room covered with 'Til Tuesday posters. Now, I'm 39 years old and Aimee Mann is every bit as good looking as she ever was. I do miss her long braid that she used to wear, though. I really miss that entire hairstyle. She's hot both ways though. Kelly Preston is God's gift to us guys... but Aimee Mann is very close.
Aimee’s gift to the world is so so so very much greater than simply being attractive to men. Jeez man, think with the head on your shoulders and not the one in your pants and give credit where credit is due lol 🤷♂️🙄🤦♂️😂🍻
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I found some money lying around in a gutter in Manchester, UK, when i was very, very broke. I could have spent it on booze - and i was very tempted - but i had heard Aimee Mann was in town so i bought the tickets and took my long suffering wife. She loved the gig. When this song came up we were standing quietly at the back of the room. My wife was amazed at my outpouring...and frankly, so was i. But she helped. Very much. Nearly 25 years later. Thank you Aimee. x
Beautiful..just beautiful
I'm trying not to cry every time I watch her videos. But..
The power of one single song.. bless you friend!
💙 💚💙
This song helped me get sober. 11 clean years later and it still moves me to tears
You are my hero
What a beautifully moving song for you. Congratulations. I dont think I'll hear this song the same again ❤
LilyOfTheTower ❤️
No it did not. You helped yourself, if you are being at all truthful.
Good job.
This song helped me go to rehab. Magnolia is very special to me
Força Amigo! You can! Abraço
@Jerry Lynch, It's very deep & touches your heart ♥️AND soul, just a beautiful song! I sincerely hope your doing well! Everytime I see Magnolia, I think it should have won BEST OSCAR for Picture of the Year & there IS SO MANY ACTORS that deserved an Oscar for their performances!! Such a tale-tell of LIFE, LOVE, LOSS & SUFFERING! A beautiful movie & I really love it too! ♥️😇♥️
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@James Morley I believe in it💝 All the best to you!
GOD BLESS you
I recently gave a Spanish presentation at my Community College and used this song. The teacher was so impressed they gave me an S! Huge thanks, Aimee!
I'm a huge fan of your work. The imagery was immensely powerful and I believe now more than ever more people need to see your presentation especially those that reside in Palestine and Israel. But also robotic aliens can benefit too. Your creativity really took my breath away.
S as in streets ahead? That must've been a barnburner of a presentation.
"I'll get the costumes"
"Costumes? These are short conversations. It's not supposed to take-"
"Your breath away?"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Pierce Hawthorne wipes
Man that presentation was streets ahead!! Especially in todays geopolitical climate and yes.. It took my breath away
I sat on my kitchen floor in January, sobbing and sobbing with this on repeat. I don't know how to make things better exactly but I can try. So I try to look after myself better. I try to make sure I connect with people and if they don't return well it was down to them and not me, I tried. I seem to be in a better way now so I'll keep at it.
Rehab, counseling, weights, yoga, jogging, volunteer work, church, meditation ect. ect. Do ANYTHING positive that you know you should be doing and don't effing stop doing positive things till you figure it out and you're happy.
It's taken me 49 years to figure out that the best self care, for me, was to stop trying so hard all the time. I put on my favourite films, eat delicious food, do what I want when I want (which turns out isn't much). I was exhausted! Do what you truly want to do, not what all the books tell you to do xx
@@frankie1525 Cool, you keep being you.
You have an abiding strength. I'm amazed at the changes people (including me) have made.
Love yourself like you're your own best friend.
20 years later, going through a really really hard time in my life, and hearing this waking up one morning had me sobbing into my pillow. And you know what? I feel much better. Because things have to get better from here. Thank you Aimee.
Hey, how are you? I hope you're okay buddy
When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up. I've had to learn that recently.
I hope a year on you're in a better place. Just keep heading in the right direction
I have followed Aimee’s songwriting over the past thirty three years, and I never tire of listening to her timeless songs. Thank you Aimee.
Watched Magnolia when I was a new dad. Years later I showed this movie to my adult kids. They were astounded.
This song is so powerful on so many levels. I'm a huge Aimee Mann fan
Doesn't get much better. Beautiful song, even better voice. Aimee Mann is infinitely better than most people in the charts these day. Sigh. Never got the recognition she deserved.
Apertravel She's got a net worth of four million and a very loyal fan base. She's doing g just fine. Besides, the doped up masses don't deserve genius like this. Meanwhile we're looking into the face of the Goose Snow Cone!
She did retry damn good. Plus she was o Portlandia. ;)
Best song on the Magnolia soundtrack. Interesting it was not initially released with the rest of the album
This was the song for me to seek help for addiction. I plan to print off the lyrics and hang them on my wall for my first year of sobriety. “It’s not going to stop” kept echoing throughout this year, but I’m two days away from my one year.
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Congrats
I pray you’ve made it to year 2.
@@UrbanLegend526 happy to say I’m 2.5 years sober next month. ❤️
So happy for you. One day at a time...
This is probably my all-time favorite Aimee Mann song, and she has a lot of great ones. It never fails to make me emotional.
This movie means so much to me.... so much more than even some people have. It's still and will always be my favorite movie of all time. And this song.... perfect to purge some crying if need be.
I feel you
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that movie changed my life too
A movie that stays with u
My favourite movie too
Currently i watch Community and hear this music in this series for the first time. Yesterday, I watched Magnolia for the first time, not knowing that played here too. Coincidence? I think not.
The movie was based around themes and insights from her lyrics. She was dating PT Anderson when he made the movie.
This song in magnolia is a thing. I'm surprised more people didn't copy it as they usually do.
that movie is stunning, man.
You lyin
Sounds like
A
Good
Time
Chang: It's not supposed to take--
Jeff: Your breath away?
@Not Your Usual Media Did you say S?
We have something incredibly long, very confusing, and a little homophobic. And really, really, specifically, surprisingly, and gratuitously critical of Israel.
Ahhhhh... Hemingway's Lemonade...
This and Just Like Anyone.
The best thing I ever did for myself was to give up. Much love from a huge fan in Canada Aimee. You saved me from myself. Thank you.
🇨🇦❤️🙏🍻
WAY TO GO! so happy for you! Sending hugs!
Give up what exactly if you don’t mind me asking
My mother died 15 years ago today. This was one of our all time favorite songs.
Sorry 😟💔 sending love....❤❤
Stay beautiful
24 years for me & still hurts ❤
Hey...I'm guessing since this comment, it's 18 years since your loss. I just hit 12 with my mother. I was 25 when she died and I'm 37 now. I hope you feel better. I still don't but I'm hoping one day I will
Life changing film Magnolia 1999 and reinforced my undying love for songstress Aimee Mann ❤
That was the first time I heard it. The movie used it powerfully.
Magnolia brought me here. Because I cannot get this scene out of my head.
Don't let it.
The book says: "We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."
What book?
@@Dangerops69 probably that one book about the great big imaginary man in the sky
@@elscourou6654 @KarateNinjaDude must be paraphrasing, then.
@@elscourou6654 hahaha...it'd have to be! Can't recall seeing the word 'ain't' in that big fairy tale book that I was forced to read as a kid!
@@Dangerops69 its from a movie: magnolia :)
Jeebus. I've loved Aimee for decades. She never fails to amaze me. Her music just grows to epic proportions.
Whenever I feel like destroying myself I listen to this and immediately feel like continuing the game of life. God, I wish I could create beauty like this. Thanks Aimee.
I traveled to Brooklyn to stay with some friends and go to NYC for the first time in October of last year... shortly before that I discovered this song. I listened to this song on the flight across the country. I remember, somehow, I met this beautiful woman at a party, convinced her to a date the next day. I made her a CD, this song was on it for sure. We made it back to her place... we put my "autumn 2009 mix" on... memories forever. Especially this song. Will always remind me. Amazing time.
Oh my gosh. I haven't heard this song in over a decade. What a beauty! I had almost forgotten about it. So glad I rediscovered it. I feel like those people in the YT comments that say ive been looking for this song for 20 years. haha
Nothing in life hits me quite like this song.
because this song is an accurate description of life for many of us. Like Jack Nicholson said in as good as it gets "Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good."
Tony Contini me too
That's very nice. Thanks.
0wonderful and in the film Magnolia, beautiful enough to cry 👍💋
Gosse snow cone is another one that gets me like this one.....
Very beautiful very haunting. Magnolia was a special movie. Terribly underrated.
Superlative performances all around and an unyielding and relentless performance by Tom Cruise. One of his best.
I was bawling when I first watched that scene. Still one of my favorite scenes in movies.
Great movie. No regrets on my end!
Too good for this world! This song was breaking me,making me cry and all the pain got unleashed! Terrible pain and tears...but after i was contemplating. I changed a lot of my failures & mistakes. It was healing me from the ice that was covering me for years! Probably one of the sadest,deepest felt songs i ever heard! The dying father & the prodigal son,the pill addicted and the drinker...the ones that want to be good but live was hurting them profoundly...what a MOVIE! And what a SONG! I never forgot,still comes tears when listening,ghosh. But now its more happy tears...because i UNDERSTAND!❤🎉🤷🏼♂️
This song helped me leave a bad relationship. 🙌🏻🙏🏻❤️ now I’m married, 11 years with 3 kids. Got my happy ending.
Dog. Bless. You. And. Yours
@@christopherwallace3660 Amen. Habelubjia.
The film Magnolia had a real effect on my life. It changed the way I saw other people and their struggles and just the shit everyone goes through in life, and that I need to be nice to everyone because everyone you meet is dealing with heavy things all the time in their life.
This has to be my favorite song on the soundtrack of this movie.. Aimee's Vocals haunt and move me when I here her. Thanks Aimee for the gift that you give your fans..
Beautiful song, timeless just like the movie; and Tom Cruise’s finest acting performance to date.
He really should have won the Oscar that year.
One of the best actors: Phillip Seymour Hofmann .... I miss him!
(a tribute to him!)
amen
Omg Yes! I watched Boogie nights last night and i said to myself " omg such a talented actor. Just brilliant & i miss him."
So ironic that Phillip Seymour Hoffman could have benefited from this song’s message.
This song is a priceless jewel! Thanks Aimee! ❤
It’s funny.
When I feel low, wisening up seems impossible and I bawl my eyes out to this song. When I’m feeling positive the song pushes me to try harder.
I’m glad (to read in the comments) it works the other way round for those who are in a dark place. I hope every day to come is easier for you.
It's so silent but exploding in your mind. Thank you Madame, thanks to your song I've written my credo poem. I've gave up and I've started sticking to really important things.
This is one of my favorite songs. It's from my favorite movie.
One of my favorite movie too.
All the soundtrack album is nice
My favorite Film in the World...Paul Thomas Anderson is amazing...
Cruise got paid scale...and , I swear , it's his best performance imo
hocuspocusfocusable Cruise's best performance was in Born on the fourth of July.
Try the song "In The Deep" by Bird York. (and if you haven't seen the film "Crash" you should take the time to watch it too).
Chris Morris' JAM made me aware of this song. What an unsettling but visually stunning TV show.
I don't know what's more beautiful... this, save me, her cover of one or Magnolia in which PTA managed to beautifully weave all three into a wonderful tale about the pursuit of happiness.
Wow. That hit me x
Im a man of constant sorrow. listening to this gives me one SECOND in a lifetime that I prize more than life itself !
Community and Magnolia…
The two greatest things ever created that used this song perfectly each in their own way.
This song gives me the feels every single time I hear it. The emotions it evokes make me uncomfortable to say the least. I am a recovering addict who has left a wake of damage in my past. I finally wised up. Things are not perfect or even how I'd like them to be, but at least I'm not addicted to something that was going to kill me sooner than need be. If you are struggling with alcoholism/addiction, do yourself a favor-reach out for help-you can't beat them on your own. The heaviest thing in the world can be a cell phone-but pick it up anyway. Call someone and share what you're experiencing. and ask them if they can help you find the hep you need. No matter how bad you have made a mess of your life and hurt those around you-you deserve a chance to change. You deserve a chance to heal, you deserve a chance to love and to be loved. You deserve to live. Be well my friends...
March 2021, i had a few days with no alcohol or klonopin,
& this thought came to me:
"... if i don't drink, & do pills, that doesn't mean my life's gonna be all great or something, it's life, any weird thing can happen, who knows how it will go,
but if i don't stop, & keep going like i have been, i've got a pretty good idea where that's going to go."
& then i ran into an old neighbor who had a few years sober, & i told him about that thought i'd just had, & he said,
"naw, you don't have a pretty good idea of how that goes, you know exactly ..."
& he was right,
& we're still here,
dealing with whatever life has for us ...
🙏💜🕯️🌱🐾👣🌿🌎🕊️
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2.poem by Chelan Harkin, The Worst Thing We Ever Did.
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For me it was shooting cocaine, but I heard this song for the first time years after I had quit. I have listened to this so many times because it is a reflection of who I used to be, and Steeles, my resolve to never go back. I am a wiser man.
My name is Claudia. This song and the movie Magnolia mean a lot to me as well. Not because one of the characters shares my name but because of the experiences I share with her. My dxug of choice was never you know what she was doing but opiates. No better or worse of a choice of escape. This song and movie have helped me find pride in myself again and the courage to change me and my life. God bless everyone struggling out there as I still do but I'm still here kicking and if I can even help one other person out there to keep kicking too then maybe my life and theirs will be worth something. Happy 2022 to everyone!
claudia is a beautiful name
@@jamesd.salehi4752 thank you so very much James. ☺
I heard this on the XFM Ricky Gervais Show and instantly loved it. what a lovely song!
Breno Renno Grilo
“Buy-on Ferry”
The Jamaican fella says hello to his mate. Aye Me Man
this song is so beautiful I can’t sing one word of it without my voice cracking
Anyone having reached the realization of having a choice to go down 2 paths and being aware of the consequences of one and wising up to taking the other less traveled, chooses the latter with courage that is love. It is about letting go before getting better.
Every now and again I listen to this and I wonder if I have wised up yet. At 50, I think I am starting to get it.
I got it at 50. 4 years later and things are perfect. Really, perfect.
Probably one of the best soundtracks to any movie.
This song speaks the words of being powerless over your own problems. Sometimes you just have to give up.
I don't think it's about giving up, more like letting go of your own stubbornness in refusing to accept a bad situation and make the decisions needed to move on to a better place.
just give up, in my opinion is not referring to quitting, its about surrendering, choosing life, when to continue with status quo, both mentally and physically, would mean certain death.
Steve George Perfecto
Steve George thank you
People don't want to hear this but I really think she means just "give up" because it's hopeless to fight whatever you're fighting. But she really means, I think, is rationalizing the sequence of events, so whatever is happening is going to continue happening, until you understand that you can't fight it and just give up. It's not at all clear what in the song is being "given up."
The conflicts in the film are a series of unhappy coincidences, but the rain of frogs is literally outside of logic. That's why I think it's juxtaposed with the sequence of the police officer falling in love after all the terrible, unhappy things are revealed. The characters in the story don't seem at all involved but they are all intertwined and there is a love story at the center of it, but nobody watching the film could see the movie being that. I suspect that's kind of what the director was going for. You don't really know where the story is going, so stop trying to know, or, "give up."
Yes. This is exactly right. Give up and Wise Up. Give up trying to find ground. In the search for ground, we are running away from the discomfort and dis-ease, which seems like the right thing to do, but when we look for ease or comfort, it is usually in temporal and short-lived things, people, and events. There is a kind of self-loathing in this. When we Give Up, we are actually allowing our vulnerability to be cracked open like a cave shrouded in darkness for millennia that suddenly is filled with yellow noise, sunlight. Where did the darkness go? Dark-filled for millenia and out of nowhere the black and dank cavernous hole is enveloped by light. Awareness clears away confusion making us fresh and clean again wich was our birthright. Like the addict who meets their bottom, rusted and worn, they are empty vessels, ready for the light of wisdom to fill them. Ready to wise up. To rise-up. To know that there is wisdom in groundlessness. To know that escaping is temporary, but leaning in is long-term. The Stoics are great examples of living a life of meaning instead of a life of happiness. This happiness ambition we have culturally been indoctrinated into is misguided and may very well be partly why we turn to dopamine delivery systems, instead of placing value on being free from all passions because intrinsically not being temperate in our response to things we are only harming ourselves.
FWIW, I found it extremely helpful to accept that death _is_ certain, regardless of my choices.
one of the most memorable moments in cinema. a damn good listen on its own as well! love Aimee!
I listened to the Magnolia soundtrack on repeat after leaving an abusive relationship, and it gave me strength to move forward.
Good for you. Keep kicking ass.
one of the Best Albums ever. Such real meaning in these songs
Everyone here fell in love with this song for different reasons, this comment section has so much love and sorrow.💖
I came here for a beautiful song and ended up being equally as moved by all these heartfelt comments. I wish you all the very best
This song makes me at peace with what my body is doing to me. I have fought so long.
Hope you're still with us.
I feel like this should be in the House M.D. soundtrack haha, I came across the song in a hospital commercial and it's stuck with me ever since :) Great song.
This song has the ability to bring me back from all the white notice and return to Innerstanding again. A place where the inner can heal the outer world in beautiful vulnerability.
The greatest truth in a movie and a most amazing theme song..such wisdom in these verses. Just as it is that easy, it is just that hard. It is up to you, you must wise up. For the family that never was.
One of my favourite film scenes ever, just so weird, and oddly powerful.
Are you ready amigo?
Si.
I was looking for this comment. Glad I found it.
Perfecto comentario en español dentro de mucho inglés... Está canción es hermosa al igual que tu comentario bro,
Saludos desde Puebla Mx.
F, F minus
@@djcobrismo Huh... wha... did you say S? (ah it's not the same through text, half the funny is in the face Mr Chase makes when he asks that)
@@djcobrismo Did you say S?
thank you for this song.Aimee it inspires me
Aimee Mann has one of the most beautiful voices ever shes amazing.
My mate recommended this song after I split up with a girl. I still haven't forgiven him. Lol
Adam Subtract just imagine the same thing happened...but in the '90s
He loved you.
Nice showcase of how a simple upright piano bit with the right vocal melody is just killer.
And she did it before it was fashionable for every artist to do one of these songs.
If I'm not mistaken, the story is JT Anderson (Magnolia producer) heard this song and decided to create a movie around it, he was so moved. That's how Aimee got the whole soundtrack, and is the meaning of the whole movie
Truth?
Any interviews, links to backup?
Oh boy. So many facts wrong here, don't know where to start.. "JT Anderson, the Producer...." Christ.
@@windh Oh, Christ! Sorry! P.T. Anderson, not "J.T.". What a fucking mistake!
"By the time he started writing the script, Anderson was listening to the music of his friend Aimee Mann.[8] He used her first two solo albums and demo tracks for her upcoming third album, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo, as a basis and inspiration;[12] he said he "sat down to write an adaptation of Aimee Mann songs"."
Take the links off the wiki page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_(film)
You're an asshole
This is a really powerful song, what exactly that means, is different to everyone. I'm certain Aimee wasn't able to see the impact it would make on so many different people. Either way, a great song, by a great writer!
Who else thinks this is a great song for this pandemic right now?
Tal cual !
This is perfect for those of us who have endured abuse at the hands of those who claim they love us, who punish us so that we can change.
i will never forget you.
rest in peace, my dear.
What a poignant, powerful, singular piece. Top pedestal, from the ground up.
Absolutely Beautiful....... Thank you!!!!
I'm not reflecting on my life and past decisions while crying. You are.
guilty as charged
That is, in fact, what I'm doing right now - sobbing.
Opposite!
Favorite characters in the movie were Officer Jim, Claudia and Phil. Such a powerful movie. Had an impact on me. Love Aimee Mann.
PTA is a legend.
Thinking of all the moments at night, in the early years of Hospital life. At night, and the day of the living, third floor routines.
Magnolia amazing movie
que les gusta tanto de esa pelicula? yo la he visto 3 veces y no la encuentro maravillosa
Sorry dude have no idea what you are saying :(
That they like so much of this movie? I her have seen 3 times and do not find her wonderful?
+Patricio Quiroga magnolia is not a bad movie: you can see the really tom kkkruise;) : superficial,stupid,like reality,like the member of scientology;)! Is not enought for you? The song is great!
You dont like magnolia? Who cares! Stay well hombre! Che no pasà nada!
Hasta la victoria!Siempre!
Stingodisanto. la encuentro muy sobrevaloradaaaaaaaa
Just heard this whilst watching Magnolia - stoned. What a tune!
I like to watch it drunk. Punches me in the feels, all of its pretensions accepted.
Magnolia! Such a beautiful song
ALLWAYS loved that voice !!!
Jeff and Pierce
Suckitandsee 17 glad to see I'm not the only one who thought that! 😀
hahahahahahha
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Is that a gun club reference?
Who's Jeff and pierce?
The song that made quit drugs
gracefull mess I’m on coke right now listening,I respect u
@@danhartwigPerch I was lost in my addiction for over 4 decades until I wised up to the fact that I wasn't hurting myself I was hurting a those who loves me. Today I'm 16 months clean and sober from alcohol and drugs. Hopefully I have finally wised up
Really? This song makes me start drinking again
@@danhartwigPerch checking in on you. You OK?
Sarah Reinbolt I’m Good🦄
The most emotionally intelligent song I think I’ve ever heard
Hands down the best addiction/recovery song ever, my sponsor told me to listen to this years ago
beautiful! And my favorite move of all time...
"You ready, amigo?"
"Si."
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F, F-.
- Did he say "S"?
Don't ever give up , Wise up and make good choices. I'ts all up to you in the end.
Yeah, that's it!
don't ever let anyone ever say to you you shouldn't regret anything. Don't do that. Don't! You regret what you fucking want! Use that. Use that. Use that regret for anything, any way you want
Nice
@@somchaokuhne9906 is that sarcasm I detect?
Don't give up on your life or your self but give up on hopeless situations before you go down with the ship
Had forgotten how good this song is
Anatomy of a Scandal. Thats the reason im here. ♥️♥️♥️
soundtrack of Magnolia, one of the best movies, I´ve ever seen in my life.....
"F, F minus"
"did he say S ?"
Thank you caloo9bu,for uploading this song,and the beautiful picture of Aimee Mann.
The combination of her looks and her voice takes me to wonderful places.
Fantastic voice!
When I was a kid (I was born in 1973) I was always in love with Aimee Mann. I had the walls of my room covered with 'Til Tuesday posters. Now, I'm 39 years old and Aimee Mann is every bit as good looking as she ever was. I do miss her long braid that she used to wear, though. I really miss that entire hairstyle. She's hot both ways though. Kelly Preston is God's gift to us guys... but Aimee Mann is very close.
Aimee’s gift to the world is so so so very much greater than simply being attractive to men. Jeez man, think with the head on your shoulders and not the one in your pants and give credit where credit is due lol
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I finally understand everything about this song.
I hate how I learned it.
and she's a darn good songwriter to boot..........
The most emotional moment in "Magnolia". P.T.
i’m an (unfortunately still active) alcoholic & this song hits so hard.
Terrific song. Thanx for posting.