I've always imagined that Cowded House got tired of being told they sound like The Beatles, and they finally said, if we REALLY wanted to sound like The Beatles we could, and they recorded this song to prove it! 😆
I cried the day Paul Hester passed over even though I never met him and he wouldn't have known me if I stood up in his soup. I guess it's because I've always found Crowded House/Neil Finn songs touch me on a personal level and I feel like I'm included as part of a bigger family with them. When I see Paul in videos I'm so grateful he shared his talent and humour with the World but sad he couldn't stay. As a man only a few years younger than Paul who has been battling depression for years I think I understand. I hope he is at peace.
Oh yes mate, I SO know what you mean, such a lover of life it seemed... Hang in there & enjoy the music as a sustenance when all else fails, as I do... Paul ended it all in our local park, where I used to take our kids to for a play. It was just after my marriage broke down and I was as distraught for him as for me when the news reported someone "in the know" saying that they didn't believe he'd died of a broken heart... "how the f%ck would YOU know?!?" is what I'd screamed out... RIP, Paul is still very much well loved indeed..
I absolutely understand how bittersweet Crowded House are to listen to because of losing Paul. It's literally a knife in the gut feeling. He was quirky, witty, talented but terribly wounded too. I saw him in interview with Andrew Denton + remember feeling afraid for him. I remember being stunned when I heard he died. I love the playfulness of their videos but forever tinged with sadness. I see that struggle in my beautiful son + pray he can find a way to reconcile his emotions. That it becomes bearable or even pleasurable enough to want stay. I pray the same for u too🥺🌻
This song holds so many many personal memories for me… for one… I was in Sydney, the first time I heard this being played on the radio. . One thing is for sure… I still bloody miss Hessie
Me too. I'm listening to it right now because I told a friend that I won at a horse show, but I really didn't. I didn't even show up 😞 Just didn't feel like competing yesterday, but I told my family in Ireland that I did. I'm really good at the horses, just... No😞
Just noticed this sounds like it must have been a massive influence for Eliot Smith. This one has always been a favorite of mine. Simple and perfect - and the touch of perfect, unmistakably-Finn harmonies - it's a nice Waltz hat trick with Angel's Heap and All I Ask. Today is the day I learn this one on guitar - a journey started with the quarantine shows. Thanks for being Neil, Neil.
I'd love to know what message Crowded House meant to convey through this tune. I find it incredibly sad and uplifting at the same time. It plays with my emotions and I hear it in different colours every time I play it. Just Beautiful.
This has been a song on my playlist for years, and it never fades for me. It's like time travel, taking me to other times, places and feelings. Thank you.
This song makes me feel really sad for some reason. Maybe it’s because I understand what the girl in the song is about, never knowing where you fit, never feeling quite right, never making connections. It’s about loneliness and kidding yourself everything is alright.
Really sounds like a missing track from "The Beatles" (alias White Album), something that would fit alongside "Long, Long, Long," "Cry Baby Cry," and "Can You Take Me Back." Very hushed and intriguing.
I think its about believing in yourself (as a woman) and trusting in deserving a good love. You're not the girl you think you are - because youre more magical than that. Thats how I hear it.
"_The bathroom mirror makes you look tall but is all in your head, you are not the girl you think you are.", these lines... ❤👌 Um verdadeiro soco na cara dos iludidos de plantão. 💔
It sounds like kind of Great Lennon & the fabs's strong skill craft and their forever voices' prints variations, somewhere.. 🎶🎵 Beautiful and graceful tribute, anyway ! 🎤
Watched the film Perfect Strangers last night and was stopped dead in my tracks by this beautiful song, I honestly thought it was Lennon singing, until I remembered it was Crowded House from years ago. Magnificent.
I've always loved this song, and have never been able to listen to it the same way after it was played at the end of the 2003 film 'Perfect Strangers' featuring Sam Neill and Rachael Blake. Fantastic little low budget movie which analyses desperation, identity, extremes and obsession. Well worth a watch :)
Even though this movie was very dark and deep, I loved it…and the song at the end couldn’t have been more perfect. I love this song, but it does make me feel a bit sad.
Even though this movie was very dark and deep, I loved it…and the song at the end couldn’t have been more perfect. I love this song, but it does make me feel a bit sad.
This song, his voice, it’s so like a John Lennon song. I love it ❤ the only other John Lennon like song out there was done by John Lennons son, Julian Lennon with the song Saltwater which I also really love
I love that the beautiful comments below relate to John Lennon and The Beatles, but this song and so many more are pure Neil Finn ...... please check out their music from 1986 onwards or take a look at Split Enz from the late 70's ..... who do you see, the brothers Finn! Amazing vocalists, amazing bands, just hidden away in New Zealand and Australia for soooo many years
I think that this song didn't get radio airplay, and that's because it came right at the end of Crowded House's time together and consequently wasn't on a studio album.
I got dumped by a gal I fell for that had nothing to offer other than being skinny..I feel like sending her the lyrics to this as I suffer in pain, however I'm not wired to be a bad guy :(
What the hell does this song even mean? What is her excuse? And why does she have only one excuse in a million, an excuse for what? This song makes no sense. Whose shoes are under her bed? Does this mean the man she loves is lying to her? but then why will he tell her the truth and not decieve her? Is it because the man is a psychopath and tries to manipulate her into loving him by telling her she can trust him? I just don't get it.
Seriously! Do you need a literal interpretation for your own narrative? Are you that shallow with no imagination? If so, just stick to a fecking dictionary!
@@oldfartinthenight9201 thanks kevin! Do you mind enlightening me? What's your interpretation? I think the reason why I find this song so confusing is because I am actually a woman and I can not empathize with the woman in this song because she is the interpretation of what a woman is by a man. And men have got some funny ideas about what a woman is. So please, tell me what this woman's problem is.
I don't know if there was a specific meaning attached to each of the lyrics. Quite possibly. Either way, I think the song as a whole has a very distinctive mood to it that honestly means more to me than whatever the lyrics might have been intended to say.
I kind of understood it was about a woman with trust issues, who equal parts loved and disliked herself. Probably had bad experiences with men in the past. Almost feels like a third-person narration of the situation, I never really saw it from the perspective of the man trying to convince her he's a good person. The focus is on her too much, and little things only an insecure person (like myself!) would think. P.S. "Shoes under your bed" - at least, as it was explain to me by my grandma - meant he was going to love you and leave you the next day (like a booty call lmao)
Neil Finn at his most Beatle-esque.This sounds just like a Lennon tune. Timeless and wonderful.
No, it’ more Lennon I guess
@@PhilWmusic You know what, I agree in hindsight. Very Lennon.
YES ! YES ! 🎶🕺
Indeed!
It is. This could pass as a Beatles song.
I absolutely adore this song. I played it endlessly as a 19-year-old
The greatest Lennon impersonation on the planet. And an amazing song to boot. Neil really is all kinds of awesome.
I've always imagined that Cowded House got tired of being told they sound like The Beatles, and they finally said, if we REALLY wanted to sound like The Beatles we could, and they recorded this song to prove it! 😆
Better than the dirge-y Beatles.
More depth and sincerity.
@@starshake8998 I think Neil Finn said, believe it or not, that he was quite unaware that it sounded so Lennonesque.
I cried the day Paul Hester passed over even though I never met him and he wouldn't have known me if I stood up in his soup.
I guess it's because I've always found Crowded House/Neil Finn songs touch me on a personal level and I feel like I'm included as part of a bigger family with them.
When I see Paul in videos I'm so grateful he shared his talent and humour with the World but sad he couldn't stay.
As a man only a few years younger than Paul who has been battling depression for years I think I understand.
I hope he is at peace.
Oh yes mate, I SO know what you mean, such a lover of life it seemed...
Hang in there & enjoy the music as a sustenance when all else fails, as I do...
Paul ended it all in our local park, where I used to take our kids to for a play.
It was just after my marriage broke down and I was as distraught for him as for me when the news reported someone "in the know" saying that they didn't believe he'd died of a broken heart... "how the f%ck would YOU know?!?" is what I'd screamed out... RIP, Paul is still very much well loved indeed..
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Well said. That news hit me with sadness also when Paul Hester passed. RIP to him.
I absolutely understand how bittersweet Crowded House are to listen to because of losing Paul. It's literally a knife in the gut feeling. He was quirky, witty, talented but terribly wounded too. I saw him in interview with Andrew Denton + remember feeling afraid for him. I remember being stunned when I heard he died. I love the playfulness of their videos but forever tinged with sadness.
I see that struggle in my beautiful son + pray he can find a way to reconcile his emotions. That it becomes bearable or even pleasurable enough to want stay. I pray the same for u too🥺🌻
Hester's brushwork is beautiful on this song...
This song gave me goosebumps when it first came out... and it still does now!
My goodness, haven’t heard this for years! Used to make my fingers bleed learning to play it. A thing of beauty.
This song holds so many many personal memories for me… for one… I was in Sydney, the first time I heard this being played on the radio. . One thing is for sure… I still bloody miss Hessie
God, how I love this band. I have been hooked on this song since the first time I heard it in the mid 90s. Fantastic 😊
Me too. I'm listening to it right now because I told a friend that I won at a horse show, but I really didn't. I didn't even show up 😞
Just didn't feel like competing yesterday, but I told my family in Ireland that I did. I'm really good at the horses, just... No😞
Just noticed this sounds like it must have been a massive influence for Eliot Smith.
This one has always been a favorite of mine. Simple and perfect - and the touch of perfect, unmistakably-Finn harmonies - it's a nice Waltz hat trick with Angel's Heap and All I Ask.
Today is the day I learn this one on guitar - a journey started with the quarantine shows. Thanks for being Neil, Neil.
I'd say it's more like both nf and es are heavily influenced by the beatles.
Crowded house really just sounds like an 80s styled beatles (but also with their original and unique sound)
This is an absolute gem. The gentle rhythm guitar is so beautiful. Wonderful singing, just love the ending
I'd love to know what message Crowded House meant to convey through this tune. I find it incredibly sad and uplifting at the same time. It plays with my emotions and I hear it in different colours every time I play it. Just Beautiful.
i think many of their songs are similar with that mix of emotions. i love all their music! you made a really astute observation - thank you
Remember buying a best of CD back in 96 at Uni halls of residence. This track was a new one on it. It became a soundtrack to the year for us. 👍🏻
It’s great song always loved the band they actually getting better each time listening to each track perhaps it reminds of happy times and people
Love listening Crowded House, especially this song
Marvellous music 🎶.
Memories😍 listening to this in my parents house on CD 1997, Mums album.Still love it now……
❤❤❤
This has been a song on my playlist for years, and it never fades for me. It's like time travel, taking me to other times, places and feelings. Thank you.
This so reminds me of the Beatles earlier style of music .Great song .
This song makes me feel really sad for some reason. Maybe it’s because I understand what the girl in the song is about, never knowing where you fit, never feeling quite right, never making connections. It’s about loneliness and kidding yourself everything is alright.
Loneliness while with others.
Well said...
Somethings just don't need an explanation 😅
The world is an illusion but we're real
This is the finest Beatles track John Lennon never wrote.
We lost John and the gods gave us Neil ❤
Whaaaa🤨
Really?
I guess I can kinda see that. But not really.
It'd be kinda cool though
Such a beautiful song..😍❤
What a great tribute to Hessie!
Really sounds like a missing track from "The Beatles" (alias White Album), something that would fit alongside "Long, Long, Long," "Cry Baby Cry," and "Can You Take Me Back." Very hushed and intriguing.
Yes, I can see the link. Has that kind of other world ethereal feel
thats a great tribute
As an 80's teenager, Crowded House was the Beatles for my generation. I don't say that lightly.
@@AJ-ey7gc Totally agree, though I was 23 when CH hit in the U.S.
That was exactly my first thought man
This song keeps playing in my head and I’m trying to learn it’s true meaning 🤔
It's a puzzle for sure. I want to find happiness in it, but I'm pretty sure there isn't.
I think he’s telling her to settle because this man has no drama like the others. Come on, believe you have one in a million.
@@kylie516 thank you
I think its about believing in yourself (as a woman) and trusting in deserving a good love. You're not the girl you think you are - because youre more magical than that. Thats how I hear it.
@@hayamy3583 Thank you. I want to believe. But even their official video says otherwise.
"_The bathroom mirror makes you look tall but is all in your head, you are not the girl you think you are.", these lines... ❤👌
Um verdadeiro soco na cara dos iludidos de plantão. 💔
Bathroom mirror...looking tall...your not the girl you think you are...you are dirty and it's all in your head
It sounds like kind of Great Lennon & the fabs's strong skill craft and their forever voices' prints variations, somewhere.. 🎶🎵 Beautiful and graceful tribute, anyway ! 🎤
Watched the film Perfect Strangers last night and was stopped dead in my tracks by this beautiful song, I honestly thought it was Lennon singing, until I remembered it was Crowded House from years ago. Magnificent.
Pure Magic!!!
I've always loved this song, and have never been able to listen to it the same way after it was played at the end of the 2003 film 'Perfect Strangers' featuring Sam Neill and Rachael Blake. Fantastic little low budget movie which analyses desperation, identity, extremes and obsession. Well worth a watch :)
Even though this movie was very dark and deep, I loved it…and the song at the end couldn’t have been more perfect. I love this song, but it does make me feel a bit sad.
Even though this movie was very dark and deep, I loved it…and the song at the end couldn’t have been more perfect. I love this song, but it does make me feel a bit sad.
Good song Great video....clever!
It doesn't really matter its just excellent stuff 👌.
Beautiful
Still being played at my funeral , regardless of a comment from the band
gorgeous 🇬🇧❤️
Please play this at your Blenheim palace concert . In June . This is my song to my loved one
Perfection
Just Perfect!
underrated...
This song, his voice, it’s so like a John Lennon song. I love it ❤ the only other John Lennon like song out there was done by John Lennons son, Julian Lennon with the song Saltwater which I also really love
Génial ! 🙏
Meravigliosa
I always come back to this song when I know I've lied to myself.
Beauty tune vile video
Sublime
I love that the beautiful comments below relate to John Lennon and The Beatles, but this song and so many more are pure Neil Finn ...... please check out their music from 1986 onwards or take a look at Split Enz from the late 70's ..... who do you see, the brothers Finn!
Amazing vocalists, amazing bands, just hidden away in New Zealand and Australia for soooo many years
This song always reminds me like if it were from the white album of the beatles.
Yes
4 years and only 145 thousand views. Humans are weird.
I think that this song didn't get radio airplay, and that's because it came right at the end of Crowded House's time together and consequently wasn't on a studio album.
This is very clever on the tails of the Beatles crowded house had teachers but still clever so you know how clever the beetles were
God his voice is so sexy on this song x
Lennon influenced but beautiful
Heard this on "Perfect strangers" ending. The movie was kinda terrible, but the song was perfect.
This is songwriting.
It's so beautiful
It really is. Poetry in motion.
Was that Paul in the loo at 2:57?
Yes, that's Paul. "2:57"... eerie coincidence! - Team NF
@@NeilFinnOfficial is that yourself Neil?
@@NeilFinnOfficial @eurochrissy2 so cool that you replied to this question, this is just another reason to adore you...
@@eurochrissy2 Sorry, missed this question until now. No, Neil doesn't personally reply on social media. We look after the posts for him. - Team NF
I got dumped by a gal I fell for that had nothing to offer other than being skinny..I feel like sending her the lyrics to this as I suffer in pain, however I'm not wired to be a bad guy :(
Beetles you can here gorge clear and day
What was the machine Neil used for the loop in this song?
It's an Optigan. Used on many of his recordings. - Team NF.
a song to go with a David Lynch movie
Soooo Lennon sounding
Beatles influence?
You would think is was a Lennon & McCartney song.
McCartney did not write this kind of song but Lennon did (example: Nobody loves you when you're down and out).
Everybody comments Lennon Lennon Lennon but I hear *a lot* of George Harrison here!
The same women from the Instinct video?
It hurts me that liam gallaghet aint singing this
What the hell does this song even mean? What is her excuse? And why does she have only one excuse in a million, an excuse for what? This song makes no sense. Whose shoes are under her bed? Does this mean the man she loves is lying to her? but then why will he tell her the truth and not decieve her? Is it because the man is a psychopath and tries to manipulate her into loving him by telling her she can trust him?
I just don't get it.
Seriously! Do you need a literal interpretation for your own narrative? Are you that shallow with no imagination? If so, just stick to a fecking dictionary!
@@oldfartinthenight9201 thanks kevin! Do you mind enlightening me? What's your interpretation? I think the reason why I find this song so confusing is because I am actually a woman and I can not empathize with the woman in this song because she is the interpretation of what a woman is by a man. And men have got some funny ideas about what a woman is. So please, tell me what this woman's problem is.
I have a theory that Neil writes songs without any particular meaning in mind 🤷🏼♀️
I don't know if there was a specific meaning attached to each of the lyrics. Quite possibly. Either way, I think the song as a whole has a very distinctive mood to it that honestly means more to me than whatever the lyrics might have been intended to say.
I kind of understood it was about a woman with trust issues, who equal parts loved and disliked herself. Probably had bad experiences with men in the past.
Almost feels like a third-person narration of the situation, I never really saw it from the perspective of the man trying to convince her he's a good person. The focus is on her too much, and little things only an insecure person (like myself!) would think.
P.S. "Shoes under your bed" - at least, as it was explain to me by my grandma - meant he was going to love you and leave you the next day (like a booty call lmao)
😂 you not gril you are