The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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  • @ChrisHufnagel_Polymath
    @ChrisHufnagel_Polymath 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    Here we are 2024.... I'm with the love of my life for 25+ years. This album has been core to our soundtrack. Live well Posties....

    • @HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo
      @HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If I wasn’t a butthead my first girl and I would’ve made 22 years this past dec 22nd. I hate carrying that in my heart. But it wasn’t her fault, it was mine. Is what it is

    • @calebgentry5566
      @calebgentry5566 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’m just out here all these years later trying hard to fall back in love with life. Digging that it’s this same music still giving me a lump in my throat.

    • @Apathetik
      @Apathetik หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo do what you can to make it up and if it doesn’t pan out, embrace the lesson and move on. Otherwise, ur going to go crazy in overanalyzing and self loathing 💜 I wish you well sir

    • @Soundofsilver2007
      @Soundofsilver2007 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Beautiful

    • @Soundofsilver2007
      @Soundofsilver2007 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo are you doing okay?

  • @PinkyMcBrain-ps6lm
    @PinkyMcBrain-ps6lm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    End of 2023 and here I am. This album came out a couple months after I walked away from the greatest love of my life. It was mutual and something that was just part of growing up. We had the nicest, best apartment I have ever lived in and after a decade of best friendship and six years of profound love we had simply succumbed to the natural consequence of time; growing and changing into people we had not known before but could not avoid becoming. I remember the feeling of being 27 and coming to understand the sadness and joy time brings and the sweet, beautiful pain of letting go. We parted ways on the best of terms and I think it probably was the most magical & mystical love of my life (being realistic), and looking back over all these years to that time I think we both identified with the line, "I was the one worth leaving". Thank you my beautiful, sweet "K" for being a diamond in the rough, and thank you Postal Service for one of the greatest records ever made. Sending peace, love, and healing out to all :)

    • @berquist87
      @berquist87 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      God bless you

    • @aBradAbroad
      @aBradAbroad 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Listened to this over on and over when my underdeveloped mind first discovered MDMA and those neurotransmitters still excite a bit every time I hear it

    • @WK_MERCURY
      @WK_MERCURY หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don’t give her an initial. She was special. Say her name loud and clear!!

  • @juneshoe
    @juneshoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +401

    Me at 16, having never gone through a breakup and never lived on my own, listening to "I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving" and picturing my non-existent gaudy apartment in Brooklyn: aw yeah I feel this

  • @squidinsweaters
    @squidinsweaters 3 ปีที่แล้ว +306

    This song makes me feel helplessly depressed and so alive at the same time.

    • @hambonefakenamington69
      @hambonefakenamington69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      this and so many similar tracks and albums do the same for me man

    • @sverch1989
      @sverch1989 ปีที่แล้ว

      RIGHT?

    • @chrispietrzak88
      @chrispietrzak88 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I have a tumor on my right frontal lobe. I came here to cry, yet you made me smile and realize it's nostalgia

    • @aarodful
      @aarodful ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same. It's so beautiful and so sad. When I really think about it, the most depressing times of my life have been when I felt most alive. Strong emotions or pain don't let you ignore your existence.

  • @utubedestroysmytime
    @utubedestroysmytime 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1523

    This song drips with nostalgia from a very inexperienced, simple, and comfortable time in my life where I thought I knew exactly the rate at which the earth rotated and where I stood on it...sigh....

    • @tonythatyga6
      @tonythatyga6 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I agree.

    • @taylormartin8055
      @taylormartin8055 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Nhia Moua me too

    • @brysonmcnally3818
      @brysonmcnally3818 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      this album came out a few years before i got my driver's license; i just remember driving around in the winter with the whole thing on repeat. it just sounds like a heartbreak in winter.

    • @pornstargrandpa
      @pornstargrandpa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      utubedestroysmytime me too I was young and knew every word. Wish I could go back

    • @joshh4648
      @joshh4648 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      utubedestroysmytime this may be the greatest comment I've ever seen in my entire life. I've never been in agreement with anything like I am this.

  • @mikerobytes
    @mikerobytes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    Damn this album is so good. I first listened to it when I was 15 in high school, I’m now 33 and haven’t listened to it in probably a decade… man time flies… brings back so many memories

    • @rachaelmaldonado2269
      @rachaelmaldonado2269 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same. 34 listening to the album again. The emotions all flooding back.

    • @Shvkour
      @Shvkour 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same, I'm turning 30 in 3 months

    • @shanezuniga2647
      @shanezuniga2647 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same but I have not stop listening to this album I'm 31

    • @sageXwolfe
      @sageXwolfe ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yesss 32 and same altho I try to visit these old songs every few years

    • @allnightclinic240
      @allnightclinic240 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      33 here & same exact thing.

  • @tigerlike7472
    @tigerlike7472 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2220

    Real talk, how many of us are listening to this drunk while reminiscing on a simpler time?

  • @lemusthealien
    @lemusthealien 8 ปีที่แล้ว +610

    If there's any group that needs to make a second album, it's this group.

    • @soupit32
      @soupit32 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Miss Melle well if they arent gonna make more music other people can

    • @siddhartha779
      @siddhartha779 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      agreed

    • @TonkyTube
      @TonkyTube 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      It was only a one-album band, a side project for the guy of Death Cab For Cutie.

    • @elguerochoyero2220
      @elguerochoyero2220 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      They released a new single a few years ago. "A tattered line of string."

    • @EmberofRage
      @EmberofRage 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it was an old recording though..

  • @daveprisco4819
    @daveprisco4819 10 ปีที่แล้ว +861

    Twelve years ago sitting in my freshman college dorm room playing this song on over and over again. My heart aches everytime I hear it. And after twelve years, the truer it all gets.

    • @TheCAB00SE17
      @TheCAB00SE17 10 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      You may leave the freshman but the freshman never leaves you

    • @bigballzs
      @bigballzs 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hansen 36 fuck. well said

    • @Aspharrr.
      @Aspharrr. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING

    • @darkhalcyonx2805
      @darkhalcyonx2805 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dave Prisco knucks bro.. hug

    • @arminzjajo538
      @arminzjajo538 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I had a girlfriend in high school that took me a long time to get over, maybe not until I got into college, cause of my obsessiveness. Please, these relationships are not worth regretting over. Let the past go.

  • @davidhardin7638
    @davidhardin7638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    Still bumping this in 2019 “The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights, sending autos swerving into the loneliest evening” best part of the song both the words and the best beat pick up

    • @Ceb773
      @Ceb773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I always thought the lyric was: "sending the honest-working into the loneliest evening" and it still kinda works.

    • @madcow4753
      @madcow4753 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sin sin the auto swerving. I think it's reference to sinning as in drinking at a bar and driving. I might be wrong though.

  • @DBKSIOWASOBR
    @DBKSIOWASOBR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    March 2024. Still one of the best albums ever.

  • @TechnoJon96
    @TechnoJon96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    "It seems so out of context / in this gaudy apartment complex"
    Gaudy. What a good word.

    • @DimitriRastoropov
      @DimitriRastoropov 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes, a woody sort of word

    • @looneytoons4008
      @looneytoons4008 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kyle Knockaert omg I just realized that

    • @fernandaaraujo15
      @fernandaaraujo15 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Kyle Knockaert where????? Omg

    • @fernandaaraujo15
      @fernandaaraujo15 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Kyle Knockaert omg!!!! What a coincidence!

    • @ElEcodelTren
      @ElEcodelTren 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      im not an english speaker.. what has that word of special?.. what is the coincidence?

  • @josephbowman9456
    @josephbowman9456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Drinking whisky tonight and hitting all the songs I listened to after getting Dear John’ed in Iraq in 2008.

    • @alleyosun
      @alleyosun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Song embodies melancholy. Much love.

  • @ericfoster8411
    @ericfoster8411 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Jenny Lewis’ parts are far and few between but the things she does are so important. Imagine this song without the “”where I am” in that angelic tone. Her voice is a crucial part of some of the biggest moments on this record. She’s awesome

    • @timthegallant
      @timthegallant 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank god she gave up acting.she probably have been another f***ked up child actor if she stuck with it.

    • @emilybolognese1056
      @emilybolognese1056 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We just saw them perform this Album live last night and that comes through even more in that context. She is incredible

  • @ShaunS0l0
    @ShaunS0l0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Literally one of the greatest albums of ALL TIME

    • @marcostorres2329
      @marcostorres2329 ปีที่แล้ว

      no it's not.

    • @ken1195
      @ken1195 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@marcostorres2329 No ItS NoT

    • @ashleylloyd9239
      @ashleylloyd9239 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Not sure what they're on about below but yes it really IS one of, (if not, THE), best albums of all time. My best mate Alan bought this for me on vinyl last year and i spent the whole night listening to it on repeat, having the best time of my life! A lot of time may have passed, and a lot may have happened since this came out, but just listening to this (whole album) always brings me right back to one of the best periods of my life and that's totally irreplaceable. We loved it then, and we love it now, because it's absolutely outstanding!

    • @ashleylloyd9239
      @ashleylloyd9239 ปีที่แล้ว

      (or above!, oops) *

    • @geko7950
      @geko7950 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This album really was a fantastic album.

  • @joshobrien2527
    @joshobrien2527 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Brings me back to 2008 when I was 19 driving to work in the dark at 4 am alone on the highway. I always loved how the faster beat in the second half of the song went along well with the lines passing on the highway. Perfect unison with the beat. I recommend it for late night drives

  • @Numerial0.0
    @Numerial0.0 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Youth is one hell of an era and this album will forever be a part of that time no matter what happens to me.

  • @musicguy20
    @musicguy20 9 ปีที่แล้ว +337

    I recall after breaking up and not being emotional a few days. Driving home a few hours in this song came on Alt Nation. I cried so heavily until I arrived home. But still this song made it beautiful and I loved it for that reason. It unlocked apart of me. Thank you Postal Service for your erm..? Service? Lol

    • @puppetmasterthc820
      @puppetmasterthc820 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      +musicguy20 n that was God. Great pieces of music lead to talks with God..even if you dont know it...you learned the art of crying...

    • @musicguy20
      @musicguy20 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      PuppetMasterTHC Crying is a given at birth but laughing and other emotions you have to learn later in life.

    • @mccohn47
      @mccohn47 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +PuppetMasterTHC Beautiful

    • @David-uc4hc
      @David-uc4hc 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +musicguy20 Yeah dude. I haven't listened to this song since high school and pulled it up tonight for exactly that reason.

    • @ObamaBinKillin
      @ObamaBinKillin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That Pun was great

  • @brizzwizz
    @brizzwizz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Big love to everyone here. What a nice common bond - this song, the nostalgia, the sadness and loveliness all at once.

    • @Trunkswr
      @Trunkswr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All I think about is static love and Static Age with Misfits CD playing and the future seeming ever mysterious. Like a fantasmical Lord Of The Rings/Matrix where we all realized we were human and brothers instead of NPC’s without a cause..

  • @jesseu19
    @jesseu19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    My brother loved this song I lost him July, I come here to see him again. I’ll never forget the memories he gave me and all the memories we hold together this song is beyond powerful to our relationship I miss him so much and would do anything to have one more day with him I love you daniel

    • @iris1064
      @iris1064 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My sister passed away when I was 18 in 2010. Whenever I listen to this song I get transported to driving around in her Jeep Cherokee with the windows down and blasting our favorite tunes, this being one of them. Feels nice to feel something again. I miss her everyday.

    • @GoldenEmu1
      @GoldenEmu1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was he an extra?

  • @ItsAuntNiNi
    @ItsAuntNiNi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Man I know they dont make music now but their music still resonates with my soul. This is the sound of how I feel in my head. I am not sad, just melancholy. Empty but going.

    • @ShaunS0l0
      @ShaunS0l0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's the singer for deathcab for cutie as well

    • @death2denemy
      @death2denemy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So, how have u been?

    • @mygodmanm3008
      @mygodmanm3008 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Empty but going... well put bud. I'm with u wherever that is.

  • @toukakirishima9417
    @toukakirishima9417 7 ปีที่แล้ว +441

    I am a visitor here. I am not permanent.

    • @Someone-vq6jk
      @Someone-vq6jk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same

    • @fuckallhell
      @fuckallhell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Touka Kirishima we all are just visitors here.

    • @user-fq8xq7fb8u
      @user-fq8xq7fb8u 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@fuckallhell Postal Service.

    • @westonkenyonmusic
      @westonkenyonmusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I read that just as he said it.

    • @ledzia6622
      @ledzia6622 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Okay touka

  • @parisford2020
    @parisford2020 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Who remembers when renting an apartment was affordable?

    • @dirtyblondfish
      @dirtyblondfish 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow yes this song definitely reminds me of that time.

  • @thrilliam562
    @thrilliam562 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I used to listen to this song on repeat when me and my highschool girlfriend broke up our first quarter in college. It feels so different listening to it almost 20 years later. I'm in DC for business and drunk so it hits even harder. Awesome song

    • @user-ee1fn4vt8b
      @user-ee1fn4vt8b 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Weird how you're the same person you were back then but also you're not.

    • @liammgill
      @liammgill 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      do you still think about her at all? same thing with me and my high school girlfriend but it's only been four years.

  • @iraplikeyoubreathe
    @iraplikeyoubreathe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Well if this doesn't kick up the biggest cloud of nostalgic dust.......

    • @alleyosun
      @alleyosun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep. Melancholy asthma attack.

  • @LukeCox-wp9hm
    @LukeCox-wp9hm 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Listening to this song for almost a decade. I remember the first time I heard it, the day, the weather, the smell of the air..everything. An incredible song that has everything!

  • @worldofsin5203
    @worldofsin5203 9 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Wow I remember being a little 10 year old kid who made freinds with hipster adults (which I learned later on have the best taste in music). .That's how I found The Postal Service They gave me burned CDs with bands like postal service and neon Indian and Gorillaz.Nostalgia is the only word I can use to describe this song and every other song by The Postal Service.Their band may have stopped making music but their feel and their way of enticing a somewhat positive and melancholy vibe will never die.

  • @cramecirp365
    @cramecirp365 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This aged like a fine wine for me...

  • @anaaguilar3304
    @anaaguilar3304 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I have been listening to this song for 12 years and I just will never get tired of it. How can a song do this. Every time I hear it, it's like it's the first time and I don't want it to end.

    • @nickgluvzu
      @nickgluvzu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @corybreeden9071
      @corybreeden9071 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We're all right here with you in the same boat ♥️

    • @TeamToronto-AlexandraTejeda
      @TeamToronto-AlexandraTejeda 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      How!! I love it more and more every time!!

    • @theskydeck9785
      @theskydeck9785 ปีที่แล้ว

      The beautiful thing is that you can play it again right after. :)

  • @LUk3.M.
    @LUk3.M. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My memory is listening to this album at Christmas time on my headphones and portable disc player in the back seat riding with my family through the snow to Chicago to my aunt's house for Christmas eve dinner.

    • @haidenmorgan
      @haidenmorgan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Beautiful memory from childhood! This song was a mood!

  • @amnesico
    @amnesico หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The build-up thats starts around 2:10 and explodes at 2:43 is just one of the best examples of how intense a song segment can get, and how the anticipation and expectation for a memorable sound can make someone jump around and choke at the same time. It's emotional perfection. Jimmy Tamborello shows there his genius.

  • @felanm
    @felanm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember this song from college and now I’m 40. I miss that era in my life.

  • @jedikodi384
    @jedikodi384 10 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This song is the reason I started making music

  • @StraightOuttaMoney
    @StraightOuttaMoney ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Smeared black ink
    Your palms are sweaty
    And I'm barely listening
    To last demands
    I'm staring at the asphalt wondering
    What's buried underneath
    I'll wear my badge
    A vinyl sticker with big block letters
    Adhering to my chest
    That tells your new friends
    I am a visitor here, I am not permanent
    And the only thing
    Keeping me dry is
    You seem so out of context
    In this gaudy apartment complex
    (Where I am) A stranger with your door key
    Explaining that I'm just visiting
    (Where I am) And I am finally seeing
    Why I was the one worth leaving
    Why I was the one worth leaving
    D.C. sleeps alone tonight
    You seem so out of context
    In this gaudy apartment complex
    (Where I am) A stranger with your door key
    Explaining that I'm just visiting
    (Where I am) And I am finally seeing
    Why I was the one worth leaving
    Why I was the one worth leaving
    The district sleeps alone tonight
    After the bars turn out their lights
    (Where I am) And send the autos swerving
    Into the loneliest evening
    (Where I am) And I am finally seeing
    Why I was the one worth leaving
    Why I was the one worth leaving
    Why I was the one worth leaving
    Why I was the one worth leaving

    • @powertrip6426
      @powertrip6426 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you❤️🙏
      Bump

  • @DJKinney
    @DJKinney 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Listening to it in D.C. itself while walking through the night by a gaudy apartment complex. It's real.

  • @Music-tp3wh
    @Music-tp3wh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Reminds me of the times before social media really blew up...

  • @cybersurfer3d837
    @cybersurfer3d837 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    This album aged very well

  • @razzlemeup
    @razzlemeup 7 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    God this song. Fell in love with it when I was 14 and now I'm 25 and falling in love again.

    • @skeetholydiver
      @skeetholydiver 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aye, cheers, same here but 27 : )

    • @polarisqwq6108
      @polarisqwq6108 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'll continue this feeling! 13, mate!

    • @94RIPCobain
      @94RIPCobain 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly the same as myself.

    • @rmeza559
      @rmeza559 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too man 🔥

    • @ryanfowlow8034
      @ryanfowlow8034 ปีที่แล้ว

      How do you like your 30s?

  • @boijubilee7201
    @boijubilee7201 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This song at first for me many years back then was about my first love and after all this time now in 2024 it reminds me more about my friends and the many individuals I've met through out my life. Having house parties or after the club/ music concerts... partying until 5 am, my best friend I lost in 2020 OD and this song just now reminds me of him and the many late night randomness we did when we we're young. I miss him dearly.....

  • @smileygladhands
    @smileygladhands ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I was 21 and in college when this came out. So many memories... Some good, some bad. I'd give a year's salary to be a ghost in the car with me and my friends riding around at night...

  • @cablevs
    @cablevs ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think every sound in this song, brings back a memory from when I was 13-15 yrs old. and then I read the comments and think about how we were all listening to this in different stages of our lives. how fucking beautiful is that!

  • @VictoriaGonzalez-fs7id
    @VictoriaGonzalez-fs7id ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Im here because I am going to the their concert in October 2023 to see them play this whole album.. I was seven when this album came out, 27 now, all thanks to my bro!

  • @cobprog
    @cobprog หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic show last night at the MVP Arena in Albany NY. Treated myself for my 69th Birthday....what a gift! Amazing, fabulous....touching notes lifting, flying, slowly lyrical giddiness and comforting familiarity - show of a lifetime! Thank you.

  • @jordanbodkin3517
    @jordanbodkin3517 8 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    This has been my favorite song for years, even when I don't listen to it for a while it will just pop back in my mind.

    • @supercharmedfan
      @supercharmedfan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Me too. Hadn't listened to it for years and randomly needed to hear it today

  • @nq6508
    @nq6508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm 32 and I just remembered a forgotten past life from about 15 years ago. It's crazy how you forget parts of your life.

  • @daynethemayne1851
    @daynethemayne1851 8 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    Damn this hit me.. I'm 21 & I remember listening to this as a tween just cause it was dope to skate too. Now I understand it so much more. Deep shit..

    • @PeepsILoveEllie
      @PeepsILoveEllie 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +DayneTheMayne I feel ya :) but you mean teen, right? you're a tween right now, in your twenties.

    • @kylamargan894
      @kylamargan894 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      tween is before teenage years. so ages like 11, 12.

    • @PeepsILoveEllie
      @PeepsILoveEllie 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kyla Marie ah ok thanks! apparently, Tolkien used it in the way I meant it, but the meaning seems to have changed.

    • @kylamargan894
      @kylamargan894 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      PeepsILoveEllie possibly :)

    • @gregjames3766
      @gregjames3766 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was just thinking about skating to this song 😂

  • @rukusbukus
    @rukusbukus 8 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Man this takes me back to the early to mid 2000s. I totally forgot about the postal service, im glad I stumbled upon this video.

  • @alzidanesatria9919
    @alzidanesatria9919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Its like a time machine.. oo dear how much i miss my friends.. miss those old glory days...

  • @bummollie
    @bummollie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fuck I used to listen to this group when I was 13yo - 15yo. I am now 30yo. So nostalgic! but a reminder that life's to short and spend every second wisely.

  • @justinpersful5233
    @justinpersful5233 10 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I can't hear any of their songs without having to traipse through the memories of a very dark time of my life. It still doesn't stop me from listening to them. Never been another band like them.

  • @alexisvela9043
    @alexisvela9043 9 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    This is literally my all time favorite song. i feel when i tell people that, they don't believe me, but i'm being honest. it really is. This song speaks to me in so many ways. the album itself is my favorite as well. listening to them makes me so happy. their music makes me feel as if my heart is going to jump out of my chest. but they can also make me sad. knowing that i'll never get to see them in concert breaks my little indie heart. anyway, the more older i get the more accurate this song becomes. I feel like the district can be anywhere or anyone. I'll stop rambling now and sleep alone tonight.

    • @ElEcodelTren
      @ElEcodelTren 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      what is the meaning of this song?

    • @anabanana409
      @anabanana409 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    • @oscarmarek7746
      @oscarmarek7746 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They’re going on tour this fall! They’re performing live for the first time in 10 years! There’s still hope!

    • @LukeCox-wp9hm
      @LukeCox-wp9hm 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The district can be anywhere or anyone - love this!!

  • @rymyguyyy392
    @rymyguyyy392 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4:07 AM. Nostalgic, sad and lost. 2022, still so relevant. Chefs kiss.

  • @LampyGames
    @LampyGames 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This song is easily one of the best songs I've ever heard. It invokes so many emotions from such simple words. I love it so much

  • @MadMan731
    @MadMan731 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    "The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights."
    I was thinking of this song today.

  • @muhammadhusen3449
    @muhammadhusen3449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Its 18 years ago, cant believe that the time flies so high.

  • @juicyjay80
    @juicyjay80 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “Tell your new friends: I am a visitor here. I am not permanent.”

  • @notahooper
    @notahooper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    this song is engraved in my soul because my mom played this when we lived in Seattle when I was like 4 . I have a very sincere memory of driving on the freeway at night , above the city where you could see the skyline ahead and if you looked below the neighborhood homes of people. where we were going I don't know. but it's a very old and important memory for me that I hope is the way I enter heaven. with my mom, listening to this song one more time before we both move on from this world . I'm sorry I lied so much mom and I'm sorry If I never make it big ..

    • @notahooper
      @notahooper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@minty3253 yeah I didn't think someone would read this

    • @kelseycrider329
      @kelseycrider329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey I read this. Beautiful. This song is just amazing. *virtual hugs*

    • @beetle_juicy8780
      @beetle_juicy8780 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Such a beautiful thought about your mom & heaven. I'm originally from Seattle.. Just went back for a visit and have found myself listening to this song nonstop since getting back home.

  • @williamvezzani5610
    @williamvezzani5610 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Who else use to listen to this CD with their girlfriend or boyfriend back in the day and comes back here to listening to this album again while reminiscing over how beautiful and deep this album is as well as a lost lover?

  • @shauncollins5863
    @shauncollins5863 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the #1 song played at my funeral and my all-time #1 song.

  • @davidmacdonald8943
    @davidmacdonald8943 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Was watching Looking For Alaska and this song came on and had to find it again.

    • @meli.320
      @meli.320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      BeCaUsE tHe ItErNeT me too, I recognized it immediately & it brought back so many HS memories. I’ve had it on repeat since watching that first episode. Btw, neat profile pic

  • @doryexplory2029
    @doryexplory2029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This gives me a feeling nothing else has ever given me

  • @evano6
    @evano6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    how the heck did i go on living with out knowing there was a video for this song

  • @Ashley-jc7tx
    @Ashley-jc7tx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    First semester of college my public speaking prof had us present a song that was meaningful to us as if it was us speaking. I went with this one and got an A.
    Stood up there with a picture of some sidewalk chalk art depicting a cavern under a sidewalk up on the projector behind me and one of those name tag stickers just saying visitor. The words felt true to speak then and still do now. I am a visitor here, I am not permanent.

  • @gregthejones
    @gregthejones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Here I am, 13 years later, weeping just like I did then.

  • @Micah786
    @Micah786 13 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    ben gibbard is awesome. i love all his death cab stuff and the postal service :)

  • @thatclintguy
    @thatclintguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    this song still sounds SO fresh in 2022 - I was SHOCKED to learn it was released in 2003 after recently finding it/this group. They were doing real indie long before anybody out there today!

    • @marcostorres2329
      @marcostorres2329 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bright Eyes was doing it before

    • @abuhaimiabuhassan1903
      @abuhaimiabuhassan1903 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2005-6 was the crescendo. Everything went downhill afterwards.

  • @dacrib5350
    @dacrib5350 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That's it. Buying tickets to the 20th anniversary show coming to town. It's a couple months from now and I already know I'll regret it forever if I don't catch them playing Give Up live in its entirety.

  • @Euthymia
    @Euthymia หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the most vivid lyrics ever. The experience of visiting my former lover in her new town and realizing that she was gone forever. "The only thing keeping me dry is you seem so out of context...." My experience with it was 40 years ago and this song still makes my heart hurt. Bless The Postal Service for putting these feelings down in words.

  • @tylerpazico6152
    @tylerpazico6152 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love ps and dcfc every song really opens up a prior relationship and feel as if they are so deep sometimes it just hits you like a ton of bricks. This song sums up my divorce and although painful I love them dearly for putting out possibly one of the best songs ever.

  • @_Tennz
    @_Tennz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This song brings me back to high school... back to my first true love and the hardships. Crazy how music attaches to the soul like this.

    • @Music-tp3wh
      @Music-tp3wh 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah.. death cab for cutie's entire discography was basically like the main soundtrack to my high school life... amazing stuff

  • @michaelkonkright174
    @michaelkonkright174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Make this your morning alarm. Good day to be had. How could ya snooze such a song

  • @BethanyAlfalfa
    @BethanyAlfalfa 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My love for The Postal Service Brought me here.

  • @BlueSomeday
    @BlueSomeday 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is one of those tracks where it’s in between crushing and soothing. I can feel my fifteen, sixteen year old self getting into cars with girls that would be just a moment in time. Parties that you thought would go on forever. Walking the night with people that you found so interesting. Only to find…

    • @chrismatassa8999
      @chrismatassa8999 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This comment just smacked me in the face. took the words from my mouth..

  • @Ryattt81
    @Ryattt81 10 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Been a very long time, good to hear this again. Reminds me of some great times.

    • @setnomA
      @setnomA 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The best times 😓

  • @thaddeust.thirdiii736
    @thaddeust.thirdiii736 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember this album so well. I was 9 listening to this song with my uncle. Time flies 😢

  • @whatsfordinner62
    @whatsfordinner62 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "im staring at the asphalt wondering whats buried underneath." That line hits so hard. Hes thinking of throwing himself out of the building during the breakup and just colliding with the ground.

  • @sevra4836
    @sevra4836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2021 still here Ben and Dntel. A single album that changed the world. Your creativity won't ever be forgotten. Thank you guys for being awesome.

  • @samanthamartinez631
    @samanthamartinez631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    2019 and still emo

    • @Ceb773
      @Ceb773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hell ya

    • @gerbilpmc
      @gerbilpmc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Samantha Martinez I don’t think of this as emo :)

    • @dant1983
      @dant1983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gerbilpmc it's certainly not emo, but it made it's way in all our playlists, can't deny that ;)

  • @bokeunji
    @bokeunji 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm going to see them in LA! So excited! 💕😊

  • @tattooadventures
    @tattooadventures 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    MySpace days, thinking about past relationships, much simpler times. Thank you🤙🏼

  • @WoooSaaaW
    @WoooSaaaW 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This song is like a time portal. As i listen my chest tightens, each breath feels heavier than the last and my mind begins to drift back to 7 years ago when i was that stranger in the apartment complex... was i the worth leaving?

  • @RetroSunday
    @RetroSunday 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Mannnn, Postal Service is DOPE!

  • @momobunny1234
    @momobunny1234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember sitting in my dad's apartment looking over Houston city, watching the sun rise and listening to this song play over his sound system while he shaved in the bathroom. I was 7 then. It feels like it's been so much longer than 14 years, but also like it was yesterday.. I still feel like that little girl when I listen to this song. It still sounds like a sleepy Houston sunrise. I don't think I'll ever be unable to love this song.

  • @KevinArnold-yj6lc
    @KevinArnold-yj6lc 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sometimes u have 2 put urself in check and question ur own actions. Thank God 4 giving us the ability 2 look upon ourselves thru other ppls eyes

  • @boardshredder7243
    @boardshredder7243 9 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    My ex girlfriends morning alarm tone from nearly a decade ago. One of my first loves. The girl and the song.

  • @lilliegreen2169
    @lilliegreen2169 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    i’m 17 and this is the first time i’ve heard this song. fallen in love

    • @ShaunS0l0
      @ShaunS0l0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I heard it for the first time in like 2006

    • @ElEcodelTren
      @ElEcodelTren ปีที่แล้ว +2

      im 33 and i listened it about your age the first time..i think is the best age to listen it.. is really beautiful.. even when i hear it now.. i can feel like in that days for an instant... no words...

    • @ElEcodelTren
      @ElEcodelTren ปีที่แล้ว

      @xtrmst_01 didnt know there is one.. i just hope is not miley cyrus.. she even dared to cover Cocteau Twins...

    • @ElEcodelTren
      @ElEcodelTren ปีที่แล้ว

      @xtrmst_01 no mms.... realmente me molesta que pretenda lucrar con estas joyitas que de seguro son recomendaciones de sus productores, no creo que ella si quiera pueda apreciarlas...

    • @ElEcodelTren
      @ElEcodelTren ปีที่แล้ว

      @xtrmst_01 wtf? lol

  • @mikeleo7916
    @mikeleo7916 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Songs like this bring back so much nostalgia, and a lot of times in a very sad way. Nostalgia mixed with a new perspective on the song now that years have passed and wisdom has come. Hits diff

    • @dacrib5350
      @dacrib5350 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah! Sorta ashamed to admit that Such Great Heights was always the only TPS song I kept on my playlists no matter what, so when I started going through old albums again this year I fell in love with Give Up The context of how unique this sound was at the time really helps seal the "trip into the past" feeling whenever I hear Such Great Heights, District, Brand New Colony, Clark Gable, We Will Become Silhouettes.. just a great album to listen to and think of old times.

  • @Ryan-fy8bx
    @Ryan-fy8bx หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So pumped, seeing them live for the first time in an hour!

  • @ericfoster8411
    @ericfoster8411 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I feel like this album came to life because the universe knew it was gonna be a certified hipster-esq classic so it really pushed and adjusted everything needed for these two dudes to create this absolute masterpiece thru the god damn mail... The probability of all things working out the way they did has got yo be soooo small.
    But yeah, a little splash of universe magic here and there and you got yourself a Give Up. Every single aspect of this album is 100% perfect. There are no flaws and for the most part, that is the general feeling towards it from everyone. I really like the idea of a cosmic force being the reason this record came to exist at all tho.

  • @laurendobbs8941
    @laurendobbs8941 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The guy before me put it best. Reminessing on simpler times when a heart ache was just a heart ache, not something that could uproot the whole damn world..

  • @ebettoran
    @ebettoran 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They played this on the radio last night and I'm glad I remembered it and found it here. A very beautiful song

  • @SincereSentinel
    @SincereSentinel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She still bangs. For us alive and mature enough to understand It was in my original TH-cam 'sleep playlist' when TH-cam was still in it's infancy my senior year in high school. Believe me though , I never went to high school, I went to school high.

  • @karaisamazing1995
    @karaisamazing1995 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'll always love the postal service, brings me back to the good days (:

  • @dkm6054
    @dkm6054 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder if music they make today could ever make you feel so much again

  • @Widderic
    @Widderic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So pumped to see them again in Maryland this year.

  • @peoplemadera-gonzalez4131
    @peoplemadera-gonzalez4131 10 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Why do I feel as if this song is a comforting friend?

  • @AstrxPubg
    @AstrxPubg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    OH man, watching a series called Looking for alaska and this song played and bought back so many memories! here before the influx of Looking for alska fans come in :)

  • @JacobHGP
    @JacobHGP 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The spirit of this song resides in that first harmony that carries throughout the song after and touches my soul every time I hear it.

  • @walfredodellagherardesca1739
    @walfredodellagherardesca1739 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi guys. Feeling down today and just felt like hearing this song again for the first time in many years...it brings back very happy memories!

  • @melb5661
    @melb5661 7 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    this song reminds me being 14. I'm 23 now... it hurts that I can't rewind time 😢

    • @rockydennisthe3rd
      @rockydennisthe3rd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ur a spice girl lol. Ur name at the time

    • @danielvutran
      @danielvutran 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yo 14 y/o self would cheer yo on today

    • @Theghostdiaries
      @Theghostdiaries 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It gets worse

    • @beetle_juicy8780
      @beetle_juicy8780 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can you believe you're 28 now?! The fact that I can't go back is still killing me....