I'm here both because of Chuck and The Shins. I was listening to The Shins before I started watching Chuck, so when I heard this song in the show I was like "OMG that sounds like The Shins" 😃😃 Now this is my new favorite song 💯💯💯
@@saeedali9723 Yeah mate. I still feel sad about the ending. It was to me perfect but it's just I was not ready to see the show end. I remember being very young, felt so connected to the whole The Nerd Herd team. I guess I had similar emotional breakdown when Burn Notice ended. Good old times of good tv shows.
@@saeedali9723 2024 and now I am wondering if there be some light now after reading that they're going to reboot the White Collar show! Come on Team Chuck!
Incredible performance of a truly moving and shattering song. I mean it, he nails it on this rendition. This is what is to be alive, to be emotionally and spiritually awake in this bleak world. Despite the deep, deep sadness of this, it is in another way uplifting and just makes you understand what it is to have lived and experienced some kind of emotional thing. I simply can't get over how beautiful this really is.
The best imagery ever created by song lyrics I think. My favorite line is "we can blow on our thumbs in posture, but the lonely are such delicate things" like just chills everywhere man
One hand on this wily comet Take a drink just to give me some weight Some uber-man I'd make I'm barely a vapor They shone a chlorine light on A host of individual sins Let's carve my aging face off Fetch us a knife Start with my eyes Down so the lines Form a grimacing smile Close your eyes to corral a virtue Is this fooling anyone else? Never worked so long and hard To cement a failure We can blow on our thumbs and posture But the lonely are such delicate things The wind from a wasp could blow them Into the sea With stones on their feet Lost to the light and the loving we need Still to come The worst part and you know it There is a numbness In your heart and it's growing With burnt sage and a forest of bygones I click my heels Get the devils in line A list of things I could lay the blame on Might give me a way out But with each turn It's this front and center Like a dart stuck square in your eye Every post you can hitch your faith on Is a pie in the sky Chock full of lies A tool we devise To make sinking stones fly And still to come The worst part and you know it There is a numbness In your heart and it's growing
Never has there been a more complete song. It says everything, absolutely everything. The giving and dying of one's efforts. The triumph and success of one's emotions. All we could ever see in a life in a song. Bravo!
Absolutely my favorite songwriter, lyrcist, band in the past 10 years... I am so praying Wincing the Night Away wasn't their last effort, although brilliant... I'm a 45 year old guy, lived through a lot of music from Zeppelin to the popular radio ga ga. For me it's been Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Radiohead, and The Shins... something to be said when Shins, such amazing artists aren't recognized world over like the aforementioned... Thank you J Mercer and Shins...
But with each turn It's this front and center Like a dart stuck square in your eye Every post you can hitch your faith on Is a pie in sky Chock full of lies A tool we devise To make sinking stones fly
Quotable word by word. It baffles me when words in songs or literature can capture the human condition yet we can still manage to isolate and alienate each other.
A Comet Appears Lyrics The Shins Send "A Comet Appears" Ringtone to your cell One hand on this wily comet, Take a drink just to give me some weight, Some uber-man I'd make, I'm barely a vapor They shone a chlorine light on, A host of individual sins, Let's carve my aging face off, Fetch us a knife, Start with my eyes, Down so the lines, Form a grimacing smile, Close your eyes to corral a virtue, Is this fooling anyone else? Never worked so long and hard, To cement a failure, We can blow on our thumbs and posture, But the lonely are such delicate things, The wind from a wasp could blow them, Into the sea, With stones on their feet, Lost to the light and the loving we need, Still to come, The worst part and you know it, There is a numbness, In your heart and it's growing, With burnt sage and a forest of bygones, I click my heels, Get the devils in line, A list of things I could lay the blame on, Might give me a way out, But with each turn, It's this front and center, Like a dart stuck square in your eye, Every post you can hitch your faith on, Is a pie in the sky, Chock full of lies, A tool we devise, To make sinking stones fly, And still to come, The worst part and you know it, There is a numbness, In your heart and it's growing. Send "A Comet Appears" Ringtone to your cell
James Mercer - Great singer songwriter, great musician. He is amongst the best I've ever seen: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Neil Young. They don't come around often enough.
The Shins é uma banda de canções aparentemente simples. As tessituras de suas canções são ricas e sutis. Além disso, a aparência despojada dos componentes do grupo dão-lhe um certo charme. Quando ouvi Australia me tornei definitivamente um fã.
By the morning, listening to this wonderful song, i still think in a very very special person that the life was taken because of hate and greed, it was a shock to me, and i hope she's in a better place, rest in peace my dear.
Hey guys... it's been a while. Starting my probably 8th Chuck rewatch now. Hope y'all are doing fine and at least some of your own dreams came true and if not, that the good in your heart doesn't die. Chuck wouldn't want it to. God bless you kind stranger. Jesus is watching out for you, just waiting for you to turn back to Him. Knock and He will open the door... Stay safe.
This song always makes me want to cry. It reminds me of the beach scene and conversation between Sarah and Chuck. This is a ''beautiful'' song, I mean literally.
It's sad to see such a beautiful song under-appreciated. The lyric itself is in a masterpiece. He mentioned how the lonely sink to the sea with stone on their feet, then he mentioned that everything u want to believe in is a tool we devise to make sinking stones fly. Now that's brilliant. This is one thing among many others, the lyrics and overall quality of this song easily exceeds many other songs that have half billion and 1 billion of views, so sad
I found you guys off of Guitarsmith, and I played your song till I mastered it and could sing it myself. You truly are old souls in a new world. Love your work, Keep the stellar groove going. Only you can make the kind humanity survive in a dying dark world.
Geez, James Mercer is so perfect and he wants his songs to be perfect, and they are.This is one of the most moving songs I've ever heard, we can feel every note and every word. I really hope The Shins get back together again.
can't believe my ears, this is one of the most absolutely perfect live performances i've ever listened to. I can close my eyes and be suddenly in another place miles away, maybe on a comet in the sky. Magic.
First time I heard The Shins was in the movie Garden State. Fell in love with the movie and band. This song reminds me of their older stuff and is just so excellent 👌
The Shins don't always make music. But when they do, it's incredible. Simple incredible. The songwriting, the composition, the emotion that Mercer can put into the songs (this song was perfect on Chuck btw), the beauty, and the beard!
This songs amazing. Why is life all dedicated to people who have great looks instead of great songs? I had to hear this from my friend. Not the radio. I missed a year of this type of wonderful music. This is what we should be hearing on the radio now adays.
Not all heores are great, not every summer day is warm. By the same, not all music is art but this is well and above the standard of true grace and beauty.
I may be way off base here, but at 2:25 it almost seems like James is thinking of some old memory that maybe the song was written about. He's thinking about something heavy. And then you see him snap out of it and barely remember to start singing again. Anyways, I love this song so much. "But the lonely are such delicate things." always gets me.
It is rare that I listen to one song by any band these days in anxious anticipation of the next song after because the first is just too good, yet not close to over. Yes kids, I have 50 years of music in my ears, my heart and my soul -- not to mention garbage cans full of the worst and I can honestly say to you that this band is melodically, lyrically, and very genuinely, the best to consistently improve and put out exceptional contemporary music. Long live Shins.
2024 and The Shins still one of the most underrated bands and Chuck is still one of the best shows ever. Change my mind!
Chuck is one of the best shows of all time
I'm here both because of Chuck and The Shins. I was listening to The Shins before I started watching Chuck, so when I heard this song in the show I was like "OMG that sounds like The Shins" 😃😃 Now this is my new favorite song 💯💯💯
one of the best songs ever written
So simple yet so understated
2019 chuck never died
Back on prime
Magnificent. He sings like an angel and writes like a poet. Can't get enough of this.
He is a genius.
Truth
2021 and Chuck is still in our hearts!
2023 and I'm still waiting for the next season. 🤓
@@saeedali9723 Yeah mate. I still feel sad about the ending. It was to me perfect but it's just I was not ready to see the show end. I remember being very young, felt so connected to the whole The Nerd Herd team. I guess I had similar emotional breakdown when Burn Notice ended. Good old times of good tv shows.
@@saeedali9723 2024 and now I am wondering if there be some light now after reading that they're going to reboot the White Collar show! Come on Team Chuck!
2024… still here… “Aces, Charles.”
Incredible performance of a truly moving and shattering song. I mean it, he nails it on this rendition. This is what is to be alive, to be emotionally and spiritually awake in this bleak world. Despite the deep, deep sadness of this, it is in another way uplifting and just makes you understand what it is to have lived and experienced some kind of emotional thing. I simply can't get over how beautiful this really is.
wait what?
@@loucat2779 I suppose you missed it.
This. Exactly this.
💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻
this comment perfectly sums up the song... it matches it in poetic sentiment
This gives me great memories of how Chuck all got started!
and the story of the greatest spy begins. the story of chuck bartowski
Chuck S01E01, one of the first of many perfectly chosen songs on the Chuck soundtrack!
Yes, tks
Indeed my friend, indeed
What is this show?
@@vadikkasabiev3373 "Chuck". I do highly recommend it.
In my opinion the best song the Shins ever recorded.I could play it over and over...and I do...and it never fails to satisfy!!
Season 1 episode 1 last scene The Chucksters just arrived..
Im here cause it's The Shins
I didn't think this existed, I thought this ethereal piece of artistry lied in the plethora of most wanderlust dreams.
It was tough for me to accept too, but better sooner than later: you're not as smart as you think you are
chuck first episode.... how many memories
The best imagery ever created by song lyrics I think. My favorite line is "we can blow on our thumbs in posture, but the lonely are such delicate things" like just chills everywhere man
One hand on this wily comet
Take a drink just to give me some weight
Some uber-man I'd make
I'm barely a vapor
They shone a chlorine light on
A host of individual sins
Let's carve my aging face off
Fetch us a knife
Start with my eyes
Down so the lines
Form a grimacing smile
Close your eyes to corral a virtue
Is this fooling anyone else?
Never worked so long and hard
To cement a failure
We can blow on our thumbs and posture
But the lonely are such delicate things
The wind from a wasp could blow them
Into the sea
With stones on their feet
Lost to the light and the loving we need
Still to come
The worst part and you know it
There is a numbness
In your heart and it's growing
With burnt sage and a forest of bygones
I click my heels
Get the devils in line
A list of things I could lay the blame on
Might give me a way out
But with each turn
It's this front and center
Like a dart stuck square in your eye
Every post you can hitch your faith on
Is a pie in the sky
Chock full of lies
A tool we devise
To make sinking stones fly
And still to come
The worst part and you know it
There is a numbness
In your heart and it's growing
2021, Chuck nunca irá morrer
Chuck never Will died
Never has there been a more complete song. It says everything, absolutely everything. The giving and dying of one's efforts. The triumph and success of one's emotions. All we could ever see in a life in a song. Bravo!
Absolutely my favorite songwriter, lyrcist, band in the past 10 years... I am so praying Wincing the Night Away wasn't their last effort, although brilliant... I'm a 45 year old guy, lived through a lot of music from Zeppelin to the popular radio ga ga. For me it's been Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Radiohead, and The Shins... something to be said when Shins, such amazing artists aren't recognized world over like the aforementioned... Thank you J Mercer and Shins...
I can replay this about 10 times in a row
the lyrics of this song are one of the best that I can think of, they describe perfectly what I think about our human condition
Always come back to this recording every so often to be reminded of how talented James is
But with each turn
It's this front and center
Like a dart stuck square in your eye
Every post you can hitch your faith on
Is a pie in sky
Chock full of lies
A tool we devise
To make sinking stones fly
this is my favourite part of the song by far. Truly beautiful lyrics
i can read, and understand each words.. but i don't really understand what does it mean 😥😪 i mean literally meaning...
@@aintrose7763 It means religious faith is bullshit - a tool we devise to make sinking stones fly.
Quotable word by word.
It baffles me when words in songs or literature can capture the human condition yet we can still manage to isolate and alienate each other.
This is too beautiful, thank you James Mercer for giving us perfection.
A Comet Appears Lyrics
The Shins
Send "A Comet Appears" Ringtone to your cell
One hand on this wily comet,
Take a drink just to give me some weight,
Some uber-man I'd make,
I'm barely a vapor
They shone a chlorine light on,
A host of individual sins,
Let's carve my aging face off,
Fetch us a knife,
Start with my eyes,
Down so the lines,
Form a grimacing smile,
Close your eyes to corral a virtue,
Is this fooling anyone else?
Never worked so long and hard,
To cement a failure,
We can blow on our thumbs and posture,
But the lonely are such delicate things,
The wind from a wasp could blow them,
Into the sea,
With stones on their feet,
Lost to the light and the loving we need,
Still to come,
The worst part and you know it,
There is a numbness,
In your heart and it's growing,
With burnt sage and a forest of bygones,
I click my heels,
Get the devils in line,
A list of things I could lay the blame on,
Might give me a way out,
But with each turn,
It's this front and center,
Like a dart stuck square in your eye,
Every post you can hitch your faith on,
Is a pie in the sky,
Chock full of lies,
A tool we devise,
To make sinking stones fly,
And still to come,
The worst part and you know it,
There is a numbness,
In your heart and it's growing.
Send "A Comet Appears" Ringtone to your cell
james mercer is a god! his lyrics are perfect and his voice is beautiful.
i love the shins!
Underrated song and lyricist. No matter what my day was like, this song calms all my nerves.
Anyone else get chills when they hit that haunting vocal chord??
Bonus points if someone can tell me what chord that is!!
@@michaelcarrier3713 he seems to play a Dsus2, over which they sing an A. There might be more going on but thats all I can make of it
"Trust me, Chuck"
Sad :'(
I love this song so much... also, James Mercer's voice is a gift
This song is one of my favorites. This performance has to be the best ever!
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Nice!
"Chuck, trust me"
This song is perfect
"the lonely are such delicate things" - ugh
James Mercer - Great singer songwriter, great musician. He is amongst the best I've ever seen: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Neil Young. They don't come around often enough.
Absolute Favorite song.
i am just so amazed by this band everyday
this needs more views then its getting, I know this band has been here for a long time but I want them to be bigger. I love them.
Best Shins song ever. I love him, I love his lyricism, and I love how incredibly beautiful this description of pure heartbreak is. Stunning
Excellent song by an incredible band. This song brings me back to another time in my my life. Fantastic
I'm back. It still does.
The Shins é uma banda de canções aparentemente simples. As tessituras de suas canções são ricas e sutis. Além disso, a aparência despojada dos componentes do grupo dão-lhe um certo charme. Quando ouvi Australia me tornei definitivamente um fã.
By the morning, listening to this wonderful song, i still think in a very very special person that the life was taken because of hate and greed, it was a shock to me, and i hope she's in a better place, rest in peace my dear.
I would be fascinated to meet the woman who loves a man who is so clearly damaged. The pain on his face is so evident…
Please, never delete this.
This video has a special place in my heart.
Hey guys... it's been a while. Starting my probably 8th Chuck rewatch now. Hope y'all are doing fine and at least some of your own dreams came true and if not, that the good in your heart doesn't die. Chuck wouldn't want it to. God bless you kind stranger. Jesus is watching out for you, just waiting for you to turn back to Him. Knock and He will open the door... Stay safe.
"Still to come, the worst part and you know it. There is a numbness in your heart and its growing" Gets me right in the feels - Every time
These lyrics are really some of the best. So inspired!
This song always makes me want to cry. It reminds me of the beach scene and conversation between Sarah and Chuck. This is a ''beautiful'' song, I mean literally.
me too, Chucks brings me here
I'd like to quote a lyric from this song but it's impossible to choose one over another.
Beautiful.
It's sad to see such a beautiful song under-appreciated. The lyric
itself is in a masterpiece. He mentioned how the lonely sink to the sea with stone on their feet, then he mentioned that everything u want to believe in is a tool we devise to make sinking stones fly. Now that's brilliant. This is one thing among many others, the lyrics and overall quality of this song easily exceeds many other songs that have half billion and 1 billion of views, so sad
2024, eu estou aqui por causa da série chuck! essa série nunca vai ser esquecida no meu coração.
I found you guys off of Guitarsmith, and I played your song till I mastered it and could sing it myself. You truly are old souls in a new world. Love your work, Keep the stellar groove going. Only you can make the kind humanity survive in a dying dark world.
this is my favorite song.
Definitely my favorite Kevin Spacey track.
underappreciated comment
yup easily spacey's best work
why? has he written that song?
Absynth616
I should pound you with a thousand fists for mistaking Kevin Spacey for James Mercer....But I see the resemblance. lol
plottwist
Why are my eyes sweating?
Kezy CP yeah, what's this salty discharge?
Geez, James Mercer is so perfect and he wants his songs to be perfect, and they are.This is one of the most moving songs I've ever heard, we can feel every note and every word. I really hope The Shins get back together again.
My funeral song...beautiful
I will never stop loving this song.
How can he put so much emotion into every word while opening his mouth sooo little!?
This is amazingly helpful for me, thanks.
(This was my lockdown soundtrack in 2020)
I love this song sooooo much. the lyrics are amazing
The Best Number ever performed by the Shins...i never tire of it!!
can't believe my ears, this is one of the most absolutely perfect live performances i've ever listened to. I can close my eyes and be suddenly in another place miles away, maybe on a comet in the sky. Magic.
First time I heard The Shins was in the movie Garden State. Fell in love with the movie and band. This song reminds me of their older stuff and is just so excellent 👌
It’s 2024 and Chuck still lives
Literally the best song ever written 🖤
The Shins don't always make music. But when they do, it's incredible. Simple incredible.
The songwriting, the composition, the emotion that Mercer can put into the songs (this song was perfect on Chuck btw), the beauty, and the beard!
good times watching chuck :)
Those lyrics though...
CHUCK WILL BE ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS .. ALWAYS! :)
There is a dart stuck square in my eye.
played in the final of chuck's first episode. truly a life changing moment for me, epic.
This is actually one of my favorite songs and bands
Damn, sounds as good as the album...that's rare these days
Better even, in my opinion, if that was at all possible.
This songs amazing. Why is life all dedicated to people who have great looks instead of great songs? I had to hear this from my friend. Not the radio. I missed a year of this type of wonderful music. This is what we should be hearing on the radio now adays.
Not all heores are great, not every summer day is warm. By the same, not all music is art but this is well and above the standard of true grace and beauty.
James Mercer, I take a bow for your talents.
This amazing band, has been and always will be, my all time favorite band. Something this world will never seen again.
This song still gives me goosebumps!
i knew this song watchung Chuck and i fell in love for this song.
I love this song.
Such beauty and at the same time a little bit scary.
I didn't realize this was a live performance. It's flawless!
"Chuck Season 1 Episode 1 Pilots " brought me here =)
Me too, After watching the Chuck first episode, I quick came to check this song at UA-cam, now I can't stop playing it over and over!
James Mercer is a genius nothing more to say.
I may be way off base here, but at 2:25 it almost seems like James is thinking of some old memory that maybe the song was written about. He's thinking about something heavy. And then you see him snap out of it and barely remember to start singing again.
Anyways, I love this song so much. "But the lonely are such delicate things." always gets me.
beautiful song. Lovely!
I wanna thank Chuck and How I Met Your Mother, not only for being great TV shows, but for introducing me to my favourite band
Chuck❤😢
I watch this at least once a day.
You sir, have never lived until you've seen chuck
I was 1 when they did this, I found it by watching chuck and it and the show is amazing
It is rare that I listen to one song by any band these days in anxious anticipation of the next song after because the first is just too good, yet not close to over. Yes kids, I have 50 years of music in my ears, my heart and my soul -- not to mention garbage cans full of the worst and I can honestly say to you that this band is melodically, lyrically, and very genuinely, the best to consistently improve and put out exceptional contemporary music. Long live Shins.
I saw them last night!!!!!! wish they played this song.
I born in 2011 and I miss chuck film
this is just pure beauty! what a song...
James Mercer’s lyrics are amazing
A comet passes by Earth April 29 2020...
And Agust 19 2020