Bonnie "Prince" Billy - One With The Birds (original version)

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  • Опубліковано 4 лют 2025

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  • @johnc5160
    @johnc5160 3 роки тому +58

    Stupid comment I know, but, after listening to this song at least 7,436 times , I think it may be the greatest song ever written.

    • @billybussey
      @billybussey 3 роки тому +5

      You might be right

    • @londorsey9013
      @londorsey9013 Рік тому +3

      not stupid at all you may be right

    • @adsones
      @adsones Рік тому +3

      Agreed.

    • @roblund2009
      @roblund2009 6 місяців тому +1

      probably right

    • @TheMushroomAudits
      @TheMushroomAudits 4 місяці тому +1

      The only stupid comments are the ones felt as deeply and never written or shared.

  • @francioishaim1287
    @francioishaim1287 Рік тому +3

    A perfect compositional companion for me tonight.

  • @seenjoethomo
    @seenjoethomo 8 років тому +12

    I love this song so much It fast becoming my favourite Will Oldham song.. You only get it on the last verse. But the feeling of sadness has already bought you there before you read that last verse!!

    • @roesmoker
      @roesmoker  8 років тому +1

      Agreed. So beautiful and haunting.

  • @stiffspiff
    @stiffspiff 12 років тому +22

    such a great waltz. I was always so frustrated with my good friend Jason Molina's constant comparison to the genius Will Oldham; felt it diminished him, bit they were great friends too and strengthened each other. R.I.P. Jason, you were a great writer and awesome person.

    • @antestanic2964
      @antestanic2964 2 роки тому +4

      it`s been 9 years since the comment, but I will search the artist out. Guess he already got used to heaven so no need to say anything. :)

    • @JonathanV-e5c
      @JonathanV-e5c 6 місяців тому

      What a great time for music that was tho.

  • @annieel3938
    @annieel3938 11 років тому +17

    It's such a slow hypnotism, and then your are gone. This song always brings up Hickory Wind for me..... Oh Will Oldham thank you for being you....

    • @Spectrescup
      @Spectrescup 7 років тому +1

      Annie El Haha.Ive just been listening to Hickory Wind,and thinking 'What does this remind me of ?'

    • @Tenskwatawa4U
      @Tenskwatawa4U 5 років тому

      Exactly

  • @RemingtonRidersMusic
    @RemingtonRidersMusic 3 роки тому +2

    Touching song and lyrics are beautiful

  • @skollbus
    @skollbus 5 місяців тому +6

    LYRICS:
    Leave me alone is all that I say
    When I have nothing in me to give away
    A purple martin in her house
    She hollers at me "why be inhuman? Why be like me?"
    Like so many robins, like so many doves
    Like so many lovebirds with so many loves
    Like the songs of the bobwhite without any words
    When we are inhuman, we're one with the birds
    At six in the morning, you rise from the pillow
    Stand steaming above me while I slumber below
    I'm one with the blanket laying fragrant and loose
    You're one with a whip-poor-will, you're one with a goose
    Like so many robins, like so many doves
    Like so many lovebirds with so many loves
    Like the songs of the bobwhite without any words
    When we are inhuman, we're one with the birds
    So, tweet with me and widely spread
    Your olive wings embrace my head
    Fly with me 'til we are dead
    And one with the birds
    Like so many seagulls, like so many hawks
    Like so many thrushes and so many cocks
    A swallow will tell you
    Without using misleading heartrending words
    When we are inhuman, we're one with the birds
    When we hide our feelings
    We may as well fly away

  • @pd2772
    @pd2772 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you again for this song

  • @mccjust
    @mccjust 6 місяців тому +2

    I remember Will saying how much he disliked The Byrds and then he released this. Brilliant!

  • @christophersmith9613
    @christophersmith9613 6 років тому +3

    Superb. They don't make 'em like BPB anymore.

  • @augustwestusa
    @augustwestusa 9 років тому +2

    Heard this for the first time in Big Sur just a few weeks ago. Thought it was new. Love it all. Just simply amazing. Bonny.

    • @koezkoez1939
      @koezkoez1939 4 роки тому

      If it was new Bonny it but wouldn't be very good

  • @charlesblake2280
    @charlesblake2280 11 років тому +1

    This has happened twice tonight. The two songs reflected the lyrics perfectly. Almost 6. As he sings that's when you rise from your pillow. Love it.

  • @londorsey9013
    @londorsey9013 Рік тому +1

    outstanding.

  • @wwt1212
    @wwt1212 14 років тому +2

    The best BPB song period

  • @bacardi119
    @bacardi119 13 років тому +1

    One of my favorite songs of his. Thanks roesmoker.

  • @hollyspry
    @hollyspry 14 років тому +1

    One of my favorite BPB tunes as well, many thanks for uploading.

  • @GuydiscipleofJESUS
    @GuydiscipleofJESUS 5 місяців тому

    Beautiful song ❤️🙏

  • @AaronKelton
    @AaronKelton 13 років тому +1

    Just so amazing.

  • @FreedomForAll2013
    @FreedomForAll2013 2 роки тому +6

    Blessed to discover this artist man... just in time you know what I mean

  • @leovalverde2488
    @leovalverde2488 2 місяці тому

    Great cover , greetings from Lima, Perú.

    • @dougleigh61
      @dougleigh61 Місяць тому

      A cover of what/who? I'm seriously interested if it's not Will's original. David Grey covered it of course, but id it not a BPB original?

  • @ARIZONACATSEYE
    @ARIZONACATSEYE 5 років тому +3

    Most recent release with Eighth Blackbird ("When We Are Inhuman") is my favorite recording of this wonderful song.

  • @jaredgalliano
    @jaredgalliano 6 років тому +1

    Love his music

  • @dermot1961able
    @dermot1961able 9 років тому

    Beautiful...

  • @jacobkopa-nathan7626
    @jacobkopa-nathan7626 21 день тому

    The good old times by the campfire, make u wonder u know lol😊

  • @graziepaes
    @graziepaes 6 років тому +2

    sempre volto aqui.

  • @jasonbradley673
    @jasonbradley673 6 місяців тому

    I love you so, my sweet Jenn ❤

  • @groselicain
    @groselicain 12 років тому +1

    Hahaha, first time I heard it, I was convinced of the same. "Songs of the Bob White."

  • @jdaneu
    @jdaneu 13 років тому +1

    great one

  • @19toke
    @19toke 5 років тому +2

    Love this song so much .. fucking Bonnie prince billy man .... so much effing talent LEGEND!!

  • @joturner5709
    @joturner5709 8 місяців тому +2

    Beautiful song... reminds of 'Hickory Wind, with echoes of Jason Molina in his voice... Not familiar with BPB. Can you have an album you like of his, Graham?

  • @DaunHijauku
    @DaunHijauku 9 років тому +1

    great

  • @Tenskwatawa4U
    @Tenskwatawa4U 5 років тому +5

    If only Gram had lived to interpret this song....

  • @Daniel-uy7hj
    @Daniel-uy7hj 9 місяців тому +1

  • @Wanderer-l9h
    @Wanderer-l9h 7 років тому +2

    He has become to abstract for me during these latest years. It's such a bummer since Joya, greatest palace music and ease down the road are on my top 10. Guess we all move

    • @roesmoker
      @roesmoker  7 років тому

      Agreed. Really for me Superwolf was the last great BPB record, and a lot of that was Matt Sweeney.

  • @hermeschbird
    @hermeschbird 7 років тому

    the always wonderfully odd melodic explanation of longish fingers and floating through the nether regions

  • @roesmoker
    @roesmoker  12 років тому +2

    You're welcome! "Songs of the Mogwai", haha! Challenge Accepted.

  • @robertocosimini3545
    @robertocosimini3545 4 роки тому

    They die before we can fix it...No matter how much I wanted it to be different

  • @stiffspiff
    @stiffspiff 12 років тому +10

    did he say the songs of Mogwai without any words? Cause they are mostly instrumental.

    • @emsbenz6
      @emsbenz6 6 років тому +2

      Bobwhite?

    • @drewsmilitia
      @drewsmilitia 6 років тому +2

      Mogwai first time, Bobwhite second time.

    • @billybussey
      @billybussey 3 роки тому +1

      apparently a mogwai is a kind of owl. I did not know

    • @macca742
      @macca742 Рік тому

      I always thought it was the songs of the Bhagwan

  • @burkebridgman8661
    @burkebridgman8661 10 років тому +2

    It's hard not to notice similarities between Will and Jason though. Lyrically, vocally and their musicality. Doppelgängers!! It doesn't diminish a thing to me -beautiful song this
    I hear 'like the songs of the Bogwai' but they don't seem to be an actual tribe... Who is he referring to there? Anyone know?

    • @roesmoker
      @roesmoker  10 років тому

      Bobwhite! It's a kind of bird. He doesn't enunciate the "white" part so it sounds like Mogwai, haha. This is discussed below in earlier comments.

    • @burkebridgman8661
      @burkebridgman8661 10 років тому +1

      Thanks for that.
      I just listened to one online. More shrill then I would have imagined but the soft calls are quite nice...

    • @roesmoker
      @roesmoker  10 років тому

      you're welcome!!

    • @letmegoletmego
      @letmegoletmego 9 років тому

      +Burke Bridgman You mean Molina - right? I love Jason more because he lived it.

    • @burkebridgman8661
      @burkebridgman8661 9 років тому +1

      +David Sumtinelse Yes. The late, great Jason Molina. If you forced me to choose I'd probably say Jason too but I'd say Will has worn more musical hats, has more 'range'. If I can make a rather undeveloped music analogy I'd say JM is Miles Davis and WO is Louis Armstrong. Louis had more range but Miles was unrivalled in his expression and mastery of the mid-range notes.

  • @JonathanV-e5c
    @JonathanV-e5c 6 місяців тому

    I miss Will Oldham collaborations

  • @BewareCensorship
    @BewareCensorship 10 років тому

    What does it mean to be inhumane?

    • @jessesnyder5150
      @jessesnyder5150 9 років тому

      Adam Holmes i asked the same question.

    • @jessesnyder5150
      @jessesnyder5150 9 років тому +1

      Jesse Snyder "the inhuman scale of the dinosaurs"

    • @BewareCensorship
      @BewareCensorship 9 років тому +5

      Jesse Snyder I find it funny because Inhumane acts are often very human characteristics.

    • @plemgrubern
      @plemgrubern 9 років тому

      +Adam Holmes will talks briefly about being inhumame in his KEXP interview

  • @th3_g0dz_of_Vict0ry
    @th3_g0dz_of_Vict0ry 11 років тому +2

    fucking god.

  • @JungleJoeVN
    @JungleJoeVN 7 років тому +2

    I prefer being inhuman as to being inhumane.

  • @absslsrvnt
    @absslsrvnt 11 років тому

    oh fuck. I had no idea he was dead.
    I have nothing to say.

    • @laci-annmosher8780
      @laci-annmosher8780 5 років тому +2

      He's not dead. I just saw him in concert.

    • @roesmoker
      @roesmoker  6 місяців тому

      Jason Molina is dead, not Will Oldham

  • @gurufuttlappele
    @gurufuttlappele 14 років тому

    great song ! btw check out my BPB uploads

  • @brainbrei8314
    @brainbrei8314 9 років тому

    he is not at all!

  • @tullsongs
    @tullsongs 5 років тому

    Lovely !..but a straight rip-off of Hickory wind

  • @satrialintar
    @satrialintar Місяць тому