This song has helped me through a really hard time recently as my wife Tracey passed away in March, but the reason it's so special is the last thing she ever bought me was your latest album for my Birthday (Secret Birthday present ) and we had just found out she had Cancer so it was a pretty hard time. This song instantly spoke to me as I could see the struggles to come, my wife then bought my son two tickets to your postponed Glasgow gig in April for his birthday obviously with me in mind as he is under 18. She passed on around a fortnight after this on the 23rd march after taking a bad reaction to chemotherapy and spent her last few days in a Hospice. Without this wee song I don't think I would have gotten through seeing her suffer and struggle so much. So I would just like to say thank you, you have really touched my soul.
This song is unspeakably special to me. Transcendental. My father introduced it to me three years ago, when we texted good songs we found to each other. This one immediately hit me like a brick in the gut. I listened to it over and over again, crying and thinking of my dad. I didn’t know why, but I was scared for him. And so sad. A few months later, my father was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Driving him to his first post-diagnosis appointment to get his stomach fluid drained, this was the first song that came on the radio. I couldn’t hold it in. He seemed to understand. He died six weeks after diagnosis, and this song has been my way of mourning for two years. I put it on and I feel him in the room, right beside me, feeling the lyrics too. I don’t know if I believe in these things, but it’s almost like, somehow, I knew. Through this song, I knew before I could have known. I came to these comments and saw that so many of you have had similar experiences. Thank you.
There's so many cancers out there but a laugh pancreatic cancer seems to be the worst of them all. I've had many friends and my sister most recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and it moves so fast. It just seems within weeks they're gone before you even have time to say how much you love them. I feel for you. Wish we could eradicate all these cancers but it takes time and money. Best of luck and wishes with you forever in your life. Peace be with you brother
I am so sorry young man I am going through it now not pancreatic cancer but prostate spread to my bones I am sorry for your loss he has many songs that hit home God bless you
Discovered this song about 8 months ago, my uncle committed suicide then a month later a separation from my wife of 16 years. Started all over again from scratch. Times are hard and they aren’t the way that I wanted, but it’s still alright
It will be ok. Currently suffering from learning how to walk once again from 25 yrs of MS. I buried enough. Divorced because his alcoholism was pointing guns at me made me run. 28 yrs but I tried to get the bottle out of his hands. Throw a 12 pack in the back yard and watch it explode. Hang in there you will be ok. I listen to all of his songs
What a Healing song. I lost my 24 year old daughter last year to Covid-19. My heart is forever broken but this song..spoke to me..in a good way. Thank you Nathaniel..❤️
Praying for you and your daughter 💕 I can't even begin to imagine. Everyone's thoughts are with you. I hope you heal🌹and find some way to move forward.
Letting go doesn't necessarily have to be negative. It can be giving in and admitting you can't continue alone and you need help getting to a better place.
Discovered this song a few weeks ago and it really hit home for me but didn’t know why...turns out my Dad was diagnosed with cancer four days later, 9 days later he passed way to soon. Can’t say how many hundreds of times I’ve listened to it since I got the call. Such an amazing song. Thank you! ❤️
Sorry for your loss. First time I heard it was the day my wonderful neighbor Eddie died. Oct 30th stupid covid/pneumonia. Some good the j4b did. I will never look across the street from my front porch and see him sitting on his porch ever again...
This song came on the radio at 330 am when I was traveling. I dont think there is a more reflective time for a song like this to hit you hard then on a old long road in the middle of nowhere .
I forgot where I was but I just got in my car and this was playing I didn’t hear much but the guitar spoke to me and I knew I found something so I shazamed it and listened to it later. Now I relate this song to coming home from a long 12 hr shift and feeling like my soul left elsewhere and all that remains is a hollow shell.
UA-cam daily for 2 decades. Comment reader. Created my first channel just to say I likey, maybe cuz it just fits me here 5am weather just turned cold, luv long roads...good morning
This bloke is amazing been listening for the last couple of months and its the ultimate driving music its like a warm hug from your mum. Gives me the night sweats its that good!!!
Huge huge music guy , sometimes every once in a while a song just smacks me in my face , speaks to me , makes me happy and sad all at the same time . This is one of those songs
He is pretty huge. But weight can be a struggle for some people, caused by eating habits, genetics, and frequency of exercise. But referring to a musician as a huge music guy may be considered rude. Oh you're saying you're a huge FAN of music??? Oh. Cool.
Thank you Lord for confirming there are others like me. Recognize that music is the only universal language...can appreciate the many layers in a song, the power of its message. How it was intended and the infinite ways it can be interpreted depending on the listener and it evolved even. Music exists to link us Songs are memories. Music is the universal language Songs connect our stories ...anyway...sheesh that was long and dumb. I just love that you heard the first line in the song and your honest reaction. It's deep. 🤙🏼♥️
I’m a 43 year old man. My wife left me 3 years ago. I wish she would talk to me. I’d like her to hear this song. It explains more than I ever could. Now I’m crying
Way too many gone. There's too many depending on me to not collapse from the weight. Here's to hoping that music can be a snall "vent" for others as it is for me.
Yeah. To the other commenters, I'm so sorry for your losses. Facing the void, acknowledging the existential truth. It's hard to do, but it sheds light on everything else. Once we stop pretending that everyone we love, and we, are going to be available forever, we start living.
Sorry about your loss man I cannot imagine what you must be going through, just remember your mom loves you and she'd want you to live a good life man. Remember her for all the good she did.
Kevin Porter I’m sorry to hear about your mother. I lost my mother to cancer as well 9yrs ago on Mother’s Day. They are no longer suffering.Hang in there.
This song absolutely touched my soul. My father passed away 2.5 years ago, but in my heart it might as well have been 2.5 minutes ago. Now, my sister is battling an incurable cancer. She could still have 2.5 years, but in my heart it feels like it may as well be 2.5 minutes. But as this old man sits here counting my losses, I know it ain't the way I want it, but it's still alright. Thank you, and God bless.
I lost my father 2.5yrs ago also. Both my parents have passed. Life gets rough, remember the good times. That's all that keeps me going. God bless you and your family
At 71 i have found i cant listen to this song enough. I lost my dad 53 years ago to alcoholism. I wish i could have heard this then at 17 but am so rewarded to here it now.
34 days clean today and this song speaks so loudly to the journey to get here. The road ahead seems so impossibly long drought with land mines that I will lay for myself and the road behind is paved with regent and embarrassment. It ain’t alight…but I’m hoping I can make some of it right. “All this fear starts leaving a mark. Idle hands are all that stands from your time in the dark. But it’s still alright.”
At what age do you start having to count your loses? I'm the eternal optimist. It's hard for me to accept something ain't gonna be. But it may be time. I live this song btw.
I took care of my dad for 2 and a half years. Even though he was fighting cancer we bonded, when everyone walked away I stayed, he passed away this year January 20th a month exactly after his 63rd birthday, I’ll always love and look up to that man and id do anything to tell him thank you for helping me see and learn things. What I would give just to hear his stories and hear his advice again
I'm a 29 year old tough guy with battle scars from head to toe and i cry when i listen to this. It hits me so deeply in a way no other musician can. I appreciate this.
I have lost but I only know I will lose more. Reading these comments makes me feel less alone getting through life. Thank you to all who have loved and lost...sharing your story
One of the most gorgeous and uplifting songs I've ever heard, this man is a poet, I cry hard tears every time I hear it, just beautiful and cathartic for us who are hurting
This song is a masterpiece. So much emotion!!! The way Nathaniel uses his voice in this is simply amazing, and the lyrics are so, so powerful. It hit me hard the first time I heard it, and it still does every time I hear it. This is art!!
Exactly. Even though I feel like there's more trash than there's ever been, it's not like Nathaniel and his Night Sweats don't exist 😄 or Vulfpeck, the Monophonics, Marcus King, Emily King (not related), Jacob Collier, Lianne La Havas, Ray Lamontagne, Bon Iver, ...
That’s a thing people who don’t search say. I know I’ve come across great artist and bands simply clicking on random videos. Nathaniel Rateliff is a talented musician. An interesting suggestion is to look up Poets of the fall, the white buffalo, Sean James, Delain or Billy Raffoul.
This song hurts a little. A swift kick in the face to squeeze out a tear from your eye, for all the mistakes you've made, and all the people you hurt, without realizing it, because you just weren't wise enough to understand in your youth...
I heard this for the first time yesterday on CBC in Ontario Canada...driving through a massive snowstorm, gripping the wheel and then this came on and I turned the radio up, relaxed and fell in love. Can not wait for this album to be released. Nathaniel has such a soothing voice. I instantly heard Gordon Lightfoot and I am SO glad I heard this yesterday.
Walking that tunnel of light and seeing our Father... And it's still alright. To everybody that reads this and doesn't see the next day. I love you brother and sister. I never really truly learned how to appreciate another human. One second we're here in the next second we're not. Don't go to bed with hate in your heart. Forgive and let go just like we will do with our bodies.
You’ll probably never see this but it makes me happy that you are proud of yourself, Nathaniel. You’re a strong man who puts it all into songs. It would be tough doing that. We see how much these lyrics mean to you in your eyes and voice. Be proud. Keep on being you, Nathaniel. Such a talented guy. Wow.
This beautiful talented man can do no wrong. All his solo stuff and the Night Sweats (who are easily one of the best live bands on the planet in my opinion) is real soul music of the highest order! Honest, heart on your sleeve & life affirming gorgeousness.
Just today I kept thinking to myself "he can do no wrong"... solo or with the Night Sweats. He is an amazing artist that puts out amazing music (not just a great song or two) and that is the reason I buy his & the Night Sweats albums so he can continue writing and making music and make a living at it!
Oh my love, this moved me so much. I am typing through tears. So beautifully done. The lyrics " standing on the ledge with no way to get down.......want to grow wings.....baby just let go" will forever be stamped on my heart.
I guess I don't see the 'just let go' thing as suicide, but as an encouragement to let go and trust that the landing will either be soft or you will gain resilience from breaking -- both good things; and you let go and trust whatever you have faith in to catch you because it's alright. You aren't going to lose by letting go of whatever is holding you cowering on the ledge.
I just discovered this, I’m a disabled combat vet with ptsd and depression, heavily medicated at times, it’s hard sometimes, like I failed and the words of this song help me so much with acceptance of the past and how things don’t go as we hoped and sometimes the people we wish were still with us, whether we lose them to war or lose a marriage because of how it changes us and the connection with family...so much loss to be counted can be overwhelming but I listen to this and find myself feeling emotions, while just staring out at the wood line, that I couldn’t express at the time. This song gives my heart an outlet to hurt without feeling like life has been as good as it will ever get.... but it’s still alright, thank you for this song
Sending you all the Love in my heart dear Brother. Her Love will keep you going through until you reach the lighter side my friend. Peace for a moment in your day, Al. Candescence, Candice
I truly fell in Love with this tune without knowing anything about Nathaniel Rateliff a couple of years ago! This tune still haunts me in a such a positive way! It cured my Blues and took away the pains that I was living with.Times are hard for this old Man "But It's Still Alright" Moving ever so continually from dark to the light! Growing Wings with Help from Above!
The God above rarely takes away the pain and loss we all inevitably have to endure in our lives. What he does do, is give us beautiful art like this to shepherd us through.
Nathaniel is a poet. This song is so right on for what is going on in my life and hits my soul like a ton of bricks, just like the rest of his music. So talented and under-rated for sure!
My wife of 28 years passed from cancer 6/24/21 played this song every day and today my mother died from cancer 8/9/21 its so true and means so much!!has helped every day..Thank you for what talent you share from the heart!!!!!
NR - you and your crew helped heal old wounds in Sun Valley. It was years ago now, it wasn't easy to pull off but you did. I hope the good luck coins found you backstage. I send my deepest thanks, compassion and gratitude. You all showed up...Mom and I danced. I'm preparing to transit to the 5th, any day now. Remember the Neurolux in BOI, remember that was one for the Books. Life has limitations and nothing lasts forever, everything changes, and it's still alright. Blessings my friends. Thank you so much! Trev
This is one of the few songs where both the music and lyrics can be painfully and wonderfully relatable. Brought to mind several loved ones who passed - genius!
Proud to say our home towns are only an hour apart. Just heard this guy 10 mins ago, this song, after my wife and I split not an hour before it came on. I'm still lost. I miss my kids already. I'm not alright, but idk. They'll hold me together.
I learned this on acoustic guitar recently to play at a memorial for a dear friend that passed into the by and by. I had another Friend accompany me on acoustic and we had our fiddle player join us. It was so hard to play and sing this without crying. I'd be lying if I said we played it perfectly. There were some straight up sobs. But what a beautiful song. The words, the music, the FEELING...It was an incredible tribute and I am thankful for this tune. It really helps ease the pain of that loss. Love you Monk. See you on the other side of the Blue Ridge Sky!
OMG, I told my guitarist's wife who introduced me to Nathaniel two years ago that "I can't imagine living my life without hearing this music." And, that echos what you have said!
I just saw him at the Montreal Jazz Fest and the band was incredible, it was raining steadily but he still had a few thousand in the streets listening to him and singing along despite the rain. Wonderful experience!
Nathaniel, You never cease to amaze me, You have been one of my favorites since my first discovery of you singing SOB. I really LOVE YOU. Thank you for being you.
Whenever i am down (much more often as i get older), this song brings me back down to earth. Growing older has many more consequences than the young realize.
Nathaniel, thank you for what you do and what you bring to the rest of us. Last year, I traveled 6 hours to volunteer at a BBQ fundraiser in Tampa, Florida. I'd never heard of the organization or their cause, but I gladly jumped at the chance because you and your band were going to be there. I'm not typically a fanboy of anyone but when I called your name as you guys were headed from the bus to the stage and you stopped and said hello, it was awesome.
How many super talented original artists are out there chugging away? This is genius and it took a while to get to us, didn't it? This is R&R Hall of Fame stuff. How many years did they struggle in anonimity? Why am I crying? Oh yeah, I'm drunk.
Recently my life has been forever changed by a relationship ending, Every time I hear this song I literally break down...but it doesn't stop me from listening...Thank you Nathaniel for beautiful lyrics
Just another example of why he's such a special talent... phenomenal song, and I'm really looking forward to the new album. That'll be my Valentine's Day plan
As I turned 50, I cant help but look back some. Think about those I have known and loved, those that are no longer in my life either by my choice, their choice, of life's choice. The regrets I have, things I did - things I didnt do. Yet this is the perfect song for letting me know - its still alright. Somehow Nathaniel Rateliff produced a song that this just perfect for where I am this very day. Thank you sir.
When I first heard of Nathaniel the song was, “summers end” keep in mind I’m a huge hip hop head I barley ever go into these genres and if I do I mostly skip, but when I heard that guitar strumming and then he started to sing I just had to listen, he’s one of those artist that no matter why genre you prefer when he comes on you just have to listen, but it speaks from the heart, now I listen to him on a daily basis, thank you for all the amazing memories
This song was played on the soundtrack for my uncle's funeral and I immediately felt his love of the song when the first chords played.... Thank you for these beautiful words and melody. It's now one of my favorite songs and a way to always remember...
This brings me peace in difficult times and helps me to see its still alright, no matter how low I feel to carry on being a dad alone for the sake of my sons.
Underrated comment were the minds of people this is pin point accuracy on the waves of emotions you feel when listening to this beautifully put masterpiece keep on keeping on strong thru it all bro ..yours truly 🙌🏾💪
Lost my partner of 15 years and we would listen to this countless times. Such a profound song. I’m now listening to it for the first time in a long time and shedding tears of joy
In 2021 I lost both of my folks to covid, within 6 days of each other, and I heard this song through random picks, it caught my ear, as did other songs of yours, I wanted to say thank you, it is a pleasure and refreshing.
Bury your friends; then it gets worse; standing out on a ledge with no way to get down; start praying for wings......My Mom died last year and my Dad is not in great shape. I do feel like I'm out on a ledge with no way to get down. I'm always praying to get through it. I know the other shoe (my Dad) is going to drop sooner than later and this song justgets me every single time. It's so beautiful
A love ones worst nightmare. Losing a love one and having to bury them. A man lost his son and couldn’t bare the thought of living without him. He was suffering and couldn’t believe his son was gone. He cried and cried every day and night, missing his son, wishing things were different. He couldn’t sleep and hadn’t slept in a long time. One night an old man came to him in a dream and told him “Enough!! That’s enough crying!!” The dad told him “I can not stop, I am never going to see him again!” The old man said “Do you want to see him again?” The dad says “yes of course” the old man takes him to the gates of heaven where he sees many little beautiful children, so happy and innocent, Carrying lit candles into the gates of heaven, smiling and laughing and just so beautiful. The dad asks “where is my son? Who are these kids?” The old man said “these are the children that are called home early, They are innocent and loved and they go right through to heaven, so happy” the dad says “and my son? Where is he? Why isn’t he with these children?” The old man said “come this way” and guided him to the side of heavens gate. A small boy with a beautiful smile was standing there watching all the children enter Heaven. He was standing there with a candle that was not lit. His dad grabbed him and hugged him, and the boy kissed his dads cheeks and told him he missed him. The dad said “why isn’t your candle lit like the other kids? Why are you waiting here at the gates?” The boy said “I keep lighting it Daddy, but your tears put it out. I see you are so sad and I am tied to that feeling so I wait here until you’re ok” the Dad burst out crying for the last time, he told his son, “light your candle and go, I will be ok, and I know you will be too” 🥺 - Don't cry too long for that loved one you lost, whether son, daughter, husband, mother or father!! Let them rest in peace, don't torment your life, because they won't come back, have faith that you will be together again, and that Creator makes us a beautiful home with all our loved ones when we leave this world.
Somehow, even though I have never met this man, he has described the contours of my heart with his words. I can't get this song out of my head. It haunts me in the most beautiful way.
I heard this for the first time while i was on the operating table for a heart procedure. Every time I hear it it makes me reflect how I got a second chance. Live your life people. You never know how much time you have.
I spent 2000.00 to see you play in Atlanta. You were rained out. My heart and soul was broken. This song says it all. It'll still be alright. I can still listen to your Beautiful voice and Awesome band. I Love everything about you Nathaniel! The way you sing, dance, and play the sweetest music I have EVER heard. Thank you for being the One and Only Nathaniel Rateliff! 💘
This song is incredible. From the haunting beginning chords to the the unconventional rhythym and how each chorus is just a little bit different than the last builds to the end in a way that I've not heard before. Its an excellently written piece executed perfectly, with just the right amount of imperfection. It makes me believe in music again. I can't stop listening to it.
This song has helped me through a really hard time recently as my wife Tracey passed away in March, but the reason it's so special is the last thing she ever bought me was your latest album for my Birthday (Secret Birthday present ) and we had just found out she had Cancer so it was a pretty hard time. This song instantly spoke to me as I could see the struggles to come, my wife then bought my son two tickets to your postponed Glasgow gig in April for his birthday obviously with me in mind as he is under 18. She passed on around a fortnight after this on the 23rd march after taking a bad reaction to chemotherapy and spent her last few days in a Hospice. Without this wee song I don't think I would have gotten through seeing her suffer and struggle so much. So I would just like to say thank you, you have really touched my soul.
I'm so sorry for your pain my friend. May music help you grieve and heal...
Stay strong friend..
Oh I’m so sorry
And it still going to be alright 🙏
Sorry for her passing. May music always help that pain! Keep that head high friend!
This song is unspeakably special to me. Transcendental. My father introduced it to me three years ago, when we texted good songs we found to each other. This one immediately hit me like a brick in the gut. I listened to it over and over again, crying and thinking of my dad. I didn’t know why, but I was scared for him. And so sad.
A few months later, my father was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Driving him to his first post-diagnosis appointment to get his stomach fluid drained, this was the first song that came on the radio. I couldn’t hold it in. He seemed to understand.
He died six weeks after diagnosis, and this song has been my way of mourning for two years. I put it on and I feel him in the room, right beside me, feeling the lyrics too.
I don’t know if I believe in these things, but it’s almost like, somehow, I knew. Through this song, I knew before I could have known.
I came to these comments and saw that so many of you have had similar experiences.
Thank you.
There's so many cancers out there but a laugh pancreatic cancer seems to be the worst of them all. I've had many friends and my sister most recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and it moves so fast. It just seems within weeks they're gone before you even have time to say how much you love them. I feel for you. Wish we could eradicate all these cancers but it takes time and money. Best of luck and wishes with you forever in your life. Peace be with you brother
This song is beautiful and touching. I do not know you but I feel your pain. Sending you love and hugs from the Bronx. 💙🤞🗽
I am so sorry young man I am going through it now not pancreatic cancer but prostate spread to my bones I am sorry for your loss he has many songs that hit home God bless you
Discovered this song about 8 months ago, my uncle committed suicide then a month later a separation from my wife of 16 years. Started all over again from scratch. Times are hard and they aren’t the way that I wanted, but it’s still alright
It will be ok. Currently suffering from learning how to walk once again from 25 yrs of MS.
I buried enough. Divorced because his alcoholism was pointing guns at me made me run. 28 yrs but I tried to get the bottle out of his hands. Throw a 12 pack in the back yard and watch it explode.
Hang in there you will be ok.
I listen to all of his songs
Tis rare to come across a perfect song.
well said
What a Healing song. I lost my 24 year old daughter last year to Covid-19. My heart is forever broken but this song..spoke to me..in a good way. Thank you Nathaniel..❤️
Tunefreakdonna- 💔 ⏳
Wishing healing vibes @ you!
Praying for you and your daughter 💕
I can't even begin to imagine. Everyone's thoughts are with you. I hope you heal🌹and find some way to move forward.
This comment brought tears to my eyes... sending ❤️ your way
💛🙏🏼💛
Probably had her lungs blown out cause of the machines not covid.
Beautifull song. Been on that ledge, without wings, didn't let go. And it's still allright. Life's a gift, hold on to it. Don't let go.
Damn right brother! Gotta hold on. Sometimes tightly, but just gotta. World is always best with you in it for sure.
But sometimes you do just have to let go. (There is more to life than death.) Some things require surrender.
Yes! This! Keep pushing
Letting go doesn't necessarily have to be negative. It can be giving in and admitting you can't continue alone and you need help getting to a better place.
😪
Discovered this song a few weeks ago and it really hit home for me but didn’t know why...turns out my Dad was diagnosed with cancer four days later, 9 days later he passed way to soon. Can’t say how many hundreds of times I’ve listened to it since I got the call. Such an amazing song. Thank you! ❤️
so sorry for your loss 💔 music is healing
My condolences. 🙏🏽
Condolences for your loss
Sorry for your loss. First time I heard it was the day my wonderful neighbor Eddie died. Oct 30th stupid covid/pneumonia. Some good the j4b did. I will never look across the street from my front porch and see him sitting on his porch ever again...
🙏🏽
“Your idle hands are all that stands from your time in the dark, .. but its still alright “ 😢
This song came on the radio at 330 am when I was traveling. I dont think there is a more reflective time for a song like this to hit you hard then on a old long road in the middle of nowhere .
Pondering mode- ON.
Been there too today
I forgot where I was but I just got in my car and this was playing I didn’t hear much but the guitar spoke to me and I knew I found something so I shazamed it and listened to it later. Now I relate this song to coming home from a long 12 hr shift and feeling like my soul left elsewhere and all that remains is a hollow shell.
UA-cam daily for 2 decades. Comment reader. Created my first channel just to say I likey, maybe cuz it just fits me here 5am weather just turned cold, luv long roads...good morning
This bloke is amazing been listening for the last couple of months and its the ultimate driving music its like a warm hug from your mum. Gives me the night sweats its that good!!!
Huge huge music guy , sometimes every once in a while a song just smacks me in my face , speaks to me , makes me happy and sad all at the same time . This is one of those songs
He is pretty huge. But weight can be a struggle for some people, caused by eating habits, genetics, and frequency of exercise. But referring to a musician as a huge music guy may be considered rude.
Oh you're saying you're a huge FAN of music???
Oh. Cool.
Same, song stopped me in my tracks ❤️🎶
Thank you Lord for confirming there are others like me. Recognize that music is the only universal language...can appreciate the many layers in a song, the power of its message. How it was intended and the infinite ways it can be interpreted depending on the listener and it evolved even.
Music exists to link us
Songs are memories.
Music is the universal language
Songs connect our stories
...anyway...sheesh that was long and dumb. I just love that you heard the first line in the song and your honest reaction. It's deep. 🤙🏼♥️
I’m a 43 year old man. My wife left me 3 years ago. I wish she would talk to me. I’d like her to hear this song. It explains more than I ever could. Now I’m crying
@@drsrsv8884 because I love her and wanted to spend my life with her
Hi 👋
@@EvelynLogan-od7zc hi!
@@superusseljames were you from? Howdy 👋 from the states? What social media you got?🤠
@@EvelynLogan-od7zc I’m in the US, southeast specifically
"Gonna have to bury your friends and then you find it gets worse", hit me like a hammer.
Way too many gone. There's too many depending on me to not collapse from the weight. Here's to hoping that music can be a snall "vent" for others as it is for me.
Just lost BFF of 45 yrs not too long ago. Hurt doesn’t stop
Yeah. To the other commenters, I'm so sorry for your losses. Facing the void, acknowledging the existential truth. It's hard to do, but it sheds light on everything else. Once we stop pretending that everyone we love, and we, are going to be available forever, we start living.
Lost alot of brothers in war, their Spirits are still with all of us. Remember that folks.
Bury friends and family it puts a hole in your he art
L
Every so often a song comes out that hits me like a punch in the face. This is one of those songs. WOW!!!!
No this is one of those songs that hits you like a caress of the face.
I dislike being punched in the face, but I enjoy this song.
This played randomly as my ma passed away from cancer yesterday. Been listenin ever since...thank you
Listen to his momma song
My mom passed away 5 years ago. Nathaniel can play some good tunes
Sorry about your loss man I cannot imagine what you must be going through, just remember your mom loves you and she'd want you to live a good life man. Remember her for all the good she did.
Kevin Porter I’m sorry to hear about your mother. I lost my mother to cancer as well 9yrs ago on Mother’s Day. They are no longer suffering.Hang in there.
Very sorry to hear that. Hope that you're doing ok!! It's amazing what music can do to heal the soul and make very sad times somewhat bearable.
This song absolutely touched my soul. My father passed away 2.5 years ago, but in my heart it might as well have been 2.5 minutes ago. Now, my sister is battling an incurable cancer. She could still have 2.5 years, but in my heart it feels like it may as well be 2.5 minutes.
But as this old man sits here counting my losses, I know it ain't the way I want it, but it's still alright.
Thank you, and God bless.
♥️
💛🤘🏻
This brought a tear to my eye brother, I don't know you, but I send you love in your time of need. Be strong
Praying for your strength. What a brave soul to write such strong words openly. ✌🏽💙
I lost my father 2.5yrs ago also. Both my parents have passed. Life gets rough, remember the good times. That's all that keeps me going. God bless you and your family
deeply beautiful song.
At 71 i have found i cant listen to this song enough. I lost my dad 53 years ago to alcoholism. I wish i could have heard this then at 17 but am so rewarded to here it now.
34 days clean today and this song speaks so loudly to the journey to get here. The road ahead seems so impossibly long drought with land mines that I will lay for myself and the road behind is paved with regent and embarrassment. It ain’t alight…but I’m hoping I can make some of it right. “All this fear starts leaving a mark. Idle hands are all that stands from your time in the dark. But it’s still alright.”
A little over two years clean. It is a long journey but it is worth it in the end. Proud of the trip and more proud of the destination.
23 days now....
@@afumi4486 All the best to you on your journey - it will be worth it ,you'll get there !
@@rickdixon9933 34 now and still going strong 💪
@Helen Barber Same...and feeling great!
"standing out on the ledge / with no way to get down / you start praying for wings to grow / baby just let go" ... beautiful stuff
💞
This song is haunting me. Absolutely breathtaking.
Agreed ❤️
At what age do you start having to count your loses? I'm the eternal optimist. It's hard for me to accept something ain't gonna be. But it may be time. I live this song btw.
Love
I took care of my dad for 2 and a half years. Even though he was fighting cancer we bonded, when everyone walked away I stayed, he passed away this year January 20th a month exactly after his 63rd birthday, I’ll always love and look up to that man and id do anything to tell him thank you for helping me see and learn things. What I would give just to hear his stories and hear his advice again
Hey, you. Whoever is reading this, this is your sign. Everything is going to be okay. You did not come this far to give up. I believe in you ❤
The world needs more of this.
The world is this, people and things hide this.
Thank u so much
❤❤❤
❤
I'm a 29 year old tough guy with battle scars from head to toe and i cry when i listen to this. It hits me so deeply in a way no other musician can. I appreciate this.
Damn right. Me too bud. Jason Isbell writes to my soul as well. Check out "dress blues"
Comforting to know I'm not alone in this.. Please be well.
🤍
I have lost but I only know I will lose more. Reading these comments makes me feel less alone getting through life. Thank you to all who have loved and lost...sharing your story
love you sister
This song does not have nearly enough recognition. I've just about over played it, just a few thousand more listens to go.
Davi F: same here!
I hear ya
Even when I'm not listening, it's in my head. Such a beautiful song
Same here!!! I listen to it on the way to work on the way home etc love it !!!
One of the most gorgeous and uplifting songs I've ever heard, this man is a poet, I cry hard tears every time I hear it, just beautiful and cathartic for us who are hurting
This song is a masterpiece. So much emotion!!! The way Nathaniel uses his voice in this is simply amazing, and the lyrics are so, so powerful. It hit me hard the first time I heard it, and it still does every time I hear it. This is art!!
First time I heard this song, the first sentence hit my soul like a brick. I started tearing up immediately. This is what good music is all about
I agree Rock - this song has made a grown tough old man have tears. This is one of my all time favorite songs
Same something about it gave me chills 🤍
Every time I hear someone say that there's no good music being made today, I tell them to check out Nathaniel Rateliff.
Exactly.
Even though I feel like there's more trash than there's ever been, it's not like Nathaniel and his Night Sweats don't exist 😄 or Vulfpeck, the Monophonics, Marcus King, Emily King (not related), Jacob Collier, Lianne La Havas, Ray Lamontagne, Bon Iver, ...
HELL YEAH
me too :)
That’s a thing people who don’t search say. I know I’ve come across great artist and bands simply clicking on random videos. Nathaniel Rateliff is a talented musician. An interesting suggestion is to look up Poets of the fall, the white buffalo, Sean James, Delain or Billy Raffoul.
Where the hell are the Night Sweats?!!!
This song hurts a little. A swift kick in the face to squeeze out a tear from your eye, for all the mistakes you've made, and all the people you hurt, without realizing it, because you just weren't wise enough to understand in your youth...
It does hurt doesn't it?
Youth is wasted on the young.
Very true words my friend
If you can carry the weight of living honest, you'll float when it's your time...
Amen
I heard this for the first time yesterday on CBC in Ontario Canada...driving through a massive snowstorm, gripping the wheel and then this came on and I turned the radio up, relaxed and fell in love. Can not wait for this album to be released. Nathaniel has such a soothing voice.
I instantly heard Gordon Lightfoot and I am SO glad I heard this yesterday.
Kool!
Perfect analogy/comparison to Gordon LIghtfoot.
Walking that tunnel of light and seeing our Father... And it's still alright. To everybody that reads this and doesn't see the next day. I love you brother and sister. I never really truly learned how to appreciate another human. One second we're here in the next second we're not. Don't go to bed with hate in your heart. Forgive and let go just like we will do with our bodies.
Thanks bro.✊️🥲
You’ll probably never see this but it makes me happy that you are proud of yourself, Nathaniel. You’re a strong man who puts it all into songs. It would be tough doing that. We see how much these lyrics mean to you in your eyes and voice. Be proud. Keep on being you, Nathaniel. Such a talented guy. Wow.
This beautiful talented man can do no wrong. All his solo stuff and the Night Sweats (who are easily one of the best live bands on the planet in my opinion) is real soul music of the highest order!
Honest, heart on your sleeve & life affirming gorgeousness.
Craig Palmer - My nephew, Luke, plays in the band!
Craig Palmer my favorite band. Best I have ever seen live, by far. ❤️
Best band on a planet has Mark Knopfler.
Saw them at the Kettlehouse in Montana... best concert I’ve seen.... LIVE.... amazing, audience would not let them leave.
Just today I kept thinking to myself "he can do no wrong"... solo or with the Night Sweats. He is an amazing artist that puts out amazing music (not just a great song or two) and that is the reason I buy his & the Night Sweats albums so he can continue writing and making music and make a living at it!
Oh my love, this moved me so much. I am typing through tears. So beautifully done. The lyrics " standing on the ledge with no way to get down.......want to grow wings.....baby just let go" will forever be stamped on my heart.
It really is lyrical master work.
@@banchara yes it really is 😊
this song is great for breaking up that stuck emotion, can't listen to it when I drive though, got to be able to see the road.
Beautifully said Alma.
Lol true
I guess I don't see the 'just let go' thing as suicide, but as an encouragement to let go and trust that the landing will either be soft or you will gain resilience from breaking -- both good things; and you let go and trust whatever you have faith in to catch you because it's alright. You aren't going to lose by letting go of whatever is holding you cowering on the ledge.
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. He's good at making those.
I just discovered this, I’m a disabled combat vet with ptsd and depression, heavily medicated at times, it’s hard sometimes, like I failed and the words of this song help me so much with acceptance of the past and how things don’t go as we hoped and sometimes the people we wish were still with us, whether we lose them to war or lose a marriage because of how it changes us and the connection with family...so much loss to be counted can be overwhelming but I listen to this and find myself feeling emotions, while just staring out at the wood line, that I couldn’t express at the time. This song gives my heart an outlet to hurt without feeling like life has been as good as it will ever get....
but it’s still alright, thank you for this song
Thank YOU!
Thank you! And stay strong Robert!
I lost my wife of 40 years April 1 to Covid. And this song is such an attachment.
💛🙏🏼💛
Am so sorry to hear that... 🙌 But, it's still alright 🙏
Sending you all the Love in my heart dear Brother. Her Love will keep you going through until you reach the lighter side my friend. Peace for a moment in your day, Al.
Candescence, Candice
I literally heard 3 second of this song in a video , immediately came on youtube to find it... not disappointed
I truly fell in Love with this tune without knowing anything about Nathaniel Rateliff a couple of years ago! This tune still haunts me in a such a positive way! It cured my Blues and took away the pains that I was living with.Times are hard for this old Man "But It's Still Alright" Moving ever so continually from dark to the light! Growing Wings with Help from Above!
Hi 👋
This is the type of song I imagine we will listen too in a year or two and fondly remember America and how beautiful it was before all was lost.
Scott
The world needs this song right now man.
That's a good way to put it ✌👍
The God above rarely takes away the pain and loss we all inevitably have to endure in our lives. What he does do, is give us beautiful art like this to shepherd us through.
Nathaniel is a poet. This song is so right on for what is going on in my life and hits my soul like a ton of bricks, just like the rest of his music. So talented and under-rated for sure!
Heard this song at my old job one night and it’s always tugged at my heart no matter what. Everything will be alright 🫶🏼
My wife of 28 years passed from cancer 6/24/21 played this song every day and today my mother died from cancer 8/9/21 its so true and means so much!!has helped every day..Thank you for what talent you share from the heart!!!!!
So sorry. That's my ex wife's birthday. Carry on my brother
Sorry for your loss
Start praying for wings to grow.. 💙
David
Came here from watching his performance on Jimmy Fallon. Such a good song. We needed this right now. God bless America
Same
Perfectly stated
NR - you and your crew helped heal old wounds in Sun Valley.
It was years ago now, it wasn't easy to pull off but you did.
I hope the good luck coins found you backstage.
I send my deepest thanks, compassion and gratitude.
You all showed up...Mom and I danced. I'm preparing to transit to the 5th, any day now.
Remember the Neurolux in BOI, remember that was one for the Books.
Life has limitations and nothing lasts forever, everything changes, and it's still alright.
Blessings my friends.
Thank you so much!
Trev
This is one of the few songs where both the music and lyrics can be painfully and wonderfully relatable. Brought to mind several loved ones who passed - genius!
Proud to say our home towns are only an hour apart. Just heard this guy 10 mins ago, this song, after my wife and I split not an hour before it came on. I'm still lost. I miss my kids already. I'm not alright, but idk. They'll hold me together.
We’ve made it to the end of this terrible year. We’ve lost so many, been thru so much, we’re still here, and It’s still alright.
Well put, Jessica. Still coming out of the corner fighting.
Checking in three years later... Is it still alright?
I learned this on acoustic guitar recently to play at a memorial for a dear friend that passed into the by and by. I had another Friend accompany me on acoustic and we had our fiddle player join us. It was so hard to play and sing this without crying. I'd be lying if I said we played it perfectly. There were some straight up sobs. But what a beautiful song. The words, the music, the FEELING...It was an incredible tribute and I am thankful for this tune. It really helps ease the pain of that loss. Love you Monk. See you on the other side of the Blue Ridge Sky!
What even did we do to deserve Nathaniel Rateliff? I’m in love with his voice. March 5th in Milwaukee can’t come soon enough ❤️❤️❤️
Well, you are lucky! Hope he whill come to holland soon😀
OMG, I told my guitarist's wife who introduced me to Nathaniel two years ago that "I can't imagine living my life without hearing this music." And, that echos what you have said!
Seen him twice, one at Red Rocks. Caitlin your in for treat.
The 6th in Chi Town for me!
I wish you a merry experience!
WeShallNotBeMoved thanks - and you as well!! 😊
This whole collection of songs ..all..have deep lyrics...hes overlooked...in my opinion...as a artist...I would love to tell him that !
What an absolutely beautiful tune. It brings me to tears. Like it hits the soul. Thank you nathanial for sharing your art.
Love. Love. Love.
I’m a chill downtempo listener but this song puts me on the knees
Prayers for everyone who hasn't found this song yet
I just saw him at the Montreal Jazz Fest and the band was incredible, it was raining steadily but he still had a few thousand in the streets listening to him and singing along despite the rain. Wonderful experience!
Nathaniel, You never cease to amaze me, You have been one of my favorites since my
first discovery of you singing SOB. I really LOVE YOU. Thank you for being you.
Whenever i am down (much more often as i get older), this song brings me back down to earth.
Growing older has many more consequences than the young realize.
I just wanted you to know that this album has been a pleasure to listen to. Difficult times need music with depth. Thanks Mr. Rateliff
I'm convinced it can't be overplayed
Nathaniel, thank you for what you do and what you bring to the rest of us. Last year, I traveled 6 hours to volunteer at a BBQ fundraiser in Tampa, Florida. I'd never heard of the organization or their cause, but I gladly jumped at the chance because you and your band were going to be there. I'm not typically a fanboy of anyone but when I called your name as you guys were headed from the bus to the stage and you stopped and said hello, it was awesome.
How many super talented original artists are out there chugging away? This is genius and it took a while to get to us, didn't it? This is R&R Hall of Fame stuff. How many years did they struggle in anonimity? Why am I crying? Oh yeah, I'm drunk.
Recently my life has been forever changed by a relationship ending, Every time I hear this song I literally break down...but it doesn't stop me from listening...Thank you Nathaniel for beautiful lyrics
@@drsrsv8884
Yes...I've never felt so ugly as I did at that moment
Just another example of why he's such a special talent... phenomenal song, and I'm really looking forward to the new album. That'll be my Valentine's Day plan
Pure genius!!! He speaks for Every Man.
I wish him a very long life- we need his observation, insight and wisdom.
Heartache medicine. I feel this bittersweet, perfect song through the depths of my soul.
As I turned 50, I cant help but look back some. Think about those I have known and loved, those that are no longer in my life either by my choice, their choice, of life's choice. The regrets I have, things I did - things I didnt do. Yet this is the perfect song for letting me know - its still alright. Somehow Nathaniel Rateliff produced a song that this just perfect for where I am this very day. Thank you sir.
This is a ridiculously good song, knocked it out the park. I'm hearing a lot of John Prine like tones on some of the lyrics. Genius song.
Praying for wings to grow right now for a loved one
When I first heard of Nathaniel the song was, “summers end” keep in mind I’m a huge hip hop head I barley ever go into these genres and if I do I mostly skip, but when I heard that guitar strumming and then he started to sing I just had to listen, he’s one of those artist that no matter why genre you prefer when he comes on you just have to listen, but it speaks from the heart, now I listen to him on a daily basis, thank you for all the amazing memories
This song was played on the soundtrack for my uncle's funeral and I immediately felt his love of the song when the first chords played.... Thank you for these beautiful words and melody. It's now one of my favorite songs and a way to always remember...
Can't help but think of the current situation in the world when I listen to this. Stay safe everyone.
Idle hands are all that stand from our time in the dark
It really is quite a reminder to appreciate what we have. You be safe, too.
It will pass soon but this song brings limitless joy
You too 🙌 ❤️
All my Love to you J Yo for your “uniting” comments. Candescence be with you Always. Candice
Had to put my 14 year old pup down two days ago. He's been with me for nearly 12 and he was the best buddy I ever had. This song gets me perfectly....
This brings me peace in difficult times and helps me to see its still alright, no matter how low I feel to carry on being a dad alone for the sake of my sons.
Underrated comment were the minds of people this is pin point accuracy on the waves of emotions you feel when listening to this beautifully put masterpiece keep on keeping on strong thru it all bro ..yours truly 🙌🏾💪
Just discovered this via "Walker Independence" TV show - WOW - goosebumps galore with this one - Thank You Nathaniel / TV Show / UA-cam!
Il est artiste qui adapte sa mélancolie en douceur, ou ses notes nous enveloppe d'une beauté jusque-là cachée..
Lost my partner of 15 years and we would listen to this countless times. Such a profound song. I’m now listening to it for the first time in a long time and shedding tears of joy
This song is a miracle in 2020. The torch is still alive.
We have to help carry it.
Already a CLASSIC and I don't even think the album has been released yet.
Very beautiful Nathaniel Rateliff.
Something spiritual about this song that words fail to capture
In 2021 I lost both of my folks to covid, within 6 days of each other, and I heard this song through random picks, it caught my ear, as did other songs of yours, I wanted to say thank you, it is a pleasure and refreshing.
Bury your friends; then it gets worse; standing out on a ledge with no way to get down; start praying for wings......My Mom died last year and my Dad is not in great shape. I do feel like I'm out on a ledge with no way to get down. I'm always praying to get through it. I know the other shoe (my Dad) is going to drop sooner than later and this song justgets me every single time. It's so beautiful
Hang in there. There’s always hope somewhere out in the darkness. I promise it’s there. Sending you all of my best thoughts.
A love ones worst nightmare. Losing a love one and having to bury them. A man lost his son and couldn’t bare the thought of living without him. He was suffering and couldn’t believe his son was gone. He cried and cried every day and night, missing his son, wishing things were different.
He couldn’t sleep and hadn’t slept in a long time. One night an old man came to him in a dream and told him “Enough!! That’s enough crying!!” The dad told him “I can not stop, I am never going to see him again!” The old man said “Do you want to see him again?” The dad says “yes of course” the old man takes him to the gates of heaven where he sees many little beautiful children, so happy and innocent, Carrying lit candles into the gates of heaven, smiling and laughing and just so beautiful. The dad asks “where is my son? Who are these kids?” The old man said “these are the children that are called home early, They are innocent and loved and they go right through to heaven, so happy” the dad says “and my son? Where is he? Why isn’t he with these children?” The old man said “come this way” and guided him to the side of heavens gate. A small boy with a beautiful smile was standing there watching all the children enter Heaven. He was standing there with a candle that was not lit. His dad grabbed him and hugged him, and the boy kissed his dads cheeks and told him he missed him. The dad said “why isn’t your candle lit like the other kids? Why are you waiting here at the gates?”
The boy said “I keep lighting it Daddy, but your tears put it out. I see you are so sad and I am tied to that feeling so I wait here until you’re ok” the Dad burst out crying for the last time, he told his son, “light your candle and go, I will be ok, and I know you will be too” 🥺
- Don't cry too long for that loved one you lost, whether son, daughter, husband, mother or father!! Let them rest in peace, don't torment your life, because they won't come back, have faith that you will be together again, and that Creator makes us a beautiful home with all our loved ones when we leave this world.
Perhaps his best song yet. Every live, solo vid I’ve seen you feel he’s fighting back the tears.
Nathaniel Rateliff just keeps getting better and better. This is my newest favorite song by him.
Love this poem
Jeff
Funny how you can hear influences in a song, and still feel like it's 100% the artist you are listening to at that moment. What a beautiful voice.
Somehow, even though I have never met this man, he has described the contours of my heart with his words. I can't get this song out of my head. It haunts me in the most beautiful way.
I heard this for the first time while i was on the operating table for a heart procedure. Every time I hear it it makes me reflect how I got a second chance. Live your life people. You never know how much time you have.
I spent 2000.00 to see you play in Atlanta. You were rained out. My heart and soul was broken. This song says it all. It'll still be alright. I can still listen to your Beautiful voice and Awesome band. I Love everything about you Nathaniel! The way you sing, dance, and play the sweetest music I have EVER heard. Thank you for being the One and Only Nathaniel Rateliff! 💘
Seen these guys 2 years ago in Vancouver,BC. Restored my faith in music again, amazing stuff.
This song is incredible. From the haunting beginning chords to the the unconventional rhythym and how each chorus is just a little bit different than the last builds to the end in a way that I've not heard before. Its an excellently written piece executed perfectly, with just the right amount of imperfection. It makes me believe in music again. I can't stop listening to it.
I'm not crying, you're crying!
This song just weighs heavily on my heart.
Nathaniel Ratliff is one of the most underrated artists out there! His playlist is infinite
Jonathan
Nothing moves my soul the way this man does. Still Trying struck a chord and i've been stuck on his songs ever since.