this is crazy, if u listen to the song on the album, it goes perfectly into the next song "some", so i always thought this song was like 5 minutes lmao
Every few years, I find myself drifting back to this song. My dad and Doug grew up in Twin Falls. They made music with each other and both escaped the dying town of Twin Falls to the brighter future of Boise. And my dad escaped married at 19 with their first born son. Lots of memories attached to Twin Falls, Idaho.
I was in foster 1993-1996 and and on and off after. This song makes me think of Ohio where I was raised. I had to leave at a young age but old enough people made impressions on me. I wonder what my life would be like if I stayed.
This song is crazy. The performance on this recording delivers so much emotion and the transition into some and it's opening solo is some of the most emotional guitar playing I've heard. These lyrics are so effective at conveying the emotion of growing up and forgetting the world you grew up in. It makes me so sad but also so inspired listening to this song. I love this band so much
Christmas, Twin Falls, Idaho Is her oldest memory She was only two It's the first time she felt blue Cafeteria, Harrison Elementary Beneath a parachute I saw her without shoes 7 up, I touched her thumb And she knew it was me Though she couldn't see Unless, of course, she peeked My mom's good, she got me out of Twin Falls, Idaho Before I got too old You know how that goes That's where she still was the summer She turned 17 In 1983 Three weeks after me Last I heard was she had twins Or maybe it was three Though I've never seen (Except for in my dreams/ But that don't bother me)
'i touched her thumb and she knew it was me , although she couldn't see, unless, of corse, she peaked." i love this lyric so much, the heads down thumbs up reference
I was born there and adopted 5 days later...thank god. Not meant to sound mean, but my biological parents were underaged and on drugs I bet it wouldn’t have been a good life.
this song has two chord progressions it alternates between the whole way through. 1: Dmaj7, C#m, F#m7, E Christmas, twin falls idaho is her oldest memory... 2: Dmaj7, C#m, Dmaj7, Dm She was only two, the first time she felt blue...
I discovered this song when I was about 16 or 17, and I had never felt so recognized before... I was born and raised in Twin Falls, ID. Hearing this song was and is still so weird, like I know where Harrison elementary is! It's wack, that a prominent alt band could represent such a seemingly insignificant area. But I have a complicated relationship with that town. Growing up, all I wanted was to get out... I wanted to move to Boise, Portland, Seattle, even New York or London. But then again, some of my best memories are rooted there. I eventually did move to Boise; I found my people and a place where I felt like I really belonged. I love my hometown very much, but I don't think I could move back again. I know that this song is an anthem for everyone who grew up in a dead-end town, who want to move on to bigger and better places... But when I hear this song, it's like it's just for me, or for my mom (who also grew up there), or for anyone who felt/feels stuck in Twin Falls.
I was tripping and remembered this song existed. This song takes me too another planet with the way 30 years ago, Twin Falls Idaho was exactly the same :/ this song speaks to my soul.
i just started crying to this randomly at 1 am, this is the first time ive cried in months i have no idea what brought this on.. i think this song just has some kind of crazy magic
Idaho is the shit, honestly. I’ve been all over the country but Idaho is one of my favorite places. A really majestic, unspoiled piece of land. Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho are indescribably pure and wonderful. Definitely go if you have the chance.
been coming back to this song everyday for the past few days or so. i havent understood it entirely and still dont but these guys just unlocked a super old memory for me! i didnt get what he was talking about with 7 up and thumbs but today it clicked! 7 up was that game where everyone put there head down on the desk and you walked around and touched peoples thumbs and then they guessed! good times man good times.
born in idaho falls, spent my infancy and childhood near twin falls, grew up the rest of my life in california. i still visit idaho pretty often to see my folks, and it does my heart to know that besides the neo-nazi compounds up in the north, there is one shining light that burns oh bright through all the bullshit...and that light is built to spill
I grew up in twin, the song feeling is pretty accurate. Things got dark before leaving for me, ill never return. I didn't attend Harrison, i went to Lincoln, was a cool school in many ways actually.
I'm 32 years old and this song brings me back to being alone in the world for the first time, having a lot of issues, and young love in a way that half my listens bring me to tears. We love you Doug.
Dude. I'm adopted and from CA. This came up on my first search of the area and I can't believe that whomever I'm from... they were here. If you know who they might be please let me know. I don't want anything, I just have some questions.
Hi, sorry to be annoying but I was adopted in Twin Falls in February 1991 and that's all I know...Please let me know if that sounds familiar! I don't want anything I'm just curious how someone like me came from a place like this.
If you guys read the liner notes to NBP, it said that it was a cover. Each song had little descriptions, and he said something like "if I could start a Built To Spill cover band, I would." Something like that.
@eljako123 Doug is from Boise, Idaho. He lived his early years in Twin Falls, Idaho. Some people affectionately refer to Twin Falls as 'The Armpit of Idaho.' It is the biggest town for about 130 miles or so in the middle of nowhere in Idaho. Hence "My mom's good, she got me out of Twin Falls, Idaho."
Hi, my friends, I'm from Mexico and I'm learning the English in the school. And for practice I'm translating some songs that I liked and "Twin Falls" it's one of them. If someone could tell me about the history of this sound and explain me some words or phrases that I don't understand completely.
+Antonio Ocampo Looks like you haven't come back to this comment yet. But just in case someone else wants to know: The lyrics "7-Up I touched her thumb, and she knew it was me Although she couldn't see, unless of course she peeked" is a reference to a children's game played in grade school classrooms in the US (maybe other places too). The kids put their heads down on their desks, and stick up their thumbs. Some of the other kids then press one other kids thumb and they put their thumb down. Then the kids have to guess which other kids touched their thumbs. I think you get eliminated if you are guessed.
Aquí tienes: Navidad, Twin Falls, Idaho Es su memoria más antigua Ella sólo tenía 2 Fue la primera vez que se sintió triste Cafetería, Harrison Escuela primaria Debajo de un paracaídas La vi sin zapatos 7 arriba, toqué su pulgar Y supo que era yo Aunque no podía ver A menos, claro, que espiara Mi mamá es buena, ella me sacó de Twin Falls, Idaho Antea de que me volviera demasiado vieja Ya sabes cómo es Ahí es donde ella todavía era el verano Cumplió 17 En 1983 Tres semanas después de mí Lo último que supe, fue que tuvo gemelos O tal vez fueron tres Aunque nunca he visto Pero eso no me molesta
Such a good song, I wish it were longer... I would love the Ben Folds version if it were a studio recording but I still love it anyways just because of the song.
Loved the animation, but it fells like there's more... Anyone knows if its from a cartoon or something like this, or it was just made for the clip? Thanks!
Navidad, Caída de Gemelos, Idaho Es su memoria más antigua Ella sólo tenía 2 Fue la primera vez que se sintió triste Cafetería, Harrison Escuela primaria Debajo de un paracaídas La vi sin zapatos 7 arriba, toqué su pulgar Y supo que era yo Aunque no podía ver A menos, claro, que espiara Mi mamá es buena, ella me sacó de Caída de Gemelos, Idaho Antea de que me volviera demasiado vieja Ya sabes cómo es Ahí es donde ella todavía era el verano Cumplió 17 En 1983 Tres semanas después de mí Lo último que supe, fue que tuvo gemelos O tal vez fueron tres Aunque nunca he visto Pero eso no me molesta
The story begins in Twin Falls. It's the oldest memory. She was only 2; it was the first time she felt blue. Cafeteria Harrison elementary - beneatch the parachute, he saw her without shoes. 7up he touched her thumb, and she knew it was him. Mom was good, got him out of Twin Falls Idaho before he got too hold. That's where she was when she turned 17. Last he heard she had twins or maybe it was 3, but it doesn't bother him.
Scott Barksdale same like wtf. I live in meridian and I went with my high school (renaissance high) to twin falls for a debate tournament and it just seems off there. We all felt super depressed when we arrived and it was really creepy
this song is heart-breakingly short
yet perfect for its length
this is crazy, if u listen to the song on the album, it goes perfectly into the next song "some", so i always thought this song was like 5 minutes lmao
@@LVLHPlegojust heartbreaking
listen to it on half speed 😊
@@LVLHPlego Same, I was oblivious to the fact it was two separate songs on vinyl.
It sounds like the fleeting memory of an emotional dream right when you wake up.
what a great interpretation.
exactly what i was thinking
My mom grew up in Twin Falls and is about the same age as Doug Martsch. I always pretend like she's the one who cheated at heads up 7 up.
that's cute.
Do you have a twin or two?
This song reminds me of my childhood where everything felt safe and good, before the death of innocence. Goodbye blue sky!
Every few years, I find myself drifting back to this song. My dad and Doug grew up in Twin Falls. They made music with each other and both escaped the dying town of Twin Falls to the brighter future of Boise. And my dad escaped married at 19 with their first born son.
Lots of memories attached to Twin Falls, Idaho.
Same. I was adopted away from here k. 1991
I was in foster 1993-1996 and and on and off after. This song makes me think of Ohio where I was raised. I had to leave at a young age but old enough people made impressions on me. I wonder what my life would be like if I stayed.
0:34-0:50, the most perfect description of love in elementary school
This song is crazy. The performance on this recording delivers so much emotion and the transition into some and it's opening solo is some of the most emotional guitar playing I've heard. These lyrics are so effective at conveying the emotion of growing up and forgetting the world you grew up in. It makes me so sad but also so inspired listening to this song. I love this band so much
there is no guitar solo?
@@andrewoid4711He said in the next song "some"
This is the only song that actually sounds good when I sing it in the shower.
hahaha, it's so easy to sing.
Christmas, Twin Falls, Idaho
Is her oldest memory
She was only two
It's the first time she felt blue
Cafeteria, Harrison
Elementary
Beneath a parachute
I saw her without shoes
7 up, I touched her thumb
And she knew it was me
Though she couldn't see
Unless, of course, she peeked
My mom's good, she got me out of
Twin Falls, Idaho
Before I got too old
You know how that goes
That's where she still was the summer
She turned 17
In 1983
Three weeks after me
Last I heard was she had twins
Or maybe it was three
Though I've never seen
(Except for in my dreams/
But that don't bother me)
thanksss
No problem 😊 It's a really fun song to sing along to
I grew up in a small town and moved away when I was 12. This song always creates an indescribable sadness inside of me.
I didn't live a small town nor did I move out of the town I was born and raised in, yet I still feel depressed when I listen to this song.
'i touched her thumb and she knew it was me , although she couldn't see, unless, of corse, she peaked." i love this lyric so much, the heads down thumbs up reference
I once stayed a night in Twin Falls, man that was depressing.
Man hearing this sure makes it more rough living here most of my life haha.
Dude that's my home....
Arika Blackburn yo hometown is straight dumpster juice then
I was born there and adopted 5 days later...thank god. Not meant to sound mean, but my biological parents were underaged and on drugs I bet it wouldn’t have been a good life.
@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 ever reconnected with them?
Performed live, Doug replaces the last line, "that don't bother me" with "except in my dreams"...
Definitely one of my top 5 songs of all time. Just sublime.
I'm guessing Big Dipper might be in yr top ten then.
this song has two chord progressions it alternates between the whole way through.
1: Dmaj7, C#m, F#m7, E
Christmas, twin falls idaho is her oldest memory...
2: Dmaj7, C#m, Dmaj7, Dm
She was only two, the first time she felt blue...
Thank you very much
I think it sounds closer to this version if you swap the Dmaj7 with a Dmaj9 (Dmaj7 shape w root on the 5th fret A string and leave the top E open)
@@TheB3dhead Agreed. Although I hear it as a Dmaj9 without the 7. Just a regular A rooted major chord but with the E string open like you said.
I discovered this song when I was about 16 or 17, and I had never felt so recognized before... I was born and raised in Twin Falls, ID. Hearing this song was and is still so weird, like I know where Harrison elementary is! It's wack, that a prominent alt band could represent such a seemingly insignificant area. But I have a complicated relationship with that town. Growing up, all I wanted was to get out... I wanted to move to Boise, Portland, Seattle, even New York or London. But then again, some of my best memories are rooted there. I eventually did move to Boise; I found my people and a place where I felt like I really belonged.
I love my hometown very much, but I don't think I could move back again. I know that this song is an anthem for everyone who grew up in a dead-end town, who want to move on to bigger and better places... But when I hear this song, it's like it's just for me, or for my mom (who also grew up there), or for anyone who felt/feels stuck in Twin Falls.
I was tripping and remembered this song existed. This song takes me too another planet with the way 30 years ago, Twin Falls Idaho was exactly the same :/ this song speaks to my soul.
The parachute and thumbs up 7 up part are spot on perfect. 1973 1st grade for me.
One of the most georgeous songs I've ever listened to. Everything about it makes me feel painfully nostalgic.
i just started crying to this randomly at 1 am, this is the first time ive cried in months i have no idea what brought this on.. i think this song just has some kind of crazy magic
That awkward moment when you literally went to Harrison Elementary in Twin Falls ID...
I've never been to Idaho but this song feels really nostalgic and like I have been to Idaho, it's crazy
I think our brain takes the song and relates it to our past memories, the whole song feels ethereal, kind of like an old and faded memory.
I'm from Idaho, but I imagine this song would still hit hard if I was from the exact opposite point on the globe
there's nothing special here I promise
Idaho is the shit, honestly. I’ve been all over the country but Idaho is one of my favorite places. A really majestic, unspoiled piece of land. Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho are indescribably pure and wonderful. Definitely go if you have the chance.
@@shannonrowan4671northwest states always amaze me. ill visit each of them someday when i get the chance to visit the us
been coming back to this song everyday for the past few days or so. i havent understood it entirely and still dont but these guys just unlocked a super old memory for me! i didnt get what he was talking about with 7 up and thumbs but today it clicked! 7 up was that game where everyone put there head down on the desk and you walked around and touched peoples thumbs and then they guessed! good times man good times.
Happy fifty-seventh this year, girl in song.
0:36 for some reason it took me a solid 6 or 7 listens to realize that line was about heads up seven up
Unrelatable CF holy shit
i thought it was about accidently touching her thumb while reaching a 7up soda can lol
hello nagito
@@roxxyxx1641 yo 😁
this song kills me
most beautiful song ive ever heard
This song just gets better every time I hear it.
This song brings tears to my eyes.
Shit the bed... 20 odd years after first hearing Ben Folds Five play this, I’ve just realised that it was a cover.
Beautiful song!
I was born 89 and this band sums up childhood so simple and innocently. It's perfect!
I like on the album how this little short song transitions into a 6 minute epic
I was surprised to find nobody talking about that in these comments. For me this song doesn’t end at 1:52, it starts lol
born in idaho falls, spent my infancy and childhood near twin falls, grew up the rest of my life in california. i still visit idaho pretty often to see my folks, and it does my heart to know that besides the neo-nazi compounds up in the north, there is one shining light that burns oh bright through all the bullshit...and that light is built to spill
things hhe describes are so gentile and quiet but i feel devastated
oh god i remember the day we would play heads up 7 up wishing the girl you like touched your thumb... those were the god damn days
I enjoy the simple beauty of this song.
One of my favorite bands.
This video and song are great. Reminds of walking home on fall days with my neighbor. She was pretty.
i want to get out of twinfalls
I grew up in twin, the song feeling is pretty accurate. Things got dark before leaving for me, ill never return. I didn't attend Harrison, i went to Lincoln, was a cool school in many ways actually.
possibly one of the best songs under 2 minutes everrrrrr. (2)
I'm 32 years old and this song brings me back to being alone in the world for the first time, having a lot of issues, and young love in a way that half my listens bring me to tears. We love you Doug.
This song is really killing me right now.
Dude. I'm adopted and from CA. This came up on my first search of the area and I can't believe that whomever I'm from... they were here. If you know who they might be please let me know. I don't want anything, I just have some questions.
same. when i first listened to it, it wrecked me for a week.
私の心にずっと染み付いている曲です
Coming from someone living in twin Falls, true.
MsCobain same.
Hi, sorry to be annoying but I was adopted in Twin Falls in February 1991 and that's all I know...Please let me know if that sounds familiar! I don't want anything I'm just curious how someone like me came from a place like this.
Why is this gem so deep.
I live in Twin Falls. I remember heads up 7 up, the parachute game, and i went to Harrison and Morningside
Just now finding out, 16 years after getting Naked Baby Photos, that this isn't an original Ben Folds Five song.
And 2 weeks later the same things happens for me :)
Andy Pitts
same here. Who knew.
If you guys read the liner notes to NBP, it said that it was a cover. Each song had little descriptions, and he said something like "if I could start a Built To Spill cover band, I would." Something like that.
Lol true, I personally prefer the Ben Folds Five version. The soft piano fits the mood better in my opinion.
It says 'originally we were gonna be a built to spill cover band' or at least that's closer.
These are my favorite lyrics and my favorite song
I lived in Twin Falls for a few years when I was a kid. Those were good times. I live in Australia now.
This song is great.
It reminds me of Hackensack by Fountains of Wayne, which is another personal favorite.
@eljako123 Doug is from Boise, Idaho. He lived his early years in Twin Falls, Idaho. Some people affectionately refer to Twin Falls as 'The Armpit of Idaho.' It is the biggest town for about 130 miles or so in the middle of nowhere in Idaho. Hence "My mom's good, she got me out of Twin Falls, Idaho."
Love this song, i went to that school too. Twin Falls was awesome! I loved it.
That's where she still was the summer
She turned 17
Two thousand thirteen
3 weeks after me
Hi, my friends, I'm from Mexico and I'm learning the English in the school.
And for practice I'm translating some songs that I liked and "Twin Falls" it's one of them.
If someone could tell me about the history of this sound and explain me some words or phrases that I don't understand completely.
If you still want to know what phrases do you want to understand more?
+Antonio Ocampo Looks like you haven't come back to this comment yet. But just in case someone else wants to know: The lyrics "7-Up I touched her thumb, and she knew it was me Although she couldn't see, unless of course she peeked" is a reference to a children's game played in grade school classrooms in the US (maybe other places too). The kids put their heads down on their desks, and stick up their thumbs. Some of the other kids then press one other kids thumb and they put their thumb down. Then the kids have to guess which other kids touched their thumbs. I think you get eliminated if you are guessed.
Se que es demaciadamente tarde pero yo te lo puedo traducir si quieres
Aquí tienes:
Navidad, Twin Falls, Idaho
Es su memoria más antigua
Ella sólo tenía 2
Fue la primera vez que se sintió triste
Cafetería, Harrison
Escuela primaria
Debajo de un paracaídas
La vi sin zapatos
7 arriba, toqué su pulgar
Y supo que era yo
Aunque no podía ver
A menos, claro, que espiara
Mi mamá es buena, ella me sacó de
Twin Falls, Idaho
Antea de que me volviera demasiado vieja
Ya sabes cómo es
Ahí es donde ella todavía era el verano
Cumplió 17
En 1983
Tres semanas después de mí
Lo último que supe, fue que tuvo gemelos
O tal vez fueron tres
Aunque nunca he visto
Pero eso no me molesta
Oh buddy. What a song to pick.
i remember playing 7-up in elementary school.
effing loved that game.
This song feels like a polaroid picture
this is beautiful.
Deserves more views. I listen to these lyrics atleast once a day. Great song/video combo.
so this is my first time listening to this song & i keep zoning out listening to it.... it's insane. iloveit. :DD
I listen to this song everyday
i just luv this song!!!
Such a good song, I wish it were longer... I would love the Ben Folds version if it were a studio recording but I still love it anyways just because of the song.
you know how that goes
love this band
I always thought this song was so sweet
Loved the animation, but it fells like there's more...
Anyone knows if its from a cartoon or something like this, or it was just made for the clip?
Thanks!
9 years late, but just wanted to chime in and say I've always wanted to know too.
Still wondering
I’m pretty sure it’s from a school house rock episode
@@n1njadude421 does give off that look, doesn’t it
Would really really really like to know too!
i adore this.
I like how all the people are in black and white and their imaginations are in color
It’s a school house rock episode on reading
Hermosa, dulce, bella canción.
My favorite song/video combo on UA-cam. I used to cheat at heads up 7 up.
Do you know where the animation is from/what it is/the name of it? Pls help a sister out !!
hella nostalgic. love this song.
Where is this animation from?
WHOA! I live in Jackpot, NV which is like 50 miles south of Twin Falls and I go there almost every week, I was there today!
Navidad, Caída de Gemelos, Idaho
Es su memoria más antigua
Ella sólo tenía 2
Fue la primera vez que se sintió triste
Cafetería, Harrison
Escuela primaria
Debajo de un paracaídas
La vi sin zapatos
7 arriba, toqué su pulgar
Y supo que era yo
Aunque no podía ver
A menos, claro, que espiara
Mi mamá es buena, ella me sacó de
Caída de Gemelos, Idaho
Antea de que me volviera demasiado vieja
Ya sabes cómo es
Ahí es donde ella todavía era el verano
Cumplió 17
En 1983
Tres semanas después de mí
Lo último que supe, fue que tuvo gemelos
O tal vez fueron tres
Aunque nunca he visto
Pero eso no me molesta
no tiene sentido traducida
OMG thank you for posting this i
bittersweet
my love
Hermosa, dulce y melancólica canción, que me tomo el trabajo entretenido de cantarla en inglés.
Came here after watching "reality of Bob Burnquist " movie on DVD. It features this song when he base jumped off a bridge in that city.
never heard this band before, this song is quite nice
this song makes me miss twin falls even though I never have been there
holy shit this is amazing. these lyrics are so great.
The story begins in Twin Falls. It's the oldest memory. She was only 2; it was the first time she felt blue. Cafeteria Harrison elementary - beneatch the parachute, he saw her without shoes.
7up he touched her thumb, and she knew it was him.
Mom was good, got him out of Twin Falls Idaho before he got too hold.
That's where she was when she turned 17.
Last he heard she had twins or maybe it was 3, but it doesn't bother him.
such a good song.
i miss the 90's....
My boyfriend showed me this song. I'm glad he did! :)
There's nothing worse than being stuck in Twin Falls Idaho. A-holes everywhere.
Although I didn't listen to it as a kid, it still reminds me of middle school.
I miss 7up
One of the saddest songs of all time
wow haven't heard this in so long
just dicovered this band they are pretty good
I was born in twin falls. Got adopted and out of there 5 days later. Hard relate & this song always makes me sad.
Kicks Ass. I was just near Twin Falls.. Thought about this song
One of my favorite songs. Does anyone know who created this video?
God I hate this fucking town. Weird to find this randomly.
Scott Barksdale same like wtf. I live in meridian and I went with my high school (renaissance high) to twin falls for a debate tournament and it just seems off there. We all felt super depressed when we arrived and it was really creepy
I believe its a original built to spill song
@LogInAnders Twin Falls is not a suburb. It is in the middle of nowhere Idaho. It is the biggest town for 130 miles or so.
so good
Dude, this is awesome. It sounds a lot like Pavement.