Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company (with lyrics)

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  • @soulg1969
    @soulg1969 3 роки тому +126

    "Get this joy off of my chest" and "In love with the hook upon which everything hangs" are two of my favorite lines in all of my music.

  • @sillyd0g
    @sillyd0g 2 роки тому +240

    the line "i'm in love with the hook upon which everyone hangs" makes me feel like a slug being salted i love it so much

    • @chanlizzie
      @chanlizzie 2 роки тому +57

      "makes me feel like a slug being salted" is just as evocative a line as anything from this song. Wow.

    • @maxfitz8577
      @maxfitz8577 2 роки тому +7

      this is so real

    • @williamwardell8731
      @williamwardell8731 Рік тому +2

      If slugs know love, I doubt it's for being salted, but I'm sure you're very quirky and after a close reading of her poetry you realized your particular zaniness is expressed by Newsom and now everybody in the comments knows to associate your inane npc dialogue with her wordsmithing

    • @sillyd0g
      @sillyd0g Рік тому

      @@williamwardell8731 hey man . what the fuck are you talking about.

    • @maxfitz8577
      @maxfitz8577 Рік тому +17

      @@williamwardell8731why are u miserable

  • @hashkeeper
    @hashkeeper 9 місяців тому +34

    this song is absolutely ridiculous. quiet possibly one of the best songs humankind has ever produced.

    • @MrZevers
      @MrZevers 7 місяців тому +5

      I love how this can almost feel like an understatement.

  • @TheKiffles
    @TheKiffles 9 років тому +445

    First time hearing this song: "Oh wow this is fun and quirky hahah :D"
    Thirty-six replays in, after looking up lyrics: *lays head on desk and cries over feelings.*

    • @monicabhide319
      @monicabhide319 9 років тому +2

      +TheKiffles ^me

    • @cannedkitty
      @cannedkitty 8 років тому +57

      This whole album is fucking depressing. It's a masterpiece that kills you

    • @hevermiranda9871
      @hevermiranda9871 7 років тому +17

      +cannedkitty Except Esme. Esme is pure.

    • @1WEareBUFO1
      @1WEareBUFO1 6 років тому +4

      Octoppai
      Eight boobs........

    • @tannazn296
      @tannazn296 6 років тому

      Beautiful

  • @mariegueuledeloup
    @mariegueuledeloup Рік тому +24

    i always come back to this song whenever i need to exercise mercy (towards myself, the people i love, the times we’ve hurt each other)

  • @cooporlando
    @cooporlando 3 роки тому +77

    "watching me sit here, bolt upright, and cry at no good reason at the Eastering sky." The power of a moment like this and to share it with someone.

    • @j.c985
      @j.c985 2 роки тому +4

      That line never fails to give me goosebumps 🎶

  • @Daniel79450
    @Daniel79450 2 роки тому +24

    You can pick any line from any song from any album of JN and it s profound, deep beautiful amazing etc etc . An artistic genius. Life changing

  • @doctorduskofficial
    @doctorduskofficial 3 роки тому +159

    "I regret how I said to you, 'Honey, just open your heart' when I have trouble even opening a honey jar" drives me absolutely insane

    • @ichirosuzuki2252
      @ichirosuzuki2252 Рік тому +7

      jesus christ, having said something similar to someone I was dating in the hopes that they'd be able to make me open my heart... and not actually being able to reciprocate like I was hoping I would be able to, and hurting them... yeah, this line is rough.

    • @horsehangout
      @horsehangout Рік тому +1

      Yep

  • @user-fi5cq8tq7g
    @user-fi5cq8tq7g 2 роки тому +29

    Just dumped out of nowhere after 2.5 years. This song hits more than ever. I think it’s gonna define this time in my life for a long long while. Hope she starts doing live shows again soon. Joanna, thanks for giving us the gift of your music

    • @kellzmoylan9089
      @kellzmoylan9089 Рік тому +1

      kilby block party

    • @dumbguy5949
      @dumbguy5949 8 місяців тому

      Heard this at a wake 13 years ago. It definitely becomes a song for decades if you capture the moment

  • @michellerogers6566
    @michellerogers6566 2 роки тому +17

    A dazzling talent - I will never, ever forget the ecstasy of attending her live performances in Dublin.

  • @marcmt4171
    @marcmt4171 2 роки тому +22

    Probably some of the best lyrics of any English language indie song. period. Really gets at your guts and everytime I give it a good listen I discover a new feeling or memory.

  • @Martdogg3000
    @Martdogg3000 6 місяців тому +8

    This album holds up ridiculously well.

  • @belleme861
    @belleme861 9 років тому +171

    she is such a genius

  • @thirdmann3
    @thirdmann3 10 місяців тому +4

    love the syncopated piano outro. so fun.

  • @sgtlonelyheartsclubband2844
    @sgtlonelyheartsclubband2844 3 роки тому +50

    This song has been so important to me over the last few years it has really helped me to deal through some serious times

    • @ladyheroin.v4143
      @ladyheroin.v4143 3 роки тому +1

      💯

    • @marcmt4171
      @marcmt4171 2 роки тому +3

      This song blows me away with every listen. It's so smart and sensitive and sand hopeful and subtle and honest and refreshing while also familiar.

  • @nacarreira777
    @nacarreira777 6 років тому +34

    This girl is a freak of nature...amazing music and lyrics.

  • @i.hold.vertigo2329
    @i.hold.vertigo2329 7 років тому +92

    One of the best songs this decade has to offer, imo.

    • @BootziePootzie
      @BootziePootzie 2 роки тому +2

      You’re wrong

    • @seenochasm7101
      @seenochasm7101 Рік тому +1

      @@BootziePootziedamn they so wrong their opinion isn’t even valid. Crazy stuff m8

    • @Canyon_Lark
      @Canyon_Lark 9 місяців тому

      @@BootziePootzie what's ur list? of the best songs of that decade

  • @llsspp
    @llsspp 6 років тому +330

    This is one of the great Americana albums. As an English person it feels so richly infused with American culture, like the feeling of the frontier, white picket fences, the America we only know from movies, somehow is captured for me in this album. Love her x

    • @aclikeslater
      @aclikeslater 4 роки тому +6

      To be a fly on the wall at a hangout between her and Bernie Taupin...

    • @alongalostaway
      @alongalostaway 3 роки тому +8

      Repent and move to america

    • @kateevans2976
      @kateevans2976 2 роки тому +4

      Well said!

    • @kleinbottled79
      @kleinbottled79 2 дні тому

      Has the same feeling to me as an American. (Expect maybe I don't need intermediating art to identify it through.) Newsome is a treasure. Check out Gillian Welch if you like even more folk in your Americana.

  • @NateGBakker
    @NateGBakker 11 років тому +53

    I am obsessed with this song. Who am I kidding, I am obsessed with Joanna.

  • @j.c985
    @j.c985 2 роки тому +14

    I got this album on vinyl as a Christmas present. The best present I’ve ever recieved

  • @MacIntoshMann
    @MacIntoshMann 3 роки тому +47

    never noticed “auld lang syne sealed delivered”. funniest line i’ve heard in ages.

    • @missmylarose
      @missmylarose 7 місяців тому

      I never understood that line, please explain 🙏🏽

    • @MacIntoshMann
      @MacIntoshMann 7 місяців тому +8

      @@missmylarose It’s a play on words, referring to the Scottish folk song “Auld Lang Syne” and the phrase “signed, sealed, delivered”. Auld Lang Syne is traditionally sung at the start of the new year to say goodbye to the old and welcoming in what is to come in the next year. “Signed, sealed, delivered” refers to some kind of binding contract that has been handled properly, where everything is in order. In the context of the song, the line seems to be saying that her love for this new partner of hers is full and without any doubt (signed, sealed…) and marks the start of a new chapter of her life (Auld Lang Syne). But the real reason I love the line is that it’s such a good pun!

  • @nowwithmorekick
    @nowwithmorekick 5 років тому +55

    " when ive been trying with my whole heart and soul to stay right here in the right lane but it can make you feel over and old lord you know its a shame when i want you to pull over and hold me till i cant remember my own name"

    • @BartBart22
      @BartBart22 5 років тому +3

      Gets me every time I hear it.

    • @michellerogers6566
      @michellerogers6566 2 роки тому +1

      Absolutely poleaxed the first time I heard those lyrics!

  • @Nickee_Sonicjinn
    @Nickee_Sonicjinn 2 місяці тому +13

    Who's listening to this masterpiece in October 2024?

    • @walkerh2582
      @walkerh2582 Місяць тому +2

      December

    • @kleinbottled79
      @kleinbottled79 2 дні тому

      I'm not just still listening to it, I'm still being crushed into dust by it.

  • @hhhehehe4800
    @hhhehehe4800 4 роки тому +80

    I come here everyday

  • @wiccanfour
    @wiccanfour 12 років тому +10

    Saw her show in Bloomington Indiana a few years back. Which i can describe in one word. BREATHTAKING!.

  • @Emma-zb8vx
    @Emma-zb8vx 8 років тому +40

    One of my favourites from her! So beautiful!

  • @charlottemerrick7133
    @charlottemerrick7133 5 років тому +20

    the soundtrack to the first time i ever drove cross country, moving from ny to california, with my siblings the 2 most important people in the world to me.
    "and i have never in my life before been here..."

  • @cannedkitty
    @cannedkitty 8 років тому +207

    Joanna newsom is a crazy genius

  • @changstein
    @changstein Рік тому +6

    That last minute is such a sweet banjo groove

  • @MrBothandNether
    @MrBothandNether 3 роки тому +33

    Perfectly synced vibrato backing vocals set to stun

    • @dirteesyncs
      @dirteesyncs 3 роки тому +1

      This comment made me laugh out loud 😂

    • @j.c985
      @j.c985 2 роки тому +1

      @@dirteesyncs why?

    • @dirteesyncs
      @dirteesyncs 2 роки тому +1

      @@j.c985 it was just a funny description.

    • @j.c985
      @j.c985 2 роки тому +1

      @@dirteesyncs Fair enough 😂

  • @AlijahWright
    @AlijahWright Рік тому +4

    this is one of 2 songs to ever make me cry but dude i cry everytime. it’s not even a sad song

  • @Asparagus89
    @Asparagus89 9 років тому +36

    Makes me tear up everytime...
    I love the lyrics so much..

  • @EtAnimo
    @EtAnimo 12 років тому +89

    "Auld Lang Syne" is the famous NYE poem/song. It starts with "Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?" It's often a call to not let old relationships be forgotten, but of course you can answer "yes" AND "no" to that first question.
    "Signed sealed delivered" evokes a sense of certainty, even irreversibility. This tension between fond rememberance and 'it was going to happen anyway' seems - to me at least - to be a theme of the album.

    • @iHeartCoolStuff
      @iHeartCoolStuff 7 років тому +1

      EtAnimo never caught that little play on words till I watched this with the lyrics

    • @user-kh9ki3kq8m
      @user-kh9ki3kq8m 7 років тому +1

      I just realized that pun a few weeks ago. She does it quite often in songs.

    • @TheZildjian11
      @TheZildjian11 7 років тому +1

      iHeartCoolStuff what play on words?

    • @billyhowever
      @billyhowever 7 років тому +17

      signed, sealed, delivered is a hit song from stevie wonder. its also a music joke

    • @BartBart22
      @BartBart22 5 років тому +3

      I don't think the word should in Auld Lang Syne asks a question but rather it''s the alternate meaning where it's used to indicate what is possible or probable to occur in the future.

  • @okcampmerricat
    @okcampmerricat 6 років тому +14

    I've listened to this about thirty times in the past three weeks. I first heard it about two years ago but it didn't speak to me or relate to me. Now it does, and I can't turn it off.

  • @oaoj835
    @oaoj835 5 років тому +134

    I regret how I said to you "honey, just open your heart" when I've got trouble even opening a honey jar

  • @outbacknoir
    @outbacknoir 8 років тому +85

    That last line gets me every time ;_;

  • @alexfiero1996
    @alexfiero1996 3 роки тому +42

    On first listen I thought this was really weird and didn’t enjoy it all that much. For some reason though I wanted to listen again... so I did. Now after listening to it multiple times I love it! So strange. It was similar to trying black coffee for the first time (which I now love). I’m no pretentious music listener but what an experience. Usually I love a song right away and that’s it.

  • @Dreadwin
    @Dreadwin 13 років тому +24

    The lack of love/comments on this song... so disturbing. This song doesn't have the same sweeping beauty as the other songs in this album, but it has SO MUCH CHARACTER. This is probably my favorite song on the album. It deserves a hell of a lot more love than this!

  • @quocnguyen6474
    @quocnguyen6474 8 років тому +40

    God, she's so good.

  • @J0ELLEx
    @J0ELLEx 5 років тому +38

    I don’t feel like anyone besides God really gets me, so to have a song that gets me and to know that someone else is experiencing something similar is monumentally comforting

  • @royverner8141
    @royverner8141 6 років тому +108

    Some of the most clever, evocative lyrics since Bob Dylan. Timeless.

  • @isedray
    @isedray 10 років тому +11

    This song just makes me smile...I love it!

  • @jll5568
    @jll5568 6 років тому +10

    @ 5:35 you think it's over....but no...just gets better.

  • @babiesl
    @babiesl 3 роки тому +2

    this song is always so lovely to revisit. what wonderfulness.

  • @JonShannow92
    @JonShannow92 Рік тому +4

    What a gorgeous masterpiece

  • @pinds83
    @pinds83 13 років тому +8

    Love this song. I've had it stuck in my head all day. :)

    • @cooporlando
      @cooporlando 3 роки тому

      I have, multiple times, found myself listening to it over and over again. Like a one song playlist.

  • @killawoof138
    @killawoof138 6 років тому +8

    My entire heart

  • @Hbot208
    @Hbot208 7 років тому +39

    Just heard this on the radio the other night and I dunno why, but it makes me a little sad.
    Lovely song though, easily worth crying a little on the inside to listen to

  • @EtAnimo
    @EtAnimo 12 років тому +15

    There's also a Stevie Wonder song, "Signed Sealed Delivered", that might also be a piece of the puzzle. There are several references to actual songs throughout GIPC, so she might be alluding to his song too.
    Even if she isn't directly referencing Wonder's song, it seems oddly fitting for a song like GIPC.

  • @hakhpu693
    @hakhpu693 2 місяці тому +1

    I really like this !

  • @matthewsciberras3279
    @matthewsciberras3279 9 років тому +25

    masterpiece

  • @samhancock9789
    @samhancock9789 3 роки тому +7

    I heard this song when I was in love with someone, hopelessly. I ended things before covid on a whim and we ended up back together a year later so I came back to hear this again…
    Just felt it all even stronger. Joanna can write a goddamn authentic love song.

  • @josscavaciuti7292
    @josscavaciuti7292 8 років тому +34

    This song is the 0630 plane to Newcastle to see a girlfriend. Beautiful memories looking back.

  • @sojo6429
    @sojo6429 4 роки тому +11

    listening in 2021 and i feel optimistic

  • @joemama2499
    @joemama2499 2 роки тому +26

    Anyone else been here since they were 13 and are now 25 or older or just me

    • @janieswurld491
      @janieswurld491 7 місяців тому +1

      First listened back when I was only 22 and now I’m in my mid 30s - she’ll always have such a special part of my heart !

    • @MrZevers
      @MrZevers 7 місяців тому +1

      First listened when I was 23, now I'm 37, and this is still one of my favourite songs on this life

    • @VoldakHorasimov
      @VoldakHorasimov 2 місяці тому

      Jojo remains in the heart forever

    • @justintreasure2438
      @justintreasure2438 18 днів тому

      44 years old and I don't doubt I'll be here listening just as intently at 85.

  • @DiamondPickGames
    @DiamondPickGames 4 роки тому +296

    Anyone else here right after first looking up The Night Zombies, then I Like Being, and now this one????

    • @lemonsnowcone
      @lemonsnowcone 4 роки тому +28

      yup lol ngl i dont like any of them HAHA

    • @brandonpalmarodriguez2409
      @brandonpalmarodriguez2409 4 роки тому +1

      literally 😂🤟

    • @ricardoduarte8709
      @ricardoduarte8709 4 роки тому +7

      Only the zombies one was actually good, this shit be like those black & white dialog-free conceptual films that weird kid watches

    • @maedotamha109
      @maedotamha109 4 роки тому +1

      Yup metoo

    • @olallagutierrez9945
      @olallagutierrez9945 4 роки тому +6

      Yeah I'm wondering why this isn't in spotify though

  • @Mia-nq5po
    @Mia-nq5po 4 роки тому +5

    there is no song on earth like this one

  • @shinjutsu4235
    @shinjutsu4235 4 роки тому +223

    They are night Zombies/I like being/

  • @yasirm.k.61
    @yasirm.k.61 4 роки тому +1

    I absolutely love this song

  • @FunQLove
    @FunQLove 13 років тому +3

    Amazing, as always

  • @dylonlascelles5169
    @dylonlascelles5169 4 роки тому +10

    She's the smartest most beautiful woman I ever knew

  • @beatsbykana
    @beatsbykana 4 роки тому +4

    fantano ain't lying that song is good

  • @jrmybwedding
    @jrmybwedding 5 років тому +6

    I was just watching the Aoife O'Donovan, Chris Eldridge & Julian Lage acoustic cover of this and thinking about how this is one of the best songs of the decade.

    • @chim-choo-ree
      @chim-choo-ree 2 роки тому +1

      Well, I had no idea that existed.
      I'm off to check it out!

  • @zee9134
    @zee9134 2 роки тому +5

    “when i only want for you to pull over and hold me till i can’t remember my own name”

  • @katrinaklobuchar2717
    @katrinaklobuchar2717 5 років тому +30

    I want this played at my 'death party'

  • @oonderground
    @oonderground 13 років тому +9

    And this is how rock rolls...

  • @The-Growroom
    @The-Growroom 3 місяці тому +1

    "Auld lang syne, sealed, delivered" bruhhh

  • @1WEareBUFO1
    @1WEareBUFO1 6 років тому +20

    The greatest album of all time, unless art makes your empty soul chafe.

  • @trspssrsw
    @trspssrsw 7 років тому +3

    AMAZING

  • @RickesRives
    @RickesRives 8 років тому +44

    It's sad to learn that after such a hopeful, lovely ending to this song, there exists Does Not Suffice at the end of the album.

    • @kupsna
      @kupsna 6 років тому +10

      I'm not sure it's hopeful... more like, the emptiness after crying until you cant anymore.

    • @wpbn5613
      @wpbn5613 4 роки тому +5

      it's not hopeful but i don't think it's nearly as pessimistic as what you described.... i think it's more of the "feeling of dying in the arms of your beloved" kind of sadness

  • @paulagoodrich-ashurst3851
    @paulagoodrich-ashurst3851 Рік тому +1

    Wow,...wow, wow!

  • @geeginger88
    @geeginger88 11 років тому +27

    this song is too fucking beautiful.

  • @YIASEMIDE
    @YIASEMIDE 4 роки тому +4

    Anyone else here 40 years to the day after our John was taken from us? Stay safe, all.

  • @isabelavasco9321
    @isabelavasco9321 6 років тому +7

    que hino

  • @thesoundofdreams
    @thesoundofdreams 2 роки тому +1

    still the best

  • @kateee4440
    @kateee4440 9 років тому +1

    instantly in a good mood.

  • @giovanniforlino
    @giovanniforlino 5 років тому +5

    This song is fucking awesome. Love the slow part

  • @MrVoyaging
    @MrVoyaging 12 років тому +5

    It was uploaded two years after the rest of the album.

  • @deanthefish314
    @deanthefish314 Рік тому

    She's just the best

  • @killawoof138
    @killawoof138 4 роки тому +14

    I fell for you honey easy as falling asleep

  • @EtAnimo
    @EtAnimo 12 років тому +27

    I'm surprised more people haven't caught on to the "auld lang syne"/"signed, sealed, delivered" pun.

  • @35js
    @35js 3 роки тому +1

    Absolute genius

  • @jm1048
    @jm1048 3 роки тому +2

    5:03

  • @dontmakeabigdealoutofit
    @dontmakeabigdealoutofit 4 роки тому +13

    And no amount of talking is gonna soften the fall

  • @matthewkaree7348
    @matthewkaree7348 Рік тому +2

    When I only want for you to pull over and hold me till I can’t remember my own name

  • @fawnthefawn13
    @fawnthefawn13 3 місяці тому +1

    heap on the floor aisle me

  • @francismurray-becerra2747
    @francismurray-becerra2747 3 роки тому +16

    this song slaps so hard, white people really do have culture I guess...damn

  • @jessicaa.m.harper1727
    @jessicaa.m.harper1727 2 роки тому +2

    "when I only want you to pull over and hold me until I can't remember my own name"

  • @YIASEMIDE
    @YIASEMIDE 6 років тому +1

    Magic

  • @strangelilbird6648
    @strangelilbird6648 6 років тому +2

    I've been looking for the music sheet for this song for way too long... Anyone knows where i might find it?

  • @amgm1996
    @amgm1996 11 місяців тому +1

    and its my heart, not me, who cannot drive

  • @leoschmeo
    @leoschmeo 4 місяці тому

    It relates to me with the nation as it is today. Kamala is our rising star.

  • @FingersOfFrost
    @FingersOfFrost 13 років тому

    @gaeazadriel Totally Agree! Love this song aswell.

  • @augustusssssss
    @augustusssssss 4 роки тому

    only 400k views????!!!

  • @standtogether11
    @standtogether11 12 років тому +1

    same

  • @chim-choo-ree
    @chim-choo-ree 3 роки тому +6

    Joanna Newsom is better than the things you like.

  • @SeanMoonjuKim
    @SeanMoonjuKim Місяць тому

    The drum is the best part

  • @vmcovers1
    @vmcovers1 4 роки тому +3

    They are night Zombies and I Like Being were pretty underwhelming but this song is incredibly beautiful, Im so glad I found her music

  • @RossBaby91
    @RossBaby91 5 років тому +10

    I wanna drink wine and act really fancy to this song

  • @candycane1540
    @candycane1540 3 місяці тому

    “when i only want you to pull over and hold me till i cant remember my own name" :’(((((((((