The build-up thats starts around 2:10 and explodes at 2:43 is just one of the best examples of how intense a song segment can get, and how the anticipation and expectation for a memorable sound can make someone jump around and choke at the same time. It's emotional perfection. Jimmy Tamborello shows there his genius.
If I wasn’t a butthead my first girl and I would’ve made 22 years this past dec 22nd. I hate carrying that in my heart. But it wasn’t her fault, it was mine. Is what it is
I’m just out here all these years later trying hard to fall back in love with life. Digging that it’s this same music still giving me a lump in my throat.
@@HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo do what you can to make it up and if it doesn’t pan out, embrace the lesson and move on. Otherwise, ur going to go crazy in overanalyzing and self loathing 💜 I wish you well sir
Me at 16, having never gone through a breakup and never lived on my own, listening to "I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving" and picturing my non-existent gaudy apartment in Brooklyn: aw yeah I feel this
Same. It's so beautiful and so sad. When I really think about it, the most depressing times of my life have been when I felt most alive. Strong emotions or pain don't let you ignore your existence.
This song drips with nostalgia from a very inexperienced, simple, and comfortable time in my life where I thought I knew exactly the rate at which the earth rotated and where I stood on it...sigh....
this album came out a few years before i got my driver's license; i just remember driving around in the winter with the whole thing on repeat. it just sounds like a heartbreak in winter.
End of 2023 and here I am. This album came out a couple months after I walked away from the greatest love of my life. It was mutual and something that was just part of growing up. We had the nicest, best apartment I have ever lived in and after a decade of best friendship and six years of profound love we had simply succumbed to the natural consequence of time; growing and changing into people we had not known before but could not avoid becoming. I remember the feeling of being 27 and coming to understand the sadness and joy time brings and the sweet, beautiful pain of letting go. We parted ways on the best of terms and I think it probably was the most magical & mystical love of my life (being realistic), and looking back over all these years to that time I think we both identified with the line, "I was the one worth leaving". Thank you my beautiful, sweet "K" for being a diamond in the rough, and thank you Postal Service for one of the greatest records ever made. Sending peace, love, and healing out to all :)
Listened to this over on and over when my underdeveloped mind first discovered MDMA and those neurotransmitters still excite a bit every time I hear it
Damn this album is so good. I first listened to it when I was 15 in high school, I’m now 33 and haven’t listened to it in probably a decade… man time flies… brings back so many memories
Still bumping this in 2019 “The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights, sending autos swerving into the loneliest evening” best part of the song both the words and the best beat pick up
Brings me back to 2008 when I was 19 driving to work in the dark at 4 am alone on the highway. I always loved how the faster beat in the second half of the song went along well with the lines passing on the highway. Perfect unison with the beat. I recommend it for late night drives
Not sure what they're on about below but yes it really IS one of, (if not, THE), best albums of all time. My best mate Alan bought this for me on vinyl last year and i spent the whole night listening to it on repeat, having the best time of my life! A lot of time may have passed, and a lot may have happened since this came out, but just listening to this (whole album) always brings me right back to one of the best periods of my life and that's totally irreplaceable. We loved it then, and we love it now, because it's absolutely outstanding!
Jenny Lewis’ parts are far and few between but the things she does are so important. Imagine this song without the “”where I am” in that angelic tone. Her voice is a crucial part of some of the biggest moments on this record. She’s awesome
Man I know they dont make music now but their music still resonates with my soul. This is the sound of how I feel in my head. I am not sad, just melancholy. Empty but going.
One of the most vivid lyrics ever. The experience of visiting my former lover in her new town and realizing that she was gone forever. "The only thing keeping me dry is you seem so out of context...." My experience with it was 40 years ago and this song still makes my heart hurt. Bless The Postal Service for putting these feelings down in words.
I have been listening to this song for 12 years and I just will never get tired of it. How can a song do this. Every time I hear it, it's like it's the first time and I don't want it to end.
I recall after breaking up and not being emotional a few days. Driving home a few hours in this song came on Alt Nation. I cried so heavily until I arrived home. But still this song made it beautiful and I loved it for that reason. It unlocked apart of me. Thank you Postal Service for your erm..? Service? Lol
Listening to this song for almost a decade. I remember the first time I heard it, the day, the weather, the smell of the air..everything. An incredible song that has everything!
All I think about is static love and Static Age with Misfits CD playing and the future seeming ever mysterious. Like a fantasmical Lord Of The Rings/Matrix where we all realized we were human and brothers instead of NPC’s without a cause..
My brother loved this song I lost him July, I come here to see him again. I’ll never forget the memories he gave me and all the memories we hold together this song is beyond powerful to our relationship I miss him so much and would do anything to have one more day with him I love you daniel
My sister passed away when I was 18 in 2010. Whenever I listen to this song I get transported to driving around in her Jeep Cherokee with the windows down and blasting our favorite tunes, this being one of them. Feels nice to feel something again. I miss her everyday.
I used to listen to this song on repeat when me and my highschool girlfriend broke up our first quarter in college. It feels so different listening to it almost 20 years later. I'm in DC for business and drunk so it hits even harder. Awesome song
I can remember sleeping on my friends carpeted floor apartment wishing I could help them feel better while they were also giving me a place to stay. I was a teenager watching someone in their 20s dealing with crippling depression and alcoholism. They showed me this album in that space and it still holds those string memories
Wow I remember being a little 10 year old kid who made freinds with hipster adults (which I learned later on have the best taste in music). .That's how I found The Postal Service They gave me burned CDs with bands like postal service and neon Indian and Gorillaz.Nostalgia is the only word I can use to describe this song and every other song by The Postal Service.Their band may have stopped making music but their feel and their way of enticing a somewhat positive and melancholy vibe will never die.
This is literally my all time favorite song. i feel when i tell people that, they don't believe me, but i'm being honest. it really is. This song speaks to me in so many ways. the album itself is my favorite as well. listening to them makes me so happy. their music makes me feel as if my heart is going to jump out of my chest. but they can also make me sad. knowing that i'll never get to see them in concert breaks my little indie heart. anyway, the more older i get the more accurate this song becomes. I feel like the district can be anywhere or anyone. I'll stop rambling now and sleep alone tonight.
Im here because I am going to the their concert in October 2023 to see them play this whole album.. I was seven when this album came out, 27 now, all thanks to my bro!
My memory is listening to this album at Christmas time on my headphones and portable disc player in the back seat riding with my family through the snow to Chicago to my aunt's house for Christmas eve dinner.
I can't hear any of their songs without having to traipse through the memories of a very dark time of my life. It still doesn't stop me from listening to them. Never been another band like them.
I think every sound in this song, brings back a memory from when I was 13-15 yrs old. and then I read the comments and think about how we were all listening to this in different stages of our lives. how fucking beautiful is that!
This song at first for me many years back then was about my first love and after all this time now in 2024 it reminds me more about my friends and the many individuals I've met through out my life. Having house parties or after the club/ music concerts... partying until 5 am, my best friend I lost in 2020 OD and this song just now reminds me of him and the many late night randomness we did when we we're young. I miss him dearly.....
Smeared black ink Your palms are sweaty And I'm barely listening To last demands I'm staring at the asphalt wondering What's buried underneath I'll wear my badge A vinyl sticker with big block letters Adhering to my chest That tells your new friends I am a visitor here, I am not permanent And the only thing Keeping me dry is You seem so out of context In this gaudy apartment complex (Where I am) A stranger with your door key Explaining that I'm just visiting (Where I am) And I am finally seeing Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving D.C. sleeps alone tonight You seem so out of context In this gaudy apartment complex (Where I am) A stranger with your door key Explaining that I'm just visiting (Where I am) And I am finally seeing Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving The district sleeps alone tonight After the bars turn out their lights (Where I am) And send the autos swerving Into the loneliest evening (Where I am) And I am finally seeing Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving Why I was the one worth leaving
BeCaUsE tHe ItErNeT me too, I recognized it immediately & it brought back so many HS memories. I’ve had it on repeat since watching that first episode. Btw, neat profile pic
this song is engraved in my soul because my mom played this when we lived in Seattle when I was like 4 . I have a very sincere memory of driving on the freeway at night , above the city where you could see the skyline ahead and if you looked below the neighborhood homes of people. where we were going I don't know. but it's a very old and important memory for me that I hope is the way I enter heaven. with my mom, listening to this song one more time before we both move on from this world . I'm sorry I lied so much mom and I'm sorry If I never make it big ..
Such a beautiful thought about your mom & heaven. I'm originally from Seattle.. Just went back for a visit and have found myself listening to this song nonstop since getting back home.
I love ps and dcfc every song really opens up a prior relationship and feel as if they are so deep sometimes it just hits you like a ton of bricks. This song sums up my divorce and although painful I love them dearly for putting out possibly one of the best songs ever.
Moved to Phoenix, AZ from CT back in 2003 at age 22 by myself. Lived in an apartment . Met some awesome people. One of the best times in my life. And always listening to this song and Such Great Heights. Always wish I could go back and relive it.
this song still sounds SO fresh in 2022 - I was SHOCKED to learn it was released in 2003 after recently finding it/this group. They were doing real indie long before anybody out there today!
First semester of college my public speaking prof had us present a song that was meaningful to us as if it was us speaking. I went with this one and got an A. Stood up there with a picture of some sidewalk chalk art depicting a cavern under a sidewalk up on the projector behind me and one of those name tag stickers just saying visitor. The words felt true to speak then and still do now. I am a visitor here, I am not permanent.
Who else use to listen to this CD with their girlfriend or boyfriend back in the day and comes back here to listening to this album again while reminiscing over how beautiful and deep this album is as well as a lost lover?
I was 21 and in college when this came out. So many memories... Some good, some bad. I'd give a year's salary to be a ghost in the car with me and my friends riding around at night...
Fantastic show last night at the MVP Arena in Albany NY. Treated myself for my 69th Birthday....what a gift! Amazing, fabulous....touching notes lifting, flying, slowly lyrical giddiness and comforting familiarity - show of a lifetime! Thank you.
The guy before me put it best. Reminessing on simpler times when a heart ache was just a heart ache, not something that could uproot the whole damn world..
I remember sitting in my dad's apartment looking over Houston city, watching the sun rise and listening to this song play over his sound system while he shaved in the bathroom. I was 7 then. It feels like it's been so much longer than 14 years, but also like it was yesterday.. I still feel like that little girl when I listen to this song. It still sounds like a sleepy Houston sunrise. I don't think I'll ever be unable to love this song.
This song is like a time portal. As i listen my chest tightens, each breath feels heavier than the last and my mind begins to drift back to 7 years ago when i was that stranger in the apartment complex... was i the worth leaving?
I feel like this album came to life because the universe knew it was gonna be a certified hipster-esq classic so it really pushed and adjusted everything needed for these two dudes to create this absolute masterpiece thru the god damn mail... The probability of all things working out the way they did has got yo be soooo small. But yeah, a little splash of universe magic here and there and you got yourself a Give Up. Every single aspect of this album is 100% perfect. There are no flaws and for the most part, that is the general feeling towards it from everyone. I really like the idea of a cosmic force being the reason this record came to exist at all tho.
Ten years ago sitting in my freshman college dorm room playing this song on over and over again. My heart aches everytime I hear it. And after ten years, the more true it all gets.
I showed this song to the love of my life, it became her favorite. We haven't been together for years . She's having a kid now. And I'm sitting here broken.
Songs like this bring back so much nostalgia, and a lot of times in a very sad way. Nostalgia mixed with a new perspective on the song now that years have passed and wisdom has come. Hits diff
Yeah! Sorta ashamed to admit that Such Great Heights was always the only TPS song I kept on my playlists no matter what, so when I started going through old albums again this year I fell in love with Give Up The context of how unique this sound was at the time really helps seal the "trip into the past" feeling whenever I hear Such Great Heights, District, Brand New Colony, Clark Gable, We Will Become Silhouettes.. just a great album to listen to and think of old times.
Fuck I used to listen to this group when I was 13yo - 15yo. I am now 30yo. So nostalgic! but a reminder that life's to short and spend every second wisely.
We used to sit out on my friend’s back porch after a long night of partying and jam this entire album. Summer of 2004 right after graduation, best times of my entire life, and all my friends were still alive. Alex, miss ya buddy, glad we got the time we had together.
im 33 and i listened it about your age the first time..i think is the best age to listen it.. is really beautiful.. even when i hear it now.. i can feel like in that days for an instant... no words...
@xtrmst_01 no mms.... realmente me molesta que pretenda lucrar con estas joyitas que de seguro son recomendaciones de sus productores, no creo que ella si quiera pueda apreciarlas...
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The build-up thats starts around 2:10 and explodes at 2:43 is just one of the best examples of how intense a song segment can get, and how the anticipation and expectation for a memorable sound can make someone jump around and choke at the same time. It's emotional perfection. Jimmy Tamborello shows there his genius.
Here we are 2024.... I'm with the love of my life for 25+ years. This album has been core to our soundtrack. Live well Posties....
If I wasn’t a butthead my first girl and I would’ve made 22 years this past dec 22nd. I hate carrying that in my heart. But it wasn’t her fault, it was mine. Is what it is
I’m just out here all these years later trying hard to fall back in love with life. Digging that it’s this same music still giving me a lump in my throat.
@@HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo do what you can to make it up and if it doesn’t pan out, embrace the lesson and move on. Otherwise, ur going to go crazy in overanalyzing and self loathing 💜 I wish you well sir
Beautiful
@@HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo are you doing okay?
Me at 16, having never gone through a breakup and never lived on my own, listening to "I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving" and picturing my non-existent gaudy apartment in Brooklyn: aw yeah I feel this
I feel you.
i felt this
Felt
same
ditto
This song makes me feel helplessly depressed and so alive at the same time.
this and so many similar tracks and albums do the same for me man
RIGHT?
I have a tumor on my right frontal lobe. I came here to cry, yet you made me smile and realize it's nostalgia
Same. It's so beautiful and so sad. When I really think about it, the most depressing times of my life have been when I felt most alive. Strong emotions or pain don't let you ignore your existence.
This song drips with nostalgia from a very inexperienced, simple, and comfortable time in my life where I thought I knew exactly the rate at which the earth rotated and where I stood on it...sigh....
I agree.
+Nhia Moua me too
this album came out a few years before i got my driver's license; i just remember driving around in the winter with the whole thing on repeat. it just sounds like a heartbreak in winter.
utubedestroysmytime me too I was young and knew every word. Wish I could go back
utubedestroysmytime this may be the greatest comment I've ever seen in my entire life. I've never been in agreement with anything like I am this.
End of 2023 and here I am. This album came out a couple months after I walked away from the greatest love of my life. It was mutual and something that was just part of growing up. We had the nicest, best apartment I have ever lived in and after a decade of best friendship and six years of profound love we had simply succumbed to the natural consequence of time; growing and changing into people we had not known before but could not avoid becoming. I remember the feeling of being 27 and coming to understand the sadness and joy time brings and the sweet, beautiful pain of letting go. We parted ways on the best of terms and I think it probably was the most magical & mystical love of my life (being realistic), and looking back over all these years to that time I think we both identified with the line, "I was the one worth leaving". Thank you my beautiful, sweet "K" for being a diamond in the rough, and thank you Postal Service for one of the greatest records ever made. Sending peace, love, and healing out to all :)
God bless you
Listened to this over on and over when my underdeveloped mind first discovered MDMA and those neurotransmitters still excite a bit every time I hear it
Don’t give her an initial. She was special. Say her name loud and clear!!
Why did this make me so emotional. lol
May the gods be with you!
Blessings!
This is the way.
💚🧡💖🧡💚
Damn this album is so good. I first listened to it when I was 15 in high school, I’m now 33 and haven’t listened to it in probably a decade… man time flies… brings back so many memories
Same. 34 listening to the album again. The emotions all flooding back.
Same, I'm turning 30 in 3 months
Same but I have not stop listening to this album I'm 31
yesss 32 and same altho I try to visit these old songs every few years
33 here & same exact thing.
Still bumping this in 2019 “The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights, sending autos swerving into the loneliest evening” best part of the song both the words and the best beat pick up
I always thought the lyric was: "sending the honest-working into the loneliest evening" and it still kinda works.
Sin sin the auto swerving. I think it's reference to sinning as in drinking at a bar and driving. I might be wrong though.
If there's any group that needs to make a second album, it's this group.
+Miss Melle well if they arent gonna make more music other people can
agreed
It was only a one-album band, a side project for the guy of Death Cab For Cutie.
They released a new single a few years ago. "A tattered line of string."
it was an old recording though..
"It seems so out of context / in this gaudy apartment complex"
Gaudy. What a good word.
Yes, a woody sort of word
Kyle Knockaert omg I just realized that
@Kyle Knockaert where????? Omg
@Kyle Knockaert omg!!!! What a coincidence!
im not an english speaker.. what has that word of special?.. what is the coincidence?
March 2024. Still one of the best albums ever.
Brings me back to 2008 when I was 19 driving to work in the dark at 4 am alone on the highway. I always loved how the faster beat in the second half of the song went along well with the lines passing on the highway. Perfect unison with the beat. I recommend it for late night drives
Literally one of the greatest albums of ALL TIME
no it's not.
@@marcostorres2329 No ItS NoT
Not sure what they're on about below but yes it really IS one of, (if not, THE), best albums of all time. My best mate Alan bought this for me on vinyl last year and i spent the whole night listening to it on repeat, having the best time of my life! A lot of time may have passed, and a lot may have happened since this came out, but just listening to this (whole album) always brings me right back to one of the best periods of my life and that's totally irreplaceable. We loved it then, and we love it now, because it's absolutely outstanding!
(or above!, oops) *
This album really was a fantastic album.
Jenny Lewis’ parts are far and few between but the things she does are so important. Imagine this song without the “”where I am” in that angelic tone. Her voice is a crucial part of some of the biggest moments on this record. She’s awesome
Thank god she gave up acting.she probably have been another f***ked up child actor if she stuck with it.
We just saw them perform this Album live last night and that comes through even more in that context. She is incredible
I didnt know that was her. Cool.
@@birdlawyer6191 yo same! really cool.
Man I know they dont make music now but their music still resonates with my soul. This is the sound of how I feel in my head. I am not sad, just melancholy. Empty but going.
He's the singer for deathcab for cutie as well
So, how have u been?
Empty but going... well put bud. I'm with u wherever that is.
One of the most vivid lyrics ever. The experience of visiting my former lover in her new town and realizing that she was gone forever. "The only thing keeping me dry is you seem so out of context...." My experience with it was 40 years ago and this song still makes my heart hurt. Bless The Postal Service for putting these feelings down in words.
I have been listening to this song for 12 years and I just will never get tired of it. How can a song do this. Every time I hear it, it's like it's the first time and I don't want it to end.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
We're all right here with you in the same boat ♥️
How!! I love it more and more every time!!
The beautiful thing is that you can play it again right after. :)
I recall after breaking up and not being emotional a few days. Driving home a few hours in this song came on Alt Nation. I cried so heavily until I arrived home. But still this song made it beautiful and I loved it for that reason. It unlocked apart of me. Thank you Postal Service for your erm..? Service? Lol
+musicguy20 n that was God. Great pieces of music lead to talks with God..even if you dont know it...you learned the art of crying...
PuppetMasterTHC Crying is a given at birth but laughing and other emotions you have to learn later in life.
+PuppetMasterTHC Beautiful
+musicguy20 Yeah dude. I haven't listened to this song since high school and pulled it up tonight for exactly that reason.
That Pun was great
Listening to this song for almost a decade. I remember the first time I heard it, the day, the weather, the smell of the air..everything. An incredible song that has everything!
Listening to it in D.C. itself while walking through the night by a gaudy apartment complex. It's real.
Big love to everyone here. What a nice common bond - this song, the nostalgia, the sadness and loveliness all at once.
All I think about is static love and Static Age with Misfits CD playing and the future seeming ever mysterious. Like a fantasmical Lord Of The Rings/Matrix where we all realized we were human and brothers instead of NPC’s without a cause..
My brother loved this song I lost him July, I come here to see him again. I’ll never forget the memories he gave me and all the memories we hold together this song is beyond powerful to our relationship I miss him so much and would do anything to have one more day with him I love you daniel
My sister passed away when I was 18 in 2010. Whenever I listen to this song I get transported to driving around in her Jeep Cherokee with the windows down and blasting our favorite tunes, this being one of them. Feels nice to feel something again. I miss her everyday.
Was he an extra?
He loves you too. He's still out there, waiting to see you. Floating amongst the stars. We all go home eventually.
I used to listen to this song on repeat when me and my highschool girlfriend broke up our first quarter in college. It feels so different listening to it almost 20 years later. I'm in DC for business and drunk so it hits even harder. Awesome song
Weird how you're the same person you were back then but also you're not.
do you still think about her at all? same thing with me and my high school girlfriend but it's only been four years.
This song is easily one of the best songs I've ever heard. It invokes so many emotions from such simple words. I love it so much
God this song. Fell in love with it when I was 14 and now I'm 25 and falling in love again.
Aye, cheers, same here but 27 : )
I'll continue this feeling! 13, mate!
Exactly the same as myself.
Me too man 🔥
How do you like your 30s?
I remember this song from college and now I’m 40. I miss that era in my life.
I do too
Damn this hit me.. I'm 21 & I remember listening to this as a tween just cause it was dope to skate too. Now I understand it so much more. Deep shit..
+DayneTheMayne I feel ya :) but you mean teen, right? you're a tween right now, in your twenties.
tween is before teenage years. so ages like 11, 12.
Kyla Marie ah ok thanks! apparently, Tolkien used it in the way I meant it, but the meaning seems to have changed.
PeepsILoveEllie possibly :)
I was just thinking about skating to this song 😂
Youth is one hell of an era and this album will forever be a part of that time no matter what happens to me.
This has been my favorite song for years, even when I don't listen to it for a while it will just pop back in my mind.
Me too. Hadn't listened to it for years and randomly needed to hear it today
I can remember sleeping on my friends carpeted floor apartment wishing I could help them feel better while they were also giving me a place to stay. I was a teenager watching someone in their 20s dealing with crippling depression and alcoholism. They showed me this album in that space and it still holds those string memories
Drinking whisky tonight and hitting all the songs I listened to after getting Dear John’ed in Iraq in 2008.
Song embodies melancholy. Much love.
Wow I remember being a little 10 year old kid who made freinds with hipster adults (which I learned later on have the best taste in music). .That's how I found The Postal Service They gave me burned CDs with bands like postal service and neon Indian and Gorillaz.Nostalgia is the only word I can use to describe this song and every other song by The Postal Service.Their band may have stopped making music but their feel and their way of enticing a somewhat positive and melancholy vibe will never die.
This is literally my all time favorite song. i feel when i tell people that, they don't believe me, but i'm being honest. it really is. This song speaks to me in so many ways. the album itself is my favorite as well. listening to them makes me so happy. their music makes me feel as if my heart is going to jump out of my chest. but they can also make me sad. knowing that i'll never get to see them in concert breaks my little indie heart. anyway, the more older i get the more accurate this song becomes. I feel like the district can be anywhere or anyone. I'll stop rambling now and sleep alone tonight.
what is the meaning of this song?
❤
They’re going on tour this fall! They’re performing live for the first time in 10 years! There’s still hope!
The district can be anywhere or anyone - love this!!
Real talk, how many of us are listening to this drunk while reminiscing on a simpler time?
uh lmao me
..To this day!
im high so this doesn't apply to me
@@6millylowkicky huh
Omg yes
Im here because I am going to the their concert in October 2023 to see them play this whole album.. I was seven when this album came out, 27 now, all thanks to my bro!
My memory is listening to this album at Christmas time on my headphones and portable disc player in the back seat riding with my family through the snow to Chicago to my aunt's house for Christmas eve dinner.
Beautiful memory from childhood! This song was a mood!
Man this takes me back to the early to mid 2000s. I totally forgot about the postal service, im glad I stumbled upon this video.
Its like a time machine.. oo dear how much i miss my friends.. miss those old glory days...
I can't hear any of their songs without having to traipse through the memories of a very dark time of my life. It still doesn't stop me from listening to them. Never been another band like them.
I am a visitor here. I am not permanent.
Same
Touka Kirishima we all are just visitors here.
@@fuckallhell Postal Service.
I read that just as he said it.
Okay touka
This song brings me back to high school... back to my first true love and the hardships. Crazy how music attaches to the soul like this.
yeah.. death cab for cutie's entire discography was basically like the main soundtrack to my high school life... amazing stuff
I think every sound in this song, brings back a memory from when I was 13-15 yrs old. and then I read the comments and think about how we were all listening to this in different stages of our lives. how fucking beautiful is that!
This song at first for me many years back then was about my first love and after all this time now in 2024 it reminds me more about my friends and the many individuals I've met through out my life. Having house parties or after the club/ music concerts... partying until 5 am, my best friend I lost in 2020 OD and this song just now reminds me of him and the many late night randomness we did when we we're young. I miss him dearly.....
Reminds me of the times before social media really blew up...
thats it
❤️
Everything changed
2021 still here Ben and Dntel. A single album that changed the world. Your creativity won't ever be forgotten. Thank you guys for being awesome.
Been a very long time, good to hear this again. Reminds me of some great times.
The best times 😓
Smeared black ink
Your palms are sweaty
And I'm barely listening
To last demands
I'm staring at the asphalt wondering
What's buried underneath
I'll wear my badge
A vinyl sticker with big block letters
Adhering to my chest
That tells your new friends
I am a visitor here, I am not permanent
And the only thing
Keeping me dry is
You seem so out of context
In this gaudy apartment complex
(Where I am) A stranger with your door key
Explaining that I'm just visiting
(Where I am) And I am finally seeing
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
D.C. sleeps alone tonight
You seem so out of context
In this gaudy apartment complex
(Where I am) A stranger with your door key
Explaining that I'm just visiting
(Where I am) And I am finally seeing
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
The district sleeps alone tonight
After the bars turn out their lights
(Where I am) And send the autos swerving
Into the loneliest evening
(Where I am) And I am finally seeing
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
Thank you❤️🙏
Bump
Sylvan Esso + Postal Service, you have me crying bringing me back to thin moment in my life.
Dude, I went one a rampage looking for this song! Who's here in 2024?
Meee
Been here since 2003
@@AWM8841same
Was watching Looking For Alaska and this song came on and had to find it again.
BeCaUsE tHe ItErNeT me too, I recognized it immediately & it brought back so many HS memories. I’ve had it on repeat since watching that first episode. Btw, neat profile pic
Dawg i was trying to find this stupid ass show for an hour because i forgot this song was used in it
this song is engraved in my soul because my mom played this when we lived in Seattle when I was like 4 . I have a very sincere memory of driving on the freeway at night , above the city where you could see the skyline ahead and if you looked below the neighborhood homes of people. where we were going I don't know. but it's a very old and important memory for me that I hope is the way I enter heaven. with my mom, listening to this song one more time before we both move on from this world . I'm sorry I lied so much mom and I'm sorry If I never make it big ..
@@minty3253 yeah I didn't think someone would read this
Hey I read this. Beautiful. This song is just amazing. *virtual hugs*
Such a beautiful thought about your mom & heaven. I'm originally from Seattle.. Just went back for a visit and have found myself listening to this song nonstop since getting back home.
I love ps and dcfc every song really opens up a prior relationship and feel as if they are so deep sometimes it just hits you like a ton of bricks. This song sums up my divorce and although painful I love them dearly for putting out possibly one of the best songs ever.
Moved to Phoenix, AZ from CT back in 2003 at age 22 by myself. Lived in an apartment . Met some awesome people. One of the best times in my life. And always listening to this song and Such Great Heights. Always wish I could go back and relive it.
this song still sounds SO fresh in 2022 - I was SHOCKED to learn it was released in 2003 after recently finding it/this group. They were doing real indie long before anybody out there today!
Bright Eyes was doing it before
2005-6 was the crescendo. Everything went downhill afterwards.
This aged like a fine wine for me...
"The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights."
I was thinking of this song today.
ben gibbard is awesome. i love all his death cab stuff and the postal service :)
This is the #1 song played at my funeral and my all-time #1 song.
First semester of college my public speaking prof had us present a song that was meaningful to us as if it was us speaking. I went with this one and got an A.
Stood up there with a picture of some sidewalk chalk art depicting a cavern under a sidewalk up on the projector behind me and one of those name tag stickers just saying visitor. The words felt true to speak then and still do now. I am a visitor here, I am not permanent.
Well if this doesn't kick up the biggest cloud of nostalgic dust.......
Yep. Melancholy asthma attack.
Who else use to listen to this CD with their girlfriend or boyfriend back in the day and comes back here to listening to this album again while reminiscing over how beautiful and deep this album is as well as a lost lover?
I was 21 and in college when this came out. So many memories... Some good, some bad. I'd give a year's salary to be a ghost in the car with me and my friends riding around at night...
Fantastic show last night at the MVP Arena in Albany NY. Treated myself for my 69th Birthday....what a gift! Amazing, fabulous....touching notes lifting, flying, slowly lyrical giddiness and comforting familiarity - show of a lifetime! Thank you.
The spirit of this song resides in that first harmony that carries throughout the song after and touches my soul every time I hear it.
This album is a timeless classic that will forever live in my heart, mind and soul.
Agreed. There aren't many albums burned into my memory note for note, but this one is.
The guy before me put it best. Reminessing on simpler times when a heart ache was just a heart ache, not something that could uproot the whole damn world..
I'm 32 and I just remembered a forgotten past life from about 15 years ago. It's crazy how you forget parts of your life.
This song is 20 years old. Just timeless
I remember sitting in my dad's apartment looking over Houston city, watching the sun rise and listening to this song play over his sound system while he shaved in the bathroom. I was 7 then. It feels like it's been so much longer than 14 years, but also like it was yesterday.. I still feel like that little girl when I listen to this song. It still sounds like a sleepy Houston sunrise. I don't think I'll ever be unable to love this song.
This song is like a time portal. As i listen my chest tightens, each breath feels heavier than the last and my mind begins to drift back to 7 years ago when i was that stranger in the apartment complex... was i the worth leaving?
This album aged very well
I feel like this album came to life because the universe knew it was gonna be a certified hipster-esq classic so it really pushed and adjusted everything needed for these two dudes to create this absolute masterpiece thru the god damn mail... The probability of all things working out the way they did has got yo be soooo small.
But yeah, a little splash of universe magic here and there and you got yourself a Give Up. Every single aspect of this album is 100% perfect. There are no flaws and for the most part, that is the general feeling towards it from everyone. I really like the idea of a cosmic force being the reason this record came to exist at all tho.
Ten years ago sitting in my freshman college dorm room playing this song on over and over again. My heart aches everytime I hear it. And after ten years, the more true it all gets.
MySpace days, thinking about past relationships, much simpler times. Thank you🤙🏼
Having listened to music of all genres compulsively for 25 years. I can safely say that in my opinion this is the best song I have ever heard.
treetop1985
I think you've heard mostly really bad music in your life if it is the best :/
Mannnn, Postal Service is DOPE!
This gives me a feeling nothing else has ever given me
4:07 AM. Nostalgic, sad and lost. 2022, still so relevant. Chefs kiss.
I'm going to see them in LA! So excited! 💕😊
This song is the reason I started making music
My love for The Postal Service Brought me here.
I fell in love to this song.
:)
I showed this song to the love of my life, it became her favorite. We haven't been together for years . She's having a kid now. And I'm sitting here broken.
ROGER DODGER that sucks brotha
+kevin rodriguez Meh, life moves on brah
That is pretty ironic, given what the song is about.
Songs like this bring back so much nostalgia, and a lot of times in a very sad way. Nostalgia mixed with a new perspective on the song now that years have passed and wisdom has come. Hits diff
Yeah! Sorta ashamed to admit that Such Great Heights was always the only TPS song I kept on my playlists no matter what, so when I started going through old albums again this year I fell in love with Give Up The context of how unique this sound was at the time really helps seal the "trip into the past" feeling whenever I hear Such Great Heights, District, Brand New Colony, Clark Gable, We Will Become Silhouettes.. just a great album to listen to and think of old times.
So pumped, seeing them live for the first time in an hour!
what!!!!
Who remembers when renting an apartment was affordable?
Wow yes this song definitely reminds me of that time.
this song reminds me being 14. I'm 23 now... it hurts that I can't rewind time 😢
Ur a spice girl lol. Ur name at the time
Yo 14 y/o self would cheer yo on today
It gets worse
Can you believe you're 28 now?! The fact that I can't go back is still killing me....
I'll always love the postal service, brings me back to the good days (:
I remember this album so well. I was 9 listening to this song with my uncle. Time flies 😢
They played this on the radio last night and I'm glad I remembered it and found it here. A very beautiful song
My ex girlfriends morning alarm tone from nearly a decade ago. One of my first loves. The girl and the song.
Use to be my alarm too
Fuck I used to listen to this group when I was 13yo - 15yo. I am now 30yo. So nostalgic! but a reminder that life's to short and spend every second wisely.
2019 and still emo
Hell ya
Samantha Martinez I don’t think of this as emo :)
@@gerbilpmc it's certainly not emo, but it made it's way in all our playlists, can't deny that ;)
We used to sit out on my friend’s back porch after a long night of partying and jam this entire album. Summer of 2004 right after graduation, best times of my entire life, and all my friends were still alive. Alex, miss ya buddy, glad we got the time we had together.
you sir, deserve a thumbs up. anyone that has been through something that traumatic wouldn't brag about it...
i’m 17 and this is the first time i’ve heard this song. fallen in love
I heard it for the first time in like 2006
im 33 and i listened it about your age the first time..i think is the best age to listen it.. is really beautiful.. even when i hear it now.. i can feel like in that days for an instant... no words...
@xtrmst_01 didnt know there is one.. i just hope is not miley cyrus.. she even dared to cover Cocteau Twins...
@xtrmst_01 no mms.... realmente me molesta que pretenda lucrar con estas joyitas que de seguro son recomendaciones de sus productores, no creo que ella si quiera pueda apreciarlas...
@xtrmst_01 wtf? lol
Such a beautiful song ❤
the harmonies...the crisp clear electronic notes...
I've listened to this song for years now and I still love it. Watched a lady do an amazing dance to this song, made me cry.
Why do I feel as if this song is a comforting friend?
Cause it is ❤
how the heck did i go on living with out knowing there was a video for this song