The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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  • @amnesico
    @amnesico 7 місяців тому +14

    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.

  • @ChrisHufnagel_Polymath
    @ChrisHufnagel_Polymath 9 місяців тому +142

    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....

    • @HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo
      @HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo 7 місяців тому +5

      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

    • @calebgentry5566
      @calebgentry5566 7 місяців тому +4

      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.

    • @MacabreMosaic
      @MacabreMosaic 7 місяців тому +3

      @@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

    • @Soundofsilver2007
      @Soundofsilver2007 6 місяців тому

      Beautiful

    • @Soundofsilver2007
      @Soundofsilver2007 6 місяців тому

      @@HeinrichHiedrick-ec7jo are you doing okay?

  • @PinkyMcBrain-ps6lm
    @PinkyMcBrain-ps6lm 11 місяців тому +87

    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 :)

    • @berquist87
      @berquist87 11 місяців тому +5

      God bless you

    • @aBradAbroad
      @aBradAbroad 8 місяців тому +4

      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

    • @WK_MERCURY
      @WK_MERCURY 7 місяців тому +2

      Don’t give her an initial. She was special. Say her name loud and clear!!

    • @omgitsfrknick
      @omgitsfrknick 4 місяці тому +3

      Why did this make me so emotional. lol

    • @tomteanders1357
      @tomteanders1357 29 днів тому +1

      May the gods be with you!
      Blessings!
      This is the way.
      💚🧡💖🧡💚

  • @DBKSIOWASOBR
    @DBKSIOWASOBR 8 місяців тому +8

    March 2024. Still one of the best albums ever.

  • @juneshoe
    @juneshoe 4 роки тому +471

    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

  • @joshobrien2527
    @joshobrien2527 4 роки тому +28

    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

  • @davidhardin7638
    @davidhardin7638 5 років тому +166

    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

    • @Ceb773
      @Ceb773 4 роки тому +7

      I always thought the lyric was: "sending the honest-working into the loneliest evening" and it still kinda works.

    • @madcow4753
      @madcow4753 Рік тому

      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.

  • @mikerobytes
    @mikerobytes 2 роки тому +247

    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

    • @rachaelmaldonado2269
      @rachaelmaldonado2269 2 роки тому +6

      Same. 34 listening to the album again. The emotions all flooding back.

    • @Shvkour
      @Shvkour 2 роки тому +2

      Same, I'm turning 30 in 3 months

    • @shanezuniga2647
      @shanezuniga2647 2 роки тому +3

      Same but I have not stop listening to this album I'm 31

    • @sageXwolfe
      @sageXwolfe 2 роки тому +2

      yesss 32 and same altho I try to visit these old songs every few years

    • @Glitchedoutditz
      @Glitchedoutditz Рік тому +1

      33 here & same exact thing.

  • @squidinsweaters
    @squidinsweaters 4 роки тому +357

    This song makes me feel helplessly depressed and so alive at the same time.

    • @hambonefakenamington69
      @hambonefakenamington69 3 роки тому +5

      this and so many similar tracks and albums do the same for me man

    • @sverch1989
      @sverch1989 2 роки тому

      RIGHT?

    • @chrispietrzak88
      @chrispietrzak88 Рік тому +4

      I have a tumor on my right frontal lobe. I came here to cry, yet you made me smile and realize it's nostalgia

    • @aarodful
      @aarodful Рік тому +2

      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.

  • @utubedestroysmytime
    @utubedestroysmytime 10 років тому +1552

    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....

    • @tonythatyga6
      @tonythatyga6 10 років тому +15

      I agree.

    • @taylormartin8055
      @taylormartin8055 8 років тому +4

      +Nhia Moua me too

    • @brysonmcnally3818
      @brysonmcnally3818 7 років тому +29

      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.

    • @pornstargrandpa
      @pornstargrandpa 7 років тому +10

      utubedestroysmytime me too I was young and knew every word. Wish I could go back

    • @joshh4648
      @joshh4648 7 років тому +16

      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.

  • @LukeCox-wp9hm
    @LukeCox-wp9hm Рік тому +9

    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!

  • @Euthymia
    @Euthymia 8 місяців тому +8

    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.

  • @DJKinney
    @DJKinney 10 місяців тому +13

    Listening to it in D.C. itself while walking through the night by a gaudy apartment complex. It's real.

  • @ItsAuntNiNi
    @ItsAuntNiNi 5 років тому +58

    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.

    • @ShaunS0l0
      @ShaunS0l0 2 роки тому +3

      He's the singer for deathcab for cutie as well

    • @death2denemy
      @death2denemy 2 роки тому +1

      So, how have u been?

    • @mygodmanm3008
      @mygodmanm3008 8 місяців тому

      Empty but going... well put bud. I'm with u wherever that is.

  • @anaaguilar3304
    @anaaguilar3304 4 роки тому +40

    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.

    • @nickgluvzu
      @nickgluvzu 4 роки тому +1

      ❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @corybreeden9071
      @corybreeden9071 3 роки тому +1

      We're all right here with you in the same boat ♥️

    • @AlexTejeda_
      @AlexTejeda_ 3 роки тому

      How!! I love it more and more every time!!

    • @theskydeck9785
      @theskydeck9785 2 роки тому

      The beautiful thing is that you can play it again right after. :)

  • @ericfoster8411
    @ericfoster8411 2 роки тому +84

    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

    • @timthegallant
      @timthegallant 11 місяців тому

      Thank god she gave up acting.she probably have been another f***ked up child actor if she stuck with it.

    • @emilybolognese1056
      @emilybolognese1056 7 місяців тому +1

      We just saw them perform this Album live last night and that comes through even more in that context. She is incredible

    • @birdlawyer6191
      @birdlawyer6191 5 місяців тому +1

      I didnt know that was her. Cool.

    • @K4TERTOTS
      @K4TERTOTS 2 місяці тому

      @@birdlawyer6191 yo same! really cool.

  • @TechnoJon96
    @TechnoJon96 5 років тому +86

    "It seems so out of context / in this gaudy apartment complex"
    Gaudy. What a good word.

    • @DimitriRastoropov
      @DimitriRastoropov 5 років тому +8

      Yes, a woody sort of word

    • @looneytoons4008
      @looneytoons4008 4 роки тому

      Kyle Knockaert omg I just realized that

    • @fernandaaraujo15
      @fernandaaraujo15 4 роки тому

      @Kyle Knockaert where????? Omg

    • @fernandaaraujo15
      @fernandaaraujo15 4 роки тому

      @Kyle Knockaert omg!!!! What a coincidence!

    • @ElEcodelTren
      @ElEcodelTren 3 роки тому

      im not an english speaker.. what has that word of special?.. what is the coincidence?

  • @felanm
    @felanm 8 місяців тому +3

    I remember this song from college and now I’m 40. I miss that era in my life.

    • @GurlyG
      @GurlyG Місяць тому

      I do too

  • @Numerial0.0
    @Numerial0.0 Рік тому +9

    Youth is one hell of an era and this album will forever be a part of that time no matter what happens to me.

  • @ShaunS0l0
    @ShaunS0l0 2 роки тому +98

    Literally one of the greatest albums of ALL TIME

    • @marcostorres2329
      @marcostorres2329 2 роки тому

      no it's not.

    • @ken1195
      @ken1195 Рік тому +4

      @@marcostorres2329 No ItS NoT

    • @ashleylloyd9239
      @ashleylloyd9239 Рік тому +6

      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!

    • @ashleylloyd9239
      @ashleylloyd9239 Рік тому

      (or above!, oops) *

    • @geko7950
      @geko7950 Рік тому +3

      This album really was a fantastic album.

  • @thrilliam562
    @thrilliam562 2 роки тому +23

    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

    • @user-ee1fn4vt8b
      @user-ee1fn4vt8b Рік тому +2

      Weird how you're the same person you were back then but also you're not.

    • @liammgill
      @liammgill Рік тому +2

      do you still think about her at all? same thing with me and my high school girlfriend but it's only been four years.

  • @lemusthealien
    @lemusthealien 8 років тому +621

    If there's any group that needs to make a second album, it's this group.

    • @soupit32
      @soupit32 8 років тому +1

      +Miss Melle well if they arent gonna make more music other people can

    • @siddhartha779
      @siddhartha779 8 років тому +3

      agreed

    • @TonkyTube
      @TonkyTube 8 років тому +31

      It was only a one-album band, a side project for the guy of Death Cab For Cutie.

    • @elguerochoyero2220
      @elguerochoyero2220 8 років тому +15

      They released a new single a few years ago. "A tattered line of string."

    • @EmberofRage
      @EmberofRage 8 років тому +2

      it was an old recording though..

  • @LampyGames
    @LampyGames 6 років тому +18

    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

  • @oobjg
    @oobjg 5 місяців тому +5

    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

  • @brizzwizz
    @brizzwizz 5 років тому +74

    Big love to everyone here. What a nice common bond - this song, the nostalgia, the sadness and loveliness all at once.

    • @Trunkswr
      @Trunkswr Рік тому

      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..

  • @worldofsin5203
    @worldofsin5203 9 років тому +57

    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.

  • @musicguy20
    @musicguy20 9 років тому +340

    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

    • @puppetmasterthc820
      @puppetmasterthc820 9 років тому +18

      +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...

    • @musicguy20
      @musicguy20 9 років тому +8

      PuppetMasterTHC Crying is a given at birth but laughing and other emotions you have to learn later in life.

    • @mccohn47
      @mccohn47 9 років тому +1

      +PuppetMasterTHC Beautiful

    • @David-uc4hc
      @David-uc4hc 8 років тому +8

      +musicguy20 Yeah dude. I haven't listened to this song since high school and pulled it up tonight for exactly that reason.

    • @ChrisMaxCisneros
      @ChrisMaxCisneros 7 років тому +3

      That Pun was great

  • @jordanbodkin3517
    @jordanbodkin3517 8 років тому +60

    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.

    • @supercharmedfan
      @supercharmedfan 8 років тому +7

      Me too. Hadn't listened to it for years and randomly needed to hear it today

  • @alzidanesatria9919
    @alzidanesatria9919 4 роки тому +9

    Its like a time machine.. oo dear how much i miss my friends.. miss those old glory days...

  • @VictoriaGonzalez-fs7id
    @VictoriaGonzalez-fs7id Рік тому +6

    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!

  • @jesseu19
    @jesseu19 3 роки тому +53

    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

    • @iris1064
      @iris1064 2 роки тому +4

      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.

    • @GoldenEmu1
      @GoldenEmu1 Рік тому

      Was he an extra?

    • @R0B3RTP4UL50N
      @R0B3RTP4UL50N Місяць тому

      He loves you too. He's still out there, waiting to see you. Floating amongst the stars. We all go home eventually.

  • @LUk3.M.
    @LUk3.M. Рік тому +7

    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.

    • @haidenmorgan
      @haidenmorgan Рік тому

      Beautiful memory from childhood! This song was a mood!

  • @StraightIntoMoney
    @StraightIntoMoney 2 роки тому +28

    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

  • @razzlemeup
    @razzlemeup 8 років тому +133

    God this song. Fell in love with it when I was 14 and now I'm 25 and falling in love again.

  • @josephbowman9456
    @josephbowman9456 3 роки тому +46

    Drinking whisky tonight and hitting all the songs I listened to after getting Dear John’ed in Iraq in 2008.

    • @alleyosun
      @alleyosun 3 роки тому +2

      Song embodies melancholy. Much love.

  • @pikapikanuuu7262
    @pikapikanuuu7262 2 місяці тому +10

    Dude, I went one a rampage looking for this song! Who's here in 2024?

  • @daynethemayne1851
    @daynethemayne1851 9 років тому +204

    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..

    • @PeepsILoveEllie
      @PeepsILoveEllie 8 років тому +1

      +DayneTheMayne I feel ya :) but you mean teen, right? you're a tween right now, in your twenties.

    • @kylamargan894
      @kylamargan894 8 років тому +3

      tween is before teenage years. so ages like 11, 12.

    • @PeepsILoveEllie
      @PeepsILoveEllie 8 років тому

      Kyla Marie ah ok thanks! apparently, Tolkien used it in the way I meant it, but the meaning seems to have changed.

    • @kylamargan894
      @kylamargan894 8 років тому

      PeepsILoveEllie possibly :)

    • @gregjames3766
      @gregjames3766 8 років тому +3

      I was just thinking about skating to this song 😂

  • @justinpersful5233
    @justinpersful5233 10 років тому +23

    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.

  • @boijubilee7201
    @boijubilee7201 9 місяців тому +1

    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.....

  • @_Tennz
    @_Tennz 6 років тому +6

    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.

    • @Music-tp3wh
      @Music-tp3wh 5 років тому

      yeah.. death cab for cutie's entire discography was basically like the main soundtrack to my high school life... amazing stuff

  • @cablevs
    @cablevs 2 роки тому +3

    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!

  • @rukusbukus
    @rukusbukus 9 років тому +42

    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.

  • @alexisvela9043
    @alexisvela9043 10 років тому +60

    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.

    • @ElEcodelTren
      @ElEcodelTren 4 роки тому

      what is the meaning of this song?

    • @anabanana409
      @anabanana409 2 роки тому

    • @oscarmarek7746
      @oscarmarek7746 Рік тому +2

      They’re going on tour this fall! They’re performing live for the first time in 10 years! There’s still hope!

    • @LukeCox-wp9hm
      @LukeCox-wp9hm Рік тому +1

      The district can be anywhere or anyone - love this!!

  • @shauncollins5863
    @shauncollins5863 Рік тому +2

    This is the #1 song played at my funeral and my all-time #1 song.

  • @Micah786
    @Micah786 14 років тому +8

    ben gibbard is awesome. i love all his death cab stuff and the postal service :)

  • @iraplikeyoubreathe
    @iraplikeyoubreathe 4 роки тому +13

    Well if this doesn't kick up the biggest cloud of nostalgic dust.......

    • @alleyosun
      @alleyosun 3 роки тому +2

      Yep. Melancholy asthma attack.

  • @sevra4836
    @sevra4836 3 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @Klw2010
    @Klw2010 Рік тому +2

    This song is 20 years old. Just timeless

  • @AlwayzFresh
    @AlwayzFresh 3 місяці тому +1

    Sylvan Esso + Postal Service, you have me crying bringing me back to thin moment in my life.

  • @davidmacdonald8943
    @davidmacdonald8943 5 років тому +16

    Was watching Looking For Alaska and this song came on and had to find it again.

    • @meli.320
      @meli.320 5 років тому +1

      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

    • @jboiSalem
      @jboiSalem 4 місяці тому

      Dawg i was trying to find this stupid ass show for an hour because i forgot this song was used in it

  • @tigerlike7472
    @tigerlike7472 7 років тому +2384

    Real talk, how many of us are listening to this drunk while reminiscing on a simpler time?

  • @Ryattt81
    @Ryattt81 11 років тому +56

    Been a very long time, good to hear this again. Reminds me of some great times.

    • @setnomA
      @setnomA 5 років тому

      The best times 😓

  • @Widderic
    @Widderic Рік тому +1

    So pumped to see them again in Maryland this year.

  • @Arieszona48
    @Arieszona48 4 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @tylerpazico6152
    @tylerpazico6152 10 років тому +11

    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.

  • @cramecirp365
    @cramecirp365 6 років тому +29

    This aged like a fine wine for me...

  • @williamvezzani5610
    @williamvezzani5610 5 років тому +5

    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?

  • @Ryan-fy8bx
    @Ryan-fy8bx 7 місяців тому +2

    So pumped, seeing them live for the first time in an hour!

  • @JacobHGP
    @JacobHGP Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @thatclintguy
    @thatclintguy 2 роки тому +6

    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!

  • @Ashley-jc7tx
    @Ashley-jc7tx 5 років тому +9

    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.

  • @notahooper
    @notahooper 3 роки тому +8

    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 ..

    • @notahooper
      @notahooper 3 роки тому +1

      @@minty3253 yeah I didn't think someone would read this

    • @kelseycrider329
      @kelseycrider329 3 роки тому +1

      Hey I read this. Beautiful. This song is just amazing. *virtual hugs*

    • @beetle_juicy8780
      @beetle_juicy8780 3 роки тому

      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.

  • @thewalkthrufire
    @thewalkthrufire 11 років тому +1

    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.

  • @cobprog
    @cobprog 7 місяців тому

    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.

  • @Music-tp3wh
    @Music-tp3wh 5 років тому +70

    Reminds me of the times before social media really blew up...

  • @BethanyAlfalfa
    @BethanyAlfalfa 12 років тому +7

    My love for The Postal Service Brought me here.

  • @parisford2020
    @parisford2020 Рік тому +12

    Who remembers when renting an apartment was affordable?

    • @dirtyblondfish
      @dirtyblondfish Рік тому

      Wow yes this song definitely reminds me of that time.

  • @thaddeust.thirdiii736
    @thaddeust.thirdiii736 Рік тому +2

    I remember this album so well. I was 9 listening to this song with my uncle. Time flies 😢

  • @rymyguyyy392
    @rymyguyyy392 2 роки тому +2

    4:07 AM. Nostalgic, sad and lost. 2022, still so relevant. Chefs kiss.

  • @roguelegend111
    @roguelegend111 3 роки тому +3

    This album is a timeless classic that will forever live in my heart, mind and soul.

    • @pragmatist4life142
      @pragmatist4life142 2 роки тому

      Agreed. There aren't many albums burned into my memory note for note, but this one is.

  • @jedikodi384
    @jedikodi384 10 років тому +16

    This song is the reason I started making music

  • @doryexplory2029
    @doryexplory2029 5 років тому +8

    This gives me a feeling nothing else has ever given me

  • @momobunny1234
    @momobunny1234 4 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @cacCode
    @cacCode 3 роки тому +2

    Its 18 years ago, cant believe that the time flies so high.

  • @laurendobbs8941
    @laurendobbs8941 5 років тому +3

    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..

  • @MadMan731
    @MadMan731 6 років тому +37

    "The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights."
    I was thinking of this song today.

  • @KiekoKoyasu
    @KiekoKoyasu Рік тому +1

    I'm going to see them in LA! So excited! 💕😊

  • @michaelkonkright174
    @michaelkonkright174 3 роки тому +1

    Make this your morning alarm. Good day to be had. How could ya snooze such a song

  • @smileygladhands
    @smileygladhands Рік тому +13

    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...

  • @toukakirishima9417
    @toukakirishima9417 8 років тому +449

    I am a visitor here. I am not permanent.

  • @nq6508
    @nq6508 3 роки тому +7

    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.

  • @ebettoran
    @ebettoran 5 років тому +2

    They played this on the radio last night and I'm glad I remembered it and found it here. A very beautiful song

  • @arsenelupiniii8040
    @arsenelupiniii8040 Рік тому +1

    Thank you Ben! from 2 decades ago.

  • @samanthamartinez631
    @samanthamartinez631 5 років тому +34

    2019 and still emo

    • @Ceb773
      @Ceb773 5 років тому +1

      Hell ya

    • @gerbilpmc
      @gerbilpmc 5 років тому +2

      Samantha Martinez I don’t think of this as emo :)

    • @dant1983
      @dant1983 5 років тому +2

      @@gerbilpmc it's certainly not emo, but it made it's way in all our playlists, can't deny that ;)

  • @cybersurfer3d837
    @cybersurfer3d837 5 років тому +31

    This album aged very well

  • @treetop1985
    @treetop1985 10 років тому +3

    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.

    • @yorokobiyos2729
      @yorokobiyos2729 7 років тому

      treetop1985
      I think you've heard mostly really bad music in your life if it is the best :/

  • @patrickjcaseysd
    @patrickjcaseysd 3 роки тому +1

    the harmonies...the crisp clear electronic notes...

  • @tattooadventures
    @tattooadventures 3 роки тому +1

    MySpace days, thinking about past relationships, much simpler times. Thank you🤙🏼

  • @karaisamazing1995
    @karaisamazing1995 5 років тому +2

    I'll always love the postal service, brings me back to the good days (:

  • @bummollie
    @bummollie 3 роки тому +5

    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.

  • @RetroSunday
    @RetroSunday 11 років тому +16

    Mannnn, Postal Service is DOPE!

  • @mikeleo7916
    @mikeleo7916 Рік тому +2

    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

    • @dacrib5350
      @dacrib5350 Рік тому +1

      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.

  • @elliotlake1882
    @elliotlake1882 Рік тому +1

    boy, this meant so much to me.

  • @APixieNinja
    @APixieNinja Рік тому +3

    we're still here.

  • @ericfoster8411
    @ericfoster8411 2 роки тому +4

    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.

  • @WoooSaaaW
    @WoooSaaaW 8 років тому +18

    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?

  • @ayyy-nn
    @ayyy-nn 12 років тому +1

    I love this video.

  • @stephaniewhite8166
    @stephaniewhite8166 Рік тому

    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.

  • @somisoluv
    @somisoluv 4 роки тому +11

    how the heck did i go on living with out knowing there was a video for this song

  • @CassandraColeman1
    @CassandraColeman1 8 років тому +5

    This is my most favorite album. ever.