It bothers me how everybody is so stuck on the abortion part of this song. If most people had the brains to look at any of the interviews he did for the album he says that the first verse is about an abortion a friend had. He gets most of his song ideas from the people around him. The whole song isnt about abortion. It's like most people just like the song bc they believe its all about such a taboo subject. People ruin shit by over analyzing. Its a beautiful song regardless of the meaning.
Both pregnancy and abortion are the products of unchecked passion, and often unwanted products thereof. I think the singer of this song feels pain and guilt: to a certain extent, he is responsible for the thing which has destroyed his beloved, and neither of them is able to move past the pain of abortion to a place where they could be together again.
From a medieval love poem by Walther von der Vogelweide: "Under the Tilia tree on the open field, where we two had our bed, you still can see lovely both broken flowers and grass." (TIlia = lime tree.)
In much romantic medieval literature, there's a theme of love as being a tool of destruction, even to the beloved. In "the Romance of the Rose," the protagonist tears apart the rose that he desires through his indelicate zealousness to know it and possess it...
Knowing that Bright Eyes only has one more album coming out, and then they're retiring absolutely breaks my heart. They've been a huge part of the past 6 years of my life, and even though their music is always going to be there, it feels like they're dying.
there was a girl who covered this song about 17 or so years old that sung it so beautifully i listened to it constantly and now her video disappeared, can anybody help me out with finding her videos?
This song means so much more after watching this video. I already loved the song enough, but now I feel like they've opened a whole new meaning to this song through this video. It's too beautiful. One of the MANY amazing songs from Connor. Too bad Bright Eyes is about to be no more. :(
thats what makes him such an amazing song writer. an ability to document events that allow multiple stories to relate. the wider the scope in interpretation, the more in truth it appears... possible?
This song defiantly has major references to MDMA or ecstasy.
Coming down, refers to the end of your 'trip'.
Don't be so amazing, and felt something that I had never touched can refer to the inflated feeling of affection and overjoy. Also with thinking about the friends you had and don't see anymore, when you're on it, it's literally impossible to not think positive of everything.
Examining the fruit could refer to your interest in everything and no better time like the present.
i think the lime tree is also symbolic of th e fruits of life.. for example one is known by the fruits of their labor. The fruits could be what he has to show for his life
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abortion is a tragic event, probably not at first...but after u start maturing and realizing u had one you will carry the memory of what you did, or worst suffer the consequences of not having kids later on, yes its true sometimes we are in hard situations were abortion is the best way out but then after years pain and suffering arrives, because you killed your baby,, though i did think about it lots of times, but when u feel the first kicks you feel amazing, please have a heart:(
As far as the video is concerned, I think it's beautiful. I don't totally understand it, but if I DID I probably wouldn't like it as much =) Well done.
Abortion IS a sad, tragic event. Many women suffer depression after an abortion. Not to mention the unnecessary conception and death of a human. I'm all for women's rights and I believe that women should definitely have the option (though I think adoption is a better way to deal with such a situation), but there is no denying the tragedy of abortion.
everything minus the "since the operation" bit could be applied to love/breaking up.
but there is some serious love/breaking up with some abortions, no? depression that can follow ect ect, and if the video reflects the meaning in the song, which not every video does, the "heart transplant" could be just coming out of depression, into a healthier mental state.
all that business with skulls and drawing on hands confuses the hell out of me, however.
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Why is abortion always treated as such a sad, tragic, shamefull event?
Most women i know & whos stories i've read are happy as hell they got one & rarely have feelings of sadness or loss(except in cases of fetal-deformity) So why is it that when in music/media it's usually portrayed as sad or horrible? The only sad part is the ever increasing restrictions & money costs our fucked up goverment create.
I always thought that Conor was for women's rights, now i'm not too sure...
have a negative emotion, or even a painful experience with something and articulating it into your craft, has nothing to do that persons ideas on civil liberty. One can support freedom of speech, then hate what people are allowed to say.
There is so much to this song that you'd be missing if you spend the whole time trying to shape the lyrics around it being about an abortion (or any 1 thing).
Think about the themes of the album, our spiritual positioning within the cosmos (see: Campbell's "The Power of Myth")
"Everything gets smaller now the further that I go
Towards the mouth and the reunion of the Known and the Unknown..."
and our struggle with perpetual duality...
"It comes to me in fragments, even those still split in two
which is not to say that this video isn't AMAZING! just the comments seem silly. seriously, delta214 thank you for the video, it really does work perfectly and you made me think of things visually in a way that I hadn't before, and now always will when I hear this song.
it's really hard to make something so original to something as intimate as this song, and you nailed it!
to each their own opinion.. but the song is indeed about abortion, there are other notes in there clearly..but the under lying "story" i suppose is. From the obvious line " you've been breathing just for one"... to the comparisons with fruit...... but again.. that's the beauty of music and art itself.. its objective..people are free to hear ,feel, see etc, what they want :))
There is a ton of symbolism in it, for example when he actually talks about the Lime Tree he mentions the fruit, and how he's nauseous with the truth after looking at them. Fruit are the children of Trees, and he's never gonna have a chance to see if his fruit is ripe or rotten - queue nausea. As a BA in Literature I feel that Abortion is a prevalent theme in this - also the break up that comes with Abortion. But, it IS art, and is about as many things are there are listeners
Wow, You're pretty dumb if you took that offensively. It was a joke. Everyone was arguing about what the song was about. So, I jokingly said that it was about a sandwhich since you said that Lime Tree was the name of a Deli. I wasn't being an asshole then, but I just chose to do so. I don't even understand how that could have been seen as mean.
One of my favs because the lyrics are somehow literal, yet vague. I've taken the meaning of the song to represent the confusion a person goes through during life -- that feeling that you've come to a realization yet, are facing the ever consistent unknown. The song is about existing in the present, in its unique blend of confusion and clarity.
"So pleased with a daydream that now living is no good. I took off my shoes and walked into the woods; I felt so lost and found with every step I took"
well here are some of my favs 1.take it easy(love noting) 2. smoke signals ( conor oberst and the mystic valley band) 3. the city has sex 4. burn rubber 5. going for the gold 6 you will 7. weather reports those arnt really political but really good check out lets not shit ourselves
Don't Know When But a Day's Going to Come Sunrise, Sunset False Advertising Nothing Gets Crossed Out Going For The Gold I've been Eating (For you) The Calender Hung Itself A Perfect Sonnet And then, of course, The Mystic Valley Band: NYC-Gone,gone I don't want to Die in a Hospital Roosevelt Room And Ten Women, just because it's so damn good.
I know! Dropping the major third to the minor in the G is amazing...and then the D7...
I really wonder if he intended it to be like this; he attributes the arrangements on this song in particular to Nate Walcott, and with the blues guitar progression, I wonder what the initial drafts sounded like :D
one of the my favourite sad songs, almost rivals I'm so lonesome I could cry
I'd leave it open to interpretation there is a lot of imagery going on in this song (original sin etc.), furthermore alluding to abortion could in itself just be an allusion to an additional metaphor.
The song to be goes against the notably more hopeful tone of cassadaga; as if though he has cleansed he looks around and remembers why he needed to get dirty in the first place; and thus steps into the wood and wilderness of chaos.
good understanding. i mean the lin "since the operation, you're breathing just for one" says it all. of course there are always many themes to conor's writing but abortion is a good part of this one.
Somewhat of a small explanation for the meaning of Lime Tree is on a Spin interview...
"But when he thinks about a friend's abortion on "Lime Tree," noting that he's in his own prime years to have children, these wide-lens issues point Oberst to a personal question: Is his chance to settle down passing him by?"
An intelligent songwriter doesn't take the mystery out of his music and rob us of our own fond interpretations. That's why Miles Davis was so successful.
I looked up Miles Davis Jon Wesley and I understand your statement, kind of. I will still make mine---Where does THIS boy, Connor, find this painful, lonesome,questioning, understanding? I have three sons of my own, one of them introduced Connor's music. However you interpret the song/lyrics, don't you wonder WHY they were written and the state of the SOUL, the inside, of the person who wrote them? He's not glib, he's real. Sensitive to a point I want to know more...
It is not in the nature of the individual to outlast his work, because individuals are common. If a piece of art is going to last, it tends to outlast what we remember about the person who created it. When you think of Shakespeare, the overarching themes or messages of his plays/sonnets are what affect you the longest. I do not neccessarily want to know why he wrote what he wrote because then it is an experience unique to him- instead of property of the world, to whom he gave it.
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Among other things, his whole family was murdered by his mother (I think it was his mother) who then committed suicide. He's not emo, he's just had a load...tough experiences.
Serious? I have never heard this before. I have only heard of the wonder boy from Nebraska...Makes me feel sad, sorry, and IGNORANT..This would explain the 'soul in suffering/understanding' a person picks up from his lyrics. Thank you wfw for updating me. I can imagine everyone else already knew this...
heyhey, calm down and enjoy the music. talk about the song not the people. and they said they are unsure if it is correct, so just be chill and enjoy. (:
in one of connor's songs on the fevers and mirrors album, he has kind of like a mock radio interview.
he says his mother drowned like 4 or 5 of her babies in a bathtub. idk if its true or not.. but i think thats where this guy is getting part of his info from. ive never heard anything about his mother committing suicide though.
on another note, i love connor oberst :) i still listen to the albums i bought 2 or 3 years ago and i still love them just as much, if not more. <3
That wasnt real. It was just to lighten the mood of the album and kind of poke fun at themselves. Conor wasnt even the one talking.. he was the guy you hear in the background towards the end after that other music gets turned off.
The lyrics in this are almost like a story. I don't pay attention to the deep meaning in this song =)) I just like to enjoy the words, the melody, and everything else.
this makes me miss old bright eyes new bright eyes is aight i stll like it but cassadaga just lost its feeling. but the new self titled album its all coming back now. i get to see him october 18 tucson az baby!
It bothers me how everybody is so stuck on the abortion part of this song. If most people had the brains to look at any of the interviews he did for the album he says that the first verse is about an abortion a friend had. He gets most of his song ideas from the people around him. The whole song isnt about abortion. It's like most people just like the song bc they believe its all about such a taboo subject. People ruin shit by over analyzing. Its a beautiful song regardless of the meaning.
punky0o027 6 months ago 2
when i hear beautiful music its not from another time its from bright eyes
chris4267 6 months ago 5
Both pregnancy and abortion are the products of unchecked passion, and often unwanted products thereof. I think the singer of this song feels pain and guilt: to a certain extent, he is responsible for the thing which has destroyed his beloved, and neither of them is able to move past the pain of abortion to a place where they could be together again.
SarahMcM 7 months ago
From a medieval love poem by Walther von der Vogelweide: "Under the Tilia tree on the open field, where we two had our bed, you still can see lovely both broken flowers and grass." (TIlia = lime tree.)
In much romantic medieval literature, there's a theme of love as being a tool of destruction, even to the beloved. In "the Romance of the Rose," the protagonist tears apart the rose that he desires through his indelicate zealousness to know it and possess it...
SarahMcM 7 months ago
the high distorted guitar in the background at 2:13 gives me goosebumps.
JakeBPlaysMusic 9 months ago 2
fuuuuuuuuck it makes me cry everytime.
bandslikelauren 11 months ago 2
Its actually about a miscarriage, not an abortion, abortion requires choice. Regardless it an still be applied to abortion.
Ryushihotshot 1 year ago
@Ryushihotshot I think you're in denial. It's definitely about abortion.
oak1236 7 months ago
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ohmynatalie102 1 year ago
If you've ever had an abortion, there is no debate about what this is about. It's beautiful in the saddest way possible.
ohmynatalie102 1 year ago 2
Conor is so crafty that he can make a single song about a thousand things.
Its about whatever you make it.
xCarolineification 1 year ago
a thousand times sadder than anything on sea change
MrFatmaninbearsuit 1 year ago
It's generally agreed that it's about the aftermath of an abortion.
Tengent 1 year ago 3
@Tengent oh my god.......... it makes so much more sense now...
FUUUUUUUUUUU D':
bandslikelauren 1 year ago
I freaking LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!! It's so perfect for this song!
iluffrobotsmetoo 1 year ago
I think its about a woman that lost her baby (a miscarriage)
RiverPhoenix1993 1 year ago
@RiverPhoenix1993 abortion
jasonsaroyan 1 year ago
Knowing that Bright Eyes only has one more album coming out, and then they're retiring absolutely breaks my heart. They've been a huge part of the past 6 years of my life, and even though their music is always going to be there, it feels like they're dying.
Ashumleyo 1 year ago 8
this song has described my life for the past 4 years. i hope i will have a new song sometime :(
twig8792 1 year ago
this explains how i feel
manifestdestiny17 1 year ago
there was a girl who covered this song about 17 or so years old that sung it so beautifully i listened to it constantly and now her video disappeared, can anybody help me out with finding her videos?
Christophe1426 1 year ago
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tomtomthurman1 1 year ago
@tomtomthurman1 Really? It sounds like someone who loves music thats before their time.
Suckmydcarreon 1 year ago
This song means so much more after watching this video. I already loved the song enough, but now I feel like they've opened a whole new meaning to this song through this video. It's too beautiful. One of the MANY amazing songs from Connor. Too bad Bright Eyes is about to be no more. :(
LeaAndCompany 1 year ago
thats what makes him such an amazing song writer. an ability to document events that allow multiple stories to relate. the wider the scope in interpretation, the more in truth it appears... possible?
bjedo3 1 year ago
@bbsupermee
i was being serious, its in an interview somewhere but i dunno where it is.
he used to get coffee there when he live in nyc, its in the eat village a couple blocks away from life cafe i jut need to get there.
PaulineScene 1 year ago
This song defiantly has major references to MDMA or ecstasy.
Coming down, refers to the end of your 'trip'.
Don't be so amazing, and felt something that I had never touched can refer to the inflated feeling of affection and overjoy. Also with thinking about the friends you had and don't see anymore, when you're on it, it's literally impossible to not think positive of everything.
Examining the fruit could refer to your interest in everything and no better time like the present.
asaint4 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure this song is about ecstasy. If you listen to the lyrics some of them sound a lot like it.
DasGippy 1 year ago
I definatly agree.
asaint4 1 year ago
i think the lime tree is also symbolic of th e fruits of life.. for example one is known by the fruits of their labor. The fruits could be what he has to show for his life
irishkelly92 1 year ago
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abortion is a tragic event, probably not at first...but after u start maturing and realizing u had one you will carry the memory of what you did, or worst suffer the consequences of not having kids later on, yes its true sometimes we are in hard situations were abortion is the best way out but then after years pain and suffering arrives, because you killed your baby,, though i did think about it lots of times, but when u feel the first kicks you feel amazing, please have a heart:(
griselda812 2 years ago
As far as the video is concerned, I think it's beautiful. I don't totally understand it, but if I DID I probably wouldn't like it as much =) Well done.
gioandyify 2 years ago
Abortion IS a sad, tragic event. Many women suffer depression after an abortion. Not to mention the unnecessary conception and death of a human. I'm all for women's rights and I believe that women should definitely have the option (though I think adoption is a better way to deal with such a situation), but there is no denying the tragedy of abortion.
Unless your a sado-masochist.
gioandyify 2 years ago
its a heart transplant---NOT AN ABORTION--the vid and song are about loss of love/breaking up __BOT ABORTION
krystalliscool 2 years ago
everything minus the "since the operation" bit could be applied to love/breaking up.
but there is some serious love/breaking up with some abortions, no? depression that can follow ect ect, and if the video reflects the meaning in the song, which not every video does, the "heart transplant" could be just coming out of depression, into a healthier mental state.
all that business with skulls and drawing on hands confuses the hell out of me, however.
actsofsanity 2 years ago
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Why is abortion always treated as such a sad, tragic, shamefull event?
Most women i know & whos stories i've read are happy as hell they got one & rarely have feelings of sadness or loss(except in cases of fetal-deformity) So why is it that when in music/media it's usually portrayed as sad or horrible? The only sad part is the ever increasing restrictions & money costs our fucked up goverment create.
I always thought that Conor was for women's rights, now i'm not too sure...
672melody 2 years ago
have a negative emotion, or even a painful experience with something and articulating it into your craft, has nothing to do that persons ideas on civil liberty. One can support freedom of speech, then hate what people are allowed to say.
amyinarms 2 years ago 2
Maybe its his sadness too?
Talonplz 2 years ago
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You dumb bitch...
Moghadidliam 2 years ago
What is going on in this video? I'm so confused!
RubiaFalso 2 years ago
There is so much to this song that you'd be missing if you spend the whole time trying to shape the lyrics around it being about an abortion (or any 1 thing).
Think about the themes of the album, our spiritual positioning within the cosmos (see: Campbell's "The Power of Myth")
"Everything gets smaller now the further that I go
Towards the mouth and the reunion of the Known and the Unknown..."
and our struggle with perpetual duality...
"It comes to me in fragments, even those still split in two
Jbear3hm 2 years ago
which is not to say that this video isn't AMAZING! just the comments seem silly. seriously, delta214 thank you for the video, it really does work perfectly and you made me think of things visually in a way that I hadn't before, and now always will when I hear this song.
it's really hard to make something so original to something as intimate as this song, and you nailed it!
Jbear3hm 2 years ago
im pretty sure it was about an abortion.
redfacade 2 years ago
to each their own opinion.. but the song is indeed about abortion, there are other notes in there clearly..but the under lying "story" i suppose is. From the obvious line " you've been breathing just for one"... to the comparisons with fruit...... but again.. that's the beauty of music and art itself.. its objective..people are free to hear ,feel, see etc, what they want :))
puppyslut22 2 years ago
ok i dont see the abortion or miscarriage in the song.
yeah the video might give you that image, but i think that song has nothing to do with it.
yes the first few lines mention a surgery, but it doesnt specify what kind of surgery.
nor is there any inference relating to dead babies.
amourartificiel 2 years ago
it says since the operation youve been breathing just for one..
clash382 2 years ago
There is a ton of symbolism in it, for example when he actually talks about the Lime Tree he mentions the fruit, and how he's nauseous with the truth after looking at them. Fruit are the children of Trees, and he's never gonna have a chance to see if his fruit is ripe or rotten - queue nausea. As a BA in Literature I feel that Abortion is a prevalent theme in this - also the break up that comes with Abortion. But, it IS art, and is about as many things are there are listeners
Talonplz 2 years ago 2
LIME TREE IS A DELI! In NEW YORK CITY!
PaulineScene 2 years ago
-_-
MarsVoltaKA 2 years ago
its a very true thing, he used to go and get coffee there in the morning!n_n
PaulineScene 2 years ago
@PaulineScene Yes, and this whole song is about a sandwich, so you are all wrong.
bbsupermee 1 year ago
@bbsupermee anddd you don't have to be an asshole:D
PaulineScene 1 year ago
@PaulineScene
Wow, You're pretty dumb if you took that offensively. It was a joke. Everyone was arguing about what the song was about. So, I jokingly said that it was about a sandwhich since you said that Lime Tree was the name of a Deli. I wasn't being an asshole then, but I just chose to do so. I don't even understand how that could have been seen as mean.
bbsupermee 1 year ago
@Talonplz no need to mention your BA.
amyinarms 2 years ago
Humility is my strong suit.
Talonplz 2 years ago
since the operation, i heard youre breathing just for one.
that has abortion written all over it.
KronikRabbit0526 2 years ago
you might want to listen a little closer.
jhubbzwhat 2 years ago
it says you are breathing just for one. and left a message that its done. sounds like one to me.
redfacade 2 years ago
this song is perfect.
and i think this amazng video makes it even better.
amourartificiel 2 years ago
:( This song makes me so depressed.
Khasar 2 years ago
this makes me abosolutely sure that i could never get an abortion
it would hurt too much and id hate myself
yocorrocontrajeras 2 years ago
i wonder what a lime tree has to do with an abortion
jclairedelunek 2 years ago
One of my favs because the lyrics are somehow literal, yet vague. I've taken the meaning of the song to represent the confusion a person goes through during life -- that feeling that you've come to a realization yet, are facing the ever consistent unknown. The song is about existing in the present, in its unique blend of confusion and clarity.
UnderCurrentNotes 2 years ago
this video does not give the song justice....its just trying too hard to be artsy and relevant. besides its NOT an offical video, so. there ya go.
theboywiththecoin 2 years ago
"Don't be so amazing or I'll miss you too much." I get tears at this.
yumihitomi 2 years ago 33
I was thinking of this line the other day.
NiehillListick 2 years ago
That is so sad and so moving, especially
"So pleased with a daydream that now living is no good. I took off my shoes and walked into the woods; I felt so lost and found with every step I took"
whatacrazyfuckingday 2 years ago 5
It's about an abortion.
I don't see how anyone could doubt that...
stormstrader 2 years ago
this has to be my favovite song of all time.
i tear up everytime he sings the "i cant sleep next to a stranger when im comin down" line
emoholocost 2 years ago
I fuckin' hate sequins.
But I love this song.
BriskAxe 2 years ago 6
u just got 10 cool points. lol
umovelikehoney 2 years ago
WwowowowW
revoltegirl 2 years ago 2
"Don't be so amazing, or I'll miss you too much."
Beautiful.
MasterOuiukiske 2 years ago 49
@MasterOuiukiske That is my favourite line
harajukubeta 1 year ago
The imagery in this music video is beautiful. So creatively artistic. Bright Eyes never fails to be original.
SkaMonk 2 years ago 4
My favorite songs;
A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not
Amy In The White Coat
Milk Thistle
I Must Belong Somewhere
Four Winds
Ship In a Bottle
Sunrise, Sunset
Pardaic My Prince
The Center Of the World
desteryzlol 2 years ago
I just realized that the pink door is deaths door. and that the hand is knocking on deaths door is oddly symbolic.
silentpinecone 2 years ago
yeah it is but i dont get it
this is going to be like everything else conor does
it needs disection!!!
BintAlHaq 2 years ago
I Believe in Symmetry
Easy/Lucky/Free
Poison Oak
Landlocked Blues
Four Winds
Hot Knives
Cleanse Song
maxtowle 2 years ago
this song is so amazingly beautiful.
iamsydney123 2 years ago
I like this song, I just wish I like it more because the lyrics are amazing
But the girl...i don't know, just bugs me :/
BurntByTheMoon44 2 years ago 2
How does the girl bug you? ha.
It's artistic in my opinion.
itworkss 2 years ago
*smiles*
hydeist444 2 years ago 3
Is this song really about abortion? I did not pick up on that until I saw this video
11athercha 2 years ago
wow, same here. Wow
Willro91 2 years ago
its almot more than that
and it seems to be more like a miscarage wen u watch the video
BintAlHaq 2 years ago 2
even though everyone says this;
this is by far O'berst's best song in both lyrics & vocals, and sheer emotion.
that's just my opinion...
oh, I'm also not too familiar with much of C.Oberst's material...
can someone recommend to me songs more on the lines of songs like "when the president talks to god" and "road to joy" ?
I really love those two alot, so basicly please recommend more of his more noisey-guitar angry stuff, please!
vegastr0n 2 years ago
If you like the angrier guitar noisy stuff...
With Bright Eyes -
The Calendar Hung Itself
Lover I Don't Have to Love
At the Bottom of Everything
With the Mystic Valley Band -
NYC - Gone, Gone
I Don't Want To Die (In a Hospital)
Roosevelt Room
I'd recommend listening to all of his stuff though. He's a genius.
rawwrface 2 years ago 2
You should listen to the band Desaparecidos (i'm not sure if I spelt that right) which Conor Obsert is in. it's very edgy.
OHHH listen to "sunrise, sunset" by Bright Eyes. YESSS
and Let's not shit ourselves!!
BurntByTheMoon44 2 years ago
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3ILuvmusic 2 years ago
"let's not shit ourselves" is probably conor's most blatantly political song. it's definitely "noisy-guitar angry stuff."
HiddenChopsticks 2 years ago
what you call "noisy-guitar angry stuff" changed my life.
BECOSK 2 years ago 6
bully for you!
but i wasn't trying to be offensive. it's a great song, and by great i mean utterly mind-blowing.
HiddenChopsticks 2 years ago 4
haha good! i was about to cry because "let's not shit ourselves" really opened my eyes to a ton of shit going on in the world
he is amazing
BECOSK 2 years ago 4
this video is beautiful
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bertlover345 2 years ago
i love this song but this video has nothing to do with the meaning
feildingboy 2 years ago
Then you aren't looking at it right...you seem to not have a sense of understanding....George Bush >_>
xXLightxAngelXx 2 years ago
And It doesn't have to. It's the persons interpretation of the song, not necessarily the general meaning.
3ILuvmusic 2 years ago
I could try to describe how this particular song makes me feel, but that would be blatantly counterintuitive!
cadgeo120 2 years ago 4
I love this song...like...so much..o.o..
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gooseCha 2 years ago 2
this song is so awesome. Sometimes the guitar will hit some blues progressions and then the ballad strings come in. so unique.
arfuswrinkledinks 2 years ago
I know! Dropping the major third to the minor in the G is amazing...and then the D7...
I really wonder if he intended it to be like this; he attributes the arrangements on this song in particular to Nate Walcott, and with the blues guitar progression, I wonder what the initial drafts sounded like :D
one of the my favourite sad songs, almost rivals I'm so lonesome I could cry
hiddeninromance 2 years ago
I felt something that I had never touched
friginawsome 2 years ago
yeah....felt something but never got to touch it....
charmq777 2 years ago
Does anyone know when they're going on tour?? Or if their going on tour at all this year?
4eversims2 2 years ago
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band are going on tour soon you should check on ticketmaster to see wherever you live.
muahahaha101 2 years ago
i've always heard he wrote this about an abortion.
this video is beautiful, and seeing him sing this song live is just as beautiful.
hideandseekk 2 years ago
yeah but from who?
Other youtube/forum speculators.
I'd leave it open to interpretation there is a lot of imagery going on in this song (original sin etc.), furthermore alluding to abortion could in itself just be an allusion to an additional metaphor.
The song to be goes against the notably more hopeful tone of cassadaga; as if though he has cleansed he looks around and remembers why he needed to get dirty in the first place; and thus steps into the wood and wilderness of chaos.
hiddeninromance 2 years ago 3
good understanding. i mean the lin "since the operation, you're breathing just for one" says it all. of course there are always many themes to conor's writing but abortion is a good part of this one.
Suckmydcarreon 2 years ago 2
seems more like a miscarage to me
BintAlHaq 2 years ago 2
"The operation was a success" "Its done"
Sounds more like an abortion
lucasmcl 2 years ago 3
yeah, "and since the operation I heard you're breathing just for one" or something, that's definately an abortion. Great lyrics as usual
AlexGatica89 2 years ago 3
this song floors me every time.
daebikurk 2 years ago 4
I feel the same way friend
nathantrust 2 years ago 2
WHOOAA!
Holy hell Conor used vebrato! (Is that how you spell it?)
MicrophoneFarmer 3 years ago
no. vibrato.
evillbeetle 2 years ago
This is beautiful. No joke, this song makes me feel teary eyed and warmfuzzy.
Precious, no lies.
Freique 3 years ago 3
such a sad song
freezetime0 3 years ago
such a beautiful song! really reminds me of damien rice though, not that that's a bad thing! x
isislavinia 3 years ago
Thank you bsb. If Romeo or Juliet were alive today I would want to change history...
budfroosa 3 years ago
Such a beautiful video. Im so glad Connor chose Alex Turvey to direct this video. They compliment each other amazingly.
stripestwice 3 years ago 5
Somewhat of a small explanation for the meaning of Lime Tree is on a Spin interview...
"But when he thinks about a friend's abortion on "Lime Tree," noting that he's in his own prime years to have children, these wide-lens issues point Oberst to a personal question: Is his chance to settle down passing him by?"
sullycake 3 years ago
explaining the meanings behind lyrics is something greenday does. its gay.
carashw 3 years ago 3
such an incredible video
EngulfingFlame15 3 years ago 3
pretty bad ass my friend. beautiful stuff.
ZOEY978 3 years ago 3
why would you want to know the meaning of the words, make your own story, hear what you want to hear.
SoPHFRANK 3 years ago 2
bright eye is encredible to the highest exstent of the word
crimsonsword13 3 years ago
to bad cause encredible isn't a word
PhoneLad 3 years ago 3
Lmfao. Good lad.
bommyc2 3 years ago 2
lolol
PhoneLad 3 years ago
I'm understanding the mystery jon wesley. Sometimes I have to wonder/worry about the boy in pain. THAT's my issue.
budfroosa 3 years ago
Is this the orginal video? Or is it a homemde one?
mostlysarcastic 3 years ago
Does Conner Ever explain his songs? If ever, does anyone know where?
budfroosa 3 years ago
An intelligent songwriter doesn't take the mystery out of his music and rob us of our own fond interpretations. That's why Miles Davis was so successful.
Jon00Wesley00Harding 3 years ago
I looked up Miles Davis Jon Wesley and I understand your statement, kind of. I will still make mine---Where does THIS boy, Connor, find this painful, lonesome,questioning, understanding? I have three sons of my own, one of them introduced Connor's music. However you interpret the song/lyrics, don't you wonder WHY they were written and the state of the SOUL, the inside, of the person who wrote them? He's not glib, he's real. Sensitive to a point I want to know more...
budfroosa 3 years ago 5
It is not in the nature of the individual to outlast his work, because individuals are common. If a piece of art is going to last, it tends to outlast what we remember about the person who created it. When you think of Shakespeare, the overarching themes or messages of his plays/sonnets are what affect you the longest. I do not neccessarily want to know why he wrote what he wrote because then it is an experience unique to him- instead of property of the world, to whom he gave it.
Jon00Wesley00Harding 3 years ago 4
oops songmeanings,net
with an S
BintAlHaq 2 years ago
I agree.
baysidebeff 3 years ago
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Among other things, his whole family was murdered by his mother (I think it was his mother) who then committed suicide. He's not emo, he's just had a load...tough experiences.
waitforwrote 3 years ago
Serious? I have never heard this before. I have only heard of the wonder boy from Nebraska...Makes me feel sad, sorry, and IGNORANT..This would explain the 'soul in suffering/understanding' a person picks up from his lyrics. Thank you wfw for updating me. I can imagine everyone else already knew this...
budfroosa 3 years ago
That's not true.
scotoad 3 years ago 6
I don't think that's true. I've never heard of that.
nacho3rdbowler 3 years ago 6
where did you here that from lol ... you have to be thinking of someone else cause this did not happen to conor oberst
alkru87 3 years ago 6
ohmylord:/
i did not know that..
wow that is horrible:,(
celestexcore94 3 years ago
wow its amazing that that happend yet his brother plays in the band sorry about dresden...
and his other brother is a teacher
look up your facts fuckface
misfitadictpistol 3 years ago
heyhey, calm down and enjoy the music. talk about the song not the people. and they said they are unsure if it is correct, so just be chill and enjoy. (:
Kay sunshine?
golucky11 2 years ago
in one of connor's songs on the fevers and mirrors album, he has kind of like a mock radio interview.
he says his mother drowned like 4 or 5 of her babies in a bathtub. idk if its true or not.. but i think thats where this guy is getting part of his info from. ive never heard anything about his mother committing suicide though.
on another note, i love connor oberst :) i still listen to the albums i bought 2 or 3 years ago and i still love them just as much, if not more. <3
ohsnapxalana 2 years ago
That wasnt real. It was just to lighten the mood of the album and kind of poke fun at themselves. Conor wasnt even the one talking.. he was the guy you hear in the background towards the end after that other music gets turned off.
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Indigoestel 2 years ago
O.o
Trippy.
munchohungries 3 years ago
strings go so well. beautiful
Kirador 3 years ago
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i think this song is about abortion lol abortion is so funny like COME ON
theshow14 3 years ago
The lyrics in this are almost like a story. I don't pay attention to the deep meaning in this song =)) I just like to enjoy the words, the melody, and everything else.
RocketSquirell 3 years ago
this makes me miss old bright eyes new bright eyes is aight i stll like it but cassadaga just lost its feeling. but the new self titled album its all coming back now. i get to see him october 18 tucson az baby!
collectingrecords 3 years ago 5
I love this song and the video along with it(:
freezetime0 3 years ago 3
this video is ultra weird
samurixxslice 3 years ago
Beautiful
HalighAnAwfulLie 3 years ago
i like
kikthecan 3 years ago 3
there's lots of biblical references to this song which you can relate to an abortion.
xpowerrangerx 3 years ago 5
"It comes to me in fragments, even those still split in two" Adam and Eve, God took Adams rib, splitting him into two, to make Eve
"Under the leaves of that old lime tree I stood examining the fruit
Some were ripe and some were rotten, I felt naseous with the truth" Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, giving them the truth."
Just to continue the pattern, i think the "tidal wave" may have something to do with the flood in Genesis when Noah built his ark.
xpowerrangerx 3 years ago
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wow hes f**king geekin
c1rca4lif3 3 years ago
this songs about an abortion..and the girl that had it
RREPTARR 3 years ago 4
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watever happen to the extream sadness in his voice that made me want to cry the lyrics are still amazing but the emothion isnt as great
sidewalkholdsdimonds 3 years ago
the emotion is still there.
It's just a better recording.
Shhsmanfa 3 years ago
hmm yeah but not like in
its cool we can still be friends
where his voice shakes
i love that it
gives me goose bumps
every time i hear his
songs like that
sidewalkholdsdimonds 3 years ago 3
"So pleased with a daydream that now living is no good" is so amazing.
conors writing is absolute perfection.
dearxvanityxihateyou 3 years ago 5
That's my favorite line on the song.
HalighAnAwfulLie 3 years ago 3
this song depresses me, but I love it anyways
Khasar 3 years ago 2
ahhhh, so sad
Khasar 3 years ago
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this sucks so much, no vision what so ever.
cleborptheretard 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure its about an abortion,
''since the operation i've been breathing just for one''
from two to one, something was lost in an operation, a child.
I mean, its wayyy open to interpretation but thats what I think its about
jadefalcon5 3 years ago 3