amy in the white coat with lyrics

[BridgetD96]

I feel like I can't listen to this song anymore, it's just too painful.

[imberx]

We all want to be pure

But it isn't a very easy thing now, is it

To do? 

[maxasaurous]

each time i listen to this song i feel the horror of the lyrics and the.pain in Conor's voice more and more........ and all i can do is grasp at the pain in the pit of my stomach and cry..... and yet i cant stop listening to this.song.....

[AliceTheLostAndAlone]

I can't ever fully go threw this song without crying...

Horrid memories come back all over again and I feel helpless as well as naked, as if the wind blows right threw my clothes.

[davysk8in69]

sad



[apatheticanswers]

upon first listen, this is a nice, sad song.

then i heard it again, and i understood the lyrics. and i heard and fucking felt the pain so clearly displayed in his cracking and strained voice.

and this song's incredibly deep, unsettling, unfortunate meaning. it just hit me.. hard.

[cheatedxxhearts]

this makes me cry it's so fucked up.

[XxTheWeekendWarsxX]

This song is Haunting

[tatianaridesapegusus]

I understand what this song is about. But someone please enlighten me as to what he means when he sings, "Did you get that coat from the principle" ?

[sporko17]

@tatianaridesapegusus That's just what the other kids at school are saying to her. Like. It's probably a pretty grungy coat that looks second-hand, like it's from a donation box at school or something.

[AlexD424]

@tatianaridesapegusus maybe metephor for a good girl, gets oushed around cant find her place, you know the girl thats actually friends wit the priniciple, i donno thats what i got out of it, him trying to get at a girl that just isnt his life style and she wouldnt understand all that jazz

[thetwilightzone100]

another great song ---- spring cleaning by neva dinova (conor oberst of bright eyes wrote it and many people believe it's a kind of sequel to amy in the white coat)

[11Jurriaan]

@thetwilightzone100 Yeah! The same Amy! Now that you mention it.. thx

[MsChicDiva]

...wow

[etiolate0]

I was sexually abused for seven years. I never once said he'd raped me, because my mother is as fragile as a feather on a pin. I first heard this song tonight, and it's me, it's just me. I am shaking and sobbing and I just want somebody to hold me. He did take it from me, after all. He took everything, after I'd prayed so hard that it was a nightmare and not a memory. I don't know how to go from here, but Conor, this song has made me feel like there's somebody else, somewhere.

[eatsleepdrawlove]

My friend showed me this song and I cried right in front of him. Conor's voice can make anything seem beautiful, yet heartwrenching.

[NinaIsTheName]

holy shit. 

[ChordsFromTheVoid]

The first time I heard this (3 or 4 years ago) I was so excited to hear someone doing such a great song that was only clean electric guitar and voice. I wish more artists would use this format, ie. just because you're singing something subdued and acoustic doesn't mean you have to use an acoustic guitar. Its still an amazing song.

[xxrachelyolandexx]

I never knew the lyrics.. Now I know them.. Not the lovely song I once thought it was..

[2Paris4now]

someone got touched



[ammieization]

jesus guys, come on. none of this is in perspective of anyone. it's a story. being told by a narrator.

[TheKehrbear]

Its hard to listen to this after you find out the meaning

[NinjaVampires721]

This is the most emotional song I've ever heard.

[Krakkhaus]

@NinjaVampires721 For more emotional song

Rainsong - Led Zeppelin or Thank you By led zeppelin, or basicly everything by led zeppelin :D

[inswoon]

@Sharpoon I am unsure who says it: I have not listened to it for a while, but I presume it is not a class member; but the perspective could be anybody as it carries on from occasions outside of the school – from what I remember.

[XxSAMxBlakexX]

You don't see any comments about "raping the replay button" now do you?

[weross95]

@XxSAMxBlakexX except urs :P

[xXMusicSpeaksXx]

There is so much...raw emotion in this. Any other singer or song and i'd say 'man his voice sucks' but when you really listen, he's not a voice singing the story. It's pure, raw emotion- no matter how that breaks or drifts. It's hypnotic.

[PoisonOak321]

Wow, empty ._.

[ItsRainingZOMBIEZ]

I found this song last night but I didn't listen to it. It's my new favorite song. It just tears my heart apart. Especially when the father says,"It's the reason I made you. It's the bond that we share..." It's so cruel and sad. It gives me goosebumps.

[cuntflappers]

My favourite song ever. I don't think anything else even comes close to it.

[maferchan]

I get goosebumps with almost any of his songs

[IAmJustDan]

@LifeisRubyful, it's from one perspective (the classmate) he just adopts the voice and speech of the abuser etc. This is clear by the speech/quotation marks used to identify the direct adress of the abuser. This are not the narrators words but instead words they are adopting.

[inswoon]

@IAmJustDan No, it is most definitely in two perspectives.

[IAmJustDan]

@inswoon , The narrator adopting two perspectives. If it was from the perspective of the abuser there wouldn't be speech marks at all or it would all be in speech marks. The fact that certain bits are in speech marks , show that it is a quote. . IMO anyway :D :)

[inswoon]

@IAmJustDan This video contain speech marks has no relation to the original song meaning, although the "he says" denotes quotation - but that doesn't negate multiple perspectives as the song is based in different locations. For example, "...you should look more like us" could be society, etc.

[zugs5]

This is the first song ever to make me cry.

[artysmokes]

As songs about child sex abuse go, this is one of the best.

[DanW2X]

God, you guys are a bunch of fucking bitches. This song sucks my fat brown dick

[bohojobo]

Wow.. so intense, powerful and beautiful. What a genius.

[LifeIsRubyful]

This song is never sung in Amy's (I'm assuming her name is Amy because of the name of the actual song) perspective. It is first told in the narrators perspective, then her father's, then a schoolmates.

[robynbird14]

very haunting

[Dollymayfrosty]

Oh my, God. It's so beautiful. I randomly heard this and immedietly tried to remember lyrics for google. I hate listening to this song, but it so pretty I have to.

[obsessionXwithXgaara]

This song makes me nauseous. It's very beautiful, but it makes me nauseous. Bright Eyes strikes my heart dead sometimes.

[TheCloverAffiliate11]

I must say, the lyrics to that song are moving. That song is definitely one to use for a good cry...why must this happen to people, though?

[heyjude97]

does this remind anyone else of identical by ellen hopkins? a girl getting raped by her father. Makes sense, right?

[TheCloverAffiliate11]

@heyjude97 Yes it does! That was the first thing that came to mind when I listened to this song. [Actually, I am an identical twin, and I used that book for a forensics piece with my twin. But anywho...] It's such a saddening image, to think that this really happens to people.....

[cobainfan101]

what does he mean by bag of warm fluid?

[edwardsonlybella]

@cobainfan101 He means that she's nothing more her blood and skin. She's lifeless. He futher demonstrates with "corpse of the class".

[aethon123]

@cobainfan101 A condom?

[sickgirl224]

@cobainfan101 He means that she dosen't feel like shes alive and living, kind of like shes alive, but just exists. Bag of warm fluid- warm body with no soul.

[YouAreMyYellowbird23]

@sickgirl224 I disagree. I think its what she feels like. A literal bag of warm fliud. Shes raped by her father, she feels like all she is is a bag of warm fluid, meaning, the fluid from her vagina aka sex toy. Thats all she is to him, so thats all she is made to feel she is. I could be wrong but either interpretation is fine.

[inswoon]

@YouAreMyYellowbird23 Completely off. By bag of warm fluid, it means she has no value - she is worthless.

[AlyssaJaneVolta]

Such beautiful singing and such a nice melody, but the lyrics are disturbing. I still appreciate it though. Dont care what anyone says either

[Xailah]

Damn...

;_;

[herzkammer5]

soundtrack of ...a childhood... crying, mixed feelings of a lifetime in 5:25. this song will stay in my mind my entire life. not easy to listen and not possible to quit.

[edwardsonlybella]

You're the corpse of the class.

[Floydthefuckbag]

This song makes me feel kind of sick, and really sad.

Its pretty much the only Bright Eyes song I don't like listening to.

[Jordanhardie96]

i dont understand, is it her dad that rapes her?..

[SchitzoRipsta]

@Jordanhardie96

yes

[heyjude97]

@Jordanhardie96 yes. spot on.

[sickgirl224]

@Jordanhardie96 " Your older sisters, I had them too, but you're my favorite, you know it's true" Implying he raped her older sisters as well, but she's his " favorite"

[MegaBGuzman]

I like the lyrics, but his pained awful singing really takes away a lot for me.

[gerardgasim]

this song helps me sleep.

[AlyssaJaneVolta]

Conor's voice is hypnotic, his lyrics are mystical and this song is just ethereal and haunting. Conor is definitely the best songwriter of this century. I can't describe the way this song hits me. It's just emotional beyond words.

[soupXorXcritic]

i dont think its about rape, cus theres no resistance, so its just about a girl having sex with her dad

[FanOfDegrassi]

@soupXorXcritic are you effing kidding me??!! wow....just because there is no resistance does NOT make it any less of a rape, its still rape!

[PhoenixQuill]

@soupXorXcritic I seriously hope you're kidding.

[Hitachi007]

@soupXorXcritic She's being sexually abused by her father... she probably has been for a long time... I bet she feels like it's her fault or that she deserves it. Just because she doesn't resist doesn't mean she wants it.

[Hitachi007]

@soupXorXcritic it shows that she is traumatized by this with the description of her... she's "the corpse in the class" she has bruises, she doesn't feel human...

[skippyasqueeze]

@soupXorXcritic lol someone should look up rape in the dictionary

[ShinyMudkip5]

@soupXorXcritic

Rape:

–noun

1. an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation

I think it's clearly stated in the song that she's being forced into it, as there are other things she wants to be doing. I would assume at first that she would resist, but after seeing the same thing done to her family, she gave up. Her father is most defiantly committing an act of abuse, and violation.

Get a heart.

[TwlohaXLoveX]

i love this song, but it makes me sad because it reminds me of my uncle raping me. I'll never get to see his kids agaiin, i still have some of there clothes in the back of my closet. I've been really depressed lately and my grandma won't let me in her house anymore. I still love her.

[soupXorXcritic]

@TwlohaXLoveX you are disgusting

[soupXorXcritic]

@TwlohaXLoveX you are disgusting

[ConorOberst91]

the tv's on. the flame is blue*

awesome song. i really like conors lyrics. so inspiring. so deep.

[Checkerbabexox]

I love this song so much, it makes me bawl my eyes out. It's so sad, and it has such a personal story in it that I feel almost intrusive listening to it... but it's just utterly gorgeous, and I love it. ♥

Andddd, it's in third person. It's being told as a story. There are no perspectives. If it was from the girl's POV, why would she refer to herself as 'you' throughout the whole thing?

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

@Checkerbabexox I love you so much right now.

No one else seems to agree with me.

[zCuben00b]

I don't think some of these kids actually know what this song is about. Listen carefully children, its not a happy song.

[torievictoria]

it took me three months to be okay with how slowly he's singing, even though i know it's right, just because it made it hard for me to sing. now i love it.

[haney72003]

Child molestors should be punished worse than murderers

[Super3n1gma]

its about a girl named amy he went to school with that was abused sexually by her father but he put it in 4 perspectives. First verse is from Amy's point of view. Second is from the fathers point of view and third is from the class mates fourth is from his point of view

[rachelscialo]

alright, so someone who is not physco please explain to me what this song is about. ive listened to it about 100 times and i dont understand

[EricLulson]

@rachelscialo

It's basicaly about a girl Connor knew who was sexually abused by her father. He sings it from her perspective, the father's perspective and his own/a classmates perspective. Beautiful song

[XbrokenXforXlifeX]

I was obsessed with this song for the longest time ever, it's so moving.

[holy8moly]

POWERFUL

[12shinoda17]

this song freaking kills me. like, damn.

songs don't usually effect me like this but everything after "where you're a bag of warm fluid" made my eyes well up.

[Hitachi007]

@12shinoda17 same here, you're not alone. It's such a powerful song.

[WondergirlPD]

Recently found my Noise floor CD and this song has been stuck in my head for days after hearing it. Love how his lyrics are still, after years of listening to him, totally breath taking. I get completely mesmerized.

[Joobliaful]

I know it is about a father. But someone tell me this, why is the dad at school?

[PopsicleSuicide]

i dont think the dad's in school.

He sings it from her perspective, then from her dad's perspective and then from a schoolmate's perspective.

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

No he only sings it from the schoolmate's perspective.

As if he was watching her at home, he only describes what he sees and what he hears.

[PopsicleSuicide]

I disagree. I really think he sings from 3 perspectives, to show 3 different looks on this horrible form of abuse, which makes it an even sadder song.

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

He never actaully sings from the girls or the father's prespective, first of all when he's talking about the girl he sings in second person, as if he's telling a story, and also when it gets to the part about the dad it goes, "HE SAYS, 'we all follow the rules

We can't very well go and break them now can we?

For you, for you, for you. . . . ."

and then it ends with quotation marks.

[Stellarffxi]

@YUKYUKYUK2447 - That's still the girls verse, when it says, "He says"...

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

But he never clearly speaks in her perspective.

He's just telling a story, it's third person.

He only really begins using first person in the last part.

I still only think there's one perspective.

[diddly28]

@YUKYUKYUK2447 im actually kinda surprised that someone else actually understands perspective on youtube lol

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

@diddly28 Haha, I'm reading the comments and I'm finding it hard to believe that people think it's in 3 or four perspectives.

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

@Stellarffxi Yes, it's the verse where she is mentioned, but she is not the one speaking. Neither is the father.

[TwlohaXLoveX]

@YUKYUKYUK2447 i think it isn't from that point of view but it is him explaining whaht they are thinking.

[blackblackgrey]

yukyuk,

you can stop now :)

I think a page full of your raving is enough for one video :P

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

I can do what I want.

There's no point in telling me to stop.

Just pretend different people posted each comment.

[blackblackgrey]

suit yourself mate :)

[KatyfuckingBungay]

I really dont see how some one could interpret this as a love song.

"but there's no feeling, just weight on you

but you get nauseous now as he speaks to you. Such proper language for acts so cruel"...

that doesnt sound romantic to me xD

I love this song.

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

. . . . I think it's about incest.

She hates the guy.

[whatacrazyfuckingday]

This reminds me so much of the book Lolita. The same tragic and disturbing way that pedophilia, rape, tenderness, manipulation, overbearingness and a strange kind of love are blended together.

[XbrokenXforXlifeX]

I love that book, Lolita. And I agree, it is alot like this song.

[theLC2013]

doolie was a cat. =]

[XbrokenXforXlifeX]

Yes, Doolie was a cat. I love you Thomas(:

[MUSlCFAVORITES]

This reminds me of sufjan steven's song about john wayne gacey

[newasthespring]

almost every time i hear this song, i cry. it's about something so horrible (rape and incest). but even though it's about such a horrible thing, it's a very beautiful song. the way he sings it, the emotion that he evokes is what makes it's beautiful. the subject of this song is not beautiful.

[Lozzo1212]

I really wish you hadn't told me that,

I always thought it was just a love song now I'm listening to it and feeling disgusted. You've very nearly ruined one of my favourite songs. It's that definatley what it's about or just an interpretation?

[newasthespring]

Have you read the lyrics? If you do, you'll see that it's not a love song at all. 'He says "We all follow the rules

We can't very well go and break them now can we?

For you, for you, for you..

Your older sisters, I had them too.

But you're my favorite you know it's true' he's talking about abusing her older sisters, and that now it's her turn. I don't see how it could possibly be a love song. Sorry for ruining it for you :( it's still a good song. a really horrible theme, but still a great song

[Lisa1473]

It's not just an interpretation, man. Sorry.

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

@Lozzo1212

It's your favorite song, but you weren't even listening to the lyrics?

If by saying it's about rape ruins the song for you then you don't like the song for the right reasons.

"Your parting mouth, your shining eyes.

And the way that you hate me"

Why would she hate him if it's a love song?

And "It's the reason I made you"

Does that imply that he's her father?

[Andyhsmfan92]

its definitely about sexual abuse no denying it

[skippyasqueeze]

it feels like conor is making love to me with his voice

[PopsicleSuicide]

eew - I hope not

[ohxsea80]

this gives me the chills. but it's an amazing work of art.

[tilatequyla]

i'm crying now, this is simply beautiful, so touching.

Conor is a master. how can he bring feelings like those? Hate, and sadness... Oh, God...

[ZzTommyTTopszZ]

I know! I dont listen to music anymore cuz of lyrics like these.

Check out "The Widow" by As Cities Burn

You will cry...

[YUKYUKYUK2447]

@ZzTommyTTopszZ

The lyrics speak the truth.

This shit happens and people aren't gonna stop writing about it and singing about it because it upsets you.

[pj9778]

i know im replying on a comment form a month ago but... look up BRIGHT EYES AN ATTEMOT TO TIP THE SCLALES listen to the whole song...and it explains everything he does and why its amazing

[PiecesOfQuiet1990]

I love this song it's so beautiful and it is also one of the most emotional songs i have ever heard in my life and so very sad but so amazingly beautiful at the same time

[starsshonepale]

Stop bitching about people saying it's a beautiful song.

It does SOUND so beautiful, even though it's about something awful.

It fits the lines "such proper language for acts so cruel."

Maybe he did it on purpose.

[Boredtodeathcritic]

This song is so beautiful, sad, but beautiful, Conor is so amazing, his music is pure poetry.

[rudd444]

Beautiful??!! did you listen to the words?

[milkythistle]

are you retarded?

[Anastasius37]

LOL! It is about a girl who was repeatedly raped/molested by her father along with all of her sisters.

[PuIIHarder]

thats what i thought too

[osmidig]

I cry to this..

Conor can really make you feel something

[dav1to]

probably the most depressing song, but this dude has an amazing way of telling a story. Great job conor

[Anastasius37]

This song is about incest and rape... ugh...

[muahahaha101]

This is song is so amasing. This is the first time I heared it and it's right up there with "poison oak". So touching and beautiful. Connor Oberst sings with such emotion, he is truly brilliant.

[kaseyirony]

Those are my two favorite Bright Eyes songs =]

[FlorecitaRockera555]

This song makes me cry. It's soo sad but it's also so amazing.

[TheVoiceSilenced]

The combination of the back ground vocals and Conors, along with the chilling lyrics, and absolutly beautiful sound, is amazing. So emotional. To where you feel it yourself.

[JustsMusic]

Love the juxtaposition of dark lyrics over the happy sounding melody.. really good.

[Freakazoid565]

did that guy rape his daughter!?

[ilsplil]

thats what the song's written about.. he didnt do anything.

[Freakazoid565]

huh

[puzzle383]

It's purposely hard to understand and rough. Would you have prefered him to have had a clear sharp voice without any feeling?

I know I wouldn't,

I love his emotion.

I agree with the fact that it's about a father molesting his daughter

you can tell from the lines "your older sisters, i had them too but you're my favourite, you know it's true you look just like your mother in that thin disguise"

[MarsVoltaKA]

yeah i love that part, even though its rather depressing. His voice is so perfect. he could sing me to sleep any day.

[MarsVoltaKA]

this song is deep. And sad.

[victoriamaddocks]

Wow... I really don't like this song..... Like His voice is so hard to understadn and all over the place... :[ He could have done better

[sk8rgurl113]

awesomee song. also creepy, but a great song. i love it.

[Sesshomaru666000]

what a haunting song... pretty obvious it's about a father molesting his daughter.

[MarsVoltaKA]

you know I dint think of it that way, now that I look at it it has to be. makes it even more sad.

[stopthatfool100]

love the sound of his voice.. and how soft it sounds...

and fell in love with the melody the first time i herd it... but the meaning disgusts. me... i wish it hads some other meaning....... than that! ...... i nver new til now..thahts gross

[blackblackgrey]

Think of it as approching something that needs dealing with, but delicatly. Yes, it is indeed about something you would rather didn't exsist, but its not like its promoting it....

I know what you mean though. I feel weird singing to it though.

[stopthatfool100]

LOL.....haha wghen i sing it, im like thinkin about my bf haha.. NOT MAH fatherr..lol...but whatever if thats really the universal meaning ''Oh wells''

[rhiannonharmony]

this is so beautiful.

i want to sing it to my mum,

[BecauseIOwn]

DO IT! DO IT NOW!

[rhiannonharmony]

i cant!

she lives in another country

:'( :'(

[BecauseIOwn]

CALL HER FFS!

Remember to record it and put it out on youtube.

[rhiannonharmony]

hahaha I'll probly get hits for it being so lame and funny, no one will understand it was me trying to be sentimental and sweet

[gravitydefines]

i cried when i first listened to this.

it's so sad...

[missygreendaychimp]

this song, is more like art to me. It's so sad, although i have no idea how something like this feels it makes me cry everytime and i totally agree with paulievenna.

I think right now, this is my favourite song.

xx