The National- Sorrow

[mstor536]

Listening to this song on repeat and weeping.

#damn you Alone on the Water

[SuperRubix123]

This song reminds me so much of Third Star

[Orpheust]

Nick Levan

[laladoopsy]

This came at a time when my relationship died, I wasn't sure what to feel etc and the entire album pretty much got me through it.

[shaneearle765]

can someone please fill me in on the sherlock thing?

[Ayla191]

@shaneearle765 The lyrics inspired "Alone on the water", one of the best and saddest fics from Sherlock fandom. Now everytime I listen this song, I think about it.

[shaneearle765]

@Ayla191 well isn't that very sad.

[Leicaboss]

@shaneearle765 Yeah, I have no idea either haha

[tracytea1]

Love the music on the advert too!!



[puckjefloren]

@aquariummelody Me too haha

[kiannanomsa]

Sherlock and John are just...Ugh. Beautiful.

[SuperRubix123]

JOHNLOCK FOR THE WIN

[Fangridecraft]

@SuperRubix123 John locke? ;)

[awesomisticated]

@andratsforcandy It was the inspiration for the Sherlock fanfiction 'Alone on the Water'. It's super sad. I still cry over it when I hear this song.

[andratsforcandy]

IDK who popularized this song in Sherlock fandom, but who ever did has some good fucking taste. And I commend them for spreading great music.

[Fangridecraft]

@andratsforcandy I feel like the only one here who has never read that...

[deepblackniran]

'Still the only one in the world.'

[Kiki30909]

O-Oh my ;___; My hair and face is a mess from the tears and me scrubbing at both. Sherlock, whyyyyyy

[aquariummelody]

I kinda came here for Supernatural. I can feel the tears coming.

[bitchandwolf]

Great track and album. A classic to recommend to friends. Worry that something this good can't be followed easily.

[Fangridecraft]

@bitchandwolf Agreed. But even if the next record sucks, I've got this one to come back to! I'm still listening to this album constantly.

[OneBeautifulMelody]

Moriarty was real, I believe in Sherlock Holmes.

#BelieveinSherlock

[snakey973]

this song is magic to me-- stunningly beautiful.

[MomoTheStrange]

Wait, this song was in Sherlock?! Holy crap. Makes me want to watch Sherlock. Maybe after I catch up on Supernatural.

Anyway, I love this song. It's beautiful.

[TheAltostratus]

@MomoTheStrange It wasn't in Sherlock, there's a popular Sherlock fanfic inspired by this song. You should still watch it, though!

[JustGingerful]

Sherlock :'(

[ana92021]

I adore The National, but the first time this song made me cry was after reading Alone on the Water. "John Watson, M.D. Consulting detective. Still the only one in the world."

[ParanoiaGraveyard]

A lot of people are replying to my comment like I actually want to know how they got here. I don't, and I didn't want to have a plot point of Sherlock ruined because I hadn't got to watch the episode yet. My point is that you're here by choice regardless of how and that how doesn't really matter.

[phobos90tao]

Omg. Sherlock.

I'm such a freaking mess right now. I'm crying so hard it's not even funny.

JESUS THAT WAS SO FUCKING TRAGIC WHY DID NO ONE WARN ME ç_ç

[mychairmadeafartnois]

@phobos90tao No one warned you? at least I knew what i was getting into because of youknowyoushipjohnlockwhen.

[eoinmannion7]

Thumbs up if...Fuck off with your "thumbs up". Such a beautiful song just a little tainted by the schoolyard chase for a prized "top rated comment". Chill out and actually listen to the song

[justme0910]

@eoinmannion7 Cheers. Who cares what brought you here, the song is absolutely lovely and that's all that counts.

[misscornflakes08]

I love how most of the thumbs up are Sherlock related comments.

”Will you miss me, John?”

My throat feels pinhole-thin. I swallow hard. “Till the end of my days, Sherlock.”

[AlexMitan]

I came here from Anyone's Ghost, another one of their songs, to which arrived thanks to Exile Vilify. I was brought there by Portal 2, which was a sequel to Portal 1, a game I found out about because of random cake jokes. I guess I have that to say about how I got to this beautiful song.

[GimmeChoclat]

I can't deal without Sherlock. I just can't.

[nugrahanirizka]

i'm afraid jawn.

[Skye3337]

Currently watched the Reichenbach. OH GOD I HAVENT CRIED THIS HARD FOR SO LONG- D:

[needalife94]

25 Hours left to live.

I'M NOT READY FOR THIS

[shmabs123]

Alone on the Water...

[lovePaNiCaTtHeDiScO8]

oh god...reichenbach.....

we're here, sherlock, darling.

we made it.

you can rip out my heart now.

[WaffleMonkey001]

What was Checkered Paradox's comment?

[BowlOSugar]

This Sunday is gonna be a bitch.

[skiglemigle]

I love the Sherlock fandom.

[DangerDuff1]

Thumbs up for Wes

[jordanmillssorrow]

I really reminds me of Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" really powerful, sortof thought-provoking and really wistful, easy to just drift through when you're listening

[1947bowie]

I don't wanna get over

 you........

[MyPerfectDeceit]

Only Grace Anatomy brought me here

[matleyf23]

this song is amazing :)

[09JLambert]

The song is so great that I can overlook that it was associated with a film about gays and aids.

[sussex113]

thumbs up for thumbs up sake!

[keener116]

I don't understand why people give a fuck if they have the top comment or what brought everyone here or what the fuck ever. You're supposed to just listen to the music.

[DoodlesMcpooh]

Missing you sweetheart. Thanks for the link sweet tits x x x 

[AmooTheGreat]

This song turns me into an abuser of the replay button

[adrianciupag]

@AmooTheGreat the same for me !

[xXInuBlueXx]

Alone on the Water <\3

[Ajapam34]

I'm so sick of "thumbs up..." comments. Especially "thumbs up if you're here because..." and "thumbs up if you heard this before..."

[perleatsworld]

@Ajapam34 thumbs up if you agree

[JeezeNoLopi]

MY CREYS

Thisfuckingsong

[CheckeredParadox]

I'm here, Sherlock.

[Janneinwonderland]

@CheckeredParadox ack, don't make me cry in public places you. :')

[l0neghost]

@CheckeredParadox

Fuck. My eyes filled with tears the moment I read your comment. ;__;

[smeesquatch]

@CheckeredParadox No don't, that's not fair D':

[ProudToBeNerdy]

@CheckeredParadox *welp*

[23Glee]

@CheckeredParadox, I'm afraid, John

[MysterousBear]

Thumbs up if fuck off, fuck off, fuck off with your thumbs up!!!!!!!!!

[foolofaromantic]

Sherlockians, I feel your pain.

And: This song is awesome. ♥

[gabedeger]

listening to this song for the fifth time in a row, oddly enough im still not sick of it, is that normal?

[ParanoiaGraveyard]

strangely enough, I wasn't asking for thumbs up, but saying thumbs up to anyone if they didn't need a bullshit reason to be here. If you like the song, you like the damn song.

[emitree13]

does anyone understand the album cover?

[Bobbel222]

@emitree13

Nah, at least I do not. Guess it is the same issue as their texts, they are more beautiful linguistic metaphors.

[emitree13]

@Bobbel222

Yeah i guess so. they're songs don't really make much sense but they are beautiful

[captaindaring]

Fuck anybody that asks for a thumbs up. It's a tired and pathetic attempt at getting attention from unimaginative copycat losers. Sit and spin...sit and spin.

[miss8capricorn]

Thumbs up if 'Alone in the water' brought you here.

[kat13chan]

@miss8capricorn Alone in the water was so damn SAD *crey crey*

[trouts4]

@kat13chan I AM CRYING

[izzy5451]

what does it matter what brought you here, everyone has to hear about it from someone or somewhere.

[I7G]

the fact that i listened to this song for 2 months in the early morning to wake me up and get me through the day, brought me here. Kind of ironic this song is anything but sorrow fulled in my opinion.

[Diertschi1492]

Thumbs up if your good musictaste brought you here!

[cherrybabe121]

Janksy no...

[maryjoalexis]

I'm in love with the song..

[BlackeyedEmo]

@eugTheCrotch Haha! So when you are proven wrong, you attack someone personally? Good show, Laddie. Sure made me laugh.

[eugTheCrotch]

@BlackeyedEmo i wasn't proven wrong for the love of the queen of england. i will perhaps when u break down for me all their lyrics, line by line. no actually just think upon blood buzz ohio and i'm confident you won't need to go any further. and we're not looking for vague ideas here, each verse counts

[ParanoiaGraveyard]

Thumbs up if you have a sense of self and were brought here on a personal impulse, Jesus Christ.

[415BAY415]

@ParanoiaGraveyard Actually Jesus brought me here, coincidentally.

[fireballkiller]

@ParanoiaGraveyard AOLradioblog actually from a google search. but okay.

[BlackeyedEmo]

eugTheCrotch Aha, so they aren't meaningless after all. You my good sir are a complete genius. They write their lyrics quite damn well.

[eugTheCrotch]

@BlackeyedEmo well i might not be a genius but i'm smart enough to address someone on youtube which is already more than you can say isn't it.

[luisgonz0]

Afinal ainda há malta a fazer musica

[subforsubbbb]

THUMBS UP IF YOUR AMAZING TASTE IN MUSIC BROUGHT YOU HERE AND YOU DONT CARE WHAT BROUGHT PPL HERE AND HAVE THE NEED TO SAY STFU AND ENJOY THIS AWESOME SONG, SO YEAH THUMBS FOR THE NATIONAL.

[spolier]

@Freiheitskampf88 Although I had listened to them before, I only really got into The National together with a particular woman. Now their songs have a extra poignancy which makes this tune really hit home. If I wasn't a fifty year old man, I could cry...oh fuck it!

[BlackeyedEmo]

Their lyrics aren't random. They are actually quite perfect, if you can't understand them, then you just aren't deep enough for their music.

[eugTheCrotch]

@BlackeyedEmo is it. actually these are the least random they have but England's per exemple are totally meaningless, i mean not totally but almost

[spolier]

A song about heartbreak

[eugTheCrotch]

their lyrics are so random, i like the national but i really shouldn't u know pay someone to write them if u can't, they can afford to

[sophtheloaf28]

The National brought me here. Yay for me!

[eugTheCrotch]

@sophtheloaf28 like u weren't looking for thumbs up

[sophtheloaf28]

@eugTheCrotch Nope. If I was I would have said "Thumbs up!".

[eugTheCrotch]

@sophtheloaf28 lol if u say so

[ronyorellana226]

Good taste in music brought me here!

[groucho307]

Movie Win win got me here.

[leocdc7]

@groucho307 Amazing movie.. and amazing final song :)

[gogolplex74]

this sounds like The Escapist by Coldplay

[Hootshot112]

@gogolplex74 that's my favourite song!!

[TheJadenara]

I love these guys. They even sound good live, as well as their recordings.

Beautiful and brilliant song.

[purpleme432]

Is there an "infinite repeat" button?

[uknowbr0]

@purpleme432 yes! just type "repeat" between youtube and .com :)

[pablopick]

Feel this sooo much about a certain special woman: wow!

Song and her!

Thanks for that jdr189 and the national.

x

[apocalypse123]

If fanfiction and british television is what it takes to get people to listen to the National, hey I'm not complaining.

[x0ticShwty]

i came here from the rag and bone twitter page lol

[Nomgnomgnome]

Thumbs up if The National being awesome brought you here.

[aboo12195]

i was working at a wilderness camp with a no technology rule for two months. i thought most about how badly i wanted to listen to this band again.

[TheReckoner007]

Fucking Gossip Girl fans on Afraid of Everyone, now skins fans flocking to sorrow. I don't even know what that is. Fuck it, whatever gets this band some well-deserved attention is fine.

[gogolplex74]

@TheReckoner007 And now Portal 2

[TheReckoner007]

@gogolplex74 OH YEAH I forgot about that...no complaints on that one, Portal's AWESOME

[gogolplex74]

@TheReckoner007 yeah, it is

[urgoinwiththathuh]

@TheReckoner007 pretty sure you mean "The Shins"? otherwise, you've lost me.

[lifesart1]

i am here because i like the national :).

[killyridols14]

thumbs up because i fuckin said so

[xbox9788]

I just wanna curl into a ball and cry right now :'(((

[SummerRain210]

That fanfic brought me here and I'm already crying. Oh lord.

[TheAlexander627]

@SummerRain210 Tell me about it! First time I heard this I absolutely lost my shit. I've probably only cried that hard twice in my life. :'( So beautifully, perfectly sad.

[batblood1]

SKINS!!!!!

[Elleidia]

Love it.

[MeSarcasticjellyfish]

am I the only one who came here just because I simply adore The National?

[mikezes]

@MeSarcasticjellyfish No Shit! What a wonderful song!

[enapets1]

@MeSarcasticjellyfish Probably. I came her because of MadLori....

[devak451]

Finding this brilliant band is just another reason I'm so glad I played Portal 2. The National is next level awesome.

[blondenarwhal]

Thumbs up if Portal 2 made you a The National fan.

[leon14320]

@blondenarwhal Wait what? Was there a The National reference in Portal 2? I never noticed it.

[blondenarwhal]

@leon14320

In Portal 2 there's this kinda secret room with a radio that plays Exile Vilify. It's my favorite thing out of the whole game.

[Sahanavic]

@blondenarwhal Where was the reference?

[blondenarwhal]

@Sahanavic

It's somewhere not long after GLaDOS awakens. There's this secret room with a radio that plays Exile Vilify and it's absolutely beautiful.

[IAMZenza]

who cares if you heard it in Skins or not? Sick of all the pretentiousness that comes with music. I don't care if everything else you enjoy I hate, I'm just glad you like The National.

[FionaBoosh]

@IAMZenza Well said/typed.

[swams0]

Thumbs up if you think it's pathetic how people try to get others to thumbs up their posts.

[xbox9788]

WTF IS SKINS????

[HarrisonRocks]

@xbox9788

UK tv show about shitty annoying teenagers

[HAWTAYANMONSTER]

thumbs up if you dont know SKINS is :o

[ziggylover1231]

Thumbs up if you're thinking "What the hell is Skins?"

[slimboyfathead]

@ziggylover1231 Don't worry about it, its pretty shit

[batblood1]

@ziggylover1231 you haver internet you can search it in google dumbass

[ziggylover1231]

@batblood1

Rude.

[dontpaintonurglasses]

@ziggylover1231 what the hell is "what the hell is skins?"

[Papatauenga]

@ziggylover1231 I came across this song after a difficult time in my life. The simple yet powerful lyrics drew me. Thanks for posting.

[Shredderman35]

What's Skins?

[couxinhas]

@Shredderman35

Skins is an Uk TV show, about the life of teenagers, it's a comedy series with a slice of life.

[pssuu]

Thumbs up if "Alone on the Water" fanfic brought you here! ♥

[Kiarankovu]

@pssuu My creys. Dear bob, my creys. I still haven't stopped T^T

[Barnaldomort]

@pssuu still the most heart breaking story I have read in my entire life. Everyone should read if they have 30 minutes spare time! beautiful.

[MeSarcasticjellyfish]

I don't have words to express my feelings toward this band. There are no words.

I simply love them.

[dannyire]

Great comment breedak.

I know that feelin

Thanx :)

[breedak]

Sitting in a cafe in West Cork, Ballydehob to be precise,a couple of days after this New Year when I first heard this band, this album; it found me. I couldn't be happier.

[frankywdmn]

Arguably one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

[jamieolmstead]

nothing made me happier than hearing this song come together in the garage... ermmmm... studio.

[moriahhippen]

"Alone on the Water" brought me here.

A fanfic has never made me so sad.

[DaleksinTopHats]

@moriahhippen oh god /sob

[startledllamaxD]

i brought myself here :)