Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain

Album: Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain
Song: Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain (aka Maxine)
Artist: Sparklehorse
Release Date: 25 September 2006

When I was roaming around youtube for my favorite artists and composers, I noticed that their stuff weren't on youtube and I found that a little unfair. So I started to upload a couple of my favorite songs that weren't on youtube, so that these songs can be heard.

This song by, Sparklehorse, is very unusual for this type of band to make and it really blows you away at it's peaceful dream-like tone. I almost want them to make an entire album like this song. The title really says it all. Although the critics didn't really care for it that much but I loved the album and especially this song. There's so much beautiful music in the world and yet no one is listening.

"We are thankful for his time with us and will hold him forever in our hearts. May his journey be peaceful, happy and free. Theres a heaven and theres a star for you." -Linkous' Family

This is not in anyway "Copyright Infringement"
I am not selling this or making any kind of profit off this video/song.
I don't own this video.
I am also not labeling this video as my own.
I only uploaded this video for the liking of the song and for personal desire to share with everyone on the site.

On a side note, due to the videos attention which I find awesome, ads have found their way to this video. If I can remove them I would, but since that's how youtube and other corporations make their money there's not much I can do. The reason why I mention this is because I loathe forced commercialism especially on videos you upload after they get "hits". Music or films loose their artistic merit when drenched in pointless irrelevant advertising (yeah I'm looking at you VEVO) and it doesn't matter if the user, musician, filmmaker, or blogger likes it or not the ads must be prevalent to desensitize the masses and subsidize the greedy. I digress, my whole spiel and point is -- Music shouldn't be about the money.

More great songs by Sparklehorse uploaded on other channels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmHGAdBuR9A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snssa2enfDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DCc9i5VIS4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAsLBKAbXIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZ6uOOmVCw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY1u9RivPR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnuYWr4exlA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me8tGjsYo1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7rOKhmnw44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGZsQf6WjHI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cEcGJY_iiA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfzTf1NyoNc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDzob84Tok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95tMfNGmWkI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQSWpLCcpE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_aE7UajQV4

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• Linkous
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[boigende]

There are some really good posts here. This song really hit me once when I was driving out of my hometown. I grew up in a town of 3000 people in the Midwest and did not return for about a year after college. After spending some time there and then leaving again everything just hit me during this song.

[bennude10]

@boigende Welcome! ^_^ Music helps open nostalgia.

[TheTomWIlliams]

i've had sex to this song (itunes was on shuffle), and it changed my whole perspective on sex and making love, I felt really strange during and afterwards, like how could I be with someone in the closest way imaginable but feel so lonely at the same time.

I know it's probably a bit inappropriate but thought i'd just share.

[bennude10]

@TheTomWIlliams Thank you for sharing ^_^ 

[basilbottler]

This song makes me feel like I'm alone in space, in a broken spaceship, drifting deeper and deeper into space. I have excepted my fate and I'm gazing out at the shrinking Earth.

[bennude10]

@basilbottler that was beautiful said my friend ^_^

[phdhbtdsmmm]

I listened to this song whilst camping out on my own in the Welsh Mountains.

I put it on loop, and I laid down watching the stars above me. I must have laid there for 6 hours without moving a muscle... just watching the odd meteor, or satellite passing overhead and seeing the constellations slowly rising and setting.

If you want to know what it is like dreaming for light years in the belly of a mountain - try it.

Thanks for that memory, Mark. Sorry you couldn't make it all the way.

[006Epoch]

Something about this song is so sad so beautiful and eerie at the same time absolutely genius, Thank you for posting!

[STONEBEADMAKER]

OH MARK.......Maybe the most brilliant and attentive of us are just really not hardwired to endure the mediocrity of ''reality''.....once we've ''looked across the veil''....stepped across that sublime threshold of a different world....it's really difficult to come back and ''be casual, as one must''. What a precious gift your music is to me, even though I never discovered it in your lifetime.....what else can be said.....run fast and free.....

[jonnivvvvvvvvvvvv]

@TheTomWIlliams you make love so sad ?? :))

[Skyl1ghtx23]

This song made me think about everything I have either lost or found over the years. Im only 18 but i can really picture this as an ending song to a emotional movie. This song would be the perfect ending song to anything. we all must dream for lightyears in the belly of a mountain. I have moved a lot but this song makes me think of the mountains in colorado. just looking at them around sunset, cool air breeze, and the girl you love beside you. This song is god :)

[skaface32]

@basilbottler for me.your comment captured this song..thank you,cheers

[yourstrulynighty]

Apparently this is what the lead member of the band heard when he got into an accident and literally died for a few minutes before being brought back to life by the doctors. He tried to transcribe the "music" he heard while dead and that's what he got :)

[DasPadre]

I only started getting into Sparklehorse's stuff recently (through Guy Maddin's video for "It's a Wonderful Life", oddly enough; I'm a pretty big Maddin nut), and everything I've heard so far has been nothing short of phenomenal. It's a such a shame that an obvious genius such as Mark found himself with no other way out except suicide. May he rest in peace, for surely he has earned that much.

[AirWaterLandBuffalo]

This kinda sounds like Minecraft music... in a really nice way... It's a beautiful song.

[indnameof]

@TheTomWIlliams

et tu man..it was beautiful,closest to a transcendent connection with a girl i had..well we were also high but it just added to this whole dreamy love making.had it on loop..23min man..fuking sublime.i felt like end of something magical when we finished,just lay there and listened to it..i dont think i'll ever experience love making so spiritually close to it again.