For me, this is hands down the most powerful and haunting song I've ever heard. I know what he's talking about, I've been there too many times. When you know his personal battles he encountered in life, this song takes on even more dimensions because he's writing from an experience that is hard to encompass in one pass or one sitting. He describes that fear and alienation from being in that hole better than you could ever try to explain. It's a lonely cold place to stay, but a mesmerising spell.
@paulaleeable
10 жыл бұрын
Good Lord, Townes is laying his take on his life wide open here. A very personal song. I admire his ability to look on his life so truthfully.
@crazygeorge53
16 жыл бұрын
Townes poured his soul out until it was gone. Now he is gone, but his soul remains.
@mattcook8930
2 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah Wisegeorge. Hope you're still listening 13 years later
@danv8718
4 жыл бұрын
She sweetly whispered, "no" Damn, that line gets me every single time. You can feel the dread building up. He was one of a kind.
@omairsh8
Жыл бұрын
The brilliance is the use of “sweetly”. Drugs addiction doesn’t scare you into abuse, but lures you in with sweet temptation
@tomkat69pc
7 жыл бұрын
listening to townes is like reading sartre: you will never be the same again ..
@saw4fire
12 жыл бұрын
Townes passed on 1/1/97. This may have been his most moving song. Townes earned his legendary status.
@martinguitar22
13 жыл бұрын
how can someone this incredible still be relatively underground? I discovered the man about a year ago and i have been deeply affected by his sad happy ugly beautiful music every day since then. He is one of those guys i could listen to forever. so real
@andrewkling9530
4 жыл бұрын
"These ARE the funny songs." - Townes Van Zandt
@briane777666
15 жыл бұрын
its still just kind of mind blowing to me that a video like this, of a talent like townes has only been viewed 3,000 times. I try to tell everyone I know about townes, he was the greatest songwriter. buy, hey I guess townes never wanted the fame
@jayroseman4587
10 жыл бұрын
it's a good thing that townes knew how to talk or else he would have been unable to perform this haunting masterpiece
@omairsh8
Жыл бұрын
This song is about addiction, the lady with barbed wire hair is heroine (or any drug). Been there, these lyrics are hauntingly accurate Townes was a genius storyteller
@Sunahvagun
Жыл бұрын
Woah !! After all of these years of hearing this song I never considered that it wasn't anything other than meeting Satan himself , but after reading your comment it all makes sense . Townes songs can always be interpreted differently to different people but you hit the nail on the head with this one!!
@ArizonaAkinTv
Жыл бұрын
Once a month this song is essential
@MrCalvinRussell
14 жыл бұрын
Unforgotten Townes ! He is away , but his music lives in our hearts. Authentic and honest music ! Great! Beste Grüße aus Schleswig-Holstein an alle Fans . . .
@DanDDirges
11 жыл бұрын
You got to get down deep in a hope to pull out a masterpiece like this!
@jsin7527
3 жыл бұрын
Townes was truely a man who went to the deepest darkest part of his soul, and came back to the light of life
@earlefan
16 жыл бұрын
What a fuckin' genius
@OutlawSoul
9 жыл бұрын
6 hipsters that don't think this is post modern enough. why do townes's videos even have a dislike button?
@ALLMIGHTYWU
8 жыл бұрын
+Outlaw Soul dont understand how they got this far and deep into youtube if they dont know what they was looking for. Love TVZ
@theroadkiller5836
8 жыл бұрын
+Outlaw Soul Well, don't you cry For those dislikes They shouldn't bother you 312 beats 6, you know So I disliked it too Lol, I'm sorry, I'm not quite the poet Towens was, and that 7th dislike wasn't me, I swear..
@stahlas
15 жыл бұрын
i've just recently been awakened to this man's genius....his songs cut me down deep....love it....
@drivebytruckerz
11 жыл бұрын
Not in any music halls of fame... including the song writers... Travesty.
@mat11trick
13 жыл бұрын
If this song doesn't give you chills you are listless. Haunting.
@isabellum4676
5 жыл бұрын
Very brutal song... One of the hardest I heared,can't express what his music means to me.what a blessing to be able to express all this dark shit into such a beautyfull way, still he didn't made it out. Unfortunately most of my friends aren't into stuff like that, most of them never heared of him, what a pity
@TheTRoseist
12 жыл бұрын
Guitar playing mystical peyote vision of a Townes tune. I love The Solo Sessions because we get to see him at his very best, just Townes and a guitar. It's all I would ever need from Townes. I ordered Be Here to Love Me on Netflix. Fell in love. Never came back.
@tomkat69pc
11 жыл бұрын
"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Nietzsche
@kristiantheheathen
16 жыл бұрын
What a singer and what a song! Thanks for posting this - it's got to be one of his very finest. I remember a T.V.Zandt-quote in a CD-booklet: "I gues what I need is an overwhelming amount of love and a nap... mostly a nap." He was/is a giant.
@tomstephens9403
4 жыл бұрын
I can't tell if Townes is good or bad music to listen to while depressed
@Foozlebop
6 ай бұрын
Good. Catharsis
@StrongHeartLives
14 жыл бұрын
bone chilling and beautiful
@chellerose
15 жыл бұрын
SO MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT FOR THIS MAN! inspires me so hard!
@nofish37
15 жыл бұрын
Frigg'n Genius. Beautiful. I once heard a quote from someone saying that Townes was one of the greatest songwriters ever, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffe table in my cowboy boots and say that. Nice...
@jacobembry2349
11 жыл бұрын
This song is so powerful. I can't bring myself to tell anyone about it or listen to it with someone else. I feel like it would lose it's meaning unless someone stumbled upon it like me.
@Yarblocosifilitico
7 жыл бұрын
Jacob Embry it has that sacred aura, right? Like an epiphany for atheists
@zedtap4528
Жыл бұрын
Only the hurt ones who felt the pain of life will understand and love this song and is to much for the ones who do not know what pain and never felt the dark lonelyness of reality in ones own special way This cannot be understood till it is felt in the core of ones self
@mipeluco
15 жыл бұрын
incredible...
@paul2010100
14 жыл бұрын
Thank u Thank u Townes & those who put this up here
@tonyspoetry
11 жыл бұрын
Just Love this guy, Some of his songs are just perfect. 'Lovers Lullaby' 'She Came and She Touched Me' and Techumseh Valley' spring to mind. Rest In Peace Townes. Wish you were still with us.
@foxyfonzie
15 жыл бұрын
Now.....I have not read Shakespeare up and down...but everytime i listen to Townes he reminds me of him in someway....both have a gift in (real) haunting phrases...? hell if i know
@Oseanacoceanblue
4 жыл бұрын
Wow I just love this mans songs
@gwamba
15 жыл бұрын
the music reminds me of steve youngs alabama highway...but slower....the part about payin your father back......on point!!!! r.i.p T. u r missed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@stahlas
15 жыл бұрын
if you haven't already..watch the townes documentary...Be here to Love Me...it is excellent and you can watch it on youtube...
@LicoriceTattoo
15 жыл бұрын
I love this man. Sweet mullet too.
@backtothebeatproductions
Ай бұрын
townes could have given us albums more of great music, but he never was able to get out of that hole. both a cautionary and inspirational figure
@Zeitgeist6
10 жыл бұрын
this man was a god...
@Maxinator11-11
7 жыл бұрын
Zeitgeist6 Could very well be.
@Yarblocosifilitico
7 жыл бұрын
Zeitgeist6 he was a very honest human being and that's the beauty of it, his music wouldn't help if he was a god. (I get what you're saying tho)
@michevicus2987
Жыл бұрын
He's nothing, but a human so fragile and so genial.
@Obstsalatissimo
12 жыл бұрын
Great as always. If you ever find Calvin Russels Version, be prepared to hear something even more dramatic!
@marlok1964
7 жыл бұрын
Damn.........
@snowstillfalls
12 жыл бұрын
How many people called the number after this song.. "Don't worry townes we'll help you!,, ohh it's not for Townes?".... such a legend, amazing songwriter, forever missed.
@eyeofsolitude8645
7 жыл бұрын
addiction is one hell of a thing.
@tango-bravo
15 жыл бұрын
dark, evocative, spiritual I see the "god of love" as God, the Father and Jesus & The Holy Ghost, which is the only God that can rightly be termed the God of Love. By turning to the true God after the "gods of men" (interesting that he recognizes the plurality of false gods that men do worship) - yes, it is then an only then that a man lost in sin, pain, addiction, lust, etc. can truly see the "light of day" - a very powerful song, indeed
@shrimpu
Жыл бұрын
I see the God of Love as just love and excludes ALL gods, along with the Jesus related one. That one is also a god “of men”.
@misdiagnosed3027
6 жыл бұрын
This guy shits from a great height on Bob Dylan, the emotion is pure and raw, guaranteed to give goosebumps everytime
@Foozlebop
6 ай бұрын
You’re a big girl now is pretty sad but Townes scraped the depth of despair deeper than Dylan did and could
@Realflection
16 жыл бұрын
great
@richelthewanderer
2 жыл бұрын
Wow
@chicoetereo
13 жыл бұрын
4 people didn't like this song? there are 4 people without a heart inside their chests
@wheelmanstan
13 жыл бұрын
Sometimes you just gotta do what he did to be the man that he was. You gotta give everything, your heart, soul, body. You sacrifice yourself for more than minimum wage and taxes. You pay the price but on your own terms. I'm like that.
@SimonRobeyns
6 жыл бұрын
down here we're all alone down in this dark damp hole we're in right now they can't follow
@BrandonHortman
13 жыл бұрын
This man is art personified. There is a new documentary, I cam't remember what the name of it is though.
@rogerpaige5023
4 жыл бұрын
What did Bob Dylan think of his song
@fromthebd
14 жыл бұрын
Ouch, I get it..
@pappymcdamnit
13 жыл бұрын
@Tenth12andMajorLift Did you write that?
@Realflection
14 жыл бұрын
Jam
@Keithmwalton
15 жыл бұрын
townes said he wasnt sure how dylans body guards would like that haha :)
@plutosunshine
5 жыл бұрын
was that u Jan
@gurufuttlappele
15 жыл бұрын
i think the lady = heroin or some kind of bad experience in his life wich ruined probably his social life
@winstonchurchill624
4 жыл бұрын
gurufuttlappele You left this comment 10 years ago, but in an interview he said it’s about addiction.
@subterranean47
15 жыл бұрын
does any one know what this song is about?
@graimeemimes6765
6 жыл бұрын
subterranean47 addiction and wrong choices
@connortyler4477
8 ай бұрын
This must be about the old hag, saw a couple times through DTs
@footsy420
8 ай бұрын
Don't get to wasted and desperate boys
@WilliesWarriorPoets
12 жыл бұрын
doubt it
@edwordthemisinformationsup4334
9 жыл бұрын
Very cool stuff. Our band's lead singer is largely influenced by this stuff. Check it out if you get a chance. Cheers!
@matthewwp56
15 жыл бұрын
Stage hogs; I fought back their amplifiers for 30 years. True pain.
@triplucid3563
3 жыл бұрын
I thought the song was about heroin. Till he says fame & fortune
@Foozlebop
6 ай бұрын
Townes overdosed on heroin many times
@tarnish
13 жыл бұрын
This is dark as shit, wow............ Honesty...
@dadedowuh
Жыл бұрын
It ain't pretty
@matthewwp56
15 жыл бұрын
fake- dies his hair...pops
@phspalace1021
8 жыл бұрын
How can anyone ever dislike this? Townes van zandt was a Genius, the best singer/songwriter who ever walked this earth. His music will live on forever, all songs he made are great. There will never be another one like Tvz.
@RickHempy
15 жыл бұрын
"so walk, my friends, in the light of day" God bless ya Townes
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