National, The - I'll Still Destroy You Lyrics

This is not matt. where is the overenthusiastic jumping and going over the top?

80% moobs
Technically about drugs
Whole lotta alcohol

Still 100% talent

Los amo!! El concierto del pepsi center fue algo hermoso ❤️❤️

Degenerate.

The best drummer of this century?

this one got to be their most happy song.

Sounds like it's at least partially about Matt's kid. The "i'll still destroy you" title/line makes that all the sadder.

I woke up too early this morning, and this song just kept playing in my mind.

I'm sorry what the fuck, still not over 1,000,000 views?

Saw them at the Bell House in BK when they were up and coming and I knew I was seeing a special band.

This album is a masterpiece. The music keeps getting better, but the lyrics are otherworldly.

Dang, I like it! like an 80's Music Video shot for the 21st century. I think it would have been more dramatic and moving if the color grading was not so flat.

Honestly, what the fuck IS the line "This one's like your mother's arms when she was young and sunburnt in the 80s, that last forever." Stupefyingly beautiful; the idea that you could find the warmth of your mother's sun kissed arms in ANYTHING else, to see it in anything at all outside of the fleeting memory of it, to me, is, a staggering idea. And that's just one line of this song. Completely rocked to my core.

Been listening to this song for days since I saw them at Southside in Dallas and heard them play it live. Its interfering with my life.

This song destroyed me.

Beautiful song :)

Is it just me who gets U2 vibes of this track? it's really good!

For some reason the lines 'This one's like your mother's arms when she was young and sunburnt in the 80's' really gets to me. It gives this idea of memory and the passing of time. It makes me think about how my current state of being will pass, and I'll look back and remember these times that I'm in now.

I have no positions
No point of view or vision
I'm just trying to stay in touch with
Anything I'm still in touch with...
Matts vocal is one of the best ever
can't wait to see the National on the 10th of July in Zagreb....

The National <------ I love you so much <3

She's such a fan girl...

Get it? 😅

Wow, Bon Iver in The National's video!

Great song. Not sure I understand the captain stripper thing lol

Love the instrumental part at the end, with Matt getting a champagne shower over his hair then pouring plenty of champ' on his mate's shoulder. ^_^

This is everything to me right now. Depression sucks

The more level they have me, the more I cannot stand me. Now that feeling perfectly...

**give you big hug**

Is this their middle age crisis? Trying to sound 'younger' and 'edgier'?

Turjn S. No, nothing like this.

Thank you so much for this beautiful song. It is changing my life for the better. It's very hard when you want to change and you're so scared of destroying your loved ones. This will be my anthem for this time of great change.

The alternate reality where you guys took the Magic Mike elevator in Vegas.

love u guyssssss s2

I am just trying to stay in touch with anything I'm still in touch with.

only 435k views for this masterpiece! that makes me angry.

Bryan absolutely wrecks it on the drums on this song, wow

i didn't need to see that.

U.T - Yellow Magic Orchestra
Key - YMO

@1:21 Bryan gets a text alert

The number one rock album in South Africa 2017 according to music critics I'm not impressed. Danie Ainslie

Why are the synths lower in pitch than in the album version? This version feels so odd to listen.

People listen to this?

I don’t know what it is about this song, but it brings me to tears. I don’t know if I’ll quite work out why, but I probably shouldn’t try and work it out. Instead, I’ll just appreciate its capacity to make me feel incredible.

Intensely good song!

Love this song.. Keep coming back

It took me almost three months to get into this song, thought it was the weakest of them all. Now it opened up as one of the best

Hate the people who disliked this masterpiece.

TRADUCCION:
Es tan fácil prender
Las moléculas y las cápsulas
Todas tienen algo contra mí
Nada de lo que hago me hace sentir diferente

Esta es como las mejores amigas de tu hermana en un baño llamándote para que te unas
No puedes evitarlas
Esta es como los brazos de tu madre cuando era joven y con la piel quemada en los 80

Dura para siempre
Cuanto más estable me tienen
Menos puedo aguantarme
Tengo amigos incapaces
Y mal gusto en líquidos

Esto es como lo salvaje sin el mundo
Voy a echar de menos esas noches largas con las ventanas abiertas

I love you guys.

What can i say. Matt Besser has impeccable taste. brought me here. And am here to stay.

If you can listen to the last minute of this song without air drumming, you're a liar

I'd probably strip dance like that too tbh

I first heard these guys via Bloodbuzz on prog radio in 2010. I thought it was pretty good, so I researched the band's ouevre and discovered Bloodbuzz wasn't all that impressive compared to their earlier genius. In particular, I loved the quirky construction of classics like All Dolled up in Straps or Bitters & Absolut. What would it be like if the National ever composed a brilliantly quirky song that would still work in the large arena phase of their career? This is that song.

I feel like the girl at 5:05 often. Is that bad? Lol...love this song & video

Love hate war sadness melancholy life.

They're getting old.. well even older!

come back to Italy soon please!

the best song in the album, not so good of a clip though

smells like teen spirit

But what talent !!! I am impressed by so much beauty in music and the voice of Matt Berninger is perfect ...

I see The War On Drugs are on the same bill The National at Victoria Park

Interview de Bryce Dessner du groupe The National à l'occasion de la sortie de l'album Sleep Well Beast et du concert au Pitchfork Music Festival à Paris http://www.concertandco.com/interview/concert-bryce-dessner-the-national//52057.htm

Quer ser Radiohead? Vai estudar.

ooooooooooooooooooooooohh my godddddddddd this is insane

Now compare it with this version they did a while back... oh well.. :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar5WNZQJtfc

This looks like it would be fitting video for Turtleneck.

You know, for a minimalist French ballet composer Bryce sure can write bangers.

Definitely one of my favorite songs of the album.

as usual matt is amazing so is the song

We want "the lights" back! Damned....

Roberto Pirani Yes! Yes! They ruined the song. The previous version was much better.

It appears Jurgen Klopp has taken a break from managing, doing a good job of it also.

Ask him if he can trade Lovern for Devendorf

and Albie for Bryce

Looks like him all rite

More like Walter White from the end of Breaking Bad.

Gyroo good one mate 😂

i've never seen matt smile

Can't stop watching this - quite simply the most 'National' National video... if that makes sense.

This looks like a perfect night.

Subtle and powerful.

it's really gooddd

HAVEN FESTIVAL !

Thanks for not doing the air guitar thing

This video is done really well

Wtf is this shit👎

In general not my favorite of their albums but this song is easily my favorite along with Carin. Great background music.

Was terrific seeing you live in Queens

Every morning...
Like a baby...

my favorite from this album!!

Simplemente increíble...

This album is super!! All the songs are epic🙌

Matt's lyrics consistently manage to find a line between sad and silly, classy and goofy. This video captures that perfectly.

Tinydude10 agree completely, but I’d add that he can be/often is very poetic as well, when he wants to be. I like how he doesn’t over use it so to speak. Perfect balance of ambiguity/strangeness/awkwardness/abstractness vs. humanness/everydayness/genuineness/simplicity. The verses contrasted with the prechorus/chorus in this song display this very vividly.

im just tryin to stay in touch with anything im still in touch with

Waste of good champagne if you ask me

But seriously, beautiful song as ever, thought-provoking video, still not sure what to make of it, that`s the best kind

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One of my favourite songs ever, most definitely. The way the chorus kicks in with such a delicate, sweet melody (and such wonderful melancholic words) makes me want to cry every damn time. And some lines... "I'm just trying to stay in touch with/ Anything I'm still in touch with"... thanks guys.

perfect description of the chorus. You found the words i was missing :)

I wanted to say this is one of my favourite songs on this album, but actually they all are

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Bryan Da Gawd Devendorf

My fav!

The BEEEEEEEST!

This album took time to grow on me, but when it grew , it grew like a motherfucker!

Couldn't agree more, their best work to date, and that's saying something!

you are goddamit right!

Right with ya on that one. One of my favorite bands and i was bummed when I first heard it a few times then...BOOM! loved it!

💩💩💩💩💩💩

The more level they have me
The more I cannot stand me
I have helpless friendships
And bad taste in liquids

Can you make Empire Line with a clip too please ? Pretty please ?