#matt berninger

[tackminyard]

i need this album to drop so badly so i can listen to nowhere special thirty times in a row

[zippoupaljac]

I ❤️ Matt Berninger

[fuckyeahthenational]

Matt Berninger, In the woods, November 10, 2024.

By Graham MacIndoe

[artuski]

[misseyres]

did you really think you could just put it in a safe behind a painting lock it up and leave? // what about the mountain valley spring? // where's the gravity gone? // remember when you lost your shit and drove the car into the garden? // what did harvard teach you? // is it time to leave? is it time to think about what i want to say to the girls at the door? // can i stay here? can i sleep on the floor? // is there a powder to erase this? // what was i even leaving for? // am i the one you think about when you're sitting in your fainting chair drinking pink rabbits? // am i asking for too much? // you said we're not so tied together, what did you mean? // is it easy to live inside yourself? // can't you see how that that makes it so much worse? // how close am i to losing you?

the national + asking questions

[owlslyingdown]

remember when you lost your shit and drove the car into the garden? / don’t you understand your mind is not your friend? / you said we’re not so tied together, what did you mean? / why are we still out here? can’t we just go home? where were you back then? / can we show a little discipline? / why are you hiding from me? / is it time to leave? is it time to think about what i want to say to the girls at the door? / can i stay here? can i sleep on the floor? / is it easy to live inside yourself? / do you really think you can just put it in a safe behind a painting, lock it up and leave? / are those dreams inside your head? is there sunlight on your bed? / the day i die, where will we be? / where is her head? is she outside? is she looking out? / if i held your hand again would you be here down on your knees like this? / if i yield to my trances will i get up close again? / i ask the same questions to everyone i see - what am i missing? where have you been? what if they ask me about it? where would i begin? now, love, where have you been? did somebody break your heart again? are you gonna fall apart again? / don’t you know someday somebody will come and find you? / can you get away and talk to me? / rylan, did you break your mother’s heart? is it easy to keep so quiet? is it easy to live inside yourself? / what could i say? how close am i to losing you? hey, are you awake? can i ask you about today? / what was i even leaving for? / can’t you find a way? how’d you do it? / have you found him? have you told him everything? does he say he feels bad about all this? / am i crazy? / what if i’d never written the letter i slipped in the sleeve of the record i gave you? what if i’d stayed on the C train to Lafayette? what if we’d never met? what if i’d only just done what you told me and never looked back? why’d i leave it like that? / isn’t it a little too late for this? / have i become one of your problems? do you think you can carry me over this threshold? you won’t walk away won’t you? you don’t walk away don’t you? / darling can you tie my string? / how does it feel to feel like you? / do you care if i stayed? / could she run forever? / hey, where the hell are you? won’t you come here and stay with me? why did you listen to that man? / what does it mean when your arms fall asleep? how do you get rid of hornets? when did they say we should turn back the clocks? why do they always say everything’s for the best when everybody knows it’s not? / will someone review my salary please? / how can we keep on covering? / didn’t anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room? didn’t anybody tell you this river’s full of lost sharks?

how am i supposed to know? what am i supposed to say? they say love is a virtue, don’t they? what did Harvard teach you? how can anybody know how they got to be this way? / is it weird to be back in the south? / so where did you go? and do you now know how to be happy? / is there a powder to erase this? is it dissolvable and tasteless? / you’re fireproof, how’d you get so far? / can you make me a man? / am i the one you think about when you’re sitting in your fainting chair drinking pink rabbits? / oh where are all the moments we had? where’s the brain we shared? what happened to the wavelength we were on? where’s the gravity gone? how’d i feel about it? / what was the worried thing you said to me? everything is different, why do i feel the same? is this how this whole thing’s gonna end? / can’t you write it on a wall? can you turn the TV down? / what are we going through, you and me? what is it you want me to be learning? / what makes you think i’m enjoying being led to the flood? / why won’t you leave me quicker? / when they ask, what do i see? / what am i doing watching clocks? what am i doing wandering halls? / how long have we been here? am i ever coming down? who do i think i’m kidding? / light from the stars won’t really reach anything, will it? why don’t you let me lay here and listen to the distant sirens? you don’t know how much i love you, do you? what was it you always said? is this how i lose it? everything at once, carried to space by a dolphin balloon? if i said i was sorry for always being underwater, would you stay? do you hear me? what was it, the story you told me? why am i so hard to be around? / don’t you think i look pretty anymore? / what about the glass dandelions? what about the tv screen? what about the last of the good ones? what if we moved back to new york? what about the rainbow eucalyptus? whag about the moon drop lights? what if i reinvented again? what about the mountain valley spring? what about the ornaments? / and how is the water of the rain? and how is the air of the wind? and how are the arms of your mother? / how completely high was i? / can i get a minute of not being nervous? / can’t you see that it makes it so much worse? would your life be so bad if you knew every single thought i had? / did you clean yourself for me last night? did you dress me down and liquor me up? do you feel alone when i’m in my head? do you still feel clean? how can you blame yourself? why did you dress me down?

every question by the national

[illustrioussanguine]

PSINK_MUSIC

[fandomatik]

YES

[skzdust]

"I don't care how many times you almost said you missed me" IM EATING CHAIRS

[tackminyard]

this is so soft compared to him screaming it in our faces last night

[eldonchances]

matt berninger you want to do an alligator 20th anniversary tour next year so bad. you want to tour again so so bad even though you’re just about to finish a tour. you want to decorate the stage with inflatable alligators like this again and play alligator in full for the 20th anniversary So Bad

[thenationalmaxims]

I THOUGHT THAT IF I STUCK MY NECK OUT I'D CATCH YOU OUT OF YOUR SHELL

[fuckyeahthenational]

What if I'd only just done what you told me? And never looked back? What if I'd only ducked away down the hallway? And faded to black?

[songwriting-and-performing]

[undeadsouls]

matt berninger of the national @ max schmeling halle, berlin (30.09.23)

[virginiavvoolf]

the national by graham macindoe