#ttsoosn

[astrangerlately]

[secretlife-mp3]

scans of my take the sadness out of saturday night vinyl <3

[girlbossgaslightguillermo]

insane how secret life is the last song on side A of the ttsoosn vinyl and stop making this hurt is the first song on side B because if they were switched all the songs on side A would be very similar and all the songs on side B would be similar. but them being switched changes so much. also secret life following big life. obsessed.

[wordsbybleachers]

Secret Life x Unearned Hope

“It’s the hope that exists, and the faith that exists, when all things are telling you not to have it.” -Jack Antonoff

Jack has repeatedly described the theme of TTSOOSN as one of ‘unearned hope’. In this series, I pick out lyrics from each song off this album that best embody this theme. Here’s some of those lyrics from Secret Life.

Other songs/posts in this series: x x x x

[phylogeny]

top 10 bleachers songs in my imo:

1) 91

2) the big bad turnpike ghost

3) wild heart

4) isimo

5) i wanna get better

6) hate that you know me

7) i am right on time

8) merry christmas, please don’t call

9) don’t take the money

10) like a river runs

[jakeperalta]

listened to a couple of songs from the bleachers live album last night and started crying and was like "girl be normal" but now I'm listening to it all the way through.. turns out I simply cannot be normal about this

[frootielooties]

and please take the sadness out of saturday night

[apesoformythoughts]

[ineffabeatlemindpalace]

.

[fitsinthepalm]

it’s a feels like & ttsoosn kinda day

[thisfearlesslover]

i dont think i have ever or will ever have more of a visceral, euphoric, deeply felt reaction to a piece of music as i do to the entirety of TTSOOSN by Bleachers. it is .. concerning to say the least.

[astrangerlately]

[bipercabeth]

take the sadness out of saturday night is like. i am living in the shadow of my mother’s grief. i need to get out of my hometown. i want to fall in love. grief has cut me off from the good parts of the world for too long. the world is on fucking fire. i want to run. come home with me. my hometown looks beautiful with you in the passenger seat. i want to feel everything there is to feel. who will i be if i set down the grief that has shaped me? so many things are bad but this band is playing like it’s their last night on earth. i want to be so big that no one could ever miss me. the only person i ever want to look at me is you. this pain has overstayed its welcome. i loved your shadow and you ran. you’re still running. you’re a stranger i know best. i’m still on your side. i can’t believe i thought loving someone else’s shadow would be enough to save me from my own. this faith can’t fill the canyon grief carved in me, but it doesn’t run as deep anymore. i have so much hope. i don’t feel like i earned any of it. what do i do with it? i am going to hold on.

[wordsbybleachers]

Two years of Bleachers’ Chinatown & 45

11.16.2020

[fightingdragonswiftyou]

Take the Sadness Out of Motzei Shabbat

[jakeperalta]

Ella what are your thoughts on a stranger desired👀

I like it! Of course it by no means replaces the original and as an album it's definitely best enjoyed with full production, but I'm always a fan of stripped back versions of songs. I like that it gives a different listening experience and a new appreciation for the emotion behind the lyrics. It's interesting how TTSOOSN and Bleachers and now this have all had more acoustic/stripped vibes because it's such a contract to Strange Desire/Gone Now!