2024❤still here..

This is not a song. This is a journey into the deepest layers of human pain. From underneath the initial softly flowing sorrow, the roar of pain grows stronger and stronger, until the agony becomes unbearable and turns into paralysed resignation. Into this motionless, near-death state, the voice of hope finally enters, promising relief and a modicum of comfort. Perhaps it is the hope of a final exit. The piano's final drawn-out, echoing note is reminiscent of the long beep of the ECG machine signalling cardiac arrest. Every time you go that deep, you die a little. Whoever composed this music knows this state of mind perfectly well and has captured it in this masterpiece with the utmost precision and sensitivity. I have never come across anything like it.

Euphoria , nostalgia , sadness, madness .... You can face all your emotions in Lights . Thank you Archive

I love how one line just makes us understand a lot about the song. He keeps repeating "turn my head" and it doesn't seem to make much sense at first. Then after a long silence, he says "off". And with that word we understand what he means and the name of the song. Fucking amazing

2024 still here, loud till our ears break apart

I still remember when I first heard this song. I entered my ex-girlfriend's house, she was sitting there playing some music on her phone as she'd usually do. This song came on almost immediately as I entered the house and sat beside her. I fell in love with the song almost instantly. I played it to myself when alone in my apartment a million times. A few months later we broke up and I could not bear to play it for a year, it reminded me too much of her and the break-up, and just the first piano note at the start was enough to break me.

I can´t die, because there´s too much excellent music on earth...

2024 when lonelyness hit hard

This song is a perfect depiction of depression. It's like a wound that always hurts but you've just become numb to it.

My friend recommended this masterpiece to me in 2015, when I was in a big transition in life, years passed and now I'm in another transition especially with all the shit happened in 2020. Hope anyone reading this keeps digging hard for life cuz you only live it once. Peace.

Still listening 🎧

I haven't listened to this song for a long time and forgot how amazing it is.

ARCHIVE - LIGHTS It hurts to feel It hurts to hear It hurts to face it It hurts to hide It hurts to touch It hurts to wake up It hurts to remember It hurts to hold on Turn my head The hurt's relentless The hurt of emptiness The hurt of wanting The hurt of going on The hurt of missing The hurt is killing me Turn my head Off Forever Turn it off Forever Off forever Turn it off forever Ever blind

Everytime time I feel broken, I come here.

One of the best songs about depression and mental suffering. I love how the music help convey the lyrics’ message : the music gets louder and louder, noisier and noisier, just like the song’s protagonist perceives his environment and its signals (the lights) up to the point where he just wants to turn it all off in order to find peace.

I don't feel it as death but relief and hope. An invitation to dig deeper to finally find the light🕯️

Coming back to this after 11 years. Reminiscing, I've since moved to a different continent, lost touch with so many people, and would've never imagined I'd be where I am right now, yet my taste in music will never change. This is a masterpiece.

This song drags one deeper and deeper into it's own sea of sound, it makes me love to drown

Nie ma słów, które mogłyby opisać moją mieszankę skrajnych emocji podczas słuchania... Arcydzieło!

Sometimes I think that there is not enough maximum volume for some songs.

This used to be one of the fav songs of my ex-boyfriend. When we broke up, I remember spending hours listening to Archive and living my pain. Even now, many years since, I listen to Archive and have a strong association with that person, with those good years. It's a little bit painful to realize that everything passes, and it's hard to move on. Though, Lights give me this possibility to pause the time for 18 mins..

No other lyric explains sufferers of depression quite like this. Thank you Archive. Finally someone understands.

Yes , I'm here. I'm listening but i'm not in a graveyard. Not again.

Hi 👋, I am new to your music, I am 71 years young, I just found this piece of music ARCHIVE LIGHTS , And I read some of the comments that people wanted more power to be able to turn the volume up, I’m listening to this through a pair of 1.5 m high transmission line loudspeaker cabinets 150 W, Luckily I live in the French countryside I do not have neighbours so I can turn the volume up as much as I like. Obviously the best way to listen to this is actually if you can get it on vinyl I’ll see you there is a lot of CDs and then you will experience the full clarity of the piece of music, Is this mainly due to the upload this piece of music has been done it needs to be at least 24 bits 32 bits. A great piece of music, PHIL FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOULIN FRANCE.

If someone asks you what is a feeling of heartbreak ,guilt or any other feeling which causes emotional pain then show him this song. Repeating notes , tension slowly grows just as thoughts which constantly say to you the same thing. You try to fight them off. Sounds slightly change as you try to defend yourself. They try to do it in diffrent ways. You still defend yourself. The internal battle that takes place inside your mind is reaching its apogee. After that there is a quieter moment. You've won with yourself. Later the same notes come back but you're preapared for them. You replace them with other thoughts which aren't agresive and repetetive. They no longer influence your life but you still remember them and you always will. You can see that in the end of the song when repeating notes from the begining come back.

I ran into this song a couple of years ago and I was mesmerized. I'm well into my fifties and I was so impressed, I shared it with my twenty something children who now share it with their friends

Archive ! la musique qui m'a guidé pendant des années, celle qui m'a soutenu alors que l'on cherchait ma mort.. Je n'ai pas plongé dans les ténèbres comme ils l'auraient voulu, mais dans les profondeurs de mon inconscient, de ma force, de ma résistance, pour prendre conscience de mon être et repousser ces êtres infâmes. Merci Archive, votre music m'accompagnera jusqu'à ce que mon âme s'envole, vers cette éternité vibratoire.

Hledal jsem něco co bude v době po covidove, skutečně recoveri a to archive skutečně jsou gratuluji m .kony

An absolute masterpiece!!! Whatever pain and sorrow it is supposed to express, it expresses more... I absolutely love the song.

I love that song, I love this band, I love to feel what they love to sing. I heard them every day and I remember their songs every night, because they say in music what I'm feeling inside! Long Live Archive!

what a masterpiece !!!

Ten niepokój taki zwykły, taki znany i nieustępliwy... Tak czuję sobą ten kawałek.

This song makes my heart break everytime I listen to it, yet I can't stop. It was the music that was played when they buried my grandfather, this song just ... got stuck in my head, and no matter how hard it makes me cry, I still come back to it somehow 😔

Много лет слушаю их и ничего лучше ещё не нашла. Гениальные, пронзительные, мегамузыканты

Cosmic music ! I always fly in different place, I can't stop listening to it :)

My first time on this song. Unexplainable, the most beautiful part of my life with my doll of the time. 18 min of pure pleasure. Just listen at this voice and close the eyes to travel a world of memories and sensations...

The hurt of missing...

I'm listening to the Lights everyday three times a day, this is the final archive masterpiece as it says in the song "Forever". what a beautiful combination of instruments OMG. the lyrics are the most true story of everybody's life that everyone(even for a once in a life) has experienced by him/herself. It starts with a shocking psychedelia force of complaints about the pain filling inside of every action of the life which it ends to a silent "Turn my head" but not "Turn my head off" and it tries to help the complex to be saved by the middle silence of song. then it starts to release the pain of the complex to the end and the most noticing point here is that the final "Hurt"(the most painful thing[Hurt] that it's crying about which is the most important because it come at the end) is "The hurt of missing". I think the The hurt of missing is the most unhealable pain in the world "Forever" too as the composer has written in lyrics. So far this was a sad song far now but why everyone in the comments loves it as hell? Because it's a therapy for the most common pain of "The hurt of missing" which is leading to "The hurt is killing me" situation. after all complaints and the final "Turn it off forever" the song get a beautiful strong magical shape which starts a filling inside you like hope and optimism. as much the first part was deep into darkness this part is flying right to the lights in the counter way. so the whole message of the song track is: "We all know that we are struggling with any kind of pain that everyone can imagine, but that's it, so say Yes, be "ever blind" and Go On." It hurts to feel It hurts to hear It hurts to face it It hurts to hide It hurts to touch It hurts to wake up It hurts to remember It hurts to hold on Turn my head The hurt's relentless The hurt of emptiness The hurt of wanting The hurt of going on The hurt of missing The hurt is killing me Turn my head Off Forever Turn it off Forever Off forever Turn it off forever Ever blind

18 minutes long eargasm...

Everytime I hear this song it feels like a knife carving a big hole in my heart. Song that really hurts you.

A écouter en boucle,tant pis ou tant mieux si les larmes coulent,ça fait du bien et du mal en même temps,trop d'émotion,

This band deserves much more attention!

Zawsze kiedy słucham tego utworu, mam taki sam kocioł emocjonalny, jaki jest zapisany w tych nutach.

C'est la continuité du rock progressif des années 70. C'est excellent.

Wow, just wow ...and to think I stumbled upon this by accident .

I came across this in some random youtube surf. I love that feeling of striking gold :-)

Ja z Sępa^^ Muzyka naprawdę super, gdy jej słucham zatrzymuje się dla mnie na chwilę świat....po prostu niemożliwa

Difficile de décrire toutes les émotions qui peuvent surgir en l' écoutant....Triste et belle à la fois, j' aime quand la musique prend aux tripes et nous plonge dans notre imaginaire et nos pensées les plus profondes.

It is one of the longest intro I have heard and at the end, the sound becomes overwhelming, dense, with each instrument that is added, I love it.

Great music of all time. Beyond the definition of music, it reaches to psychological and aesthetic point.

This song is like a hidden secret safe place to come back to whenever I feel like everything is too much.

Oh yes, I am here, have been here for years, and stay for years.Its top cool music, and cool band, just love it.

It's good to know that ambitious, long tracks haven't died out yet. This is so very touching and good. I listen through it a lot easier than all 3 minute long songs on the radio nowadays.

One word: Masterpiece

"It's hurts to wake up "every single day since 2019 May all our sadness and depression disappear like our genuine smile and mental health

what a song. what an awesome way to spend 18 minutes. this is grand.

It hurts to wake up..

cette intro de plus de 8 minutes!!! un régal et une montée en puissance qui s'écoute avec le plus grand plaisir. La voix du chanteur se place en totale harmonie!

Un morceau de pur bonheur de plus de 18 minutes!

I used to listen to this song a lot when i was 16-17. Didn't really understand it, just felt right and beautiful. I'm turning 20 in a few months. A dude I'm talking to right now sent me this a few days ago and it felt like getting back in touch with the teenage angst me, full of so much passion, love and anger. Anxiety and depression made me forget most of those years, even the music I used to like, books I've read, movies I've watched... as a defense mechanism from triggers, I guess, but this didn't trigger any negative emotions. The only thing making me sad is that I lost so much of myself in process of trying to cope with my own brain.

this song takes my soul 🖤

This track makes literally my imagination run wild and free. 18.29 min of pure perfection🌀🌌🌀🌌🌟🙏

das sind 18 minuten in musik gegossener schmerz pur... und trotzdem so wunderbar, dass das leid fast was schönes kriegt. meisterwerk. definitiv

I ask person after person if they've heard of Archive and one by one I realized how little known Archive is in America! I feel so extremely lucky to have stumbled upon this while just wandering around youtube. I'm now going to go and recommend it to everyone I meet... After I listen to it a couple more times...

I need a break from my own thoughts.

“Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.” C.G. Jung

Perfectly, beautifully heartbreaking song...

So deep . I’ll never stop to listen

Galaxys away from the money making mainstream...but lightyears better. I hear it over and over again while my nightshift. Thanks for uploading the 18 minutes!!! masterpiece.

I just wanted to show this song to a good friend of mine. Then I skipped through the first 6 minutes and realised, that there is nothing that most people will find interesting or enjoyable. Then I kept listening and realised, that I should rather keep it for myself.

This song is not too long. It is beautiful and very emotional. I feel mamy differents vibes in my vains when I listen to Lights.. Monumental masterpiece

Absolutely perfect music !

perfect ambient influence ❤️ this is masterpiece without doubt I am big fan of Atmospheric Black Metal and this is so close to my emotions and feelings just try to listen it while looking to stars and you will feel non living but perfection

Archive lightens our lives

Awesome music, i love it when i come across an artist i haven't heard before and just get absolutely completely utterly overtaken by their music - proper shivers. Music has such power when you connect with it, sad / happy / depression / joy - so many times in life a particular piece of music seems to be mirroring your life / your feelings. Utterly beautiful, more more more

αυτό είναι η τέχνη της μουσικής! το λατρεύω!

Η μαγεία της καλής μουσικής, υπέροχο!!!

This track will last forever

Panem svého času být recoveri na archive jít.

What a masterpiece. It's breathtaking.

14:37 omg the sound of the ride, fantastic...

The Perfect Sound !!! Thanks Archive ... thanks for all !!

One of the most beautiful 18 minutes of my life... Brilliant!!

My girlfriend and I have experienced the universe listening to this.

J aime Archive. Les instants épices de 15 - 16 mon surtout. Et ça évolue beaucoup d un album à l' autre. Trop méconnu du grand public.

I have to say goodbye to a person that I deeply love and this song so perfectly describes every bit of pain I feel - not only with lyrics but with the music itself. The pain of lost chances and having to move on again, even though every second it's like there's a part of you dying, along with the parts when you try to numb it as much as you can or to tell yourself that everything's gonna be alright... But there's always another wave of pain waiting there to flood you all over again, and even when you're trying to hold on as tight as you can, there's always this one bit that can make you feel like you're drowning and it's like there's just no end to this...

it s good to go back to such good tracks from the past

współczuje tym którzy żyli w niewiedzy i nie znali Archive :)

U guys better hear this one at a concert... absolutely amazing!

i cant believe how awsome this song is im on my way to become 20 and this is hitting more than ever on a rainy night a ciggrrate on my lips just listening and becoming more numd than ever just crying inside . much love from iran and appriciate for making this music

Heard this in Amsterdam in the summer & addicted ever since. LOVE LOVE LOVE this. 18 minutes of pure Awesome indeed. Sweepingly Epic. Archives 'Bullets' is awesome too.

A masterpiece indeed. I am haunted by the sond of the instrument from 15:45 to the end, it scratches every inch of my soul,every time.

Tout ce qu'ils font est une pure merveille de sons, de sensations, de mots. J'écoute encore et encore, et pour toujours.

Great Song. I knew this Band now for a month and love the long tracks like this one and "Again"

I always listen to this song and today was the first day I cry listening to it ... I feel alive and thank u archive for this masterpiece

What an epic masterpiece, thanks for uploading. I can't stop listening again and again. It is comlex, changing, growing, and when you think it can't get any better, this angelic vocals set in, with its perfect smooth climax at 13:15 and a cool finale. I can't describe my feelings while listening to this, other than "eargasm"

grandios ,geil,fantastisch.schön,wunderbar,schmelz.....

Amazing. This song allows me to forget life for a few minutes, or at the very least stop caring enough that I can relax somewhat. My deepest gratitude for uploading this awesome piece of music!

I'm not sadnes when i listen this song just so beautiful! ❤🎸 🎶

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