I was 21 and working as a gardener i a small company, for years people (mostly my some of my teachers at school) told me that i worked to slow to work in a normal company but instead needed to go to a special sort of company for people with a disability. Suprisingly my boss found me that good that he gave me a little second hand company car to do some of his costumers, a few days later i was driving around in that car and then this song pops up on the radio, and i just felt so proud at what i had achieved. Moral of the story never stop believing in yourself. :)

This is like Pink Floyd, Dire Straits and Brian Adams mixed into one. What a masterpiece.

My uncle showed me this. His dad recently died and he told me that he found this song when his dad requested it a few minutes before he died. He remembers the serenity of playing that song in the hospital room, holding his phone up to his dad's ear, one last song before it all goes black. I was sitting outside under the stars when he told me this. Really hit differently.

I turn 74 tomorrow, a lifetime Dylan fan. I heard The War on Drugs for the first time just the other day. How did I miss them, their earlier albums? Age maybe? Huh? Anyway I heard this song this afternoon and instantly knew it was a GREAT one. Think of it, I have heard and taken in music of all kinds since shortly after WWII, so much water over the dam, in my life, and yet this strikes me as a beautiful, deep song. See it through my eyes. :)

fun fact: the first time i heard this song was on a roadtrip along the west coast of ireland on the only channel that had signal. we were all quiet and just listened to it. honestly, that was a feeling i still have no words for.

I turned 31 years this year in August 25th, on my birthday I woke up at 4am and drove to my favorite beach (Manhattan beach, CA). Upon arriving there I was alone and free from everything and everyone. Ive battled with depression and anxiety all of my life, one of my most recent battles I was facing was my codependency issues people have brought up for me. First time in my life I was okay being my self, by myself. I felt the true understanding of the fear I was being held back from loving the most important person I have in my life and that is myself. This song takes me back to that moment standing there in the waters of the beach finally feeling free and accepting myself. It takes me back to that moment where I wish I could live in forever; that moment.

One of the best songs written during the 2000's. Poor souls to those who will never experience this masterpiece

I quit my soul sucking job after listening to this song for a couple days. 2nd best decision I've made in my life. Live without fear.

It was back in Little Bend that I saw you Light was changing on the water Where birds above had flown There was pain in your eyes So you vanished in the night Missouri River in the distance So I lied upon the lawn I remember walking against the darkness of the beach Love is like a ghost in the distance, out of reach Travel through the night 'cause there is no fear Alone but right behind, until I watched you disappear I'm moving through the dark Of a long black night Just moving with the moon And the light it shines And I'm thinking of a place And it feels so very real Just moving through the dark Once I had a dream I was falling from the sky Coming down like running water Passing by myself in light In the morning, I would wake To the sound of someone's voice Like little whispers through the silence I'm moving through the dark Of a long black night I'm looking at the moon And the light it shines But I'm thinking of a place And it feels so very real Oh, sufferer of love Come and take my hand, babe There's a turn in the road that we've been taking Let it set you free 'Cause there's a rhythm in the way that we've been moving Yeah, there's a darkness over there, but we ain't going See it through my eyes Walk me to the water Hold my hand as something turns to me Love me every night Drown me in the water Hold my hand, is something turning me? See it through my eyes Love me like no other And hold my hand as something turns to me And turns me into you Lead me through tonight Pull me from the water Hold my hand as something turns to me Turns me into you Just see it through my eyes Love me like no other Hold my hand as something turns to me Turns me into you Turning me into you

This song is hauntingly beautiful. When that harmonica kicks in at 7:35 you melt in your seat. What a timeless masterpiece.

First heard this song at a bar while waiting for my date (ex girlfriend) to show up. I was completely drawn in to the music structure and melodies. She arrived seconds later after the song started and we had one of the best nights ever talking the night away, having drinks, and laughing. Every time this song comes on I think about that one night last year when I was with her having a great time. It pains my heart whenever I listen to it because I'm reminded of her so much. I miss her.

This song is such a masterpiece that it will resonate for everyone differently in their own special way. First third of the song takes me back to the unexpected death of my baby son at one week old. Middle third takes me back to the years of grief and pain my wife and I went through after, hoping we'd one day be in a better place again. Last third of the song is the love and joy our one-year-old girl has brought us since.

I love how all of the comments are so beautifully written and how much every person who wrote one is in love with this song

I'm a grown ass man and cried the first time I heard this.

People who suffer great pain can be greatly comforted by beautiful music like this. Often I did not understand this well enough for persons I cannot bring back to life now

As a truck driver I listen this words and music over and over..........great inspiration, enjoying the loneliness over the road. Thinking of that place!! ✌

This song is a journey and a healing for the soul.

I just pray to God I meet atleast one person in real life who loves this song and we tell each other our stories attached to this song.

The War On Drugs produces such soothing music. This is how love should feel.

I bought their vinyl, so one day I can play this to my kids. I think everyone who listens to it experiences emotional roller coaster, and imagine about, is he really living the life he deserves? All the memories from the childhood, sweet and sour moments comes in front of my eyes, and emotions are hard to stop, you just leave it to pass and enjoy this very true emotion from this, once in a century, band.

Reading these beautiful comments, I felt the need to tell mine. So, I just recently graduated and my life had been a rollercoaster. My mom passed away way back 2019 after fighting cancer for 4 years. My dad died last year due to car accident. I was his last backride on his motorcycle, and I still remember that last glance I gave to him after he gave me a ride to the hospital where I practiced my internship as a medtech. People may think I’m coping well with what I’ve been through but every night when I’m alone, I can’t help but feel everything at once and cry silently, hoping that I will have better days ahead and that the hardships I’ve been through were all gonna be worth it. Fast forward, on June 15, I graduated and being awarded as an outstanding medical technology intern in my favorite lab section, hematology. It’s definitely all worth it. And now, I just got hired and will start my job tomorrow. I’m still anxious whenever I think what my future will be. There may be more bad days ahead but good things have been here and will more to come. For whatever it’s worth, I guess the act of being more in the present and just try to live life, is enough :) To mom and pops: Thank you for raising me. Love you both always

discovered this on my helicopter going home from oil platforn where I work the northern sea, Norway. The cabins mandatory headphones/ear protection and a playlist designed by its own company. flying low over the sea, ascending slowly towards soft blurry white clouds no sun. so trippy, whimsical and marvellous. Had no clue how long it lastet..lost track of time and space after a long nightshift. Too many hours awake, Love at 1st sight. Thanks guys. Bless

I just recounted a traumatic childhood experience listening to this song and now I don't know how to feel. What in the actual fuck. This is powerful stuff.

I am 65 and a whole lot of the people I know my age insist there isn't any good music being made anymore, No , they just don't look hard enough. This is a good as anything they were playing when I was in High School.

Words can't describe how much I love this song. Truly a masterpiece.

Im truly happy for everyone who found this song during quarantine

My fiancé and I grew up along the Missouri River, and everytime I hear this beautiful song I think of my home, my family, and my love. Its so beautiful it makes me want to cry. Thank you.

this song is a beautiful melody, the progression is perfect, provoke in my different sensation, in art , is perfect Greetings from my little country Chile, hidden in a corner of this world, my room ........

I just took an 11:12 sentimental journey... "There's a rhythm in the way we've been moving."

Drowned in the deepest sea of emotions with this song.. worlds can't describe how much I love this healing melody.

What a masterpiece these guys dropped on us. This song gets better every time I listen to it. Eleven minutes of magic.

The solace, the lead singer’s raw vocal emotions, & most importantly the layered guitars & instrumental work jar emotion in me that I don’t often feel. An absolute masterpiece.

The world can't be that a bad place if it offers us such an incredibly beautiful song, can it?

11 minutes have never flown by so fast. Mind = blown.

This song is dangerous. As in a good way. It makes you examine where you are in your life and what you are doing. Who and what do you love? How are you finding your way through the dark of a long, black night? “See it through my eyes, love me like no other.” Etc. So many lines that just hit home, hard.

this is it folks doesn't get much better

First time you hear this song it hits you like a hurricane.

Last weeks of my pregnancy I was listening to this song for hours. Now the baby is one week old and falls asleep in a few minutes when we start this great song :-)

that final instrumental jam is pure magic

"Thinking Of A Place" It was back in Little Bend that I saw you Light was changing on the water Where birds above had flown There was pain in your eyes So you vanished in the night Missouri River in the distance So I lied upon the lawn I remember walking against the darkness of the beach Love is like a ghost in the distance, ever-reached Travel through the night 'cause there is no fear Alone but right behind till I watched you disappear I'm moving through the dark Of a long black night Just moving with the moon And the light it shines And I'm thinking of a place And it feels so very real Just moving through the dark Once I had a dream I was falling from the sky Coming down like running water Passing by myself alight In the morning, I would wake to the sound of someone's voice Like little whispers through the silence I'm moving through the dark Of a long black night And I'm looking at the moon And the light it shines But I'm thinking of a place And it feels so very real Oh, the suffering of love Come and take my hand, babe There's a turn in the road that we've been taking Let it set you free Because there's a rhythm in the way that we've been moving Yeah, there's a darkness over there, but we ain't going See it through through my eyes Walk me to the water Hold my hand as something turns to me Love me every night Drown me in the water Hold my hand as something turning me See it through my eyes Love me like no other And hold my hand as something turns to me And turns me into you Lead me through the night Pull me from the water Hold my hand as something turns to me Turns me into you Just see it through my eyes Love me like no other Hold my hand as something turns to me Turns me into you Turning me Into you

New War On Drugs song??? My plans for the rest of the day just went out the window.

This is the closest I've ever felt to meditating while listening to a song. I don't know what it is about it, but it just sucks you in and allows your mind to relax while it plays. It's magical.

I discovered this song around the second half of March 2017, my oldest brother just committed suicide and this song crossed my path. "There was pain in your eyes when you vanished in the night, misery river in the distance". It speaks to me this very day and still don't understand why and what for, but it comforts me that thinking of this place takes me to him. Few weeks back, the band played Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam and I would have never thought they'd close a 2 hour concert with an 11 minute song. Thanks Adam, you gave me some form of closure and am for ever grateful that you've kept me close to him, thinking of a place where we'd meet again.

I first clicked on this song thinking "11 minutes, dang... Ok, I'll give it a shot." Within seconds, I completely lost track of time, like a vivid dream that carries you away, and you wish would never end.

there are just too many beautiful things in this universe that are just beautiful with no explanation. they are just simply beautiful. this song is an example of that.

This band has been on a different level for 10 years. They were phenomenal with Vile but it's impossible not to be awestruck by what they've produced since his departure. These shoegaze infusions with Springsteen structure and Dylan vocals are transcendent. No one else is making music like this. I haven't felt a pure emotional connection with a band's music for many years. Can't wait until they come back home on their tour.

it gives me joy to read these comments of so many people remembering how they listened to this for the first time and experienced losing track of the time. same here. I hadnt expected this coming, it just popped up on youtube sometime late in the evening. I was alone at home, put my headphones on and just danced away in the dark. will never forget.

Last year, Nov 5th 20, I was listening to my Dad's funeral songs on KZfaq (6years funeral date) Van Morrison, then THIS SONG randomly started playing... I had never heard this song or of the band before. I can't tell you how POWERFUL IT WAS AND STILL IS. Every beat, sound, word, lyric through to the story of the song and how its power resonated deep. My heart opened wide and the tears flooding by the end of the first verse! But it felt so freeing and loved. I can't put into words how powerful, spiritually connected and healing an experience it was. It felt like he was so present through the whole song/experience. I felt as if I finally mourned for my Dad's loss. I had only found him 4 years prior after 30 years separation and I was heavily pregnant with my daughter when he passed. So this will ALWAYS be a very special song to me. Still makes my hair stand up... Also have a thing with numbers, tgis song is 11:11 long, it first played at 23:23 ❤️👌🏻 For a year now, I feel this band have given me so much more than music but a tool to free/connect/heal. Thank you for the music magic 🙏🏻😊🎶✨❤️

The irony is, this song is is addictive, like most drugs.

this is a fucking masterpiece

I love this song soooo much. I play it and close my eyes in a dark room and the places it takes me are so beautiful. Try it.

This is one of the best song I've heard in a long time. Brilliant

this song is an absolute work of art. i'm so glad it's 11 minutes long.

I love to hear this on the radio when driving to work. Thanks to all the radio stations which have the balls to play real music for 11 minutes :-)

Had this as the first dance at my wedding. Had to trim it way down so we weren't dancing for close to 11 minutes, but could have easily. Couldn't have chosen a better song.

I'm 25 years old been on my own since I was 17 living on people's couches playing music listening to music and I dream one day I'll be able to write a song as meaningful as this because I love to see people feel music the way I do. With my mental health not being so great and not feeling as whole I hope one day I can be old and know that I did great things in my life and be able live on til I'm sitting on .y front porch in a rocking chair smoking a cigarette drinking coffee and looking back at all the memories that I have with people and know I'm not a bad person I can go on knowing I'm as good as the sound of this band makes

Anytime my depression takes over I listen to this song, a calmness overwhelms my mind. I believe with The War on Drugs and a few other bands I can overtake it. Thank you for creating wonderful music!

I have never found a better produced 11 minute song that you can listen on repeat. Everything is just in the right place, this is true art.

The production on this is astounding. It takes the expansiveness of the song and let’s it ride but then pulls it back into an intimate room at the right moments. By far my favorite song.

Beautiful...I can imagine a place where i could be in peace.

This song is so damn good

words simply can't describe how much I love this song, I wish it was 20 mins

I was on my computer, working and listening to music. And my google home played the song randomly. I remember I stopped working and just listened to the whole song. Thank you google home for finding me one of my all time favorite songs lol.

This song i played for my brother back in 2018. He went through abuse as a kid and took to drink. he dropped dead 4 days later of a heart attack. .. So the song will always mean so much to me....

dude i fokin cried

First minute-my ears fell in love, second minute-my soul was lost in the music, then I began crying with wonder, joy, and disbelief. Humans are awesome sometimes arent they?

One of the few 11 minute songs that I can listen to fully.... and replay a million times.

most of us are not in love with the song, we're in love with the place it takes us to

They decided to go against the current and to me is perfect. A song with more than 11 minutes, on voice appears later than first minute, on calm and silence moments are again in a song, great feeling on voice and melodies. Great Adam.

This song is so beautiful. It's that feeling where you're so open and receptive to all the experiences in life (bliss and sadness) that you're on the verge of tears.

This song will always be my safe place. Thank you, guys ✨

This is one of the most important songs of my life. I found it when I was sixteen and it’s played during some of the most special moments of my life since then. I’m nineteen now but it still makes me feel the same way I did when i first heard it. It’ll always have a special place in my heart.

I was driving through construction zone, irritated, pissed off, then this song played on satellite radio. Suddenly everything was OK, none of the hassles mattered, it was all beautiful. How often does a song do that? Moody Blues, Neil Young, pure inspiration and artistic expression, it's all there.

A song that can make you feel both sad and happy throughout its entirety is something special. Cannot wait for the new album. The War on drugs, you guys are something very special.

I was in an abusive controlling relationship - leaving him was the worst pain I have ever had in my life. This song got me through it. There’s just something in the lyrics “there’s a darkness over there, we ain’t going” that means so much for me. Perhaps an mantra to never dwell on the too dark things too long, but also I think a message of hope - knowing that leaving him was avoiding that darkness. I love you war on drugs and thank you for everything you have done for my life. I am a better person because of it x

3 songs must be play in my funeral1; thinking of a place,2;still corners the trip and hozier take me to church thank you hungry people

every time I think I have found my favorite song in the world, I hear another song from The War On Drugs; this is now my newest favorite!

Guys, you should try playing it 2 times. It literally lasts twice as long.

This track right here pretty much summarizes my way out of depression and into love. I just can't be down or hopeless if I put this on. I don't know how to be down knowing I can just play this song again, and music in general. I feel lucky

this song is almost painfully beautiful. I almost feel like I experience every emotion listening to it. I feel pure Bliss yet so sad and restrained yet free and grateful yet envious and light yet dark I can't begin to explain how beautiful and amazing this song is I just wish I knew someone in person who appreciates it as much as I do or even just knows about it at all. although it's a great feeling seeing all the comments from people who do appreciate it as much as me with their beautiful stories related to the song.

this song is simply a tour in Heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All my problems just flew away! Thanks for that!

Scary times we’re in right now. This song always brings me peace. I hope everyone reading stays safe.

One of the best songs ever, what a masterpiece! If you read this comment, I suggest also listening to "Ocean Alley - Partner In Crime" and "Khruangbin - Zionsville"

"See it through my eyes Love me like no other And hold my hand as something turns to me And turns me into you".... Everything that needs to be said by two lovers in a nutshell. The words that post-modern societies lack to express. But listening to this song and reading the comments of my fellow brothers and sisters, I can say "Thank you God, there is still hope!!!"

It's early, cold, and kinda grey, you start running. 20 minutes in your run the sky breaks open, sun rays burst through and warm you chilly body, and this song comes up on the mp3 ... Such a good feeling, everything fals into place, you pick up the pace and enjoy the moment.

I may have teared up while listening to this...

Everyday I come here to listen this song. It makes me feel something I can't describe. It's magic for me

This music has GODs fingerprints all over it 🙏🤍

I heard this song for the first time after my boyfriend past away. Music really heals the heart & soul. Still moving through the dark.. but not alone anymore ✨❤️

This may be the perfect song. The flow and feeling of it brings a lot of emotion to the surface. And don't get me started on the guitar solo, it's from a different time, gorgeous.

This song has me sitting on a hill top overlooking the rolling green fields with magnificent tress and a meandering creek running through down below.. I am in awe of the natural world , its beauty and truth. I am sitting there looking out feeling so much gratitude for my life and beautiful songs like this. ❤

This is not a song, this is a feeling and all we’re here in this moment are one single soul 🙏🏽🙏🏽

I stopped writing songs years ago, I guess I grew older and tought there was no point anyomore. When I heard lost in the dream I started writing and recording again because it reminded me how profund and human a simple song can be. Thanks to these guys.

I was tripping on LSD, researching the actual war on drugs and I came across this. One of the best stumbles I’ve ever come across 🙏🏽

One of the most underrated songs. It's a journey from beginning to end.

The day before my wedding, at night I went to the mountain by car and listened to this song, I cried and screamed and had fun, beautiful memory

I must be nuts. I've been working all weekend and have this song on loop. Discovered TWOD by accident a few years ago at Ottawa's City Folk Festival and truly believe that this is not only the best band out there but one of the best songs ever. The depth of their music is unparalleled. Eyes to the Wind was my favourite tune by TWOD until this one! Cannot wait for the album!

The fret-less electric bass, the pedal steel, the Wurlitzer (or Rhodes, can't tell), the greatest snare drum ever recorded in the history of snare drums, the subtle synth, the crispy dry ride cymbal, the sparkling tremolo, THE BRIDGE! , the archetypal - sad, yet somehow uplifting lyrics that we've come to love from Adam, the startlingly pretty outro lick at the end that is saved just for those who listen the whole 11 minutes......marvelous.

This song talks about me and the love of my life... Something turns to me, turns me into her, into you... Sublime verse that makes me love her even more.

I've never cried while flying.. Bluetoothed to my headset while flying over the Appalachians in a VIP 76C+, ferrying from CYYZ to KFXE. I took off from KPIT, empty, except the girl I'd hoped and thought was my true love. Her and I had just spent 4 months in covid hibernation and on the last day, after a bottle of wine, I told her again, how I loved her... This time, however, she didn't reply. We took off from KPIT after clearing customs and flew into the oncoming darkness. Painful silence was louder than the blades turning as she slept in the back. "....and I'm moving through the dark..." As was I. Physically and spiritually. My bird saw the sunrise in sunny Florida ... I still haven't.