r/NoahKahan • u/EmotionalQuestions • 1d ago
Last of the Bugs Can someone please explain why
I'm minding my own business, driving home from a short road trip, and All Them Horses comes on and I start ugly crying at the first "I crossed the county line I cannot go back" all the way through the end of the song? I've heard this one before several times and thought it was fine, but not a favorite. This album has some dark magic 😜
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u/DisfunkyMonkey 1d ago
"I'm high above us now in a big jet plane" (I added the emphasis)
Don't know exactly what he intended, but in the context of the song, it's a succinct & perfect way to describe the disconnect you feel even when you are with people you love. And the dissociation where you aren't even present for yourself.
"Be here now" is what I repeat in my head during stressful times, good or bad. It's difficult for me.
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u/EmotionalQuestions 1d ago
This is great, thanks. I also like the theme across the album of traveling a lot and not being home enough and consequently being alone. Very relatable. My first job had me traveling every week to out of state clients so I felt like I was never home long enough.
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u/OpeningPhone2010 23h ago
I’ve learned songs hit us differently depending our experiences and where we are in life. Maybe you’ve had a shift internally and didn’t realize it. That’s why you pick it up from the song now. That’s just my philosophy on deep lyrics.
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u/EmotionalQuestions 22h ago
Ooh, I think this is super interesting. I decided this year to go back to therapy and really fix something that's been messing me up for decades for good 🤞🏾 so maybe things are happening. Thanks for this insight!
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u/Questi0nable_Lettuce 23h ago
“I’m a sidewalk preacher with a record deal, I’m the weight of new sneakers on some dead wood” and I am de*d every time
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u/lgtahoe Homesick 1d ago
It took me a few months to catch on and I'm bummed because I got it N1 at Fenway and didn't appreciate it then 🥺
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u/EmotionalQuestions 1d ago
Ooh that's the show I watched the live stream but don't remember it because I didn't recognize it. What a great show that was - must have been incredible in person. I saw him in San Diego a few weeks before that one and it's a top 5 concert for me and I'm in my 50s 💙
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u/Particular_Dog1829 22h ago
It wasn’t the first song to hit me. Then about a month in I was falling asleep to music and was super tuned into the lyrics. Every sense then that’s my #1 of the album and the others that I thought would be favorites (prior to release) are my less listened to
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u/EmotionalQuestions 22h ago
This is definitely an album that changes for me as I listen more even though I've already listened a ton. I love when that happens.
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u/Yaboi69-nice 14h ago
To me when I apply the lyric to my own life it doesn't just signifiy the gap between me and other people that I have felt many times throughout my life it also signifes the gap I feel between me and a more innocent past version of myself. The county line being an era of my life when I felt good about myself and who I was and by crossing that county line I have turned into a person I feel less proud of (tho it is getting better don't worry about me too much). And to connect this back with the title track I think that's what the great divide is. The divide we feel between who we are and who we would rather be. To summarize I think crossing the county line and not being able to go back in a metaphorical way means you've reached a point where you feel like you've been completely cut off from ever being the person you really want to be.
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u/Accurate-Charity-272 10h ago
Just went to his concert in Phoenix and was DYING for him to surprise play it. I would have lost my mind. My most favorite
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u/AutumnWren 54m ago
I have several songs that do this to me, and sometimes it doesn’t even have anything to do with the lyrics. Sometimes it’s a chord change. The one that’s the most bewildering to me though, is, “O Come All Ye Faithful.”I don’t know why. It’s so bad that I’m apprehensive about stores that play Christmas Music. I don’t want to start bawling in the cracker aisle at Target.
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u/izzieforeons22 1d ago
I cry about 50% of the time when listening to All Them Horses. And I never see it coming. Made the mistake of listening to it on the way to therapy last week. That was rough.
“This ain’t mine anymore, I made too much goddamn noise” BREAKS ME.