Beck - Lost Cause

[@astrangerontheinternet1]

when i was a teenager, probably 15 or 16, i was going through a really hard time and felt very lost and worthless. My dad played this song for me and we drove around for a while and just cried together. This week, i drove up to his hometown and listened to this on repeat in his car. I love you, Dad

[@yourmercenaryfilms]

Thank you

[@beckbrandpg]

@@yourmercenaryfilms you are welcome, please where are you from?

[@antwaunkent5654]

😥

[@nicko5917]

@@beckbrandpg thank you beck

[@beckbrandpg]

@@nicko5917 you are always welcome, where are you from please?

[@theanswersnthelovethatwecreate]

Best concert I've ever been to. A lifetime ago with someone special.

[@icanbelieveitsnotbutter8679]

we need more 'all hope lost' type songs like this. they don make me feel better, but they make me feel right.

[@princessboogs13]

i can believe its not butter I can't explain why but you are absolutely right.

[@toriagiro9519]

Not better... But not alone. Understood.

[@michaelb1047]

they at least make me feel *something*

[@lazyatthedisco]

Try The Antlers' "Putting The Dog To Sleep"

[@kingbopit9318]

Couldn’t have said it better

[@pinkertonisbetterthanblue9096]

I love Hip-Hop Beck, Electronic Beck, Funk Beck and Rock Beck, But Folk Beck is his ultimate form.

[@SteveTheAmazing]

This comment is Where It's At

[@alfieweedable]

Ultimate form hahahahaha I couldn't agree more with that

[@riship3323]

Cool!

[@kuntyfucstik9340]

back-to-back Beck beckons

[@ellieti]

Hahaha, yes. But, also, Hip-Hop Beck x Folk-Beck 😂

[@alfieweedable]

This is the kind of songs that weren't written out of thin air, those songs have a first and last name

[@marcosias9465]

My dad used to drink and cry to this song 😣 I played this song for him as I held him while he took his last breaths against his fight with lung cancer 😔

[@CamperVanClark]

I'm sorry for the loss of your Dad. Stay strong. Be the best you can for as long as you can.

[@beckbrandpg]

Thank you for liking my page, support showed on me is unbelievable I hope you never stop believing in my career aspirations.

[@MP-tf7cc]

😥

[@tym5583]

Dude no way..

[@UserName23567]

Sad

[@Tyrell-d6o]

I used to think a break up meant you stopped loving the other person. But it's more tragic than that: the love never really dies. But neither does the pain and resentment. The relationship becomes cluttered with things other than love, up to the point where love has no room left to show itself.

[@zanchetta999]

You hit the nail. At some point it becomes impossible to live your love and be happy with it. Most of the time you spend together you feel bad afterwards or during. The relationship turns toxic. That's not the meaning of life.

[@toddstoptens1384]

Well said.

[@anandluvsindia]

Damn bruh!!! That was knee deep hurting.

[@MultiDesignGuy]

👏

[@anyfaces4390]

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[@bobbydavis800]

This is the song to play when you're tired of suffering and ready to try to pick up the pieces, and move on...I've reached that point.

[@iamnoone3040]

Well good luck with it. Honestly I hope you can. I got there too, but I kept falling no matter what I did. Finally, I had to turn myself off. Lost who I was, a whole life in a landfill. Existence is not life, and I hope you find and feel life; it is irreplaceable. 🙂

[@scotttbeee2912]

This song is a real breakup man.

[@jessrsmithson3097]

Damn dude I don't usually gives thump ups but damn... this album is so personal and has it's time and place, because the point, as u said, is progress, evolve, whatever... this hole isn't meant for sticking around Ramshackle land coulda been on this albim

[@stephensealey4677]

2 years later... did your life find better avenues since you sat there 2 years ago and seen your turning point? I hope it has. Life is too brief to settle for suffering. Cheers Bobby.

[@jsammo6528]

Or just wanna hear a banging tune

[@leod-sigefast]

That hard feeling of being left alone by the one you love. That is this song. That is life.

[@trevorfahey3819]

@World's Biggest Booty Hoes that's more how I interpret this song, my teacher showed me this song when I had to leave an abusive relationship and that's how I relate to this song on a personal level. Also, great username.

[@riancreamer6904]

@Suanne Strider - Yes it is but you have to be careful with that quote -- it makes it sound like the Buddha was a sadist without any context ha! The Buddha said existence was 'Dukkha' which is perhaps better translated as unsatisfactoriness rather than suffering per se. And yes, I'm 'that guy' on the internet, apparently! ;)

[@robinberman2717]

Exactly.

[@burnedbysound9827]

it's about leaving someone, not being left

[@coloradosilver6509]

Best of it yet is that it gets fucking better!! 😈🤩

[@felicitasantiago5045]

I'm 57 years old and this man is my hero. He has managed to reach into my soul and create song after song that represents everything that I feel, think and breathe. No holds barred, no barriers, completely outside the box, FUCK THE PRODUCERS... He stuck with what he believes in... way ahead of his time and finally became main stream. His first CD was produced by him in his basement on a four track recorder. Then his PR man gave a copy to as many record stores as he could. Orders could only be taken inavance

[@timothyoconnell4189]

Same age, this guy blows me away as well. He's up there with the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin and all my heroes. Beautiful talent ❤

[@solido888]

Sea Change is an absolute masterpiece, and this song is its crown jewel.

[@joshliam1967]

After wishing so hard for something that can never be...this song is the sound of pure acceptance of the truth. And nothing is more beautiful than the truth.

[@Tuchet9]

This is just beautiful.

[@maxweaver141]

Amen and Awoman

[@JustMightGoCrazy]

+Max Weaver why

[@johnnyfelcher8156]

+Jake Trigg white night.

[@petermosherthepoet]

@@maxweaver141 Max, why “to all men” (Amen), but only “to a single woman” (Awoman)? LOL

[@juanjuri6127]

this one hits really close to home because the year it came out i was going through a pretty rough experience working as a giant pyrotechnic piñata. still hurts

[@elisabethmandell4902]

Juan Juri best comment ever

[@natefrogharley]

Haha

[@local7823]

The best comments on KZbin are usually stumbled upon, just like I did with this HoF entry

[@waysilentbob6976]

Same... 👊

[@deborahweston1607]

I can relate. I’ve been a neon piñata for 22 years. Really hurts.

[@Forgotten17711771]

Beck, the older I get, the more I appreciate your art. You are a very interesting human. Thanks for everything.

[@vbidez]

Amazing artist. I always sang this to myself as "Maybe I'm lost" and only just recently learned it's actually "Baby You're lost". Well I'll always sing it my way.

[@yuye6690]

Lyrics Your sorry eyes cut through the bone They make it hard to leave you alone Leave you here wearing your wounds Waving your guns at somebody new Baby you're lost Baby you're lost Baby you're a lost cause There's too many people you used to know They see you coming they see you go They know your secrets and you know theirs This town is crazy; nobody cares Baby you're lost Baby you're lost Baby you're a lost cause I'm tired of fighting I'm tired of fighting Fighting for a lost cause Thereâ??s a place where you are going You ain't never been before No one left to watch your back now No one standing at your door That's what you thought love was for Baby you're lost Baby you're lost Baby you're a lost cause I'm tired of fighting I'm tired of fighting Fighting for a lost cause

[@MrJACKHERRERA]

Yu Ye Thank you

[@johnarundell7951]

There's a place where you are going You ain't never been before No one laughin' at your back now No one standin' at your door Is that what you thought love was for?

[@cybernautaconfundido]

Yu Ye d

[@anasantana122]

Yu Ye isn’t it “ baby i’m a lost cause “ or “ maybe i’m a lost cause “

[@BitchFace-v3d]

@@anasantana122 No.

[@doingfine20]

In my loneliness and despair, I found a song that broke my heart as much as it healed me.... Thank you Beck!

[@walygisnep]

This is legitimately a part of the 5 songs that can consistently bring me to tears if I don’t leave the room.

[@DuggyDugunder]

I have to try and not listen to it around people.

[@mikepryor7467]

tell me the other 4 please

[@TheMicturation]

@@mikepryor7467 probably the first 4 songs on the album before it

[@mikepryor7467]

@@TheMicturation it’s an incredible album

[@jasoncoker1625]

Yup❤

[@TheBaker64]

Sea Change is an amazing album. My favorite. His personal relationship struggles spawned an amazing vulnerable album. I think everyone on this planet can relate to it on some level!

[@LesClaypoolOnBass]

one of the greatest songs of all time

[@leslieschmidt4744]

the video is great...when the heart pops out

[@annelouisemaclellan485]

@420 Friendly They're right

[@tisdue]

@420 Friendlythis is absolutely one of the greatest songs of all time. It even made Rolling Stones list of greatest of the century (so far)

[@anthonychihuahua]

@@leslieschmidt4744 a heavy heart falls fast

[@zxggwrt]

It’s really good!

[@mrpatrickstar16]

Hi if ur seeing this, just remember that you're worth it and dont give up regardless if you're fighting for a lost cause. itll get better in the end. i promise.

[@chongue1000]

You are a depressed big guy.

[@joenba44]

1:53 I appreciate your kind words. You are a strong soul, no matter what people say. Thank you.

[@ElliottsRevenge]

Promise?

[@TexasJames]

Song ages so well

[@rmiddlehouse]

When you’re listening to this, you know it’s over. Sorry.

[@skfranks77]

A long time ago brought me here. Digging up the past to bury it once more.

[@pariahmouse7794]

Same here...

[@TheRealDrGreenbaum]

🚬

[@pablobombardiere5297]

:'(

[@ele2249]

Amen. ♥️

[@DM-uw3zh]

Yep, bury it!

[@matthewb2768]

A girlfriend introduced me to this song when I was 22 and it became a symbol of our dying relationship. I'm 41 and I always come back to it in times of crisis.

[@TheBarraBaja]

You know how is it...when you feel just soooo identified with a song...that you can't help but listen to it over and over and over...That's what Lost Cause did to me...

[@mikepryor7467]

your sorry eyes they cut through bones

[@SeanKing121]

One of the greatest songs I've heard from the 2000s. Just a hauntingly beautiful song..

[@NickvdVeerdonkNL]

Beck always makes such honest music

[@martinaaguirre5495]

I usted to tell my self this song was for me from me, I was a lost cause until I took the right way and I went to rehab

[@jokelly78]

Stay strong and don't give up xx

[@AlfredoLopez-gp6en]

Never late for us

[@ronniecook4301]

Check what you say about rehab but he went further then that on this song open your mind a little bit more

[@albertovelazquezramirez5109]

Blessings martina....

[@TheAbandonedAccount7]

Thought I was the only one

[@smitty077]

The “is that what you though love was for” is such an amazing few seconds of music

[@janeausten2908]

Gives me goosebumps.

[@JonasPolsky]

This song cured my happiness

[@deirdrekiely6187]

Are you a Morrissey fan too?

[@TheCourtt0]

In a career full of brilliance and great music, this song and album will live on forever.

[@namepls1157]

Here from "the summer I turned pretty". Such a beautiful song.

[@Bikewithlove]

This song is about emotional betrayal - someone allowing you to invest in them when they never intended to invest themselves in you. It’s about being gaslighted - lied to by someone who strings you along with crocodile tears, but can’t be responsible at all to their own relationship. It’s when you had enough of trying to make a relationship work with a sociopath.

[@brmbkl]

tears, or other smoke and mirrors. sometimes no tricks at all, just feeding on hope.

[@Bikewithlove]

@@brmbkl - Not having a good enough bullshit detector & not knowing how to use it. I just spent a 4-day weekend not being a doormat for anyone & I had a perfect time :)

[@an.s.7930]

Omga, I just ended my relantionship because of this. I was thinking I was toxic that I was jealous, I was trying to be perfect for him, but he didnt do the same for me, he was using tinder, lying to me, I was giving so much love and he was just so immature to not being emotional responsible. I love him a lot, and I tried my best but sometimes love is not enough.

[@JH-td4mn]

This is how I view it too. When you realise you're with a serial abuser who is probably "waving their guns at somebody new". My Narcissistic ex dumped me after 2 years by text like the coward he was, admitting he was a lost cause. Probably the only time he was completely honest with me. I sent him this song.

[@haroldjulianna]

Or a narcissist

[@alexmedina8264]

Beck is just awesome. No need to mention anything else. Awesome. Thanks, Beck.

[@parkerconnell]

Girlfriend broke up with me and I had to move to another town, listened to this album the entire drive.Thanks Beck for always being there when I need ya

[@raviramnath2990]

I'm sick of fighting for a lost cause :'( This is such a great song right from the heart. Beck is an amazing artist.

[@multicaruana]

This song was like magic to me when it came out.

[@KenshinHimura300]

Jodie will forever be remembered in this song, you went through so much in your life, always know you are never alone.

[@IOxyrinchus]

This song came from the heart. It’s certainly one of Beck’s more acoustic songs, and it feels very personal and it’s about such a sad subject matter. One of my favourite songs of his, partly due to the honesty of the lyrics, its like personal insight into a love lost situation.

[@toddotto8257]

This is Beck's best song and it's not even close

[@invaderdaniela]

One of the many things I like of Beck's music and videos is that they're timeless... I mean, I feel like this song was released in the early 90's but it came out in 2002... I can see myself listening to this song in the middle 90's or (Mellow Gold era, maybe) in ten years more and still will be refreshing and catchy, and the video too, like all Beck's videos. Beck is a genius... Cool music, cool videos... I want my 90's-00's back seriously!

[@garydonnelly5030]

This song is an electric blanket

[@erinsmith5740]

This song came on when I spent the night at my best friend’s house in high school on SNL. I remember liking the song immediately and have listened to it for over two decades now. Some songs just resonate.

[@samrothstein6278]

Got to be the most heart breaking songs of all time. Truth hurts cause it does make it hard to leave you alone .

[@arcaderockstar7536]

I'm here because I like Beck.

[@asolarasolarasolar]

I'm here because I'm a lost cause

[@yummyjackalmeat]

+Gabriel Quezada that was the most beautiful response

[@shiramelamed8031]

+Gabriel Quezada same

[@jaymckay8942]

Same here

[@mcjumborekt6510]

yup

[@kittyscratch4114]

This one? This one hurts & heals. Every. Single. Time.

[@JulianSauceda-hq5fr]

I still cry everyday to this song

[@maryjackson2308]

Beck has been my soundtrack to my life ❤❤

[@vericose1001]

Modern art. Beautiful.

[@GeorgiiiJ87]

This is the most exquisitely sad songs i've ever heard... I love it.

[@idanielsen2650]

Memories from beyond two souls.... Good times

[@cindysburrito]

Now here is an artist, making beautiful music for the memories that touch our soul.. thanks

[@brandonleonard3606]

This entire album is perfect

[@yarulmasias9401]

So many times ...and the same end. Beautiful song!

[@IOxyrinchus]

One of my favourites of his. To me, it shows his softer, more open side. Love hurts when it’s gone and you need it. Such is life. Beautiful song

[@madelinemorgan5692]

This song came on the radio one day as I was driving home. It very accurately describes how I feel about my own life. "I'm tired of fighting...for a lost cause."

[@gertfroebe3175]

KEEP DRIVING,DON'T GO HOME.

[@madelinemorgan5692]

@@gertfroebe3175 Huh?

[@davidl570]

@@gertfroebe3175 ?????????????

[@cpbacon53511]

BEFORE OR AFTER 9/11?

[@bennycastillo6448]

I friend of mine told me, "This is how I feel right now" , playing this song and I thought it was beautiful. It's great to have song writers like Beck. This song is all emotion. I love it.

[@berryseinfeld6772]

I remember watching this on the night he played it on Leno. We all watched together. Good times. Beck is one of a kind.

[@crazymode341]

This song makes me cry every time

[@kappajoey]

The first line kills it. This sad song hooks you with the first lyrical line "Your sorry eyes, that cut through bones" which pretty much what anyone can think of their loved one. its the eyes that you will always remember. Be they a lover, child, a friend or even an unfulfilled love whom you just have to let go.

[@thomasmccue2136]

Beautiful just Beautiful 💖💖

[@pablobombardiere5297]

So fucking sad :(

[@BitchFace-v3d]

"Your sorry eyes, they cut through the bone"

[@blkmanbat]

Sea Change is with out a doubt his best album... My opinion.

[@Rrodfer]

i agree

[@OldMovieRob]

Yep

[@bengalitucktuck]

Yeah bro

[@IOxyrinchus]

Indisputable in my opinion. I love his other albums as well, but this one is special; the songs on it come from very deep within his heart, showing his softer side, a whole other side from what we’re used to. It’s so beautiful, powerful, heartbreaking. It’s a masterpiece and one of my favourite acoustic albums ever. It’s like heartbreak makes him write awesome songs.m

[@liatnus]

Agree with you 1000%

[@MariaLopez-xm2iz]

La melancolía es la alegría de estar triste ... Es lo que me hace sentir esta canción ...

[@teddyjackson1902]

Bought this LP when it came out. Feeling it with my wife of 22 years now.

[@pandascarpo]

This song is amazing, perfectly arranged, a deep search of the right sound....and last but not least, wonderful video! Well done Beck!

[@SantaCruzHappy1]

...the hard feeling...of being left by the one you love...or leaving the one you love...wear your wounds for they are a badge of honor...that takes you home....

[@flaviol]

i'm tired of fighting fighting for a lost cause :(

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

ya.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

Flávio Better these days? Hope so.

[@shannonnonameinilovecats0]

Things always get darkest before the dawn ✌️.

[@dmlevitt]

america is a lost cause.

[@kschwartz1666]

This song just makes me recognize how I feel about certain people and situations. This is definitely one of my favorite Beck songs

[@ARB826]

Just an amazing song all around. Beck reached the sky with this one. The guy can make songs with such different flavors and intentions, because he knows the recipe isn’t about mastering a genre but rather mastering the art of being open to the universe by tapping into yourself.

[@velome9836]

R.I.P Nathan, i was listening to Beck and this came on and all I could think of is you. Can’t wait to see you again ❤️

[@lumberjack988]

This is the best song from the best album he's ever put out.

[@McGuinnessralph]

What a great tune. I had a crazy ex with many problems. This resonated so well. Looking back maybe I wasn’t the best. People are complex but this helped a lot. Nice to revisit

[@cpbacon53511]

shut up

[@nicolas.grisanti]

This album is a beautiful and sad masterpiece

[@BushyHairedStranger]

The fearless heart loves without limits and mourns each lost cause••

[@reisk1777]

I saw this song played live by a country band (a serious country band: Cowboy hats, cowboy boots, pearl button shirts and rodeo belt buckles. Not even a sole John Deere baseball cap.) They didn't do anything to make it sound like a country song. It was a faithful cover of the song, perhaps the most faithful in tone and instrumentation I've ever heard, but the good-old-boy country crowd accepted it like a dive-bar staple, and a lot of people got up to slow dance. While the band was playing a woman handed out blown-up balloons, and when you popped the balloon you'd find a treat inside: A piece of candy, a 'round tooit' (for a free drink at the bar), a dollar bill, coupons for fast food, fortune cookies, stuff like that. It was a little surreal for a country set. It validates my idea that Beck is a hot mess of radical conformity. Culture and counter-culture, quietly packaged as avant-garde. To be different, while demonstrating that being different really doesn't matter.

[@MINDWARDEN]

Beautiful. Beck is a real artist, with real talent, who never seemed to take himself too seriously.

[@jamesstaggs4160]

Why is the falling effigy of Beck so sad? It's just a bunch of fireworks and paper, but it fits the tone of the song perfectly. Whoever came up with the idea to film that in slow motion with all the various stages it goes through is a damn genius. Seriously that was a cool idea.

[@MP-tf7cc]

Why do you think it's an effigy of Beck?

[@davidl570]

It's also MUCH better than the other version, which is just plain lame! Dunno why he felt the need to make a second version in the first place.

[@brmbkl]

@@davidl570 label pressure, no doubt

[@davidl570]

@@brmbkl Dang, should've thought of that! Of course. Kind of sad when artists are forced (or at LEAST feel forced) to do that.

[@joefilter2923]

@@MP-tf7cc because it has Beck’s face

[@AngelicaMop34]

i can relate to this song so much

[@SHYKOOPA]

@Trantor The Troll being attractive will open some doors for sure but it doesn't solve all of life problems (what would I know though lol)

[@Teri.Dactyl]

Beautiful Beck.

[@ricardoquintanilla8405]

I've just started listening Beck and this song made me cry like a child that lost his mother at the mall

[@satellitenation]

Beck's versatility simply astounds me...I'm always impressed by his work. Pure genius.

[@ayisatraji1561]

The summer I turned pretty really has good soundtrack

[@amberwerth3649]

This song has always made me cry

[@cindysburrito]

Now this is one true “ARTIST” ..............thanks 4 what u left us,that ..leave us.”..SnapPing our fingers,and taping our toes...thank you-BECK

[@theNomadz]

Looking forward to the Manchester show tonight, love this song.

[@gorillashop337]

I was not a Beck fan until Pandora played this song now I can't get enough of him. Absolutely beautiful song

[@AmyAlways]

Love this whole album. Sweet, sad, melancholy.

[@Lby54229]

His Sea Change album reminds me of when I would drive 17 from Myrtle Beach to Charleston and back. Perfect weather. Window down. Beck playing on the stereo. No worries.

[@bluegreyfogg]

SWeeet!

[@itsmanoli8720]

Its something else when this song turns from painful to happy.

[@edalder2000]

I never understood Beck for the longest time. But when I first heard Beck strip it all down on "Sea Change" and this song, I "got" Beck.

[@maxweaver141]

Genuis. And mournfully gorgeous

[@RoIIingStoned]

i love the first two lines of this song

[@ricbonnici4878]

brilliant song, brilliant video

[@darbirhian]

Hearing about his breakup and then seeing this video for the first time was so emotional. I remember watching it with my ex and his brother forever ago and we all teared up.

[@FOUNDEDEARTHBROTHERS]

This was my favorite song my freshman year of college back in the fall of 2002. Crazy that it was recommended on KZbin after all these years. Can't believe that was 22 years ago now.

[@williamglenn777]

2002 was a pretty magical time… #ff1987

[@FOUNDEDEARTHBROTHERS]

@@williamglenn777 It definitely was. Felt like it was the last of the good old days as technology quickly escalated the world into a different place. I'd love to go back to that time period.

[@Ludodo]

Hello Jodie

[@501lilspoon]

Czrynek Z huh

[@gnomethy]

this is probably a reference to something this song was in, but holy shit. the person who showed me this song is named jodie. your comment surprised me

[@jodi777yadu]

Czrynek Z hi there!

[@Alehanders]

Beyond two souls

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

Czrynek Z Hello! How have you been? 😁

[@bananafanafoferry6970]

I love this song so much. So plaintive. I've been on both sides of this. Beautiful.

[@DopamineSchizo]

to all the lost causes in this world, i'm with you

[@joyofpepper4665]

Every Beck album is his best album.

[@timothydillow3160]

"Sea Change is the most heart- felt album I've ever heard from any artist. Simple, profound, honest, beautiful. A fitting title as well." td

[@hook986]

imagine being the one' this album was written about...what a role to play; Because through her ruin, it lead to such a treasure '

[@bluegreyfogg]

Very true