Joanna Newsom - Only Skin

album: Ys (2006, Drag City)

[@TheGamerprod]

she was 24 when this album came out,,, how

[@lisarodjer4898]

dude when she says "scrape, your knee, it is only skin" it gives me FULL BODY chills every time no exception

[@AdrianskiASMR]

I'm personally very careful with this song. It's without a doubt the most powerful and well written song I've ever heard in my entire life and could be the best one I will ever hear. I shiver every time and hear it and tear up 70% of the time so I only listen to it when I feel I need to be vulnerable. It's like a supplement to help me effectively go through a cathartic moment if that makes sense. Thank you, Joanna Newsom. I'm full grown man who doesn't ever idolize celebrities, but if I saw her in real life I would literally fall to the ground crying.

[@canadey97]

This will always be, in my opinion one of the greatest songs ever written. The lyrics alone just in this one song are comparable to some of the best poets of all time. Literally made my wig FLY the first time I ever heard this and continues to.

[@jimjimogen]

this is the greatest song ever written. im so glad to be alive at the same time as this masterpiece

[@whoisxenon]

catch me at the function begging the DJ to play this

[@geometricallegory]

This is the only song that really matters to me.... All the others? Nahh... This is the song that makes sense to my person. When I'm an old man in an old folks home I hope that some underpaid nurse thinks to put this song on my headphones.... I'll be happy then.

[@gluntford]

How can you go on living after writing this?

[@melteddali8000]

It's 3 am and I'm crying alone in my apartment to this

[@bbuuttercupp]

I don’t understand how or why but this song is actually too short. I just click start and before I know it, I gotta replay

[@7bean3]

I could live a 1000 years and never write something as incredible as this song and it is only one of five miracles from the album. like, what the hell, how are we the same species?

[@cas8419]

So vulnerable and comforting, it's insane that this exists. Inhuman how beautiful this is and how everything flows with so many different parts

[@laura-mt3tb]

6:02

[@xylan9543]

5:33

[@karlklee9418]

Some Years ago, I had a terrible cold. I was laying in the in the sun and listened to Only Skin and Emily. While I listened, I was shivering the whole time. After that I stood up and my cold was completely blown away. Like a miracle.

[@amgm1996]

when the seagull weeps "so long!" and the beat drops 🔥

[@BipolarBear_pen15]

I think this might genuinely be the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard.

[@smnoy23]

I don't even know how you begin to come up with this much lyrical imagery over a lifetime, let alone in one song

[@soleywolfgangsdottir]

And there was a booming above you

[@prestonschmitt5356]

I was so excited when I first heard this track and noticed Bill Callahan doing vocals on it. I think it's natural that two great folk artists work so well together