The Postal Service - Nothing Better

[@CaptainPajamaPants]

This was my jam in high school. Trying to explain it to people was also my favorite thing. "Imagine a guy singing to a girl who broke up with him and the girl is telling him that the relationship was never what he remembers it as, but with Mario sounds as the backing music."

[@thomasknowles7339]

+CaptainPajamaPants this is the album that stopped me from killing myself in college. bizarre that subpop got them.

[@CaptainPajamaPants]

Thomas Knowles That's heavy man. Hope things are going well for you now.

[@felinejackson]

This made me smile a lot! Perfect description, hehe.

[@omfgh4x]

+Thomas Knowles That's great that you were able to stay strong and I hope you are doing well now but may I ask what the Sub Pop comment was referring to?

[@thomasknowles7339]

+omfgh4x TPS was LA, not even a Seattle scene for their music at dispersal, they set up through early social media and hit major cities. subpop still hasn't payed for betraying Cobain, so it shouldn't be a surprise that TPS would sign in their "home town", why? what do you mean?

[@newjoy798]

"Your heart wont heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures" hit different now that I am older.

[@igotashake]

That particular line really stood out to me as well

[@Justmikenoy]

There’s something similar to be said for being lost in the woods and seeing the same tree over and over, yet you trek on in the same direction, certain that you know where you’re going until you pass that same god damn tree again. That line though, definitely powerful.

[@AndrewKelley]

can confirm. I acted like the guy in this song in my college days, and my heart did not heal right

[@tenissinclair3659]

What's good, fellow time traveler?

[@Jeana4life]

My husband passed two weeks ago and this used to be his favorite song. I love you much my love ❤

[@NICOLASASASO]

❤ ❤

[@LakersReaction]

RIP 🙏🏻

[@design1of470]

RIP 🙏

[@bethmallis2508]

My husband also passed away unexpectedly recently ❤ I'll be sending you love ❤️ ❤❤❤❤❤

[@PaulinaOltan-qe8gl]

RIP :(

[@BookerKaden]

I remembered when my mom used to play this album, mostly this song in particular, in the car all the time when I was a kid, it was the early 2000s and my dad had divorced her, I grew very attached to this song and enjoyed it but didn't think about the lyrics too much because I was naive. I'm in my 20s now and re-listening to this for the first time in many years and now have a better understanding of the lyrical concept, it made sense to me why my mom used to always put this song on at the time. It's kind of saddening now I fully understand the relation between this song and my mom's feelings over the divorce, but I'm also glad she introduced me to this band and be a part of my childhood. So thank you, mom.

[@importedtv]

Hope mom is doing better!

[@Some_random98]

Very rarely the father ends the relationship almost always the mother's fault

[@alexandraw2341]

That's not true

[@projeklimbo]

Its bizarre how much a song can change meaning from childhood to adulthood. It's the same song but changes in ones mind.

[@h1r0d0tc0m]

@@Some_random98 😬😬 gross

[@Dottor_J]

Probably my favorite of the album. 1:30 I just love how she comes in with the violins

[@kevinsmith4244]

I think my favorite part of this song is that during his verse, there are not many effects. However, during her verse, there are so many effects. Subtle symbolism that expresses who feels empty after the breakup.

[@pixies2616]

i listen to this song when i workout. the pain of lifting weights could never match the pain of being dumped.

[@allisoncomer2656]

Pixies 26 woah.

[@MOTHMANFGC]

The heaviest weights we lift are our feels

[@ConnorNolan]

@@MOTHMANFGC Woah, that's like, deep. Haha for once I don't mean that in an ironic way

[@ConnorNolan]

I do this too! This and Gotse's 'Somebody I Used to Know' are such good workout motivators.

[@toobytubes1516]

@@MOTHMANFGC Lol is there "Nothing better" than your comment?

[@jasminnimsaj44]

hey - to the stranger who told me to check this band out! you weren't bothering me. thank you.

[@leleedler]

Who would've thought that a song could produce so many mixed emotions. I love this song so much.

[@tuxievous420]

I’m here with you

[@vijaynair2403]

One of the best love songs ever written!

[@martincruz4846]

Listened to this song when I got my heart broken as a teen, and now here I am in my 30s listening to this a divorced man 😔

[@dustinhatfield22]

I'm sorry to hear that man, this was mine and my ex fiancee's song (her pick, not mine). I still can't get over her a decade later, even try to rekindle things from time to time in weird moments of desperation, but she didn't love me when she cheated and as much as she wants to act friendly she doesn't want me now either so I feel at least a bit of your pain. I hope you are doing okay man.

[@johnmurray1508]

I didn't touch this album for years post-divorce. I listened to a lot of agonizing lofi hiphop. But this album became like Chernobyl to me. Just now coming in to the exclusion zone 3 or 4 years on...

[@_boobiejohnson_]

Same. Except I'm getting divorced

[@randybobandy9828]

Oof...I'm sorry man. I was almost there...almost broke up with my partner after 9 years but we figured it out...for now.

[@BMilitant]

@@johnmurray1508 i do the same. Sometimes I need to tell myself to snap out if it and listen to more up beat music but lofi and certain old songs like this just make me feel something

[@richardhuaaa]

I love this song because of the strong characters and the subtle humor. The male's hyperbolic professions of his pain ("will someone please call a surgeon? who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart") are just so perfectly contrasted to the female's over-the-top logical attitude to the situation ("I've made charts and graphs that will finally make it clear; I've prepared a lecture, for why I have to leave"). Many of us have been on both sides of this situation, but seeing it from an external perspective really gives it a lightness that is both unfamiliar and refreshing.

[@JohnDoe-qu5ik]

Great comparison

[@cracklingrosiemakemesmile8973]

Its not funny.. Heartbreak is truly painful and really hurts like that :/ b

[@Axmza]

@@cracklingrosiemakemesmile8973 "Subtle humor" not "LMFAO"

[@cracklingrosiemakemesmile8973]

@@Axmza there is no subtle humor about heartbreak.heartbreak literally feels like your heart is breaking.

[@jeremiahlytle6599]

@@Axmza exactly

[@oomel3496]

Will someone please call a surgeon Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart That you're deserting for better company? I can't accept that it's over And I will block the door like a goalie tending the net In the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry So just say how to make it right And I swear I'll do my best to comply Tell me: Am I right to think that there could be nothing better Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together? I feel I must interject here You're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself With these revisions and gaps in history So let me help you remember I've made charts and graphs that should finally make it clear I've prepared a lecture on why I have to leave So, please back away and let me go I can't my darling I love you so Oh, oh Tell me: Am I right to think that there could be nothing better Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together? Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures I know that I have made mistakes And I swear I'll never wrong you again You've got a lure I can't deny But you've had your chance so say goodbye Say goodbye

[@radiodept5618]

Jaman aku dengerin suara Karina, Sandra, Kemal di TraxFM. Masih sekolah.. banyak lagu2 berkualitas waktu itu 😁

[@jnerdsblog]

a lure -> allure

[@ericfoster8411]

Jenny Lewis is one of my absolute favorite song writers/performers and having her on this song just makes it that much cooler in my mind. She’s seriously the coolest

[@davidlindsay9564]

I just found this out recently, and I hate to break it to you, as it threw me for a loop, it's not Jenny Lewis. Jen Wood sings the duet with Ben. Jenny Lewis is all over this album but 2 tracks she isn't on are this one and one other. She does it live with em and I've spent ages assuming it was Jenny Lewis but its not. Unreal huh?

[@johnvphillips]

@@davidlindsay9564 actually jen wood does backing vocals on one song (such great heights) but jenny lewis also sings in that song. this is the only song with just jen wood and not jenny lewis.

[@donaldstill1139]

Her voice overpowers his. She’s the final say. Real life shit

[@JohnDoe-qu5ik]

If this is redundant, apologies. That's Jenny Lewis and she's incredible. She has many other musical collaborations. One of fav being the now broken "Rilo Kiley." If you like Jenny's voice check them out.

[@rialimpe]

@@JohnDoe-qu5ik I always thought it was Leslie Feist

[@EngineJoe32]

@@JohnDoe-qu5ik It's Jen Wood on the album version, although Jenny Lewis does background vocals on other songs and has performed it live as seen on KZbin. I have the physical album with liner notes.

[@donniedarko5899]

Best comment

[@hambonefakenamington69]

@@JohnDoe-qu5ik i ENJOY rilo kiley's music so much

[@ulysseszelaya5499]

when she comes in is so clean

[@slewke]

when this album came out i was blown away. There were no genres like this. this song especially stuck with me. now 16 years later going through grown up bull shit and just breaking up from a long committed relationship, this song is too accurate. this dude is all fumbling around grasping at one more chance, talking about how perfect things can be. then she breaks in and snaps him back to reality, how it really was. i go to win back my ex girlfriend and she got charts and graphs and shit. i do revise the history and have gaps in my memory about shit i pulled. this is such an incredible song from an amazing album from a fun time in my life

[@ilsxnvt.8434]

I've found my MP3 again today and when I started to listen to all those old songs, this one came up. Can't believe I forgot this song, it was always my favorite!

[@Kyleroo]

Same. It's on my dad's MP3 which he handed down to me.

[@Kyleroo]

@@im.meghan You're joking, right?

[@EMMERGENCEFILES]

This song still gets me right in the tattered shriveled dried up pieces of what used to be my heart.

[@earthpond8043]

My heart left me long ago. Now I just smile even tho the organ is gone.

[@EonarOWNS]

Used to listen to this from my iTouch with skullcandy earpods in high school 2011… now I’m 27 and those first 15 seconds takes my breath away every time. Life is a trip.

[@randybobandy9828]

Used to listen to this banger back in 2004 as a junior in high school.

[@SoulshineKitty]

When you used to listening to this on highschool…. And me you’re 32. ❤

[@someguy1661]

My people

[@SoulshineKitty]

@@someguy1661🎉

[@SoulshineKitty]

@@someguy1661always

[@ValeriaFranchino]

Now I' m 42 . I was 20 a life ago😢

[@butterflies00143]

its amazing how they turned letters in to such beautiful music. i just wanna cry. my big brother introduced me to this song\band. i miss him

[@sylviemiststream]

As an emo highschooler I can say that the one thing I loved about this song was that the male was able to feel so much emotion and heartbreak, where the female wasn't the one being emotional. She was being rational about why their relationship wasn't working, thus making the heartbroken guy look like some kind of a fool. In doing so she also came off really cold and distant. But he still carries on being a hopeless romantic for her. I remember as a lonely emo highschool girl, I used to listen to him and wish I could take her place and grow old with him instead. Now that I'm older I've wound up with someone who's equally as much of a hopeless romantic as me, and we're really happy together ♥

[@randybobandy9828]

Very nice. This song was always poetic

[@aliciahall1922]

The opposite. The point is she probably tried and tried and told him a million times. Now she is leaving he is showing his emotions. Perfect song. He had a short memory! 😢

[@weilandiv8310]

When I got divorced in 2004, it was The Postal Service which helped me through it all. I made 3 great friends that year also. We called our group, the Going Postal Service.

[@RaptorLuck]

This song always brings up past memories, nostalgia, and makes me remember when my heart was broken.... yet i can't not love this song.

[@ivanmoreno2161]

i remember buying this album in 7th grade and i skipped school and just layed down upside down looking outside the window when the sun was hitting in my room and listened to this album over and over again so relaxing now im 23 and still love them!!

[@lizbethmorenofoo9217]

Ivan Moreno me too!

[@ericfoster8411]

This album always fixes me whenever I’m emotionally worn out.

[@Timothy_Himothy1]

Sister use to play this band on the way to school when I was in 6th grade and anytime I hear it I get big nostalgia , those were the days.. talking to girls was the biggest rush ever, now I work 60 hours a week..

[@earthpond8043]

Serfdom

[@hawhawjepers8274]

Remembering what a home was like, I have had places to exist. Home is a feeling you have, not a place on a map.

[@TeachesOfPeaches69]

I first heard this song in elementary school, a boy played an acoustic cover and sang the whole song for a talent show. He did an amazing job and was probably the reason that I started playing guitar myself. That was about 13 years ago now. This song is beautiful and I wish that cover he did was online so that I could link it!

[@shawnterrell7861]

You're so old

[@ConnorNolan]

It hit me right in the feels when I was 15 and it still does now that I'm 25. I wish it wasn't still so relevant to my love life T.T

[@OtterThanMost]

This song just brings tears to my eyes. It just reminds me of all the broken promises...

[@brianburtis7262]

This song.....omg do I have memories that are attached to it. I remember meeting my first boyfriend and we bonded over this album. We are still together till this day. I feel like this was right around the time where pretty much everyone accepted two men or women could be in love without feeling disgust or hate. Everytime I hear this album it brings me back to the beginning. I was 24 and he was 25. I'm 39 now... Time flies.

[@eatwithmarktheshark9659]

"I know that I have made mistakes... And I swear I'll never wrong you again" 💔

[@Blobberoni]

Damn. 5 seconds in and I'm already crying. I haven't heard this since I was 15.

[@valence7]

The transition into Jenny's verse is one of the coolest musical moments ever.

[@JacobStevens13]

My favorite part is when shes like "no this is statistically why youre an asshole"

[@sarahl9398]

Seconding everyone that was all about TPS in high school :') Fell in love with this whole album. Nothing Better has such a dreamy quality with clever lyrics, I love when the girl enters.

[@sevinPackage]

Best album of the 2000s.

[@jakegetscake4672]

without a doubt

[@omfgh4x]

Possibly ever.

[@majortom9397]

One of the best, for the best i would say Kid A

[@btrixlestrange]

possibly the best album ever

[@cubanb7839]

Maybe not 00’s but ‘03 fer sher

[@seanburley8522]

“Would someone please call a surgeon Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart That you're deserting for better company?” Love those lyrics, even though they are painful.

[@TravieSpots]

I listened to this in 2005 as a senior in highschool. The lyrics made me feel like I was desperate for love. Now at 35 it's a reminder of how silly that desperation was.

[@pragmatist4life142]

Personal favorite on this flawless masterpiece of an album.

[@modera.torrent_]

This song was, and is, so anthemic of a time, this short lived band whos one album got a surprising lack of airplay, and even is seldom remembered by even those who were young in that era. But of the ones who knew, and couldn't discount its significance even if they tried, it remains truly iconic, and nearly every fan seems to have a slew of memories associated with it, be it old heartbreak, or a reminder of the nature of time and how everything passes, but what is always consistent is the nostalgia of a very distant feeling time from not long ago, which I think many of us are driven to prevent from re-entering the forefront of our memories, in order to cope with the rapid pace of progression and digression in their infinite duelist existence that we only observe but stand soo helpless in, for time can be made more or less efficient, more or less significant, but can only be experienced at one immutable speed, and any perception outside of that fact is merely illusion. Side note: Kamala could take a lessen from my comment. When you remove all poetic qualities and relatable relevance from a monologue, all that remains is word-salad without substance. Her biggest flaw seems to be the compete lack of relatability, and I had this realization literally as I was writing it, and noticing the similarities in my word choice and hers. But mimicry cannot triumph pure passion, and performance cannot be genuinely expressed to an audience who gains awareness of the deception and emotional manipulation from the speaker.

[@newlettuce]

Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures

[@deprofundis3293]

Fucking amazing lyrics in this song... 😊

[@davidr1122]

Amazing Amazing lyric.

[@papalosopher]

Maybe the best lines of lyrics ever written.

[@DeadpoolX9]

You assume he wants it to heal. Evidently not.

[@Watch_over_us]

(Tell me am I right?)

[@BubblegumByte]

Listening to this in my 30’s remembering my teenage love 💕

[@jc3001]

This makes me feel like I just broke up with a girlfriend I never had

[@ericfoster8411]

I’ve always been aware of its genius but god damn is this record brilliant. This song has so much thought put into it. They all do. For being a band that’s held together by the us mail service, they managed to take it very seriously and popped out an absolute gem

[@dan292009]

I haven't listened to this song in four years. That bit at 1:33 goose bumps always 👍🏻

[@jonathanricks1678]

An orchestra accompanies her words, her presence. They made the unheard, heard.

[@davidlindsay9564]

Yeah thats the bit that gets me too.

[@jakegetscake4672]

Man I remember being 17 I was addicted to heroin and my parents were about ready to throw me out. I remember sitting in my room withdrawing like crazy crying like a baby to this album this album meant a lot to me over the years even before being 17 me and my sister would listen to this during the summer at my dads. By far my favorite album ever

[@amely-fraukepfefferkorn4965]

I know that feeling! Best wishes and greetings from Dresden, Germany

[@emperorskeksi]

How have I never heard of this band. Just wow!

[@dong1067]

An 8yr relationship ended when she said it was done....4 months later I hear this in a long time and these lyrics make so much sense now...yet I still mourn this breakup. Such an powerful song

[@Pondwater466]

This is my favorite song from my favorite band

[@lenia2020]

I could listen to this album over and over, and never get tired of it. In fact, I have, for years.

[@addielo823]

I loved this song since the 6th grade and it’s so sad and ironic how 14 years later this song matched my life. One year later and I still feel both parts to the song.

[@MintyArisato]

This was the song I looped after my first major break up. It helped because both sides of the songs were like the two different parts of my heart arguing with one another. “I need them in my life! No wait, now I remember all the awful things they did!” ultimately I agreed with the final sentiments of letting go, and years later I’m happy looking back on it. Such a nostalgic song for me.

[@sparkynewman6692]

This song gives me fond memories of happier times that never really happened.

[@lindahaney4170]

Succinct! Love it!

[@oceanicpluto]

Remembering how much I loved this song in high school. Now I sing it to my third kid to put them to sleep 😅

[@br3ad420]

"You're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself."

[@Amtan.Personal]

Love seeing that so many other people have the same love for this song from back in high school (jr high for me~). This album was the soundtrack of my adolescence~

[@RazielRamirez]

truly gem, remember myself walking downtown chicago 2007

[@ConnorNolan]

It brings me straight back to laying on a bench outside my highschool in 2008. That feeling of leaves falling all around as I drank my cold coffee, ah, it brings me back.

[@Soberman75]

Our souls are here for a reason. Find love and have fun.

[@andrewhontz3327]

Everyone went nuts over ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’, but first time I heard it, it was this tune that came to mind…and it was done much better here.

[@jperko13]

this was the first song I showed my gf at the time, the first softer side of my music liking. that I showed her. and when she broke up with me a year later, she cried when I put this song on in the car..

[@damselANDTHEdaemon]

Cool story bro

[@BHPaperstacks]

it woulda been hella funny if you like farted too

[@MissSeaShell]

This song is so beautiful!

[@LaPeppercorn]

*Ben Gibbard breathing in dramatically compilation* 0:26 0:29 0:33 0:40 0:50 1:10 1:17 2:07 2:14 2:21 2:28 3:11

[@GravityGrave]

🤣🤣 whats the deal with that!

[@mohara589]

Its so crazy how years can change a relationship so much..

[@peesem]

saw this live last night, even better than i thought it would be

[@Oliver-su9ik]

20 years later, it's still a banger.

[@MakesClouds]

Did you see there doing shows this year

[@awong160]

See yall at the Hollywood Bowl!

[@honeyhorse4597]

I use to listen to this thinking of the girl i will love forever. She got away. I am convinced my spirit will wander the earth still searching for her love till eternity.

[@honeyhorse4597]

I can't my darling i love you so.

[@ConnorNolan]

Don't worry, there will be another who will redefine what you think love is! It always happens eventually if you put yourself out there :)

[@frankiegarza3002]

I used to go through girls back when I was in my teens and 20s like I didn't care. Now being 32, I want things to just go back to how they were but with this frame of mind knowing I should have treated the loves of my life better. I broke hearts when I was young..and now mine has been breaking for almost 8 years.

[@MS-bm3vj]

Yep.. Sadly we don't come to these realizations and understand what we put other people through until these things happen to us.. 🕷

[@shanezuniga2647]

bring back good memory of 8th love give up it was a master piece

[@Joshpipes]

Damn. After all these years this album still SLAPS. Not a bad song on the record

[@salomonespinoza5896]

Takes me back to 2012 high school days skate days 🥺

[@bassisgreat44]

2023 ❤❤ still one of my favorite songs

[@justing757]

2021 and still listening to them. Brings me back to my ex

[@janedoe8566]

Your heart ❤️ won’t heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures 🎵🎶 always loved that lyric. Forgot all about this song

[@ErikaDeleon-o8c]

I was remember listening to this song as a teen. Here I am at the age of 40 and relates to me more now than then❤

[@92clintonr]

The nostalgia is so strong it's almost too much.

[@D9Beats]

First girl I ever loved. Man, still feels the same way almost 20 years later even though I’m obviously over her. My dad told me, you’ll remember this one forever. It’s your first. He was right. Life is a wild ride. 💔

[@patriciasanchez8449]

I was all alone in my beginning emo years of the ripe age of 12 jammin this in the year 2008 man. I'm 27 in a month. Crazy.

[@KC-pv1ms]

I love the medical allusions within the lyrics, they add an entirely new level of depth to the song!

[@babaluigi]

sucks to choke on your own spit crying to this song because it only reminds you of your favorite person ever. idk why i am crying the way i am today. she's been dead for like 4 years. but damn it doesnt get easier. what a wonderful woman. i was so fucking lucky to know her. thank you kayla i love you. fuck heroin.

[@iminasnailinawhale]

grief is one of the deepest most painful emotions. honor it and it will teach you something ancient and true.

[@RyogaXvX]

She prepared a lecture. She was always better at charts and graphs.

[@ZenoAkame]

The best song they've ever done imo

[@chrisblaney5195]

She quoted me a line in this song. I was heartbroken. And still am.

[@TheMendezWay]

"you've had your chance so say goodbye." that was the one to me.

[@Vanilla_Addict]

I hope it's gotten better. that is the worse, I'm sorry:(

[@fridaicha2032]

❤️this song since 2006

[@varunp8065]

That's around the time my first GF (of 3 years) broke up with me and I listened to this non stop. :)

[@zuco89e]

Yesss :(

[@ashleydonaldson8822]

THANK YOU DESTERY FOR THIS SUGGESTION

[@cyprn6600]

god i love this album so much

[@tyka2516]

Its ironic that when me and my girlfriend got together we both loved this song. Now that i messed up our relationship. This song has a horrific similarities on what it is now.

[@RorytheRomulan]

I don't understand how a live audience can go nuts for this. The song is legitimately depressing, and beautifully so.

[@sillei3065]

its aweome to share this in vinyl to your 18, 16, 13 year old siblings. much better when they feel it.

[@kylemeyer3920]

Gustav Mahler deserves credit in this album. The fourth movement of his sixth symphony is sampled in this song and "We will become silhouettes". (The dramatic orchestral excerpts.)

[@BMilitant]

I can't wait until I live happily ever after and don't need to come back to this song and feel like this

[@user-ch5qd3uz3l]

This song is an over-emotional teenage boy getting dumped by a Vulcan

[@aujew]

takes one to know one

[@s.n.9485]

this about sums it up.

[@shehriyarkhan3904]

12 years ago my then girlfriend sent me this song to listen to. We broke up a day later. What a bitch.

[@h_kkey]

right in the feels

[@Skerriie]

1:10 "Tell me am I right to think that there could be nothing better than making you my bride and slowly growing old together?“

[@BlackCatsNCoffee83]

2019. Still. 🖤

[@DUUUVAL21]

Away soccer games blasting this on my big ipod in highschool. Man the memories and nostalgia..

[@elizabethquick907]

When I broke up with my ex in high school, he sent me this song and it made me cry...i still love it and we are good friends now

[@earthpond8043]

Holy cow that’s so messed up

[@oyecubana777]

This song fits my break up perfectly. There has been such a long history of abuse and manipulation, now that I’m completely broken and empty towards the situation, he wants to do anything to fix it. Too little too late. I wish things were different from the beginning, he’s one of those people no matter what you’ll have a connection with & you’re magnetic towards each other. We’ve tried for over a year to make it work after we broke up but there’s been too much damage, I don’t see him the same. “Your heart won’t heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures”.

[@randybobandy9828]

But that lyric is intened for the breakupee not the breaker upper. If you actually love him then it is worth another chance. As long as there wasnt any physical abuse or cheating.

[@Celaeno725]

I didn't realize this group was from Seattle but after having lived in Washington it couldn't possibly have come from anywhere else 😭😭😭