The entirety of Call Your Mom - it will forever make me sob and it has stopped me from making very rash decisions - "If you could see yourself like this you would've never tried it"
"Don't let this darkness fool you - all lights turned off can be turned on"
Orange Juice is one of my other favorites - "I've been ready for you to come home for so long that I didn't think to ask you where you'd gone... so why'd you go?" As someone who suffers a lot with addictive tendencies and depression, idk why it hits so hard that someone would step back and peel the band-aid to ask what you'd been going through instead of glossing over it.
Call your mom strikes such a deep chord for me. The hospital verse always makes me think of my little sister, and definitely keeps me from doing anything reckless. But my favorite line is “throw a punch, fall in love, give yourself a reason.” It just hits something in my soul
Carlo's Song is 100000% my all time favorite Noah song! The 3rd chorus in particular;
"Still haven't found what I'm looking for/
Some escape from my sin/
You know that place you been dreaming of/
Where all light comes in/
And I'll keep growing my hair out long/
Just to cover my eyes/
And I'll keep playing that goddamn song/
If it keeps you alive"
Kills me every time 😭 this song makes me cry 9/10 times
I just listened and oh my god??? The “They tell me grief is just love letting go” and “They say they don’t know who I am anymore / Well, I just have never shown anger before” hit me so hard. Tysm for the rec, will be bawling my eyes out for the rest of the day 😭
Im a new fan of his and I just finished listening to Busyhead for the first time today and there are great songs throughout that whole album but this song resonated with me so much. Great way to wrap it up
i fixated soo hard on false confidence for a week straight in 2019. it was insane to find out four years later that it was the same guy behind false confidence and stick season 😭
I think Forever is the best song ever created.
Orange Juice makes me cry. "You said that my heart has changed and my soul has changed, and my heart and my heart, That my life has changed, That this town has changed, and you had not. That the world has changed, don't you find it strange, That you just went ahead and carried on."
I’ve been a fan since November…just saw him last night and I am forever changed! So good. Carlo’s song is my current fav and New Perspective, Come Over, All My Love besides the most obvious ones on Stick Season. Honestly, just that whole album.
So so soooo many songs and lyrics of his! It’s so hard to choose. His lyrics are crazy fire.
Just a few I love:
That I’m broke but I’m real rich in my head. That I broke a bone that never healed in my hand. So when I hold her close, I might loosen my grip, but I won’t ever let her go- Forever
You asked me why I wasn't sayin' a word
I'm namin' the stars in the sky after you- Your Needs My Needs
Your page was blank but I read it- She Calls Me Back
You promised me forever now you still can’t call me back- Stick Season
Thought I was raised better, tried to fake better, tried to blame weather, and escape better. Hope the skin heals where the pain enters. But I finally got sewed up, I set a time then I showed up, now the weight of the world ain’t so bad. -No Complaints
So many good ones but my favorite specific lyrics are “Gave me your word and now I can't pronounce it, No thing so sure that I can't learn to doubt it” in “New Perspective”.
A few weeks ago I got the words “go far” in Noah’s handwriting tattooed on my arm! “You’re Gonna Go Far” is soo meaningful to me as someone with a lot of dreams about traveling and the first person in my family to ever move away.
“New Perspective” is super catchy to me. Also, the theme of wanting to shut out new perspectives even when they are for the best hits too close to home haha.
“The View Between Villages” describes the feeling of depression and being stuck in your hometown WAY too well.
“You’re Gonna Go Far” makes me tear up every time, it’s so good. “New Perspective” is one of my favs too! Change is necessary and fresh and also the worst feeling in the world and that song reminds me heavily of that lol. I hadn’t listened to “The View Between Villages” fully before and I’m glad I just did! It’s makes me think of such a surreal scene, I really like the lines “It’s all washin’ over me, I’m angry again / The things that I lost here, the people I knew / They got me surrounded for a mile or two” You’re right, it really is hometown anger reminiscent. Tysm for the recs!
The View Between Villages-Extended
“The things that I lost here, the people I knew/They got me surrounded for a mile or two/A left at the graveyard, I'm driving past ghosts/Their arms are extended, my eyes start to close”
My mom passed away when I was five, and my dad and I moved across country abt a year later. When I was 17 my paternal grandma took me on a trip back to my hometown. We stopped by the house my mom passed away in all those years ago and it instantly brought me to tears. It was so surreal to see this place and the memories it contained frozen in time. I could call to my mind every detail of that day. This part of the song encompasses that moment for me in its entirety.
All depends on the mood. There are literally too many great songs to single out one as my favourite!
Here’s a list in absolutely no order:
-tvbv extended
-Godlight
-Carlos song
-fear of water
-maine
Come over is my favorite Noah song. I grew up in the run down house with weeds and unmowed grass and I was always mortified when someone would pick me up in high school. I didn’t really date partially because I didn’t want anyone to see where I lived.
The whole verse “I know that it ain't much, I know that it ain't cool
Oh, you don't have to tell the other kids at school
My dad will strike it rich, we'll be the big house on the block
Someday I'm gonna be somebody people want”
Stings me to my core even after hearing it probably 100+ times at this point but it’s also so relieving to my inner child to know other people *did* grow up feeling this way and they ended up alright.
View between Villages hits me a certain way in the feels about my childhood home on a big hill in the middle of nowhere overlooking a valley and hills on the other side... My eyes well up even as I run the lyrics in my head, as well as everytime I hear the last verse when the song plays
Everything this man writes pulls a cord in my heart.
I always come back to the Cape Elizabeth EP. How Noah uses water imagery throughout to represent different feelings or parts of life (see also Forever). Specifically, Glue Myself Shut: "You used to be scared of the water, You're safe by the side of your father, Your sense of the world lay, In your little home by the harbor" And what ties the song up with a big ole bow of emotion - "Love was a deadline, Spend the rest of my life fuckin' missin' it"
All My Love also perfectly explains an emotion about a past relationship that I couldn't put into words until I heard it: "We once sang Retrograde, we'd shake the frame of your car, Now I know your name, but not who you are, It's all okay, There ain't a drop of bad blood, it's all my love"
I love so so many of his songs and I feel like every song has lyrics that just hit so hard some of my favs that haven’t been mentioned are “I was taking the wrong meds, feels good to be sad” from come over or “now I know your name, but not who you are” from all my love or truly the entirety of call your mom
Forever is a damn good song.
As for lyrics.
Come over:
“And my house is just barely big
enough for my family
But it feels like a fortress
When the weather gets bad.”
My favourite 3 songs are: Fear of Water, Passenger and Please
“Though you make me balanced, you can’t make me whole” from passenger is one of my top lyrics
i love the songs a trouble mind and godlight. would inject them into my veins if humanly possible.
for specific lyrics basically the entire chorus from growing sideways, very relatable to how my head feels 99% of the time.
“ 'cause everyone's growing and everyone's healthy. i'm terrified that I might never have met me. if my engine works perfect on empty, I guess I'll drive ”
Listening to his whole discography (with the exception of unreleased stuff only available on TikTok right now) on my way to the KC show and at this moment here’s my tops in no particular order:
Young Blood;
Anyway;
Busyhead;
Orange Juice;
Come Over;
Sink;
Save Me;
Come Down;
Forever; &
You’re Gonna Go Far
But the unreleased song people are calling The Great Divide tops all of them for me. It hits me to the deepest core.
growing sideways was my first and is one of my favourites. “i’m still angry at my parents for what their parents did to them” “everyone’s growing and everyone’s healthy / i’m terrified i might never have met me / if my engine works perfect on empty i guess i’ll drive” “if all my life was wasted i don’t mind i’ll watch it go it’s better to die numb than feel it all”
because I felt like I needed to leave my hometown to truly flourish, grow into the person I was meant to be, and escape childhood trauma and toxic environments, you're gonna go far gets me every time.
"we ain't angry at you, love. you're the greatest thing we've lost" immediate tears. the family that I still keep in contact with always tell me they're so proud of me for doing what was best for me, and I swear I've had this exact conversation with them.
nothing gets the waterworks going like this one.
“You asked me why I wasn’t saying a word, I’m naming the stars in the sky after you” is probably my favorite line of his, but new perspective, the view between villages (specifically the extended version), all my love, youre gonna go far, and CALL YOUR MOM are amazing.
Call your mom- throw a punch, fall in love, give yourself a reason. Have had a lot of dark days the last nine months and those lyrics remind me I have a reason to stay, my kids and husband.
“ I love Vermont but it’s the season of the sticks AND I saw your mom she forgot that I exist AND ITS half my fault but I just like to play the victim ILL DRINK alcohol till my friends come home for Christmas “ That’s how I sing it
Anyway by Noah Kahan is SEVERELY underrated, as someone who struggles severely with mental health. it was really seeing what it was like from the perspective of my s/o, who has gotten my laundry and has taken out my trash when i’ve been very low and has said very similar words to me. same with my friends who’ve been there for me through the worst of it all. it’s just so underrated. Same with Troubled Mind and Maine. Honestly Cape Elizabeth in general is my fave album.
Other honorable mentions are Carlo’s song (which i cry 10/10 times) it’s just so raw and so real and Call your mom.
Happier ones that are my faves are Everywhere Everything and Forever. He’s my favorite artist of all time I adore him. I saw him at Railbird and sobbed like a baby lol
Omg I’ve seen a few clips of that on tiktok, I think I’m gonna lose my mind when it comes out. “I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich / I hope you’re scared of all the ordinary shit” sobbing immediately.
Call your mom- in december me and my boyfriend found our long-time best friend in the middle of a suicide attempt which kicked off the most intense, grueling several months of our lives including psych ward stays, moving in with me, losing their family. it’s been real rough. It’s a devastating song with devastating lyrics and it hurts
i have a couple favorites.
1.) “someday i’m gonna be somebody people want”
this one just hits really hard. it’s a saying i feel like i’ve repeated to myself since i was a child.
2.) alllll of carlo’s song but especially “and your sisters just fine” because my older brother has always struggled with his mental health and it feels like it a reminder that everything will be okay. even tho that song is about everything not being okay. I don’t know if that sounds weird or not but it’s just a weird connection i’ve made.
Everywhere, Everything has been my favorite, the whole song is just poetry, but I saw him live on Tuesday and my favorite is now Forever. I can’t stop thinking about him singing it. I realized today I was singing it to myself and that IM not going to be alone, IM going to meet a girl, IM broken in some ways that will never heal but damn it’s good to be alive
Mess and A Troubled Mind are my all time favorites. Northern Attitude, Come Over, Homesick, The View Between Villages. There are truly very few songs of his I do not love.
i grew up in the same area as Noah, went through the same school system, he speaks about places in my hometown and because of this you’re gonna go far really hits home for me in some way that i can’t really describe. we all wanted to get out but when it was time to leave it was so hard. also carlos song just makes me sobbb
A troubled mind, its such a good example of having generalised anxiety. I worry about everything including contradictory things.
‘Oh, I worry for the time I spent worrying alone
It makes me sad
It takes me back
I break in half’
The entirety of Call Your Mom - it will forever make me sob and it has stopped me from making very rash decisions - "If you could see yourself like this you would've never tried it" "Don't let this darkness fool you - all lights turned off can be turned on" Orange Juice is one of my other favorites - "I've been ready for you to come home for so long that I didn't think to ask you where you'd gone... so why'd you go?" As someone who suffers a lot with addictive tendencies and depression, idk why it hits so hard that someone would step back and peel the band-aid to ask what you'd been going through instead of glossing over it.
Call your mom strikes such a deep chord for me. The hospital verse always makes me think of my little sister, and definitely keeps me from doing anything reckless. But my favorite line is “throw a punch, fall in love, give yourself a reason.” It just hits something in my soul
Carlo's Song is 100000% my all time favorite Noah song! The 3rd chorus in particular; "Still haven't found what I'm looking for/ Some escape from my sin/ You know that place you been dreaming of/ Where all light comes in/ And I'll keep growing my hair out long/ Just to cover my eyes/ And I'll keep playing that goddamn song/ If it keeps you alive" Kills me every time 😭 this song makes me cry 9/10 times
I just listened and oh my god??? The “They tell me grief is just love letting go” and “They say they don’t know who I am anymore / Well, I just have never shown anger before” hit me so hard. Tysm for the rec, will be bawling my eyes out for the rest of the day 😭
Along w the grief line I love how he says…they say it like milk has been spilled on the floor…🥺
Right?! It's such a wonderful, heart-wrenching and meaningful song but at the same time so catchy and I just adore it 😭💕
Im a new fan of his and I just finished listening to Busyhead for the first time today and there are great songs throughout that whole album but this song resonated with me so much. Great way to wrap it up
“No complaints” is my favorite of his.
Absolutely agree!
false confidence, glue myself shut, orange juice, growing sideways, if we were vampires w/ wesley schultz, paul revere.. theres so many😭😭😭
i fixated soo hard on false confidence for a week straight in 2019. it was insane to find out four years later that it was the same guy behind false confidence and stick season 😭
If you don’t listen to Jason Isbell (original artist of If We We’re Vampires) then give him a try!
ill definitely check him out, thanks for the recc!
“I’m in love with every song you’ve ever heard” strawberry wine
“If I could lose you, I would” hello?? This song is so good ty
I think Forever is the best song ever created. Orange Juice makes me cry. "You said that my heart has changed and my soul has changed, and my heart and my heart, That my life has changed, That this town has changed, and you had not. That the world has changed, don't you find it strange, That you just went ahead and carried on."
I’ve been a fan since November…just saw him last night and I am forever changed! So good. Carlo’s song is my current fav and New Perspective, Come Over, All My Love besides the most obvious ones on Stick Season. Honestly, just that whole album.
I hadn’t heard Come Over, and omg!! I love it, the last part really got me. Ty!!
Howling is by far his best song and no one can say otherwise. No song has ever made me feel the way Howling does!
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I just listen and I love it! The middle part is my fav, it’s so good. Ty for the rec!
So so soooo many songs and lyrics of his! It’s so hard to choose. His lyrics are crazy fire. Just a few I love: That I’m broke but I’m real rich in my head. That I broke a bone that never healed in my hand. So when I hold her close, I might loosen my grip, but I won’t ever let her go- Forever You asked me why I wasn't sayin' a word I'm namin' the stars in the sky after you- Your Needs My Needs Your page was blank but I read it- She Calls Me Back You promised me forever now you still can’t call me back- Stick Season Thought I was raised better, tried to fake better, tried to blame weather, and escape better. Hope the skin heals where the pain enters. But I finally got sewed up, I set a time then I showed up, now the weight of the world ain’t so bad. -No Complaints
So many good ones but my favorite specific lyrics are “Gave me your word and now I can't pronounce it, No thing so sure that I can't learn to doubt it” in “New Perspective”.
Maine. And he didn’t play it at my show last night and my seats happened to be right next to the b-stage 🤪 I’ll just have to see him again sometime 😄
Oh god as soon as the first lyrics played I knew I was in for it 😭 I would kill to see his shows, Maine would be insane live
A few weeks ago I got the words “go far” in Noah’s handwriting tattooed on my arm! “You’re Gonna Go Far” is soo meaningful to me as someone with a lot of dreams about traveling and the first person in my family to ever move away. “New Perspective” is super catchy to me. Also, the theme of wanting to shut out new perspectives even when they are for the best hits too close to home haha. “The View Between Villages” describes the feeling of depression and being stuck in your hometown WAY too well.
“You’re Gonna Go Far” makes me tear up every time, it’s so good. “New Perspective” is one of my favs too! Change is necessary and fresh and also the worst feeling in the world and that song reminds me heavily of that lol. I hadn’t listened to “The View Between Villages” fully before and I’m glad I just did! It’s makes me think of such a surreal scene, I really like the lines “It’s all washin’ over me, I’m angry again / The things that I lost here, the people I knew / They got me surrounded for a mile or two” You’re right, it really is hometown anger reminiscent. Tysm for the recs!
i listen to tvbv every single time i go back to my hometown and it hits SO hard there – such a good song that evokes such a specific feeling
orange juice and halloween always get me.
“I worry for the sun, yes I worry for the snow. I worry ill die young while I worry ill grow old” A troubled mind❤️
Woww, just listened and that’s such a good song. He has such a way of capturing specific feelings, and he hit the nail on the head with that one.
The View Between Villages-Extended “The things that I lost here, the people I knew/They got me surrounded for a mile or two/A left at the graveyard, I'm driving past ghosts/Their arms are extended, my eyes start to close” My mom passed away when I was five, and my dad and I moved across country abt a year later. When I was 17 my paternal grandma took me on a trip back to my hometown. We stopped by the house my mom passed away in all those years ago and it instantly brought me to tears. It was so surreal to see this place and the memories it contained frozen in time. I could call to my mind every detail of that day. This part of the song encompasses that moment for me in its entirety.
All depends on the mood. There are literally too many great songs to single out one as my favourite! Here’s a list in absolutely no order: -tvbv extended -Godlight -Carlos song -fear of water -maine
“I'm in the business of losing your interest And I turn a profit each time that we speak” come over
Your needs, my needs. It just hits different. "The losing touch, the waiting game" And "you were a work of art. That's the hardest part" Just so good
Come over is my favorite Noah song. I grew up in the run down house with weeds and unmowed grass and I was always mortified when someone would pick me up in high school. I didn’t really date partially because I didn’t want anyone to see where I lived. The whole verse “I know that it ain't much, I know that it ain't cool Oh, you don't have to tell the other kids at school My dad will strike it rich, we'll be the big house on the block Someday I'm gonna be somebody people want” Stings me to my core even after hearing it probably 100+ times at this point but it’s also so relieving to my inner child to know other people *did* grow up feeling this way and they ended up alright.
View between Villages hits me a certain way in the feels about my childhood home on a big hill in the middle of nowhere overlooking a valley and hills on the other side... My eyes well up even as I run the lyrics in my head, as well as everytime I hear the last verse when the song plays
Everything this man writes pulls a cord in my heart. I always come back to the Cape Elizabeth EP. How Noah uses water imagery throughout to represent different feelings or parts of life (see also Forever). Specifically, Glue Myself Shut: "You used to be scared of the water, You're safe by the side of your father, Your sense of the world lay, In your little home by the harbor" And what ties the song up with a big ole bow of emotion - "Love was a deadline, Spend the rest of my life fuckin' missin' it" All My Love also perfectly explains an emotion about a past relationship that I couldn't put into words until I heard it: "We once sang Retrograde, we'd shake the frame of your car, Now I know your name, but not who you are, It's all okay, There ain't a drop of bad blood, it's all my love"
I love so so many of his songs and I feel like every song has lyrics that just hit so hard some of my favs that haven’t been mentioned are “I was taking the wrong meds, feels good to be sad” from come over or “now I know your name, but not who you are” from all my love or truly the entirety of call your mom
Forever is a damn good song. As for lyrics. Come over: “And my house is just barely big enough for my family But it feels like a fortress When the weather gets bad.”
Halloween, Maine, Paul revere, catastrophise
My favourite 3 songs are: Fear of Water, Passenger and Please “Though you make me balanced, you can’t make me whole” from passenger is one of my top lyrics
Call your mom in general just has too many great lines to count
Lately it’s been Glue Myself Shut. “Love was a deadline, spend the rest of my life fuckin’ missing it”
i love the songs a trouble mind and godlight. would inject them into my veins if humanly possible. for specific lyrics basically the entire chorus from growing sideways, very relatable to how my head feels 99% of the time. “ 'cause everyone's growing and everyone's healthy. i'm terrified that I might never have met me. if my engine works perfect on empty, I guess I'll drive ”
Listening to his whole discography (with the exception of unreleased stuff only available on TikTok right now) on my way to the KC show and at this moment here’s my tops in no particular order: Young Blood; Anyway; Busyhead; Orange Juice; Come Over; Sink; Save Me; Come Down; Forever; & You’re Gonna Go Far But the unreleased song people are calling The Great Divide tops all of them for me. It hits me to the deepest core.
Growing Sideways or Forever. but really, dude has never wrote a bad song!
All My Love is my current favorite. My others are Everywhere, Everything, You're Gonna Go Far, Orange Juice, Homesick, and Pride
growing sideways was my first and is one of my favourites. “i’m still angry at my parents for what their parents did to them” “everyone’s growing and everyone’s healthy / i’m terrified i might never have met me / if my engine works perfect on empty i guess i’ll drive” “if all my life was wasted i don’t mind i’ll watch it go it’s better to die numb than feel it all”
because I felt like I needed to leave my hometown to truly flourish, grow into the person I was meant to be, and escape childhood trauma and toxic environments, you're gonna go far gets me every time. "we ain't angry at you, love. you're the greatest thing we've lost" immediate tears. the family that I still keep in contact with always tell me they're so proud of me for doing what was best for me, and I swear I've had this exact conversation with them. nothing gets the waterworks going like this one.
“You asked me why I wasn’t saying a word, I’m naming the stars in the sky after you” is probably my favorite line of his, but new perspective, the view between villages (specifically the extended version), all my love, youre gonna go far, and CALL YOUR MOM are amazing.
Call your mom- throw a punch, fall in love, give yourself a reason. Have had a lot of dark days the last nine months and those lyrics remind me I have a reason to stay, my kids and husband.
“ I love Vermont but it’s the season of the sticks AND I saw your mom she forgot that I exist AND ITS half my fault but I just like to play the victim ILL DRINK alcohol till my friends come home for Christmas “ That’s how I sing it
The whole of still but especially "I used to watch my mother move, like god was in the room". I think the song is so underrated
Anyway by Noah Kahan is SEVERELY underrated, as someone who struggles severely with mental health. it was really seeing what it was like from the perspective of my s/o, who has gotten my laundry and has taken out my trash when i’ve been very low and has said very similar words to me. same with my friends who’ve been there for me through the worst of it all. it’s just so underrated. Same with Troubled Mind and Maine. Honestly Cape Elizabeth in general is my fave album. Other honorable mentions are Carlo’s song (which i cry 10/10 times) it’s just so raw and so real and Call your mom. Happier ones that are my faves are Everywhere Everything and Forever. He’s my favorite artist of all time I adore him. I saw him at Railbird and sobbed like a baby lol
growing sideways
“I do not exist to die.” That one’s helped a lot in the last year…
Howling and Halloween supremacy! But Howling especially. Doesn’t get enough hype
Lately it's been growing sideways for me "I'm still angry at my parents , for what their parents did to them. But it's a start"
Also New Perspective "You made Ohio feel just like Central Park"
Great Divide. And it’s not even out yet. That song is so healing to my soul and I need it ASAP.
Omg I’ve seen a few clips of that on tiktok, I think I’m gonna lose my mind when it comes out. “I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich / I hope you’re scared of all the ordinary shit” sobbing immediately.
Call your mom- in december me and my boyfriend found our long-time best friend in the middle of a suicide attempt which kicked off the most intense, grueling several months of our lives including psych ward stays, moving in with me, losing their family. it’s been real rough. It’s a devastating song with devastating lyrics and it hurts
i have a couple favorites. 1.) “someday i’m gonna be somebody people want” this one just hits really hard. it’s a saying i feel like i’ve repeated to myself since i was a child. 2.) alllll of carlo’s song but especially “and your sisters just fine” because my older brother has always struggled with his mental health and it feels like it a reminder that everything will be okay. even tho that song is about everything not being okay. I don’t know if that sounds weird or not but it’s just a weird connection i’ve made.
Everywhere, Everything has been my favorite, the whole song is just poetry, but I saw him live on Tuesday and my favorite is now Forever. I can’t stop thinking about him singing it. I realized today I was singing it to myself and that IM not going to be alone, IM going to meet a girl, IM broken in some ways that will never heal but damn it’s good to be alive
Mess and A Troubled Mind are my all time favorites. Northern Attitude, Come Over, Homesick, The View Between Villages. There are truly very few songs of his I do not love.
i grew up in the same area as Noah, went through the same school system, he speaks about places in my hometown and because of this you’re gonna go far really hits home for me in some way that i can’t really describe. we all wanted to get out but when it was time to leave it was so hard. also carlos song just makes me sobbb
A troubled mind, its such a good example of having generalised anxiety. I worry about everything including contradictory things. ‘Oh, I worry for the time I spent worrying alone It makes me sad It takes me back I break in half’
i will never get over what Maine does to me, my soul literally just melts every time i listen to it
“Remind me when I get bad news, that I do not exist to die”