Beach House - Levitation

One of the best memories of my life, I was meeting my girlfriend on a snowy winter’s night, and she was walking out to me across the street from her house as I was trudging through the snow-buried sidewalk. I can just remember seeing her coming to meet me under the orange glow of the street lamps with the snow falling all around us, and she looked like an angel, complete with an orange glowing halo above her. I’ll never forget that, because for a moment time went still and I could’ve died then and there and I would’ve been happy

This song is about two girls who were crushed by a derailing train in 2012. They were sitting on a bridge, with their legs hanging over the street below, and shortly before the train arrived one of them posted a picture of it to Twitter with the caption “levitating”. Knowing that context makes it even sadder.

"the branches of the trees they will hang lower now" from 2:29 to 3:11 it's one of the best musical experiences i've ever had. it's like a terrence mallick or a tarkovsky movie or a really powerful and glorious epiphany. the world becomes smaller, life is an rich and enormous existence and yet all things become much simpler, and everything is at hand's reach. i've come to love pretty much all of beach house's songs but this particular section, i will carry it to my last day, i'm certain.

I wish Beach House could know how much they're helping me get through rehab.

This song popped my depression cherry.

A friend of mine lost his wife due to a violent incident that ocurred in his house when he wasn't around. She was 7 weeks pregnant. After some time, he talked to me about a recurring dream he was having; near his old house was a wooden area where he carved their initials in a big old tree a few years ago. In his dream, his wife (with a very terrifying appearance) was trying to coax him to follow her through the wood, until arriving to the previous mentioned tree. There, she would stand in front of him, but her eyes and face were different; kind of like the eyes of "the exorcist's demon" -who later I would know as Pazuzu-. Her face was gaunt, gray and with dirt, all of this according to his own words. Then, she walked backwards into the tree as she was trying to draw him towards too. I remember he said how he could feel the drowning sensation as if you were hit in the chest by a car at 160 km/h. It was a haunting experience; both for him (who was reliving the moment while he was telling me) and for me (as I can still remember perfectly the moment after, when this song came up, that he told me that it was one of his favorites as a way to change the subject). He committed suicide 4 days later. That was the last time that I saw him alive. I usually skip this song because of this, even though I still add it in every single playlist that I make. Today, while I was preparing my breakfast, I was listening to one of those playlists when this song started playing. I couldn't change it because I was kneading dough. I started to feel a little uneasy but I did nothing. Now, after 2 years, I can't stop listening to it on loop.

been having a mental breakdown to this album for officially five whole years

This is what falling in Love sounds like

I'm a stoic guy, nothing usually moves me the way this album has. I'm nostalgic for a romance I've never had. Fuck this album, I love it so much. Seeing them 3 times in December.

I'm starting to understand why this is called depression cherry

painfully beautiful

Depression cherry actually isnt depressing. It heals depression.

This song makes me hug my dog. Just beautiful

I listen to Depression Cherry whenever I have trouble sleeping. This album makes me feel like I’m floating on water

The song talks about an accident that occurred in Ellicott City, near Baltimore in August 2012. Two 19-year-old girls, Elizabeth and Rose, apparently known to Alex Scally, were crushed by coal from a train that derailed just in time. the bridge where the girls were sitting hanging out during midnight. It was a disaster. The girls were found under the carbon rubble in the same place where they were already lifeless, the rubble took weeks to be removed. Minutes before the accident they were uploading photos on twitter, one of them shows their feet raised while they were sitting on the bridge next to the phrase "Levitating". If you listen carefully you can feel the moment, the train approaching... it's not the same song you heard from the beginning. By Liz and Rose 🌹

You and me With our long hair on the gold one After midnight we could feel it all I'd go anywhere you want to You should see There's a place I want to take you When the train comes I will hold you (When the train comes I will hold you) 'Cause you blow my mind On the bridge Levitating 'cause we want to When the unknown will surround you (When the unknown will surround you) There is no right time There is no right time The branches of the trees They will hang lower now You will grow too quick Then you will get over it The branches of the trees They will hang lower now There's a place I want to take you When the unknown will surround you There's a place I want to take you (for your heart) When the unknown will looking for you When the unknown will surround you (take my hand) As our bodies lift up slowly There's a place I want to take you (for your heart) When the unknown will looking for you (for your heart) When the unknown will surround you (take my hand) As our bodies lift up slowly There's a place I want to take you

Had the privilege of witnessing this live ✨

this song is unexplainable

This song has become a part of me.. ❤️

that organ build up to the end where it gets louder than all the other instruments. The feels