Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute Lyrics

This reminds me of the western

Imagine a music video to this hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

What a song

2:02-2-22

electric guitar panned left, can someone tell me the overdrive unit they used? sounds like an ocd but the harmonics seem a little bit different

Es increíble esta canción !!! Es una joya

Okay so today I heard Fleetwood Macs song Peacekeeper for the first time and listened to it on repeat like 10 times because it just sounded so familiar like I've heard it before until it finally dawned on me that the end bit of this song is almost identical to the end bit of Peacekeeper. Now I'm not a musician or have any musical talent but it is almost certain that these two parts in each song sound almost exactly the same. One of the lyrics also is very similar to Fleetwoods. Massive respect points have gone down as I can't find anywhere where they may have mentioned that this was an influence or given them credit at all. Hmmmm. Is it just me? Someone else please vouch for this too haha

Pure gold

For whatever reason it gives me alot of Echo and the Bunnymen vibes I LOVE IT🙌🙌

I've known this song since this album came out but for some reason it took on a whole new meaning in 2017-2018. Became my most listened to song on Spotify. I love this band so much.

grizzly bear is a LOT better doing songs to their potential rather than that horrible third album.
this is good!

The perfect song has been created

Why is this band not playing on every radio, these bands are awesome

What am I going to do? I absolutely love these guys. I've listened and listened to the point I question my sanity and not a note gets old to me

Does this remind anyone else of like Jimi Hendricks and Cream? Feels to me like 60s psych grizzly bearized

❤ gives me solace

When you combine Fleet Foxes with Dirty Projectors...

lead plucking guitar, rythym guitar (possibly the same guitar as lead), crash cymbal, bass drum, snare drum, bass guitar, tambourine, synth guitar?, reverb soaked bass drum or tom meant to emulate thunder?, lead vocals, acoustic guitar, tom, synth pad, arpeggiated synth, vocal harmony, percussion sample, foot step sample, cymbal wash?, cello?

one of the best songs I have ever heard.......true story.....

I'm resposting my comment made 6 yrs ago that was inextricably purged - anyone else had that problem?

GB has come into full maturity with this one. They no longer sound like anyone else except themselves. Harkens back to1970s Prog Rock. Stop, listen and let the music infuse your soul – for awhile you forgot yourself.

The album is absolutely perfect, plus delicious artwok as alway.

Remember me The Black Keys.

Heard this song on the radio while driving through the middle of Utah and it was just perfect

Dreamed a long day
Just wandering free
Though I'm far gone
You sleep nearer to me

If I could find peace
If this night bleeds

But I can't help myself

So I walk out
These wandering dreams
Of the north road
Dressed gold and green

If I could lie still
As that grey hill

But I can't help myself

But it's calm and it's clear
Collapsed here on the stone
Delivered to this place
A vision dark and cloaked
And those figures through the leaves
And that light through the smoke
And those countless empty days
Made me dizzy when I woke
And I live to see your face
And I hate to see you go
But I know no other way
Than straight on out the door

And I can't help myself

And I can't help myself

And I can't help myself

I'm so happy I found this song. I spent three months living in the high desert of the four corners region and woke up every morning to the sun rising on Sleeping Ute Mountain. To know that humans had inhabited that region for millennia was such an incredible spiritual experience.

I sleep and woke in ute too my friend..every am watching the views smoking a fatt joint ..tiss were the times

loving it !!!

A lot of drama and technical ability not enough substance.

Has that "Grace by Jeff Buckley" vibe

THIS SONG FOR WESTWORLD OPENING

or a tarantino movie

Fuck, this is so good. One of the best bands out there, for sure.

The opening riff cuts into you like nothing else. It's amazing.

aww when he says but I can't myself total jizz

Sounds like it could be easily a Black Keys song

Fuck, this is too good. I really wonder if they can top this or at least come out with something equally amazing in the future. I'll never forget how incredibly exciting this was to hear for the first time.

dude yellow house is the trippiest most amazing album ever, check it

This makes me feel like I'm in an impressionist western

lifeisdead01 the perfect discription

The last minute of this song is really beautiful.

i remember hearing this song almost 5 years ago as the first preview of Sheilds. listening now it feels nostalgic and sad yet beautiful; when I heard this song the first time I knew it was special. Many songs take time to develop affection, but the real special ones captivate you first listen. thanks grizzly bear for all the feels.

i listened to this song on acid i almost cried

Definitely going to have to try that very soon. Normally, it's Goldfrapp that does that for me.

I did cry with Ready, Able vídeo.

Jordie Chalé Herrera Ready, Able is whole other level.

This one opened my mind wide up on E, shit was incredible. The instrumentation just pops so much

Tim Carr you were righf

The ending is quite reminiscent of the ending toThe Shrine/An Offering by Fleet Foxes. So tragic and beautiful.

an argument* but yeah you're right dude

+Chad Ross Whoops! A for effort lol

this song is unreal........

Still bummed that they never made a video for this one. Still my favourite song of all time.

I spent a lot of time searching for something like Jeff Buckley and here it is. Love it.

I didn't even realize how much it sounds like Jeff Buckley.

i love this guysss

Took me 3 years, but I finally mastered this song. The finger picking at the end was enough to send me to the hospital

well done sir! ya, daniel's a pretty outstanding guitar player.

hahaha yeah daniel rossen is a god , well done man

Yeah that guitar is incredible and it's the perfect complement to the organ's warbly arpeggios at 1:36. Really a perfectly crafted song.

that ending...man

+jrandomyo exactly

Such a nice riff.

Classic

....Bootyful.

Esse som bem que poderia ter sido trilha sonora do filme Waking Life

love this song ....

So glad they got the Colber't bump!

Musical poetry. 

"Dreamed the long day just wandering free
Though I'm far gone you sleep nearer to me
If I could find peace
If this night leaves
But I can't help myself

So I'll walk out these wandering dreams
Up the north road dressed gold and green
If I could lie still as that great hill
But I can't help myself

Well it's calm and clear
Collapsed here on the stone
Delivered to this place
A vision dark and cloaked
And those figures through the leaves
And that light through the smoke
And those countless empty days made me dizzy when I woke
And I live to see your face
And I hate to see you go
But I know no other way than straight on out the door
And I can't help myself"

@Yeshua Alexander this isnt poetry. this is a song. if youre going to make your song poetic it still has to hold up its own as a song. 

no it doesn't. for a song to be poetic it need only have poetic lyrics. sounding good as a song is a whole different matter. a song can sound good without being poetic and a musician can be poetic without sounding very good. grizzly bear happens to be poetic and sound great

What's with all the hate? You obviously has some sort of disdain for either Grizzly Bear or their politics, or the politics surrounding their music, which is pretty much nonexistent. I don't know what being "liberal" has anything to do with songwriting in a pretty ambiguous narrative of a song.

And take your "emotional delivery" bullshit and shove it up your ass. You obviously have either a lack of hearing or a lack for recognizing tone because Daniel hit every note precisely in this song and all others with as much "emotional delivery" he felt necessary. He wrote and performed it, it's his song, his music, and myself and millions of others think it's the fucking shit. That's why we're here watching this video. What are you here for? And what are your tastes in music I might ask? If you have no respect for Grizzly Bear I would assume you listen to Kesha or EDM.

Trolls will be trolls.

Don't know why this is even in question...Grizzly bear has some of the most emotive singing and complex, unwinding song compositions I have heard. You can't say the warm texture of Daniel Rossen's voice doesn't conjure earthy emotional tones or the highs and lows of Ed Droste's melodies are lifeless. Such a great band with such true feeling in my opinion.

I just think that poetry has to be evocative, and this lyrics together with the music fits in this concept.

Theses guys need to make a new album

Matias Flores
Yesterday they have relased one teaser of their new álbum :')

I was literally looking for news about this a week or two ago. Thank you for the update!

usedfuzzbox Did you like Three Rings?

Yoav Ledezma Yes.

Davy Roger New album; out now. I Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

New album pleeeeeeeeeease :)

Clément Fievet They're working on it, be patient

Clément Fievet It's out.

their best

Awesome.

Awesome.

I've listened to this song all summer long,loved every moment of it ! (I know that its irrelevant but what the heck :p )

+Opheilas Personal connection to art are always significant!

+RAWNLEY aww thank you ^^

Heard this on triple J
My mind is blown

I'm just hearing this ... just amazing. 

this song is so well put together. This is a masterpiece. 

amazing song.

Wow, I've been listening to you since 2008/9 and it's very cool to see you take such an important role in the youtube community now. Great band :)

Lol why does it matter whether he is gay or not XD Freddie was too

the lyrics to this song are phenomenal, possibly the bands best work.

reminds me so much of Arizona

so glad my brother introduced me to this song, I love it

Welcome to perfection

Fuck I love this

"Ute Mountain (or Ute Peak or SLEEPING UTE Mountain), is a peak within the Ute Mountains, a small mountain range in the southwestern corner of Colorado. It is on the northern edge of the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. The Reservation forms the southwestern corner of the state and of Montezuma County."
There. Mystery solved. Everybody shut the fuck up now.

The word "ute" in Norwegian means "outside" so I kinda thought it meant "Sleeping Outside". xD

Ute is also a German female given name. I first thought it had something to do with a girl named Ute, who was asleep.
There. Mystery deepened.

@Quoth. 0: i always thought that "Ute" was used to refer a song or piece of music.

At 3:10, when the beat's dropped out, and all the commotion and grandness that had been building through the whole song gives way to an entirely different place, and it's just Ed and the acoustic guitar, mysterious and sweet, that's my favorite moment of the song.

that's Dan, not Ed

Can you guys shut the fuck up about the band members and just listen to this amazing music?

A bit Jeff Buckley - nothing wrong with that!

Yeah the beginning time signatures. Still awesome indeed

I heard them talking on an interview on the radio that it's about a mountain in Colorado called "Ute" mountain and that it was deadly quiet while they were there

I'm sorry and how long have you been making music? Bands evolve. I love them no matter what. They are amazing and there is no premise for people spitting mad shit about it.

He is actually gay though, which is both irrelevant to the music and amazing for me.

if you listen to the lyrics they seem to support this line of thinking. however the ute just might be an analogy for the singer himself

Ute's are a native tribe to the american southwest (hence utah). honestly i have no idea what the song is supposed to be about, and im not the kind of person to try to relate everything to drugs but.. i think this song is about tripping. the sleeping ute might be a reference to a native in the dreamstate of mescaline.

a ute is a utility truck or vehicle - kinda like a pickup truck sometimes?
i guess it's kinda an...australian term?

Who cares if someone cares that the singer is gay?
Opinions. I hate intolerance as much as the next guy, but we're all entitled to our opinions.

for the likes brah

John Mill sucks chodes

Dan said something about it being a mountain range (or the mountain itself).

Does anyone know why it's called Sleeping Ute? And what an ute is?

"Ute" is a mountain in Colorado and its called quiet

You idiots stfu. Grizzly Bear is playing. Stfu.

thank god.. STFU!

John Mill your music taste is for shit fuckers

This song is seriously amazing

1:32 is one of my favorite moments in the history of Grizzly Bear music.

god fucking damn right you shit fucker

Being an elitist fuckbag doesn't make your opinion universal. Grow up.

John Mill must have a huge dick and lots of followers on instagram

Dude, I agree with your original comment, but go eay on Halfdan Ekins.

every month* you respect my opinion because it's respectable, I don't respect yours because it's not. their new album is just some shitty hipster bullshit, they've been going downhill since satanic satanist and after their last album they've just plummeted

whoa sorry there, just thought i'd give my opinion on ptm's new album. I respect your opinion, but in return i expected you'd respect mine as well. And by the way, no i am no musician and i dont listen to HUNDREDS of bands everyday. I just enjoy the occasional good music, which i find in ptm and grizzly bear among others.

because people like to see themselves as defenders of invisible, and extremely easy arguments. they can't take on the difficult ones so they make them up and waste everyone's time with their bullshit

yeah and your opinion is fucking wrong as fuck. are you a skilled musician? do you have several hundred bands and artists you listen to monthly? if yes to either of them then never mind your opinion has validity, if no, which i suspect based on your wrong musical views of ptm's new shitty album, then you have no opinion.

what? i think portugal. the man did a great job on evil friends, just like grizzly bear did here. But its all opinion i guess..