Mercury Rev - Opus 40 Lyrics

While Justin Bieber has millions of views.

Wow the video is directed by Anton Corbijn!

One of the greatest songs ever recorded, from one of the greatest albums of all time.

'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down', especially on the chorus, but in the round this is the better song.

RIP Levon Helm

what an album deserter's songs was. poetic, profound, tranquil

I just heard "Persian Poems" and got curious about it but this is really good

Well she tossed all night like a raging sea
Woke up and climbed from the suicide machine
With her Spanish candles and her Persian poems
Stuck on the rocks inside opus 40 stoned
And scratching her wrists in the pouring rain
She collapses down upon the ocean floor again
Tears in waves minds on fire
Nights alone by your side
Catskill mansions buried screams I'm alive
She cried but I don't know what it means
Somewhere out there across the moonlit sands
There's a line drawn like the lines on her own hand
And slamming her eyes locking the door
She collapses down upon the ocean floor again
Tears in waves minds on fire
Nights alone by your side
Tears in waves minds on fire
Nights alone by your side

Ahhhhhh.....

magnifico tema

No mames que chingona rola ....

Que vivan dos álbumes! Deserter's Songs de Mercury Rev y el Album del Plesiosaurio de los Konklins!! :) :) :)

GOLDEN SLUUUUMBERS IN YOUR EYEEEES !! -- dude thats not it..-- OH WHAT? OH IM SORRY I THOUGHT -- look, you just get out and close the door behind you

this really reminds me of golden slumbers by the beatles

Canon in D in a song can never go wrong.

Anybody else hear the Beatles Golden Slumbers in this song?

Pachelbel's Cannon

Pachelbel's Canon strikes again.

listen. weep. and die.

Peaso de grupo y de cancion

Bowie's legacy manisfested.

beatles

golden slumbers

I was nowhere near you..lucky lad.

like there is
more
am just not here
am more

Saw Mercury Rev at Glastonbury the other day. Managed to get right near the front. Fucking awesome!

Love the video. Like Nosferatu in Space. Brilliant song as well.

SYD     LIVES

Отлично

I had the biggest crush on the actress in this video (whoever she is) when I was a kid, I'd never seen someone so beautiful.
The song still holds up after all these years too.

She reminds me of that girl in Chemical Brother's "Let forever be" (One of my fav vids)

I fancied her as well :). That's a blast from the past, just spent the last half hour listening to all their old tunes.

yeah, I was really into that chick in chemical brothers. I also thought it was cool how they paid tribute to that style of choreography that I can't remember the name of lol. I like to tell people I was the homeless drummer in that video. lol.

Busby Berkeley! That's who I was trying to remember...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley

I like this--but what the hell is it?

"I'm alive she cries but I don't know what it means"
Blah love this song

I was born with synesthesia. Out of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of songs I'm able to visualize moving shapes, I'm still having a tough time trying to visualize the part of the song at 2:09. It's just so complicated...it throws my synesthesia off

i see how it could be weird but the time signatures are completely normal. It's just in 4/4

I Googled it, but still don't understand WHAT is synesthesia? Thank you.

Hi Monorail! Synesthesia is a disorder related to your senses. For example, a synesthete (one who has synesthesia) might be presented with the colour yellow. However, instead of just seeing the colour yellow, the synesthete might vomit up their own pelvic bone and then try to row to China using it as a paddle.

I hope this helps!

Conor Sherry what do you see for the rest color wise etc ? i do not have it so i’m curious

Do many songs have this effect on you?

i cant listen to this, only special occasions, when i think about my first love and the springtime we met eachother, life is short

That's the fortune of life, man.

Hermosa canción!

Still stunning after 8 years

@Efrat Davidsohn 17. Still stunning after 17 years. Classic album.

Stuck on th' rocks inside opus 40 stoned

F brought me here :)

The absurdly popular Swedish artist Håkan Hellström has copied this song without giving cred. Listen to "Det är så jag säger det".

Aka Kråkan Gnällström

also a bit of Mott the Hoople happening in the best possible way

dudes! yeah,hahahaha..

¿Y qué tal intentar también con el español?

WTF, from Yerserlf is steam to this ..}):

Now be fair: EVERYONE has horrible taste in music. We just pretend otherwise to keep the music industry profitable.

Please tell me I'm the only person who thought of the Twilight Zone.

god jonathan donahue is so disgusting

Beautiful.
You meant to say beautiful.
Thats o.k☺

disgustingly handsome you mean

very rarely rare - a super-great song with a video to match (or whatever they're called nowadays). also, who's SHE? they didn't settle for 2nd best there either, si?

still amazing

FANTASTIC musicians!! - amazing live!! Thank You Mercury Rev for all your music and Amazing live gigs XXX Nats <3
(Dipped in to my husbands account - as i dont have my own you tube log in)

It's the other way around.

Really eh? Zaireeka has the exact same lush, orchestral sound of The Soft Bulletin and that was released in 1997 whilst songs made during Zaireeka which wouldn't fit onto the whole 4-disc format of Zaireeka were sent onto The Soft Bulletin so most were recorded before the release of Deserter Songs. Whilst recording the rest of the songs for The Soft Bulletin it's been noted that the bands would often see each other just after/before a session with Dave (producer of both records) so no-one copied

Exactly. Deserter's Songs is from 1998 while The Soft Bulletin, the album that first displayed the now famous Flaming Lips sound, is from 1999. So if there was any "blatant copying" being done, it sure wasn't Mercury Rev.

Rev and F'Lips have close ties, they are produced by the same guy (Dave Fridman, who also works with MGMT). I tend to think of both bands as two sides of the same coin - MR are the melancholy and romantic, F'Lips the psychedelic, life-affirming, party band. To accuse either of copying the other ignores a connection I think they have that is deeper than just having had Jonathan Donahue in common.

maybe the Flaming Lips copied them. Check your history.

One of my all time favorites! M.R. = happiness

22 - tossers!!!

Copy The Flaming Lips Much?


(Yes I know a member of the F'lips was in this, but do they need to blatantly copy them?)

Alexo actually it seems more like a homage to Pink Floyd, which the Lips also copies!

Perhaps the lyric:"I'm alive she cried but I don't know what it means" should be in that 1:57 moment... Fuck the not-happiness watching this piece of Arte Povera :)

I believe the video has a clear mention of the fime "Nosferatu the Vampire Night." Classic German film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski.
Nosferatu did not die, he was just in space, returning to find his love.

Thx! Didn't know!

questionable content brought me here lol.

Who is this actress?

I've seen her somewhere before and I can't place it.

It's sort of a Max Schreck in space combination of tribute and parody

omg I just found this
so now it's time for a history lesson
if you don't already know, Opus 40 is a huge (6 or 7 acre) stone sculpture (ramps, pedestals, platforms, etc) in Saugerties, New York built by Harvey Fite. He purchased the land in 1938, idk when he built it. He died before it was finished, but it's beautiful. My family goes way back in Saugerties, I was born here but I moved away. I'm visiting now but I'm moving back in a couple months. I was excited to find a song about it! <3

Fantastic concert in Madrid- Spain!! it was magic!

OMD - Walking on the Milky Way

Yep. Fully baked! :)
Great song!

I have always loved this song too - video is nightmarish and disturbing tho

20 people have horrible taste in music.

I Think So
I Think Best Band They are

Rip levon

bluewonder136 what happened? And which one was he ?

NOBODY else drums like Levon. RIP buddy.

@Barbarella20121 they are from New York ;-)

@ABCMinks I know what you mean, but please dont compare the two bands!

@Stokemeaclipperbro la mujersita quedándose quieta y por momentos moviendose (0:55) me enamora completamente

tears and wave minds on fire

My new favorite song & video. Bravo!!!

@Stokemeaclipperbro

You fucking rule!

oh my cleavage

MWHAHAHA, CREEPY LONG NAILS.!

I thought this was more 2000 but I know its one my favorite songs ever

Do not understand the video, so odd

love the organ break in the middle, and the outro

0:58 his expression when singing... his shivering... amazing video

this video is insane

Sounds like Mind Games. John Lennon

Levon Helm on drums!

@CrystalClaritySan Opus 40 is a large stone sculpture created by Harvey Fite in Saugerties, NY (where some of the band members reputedly live), in the foothills of the Catskill mountains.

@Nisadima
You have to remember that Mercury Rev made this video so it relates to the lyrics for them. Personally, I see the relationship between the Catskills and being stoned.

The liner notes say this album was recorded on the audio track of 35mm film.

@ridedeus That's why Coldplay needs their support.

Excelente canción!!!

@ridedeus Well said!

Amazing I tell you!

mercury rev is just melodious harmonious and dreamy
i love em my favorite band

Great song! On top of that, this is one of the best music videos I've ever seen! What a treat for the old eyes, ears, brain and heart! Who directed it? The actress in this is brilliant in what she does with the position of the usually silent pretty girl role in music videos. I've watched this a bunch of times and I still love it.

This is one of the few decently well-known bands that actually understands music from top to bottom, side to side, the whole shebang. .

Nosferatu in a space suit lol

@camdablinkfreak Just because millions of people like something doesn't mean it is automatically amazing. Millions of people liked Britney Spears.

Great song, but I personally think "Tonight it shows" is three times as good... Check it out!

great. bit of musical allusion to golden slumbers by the fabs?

This song is like the good bits of all other songs put together.