Purple Mountains - Darkness And Cold Lyrics

Just discovering his music after he died and what a profound effect it's having on me.

DCB looks live Craig Feldspar in this video. I love both.

omg, this is basically an American version of my favorite artist, this is fantastic!!!!

hey i'm eating a nerds rope too!

Oh shit, I'm sad now I didn't know he died...

Exurb2a says hi. RIP David Berman.

I was always into Pavement, but had never really listened to Silver Jews... I’m ashamed that his death is the reason I finally started listening to his music. He may be gone, but his music is still providing joy to people like me.

You're breaking my heart, Dave. RIP, buddy x

This video gets me everytime. This is literally how it went before my girlfriend and I broke up. The lyrics are very fitting of that relationship too, I was listening to Silver Jews “the wild kindness” that whole week that it ended. His music was a staple for me. He was the friend that I never had when everyone left. And now, he is a friend who has left.

Rip Dave.

Why no one help him not to kill himself??? Those signs are so obvious...

Is this a Jack Baker cameo in that clip?

Rest pics David Berman I am huge fan of your music and poetry.
May sin and gravity drag you down to sleep and dream of trains across the sea.

Rest in peace brother.

He said “Steve, it’s because people leave — and no highway can bring them back.”

What a great song and video

The light of my life is going out tonight
As the sun sinks in the west
The light of my life is going out tonight
With someone she just met
She kept it burning longer than I had right to expect
The light of my life is going out tonight
Without a flicker of regret
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
Rolled in through the holes in the stories I told
Conditions I'm wishing weren't taking control
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
The light of my life is going out tonight
And she don't look too depressed
The light of my life is going out tonight
In a pink champagne Corvette
I sleep three feet above the street
In a band-aid pink Chevette
The light of my life is going out tonight
Without a flicker of regret
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
Rolled in through the holes in the stories I told
Conditions I'm wishing weren't taking control
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
Patiently encroaching on the animal
The weather of forever retaking control
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
Rolled in through the holes in the stories I told
Conditions I'm wishing weren't taking control
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold

Darkness and cold! Darkness and
Cold!

❤🖤💚

This has an impossibly 'Silver Jews' sound...

Hilarious!

Who's this guy? Is he dead?

David was a brilliant person, his songs were elite. He was elite.

He really needed an "I'm Not Your Jesus" T-shirt (invented, copyrighted) before those were cool. Might've been his salvation. If he could've worn that expression he gets when he pouts when he wore it it would proved to me much better than his lyrics (no fault to those) his dad was a cunt.

Heartbreak beautiful.

Just stumbled on this lovely song. So sad to hear he's gone:( Pest in peace pal.

Peace be to this house...

RIP David Berman - you were in a class all your own.

I wish we could have grabbed you David. You did so much for us.

I hope this song and David's suicide don't leave Cassie with undue feelings of guilt. Perhaps her presence in this video is testament to the fact that she and David reconciled with the critical nature of his condition long before his passing. As he says himself "She kept it burning longer than I had right to expect." R.I.P to David, may the light of his life keep others from going out tonight.

Exactly what i was thinking, if you want to go fair enough its your choice but putting her in a video about her being some of the cause of his misery before leaving wasn't very considerate.

The feverish band interplay at the end juxtaposed with the singer basically fooling around is so heart wrenching for me.

A guy gave me a look like 2:07 once. On a hot day, I was running back to work after donating plasma during my break, and a guy, disheveled, possibly homeless, walking toward me gave me that look, then said "It's not worth it" as I passed him by.

I was about seven minutes late when I got back.

Why did he do it?...... I wiuld have loved this band

Fucking brutal

כותב בחסד. יוצר ענק בעל אירוניה נדירה. יהיה זכרו ברוך!

Sad that no one goes to bed with the one-liner god. For the record, it's still a good line, "Light of my life is going out tonight."

Without a flicker of regret

@Cesar Sandoval That's why it's called a one-liner god. I'd've never written that line.

@Porter Mortarswan im sure theres someone who has writren it b4

@Cesar Sandoval Yeah, well, my little i, write it. I'd love to see it reproduce.

Those "ah-ah"'s are f*ing scary

In years to come this poetry will be seen in the same light as Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, Dylan. For those of us whose light is almost out, thanks Dave.

Yes! Townes is magic. Same to david.

RIP Dave Berman. I feel so sorry for him listening to this great record. And I feel sorry for everybody else suffering from depression and suicdal thoughts

Ouch. This one hurts.

Always ash in your shoe

I'm actually curious about this video and its timing.

He's beating up his (recent) ex in the song--he looks great but she looks like a slut. I mean I love the song, but it's either:
(1) prescient in that he would be breaking up soon (but not killing himself),
(2) or it's just a coincidence (that he broke up his relationship and killed himself, which is...like..holy fuck!!!! AMAZING!!! (from dwebhead fans)
(3) or he knew he was going to kill himself and so planned to attack his wife--who he knew was up to something (whether she was or not is unimportant) from the grave.
Of course, there is also a number four
(4) and that is that his wife and collaborator often played around with these alternative realities and this one, tragically, mirrored reality.

Honestly, watching Berman think in public, I'm anticipating that he'd be cool with this.

Nothing implies violence toward his wife. She's only getting dressed to go out.

@Jac Ob he's not literally doing violence, but he does come across as the victim and his wife is the cause of his sufferings. Or it's his inability to change, but his wife is gussying herself for a night out with a new beau, so he is putting her in a poor light. Imo.

if you spent 5 or 10 minutes reading the readily available actual facts of their lives you wouldn't have written such utter nonsense

David Berman forever

"any resemblance to actual persons,living or dead,is purely coincidental."

The sad sensation to feel that everything he said was for real.

This video is a fucking masterpiece. God. DAMN. IT!!!!!!

This is the BEST thing you can come across when you haven't slept in a few days and just smoked a bowl...all the awkward heartache head shots and then he's singing into a shower head...it makes me want to date and break up with someone so I can have an excuse to be a weirdo too 😍

The rockingest understanding of the cuckold fantasy. The man must hate himself with extra-ordinary appetite. "You're using me, you're using me - I trusted you, you poet!" God I hate god.

A lot of people are commenting stuff like "oh do you think he did such and such because he knew he was going to kill himself?" He put at the end of the video "Have a great summer, everyone!" Do you really think he'd be that cruel? No. It likely wasn't planned; like many suicides, it was probably done on a dumb whim.

Guess he really didn't like touring afterall.

sad sad sad : RIP Mr Berman

So brilliant, funny, and oh- so Sad...the whole record ~ missing his potential future music already...

Do you think David added "living or dead" to the disclamer at the beginning because he knew he was going to commit suicide shortly after the album came out?

maybe, btw is so sad men.

ok then

1:16
through 1:21

As sad as I can be watching this stuff now, the shot of him in the bathroom, singing into the shower head while she's putting on make-up, makes me laugh every time.

I get the impression if he had kids he would have stopped with this game, but since that was not what happened he had little to look forward to, a cautionary tale, oh well, he made some great music, a shame he didn't see the power in living for someone else and how that often makes you stick around long enough to realize you'll be dead soon enough without the need to speed it up. As much shit as he crammed between the start and stop of his records, I get the sense he missed something along the way, didn't stop and take a notice as Bueller once infamously said. I can't help but think he was missing a few pieces that would have made the rest of the life ride a little bit easier. Burying yourself in debt maybe a kind of giving up, when you have kids its often the price you pay to bring them up to speed, one way puts you into a hole, the other gives you a reason for why you find yourself there, i prefer the way with a reason, not just wallowing in my own self pity. I feel for ya, but shit, someone needed to drive the apathy out for an extended leave so he could surface, as it stands he was seemingly drowning himself and nobody seemed to bother to notice much, the signs were there, especially in the interview, oh well, we all don't live forever, wish he stuck around for a couple more decades, guess he had just seen enough. Safe travels!

Thanks for your music and your life as an amazing artist...
RIP.

Cassie doesn't deserve, or should be subject to, an old mentor's death. Would never claim any semblance of an understanding of your experience. Just pissed at an old friend's surrender. There is nothing you could have done to stop him.

this fool w this album this vid & his moves whupped up on being a footnote of a populist band posed as slack, there are no careers in slack or rock n roll. DCB put all of that & more in a permanent Purple Mountain shadow with this magnetized to audiotape to lacquer artifact...sweet man

A lot of relationships today resemble this video. Someone out there always wants what you have meets grass appearing greener on the other side ( though the greener grass is often fake) My logic. If it ends....sadness will of course follow, but the next relationship will likely be better suited for you in the end since its more current for the ever growing/progressing you.

People get bored and when there are no kids involved to keep it all together...yeah well. Gotta feed a relationship or it starves and dies. There was a saying back in the 90's. If it ain't new it's through.

That's funny...I've never heard that 90's saying...but it seems true in ways. Maybe people were meant to just have shorter relationships, the 50 percent divorce rate and they say up to 68 percent ( + or -) uncaught and cheating seems to add weight 2 The matter. Either way..it's a fun journey!

@D D'ianno It's a lot of fun. I keep getting older they stay the same age.

Who stays the same age as you keep getting older?

@D D'ianno The girls I date.

Mr Malkus owes a few dollars

this is the gnarls and the burls.

Fucking Berman...

should have waited til he was 54 then it would have been 27 x 2......twice as bad as the 27 club, lol

It's kind of hard to listen to this, seeing as the video has somewhat of a twist of dark humor, but he's actually feeling very real pain, to the point well.. you know.
RIP Dave

ikr, i love this song but the video makes it so sad to listen to.

I couldn't be happier that this is what we remember david berman by, but I am so sad about it.

We're lucky that Berman was able to give us as much as he did. I still wish we could have gotten more from this brave, insightful man.

Love you David :(

Goodnight Dave ❤️ sleep well

This guy reminds me of... that other guy 😂 from ST.

Edit. Murray. His name is Murray.

omg he made an official video for this song? i thought this was the saddest song I ever heard until I saw the video and he was singing in the shower head like a mic and now I am happy and he did it again. RIP funniest dude ever!

Is that actually his wife (Cassie) in the music video? Does anyone know?

If you do a facial recognition analysis with the Random Rules video, survey says 'maybe'

Always such entertaining videos , another talent, fu:*ing pure genius this is some of his best work I think

We love you forever, David. I aspire to the kind of humour shown here.

Purple Mountains, unfortunately, felt like a farewell. Damn.
A week before he died, I had an idea who David Berman was, via TheNeedleDrop's review of Purple Mountains, and then one week passes he's no longer with us. I think it's fair to say I've been completely transfixed with his work ever since. I recognize his work and his genius. His sense of humour and his story-telling. His lyricism and his kindness. While it seemed effortless, I'm sure it wasn't, and I appreciate you for everything you did.

I'll wish you the best, David Berman. Rest easy.

''Standing in the shadows of the signpost on the road
50 gates of understanding, 49 are closed
Yes, I guess this time I really hit that number on the nose
What I'd give for an hour with the power on the throne''

''And as much as we might like to seize the reel and hit rewind
Or quicken our pursuit of what we're guaranteed to find
When the dying's finally done and the suffering subsides
All the suffering gets done by the ones we leave behind''

brilliantly sad

My friend posted this about the time he passed. Was the first time I've heard this song or this artist. Now I can't get this song out of my head.

I feel so bad for Cassie 😢

Why? She didn't die and she left him so obviously didn't want a life with him in it.

@occupynewparadigm you have no idea what she's going through. I'd love to go off on you but since I'm not about to put her business out there, I'll stfu. You should too.

We are blessed to have heard the voice of this poor genius and we must learn to love from all he has said and done. Infinite Love to all united by David's spirit

Gonna listen to Silver Jews for the rest of my days.... thank you David; RIP

[Verse 1]
The light of my life is going out tonight
As the sun sinks in the west
The light of my life is going out tonight
With someone she just met
She kept it burning longer than I had right to expect
The light of my life is going out tonight
Without a flicker of regret

[Chorus 1]
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
(Darkness and cold, darkness and cold)
Rolled in through the holes in the stories I told
Conditions I'm wishing weren't taking control
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold

[Verse 2]
The light of my life is going out tonight
And she don't look too depressed
The light of my life is going out tonight
In a pink champagne Corvette
I sleep three feet above the street
In a Band-Aid pink Chevette
The light of my life is going out tonight
Without a flicker of regret

Chorus 1]
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
(Darkness and cold, darkness and cold)
Rolled in through the holes in the stories I told
Conditions I'm wishing weren't taking control
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold

[Chorus 2]
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
(Darkness and cold, darkness and cold)
Patiently encroaching on the animal
The weather of forever retaking control
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold

[Chorus 1]
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold
(Darkness and cold, darkness and cold)
Rolled in through the holes in the stories I told
Conditions I'm wishing weren’t taking control
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold

[Outro]
Darkness and cold, darkness and cold

A week ago I wrote a letter to David Berman to tell him what the Purple Mountains record meant to me. I never sent it. Then I heard of his sad passing and days later that he died right in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. If he only knew how many people were rooting for him. RIP.

I've been destroyed by this for the last week...grieving over the poor guy. The last few days I haven't even been able to eat. The new Purple Mountains record hit me differently than a lot of records do and I was just sickened by his passing.

The light of my life is going out tonight
In a pink champagne Corvette
I sleep three feet above the street
In a Band-Aid pink Chevette

hes got a nerds rope around his neck

has anyone thought about how he swingin around a nerds rope? a rope you guys

That little end card is like shoving our nose in his despair, like someone winking and making eye contact as he pulls the trigger. Makes me think mister Berman had planned his exit for months, and it makes me all kinds of fucked up.

The look on the dog's face near the end is priceless and ties the whole thing together perfectly

This is a really depressing Tim and Eric video.

as opposed to the only slightly depressing tim and eric videos. stay away from my tuna can.

Masterfully put

how can such a brilliant minded musician be such a weak minded person?

He was a brilliant person and amazing songwriter and poet. To take your own life seems like a "weak minded person?" Please do some research on mental health before making decisions about artists such as David Berman. You are "weak minded" for not trying to understand what David was going through!

Depression is no joke

@Allan Vest Naw, being weak about death is its own reward, everyone else has to figure out what you meant by it, when in fact when you have nothing to look forward to a couple more decades might seem useless but it was meant to be, he was destined to die, where are his kids? Oh thats right he has none from a 20 year marriage? Maybe they had problems with that, but even then, you can even adopt, either way when its all about you, its easy to feel like checking out early, nobody left to cry over you, no kid to stop you with a smile, etc etc It's also easier to get depressed without that childish joy in your life as well. Its true people don't like quitters, but its not like he was being elusive in his suffering, now were we just using his suffering as a form of our own personal catharsis? Why didn't we help him then? It's not like he killed himself in total isolation, it was definitely pre-meditated, he had a tour upcoming, maybe the pressure he put himself under to jump back in the saddle was just too much, coupled with separation and divorce, they needed kids, i'm just surprised they had none, it's kind of hard to be in a bed with a woman for 20 years and not make a couple of little ones to bring light back into your life, I feel sorry for both of them, something must have not worked, regardless of all the shitty parts of life, having kids is like your get out of jail card go directly to home and recharge your battery gift. It helps create balance, without balance you tip over too far into your own ditch.

If suicide was easy everybody would be doing it.

@econogate oh dear god

RIP David.

Been listening to this on repeat. fuck i miss him.

Humour survived him...

true words

Is that actually Cassie in the video?

“Light of my life is going out tonight, without a flicker of regret”, has a much different meaning now.

Yes. Wow, I missed that before reading this.

Oh shit...

Just a gem of a songwriter. RIP

You come. You go. On the way out, you leave it better than when you found it.

Those lyrics...

Watching this video now is just heartbreaking, may God rest his soul.

This film is too sad and the week’s been too sad...but that shower scene is hilarious. Thank you David!

Its hilarious throughout. Such a loss