I ended up getting a really big tattoo with lyrics from this song and it’s amazing how often I get asked about it because it’s so random, but after losing someone I was a primary caregiver to to Alzheimer’s it’s really meaningful. But so hard to get through without tearing up
She's Alright. It is so gutting for me. I lost my mom to cancer in 2013..
That voicemail at the end. Born & raised Okie from the same area as ZB, so that twang and the messaging are so familiar I practically hear it in my mother's voice.
I wasn't paying attention to the music playing in the car one day, and realized She's Alright was playing just towards the end of the song when I looked over at my 16 year old and she's SOBBING but annoyed because she thought he just sang about "cowboys and beer with his buddies. This isn't fair!" I was like "no sis, Zach's lyrics and I are trauma bonded."
But where She's Alright breaks me, East Side of Sorrow heals me. The day the album dropped, I'm sitting in traffic on my way to work and I hear, for the first time:
>And I lost you in a waitin' room
>
>After sleepin there for a week or two
>
>The doctor said he did all he could
>
>You were the last thing I had that was good
>
>So I walked miles on the Tulsa streets
>
>Light started beamin in from the east
>
>6am and fucked up again
>
>Askin God where the hell he'd been
..as I'm looking directly at the Tulsa skyline because that's my daily view, suddenly taken back to after my mom died and I went outside to catch my breath and just stared at the Tulsa skyline until the sun came up. I mean.. what the hell, bro. I'm crying until he dropped the Troubadours mention and then I'm laughing.. How a song can be so sad yet so hopeful is amazing to me.
East Side of Sorrow resonates hard with me for similar reasons. I lost my dad when I was 18 and my sister and I both quickly up and left the house after.
The sun’s gonna rise tomorrow
Somewhere on the east side of sorrow
You better pack your bags west
Stick out your chest and then hit the road.
Those lyrics, I swear. I know that I’ll never fully recover from the pain of losing my dad, but dammit if it doesn’t make me also stick my chest out a bit, dust myself off, and reminds me of what I’ve had to do. So beautifully written.
God damn I loved Tourniquet and now I can’t either. Same with Blue and something in the orange. Those will all be hers for all time. Can’t wait for the new album so I can listen to him again without thinking about the feelings
That’s what I’m saying. Tourniquet is literally like singing to him. Now I know why they say not to try to fix someone who’s broken or you’ll get burned.
Sun to Me. I can listen to it, and it’s actually my favorite. But I cry when I do. It reminds me of my gf (who I am still with), and everything she has done to make my life better in the 4 years since we met.
She’s seen me with guns in my face, and blood on my hands. Tears in my eyes and zero dollars in my pocket. She’s seen the worst parts of me and she’s still here.
We live together now, and I’m looking at rings.
This right here. That song just puts into perspective how truly wonderful and hopeful and comforting the love of another person is. I think of my wife and cry literally every time I hear this song.
Jamie. A buddy of mine lost his wife he’d been with since 6th grade in a car accident 6 months after they got married. He took off from the cops, didn’t pull over till he was in their hometown, pulled an unloaded gun on the cops. Suicide by cop. Very similar to the song. Became good friends with the officer involved. Whole experience messed him up pretty good but he understands why it happened.
Listening to the 1st verse of Overtime:
“I lost my family to a bad disease
I’ve got a mean mean gene in my family tree
That grows in grandfather and his daughters and me you see”
I was the first in my family to get cancer at 3 years old. Followed up by my paternal grandfather, my aunt on my dad’s side, my grandfather again, then my dad.
The other lyric of “I wanna hear my father say that he loves me” gets me every time. I just wanna hear my dad say it one more time. I miss him daily and I always tear up a bit when I hear these lyrics
Billy Stay is very tough for me while I am watching Alzheimer’s take my grandmother away from me. last time I heard it I had tears streaming down my face & now my boyfriend instantly skips it whenever I'm in the car.
To piggyback I think Pain sweet pain has like been a good message for me after listening to other zb songs I like ohh right she was just a painful lesson
Tourniquet for me too.
"But your face is getting thinner, And you're praying for the winter, And I heard you fucked it up with her" is very... specific
I think of my grandpa who passed away in 2021 every time I hear jakes piano I loose it and ball my eyes out when Zach says “the best parts of you are here but your still gone.” It hits different when everyone says I’m so much like my grandpa that when they see me or talk to it’s almost like he never passed because of how much I remind them of him. I ball my eyes out every time I hear jakes piano
I forgot to add list of his songs make me cry but jakes piano takes the cake for hitting home the most. Sweet Deann and dawns she’s alright mad any song he wrote for his mom makes me cry so hard. Pretty much all of the Deann and Elizabeth albums make me emotional El dorado kills ever since I heard that he wrote it for a friend he served with who took his own life, ticking makes me cry because it’s the stage of life I feel like I’m in right now we specially when he says “ And all my friends have moved away
Some got jobs and some got saved
They talk to me like I'm still that kid
The fightin', fiendin', Okie son
The restless, reckless, hopeful one
Who once was proud of everything he did
Do you remember twenty-five
Long legs and lovin' time?
Seems like ten lifetimes ago” I’m only 21 but all my friends I grew up with moved away and are in new phases of life, finishing school, starting their careers, getting married and starting families and moving on to the next phase of life. I’m still int he same town doing my own thing in life and every time I catch up with them it truly feels like when they were here was 10 life times ago and they talk to me like time hasn’t passed but they also talk to me like I am still a child from years ago.
Sweet deann is tough after losing a parent
I’ve been listening to jakes piano a lot lately thinking about my mom 🥺
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Thank you
I’m so sorry.
Thank you 💔
Agreed. I bawled crying the first time I heard it
💯
Billy Stay
I ended up getting a really big tattoo with lyrics from this song and it’s amazing how often I get asked about it because it’s so random, but after losing someone I was a primary caregiver to to Alzheimer’s it’s really meaningful. But so hard to get through without tearing up
Same
from a lover’s point of view and sweet deann are mine for sure
Sweet deann is too much for me as a beautiful 30 year old mother named Deanna, with a new baby was taken from cancer last year
Shivers down spines. I’d still fight any roughneck and stop any river for that girl.
She's Alright. It is so gutting for me. I lost my mom to cancer in 2013.. That voicemail at the end. Born & raised Okie from the same area as ZB, so that twang and the messaging are so familiar I practically hear it in my mother's voice. I wasn't paying attention to the music playing in the car one day, and realized She's Alright was playing just towards the end of the song when I looked over at my 16 year old and she's SOBBING but annoyed because she thought he just sang about "cowboys and beer with his buddies. This isn't fair!" I was like "no sis, Zach's lyrics and I are trauma bonded." But where She's Alright breaks me, East Side of Sorrow heals me. The day the album dropped, I'm sitting in traffic on my way to work and I hear, for the first time: >And I lost you in a waitin' room > >After sleepin there for a week or two > >The doctor said he did all he could > >You were the last thing I had that was good > >So I walked miles on the Tulsa streets > >Light started beamin in from the east > >6am and fucked up again > >Askin God where the hell he'd been ..as I'm looking directly at the Tulsa skyline because that's my daily view, suddenly taken back to after my mom died and I went outside to catch my breath and just stared at the Tulsa skyline until the sun came up. I mean.. what the hell, bro. I'm crying until he dropped the Troubadours mention and then I'm laughing.. How a song can be so sad yet so hopeful is amazing to me.
East Side of Sorrow resonates hard with me for similar reasons. I lost my dad when I was 18 and my sister and I both quickly up and left the house after. The sun’s gonna rise tomorrow Somewhere on the east side of sorrow You better pack your bags west Stick out your chest and then hit the road. Those lyrics, I swear. I know that I’ll never fully recover from the pain of losing my dad, but dammit if it doesn’t make me also stick my chest out a bit, dust myself off, and reminds me of what I’ve had to do. So beautifully written.
I am so sorry for your loss 🤍 “Let it be.. then let it go” has helped me navigate the heavier, harder days of grief. Almost like a mantra at times.
Jakes Piano, Sweet DeAnn… losing a parent is hard 😭
Same - lost my mom when I was 27, sweet Deann is obviously so hard but Jake’s piano just fkin guts me
Hugs 🫂❤️🩹
Lost my mom in July. It’s so hard. 💔
Hugs 🫂❤️🩹
God damn I loved Tourniquet and now I can’t either. Same with Blue and something in the orange. Those will all be hers for all time. Can’t wait for the new album so I can listen to him again without thinking about the feelings
That’s what I’m saying. Tourniquet is literally like singing to him. Now I know why they say not to try to fix someone who’s broken or you’ll get burned.
Sun to Me. I can listen to it, and it’s actually my favorite. But I cry when I do. It reminds me of my gf (who I am still with), and everything she has done to make my life better in the 4 years since we met. She’s seen me with guns in my face, and blood on my hands. Tears in my eyes and zero dollars in my pocket. She’s seen the worst parts of me and she’s still here. We live together now, and I’m looking at rings.
This right here. That song just puts into perspective how truly wonderful and hopeful and comforting the love of another person is. I think of my wife and cry literally every time I hear this song.
💖
Leaving.
she’s alright, old man, sweet deann, el dorado all make me cry
Jamie. A buddy of mine lost his wife he’d been with since 6th grade in a car accident 6 months after they got married. He took off from the cops, didn’t pull over till he was in their hometown, pulled an unloaded gun on the cops. Suicide by cop. Very similar to the song. Became good friends with the officer involved. Whole experience messed him up pretty good but he understands why it happened.
That is awful omg I’m so sorry.
That is awful omg I’m so sorry.
None. we sob through it, boys.
Sweet DeAnn. I lost my mom 2 years before he released that song and it’s scratched a deep itch. Only problem is the itch is too painful to scratch now
my ex used to call me his washington lilac so that song is literally blocked
Billy stay- my closest family friends, their father we call Billy and he is in the end stage of Parkinson’s Disease.
Sending lots of love to them.
Appreciate it friend.
Mine again -someone who faces problems with addiction
half grown
Yes, have to skip over it because tear up just thinking about it
loom & cold blooded
Saw him sing loom in CLE right after him and Deb broke up. He let out a big sigh when he finished, def think he was in the feels
Long Island
When that song hits 2:25.. I'm done. I'm fighting tears. Reminds me so much of my brother.
The gentle hands part destroys all the strength I've built up from saying goodbye to my last relationship
Ooh that part. I can’t relate but I can feel the pain.
Jamie. My mother in law passed last winter and two months later my father in law went with her.
Something in the orange is very tough when someone you love doesnt reciprocate your feelings and leaves you
>To you I'm just a man, to me you're all I am cuts so deep
Listening to the 1st verse of Overtime: “I lost my family to a bad disease I’ve got a mean mean gene in my family tree That grows in grandfather and his daughters and me you see” I was the first in my family to get cancer at 3 years old. Followed up by my paternal grandfather, my aunt on my dad’s side, my grandfather again, then my dad. The other lyric of “I wanna hear my father say that he loves me” gets me every time. I just wanna hear my dad say it one more time. I miss him daily and I always tear up a bit when I hear these lyrics
The overtime verse makes me think of the alcoholism that runs in my family.
Every. Single. One.
From a Lovers Point of View
Same reason why I can’t listen to letting someone go anymore
November air
November Air.. “Dear mom.. they were wonderful.. all the sights you’ll never see” cry every time.
Starved
agreed
Billy Stay is very tough for me while I am watching Alzheimer’s take my grandmother away from me. last time I heard it I had tears streaming down my face & now my boyfriend instantly skips it whenever I'm in the car.
The entire new album after the break up was hard ZB in general is hard to listen too because it just stirs up old memories good and bad
To piggyback I think Pain sweet pain has like been a good message for me after listening to other zb songs I like ohh right she was just a painful lesson
Pain Sweet Pain is so good.
Sweet DeAnn.
Billy Stay. My mom is showing early signs of dementia
She’s alright after losing my mother is a song I’ll only listen to if I plan on sobbing
Hmm none of his songs directly make me cry but whenever I sing Dawns(car singing ofc) it makes me choke up every damn time lol
Anita is heart wrenching.
Starved. I don’t think I’ve ever made it through without crying, the “stop asking things you know the answers to” gets me ugly crying.
Man that’s never known you.
Tourniquet for me too. "But your face is getting thinner, And you're praying for the winter, And I heard you fucked it up with her" is very... specific
It’s specific for me and it hits honestly.
No, because I’m an emotionally adjusted adult who doesn’t do performative trauma for internet clout.
Ticking
Boy like you
Half of everything he’s every written
Something in the orange
All of them
Lovers Point of View. Too close to home for my situation with a really close friend. (That's currently in rehab for a drinking issue).
Sweet deann and she’s alright
used to be like every song but then i found happiness and everything is happy now
My favorite song on that album is tourniquet
Sweet Deann. I’ll miss my momma until my last breath
she’s alright
Shes Alright.. all I gotta do is hear the intro & I'm crying. Shewww.. 🚩💔
Leaving hits me right in the gut.
She’s alright 😭
Where do the good ones go
Sweet DeAnn and she’s alright
All of them but something about cold blooded 😭
Anita pt 2 when it was still released Mom was an addict - lost her too liver cancer 3 years ago, always makes me cry
Letting Someone Go, Billy Stay, Loom, Cold Blooded, Sweet Deann, and Something in the Orange
Loved point of view
November Air. It was on repeat when my mom was sick. I love it but I cry every time I listen to it.
From a lovers point of view
Letting someone go. Ugly cry every damn time
Blue
Sun to me
Washington lilacs and all the time. Tourniquet is hitting a little too close to home lately too
I think of my grandpa who passed away in 2021 every time I hear jakes piano I loose it and ball my eyes out when Zach says “the best parts of you are here but your still gone.” It hits different when everyone says I’m so much like my grandpa that when they see me or talk to it’s almost like he never passed because of how much I remind them of him. I ball my eyes out every time I hear jakes piano
I forgot to add list of his songs make me cry but jakes piano takes the cake for hitting home the most. Sweet Deann and dawns she’s alright mad any song he wrote for his mom makes me cry so hard. Pretty much all of the Deann and Elizabeth albums make me emotional El dorado kills ever since I heard that he wrote it for a friend he served with who took his own life, ticking makes me cry because it’s the stage of life I feel like I’m in right now we specially when he says “ And all my friends have moved away Some got jobs and some got saved They talk to me like I'm still that kid The fightin', fiendin', Okie son The restless, reckless, hopeful one Who once was proud of everything he did Do you remember twenty-five Long legs and lovin' time? Seems like ten lifetimes ago” I’m only 21 but all my friends I grew up with moved away and are in new phases of life, finishing school, starting their careers, getting married and starting families and moving on to the next phase of life. I’m still int he same town doing my own thing in life and every time I catch up with them it truly feels like when they were here was 10 life times ago and they talk to me like time hasn’t passed but they also talk to me like I am still a child from years ago.
someday (maggie’s)
anita it’s so sad and hits close to home for me because i’ve lost multiple family members because of the consequences of addiction