#IM THE WORLD ENDER BABY AND IM BACK FROM THE GRAVE

[dangerous-fighter-fairy]

*Marching around my room very seriously* I’ll never bleed and I won’t ever age! I’ll never feel the embrace of the grave! Oh, the fair and the brave and the good must die, I’ve seen the other side of living, I know heaven’s a lie!

[saintetheldredablogshorrormovies]

so i used to say vide noir was my favourite lord huron album because it is the most atmospheric of their albums and this is obviously a big part of it because vide noir is atmospheric as shit but honestly now i think it is less vide noir’s atmosphere and more its brilliant and uniquely insane batshit intensity that makes it such a special part of the lord huron discography.

can you imagine if you were listening to lonesome dreams and you heard a lyric like “cosmic ash and blackened brain i call you by your ancient names” youd have a heart attack lord huron have always been very emotionally intense but the way they took their gentle folk inspired melancholic beautiful cowboy sounds of love and heartbreak and strange happenings and turned it up to the raging neon scream into the darkness that is vide noir is quite possibly the most iconic thing any band has ever done. i know we have setting sun in lonesome dreams and that song is gorgeous and intense but it is just not the same kind of intense. you get your heart broken in strange trails and its “i dont know what to do haunted by the ghost of you” and how do i break the curse you left on me and runes on my skin and shit thats bad gang but you get your heart broken in vide noir and your soul gets hurled to the edge of the cosmos then plummets back into the ocean through a fucking hole in the fucking sky what the FUCK guys what the FUCK. i love playing vide noir all the time because this is my favourite framework through which to view my lived experience everything is so heightened and bright and loud and dramatic and imagining the world around you that way is just so magical. we start vide noir with “if i don’t find her i’m gonna tie that noose” we are promised a depth of love that stops at nothing and is no holds barred and bloody and raw and god does the album deliver on that promise every fucking second that follows. its the feeling of following your heart through its deepest darkest most twisted strange and unfamiliar paths without having any idea where its going, just to know what it has in store for you, because thats how committed you are to following it. there is no equivalent. sorry to say something a little sacreligous but vide noir makes the world ender look like skipping in the park like the world ender is pretty metal when the world ender comes baby run for your life and whatever but in vide noir we are trying to outrun the fucking pure black void im sorry but thats horrifying.

going from the ethereal, dreamy vision of the unknown in the yawning grave and frozen pines to vide’s something escaped when you opened the gate and now the unknown is everywhere and we’re drowning in it is just. its everything. this is not to disrespect the world ender or strange trails or any of the other songs and albums because the day i take any of that for granted i will cease to exist (esp the world ender that song owns my entire heart and soul). all of the albums and songs have something so unique to them and special about them which makes them completely irreplaceable. i only aim to argue that in the realm of intensity and insanity, vide noir is king. i am also intense and insane and i am its subject. hence irresistible fave

[vannderlinde]

Restless Wanderers: Van Der Linde gang members x Lord Huron

I’m sorry fellers, this is an absolute unit of a post. This was a product of some intense hyperfixation y’all...

Arthur || Time To Run and The Balancer’s Eye

It's time to run, they'll string me up for all that I've done! I did it all for you, well I hope you know the lengths I've gone to It's time to run, well I hope you understand what I've done

Heaven never ever heard a word I said, I’ve cried enough to raise the dead. Life is equal to dust in the Balancer’s eye. Will I ever be forgiven for the crime of my life? Will it haunt me ’til I die?

Dutch || Vide Noir

Tears of sorrow or tears of joy, Drops in my cup as my mind is destroyed... Many evils have I enjoyed, Prowling the night raising hell with the boys. 

Hosea || The Yawning Grave

I tried to warn you when you were a child. I told you not to get lost in the wild. I sent omens and all kinds of signs; I taught you melodies, poems, and rhymes. Oh, you fool, there are rules, I am coming for you. Darkness brings evil things, oh, the reckoning begins .

John || Hurricane (Johnnie’s Theme) 

I get a laugh outta starin' at darkness. And wondering why people live in the light. I drive fast, and I rumble the hardest. I don't feel alive if I ain't in the fight.

Micah || The World Ender

The fair and the brave and the good must die. I seen the other side of living, I know heaven's a lie. I’ll tear through the night, and I'll raise some hell. 'Cause I'm the World Ender, baby and I'm back from the dead.

Sean || Fool For Love

I know I should have never looked back; But you ain’t gonna win a woman’s heart like that. I never should have called his bluff; I was born to lose cause I’m a fool for love.

Javier || Ancient Names (pt 2)

Gone are the days of laughter and love; Gone, baby, gone, we've all had enough! I scream and shout like this, Just to prove to the world that I still exist. I don't believe in life, And I won't believe in death 'til I die...

Molly || La Belle Fleur Sauvage

Once he's gazed upon her, a man is forever changed. The bravest men return with darkened hearts and phantom pain. Ages come and go but her life goes on the same. Her colors change to mark the passing of the days. No Earthly sight can match the beauty she displays.

Karen || Cursed

Oh, I wanna know what I did, I wanna know her game! I wanna learn her wits and how she plays her tricks... Lots of booze and her kiss, These are drugs that do not mix. I was under her spell, And today I feel like hell.

Mary-Beth || Moonbeam

And you pulled me from a nightmare, With your eyes and your silver touch. Shone a little bit of light there, Now the darkness don’t scare me much.

Trelawny || When the Night is Over

When the ocean drinks the sky; And the city winks its eye. When the night is done, you’ll vanish in the sun. Will I hold you when the night is over?

Kieran || Secret of Life

To die for good, it must be earned. The ways of death can never be learned. And the life I’ve lived is only dust. The darkness comes for all of us.

Abigail || Wait by the River

If I can't change the weather, Maybe I can change your mind? If we can't be together, What's the point of life? Baby, I didn't mean the things I said. I don't honestly wish you were dead. I'm a fool; I'm just a man. If I only could hold you again.

Charles || Frozen Pines

And I look up to the sky, And I know you're still alive. But I wonder where you are, I call your name into the dark. I am ready to follow you even though I don't know where... Oh, I don't wanna be the only one living if all of my friends are gone.

Sadie || Love is Like Ghosts

Yes, I know that love is like ghosts. Oh, few have seen it, but everybody talks. Spirits follow everywhere I go. Oh, they sing all day and they haunt me in the night.

Tilly || Lullaby

You arrive along with the sun. Where have you been darlin'? What have you done? You were out finding trouble again? There's a fire in your eyes and there's blood on your hands.

Bill || Until the Night Turns

I had a vision tonight that the world was ending Yeah the sky was falling and time was bending We spent our last night in the moonlight Baby it's so bright we'll be up all night I got a helluva view for the end of the world I've got a bottle of booze and a beautiful girl If I'm a'­goin to die I'm gonna go in style

Lenny || I will be Back One Day

I wanna be with the ones I left. But I'm way out west. And the years keep on slipping away. I been running a long, long time. Trying to flee that life. But I can't seem to leave it behind .

Jack || The Birds are Singing at Night

When we're dead and gone, Will the mountains remember? Or just carry on, Moving as slow as the forest grows? And turn our bones into dust, An untold legend is lighting up. 

Swanson || Dead Man’s Hand

Was he unforgiven or just tired of living a life That never felt like his? I know how to live, I don't know how to die; And there ain't no thrills in the afterlife.

Mary Linton || Emerald Star

You never loved me; I came all the way through time and space... Oh, what a jewel are you, And, oh, what a fool am I for squandering my love.

Annabelle || In the Wind

Death is a wall but it can't be the end, You are my protector and my best friend, Well they say that you're gone, and that I should move on. I wonder: how do they know, baby? How do they know? Well, they don't.

Bonus: The WHOLE Gang || Brother

You say we're not like the others, Still we must die, all things must end.

I know we can't stop what's coming, But I will try, oh how I'll try! Will you fight with me, brother? One last time, one last fight?

Don't turn away, don't tell me that we're not the same. We face the fire together, brothers 'til the end. Don't run away, our time will come but not today. I stand beside you, brother, with you 'til the end.

[slushietm]

"my only regret is not taking everyone else with me" reminds me of the song the world ender - lord huron!

IM    THE    WORLD    ENDER ,    BABY ,    IM    BACK    FROM    THE    GRAVE    !

[tennet]

no seriously if not for deancas then why i laid him down in a grave in the sand and he grabbed my arm with his dead mans hand there aint no thrills in the afterlife so lift me up out of here my friend and i'll wander the night til the ages end, why they took my life but it isnt the end they put me in the ground but im back from the dead im the world ender baby and im back from the grave the fair and the brave and the good must die i seen the other side of living i know heavens a lie lord knows i should be pushing daisies i was 6 feet down but something raised me up, why i took a little journey to the unknown and i come back changed i can feel it in my bones i fucked with forces that our eyes cant see how long baby have i been away it feels like ages though you say its only days there aint language for the things ive seen and the truth is stranger than my own worst dreams, why i look up to the sky and i know youre still alive but i wonder where you are i call your name into the dark and it feels like ive been away for an era but nothing has changed at all and it feels like i was with you but what did we do and where have you gone i am ready to follow you even though i dont know where i will wait in the night until you decide to take me there, why then you came into my life with come hither in your eyes pulling me outta the grave what a nice surprise i die when our nights end but i only stay dead til i see you again do you know what loneliness does to a man turn him into the walking dead i may have died but your lovin raised me i feel alive when im with you baby so tell me that i wont ever be lonely again you saved my life i just wanna repay you in kind aint no one else ever tell you youre beautiful, why when the night was full or terror and your eyes were filled with tears when you had not touched me yet oh take me back to the night we met i had all and then most of you some and now none of you take me back to the night we met i dont know what im supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you take me back to the night we met why

lord huron strange trails was literally written for deancas