Car Seat Headrest - 'Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales'

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[TheJuancapella]

I love how Will sings "killer whales" while providing us killer wails.

[employeetapesarchive]

there's all these people talking about depressing ways they heard this song, i just heard someone micspamming this on a tf2 minecraft server.

[empy]

"you share the same fate as the people you hate" is so fucking real

[HematomaFalafalPatrol]

Three years ago, when I was extremely depressed, I would sing this in the car on my way home from a shitty fast food job at 3 AM. It was a really bad time and it kept me sane. I'm not a huge CSH fan but, thanks Will, you kept me sane

[helpwanted]

“There’s no comfort in responsibility” that hit me like a sledgehammer

[alicehernandez]

I hate it when people say modern music sucks when there are artists like this out there.

[OlaftheGreat]

I first heard this song when I was taking a shít five minutes ago.

Memories.

[fyodor]

I love how everyone thinks differently about the same song. I suffer from anxiety and I blame myself for so many things. Sometimes it gets so intense that I can’t sleep. When I lie down on the floor in the dark, I listen to this song. There isn’t any empty words in this song. I feel like I have no control over my life, I try to change things but eventually I come back to the darkness just to admit that I’m a drunk driver. Today I was listening to this song again. When he said “it doesn’t have to be like this” I felt something in my chest. It was like deciding you’re not sleepy anymore and you can finally get out of the bed, be alive like other people. I’ve listened to this song so many times and this is the first time I felt something like this. I’m writing this while hoping that there will be a time where I listen to this song and feel alive. Deep down I also hope that someone else will read this comment and know that they are not alone. We will learn how to live, my friend

[LexAnderson]

Just realized this is going to be "classic rock" when my kid is a teenager.

[emilyc]

I've never even heard of Car Seat Headrest before why am I suddenly in tears

[aubreypressley]

I remember living in this abusive household where my aunt just yelled at me daily. And my cousin or some meth addict from the neighborhood came and stole from me. No one would do anything to fix it and my trailer was a trash heap because my grandma and sister were hoarders. And it was filled with roaches and rats. The toilets didn't work toward the end. The only thing that made me happy was leaving. So eventually I graduated HS and did it permanently. In a 6 month span after graduation I bought a car on my own, started college, and moved into an apartment.

But during those times, sometimes when I look back, I recall finding this song. On most nights after discovering I'd just sit there numb listening to this song. I'd imagine it would get better.

"It's too late to articulate it
That empty feeling
You share the same fate as the people you hate
You build yourself up against others' feelings
And it left you feeling empty as a car coasting downhill
I have become such a negative person
It was all just an act
It was all so easily stripped away

But if we learn how to live like this
Maybe we can learn how to start again"

[neenlancaster]

I remember putting this on while dealing with my unmedicated, undiagnosed mood disorder. I constantly felt like life was just going to be a constant state of being depressed and losing everything I had accomplished in a matter of weeks. The line "It doesn't have to be like this" has a place in my heart, it helped me realise it really didn't have to be like that.

[ayal]

the only reason i want a driver's license is to listen to this while driving alone at night

[alphadelfa]

I think this song may had gotten some inspiration from the 1977 film "Orca".
In it, a sea captain accidentally kills a pregnant killer whale, while her mate looks on.
The captain felt remorse for the incident, because he had been in a similar situation as the male killer whale:
"I'd look him right in the eye.
I'd tell him that the killing
of his wife and child -
- was a terrible accident.
That I didn't mean it.
I'd tell him I was sorry,
and hoped he'd forgive me.
I understand what that whale feels.
The same thing happened to me.
My wife was pregnant
and drove to the hospital.
A drunken driver hit her.
He killed her and my baby.
"

[kirad]

CSH is really killing it, keep it up with the Talking Heads style writing. lyrics like "notes in your handwriting" are fucking killer.

[aleclazenby]

Coming to terms with my alcoholism, this is a tough track to ignore.

[jamieday]

I lost my ten year old tarantula to an act of negligence by an ex. She moved states with me five times, I raised her from a spiderling. She was the only thing I've ever loved, my baby girl and my road dog. I'm not sure I'll ever be the same without her. I miss you, bethyboo my babypoo.

RIP Beth'tilac.

[jujufeirrieo]

Car seat headrest is for those people who don't always have a sense of home whether that be the physical place or the people around them, but they just make do with what they have until it feels right.

[kyleshitman]

told my friend this was my favorite song, she said “well you’ve only listened to it every day for the past 3 years”

[wheremakeysat]

This is the song that plays in a comedy when the protagonist realizes he was a dick and starts to change his ways