An Arrow In The Wall lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie
My heart runs on gasoline vapors
The thousand drums waking up the neighbors
But I can feel the fissures in the freeways
The rusted steel, deception in the handshakes
In the handshakes
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
Take it as a warning
This machine was built to be broken
The strip mall teens were sniffing and swollen
And I could not run fast enough to flee them
There's more than one way to get your freedom
To get your freedom
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
An arrow in the wall, arrow in the wall
Take it as a warning
That you are gonna fall, you are gonna fall
Even if you're soaring
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
Take it as a warning
The Plan lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie
(originally by Low)
On the step you handed me
Pieces of the plan
At the gate you handed me
Pieces of the plan
Can I hold it for a week?
Can I hold it for a week?
Can I hold it for a week?
Can I hold it for a week?
Can I hold it?
Can I hold it?
Can I hold it for a week?
Waiting For The Sunrise lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie
(originally by Yoko Ono)
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
So I can take your hand
And stroll about
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
So we can go on the streets
And see the people smile
Give me your hand
So I can tell you
Things will be alright
The rooms still dark
But it won't be so long
And I can take you outside
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
So we can go to the park
And roll about
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
So we can go to the docks
And watch the boats go by
Come on, love
Give me your hand
And things will be alright
The room's still cold
But it won't be so long
We can go outside
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
So I can see your hair
Shining in the air
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
So I can see the sky
Reflected in your eyes
Come on, love
Don't be depressed
Things will be alright
The room's too low
But it won't be so long
We can be outside
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the sunrise
I Don't Know How I Survive lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
Listen to the ringing in your ears
The scrambled voices of your fears
Whispering, whispering
Listen to the sound of your heartbeat
Growing louder, gaining speed
You're breathin' out, breathin' in
In these nights, I don't know how I survive
Pacing across the room while she's asleep
Tears raining down her cheeks
Trying to hold, trying to hold on
Praying, even though you don't believe
Just in case they are received
By anyone, anyone
These nights, I don't know how I survive
(These nights, I don't know how I survive)
These nights, I don't know how I survive
(These nights, I don't know how I survive)
These nights, I don't know how I survive
(These nights, I don't know how I survive)
These nights, I don't know how I survive
(These nights, I don't know how I survive)
No, I don't know how I survive
(I don't know how I survive)
No, I don't know how I survive
(I don't know how I survive)
Listen to the ringing in your ears
The scrambled voices of your fears
Whispering, whispering
Roman Candles lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
It's been a battle just to wake and greet the day
Then they all disappear like sugar in my coffee
(Sugar in my coffee)
A hint of sweetness but the bitterness remains
The acidity devouring my body
(Devouring my body)
But I am learning to let go
Of everything I tried to hold
Too long 'cause they all explode
Like roman candles
I used to feel everything like a flame
But now it's a struggle just to feel anything
(To feel anything)
I watch the world from a window on a hill
Everyone moving as I'm standing still
(I'm standing still)
But I am learning to let go
Of everything I tried to hold
Too long 'cause they all explode
Like roman candles
Ah-woo, ah-woo
Ah-woo, ah-woo
But I am learning to let go
Of everything I tried to hold
Too long 'cause they all explode
Like roman candles
Like roman candles
Asphalt Meadows lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
Your kiss was a lonely prayer
When you slipped it into my mouth
I closed my eyes and held it in
And then I exhaled it out
The glow of the downtown lights
Casting shadows across your face
As if all the buildings knew
I could only know half of you
And I was a snake under your flowers
I just wanted to disappear
Into the understory of your beauty
Never to reappear
But there's a name writ on your cast
Above the bruised and broken bones
That tells everybody that you meet
To whom the damage is owed
We rode a wave of white noise
Beneath the city sleeping
I saw the train doors closing
I felt your sorrow deepen
Here in the asphalt meadows
There's only one thing that grows
Finding the life through the concrete
Getting trampled under our feet
You said all your bridges and roads
They all lead to an airport
Planes drifting off into the sky
Always depart, but never seem to arrive
And there in the early hour
Lying naked in your unmade bed
I was thinking of how to tell you
What my ticket read
Your kiss was a lonely prayer
A single candle, slowly burning down
But the light, your light was beautiful
Within its here and now
We rode a wave of white noise
Beneath the city sleeping
I saw the train doors closing
I felt your sorrow deepen
Here in the asphalt meadows
There's only one thing that grows
Finding the life through the concrete
Getting trampled under our feet
We rode a wave of white noise
Beneath the city sleeping
I saw the train doors closing
I felt your sorrow deepen
Here in the asphalt meadows
There's only one thing that grows
Finding the life through the concrete
Getting trampled under our feet
Getting trampled under our feet
Getting trampled under our feet
Getting trampled under our feet
Rand McNally lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
A Rand McNally atlas, cheap coffee stained
Now, I wouldn't know how to use one with my life at stake
You were waiting on a payphone at a truck stop in Houston
Trying to call your mother, 'cause she's a worrier
A handful of twenties in your overcoat
Always rolled into a pillow on some stranger's floor
And you tell these stories with happy endings
Only when interrupted before they're over
But I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Chasing these roads into dawns
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Falling asleep in their arms
It seemed these highways were never-ending
Circling odds and evens, the numbers ascending and
Searching through static on the Wyoming plains
We danced to both kinds of music, as the old joke claims
And I wanted for nothing, I couldn't rent
We lived on whiskey and Twizzlers, and youth's discontent
With this Rand McNally atlas, dog-eared and frayed
Like Old Testament verses that don't make sense in this decade
Don't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Chasing these roads into dawns
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Falling asleep in their arms
But I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Chasing these roads into dawns
And I'm holding on
Holding on
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Here To Forever lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
In every movie I watch from the 50s
There's only one thought that swirls
Around my head now
And that's that everyone there on the screen
Yeah, everyone there on the screen
Well, they're all dead now
They're all dead now
And it ain't easy living above
And I can't help but keep falling in love
With bones and ashes
With bones and ashes
And when the color is too bold and bright
I'm daydreaming in black and white
Until it passes
Until it passes
I wanna know the measure
From here to forever
And I wanna feel the pressure
Of God or whatever
Oh, these days it's so hard to relax
You gotta hold a gun to my back
To make me smile
To make me smile
And the only way I seem to cope
Is by trying to hold onto hope
If just for a while
If just for a while
I wanna know the measure
From here to forever
And I wanna feel the pressure
Of God or whatever
Now it seems more than ever
There's no hands on the levers
And I wanna feel the pressure
Of God or whatever
Only rollers keep rolling
While the searchers keep scrolling
I wanna know the measure
From here to forever
And I wanna feel the pressure
Of God or whatever
Now it seems more than ever
There's no hands on the levers
And I wanna feel the pressure
Of God or whatever
Or whatever
Foxglove Through The Clearcut lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
There was a man who used to live by the ocean
But he never set foot in the sea
It made him nervous that the water was always in motion
And he feared the creatures who swam beneath
And when I asked him how he'd ended up there
Above a world he would never know
He said he'd driven all the way across America
And when he got to the edge there was nowhere left to go
Nowhere left to go
Nowhere left to go
Nowhere left to go
Nowhere left to go
He said that nothing lives long, only the earth and the mountains
As he quoted black kettle's death song
The words drifting off into the emptiness
Of this great land where we've never belonged
And while the frontiers are ever-expanding
Our living rooms fall into disarray
And no one seems interested in fixing what they've broken
They just sweep the pieces into the bushes and slip away
Slowly slip away
Slowly slip away
Slowly slip away
Slowly slip away
And now he and I watch the foxglove grow through the clearcut
Where a forest once grew high and wild
For what is a funeral without flowers
And ten thousand tombstones reaching for the sky
Reaching for the sky
Reaching for the sky
Reaching for the sky
Reaching for the sky
Pepper lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
Take a picture to remember this by
You'll never hold all the details in your mind
Fillin' your head with superfluous facts
Pushin' out what you're never gettin' back
And all that's left is a version of the truth
A recollection that is often misconstrued
Sgt. Pepper with the faces of friends
But the names all elude you in the end
Kiss me just this one last time
Tell me that you once were mine
Take a picture to remember me by
To show everybody who you left behind
The near-miss that almost shot you out of the blue
I was a city you were only passin' through
And all that's left is a version of events
Favorably framed for the sake of self-defense
We barely notice as the pages disappear
Floating off into another year
Kiss me just this one last time
Tell me that you once were mine
Kiss me just this one last time
Show me that your love was mine
Kiss me just this one last time
Tell me that you once were mine
Kiss me just this one last time
Show me that your love was mine
I Miss Strangers lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
You were by my side on the front lines
Do you remember? Do you remember?
Two casualties of the punk wars
Buried in leather, in leather
But these days I miss strangers more than I, more than I miss my friends
And the waves of conversations breaking on the shores of my head again
Furnishments dumpstered or groundscored
You didn't need money, not money
Everything you owned in a hatchback
Battered and musty, and musty
These days I miss strangers more than I, more than I miss my friends
And the dive bars filled with hopeless drunks sinking deeper into their sins
And I'm trying to be here now, but I'm only asking when
Reach out
Reach out
Reach out
To what is choking you
To what is choking you
Reach out
To what is choking you
To what is choking you
Reach out
These days I miss strangers more than I, more than I miss my friends
And the waves of conversations breaking on the shores of my head again
These days I miss strangers more than I, more than I miss my friends
And I'm trying to be here now, but I'm only asking when
And I'm trying to be here now, but I'm only asking when
And I'm trying to be here now, but I'm only asking when
Wheat Like Waves lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
Wheat like waves
The Canadian plains were an ocean wide
Flowing to the sky
With prefab sprout
Echoing out of your '90s Accord
With the mismatched doors
Away from the wives
For just a few days traveling 'cross the divide
My delusions ablaze
But a homesteader's life
At 45 was just a fleeting dream
There's no way I'd survive
The winters in Saskatchewan are so cold
You talked of your kid
How frightened you'd been when she almost died
With tears in your eyes
But I could not pretend
To comprehend the depths of that kind of love
As a childless man
And there's so little time
So many miles to drive before the endless sleep
Eventually arrives
But I never would've thought
That life was so long that we'd be growing old
With stories untold
You were kindled by the dials on the dashboard
Your tattoos like the stamps upon your passport
Speeding like we thought we were escaping
From everything we feared that we were breaking
By trying to hold them in our hands
You were kindled by the dials on the dashboard
Your tattoos like the stamps upon your passport
Speeding like we thought we were escaping
From everything we feared that we were breaking
By trying to hold them in our hands
Fragments From The Decade lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
Fragments from the decade are splayed out on your floor
Like hundreds of locked doors
There's a story that you're trying to find
But the pieces don't fit together in your mind
Your mother was a drunkard, your father was not a saint
Your sister lacked restraint
And in photos you were always staring through the lens
To some distant place you would rather have been
Days are lonely and long
Walking in place where you don't belong
Here on paved native lands
Time disappears from the palms of your hands
Fragments from the decade are dancing in the fire
Like marionettes on wires
And if you stare too long they almost seem alive
Too beautiful and helpless to survive
Days are lonely and long
Walking in place where you don't belong
Here on paved native lands
Time disappears from the palms of your hands
Time disappears from the palms of your hands
Time disappears from the palms of your hands
I'll Never Give Up On You lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
I've given up on aspiration
And I've given up on ever being cool
I gave up the drugs that made me restless
Oh and the alcohol that made me cruel
But I'll never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
I've given up on confrontation
And I've given up on every politician too
And I've given up on affectations
And the dilettantes they all consume
But I'll never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
I'll never give up on you
Never give up, never give up
Never give up, never give up
Never give up, never give up
Never give up, never give up
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Waterfalls lyrics - Death Cab For Cuti
(originally by TLC)
A lonely mother gazing out of the window
Staring at a son that she just can't touch
If at any time he's in a jam, she'll be by his side
But he doesn't realize he hurts her so much
But all the praying just ain't helping at all
'Cause he can't seem to keep himself out of trouble
So he goes out and he makes his money the best way he knows how
Another body lying cold in the gutter
Listen to me
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Little precious has a natural obsession for temptation
But he just can't see
She gives him loving that his body can't handle
But all he can say is, "Baby it's good to me"
One day he goes and takes a glimpse in the mirror
But he doesn't recognize his own face
His health is fading and he doesn't know why
Three letters took him to his final resting place
Y'all don't hear me
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
(originally by Neutral Milk Hotel)
When you were young, you were the king of carrot flowers
And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees
In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet
And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder
And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor
As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for
And this is the room one afternoon, I knew I could love you
And from above you how I sank into your soul
Into that secret place where no one dares to go
And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking
And dad would dream of all the different ways to die
Each one a little more than he could dare to try
Fall On MeFall On Me lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie
(originally by R.E.M.)
There's the problem, feathers, iron
Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys
Feathers hit the ground
Before the weight can leave the air
Buy the sky and sell the sky
And tell the sky, and tell the sky
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for?)
Fall on me (If it's there for long)
Fall on me (It's over, it's over me)
There's the progress
We have found a way to talk around the problem
Building towers
Foresight isn't anything at all
Buy the sky and sell the sky
Bleed the sky, tell the sky
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for?)
Fall on me (If it's there for long)
Fall on me (It's over, it's over me)
Fall on me
Well, I would keep it above
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So, if I send it to you
You've got to promise to keep it home
Buy the sky and sell the sky
And lift your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky, ask the sky
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for?) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over, it's over me) (It's gonna fall)
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for?) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over, it's over me) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for?) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over, it's over me) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me
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