Death Cab for Cutie Lyrics

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

But I am learning to let go

Of everything I tried to hold

Too long 'cause they all explode

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

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

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

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

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

And when the color is too bold and bright

I'm daydreaming in black and white

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

And the only way I seem to cope

Is by trying to hold onto hope

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

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

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

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

To what is choking you

Reach out

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

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

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

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

Flirted With You All My Life lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie

(originally by Vic Chesnutt)

I am a man

I am self-aware

And everywhere I go

You're always right there with me

I flirted with you all my life

Even kissed you once or twice

And to this day I swear it was nice

But, clearly, I was not ready

When you touched a friend of mine

I thought that I would lose my mind

But I found out with time

That, really, I was not ready, no, no

Oh death, oh death

Oh death, really, I’m not ready

Oh death, you hinder me

Death makes those dear to me

Tease me with your sweet relief

You're cool and you are constant

When my mom was cancer sick

She fought but then succumbed to it

But you made her beg for it

"Lord Jesus, please, I'm ready"

Oh death, oh death

Oh death, really, I’m not ready, no, no

Oh death, oh death

Oh death, clearly, I'm not ready

Metal Heart lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie

(originally by Cat Power)

Losing a star without a sky

Losing the reasons why

You're losing the calling that you've been faking

And I'm not kidding

It's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do

Be true, cause they'll lock you up in a sad, sad zoo

Oh, hidy-hidy-hidy, whatcha trying to prove?

By hidy-hidy-hiding

You're not worth a thing

Sew your fortunes on a string

And hold them up to light

Blue smoke will take

A very violent flight

And you will be changed and everything

And you will be

In a very sad, sad zoo

I once was lost, but now I'm found

Was blind, but now I see you

How selfish of you

To believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming

Metal heart, you're not hiding

Metal heart, you're not worth a thing

Metal heart, you're not hiding

Metal heart, you're not worth a thing

Metal heart, you're not hiding

Metal heart, you're not worth a thing

To The Ground lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie

The arms lost control

Slipped and began to roll

On the wings of an ocean gale

Crashed right through the rail

Down to the valley below

To the valley below

Down in the charred remains

Stripped the chassis clean

And the gravel grew through the frame

Till it swallowed everything

Swallowed everything

Return to the ground

To the ground

Return to the ground

To the ground

Trees growing tall

Weeds covering all

And the animals make their homes

Underneath its fusted dome

All things come around

All comes around

Comes around

Returns to the ground

To the ground

Ground

Around

Comes around

To the ground

Kids In '99 lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie

I'm thinkin' 'bout those kids

Back in '99

The gas leakin' in the creek

A firecracker then a spark

And in a moment they were

Gone, gone

Our house was shaken by the blast

Black smoke billowing off the landscape

Sirens crying through the streets

With choppers hovering like vultures above a meal

Gone, gone

In the waters where we used to swim

Where we thought we would be young forever

The beads that glistened on your sunburnt skin

Evaporated in the flames and embers

I'm thinkin' 'bout those kids

Back in '99

And wonder who they woulda been

For not a spark and a flash and the moment they were

Gone, gone

Man In Blue lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie

If you know my name

Why are you calling out

To an old love?

When you need someone

Why do you always run?

To your lord up above?

I just want to understand you

I don't need to be your man in blue

Your days all the same

Prayers like drops of rain

As you wait for the flood

To cleanse everyone

Can you hear my voice?

In a high, lonesome rejoice

Sing a song for you

In and out of tune

And I just want to understand you

I don't need to be your man in blue

I just want you to see yourself the way I do

I don't need to be your man in blue

No I don't need to be your man, man in blue

Before The Bombs lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie

Before the bombs

Before the walls came down

We would lie in the summer sun

Watching the clouds pass one by one

Before the fires

Before the spools of barbed wire

You said you would never forget

What pierces deeper than the bayonet?

There's only one thing that'll save this place

The only thing that they cannot face

There's only one thing that they cannot take

Love, love

Before the mobs

Before the inside jobs

Sleeping in on borrowed time

Too distracted for the modern crimes

Before the war

Before the troops came ashore

I held you deep in my arms

A fool to think that they could save you from harm

There's only one thing that'll save this place

The only thing that they cannot face

There's only one thing that they cannot take

Love, love

There's only one thing that'll save this place

The only thing that they cannot face

There's only one thing that they cannot take

Love, love

Before the bomb

There's only one thing that'll save this place

The only thing that they cannot face

There's only one thing that they cannot take

Love, love

Blue Bloods lyrics - Death Cab For Cutie

All the east coast blue bloods come out west

And I watch them argue about who loved you the best

I was conspicuously of my kind

Overdressed, but woefully under-refined

Well, the story held together like boulders with a piece of twine

Three helicopters circling

Retreating and returning

Your photographs were on the news

And I was there just out of view

I was standing with a smile chiseled into my head

With a mind in retreat to the places I wished I would've been

When you caught my gaze, I turned away

Planned an exit like a grand escape

As I watched you spinning through the revelers like a cheap ballet

These words all sound familiar

Convictions are forever

You tied a wish to a balloon

Watched it fly to the moon

But you will find some day soon

That it will fall

Yes, it will fall on you

Because they all do

They all do

Because they all do

I Dreamt We Spoke Again lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

I dreamt we spoke, I dreamt we spoke again
It had been so long, it had been so long
My mind filled in the blanks
I dreamt we spoke, I dreamt we spoke again
It had been so long, it had been so long
Your voice was like a ghost

In my head
In my head

Only in, yes, only in a dream
Is anything, is anything the way it used to be?
I dreamt we spoke, I dreamt we spoke again
But when I awoke, when I awoke
I could not remember

Anything you said
Anything you said
Anything you said
Anything you said

Summer Years lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Sometimes I wake at night
And watch the rain fall through the street lights
'Cause you're standing still in my mind
Fading out, waving goodbye

And I wonder where you are tonight
If the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well

Sometimes I'm overcome
By every choice I couldn't outrun
The junctions all disappear
You can't double back to your summer years

And I wonder where you are tonight
If the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well

And I wonder where you are tonight
If the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well
It's just as well

And I wonder where you are tonight
If the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well

And I wonder where you are tonight
If the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well
It's just as well

Gold Rush lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

(Gold rush)
They're digging for gold in my neighborhood
(Gold rush)
Where all the old buildings stood
(Gold rush)
And they keep digging it down and down
(Gold rush)
So that their cars can live underground
(Gold rush)
The swinging of a wrecking ball
(Gold rush)
Through these lathe and plaster walls
(Gold rush)
Is letting all the shadows free
(Gold rush)
The ones I wished still followed me

Change
(Followed me, followed me)
Please don't change
Stay
(Followed me, followed me)
Stay the same

(Gold rush)
I remember a winter's night
(Gold rush)
When we kissed beneath the street lamp light
(Gold rush)
Outside our bar near the record store
(Gold rush)
That have been condos for a year or more
(Gold rush)
And now that our haunts have taken flight
(Gold rush)
And been replaced with construction sites
(Gold rush)
Oh, how I feel like a stranger here
(Gold rush)
Searching for something that's disappeared
(Gold rush)

They're digging for gold in my neighborhood
(Gold rush)
For what they say is the greater good
(Gold rush)
But all I see is a long goodbye
(Gold rush)
A requiem for a skyline
(Gold rush)
It seems I never stop losing you
(Gold rush)
As every dive becomes something new
(Gold rush)
And all our ghosts get swept away
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush)

Change
(Be this way, be this way)
Please don't change
Stay
(Be this way, be this way)
Stay the same

Cranes
(Be this way, be this way)
Devour the light
Strange
(Be this way, be this way)
Appetites

I've ascribed these monuments
A false sense of permanence
I've placed faith in geography
To hold you in my memory
(Gold rush)
I'm sifting through these wreckage piles
(Gold rush)
Through the rubble of bricks and wires
(Gold rush)
Looking for something I'll never find
(Gold rush)
Looking for something I'll never find
(Gold rush)

They're digging for gold in my neighborhood
(Gold rush)
Where all the old buildings stood
(Gold rush)
And they keep digging it down and down
(Gold rush)
So that their cars can live underground
(Gold rush)
It seems I never stop losing you
(Gold rush)
As every dive becomes something new
(Gold rush)
And all our ghosts get swept away
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way

(Change, please don't change)
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Stay, stay the same)
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Change, please don't change)
(Gold rush)
(Gold rush)
(Gold rush)
(Gold rush)
(Stay, stay the same)
(Gold rush)
(Gold rush)

Your Hurricane lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Heaven is a hole in the sky
The stars are cracks in the ceiling of night
And I just keep watching them for a sign
That you'll be alright

'Cause every time there's a knock on my door
I fall to my hands and knees on the floor
'Cause when your wreckage washes up on my shore
You're not like before

And you try to explain who's at fault for your mistakes
But I won't be the debris in your hurricane

You used to be such a delicate kid
A lonely fish in a sea full of squid
So I can't blame you for leaving how you did
You just fell off the grid

'Cause heaven is a hole in the sky
And the stars are cracks in the ceiling of night
But you can't be your own alibi
As hard as you try

It's a tired refrain you're singing over and over again
As you try to explain who's at fault for your mistakes
But I won't be the debris in your hurricane
Oh, I won't be the debris in your hurricane
Oh, I won't be the debris in your hurricane

When We Drive lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

I can't expect you to be honest
Or to be faithful every day 'til the end
I just need you to always be a friend
As the sun sets over Dakotas
Underneath a crimson ocean of sky
Know I'll always want you be my side
When we drive

You and I were born in motion
Never in one place for too long a time
And now it's the only way we know to survive
I like the way your hair tangles
The way your sun tan's only on one side
We always keep the windows open wide
When we drive

Climb into the back seat and close your eyes
I've got the wheel
And dream of all the places only we will find

I can't expect you to be honest
Or to be faithful every day 'til the end
I just need you to always be a friend
Until the engine kicks and sputters
Until we roll the rubber off the tires
Know I'll always need you by my side
When we drive

Autumn Love lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

No more lighthouses to deceive me
Just leave me floating on the open ocean
And let the moonlight take me anywhere on a tidal flow
And if I capsize it's alright
'Cause I've been feeling too invincible
I need to know depths deeper than the deepest of connections

This autumn love is not enough

If there's no beacon tonight to guide me
I'll finally break the shackles of direction
And let the headlights lead me anywhere they wanna go
I feel at home now out on a bough
In the lattice of the backbone
Where the highways are holding in the pieces of our broken hearts

This autumn love is not enough

Northern Lights lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

I remember your silhouette on Dyes Inlet
Against the silver sheen of a moon like painted glass
Under stars out on a pier; a celestial sphere
We were weightless as the waves that disappeared

Northern lights filled our skies
Empty nights synchronized

We shared a clove cigarette on the parapet
As the TVs glowed from the windows of the model homes
And I'd never be that close again to your lips and perfect skin
As the tide receded into the unknown

Northern lights filled our skies
Empty nights synchronized

You Moved Away lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

You sold you records by the pile
For they were only yours for a while
You placed your furniture in the yard
And it was gone within the hour

When you moved away
All your friends came over and you told them what to take
When you moved away
Everyone thought it was a mistake

You mopped floors and filled the cracks
To get your security deposit back
You closed your account at the bank
You checked your tires and filled the tank

When you moved away
All of your friends got drunk and one by one begged you to stay
When you moved away
They all felt irrationally betrayed

Since you moved away
I walk past your vacant apartment almost every day
When you moved away
You left this town with such an empty space

Near / Far lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

You flicker like a fluorescent light
An intermittent strobe in a lonely night
As I am standing by your side
Trying to breach this dark and deep divide

You're here
So far away
So near
So far

I hear you talking to yourself
Cursing every card you wanted dealt
But I can't help you play your hand
If you mistake every word for a command
You're here

So far away
So near
So far away

You're here
So far away
So near
So far

You flicker like a fluorescent light
An intermittent strobe in a lonely night
But I won't watch you burning out
I won't let you be the one I live without

60 & Punk lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

There's nothing funny about you slipping away
It's nothing funny how you're spending your days
But you're laughing like a kid at a carnival
I watched you stumbling around this dusty town
I heard your bottle talking way too loud
As the Federales tried to hunt you down
For something you can't remember what was about

The curtain falls to applause and the band plays you off
He's a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore

I used to watch you on the late night scene
The timely rescue of a metal teen
Six strings were strumming rhythm and lead
And that hadn't occurred to me
When I met you I was 22
Trying so hard to play it cool
But there was so much that I needed to say
And nothing came out the right way

The curtain falls to applause and the band plays you off
He's a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore

There's nothing elegant about being a drunk
It's nothing righteous about being 60 and punk
But when you're looking in the mirror do you see
That kid you used to be
Broke and working in a record store
Daydreaming about the upcoming tour
Were you happier when you poor

"Kintsugi" (2015)

No Room In Frame lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

I don't know where to begin
There's too many things that I can't remember
As I disappeared like a trend
In the hum of the 5 in the early morning

And now I'm taking my time
Up through Coalinga through the valley
This highway lived in my mind
It takes me back to the place that made me

Was I in your way
When the cameras turned to face you?
No room in frame
For two

You cannot outrun a ghost
Speeding south bound lanes with abandon
It catches you on the coast
Or on the cliffs of the Palisades you killed the engine

And then it hovers above
Reeling bodies failing to discover
The thing they once knew as love
Raising their voices to convince one another

Was I in your way
When the cameras turned to face you?
No room in frame
For two

And how can I stay
In the sun
When the rain flows
All through my veins
It's true

And I guess it's not a failure we could help
And we'll both go on to get lonely with someone else
With someone else

Was I in your way
When the cameras turned to face you?
No room in frame
For two

And how can I stay
In the sun
When the rain flows
All through my veins
It's true

And I guess it's not a failure we could help
And we'll both go on to get lonely with someone else

Black Sun lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

There is whiskey in the water
And there is death upon the vine
There is fear in the eyes of your father
And there is "Yours" and there is "Mine"
There is a desert veiled in pavement
And there's a city of seven hills
And all our debris flows to the ocean
To meet again, I hope it will

How could something so fair
Be so cruel
When this black sun revolved
Around you

There is an answer in a question
And there is hope within despair
And there is beauty in a failure
And there are depths beyond compare
There is a role of a lifetime
And there's a song yet to be sung
And there's a dumpster in the driveway
Of all the plans that came undone

How could something so fair
Be so cruel
When this black sun revolved
Around you
How could something so fair
Be so cruel
When this black sun revolved
Around you

There is whiskey in the water
And there is death upon the vine
And there is grace within forgiveness
But it's so hard for me to find

How could something so fair
Be so cruel
When this black sun revolved
Around you
How could something so fair
Be so cruel
When this black sun revolved
Around you

The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

If only you'd have known me before the accident
For with that grand collision came a grave consequence
Receptors overloaded, they burst and disconnect
'Til there was little feeling please work with what is left

Oh I need not be flattered that you've never been here before
So there's no need to mention that you've no firsts anymore
But if you let me be your skyline I'll let you be the wave
That reduces me to rubble that looked safe from far away

I don't know why, I don't know why
I return to the scenes of these crimes
Where the hedgerows slowly wind
Through the ghosts of Beverly Drive
I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know what I expect to find
Where all the news is second hand
And everything just goes on as planned

You wanna teach but not be taught
And I wanna sell but not be bought
So let us not be lonesome
So let us not be lonesome
Lost in between our needs and wants
Our needs and wants

I don't know why, I don't know why
I return to the scenes of these crimes
Where the hedgerows slowly wind
Through the ghosts of Beverly Drive
I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know what I expect to find
Where all the news is second hand
And everything just goes on as planned

I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know why, I don't know why

Little Wanderer lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

You sent a photo out your window of Tokyo
Told me you were doing fine
You said the cherry blossoms were blooming
And that I was on your mind
But I couldn't make you out through the glitches
It's how it always seems to go
So we say our goodbyes over messenger
As the network overloads
When the network overloads

You're my wanderer, little wanderer
Off across the sea
You're my wanderer, little wanderer
Won't you wander back to me
Back to me

Always fall asleep when you're waking
I count the hours on my hands
Doing the math to the time zone you're at
Is an unseen part of the plan
But if you'll be my bluebird returning
Then I'll be your evergreen
Standing tall on your horizon
Guiding you home to me
Guiding you home to me

You're my wanderer, little wanderer
Off across the sea
You're my wanderer, little wanderer
Won't you wander back to me
You're my wanderer, little wanderer
How I wish that you could see
Little wanderer, little wanderer
How I need you back with me
Back with me

You sent a photo out your window of Paris
Of what you wish that I could see
But someone's gotta be the lighthouse
And that someone's gotta be me
And I hope your absence makes us grow fonder
I hope we always feel the same
When our eyes meet past security, we embrace in the baggage claim
When we kiss in the baggage claim

You're my wanderer, little wanderer
Off across the sea
You're my wanderer, little wanderer
Won't you wander back to me
You're my wanderer, little wanderer
How I wish that you could see
Little wanderer, little wanderer
How I need you back with me
Back with me

You've Haunted Me All My Life lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

You've haunted me all my life
Through endless days and countless nights
There was a storm when I was just a kid
Stripped the last coat of innocence

You've haunted me all my life
You're always out of reach when I'm in pursuit
Long winded then suddenly mute
And there's a flaw in my heart's design
For I keep trying to make you mine

You've haunted me all my life
You've haunted me all my life
You are the mistress I can't make a wife
And you've haunted me all my life

And so I wait but I never seem to learn
How to capture your diminishing returns
I still see you through the eyes of a child
Not even thinking we could tame the wild

You've haunted me all my life
You've haunted me all my life
You are the mistress I can't make a wife
And you've haunted me all my life

You've haunted me all my life
You've haunted me all my life
You are the mistress I can't make a wife
And you've haunted me all my life

Hold No Guns lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Darlin', don't you understand?
That there are no winners?
Or medals hung from silken strands
To greet you at the finish
As we're dissolving into the sea
I only take what I can carry
As the council's combing through our debris
For the treasures we never buried

My love, why do you run?
For my hands hold no guns

Darling though you may pretend
Pretend that you are selfless
You break with but the slightest bend
That leaves you lost and helpless
So to whom will you place the call?
In the coldest night of winter?
As numbers change and people fall
And friends, they always splinter

My love, why do you run?
For my hands hold no guns
My love, why do you run?
For my hands hold no guns
They hold no guns
No, not one

Everything's A Ceiling lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Way way down in a hole, there's no feeling
Cause when you're so far beneath the floor, everything's a ceiling
We dug it down as deep as we could just like we planned it
But when you climbed out you pulled the ladder and it left me stranded

So what am I supposed to do?
I'm calling out to you
But you're miles away, it's true
Digging with someone new

So far down in this hole, there's little daylight
I feel the shards of the midday sun and then it's black as midnight
The only stars I see in the sky, they don't move me
Cause they've all been dead for millions of years, they're just light diffusing

And the constellations move and the brightest point is full
But every telescope you see, was pointed only at you

And I've got nowhere to go except further below
So I keep digging
And it gets darker everyday
But I see no other way than just committing

And if the earth is as round as they say
Then I won't find another place
From where I break back through
It's farther away from you
It's farther away from you

So what am I supposed to do?
I'm calling out to you
But you're miles away, it's true
Digging with someone new

So what am I supposed to do?
I'm calling out to you
But you're miles away, it's true
Digging with someone new
Digging with someone new
Digging with someone new

Good Help (Is So Hard To Find) lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

You'll never have to hear the word "no"
If you keep all your friends on the payroll
The non-disclosure pages signed
Your secret's safe between those lines
The scaffolding will cheer and console you
But remember what your mother told you
That good help is so hard to find
For people who are so refined

You're trying to turn into the skid
In this never-ending grid

There's a long, slow fade
To a darkened stage
And I hear you say
"Only a fool gives it away"
Only a fool would give
Only a fool gives it away

You said you wanna stake out your claim
High above the city from where you came
Don't you know the air's so thin?
It starves the brain of oxygen
I know it's such a dangerous place
For there are more ascensions than there is space
Angels causing accidents
The camera phones'll document
But if I start to levitate
Pull me down with all your weight

There's a long, slow fade
To a darkened stage
And I hear you say
"Only a fool gives it away"
Only a fool would give
Only a fool gives it away

You're trying to turn into the skid
In this never-ending grid
But you should know it's not ideal
All those hands upon the wheel

There's a long, slow fade
To a darkened stage
And I hear you say
"Only a fool gives it away"
There's a long, slow fade
To a darkened stage
And I hear you say
"Only a fool gives it away"
Only a fool would give
Only a fool would give
Only a fool would give
Only a fool gives this away

El Dorado lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Seems you finally found, finally found El Dorado
Over in Culver City, shining bright, name in lights

And I tried to be kind for you
Oh I'm trying to be kind for you

It's kinda like a party that you never wanted to attend
But when an invitation finally arrives you change your mind

And I tried to be kind for you
Oh I'm trying to be kind for you
As you slip away behind the gates
Behind the gates

Seems you finally found, finally found El Dorado
So why does it feel underwhelming there be real

And I tried to be kind for you
Oh I'm trying to be kind for you
As you slip away behind the gates
Behind the gates

El Dorado
El Dorado
El Dorado
El Dorado

Ingénue lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Ingénue what have we done to you?
Under that soft skin
I hear a ticking
The currency of being twenty-three
It turns from gold to dust
When you crest the wave of lust
So take all you can
From the mouth of man

Ingénue framed like a cartoon
The borders clear and defined
The colors bold and bright

You'll want to be taken more seriously
But they just play a cue
And it's such a hard thing to do
So take all you can
From the mouth of man
And escape from this town
Before your sand runs out
Before your sand runs out

Ingénue, what will become of you?
When age's glacial pace
Cuts valleys into your face
The currency of being twenty-three
It will remain the same
Just by another name
Oh, Ingénue
What will you do?
Oh, Ingénue
What have we done to you?

Binary Sea lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Oh Atlas could not understand
The world was so much smaller than
The one he used to hold before
But the weight it brought him to the floor
As you watched him struggle to his feet
You took photos capturing his defeat
And messaged them to all your friends
And we all laughed at his expense

Oh come my love and swim with me
Out in this vast Binary Sea
Zeros and ones patterns appear
They'll prove to all that we were here
For if there is no document
We cannot build our monument
So look into the lens and
I'll make sure this moment never dies

Oh Atlas could not stay engaged
Was more distracted every day
You slowly fell into disarray
Just trying to think of something to say
For if there is no document
There cannot be a monument
So lean in close or lend an ear
There's something brilliant bound to happen here

"Codes And Keys" (2011)

Home Is A Fire lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Sleep, sleep with the lights on
Shutters and shades drawn
There's too many windows

Noise
Cars on the freeway
Attempting a clean break
There's nowhere left to go
Watching the room sweep
Through cracks in the concrete

Plates, they will shift
Houses will shake
Fences will droop
We will awake
Only to find
Nothing's the same
Nothing's the same

Home, home is a fire,
Burning reminder
Of where we belong, love

With walls built up around us
The bricks make me nervous
They're only so strong, love
They're only so strong, love

Plates, they will shift
Houses will shake
Fences will droop
We will awake
Only to find
Nothing's the same
Nothing's the same
Nothing's the same
Nothing's the same

Codes And Keys lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

We won't get far
Flying in circles inside a jar
Because the air we breathe
Is thinning with the words that we speak

That we speak
You and me
That we speak
You and me

You're on the floor
Fearful of what's outside your door
But the codes and keys
They can protect you
From the pangs of jealousy

When you scream
Love you see
Like a child
Throwing stones at the sky
When they fall back to earth
As minor chords of major works
Separate rooms of single life
We are one
We are alive

We are alive

We are alive

We are alive

We are alive

Some Boys lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Some boys are filling, some boys are filling the hole
They're making the killing at the top of the billings
Their role, and that's all that they know
But some boys don't listen, some boys don't listen at all
They don't ask for permission, they lack inhibitions
No walls, and they get what they want

But some boys don't know how to love

Some boys are singing, some boys are singing the blues
Joylessly flinging with the girls that they're bringing to their rooms
And then leave them, they're through
Some boys are sleeping, some boys are sleeping alone
Cause there's no one that's keeping them warm through evening
They know that they're on their own

Some boys don't know how to love

Some boys are filling, some boys are filling the hole
Some boys are sleeping, some boys are sleeping alone

Some boys don't know how to love [x4]

They won't get what they want

Doors Unlocked And Open lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Isolations, dotted lines
Seas of concrete, wild eyes
Streaking colors, blurred to one
Always moving, blinding sun
Blinding sun
Coldest comfort, safety glass
Seasons turning, dying grass
California, gilded crowns
Mile markers, counting down

Somewhere down, down
Down in the ocean of sound, sound
We'll live in slow-motion
And be free
With doors unlocked and open
Doors unlocked and open

Isolation
Isolation
California, gilded crowns
Mile markers, counting down

Somewhere down, down
Down in the ocean of sound, sound
We'll live in slow-motion
And be free
With doors unlocked and open
Doors unlocked and open

Somewhere down, down
Down in the ocean of sound, sound
We'll live in slow-motion
And be free
With doors unlocked and open
Doors unlocked and open
Doors unlocked and open

Somewhere down, down
Down in the ocean of sound, sound
We'll live in slow-motion
And be free
With doors unlocked and open
Doors unlocked and open

Somewhere down

Doors unlocked and open
Doors unlocked and open
Doors unlocked and open

You Are A Tourist lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

This fire grows higher
This fire grows higher
This fire grows higher
This fire grows higher

When there's a burning in your heart
An endless yearning in your heart
Build it bigger than the sun
Let it grow, let it grow
When there's a burning in your heart
Don't be alarmed

This fire grows higher

When there's a doubt within your mind
Because you're thinking all the time
Framing rights into wrongs
Move along, move along
When there's a doubt within your mind

When there's a burning in your heart
And you think it'll burst apart
Or there's nothing to feel
Save the tears, save the tears
When there's a burning in your heart

And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born
Then it's time to go
And define your destination
There's so many different places to call home
Because when you find yourself the villain in the story you have written
It's plain to see
That sometimes the best intentions are in need of redemptions
Would you agree?
If so please show me

This fire grows higher
When there's a burning in your heart

Unobstructed Views lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

There's no eye in the sky
Just our love
No unobstructed view
No perfect truths
Just our love
Just our love
And there's no verse
No monument of words
For our love
For they can't hold
All I know about my love, about my love

Storm clouds break
Pools remain memories for
Earth embrace
That umbrate up above
They become
New love
New love

There's no eye in the sky
Just our love, just our love
No unobstructed views
No perfect truths
Just our love, just our love

Monday Morning lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

She may be young but she only likes old things,
And modern music it ain't to her taste,
She loves the natural light, captured in black and white,
She sees mirages of mountain ranges,
Within a blink of her eyes it changes,
Back to the open plain, oh no she can't explain.

I cry out "Love keep your arms around me",
I am a bird that's in need of grounding,
I'm built to fly away, I never learned how to stay.

The night is gonna fall and the vultures will surround you,
And when you're lookin' in the mirror what you see is gon' astound you.
But all these lines and greys refine, they are the maps of our design,
Of what began on a Monday morning.

Monday morning, Monday morning,
Ooh, ooh,
Monday morning, Monday morning,
Ooh, ooh,

The night is gonna fall and the vultures will surround you,
And when you're lookin' in the mirror what you see is gon' astound you.
But all these lines and greys refine, they are the maps of our design,
Of what began on a Monday morning.

Oh yes the night is gonna fall, and the vultures will surround you,
And when you're lookin' in the mirror what you see is gon' astound you.
And all the glow of you from inside the room,
Is burning on inside of you, it all began on a Monday morning.

Monday morning, Monday morning,
Ooh, ooh.

Portable Television lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Portable television, shrouded in snow
In a raggedy van on the side of the road
The night it had frozen through my little bones
So you took me in your arms, you squeezed out the cold

And oh, ooh, oh, ooh, oh, ooh

Upstate New York, autumn, brightly colored leaves
Oh, the hills were on fire, they burn for you and me
And where we were going it was built like a lie
But as sacred as the Bible, so we didn't question why

And oh, ooh, oh, ooh, oh, ooh

I saw it in the soil just recently
Where the rows of teeth they grow in fields of infinite greed
And here laid the father, and here stood the son
Where the road meets the horizon for everyone
For everyone

Portable television, take us away
From this burden of reflection we've carried today
Oh, the generator's running but there's nothing on the air
And the static is a comfort, so we huddle around and stare

And oh, ooh, oh, ooh, oh, ooh

Underneath The Sycamore lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Lying in a field of glass
Underneath the overpass
Mangled in the shards of a metal frame
Woken from the dream by my own name
Well I was such a wretched man
Searching everywhere for a homeland
And now we are under the same sun
Feel it through the leaves
Let it heal us
We are the same
We are both safe
Underneath the sycamore
We are the same
We are both safe
Underneath the sycamore
We were both broken in our own ways
Sifting through the rubble for the wrong things
I know you've got a vengeful heart
And I cannot be stopped as soon as I start
But you have seen your darkest rooms
And I have slept in makeshift tombs
And this is where we find our peace
Oh this is where we are at least
We are the same
We are both safe
Underneath the sycamore
We are the same
We are both safe
Underneath the sycamore
We are the same
We are both safe
Underneath the sycamore
We are the same
We are both safe
Underneath the sycamore

St. Peter's Cathedral lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

St. Peter's cathedral
Built of granite
Ever fearful of the answer
When the candle in the tunnel
Is flickering and sputters
And fading faster
It's only then that you will know
What lies above or down below
Or if these fictions only prove
How much you've really got to lose

At St. Peter's cathedral
There is stained glass
There's a steeple that is reaching
Up towards the heavens
Such ambition never failing to amaze me
It's either quite a master plan
Or just chemicals that help us understand
That when our hearts stop ticking
This is the end
And there's nothing past this

There's nothing past this
There's nothing past this
There's nothing past this
There's nothing past this
There's nothing past this
There's nothing past this
There's nothing past this

Stay Young, Go Dancing lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Life is sweet in the belly of the beast
In the belly of the beast
And with her song in your heart, it can never bring you down
It can never bring you down

Lost in a maze of a thousand rainy days
Of a thousand rainy days
But when I heard her voice, oh it led me to the end
Yes it led me to the end

Cause when she sings I hear a symphony
And I'm swallowed in sound as it echoes through me
I'm renewed, oh how I feel alive and through autumn's advancing
We'll stay young, go dancing

As the music plays
Feel our bodies' sway
When we move as one
We stay young
(Go dancing)

Life is sweet in the belly of the beast
In the belly of the beast
And with her song in your heart, oh it can never bring you down
It can never bring you down

Cause when she sings I hear a symphony
And I'm swallowed in sound as it echoes through me
I'm renewed, oh how I feel alive and through winter's advancing
We'll stay young go dancing
Stay young go dancing
Stay young go dancing

EP: "The Open Door" (2009)

Little Bribes lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie
A Diamond And A Tether lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie
My Mirror Speaks lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie
I Was Once A Loyal Lover lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie
Talking Bird lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Little Bribes lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

The Eiffel tower built to smaller scale
The freshest oxygen I'd ever inhale
I tapped a bottle against a safety rail, killing time

And you were like a walking compliment
Tall in stature and exceptionally read
In dummy glasses and a cardigan
Oh, come on

And oh so empty were the faces of the dealers And the waitresses around

You said that all these things you've learned to ignore
The hidden cameras on the casino floor
And what gets paid for behind hotel doors
Oh, come on

You pretend every slot machine is a robot amputee waving hello
The people stare into their eyes and they feed them little bribes and then they go

The never-ending twilight
In a basement where the sun has never spilt
You said that you were lonely
And then we kissed like lonely people do

You said the city has a beating heart
That pushes people down the boulevard
And they're all hoping for a wish fulfilled
In a desert for a dollar bill
Those foolish dreams, you know they plague me still
Oh, come on

And oh so empty were the faces
Of the dealers and the waitresses around [X2]

They're empty

A Diamond And A Tether lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Pity, take pity on me.
'Cause I'm not half the man that I should be.
Always turning to run,
from the people I should not be afraid of.

And darling, you should know
that I have fantasies about being alone.
It's like love is a lesson,
that I can't learn.
I make the same mistakes at each familiar turn.

I know you can't hold out forever
waiting on a diamond and a tether
from a boy who won't swim
but who will dip his toe in
just to keep you here with him.

I've got this habit I abhor.
When we go out I'm always watching the door.
'cause if there's someone I'm gonna see
who could outdo the things you do to me.

And I know you can't hold out forever
waiting on a diamond and a tether
from a boy who won't fly
but who will take to the skies if he thinks you are about to say goodbye.

Pity, take pity on me.
'cause I'm not half the man that I should be.
And I don't blame you,
you've had enough,
of all these empty promises and countless bluffs.

'cause I know you can't hold out forever
waiting on a diamond and a tether
from a boy who won't jump when he falls in love.
He just stands with his toes on the edge
and he waits for it to disappear again.

My Mirror Speaks lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

With every sun that sets I am feeling more
Like a stranger on a foreign shore
With an eroding beach disappearing from underneath

And when my mirror speaks it never minces words
'Cause these eyes don't shine half as bright
As they used to do and they haven't for quite a while

'Cause I'm a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines
And there's a tangled thread inside my head
With nothing on either end

I always fall in love with an open door
With the horizon on an endless sea
As I look around the ones who were standing right in front of me

And then my mirror speaks with irreverence
Like a soldier I can't command
It sees a frightened child in the body of a full-grown man

And he's a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines

And there's a tangled thread inside his head
With nothing on either end
There's nothing on the end

A new position for a different view
And nothing changes but the slightest hues
And I am standing face to face

With a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines
And there's a tangled thread inside his head
With nothing on either end

I'm a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines
And there's a tangled thread inside my head
With nothing on either end

'Cause I'm a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines
And there's a tangled thread inside my head
With nothing on either end
There's nothing on the ends
No, there's nothing on the ends

I Was Once A Loyal Lover lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Will I have learned so very little
When these bones are old and brittle?
I wait to talk when I should listen
And cloud mistakes with false revisions

All my friends are forward-thinking
Getting hitched and quitting drinking
And I can feel them pulling away
As I'm resigned to stay the same

And you can't even begin to know
How many times I've told myself "I told you so"

I was once a loyal lover
Whose lips did never seek another's
But now each love's more like a match
A blinding spark that burns out fast

And they all conclude with the same sentence:
"I've never met someone more self-centered
Who thinks that life with a nice girl's like
Waiting for a bus to work"

And you can't even begin to know
How many times I've told myself "I told you so"
And you can't even begin to believe
There's so many bridges engulfed in flames behind me

If you deem it so
Just cut the cord and go
You'll be fine
There's plenty of hills to climb

You can't even begin to know
How many times I've told myself "I told you so"
And you can't even begin to believe
There's so many bridges engulfed in flames behind me

[2X]

"Narrow Stairs" (2008)

Bixby Canyon Bridge lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

I descended a dusty gravel ridge
Beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge
Until I eventually arrived
At the place where your soul had died

Barefoot in the shallow creek
I grabbed some stones from underneath
And waited for you to speak to me

In the silence it became so very clear
That you had long ago disappeared
I cursed myself for being surprised
That this didn't play like it did in my mind

All the way from San Francisco
As I chased the end of your road
'Cause I've still got miles to go

And I want to know my fate
If I keep up this way

And it's hard to want to stay awake
When everyone you meet, they all seem to be asleep
And you wonder if you're missing a dream

You can't see a dream
You can't see a dream
You just can't see a dream

A dream [x12]

And then it started getting dark
I trudged back to where the car was parked
No closer to any kind of truth
As I must assume was the case with you

I Will Possess Your Heart lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

How I wish you could see the potential,
the potential of you and me.
It's like a book elegantly bound but,
in a language that you can't read.
Just yet.

You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.

There are days when outside your window
I see my reflection as I slowly pass,
and I long for this mirrored perspective
when we'll be lovers, lovers at last.

You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.

You reject my... advances... and desperate pleas...
I won't let you... let me down... so easily.
So easily.

You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time, Love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find, love
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.

No Sunlight lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

When I was young, lying in the grass
I felt so safe in a warming bath
Of sunlight, of sunlight

Vast open sky could do no harm
Like an embrace of a mother's arms
In sunlight, in sunlight
In sunlight, in sunlight

With every year that came to pass
More clouds appeared till the sky went black
And there was
No sunlight, no sunlight
And there was
No sunlight, no sunlight anymore

And it disappeared at the same speed
The idealistic things I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight, no sunlight

And it disappeared at the same speed
The idealistic thing I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight anymore

Cath... lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Cath, she stands with a well-intentioned man
But she can't relax with his hand on the small of her back
And as the flashbulbs burst
She holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child

And soon everybody will ask what became of you
'Cause your heart was dying fast, and you didn't know what to do

Cath, it seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
Where the things that could have been are repressed
But you said your vows, and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you more

And soon everybody will ask what became of you
'Cause your heart was dying fast, and you didn't know what to do

The whispers that it won't last roll up and down the pews
But if their hearts were dying that fast,
They'd have done the same as you
And I'd have done the same as you

Talking Bird lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Oh, my talking bird
Though you know so few words
They're on infinite repeat
And your brain can't keep up with your beak.

And you're kept in an open cage
So you're free to leave or stay.
And Sometimes this makes you confused
but there is no hint that I'm trying to give you.

The longer you think, the less you know what to do.

And it's hard to see your way out
When you live in a house in a house
'Cause you don't realize
That the windows were open the whole time.

But, oh, my talking bird
Though your feathers are tattered and curled
I'll love you all your days
'Til the breath leaves your fragile frame.

It's all here for you as long as you choose to stay.
It's all here for you as long as you don't fly away.

You Can Do Better Than Me lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

I'm starting to feel
We stayed together out of fear of dying alone
I've been slipping through the years
My old clothes don't fit like they once did
So they hang like ghosts of the people I've been

It's like my heart can't be tamed
I fall in love every day
And I feel like a fool

I have to face the truth
That no one could ever look at me like you do
Like I'm something worth holding on to

There's times I think of leaving
But it's something I'll never do

'Cause you can do better than me
But I can't do better than you
[repeat]

Grapevine Fires lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

When the wind picked up, the fire spread
And the grapevines seemed left for dead
And the northern sky looked like the end of days
The end of days

The wake up call to a rented room
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom
To warn us it's only a matter of time
Before we all burn
Before we all burn
Before we all burn
Before we all burn

We bought some wine and some paper cups
Near your daughter's school when we picked her up
And drove to a cemetery on a hill
On a hill

And we watched the plumes paint the sky gray
As she laughed and danced through the field of graves
And there I knew it would be alright
That everything would be alright
Would be alright
Would be alright
Would be alright

And the news reports, on the radio
Said it was getting worse
As the ocean air fanned the flames
But I couldn't think of anywhere I would have rather been
To watch it all burn away
To burn away

The firemen worked in double shifts
With prayers for rain on their lips
And they knew it was only a matter of time

Your New Twin Sized Bed lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed.
With a single pillow underneath your single head.
I guess you decided that that old queen was more space than you would need.
Now it's in the alley behind your apartment with a sign that says it's free.

And I hope you have more luck with this than me.

You used to think that someone would come along.
And lay beside you in a space that they belong.
But the other side of the mattress and box springs stayed like new.
What's the point of holding onto what never gets used?

Other than a sick desire for self-abuse.

And I try not to worry, but you've got me terrified.
It's like you're in some kind of hurry to say goodbye,

You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed.
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed.

Long Division lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

His head was a city
Of paper buildings
And the echoes that remained
Of old friends and lovers
Their features bleeding
Together in his brain

And once it started was harder to
Tell them apart

He was always distracted
By the very mention
Of an open door
'Cause he had sworn not to be what he'd been before

To be a remain remain remain remainder [x2]

The television was snowing softly
As she hunted for her keys
She said she never envisioned him the type of person capable of such deceit

And they carried on like long division
And it was clear with every page
That they were further away from a solution that would play

Without a remain remain remain remainder [x4]

He had sworn not to be what he'd been before

To be the remain remain remain remainder [x6]

Pity And Fear lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

I have such a envy for this stranger lying next to me
Who awakes in the night and slips out into the pre-dawn light
With no words, a clean escape, no promises or messes made
And chalks it all up to mistake, mistake, mistake

And there are no tears
Just pity and fear
And a vast ravine
Right in between

A storm at sea the bow cracked and I was capsizing
And I sunk below where I swore I would never go
If you can't stand in place you can't tell there's walking away
From who remains, who stays, who stays, who stays

And there are no tears
Just pity and fear
And a vast ravine
Right in between

Cause there are no tears
Just pity and fear
And I recall
The push more than the fall
The push more than the fall

The Ice Is Getting Thinner lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

We're not the same, dear, as we used to be.
The seasons have changed and so have we.
There was little we could say, and even less that we could do
To stop the ice from getting thinner under me and you.

We bury our love in the wintery grave
A lump in the snow was all that remained.
But we stayed by its side as the days turned to weeks
And the ice kept getting thinner with every word that we'd speak.

And when the spring arrived
We were taken by surprise when the floes under our feet bled into the sea
And nothing was left for you and me.

We're not the same, dear,
And it seems to me
There's nowhere we can go
With nothing underneath.
And it saddens me to say
What we both knew was true
That the ice was getting thinner
Under me and you.
The ice was getting thinner
Under me and you.

"Plans" (2005)

Marching Bands Of Manhattan lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

If I could open my arms
And span the length of the isle of Manhattan,
I'd bring it to where you are
Making a lake of the East River and Hudson
If I could open my mouth
Wide enough for a marching band to march out
They would make your name sing
And bend through alleys and bounce off all the buildings.

I wish we could open our eyes
To see in all directions at the same time
Oh what a beautiful view
If you were never aware of what was around you
And it is true what you said
That I live like a hermit in my own head
But when the sun shines again
I'll pull the curtains and blinds to let the light in.

Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
But while you debate half empty or half full
It slowly rises, your love is gonna drown [4x]

Your love is gonna drown [4x]
Your love is gonna...

Soul Meets Body lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

I want to live where soul meets body
And let the sun wrap its arms around me
And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
And feel, feel what its like to be new

Cause in my head there’s a greyhound station
Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations
So they may have a chance of finding a place
where they’re far more suited than here

And I cannot guess what we'll discover
When we turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels
But I know our filthy hands can wash one another’s
And not one speck will remain

And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body

And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

Summer Skin lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Squeaky swings and tall grass
The longest shadows ever cast
The water's warm and children swim
And we frolicked about in our summer skin

I don't recall a single care
Just greenery and humid air
Then Labor day came and went
And we shed what was left of our summer skin

On the night you left I came over
And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders
Our brand new coats so flushed and pink
And I knew your heart I couldn't win
Cause the seasons change was a conduit
And we left our love in our summer skin

Different Names For The Same Thing lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Alone on a train aimless in wonder
An outdated map crumbled in my pocket
But I didn't care where I was going
'Cause they're all different names for the same place.

The coast disappeared when the sea drowned the sun
And I knew no words to share with anyone
The boundaries of language I quietly cursed
And all the different names for the same thing

There are different names for the same things
There are different names for the same things...

I Will Follow You Into The Dark lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Love of mine, some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the 'No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
I held my tongue as she told me,
"Son, fear is the heart of love."
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the 'No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
But it's nothing to cry about
'Cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the 'No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Your Heart Is An Empty Room lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

Burn it down till the embers smoke on the ground
And start new when your heart is an empty room
With walls of the deepest blue

Home's face: how it ages when you're away
Spring blooms and you find the love that's true
But you don't know what now to do
Cause the chase is all you know
And she stopped running months ago

And all you see
Is where else you could be
When you're at home
Out on the street
Are so many possibilities
To not be alone

The flames and smoke climbed out of every window
And disappeared with everything that you held dear
And you shed not a single tear for the things that you didn't need
'Cause you knew you were finally free

'Cause all you see is where else you could be when you're at home
Out on the street are so many possibilities to not be alone

And all you see is where else you could be
When you're at home
There on the street are so many possibilities to not be alone

Someday You Will Be Loved lyrics - Death Cab for Cutie

I once knew a girl
In the years of my youth
With eyes like the summer
All beauty and truth
In the morning I fled
Left a note and it read
Someday you will be loved.

I cannot pretend that I felt any regret
Cause each broken heart will eventually mend
As the blood runs red down the needle and thread
Someday you will be loved

You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved

You may feel alone when you're falling asleep
And everytime tears roll down your cheeks
But I know your heart belongs to someone you've yet to meet
Someday you will be loved

You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved

You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
Someday you will be loved

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