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Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Death Cab For Cutie
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1967 “parody death song,” after which this band named themselves.
It was made famous after the band performed it in the Beatles‘ film Magical Mystery Tour).
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Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You into the Dark
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Even on a concept album whose main theme is death, “I’ll Follow You Into The Dark” is a standout moving song about the transcendental power of love, even when that boundary is
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Death Cab for Cutie – Black Sun
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Ditty (IND) – Deathcab
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Don't tell me you love me / I would only cry / Big long rivers / From my eyes / Don't play 'Death Cab For Cutie' / I fall back in time / You took our love story / You put in on the
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Death Cab for Cutie – Gold Rush
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“Gold Rush” finds Death Cab’s frontman Benjamin Gibbard lamenting on the changing face of his adopted hometown city of Seattle, Washington, which has experienced extraordinary
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Death Cab for Cutie – Talking Bird
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[Intro] / 1, 2, 3, 4... / [Verse 1] / Oh, my talking bird / Though you know so few words / They're on infinite repeat / Like your brain can't keep up with your beak / And you're
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Death Cab for Cutie – Passenger Seat
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[Verse] / I roll the window down, and then begin to breathe in / The darkest country road and the strong scent of evergreen / From the passenger seat as / You are driving me home
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Death Cab for Cutie – Bad Reputation
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I know I got a bad reputation / And it isn't just talk, talk, talk / If I could only give you everything / You know I haven't got / I couldn't have one conversation / If it wasn't
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Death Cab for Cutie – Earth Angel
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One of the absolute best covers of a song originally recorded by The Penguins in 1954, Death Cab For Cutie recorded their rendition for the soundtrack of a video game, “Stubbs the
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Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth
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First song on The Death Cab For Cutie Forbidden Love EP.
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Death Cab for Cutie – Waterfalls
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Death Cab for Cutie – Coney Island
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[Verse 1] / Sitting on a carousel ride / Without any music or light / [Chorus] / Everything was closed at Coney Island / And I could not help from smiling / [Verse 2] / I can hear
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Death Cab for Cutie – Here to Forever
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[Verse 1] / In every movie I watch from the fifties / There's only one thought that swirls around my head now / And that's that everyone there on the screen / Yeah, everyone there
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Death Cab for Cutie – Roman Candles
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“Roman Candles” is the lead single off Death Cab for Cutie’s upcoming 10th album, Asphalt Meadows. The song was announced on May 4th, 2022. It was officially released on May 11th
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Death Cab for Cutie – Metal Heart
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Losing a star without a sky / Losing the reasons why / You're losing the calling that you've been faking / I'm not kidding / It's damned if you don't, it's damned if you do / Be
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Death Cab for Cutie – Little Wanderer
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Death Cab for Cutie – Soul Meets Body
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[Verse 1] / 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 it's like to be
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Death Cab for Cutie – Lightness
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There is a paradoxically pensive, deep contemplation to the lyrics of “Lightness,” which focuses on the polar opposite of the song title’s literal definition. Although the lyrical
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Death Cab for Cutie – What Sarah Said
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“What Sarah Said” is a meditation on death, using the imagery and narrative of a loved one on his/her hospital death bed as a vehicle. The driving piano and nervous pacing builds a
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Death Cab for Cutie – Amputations
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Track #6 from Death Cab For Cutie’s debut demo album You Can Play These Songs with Chords, “Amputations” also appears as the 8th track on their follow-up album, Something About
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Death Cab for Cutie – Long Division
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[Verse 1] / 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, oh-ho-ho / [Pre-
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Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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Death Cab for Cutie – Summer Skin
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Death Cab for Cutie – Pepper
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Death Cab for Cutie – Company Calls
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Track #7 from Death Cab For Cutie’s third full-length album, We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes.
A rambling, angry song on how the relationship went sour. The narrator seems
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Death Cab for Cutie – Grapevine Fires
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“Grapevine Fires” is both a literal story of escaping a wildfire incident in Witch Creek, CA in 2007, and also a metaphor for the ability of love to overwhelm the most dire of
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Death Cab for Cutie – The Plan
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[Verse] / On the step, you handed me / Pieces of the plan / At the gate, you handed me / Pieces of the plan / [Chorus] / Can I hold it / For a week? / Can I hold it / For a week
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Death Cab for Cutie – We Laugh Indoors
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[Verse 1] / When we laugh indoors / The blissful tones bounce off the walls and fall to the ground / Peel the hardwood back to let them loose / From decades trapped and listen so
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Death Cab for Cutie – Wait
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Track #15 from Death Cab For Cutie’s debut demo album You Can Play These Songs with Chords.
This song was not originally released with the demo, but was included as bonus track #7
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Death Cab for Cutie – Some Boys
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Some boys are filling, some boys are filling the hole / They're making the killing at the top of the billing / It's their role, and that's all that they know / But some boys don't
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Death Cab for Cutie – Debate Exposes Doubt
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[Verse 1] / The workadays were propping the bar / Quietly erasing the week / And I was in a corner booth / Thinking, pretending to read / About the impossibility / Of one to love
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Death Cab for Cutie – Rand McNally
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Death Cab for Cutie – An Arrow In the Wall
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Death Cab for Cutie – Someday You Will Be Loved
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In this song, the narrator knows the girl he is with is in love with him, but he doesn’t feel the same, and so he leaves her alone with the thought that someday, someone will feel
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Death Cab for Cutie – Asphalt Meadows
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Death Cab for Cutie – Pictures in an Exhibition
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Track #3 from Death Cab For Cutie’s debut demo album You Can Play These Songs with Chords, “Pictures in an Exhibition” also appears as the 5th track on their follow-up album
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Death Cab for Cutie – The New Year
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[Verse 1] / So this is the new year / And I don't feel any different / The clanking of crystal / Explosions off in the distance / In the distance / [Verse 2] / So this is the new
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Death Cab for Cutie – Foxglove Through the Clearcut
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Death Cab for Cutie – Styrofoam Plates
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Benjamin Gibbard narrates a story of an absentee, deadbeat, selfish father who passes away and one of the children’s take on the passing as he recollects his life both with and
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