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Death Cab for Cutie – All Is Full of Love
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[Verse] / You'll be given love / You'll be taken care of / You'll be given love / You have to trust it / [Pre-Chorus] / Maybe not from the sources / You have poured yours / Maybe
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Björk – All Is Full of Love Covers
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See all of “All Is Full of Love” by Björk’s covers
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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 – Marching Bands of Manhattan
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On “Marching Bands of Manhattan”, Gibbard uses geographical imagery of the Isle of Manhattan, comparing the love he professes from his mouth to the sound of a marching band echoing
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Björk – All Is Full of Love
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[Verse 1] / You'll be given love / You'll be taken care of / You'll be given love / You have to trust it / [Verse 2] / Maybe not from the sources / You have poured yours / Maybe
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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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Read All The Lyrics To Death Cab For Cutie’s New Album ‘Thank You For Today’
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It’s the indie rock band’s first project in three years.
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Death Cab for Cutie – Unobstructed Views
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This song is about Ben’s love for his new wife, Zooey Deschanel.
She filed for divorce on December 27, 2011, just seven months after this song was released.
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Death Cab for Cutie – We Looked Like Giants
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A sentimental song about first love in high school and the excitement of the early days of exploring one’s sexuality.
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Death Cab for Cutie – Blacking out the Friction (Band Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I don't mind the weather / I've got scarves and caps and sweaters / I've got long Johns under slacks for blustery days / [Verse 2] / I think that it's brainless to
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Death Cab for Cutie – My Mirror Speaks
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Like many Death Cab songs, this one is somber in tone and equally as sorrowful and quasi-nostalgic in subject matter. Gibbard sings of change (or perhaps a better term is
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Death Cab for Cutie – Crooked Teeth
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“Crooked Teeth” tells the age-old tale of a man who is trapped in a passionless, dead-end relationship and does not know how to escape. The narrator’s dilemma is illustrated
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Death Cab for Cutie – Meet Me On the Equinox
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[Verse 1] / Meet me on the equinox / Meet me halfway / When the sun is perched at its highest peak / In the middle of the day / Let me give my love to you / Let me take your hand
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Death Cab for Cutie – Gridlock Caravans
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Starched white shirts, so neatly pressed by domestic muses / Feed delusions that everything is working out right / But your ribs can't withstand increasing weight / As your heart
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Death Cab for Cutie – Stable Song (Band Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Time for the final bout / Rows of deserted houses / All our stablemates highway-bound / [Verse 2] / Give us our measly sum / Getting the air inside my lungs / Is
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Death Cab for Cutie – Steadier Footing (Acoustic Studio Outtake)
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[Verse] / It's gotten late, and now, I want to be alone / All of our friends were here, they all have gone home / And here I sit, on the front porch / Watching the drunks stumble
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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 – 20th Century Towers
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[Verse 1] / We'll correct collegiate mistakes / A shower of formal ideals / Completely soused the hearts on our sleeves / As they drowned we could hear them screaming / "Oh, what a
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Death Cab for Cutie – President of What?
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Track #1 from Death Cab For Cutie’s debut demo album You Can Play These Songs with Chords, “President of What?” also appears as the 2nd track on their follow-up album Something
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Death Cab for Cutie – Cath...
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The second single off Narrow Stairs about a girl named Cath (Catherine) who commits herself to a man for comfort as opposed to love. Everyone else can clearly see she isn’t happy
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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 – You Are a Tourist
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This surprisingly joyful, optimistic song from Death Cab for Cutie is the fifth song of their equally optimistic 2011 album Codes and Keys.
Ben Gibbard on the song:
It’s weird
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Death Cab for Cutie – Styrofoam Plates (Band Demo)
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[Verse 1] / There's a saltwater film on the jar of your ashes / I threw them to sea, but a gust blew them backwards / And the sting in my eyes, which you then inflicted / Was par
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Death Cab for Cutie – No Joy in Mudville
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Track #9 from Death Cab For Cutie’s third full-length album, We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes.
The title is a line from the film, Casey at the Bat, which describes the
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Death Cab for Cutie – Fake Frowns
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Track #9 from Death Cab For Cutie’s second full-length album, Something About Airplanes.
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Death Cab for Cutie – Why You'd Want to Live Here (Band Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I'm in Los Angeles today / It smells like an airport runway / Jet fuel stenches in the cabin / And lights flickering at random / [Verse 2] / I'm in Los Angeles today
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Death Cab for Cutie – I Was Once a Loyal Lover
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“I Was Once a Loyal Lover” is an unusually upbeat, poppy song by Death Cab standards. The Rolling Stone review of the Open Door EP even described this song as “the Seattle foursome
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Death Cab for Cutie – That's Incentive
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(That's incentive) / You see nothing to be adored when obsession takes its toll / You can't place you in between the pages of fashion magazines / Paper cuts from turning pages just
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Death Cab for Cutie – A Lack of Color
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[Verse 1] / And when I see you, I really see you upside down / But my brain knows better, it picks you up and turns you around / Turns you around, turns you around / If you feel
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Death Cab for Cutie – Army Corps of Architects
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Track #18 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 #
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Death Cab for Cutie – Why You'd Want to Live Here
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This ditty reflects to duality of Los Angeles: on one hand, as a beacon to the world “where our best are on display” and on the other, a terrible place filled with garbage cans
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Death Cab for Cutie – Brothers on a Hotel Bed
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This song is about a couple growing old together, as their bodies age, and they grow apart. Gibbard portrays the couple’s relationship as a platonic relationship between siblings
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Death Cab for Cutie – Technicolor Girls
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Technicolor girls are always on the phone / Talking about their homes / And the conversations continue endlessly / Technicolor boys, transistor radios / Blasting their treble tones
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Death Cab for Cutie – Title and Registration (Demo)
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Track #3 off of Transatlanticism Demos, the demo for Title & Registration completely changes the first hook and makes slight alterations to the second verse and hook.
For more
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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 – To the Ground
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“To The Ground” is an anthemic rock song, in which Gibbard vividly describes the scene after a car accident. He goes on to paint a picture of the natural environment growing around
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Death Cab for Cutie – The Face That Launched 1000 Shits
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Track #7 from Death Cab For Cutie’s second full-length album, Something About Airplanes. This song is a cover of an original song by Revolutionary Hydra, a band that DCFC guitarist
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Death Cab for Cutie – Your Bruise
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[Verse 1] / It's a backwards attraction / To your forward eyes / But you're so far-sighted that you can't place trust / In what or who you recognize / [Verse 2] / We sped the
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