So this is the new year and I don’t feel any different The clanking of crystal and explosions off in the distance So this is the new year and I have no resolutions It’s self-assigned penance for problems with easy solutions So everybody put your best suit or dress on Let’s make believe that we […]
Expo ’86 - Death Cab For Cutie
sometimes i think this cycle never ends we slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb again and it seems by the time that i have figured what it’s worth the squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse. but if i move my place in line i’ll lose. and i […]
God bless the daylight, the sugary smell of springtime remembering when you were mine in a still suburban town When every Thursday, I’d brave those mountain passes and you’d skip your early classes and we’d learn how our bodies worked God damn the black night, with all its foul temptations I’ve become what I always […]
You were the mother, of three girls so sweet That storm through your turnstile, and climbed to the street But after conception, your body lay cold Withered through Autumn then you found yourself old Can you tell me why have been so sad He took a lover on a far away beach, while you arranged […]
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 Then looking upwards I strained my eyes and tried to tell the difference between shooting stars and satellites from the passenger seat as you […]
the atlantic was born today and i’ll tell you how: the clouds above opened up and let it out. i was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere when the water filled every hole. and thousands upon thousands made an ocean, making islands where no island should go. oh no. those people were overjoyed; […]
this is the moment that you know that you told you loved her but you don’t. you touch her skin and then you think that she is beautiful but she don’t mean a thing to me. yeah, she is beautiful but she don’t mean a thing to me. i spent two weeks in Silverlake the […]
I’ve got a hunger twisting my stomach into knots; that my tongue is tied off My brain’s repeating if you’ve got an impulse, LET IT OUT! but they never make it past my mouth (Bop Ba…) This is the sound of settling (Bop Ba, bop ba…) (Bop Ba…) This is the sound of settling (Bop […]
The glove compartment is inaccurately named and everybody knows it so I’m proposing a swift, orderly change ’cause behind its door there’s nothing to keep my fingers warm and all I find are souvenirs from better times before the gleam of your tail lights fading east to find yourself a better life I was searching […]
Lightness - Death Cab For Cutie
there’s a tear in the fabric of your favorite dress and i’m sneaking glances. looking for the patterns in static they start to make sense the longer i’m at it. ivory lines lead oo wha-ho, oo wha-ho your heart is a river that flows from your chest through every organ your brain is the dam […]
