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 Death Cab for Cutie
Death of an Interior Decorator. Like many songs they have written, Death Cab uses detail and imagery to help us visualize everything in the song.
We Looked Like Giants. "We Looked Like Giants" is about a girl and a boy making love and dealing with their temptations, "learn how our bodies worked" and "God damn the black night, with all its foul temptations..."
Summer Skin. One of Death Cab's slowest songs in the album, "Plans".
"It was 100 degrees as we sat beneath, the willow tree...". "I was searching..." is from the song "Title and Registration". "Suffered a swift defeat..." is from the song "Stable Song". "But my brain knows better..." is from the song "Lack of Color".
Expo '86. Death Cab for Cutie was formed in 1999. Not many people liked emo music then.
Death of an Interior Decorator. In "Death of an Interior Decorator" there is a story being told. "They tenderly kissed and cut the cake, the bride then tripped and broke the vase, the one you thought would spend the years so perfectly placed below the mirror, arriving late to clean the debris..."
Passenger Seat. A more calming and sensitive song in "Transantlicism", but aren't they all?
Ben Gibbard. Ben Gibbard writes the band's songs. Chris Walla mixes the songs to get the right tempo. Nick Hermer and Jason McGerr are the bassist and the drummer.
Seattle, Washington. The band originally met in Bellingham, Washington, but the band records in Seattle.
2001. "Transatlantism" came out in 2003, "Plans" came out in 2005, and "Something About Airplanes" came out in 1998.
Mates of States and Spoon. These two bands were asked to perform by Death Cab because they were some of their favorite bands.
The band performs a heart transplant on Ben Gibbard. Ben Gibbard had to lay on his back for 12 hours a day while filming the video.
Atlantic Records. Atlantic Records the band's first big time recording company.
2. One video is of the band being surrounded by cartoon creations, and the other of a robot version of them recalling experiences of their past.
Stable Song. This song basically wraps the end of the album wonderfully.
| "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, slowly it rises, your love is gonna drown". Which song is this lyric from? | Death Cab for Cutie - Plans/Narrow Stairs
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Marching Bands of Manhattan. This is the chorus for "Marching Bands of Manhattan", featured on "Plans". "Plans" was released in 2005, and was described by a band member as the "exhale" if the previous album "Transatlanticism" was the "inhale".
Grapevine Fires. "Grapevine Fires" is featured on "Narrow Stairs". This album was released on May 13, 2008 in the United States. It is Death Cab for Cutie's first album to reach number one on the Billboard 200, and was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award, "Best Alternative Music Album".
I Will Possess Your Heart. "I Will Possess Your Heart" altogether is eight and a half minutes long. Of course, the radio edit cuts the introduction down to under one minute. Despite the concern from fans that the album version introduction was "too long", it was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award for "Best Rock Song".
I Will Follow You Into the Dark. If you want to get technical, the lyric is actually "I'll follow you into the dark." This "Plans" single has already been covered by several bands including Dead Lemming Lounge and Hella Fly Cool Kids.
| "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." What song is this lyric from? | Death Cab for Cutie - Plans/Narrow Stairs
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Talking Bird. The entire song "Talking Bird", featured on "Narrow Stairs", talks of the narrator's symbolic pet bird. This lyric refers to the bird's cage inside of its owner's house ("live in a house in a house"). Throughout the song, the talking bird grows more unsure about whether it wants to stay in its cage or fly out the constantly open windows.
What Sarah Said. This lyric is actually the band's explanation for the title of the album its on, "Plans". Death Cab for Cutie's lead singer, Ben Gibbard, explains that the title comes from one of his favorite "dark jokes": "How do you make God laugh? You make a plan. Nobody ever makes a plan that they're gonna go out and get hit by a car."
Long Division. "Long Division", heard on "Narrow Stairs", was written by Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla, and Jason McGerr. Death Cab for Cutie's preceding tour for "Narrow Stairs" was named after this song.
Cath. After the release of "Narrow Stairs", Death Cab for Cutie performed "Cath" on the talk show "Late Night With Conan O'Brien."
| "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." This lyric is from which song? | Death Cab for Cutie - Plans/Narrow Stairs
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Soul Meets Body. "Soul Meets Body" is a single from "Plans", along with "Crooked Teeth" and "I Will Follow You Into the Dark".
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