by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

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

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

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 new 'Cause in my head there's a Gre

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Transatlanticism

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 up

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Narrow Stairs

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

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Transatlanticism

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 discouraged That there's a lack of color h

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

And it came to me then that every plan Is a tiny prayer to father time As I stared at my shoes in the ICU That reeked of piss and 409 And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself That I've alr

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

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 fel

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

You may tire of me As our December sun is setting 'Cause I'm not who I used to be No longer easy on the eyes But these wrinkles masterfully disguise The youthful boy below Who turned your wa

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Transatlanticism

The glove compartment isn't accurately 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 sou

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Transatlanticism

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 So this is the new year And I have no resolutions For self assign

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

It was one hundred degrees As we sat beneath a willow tree Whose tears didn't care They just hung in the air And refused to fall, to fall And I knew I'd made a horrible call And now the state

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Transatlanticism

This is the moment that you know That you told her that 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 beauti

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

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

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Transatlanticism

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 strain my eye

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Transatlanticism

I've got a hunger Twisting my stomach into knots That my tongue was tied off My brain's repeating If you've got an impulse let it out But they never make it past my mouth Baa bah, this is the sound o

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Transatlanticism

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

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

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

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

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 fin

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Narrow Stairs

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 W

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Transatlanticism

You were the mother of three girls so sweet Who stormed through your turnstile and climbed to the street But after conception, your body lay cold And withered through autumn and you found yourself old