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

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

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 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 Narrow Stairs

And the wind picked up, the fire spread And the grapevine seemed, left for dead And the northern sky looked Like the end of days, the end of days The wake up call to a rented room Sounded like an ala

by Death Cab for Cutie on album We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes

Left uninspired by the crust of railroad earth That touched the lead to the pages of your manuscript I took my thumb off the concrete and saved up all my strength To hammer pillars for a picket fen

by Death Cab For Cutie on album The Twilight Saga: New Moon (OST)

Meet me on the equinox Meet me half way When the sun is perched at it's highest peek In the middle of the day Let me give my love to you Let me take your hand And as we walk in the dimming light Oh,

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Something About Airplanes

Gravitated towards a taste For foreign films and modern plays But that machine could only Bend to squares five to six times Before your fingers came unwired Weights down so that you could move forwar

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Miscellaneous

Whenever I come back The air on railroad Is making the same sounds And the shop fronts on Holly Are dirty words Asterisks in for the vowels And we peered through the windows New bottoms on barstools

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Transatlanticism

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 Your heart is a

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Plans

Time for the final bow Rows of deserted houses All our stable mates highway bound Give us our measly sum Getting the air inside my lungs is heavenly Starting out, with nothing but crippling dou

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Narrow Stairs

You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed With a single pillow underneath your single head I guess, you decided that that old queen Wants more space than you would need Now it's in t

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Narrow Stairs

Oh, my talking bird Though you know so few words You're on infinite repeat Like your brain can't keep up with your beak And you're kept in an open cage So you're free to leave or stay And sometimes y

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Narrow Stairs

I descended a dusty gravel ridge Beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge Until I eventually arrived At the place where your soul had died And barefoot in the shallow creek I grabbed some stones from undernea