by Death Cab For Cutie on album The Open Door EP

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

by Death Cab For Cutie on album The Open Door EP

Well, I have learned so very little When these bones are old and brittle I wait to talk when I should listen The crowd mistakes with false revisions All my friends are forward thinking Getting hitche

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Miscellaneous

When we laugh indoors, the blissful tones bounce off the walls And fall to the ground Peel the hardwood backs and let them loose from decades trapped And listen so still This city is my home construc

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Narrow Stairs

His head was a city of paper buildings In the echoes that remained of old friends and lovers Their features bleeding together in his brain, ohh But once it starts it's harder to tell them apart, ohh

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Narrow Stairs

I have such a envy for this stranger lying next to me Who awakes in the night and slips out into the pre-dawn light No words, a clean escape, no promises or messes made And chalks it all up to mistake

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Something About Airplanes

Think I'm drunk enough to drive you home now I'll keep my mouth kept shut Under lock and key that's rusted firm, no lie 'Cause all these conversations wind On and on, on and on, on and on Drinking ch

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Something About Airplanes

And I'm standing up in my practice room. I'm all alone. Speakers almost blown and my new Gibson, and oh what the hell. Things are not so different in my vocal master. You're the face t

by Death Cab For Cutie on album The Open Door EP

With every sun that sets I am feeling more Like a stranger on a foreign shore With an eroding beach disappearing from underneath And when my mirror speaks it never minces words 'Cause these eyes don'

by Death Cab For Cutie on album The Open Door EP

Pity, take pity on me 'Cause I'm not half the man that I should be I'm always turnin' to run From the people I should not be afraid of And darlin', you should know That I have fantasies about bein' a

by Death Cab For Cutie on album You Can Play These Songs With Chords (Demo)

Leaving the central states for shallow ground Home in the valley but the rent's paid south You said the urn was half full when I said it was half empty With what was left of our fair city Callin

by Death Cab for Cutie on album The Photo Album

I don't mind the weather I've got scarves and caps and sweaters I've got long johns under slacks for blustery days I think that it's brainless to assume That making changes to your window's view

by Death Cab For Cutie on album The Open Door EP

The Eiffel Tower built to smaller scale The freshest oxygen I ever inhaled I tapped a bottle 'gainst the safety rail killing time And you were like a walking compliment Tall in stature and exceptiona

by Death Cab For Cutie on album You Can Play These Songs With Chords (Demo)

Every town has a diner, where I'll meet you and your friends, too. Things are just a bit nicer over some coffee. You can tell me all about your day. I don't know much about you, not that I w

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Miscellaneous

The workin' days were propping the bar quietly erasing the week And I was in a corner booth thinking, pretending to read About the impossibility of one to love unconditionally The words that we drive

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Something About Airplanes

I saw the scene unfold on a rainy Sunday Creases indicating fold that kept four walls from caving in I took a little more of what I take for granted And filled my plate with fear that gears would turn

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Forbidden Love (EP)

Synapse to Synapse: the possibility's thin. I'm dressed up for free drinks And family greetings on your wedding Your wedding Your wedding date. The figures in plastic On the wedding cake That I

by Death Cab For Cutie on album Stubbs the Zombie OST

Earth angel, earth angel: will you be mine?* My darling dear, love you all the time. I'm just a fool, a fool in love with you. Earth angel, earth angel; the one I adore. Love you forever, a

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

Synapse to synapse, the possibility's thin I'm dressed up for free drinks and family greetings On your wedding, your wedding, your wedding date The figure's in plastic on a wedding cake that I took

by Death Cab for Cutie on album Something About Airplanes

I can't expel the truth It's much more could I thought I could do With time my worth will stain And split your heart from my name So drive away your mouth from my ears And waste a day so I can think

by Death Cab For Cutie on album You Can Play These Songs With Chords (Demo)

I think i'm drunk enough to drive you home now I'll keep my mouth kept shut from under lock and key That's rusted firm, no lie 'cause all these conversations wind on and on... Drinking champagne f