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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
Woah, woah
Your heart is a river
That flows from your chest through every organ
Your brain is the dam
And I am the fish who can't reach the core
Ivory lines lead
Woah, woah
Oh, instincts are misleading
You shouldn't think what you're feeling
They don't tell you what you know you should want
''Ivory lines lead
Woah, woah''
Ivory lines lead
Woah, woah
Oh, instincts are misleading
You shouldn't think what you're feeling
They don't tell you what you know you should want
Ivory lines lead
Woah
Ivory lines lead
Woah
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Aug 09, 2010 - 10:50 apd wrote: isn't it also the title of a Beatles song? (Or the same song, perhaps?) The Bonzos are seen performing the song in the "Magical Mystery Tour" film. |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Jul 08, 2010 - 14:03 Pazzat wrote: It's taken straight from the title of a Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band song, on that band's 1967 album 'Gorilla'. isn't it also the title of a Beatles song? (Or the same song, perhaps?) |
| jkhandy (Near the ocean (in my mind)) | Posted: Jun 06, 2010 - 18:06 RadioDoc wrote: A very large majority of pop music (which this is) is about the depressing and disappointing side of love. Most others manage to write songs which don't make it worse. Death Cab is just awful in their commercially-driven cynicism, and Ben Gibbard's voice is like razor blades on a dreary day, taunting you to slit your wrist. 2 Commercially driven cynicism? Yeah, most other bands manage to put the depressing stuff into a neat little package and present it to the public who is so conditioned 'not' to delve too deeply into the raw, deep emotion swirling around inside of them. God forbid more people delving into their abyss, from whence they may not return. Prozac, number one prescribed drug in America. 8 - just for not 'conforming.' |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Mar 03, 2010 - 16:57 someone shoot that mourning dove please? |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Sep 27, 2009 - 10:31 gntlemanartist wrote: A lot of DCFC songs are about the depressing and disappointing side of love. A little something for the ennui in all of us.  A very large majority of pop music (which this is) is about the depressing and disappointing side of love. Most others manage to write songs which don't make it worse. Death Cab is just awful in their commercially-driven cynicism, and Ben Gibbard's voice is like razor blades on a dreary day, taunting you to slit your wrist. 2 |
| Darkmatter (Sweden) | Posted: Feb 05, 2008 - 12:18 Captain_D0D00 wrote: Meth lab whore duty.
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| Captain_D0D00 (Denver, CO) | Posted: Dec 04, 2007 - 16:00 This song killed all hope I had for this and any other off shoot bands, just on principle. Meth lab whore duty. |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Dec 04, 2007 - 16:00 electronicshaman wrote: I love that feedback sounding bird
makes me think of an abandoned kids playground like a creepy swing Funny, I thought it was one of my dogs outside whining to get in. Had to get up and go check! |
| electronicshaman (miskatonic) | Posted: Mar 06, 2007 - 19:31 I love that feedback sounding bird makes me think of an abandoned kids playground like a creepy swing |
| Pazzat (Winchester, England) | Posted: Feb 19, 2007 - 04:21 veegez wrote: Death Cab For Cutie.
Yes, I like the name. It's taken straight from the title of a Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band song, on that band's 1967 album 'Gorilla'. |
| Veritas (Pacific Northwest) | Posted: Dec 12, 2006 - 23:52 omg this song is played out...please let it sleep for a couple of decades before playing again |
| Al_Koholic (Exit 82, NJ) | Posted: Sep 25, 2006 - 14:00 Mari wrote: The feedback-like sound is a critter, and if I lived in the US, I'd know which critter, I'd hazzard a guess at some sort of cuckoo, a bird at any rate? I love it, as I do birds in general, and I am one, so I should know ...
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It's some kind of dove-mourning dove maybe |
| Krispian (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: Sep 10, 2006 - 22:40 Now I see what all the fuss is about. |
| woods (right here) | Posted: Sep 01, 2006 - 13:24  |
| jtdiver (somewhere in Connecticut) | Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 17:12 maybe it's b/c im from Seattle but i love this album. Ben Gibbard is a good singer and they're very creative throughout. |
| Mari (why do all the country girls leave?) | Posted: Aug 03, 2006 - 07:38 The feedback-like sound is a critter, and if I lived in the US, I'd know which critter, I'd hazzard a guess at some sort of cuckoo, a bird at any rate? I love it, as I do birds in general, and I am one, so I should know ... ...
FloridaBear wrote: This song would be tolerable--barely--if it weren't for that annoying feedback-like sound all the way through. What's the point of that? It drives me crazy! I almost always mute this song...yuck. |
| KSTrillian (drizzly gray Seattle) | Posted: Jul 14, 2006 - 09:23 I don't know what it is, but I just adore his voice. Something about it just totally absorbs me, something so lovely about it. Say whatever you want about the lyrics, I honestly haven't paid enough attention to DCFC yet to know (but I LOVE the Postal Service),but even just zoning out at work and hearing the sounds without hearing the words is great.  |
| FloridaBear | Posted: Jul 14, 2006 - 09:18 This song would be tolerable--barely--if it weren't for that annoying feedback-like sound all the way through. What's the point of that? It drives me crazy! I almost always mute this song...yuck. |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: May 16, 2006 - 21:45 Digging the drum beat. Funky. |
| mfassett (Redwood City, CA) | Posted: Apr 17, 2006 - 18:38 lovetractor24 wrote: Did anyone catch them on SNL...it was really bad. No, I mean, really, really bad. I love this cd though.
I don't really know the band, so I thought they just WERE terrible period after SNL. |
| lovetractor24 (Saranac Lake, NY) | Posted: Apr 03, 2006 - 09:05 Did anyone catch them on SNL...it was really bad. No, I mean, really, really bad. I love this cd though. |
| gntlemanartist (where you least suspect) | Posted: Feb 23, 2006 - 07:28 meloman wrote: One of the most listless songs ever.
That's part of the idea. A lot of DCFC songs are about the depressing and disappointing side of love. A little something for the ennui in all of us. |
| ahoylola (35° 20' N - 120° 43' W) | Posted: Feb 23, 2006 - 07:27 too lite for me. |
| crockydile (The swamps of Houston) | Posted: Feb 08, 2006 - 14:26 Is he saying Wa-oh, or Whoa? I'm saying whoa! Let's take another cab, this guy's on something...  |
| nick_valensi (Quito, Ecuador) | Posted: Feb 08, 2006 - 14:25 I found this amazing album in a used CD store for 5 bucks. |
| meloman (Warsaw, Poland) | Posted: Jan 10, 2006 - 08:04 Oh god, the tedium. One of the most listless songs ever. |
| serendipity_blue (Off in the ionosphere) | Posted: Jan 10, 2006 - 08:03 foppy-knight wrote: This song is okay. If you really want to get a taste of how good this group can be, check out their new tune, "When soul meets body."
I like 'em both! |
| Sprout | Posted: Dec 26, 2005 - 20:05 I can't explain why I like this song. I just do. It sticks in my head (in a good way) and I find myself humming it. |
| VERTIGO6 | Posted: Sep 15, 2005 - 09:01 beelzebubba wrote: BORING.......
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| SigmaBetaTooth (Cubicle Farm in San Antonio, TX) | Posted: Sep 15, 2005 - 08:58 Can you say "The Choir"? Anyone? |
| elokin2141 (lancaster, PA (no i'm NOT AMISH)) | Posted: Aug 31, 2005 - 12:25 Love this CD, it had to grow on me though, my friend left it at my house, at the time it was just released, but i had no clue who they were. I popped it in, and was like wow this is diferent,, but like i said it grew on me and is now one of my favorites to listen to on long rides back and forth from college. Death Cab is a staple in my cd collection now. |
| foppy-knight (SF CA DUNGEON) | Posted: Aug 31, 2005 - 12:06 This song is okay. If you really want to get a taste of how good this group can be, check out their new tune, "When soul meets body." |
| mojoman (Rocky Mountains, Colorado) | Posted: Aug 31, 2005 - 12:03 What, Cutie's not dead yet?!!!! Someone speed up that cab kill this thing!  |
| th3boon (chicago) | Posted: Aug 11, 2005 - 07:08 very downtempo portishead like beat, don't know that I'd listened to this cut before. not sure what to think |
| Four-Five (Hattiesburg, MS) | Posted: Jul 27, 2005 - 11:30 Midnightrambler wrote: Sounds like Damien Rice.
Really?? |
| veegez (Minnesoter) | Posted: Jul 18, 2005 - 06:27 Tux wrote: Just for the record, I use Tux as reference to the Linux penguin, not to the clothe some people see as fancy. I don't like dressing up at all. I thought you were referring to Tennessee Tuxedo, as in "Chumly? Tennessee Tuxedo will not fail!" |
| Gish05 (Pittsburgh, PA) | Posted: Jul 03, 2005 - 10:01 Death Cab has definitely done better. This is one of their weaker songs. Information Travels Faster, Debate Exposes Doubt, Photobooth, President of What, Expo '86, Why You'd Want to Live Here - THESE are songs that really make DCFC what they are. This isn't. :D |
| Derecho (A Land Without Traffic Lights) | Posted: May 05, 2005 - 14:54 I think they made this song up as they went along. Thump a drum, insert annoying note phrase now and again, wash, rinse, repeat. |
| Platypus (here, now) | Posted: Apr 20, 2005 - 23:26 Olympus_mons wrote: mmmmmmmmmmmm, Death Cab for Cutie
i concur...
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| Midnightrambler (Windsor, ON. Canada) | Posted: Apr 06, 2005 - 08:07 Sounds like Damien Rice. |
| Olympus_mons (2nd star to the right) | Posted: Mar 22, 2005 - 14:30 beelzebubba wrote: BORING.......
mmmmmmmmmmmm, Death Cab for Cutie |
| trekhead | Posted: Mar 02, 2005 - 11:49 Vee-eye-eye-eye. |
| B-dub (Durham, NC) | Posted: Mar 02, 2005 - 11:47 is this the Pet Shop Boys? 8-< |
| mojoman | Posted: Dec 27, 2004 - 15:29 What, Cutie's not dead yet?! Forget the death cab. It's time for some C-4!  |
| Tux (The Netherlands) | Posted: Dec 24, 2004 - 02:52 DMay wrote: Tux, it's too bad you have bad taste in music and thus your opinion on what is "good" is inconsequential and holds absolutely no significance. Where as my opinion is supreme and exemplified through my taste in good music, such as bands like Death Cab for Cutie.
Don't know if a statement like that would hold in court. It's your word against mine, and be both are absolutely sure we're right. I would completely reverse your statement. Have a happy Christmas anyway. |
| jbtidwell (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Dec 09, 2004 - 07:13 This is OK, but The Postal Service is really where its at! |
| beelzebubba (Where the hell is Walldrug, South Dakota?) | Posted: Nov 24, 2004 - 12:55 BORING....... |
| -relayer- (2.4 feet in front of my computer) | Posted: Nov 24, 2004 - 12:44 This song bites. |
| DMay (Mountain Home, Arkansas) | Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 07:08 Tux, it's too bad you have bad taste in music and thus your opinion on what is "good" is inconsequential and holds absolutely no significance. Where as my opinion is supreme and exemplified through my taste in good music, such as bands like Death Cab for Cutie. |
| Tux (The Netherlands) | Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 05:52 phineas wrote: We actually agree on quite a bit of material, Tuxedo. I just don't get quite so twisted about the bands I don't like as you do about, say, oh for instance, U2! Just for the record, I use Tux as reference to the Linux penguin, not to the clothe some people see as fancy. I don't like dressing up at all. |