| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You Into the Dark Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Every Death Cab video seems to have nothing in common with what the song's about. | |
| Albert Hammond Jr. – In Transit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Oh, whoops, yeah, music_is_my_life001 pretty much spoke it for me. | |
| Albert Hammond Jr. – In Transit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't know what I think about the lyrics behind this song. A majority of The Strokes' and Hammond Jr's lyrics are random enough that sometimes I wonder if they mean anything at all. I know some of them do, but underground New York rock bands like them are more often just going for the sound of something. And the sound of this song, what I feel when the opening guitar comes on the radio, is summer, comepletely laid back, cruising around in some beat-up car. It's such a relaxed sound. I love it. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You Into the Dark Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It takes awhile for song meanings to sink in with me. The first few times I hear nothing but "the sound" and couldn't even begin to tell you what the lyrics were. The first four times I heard this song, I liked it. It was pretty. Acoustic solo Ben Gibbard is always nice. Fifth time around, I stop and take apart the lyrics, and I spaz out. Did anyone else get the connotations of implied suicide in this song? "Someday you will die... If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks..." hints at his lover's death, and "...but I'll be close behind... I'll follow you into the dark..." says that he'll go to whatever lengths to always always be with her. Even... kill himself when she dies, so they can enter the Great Unknown together? I think it's beautiful again, now, but I'm able to take anything Ben Gibbard throws at me these days and think it's beautiful. I accept the darkness and obscurity of his lyrics because the vagueness and ambiguity means there's room for it to mean something not so dark or obscure. So that's okay. "Maybe he's saying something... else. Ben Gibbard's voice is pretty anyway." |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Also, this is the second consecutive Death Cab CD to have a song title that both consists of five words or more and starts with the words "I will." "I Will Follow You into the Dark" coincidentally also gives me the creeps sometimes. It could be seen as implying suicide to be with a dead lover... | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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As for the really really long intro, I don't know, it's nothing special, but it's never uninteresting enough to be boring to me. It's more... mesmerizing. Which I guess would fit the tone of the song as a whole.... Also, that opening stanza? So well written. Full. Of. Win. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Only Ben Gibbard can sing a song about stalking sound beautiful. Just like how only Colin Meloy can sing a song about a rape in the 1800s sound epic. Back to this song though, if you take it out of the context of stalking, the line "You've got to spend some time with me, I will possess your heart," can come across as... not creepy. Man, that wording though, "I will POSSESS your heart," that really does give it a strong connotation of... yeah. But really, it could just be seen as an innocent "Once you get to know me I might be the kind of guy you'd like. Give me a shot." But... there's too much else in this song that just screams *STALKER* Even Gibbard himself acknowledged it's pretty much a song about a stalker. So... *shrug* It's Ben Gibbard. I can forgive Ben Gibbard of just about anything. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Tiny Vessels Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Unless I'm mistaken, this is one of only two times that Ben Gibbard swears in one of his songs (admittedly mild as it is, at that). But I like that. Ben can reach a wider audience. And when he does throw a damn in there it carries so much more weight. I was shocked when I heard him say that the first time I heard this song. On a quiet ride home at night after a party, that damn shattered the silence and a discussion about Death Cab erupted. As for the song ITSELF... Only two parts really stand out to me in particular. 1. Silver Lake is also the name of a lake and park in the town where I live (not in California). 2. The embittered "She is beautiful, but she don't mean a thing to me." I think everyone at some point goes through a relationship denial stage; "she's gone, but pff, what do I care..." But that's me. Might've had different connotations behind it when it was written, but Death Cab's all about vague and ambiguous lyrics being so open to interpretation that everyone can draw their own meaning from them. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Tiny Vessels Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Unless I'm mistaken, this is one of only two times that Ben Gibbard swears in one of his songs (admittedly mild as it is, at that). But I like that. Ben can reach a wider audience. And when he does throw a damn in there it carries so much more weight. I was shocked when I heard him say that the first time I heard this song. On a quiet ride home at night after a party, that damn shattered the silence and a discussion about Death Cab erupted. As for the song ITSELF... Only two parts really stand out to me in particular. 1. Silver Lake is also the name of a lake and park in the town where I live (not in California). 2. The embittered "She is beautiful, but she don't mean a thing to me." I think everyone at some point goes through a relationship denial stage; "she's gone, but pff, what do I care..." But that's me. Might've had different connotations behind it when it was written, but Death Cab's all about vague and ambiguous lyrics being so open to interpretation that everyone can draw their own meaning from them. |
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| Albert Hammond Jr. – Everyone Gets a Star Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Today, you've come now go away. I know, it gets so confusing. Sometimes, it all seems to drag me down. And when I'm getting closer, so close, everything just falls apart." I love that part. Probably because it hits home? They had some sort of relationship that, try as they might, they couldn't get to work. And after opening up to him and having that blow up in her face, she's afraid to start anything with anyone else. I think this guy secretly wants to believe it'll still work between them, but might be just saying the consoling thing: there's someone out there for everyone. I don't see the "star" thing like the elementary school reward stars. I think it's just the idea that the sheer near infinite number of stars in the universe is analogous to what a staggering number of people there are in the world. But there's one out there for you. |
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