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Death Cab for Cutie – Home Is a Fire Lyrics 14 years ago
WHY ARE ALL OF THESE LYRICS SO OFF?


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Death Cab for Cutie – Home Is a Fire Lyrics 14 years ago
I believe this song is about changes in life.

And that's being compared to an earthquake

"sleep with the lights on,

shuttered with shades drawn,

there's too many windows"

that verse is very tricky... I imagine a big empty house with a lot of windows. A couple's first home.

But really, that whole thing is also a metaphor for-as clishe as this sounds- a house of love..or better...a house within love.

This nervous house has all of the ups and downs and comforts of love.

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Death Cab for Cutie – You Are a Tourist Lyrics 14 years ago
I toally agree. I couldn't say it nay better myself

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Death Cab for Cutie – Portable Television Lyrics 14 years ago
I think that this song is mainly about the relationship between father and son.

They're on a road trip through upstate new york and it's cold.

He's a little boy and his fathers keeping him warm.

They have a portable television that they keep with them.

And this boy is now a man reflecting on his life. His father is dead now but he remembers him fondly.
"I saw it in the soil just recently
Where the rows of teeth they grow in fields of infinite greed
And here laid the father, and here stood the son
Where the road meets the horizon for everyone"

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Death Cab for Cutie – Underneath the Sycamore Lyrics 14 years ago
The song is about 2 people recognizing themselves within each other and their differences.

And for once in life everything is simple..."we are the same. we are both saved"

And I agree with the last comment.

As for the "lying in a field of glass, underneath the overpass"

somehow I find this to be metaphoric. But very vivid...you could imagine so many different scenarios here.

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