Time for the final bout. Rows of deserted houses: all our stable mates are highway bound.
Give us our measly sum: getting the air inside my lungs is heavenly.

We're starting out with nothing but crippling doubt.
We'll rest easy (justified)

I've suffered a swift defeat. I'll endure countless repeats.
The gift of memory is an awful curse,
with age it just gets much worse.

But I won't mind.


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Stability Lyrics as written by Christopher Walla Benjamin Gibbard

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    I think it is a very clever irony. I think the person comes to grips with the fact that his own mind will curse and judge him more than any other which is why he calls it a curse and why he will endure countless repeates. I think the point of the irony is somewhat literal however that even though there is instability in the mind, there is a collective stability among friends (due to the near breakup of the band)

    finbar1on August 07, 2006   Link
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    beautiful song, just beautiful. aural bliss whenever i listen it. i think ol' ben gibbard is singing about moving on, maybe from after a break up, or just growing up and letting go of things that were a part of you. the song is so pretty i can't even fall asleep to it, i can't help but stay awake and listen

    Nintendo84on July 11, 2002   Link
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    It's an awesome song undoubetdlly, easily the best on the EP. I think it's more of a song about taking stock of your life and realizing how little you've accomplished. to me it represents defeat, but i could be reading into it because i started listening to it after a bad year.

    Stupid_tan_kidon September 26, 2002   Link
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    wonderful

    don't we all crave a little stability? Indeed.

    TBS09065on April 06, 2003   Link
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    wonderful

    don't we all crave a little stability? Indeed.

    TBS09065on April 06, 2003   Link
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    stupid tan kid.... maybe defeat but moving on from that defeat? I dunno. Nonetheless...not a wasted second even though the song is long.

    Cheesepickleon April 11, 2003   Link
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    The wording is so amazingly chosen here; it sounds almost... I don't know, medieval, with the phrases like "stable mates," "measly sum," "suffered a swift defeat," etc.

    theneedleskipson June 19, 2003   Link
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    "the gift of memory's an awful curse, with age it just gets much worse" : best deathcab line ever.

    light in auguston June 30, 2003   Link
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    what is a sketch system?

    captain samon July 02, 2003   Link
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    this is my song mother fuckers

    j.acobon May 12, 2004   Link

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