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I Dreamt We Spoke Again
03:04
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I dreamt we spoke again
It had been so long my mind filled in the blanks
I dreamt we spoke again
It had been so long your voice was like a ghost in my head
Only in a dream
Is anything the way it used to be
I dreamt we spoke again
But when I awoke I could not remember anything you said
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Summer Years
04:28
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Sometimes I wake at night
And watch the rain fall through the street lights
As you’re standing still in my mind
Fading out, waving goodbye
And I wonder where you are tonight
And if the one you’re with was a compromise
As we’re walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it’s just as well
Sometimes I’m overcome
By every choice I couldn’t outrun
The junctions all disappear
You can’t double back to your summer years
And I wonder where you are tonight
And if the one you’re with was a compromise
As we’re walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it’s just as well
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They’re digging for gold in my neighborhood
Where all the old buildings stood
And they keep digging down, down
So that their cars can live underground
The swinging of a wrecking ball
Through these lath and plaster walls
Is letting all the shadows free
The ones I wished still followed me
Change, please don’t change
Stay, stay the same
I remember a winter’s night
When we kissed beneath the street lamp light
Outside our bar near the record store
That have been condos for a year or more
And now that our haunts have taken flight
And been replaced with construction sites
Oh how I feel like a stranger here
Searching for something that’s disappeared
They’re digging for gold in my neighborhood
For what they say is the greater good
But all I see is a long goodbye
A requiem for a skyline
It seems I never stop losing you
As every dive becomes something new
And all our ghosts get swept away
It didn’t used to be this way
Change, please don’t change
Stay, stay the same
Cranes devour the light
Strange appetites
I’ve ascribed these monuments
A false sense of permanence
I’ve placed faith in geography
To hold you in my memory
I’m sifting through these wreckage piles
Through the rubble of bricks and wires
Looking for something I’ll never find
They’re digging for gold in my neighborhood
Where all the old buildings stood
And they keep digging down, down
So that their cars can live underground
It seems I never stop losing you
As every dive becomes something new
And all our ghosts get swept away
It didn’t used to be this way
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Your Hurricane
03:18
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Heaven is a hole in the sky
And the stars are cracks in the ceiling of night
And I just keep watching them for a sign
That you’ll be alright
‘Cause every time there’s a knock on my door
I fall to my hands and knees on the floor
‘Cause when your wreckage washes up on my shore
You’re not like before
And you try to explain who’s at fault for your mistakes
But I won’t be the debris in your hurricane
You used to be such a delicate kid
A lonely fish in a sea full of squid
So I can’t blame you for leaving how you did
You just fell off the grid
‘Cause heaven is a hole in the sky
And the stars are cracks in the ceiling of night
But you can’t be your own alibi
As hard as you try
It’s a tired refrain you’re singing over and over again
As you try to explain who’s at fault for your mistakes
But I won’t be the debris in your hurricane
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When We Drive
03:49
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I can’t expect you to be honest
Or to be faithful every day ‘til the end
I just need you to be always a friend
As the sun sets over Dakotas
Underneath a crimson ocean of sky
Know I’ll always want you by my side
When we drive
You and I were born in motion
Never in one place for too long a time
And now it’s the only way we know to survive
I like the way that your hair tangles
The way your sun tan’s only on one side
We always keep the windows open wide
When we drive
Climb into the back seat and close your eyes
I’ve got the wheel
And dream of all the places only we will find
I can’t expect you to be honest
Or to be faithful every day ‘til the end
I just need you to be always a friend
Until the engine kicks and sputters
Until we roll the rubber off the tires
Know I’ll always need you by my side
When we drive
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Autumn Love
04:18
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No more lighthouses to deceive me
Just leave me floating on the open ocean
And let the moonlight take me anywhere on a tidal flow
And if I capsize it’s alright
‘Cause I’ve been feeling too invincible
I need to know depths deeper than the deepest of connections
This autumn love is not enough
If there’s no beacon tonight to guide me
I’ll finally break the shackles of direction
And let the headlights lead me anywhere that they wanna go
I feel at home now out on a bough
In the lattice of the backbone
Where the highways are holding in the pieces of our broken hearts
This autumn love is not enough
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Northern Lights
03:56
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I remember your silhouette on Dyes Inlet
Against the silver sheen of a moon like painted glass
Under stars out on the pier; a celestial sphere
We were weightless as the waves that disappeared
Northern lights filled our skies
Empty nights synchronized
We shared a clove cigarette on the parapet
As the T.V.’s glowed from the windows of the model homes
And I’d never be that close again to your lips and perfect skin
As the tide receded into the unknown
Northern lights filled our skies
Empty nights synchronized
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You Moved Away
03:49
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You sold your records by the pile
For they were only yours for a while
You placed your furniture in the yard
And it was gone within the hour
When you moved away
All your friends came over and you told them what to take
When you moved away
Everyone thought it was a mistake
You mopped the floors and filled the cracks
To get your security deposit back
You closed your account at bank
You checked your tires and filled the tank
When you moved away
All your friends got drunk and one by one begged you to stay
When you moved away
They all felt irrationally betrayed
Since you moved away
I walk past your vacant apartment almost every day
When you moved away
You left this town with such an empty space
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Near/Far
03:41
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You flicker like a fluorescent light
An intermittent strobe in a lonely night
As I am standing by your side
Trying to breach this dark and deep divide
You’re here
So far away
So near
So far
I hear you talking to yourself
Cursing every card you wanted dealt
But I can’t help you play your hand
If you mistake every word for a command
You’re here
So far away
So near
So far away
You’re here
So far away
So near
So far
You flicker like a fluorescent light
An intermittent strobe in a lonely night
But I won’t watch you burning out
I won’t let you be the one I live without
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60 & Punk
04:05
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There’s nothing funny about you slipping away
It’s nothing funny how you’re spending your days
But you’re laughing like a kid at a carnival
I watched you stumbling around this dusty town
I heard your bottle talking way too loud
As the Federales tried to hunt you down
For something you can’t remember what was about
The curtain falls to applause and the band plays you off
He’s a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore
I used to watch you on the late night scene
The timely rescue of a metal teen
6 strings were strumming rhythm and lead
And that hadn’t occurred to me
When I met you I was 22
Trying so hard to play it cool
But there was so much that I needed to say
And nothing came out the right way
The curtain falls to applause and the band plays you off
He’s a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore
There’s nothing elegant in being a drunk
It’s nothing righteous being 60 and a punk
But when you’re looking in mirror do you see
That kid that you used to be?
Broke and working in a record store
Daydreaming about the upcoming tour
Were you happier when you were poor?
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Death Cab for Cutie Seattle, Washington
Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band is composed of Ben Gibbard, Nick Harmer, Jason McGerr, Dave Depper, and Zac Rae. They have been nominated for eight Grammy Awards. The band’s tenth studio album ‘Asphalt Meadows’ is out now. ... more
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