Friz got us awesome seats for the Death Cab show a few weeks ago -- better than I could've gotten from a publicist (thanks, Friz). Great performance, as usual, from the Seattle outfit. They played one of my fav songs, "Photobooth," too, which first appeared on the Forbidden Love EP (2000).
You can download a live version for free from Largehearted Boy (hooray free music!). Lyrics below. (Ben Gibbard is a genius songwriter and I am still mad that he didn't make Paste's 100 Greatest Living Songwriters list.)
"Photobooth"
I remember when the days were long,
And the nights when the living room was on the lawn.
Constant quarreling, the childish fits, and our clothes in a pile on the ottoman.
All the slander and double-speak,
Were only foolish attempts to show you did not mean.
Anything but the blatant proof
Was your lips touching mine in the photobooth.
And as the summer's ending,
The cool air will put your hard heart away.
You were so condescending.
And this is all that's left:
Scraping paper to document.
I've packed a change of clothes and it's time to move on.
Cup your mouth to compress the sound,
Skinny dipping with the kids from a nearby town.
And everything that I said was true,
As the flashes blinded us in the photobooth.
Well, I lost track, and then those words were said.
You took the wheel and you steered us into my bed.
Soon we woke and I walked you home,
And it was pretty clear that it was hardly love.
And as the summer's ending,
The cool air will rush your hard heart away.
You were so condescending.
And this is all that's left:
Scraping paper to document.
I've packed a change of clothes and it's time to move on.
And as the summer's ending,
The cool air will rush your hard heart away.
You were so condescending,
As the alcohol drained the days.
And as the summer's ending,
The cool air will rush your hard heart away.
You were so condescending.
And this is all that's left:
The empty bottles, spent cigarettes.
So pack a change of clothes, 'cause it's time to move on.
1 comment:
That's actually my favorite DCfC song, lyrically. I was surprised, too, that Gibbard didn't make the songwriters list, but I attributed it more to major label backlash than anything else.
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