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I took the 405 and drilled a stake down into your center,
And stated that it′s never ever been better than this.
I hung my favorite shirt on the floorbaord, wrinkled up from pulling pushing tasting.
You keep twisting the truth that keeps me thrown askew.
Misguided by the 405 ′cause it lead me to an alcoholic summer.
I missed the exit to your parents′ house hours ago.
Red wine and the cigarettes... hide your bad habits underneath the patio.

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And when I see you, I really see you upside down
And when I see you, I really see you upside down
But my brain knows better, it picks you up and turns you around
But my brain knows better, it picks you up and turns you around
Turns you around, turns you around
Turns you around, turns you around


If you feel discouraged when there′s a lack of color here
If you feel discouraged when there′s a lack of color here
Please don′t worry lover, it′s really bursting at the seams
Please don′t worry lover, it′s really bursting at the seams
from absorbing everything the spectrum′s A to Z.
from absorbing everything the spectrum′s A to Z.
(ahh... ahhh...)
(ahh... ahhh...)


This is fact not fiction for the first time in years
This is fact not fiction for the first time in years
All the girls in every girlie magazine can′t make me feel any less alone,
All the girls in every girlie magazine can′t make me feel any less alone,
I′m reaching for the phone to call at 7:03 and on your machine,
I′m reaching for the phone to call at 7:03 and on your machine,
I slur a plea for you to come home.
I slur a plea for you to come home.
But I know it′s too late, and I should have given you a reason to stay
But I know it′s too late, and I should have given you a reason to stay
Given you a reason to stay; given you a reason to stay;
Given you a reason to stay; given you a reason to stay;
given you a reason to stay
given you a reason to stay


This is fact not fiction for the first time in years
This is fact not fiction for the first time in years

@ Death Cab For Cutie

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Whenever I come back,
the air on railroad is making the same sounds.
And the shop fronts on Holly
are dirty words (asterisks in for the vowels)
and we peered through the windows:
New bottoms on barstools, the people remain the same,
with prices inflating - inflating

As if saved from the gallows,
there′s a bellow of buzzers and people stop working
and they′re all so excited - excited

Passing through uncounscious states,
when I awoke I was on the high-way - high-way high-way high-way
With your hands on my shoulders ,
a meaningless movement: A movie script ending,
and the patrons are leaving - leaving

Passing through uncounscious states, when I awoke I was on the high-way
high-way high-way high-way high-way high-way high-way high-way
and now we all know the words were true
in the sappiest songs - yes, yes.
and I′ll put them to bed, but they won′t sleep.
Just shuffling the sheets, to toss and turn,
you can′t begin to get it back.

Passing through uncouscious states, when I awoke I was on
the onset of a later stage: the headlights are beacons on the high-way
high-way high-way high-way high-way high-way high-way high-way.

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And if it was just how you wanted
You′d be glued to his bones and his brainstem
And changing your image and attitudes
Won′t bring you back into your bedroom

Amputating as he′s waiting
He′s unresponsive ′cause you′re irresponsible

Little swinger your bottle is thinking too much
′Cause you′re aiming to please way off target
And I′ll tell you what you must already know
Of amputating that too slow

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Leaving the central state from shallow ground
Home in the valley but the rent′s paid south
You said the urn was half full when I said it was half empty
With what was left of our fair city

Call in the army corps of architects
To flatten the skyline and begin again
I knew the years would move quickly,
But never quite as fast as this
So bring the discrepancies, I′ll pour the drinks.

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Gravitated towards a taste
For foreign films and modern plays
But that machine could only
Bend to squares five to six times
Before your fingers came unwired.
Weights down so that you could move forwards
Pinch to snub that restless nerve
And knock the wind from one last urge
With two fingers a rock glass,
Time passed and that was that
Quite a slip (a loosened grasp)
....What a way to cut lengthwise....

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I descended a dusty gravel ridge
Beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge
Until I eventually arrived
At the place where your soul had died.

Barefoot in the shallow creek,
I grabbed some stones from underneath
And waited for you to speak to me.

And the silence; it becamse so very clear
That you had long ago dissapeared.
I cursed myself for being surprised
That this didn′t play like it did in my mind.

All the way from San Francisco
As I chased the end of your road
Cause I′ve still got miles to go.

And I want to know my fate
If I keep up this way.

And it′s hard to want to stay awake
When everyone you need, they all seem to be asleep.
And you wonder if you missed your dream.

You can′t see a dream
You can′t see a dream.
You just can′t see a dream.

And then it started getting dark.
I truged back to where the car was parked
No closer to any kind of truth
As I assume was the case with you.

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I don′t mind the weather
I′ve got scarves and caps and sweaters
I′ve got long johns under slacks for blustery days.

I think that it′s brainless to assume that making changes to your window′s view will give a new
perspective.

And the hardest part is yet to come

I don′t mind restrictions or if you′re blacking out the friction
It′s just an escape (it′s overrated anyways)

The hardest part is yet to come
When you will cross the country alone.

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No longer easy on the eyes but these wrinkles masterfully disguise
The youthful boy below who turned your way and saw
Something he was not looking for both a beginning and an end
But now he lives inside someone he does not recognize
When he catches his reflection on accident

On the back of a motor bike
With your arms outstretched trying to take flight
Leaving everything behind
But even at our swiftest speed we couldn′t break from the concrete
In the city where we still resigned.
And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea-light navy men
Cause now we say goodnight from our own separate sides
Like brothers on a hotel bed
Like brothers on a hotel bed
Like brothers on a hotel bed
Like brothers on a hotel bed

@ Death Cab For Cutie