1.Bixby Canyon Bridge
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.
2.I Will Possess Your Heart
Lyricist：Death Cab for Cutie
Writer(s)：Death Cab for Cutie
How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and
me
It's like a book elegantly bound, but in a language that you
can't read just yet
You gotta spend some time love, you gotta spend some time with
me
And I know that you'll find love,
I will possess your heart
You gotta spend some time love, you gotta spend some time with
me
And I know that you'll find love,
I will possess your heart
There are days when outside your window, I see my reflection as
I slowly pass
And I long for this mirrored perspective, when we'll be lovers,
lovers at last
You gotta spend some time love, you gotta spend some time with
me
And I know that you'll find love,
I will possess your heart
You gotta spend some time love, you gotta spend some time with
me
And I know that you'll find love,
I will possess your heart
I will possess your heart
I will possess your heart
You reject my advances and desperate pleas
I won't let you, let me down so easily, so easily
You gotta spend some time love, you gotta spend some time with
me
And I know that you'll find love,
I will possess your heart
You gotta spend some time love, you gotta spend some time with
me
And I know that you'll find love,
I will possess your heart
You gotta spend some time love, you gotta spend some time with
me
And I know that you'll find love,
I will possess your heart
I will possess your heart
I will possess your heart
3.No Sunlight
When I was young, lying in the grass
I felt so safe in a warming bath
of sunlight
of sunlight
fast open sky could do no harm
like an embrace of a mothers arms
in sunlight
in sunlight
in sunlight
in sunlight.
With every year that came to pass
more clouds appear until the sky went black
and now there's
no sunlight,
no sunlight.
and now there's
no sunlight,
no sunlight anymore.
you dissapeared with the same speed
the idealistic things i believed
the optimist died inside of me
no sunlight,
no sunlight.
no sunlight,
no sunlight.
you dissapeared with the same speed
the idealistic thing i believed
the optimist died inside of me
no sunlight,
no sunlight.
no sunlight,
no sunlight.
no sunlight,
no sunlight,
no sunlight,
no sunlight anymore.
4.Cath
Cath, she stands with a well-intentions man
but she can't relax with his hands on the small of her back
and as the flash goes first
she holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child
and soon everybody will ask what became of you
and your heart was dying fast,
and you didn't know what to do
Cath, it seems that you live in someone else's dream
in a hand-me-down wedding dress
where the things that could have been are oppressed
but you said your vows, and you closed the door
on so many men who would have loved you more
and soon everybody will ask what became of you
and your heart was dying fast,
and you didn't know what to do
the whispers that it won't last roll up and down the pews
but if their hearts were dying that fast,
they'd have done the same as you
and i'd have done the same as you
5.Talking Bird
Oh, my talking bird
though you know so few words
they're on infinite repeat
like your brain can't keep up with your beat.
and you're kept in an open cage
so you're free to leave or stay.
sometimes you get confused
like there's a hint i am trying to give you.
the longer you think,
the less you know what to do.
it's hard to see your way out
when you live in a house in a house
cause you don't realize
that the windows were open the whole time.
Oh, my talking bird
Though your feathers are tattered and furled
I'll love you all your days
till the breath leaves your delicate face.
It's all here for you as long as your choose to stay.
It's all here for you as long as you don't fly away.
6.You Can Do Better
I'm starting to feel
We stay together out of fear of dying alone
I've been slipping through the years
My old clothes don't fit like they once did
So they hang like ghosts of the people I've been
And it's like my heart cant contain
I fall in love every day
And I feel like a fool
But I have to face the truth that
no one could ever look at me like you do
Like I'm something worth holding on to
There's times I think of leaving
But it's something I'll never do
Cause you can do better than me,
But I can't do better than you.
You can do better than me,
But I can't do better than you.
7.Grapevine Fires
When the wind picked up
and the fire spread
and the grapevines seemed left for dead.
And the northern sky, like the end of day,
the end of days.
A wake up call to a rancid room
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom.
To warn us it's only a matter of time.
Before we all burn
before we all burn
before we all burn
before we all burn.
We bought some wine and some paper cups
near your daughter's school when we picked her up
and drove to a cemetery on a hill
on a hill.
And we watched the plumes paint the sky gray
and she laughed and dance through the field of grays
there i knew it would be alright
that everything would be alright,
would be alright
would be alright
would be alright.
and the news reports on the radio
said it was getting worse
as the ocean air fanned the flame.
but i couldn't think of anywhere i would have rather been
to watch it all burn away.
to burn away.
the firemen worked in double shifts,
with prayers for rain on their lips
and they knew it was only a matter of time.
8.Your New Twin Sized Bed
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed.
With a single pillow underneath your single head.
I guess you decided that that old queen holds more space than
you would need.
Now it's in the alley behind your apartment with a sign that
says it's free.
And I hope you have more luck with this than me.
You used to think that someone would come along.
And lay beside you in a space that they belong.
But the other side of the mattress and box springs stayed like
new.
What's the point of holding onto what never gets used？
Other than to sit and desire for something new.
And I try not to worry, but you've got me terrified.
It's like your some kind of hurry to say goodbye,
say goodbye, say goodbye.
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed.
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed
9.Long Division
His head was a city of paper buildings
And the echoes that remained
Of old friends and lovers
Their features bleeding together in his brain
Once it started it's harder to tell them apart
He was always distracted
By the very mention of an open door
'Cause he had sworn not to be what he'd been before
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder
The television was snowing softly
As she hunted for her keys
She said she never envisioned
Him the type of person capable of such deceit
And they carried on like long division
Cause it was clear with every page
Oh, that they were further away
From a solution that would play
Without a remain, remain, remain, remainder
Without a remain, remain, remain, remainder
Without a remain, remain, remain, remainder
Without a remain, remain, remain, remainder
He has sworn not to be what he'd been before
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder
10.Pity and Fear
I have such a envy for this stranger lying next to me
Who awakes in the night and slips out into the pre-dawn light
With no words, a clean escape, no promises or messes made
And chops it all up to mistake, mistake, mistake
And there are no tears
Just pity and fear
No vast ravine
Right in between
A storm at sea the bow cracked and I was capsizing
And I sunk below where I swore I would never go
If you can't stand in place you can't tell there's walking away
From who remains, who stays, who stays, who stays
And there are no tears
Just pity and fear
No vast ravine
Right in between
Spare no tears
Just pity and fear
And I recall
The push more than the fall
The push more than the fall
11.The Ice Is Getting Thinner
We're not the same, dear, as we used to be.
The seasons have changed and so have we.
There was little we could say, and even less we could do
To stop the ice from getting thinner under me and you.
We bury our love in the windsory grave
along came the snow, that was all that remained.
but we stayed by its side as the days turned to weeks
and the ice kept getting thinner with every word that we'd
speak.
and when spring arrived
we were taken by surprise when the flows under our feet
led into the sea
nothing was left for you and me.
We're not the same, dear,
and it seems to me
there's more where we can go
with nothing underneath.
and it saddens me to say
but we both know, well, it's true
that the ice was getting thinner
under me and you.
the ice was getting thinner
under me and you.
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