![]() His body would periodically breathe, and it would be as though he were still there. Death is really creepy certain bodily functions still carry on for an hour or so after. I told him how much I would miss him as he lay there. I locked myself in the room with him for a few minutes after for some final alone time. All that was left was the body that he used to wrestle with me when I was younger and naive. The man who gave me my hairline, my nose, my height, and half of my eye color was gone. Teenage life made me grow to talk back to him every morning. He was the man who drove me to school every day. There was the man who built the home I lived in. There was the man who had driven me around Corbin when Mom was angry. I knew he was supposed to be gone Mom and I had told him the night before that he could let go. I rushed into the bedroom, hoping it wasn't true. I ran through the house to find mom hysterically crying on the couch as forty years crashed down around her and she was left alone. Dad's hospice nurse told me that he had passed on. All the sudden, I got the knock on the door. I remember locking myself in my room the last few hours before he passed, listening to "Fire Island" by Fountains of Wayne on repeat and trying to pretend that everything was okay for a while. It’s a great soft song to reflect upon and listen to for time to come.This was the first song I listened to after Dad died. It’s full of sweetness and innocence, yet maturity and poise. ![]() It’s a song that is resonant and one that makes you experience that thrill and emotion of driving at night with someone you care about. Passenger Seat is a great song for anyone looking to check out Death Cab for the first time. ![]() It’s a very subtle, yet poignant and powerful way to close this quietly brilliant track. It contrasts Gibbard’s warm vocals very well, and as the song closes out, he almost silently confides his feelings to the person driving. The melody itself is sentimental and somehow captures that slight chill in the air you feel when driving at night. The music is even simpler, with a droning piano backing and some soothing, yet odd piano chords and notes over the top. Gibbard sings like a shy man, but that makes the song all the more powerful. The way the song captures the feeling of driving home after a long day with someone is pure poetry. It’s all the things you want to tell that person, but you’re so taken by the beauty of the night and the experience of being with them. It’s a mixture of all the subtle emotions that hang in the air on nights like that. ![]() It’s about experiencing all of the beautiful feelings whilst driving on a beautiful night with someone close. The lyrics are beautifully simple and full of description. He’s one of those singer’s that’s not extraordinary, but he’s perfect for the music that he writes. His tone is the most crisp of any singer I’ve known, and his voice just oozes that genuine emotion that can only be found in a select few. If the phrase “honesty is the best policy” were to apply to a singer, Ben Gibbard would be that singer. It’s no secret that I love imagery in songs, and this particular song is perfect in the sense that you can truly imagine and feel what frontman Ben Gibbard is singing about. ![]() It’s a very beautiful, moody piano driven track that really captures the essence of a certain moment in time. However, when I first heard this track I immediately loved it. Coming into this review, I had little listening time with Death Cab for Cutie’s earlier body of work. ![]()
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