Death Cab For Cutie: Narrow Stairs

I'm totally swamped at work (happy birthday LR!) but I wanted to let you all know:

I'm only on track 2 of the new Death Cab album, narrow stairs, and I'm blown away thus far.

I Will Possess Your Heart is clocking in at 8:35 and I love it. An eight-minute song you say? Yes. An eight-minute song. I grew up on them (I still listen to Floyd's Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7) very often and it clocks in at 17:32). I preordered the deluxe edition on iTunes and I got the music video in high def. Gorgeous. The girl in it totally looks like Sara Beam (of Iron and Wine) and that makes me happy.

So, if you're a Death Cab fan, check it out. If you're not, broaden your horizons.

More later if things calm down (ooooh, it's only 1037--I thought it was closer to noon. maybe today will be ok after all).

I've read some good things today--check out my links to the right and see about Jen and Jonathan's in-store ride, Bob Boilen's suffering for Radiohead and other such lovelies.


I LOVE creepy "love" songs that I totally would have written in high school (I'm creepy and have stalker tendencies, I'm sorry. I can't help it.)

Here are the lyrics to I Will Possess Your Heart:

How I wish you could see 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 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 with me and I know that you’ll find love
I will possess your heart

You reject my advances and desperate pleas
I won’t let you let me down so easily

You gotta spend some time with me and
I know that you'll find love
I will possess your heart

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My all-time favorite just might be from this guy that goes by Bleu and it's entitled Watchin' You Sleep. The song just sounds so PRETTY that you want it to be a sweet love song. Love it.

The streetlight whines through my cheap venetian blinds
The hip-hop beats will not go to sleep
So I slip outside and go stalkin' in the night
'Cause I don't know what to do about my life

So I'm watchin' you sleep
Right outside your window
Inches away from sleepin' with you
And you don't even know it
Watchin' you sleep all night

All day long I've been sleepin' like a log
I dream your face through the window at your place
I guess it's wrong, but I've been lonely for so long
And I don't know what to do about my life

So I'm watchin' you sleep
Right outside your window
Inches away from sleepin' with you
Dreamin' in the deep end
Watchin' you sleep all night

I confess, I looked up your work address
It wasn't fate that bumped into you that day
But it's still me who holds your hand when you're asleep
'Cause you don't know what to do about your life

So I'm watchin' you sleep
Right outside your window
Inches away from sleepin' with you
And you don't even know it
Watchin' you sleep all night

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LR just emailed me this literary gem from Queensrÿche, Gonna Get Close to You. I, by the way, LOVE Queensrÿche and in high school I had a psyeudonym and it was Chris DeGarmo (the lead singer of said band and the writer of some of my favorite lyrics of all time, they make me cry every time, Bridge).

I like to look at shadows sweating on the wall
I get excited when I hear footsteps in the hall
Outside your balcony I have a room with a view
And I'm watching you

I dial your telephone each and every afternoon
I wait by your door till you're asleep at night
And when you're alone I know when you
Turn out the light

I'm gonna get close to you
Oh-Oh so close to you
I'm gonna get close to you
I'm gonna get close

You fumble for your keys
I'm six or seven steps behind you
I'm so close to you
Are you terrified of me? What do I know about you
How did I find out?
You think I'm a fool or maybe some kind of lunatic
Say I'm wasting my time but I know what to do with it
It's as plain as black and white

I'm gonna get close to you
Oh-Oh so close to you
I'm gonna get close to you
Oh so close

If you knew my infinite charm
There'd be no reason to be so alarmed
Maybe I'm wrong maybe I'm right
Maybe I'm some kind of lunatic
You say I'm wasting all of my time
But I know what to do with it
It is plain as black and white

I'm gonna get close to you
Oh-Oh so close to you
I'm gonna get close to you
I'm like a hungry Criminal
and your protection is minimal
So minimal