A woman wrote a memory she has associated with "What Sarah Said" from the Plans album. I must warn you though, it's a very sad memory. But it does attest to the power of a song. You can read it at the link below on JamsBio.com - a website where people share memories about music.
It maybe that it is the physical act of watching someone die or that you don't really know you love someone until they die. However, it may also be that "love is watching someone die" can be taken as when two people are in love with each other for so long that they have literally watched each other grow old until one of them dies.
However, given the context of the rest of the song, it's probably just saying that watching someone die is one of the harder things to do in life and you really have to love them to do that for them. It's a sour thought to think of what it must be like to be alone in some hospital room-- some totally foreign place, and having the time to realize all of this before you die. The reality, though, for most people is that they are so hopped up on morphine and all that that they probably barely realize that. I'm sure some do, though.
I think a lot of peoeple probably think that line is cheezy, but I really love it. It has many meanings, and I think I've experienced all of them both personally and vicariously since the year that Plans was released.
***Warning: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAIN GRAPHIC SEXUAL MISCHIEFFFF (i.e. FUCKING)***
So I was hooking up with this fine latina chick in the back of my parents minivan and I had my ipod hooked up to the stereo and, maybe a poor choice on my part, but i had the thing on shuffle. so we heard a little marvin gaye at first, which set the mood nice, but then some shit my little brother put on (i think it was simple plan) and that practically snapped my wood in half what a turnoff! so i ended up climbing forward and hitting next track and fucking d-cab comes on and it was playing pictures in an exhibition and for some reason (i guess that song is fuckin raw) that got my noodle going and i was hard as fossil.
and i gave it that honey hard and she just screammmed right at the part where ben sings "down turn, I...." and i just about blew my load but i held off for a sec and took a break. but man i was fucking hot and she was too so i gave it as hard as i fucking could to her during the bridge and then she came and i came all at once in this amazing surge of passion at the point when the song is ending and then through the outro jam we wound down and we both looked at each other with these expressions that said "god damn, what a fuck!"
I will always remember that time when i hear pictures in an exhibition. And i get a semi woody everytime i hear that first verse.
Originally posted by Hemingway: We tried our best not to bug them, but I think the death cab pins on my bag, and the death cab shirt, though I tried to hide it, gave us away.
What a lame ass fanboi! Pins? Shirt?! Maaaan, look what the o.c. has done.
Also you already told this story once on the board about the elevator so that shows how much of a dick you are- ooh ladida i met nick and jason but i didn't really want to etc then why write it so many times? dick.
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