Anyone got their favourite and least favourite dcfc lyric? Mine -

Love:

quote:

We'll leave our sins within the carpet twine
Our bodies will dissolve the chemicals in due time

Love it. Profoundly sad sentiment that in time even the most minute physical traces of a relationship will one day fade from existence as if nothing was ever there. *sadface*

Hate:

quote:

Cath...
It seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
With the things that could have been are repressed

Woah woah woah, what? "With the things that could have been are repressed?" I'm not sure what tense-related grammatical issues are going on there. As much as I love the song I hate that line.
Doesn't help that this was originally a much better lyric, though perhaps too sinister for the song: "On the arm of a man you detest."

Runner up is that line in Lightness about ben being a fish.

Does it have to be a lyric? I think that my all time favorite moment in any death cab song that surpasses any lyrical moment is the little bell solo in the alternate version of Company Calls Epilogue. Just touching.

My favorite lyric however is probably the one in my signature. It's a great opening line for a song and just makes me eager to hear the rest.

Least favorite - "Then it saddens me to say what we both knew was true--
That the ice was getting thinner under me and you." This is my least favorite song on Stairs and this line just cements that fact. It seems far too generic to be written by Ben.

As for your Cath lyrics, I believe it is actually:
"With the things that could've been, all repressed"
That's what it says in the lyrics book of my Narrow Stairs record. Maybe that clears it up a little?


My favorite lyric is:
"I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere when the water filled every hole"
I have no idea why. I guess I just love the image that it puts into my head. So beautiful.

And also,
"Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole,
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound,
But while you debate half-empty or half-full,
It slowly rises,
Your love is gonna drown."
I think that's self-explanatory one.


My least favorite song lyric-wise is IWPYH. I find it repetitive. But the awesome tune makes up for it.

quote:

Originally posted by Melanphoria:
Anyone got their favourite and least favourite dcfc lyric? Mine -

Love:
[QUOTE]We'll leave our sins within the carpet twine
Our bodies will dissolve the chemicals in due time

That is no doubt Ben's best lyric in my opinion. I also love "What a way to cut lengthwise" from Bend to Squares. It's oddly touching.

In terms of lines I hate, I can't stand the No Sunlight metaphors. It's so base I can't believe he put them on record.

planssy: that is a little bit better, but still bad I think.

Another runner up for worst line is in:

quote:

You may ask yourself, "Is there anyone so alone?"
But there's no beep before the dial-tone
When you pick it up to see who called
If there is, it's probably your mom

Something about that line doesn't sound good to me.

false grimaces: i guess moments are ok too. In which case, some of my favourites: the first few seconds of Cath, the bit half way through Title Track when it goes hi-fi, and about 2/3 through line of best fit when it's going all distortiony in the airplanes version.

Oh yeah, probably a controversial choice, but also:

quote:

I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere I loved you.

Loved: A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere. Purely because thats how i feel everytime i pick up my guitar.

Hated: Is also Cath...
It seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
With the things that could have been are repressed

Favorite moment: the last two minutes of Different Names. It makes me feel so... i don't even know. I just love it.

Loved:
"Synapse to synapse: possibilities will thin or fade
Your wedding figurines: I'd melt so I could drink them in"

I also agree with the original poster on "Scientist Studies"... it's so perfect

Least favorite:
The repeating line of "So who's going to watch you die" at the end of "What Sarah Said." I just don't like it.

One Favorite: "I must admit I was charmed by your advances. Your advantage left me helplessly into you"


Least favorite: "He was a bastard in life, thus a bastard in death, YEAH!"
I find that very lame...

oh shit, you just reminded me of another favourite big tuna:
"Lushing with the hallway congregation
My best judgment signed its resignation"

and
"call response overturns convictions, every time"

Those are really good ones to.

i absolutely love Title Track, and think the lyrics are some of Ben's best.
But I never got the beginning lines:
"Left uninspired by the crust of railroad earth that touched the lead to the pages of your manuscript. I took my thumb of the concrete and saved up all my strength to hammer pillars for a picket fence."


does anyone have a guess as to what the hell he's talking about?

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being extremely positively biased toward death cab lyrics, this is tough...
i've honestly always loved "illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs", but not for any reason like "because it was 'that hit song' of theirs"

worst--i've always felt kind of weird about the drawn out fish/brain/organ/heart/core metaphor in Lightness...but i cant even say that THAT was bad. just...different? (haha)

quote:

Originally posted by Melanphoria:
Hate:

quote:

Cath...
It seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
With the things that could have been are repressed

Woah woah woah, what? "With the things that could have been are repressed?" I'm not sure what tense-related grammatical issues are going on there. As much as I love the song I hate that line.
Doesn't help that this was originally a much better lyric, though perhaps too sinister for the song: "On the arm of a man you detest."

Runner up is that line in Lightness about ben being a fish.

also, about that...isn't it "With the things that could have been ALL repressed"? thats what the lyrics booklet says i think