Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You for Today Album Lyrics

I dreamt we spoke, I dreamt we spoke again
It'd been so long, it'd been so long my mind filled in the blanks
I dreamt we spoke, I dreamt we spoke again
It'd been so long, it'd been so long, your voice was like a ghost

In my head
In my head

Only in, yes, only in a dream
Is anything, is anything the way it used to be?
I dreamt we spoke, I dreamt we spoke again
But when I awoke, when I awoke I could not remember

Anything you said
Anything you said
Anything you said
Anything you said

Sometimes I wake at night
And watch the rain fall through the street lights
'Cause you're standing still in my mind
Fading out, waving goodbye

And I wonder where you are tonight
If the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well

Sometimes I'm overcome
By every choice I couldn't outrun
The junctions all disappear
You can't double back to your summer years

And I wonder where you are tonight
If the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well

And I wonder where you are tonight
And if the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well
It's just as well

And I wonder where you are tonight
If the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well

And I wonder where you are tonight
And if the one you're with was a compromise
As we're walking lines in parallel
That will never meet and it's just as well
It's just as well

(Gold rush) digging for gold in my neighborhood
(Gold rush) where all the old buildings stood
(Gold rush) and they keep digging it down and down
(Gold rush) so that their cars can live underground
(Gold rush) the swinging of a wrecking ball
(Gold rush) through these lath and plaster walls
(Gold rush) is letting all the shadows free
(Gold rush) the ones I wish still followed me

(Change) followed me, followed me
(Please don't change)
(Stay) followed me, followed me
(Stay the same)

(Gold rush) I remember a winter's night
(Gold rush) we kissed beneath the street lamp light
(Gold rush) outside our bar near the record store
(Gold rush) that have been condos for a year and more
(Gold rush) now that our haunts have taken flight
(Gold rush) and been replaced with construction sites
(Gold rush) oh, how I feel like a stranger here
(Gold rush) searching for something that's disappeared

(Gold rush) digging for gold in my neighborhood
(Gold rush) for what they say is the greater good
(Gold rush) but all I see is a long goodbye
(Gold rush) a requiem for a skyline
(Gold rush) it seems I never stopped losing you
(Gold rush) as every dive becomes something new
(Gold rush) and all our ghosts get swept away
(Gold rush) it didn't used to be this way

(Change) be this way, be this way
(Please don't change)
(Stay) be this way, be this way
(Stay the same)
(Cranes) be this way, be this way
(Devour the light)
(Strange) be this way, be this way
(Appetite)

I've ascribed these monuments
A false sense of permanence
I've placed faith in geography
To hold you in my memory
(Gold rush) I'm sifting through these wreckage piles
(Gold rush) through the rubble of bricks and wires
(Gold rush) looking for something I'll never find
(Gold rush) looking for something I'll never find

(Gold rush) digging for gold in my neighborhood
(Gold rush) where all the old buildings stood
(Gold rush) and they keep digging it down and down
(Gold rush) so that their cars can live underground
(Gold rush) it seems I never stopped losing you
(Gold rush) as every dive becomes something new
(Gold rush) and all our ghosts get swept away
(Gold rush) it didn't used to be this way

Change (gold rush) it didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush) it didn't used to be this way
Please don't change
(Gold rush) it didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush) it didn't used to be this way
Stay, stay the same
(Gold rush) it didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush) it didn't used to be this way (stay the same)
(Gold rush) it didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush) it didn't used to be this way
Change (gold rush)
(Gold rush)
Please don't change
(Gold rush)
(Gold rush)
Stay (gold rush)
(Gold rush)
Stay the same

Heaven is a hole in the sky
The stars are cracks in the ceiling of night
And I just keep watching them for a sign
That you'll be alright

'Cause every time there's a knock on my door
I fall to my hands and knees on the floor
'Cause when your wreckage washes up on my shore
You're not like before

And you try to explain who's at fault for your mistakes
But I won't be the debris in your hurricane"

You used to be such a delicate kid
A lonely fish in a sea full of squid
So I can't blame you for leaving how you did
You just fell off the grid

'Cause heaven is a hole in the sky
And the stars are cracks in the ceiling of night
But you can't be your own alibi
As hard as you try

It's in the tired refrain you're singing over and over again
As you try to explain who's at fault for your mistakes
But I won't be the debris in your hurricane
Oh, I won't be the debris in your hurricane
I won't be the debris in your hurricane

I can't expect you to be honest
Or to be faithful every day 'til the end
I just need you to be always a friend
As this sun sets over Dakota's
Underneath a crimson ocean of sky
Know I'll always want you by my side

When we drive
When we drive

You and I were born in motion
Never in one place for too long a time
And now it's the only way we know to survive
I like the way your hair tangles
The way your sun tan's only on one side
We always keep the windows open wide

When we drive
When we drive
When we drive
When we drive

Climb into the back seat and close your eyes
I've got the wheel
Dream of all the places only we will find

I can't expect you to be honest
Or to be faithful every day 'til the end
I just need you to be always a friend
Until the engine kicks and sputters
Until we roll the rubber off the tires
Know I'll always need you by my side

When we drive
When we drive
When we drive
When we drive
When we drive
When we drive

No more lighthouses to deceive me
Just leave me floating on the open ocean
And let the moonlight take me anywhere on a tidal flow
And if I capsize it's alright
'Cause I've been feeling too invincible
I need to know depths deeper than the deepest of connections

Oh oh oh
This autumn love
Oh oh oh
Is not enough

If there's no beacon tonight to guide me
I'll finally break the shackles of direction
And let the headlights lead me anywhere they wanna go
I feel at home now out on a bough
In the lattice of the backbone
Where the highways are holding in the pieces of our broken hearts

Oh oh oh
This autumn love
Oh oh oh
Is not enough

Oh oh oh
This autumn love
Oh oh oh
Is not enough

Oh oh oh
This autumn love
Oh oh oh
Is not enough

Oh oh oh
This autumn love
Oh oh oh
Is not enough
Is not enough
Is not enough
Is not enough
Is not enough

I remember your silhouette on Dyes Inlet
Against the silver sheen of a moon like painted glass
Under stars out on a pier, a celestial sphere
We were weightless as the waves that disappeared

Northern lights filled our skies
Empty nights synchronized

We shared a clove cigarette on the parapet
As the TVs glowed from the windows of the model homes
And I'd never be that close again to your lips and perfect skin
As the tide receded into the unknown

Northern lights filled our skies
Empty nights synchronized
Northern lights filled our skies
Empty nights synchronized

I remember your silhouette on Dyes Inlet

Northern lights filled our skies
Empty nights synchronized
Northern lights filled our skies
Empty nights synchronized

You sold you records by the pile
For they were only yours for a while
You placed your furniture in the yard
And it was gone within the hour

When you moved away
All your friends came over and you told them what to take
When you moved away
Everyone thought it was a mistake

You mopped floors and filled the cracks
To get your security deposit back
You closed your account at the bank
You checked your tires and filled the tank

When you moved away
All of your friends got drunk and one by one begged you to stay
When you moved away
They all felt irrationally betrayed

Since you moved away
I walk past your vacant apartment almost every day
When you moved away
You left this town with such an empty space

You flicker like a fluorescent light

An intermittent strobe in a lonely night

As I am standing by your side

Trying to breach this dark and deep divide



You're here

So far away

So near

So far



I hear you talking to yourself

Cursing every card you wanted dealt

I can't help you play your hand

If you mistake every word for a command



You're here

So far away

So near

So far away



You're here

So far away

So near

So far away

Far away



You flicker like a fluorescent light

An intermittent strobe in a lonely night

But I won't watch you burning out

I won't let you be the one I live without



You're here

So far away

So near

So far away



You're here

So far away

So near

So far away

Far away

Far away

There's nothing funny about just slipping away
It's nothing funny how you're spending your days
But you're laughing like a kid at a carnival
And I watched you stumbling around this dusty town
I heard your bottle talking way too loud
As the Federales tried to hunt you down
For something you can't remember what was about

The curtain falls to applause and the band plays you off, the band plays you off
He's a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore

I used to watch you on the late night scene
The timely rescue of a metal teen
Six strings were strumming rhythm and lead
And that hadn't occurred to me
When I met you I was twenty-two
Trying so hard to play it cool
But there was so much that I needed to say
And nothing came out the right way

The curtain falls to applause and the band plays you off, the band plays you off
He's a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore
The curtain falls to applause and the band plays you off, the band plays you off
He's a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore

There's nothing elegant in being a drunk
It's nothing righteous being sixty and a punk
But when you're looking in the mirror do you see
That kid that you used to be?
Broke and working in a record store
Daydreaming about the upcoming tour
Were you happier when you poor?
Were you happier when you poor?

The curtain falls to applause and the band plays you off, the band plays you off
He's a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore
The curtain falls to applause and the band plays you off, the band plays you off
He's a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore