Thursday, November 13, 2008

These are some really amazing lyrics.

What Sarah Said
-Death Cab for Cutie

And it came to me then that every breath is a tiny grant of father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409.
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself,
"Did I already take in too much today?"
As each descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me.

Amongst the vending machines and your old magazines
In a place where we only say goodbye,
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend
On a faulty camera in our minds.
And I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose
Than to have never lain beside at all.
Then I looked around at all the eyes on the ground
As the TV entertained itself.

Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room.  
Just nervous paces bracing for bad news.
Then the nurse comes round and everyone lifts their heads.
I'm thinking of what Sarah said,
"Love is watching someone die."

So who's gonna watch you die?

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