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Death Cab for Cutie joins us inside the In-N-Out Burger Sound Space for a special performance, and to talk about the making of their new album, ‘I Built You A Tower.’ Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer dive into the band's creative longevity, their ongoing connection with their fans, and the foundation that has kept DCFC strong for over 25 years.
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00:00What's happening? How we doing everybody? Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome!
00:05This is gonna rule. It is the In-N-Out Burger sound space at K-Rock.
00:09What a privilege, a career highlight right now to do what we're about to do before the band comes out
00:14and plays some songs.
00:15We're gonna bring Nick and Ben out to have a little conversation, if that's cool.
00:19Talk about the new record.
00:21Please welcome Nick Harmer and Ben Gibbard of a band called Death Cat for Cutie.
00:33Gentlemen.
00:34How's it going?
00:35How are you?
00:36Good.
00:37You have a new album coming out.
00:38Well, actually, as this is being filmed and recorded, it's out.
00:41But for the purposes of the live, it's coming out on Friday.
00:45It is, yes.
00:46It's your 11th record?
00:48Yeah, 11th, yeah.
00:50Is it 11? It's 11 albums.
00:51We've been around a long time.
00:54One thing that struck me, I've had the privilege to spend some time with the record over the past week
00:58or two,
00:59and I kind of noticed this last night.
01:01You had an underplay at Sid the Cat.
01:04You're the kind of band that, as a fan, as an observer, you really feel like a group of individuals
01:10who just love making new music and making records.
01:14How do you keep that inspiration, that curiosity alive over time?
01:19For me, there's no moment where I feel more satisfaction than when I've just finished a song that I'm proud
01:27of,
01:27and I'm just in my own little home studio, and I'm excited to send it to the guys.
01:30And I think the thing about being in a rock band that, even after all these years, is still really
01:36satisfying,
01:36is that it's really exciting when you find a new way to say something, either musically or lyrically.
01:44And we're all just really great friends.
01:46I mean, Nick and I have been best friends since we were, I was 18, 19.
01:50So it's like to be, there's no better feeling than being in a band with your friends.
01:54It's just the best.
01:55So we figure, why stop doing it, you know?
01:57Keep going.
01:58We're into it, you know?
01:59So, appreciate it.
02:01It's your first record.
02:02You've been on a major for like two decades.
02:05Your first record with Anti Records, which is amazing.
02:09Yeah, give it up for Anti.
02:10Based in Los Angeles.
02:12How did that come together?
02:14I was at a wedding.
02:15My friend Tom Sharpling was getting married and I was sitting at a table.
02:18I was, my partner and I were sat at a table with some people from the OCs and Mike Kroll
02:25and this woman, Alison Crutchfield.
02:27And Mike Kroll has put out records on Merge and we were talking about like,
02:29what's it like, you know, on your label, we're off the label, this kind of thing.
02:32And I found myself talking to Alison and she was like, well, I do A&R at Anti.
02:36And I was like, oh yeah, you guys are great.
02:37Slow Pulp's on that label where we just had a tour with Slow Pulp.
02:40Oh yeah, the best just signed to them.
02:41And then, oh, our friend Sweet Foxes are on there.
02:43Oh yeah, Nico's on there.
02:45And, you know, we had a great time at the wedding and I got home on Monday
02:49and I was talking to Jordan, our manager, and I was like, you know, we should talk to Anti.
02:53And he was like, I was having the same thought.
02:55So we took a meeting with Anti and we just hit it off immediately with Alison,
03:00who's no longer at the company, but Andy Culkin and Brett Gerwitz.
03:05And we left that meeting and we, Nick and I, we were on the way to another meeting
03:08with another label that remained nameless and we were like,
03:11so we're signing to Anti, right? That's what we're doing?
03:13And it was just, so we just took the other meeting basically so we could get a free lunch
03:17and then we, you know, we signed to Anti.
03:21Nick, what was it about that meeting for you that made you know, like, you gotta sign to this label?
03:25You know, after 20 years of being in the major label system, that was its own ride.
03:31And it was just really nice to be in a room full of people that we felt spoke our language
03:38again in some ways.
03:40They are music fans. Everyone at the label, they put out great music.
03:44We just ended up talking in a real easy and comfortable way about what we like about music
03:51and what we like about each other and it was, there were just no pretense from the first 30 seconds
03:59of us in that meeting.
04:00It was very disarming and I think, you know, we didn't know really what to expect,
04:05but we really felt like we just left. It didn't feel like a meeting, it just felt like a hang
04:09with friends.
04:10Yeah, it felt like we were back with our people.
04:11Yeah, exactly. And right away, like Ben said, we got in the car after that, we were just like, that's
04:16what we're gonna do.
04:17It just, you know, we've been fortunate over the years to find people in our lives that we work with,
04:23you know, our crew and everybody that kind of have that feeling and it's nice that the label has that
04:27too now, so it feels complete.
04:30That's excellent. In preparation for this conversation, something, I don't know,
04:34I've noticed a lot in some of the interviews is interviewers talking about how, wow, like, this album's really good.
04:41You guys still have it. Like, that's amazing. Like, how did you do this?
04:44And I'm kind of like, you know, Asphalt Meadows was amazing, you know, Thank You For Today was amazing.
04:49Are you kind of finding, like, people saying that a lot? Like, wow, Death Cab still has it.
04:54Are you thinking like, yeah, like, of course we do.
04:58I mean, you know, you can't have a career as long as we've had without straying into the wilderness.
05:05And I think certainly between transatlanticism plans and maybe to also an extent narrow stairs, you know,
05:12there was a moment in the culture, you know, about 20 years ago where, you know, the band and the
05:19style of music was kind of more at the forefront of, you know, culture generally.
05:25And people get older and maybe they might stop listening to as much new music.
05:29They might forget that the band that they love has been continuing to put out records.
05:33Or they might have just, they get busy with other stuff.
05:36Like, this band is the most important thing in my life, but that doesn't mean that it's the most important
05:40thing in these people's lives, you know.
05:42So it's understandable. People find themselves moving through lives, their lives in different ways.
05:47And sometimes they come back around to the band and they go like, oh my God, you guys have been
05:50making records and I wasn't paying as close to attention.
05:53And this record captured my attention again.
05:56And, you know, hopefully the idea with this record or any record we make, but certainly I think with this
06:00record, hopefully people will, who maybe have spent less time with the band in recent years will fall back in
06:05love with it.
06:06You spent a lot of time in 2023 celebrating the 20th anniversary of transatlanticism, a handful of shows for plans.
06:13Last year, Nick, was there anything during those shows that unlocked something that maybe wasn't there before or reignited something
06:20creatively?
06:21I mean, you know, I've said this in a number of interviews and I'll continue to say it.
06:26I think playing those anniversary shows were about as close to getting into a time machine as I'll ever get
06:31in my life.
06:32And there was a moment where it was really fun to kind of step back into the headspace of and
06:39the memory space of making these records, of playing these songs of the early days of the band and touring
06:45and kind of, you know, transatlanticism was a real pivotal, pivotal album for us.
06:49And it really kind of the momentum and the profile of the band really grew during that record.
06:56And, you know, there, it was nice to kind of reminisce, but, you know, something also shifted during that, those
07:02performances where I was able to not only kind of step back into this old version of myself and think
07:09about the growth of the band, but then I was also coming at it from where I'm at now.
07:14And it was kind of, I think, really amazing to think about how these songs have lived and how they
07:21breathe on a stage.
07:22And if anything, there wasn't like this moment of like, oh, rebirth or rediscovery.
07:28It was more an appreciation.
07:31And I think we kind of came out of that with this newfound confidence about, you know, the music that
07:37we make and the chemistry that we have as players.
07:42And we could really reflect on that time, that journey that sort of happened in that amount of time.
07:49So, yeah, I mean, I don't know, I'm still kind of unpacking a lot of that.
07:54But I think for me, it was just a really great moment for us to go like, OK, we did
08:00this and let's take that momentum into this new record and really try and preserve that, you know, if we
08:09can.
08:10Incredible. As we record this last night in South Pasadena, you played the new record front to back at Sid
08:16the Cat at a no phone show.
08:18So people were really engaged. What was that experience like for you?
08:22Kind of just starting to put this album out.
08:25Well, the show itself felt like the 90s.
08:28It was I got up on stage before the show started and just said, we want to give you guys
08:32this gift and that we want to time travel to you guys and bring you back to a time where
08:35everybody in the room was entirely present.
08:39And so it was I was actually more nervous than I'd been in a while because we tend to not
08:45play new songs live for that exact reason.
08:47People have their phones. We might be working on something.
08:49We don't want to play a new song a year before it comes out and have people who are fans
08:54of the band burn out on it before the record is out.
08:56Or maybe that we change it by the time it comes on the record and people are like, you changed
08:59the song I like.
09:02But so it was I was rather rather nervous to play 11 new songs for people, but it was really
09:08cool to see how some of the songs connected with people.
09:11And there were a couple that assuredly no one had heard yet.
09:15And halfway through, I could see, oh, this one's going to be a this one's going on the festival set
09:21for a while.
09:22So well, hopefully you guys feel the same way.
09:27Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully. Stone Over Water was one of those songs.
09:32And granted, it had been released before the show.
09:34But that's one of those songs that I kind of feel like is getting a lot of buzz right now
09:39with I Built You A Tower.
09:41Nick, did you as the as the show kind of went on yesterday?
09:44Did you sort of notice the the crowd getting more engaged and talk about that song in particular?
09:51Yeah, I mean, I definitely sort of felt that I mean, I feel like everybody was there to listen.
09:56We you know, there wasn't there was never a moment where like we have to win people over.
10:00You know, there they were just excited. I could feel the energy around that.
10:04And we are excited to share the music.
10:06So, you know, we've been working hard in rehearsals, getting it all ready to go.
10:10So I think it was just a real natural feeling for us.
10:14Like, you know, it's actually weirder to talk about the record than it is to play the record in some
10:18ways.
10:18Like, that's a much better at playing bass than I am talking about playing bass, if that makes any sense.
10:26So, you know, that that was great.
10:28I mean, and then, you know, as far as Stone Over Water goes,
10:30I think that it we've now released three songs ahead of time, you know, before the record comes out now
10:37on Friday,
10:37or I guess we're cheating now and saying it is out because of the taping.
10:41But, you know, that was a song that even that was really fun was even though it had come out
10:49that day,
10:49there were still people in the audience that I had clearly listened to enough times to be able to sing
10:55the lyrics back right away,
10:57you know, to me. And I was like, wow, you're really paying attention.
11:01They got extra credit.
11:01Yeah, they got extra credit. I was like, wow, this, I know you've only heard this song for hours at
11:06this point.
11:06And that was a really fun moment to kind of feel that connection, knowing that it was still brand new
11:12for them.
11:14Ben, how did it come together to have that song on the record?
11:17Well, we had, between my demos and the stuff the band was working on, roughly 90 songs going into this
11:23record.
11:23And we all had our own list of the things we wanted to have on the record, the five of
11:28us,
11:28and we would kind of, you know, kind of politic which ones we wanted to record.
11:33And at some point, producer, our producer, John Congleton said, well, send me all 90 songs.
11:37We're like, okay. And we send them all 90 and I didn't think in any world he would listen to
11:42them all.
11:43And we got in the studio the first couple of days and we're talking about what we're going to work
11:46on.
11:46He's like, well, what about Stone Over Water?
11:48And I was like, we all looked at each other like, Stone Over Water?
11:51Like, we're not doing that. No one, you know, none of us chose it.
11:53He's like, no, we're going to do that song.
11:55And initially, I thought that he was, this was some kind of form of misdirection or,
12:00sometimes in the studio, you want to start with something that nobody really cares about,
12:03just to get the sounds in the studio or shake the cobwebs off or the nerves.
12:07And I just assumed this was his, this was a psychological play on his part.
12:12And we worked on the song for a half a day and we were listening to the playback
12:15and I was just sitting in there in the control room and he was at the board and I just
12:18said,
12:18man, this sounds awesome.
12:20And he spun around the chair and he's like, yeah, I know, I'm really good at my job.
12:25And he was, and it's, and it's, and so far it's become a song that just in the last couple
12:29of days,
12:29I've had innumerable people in my life reach out about it in ways that I haven't,
12:35people haven't reached out. I mean, people will say, oh, I like the new single,
12:38but it seems to have made an impact on some people in my life that that means,
12:43it means a lot to me that it's meant that.
12:45We're at the In-N-Out Burger sound space at K-Rock here in Los Angeles with Death Cat for
12:50Cutie.
12:53One, the opening lyric of that song references San Francisco.
12:56Not the first time that city's been, been mentioned in Death Cat for Cutie lyrics.
13:00There was a song on narrow stairs. Asphalt Meadows has a picture of San Francisco.
13:05You guys are from Seattle, but what's the San Francisco like connection or the inspiration
13:10or it's a city that kind of continues to get popped up in Death Cat?
13:13Yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, whatever rivalries you have with San Francisco,
13:18I don't particularly care about and what I'm about to say.
13:22But I, I've always, San Francisco has always felt like a second home for us.
13:28And it was one of the first cities outside of Portland that we started playing in the early days of
13:32the band.
13:32And we were embraced rather early there.
13:35And it's really the only other American city, large American city that I ever considered moving to.
13:40I just love it. And it's, it's so beautiful. And because it's so compact,
13:44you can, you can, you really feel cradled and embraced by the city while you're there.
13:48I mean, Los Angeles is amazing. It has so many amazing neighborhoods and areas, but it's so sprawling, right?
13:53And, uh, okay, sure. Whatever, man.
13:55Uh, uh, and, uh, you know, but at the same time, San Francisco is this very,
14:00geographically very kind of, uh, condensed city.
14:03And, um, and I, I've, I've always loved it.
14:06And it's just always held a really special place in my heart.
14:08There was a Dodgers mention out here a minute ago, uh, on the sports tip.
14:13Just real quick, quick segue.
14:14There's a lot of, uh, rumors about the Sonics coming back to Seattle.
14:18Are you fired up? Is that real?
14:21Uh, let's look, we have been, we have been, you know,
14:25first off, let's just say that, uh, we're very happy that Oklahoma city got bounced.
14:30We're very happy about that.
14:32Um, we're very happy about that because, uh, that's their, the Oklahoma, Oklahoma city is like,
14:39they're like the faker Sonics as far as I'm concerned.
14:42Um, that was our team. That was our team.
14:43That was our team. They, they stole it. And, uh, we can talk about that later.
14:47But, um, but you know, at this point, Seattle feels a little bit like we're, we're Charlie Brown and the
14:52NBA is Lucy with the football, you know?
14:54So until, until we make contact with that ball, uh, we're, I'm not quite ready to say they're coming back
14:59yet.
15:00Well, I'm rooting for you. We'd love to have the Sonics back in the NBA.
15:02It's weird that they don't exist.
15:04You play a lot of festivals, a lot of Sonics jerseys out there in the crowd.
15:06I'm sure you've noticed a lot of Sean Kemp stuff. So, um, two more questions and we'll get you out
15:11of here.
15:11Um, Ben Gibbard, you are one of the most prolific and important songwriters of our generation.
15:18And yeah, make some noise.
15:20And the songs are, are so good. There's a ton of radio hits, but like the lyrics and just how
15:25you connect to people is just, it's, it's, it's unreal.
15:30There's no words. I could, you would, you would be able to express it way better than I could right
15:33now.
15:33Um, do you think about that at all? Just how connected your audience is to your lyrics as you're writing?
15:41Is there a responsibility there? Um, does that go through your head at all when writing music?
15:46Just, do you understand how important, you know, your lyrics are to, to your fans?
15:51I don't know if I can like respond to that question in the way you're asking it to me, but
15:56I will say that, um, I've always thought that if I have a strong feeling,
16:03uh, that's put into a song that we all, the band initially connects to and feels like it's expressing something
16:08about the human experience,
16:10uh, that other people will connect with it too.
16:13And I write a lot and a lot of the stuff I write, you guys will probably never hear.
16:17Um, but the stuff that does cut through and we choose to release, we feel we're releasing it because we
16:22feel it says something about what it means to be alive.
16:25What it means to be a human being. And, uh, you know, it's been one of the greatest honors of
16:30my life to have people such as yourself
16:32have this connection with this music. It's really, it has so much more to do with you than it does
16:36with us.
16:37Uh, and it has so much more to do with you than it does with me. Um, because without you
16:41guys, I guess I would exist on this planet,
16:43but as a, as a songwriter, the music would not have the breadth and the reach that it has without
16:48you guys and how you've integrated into your lives.
16:50So we, we have, we have to say thank you to all of you and, uh, we're here because of
16:55you. So thank you.
17:00Thank you for that answer. Really. That was, that was awesome. Uh, I'll get you happier on this and you're
17:05going to play some songs for the K-Rock listeners.
17:07Really appreciate that. A little quick rapid fire. If we could do this. Okay. Ben, I'll start with you. Desert
17:13Island album.
17:15Uh, Desert Island album. Uh, Disintegration by The Cure.
17:19That was correct. Nick, Desert Island artist catalog.
17:25R.E.M. Great answer. Uh, Ben, most underrated Death Cab for Cuties song?
17:32Song? Uh...
17:41It's okay. Take your time.
17:45Love that. Um, you know, uh, I've, I've always liked Debate Exposes Doubt from the, our third record photo album.
17:52That's the last song on that record. I've always liked that one.
17:55And then Nick, final one. Most fun Death Cab song to play live?
18:01I will possess your heart.
18:04I mean...
18:05A lot of quality bass on that record.
18:08That's my moment to shine, Miles.
18:09Four and a half minutes.
18:10It's...
18:11It's not on the set list, but if you want to throw it on there, it'd be totally fine.
18:15Um, I Built You A Tower, an incredible new album. The 11th by Death Cab for Cutie.
18:20Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for being at K-Rock.
18:23Thank you. Thanks.
18:26Welcome, everybody, to the In-N-Out Burger sound space at K-Rock.
18:29Make some noise. Make some noise. Come on down.
18:33The 11th album is I Built You A Tower. It's out now. It's amazing.
18:37They're gonna play some songs. Make some noise for Death Cab for Cutie.
19:18These days I say goodbye without opening my mouth
19:25I just stare into the distance till you figure it out
19:33cos I feel as invested as a porn and a corpse
19:41We've seen too many people leaving to take it too hard
19:48I'm too tired to talk
19:51I'm too tired to end the war
19:55And I can't seem to hold it together anymore
20:03My old heart
20:06Your trunks are triggered and I'm holding a gun
20:11Like a pork frozen in your headlights
20:15I forgot to run
20:18I'm overcome
20:22By the voices multiplying in the crowd
20:27It's been swelling in between my ears
20:30And growing frighteningly loud
20:34I'm too tired to talk
20:37I'm too tired to end the war
20:41And I can't seem to hold it together anymore
20:49I'm too tired to start
20:53I can't bring you up to speed
20:57There's too many red signs in this ocean to proceed
21:06Though I'm feeling tired
21:10I feel half the time
21:14There's a feeling full
21:16When my heart's inside
21:35I'm too tired to talk
21:39I'm too tired to end the war
21:43And I can't seem to hold it together anymore
21:51I'm too tired to start
21:54I can't bring you up to speed
21:58There's too many red signs in this ocean to proceed
22:06There's too many red signs in this ocean to proceed
22:18There's too many red signs in this ocean to proceed
22:20And the discord
22:20The dark signs in this ocean of my eyes
23:20So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, the cranking of crystal.
23:43Exposions have been resisted.
23:47Been resisted.
24:05So this is the new year, and I have no resolution.
24:20It's self-assigned penance.
24:27For problems with easy sunshine.
24:38So everybody put your best suit or dress on.
24:42Let's make believe that we are wealthy for the justice ones.
24:46Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn.
24:50As dirty dialogues bleed into one.
24:53I wish the world was flat like the old days.
24:58I could travel just by folding the man.
25:01No more airplanes or speed trains or freeways.
25:04To be no distance I could hold a spare.
25:12To be no distance I could hold a spare.
25:19To be no distance I could hold a spare.
25:23To be no distance I could hold a spare.
25:53To be no distance I could hold a spare.
25:57To be no distance I could hold a spare.
26:20To be no distance I could hold a spare.
26:33In his circle
26:38For the ends of the circle
26:40He kept riding back at the start
26:44Having fell every hurdle
26:47She tried to make him feel better
26:51Didn't want to feel better
26:53It seems living for wandering
26:57It's hard like a dead weather
27:01But all we see in me
27:02Is punching the flowers
27:04Ruminating like a fatalist for hours
27:07With a voice like the sound of Slamindors
27:10In a voice like the sound of Slamindors
27:26And it seems
27:30He had no new on his soul
27:32From standing at the coastline
27:36Wishing he would swallow him all
27:38She tried to console him
27:43He wanted to go it alone
27:45Because he'd never been wrong
27:49Without the myth of control
27:52But all we see in me
27:54Was punching the flowers
27:56Ruminating like a fatalist for hours
27:59With a voice like the sound of Slamindors
28:02In a voice like the sound of Slamindors
28:05But all we see in me
28:07Was punching the flowers
28:09Taking for clad and the sweetness to the sour
28:12When he spoke there was the sound of Slamindors
28:16All she heard was the sound of Slamindors
28:32Words were sharpened like axes
28:35Swung them blindly around us
28:38No regard for the dangers
28:42Slashed her to the ground
28:44And I'm not sure which is worse
28:47If God laughs or he doesn't
28:50And I'm not sure which is worse
28:54If it was love or it wasn't
29:00If it was love or it wasn't
29:03But all we see in me
29:12Was punching the flowers
29:14Taking for clad and the sweetness to the sour
29:16When he spoke there was the sound of Slamindors
29:20All she heard was the sound of Slamindors
29:23All she heard was the sound of Slamindors
29:25All she heard was the sound of Slamindors
29:33All she heard was the sound of Slamindors
29:36All she heard was the sound of Slamindors
29:40Thank you!
29:47Alright!
30:03And every movie I watch from the 50's
30:06There's only one thought that swirls around my head now
30:15And that's it everyone there on the screen
30:18Yeah everyone there on the screen
30:21Oh they're all dead now
30:24They're all dead now
30:26They're all dead now
30:27And it ain't easier than above
30:30And I can't help but keep falling in love
30:33With bones and ashes
30:36With bones and ashes
30:39And when the colour is too bold and bright
30:42I'm daydreaming in black and white
30:45Until it passes
30:48Until it passes
30:52And I wanna know the measure
30:55From here to forever
31:01And I wanna feel the pressure
31:04Of God or whatever
31:07I know these days it's so hard to relax
31:16You gotta hold the guns in my back
31:18To make me smile
31:21To make me smile
31:23To make me smile
31:25And the only way I see the cold
31:28Is by trying to hold on to hope
31:31Just for a while
31:33Just for a while
31:35Just for a while
31:38And I wanna know the measure
31:41From here to forever
31:46And I wanna feel the pressure
31:50Of God or whatever
31:55Cause now it seems more than ever
31:59There's no hands on the leather
32:02And I wanna feel the pressure
32:08Of God or whatever
32:11Of God or whatever
32:15All the rollers
32:17Keep rolling
32:19While the searchers
32:23Keep scrolling
32:50And I wanna know the measure
32:54From here
32:59Of God or whatever
33:00And I wanna feel the pressure
33:03Of God or whatever
33:08And I wanna feel the pressure
33:21Of God or whatever
33:30Or whatever
33:31Or whatever
33:32Or whatever
33:35Thank you very much!
33:42This one's called Stone Over Water.
33:51This one's called Stone Over Water.
33:53This one's called Stone Over Water.
33:58This one's called Stone Over Water.
34:11In my mind there's a fog
34:14San Francisco couldn't handle
34:17So how this year has been a slog
34:20melting both ends up the candle
34:24And how I wish I could claim
34:28That I don't harbor ill feelings
34:30As my anger's turning to shame
34:33I stare a hole through the ceiling
34:38I'm trying to hold it together
34:42I'm trying to sleep for the night
34:45I've got my windows open to the weather
34:49And I keep telling my friends I'm alright
34:55Yeah, I'm trying to hold it together
35:00I'm trying to take the first step
35:04Into the arms of wherever, whenever
35:15Every day I awake like a stone over water
35:21Skipping across a lake before I sink to the bottom
35:29How I wish I could say that I'm immune to the mirror
35:34With temples fading to gray
35:38Seeing the end drawing near
35:43And I could scream and shout
35:47Learn to live without
35:50But I'm trying to hold it together
35:56I'm trying to sleep through the night
35:58I've got my windows open to the weather
36:03And I keep telling my friends I'm alright
36:08Yeah, I'm trying to hold it together
36:13Trying to take the first step
36:17Into the arms of wherever, whenever
36:51You're my one person
36:52I'm trying to hold it together
36:52If you're between theникers
37:07Thank you so much.
37:19This is a new one.
37:20It's called Trap Door.
37:51It's called Trap Door.
37:52I pledge myself to your misery.
37:58I kneel at its throne.
38:04Respecting your proclivity.
38:09To languish on your own.
38:14Like a snowflake star in an avalanche.
38:20It always depends on where you land.
38:30There's a trap door in your heart that I'm free-falling through.
38:37And I can only get so close, so close to you.
38:53I give myself to your memory.
39:03And if only the winners write history.
39:08There will be nothing on our page.
39:14You're a boulder tumbling down a hill.
39:19And my fate is all it seems.
39:30There's a trap door in your heart and a button on your desk.
39:36Well worn from being pressed.
39:43And there's a trap door in your heart.
39:47I'm falling through.
40:15And there's a trap door in your heart.
40:18And there's a trap door in your heart.
40:18Where everyone disappears
40:22When they reach to Pauline Hill
40:29There's a trap door in your heart
40:32I wish I knew
40:39And now we're falling through
41:07Thank you very much.
41:11One of the reasons that we're still here all these years later
41:14is because of support from K-Rock.
41:18We're eternally grateful for all the support
41:20they've been giving us for over 20 years.
41:21So we're going to play this last song.
41:23Thank you very much for coming.
41:24This one goes out to K-Rock.
41:46I want to live where soul needs body
41:52And let the sun wrap its arms around me
41:59And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
42:07And feel, feel what it's like to be there
42:15Cause in my head there's a crayon station
42:21I send my thoughts to far-off destinations
42:29So they may have the chance
42:32Of finding a place where there are more students
42:40Pa-da-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
42:51-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
42:53-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
42:54-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
42:56-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
42:59-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
43:10I cannot guess what we'll discover
43:18When we turn the dirt with our palms cut like shovels
43:26But I know our filthy hands can wash one another's
43:33Now, one speck will run, and I do believe it's true
43:40That there are roads left in both of our shoes
43:44But if the silence takes you, then I hope it takes me too
43:52So, blood eyes, I'll hold you here
43:55Cause you're the only song I want to hear
43:58A melody sought me soaring through my atmosphere
44:06Where a soul meets body
44:13Where a soul meets body
44:17Where a soul meets body
44:25And I do believe it's true
44:28That there are roads left in both of our shoes
44:32But if the silence takes you, then I hope it takes me too
44:40So, blood eyes, I'll hold you here
44:43Cause you're the only song I want to hear
44:47A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
44:54A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
45:02A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
45:09A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
45:19Thank you very much.
45:21We'll see you in August.
45:22One more time for Death Cat for Cutie.
45:41Come on!
45:42That band's amazing.
45:44Thank you, Anti.
45:45Thank you, Edie.
45:46Thank you, Brett.
45:47Thank you, Jordan Curlin.
45:48Thank you to everyone who helped make this show happen.
45:51This is the In-N-Out Burger Soundspace at K-Rock.
45:53And get home safe.
46:06I pledge myself to your misery
46:11I kneel at its throne
46:14and thank you, быть,
46:15Cheers.
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