Holding on to nothing
Death Cab for Cutie's new album releases today. I've been listening to a copy I "found laying around somewhere on the internet" all evening/morning. It's dark and haunting and arguably the best thing they've ever produced. In keeping with lyrics and songs that are matching up to present situations and my own internal emotional turmoil that I have yet to discuss with anyone, one of the tracks does an excellent job of summing up my own feelings towards a particular someone.
I’m starting to feel
We stay together out of fear of dying alone.
I’ve been slipping through the years.
My old clothes don’t fit like they once did,
So they hang like ghosts of the people I’ve been
And it’s like my heart cant contain.
I fall in love every day.
And I feel like a fool,
But I have to face the truth that
No one could ever look at me like you do.
Like I’m something worth holding on to.
There’s times I think of leaving,
But it’s something I’ll never do.
Cause you can do better than me,
But I can’t do better than you.
You can do better than me,
But I can’t do better than you.
- Death Cab for Cutie, You Can Do Better Than Me (but I Can't Do Better Than You)
Also of note are Cath... and I Will Possess Your Heart. I highly recommend "finding" a copy or otherwise finding a copy to purchase.
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Beautiful Lyric, thanks for sharing!