Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
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Bend to Squares is the first song on Something About Airplanes. In an interview with Paste magazine, Ben Gibbard mentioned the songs meaning (or lack thereof):
I’d like to think I’m a far better writer now than I was 10 years ago. When I first started the band, and I began writing in the way that h...
[Verse 1]
Gravitated towards a taste
For foreign films and modern plays
But that machine could only bend to squares five to six times
Before your fingers came unwired
[Chorus]
Weights down so that you could move forwards, forwards
So you could move forwards, forwards
[Verse 2]
Pinch to snub that restless nerve
And knock the wind from one last urge
With two fingers in a rock glass
Time passed and that was that
Quite a slip, a loosened grasp
[Chorus]
Weights down so that you could move forwards, forwards
So you could move forwards, forwards
[Bridge]
Ooh-ooh, what a way to cut lengthwise
Ooh-ooh, what a way to cut lengthwise
Ooh-ooh, what a way to cut lengthwise
Ooh-ooh, what a way to cut lengthwise
Bend to Squares was written by Benjamin Gibbard & Chris Walla.
Bend to Squares was produced by Chris Walla.
Death Cab for Cutie released Bend to Squares on Tue Aug 18 1998.