Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
The title track of Death Cab for Cutie’s album Asphalt Meadows is a dizzying exploration of the crushing chaos of city life. It is one of two songs on the album (the other being the next track, “Rand McNally”) whose time signature varies from the verses to the choruses. All the verses are in the ver...
[Verse 1]
Your kiss was a lonely prayer
When you slipped it into my mouth
I closed my eyes and held it in
And then I exhaled it out
The glow of the downtown lights
Casting shadows across your face
As if all the buildings knew
I could only know half of you
And I was a snake under your flowers
I just wanted to disappear
Into the understory of your beauty
Never to reappear
But there's a name writ on your cast
Above the bruised and broken bones
It tells everybody that you meet
To whom the damage is owed
[Chorus]
Wе rode a wave of white noisе
Beneath the city sleeping
I saw the train doors closing
I felt your sorrow deepen
Here in the asphalt meadows
There's only one thing that grows
Finding the light through the concrete
Getting trampled under our feet
[Verse 2]
You said all your bridges and roads
They all lead to an airport
Planes drifting off into the sky
Always depart, but never seem to arrive
And there in the early hour
Lying naked in your unmade bed
I was thinking of how to tell you
What my ticket read
[Bridge]
Your kiss was a lonely prayer
A single candle, slowly burning down
But the light, your light was beautiful
Within its here and now
[Chorus]
We rode a wave of white noise
Beneath the city sleeping
I saw the train doors closing
I felt your sorrow deepen
Here in the asphalt meadows
There's only one thing that grows
Finding the light through the concrete
Getting trampled under our feet
We rode a wave of white noise
Beneath the city sleeping
I saw the train doors closing
I felt your sorrow deepen
Here in the asphalt meadows
There's only one thing that grows
Finding the light through the concrete
Getting trampled under our feet
Getting trampled under our feet
Getting trampled under our feet
Getting trampled under our feet
Asphalt Meadows was written by Benjamin Gibbard & Nick Harmer & Zac Rae.
Asphalt Meadows was produced by John Congleton.
Death Cab for Cutie released Asphalt Meadows on Fri Sep 16 2022.