As the story goes, “What Sarah Said” was in fact inspired by one Sarah, who is a friend of Ben Gibbard. However, it wasn’t such that either of them were actually stuck in a hospital...
What is quite evident is that “Such Great Heights” is a love song. The featured relationship is in part defined by the two participants, the vocalist and addressee, as it currently stands being residents...
“When the War Came” is generally based on an event which transpired during World War II that is known in the history books as the Siege of Leningrad. More specifically, in this case the narrator...
It is easy to presume that on “Pity and Fear”, the vocalist is speaking to a romantic relationship(s) that he is in. But the somewhat convoluted explanation of this piece as provided by Death Cab...
As the title of this song (“The Shankill Butchers”) implies, the lyrics primarily center around the horrendous atrocities of the Shankill Butchers. The Shankill Butchers was a group of violent murderers who terrorized Northern...