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For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...without a lyric that i'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance.

-Ben Gibbard

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For Me, A Song Doesn't Really Take

Ben Gibbard

For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...without a lyric that i'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance.

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We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in any way with electrical equipment. never.

Oh god, are there so many of them in our land! students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

I always think of each night as a song. or each moment as a song. but now i'm seeing we don't live in a single song. we move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. there is no ending here. it's an infinite playlist.

So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. i'm not happy. i don't know what's wrong. if i just had another job, i could be happy. if i just get married, i would be happy. well if i just wasn't married, i would be happy. well, if i just had some kids, i'll be happy. i'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. if i had a bigger house, i would be happy. well, i got a big house. now if i just had a maid to clean, i'd be happy. well, now if i just had a maid i could get along with better, i'd be happy.

When i was a child, ladies and gentlemen, i was a dreamer. i read comic books, and i was the hero of the comic book. i saw movies, and i was the hero in the movie. so every dream i ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... i learned very early in life that "without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." so i keep singing a song. goodnight. thank you.

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, i knew not where; for, so swiftly it flew, the sight could not follow it in its flight. i breathed a song into the air, it fell to earth, i knew not where; for who has sight so keen and strong, that it can follow the flight of song? long, long afterward, in an oak i found the arrow, still unbroke; and the song, from beginning to end, i found again in the heart of a friend.

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