Death Cab For Cutie - You Can Do Better Than Me

[SONICobra]

ben can do better than zoe, but she cant do better than him

[Agbonlahor4England]

@SONICobra No guy can do better than Zooey.

[jillybean190]

sounds like christmas

[silverbat08]

so fucking sad that they broke up i guess ben was right

[WithLoveFromKay]

@silverbat08

WHAT?

[silverbat08]

@WithLoveFromKay Zoey and Ben's marriage. This song is about her.

[WithLoveFromKay]

@silverbat08

how can it be about her when they broke up

[silverbat08]

@WithLoveFromKay haha he wrote it for her while they were dating

[BasementSharkAttack]

Lol



[LiLAc344]

this song reminds me of all you need is love by the beatles lol

[Nukleurfire]

Everyone, please stop telling me how the album works. I figured out that Grapevine Fires is after this on the album when ILikeWafflz replied to me 8 MONTHS AGO. I get messages all the time telling me how it works, and I appreciated the help, but there's no need now.

[F3ARMUFFS]

@Nukleurfire Are you sure? You see, the end of this song transitions right into Grapevine Fires at the end. Sometimes albums work that way, with one song into another.

[MusicLuvah23]

@Nukleurfire you can delete your comment

[TeWillSee]

Their concert at Red Rocks last Tuesday was AMAZING!

I love Death Cab! =-)

[tellinha2004]

i swear half of the views are mine

[LordLegless]

Oh hey there every relationship I've ever been in.

[cardiacs74]

I have to face the truth, that no one could ever look at me the way you do....Says it all

[sunnyblack15]

My Poison is waiting Cobra ...

[billrau57]

This is the most positive set of comments I've ever seen on this site. Thank you so much, you beautiful people that still believe in respect in such an impersonal age.

[greendaylove1111]

i absolutly love this song...<3 ... "i have to face the truth, that no one could ever look at me like u do..like im something worth..holding on to" when i listened to this song today it brought tears to my eyes, especialy that line..beautiful love song <3

[jthundercat23]

if i were death cab, or lupe fiasco i would cash in on twilight too!!! calling them sell outs or anything is stupid they are just making money and making music like always. if twilight execs came to me and told me to make a song for a boatload of cash for the movies i would be like hell yah! and i would make the most mediocre crap i could. like the equinox song.

[lizziedoll456]

2 people couldn't do better than him.

[rosiennan]

Oh my fucking god, Death Cab never fucking dwells on or draws inspiration from Twilight motherfucking ever and I'm sure they'd skull fuck whoever says so.

[MysticTomatoMusic]

@rosiennan FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kylemiles11]

It is just amazing! Death cab is my favorite band! I just look at Plans and Then Narrow Stairs and I just think Plans is better! I love this song! Thumbs up if you like Death Cab For Cutie!

[INF3darkgreen]

hey ILikeWafflz, thanks for putting all these great death cab songs up, btw!

[Paintspoter]

<3

[CoN0R115]

No.

[thatxgirlxinxthere]

i feel like death cab sings my life

[kataang222]

aww it feels like my bf is singing this to me. i know this is wht he feels in his heart cause he tellls me i can do better then him. i love this song

[luquitas890]

@kataang222 is beach boys!!!!

[Pengu975]

@fuckweed

Or how girls feel about guys. My ex just sent me this link

[punkmolly]

AMAZING!!!!!

[Getcrunkyo94]

incredibly underrated.

[fuckweed]

Dear girls:

This is the ultimate description of how guys think and feel

[lumsandleafs]

first of all, this song wasn't in twilight, second of all, we should be proud that a movie that famous features great indie bands with great music to share with the world

[MsDjoex]

@lumsandleafs Yeah but not a sucky movie -.-' I wouldn't mind if this was on 127 hours or Up but not Twilight !:(

[supafreshkik]

brian wilsons ghost.. creepy shit man

[Mutantcy1992]

does the music remind anyone else of the beach boys?

[EstherSeesStars]

0 dislikes YAY!!!

[LoriInTheHat]

Everytime I listen to this song I think of, Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind. :D

[kazoostheglue]

this song was never in twilight. you shouldn't like a song just because it is in a movie, you should like it on whether you think its cool or not.

i dont think that "meet me on the equinox" was particularly good, but i dont like it solely because it was in twilight. "meet me on the equinox" sounded like it didn't come from the bands perspective but was just written for the purpose of putting it in the movie new moon.

[claracrazy2008]

Thumbs up if you knew and loved this song before it was in twilight!

[deepblueseax]

@claracrazy2008 this song wasn't in Twilight...idiot. 

[Nukleurfire]

how come the end sounds liek the beginning of grapevine fires?

[ILikeWafflz]

@Nukleurfire Because it is.

[95blackmirror]

@Nukleurfire the tracks blend into eachother

[Ggirl18824]

@Nukleurfire I dunno, maybe it's because Grapevine Fires is the song after this on the Cd...

[webcreeper2002]

@Nukleurfire

yeah cos they recorded this entire album at once, i think. and so the end of one song usually shows traces of the beginning of another. like on 'transatlanticsm' where the end of Tiny Vessels transitioned to Transatlanticism. I think its a beautiful flow when you listen to the album track by rtack without stopping.

[LaomiLarkin]

@webcreeper2002 also I think it's the end of Lightness that leads into Title & Registration(correct me if I'm wrong),with a little sound I picked up when I was listening one night.

[webcreeper2002]

@LaomiLarkin

well i couldnt hear anything from any song in the beginning of title and registration, but its possible, as in the track listing, thats the order it goes in [tracks 2 and 3]

[TBlazer15]

@Nukleurfire If you have the album, then you'll realize that Grapevine Fires plays after this one

[hunnixox13]

@Nukleurfire it was an actually album, where each song continued into the next. so every songs beginning, is anothers end.

[dylancleveland]

@Nukleurfire That's how albums work sometimes. They transition between the tracks.

Welcome to the world of digital music.

[Genericwin]

God, I wish this wasn't true...

[HelpfullScape]

@Genericwin awwwwww =( -hugs-

[XOpatdloverXO]

people who are flipping out because this song was in twlight need to blow themselves. who gives a flying fuck ? its a good song. period.

[Berkeleyization]

"We're starting to feel We stayed 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 It's like my heart can't take I fall in love every day And I feel like a fool 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..."

[ryutaroukun]

uh, narrow stairs came out on May 13, 2008, the first twilight movie came out on November 21, 2008 .. I don't understand what this song has to do with twilight, at all. They did "Meet Me On The Equinox" for twilight, so people should get that straight. And unfortunately a lot of VERY awesome recording artists (ie. muse, the killers, OK go, thom yorke) unforunately did music for twilight. Does that mean I'm going to stop listening to them? Hell no. I'll just ignore the twilight shit.

[Storiesbyhayley]

Great song :) too bad that its only two minutes though :(

[DanSshinji]

St. Vincent, Radiohead, Muse, DCFC, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, are just some of the great artistss that made a shitty movie like twilight had one of the best OST ever.

[xxcybergirlxx]

So the director wanted to use DCFC to make Twilight a little less sucky. So what? :)

[dboxvidz]

i came to listen to a death cab song not hear people bitching about twilight. put a sock in it already will yah.

[dboxvidz]

i came to listen to a deth cab song not her people bitch about twilight put a sock in it will ya.

thanks

[shattereddream17]

Can't we all just appreciate DCFC for their lyrics and music rather than what they decide to associate themselves with? That'd be great.

[cheatchick555]

Ugg the twilight haters are almost as bad as the fans now. Srsly

This song rocks, DCFC rocks. Their music could be played in every shitty movie ever made and I would still like their music.

[TheRachTube]

People seriously....I don't wanna sound rude...but shut up. Shut up about how they wrote a song for twilight! Who cares!?!?!!! As long as they stay who they are dont worry about it. Good music is good music.

[howtoESCAPE]

0 dislikes :)

[uchaxor]

yfjsrdtfgyruhgyftdrytf

[BSV92Spieler]

like a Christmassong :) Love it!

[johnpiland]

A producer hired DCFC to write a song and they got paid for it, chill out I bet they hate twilight too

[jametraful]

I run to this.

[bananabelle123]

The Heck ? Twilight ? ahaha. i Just Found This Song & Fell In Love <3 (:

[eriliddy]

I have to face the truth That no one could ever look at me Like you do Like I'm something worth Holding 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

[ALICEtheMONSTER]

yuss<3

[youngwordsmith]

that same fear of dying alone seems to motivate almost every adult relationship I've ever seen. But I'm not worried because my heart can contain the love I fall into every day.

[ItBeBaKi]

First, I would like to point out that I fell upon DCFC randomly (and awesomely :D). And for the most part, I have to agree on Twilight sucking and all, but DCFC is getting more fans and more money from Twilight fans getting their albums and such, right? Yeah for promotion and money for one of my favorite bands, they deserve it :D

[JO3615]

why dont we just appreciate music and not care about twilight in general?

[mistabon3z]

Death Cab Makes Great Music!

Just because they're doing what they do best and expressing their creative genius and the people of Twilight just happen to like it. FOR THE SAME REASONS YOU LIKE DCFC!!!

They're just making music. I refuse to believe that Ben even had anything in his mind related to Twilight while making this song

[ILikeWafflz]

@mistabon3z This song doesn't have any and never has had anything related to twilight. Meet Me On The Equinox is the song he wrote that's related to twilight.

[mistabon3z]

@ILikeWafflz

Oh. Well I'm listening to it and it just sounds like a death cab song and not a sellout song.

I stand by what i said in regard to the fact that they're just making their music as they've always been able to do beautifully.

[Easycoreissexy]

@ILikeWafflz haha, i love how people hear one song by these guys and associate them with bad movies

[LovingYouEndlessly]

@mistabon3z -_- why is everyone arguing over like every song on youtube thats in a movie whether or not they knew the song before the movie or if the song was made for some movie and people dont like it.. does it matter either way? the song came out good .. you like their music.. thats great but everyone has to discover their music somewhere be happy for the band, their getting their name out there :) its good no matter what.

[Ealyp]

I love their music but the Twihards and their selling out to Twilight really brought them down in my eyes :C But...I'll still listen to their music and hope they'll make up for it later. ;)

[ThatTurtleGirl]

Seriously, guys? If you want to talk about Twilight, fine. Go find some Twilight-dedicated DCFC video for you to chat on, but please, so the sake of the fans that don't buy into that franchise (and don't want to ever HEAR ABOUT IT) please, PLEASE don't go ranting about how dreamy Taylor Lautner is.

[erfegg]

@LoneLawMan i'm kinda pissed that these minor bands are getting into mainstream. i just think it's gunna ruin them. when i hear mainstream i just think of bands that are in music just for money. when i hear minor bands i just feel like they make music cause they truely enjoy it. i love how meaningful the lyrics are. they're not just about love. they're more than that. i hate for DCFC to be associated with twilight.

[SamanthaUnicorn]

I think I've been listening to a different version of this song..

[lalalauermeier27]

screw twilight.

adore death cab.

<3

[toyboat72]

lol i bet they got more money 4 it tho..

[ILikeWafflz]

@Welcome2MotionCity They did D:

A band as good as death cab wrote a song for a move as bad as twilight.

[AlliisKitty]

@ILikeWafflz they didn't make it FOR twilight. They made the song and twilight was like GIMME YOUR SONG. They only say yes because they get money and more fame. i still love them

[waltzinmatilda63]

@ILikeWafflz Whoa whoa whoa, They did NOT write it for twilight. This song came out ages before it was used for any twilight bullshit, Twilight used the song in the soundtrack cuz DCFC got moneyz and more exposure.

[bobert995]

@ILikeWafflz so sad

[lachdaddyexpress]

@ILikeWafflz um no a band as good as death cab wrote a song which the people from twilight just happened to want on their soundtrack

they didn't write it for twilight

[ollie1504]

@lachdaddyexpress umm yes they did bands are often commissioned to write/release a song specifically for a soundtrack. Incubus did it for stealth (sadly) and DCFC did it for twilight get over it. I don't like twilight and I've been listening to DCFC since high school (the 90s when most of you were in diapers) but I DONT CARE its not going to stop me from listening to their music. Equinox is even a pretty good song, but we have the facts is still their best CD IMO.

[bebrasha]

@ILikeWafflz i like that you're aware of how bad a movie franchise twilight is.

[ILikeWafflz]

@bebrasha My sister tried to get me to read a twilight book (having never heard of it before). I saw the picture of two pale hands holding an apple, and I immediately had a feeling that I would not like it "No you'd like it!"

I'm glad I said no.

[AmyLaWantsYourOrange]

@ILikeWafflz It's only because Twilight takes place in Washington and that's where DCFC is from.

[facelessaphrodisiac]

@beatleslove7

I understand precisely how you feel, I don't even understand how in the hell I have my boyfriend or what he sees in me.

[beatleslove7]

i feel this way all the time but my boyfriend hates it when i say it...i can't help it i think its true!

[NinjaCOOKIES34]

@beatleslove7 ME TOO!! im glad im not the onlt one like that (x

[CapumOfOuttaSpace]

lol Death Cab has done singles for all kinds of shit for years.. video games, movies, tv shows, splits.. gimme a break them doing a song for Twilight is nothing out of the ordinary now just shut the hell up and enjoy the music

[cobaltmusic73]

This is good music. I don't care if you hate Twilight, it's not worth getting angry with an absolutely amazing musician. (:

[zeezeeboom]

right on i would say i lost respect for them after twilight but there just so good

CURSE YOU GAY SPARKELY VAMPIRES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[YoungAndChangingMind]

Oh give Death Cab a break. Isn't it a good thing that they're getting recognized for how amazing they are?

Just enjoy the music, it's really beautiful and it always gets to me like no other band can.

[TheAnimeGuy1111]

@YoungAndChangingMind but they aren't getting recognized for being amazing. They are being recognized for the theme song for Faglight... I mean New Moon.

[subtledraws]

the only song i like from narrow stairs. something about airplanes FTW

[BR33XTC]

love the lyrics. but im sorry, the drums and other instruments are a bit too much,. if it had the subtlety of i will follow you into the dark then fuck, thatd be one amazing song

[jwildkill]

Okay am i the only one who is really annoyed by youtube's new system of not being able to just push the back button and go back to the results list but instead be returned to my last video and retype my search??

[N1NJ4P1R4T3]

The problem with going mainstream is that the band is expected to cater to the mainstream, watering down what originated as soulfelt music that they weren't trying to sell. Listen to nickelback, and really listen to it. Then say mainstreaming is good. kthxbai.

[nobodymm]

I love these wanna have thier cake and eat it too people. ve been a fan for years too, Ive wanted them and the p.s. to get more play among my friends. Suddenly everyone is bitching that they are popular. What do you want? Sometimes even good music gets recognized for simply being so damn good. It just took a minute for Ben and friends.

P.S. Death car with Cuties. lol that was good.

[timdem123]

I love how this is "spam" Im guessing its because of his account name. Haha.

[sairyxxfairy]

This song has some absolutely fantastic lyrics. Amazing! Sucks being in Ireland tho, I've been a fan for years but they're never here! :(

[jerryandauntie]

They toured a couple places across England in late 2008. I saw them in London :-)

[heyheyoli1]

I love this song. Who cares about Twilight. Right now I like this song, I could care less about them being on the New Moon soundtrack.

[zenrarity]

@heyheyoli1 Yeah, I feel you on that. It was a little disappointing, but that's money they can use to produce even greater albums. Whatever helps, right?

[wildfiresky]

agreed. people who like to bitch about death cab making a song to a movie they don't particularly like aren't good fans. real fans wouldn't care what cd they were on. good music is good music! who the hell cares what soundtrack it's on?

live and let live, baby!

[mandapannts]

I'm sorry, but as a diehard dcfc fan for over 10 years, I'm quite depressed about the whole twilight thing.

but you know, it's not like ben gibbard was like, asking to have his music in the twilight soundtrack.

I'll never stop listening to death cab as they are one of my favourite bands of all time, but it still bugs the shit out of me. haha

[ClicheBallet1792]

i definatley can do better than him.

so why am i with him?

sheesh :P

exellent song <3

[TheScienceguy77]

I think I've lost hope in Death Cab for this Twilight shit, I mean really? I've been a fan for years and now I get to see Team Edward shit next too DCFC logos? I mean COME ON Ben Gibbard, man I love your work but for the love of god WHY TWILIGHT? I'd rather it be Harry Potter, but dude one word TWILIGHT, fuck all of you tweens who claim to be a DCFC fan because of Twilight, I love DCFC but I'm not buying in to this sell out tween demographic shit

[unix055]

its all good, we only need to wait a month or two for all the tweens to move onto something else.. :)

[raggamuffins13]

I fell your pain man. yesterday, my friend labelled herself as a hardcore fan of 'Ben gibbon', and 'death car with cuties'. I asked her how she had found ot about them guess what she said.... then she called me a 'non-believer'.....

[chick3ntr33s]

death car with cuties?

that makes me want to cry

[katyagorm]

yeah, i say ben gibbard and noone knows what i'm talking about. i have to say "that meet me on the equinox band" i hate it, been a fan since early 2003. D:

[SingIt2kay9]

@TheScienceguy77

You Probably just made my life with that comment . :L

[nobodymm]

Really. Again, why is it bad that a band wants to reach the broad audience? isnt that the goal. So what if its superficial at first... There were plenty of people that heard DCFC way before any of you, I doubt any of them called you all a bunch of music snob posers that you are acting like. Let em get big any way they can

[nobodymm]

Thumbs down bro. let em get airplay anyway they can. Wouldnt you rather have Ben inflencing the tweenies rather than britney or christina aguilera? Your kind of a music snob if you expect everyone to be up on the cool bands, and if they were you probably wouldn't like em anymore. You would complain if they hung you with a new rope eh? Thumbs down on your comment I say. PS if half of us didn't pirate their music maybe they wouldn't need to take the twilight handout.

[BlueSummerXZXT]

@TheScienceguy77

I'm definitely not a Twilight fan, but I think the hating is going overboard. Yes the Twilight fans and the Team Edward vs Team Jacob thing are annoying as hell, yes the books and movies are overrated, but it's got nothing to do with DCFC. Good music is good music, it makes no difference if they recorded it for Twilight or any other movie.

[DRewap562]

@TheScienceguy77 I Agree...FUCK TWILIGHT AND THAT EQUINOX SONG...Still Yet DCFC Is The Shit

[ceramic137]

@TheScienceguy77 im cryin with you mate..

[bamwow09]

@TheScienceguy77 so they're a sell out bc they did a song for Twilight? They're still good, its not like they dumbed down their content for Twilight...i dislike ppl like u that think this way smh

[TheScienceguy77]

@bamwow09 Cool story, bro

[bamwow09]

@TheScienceguy77 yes yes

[coolhorseman123]

@TheScienceguy77 I second that! Twilight sucks balls and everyone says there a death cab for cutie fan but they only like one song and that "meet me on the equinox" witch isnt even a good song! it makes me mad!

[Rawrness256]

@TheScienceguy77 lol im a dcfc fan but not cause of twilight lol its cause of i will follow you into the dark. and the twilight book is an excuse for goth fat girls to try and attract "attention" :P

[xxfobluvaxx]

@TheScienceguy77 For that comment, can I marry you?

[TheScienceguy77]

@xxfobluvaxx Yes u_u

[xxfobluvaxx]

@TheScienceguy77 YAAAAY lol Yeah, Death Cab For Cutie is amazing. I kind of came late in finding them, since I only caught them once they released Plans. But at least I didn't find them through Twilight, which I don't even pay attention to.

[votecoldplay]

@TheScienceguy77 Don't blame it on DCFC, they just took pity on twilight and tried their hardest to make it a good movie, but it could only be better if chuck norris round house kicked all the pathetic vampires in the face.

[lalalauermeier]

@TheScienceguy77 shut up and listen to the holy mother of all music above. :D

[DuffleMuffins]

@TheScienceguy77 Why does it matter? Twilight sucks, but the music is still awesome, and people are al entitled to their opinions. If someone wants to like shitty literature, they can.

[fkthlf]

@TheScienceguy77 SAME man... fucking same i hate ben now

[Ggirl18824]

@fkthlf What?

You "fucking hate Ben" for one song on a stupid soundtrack? Listen, Ben is a genius and honestly, who cares about one song on the Twilight soundtrack? It's probably the best song there hands down, but the retard teens who like twilight probably just skip over it and go to Paramore, or some crap like that. All that matters is that his true fans are going to be there with him no matter what. So in other words, Deathcab will always and forever be Deathcab, nothing more, nothing less.

[fkthlf]

@Ggirl18824 Indie bands should no be commercial, now death cab are... because of that twilight shit

[HollerEmilyrose]

@fkthlf You're ridiculous. Sellout or not, which in my opinion he isn't, the music is fucking GOOD. Get over yourself, he has a life to live and he isn't dedicating it to you. Just chill out, listen to the music and calm down. You know you'd do the same if you were in his position, he was already signed to a major label anyway. Think realistically for a minute and get out of your small world of indie music. Everyone wants to be big. Everyone wants everyone to like their shit.

[fkthlf]

@HollerEmilyrose You're a sellout like him then

[HollerEmilyrose]

@fkthlf Describe to me, please, what you think a sellout is. Get over yourself. Grow up.

[anyastar]

@fkthlf Awww, upset because lots of people know about your pwecious"indie" band now (despite the fact that, well...they actually ceased to be indie when they signed with Atlantic SEVEN YEARS AGO) and so they no longer make you feel "special" and "different?" That's really what "sellout" means to people like you. It's not about the music; it's not about the money. It's about how good it makes you feel to like a band that no one's heard of. It's childish, pathetic, and naive.

[fkthlf]

@anyastar If you really like music you play with your heart, you don't give a shit about money.. all you wanna do is play what you feel... at least thats what i think about music.. Just shut up you probably don't even play an instrument...

[anyastar]

@fkthlf Any band who releases albums for sale or goes on tour and charges for tickets cares, to at least some extent, about making money. That doesn't mean that they don't love music, or that they aren't putting their hearts into what they play; it just means that they're making a career out of what they love, which is something few of us are blessed enough to be able to do. Beyond that, the level of commitment it takes to be in a professional band precludes one's ability...

[anyastar]

@fkthlf ...to cultivate any other sort of career. A service job, sure -- but not a job off which one can live well. Bands that don't make money off their music don't get to pay the bills. The point is that you're asking bands to live up to the ideal of the poor, starving artist (which is romantic in abstract, but terrible in reality) because you've decided that there's something wrong with success, that passion and success are fundamentally at odds. And that's the insidious lie that...

[anyastar]

@fkthlf ...traps most of us and tricks us into being miserable for most of our lives.

[melissmeliss328]

It's like my heart can't be tamed, I fall in love everyday and I feel like a fool.

[bepetersn]

The lyrics in this song are so excellent.

[MrTysauce]

But.. The song really wouldn't get you brownie points at all.. 0_o Break-up points maybe

[elementality360]

i love this song!

i just sent this to my girly...

hello brownie points! hahaha

[sakurabaka]

I have to face the truth

That no one could ever look at me

Like you do

Like I'm something worth

Holding to

[Phoenixfan77]

It's "holding onto", listen to Gibbard's voice at that point in the song.

[nobodymm]

Thumbs up. Totally love that part bro.

Thumbs up.

[porcelainplastic]

<3 the lyrics .. everything.