Death Cab For Cutie - Company Calls Epilogue

Lyrics:

Synapse to synapse: the possibility's thin.
I'm dressed up for free drinks and family greetings
on your wedding, your wedding, your wedding date.
The figures in plastic on the wedding cake that I took were so real.

And I kept distance: the complications cloud
the postcards and blip through fiberoptics,
as the girls with pigtails were running from little boys wearing bowties
their parents bought them: "I'll catch you this time!"

Crashing through the parlor doors, what was your first reaction?
Screaming, drunk, disorderly: I'll tell you mine.
You were the one, but I can't spit it out when the date's been set.
The white routine to be ingested inaccurately.

Synapse to synapse: the sneaky kids had attached
beer cans to the bumper so they could drive
up and down the main drag.
People would turn to see who's making the racket.
It's not the first time.

When they lay down the fish will swim upstream
and I'll contest, but they won't listen
when the casualty rate's near 100%,
and there isn't a pension for second best or for hardly moving...

Crashing through the parlor doors, what was your first reaction?
Screaming, drunk, disorderly: I'll tell you mine.
You were the one, but I can't spit it out when the date's been set.
The white routine to be ingested inaccurately.

You were the one, but I can't spit it out when the date's been set.
The white routine to be ingested inaccurately.

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[dfjnjfn]

If only people could grasp the greatness of Ben Gibbard's lyrics, especially in this song. It's a heart wrenching piece. Can you imagine, the girl of your dreams getting married to someone else, and yet, still attending the wedding. Company Calls part 1, for me is still as painful to hear, cause it's like he's numbing the pain with alcohol, whereas with the Epilogue, he's now fully intoxicated and CLEARLY expressing his true feelings, Hard to explain, but I feel like I can fully identify.

[liam121199]

When they lay down the fish will swim upstream

- Amazing

[DESPERATEforSUNSHINE]

I'm seeing them in a few days and I just know that I will burst into tears when the song starts, it's so heartbreaking and one of my greatest fears ever.

[magneticnorth03]

@NekoHarlequinn for so many of us.

[magneticnorth03]

@dfjnjfn Brilliant analysis, you are absolutely correct. Until i read your post, i had always listened to this song as just something beautiful, even after years and years of listening to Death Cab, i had not broken through the sheer beauty of this song to even understand the lyrics, but what you said makes absolute sense. And its ironic that you say you can identify, because now that i know the true sentiment of this song, so can i.

[zxman341]

@dfjnjfn Started writing a book based on this story called "That One Summer". i'll message u when it's done.

[zxman341]

I'm gonna write a book about this. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be called "when God's company calls".

[Thejaycefish]

Wow. This song really reaches within the depths of your soul...so beautiful...

[NekoHarlequinn]

I think this song is simply heart breaking because it's real. You wait too long and suddenly they're gone. Suddenly you want to say something, but you can't. If you ask me it's not just another song, it's, sadly, a true story.