Ben Gibbard
Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio
NPR
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there Bob Boilin here. |
| 0:01.7 | This concert's part of our Tiny Desk Home Concert series. |
| 0:04.9 | We started back in mid-March of 2020 |
| 0:07.3 | when we couldn't record concerts at my desk at NPR |
| 0:10.1 | due to the pandemic. |
| 0:11.3 | You can watch this concert at npr.org or on the npr music |
| 0:15.5 | YouTube channel. Enjoy. |
| 0:18.6 | Hello this is Ben Gibbard. Welcome to Tiny Desk, Seattle style. The sidewalks are empty, the bars and cafes too. |
| 0:49.0 | Street lights only changing because they ain't got nothing better to do. You say it's like Christmas when nobody's around. When our city was still the secret before those carpet |
| 1:09.7 | baggers came to town the airport's and The airports and train stations are full of desperate people. |
| 1:20.0 | Trying to convince the gate agents |
| 1:25.0 | not all emergencies are equal |
| 1:30.0 | but no one is going anywhere soon. Inside the safe way it's like the Eastern Bloc. |
| 1:56.0 | People have a way of getting crazy |
| 2:00.0 | when they think they'll be dead in a month |
| 2:05.0 | And you like the silence |
| 2:10.0 | of the wind through the trees. |
| 2:15.0 | Not like walking beside you. |
| 2:19.0 | Through these days of no guarantees |
| 2:23.0 | National Guard is on their way |
| 2:27.0 | to protect us from our neighbors. |
| 2:33.0 | Anyone is trying to swim for it |
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