Benjamin Gibbard - Life in Quarantine
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KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Gibbard - "Life in Quarantine," a 2020 single on Barsuk Records.
Since the start of the statewide stay-at-home mandates, Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard has been there for us, streaming live performances from his home studio almost daily. (He's since pared down to just performing on Thursday evenings, which is still an incredibly generous act to do week after week.) During one of his sessions in late March, he debuted a new track he had written titled “Life In Quarantine.”
"I know this is a really fucked up and scary time for everybody, including myself," he said, introducing the track. "And I know that we're all trying to figure out what we can do to make it better, or what we can do to alleviate the suffering of someone else."
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| 0:00.0 | The sidewalks are empty |
| 0:15.0 | and the bars and cafes too. |
| 0:21.0 | The street lights only changing because they ain't got nothing better to do. |
| 0:31.0 | You say it's like Christmas |
| 0:34.0 | when nobody's around |
| 0:40.0 | when our city was still a secret |
| 0:45.3 | Before those carpet bag was came to town |
| 0:50.0 | The airports and train stations are full of desperate people |
| 0:59.8 | Trying to convince the gate agents |
| 1:04.0 | that not all emergencies are equal |
| 1:09.0 | but no one is going anywhere soon. Inside the Safeway |
| 1:28.0 | Eastern blocks. It's like the Eastern Bloc. |
| 1:39.0 | People have a way of getting crazy |
| 1:44.0 | when they think they'll be dead in a month. |
| 1:48.0 | True like the silence |
| 1:53.0 | over the wind through the trees |
| 1:58.0 | not like walking beside you |
| 2:03.7 | through these days of no guarantees, National Guard is on their way |
| 2:08.8 | to protect us from our neighbors. |
| 2:18.0 | Everyone has tried to swim for it is drowned out past the breakers. |
| 2:31.6 | The air... past the breakers. The airports and train stations were full of desperate people. |
| 2:33.0 | No one is going anywhere soon. |
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