Death Cab For Cutie - Company Calls Epilogue Lyrics

The alternate version is WAY better. Just my opinion. And this song along with Line of Best Fit are no brainers

After all these years, such a delicate and crushing song. Stinging, potent and quietly devastating.

I wish I knew someone who liked this album as much as I do.

Gelin olmuş gidiyorsun....

The most poetic reference to semen in all of popular music.

Still playing in 2019.

This is my favorite death cab song without a doubt. I believe it is their most richly emotional song. Truly epic.

What was your first reaction? I’ll tell you mine, you are the one...

such a powerful song this is..love from India

There isn't a pension for *second* best or for haaaaard-ly movvinngg........

Love this

feel nostalgic ):

When Im fuckin drunk I playa this song

we all did that's why we listen to this music

saw these guys live in 2001 at a small club on a whim, it was magical.

If Ben Gibbard wrote this because he witnessed a woman he loved get married to someone else right before his eyes and he was in the actual wedding itself, then shit I can relate on that one. This one remained on repeat on my playlist for quite some time...

show this to the teenage girls that listen to Plans

Hey, Beth!

Man I haven't listened to this in years, so goooooooooooooooooooooood

Powerful song.

I love sol

anyone who knows more songs that sounds like this , i'd really appreciate it if u would recommend some

Listen to more Death Cab, also try American Football, Brand New and This Town Needs Guns.

Hisham RD anything by bright eyes

This is such a beautiful song, that takes you to a different place in someone else's shoes

And sometimes those shoes are already your own and that's a very painful place to be.

You don't know how sad that makes me feel. Why didn't you stop her?

@Vikas Kumar Because I knew she was the wrong person bro. I was still devastated though.

Is that what is also happening in the song? But then it shouldn't be so bad anymore?

Brings me back to the spring of 2004. I'd got into Death Cab a few months earlier (Trasatlanticism being my first) and summarily bought all their albums shortly after that. 'We Have the Facts...' turned out to be my favourite (and still is), and this song spoke to my state of mind at the time.

This song is a wistful black and white photo of what could've been.

You just described my own experience to a tee.

Makes me feel...really empty

My favourite album.

Mine too!

reminds me of sitting in my bedroom in the middle of January and, for the first time in years, feeling completely alone

+angryanglican How did You manage to get out of it? Or like me you don't remember either?

Taking up music has helped.

That's great, what else do you listen to? Other bands, other songs of this band?

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Man, when I was younger, I went through a terrible break-up one fall. I remember the days that were just getting darker and colder, and no "break up song" I knew was real enough to portray how I felt. But this was the closest thing, the way it expressed the hopelessness, vague humiliation, and the real pain of having someone just destroy your heart, and a lot of your sanity, too. I would pour my emotions into this song every day and cling to the lyrics. Honestly, I don't know if it helped me, or made it worse.

Oh man....I literally feel the same way about this song, having gone through a very rough break up last year, and still recovering(still want her back), your comment nails it. 

@Sarah Schulz I haven't been through any break-up ever. I still love this song, though. Ben's lyrics really invoke empathy with me. I'm not trying to say I completely understand what it feels like, but this song really makes you feel, whether you can personally relate to it or not.

I feel you, I think it makes it worse though. Can be weirdly comforting but listening to stuff like this constantly just prolongs misery in the long run IMO

Aaron Chapman my ex of 3 years dumped me a few months back, death cab is the only thing that helps me see that its all just a growing experience and time heals all.

*whispers* Johnlock

the story this song tells is literally my worst fear

My wife and I were lucky and blessed enough to see The Postal Service this past May at Red Rocks...also while on a mild dose of the good ol' LSD...it was truly magical. We perform fairly regularly here in Denver as we are an electronic production/dj duo (my wife and I = Intergalactic Fantasy Safari) and I am dying to remix this track while ensuring it all of the justice it deserves. If it comes out sounding like we hope it will we will re-post the link here...long live Ben Gibbard!!!

Just amazing.

still my favorite dcfc song, as well as my favorite dcfc album of all to go along with it.....

Completely agree; the music is superb but Ben had such a wonderful way with words.

hahahahaha i love how you call it a death cab "joint"....it's rare to hear traditionally "hip hop" language to describe indie rock.....

i have this album and i LOVE it. old school dcfc :)

according to ben, this is his favorite dcfc song

sniffing a bit too much i see

this song reminds me of my life

What an incredibly luscious and satisfying song.

Just have to say that I fully appreciate the full length song! Thanks for sharing!

I absolutely love this song... But it always reminds me of how lonely I am ;----; T^T

Naomi Kemp If you're still out there, and you're still lonely you can comment here, and I'll respond. Btw, yes I know it's been 6 years.

.....LOL, okay.

....yeah, you can't just say something like that without qualifying it completely. proof, please.

This is probably one of the saddest songs I've ever heard in my entire life.

Are those lyrics taken from the cd sleeve or somewhere official? I always thought that it was "penchant for second best" rather than "pension".

So is this from the point of view of the guy in the "Cath" video that "loved her more" than the groom?

This song makes my heart squeeze because it's so beautiful....

11/1/11: Zooey & Ben split - "what was your first reaction?"

sounds just like Elliott smith

it's like the song was wrote for me, i can fit perfectly with the lyrics. its my story.

Tugs every which way at my heart, this song.

Ben Gibbard is a f***in genius. Take away the beautiful, anthemic music of many of his best songs and you're still left with some of the best American poetry written in our generation.

I love this song

ah, back when ben gibbard knew how to write music. we miss you, ben! come back!

best song by Death Cab.

Brilliant. Love it. Thanks a lot for posting. :)

THANK YOU for posting the FULL version!! Cutting off that incredible ending is almost criminal LOL! Probaly tied with Champagne In a Paper Cup for my all time favorite Death Cab joint....