Death Cab For Cutie - Technicolor Girls Lyrics

this song gets me so good reminds me of something far off

Found this song what, five years ago? Still feels like I'm patiently waiting for something.

Great song

This song always gets me feeling some type of way

Elliot smith

+The Charles Baker Harrises What about Elliott Smith?

+Kryptronicx x  I don't even remember writing that and I would've spelt Elliott correctly with two t's, but I must have meant that the vocals are thin and whispery like his

+The Charles Baker Harrises Glad you noticed the missing "t" :)

This reminds me so much of the Beatles.

this song reminds me of john Lennon's beautiful boy

Before you read more of this, I'm sorry for any faults in my spellings as English is not my native language. Try imagine a story below when listening to this song.


(0:00 - 0:36)
A woman in her mid 20's sit on a chair in the house with her hand covered with blood. On the floor, there is a fresh female corpse with a knife stabbed on her heart. Then a flashback occurs.
(0:37 - 1:26)
In that flashback, that same woman was seen hiding behind a wall outside the college, peeking at a young man playing basketball with his friend. He wins but his friend gets mad and a fight occur. Then a teacher from out of nowhere came in and stop the fight, shifting to another flashback.
(1:27 - 2:15)
Some months later, there's a prom night being held at the woman's college. She was there when she saw the man with a girl going outside when that girl suddenly felt cold, prompting the man to take off his coat and covered the girl with the coat. Then that girl and the man smiled together and finally sharing a first kiss. When this happened, the woman that saw this got mad and have a feeling of revenge on that girl, shifting to another flashback.
(2:16 - 3:04)
Mad with killing that girl for being with the man, the woman went to the girl's home and killed her family. Then she waited for the girl to arrive while holding a knife. When the girl went in, the woman tries to kill the girl. Then a struggle occurred between them. Then at the last moment, the woman stabbed the girl in the heart. Then she sits on the chair, returning to the present.
(3:05 - 3.43)
The woman gets too emotional and laugh until she cries, then laugh while crying. Then, random flashbacks by flashbacks of her with the man, although it is just an imagination. Then, she finally snaps. She lifted her head up, with a grin on her face. The End.

All I have to say is wow. I never took the song quite like that, but that was interesting.

3 years ago it had 8 dislikes vvv. Today is only has 10... whats that say

heard of this from a chance the rapper song called "Doctor Oz" where they sample this. the original is dope too apparently

chance is the fucking guy son . but death cab is life

same honestly but I already like death cab so I don't see how I didn't recognize immediately

Me too.

Tks for the tip mate!!!

chance the rapper is a big death cab fan so makes since

Can't believe I hadn't heard this DC song before, great song.

This song reminds me of my mum. So I play it when I miss her and feel homesick. I can't believe I haven't seen her in four years. I heard this song for the first time in ages recently and remembered that sje used to listen to. I nearly broke down. I miss you mummy. 3

mine was Tiny Vessels ! :)

This is the first song I ever learned on the guitar.

I didn't like specifically because 420 likes is too perfect, DCFC -SOUL

Technicolor Girls, Photobooth, Song for Kelly Huckaby... Every song on this album is perfect.

even a instrumental version of this song would have the same meaning as the words

Death Cab For Cutie are my favourite band and every song has meaning behind it.. and this is amazing (': <3

Amazing. Truly. Simply. Beautiful. Gorgeous. It sounds purple and silver and infinity. I don't know how. But it captures every spectrum of emotion. Anytime I'm felling any strong emotion I turn this song on. It's kinda like pouring out syrup sweet and beautiful and makes you anticipate every emotional beat word or sound, it captures beauty in it's rawest state it's like being numb to everything but then thawing out your emotions it's so unique and gorgeous. Right now I'm just sitting in the dar

i wish this song was an hour long so i could stop abusing the replay button.

@WearingOff It's so heartbreakingly true. It's sort of a punch in the dreams.

i love the old song of DCFC, where are you guys?

@ImSoCoolItBurns P.S. And in my experience Skull.MP3 is WAYYY better

I tried that site dude. They don't have it

@Electircteen16 i use beemp3 just put in dot com after it. You type in the artist and then click on the link and type in the image thingy and then right click on the song name (in green) and click save target as and save it to the desktop, later on drag that file to itunes and right click the song and select get info and edit it. Enjoy, any questions just ask!

I've been using beemp3 for years now and nothin bad's happened!!

I like the Mates of State version a little better.

Will someone Please put this song on a free MP3 web site lol

im literally obssessed with DCFC, when i listen to it i feel like im going to melt, everything else go's away =D zomgg they are epic and poetic =D

@MaybeForAkiss I felt the same! I left the play on and came back after a few seconds and the colour changed! I also thought the album jacket was enlarging but I was wrong there.

Older Death Cab. <3

This song is pretty similar in music to "This Temporary Life" (which I could not find in youtube! I'll try uploading it).

@inugal321 Fantastic!! Im in!(:

@LifeHappens45 yes :D

^^^ 8 people dont know how to love.

@inugal321 What, is it like a cult now? lol.

@ShiiizZle71 yes!! ur one of us now!
long live death cab!!

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I Honestly Don't Know How Anyone Couldn't Love This(: <3

@EpicallyxMusical I could not agree more<3

This song really deserve more attention from DCFC fans.

wowza!!! my favorite song by death cab

that's right

@ShiiizZle71 me too!.... me too.......

such a sweet song <3

"and as they all grow older,the truth will be understood, cause we never turn out the way we thought we would"
absolutely love the lyrics

Actually, iTunes songs are poor quality...

@MadJack122 Not Death Cab. Walla once said in an interview that he (I think he's speaking for the band) supports the circulation of music around the internet, as it 'puts artists first'. But still, having the physical album is still my most preferred method of listening to music, as there is just more sentimental value to it.

the money goes to the record companies anyway who make fuck loads on overpricing the music. the only justification for cds being as expensive as they are is the packaging cost. with online shops there's none of that and NO right to charge 1 dollar per song.

the money is in touring. the people who go to the shows are the people who downloaded the songs illeagally. and a lot of those people would not know some bands because they wouldn't have been able to afford the music in the first place

torrents are the best. fuck itunes

what? paying nothing and downloading songs illegally just shows disrespect to the artist/band who have spent most there lives creating and writing music. and i hate listening to bad quality music it's just pointless.

That is so pretentious, EVERYONE enjoys music! but not everyone can afford $0.99 per song!

Go make out with James Hetfeild!

Limewire is shit. crap quality. if you enjoy music like me. you pay. like all the odd 300 songs i've bourt off itunes. =/

<3!! Thank you ^_^

you could always get "videoget" and then download the songs off youtube ; )

Aww! :( *Gives DCFC Albums to you* :)

I am incredibly jealous of you. It's nigh impossible to find a DCFC album where I live so youtube is just about all I have to listen to their songs.

How did you do the colour transitions? It lloked really awesome and fit the song so well. Sensational song

I love that for a band name.

they're from bellingHAM :)
this is an excellent buy.
WA<3

the way the drums come in is sooo Beatlesesque!

I simply cannot believe that this song isn't one of the more popular of theirs! Truly incredibly thought-provoking. Thank you, Ben Gibbard.

The Postal Service is ben's side project... that's why he's the singer for that too :)
The entire album is brilliant.

Try The Postal Service! ;)

their from seattle, washington

definitely not british xD

am officially addicted to DCFC.
i love how each song is simply beautiful and poetic.

plain, soft, perfection <3

I love how all their sogns are brilliant and you can't find a fault in them. I have all their albums and I think I'm addicted!

For some reason, Death Cab for cuite songs make me cry every time ;D

I think it's a metaphor. "Techincolor Girls" are just girls who are the rich, stuck up airhead types in school who are always the most popular, pretty, ect.
I think, I could be wrong.

will do.

how so?

I disagree

i love it

The last two lines are on my myspace.

I fucking love this song.

This is pretty much the best.

: ) love the song

One time I listened to this song on a wooden skilift type thing over an Italian Island.

Everyone should try that.

cool!!..Beautiful SONORITY!!

agreed dude