Death Cab For Cutie - When We Drive Lyrics

This album has some 80s feels.

His voice has a very Neil Tennant-ish quality. Especially on this song. Anyone else hear it?

A lovely, soothing song.

the type of song that makes you want to fall in love

found my wedding song 😍

Listening to this at 75% speed is cool. It's not perfect like normal speed obviously, its kinda, uh... Poppy? The noise is like... It pops but not enough to completely ruin the experience. Ohh! Like... Grainy. That's the word.

sana ol may car

Met a girl at a bar one time, my friends and I mingling with hers, we got to talking about music, Death Cab came up and she mentioned how much she loved Summer Skin... not Follow You Into the Dark like EVERYONE knows, but a lesser known gem proving she was a true fan. I wanted to marry her on the spot.

💕💕💕

Serious Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes" vibe here.

This is so good, just become my favorite already.

❤️ this song so much

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When we Drive!!!

reminds me of "Heroes" by David Bowie

Those drums tho

I LOVE YOU MICHAEL

Simply brilliant. !!

Thanks to Grey's Anatomy, l love this long....this show plays the best songs!!! On my playlist forever. Nice & mellow, love it.

Beautiful 🌈🌫️
Takes me back somewhere I can't remember but feels good 🌊

Below is my album review that was the very first on Amazon:
Posted by Sir Hex
A Monumental DCFC Album!
August 17, 2018
Verified Purchase
Absolutely beautiful! Strong beats and ethereally atmospheric melodies. The entire album has such a refreshingly rich full sound with every track being unresistably danceable, the only possible exception being their signature last song, the often low key sign off at the end of their albums, like a freshly closed envelope with a warm solidifying wax seal connecting the parchment.

I listened to it at work on headphones whilst wiring electrical panels. The other men working in the control house couldn't determine if I was listening to heavy metal or some hard hitting hip hop. That's just the way I move. (I headbang to Coldplay...)
At only two songs in, I was almost moved to tears at the rhythmic serenity, but that composure finally gave a bit on track 05. Not necessarily for any personal reason, but just at the total immersion. I'd like to listen to it a second tyme at the gym later, but I have to say I'm kind nervous I might have an inappropriate emotional release in mid rep.

From the moment a large door opens to another reality and you're greeted with the Robert Smith-esque pick solos of "I Dreamt We Spoke Again", and the chorus of "Summer Years" that seems to take you by the hand when the distortion guitar comes to haunt you, the perfectly mixed beat of "Gold Rush" that feels so uplifting thumping through the subwoofer, the pacing discussion of "Your Hurricane", the silent conversation on a tyme-stand-still road trip of "When We Drive", the rolling hills frolick through the leaves of "Autumn Love", bumping around a gentle mosh pit with virtual cascading personifications of each individual bass guitar and piano note of "Northern Lights", standing on the sidewalk watching the ghosts of others' conflictions on "You Moved Away", running with a group of close friends to reunite with a long lost friend on "Near Far", or as a deep embodiment of piano notes have you visiting the old record store you used to get those bootleg and imports from when you were a teen and recognising the same owner that saw you steal once in "60 & Punk"... This album is a tea cup ride in an abandonded carnival as the outside world spins around your own personal biosphere.

It has been my opinion for over a decade that Ben Gibbard is one of the most underrated song writers of this generation. Sure, he's in an established band and doing very well, but there is magic in his pen that I've seen bewitch more people than most. I'm mostly a musical ear, sometymes even taking me years before I ever realise what a song is actually about. Not with DCFC. Ben's writing always has my attention from the first harmonic syllable.

At the tyme I wrote this review, the album wouldn't be released until the following Friday, but was available for streaming at NPR Music's Twitter page. The band was eager to hear from their fans, and wants us all to tell them what our favourite songs are. I could have done that on Narrow Stairs. I could have done that on Codes and Keys.. and especially with Kintsugi. But not this album. Not yet. The best I can do is tell them my least favourite song on Thank You For Today, but that's something I will not do. It may present the misconception that I actually dislike something
song on that album, and that would be far from the truth.

"But I won't be the debris in your hurricane."
-DCFC

:epilogue::
Later that day at the gym, I did indeed listen to it two more tymes in a row. I was fine, but it did inspire me to go back into my notes and add that sentagraph leading you through the song progression. Obviously more of a psychological (or psychedelic) journey through the album rather than one translated from a literal interpretation of Ben's lyrics. If Amazon allows, I plan to add a second review with more of a straight forward, practical approach.

Triple like boys!

On infinite repeat. Gets better with each listen.

Lyrics
I can't expect you to be honest
Or to be faithful every day 'til the end
I just need you to be always a friend
As this sun sets over Dakota's
Underneath a crimson ocean of sky
Know I'll always want you by my side

When we drive
When we drive

You and I were born in motion
Never in one place for too long a time
And now it's the only way we know to survive
I like the way your hair tangles
The way your sun tan's only on one side
We always keep the windows open wide

When we drive
When we drive
When we drive
When we drive

Climb into the back seat and close your eyes
I've got the wheel
Dream of all the places only we will find

I can't expect you to be honest
Or to be faithful every day 'til the end
I just need you to be always a friend
Until the engine kicks and sputters
Until we roll the rubber off the tires
Know I'll always need you by my side

When we drive
When we drive
When we drive
When we drive
When we drive
When we drive

One of the top 10 songs of the year, as far as I’m concerned. ♥️

100th like!

edit 1000!!!

This song! Trapped inside my head and its been 72hrs on repeat

Listening to this, driving with the love of my life through a forest in the fall with the windows down <3 , this song is a MOODDDD

this song is about an old Subaru and nothing can convince me otherwise

DCFC is best in the Autumn air as summer is leaving.

No doubt.

By the way, I checked out your channel out of pure curiosity and scoped a few vids, I genuinely enjoyed the few that I watched so far, and I think you have a good style that can really reach an audience. I hope you're able to keep producing content, because I think you're on the right track. :)

Ryan Maldonado hey I just saw this response and I wanted to say thanks so much! :)

The song remains me
of the movie boyhood

Use headphones for the best experience.

I love it when we drive in the rain, when she and the rain is all i hear

I love that "Title and Registration" acoustic guitar sound at 1:00

good call!

My favorite off the album. All the songs sound better after each listen.

💜💙💚

this is my favourite track so far, the bass is so good im so in love, thank you dcfc for amazing music

Amazing Album!!!

this song is on point

It's magical.

Great song for a great moment!

I've spent the past two days listening to the new album and I think this is my favorite song on it. The overall mood and tone of this track is amazing. It's ethereal. It is beautiful. Thank you Death Cab.

picked bass sounds so dreamy. I love it. reminds me of Tycho. (not that Tycho invented the sound, it just reminds me of his style)

Eric Hughes In very certain Tycho invented guitar picks and bass guitars in total, actually.

@TalinMatteson ah. I did not know that. thank you for the useful information fellow Internet user!

@TalinMatteson he looks great for his age, then.

@Cannuration Space His age would show if the spell was lifted. He invented the analogue synthesizer more recently.

I can't expect you to be honest
Or to be faithful every day 'til the end
I just need you to be always a friend
Until the engine kicks and sputters
Until we roll the rubber off the tires
Know I'll always need you by my side

Powerful.

Happiness: That feeling when there is a new DCFC album. You start listening to it, and the more you listen, the more you love it, and all of the sudden the music gives you goosebumps and the lyrics start speaking to you. <3

I agree. And the overall sound and mood of this album is just magical.

YES. Story of this album, haha

Wendy Potter yee haw (I agree)

Some boys don't know how to love ....

i'm in love with this

Love love this song❤

It's a beautiful song.

Just would like today you are beautiful in case no one has said it to you today. Have a blessed day whoever and wherever you are 😊

This song actually made me reach out to a guy bc I wanted to drive w him while this song was playing and we're talking again :)

sana all

update: our one year anniversary is in two weeks <3

Stranger things scene I can picture it

This one and You Moved Away made me cry. Beautiful

It took a couple of listens but I'm really starting to feel this album.

I'm loving this album more and more!

It's growing on me more and more every time I listen to it!

I cannot stop listening to this.

This album really is killer. I didn't know what to expect from the album but so far it has turned out to be my favorite album since Narrow Stairs. By the way, seen some of your videos (mostly Marvel movie stuff) and really enjoy your content! Keep up what you're doing. :)

captainmidnight it’s such a good song! It hits home for sure. Lol
Great videos, by the way.

Its weird to see one of my favorite YouTubers commenting on a random video that Im watching

kill me ;__________________;

The intro reminds me of If Not Now When by Incubus :3

oh Ben, I've missed you!

This is the kind of song that you want to listen while you’re driving and wondering.

Yes it is definitely a great driving song.

This is great

Beautiful song ❤️

It certainly is.

Love, love, love!

"Sleeping is giving in / no matter what the time is / sleeping is giving in / so lift those heavy eyelids"

Arcade Fire <3

By my side when we drive...in The Passenger Seat

Right!!!! I kept waiting for some overlap in lyrics haha

mind blown

thank you for today??? bitch thank you for this aLbum y'all god i swear

I'm so glad that Ben's vocals are sounding like they used to...the last couple of albums he didn't sound like the Gibbard I know and love from yesteryear

My older sister showed me postal service in middle school, and than death cab, his voice brings me back to whenever and wherever when life was more simple.

indeed with you guys!

100%! I think that’s why I love this album so much.

this is my new favorite song!!!!

We can be heroes...

HA! YES <3 just for one day :)

Pretty sure this is my favorite so far. Just a fun, upbeat and easy going track.

I think mine too.

80's vibes. love it.