Lyrics to my favorite The Postal Service song....

[Sponger15SB]

Sitting alone on an ancient park bench
I wonder of the world and its gigantic
Neverending span of beautiful scenery

I call my love up and ask her if she feels the same way
(feels the same way)
And so we dance like angels across the delicate moonlight
(delicate moonlight)

I don't want to wander through my life
Like a diamond undiscovered
So I ask you to dance forever with me
And my angel replies back with the softest tender words
I love you (I love you, 2x)

[Sponger15SB]

So 35 people have read this and nobody has realized that I just made these gay ass lyrics up and The Postal Service is [censored] stupid?

[PoBoy321]

WTF is The Postal Service?

[Sponger15SB]

quick rundown of what it might be: guy with keyboard who sings really softly about stupid (mostly) love stories and uses too many adjectives and adverbs

[Eurotrash]

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So 35 people have read this and nobody has realized that I just made these gay ass lyrics up and The Postal Service is [censored] stupid?

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LOL this is funny shite. i've heard some of their songs, and this totally sounds like something they would write.

i kind of had a feeling this was going to be a post like that one you made in "Songs that made you cry," about the Sarah McLaughlin song.

[The Yugoslavian]

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So 35 people have read this and nobody has realized that I just made these gay ass lyrics up and The Postal Service is [censored] stupid?

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Thank goodness...I was worried you liked the Postal Service...then I'd have to hate myself even more than I already do. I'm still holding out hope that we don't both see eye to eye on anything /images/graemlins/wink.gif.

Yugoslav

[private joker]

You guys are totally full of sh[/i]it. There are tons of crappy-ass sappy panty-waste tweemo bands with awful lyrics and woe-is-me whiny fagster hip white-kid crygasms.

But The Postal Service isn't one of them -- Ben Gibbard is a clever and sly writer with a pretty dark and specific sense of irony and wit regarding his sensitive-but-sharp lyrics. Example:

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I was waiting for a cross-town train in the London underground when it struck me
That I've been waiting since birth to find a love that would look and sound like a movie
So I changed my plans and rented a camera and a van and then I called you
"I need you to pretend that we are in love again" and you agreed to

I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd

I greased the lens and framed the shot using a friend as my stand-in
The script it called for rain but it was clear that day so we faked it
The marker snapped and I yelled "quiet on the set" and then called "action!"
And I kissed you in a style that Clark Gable would have admired (I thought it classic)

I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd

I know you're wise beyond your years, but do you ever get the fear
That your perfect verse is just a lie you tell yourself to help you get by?

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[JMP300z]

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Sitting alone on an ancient park bench
I wonder of the world and its gigantic
Neverending span of beautiful scenery

I call my love up and ask her if she feels the same way
(feels the same way)
And so we dance like angels across the delicate moonlight
(delicate moonlight)

I don't want to wander through my life
Like a diamond undiscovered
So I ask you to dance forever with me
And my angel replies back with the softest tender words
I love you (I love you, 2x)

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I know thats not postal service but seriously man what would you want thier songs to be about if not love/beauty/heartbreak etc. Death? Breasts? Bling Bling? [censored] man....In general I like Gibbards lyrics but I can still fault him for starting off Transatlantacism with "So this is the new year, and I dont feel any different" What a cliche opening and a terrible first line of a cd.

My favorite lyrics Clark Gable which is actually very good:

I was waiting for a cross-town train in the London underground when it struck me
That I've been waiting since birth to find a love that would look and sound like a movie
So I changed my plans and rented a camera and a van and then I called you
"I need you to pretend that we are in love again" and you agreed to

I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd

I greased the lens and framed the shot using a friend as my stand-in
The script it called for rain but it was clear that day so we faked it
The marker snapped and I yelled "quiet on the set" and then called "action!"
And I kissed you in a style that Clark Gable would have admired (I thought it classic)

I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd

I know you're wise beyond your years, but do you ever get the fear
That your perfect verse is just a lie you tell yourself to help you get by?

[JMP300z]

How the f did you beat me to that

fine all add more good PS lyrics:

"We Will Become Silhouettes"

I've got a cupboard with cans of food, filtered water,
And pictures of you and i'm not coming out
Until this is all over
And i'm looking through the glass where the light bends
At the cracks
And i'm screaming at the top of my lungs pretending
The echoes belong to someone
Someone i used to know

And we become silhouettes when our bodies finally go
Ba ba ba...

I wanted to walk through the empty streets
And feel something constant under my feet,
But all the news reports recommended that
I stay indoors
Because the air outside will make our cells
Divide at an alarming rate until our shells
Simply cannot hold all our insides in,
And that's when we'll explode
(and it won't be a pretty sight)

And we'll become silhouettes when our bodies finally go
Ba ba ba...

[The Yugoslavian]

You and that other random dude are my new favorite OOT posters....which is a pretty big honor since my list is quite short (or a pretty lame honr since that EuroTrash dude is somehow on it, /images/graemlins/confused.gif).

Don't screw it up!

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Yugoslav

[OtisTheMarsupial]

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So 35 people have read this and nobody has realized that I just made these gay ass lyrics up and The Postal Service is [censored] stupid?

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I read it twice and was wondering why they didn't sound familar to me. I like the Postal Service, so STFU.

[OtisTheMarsupial]

My fave song is not a love song. It's about denial.



"Sleeping In"

Last week I had the strangest dream
Where everything was exactly how it seemed
Where there was never any mystery of who shot John F. Kennedy
It was just a man with something to prove
Slightly bored and severely confused
He steadied his rifle with his target in the center
And became famous on that day in November

Don't wake me I plan on sleeping
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in

Again last night I had that strange dream
Where everything was exactly how it seemed
Where concerns about the world getting warmer
The people thought they were just being rewarded
For treating others as they'd like to be treated
For obeying stop signs and curing diseases
For mailing letters with the address of the sender
Now we can swim any day in November

Don't wake me I plan on sleeping
(now we can swim any day in November)
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in

[x3]
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping
OOo oOo oOo

[x2]
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping
OOo oOo oOo
(Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping)

Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping
OOo oOo oOo

[shant]

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quick rundown of what it might be: guy with keyboard who sings really softly about stupid (mostly) love stories and uses too many adjectives and adverbs

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Actually, the singer didn't make the background music. He and another guy who did all the music sent tapes back and forth through the mail and never met in the same studio, which is why they're called "The Postal Service."

Edit: I didn't point this out to be a smart ass about music, because I'm not, just that it makes the project a little more interesting than a d-bag crying all over his keyboard.

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

The best Postal Service song isn't by the Postal Service at all. It's by Dntel and it's called "(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chad"

[private joker]

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There are tons of crappy-ass sappy panty-waste tweemo bands with awful lyrics and woe-is-me whiny fagster hip white-kid crygasms.

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Re-reading my post, I've decided that this was awesome phrasing and one of the better sentences I've written on 2+2. I'm usually not so immodest, but I deserve props for this. Anyone?

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[Macdaddy Warsaw]

Panty-waste?

Nigga, please.

[private joker]

Listen to the rhythm, not the words, man. The sentence flows!

[Sponger15SB]

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quick rundown of what it might be: guy with keyboard who sings really softly about stupid (mostly) love stories and uses too many adjectives and adverbs

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Actually, the singer didn't make the background music. He and another guy who did all the music sent tapes back and forth through the mail and never met in the same studio, which is why they're called "The Postal Service."

Edit: I didn't point this out to be a smart ass about music, because I'm not, just that it makes the project a little more interesting than a d-bag crying all over his keyboard.

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Cool story actually, thanks for the clarification. I (I think obviously) didn't know much about them besides just listening to a bunch of their songs.

[Eurotrash]

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You guys are totally full of sh[/i]it. There are tons of crappy-ass sappy panty-waste tweemo bands with awful lyrics and woe-is-me whiny fagster hip white-kid crygasms.

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i'll give you the props that this is a funny sentence. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

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But The Postal Service isn't one of them

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however... if I may quote from "Nothing Better"


Will someone please call a surgeon, who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart



i don't know what else to say about that. /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Jack of Arcades]

Dude, the song is about a chick tearing into her ex for being a pussy.

"I feel I must interject here, you're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself."

[Eurotrash]

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Dude, the song is about a chick tearing into her ex for being a pussy.

"I feel I must interject here, you're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself."

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oh, I'm not claiming to know anything about the meaning behind the lyrics... I was using that line to address the claim about it not being panty-waist crygasm tweemo music.


it sounds kind of panty-waist crygasm to me..


i tend to agree with Sponger's initial assessment about too many adjectives too.

[Jack of Arcades]

I'm not saying I like them, but I just think it was a bit unfair to criticise that one lyric.

[Klepton]

shawn_p?

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There are tons of crappy-ass sappy panty-waste tweemo bands with awful lyrics and woe-is-me whiny fagster hip white-kid crygasms.

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Re-reading my post, I've decided that this was awesome phrasing and one of the better sentences I've written on 2+2. I'm usually not so immodest, but I deserve props for this. Anyone?

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Overdone IMHO. A bit run-on. And giving yourself props is like saying 'pwned' after one of your own posts.

Keep working at it kid, you'll get there.

NT

[Jack of Arcades]

Yeah, that had more ajectives than a Postal Service lyric. Or a Tolkien page.

[bennyk]

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quick rundown of what it might be: guy with keyboard who sings really softly about stupid (mostly) love stories and uses too many adjectives and adverbs

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This is the most insightful, and accurate post I have ever read on OOT. It is certainly up there with the MS Paint thread, IMO.

Thank god for you.

bk

[bennyk]

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quick rundown of what it might be: guy with keyboard who sings really softly about stupid (mostly) love stories and uses too many adjectives and adverbs

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Actually, the singer didn't make the background music. He and another guy who did all the music sent tapes back and forth through the mail and never met in the same studio, which is why they're called "The Postal Service."

Edit: I didn't point this out to be a smart ass about music, because I'm not, just that it makes the project a little more interesting than a d-bag crying all over his keyboard.

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however they did it, they should know their instrumentation sounds like shitty nintendo music. that may have been the point. if so, they should know it blows.

bk