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Wednesday Reviews: Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs

July 23rd, 2008

Ok, so I’ve talked about my love of Death Cab before and I wrote here about an experience I had with the single from Narrow Stairs. But, I wanted to take today to recommend the whole album more thoroughly to you.

To be honest the first time Bryan and I heard Narrow Stairs we weren’t really sure about it. We have very high expectations from Death Cab and so we weren’t sure that it lived up to them. But, the more we have listened to this album the more we have come to LOVE it. I am tempted to say that it is my new favorite Death Cab album… but, yeah, I can’t really say that… I love the other one’s way too much to say that.

So, what is it about Narrow Stairs that I love so much? Well, if you haven’t picked this up already, I love words. And when I listen to music I really listen to the lyrics. Lyrics are important to me and it’s Ben Gibbard’s lyrical genius that first caused me to fall in love with Death Cab for Cutie. His songs are truly poetry to music. But, then they take it a step farther and have this wonderful way of making the lyrics come alive and produce feelings in the listener by creatively combining them with music. They have this ability to paint a picture with their words and then make you feel that picture through their music. And this album is no different – it takes the lyric genius and mixes it with musical skill and creativity and the result is AMAZING!

I highly recommend that you check out Narrow Stairs by Death Cab for Cutie! Here are the lyrics from one of my favorite songs on the album (although really I like it all so much it’s hard to really commit to a favorite):

Cath…
She stands with a well intentioned man.
But she can’t relax with his hands on the small of her back.
As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile.
Like someone would hold a crying child.

Soon everybody will ask what became of you.
Your heart was dying fast and you didn’t know what to do.

Cath…
It seems that you live in someone else’s dream.
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
With the things that could have been are repressed.
But you said your vows and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you more.

Soon everybody will ask what became of you.
Your heart was dying fast and you didn’t know what to do.
The whispers that it won’t last roll up and down the pews.
And if our hearts were dying that fast, they would have done the same as you.
I’d have done the same as you

Rejoicing in the journey -
Bethany Stedman

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Gotta Spend Some Time, Love…

May 8th, 2008

”How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me
It’s like a book elegantly bound, but in a language that you can’t read – just yet
You gotta spend some time–love, you gotta spend some time with me
And I know that you’ll find–love, I will possess your heart (x2)
You reject my advances and desperate please
I won’t let you, let me down so easily, so easily”

Those are the lyrics for the new Death Cab for Cutie song. I’ve been a big fan of Death Cab for a long time now and to be honest I wasn’t all that impressed with this new song when I first heard it… but today God spoke to me through it. I know that sounds weird but as I listened to the (long) intro to this song on the way to meet my friend for coffee it was like God clearly said “Ok, Beth, listen up this is what I’m saying to YOU!” and then I heard the words “you gotta spend some time – love, you gotta spend some time with me, and I know that you’ll find – love, I will posses your heart.” It was like God was calling out right to me saying “Bethany, my love, spend time with me, I want to spend time with you, I am wooing you and calling you, you might reject my advances but I’m not going to give up, I won’t let you down…come… spend time with me.”

It was a really touching way to start the day. I spend the rest of the drive just talking with God – I can‘t really call it praying because it wasn’t really coherent all the time – it was more just talking. The last 2 and a half months of traveling have made it so that my normal routine has pretty much been completely lost and the things I usually do to connect with God have been pretty much none existent lately. I haven’t really been reading, I’ve had very few really deep spiritual based conversations with people, we’ve gone to church irregularly (and when we have gone it’s frustrated me more than it has drawn me closer to God), Bryan and I haven’t been doing the normal scripture readings that we usually do at night, we also haven’t been doing the prayers from the book of common prayer like we were, and I haven’t been doing yoga either (which for me is a form of deep prayer)… So, yeah, after a few months of that I’ve been feeling really weary and sort of like I’ve had no baring or solid ground or “constant” (I just re-watched the episode of Lost were Desmond is unlocked from time and has to find a “constant” which ends up being Penelope – it made me think about God being my constant…anyway, random tangent over now).

Anyway, today it was like God reached in and said, “Enough, Bethany, enough wondering aimlessly, enough floating adrift, yes you aren’t at home and yes you aren’t in a stable environment right now but just spend some time with me, you’ll see I’ll be your constant, I’ll possess your heart and love you… Come.” So, today God and I (and my camera) had a little date. It was lovely.

Here are just a few of the pictures from my outing: