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And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

Ben Gibbard

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late ’50s, early ’60s kind of world.
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Kind Late World
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.
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Believe Love Real
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
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Father Prayer Tiny
I don’t want to be overdramatic about it, but I’m starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.
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Habit Starting Want
We were not goofing around anymore. We all threw everything we had into this in a way where we all found ourselves really far from home, and we were stuck with each other.
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Anymore Each Other Goofing Ourselves
I’m starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There’s a darkness inside of me that I’m only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it’s starting to scare me.
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Darkness Early Inside Material
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.
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God Knows Money Records
For me, a song doesn’t really take flight until it has a lyric on it. …Without a lyric that I’m happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn’t have any resonance.
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Song Wise Writing
There are the people that are like, “I want it to sound like the last one.” You can’t please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
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Everybody Life Like People Please
As a songwriter, I’m not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
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Life Myself Songwriters Writing
We had friends who had a hit single on the radio and sold 500,000 records, and then they couldn’t get arrested a year later.
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Friend Later Records Single Sold
I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don’t have Xs on my hands, but I guess if I wanted to go back to calling myself straight-edge, I could.
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Habit Kind Running
Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I’ve spent away from my family and loved ones.
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Age Darkness Fun
I just rediscovered my guitar.
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Guitar Life Rediscover
There’s a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.
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Land Mind Moving
Anything was better than going to work. All those early tours before we made any money were more like vacations. I don’t think it was until 2001 that we pulled our heads out of the sand and were like, “What are we doing?”
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Thinking Trying Vacation

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

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