Death Cab For Cutie

Genre: Indie, Rock, Alternative

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Rhythm	10.0
Melody	10.0
Instruments	10.0
Lyrics	10.0
Vocal	10.0
This song has been reviewed 17 times. Overall score for this song, 10.0.

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Death Cab For Cutie - We Looked Like Giants Lyrics

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Song details
Title	We Looked Like Giants
Artist	Death Cab For Cutie
Album	Transatlanticism (2003) , Track 10 , The John Byrd EP (2005) , Track 5
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Song lyrics

Send "We Looked Like Giants" ringtones to your cell

God bless the daylight, the sugary smell of springtime
remembering when you were mine in a still suburban town

When every Thursday, I'd brave those mountain passes
and you'd skip your early classes and we'd learn how our bodies worked

God damn the black night, with all its foul temptations
I've become what I always hated when I was with you then

We looked like giants in the back of my grey sub-compact
fumbling to make contact as the others slept inside
and together there in a shroud of frost, the mountain air
began to pass through every pane of weathered glass
and I held you closer than anyone would ever get

Remember the J.A.M.C. and reading aloud from magazines
I don't know about you but I swear on my name they could smell it on me
But I've never been to good with secrets... ohh...

Oh together there in a shroud of frost, the mountain air
began to pass through every pane of weathered glass
and I held you closer...

Send "We Looked Like Giants" ringtones to your cell

lyrics submitted by Bluwhisp

lyrics corrected by Chris on 11-12-2004

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02-05-2004 20:26 Love4TBS
1 posts	i like it a lot too. but im slightly confused with the lyrics:-/
10-05-2004 04:20 taylor8285
94 posts	what needs to be explained? I love this song too.
01-06-2004 19:50 joaretehpwn
15 posts	Very good song. ...yeah, that's all I have to say. But it's a good song.
05-06-2004 17:08 sensesfail
100 posts	This is one of my favourite death cab tunes too... Its a really amazing song, everything about it...
17-11-2004 21:49 triplsssbabi53
74 posts	"we'd learn how our bodies worked"...great line
20-11-2004 18:36 SswEeTneSs
261 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal ugh thats my least favorite line. i love the musical part the drums are so crazy. love it
08-12-2004 03:04 94civichatch
12 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal "we'd learn how our bodies worked" is also my favorite line... this is my favorite death cab song
12-12-2004 17:20 thisxisxglamour
4 posts	my favorite death cab song.
14-01-2005 00:49 RelientDash589
27 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Such a good song, I love at the beginning when the guitars finally kick in.. so great..
19-01-2005 03:34 undocumented78
254 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal just bought Transatlanticism. best song on album. can't decide weither or not it's better than "Blacking Out the Friction" but great song!!!
09-02-2005 06:11 daeth
56 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Great song.. a++
30-03-2005 18:42 torie_nicole
5 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal ::sigh::
23-04-2005 22:27 Lyser
621 posts	so I was at best buy talking to the kid there about this band and he recommended this song and I must say it is awesome, great band
01-05-2005 00:51 zibbyek
17 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Defintely LOVE this song and Death Cab, but what exactly is this song about?
01-07-2005 15:33 crozzz
104 posts	I've been reading some of the reply's posted, it is comical how an countless occaisions people put "this is my favorite song of all time" GASP SIGH Loveee .... then proceed to admit they havent the slightest clue what the lyrics mean.
04-07-2005 07:44 yimeno
95 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I'm a pretty big fan of this song. It reminds me of how things were not so long ago.
11-09-2005 04:10 fkn_loud
6 posts	i am completly in love with this song. probably my favortie death cab song. it's so intense. i love it.
21-11-2005 16:09 DDRmaniax010
2 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I never knew that Death Cab For Cutie cussed in any of their songs. But, its a great song. AA++ :clown: :cheers: :bitchslap:
24-11-2005 02:23 zibbyek
17 posts	Well to reply to the reply of my comment... Why is it that no one ever says anything other than "I love this song"? This is is a discussion board. Aren't we supposed to discuss, and wouldn't that mean we should ask questions rather than just saying how much we love the songs?
09-03-2006 09:54 kpsurfsem4
18 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal i totally agree with you and i always come to look at the discussion board to find out what songs mean....so what does this one mean? i think it is something about a couple who had a somewhat perfect but immature love, and now that they are older they are in different places leading different lives with one who is upset with the life they are leaving because he always hated the kinda people he ahd turd into? i dunno im just guessing someone help me out!
28-03-2006 21:23 londoncalling43
28 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I will be the first to take the plunge in guessing the meaning of the song: Teacher/Student relationship, OR some kind of student having an affair with an inappropriate partner. Numerous references for school: "You'd skip your early classes" is an obvious, and "as the others slept inside" makes me think of maybe a boarding school or even college campus idea, with "the others" being other students. Also the constant description of mountain terrain makes seems to support this as many boarding schools are in secluded places. There is also a sense of sneakiness which suggests whatever is going on isn't really allowed, and the only instances in which this much regulation would exist would be in boarding school-like situations. Any ideas as to what the "giants" part refers to?
25-04-2006 01:06 kirchenko
1 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal ok basically you all can shove it! becasue fuckinnnnn all of ou are alll up in thi shit sayin "ohhh yeah this song, its so beautifull, its such a wonderfull song!, and im tiered of the shit becasue half of you dickheads have your heads so far up your ass i cant take it! yeah yeah yadda yadda the gns great. but its obviously about railin a bich in the back of his car! and wahts better than that? really!...can we all just get a grip and listen tot he oddamn lyrics for once?...and woah! the guy who though it was a student teacher relationship...go fuck yourslef bro becasue you are one sick fuck!..were the hell did that come from anyway?...get your shit straiht, and com back and see me! SO I CAN BEAT THE LIVNG FUCK OUT OF YOU! thanks! in other news..thsi band is fucking amazing, the vocals are so relaxing the guys voice is impossible to rsist..honestly...this gys voice coud seduce me in a second, and who knows! maybe ill be he next one in the back of his grey sub-compact! peace fuckers
25-04-2006 01:12 deathcabforyou
1 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal i hope ya'll paid attention to what "kirchenko" just said. This song is clearly Ben Gibbard's description of getting it on with a chick in the back of his car. and i mean, ain't nothin wrong with that, but i wouldn't call it beauty. maybe you call it beauty because of his melodias voice but take a closer look at the lyrics. death cab flows my blood, AFF!!!! i lie to you atleast twice a day \
25-04-2006 01:33 shelby827
1,526 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal one of my favorite dcfc songs i'd have to say.
23-06-2006 16:19 kpsurfsem4
18 posts	Ok so, those of us who can be openminded and not rip on what other people belive then lets do it. yeah maybe the teach/student thing, different i didnt get that but whatever. i mean we are all different clearly. so those of you who belive its just about fucking in the back of a car, alright well there is omre to the song then that part. just an FYI. anyway, i could be totally wrong but to me its about a couple who yes do bang in the back of the car, they are cleraly in college or some sort of school, i think its more about how they realtionship is very physical and they experience a lot of differnt sexual thigns with one another. and it is somewhat of an obsession or infatuation with one another because the physical stuff is referred to multiple times. but i think he also caes about her, because if you were just gonna fuck someone and say lates dude, you wouldnt do this, "i held you closer than any one could ever get" clearly this dude really cares for this girl....so many they love each other but they are really infatuated with one anothers bodies....i dunno just a guess but this song is pretty great no matter waht the meaning is to differetn people.