This must be one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. The music is great and the word choices are unbelievable... who puts the words ICU, piss and 409 together in a love song?
My neighbors (in their late 80's/ early 90's) have just recently been moved into a retirement home. He could still drive (slowly) but I don't think he had been upstairs in years. She has Alzheimer's...so who knows what hasn't been taken care of in those years. They've lived in the house since it was built in back in the 60's.
Their grown kids came through one day and took what they wanted. Then two guys (not family) came with a U-haul truck pulling a trailer and worked for 3 days filling it up and taking it to the dump. There apparently wasn't much worth saving...and what was left was old, broken or it all smelled so bad they couldn't salvage it.
It's sad to think that so much of the past 40 yrs of their life was thrown away because they had grown too old to take care of it... but they had each other. And that is worth more than beautiful things to pass on to your kids.
At least they know who's going to watch them die.
I know who's going to watch me.
So here's the words to my beautifully sad song...
What Sarah Said by Death Cab for Cutie
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me
Away from me
Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds
But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself
'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said "Love is watching someone die"
So who's going to watch you die?..
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me
Away from me
Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds
But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself
'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said "Love is watching someone die"
So who's going to watch you die?..
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