Death Cab for Cutie - Foxglove Through The Clearcut (Official Lyric Video)

Official lyric video for Death Cab for Cutie’s new song “Foxglove Through The Clearcut” from the new album ‘Asphalt Meadows’ out 9/16/22. Pre-order the record now: Stream the new song “Foxglove Through The Clearcut” out now: Credits: Death Cab for Cutie is: Benjamin Gibbard, Nicholas Harmer, Jason McGerr, Dave Depper, Zac Rae Words by Benjamin Gibbard Produced, engineered & mixed by John Congleton Recorded at: United Recording, Los Angeles; Studio Litho, Seattle; Grumpybeard, Los Angeles Assistant Engineers: Scott Moore, Jon Roberts Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, ME Video by Juliet Bryant Live Dates: #tour Exclusive merchandise: Subscribe for more content: Follow Death Cab for Cutie Online: Lyrics: there was a man who used to live by the ocean but he never set foot in the sea it made him nervous that the water was always in motion and he feared the creatures who swam beneath and when i asked him how he’d ended up there above a world he would never know he said he’d driven all the way across america and when he got to the edge there was nowhere left to go nowhere left to go he said that nothing lives long, only the earth and the mountains as he quoted black kettle’s death song the words drifting off into the emptiness of this great land where we’ve never belonged and while the frontiers are ever-expanding our living rooms fall into disarray and no one seems interested in fixing what they’ve broken they just sweep the pieces into the bushes and slip away and slowly slip away and now he and i watch the foxglove grow through the clearcut where a forest once grew high and wild for what is a funeral without flowers and ten thousand tombstones reaching for the sky reaching for the sky #DeathCabforCutie #Foxglove #AsphaltMeadows