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Day 5: Pity and Fear by Death Cab for Cutie

Like many of you, I can’t wait to hear Death Cab for Cutie’s new album, Narrow Stairs. Atlantic has done a commendable job of keeping the album, due out in May, from leaking. This track, titled Pity and Fear, was played on NPR earlier this month and this rather low quality webrip has been circulating…

Pity and Fear (Webrip).mp3 (right click to save as)

I have such a envy for this stranger lying next to me
Who awakes in the night and slips out into the pre-dawn light
With no words, a clean escape, no promises or messes made
And chops it all up to mistake, mistake, mistake

And there are no tears
Just pity and fear
No vast ravine
Right in between

A storm at sea the bow cracked and I was capsizing
And I sunk below where I swore I would never go
If you can’t stand in place you can’t tell there’s walking away
From who remains, who stays, who stays, who stays

And there are no tears
Just pity and fear
No vast ravine
Right in between

Spare no tears
Just pity and fear
And I recall
The push more than the fall
The push more than the fall

We just got another new song that will be on Narrow Stairs! Listen to Ben Gibbard play “Cath.”