Ben Gibbard Short Quotes

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Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

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I am waiting for something to go wrong
I am waiting for familiar resolve

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And it's strange
They are basically the same
So i don't ask names anymore

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If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

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You touch her skin
And then you think
That she is beautiful
But she don't mean a thing to me

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And tiny vessels oozed into your neck
And formed the bruises
That you said you didn't want to fade
But they did and so did I that day

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At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...

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I once knew a girl
In the years of my youth
With eyes like the summer
All beauty and truth
In the morning I fled
Left a note and it read
Someday you will be loved.

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As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile
Like someone would hold a crying child Soon everybody will ask what became of you
Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.

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I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then i could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that could hold us back

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It wasn't quite what is seemed: a lack of pleasantries
(My able body isn't what it used to be)
I must admit I was charmed by your advances
Your advantage left me helplessly into you

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You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved

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Our Youth is fleeting
Old age is just around the bend
And I can't wait to go grey
And I'll sit and wonder
Of every love that could have been
If I'd only thought of something charming to say

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