Lyrics for Company Calls Epilogue as interpreted by jephque

Company Calls Epilogue Lyrics
Synapse to synapse: the possibility's thin
I'm dressed up for free drinks and family greetings
On your wedding, your wedding, your wedding date
The figures in plastic on the wedding cake
That I took were so real

And I kept distance: the complications cloud
The postcards and blip through fiberoptics
As the girls with pigtails
Were running from little boys wearing bowties
Their parents bought them: "I'll catch you this time!"

Crashing through the parlor doors
What was your first reaction?
Screaming, drunk, disorderly: I'll tell you mine
You were the one
But I can't spit it out when the date's been set
The white routine to be ingested inaccurately

Synapse to synapse: the sneaky kids had attached
Beer cans to the bumper so they could drive
Up and down the main drag
People would turn to see who's making the racket
It's not the first time

When they lay down the fish will swim upstream
And I'll contest, but they won't listen
When the casualty rate's near 100%
And there isn't a pension for second best
Or for hardly moving

Crashing through the parlor doors
What was your first reaction?
Screaming, drunk, disorderly: I'll tell you mine
You were the one
But I can't spit it out when the date's been set
The white routine to be ingested inaccurately

You were the one
But I can't spit it out when the date's been set
The white routine to be ingested inaccurately

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starskittle
04-19-2002

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i can't believe i am the first person to write about this song.. i just have to say that every time i listen to this song, it makes me happy and sad at the same time, it is about a weading, and it just talks about the people there and how there drunk... yeah its kinda late, so iam gonna stop but OOOO these guys are amazing.

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superdeluxe
05-20-2002

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This song feels like an ex you never really got over but tried to "be friends with" is getting married to someone not you. And invited or not you drunkenly show up to object. Love lost.

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fraeulein
07-10-2002

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i love this song and i think its best to listen to it right after you've listened to company calls. i can totally picture this guy running through the doors to the church yelling "i love you" or something because the girl he loves and has loved either a) knows how he feels about her but doesn't feel the same way back or b) doesn't know how he feels about her at all. i'm thinking b is more like it. he knows that he can't stop it or do anything (possibility's thin, the casualty rate's near 100%) but he's still trying....maybe it's the alcohol. this is my favorite death cab song.

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brighteyesbleed
08-14-2002

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everytime i hear this song i get this crazy feeling of regret. i love it when the words make you feel them. i think the meaning is obvious.."you were the one but i can't spit it out when the date's been set." but it still gives me chills. dcfc is incredible.

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Imbrifer
09-25-2002

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..from what I wrote about 'company calls': it comes down to this one person who can be the speaker's happiness, but they are 'taken' by someone else, so the speaker's salvation is even more tragically cut short

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myeyesareopen
09-29-2002

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i have to say i like the alternate version from the Forbidden Love EP more, for some odd reason. damn good song though.

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stoppretending
03-10-2003

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this song is awesome! The sadness of the song can be felt when he's singing "crashing through the parlor doors, what was your first reaction? screaming, drunk, disorderly: i'll tell you mine. you were the one but i can't spit it out when the date's been set. the white routine to be ingested inaccurately."

The music at that moment is perfectly coordinated with the words. One of my favorite death cab songs.

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Grim713
03-12-2003

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I've been listening to the Facts version of this song, and I would have to agree with you myeyes...on Facts there is this weird echo that sounds cool until you concentrate on it too much. Dang....I've probably cursed you all into concentrating on it too much. Don't. Anyway, this song kicks. The best song Death Cab has ever done. By the way, does anyone know how to add the Postal Service? the rock too, but I want their lyrics

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Title_Track
03-25-2003

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The Postal Service owns. Man, but Death Cab is soooo much better, of course. My favourite band. But... this song is definitly one of my faves. And I only have like 2. But this song is just... wow, I can't explain. I mean, it's so obvious what it's about so I won't try and analyze it for you. By the way, this is Ben's, Nick's, Michael Schorr's favourite song of theirs.

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EnjOy IncUbus
04-07-2003

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I heart this song.
I heart every Death Cab song.

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Cheesepickle
04-11-2003

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I always also picture the drunk guy stumbling into the wedding party: "i love you! Dont do it!" (quite possibly the best song ever....jimmy eat worlds "For me this is heaven" is up there though...)

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starslight
04-13-2004

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see, what happens is in the beginning of the album, he meets a girl and falls for her, but feels that the relationship is going to be doomed... and the album goes into the whole "oh shit i'm doomed" theme, then the road trip with "Lowell, MA" and "405" then Company Calls, where he's venting because the girl he fall for is going to get married... then the epilogue where he wants to get piss drunk and crash the party...

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taylor8285
04-17-2004

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I absolutely love this song. I can really relate when he says "you were the one but I can't spit it out when the date's been set" because one of my ex's is getting married and I never really had closure with him but it's too late now. Listening to this does make me want to show up at the wedding just to see the look on his face...

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instant_street
05-29-2004

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he likes the girl that going to married with some guy...he didn't have the courage to say that he loved her and now is too late cause she's going to married, then they crash in the parloor doors and she saw him and looks a little socked...

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moses
05-31-2004

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same what instant street said, but yeah this song is kinda sad, feel bad for the guy you know?

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c00kie
06-19-2004

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I remember reading an interview a while ago and Ben said one of his favorite movies was The Graduate.

You think it could have influenced this song?

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mneme
10-04-2004

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This song makes me cry when played live. For me, it's about an ex you love getting married to someone--who isn't you. And all the fake surreal bullshit surrounding weddings, while you have to stand back and witness a marriage that you don't believe should ever have happened. Crushing.

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holdenthefuries
10-05-2004

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"when they lay down the fish will swim upstream and i'll contest but they won't listen when the casualty rate's near 100%, and there isn't a pension for second best"

This to me, means that this other guy is going to have a kid that should be his, and that Ben will never be able to see it grow up or know that joy because he came in 2nd place.

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clairebaby
10-14-2004

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like it better than 'company calls'

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fridgebuzz
11-18-2004

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as far as The Graduate having any influence on this song - im not sure. the last couple scenes of the movie *might*, but overall, lyrically it just doesnt fit. im not sure though.

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yrthling
12-16-2004

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I agree with holdenthefuries, basically. "when they lay down the fish will swim upstream" refers to them lying down for sex, and the fish are sperm. "[T]he casualty rate's near 100%, and there isn't a pension for second best or for hardly moving..." is also taking about most sperm (like his) dying off and not getting to the egg, and if you don't make it there there's no gain in being second place.

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Emberly
12-27-2004

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This is a beautiful song which has an enormous bearing on my life. Everyone has that one first love, who you never truly get over.

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Alter-Ego
01-18-2005

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The first time I heard this song, it made me cry. And it still does.

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picturefalling
02-07-2005

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this is my favorite death cab song and i heard in an on air interview with ben something to the effect that this was his favorite of his songs or atleast at that point in time.

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xawestruckxeyesx
02-15-2005

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its such a sad song. 'crashing through the parlor doors, what was your first reaction? screaming, drunk, disorderly: i'll tell you mine. you were the one' is my favourite line, you can just imagine wanting to tell someone that you love them but not being able to. such a gorgeous song

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