The lines "I've ascribed these monuments. A false sense of permanence. I've placed faith in geography, To hold you in my memory" really hit me. I lost my dad when I was 6 and everyday for work I pass by the old bus station he would always use to visit me and where I have some of the very few memories of him.
Sorry for your loss. I know what you mean. I've recently lost a best friend who has been like a brother for 20 years. I still live in the city we've built so many memories aged 16 to 36. It can be tough to see things change, some of these places are not the same anymore or disappear completely. Thinking if moving to another city is what I need. I really feel this song. Thanks for sharing your memory.
My Uncle's home (where our family would often gather) was bulldozed down. I put in an offer after he passed but it could not outbid the business that wanted to make it into a parking lot. The executor, his nephew, gave in. It is very hard to drive by that area. It feels like a cemetery now. It was a beautiful old Victorian house with a great history and not only worth saving for the personal memories of our family but the history of it in the area but gold won.
0:20 40’s 0:43 50’s 1:02 beginning of the 60’s 1:24 transition between 60’s and 70’s 1:37 70’s 1:50 transition between 70’s and 80’s 2:00 80’s 2:20 90’s 2:40 2000’s 2:54 2010’s God I used to be so cringe back in the day
And what if the people that shoulder him represent the wars. Like the dude in the 40's slams him is ww2, and the guy in the 60's/70's is the Vietnam war?
@kenthehobo and if the impacts represent wars, also at the end we're too consumed by ourselves that we are warring with each other and just not caring about it. Increase in school shootings, BLM, Republicans vs. Democrats. You raised an interesting point.
This song is something else. Really helps me reminisce about my old local pub in the UK that me and all my mates would hang out when we were younger. When it finally got knocked down it felt like my youth was over. Treasure the good times always.
if you don't think this is about a person, you need to re-read the lyrics... his memories of a city that once was is an analogy to a relationship that occurred within it--among the lost locales
If you want more songs about a place more so than a person check out this song and more songs by the Saw Doctors, different style of music! They also sing about a road they traveled before emigrating out of Ireland, its called N17...I love these songs and bands like this that do not always sing about the generic themes like love for a person, money, sex, drugs etc
Kyle: it's about a place, I agree. I've listened to this song enough times to not cry about my city, Chicago. I still cry if it hits me at the wrong time. I moved to Tucson last year, because I could no longer afford to live in the city of my birth. Chicago, the city grounds so many of us reckless art students paved back to different roots, in the neighborhoods too dangerous for yuppies. We got bought out, displaced and ruined.
Yes also about some one but very strong lyrics that reflect today perfectly...A lot going on in the video, seeing the times change as he walks the same block, some people eyeing the area for development, the crowd growing as the years go on , how they all go from newspapers to I phones too.....
It's like Bittersweet Symphony with more colour! Love it. Times they were a changin'... Just walking down and enjoying the beauty of a lively street. The narrative is there...and the lyrics are well written and wordy. That's what I appreciate about it.
This song was playing on the radio as I was driving in to the UPenn hospital in Philadelphia to see my pancreatic cancer surgeon. I didn't know who did it but it stuck to me. After I got home I looked at the radio station's playlist and found the song here on youtube and proceeded to listen to it for about an hour straight. Cancer can propel you to have intense moments and Gold Rush brings that on.
It's worth noting here that Gibbard wrote the Gold Rush lyrics. And that the musical song itself is based on samples from Ono's Mindtrain. Here's an excerpt of the original Mindtrain lyrics: Dub! ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...dub-dub, dub-dub, dub-dub! Dub, dub-dub, dub, dub-dub, dub-dub-dub-dub train Train, pain, train, pain, dub-dub train Passed through my mind, dub-dub train passed... Through my mind I thought of killing that man, killing that man Dub-dub train passed through my mind, ooh, ooh...
I was listening to them when I was 20 and just loved the music, now at 31, they have intellectual poetry you never knew you could find. Keep it up fellas.
Been listening to the old stuff and the new stuff for years. The reason I enjoy this band is the emotional melody, lyrics and vibes, this song does not disappoint.
I'm relatively young at 48, and I just can't believe how much time has passed, and how much our culture has changed in such a very, very short time. A graduate of HS in 1989, in a class of 550, ~1800 in my school, and this outside Detroit in the blue belly of the automotive industry, and you could count the fat kids in my class on one hand. 15 years later in San Fernando Valley and I was shocked to see these kids on the sidewalk who were 200, 250+, and it was perfectly normal. I was a big, healthy kid at 18, 5'10" and 165lbs., and these kids dwarfed anyone I ever saw in high school. Now 15 years after that and we are in serious trouble on many, many fronts.
And your parents decided to let the farms put their corn sugar in everyone's bread and let corporations sell sugary shit to the working class and their children. Complain to them, not the millennials.
@@gagnorblu What is it that you think my parents should have done, millennial? And, you think I'm talking to you? My mother gave me Sugar Blues to read when I was probably 17, she taught nutrition at the local community college. I grew up vegetarian. My mother would try to tell anyone who would listen, but do you think those fat, white, suburban autoworker types were interested? Are those people absolved of free choice and the pursuit of higher information? There are so many things wrong with your remark that I don't know where to start, but I'll start with personal accountability. How are you on that spectrum anyway? The information was ALWAYS available. Sugar Blues was written in 1975.
Literally drove around the City with a tear in my eye when it came over the radio. I love how the repetition of 'Gold Rush' sounds like miners digging in a mine throughout the song. So many poignant levels to this.
Death Cab's music has resonated with my soul for years and I'm grateful to be watching a new video by these incredible artists this morning. My birthday was less than two weeks ago and I consider this one of the best presents I've gotten. I'm hoping for many more years of putting mine and others emotions into music.
I played this song on repeat as I went on the Alaskan Way Viaduct for the last time and I had all the feels. Clearly Death Cab's way of saying farewell to a swiftly changing Seattle.
Im an Urban planning student and we study the impacts of gentrification on the existing residents of these neighborhoods. This song conveys this sense of loss better than any journal article could ever dream of. Thank you.
Alex Niznik I was getting worried that all of the comments were gonna eat me up with the “everyones on their phones nowadays” verbatim... it feels good to hear someone agree with me that its about gentrification. thank you. theres more important, scary things going on out there that isn’t what seems most obvious. Rich and powerful are taking over my home town too, and it’s scary and painful to see...
Also an urban planning student. As much as I get this, gentrification will be 10x worse if you do not build new homes over the shells of shitty auto dealerships and dilapidated commercial building. Yeah you lose some of the grittiness of the city, but otherwise, you lose the people of the city.
@@andretsang7337 LOL. The song is actually about architecture or structures. LOL.Thats the allegory. Its about life change, aging, and the dissolution of youthful changes in ones life that 'devour the light''.
Am I the only one to notice the incredible progression of decades of fashion in the people he encounters from start to finish? The 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and on can all be seen. So many beautiful layers to this dirge lamenting a precious past since lost. I have sincere respect for this art.
Love this band since I heard their song 'Soul meets Body' in the movie Catch and Release. We saw them 5 years ago in OKC with my daughter and granddaughter.
I never liked this band before. but... they released this song at a time where I felt the most desperate and hurt. It gave me comfort where I has thought there was none. Their style of music is something that I did not understand or gravitate to. This song helped me realize that I wanted to go on living. I find it strangely wonderful in the comfort that I get from listening to it. I just hope that this song has the same impact that is has on me to help others who deal with mental health issues like I have to. It may be the feeling of nostalgia that it gives me, but sometimes it is just that easy to make to make a person feel better. Those simple things can make a huge difference. Thank you Death Cab for giving me a song that I can blast and sing along to. Especially when singing can feel like it is so hard to do.
I live in city that no construction, now all these new building are being made people from all around world are coming to live here , I feel like I be left behind ,
Heard this song while working at goodwill the other day, was not expecting this to be by death cab for cutie. I thought this was by cage the elephant at first before shazaming it. This song and northern lights (that has also played at goodwill) sound extremely different to me.
Lirycs thanks me later (Gold rush) (Gold rush) (Gold rush) They're digging for gold in my neighborhood (Gold rush) Where all the old buildings stood (Gold rush) And they keep digging it down and down (Gold rush) So that their cars can live underground (Gold rush) The swinging of a wrecking ball (Gold rush) Through these lathe and plaster walls (Gold rush) Is letting all the shadows free (Gold rush) The ones I wished still followed me Change (followed me, followed me) Please don't change Stay (followed me, followed me) Stay the same (Gold rush) I remember a winter's night (Gold rush) we kissed beneath the street lamp light (Gold rush) Outside our bar near the record store (Gold rush) That have been condos for a year or more (Gold rush) Now that our haunts have taken flight (Gold rush) And been replaced with construction sites (Gold rush) Oh, how I feel like a stranger here (Gold rush) Searching for something that's disappeared (Gold rush) They're digging for gold in my neighborhood (Gold rush) For what they say is the greater good (Gold rush) But all I see is a long goodbye (Gold rush) A requiem for a skyline (Gold rush) It seems I never stop losing you (Gold rush) As every dive becomes something new (Gold rush) And all our ghosts get swept away (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way Change (be this way, be this way) Please don't change Stay (be this way, be this way) Stay the same Cranes (be this way, be this way) Devour the light Strange (be this way, be this way) Appetites I've ascribed these monuments A false sense of permanence I've placed faith in geography To hold you in my memory (Gold rush) I'm sifting through these wreckage piles (Gold rush) Through the rubble of bricks and wires (Gold rush) Looking for something I'll never find (Gold rush) Looking for something I'll never find (Gold rush) they're digging for gold in my neighborhood (Gold rush) Where all the old buildings stood (Gold rush) And they keep digging it down and down (Gold rush) So that their cars can live underground (Gold rush) It seems I never stop losing you (Gold rush) As every dive becomes something new (Gold rush) And all our ghosts get swept away (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way Change, (Gold rush) (it didnt use to be this way) please don't change (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush) Stay It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush) Stay the same It didn't used to be this way (Stay, stay the same) (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way Change, please don't change.
Love you guys so much. You are the only band that my brother, mom, and dad all love to listen to. Your music is just so pure. We all went together and saw you live outside of Omaha in Council Bluffs, IA two years ago and it was an unforgettable memory. You guys bring people together...that's what it is all about!
AN AMAZING subtlety to this video is the people on the streets “fashion” starts in the 30’s and moves through the decades until the end of the video, visually artistry to match lyrical artistry... NICE!
Very interesting video. Heard part of this song on the radio earlier. Got the title and artist. Came here to listen to the whole song in its entirety. Low to no expectation on the video. Pleasantly surprised by its depth.😲
This song is about loss. Even if it's for a place, my heart misses a person when I hear it. Everything in life was better before. My wife and I were in high school and in love. The world wasn't this way. fast forward 10 years and she's thrown me away. And I just keep walking the streets at sunset looking for something to catch my fall. This song is so awesome but hurts so much to listen to. Not 1 year ago we were traveling across the country, seeing everything together. And now life is so bleak. I feel like I'm being swallowed up by all the people who have someone to love.
I can’t remember everything you said but you have about 3 lines of some great lyrics in there. Lol keep ya head up! I’ve been single over a decade and I’m prob happier than all my married friends. Let’s just be glad we’re still alive!
M hey when I was little I went to the class room and I skipped class and I don’t know how to read and I don’t know how to make friends and I don’t know how to spell and I was sad and hurt but and I got it is a blessing and now I don’t skip class now I never give up I making friends now and I know how to talk and speak and understanding when people talking to me is a blessing god bless you and have a good day they be safe
What a beautiful ballad to a changing hometown. We definitely have love for places that hold meaning for us, and it’s a strange feeling to have it change and become foreign as the years go on.
Oh man.....what an awesome song. It's been gracing my mind for like 48 hours now. Blessed be the perpetual groove......... I'm sifting through these wreckage piles through the rubble of bricks and wires looking for something I'll never find looking for something I'll never find
I instantly fell in love with all of their other songs. The fact that this one has to grow on me is slightly unnerving but I'm not saying it's bad but don't quote me on it's good. And I am dead center a town being gentrified. *forgot to mention I grew up listening to them religiously.
Adam Martin I would think the same (the distraction, feeling far removed from everything, etc.) but they’ve been using this distortion on so many of their songs for so long. I find it overdone at this point and hard to listen to. I wish I didn’t have to look past it and try so hard to like it. Love the lyrics/meaning and video and the new vibe, just wish it wasn’t that same old reverb that ruins the vocals for me. I was intrigued by the teaser for Your Hurricane though.
Same, but unlike the other guys I don't mind the distortion and reverb on the vocals, I think it fits and generally the composition and mixing is pretty good on this one. The only thing I disliked was the "gold rush" in the background, that highly annoyed me after a minute.
Rurouni Flojo that is my main gripe with it as well. the other teasers they released sounded much better in my opinion, so i’m hoping the other 9 tracks on the album sound familiar while still pushing the them forward as a band
In my 50's and lovin' me Death Cab for Cutie. I heard Gold Rush during the summer on a local 'adult alternative' radio station and searched them on youtube. Their songs from even ten years ago are great.
This band has been so profound. Thru all these years you'll hear them and life happens and you relate to a song so much your soul goes from the depths to clarity and peace. Every generation has a few groups that are timeless and the ancient reasoning for art is actualized and you are free.
I hope I get a chance to see DCFC Live some day. Lucky I live in NY and they hit this area often. This particular song hits home as I have witnessed the upper east side of Manhattan with my own eyes get torn down for new high rise cookie cutter buildings. Sucks to see
Thats the negative way of looking at it and becoming stagnant or being okay with 0 change. Rather If ur gonna feel like a stranger in ur own hometown, might as well go somewhere else and be a stranger there with new environments, people, etc.
I just took a "Google" tour through my old neighborhood (New Bedford, MA 1980 through a 2018 lens). I love this song so much more than ever now. How I miss the two comic book stores, the theater on the Avenue and Alfie's Place (I went to school with Alfie Jr.). Damn progress. Where are you Alfie!!!!
I don’t know, but... I seriously think this is their finest album so far. “ Gold Rush” is great, but I just can’t get “When We Drive” out of my mind. Gorgeous pop music!
Está canción la conocía gracias a FIFA 19, y nunca me había puesto a analizar lo que decía, hasta que ayer, gracias a Roberto Martínez en COSAS mencionaba se refería a la gentrificación.
This song is intensely powerful in specific circumstances. I moved out of a major city in the midwest in my early 20's where I had lived my entire life. Fast forward 10 years later and I was back for 3 months for a project in the area. The amount of buildings and land that had changed in that 10 years gave me a profound sense of sadness for what I would never be able to get back. This song was on the radio all of the time then and I would hear it while driving into and out of that city for 3 months.
I used to love Death Cab, Transatlanticism and Plans were some of my favourite albums as a kid but then I grew up and kind of forgot about them, was surprised when I went into EA Tracks on FIFA 19 to find out this song was done by them. Thanks FIFA for reminding me of one of my favourite bands.
Amazing song. I sure loved the video too!!!! It reminded me of The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony video!!!! Seen the live version of this song last night on Jimmy Kimmel. Outstanding performance!!!!!!
I love the vibe of this song, but I wish his voice wasn't so distorted. It's a bit too much for my taste and it makes it harder to understand the lyrics. Still hella excited for this album!
Great song! The local alternative station played it for a few months when it came out in 2018, then they. Just. Stopped. Haven't heard it on the radio since. I hate when they just kill a song like that, yet they'll play stuff that's 25 years old. Yes, I can hear it any time on UA-cam... that's why I'm here... but it's nice to sometimes hear something you like on the radio.
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The lines "I've ascribed these monuments. A false sense of permanence. I've placed faith in geography, To hold you in my memory" really hit me. I lost my dad when I was 6 and everyday for work I pass by the old bus station he would always use to visit me and where I have some of the very few memories of him.
Sorry for your loss. I know what you mean. I've recently lost a best friend who has been like a brother for 20 years. I still live in the city we've built so many memories aged 16 to 36. It can be tough to see things change, some of these places are not the same anymore or disappear completely. Thinking if moving to another city is what I need. I really feel this song. Thanks for sharing your memory.
My girlfriend would cherish this small memory of yours. Thanks
My dad dier when I was allmost 6 and some text in songs takes me back to good Times with him
My Uncle's home (where our family would often gather) was bulldozed down. I put in an offer after he passed but it could not outbid the business that wanted to make it into a parking lot. The executor, his nephew, gave in. It is very hard to drive by that area. It feels like a cemetery now. It was a beautiful old Victorian house with a great history and not only worth saving for the personal memories of our family but the history of it in the area but gold won.
Wishing you comfort and healing.
0:20 40’s
0:43 50’s
1:02 beginning of the 60’s
1:24 transition between 60’s and 70’s
1:37 70’s
1:50 transition between 70’s and 80’s
2:00 80’s
2:20 90’s
2:40 2000’s
2:54 2010’s
God I used to be so cringe back in the day
I watched this a few times and didnt notice the time change. Wow
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And what if the people that shoulder him represent the wars. Like the dude in the 40's slams him is ww2, and the guy in the 60's/70's is the Vietnam war?
@kenthehobo and if the impacts represent wars, also at the end we're too consumed by ourselves that we are warring with each other and just not caring about it. Increase in school shootings, BLM, Republicans vs. Democrats. You raised an interesting point.
The writings of Ben Gibbard will survive as poetry that goes on to live through ages.
This song is something else. Really helps me reminisce about my old local pub in the UK that me and all my mates would hang out when we were younger. When it finally got knocked down it felt like my youth was over. Treasure the good times always.
Finally, a wistful love song about a place, and not about a person!
if you don't think this is about a person, you need to re-read the lyrics...
his memories of a city that once was is an analogy to a relationship that occurred within it--among the lost locales
If you want more songs about a place more so than a person check out this song and more songs by the Saw Doctors, different style of music! They also sing about a road they traveled before emigrating out of Ireland, its called N17...I love these songs and bands like this that do not always sing about the generic themes like love for a person, money, sex, drugs etc
Kyle: it's about a place, I agree. I've listened to this song enough times to not cry about my city, Chicago. I still cry if it hits me at the wrong time. I moved to Tucson last year, because I could no longer afford to live in the city of my birth. Chicago, the city grounds so many of us reckless art students paved back to different roots, in the neighborhoods too dangerous for yuppies. We got bought out, displaced and ruined.
The song "There Goes the Neighborhood" by Tomo Nakayama is also about Seattle changing over time and Ben Gibbard recommended this album himself.
Yes also about some one but very strong lyrics that reflect today perfectly...A lot going on in the video, seeing the times change as he walks the same block, some people eyeing the area for development, the crowd growing as the years go on , how they all go from newspapers to I phones too.....
"Requiem for a skyline" that line is painfully poetic.
i soo agree
Conocí esta musica por Fifa 19 y me encanta, por la nostalgia y por lo buena que es
It's like Bittersweet Symphony with more colour! Love it. Times they were a changin'... Just walking down and enjoying the beauty of a lively street.
The narrative is there...and the lyrics are well written and wordy. That's what I appreciate about it.
This song was playing on the radio as I was driving in to the UPenn hospital in Philadelphia to see my pancreatic cancer surgeon. I didn't know who did it but it stuck to me. After I got home I looked at the radio station's playlist and found the song here on youtube and proceeded to listen to it for about an hour straight. Cancer can propel you to have intense moments and Gold Rush brings that on.
How's the cancer now?
@@EnclosedPoolArea My cancer is pancreatic - it's a tough one to beat. I hope to enroll in a clinical trial at Sloan Kettering later this month.
@@DufDavis Best of luck, man.
truth... especially at Upenn
Hello, how are you?
What a serious lyrical genius. He is the master of taking the ordinary and making it beautifully poetic. Bless you DCFC
He is a genius but Yoko Ono wrote this .
@@soulerflare7 Wow didn't know that. Just looked it up. It's Mindtrain by Yoko Ono, for anyone wondering.
It's worth noting here that Gibbard wrote the Gold Rush lyrics. And that the musical song itself is based on samples from Ono's Mindtrain. Here's an excerpt of the original Mindtrain lyrics:
Dub! ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...dub-dub, dub-dub, dub-dub!
Dub, dub-dub, dub, dub-dub, dub-dub-dub-dub train
Train, pain, train, pain, dub-dub train
Passed through my mind, dub-dub train passed...
Through my mind
I thought of killing that man, killing that man
Dub-dub train passed through my mind, ooh, ooh...
This is my favorite song from Fifa 19
Black XY same hahaha vs me?
Hahaha same
Oh hell yeah
It brought me here that's for sure
That's where I heard it lol 😋😉
I was listening to them when I was 20 and just loved the music, now at 31, they have intellectual poetry you never knew you could find. Keep it up fellas.
Been listening to the old stuff and the new stuff for years. The reason I enjoy this band is the emotional melody, lyrics and vibes, this song does not disappoint.
I'm relatively young at 48, and I just can't believe how much time has passed, and how much our culture has changed in such a very, very short time. A graduate of HS in 1989, in a class of 550, ~1800 in my school, and this outside Detroit in the blue belly of the automotive industry, and you could count the fat kids in my class on one hand. 15 years later in San Fernando Valley and I was shocked to see these kids on the sidewalk who were 200, 250+, and it was perfectly normal. I was a big, healthy kid at 18, 5'10" and 165lbs., and these kids dwarfed anyone I ever saw in high school. Now 15 years after that and we are in serious trouble on many, many fronts.
And your parents decided to let the farms put their corn sugar in everyone's bread and let corporations sell sugary shit to the working class and their children. Complain to them, not the millennials.
@@gagnorblu What is it that you think my parents should have done, millennial? And, you think I'm talking to you? My mother gave me Sugar Blues to read when I was probably 17, she taught nutrition at the local community college. I grew up vegetarian. My mother would try to tell anyone who would listen, but do you think those fat, white, suburban autoworker types were interested? Are those people absolved of free choice and the pursuit of higher information? There are so many things wrong with your remark that I don't know where to start, but I'll start with personal accountability. How are you on that spectrum anyway? The information was ALWAYS available. Sugar Blues was written in 1975.
Literally drove around the City with a tear in my eye when it came over the radio. I love how the repetition of 'Gold Rush' sounds like miners digging in a mine throughout the song. So many poignant levels to this.
This is real art dude, I don't get how this didn't blow up more
That might be the reason it didnt blow up...
It's not the message modern media is promoting. I feel this way too. I don't even recognize the place anymore.
@@starrywisdom He is not talking about place its about time the consistent urge to go back and fix those mistakes but stuck on present
Seems real are gets lost in the shuffle. Always been that way. Unfortunately. Glad you found it 😊
@@jerrylynch3296 ngl i found it through FIFA 19
Death Cab's music has resonated with my soul for years and I'm grateful to be watching a new video by these incredible artists this morning. My birthday was less than two weeks ago and I consider this one of the best presents I've gotten. I'm hoping for many more years of putting mine and others emotions into music.
I played this song on repeat as I went on the Alaskan Way Viaduct for the last time and I had all the feels. Clearly Death Cab's way of saying farewell to a swiftly changing Seattle.
Im an Urban planning student and we study the impacts of gentrification on the existing residents of these neighborhoods. This song conveys this sense of loss better than any journal article could ever dream of. Thank you.
Alex Niznik I was getting worried that all of the comments were gonna eat me up with the “everyones on their phones nowadays” verbatim... it feels good to hear someone agree with me that its about gentrification. thank you. theres more important, scary things going on out there that isn’t what seems most obvious. Rich and powerful are taking over my home town too, and it’s scary and painful to see...
Also an urban planning student. As much as I get this, gentrification will be 10x worse if you do not build new homes over the shells of shitty auto dealerships and dilapidated commercial building. Yeah you lose some of the grittiness of the city, but otherwise, you lose the people of the city.
@@andretsang7337 LOL. The song is actually about architecture or structures. LOL.Thats the allegory. Its about life change, aging, and the dissolution of youthful changes in ones life that 'devour the light''.
my favourite part of this awesome video is the bounce at 2:21!
Great song, but it chokes me up... I feel this way every time I walk through Vancouver. It's not the town I grew up in!!
Im in Victoria. I feel the same .
89 rated Dybala and that light blue colour scheme on a Tuesday afternoon in Washington :')
Am I the only one to notice the incredible progression of decades of fashion in the people he encounters from start to finish? The 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and on can all be seen. So many beautiful layers to this dirge lamenting a precious past since lost. I have sincere respect for this art.
Yes. You're the only one who watched the video.
Love this band since I heard their song 'Soul meets Body' in the movie Catch and Release. We saw them 5 years ago in OKC with my daughter and granddaughter.
I never liked this band before. but... they released this song at a time where I felt the most desperate and hurt. It gave me comfort where I has thought there was none. Their style of music is something that I did not understand or gravitate to. This song helped me realize that I wanted to go on living. I find it strangely wonderful in the comfort that I get from listening to it. I just hope that this song has the same impact that is has on me to help others who deal with mental health issues like I have to. It may be the feeling of nostalgia that it gives me, but sometimes it is just that easy to make to make a person feel better. Those simple things can make a huge difference. Thank you Death Cab for giving me a song that I can blast and sing along to. Especially when singing can feel like it is so hard to do.
I don't know if you're still out there, but thanks for this. Everything that you said... me too.
I live in city that no construction, now all these new building are being made people from all around world are coming to live here , I feel like I be left behind ,
Heard this song while working at goodwill the other day, was not expecting this to be by death cab for cutie. I thought this was by cage the elephant at first before shazaming it. This song and northern lights (that has also played at goodwill) sound extremely different to me.
DCC writes such stunningly beautiful and masterful lyrics that it nearly brings me to tears. Great job, guys. Can't wait for the new album to drop.
Thats close to my neighborhood on witmer st and wilshire in dtla
Any one's Else here from FIFA 19... this is my favorite song from FIFA 19 aww
Its my fav too
This song is perfection in that feeling that your youth faded without you realizing it.
this is such a banger, I’ll check back in 2030 🤯
Lirycs thanks me later
(Gold rush) (Gold rush) (Gold rush) They're digging for gold in my neighborhood (Gold rush)
Where all the old buildings stood (Gold rush)
And they keep digging it down and down (Gold rush)
So that their cars can live underground (Gold rush)
The swinging of a wrecking ball (Gold rush)
Through these lathe and plaster walls (Gold rush)
Is letting all the shadows free (Gold rush)
The ones I wished still followed me Change (followed me, followed me) Please don't change Stay
(followed me, followed me)
Stay the same (Gold rush)
I remember a winter's night (Gold rush)
we kissed beneath the street lamp light (Gold rush)
Outside our bar near the record store (Gold rush) That have been condos for a year or more (Gold rush)
Now that our haunts have taken flight (Gold rush)
And been replaced with construction sites (Gold rush)
Oh, how I feel like a stranger here (Gold rush)
Searching for something that's disappeared (Gold rush)
They're digging for gold in my neighborhood (Gold rush)
For what they say is the greater good (Gold rush)
But all I see is a long goodbye (Gold rush) A requiem for a skyline
(Gold rush)
It seems I never stop losing you (Gold rush)
As every dive becomes something new (Gold rush)
And all our ghosts get swept away (Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way Change (be this way, be this way)
Please don't change Stay (be this way, be this way)
Stay the same Cranes (be this way, be this way)
Devour the light Strange (be this way, be this way)
Appetites I've ascribed these monuments A false sense of permanence I've placed faith in geography To hold you in my memory (Gold rush)
I'm sifting through these wreckage piles (Gold rush)
Through the rubble of bricks and wires (Gold rush)
Looking for something I'll never find (Gold rush)
Looking for something I'll never find (Gold rush)
they're digging for gold in my neighborhood (Gold rush)
Where all the old buildings stood (Gold rush)
And they keep digging it down and down (Gold rush)
So that their cars can live underground (Gold rush)
It seems I never stop losing you (Gold rush)
As every dive becomes something new (Gold rush)
And all our ghosts get swept away (Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way Change, (Gold rush)
(it didnt use to be this way)
please don't change (Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way
(Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush)
Stay It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush)
Stay the same It didn't used to be this way
(Stay, stay the same) (Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way (Gold rush)
It didn't used to be this way Change, please don't change.
The music video kinda reminds me a bit of the verve bittersweet symphony with Ben just walking straight down the road
Definitely a nod towards it.Except Ben is not absorbing the contact from the other people he runs into.
it goes deeper... The Verve video was based on the Massive Attack video for "Unfinished Sympathy" ua-cam.com/video/ZWmrfgj0MZI/v-deo.html
Of course
@sean bush thanks for sharing the video, I was trying to remember that song
Anyone else wanna contribute to this rabbit hole lol 😂
I was thinking the same thing!
Love you guys so much. You are the only band that my brother, mom, and dad all love to listen to. Your music is just so pure. We all went together and saw you live outside of Omaha in Council Bluffs, IA two years ago and it was an unforgettable memory. You guys bring people together...that's what it is all about!
Wow, lyrics remind me of my neighborhood. Trying to salvage those memories from nostalgia of places no longer here.
I love this song. I grew up playing bluegrass and theres a fiddle tune called "Gold Rush"
this song makes me feel sad in a nostalgic kind of way. I love it.
Great lyrics, music and interchanging planes of mixing,
i'm so enjoying the vibes we've gotten from this new stuff so far, it's got me so pumped to see them in October!!!
same!!!!!!!
AN AMAZING subtlety to this video is the people on the streets “fashion” starts in the 30’s and moves through the decades until the end of the video, visually artistry to match lyrical artistry... NICE!
Thank you so goddamn much for this. My heart needs it !!!
Very interesting video. Heard part of this song on the radio earlier. Got the title and artist. Came here to listen to the whole song in its entirety. Low to no expectation on the video. Pleasantly surprised by its depth.😲
Never has a video been so accurate to the one I painted in my head about my own hometown. Thank you!
I don't know this Band before.But i like it.CBC Radio Mornings brought me here.Wonderful!Don Pedro From Montreal.
This song is about loss. Even if it's for a place, my heart misses a person when I hear it. Everything in life was better before. My wife and I were in high school and in love. The world wasn't this way. fast forward 10 years and she's thrown me away. And I just keep walking the streets at sunset looking for something to catch my fall. This song is so awesome but hurts so much to listen to. Not 1 year ago we were traveling across the country, seeing everything together. And now life is so bleak. I feel like I'm being swallowed up by all the people who have someone to love.
I can’t remember everything you said but you have about 3 lines of some great lyrics in there. Lol keep ya head up! I’ve been single over a decade and I’m prob happier than all my married friends. Let’s just be glad we’re still alive!
M hey that’s true I like it
M hey when I was little I went to the class room and I skipped class and I don’t know how to read and I don’t know how to make friends and I don’t know how to spell and I was sad and hurt but and I got it is a blessing and now I don’t skip class now I never give up I making friends now and I know how to talk and speak and understanding when people talking to me is a blessing god bless you and have a good day they be safe
In I know how to read
I’m going to work on cents
Such strong lyrics ....It so much reminds me of a good long walk through Flushing Queens NY and remembering how it used to be.
Gah I love bands like them. They are magical blessings to us all. Underrated artists.
I was in La Jolla, so much has changed so quick this song came to mind...and a tear to my eye..Thank God O.B. hasn't changed ...
What a beautiful ballad to a changing hometown. We definitely have love for places that hold meaning for us, and it’s a strange feeling to have it change and become foreign as the years go on.
Great music 🎶.
I think this video shows how changes are even more rapid now and we're all getting swept under the wave. Beautiful!
took me 4-5 listens now i'm loving it. a lot what like black sun was for that album
"Thank You for Today" is a title that really hits home. great newness from my favorite band. looking forward to hearing the album as a whole.
Just heard this on the way home from work. What a fantastic song of nostalgia! I can’t stop listening to it.
This is the best death cab i've heard in years.
Oh man.....what an awesome song. It's been gracing my mind for like 48 hours now. Blessed be the perpetual groove.........
I'm sifting through these wreckage piles
through the rubble of bricks and wires
looking for something I'll never find
looking for something I'll never find
death cab has been my favorite band for a long time. i’m really hoping this song grows on me.
like a fungus?
I instantly fell in love with all of their other songs. The fact that this one has to grow on me is slightly unnerving but I'm not saying it's bad but don't quote me on it's good.
And I am dead center a town being gentrified.
*forgot to mention I grew up listening to them religiously.
Adam Martin I would think the same (the distraction, feeling far removed from everything, etc.) but they’ve been using this distortion on so many of their songs for so long. I find it overdone at this point and hard to listen to. I wish I didn’t have to look past it and try so hard to like it. Love the lyrics/meaning and video and the new vibe, just wish it wasn’t that same old reverb that ruins the vocals for me. I was intrigued by the teaser for Your Hurricane though.
Same, but unlike the other guys I don't mind the distortion and reverb on the vocals, I think it fits and generally the composition and mixing is pretty good on this one. The only thing I disliked was the "gold rush" in the background, that highly annoyed me after a minute.
Rurouni Flojo that is my main gripe with it as well. the other teasers they released sounded much better in my opinion, so i’m hoping the other 9 tracks on the album sound familiar while still pushing the them forward as a band
Perfect driving around the city or hitting the open road music. Thank you Ben and band.
The best sound of FIFA 19 !!!
Spot on
God I love this band so much. Catch me buying this album the second it comes out.
I just heard this song over the radio and its awesome song to listen to
Nice to know other ppl feel this way too about change. Great song!
This is my neighborhood too . very sad . love this video
So glad that you're back, a lifelong inspiration for me as a human and a musician
In my 50's and lovin' me Death Cab for Cutie. I heard Gold Rush during the summer on a local 'adult alternative' radio station and searched them on youtube. Their songs from even ten years ago are great.
This song is a masterpiece
This band has been so profound. Thru all these years you'll hear them and life happens and you relate to a song so much your soul goes from the depths to clarity and peace. Every generation has a few groups that are timeless and the ancient reasoning for art is actualized and you are free.
Fantastic! Super excited for the rest as well! A new album to binge :D
I hope I get a chance to see DCFC Live some day. Lucky I live in NY and they hit this area often. This particular song hits home as I have witnessed the upper east side of Manhattan with my own eyes get torn down for new high rise cookie cutter buildings. Sucks to see
Mágico!!! Música linda
Slick beat, smooth shuffle, cool vibe.
“And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born then it's time to go”.
Go where? You'll be a tourist anywhere else too.
Thats the negative way of looking at it and becoming stagnant or being okay with 0 change.
Rather
If ur gonna feel like a stranger in ur own hometown, might as well go somewhere else and be a stranger there with new environments, people, etc.
I just took a "Google" tour through my old neighborhood (New Bedford, MA 1980 through a 2018 lens). I love this song so much more than ever now. How I miss the two comic book stores, the theater on the Avenue and Alfie's Place (I went to school with Alfie Jr.). Damn progress. Where are you Alfie!!!!
Bittersweet Gold Rush Symphony
Reminds me of the video from The Verve where lead singer was walking around all the time.. Bittersweet Symphony 🎶
2:26 the best part of the song!
🤝
“Looking for something I’ll never find … looking for something I’ll never find.” Hits hard in so many ways.
I don’t know, but... I seriously think this is their finest album so far. “ Gold Rush” is great, but I just can’t get “When We Drive” out of my mind. Gorgeous pop music!
truth !, we shaped this world so much to suit the cars, that we are beginning to lose our humanity
Beginning? It's lost. Been lost.
Wooooooooow, I love it, great song !!!
Love this song, makes me reminiscent
Interesting sound death cab. I love y’all. Always have.
the soundtrack our lives... rock n roll yeah
INDIE POP ROCK AWESOME
I feel like this is an anthem for Old Souls. Love it.
What a chilled song.surely it cant just be me..its amazing..cant explain why tho..
Está canción la conocía gracias a FIFA 19, y nunca me había puesto a analizar lo que decía, hasta que ayer, gracias a Roberto Martínez en COSAS mencionaba se refería a la gentrificación.
This song is intensely powerful in specific circumstances. I moved out of a major city in the midwest in my early 20's where I had lived my entire life. Fast forward 10 years later and I was back for 3 months for a project in the area. The amount of buildings and land that had changed in that 10 years gave me a profound sense of sadness for what I would never be able to get back. This song was on the radio all of the time then and I would hear it while driving into and out of that city for 3 months.
2:42 Stan Lee makes his obligatory cameo
we cast him since ben is a giant fan. good eye!
also not stan lee
it is actually.
Erik Garant no it isn't
its stan lee. you can tell by the way it is
I used to love Death Cab, Transatlanticism and Plans were some of my favourite albums as a kid but then I grew up and kind of forgot about them, was surprised when I went into EA Tracks on FIFA 19 to find out this song was done by them. Thanks FIFA for reminding me of one of my favourite bands.
Hello from Brazil. I love you guys
Amazing song. I sure loved the video too!!!! It reminded me of The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony video!!!! Seen the live version of this song last night on Jimmy Kimmel. Outstanding performance!!!!!!
I love the vibe of this song, but I wish his voice wasn't so distorted. It's a bit too much for my taste and it makes it harder to understand the lyrics. Still hella excited for this album!
Agree that it makes it harder to understand the lyrics, but I think it suits the song well.
if this is your idea of a distorted voice you must listen to some pretty tame music
cyurisich soo, are you calling most of death cabs music lame?
I said tame, not lame.
But, uh, yeah. Death Cab aren't known for particularly adventurous music
Ohh yea, nevermind I agree xD
Moved out of NYC 20 years ago, but damn this captures the city I loved.
Good bands great music have little views why oh why!
Awesome as always!
Living in Venice Beach, grew up in small now big town Sherwood Oregon. Gentrification man. Great songwriting Ben.
Thanks for having the courage to put into words what most can only feel. I for one love to grow with You- now get yer ass to St Lou!
Great song! The local alternative station played it for a few months when it came out in 2018, then they. Just. Stopped. Haven't heard it on the radio since. I hate when they just kill a song like that, yet they'll play stuff that's 25 years old. Yes, I can hear it any time on UA-cam... that's why I'm here... but it's nice to sometimes hear something you like on the radio.
I'm listening to new Death cab music, this is a good morning!!!!!
agreen182 I agree
agreen182 True ( :
Same
Walla this Walla that. It's a good song, don't know what everyone is whining about. It's a solid DCFC album.