When Ben Gibbard was writing songs for Death Cab for Cutie’s 2018 album Thank You for Today, he penned some lyrics about American politics during the Donald Trump presidency. He didn’t much care for the tune, calling it a “bad Randy Newman-esque political song.” So Gibbard took some lyrics he wrote for some other songs […]
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