Pictures In An Exhibition
Written By: Ben Gibbard	Recorded: Summer 1997 / 1998
Lyrics
i think you caught me on the downslide, downturn i was busy writing with a pen and paper thin dream and all your plastic people with plastic hearts and smiles they had the worst intentions all along after all... the royal castle holds the mellow drama kings and queens and all their dazzling children; their so regal (clean) with pristine fingertips they wash behind their ears and let their hair down 'til the audience leaves i'm definitely shaking the silence isn't breaking backwashed and stranded memories of something i thought could be
Found On
You Can Play These Songs With Chords	els012
Something About Airplanes	els017/krang005
You Can Play These Songs With Chords (Re-release)	bark28
Notes
Recorded for the now infamous "You Can Play These Songs With Chords" and later re-recorded for Death Cab's first full length "Something About Airplanes."