Reviews for The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Lyrics
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Break Up | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/9/08
The part with the "stranger with your door key, explaining that I'm just visiting" could mean his girlfriend's new life.
"Gaudy apartment complex" means a showy, expensive living space, and the "stranger" is the ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, and they live together.
His ex-girlfriend has a better life now, so he sees why she left him.
The real meaning | Reviewer: Jenn | 4/10/08
well you guys gaudy means either
1. brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage.
2. cheaply showy in a tasteless way; flashy.
3. ostentatiously ornamented; garish.
therefore, he is not referring to a prison, how can a prison be flashy?
and he is not referring to an insane asylum because how can an asylum be flashy?
It has to be a dorm room because a regular appartment would not have someone excort you to the door
My Imagination Interpretation. | Reviewer: Elissa | 4/1/08
I have created a little character in my head that goes along perfectly to this song. My character is a teenage girl who's Mother died on her fifth Birthday. Her Mother use to be an annual hero and role-model for the young woman and children of D.C. (The District was the neighborhood the little girl's Mother grew-up in.) I think this would half be about the night her Mother died and eight-years-later..visiting the old apartment her Mother lived in before her death. Whenever I listen to this song even after I check the lyrics, I hearthe lyric 'Where I Am' as 'Where are you', which indicates the little girl is searching for her Mother. 'And send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening' is about the rushing crowd of cars and people the night the Mother died in her 'guady apartment complex'. I always think of this lyric 'I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving' as the Mother now, as an angel up in Heaven..seeing why she was the one to leave. (:
Reading too much into it... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/14/08
I think this song is pretty simple. He was with someone for a long time, got to know her intimately, and is now seeing her for the first time outside the context of her relationship. It's a wakeup call, and it's all becoming real. He's finally seeing why he was the one worth leaving.
Maybe... | Reviewer: Stephanie | 2/6/08
Maybe he's going to visit her in an insane asylum. He has to wear a visitor's tag, and her "new friends" are the other people in there. Maybe he feels he was the one worth leaving because he feels some guilt about her being where she is.
Paige loves this song. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/27/08
Wow, you guys are great with your explanations. Really. Im sceptic bout the prison thingy, which could be true though. Yeah, anyway, its an AWESOME song. Love Ben´s voice. And DCFC flippin rox my sox!!!
great song | Reviewer: Natasha | 1/15/08
I really don't know what do the words mean here....
Just great song,absolutely unforgetable.It became for me smth more than just song.I live in Ukraine.Not many people listen to The Postal Service,but I'm really happy to discover it.I always start to think about the guy I loved much,and still love.
The District | Reviewer: heart | 1/10/08
"D.C." doesn't stand for "Death Cab," it's the District of Columbia, hence the title of the song (it's often called "The District").
I think this song is about a couple breaking up. He's visiting her college dorms, which are apartment-style and explains why he needs to get a visitor sticker and be escorted to her room while the stranger explains the visiting policy. I always thought "smeared black ink" to be a phone number or address that he has.
Also I don't like how the first verse is written - it should be:
I'm staring at the asphalt wondering
what's buried underneath.
(where i am)
Hmmm. | Reviewer: Bryony | 12/2/07
i think this songs about a guys girlfriend/girls boyfriend going to prison. what with the ink smeared on the hands, like you'd get from fingerprinting someone. And then he can only visit her, and isnt a proper part of her life any more. And the 'stranger with your door key' bits like the jailor. I dont get why 'he was the one worth leaving', though.
amazing song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/17/07
i love this song. its really beautiful and sad.
im having trouble deciding what theory im gonna go with-whethere its an ex visiting another ex or whether its a couple on the brink of being exes. i think its a couple on the brink and that the guy is aware that its going to end. i think in the first stanza, it kinda hints to the guy feeling almost like he lost himself with the girl and cant remember what he used to be like. and in the second one i think its about how he knows he's not right for her and that she's just testing things out (including him) and that in the end she'll realize she doesnt need him anymore. that he was just a temporary "solution". and i think the only thing keeping him dry is the fact that she's lost herself and doesnt know what she wants (hence, looking out of context in the gaudi apartment complex...) and that she's also in her in-between phase. so in this case it really is not him but her. that he was just there in her stage of trying to figure out what she wants so he was worth leaving in order for her to find herself. and the district sleeping alone tonight part i think is just saying that it feels like everyone is sleeping alone that night because he is alone.
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