| | The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Lyrics Artist(Band):The Postal Service
Your palms are sweaty, and I'm barely listening to last demands. I'm staring at the asphalt wondering "What's buried underneath where I am?" (Where I am) I'll wear my badge: a vinyl sticker with big block letters adhered to my chest. It tells your new friends "I am a visitor here... I am not permanent." And the only thing keeping me dry is... You seem so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex. A stranger with your door key, explaining that I'm just visiting. And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving. (I was the one worth leaving) D.C. sleeps alone tonight. (Where I am) You seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex. (Where I am) A stranger with your door key explaining that I'm just visiting. (Where I am) And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving. (I was the one worth leaving) (Where I am) The District sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights. (Where I am) And send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening. (Where I am) And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving. why I was the one worth leaving. why I was the one worth leaving. why I was the one worth leaving. If you find some error in The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Review about The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Alcholic | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/31/09 It's pretty clear to me that this song is about him being an Alcholic and his girlfreind leaving him because of it. The first line of the song: ''Smeared black ink, your palms are sweaty, and I'm barely listening to last demands'' means to me that she has given him an ultimatem to drop his alcholic usage, but he's too drunk to listen to her. The smeared black ink, being her eyeliner. ''I'll wear my badge, a vinyl sticker with big black letters, adhered to my chest. It tells your new freinds; I am a vistor here, I am not permanent'' This is him in rehab; he's trying to get help for his addiction. There's also other references in this song, like auto serving, and closing bars, that further push this subject. The ''I finally understand why I was the one worth leaving'' bit, is he's coming to terms with his addiction after rehab. Gibbard | Reviewer: Tyler Strilio | 10/29/09 Whether it's in death cab or postal service, Ben Gibbard's lyrics amaze me. His music speaks to people in soo many different ways. He tells stories to be deciphered by his fans. a story that they possibly have experienced themselves. but it's all what a person believes it means to themselves. 2 words, lyrical genius. D.C. Sleeps Alone Tonight | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/9/09 Personally, the song is about a divorce. About two people that have fallen apart, emotionally, and have finally taken the split hence, "Smeared black ink, Your palms are sweaty... to last demands," the last demands being the items they get in the divorce. And Ben, or the main character is wondering what could be worse than losing his love. His ex-wife has made new friends, but she's pretending to be someone she isn't and he can see through it, which is the only thing keeping him from breaking down, "keeping me dry." He realizes that she want's gaudy things, and riches, and it just isn't who he is, and nothing he could ever give her, so he was worth leaving. Then it finally drives him to alcohol, and the song ends with the idea of him driving through the night, aimlessly drunk. This is just my take on the song, from the lyrics and the ideas I see him trying to create. Take it or leave it :) My thought | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/27/09 I assume this guy in the song is a police officer, who just got out of a relationship. When he goes to visit her, he realizes how unhappy she is, or.. he sees how happy she is now (it could go either way), and now hes realizing everything, and that he was the one worth leaving. Later in the night, "D.C sleeps alone tonight", and he gives up. what i think | Reviewer: Ashley | 4/8/09 when i hear this song i think of a guy and girl that have broken up, and he goes to visit her. maybe to get stuff of his that she has. and when he goes to visit her and can tell that she isnt really happy, which explains why he says "stranger with your door key" because shes a stranger to herself because she pretends to be someone she is not. and this can also be preceived by the line "you seem so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex" because he sees that how she lives now and the friends that she has arent really what she wants. and "i was the one worth leaving" because he sees that their relationship wouldnt last because he really doesnt know who she is after all. I am not permanent | Reviewer: mOOKa | 11/5/08 I just love the line "I am a vistor here...I am not permanent." It takes something as simple and tactile as a visitor nametag and elevates it to a philosophical level, representing the impermanence of both the failed/failing relationship and existence in general...but not in a cheesy or presumptuous way. It's a repeated theme in their songs...like in "we will become silhouettes". Making something metaphorically new and different out of something we all recognize is the mark of a brilliant lyricist. Amazing. just life | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/5/08 I think that his girlfriend moved to a new apatment "gaudy apartment complex" with new roommates who are snobes and shes all trying to get him out by saying hes just visiting and hes saying he was the one worth leaving because she likes her new friends better and shes changing 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. (: Review By Pages: 1 2 3 4 Review the song The District Sleeps Alone Tonight The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "The Postal Service" Music | |
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