"Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole, just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound."

Plans is Death Cab for Cutie's fifth studio album, sounding different compared to their previous album, Transatlanticism. Transatlanticism was Death Cab's first moderately successful record, and it marked the band's growing fanbase. To me, Transatlanticism was impossible to dethrone: the album was just the perfect compilation of beautiful verses complemented with the right sound, but when I finally listened to Plans, I realized I liked them both as much. I picked the songs that I liked the most and that I consider my personal favorites out of the album.

Marching Bands Of Manhattan

I wish we could open our eyes
To see in all directions at the same time
Oh what a beautiful view
If you were never aware of what was around you
And it is true what you said
That I live like a hermit in my own head
But when the sun shines again
I'll pull the curtains and blinds to let the light in.

Like getting a letter on how to be.

Brothers On A Hotel Bed

You may tire of me as our December sun is setting because I'm not who I used to be

No longer easy on the eyes but these wrinkles masterfully disguise...
But now he lives inside someone he does not recognize
When he catches his reflection on accident.

A nostalgic story telling us what happens when you get old and it was too late to change who you became.

What Sarah Said

And it came to me then

that every plan
is a tiny prayer to father time.

What Sarah Said is my absolute favorite song out of this album and probably one of my favorite songs, ever. What it's saying is that for every plan you make, you are praying for more time to be able to live it. It's as if the listener were being told not to waste time planning when you could be living it, right now.