Article: Death Cab for Cutie drives along singing out life's crucial themes

Everyone has them.

Memories from your youth, when the future was so bright you had to wear shades, as if anything was possible if you could only find the words grand enough to express your ideas. When it seemed as though you had to do Big Important Things Right Now.

And most of those memories involve a girl. Or a boy.

They are exactly the kind of recollections that pop into your head when you listen to the lyrics of Death Cab for Cutie, who will play the Terrace Theater in Long Beach on Monday.

Take "What Sarah Said," the song that serves as the unofficial theme of the group's latest album, "Plans" (Atlantic, 2005).

The song, inspired by a conversation between DCFC songwriter/ singer Ben ...

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