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Transatlanticism

Song · 2003 · Death Cab for Cutie. Album: Transatlanticism

For the miles between you and them 🌊

Who it's for

The title track of Death Cab's concept album about long-distance love uses the Atlantic as a metaphor for emotional and physical separation.

Aching from distance→Feeling the longing fully

Feelings it meets

What it is

"Transatlanticism" is the nearly eight-minute title track and centerpiece of Death Cab for Cutie's 2003 album, a record with themes of isolation, distance and longing that many listeners hear as a concept album about long-distance love, though the band did not plan it that way.

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All major streaming services.

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Age: All ages

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together,Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter XXVII

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