Bend to Squares

about this song

Bend to Squares is the first song on Something About Airplanes. In an interview with Paste magazine, Ben Gibbard mentioned the songs meaning (or lack thereof): “I’d like to think I’m a far better writer now than I was 10 years ago. When I first started the band, and I began writing in the way that has marked the trajectory of how I go about making music now, I was convinced that my writing was wildly descriptive and very dense and interesting, and people were really going to have to chew on this stuff.

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