What Sarah Said

I've been mulling over this Death Cab For Cutie song these past few days... it's sad - but full of something more - something I can't quite put my finger on. It struck me with the line: love is watching someone die... and then I saw the video they have for it posted on their website and I was so moved by it - you can watch it here until March 26th. The words are written in French, so to get the full effect, here is the translation: On the mirror she writes "He loves me", On her hand she writes "A little?", On the wall she writes "Very Much!", On his arm is written "passionately", On her leg she carves "With madness", And she finishes the sentence on the mirror "not at all."

Here are the lyrics to the song:

"What Sarah Said"

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breathes as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak of the LCD took you a little farther away from me

Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds
But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself

'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said that "Love is watching someone die"

So who's going to watch you die?..