“Our Youth is fleeting
Old age is just around the bend
And I can't wait to go grey
And I'll sit and wonder
Of every love that could have been
If I'd only thought of something charming to say”

—  Ben Gibbard

The Sound of Settling
Transatlanticism (2003)

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American singer, songwriter and guitarist 1976

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