Ben Gibbard (leader of Death Cab For Cutie) is out on tour solo right now, and last night Gibbard was joined by talented opener Julien Baker (critically-acclaimed and newly-signed to Matador Records) to perform Death Cab For Cutie’s deep(er)-cut Photobooth from their 2000 Forbidden Love EP.  Check out this wistful beauty below performed at Chicago’s Thalia Hall. Afterwards, check out Baker’s insightful cover of the same song (lyrics at bottom) for A.V. Undercover.

Photobooth:

“I remember when the days were long
And the nights when the living room was on the lawn
Constant quarreling, the childish fits, and our clothes in a pile on the ottoman
All the slander and double-speak
Were only foolish attempts to show you did not mean
Anything but the blatant proof was your lips touching mine in the photobooth

And as the summer’s ending
The cool air will push your hard heart away
You were so condescending
And this is all that’s left
Scraping paper to document
I’ve packed a change of clothes and it’s time to move on

Cup your mouth to compress the sound
Skinny dipping with the kids from a nearby town
And everything that I said was true
As the flashes blinded us in the photobooth
Well, I lost track, and then those words were said
You took the wheel and you steered us into my bed
Soon we woke and I walked you home
And it was pretty clear that it was hardly love

And as the summer’s ending
The cool air will push your hard heart away
You were so condescending
And this is all that’s left
Scraping paper to document
I’ve packed a change of clothes and it’s time to move on

And as the summer’s ending
The cool air will push your hard heart away
You were so condescending
As the alcohol drained the days”