Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides (Official Music Video)

"Riptides" by @DCFCtv from the upcoming album 'I Built You A Tower', out on June 5, 2026
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Director: Jason Lester
Production Company: EXGF
EP: Cole Santiago
EP: Nance Messineo
Director Rep: Cheyenne Shannon of Lark Creative

Producer: Angelica Valente
DP: Pat Shahabian
Production Designer: Andrew Caso
Editor: Jason Lester
Colorist: Matt Osborne of CO3

Hair & Makeup: Nelly Santiago
Hair: Eddie John Duran
Wardrobe Stylist: Damaris Flores

1st AC: Théo Sturz
2nd AC: Torin Bradshaw
DIT: Charles Alexander

Lighting Director: Spike Kienholz
Gaffer: Tate McCurdy
Key Grip: Henry Martinez
Grip: Rafael Libos
Best Boy Grip: John Portillo
Best Boy Electric: Paul Kane

Art Director: Daniel Richmond
Lead Carpenter: Steve Bissonnette
Art PA: Devin Di-Filia

PA: Sydney Steinberg
PA: Tyler Geraty
Truck PA: Jack Thomas

Death Cab for Cutie is Benjamin Gibbard, Nicholas Harmer, Jason McGerr, Dave Depper, and Zac Rae

Produced and Engineered by John Congleton
Additional engineering by Sean Cook and Rachel White
Mixed by Carlos de la Garza
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, London

LYRICS

These days
I say goodbye without opening my mouth
I just stare into the distance til you figure it out
‘Cause I feel
As invested as a border guard
Who’s seen too many people leaving
To take it too hard

I’m too tired to talk
I’m too tired to end the war
And I can’t seem to hold it together
Anymore

And my Old Haunts
Each one’s a trigger and I’m holding the gun
Like a perp frozen in your headlights
Who forgot to run
And I’m overcome
By the voices multiplying in the crowd
That’s been swelling in between my ears
And growing frighteningly loud

I’m too tired to talk
I’m too tired to end the war
And I can’t seem to hold it together
Anymore
I’m too tired to start
I can’t bring you up to speed
There’s too many riptides in this ocean
To proceed

And though I’m feeling fine
Roughly half the time
There’s a fatal flaw
In my heart’s design

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