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In an interview with Shave Magazine, Ben Gibbard commented on his song writing saying that he " never sit down to write an album number one.

I just kind of sit down and write songs and the theme kind of makes itself apparent.

But I would never say I was writing about searching for something as much as just trying to document with every song where I am in that moment when I ’ m writing that song.

If a theme kind of makes itself apparent in a record, it has more to do with the fact that just what ’ s been on my mind recently.

So I guess clearly I have been and was and am, but it was never a conscious decision.