You Remind Me of Home

But not in a good way. Ben Gibbard, lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie (origins of name here), recorded this song on his EP Home, Volume V (with Andrew Kenny, Amazon). Beautiful tune disguises some ugly sentiment. After each repetition of "You remind me of home," he sings lines like

the paint cracks when the water leaks
from the rusty pipes that are just beneath my feet

the heater's warm but fills the room with a
potpourri of dust and gas fumes

a broken bed with dirty sheets that creaks
when I am shifting in my sleep

in a suburban town with nothing to do,
patiently waiting for something to happen

Ending with the sentiment, "You're wasting your life."

Bleak, bleak, bleak.