Death Cab For Cutie - Stable Song Lyrics Meaning

This song is about looking back on your life. It is a song about nostalgia, doubt, regret and longing. Ben says 'the gift of memory's an awful curse, with age it just gets much worse, but I won't mind' which really sums up the whole idea of this song. It's about how hard it is to look back on your life, regretting chances never taken, missing old friends and old times, but at the same time, treasuring the same memories that haunt you.
A really good interpretation of this video can be found in the video for this song, you can see it on dcfc's dvd called 'plans'.