“Meet Me On The Equinox” by Death Cab for Cutie

"Meet Me on the Equinox" was Death Cab for Cutie's contribution to the soundtrack for the 2009 film The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and it led the album off as its first single, premiering at the MTV Video Music Awards that September. All four members share the writing credit, and Chris Walla produced.

Don't expect vampire lore. Music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas sent the artists scenes from the film as a guide, but Walla had read only two of the books and called the lyrics suggestive rather than literal, and Benjamin Gibbard said the song drew more on his own life than on Stephenie Meyer's story. At heart, he explained, it's about meeting someone halfway, because time is short and real connection is rare. The band backs that up with a brisk, urgent push, guitars surging under Gibbard's keening voice.

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