Unobstructed Views

Album: Codes And Keys (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • The song starts off with a solemn, piano-driven introduction before eventually bringing vocalist Ben Gibbard into full view. It blossoms into a full-blown paean to unobstructed adoration for a lover with Gibbard repeating, "Just our love/ Just our love." It is not known if the singer wrote the tune before or after he married the actress and She & Him songstress Zooey Deschanel in September 2009.
  • Gibbard described this to Spin magazine as, "a sprawling, seven-minute track that's mostly instrumental. It has the piano and keyboard soundscapes that I've been really enjoying."

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