Grapevine Fires

"Grapevine Fires" is a song by American indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, the fourth single from their sixth studio album, Narrow Stairs, released February 3, 2009 on Atlantic Records.

The single peaked at number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, and becoming the band's sixth single on that chart.^[1] "Grapevine Fires" was featured in the NBC drama Heroes" in the episode "Ink", and also appeared on the 2009 compilation album, Change Is Now: Renewing America's Promise.

The drumbeat of the song is modeled after the "Purdie Shuffle", although drummer Jason McGerr says it is more of an emulation, as opposed to a replication, of the famous drum pattern.^[2]

Music video

The band members' cameo in the video.

The video of the song is animated and created by Walter Robot. It features a semi-literal interpretation of the lyrics by showing a wildfire and its effect on the lives of the people in the video. The band members make a cameo appearance loading a van. The visual interpretation of the song in the video leaves out the imagery of the second verse of the song.

The video was accepted into the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Music Video.

Chart positions

Chart (2008)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks	21

Death Cab for Cutie

Ben Gibbard Nick Harmer Jason McGerr Nathan Good Michael Schorr Chris Walla

Studio albums	Something About Airplanes We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes The Photo Album Transatlanticism Plans Narrow Stairs Codes and Keys Kintsugi

Other	You Can Play These Songs with Chords iTunes Originals

EPs	The Forbidden Love EP The Stability EP Studio X Sessions EP The John Byrd EP The Open Door EP

Singles	"Your Bruise" "Prove My Hypotheses" "Stability" "A Movie Script Ending" "I Was a Kaleidoscope" "We Laugh Indoors" "The New Year" "The Sound of Settling" "Title and Registration" "Soul Meets Body" "Crooked Teeth" "I Will Follow You into the Dark" "I Will Possess Your Heart" "Cath..." "No Sunlight" "Grapevine Fires" "Little Bribes" "Meet Me on the Equinox" "You Are a Tourist" "Home Is a Fire" "Stay Young, Go Dancing" "Underneath the Sycamore" "Black Sun" "The Ghosts of Beverly Drive"

Filmography	Drive Well, Sleep Carefully Directions: The Plans Video Album

Related articles	Discography ¡All-Time Quarterback! The Postal Service Barsuk Records Atlantic Records Fierce Panda Records The Revolutionary Hydra

References

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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