"Soul Meets Body" is a song by Washington rock band Death Cab for Cutie. It was released on the group's 2005 album Plans, their first collaboration with Atlantic Records, and was that album's first single. The band based the track on a demo Ben Gibbard created from sampled sounds. The song stands out from many other Death Cab for Cutie works in its prominent featuring of the mandolin.
"Soul Meets Body" was played live on Last Laugh '05, a comedy special on Comedy Central summarizing 2005. The song's video, directed by Jon Watts, features frontman Ben Gibbard walking through a forest, singing the first verse of the song. He arrives at a small wooden cabin, joining the rest of the band, and they perform the remainder of the song together. Meanwhile, living musical notes that rose out of the ground as Gibbard walked past them drift aimlessly together through fields and cities. This aspect of the video is reflected in the song's refrain, 'a melody softly soaring through my atmosphere.' Many of these notes 'die' during the video, some getting caught on fences and wires, others captured by children with glass jars, and some simply shown lying in gutters or puddles. The end of the video shows the surviving notes flying through the air. The song peaked at #5 on the U.S. Modern Rock tracks chart.
The song was also used as the outro for Loveline throughout 2006.
