Lyrics
To Go Deeper:
1.) Plays Only Once:
maybe these lanterns will all melt together
hundreds of old orange lights
maybe not
and I wanna know what you really think
yeah I wanna know what you really think
cause the distance you pull me nobody does
the song that defines my existence plays only once
and the way that you shift me nobody can
I’ll keep all the kindness you gave me wrapped in saran
and the way you’ve amazed me nobody could
the things that you say, they have changed me, rings to the wood
‘Cause I wanted a center, for you and me
I wanted a center together, not separate dreams
and I wanna know what you really think
cause I don’t know how to be anymore
I don’t know how to be anymore
Maybe these columns of shapes that repeat will spin around once again
Maybe not
Maybe I’ll realize that I’m just nothing
And maybe I won’t
And I wanna know what you really think
Yeah I wanna know what you really think
cause the distance you pull me nobody does
the song that defines my existence plays only once
and the way that you shift me nobody can
I’ll keep all the kindness you gave me wrapped in saran
and the way you’ve amazed me nobody could
the things that you say, they have changed me, rings to the wood
‘Cause I wanted a center, for you and me
I wanted a center together, not separate dreams
and I wanna know what you really think
cause I don’t know how to be anymore
I don’t know how to be anymore
I need those days when you traced my design
we became just the same, co-defined
2.) Lost Balloon:
I found you on the other side
Sweeping down the other road
If I could glue you in, they would know
I will arrange it, and I’ll sleep
You’re on the fly and maybe belong
Here below the sky
I found you on the other side
Sweeping down the other road
If I could glue you in, they would know
I will arrange it, and I’ll sleep
You’re on the fly and maybe belong
Here below the sky
When we decide we’re safe where we hide
Cinders blow inside
We’ll rage against the odds of all of us
Wherever dark rushes out
We’ll not believe
The place where we would lay is all ablaze
Whenever they burn it down
We’ll go between
3.) Field of Columbines:
things are getting hazy now
i know it wont be long
but ive just given in
i can feel the reeling
the sucking of soul into the air
and yet im distracted
by a beautiful sunset
the shifting of seas
waves throw me overboard
pull me under
return me to where im meant to be
back to ground below the trees
the crisp of the autumn
the yellow wood
whispering of wind
trying to tell me all these years
something i cant quite figure out
that flickering dreamland i cant quite reach in time
that transient feeling i cant quite keep alive
the whiteness of air
the beauty of dark
is there anything above me?
is there anything above us?
could things be better in the space between the colors of the rainbow?
with those who have passed and those we let die
in our own way on our own time
you can ask why if you like
shout at the sky if you like
get really high if you like
but you won’t find the reason
in this life
4.) The Eye Above Us:
this one’s circling back to me
while the other one’s leaving
all I want is to shake the room, but I’m addicted to the silence
thought that I was all done with this
an astronaut on the rooftops
I miss the glove and the baseball field, yeah I could never get enough
I wanted radiance as near as I could see
Still, will I see you as you’re staring into me?
We are the eye above us
Join me we’ll lay on the lawn we will sing summer songs and hold on to this
They say a power apart from us judges us from a safe distance (no)
We are the eye above us
I don’t want to be comfortable
with only me to believe in
don’t know whether to search for it or really if it’s even hiding
I find it easy to get outside
when all the banners are streaming
if you told me to get out now, I’d be the only one inside
I wanted radiance as near as I could see
Still, will I see you as you’re staring into me?
We are the eye above us
join me we’ll lay on the lawn we will sing summer songs and hold on to this
they say a power apart from us judges us from a safe distance (no)
WE are the eye above us
5.) Running Down Mountains:
Notice the sky she said
Don’t fear of dying
Instead, look for me and you’ll find
The light in a lion’s eye
God knows she is already wise
Been running down mountains to fix me inside
How ’bout the time when we both heard the language of earth and we laughed in the dirt,
A rebirth for the sides of ourselves we’d been hiding, no longer dividing
A welcome return, remain reaffirmed
You have made me unafraid
I see far beyond your face
Leave our vices in our wake
Tell me how we’re all the same
Notice the sky she said
Don’t fear of dying
Instead look for me and you’ll find
The light in a lion’s eye
God knows she is already wise
Been running down mountains to fix me inside
She’s got rivers, blue skies, and spring nights in her mind
A world to describe, and rainbows for eyes
She is fire, burning underwater, turning ever farther
Beauty through her layers
Showing me what home’s supposed to be and how to get there
Heat within the embers
Fly within the feathers
It’s not just all or never
So glad that we remembered
You have made me unafraid
I see far beyond your face
Leave our vices in our wake
Tell me how we’re all the same
She’s got rivers, blue skies, and spring nights in her mind
A world to describe
And rainbows for eyes
She is fire, burning underwater, turning ever farther
Beauty through her layers
Showing me what home’s supposed to be and how to get there
No more days beside the ladder so glad that we remembered
6.) River Far:
will you drift on the sea of this sound?
while you dream of the home that you found
caught in the starry night, you sway
only the living light you wanna take to me
and i will shoot across the prison yard
a pressure wave on through the wall
it’s beautiful at the other side
i’ll ride the river far to find this
7.) Guarding Hand:
The drying lake
We’ll never leave together
I’ll defer to the future
When thundering blue arrives
You’re projecting when you read the sign
You’ll be climbing the hills ‘til you hear songs in the grain
That feed to
The drying lake
We’ll never leave together
Though they left out the edges
They thought to fill your inside
These are stones from an endless mine
We’re grinding the drill ’til fine
Weather rising
Color flying in
To leave with the wind
Outer layers crumble
Generations die
Swaying to the siren
Waving them goodbye
Tumbling with no guarding hand
All reliving themselves
Tumbling with no guarding hand
They could feel what they held with no guarding hand
They would live with the end
Falling in time as they’d step,
This is as close as they’d get
When I go aside
I’m clearing up
I’m clearing new curves and lines to walk when I’m fine
To walk when I’m fine
I’m in command
Tumbling with no guarding hand
8.) Competing Waves:
For now it seems I need to forget her
But where will she be when I haven’t found someone better?
I wonder
Been wanting to change my mind, to reconsider
She may always
Be calling in me
She may always
Be calling in me, and dancing in (contrasting with)
Competing waves
Strings of graves
Competing waves
Strings of graves
Our day went and came, but our love still remains,
It’s a pain that I integrate, instead of pushing it away
9.) Remember:
We funneled down your molten gold all day
In the same way tulips bridge the soil
And you stood in front of me so proud
Forgetting all you knew in the breeze
And what isn’t still could be
The sunlight on the water
Is where I’m meant to be
Your cheerful eyes take my disguise and throw it far into the sea
Recall you weren’t you enough
So better days will mend the cuts
And all that’s ever true is love and that what isn’t still could be
‘Cause wherever you go
Yeah, wherever you go
Hear the waves calling out and remember
Turn around to friendly fireworks
Pulling up your backward driveway
Sleeping with your face down in the dark
Waiting for somersaults in spring
But we still pull molten gold through our fingers
And we didn’t have to wait nearly as long
All that’s ever true is love and that what isn’t still could be
The sunlight on the water
Is where I’m meant to be
Your cheerful eyes take my disguise and throw it far into the sea
Recall you weren’t you enough
So better days will mend the cuts
And all that’s ever true is love and that what isn’t still could be
‘Cause wherever you go
Yeah, wherever you go
Hear the waves calling out and remember
10.) Walk in a Dream:
It’s like a walk in a dream
The one you barely recall
You hear the wind in the trees and
You can be nothing at all
You stop creating the wall
Realize it wasn’t your fault
They say this ride’s short and small,
How?
Fly on through moments
So close(d) to open
My body on notes and my mind on their echoes
Stream
Take me
It’s like a walk in a dream
The one you barely recall
You hear the wind in the trees and
You can be nothing at all
You stop creating the wall
Realize it wasn’t your fault
They say this ride’s short and small,
How?
Fly on through moments
So close(d) to open
My body on notes and my mind on their echoes
I’m high on the road at the edge of your soul
Speak
Shake me