Contrails
Astronautalis

[feat. Tegan Quinn]

I know, leaving's your living, built in your bones

No one can ever escape all of their ghosts

So if you walk, you better learn how to run

That's why I wrote this song

Your contrail's coated in broken homes

You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope

That I won't parade your skeletons for everyone

But that's why I wrote this song

That's why I wrote this song

That's why I wrote this song

That's why I wrote this song

I know you know the words, so sing along

She always made the best of deaf and blind

Fashionable dress of canes and signs

Tracing their apparel, like a judge of character in Braille

She never missed a lift, a bump, or line

But fingertips will drift and miss blip from time to time

And this is how we find

Secrets that slipped our grip

Over wit and charm on whispered breath

Frantically fishing for familiarness on fingertips

And this is just, shit, what is this?

This is redress

I know her cane is just a comedy

Tin cup's a crutch for crippled honesty

Her slain perception's lame deception

What's astonishing, we bought it, see

Every Harry, Dick, and Tom, left her very fickle palms

Palming a broken promise ring, you follow me?

A hundred strong men choked on the bit

While the blind bride guides the bridle toward the abyss

And this can only end wrong

But motherfuck it, that's the reason why I wrote this song

I know, leaving's your living, built in your bones

No one can ever escape all of their ghosts

So if you walk, you better learn how to run

That's why I wrote this song

Your contrail's coated in broken homes

You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope

That I won't parade your skeletons for everyone

But that's why I wrote this song

Lionel Terray said it the truest, I set it to music

We're all Conquistadors of the Useless

What kind of fool is so stupid to climb a mountain do it

Then climb back down to the town without a picture to prove it?

I knew it

From the moment I saw your eyes flash wide in the crowd

That you would cut and run, but it's too late to turn back now

It's when those burnt black clouds submerge the Earth in shroud

That kings earn that crown

And this is how we rise by taking the fall

Survive another winter on straight to the thaw

One day you'll learn to strain the tea through your teeth

And maybe find the strength to proceed to the peak

Press on into the thin again till I cannot breathe

I swallowed so much of my damn pride that it chokes me

The real risk is not a slipped grip at the edge of the peak

The real danger is to linger at the base of the thing

I know, leaving's your living, built in your bones

No one can ever escape all of their ghosts

So if you walk, you better learn how to run

That's why I wrote this song

Your contrail's coated in broken homes

You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope

That I won't parade your skeletons for everyone

But that's why I wrote this song

That's why I wrote this song

That's why I wrote this song

That's why I wrote this song

I know you know the words, so sing along

Purchase "Contrails" Purchase Entire Album Email Video to Friends Play Youtube "Contrails" Video Play Spotify "Contrails" Song View Wikipedia "Contrails" Entry Receive Emails for Future Astronautalis Lyrics

Link to "Contrails"

Share:

Copied!

Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more

See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Astronautalis

1515 Washington 17 Summers A Love Song For Gary Numan An Episode Of Sparrows Astigmatism Astronautalis Avalanche Patrol Baggage Claim Barrel Jumping (A Man Of Letters) Boiled Peanuts (feat. Lizzo) Brighton Damn Park Cut The Body Loose Dimitri Mendeleev Dimitri Mendeleev (Single) Down And Out In The Bold New City Of The South Fax Machine Forest Fire Fourth Of July Fourth Of July (Feat. Radicalface) Gaston Avenue Guard the Flame Holy Water Hurricane Isabel I'm Never Right I'm Never Right (Feat. Isaiah) In The Tall Grass Kudzu Kurt Cobain Lakefront Property Life The Curse Lift The Curse Lost at Sea (Part 1_that Old Sinking Feeling) Lost At Sea (Part 1: That Sinking Feeling) Lost at Sea (Part 2_ the Getaway) Measure The Globe Meet Me Here Later Meet Me Here Later (Reprise) Midday Moon Mr. Blessington's Imperialist Plot My Boo My Dinner With Andy My Old Man's Badge Now and Never More Oceanwalk People Often Tell Me I'm Good At What I Do Running Away From God Seaweed Sheets Secrets Of The Undersea Bell Secrets On Our Lips Short Term Memory Loss Sike! Sike! (GodDamnChan Remix) Skeleton (Everybody's Favorite) Skeleton (Everybody's Favourite) Somethin' For The Kids The Case Of William Smith The River, The Woods The Story Of My Life The Waterfall The Wondersmith And His Sons This Is Our Science Thomas Jefferson Tightrope Trouble Hunters Two Years Before The Mast Uncle Danny Xmas In July You Know What It Is!

Related Songs

Cataract - Sparta Contrails - Richmond Fontaine Contrails - Quitter Reborn - Derek Ryan All The First Pages - Anathallo Wand - Thin White Rope 109 - Bathory Gathering The Eagles - Ares Kingdom Consigned To The Ages - Ares Kingdom Consigned To The Ages / Gathering - Ares Kingdom Rock Island - Jethro Tull Valencia - Brazos Merchant Of Mataphors - Canibus

Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.