Colfax (Album: "Souvenir" (2014)) (BANNER PILOT LYRICS)





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Watch the feathers fly up from your coat
You're like an angel; I need an angel
I get so weighted down somehow you float
Across the pavement
Across the pavement I've been stuck to so long

And an ugly world suddenly seems almost beautiful now
Every drunken word is poetry and weeds turn to flowers somehow
Up against the wind, you and me, it don't matter where we blow to
Even in this dark, I can see everything I've lost inside you

Now splashing down every street I used to bleed in
With every doubt dripping out, this is where it's all been leading to tonight

Tonight I say it's like the city's ours
You say it's nowhere
I'm fine with nowhere
Smile as you exhale up toward the stars
And blow the dust out, and blow the dust across a seas of concrete

Where an ugly world suddenly seems almost beautiful now
Every drunken word is poetry and weeds turn to flowers somehow
Up against the wind, you and me, it don't matter where we blow to
Even in this dark, I can see everything I've lost inside you

Now splashing down every street I used to bleed in
With every doubt dripping out, this is where it's all been leading to tonight

And there's no place I'd rather be than on this sidewalk
You and me, we could have it all
Soaking in a summer night while you're biting at rain drops

Now splashing down every street I used to bleed in
With every doubt dripping out, this is where it's all been leading to tonight

In an ugly world suddenly seems almost beautiful now
Every drunken word is poetry and weeds turn to flowers somehow
Up against the wind, you and me, it don't matter where we blow to
Even in this dark, I can see everything I've lost inside you

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Shoreline (Album: "Souvenir" (2014)) (BANNER PILOT LYRICS)





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Drinking alone outside of town at night
Staring out trying to tune in to a ghost
It's all become static now
When everything good burns out and fades away
Leaves the dust, all the ash and all the smoke
Got so close

But it's raining like it always does
Fills the sky
Tired of waiting here alone in this wayward life
How much shit can one kid take before he's had enough
Every street light burst to light
Make dead eyes open up

Walk the shoreline try and stop this rust
Feel so disconnected all the time
So afraid this might be all there is
How long does it take to feel alive?
Take to feel alive...

Swing at the wind that blew the hope away
Left you here waiting to stare into the sun
See if it burns ya down
See if it softens everything too hard
Lights it up and maybe something good'll come

But it's raining like it always does
Fills the sky
Tired of waiting here alone in this wayward life
How much shit can one kid take before he's had enough
Every street light burst to light
Make dead eyes open up

Walk the shoreline try and stop this rust
Feel so disconnected all the time
So afraid this might be all there is
How long does it take to feel alive?
Take to feel alive...

Get so numb
A shadow world outside

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Letterbox (Album: "Souvenir" (2014)) (BANNER PILOT LYRICS)





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Are we still young?
Have we been everything that we'll become?
Some escape, the rest get stuck
And find it's easier to fall down than it is to keep on climbing up

Now you're the king of all this dust
Outside alone collecting rust
Where every turn and every scar
Can all make sense if you don't think too hard
Every day becomes a blur
And though you can't remember last week
I can still remember who you were

And you'd never settle for this dirt
You'd run 'till you ran outta earth
Who's gonna walk you home alone tonight?
Who's gonna pick you off the floor,
And who's gonna find away to let you in when you're out there knocking?

And maybe this is all there is tonight
And maybe this is forever
Or maybe this is when you start to fight, and you don't surrender now

Caught in waves you drift along
The days grow shorter and the nights go wrong
Hit the streets and choke on air
With all the people on the outside
Looking for what probably isn't there

Face down and drowning with these sharks drunk in defiance of this dark

And you'd never settle for this dirt
You'd run 'till you ran outta earth
Who's gonna walk you home alone tonight?
Who's gonna pick you off the floor,
And who's gonna find away to let you in when you're out there knocking?

And maybe this is all there is tonight
And maybe this is forever
Or maybe now is when you start to fight, and you don't surrender now

Here's where tomorrow starts
Here's where the midnight wipes it clean on the outside in between
The moon struggles out and sighs
Hung in a cold and empty sky
Throws down some light for you
We're miles out at sea
We're miles from where we want to be

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Fireproof (Album: "Souvenir" (2014)) (BANNER PILOT LYRICS)





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Hungry on the porch at night
But these lean days haven't broke us yet
Stronger by the struggle right?
Remind me on the days that I forgot

Put your hand inside of mine
It feels electric every time I hold you
Outside the sky has turned a lighter blue
And there's not a lot I can promise you
That we can still be happy even if we fall
In a certain light it's kinda like we have it all

The city lights above this street
They're so blue and white and red and green
Breathing in the world at dusk
It's like every one is glowing just for us

Put your hand inside of mine
It feels electric every time I hold you
Outside the sky has turned a lighter blue
And there's not a lot I can promise you
That we can still be happy even if we fall
In a certain light it's kinda like we have it all

Outside the sky has turned a lighter blue
And there's not a lot I can promise you
That we can still be happy even if we fall
In a certain light it's kinda like we have it all

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Heat Rash (Album: "Souvenir" (2014)) (BANNER PILOT LYRICS)





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Wake up I found a way out
Here at the bottom of a dream I had tonight
There's not much that I remember
Went down a rabbit hole and up the other side

I can walk with broken legs
I can crawl my up sinking ground
From the bottom of these dregs to an empty side of town
Where I shed a weathered skin
And I leave an empty shell behind
with tomorrow closing in
I know now's the time to take this moonshot

Right now it's summer somewhere
If I can scrape this goddamn winter off my feet
Then this curb could mark a new start
Divide the past from everywhere I'm going to be off this concrete

I can walk with broken legs
I can crawl my up sinking ground
From the bottom of these dregs to an empty side of town
Where I shed a weathered skin
And I leave an empty shell behind
with tomorrow closing in
I know now's the time to take this moonshot

Wall of sky at 2 a.m. I'm idling outside below
Standing on the edge of this plateau
The crows will sing my victory song
Cawing all the way until I'm gone

I can walk with broken legs
I can crawl my up sinking ground
From the bottom of these dregs to an empty side of town
Where I shed a weathered skin
And I leave an empty shell behind
with tomorrow closing in
And I know there's never been a better time to take this moonshot

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Dead Tracks (Album: "Souvenir" (2014)) (BANNER PILOT LYRICS)





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Greet the night with cheap wine
Lose the sun behind the skyline
Fucked up, with a shattered heart
We were halfway there when it fell apart
Now I'm half drunk almost half the time
If you need me, I'll be down on this decline

Walking around, feeling the wind blow
over the freeway out my window
Here in the dark watching the moon creep
over a sleeping town
But I keep walking up tonight here on my own
I'm having one more drink before I slip to the unknown

I've made a few mistakes along the way
I know I'll make a couple more
I washed up on the streets I'd pass before
I'd pass before

Haunt the dives along the dead tracks
Drift away but always float back
Fuck up, so it ended wrong
Me and all these ghosts have been up too long
In the half light where it's hard to see
Why I let you go I know what that makes me

Walking around, feeling the wind blow
over the freeway out my window
Here in the dark watching the moon creep
over a sleeping town
But I keep walking up tonight here on my own
I'm having one more drink before I slip to the unknown

I've made a few mistakes along the way
I know I'll make a couple more
I washed up on the streets I'd pass before
I'd pass before

Hope has burned away, I'm still on fire
It's all just ash and memories now
Floating around, try and remember something good that I forgot

Spin in retrograde with all the lost
Waiting for the end of night
Counting it down, but when tomorrow comes around
I'll still be here in the dust, I did it all myself
It's cold without you
I want a day I wake up as someone else
It's cold without you now

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Effigy (Album: "Souvenir" (2014)) (BANNER PILOT LYRICS)





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I watched the sun cut through your bedroom
and make its way across the floor
I drifted off to somewhere and back to where you are
The lights are up
We made it through the bars

Like a stray, I'm coming home again
Try to fly straight
But every now and then life becomes grey
And it takes a lot of sin to feel alive on the streets here at night

But nothing's ever lost forever
I'll find my way up off the floor
But even on my best days I'm half of who you are
I fucked it up, and I can't wash away the scars
I know I won't break, but if you want to take

Like a stray, I'm coming home again
Try to fly straight
But every now and then life becomes grey
And it takes a lot of sin to feel alive on the streets here at night

I know I won't break, but if you want to take
all I have we'll burn it up in effigy
It's been a tail spin; I'll reap the whirlwind
I'll play a new part; I'll make a new start
All I was we'll burn it up in effigy
It's such a long war, but what I want more is you and me
The rest can burn in effigy

I know we won't break, but if you want to take
all I have we'll burn it up in effigy
It's been a tail spin; It's been a whirlwind
I'll play a new part; I'll make a new start
All I was we'll burn it up in effigy
It's such a long war, but what I want more is you and me
The rest can burn in effigy

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