Air

May Memphis lay us all to rest tonight

I'm lonesome and blue and I just can't shake this

Tomorrow is not now and there's no peace in yesterday

And I can only admire from afar

Oh, I'm out of control

Got nowhere to go

I'll retreat into your air

Oh, where it's dark and cold

I feel safe and warm

And then you won't see me again

She said I know there's something tragic in those eyes

So take me as your lover tonight

In subterranean dreams of music, dance, and light

I return to another's embrace

Oh, I'm out of control

Got nowhere to go

I'll retreat into your air

Oh, where it's dark and cold

I feel safe and warm

And then you won't see me again

It's a complicated story about a thing we feel inside

The closest thing to universal truth, and yet we lie

Complacency, we're downloading our lives, we fail to try

And half a world away, the mothers for their children cry

Sex and drugs and rock and roll, addicted to the sight

A shallow influence that makes us kings for just one night

But nothing ever lasts, the cycle just repeats again

And I feel just like I'm drowning my friend, my friend

The hit parade and circus left town

I looked out my window to see

Skinny trees blowing in the wind

Hands raised up to heaven

And in a lethargic midwestern bar

Amplifiers hum to eleven

The things we fall in love with are funny like that

I hang up the phone

Hang up the keys

Exit stage left and I'm one with the breeze

I'm done with false truths

I'm done with true lies

I'm done with this life and I'm saying goodbye

I hang up the phone

Hang up the keys

Exit stage left and I'm one with the breeze

I'm done with false truths

I'm done with true lies

I'm done with this life and I'm saying goodbye

The scent of September ushers in again