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Airborne

from Snow on the Waves by Meghan Hayes

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lyrics

When you start out in limbo
It’s a long way home
When you sell off your ticket
You leave half yourself at home
The airlines they call you
Say we’re glad you’re alive
You’re our most seasoned veteran
You’ve been with us since you were five

Are we up in the air yet?
Are we up yet you say
You’ve waited so long now
So long for this day

Well, you’ve been in the sky
Since the day they first met
And you haven’t come down
‘Cause they weren’t ready yet
You’ve lived in twenty houses or so
And now there’s rent to be paid
But you’re not the one who owes

‘Cause your airborne
Halfway between the tarmac and the morning
Airborne
And no one comes up to fix the clouds they’ve torn

You thought you’d hold a song up
Like a knife to his throat
Thought you’d build you a castle
And make him swim the moat
Now his baby plays piano
Tonight on the phone
And you might have had some talent
But you took lessons in flying alone

Are we up in the air yet?
Are we up yet you say
You’ve got no hands to hold you
You’ve got no hands to pray

You took to the sky on account of some papers
That freed two adults from the fruits of their capers
And you might fly at heights of the most dangerous kind
But there’s no child you’d sign away on that dotted line

‘Cause you’re airborne
Halfway between Dulles and Wisconsin’s corn
You are airborne
And the miles add up and the captain’s forlorn
You are airborne
And you might as well start blowin’ your own horn
‘Cause you’re airborne
And you’re comin’ down now with your engines roarin’

credits

from Snow on the Waves, released January 1, 2000
Meghan Hayes: guitar, vocals
David McKittrick: guitar
Tim Smith: bass
Rich Hayes: drums, percussion
Shyam Telikicherla: piano
Paul C. Wood: electric guitar

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Meghan Hayes Nashville, Tennessee

Meghan Hayes is a singer-songwriter, Nurse Practitioner and landscape designer living in Nashville, TN. Her most recent record, Seen Enough Leavers, is a bruising post-divorce document of pain, anxiety and loss, that has been lauded as “one of the best Americana albums in recent history.” Hayes is currently interviewing producers for her next record. ... more

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