Pilot
Tell your mother to marry him
Then ask dear John to carry her home
O’er the threshold he gave to her
Promised to stay with her but
Never quite managed to fake
The act that he made
Created a radio play
A fantasy stage a cage for belongings
A song that he sings to bring sweet disaster
A siren still laughing at fine ever afters
And then…
And then…
And then…
He’s a pilot gone skyward
A liar that’s rising
Higher and higher
Collides with the sun
He’s flying the winds of
A mad violinist
Who plucks all the strings
And with the notes that it plays he becomes
Undone
Undone
Undone (repeat)
Abandoned on a birthday you couldn’t recall
A random encounter that happened to fall
On a heritage savage as broken brass rings
Left as casual baggage, ravaged
Your mother to feed
On fruit of a tree with branches proceeding
On courses he charts, the stops he makes seeding
A sleek silver bloodline like mercury veins
A stain that he left where you still remain
And then…
And then…
And then…
He’s a pilot gone skyward
A liar that’s rising
Higher and higher
Collides with the sun
He’s flying the winds of
A mad violinist
Who plucks all the strings
And with the notes that it plays he becomes
Undone
Undone
Undone (repeat)
Though you held onto him like a fistful of water
He’s climbed in his cockpit and pulled on the throttle
Speeding down sunsets and lofted through time
Your heart bent and knotted, a daughter
Of daily delay
But wait for him now from your earthbound Atlantis
To stare to the sky of the flying fantastic
Forgetting the dome and the family dismembered
Of a lost phantom wing but you still remember
And then…
And then…
And then…
He’s a pilot gone skyward
A liar that’s rising
Higher and higher
Collides with the sun
He’s flying the winds of
A mad violinist
Who plucks all the strings
And with the notes that it plays he becomes
Undone
Undone
Undone (repeat)
Then ask dear John to carry her home
O’er the threshold he gave to her
Promised to stay with her but
Never quite managed to fake
The act that he made
Created a radio play
A fantasy stage a cage for belongings
A song that he sings to bring sweet disaster
A siren still laughing at fine ever afters
And then…
And then…
And then…
He’s a pilot gone skyward
A liar that’s rising
Higher and higher
Collides with the sun
He’s flying the winds of
A mad violinist
Who plucks all the strings
And with the notes that it plays he becomes
Undone
Undone
Undone (repeat)
Abandoned on a birthday you couldn’t recall
A random encounter that happened to fall
On a heritage savage as broken brass rings
Left as casual baggage, ravaged
Your mother to feed
On fruit of a tree with branches proceeding
On courses he charts, the stops he makes seeding
A sleek silver bloodline like mercury veins
A stain that he left where you still remain
And then…
And then…
And then…
He’s a pilot gone skyward
A liar that’s rising
Higher and higher
Collides with the sun
He’s flying the winds of
A mad violinist
Who plucks all the strings
And with the notes that it plays he becomes
Undone
Undone
Undone (repeat)
Though you held onto him like a fistful of water
He’s climbed in his cockpit and pulled on the throttle
Speeding down sunsets and lofted through time
Your heart bent and knotted, a daughter
Of daily delay
But wait for him now from your earthbound Atlantis
To stare to the sky of the flying fantastic
Forgetting the dome and the family dismembered
Of a lost phantom wing but you still remember
And then…
And then…
And then…
He’s a pilot gone skyward
A liar that’s rising
Higher and higher
Collides with the sun
He’s flying the winds of
A mad violinist
Who plucks all the strings
And with the notes that it plays he becomes
Undone
Undone
Undone (repeat)