Up for Air
from The Silent Generation by The Dimes
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lyrics
the air is spinning,
we shouldn't wait another minute to leave
we don't need a radar screen,
to see the sky is turning from grey to green
and the house is off it's hinges,
we're curled up in the corner for our lives
and i heard a freight train coming,
and saw the kitchen chairs shoot straight up to the sky
and i can't breathe,
i'm coming up for air
like a submarine
i'm coming up for air
and flying machines,
they're coming up for air
and when the world stopped spinning,
we were floating high above the town we used to know
waving at the busy people,
but they couldn't hear me say "lookout below"...
we shouldn't wait another minute to leave
we don't need a radar screen,
to see the sky is turning from grey to green
and the house is off it's hinges,
we're curled up in the corner for our lives
and i heard a freight train coming,
and saw the kitchen chairs shoot straight up to the sky
and i can't breathe,
i'm coming up for air
like a submarine
i'm coming up for air
and flying machines,
they're coming up for air
and when the world stopped spinning,
we were floating high above the town we used to know
waving at the busy people,
but they couldn't hear me say "lookout below"...
credits
from The Silent Generation,
released December 5, 2007
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