[ti:By the Time You Get This Message...]
[ar:Flobots]
[al:Survival Story]
[by:Jermen]
[00:00.12]Flobots - By the Time You Get This Message...
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[00:05.75]lrc by Jermen
[00:28.65]By the time you get this message
[00:30.17]I will be behind the wheel
[00:31.69]Watchin' dotted yellow hexagrams
[00:34.01]Stretch into the dark
[00:35.06]Left hand surfin' on iced tinged winds
[00:38.26]Chewin' up a cardboard box
[00:41.27]Singin' at lung top, one stop
[00:43.28]Left 'til I meet you in the concourse
[00:45.83]St. Louie, encore, do we have a shot?
[00:49.02]Caught, no dwellin' on the thought
[00:51.23]What the hell we haven't got
[00:53.64]So I'm headed from the dot to the spot
[00:55.87]Where your plane touches down
[00:57.64]For a six hour layover
[00:59.24]Don't say a word, I found it on the map
[01:01.29]Calculated it just a half a day to get from
[01:04.66]Where you're not to where you will be
[01:06.31]My hair is filthy, I'm drinkin' coffee
[01:09.49]I can barely feel the trace
[01:10.65]From the only time you kissed me on the face
[01:13.42]Question mark, space
[01:15.01]I know you're with me underneath the star-scape
[01:17.55]Treadmill, pick up our pace
[01:20.53]Head-start on a jet in a car chase
[01:23.70]Is this the part where my heart breaks?
[01:26.11]One asleep, one awake, back to back
[01:27.63]'Cause you wouldn't turn towards me
[01:29.67]Had me battlin' fractals, keeping track of all the chords
[01:33.00]We created sound clash of swords back and forth
[01:36.05]Couldn't poke through the sash
[01:38.00]Slash through the plasterboard
[01:39.44]You packing your passport, me on a crash course
[01:42.55]To show you that I have the passion that you asked for
[01:45.87]Floorin' the gas, tryin' a fast forward
[01:49.09]Fifteen months, I'll see you once the sun shines through
[01:52.26]The glass above the dashboard
[01:55.40]The stars I see aren't even there
[01:55.81]It's only light in the air
[01:58.78](By the time you get this message)
[02:05.33]The stars I see aren't even there
[02:10.62] (By the time you get this message)
[02:13.00]It's only light in the air
[02:18.38]By the time you get this message I'll be
[02:20.97]Either on my second flight or already
[02:23.02]All the way to my destination
[02:25.22]Ridiculous that I could honestly expect you
[02:27.94]Waitin' at the gate when I arrive
[02:29.88]A sixteen hour drive
[02:31.54]I've been feeling so silly
[02:34.07]Goin' on now several months
[02:35.20]As our obsession runs together
[02:36.98]And whoever comes to have you, I'll be jealous of
[02:39.49]And when above all else
[02:41.74]You put her I'll know what it was
[02:42.97]To feel so needed
[02:44.23]Sorta wish that I was more of a romantic
[02:46.09]And could give you back the utmost
[02:48.33]But I've never seen it up close
[02:49.83]From everything that I can tell
[02:51.50]There are several possibilities
[02:53.21]Maybe we're in love really
[02:55.74]Maybe it's too early to really see
[02:57.14]Maybe we're just searching for something
[03:00.39]To hold onto amidst confusion and fragility
[03:01.27]Maybe we've lost all sensibility
[03:02.72]Will it become our 'Splendor In The Grass'?
[03:04.71]When the facts have asserted themselves
[03:06.95]And the memories pass into poetry and words that we tell
[03:10.83]What only then can we be sure that we felt
[03:15.31]Guess I prefer to be unhappy
[03:18.18]Or weren't you looking at me
[03:19.86]When my back became a wall?
[03:21.06]Searched for your reflection
[03:22.31]Saw exactly what you saw
[03:23.92]Two kinds of different skin
[03:25.52]Two minds exist within
[03:27.07]Trying to just transcend all space and time
[03:29.20]And lift their chin
[03:30.40]And find some sense of purpose some sense of hope
[03:32.81]Press my cheek against the window surface
[03:34.74]We've been afloat
[03:36.01]But now I'm nervous, has this been a joke?
[03:37.73]We're landin' and it's time to close the envelope
[03:40.51]Maybe I'll see you at the finish line
[03:44.44]The stars I see aren't even there
[03:50.52]It's only light in the air
[03:55.83](By the time you get this message)
[03:57.17]The stars I see aren't even there
[04:03.41]It's only light in the air
[04:08.63](By the time you get this message)
[04:21.67](By the time you get this message)
[04:24.90]The stars I see aren't even there
[04:29.87]It's only light in the air
[04:36.11]By the time you get this message
[04:37.79]By the time you get this message
[04:42.25]By the time you get this message
[04:45.44]By the time you get this message
[05:15.83]The stars I see aren't even there
[05:22.81]Light in the air
[05:27.14]lrc by Jermen