Name: The Airship
Duration: P00H04M11S
Description: A preview of "Songs for My Friends to Sing," "The Airship" is a bit of romantic nostalgia smashed up with some contemporary psychedelic sensibility. Kyle Williams, eye surgeon and rock star (no, really!) sings lead.

The Airship

from Songs for My Friends to Sing, vol 1 by Adam Wilcox

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A preview of "Songs for My Friends to Sing," "The Airship" is a bit of romantic nostalgia smashed up with some contemporary psychedelic sensibility. Kyle Williams, eye surgeon and rock star (no, really!) sings lead.

lyrics

The view from there… was little more…
Than anywhere… else could afford…
But the sky… drawing dark… said otherwise.
Late summer… stars appeared…
Sunset faded… the lake disappeared…
Story told… of an image lost… to our eyes.

Pre-chorus
Threshold… time told… glitter and gold

The lake the light the day goes dark tonight
The wind the world our eyes betray our sight
We’ll never launch the airship aright

Driving home… we filled your car…
With zeppelins… with a craft bazaar…
It was raucous… it was silent… it was strange.
The road ahead… was growing dark…
We missed the exit… we missed our mark…
I was so young… I wanted nothing… to change.

Threshold… time told… glitter and gold

The earth the sky the road goes dark tonight
A crown a fool our eyes betray our sight
The airship aflame in flight
We’ll never launch the airship aright
We’ll never launch the airship aright

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from Songs for My Friends to Sing, vol 1, track released December 26, 2020
Adam Wilcox: fretless bass
Kyle Williams: lead vocals, electric guitars
Simon Bjarning: drums
George Kastrinos: keyboard, bg vocals
Robert Kulik: electric guitar

Words & music by Adam Wilcox
Produced and mixed by Brendan Simms

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Adam Wilcox is a poet and musician in Rochester, NY.

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