[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... [00:02.81] [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