Strangers-The Airborne Toxic Event

[ti:Strangers] [ar:The Airborne Toxic Event] [al:Songs of God and Whiskey] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.45]Strangers - The Airborne Toxic Event [00:02.02] [00:08.96]Every day at sunrise I've got to [00:11.02]Empty my pockets I've got four [00:13.21]Cups of coffee [00:14.46]And these empty sockets [00:16.30]And the dreams I have soaked in the loom [00:18.74]In the air around my bedroom [00:20.85]I think about the rising sun [00:22.76]And the day to come and I wonder [00:24.50]Where you went where you went [00:28.54]Are you wide awake [00:30.55]Did you read all the letters that I sent [00:32.58]Are you fast asleep [00:34.69]Did you know I keep [00:36.91]Your memory buried away so deep [00:41.39]Till all the walls fall we'll just keep being strangers [00:45.56]As the world rearranges [00:47.79]Every blade every seed every ounce of green [00:49.68]And the sunrise is a welcome thing [00:51.76]But I wish it was more welcoming [00:53.86]'Cause this life has such an awful sting [00:55.99]And a price to pay for everything [01:00.11] [01:06.25]And every day they say just get away [01:09.97]They say just get back up [01:12.00]They say just stand tough you've got to keep it up [01:16.18]You've got to learn to play rough [01:18.21]You've got to run through a field on a sunlit day [01:20.79]Laugh it off and sleep at night [01:22.40]But I don't care I just don't care [01:26.43]'Cause if you're not here there's no one to laugh [01:29.51]At the jokes we share [01:30.62]Are you fast asleep [01:32.64]Did you know I keep your memory [01:36.45] [01:37.63]Buried away so deep [01:39.44]Till all the walls fall we'll just keep being strangers [01:43.28]As the world rearranges [01:45.69]Every blade every seed every ounce of green [01:47.67]And the sunrise is a welcome thing [01:49.66]But I wish it was more welcoming [01:51.59]'Cause this life has such an awful sting [01:53.90]And a price to pay for everything [01:58.40] [02:04.33]I saw you last night in the cell where I sleep [02:08.14]And your shyness was such a surprise [02:11.38]And you said I hold you in me like a secret I keep [02:16.50]And the truth of that moment defies all that we know [02:21.64] [02:28.45]Where we go [02:29.76] [02:38.72]So I think till all the walls fall [02:41.44]I'll just keep getting stranger [02:43.19] [02:43.70]The world will rearrange her [02:45.72]Into something just as beautiful [02:47.71]I know that I won't know you then [02:49.62]But I see no reason to pretend [02:51.72]'Cause I love you now and I'll love you then [02:53.76]And the sun will shine on everything [02:58.72] [03:04.25]Till all the walls fall [03:06.36]We'll just keep being strangers [03:08.24]And the world will rearrange us [03:10.44]Into things we never planned to be [03:12.48]As the sun rises around us [03:14.58]And continues to confound us [03:16.61]It's beauty will surround us [03:18.81]And share it's life with everything