By The Time You Get This Message...-Flobots

[ti:By The Time You Get This Messa] [ar:Flobots] [al:Survival Story] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]By The Time You Get This Message... (Album Version) - Flobots [00:20.73]By the time you get this message [00:29.98]I will be behind the wheel [00:31.23]Watchin' dotted yellow hexagrams [00:33.04]Stretch into the dark [00:34.85]Left hand surfin' on iced tinged winds [00:37.23]Chewin' up a cardboard box [00:39.48]Singin' at lung top one stop [00:43.17]Left 'til I meet you in the concourse [00:45.42]St Louie encore do we have a shot [00:47.92]Caught no dwellin' on the thought [00:51.14]What the hell we haven't got [00:53.08]So I'm headed from the dot to the spot [00:55.20]Where your plane touches down [00:57.20]For a six hour layover [00:58.76]Don't say a word I found it on the map [01:01.57]Calculated it just a half a day to get from [01:04.14]Where you're not to where you will be [01:05.95]My hair is filthy I'm drinkin' coffee [01:08.20]I can barely feel the trace [01:10.14]From the only time you kissed me on the face [01:13.20]Question mark space [01:14.20]I know you're with me underneath the star-scape [01:17.14]Treadmill pick up our pace [01:20.07]Head-start on a jet in a car chase [01:23.57]Is this the part where my heart breaks [01:26.32]One asleep one awake back to back [01:28.45]'Cause you wouldn't turn towards me [01:30.07]Had me battlin' fractals keeping track of all the chords [01:32.89]We created sound clash of swords back and forth [01:35.51]Couldn't poke through the sash [01:38.26]Slash through the plasterboard [01:39.64]You packing your passport me on a crash course [01:42.70]To show you that I have the passion that you asked for [01:46.07]Floorin' the gas tryin' a fast forward [01:48.70]Fifteen months I'll see you once the sun shines through [01:50.57]The glass above the dashboard [01:52.32]The stars I see aren't even there [01:54.95]It's only light in the air [01:58.51](By the time you get this message) [02:02.82]The stars I see aren't even there [02:09.07](By the time you get this message) [02:12.39]It's only light in the air [02:15.64]By the time you get this message I'll be [02:20.95]Either on my second flight or already [02:22.76]All the way to my destination [02:24.13]Ridiculous that I could honestly expect you [02:27.13]Waitin' at the gate when I arrive [02:29.32]A sixteen hour drive [02:30.51]I've been feeling so silly [02:32.20]Goin' on now several months [02:35.38]As our obsession runs together [02:37.26]And whoever comes to have you I'll be jealous of [02:40.07]And when above all else [02:41.32]You put her I'll know what it was [02:43.20]To feel so needed [02:44.07]Sorta wish that I was more of a romantic [02:46.07]And could give you back the utmost [02:47.57]But I've never seen it up close [02:49.14]From everything that I can tell [02:51.26]There are several possibilities [02:52.63]Maybe we're in love really [02:54.70]Maybe it's too early to really see [02:57.64]Maybe we're just searching for something [03:00.38]To hold onto amidst confusion and fragility [03:03.39]Maybe we've lost all sensibility [03:05.88]Will it become our 'Splendor In The Grass' [03:07.89]When the facts have asserted themselves [03:10.07]And the memories pass into poetry and words that we tell [03:11.70]What only then can we be sure that we felt [03:15.82]Guess I prefer to be unhappy [03:18.57]Or weren't you looking at me [03:19.95]When my back became a wall [03:21.26]Searched for your reflection [03:22.39]Saw exactly what you saw [03:24.69]Two kinds of different skin [03:26.20]Two minds exist within [03:27.26]Trying to just transcend all space and time [03:29.57]And lift their chin [03:30.95]And find some sense of purpose some sense of hope [03:33.63]Press my cheek against the window surface [03:36.01]We've been afloat [03:36.95]But now I'm nervous has this been a joke [03:39.88]We're landin' and it's time to close the envelope [03:43.26]Maybe I'll see you at the finish line [03:57.20]The stars I see aren't even there [03:58.88]It's only light in the air [04:00.26](By the time you get this message) [04:01.88]The stars I see aren't even there [04:03.07]It's only light in the air [04:09.20](By the time you get this message) [04:10.76](By the time you get this message) [04:12.70]The stars I see aren't even there [04:27.01]It's only light in the air [04:29.82]By the time you get this message [04:38.13]By the time you get this message [04:43.26]By the time you get this message [04:45.25]By the time you get this message [04:50.00]The stars I see aren't even there [05:32.38]Light in the air