Story Behind The Song
After an unsuccessful kiss between the bridges in DUMBO, Brooklyn, the songwriter wrote the song for a girl he was in love with, but who always held back.
Song Description
Standing between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, the singer pleads to a girl, imagining the metaphor of flying above the bridges, escaping all worry and regret, being together.
| Song Length |
4:39 |
Genre |
Rock - Modern, Rock - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Moving, Heartbreaking |
Subject |
Loneliness, Unrequited Love |
| Similar Artists |
Tori Amos, Badly Drawn Boy |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Don't lose yourself
Don't forget to breathe
With kind conciousness
And the simple will to see
Letting go those guarded yearnings
Erasing the day-circles below
So here's my hand
Let's fly above the bridges together
The trails of red and white
Caught to the next, caught in a line
Dripping between boroughs, trails of light
Each an unwritten promise of our common lives
So, let's fly
So set aside all your loneliness
Your hapless moats and guarded walls
Let's not become just shadows of ourselves
Faintly tracing 'round the traps that catch us all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
So let this kiss be proof somehow
So let this kiss be proof somehow
So let this kiss be proof somehow
So let this kiss be proof somehow
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
Above it all
So let this kiss be proof somehow
So let this kiss be proof somehow
So let this kiss be proof somehow
So let this kiss be proof somehow