Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears
Flight of the Knife (Part One)
Enter Airship Valentine, the station-master's sonWho was never very capable of tryingTaken for a Tommy-Fool, or someone to ignoreHe put all his aspirations into flyingBut who could ever guess he might get to fly the Knife?For every year they told the tale=An airship that could never failThe sharpest blade to ever sailTo float against their current livesAnd feed their dreams and fill their skiesA flight to rise above the knives"Fly to the moon and go back in timeSit on the wave of a cloud"A message to our Sir ValentineFrom somewhere up aboveThe sum of our lives, could this be The Flight of the Knife?And so he made his into a city made of Fire-TreesSeeking evidence of supernatural soaringLed beyond the pale onto an oceanic brainWhere a purple rain of rockets took to pouringAnd on the edge of sound and sight, he overtook the knifeOne sleepy summer's afternoonSongtexteThe sun got stuck behind the moonA hush fell down before the boomAnd soaring from their left to rightA blazing trail of roaring lightOur Airship and his flying KnifeDiving and dancing between the breezeClimbing a ladder of cloudsAnd no one below him could believeThat one so disavowedCould turn things to rights, and bring home The Flight of the KnifeAnd so he flew into the blueOh, Airship, what's become of you?You really made the grade, you're going to join the ranks todaySo go and take your place, break away
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