Acoustic guitar based. The lyrics I worked on for some while and once done the music came together rather with ease.
acoustic alternative avan
Story behind the song
The suicide of friends and family members.
Lyrics
If I Fly Away
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Up here alone...I can think out loud
and I was wondering what together we would have talked about...
My mind is cold...I've wrapped my dreams in shrouds
and all that I can think about's where we go when our lives fade out...
...do I hear heavens gate or is that only Preachers thunder...
...was this always your fate, I'm left to wonder...
...Who'd give a damn...if I fly away and follow you my brother...
into another world, I don't know why...I haven't the courage lately
so I just sit up here and I wonder...
...What if I flew away to follow you my brother...
into another world, have you learned to fly,...are you in heaven waiting,...
or is it a stone you’re lying under...
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So many grieve...and they'll cry out loud
but no one came to you when you were lying
down and out...
I'd like to believe...a thousand years from now
that nothing I could have done
would have ever mattered anyhow...
...but I was slow to see the suicide cancer...
...you might have been calling but nobody answered...
...Who'd give a damn...if I fly away and follow you my brother...
into another world, I don't know why...I haven't the courage lately
so I just sit up here and I wonder...
...What if I flew away to follow you my brother...
into another world, have you learned to fly,...are you in heaven waiting,...
or is it a stone you’re lying under...*