By The Time You Get This Message... Lyrics - Survival Story - Flobots

By the time you get this message 

I will be behind the wheel 

Watchin' dotted yellow hexagrams 

Stretch into the dark 

Left hand surfin' on iced tinged winds 

Chewin' up a cardboard box 

Singin' at lung top, one stop 

Left 'til I meet you in the concourse 

St. Louie, encore, do we have a shot? 

Caught, no dwellin' on the thought 

What the hell we haven't got 

So I'm headed from the dot to the spot 

Where your plane touches down 

For a six hour layover 

Don't say a word, I found it on the map 

Calculated it just a half a day to get from 

Where you're not to where you will be 

My hair is filthy, I'm drinkin' coffee 

I can barely feel the trace 

From the only time you kissed me on the face 

Question mark, space 

I know you're with me underneath the star-scape 

Treadmill, pick up our pace 

Head-start on a jet in a car chase 

Is this the part where my heart breaks? 

One asleep, one awake, back to back 

'Cause you wouldn't turn towards me 

Had me battlin' fractals, keeping track of all the chords 

We created sound clash of swords back and forth 

Couldn't poke through the sash 

Slash through the plasterboard 

You packing your passport, me on a crash course 

To show you that I have the passion that you asked for 

Floorin' the gas, tryin' a fast forward 

Fifteen months, I'll see you once the sun shines through 

The glass above the dashboard 

The stars I see aren't even there 

It's only light in the air 

(By the time you get this message) 

The stars I see aren't even there 

(By the time you get this message) 

It's only light in the air 

By the time you get this message I'll be 

Either on my second flight or already 

All the way to my destination 

Ridiculous that I could honestly expect you 

Waitin' at the gate when I arrive 

A sixteen hour drive 

I've been feeling so silly 

Goin' on now several months 

As our obsession runs together 

And whoever comes to have you, I'll be jealous of 

And when above all else 

You put her I'll know what it was 

To feel so needed 

Sorta wish that I was more of a romantic 

And could give you back the utmost 

But I've never seen it up close 

From everything that I can tell 

There are several possibilities 

Maybe we're in love really 

Maybe it's too early to really see 

Maybe we're just searching for something 

To hold onto amidst confusion and fragility 

Maybe we've lost all sensibility 

Will it become our 'Splendor In The Grass'? 

When the facts have asserted themselves 

And the memories pass into poetry and words that we tell 

What only then can we be sure that we felt 

Guess I prefer to be unhappy 

Or weren't you looking at me 

When my back became a wall? 

Searched for your reflection 

Saw exactly what you saw 

Two kinds of different skin 

Two minds exist within 

Trying to just transcend all space and time 

And lift their chin 

And find some sense of purpose some sense of hope 

Press my cheek against the window surface 

We've been afloat 

But now I'm nervous, has this been a joke? 

We're landin' and it's time to close the envelope 

Maybe I'll see you at the finish line 

The stars I see aren't even there 

It's only light in the air 

(By the time you get this message) 

The stars I see aren't even there 

It's only light in the air 

(By the time you get this message) 

(By the time you get this message) 

The stars I see aren't even there 

It's only light in the air 

By the time you get this message 

By the time you get this message 

By the time you get this message 

By the time you get this message 

The stars I see aren't even there 

Light in the air