Plastic Lines

By No Bird Sing

On No Bird Sing

Released on September 1, 2009

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[Verse 1: Joe Horton]

The photo album was filled with pictures and strips and negative space

Clean enough to see the seams, plain as daylight on our faces

Easier to trace the constellation beauty marks when all your brightest poses aren't used to life outside the dark

Lose yourself

Drift to that horizon, lined with silence

Find a place that's safe enough to lose their voices, cry

Exits winding, complex in all the lines getting bent

Footsteps like gritted hands that ride the spiral 'til it ends

Could it be that we were both lost and patiently tossed out

And need to be found before we hit the ground

I closed my eyes, stopped my heart from beating midstream

Like maybe you would come back to me if I stopped breathing

You love the withered roses, I hold you in my arms

You kiss my fingertips and rest your head inside my palm

It seems so simple inside of the walls

We built to keep the sun from seeping in


[Chorus: Alicia Wiley & (Joe Horton)]

We were lost in the distance

(Plastic lines, the sharpest knives will cut your heart and bleed it dry)

(Hear a secret, tell a lie, touch the mourning, kiss the sky)

Plastic lines brought us back

(Plastic lines, the sharpest knives will cut your heart and bleed it dry)

(Hear a secret, tell a lie, touch the mourning, kiss the sky)

We were lost in the distance

(Plastic lines, the sharpest knives will cut your heart and bleed it dry)

(Hear a secret, tell a lie, touch the mourning, kiss the sky)

Plastic lines brought us back

(Plastic lines, the sharpest knives will cut your heart and bleed it dry)

(Hear a secret, tell a lie, touch the mourning, kiss the sky)

Plastic lines brought us back

We were lost in the distance

Plastic lines brought us back


[Bridge: Joe Horton & (Alicia Wiley)]

(Ooooo)

If you were lost in the city in the sky

I would carry my wings in my back pocket and fly

(Ooooo)

Forget to walk and then try to touch my tongue to the tip of the sun

Like nobody ever told me that it couldn't be done

(Ooooo)

If you were lost in the city in the sky

I would carry my wings in my back pocket and fly

(Ooooo)

Forget to walk and then try to touch my tongue to the tip of the sun

Like nobody ever told me that it couldn't be done

(Ooooo)

(Ooooo)


[Pre-Chorus: Alicia Wiley]

We were lost in the distance

Plastic lines brought us back

We were lost in the distance

Plastic lines brought us back


[Chorus: Alicia Wiley & (Joe Horton)]

We were lost in the distance

(Plastic lines, the sharpest knives will cut your heart and bleed it dry)

(Hear a secret, tell a lie, touch the mourning, kiss the sky)

Plastic lines brought us back

(Plastic lines, the sharpest knives will cut your heart and bleed it dry)

(Hear a secret, tell a lie, touch the mourning, kiss the sky)

We were lost in the distance

(Plastic lines, the sharpest knives will cut your heart and bleed it dry)

(Hear a secret, tell a lie, touch the mourning, kiss the sky)

Plastic lines brought us back

(Plastic lines, the sharpest knives will cut your heart and bleed it dry)

(Hear a secret, tell a lie, touch the mourning, kiss the sky)


[Outro: Alicia Wiley]

We were lost in the distance

Plastic lines brought us back

(Ooooo)

(Ooooo)

(Ooooo)

(Ooooo)

(Mmmmm)

(Ooooo)

(Ooooo)