Paper Wings

from We Floated on Paper Wings by Broken Arts

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We floated on paper wings
And saw our hopes laid out below
And all I felt was helplessness
At all these things we’d never know

Beyond our brief engagement
Where nothing seems intact
I didn’t kiss you as you walked away
Well somehow I’m still stuck on that

We saw right through the other side
Past the limits of our lives
Then reproached ourselves for that conceit
As our castles tumbled at our side

We floated on paper wings
We should’ve known that couldn’t last
But you forget when you are flying
All you have learned all through your past

Now I try to make some better wings
Just to see if I really can
But I don’t feel like I’ll fly again
Now I know what it’s like to land

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from We Floated on Paper Wings, released June 17, 2013

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