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Fly Away (Helicopters)

from Smash Hits by Roger Dean Young

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from "mono" - 2004

lyrics

There’s a lotta water here
runnin’ down the drain
low in my back
where I keep all that worries me
I can feel the strain

Helicopters ferrying
bodies and logs away
and I was taught by a hidden camera
all I saw was okay

And in the meantime, I’m lingering
In the young sounds on a summer day
Meager remains of milk and honey now
If they could they’d all fly away

Digital tundra underfoot
they can’t close their eyes
lest they lose sight of pictures meant to blind
so they close their minds (and)

Ride the big top jungle beats
let them carry you away
on a swirl of neon strands of happiness
through the darkness of another day

And in the meantime, I’m lingering
In the young sounds on a summer day
Meager remains of milk and honey now
If they could they’d all fly away

Madeline and a motorbike,
it’d seem to be all I need
to leave the trucks and the circus behind
even then the choppers need to feed

And in the meantime, I’m lingering
Here on a bus hound grey
And when the nun leaves the Citroën
The blue girl’s hat blows away

Everything moves in circles
even as it runs down the drain
except maybe light and the distance between
the things that blow away

Helicopters they never see
what becomes of the sun
on the face of Madeline in the evening
loveliness Da Vinci

And in the meantime, I’m lingering
In the young sounds on a summer day
Meager remains of milk and honey now
If they could they’s all fly away

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from Smash Hits, released October 20, 2020
written by Roger Dean Young

rdy - vocals, guitar
chris rippin - guitar, vocals
kori miyanishi - banjo
rebecca till - vocals
shaun brodie - horns

Produced & recorded by Roger Dean Young
at the Space in Chinatown vancouver, bc, december 2004
re-mixed by Brodie Smith
at Carolina and 7th vancouver, bc december 2017

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Roger Dean Young is a singer-songwriter sprung from the foothills of Alberta and deposited on the West Coast of British Columbia.

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