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Lay Down (EP)

by Light the Air

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1.
Butterfly 03:47
Butterfly Carried like your bible Lonely like your mother Weary like the traveler Chasing ever-after My little butterfly takes to the skies Ya she’s spreading her wings as she floats to the window I’d cover it up but I know she’ll fly away Pouring on the sidewalk Buried in the back yard Staring down the tunnel as your brother broke the last smoke My little butterfly takes to the skies Ya she’s spreading her wings as she floats to the window I’d cover it up but I know she’ll fly away I was the root, baby eyes on the proof and they Caught in a loop ya I longed for the truth to say Cause I was down on my luck and I didn’t have a place to go Baby armed with the truth and a cigarette that you stole So fly little butterfly take to the skies Ya I’m setting you free so you can float through the window The sun’s coming up so you better be on your way Fly little butterfly So fly little butterfly take to the skies Ya I’m setting you free so you can float through the window The sun’s coming up so you better be on your way
2.
Wolves 03:24
outside is frozen why don't come and live where you lay she screamed out you bastard her lover yelled from the lake I will deceive you that's why I'm bound to leave then he left with the log on the fire the wolves doubled back for what the crows just wouldn't eat left with a log on the fire I hold my heart inside the cuff right along the seam whispered discretely her lover yelled from the stream you have deceived me your just a lying thieve then he left with a hole in his heart and the wolves doubled back for what the crows just wouldn't eat left with a hole in his heart for a time you were looking not where to go in your breath we were leaving no signs to show keep alive we were moving by light and all by snow the tracks to leave are left and gone and I… I was amazed that there was not far to go when you float in the river like you never did talk to god I'm the bastard you want when you got no one to call when I came outside there was noway left to run back home my own… when the time has surely come I will never know now we're caught falling on these ghosts carry me beside the beach where my broken bones will mend right this lonely carriage in the wind outside was frozen i could not live where i once did lay i''ll confess completely for oh this fool I have made Forgive my daughter She faltered like her father I'll leave by the break of the day and the wolves will double back for it is I that they always craved. I'll leave by the break of the day...
3.
Fort Night 02:52
Left for a fort night on my own Skinny in the kitchen with a dead knife moving slow So come down with me I wanna save your soul Skinny was the living When the living room has gone cold Singing I am the will of what won't grow old both tired in trying when the tide's gone home Slept for a fort night in the snow Patience was a virtue with the limits i did not know So lay down me and these creaking bones Kissing in the kitchen We'll stave off the winter's cold Singing I am the will of what won't grow old both tired in trying when the tide's gone home Wishing underground but lately it's gotten old Collared by this crown so baby I'll cede control Carried all the wounds when you stood under the toe Now you're missing what your mind in the mirror once saw as gold Singing I am the will of what won't grow old both tired in trying when the tide's gone home
4.
Rest 04:00
I'll play the role play the role and I'll reprise all of my cards in this house and it's demise...I I won't hold my breath The scar on your arm with the half-born regret left as a mark from the burnin' cigarette...I should've never stopped oh cause You'll be the moon and the light when I'm leaving ya dressed in the car in the cold in the weekend you'll be the sun when I lay my head to rest cause we're bound by the dawn in the wood while it creaked you're my vision in the fog you're my sight when I'm seeing you'll be the warmth when my cold dead hands are wet and i i i i i fresh from the wound with the stainless forcep long in the tooth from a scrap with a skinhead...I I would do it again crept with the deft subtle moves of a dancer slept in your arms to the sound of your laughter I surely died again oh cause You'll be the moon and the light when I'm leaving ya dressed in the car in the cold in the weekend you'll be the sun when I lay my head to rest cause we're bound by the dawn in the wood while it creaked you're my vision in the fog you're my sight when I'm seeing you'll be the warmth when my cold dead hands are wet and i i i i i
5.
Ideally You 02:48
You're my day time lover and though I missed when you came to call, the clouds still staining the sky I bet there's light on the other side You're all I got So why don't you put me on I tore down the wall So now I can see through them all Am I falling through the cracks will the light bend me right back, Will the words repair all the stones that we built into crowded homes You're all I got So why don't you put me on I tore down the walls So now I can see through them all..
6.
Paper Planes 03:22
the unintended consequence the cold biting at our finger tips now I should get you home to avoid sounding repetitive i'll recite the words on your skin but I might embellish some Because we've got paper planes, on our minds, paper planes, fill the sky My awkward social tendencies i imagine you with skinny jeans in a pile over there Because the beauty we're afforded now is a luxury that's running out sure as the wine runs dry And we'll have paper planes, on our minds, paper planes, fill the sky
7.
Royal 02:52
The courage at bath in the bedroom fall apart on the car by the desk as it drills the ears of the earth electricity around as the eyes fan the feather-filled fear the fork in the freeway fades with the day the greats with their honor help support the state Pictures of pines are the things I live without given time, given space, given gain cycle through heads with the floodlight going dim get the money, get the power, get the fame the fork in the freeway fades in the sun the bones in your closet call you by name but my teeth aren't like yours they are brittle and they'll break crossing dark ocean currents less the time that we take for the planes plus the metal that we bear on our backs in the snow building angels under tunnels by the tracks by stars so royal that when we will fault you again again... the fork in the freeway fades in the sun the greats with their honor help support the state

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released July 12, 2012

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Light the Air San Jose, California

Light the Air is the solo side project of The Analog Affair co-producer Evan Baker. A recent transplant to San Jose by way of Wyoming, China, and Washington D.C., Light the Air is an eclectic sounding board of everything from acoustic singer-songwriter "Pajama Jams" to indie pop and alternative electronica. ... more

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