A mound of broken stars
A pile of dusty sparks
A stack of glowing coals
A thousand shattered disco balls
The skyline looked like all of those things
We sat by the river as the city sparkled to life,
The cherry bomb sun sank,
we squinted and stared,
And speechlessly spoke
Step up, come down, my friend
How many times we go ‘round again
Step up, come down, my friend
What do you say –
Let’s make this moment stay
We’re living a dream - living the dream,
Living a dream - living the dream
A dried-up river bed
A faded scar A derailed train
The spine of an old book
My lifeline looked like all of those things
The sun so hot it made us sweat,
The air so cold we could see our breath,
We inhaled pink clouds of the sunset,
As it swallowed us
Step up, come down, my friend
How many times we go ‘round again
Step up, come down, my friend
Come down today
Let’s make this moment stay
We’re living a dream - living the dream,
Living a dream - living the dream
All the dust will return to dust
All the blessed, yes, and all of the cursed
All the meek and the mighty shall fall
So let’s make this day, the brightest of all
A stand of cluttered tombstones
A blurry neon billboard
A sparkling Atlantis
An exquisite, speckled canvas
The future looked like all of those things
A man on the pier pulled a fish
out of the black water
He wrapped it in a newspaper
and placed it beside me
It was still moving
The headlines on that paper
made no sense at all,
And made all the sense in the world
Step up, come down, my friend
How many times we go ‘round again
Step up, come down, my friend
What do you say –
Let’s make this moment stay
We’re living a dream - living the dream,
Living a dream - living the dream
credits
from Fireships,
released April 21, 2015
Written by Andrew Vladeck
Special guests David Amram, pennywhistle; Marika Hughes, cello, Skye Steele, violin, Tim Luntzel, double bass
“Accessible and anthemic, Fireships are also as cutting edge as rock bands get these days… you could call it Americana
chamber pop… Andrew Vladeck writes fearlessly populist, Dylanesque narratives, and the band gets gritty with some pretty straight-up highway rock from time to time.” ~ New York Music Daily...more
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