FAWM: "If This Is an Airport"

If This Is an Airport

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Liner Notes

It was the airport skirmish. It took the whole hour to make the symbolic connection between the airport and irrevocable decisions and endings, then another hour to scratch out a lyric on that theme.

Lyrics

Decisions made No one there to explain Not taking questions Just a dash for the plane

No trace to remember Nothing left on the bus No vapor trail No cloud of dust

Nothing here to hold on to No reason to care If this is an airport Where is the air

A whole lifetime vanished Nothing left of the day Even the angels Don’t know what to say

And there’s no explanation If your heart starts to pound Get out of the building Find your way back to ground

Nothing here to hold on to No reason to care If this is an airport Where is the air

Breathe Water food sleep believe

Nothing here to hold on to No reason to care If this is an airport Where is the air

Comments

@acousticmaddie 1d

I love the repetition if the last sentence trough the lyrics. Very effectiv in creating the image that can be interpreted in several ways. Well done

@troubadette 1d

If this is an airport Where is the air

Incredible lyric. Incredible concept. I really, really like where you've taken this prompt, absolutely beautiful work. Thanks for taking part in my skirmish!

@jeremykazoo 2d

" if this is the airport, where is the air?" Is a great line. Really something to build this song around. You capture some of those saddest moments that happen at airports very well in this.