About To Break

from Stranger by The Waxwings

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1/ About to Break [AL/KW]

It’s a feeling of chasing the wind
Or it’s a moment to begin
A moment to shed yet another skin
Sometimes it’s easier to imagine death
Than the life that you end up with
All the give that you take and the take that you give

Hey, turn it up as you turn it on
Cuz you can’t forget your favorite song
With the burning and the ache
Coming up as you’re coming down
Cuz your feet are marching to the sound
Of a silence about to break

Well they call it a shot in the dark
But there’s a throughline to the arc
And a strangeness that becomes the way
And the green things growing through the wall
Of the graveyard of our mistakes
All the years ago once called today

Hey, turn it up as you turn it on
Cuz you can’t forget your favorite song
With the burning and the ache
Coming up as you’re coming down
Cuz your feet are marching to the sound
Of a silence about to break

Hey, and I wait for the midnight train
Got a ticket to go back again
To the burning and the ache
And the moon glowing down the track
And I know that there’s no holding back
Just a levee about to break

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from Stranger, released January 1, 2020

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The Waxwings Portland, Oregon

The Waxwings is a band of friends from Portland, OR. We take our diverse musical influences (classical, rock, folk, what have you) and channel them through acoustic instruments to unearth themes of love, loss and the pursuit of soul-searching redemption. ... more

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