Paper Wings

by Rise Against

From the album: Siren Song of the Counter Culture

Track 4 of 13 on Siren Song of the Counter Culture (2004).

Duration: 3:43

Siren Song of the Counter Culture cover art

Lyrics for Paper Wings

One last thing I beg you, please Just before you go I've watched you fly on paper wings Halfway around the world until they Burned up in the atmosphere And sent you spiraling down Landing somewhere far from here with no one else around To catch you falling down And I'm looking at you now And I can't tell if you're laughing Between each smile there's a tear in your eye There's a train leaving town in an hour It's not waiting for you and neither am I "Swing for the fences, son" He must have told you once But that was a conversation You took nothing from, so raise your Glass now, let's celebrate, exactly what you've done Just put off another day of knowing where you're from You can catch up with yourself If you run And I can't tell if you're laughing Between each smile there's a tear in your eye There's a train leaving town in an hour It's not waiting for you and neither am I Is this the life that you lead Or the life that's led for you? Will you take the road That's been laid out before you? Will we cross paths Somewhere else tonight? Somewhere else tonight? And I can't tell if you're laughing (Somewhere else tonight) Between each smile there's a tear in your eye (Somewhere else tonight) There's a train leaving town in an hour (Somewhere else tonight) It's not waiting for you and neither am I (Somewhere else tonight) And I can't tell if you're laughing Between each smile there's a tear in your eye There's a train leaving town in an hour It's not waiting for you and neither am I

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More from Siren Song of the Counter Culture

  1. State Of The Union
  2. The First Drop
  3. Life Less Frightening
  4. Paper Wings
  5. Blood To Bleed
  6. To Them These Streets Belong
  7. Tip The Scales
  8. Anywhere But Here
  9. Give It All
  10. Dancing For Rain
  11. Swing Life Away
  12. Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
  13. Fix Me