With you feet grounded
Your thoughts turn toward the sky
And you start to float
You see your shoes are tied

And you close your eyes
Imagine that your shoes
Had those velco straps
So you could be set loose

So you hold real still
Believe that it is true
And your shoes move forward
Leaving without you

And you laugh so hard
It hurts your sides in pain
As you approached the sun
It rains on everyone

You float away
You float away
And find yourself, laughing
Into thin air


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    it's sort of interesting how the album goes from sort of noisy sounding towards the beginning to really nice music in the middle/early end

    pumkinhedon January 02, 2006   Link
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    my absolute favorite. simply amazing.

    bigsp1313on June 08, 2006   Link
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    This song helps me floating away, makes me feel good and chilled. Maybe this is my favorite.

    livsforlovon August 21, 2006   Link
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    Starts off really good but towards the end I don't think it's that good should keep it at the level it starts with

    SherlockHolmeson March 18, 2007   Link
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    no words can describe how ubelievably beautiful this song is. its magical.

    birdablazeon August 30, 2007   Link
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    "as you approached the sun it rains on everyone

    you float away you float away and find yourself, laughing into thin air"

    i love this song

    krollisasexyhoeon January 26, 2009   Link
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    I fixed the lyrics. He had "so you" and "and you" mixed up in some lines

    Normalceyon April 01, 2013   Link

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