Higher Beams - The New Pornographers

Just out of frame, with a passenger’s name

Though you’re freight pulled behind

It was always a battle to arrive at the station alive

With all the bags to unpack

All the plans for the future to protect

Because we’ve come to expect the trains on time

A cloud of steam and we’re out of the gate

Not a fashionable late

Wearing long sleeves to hide the mark of Cain

Got it when I was young

Half eternal, half sung

Play a sour note long enough, it’s right

And our finishing moves were fight or flight

The higher beams that temporarily blind

That change your mind

Thank you

Thank you for nothing

I didn’t want in

Deep in the culture of fear

We all hate living here

But you know when you can’t afford to leave?

So you stay in the lines

Navigate the land mines

Should have gone for the guided tour

Got lost

I could see what we’ve crossed

I knew the cost

The higher beams that temporarily blind

That change your minds

Thank you

Thank you for nothing

I didn’t want in

Thank you

Thank you for nothing

I didn’t want in

Fuck you

Fuck you for nothing

I didn’t want in

You lost your train

But you’re high on the fumes that are left in the room

When you dream of a team of higher beams

That temporarily blind

That change your mind

The higher beams that temporarily blind

That change your mind

That change your mind

That change your mind

That change your mind