Flying Backwards Lyrics - Singles - Megan Slankard

I set down my fairy tales 

I tipped my glass over on the bed 

Somehow somebody laughed 

Though it was only me and my mess 

Somewhere somebody 

Sang a pretty little lullaby 

I pulled down the window blinds 

In the fair face of a tolkien sky 

I couldn't sleep tonight 

As if I didn't know that 'cause I was there 

The last cries of a distant party 

Died in the arms of the midnight air 

I'm flying backwards 

To the beat of my speeding heart 

Flying backwards 

In the rhythm of my own guitar 

It smells like rain and a raspberry bouquet 

It smells like my 10 gauge guitar strings I play 

And I saw two shooting stars 

Collide into this crazy conversation 

Guess it's really all we had to say 

I'm flying backwards 

Doesn't seem to get me very far 

I'm flying backwards 

And I feel I've already done this part 

Already done this part 

The rockin' chair teased me 

With a clever shadow of somebody called "you" 

So I got up and knocked it over 

Went to kill my sorrows 

In another passion fruit ice cream scoop 

You said "I know you couldn't sleep tonight" 

As if I didn't know that 'cause I was there 

And a huge ball of consequence unwound itself in a dream 

Of a dreamer 

Then some pup started up a choir 

And sang a song to the moon stuck in a spiral spider web 

I picked up my leather bound imagination 

And I put my head down on the bed 

The walls started to whisper 

A pretty little lullaby 

I shut my eyes and closed the cover down 

On the fair face of a tolkien sky 

I'm flying backwards 

To the beat of my speeding heart 

I'm flying backwards in the rhythm of your guitars 

I'm flying backwards 

Doesn't seem to get me very far 

I'm flying backwards 

And I feel I've already done this part 

Already done this part