Owl City

Released: March 17, 2008

Songwriter: Adam Young

Producer: Adam Young

[Verse 1]
Breathe and I'll carry you away into the velvet sky
And we'll stir the stars around
And watch them fall away into the Hudson Bay
And plummet out of sight and sound
The open summer breeze will sweep you through the hills
Where I live in the alpine heights
Below the Northern Lights, I spend my coldest nights
Alone, awake and thinking of
The weekend we were in love
(The weekend we were in love)

[Verse 2]
Home among these mountain tops can be so awfully dull
A thousand miles from the tide
But photos on the walls of New York shopping malls
Distract me so I stay inside
I wish the rockets stayed over the promenade
'Cause I would make a hook and eye
And fish them from the sky, my darling, she and I
We're hanging on so take us high
To sing the world goodbye

[Chorus]
I am floating away
Lost in a silent ballet
I'm dreaming you're out in the blue and I am right beside you
Awake to take in the view
Late nights and early parades
Still photos and noisy arcades
My darling, we're both on the wing
Look down and keep on singing
And we can go anywhere

[Bridge]
Are you there? (Are you there? Are you there? Are you there?)
Are you there? (Are you there? Are you there? Are you there?)
Or are you just a decoy dream in my head? (Are you there? Are you there?)
Am I home or am I simply tumbling all alone?

[Chorus]
I am floating away (floating away)
Lost in a silent ballet (a silent ballet)
I'm dreaming you're out in the blue and I am right beside you
Awake to take in the view
Late nights and early parades (early parades)
Still photos and noisy arcades (noisy arcades)
My darling, we're both on the wing
Look down and keep on singing
And we can go anywhere

[Outro]
Are you there? (Are you there? Are you there? Are you there?)
Are you there? (Are you there? Are you there? Are you there?)

Originally making songs in his basement for his friends as Sky Sailing, Adam Young then discovered synth music and became Owl City, releasing two relatively unpopular albums Maybe I’m Dreaming and Of June before making his hit single “Fireflies” which made his third album as Owl City, Ocean Eyes a hit.

After this worldwide success he put on two more albums, All Things Bright and Beautiful in 2011, and The Midsummer Station in 2012. In 2014 he released an EP, Ultraviolet, composed of 4 songs whom one would appear on his following album, Mobile Orchestra. Retiring from Owl City in 2016 to focus on Adam Young Scores, a new project made of orchestral soundtracks about historic events, he reappeared in 2017 to tease his upcoming new album Cinematic, with the release of a series of three EPs, called Reel 1 , 2 and 3.

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