Paper Wings

Paper Wings (Acc.)

I’m beating wings again,
A momentary high,
Just to see myself,
Through someone else’s eyes.
I’m climbing above me,
Self-abandoned for the sky.

(But) esteem batters,
Paper wings,
Fragile pinions,
Splitting sides,

I try to fly,
I try to fly,
My beating wings are bleeding,
I try to fly,
I try to fly,
Outside of me.
Outside of me.
Outside of me.

I’m waving into rain,
Now blinded to the night,
Cannot shield myself,
Hail tears into staring eyes,
I’m falling from the sky,
Is this how you see yourself?

(But) pride shatters,
Fragile wings,
Paper pinions,
Ripping sides.

I try to fly,
I try to fly,
My beating wings are bleeding,
I try to fly,
I try to fly,
Outside of me.
Outside of me.
Outside of me.

Outside of myself,
Outside of myself,
But what does it matter?
Outside of myself,
But what does it matter?
To you…
To you…

I made this ascent again,
To break the shackles of myself,
But now in the screaming light of sun,
I see I was always going to fall.

(And) esteem batters,
Paper wings,
Fragile pinions,
Splitting sides.

I try to fly,
I try to fly,
But my beating wings are broken.