Skybound

I left my keys on the kitchen table

Next to the note that said “don’t come looking”

Barefoot on the fire escape, 4 a.m. air tastes like maybe

City below me snoring, I’m finally awake

The streetlights look like spilled champagne

Bubbles rising slow, calling my name

I laugh too loud, scare a couple pigeons into flight

They get it; tonight we’re ditching the script, alright

Heart’s doing that stupid flutter thing again

Like it remembers how to dream before the fall sets in

I’m skybound, baby, skybound

No parachute, just the sound

Of my own laugh echoing off the clouds

Skybound, skybound

If I come apart up here, at least I’m scattered proud

Remember that summer we swore we’d run away?

You drew constellations on my arm with cheap blue ink

They washed off in the rain, but I still feel ’em when the wind hits just right

Funny how some things stick even when they fade from sight

I’m humming that dumb song you loved

The one your dad played on his cracked old Tele

Every note feels like borrowing tomorrow

And paying it back with interest in hello

I’m skybound, baby, skybound

No promises, just right now

Spinning slow like vinyl in the clouds

Skybound, skybound

If love’s a free fall, I’m already upside down

And if you wake up wondering where I went

Tell the morning I’m not lost

I’m just busy learning how the sky tastes

When you kiss it with everything you’ve got

Skybound, yeah I’m skybound

Leave the ground shaking its head like “that kid’s wild”

Skybound, skybound

Catch me smiling at the sunrise like it owes me something

I’m skybound, baby

And for once that feels like enough

Mmm-hmm… skybound.