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The planes are lined up with their usual routes
Across the sky, with their blinking lights.
Taking people to see the ones they love.
Never looking back to where they’ve come from.
‘Til they’ve arrived.

As the ones who love them lay down for too few hours of well-deserved sleep.
I stare at the sky and I wonder why.
I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye.
And I wonder what you would have said.

Some of our friends aren’t here anymore.
They can’t share a drink with us again, ever again.

As they soar across the sky,
the planes never wonder why they pass us by.
They just float there, oblivious.
They hang in the clouds, mischievous.
The landing lights wink a cruel joke.
Our friends can’t be with us, because their bodies broke.

I wish I could only say goodbye.
Not only to you, but to the others—why?

We didn’t talk for so many years.
I hope you know I wish you were here.

Lyrics © 2014 by Brian Krumm

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from Thieves of Chicago, released October 21, 2014

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