This song wasn't finished under the deadline for the original release of Hang Glider in 2005
It first appears on the re-release in 2008
lyrics
Down, Down, Down, Glider...
Hang for just a while
Longer please
Smile, your cloud is here
soon it will all disappear...
I will never die
You have already
I feel I'm very much alive
That's just the memories
Did we make it to the sun?
There never was one
Did we make it through the clouds?
Or did we fall onto the ground?
I can hardly feel my feet
(my face, my legs, my lips, my ankle)
Wax is dripping to my ankle
My body fell into the sea
(the foam, the salt, the shark, the turtle)
Now I'm swimming with the turtle
I slowly sunk south into the abyss
I'm pissed, I'm sore, I'm glowing
The water seeped all the way to my lungs
I gasped I flapped I paddled
Through the sand into the land
the dirt was slipping through my hands
And man I swam in lava
I was laughing, I was loving it.
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