This is a song that didn't make the cut for Save You From Yourself. Not that there's anything wrong with it. It's a perfectly good song! But I didn't think it fit anywhere on the album. It's also thematically similar to "You Are Loved," except it's way more unsubtle with the flying/falling hubris metaphor, and I liked that song better anyway.
I originally planned to record this as an acoustic demo with the ashiko, but I already had the "real" drum track finished so last winter I laid down rock guitars and rock bass and rock stuff. Then it sat for awhile while Jim and I finished the record. I finally recorded the vocals last week. Lyrics-wise I'm pretty proud of the verses.
Lyrics after the jump.
Up In The Air
[audio:/demos/Scott Andrew - Up In The Air.mp3]
This audio work by Scott Andrew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.You're up in the air again now we lifted you up and now you're coming back down You're up in the air again now and now you're coming back down
I wanted to see you stumble just to see you in a less than perfect light the jealous ones, when you caught their eye you wrote them off with the perfect rhyme pretending you don't care enough but I think you just might you set yourself up...
You're up in the air again now we lifted you up and now you're coming back down You're up in the air again now and now you're coming back down
I wanted to write this all down so I'd remember what this felt like years from now you slipped away like we knew you would it's ten years gone and it still feels good remembering how I lied to you just to prove I could you set yourself up...
You're up in the air again now we lifted you up and now you're coming back down You're up in the air again now and now you're coming back...
[gtr solo]
Did you really think they were gonna let you win? you set yourself up...
[chorus]