Mckinley - Icarus Over Kansas lyrics

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(McKinley)<br />

There's an astronaut missing his children tonight<br />

Sitting in his silver machinery.<br />

He's in love with the world and stunned by her size.<br />

From where he sits she looks mostly empty.<br />

From here on the ground I know how he feels.<br />

The curve of the world beneath me<br />

Seems impossibly large when I think of where you are,<br />

How I can sing my heart out and you won't hear me.<br />

If I put my hand up and blow a kiss,<br />

It'll never make it to you.<br />

It'll go down over Kansas like Icarus,<br />

Sink like Amelia's last SOS.<br />

I could drive to the divide<br />

Where rains run to your side or mine,<br />

Put a bottle with a note in a river running to your coast<br />

Asking you how the world got so wide.<br />

If I put my hand up and blow a kiss,<br />

It'll never make it to you.<br />

It'll go down over Kansas like Icarus,<br />

Sink like Amelia's last SOS.