Back Pedaler

by Air Quotes

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A song about petty regrets and how death makes them seem even pettier.

Featuring Eric Radloff and the Bow Tie Orchestra.

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If my thoughts could sound aloud, and bounce off the walls of the stairwell,
you would jolt, suddenly awake, to the call of your name.
If my dreams could walk about, back pedal themselves into life again,
they would drag me out from underneath and redirect my wasted grief.

My friend has shed a bag of bricks from his delicate soul but now they're on his name.
And every pair of feet on memory lane, back pedaling him into life again.

Now my thoughts will sound aloud and every piece of joy I suffocated will breathe.
Now my dreams will walk about, fill the streets, were they ever safe inside?
'Cause there's no shame in an open wound. The only thing I ever succeeded in hiding from is myself.

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released September 20, 2019
Song by Air Quotes
Vocals by Eric Radloff
Drums by Mike Diggs
Bass by Tom Peaslee
Mixed by Keith Armstrong

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Air Quotes Los Angeles, California

John Williams on the streets, Win Butler in the sheets.

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