Name: This Is How It Ends For Me (Spy Balloon)
Duration: P00H04M02S
Description: A tragic love song spanning themes of wanderlust, dogfights, regret and hope, told from the perspective of the 2023 spy balloon.

This Is How It Ends For Me (Spy Balloon)

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A tragic love song spanning themes of wanderlust, dogfights, regret and hope, told from the perspective of the 2023 spy balloon.

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I was drifting east-bound
o'er the peaks of Alaska
when I caught your eye
over canyons and salt flats
over highways and trailers
watching towns go by

I was just a balloon on vacation
no spy patrol or alien invasion

you were looking for a dogfight
or some alien technology
or cold war vibes
Captain to bombardier
roger that its a mission call
to bring me down

torn apart by enemy fire
the news is breaking on the wire
Is this how it ends for me?
the last 50 years I worked in the sky
the weather the weather untethered
this is how it ends for me

its all just been a big mistake
there's nothing more my heart can take
and then some
and now we're lost to history
that's all that's left of you and me
and then some

I wanted to fly over Ohio

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released October 27, 2023
Recorded by Manager at Landline Recording, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Harold Larue, Houston, TX

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Manager Jersey City, New Jersey

Faking it since 2016.

90's style indie melodic guitar rockers.

Jon Chinn
Lori Cantu
John Dorcas

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