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High Flyer

from Monogram #1 by Grant Olding

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High Flyer

Built a shrine to what had passed,
Lit the fire every night.
Can’t control the things I hide,
Blew the cover deep and wide.
I could not help myself.

Took a photo of your eyes
To keep beside me all the time.
Saw the light within you fade,
Watched you fall into the line.
Could not help but cry.
Still you remain the reason and the rhyme.

And the headlights catch you falling from the wire.
And the ten years flashing by just take me higher.
What a shame to see that you’ve become a high flyer.

Read you all around the world,
I took it that you never failed.
Sometimes pictures come to me
When I’m checking through the mail
Of things that cannot be.

Things will never be the same
Since you had to go and change.
When did you become so small?
How do you ignore the pain
Of what you’ll never be?
Your shallow heart keeps beating after me.

And the headlights catch you falling from the wire.
And the ten years flashing by just take me higher.
What a shame to see that you’ve become a high flyer.

You’re high flying,
Took a shine and spun it over,
Turned it backwards.
I’m here thinking leave it be now.
You’re high flying,
You’re high flying,
You’re high flying,
You’re high flying now.

And the headlights catch you falling from the wire.
And the ten years flashing by just take me higher.
And you have to know the truth to be a liar.
What a shame to see that you’ve become a high flyer.

You’re high flying.
Flying high.
Won’t you fly with me tonight?

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from Monogram #1, released April 26, 2019
music & lyrics by Grant Olding

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Grant Olding Hereford, UK

Grant Olding is a Tony nominated and Drama Desk Award winning composer and songwriter.

He's best known for writing and performing the songs in One Man Two Guvnor's which starred James Corden and played for three years in the West End, on Broadway and around the world.

He is also a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter working out of his studio between the Golden Valley and the Black Mountains. ... more

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