Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I watch you fold
another sheet of white
into wings that'll never fly.
And you do it every night.
You line them up
along the windowsill.
Twenty of them. Maybe more.
You keep the broken ones as well.
[Pre-Chorus]
And I'm standing here
watching the creases go sharp
in your careful hands.
[Chorus]
Paper planes, paper planes,
falling to the floor again.
You believe, you believe
they'll carry you away from here.
Paper planes, paper planes,
not one of them has flown.
But you keep folding, keep folding
into another dream.
[Verse 2]
The window's closed.
But you aim them at the glass
like it's only a question of how many,
like the hundredth one gets past.
I could tell you what I see.
I've had the sentence ready
for about a year now.
I've never once said it.
[Pre-Chorus]
And I'm standing here
watching the creases go sharp
in your careful hands.
[Chorus]
Paper planes, paper planes,
falling to the floor again.
You believe, you believe
they'll carry you away from here.
Paper planes, paper planes,
not one of them has flown.
But you keep folding, keep folding
into another dream.
[Bridge]
Maybe I'm the one who's lost.
Maybe you can see what I can't.
You've got a floor full of planes.
I've got an empty floor.
I'm the one who's sure.
I'm the one who's right.
I'm the one who's standing here
with nothing in my hands.
[Chorus]
Paper planes, paper planes,
falling to the floor again.
You believe, you believe
they'll carry you away from here.
Paper planes, paper planes,
not one of them has flown.
But you keep folding, keep folding
into another dream.
[Outro]
You keep folding.
Keep folding.
Into another dream.
Hand me one.