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from Ghost Stories by SkyDive

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This was one of the earliest songs I wrote for SkyDive. I was sixteen, about to turn seventeen, and I realized that the girl I was in love with was seventeen when I'd first met her, when I was thirteen. I wrote this about the parallels between being thirteen and seventeen, how when almost everything changed in those four years, almost nothing had changed in regards to how I felt about her.

The bridge, lyrically, might seem a bit out of place. I was frustrated with the "It Gets Better" dialogue that was happening at the time, not because it's not true, but because I wanted it to BE better.

When I was young I was always living in the future, in a dream I had about what life could be like. This bridge is the process I had for coming to the realization that things were better, not all better, but definitely better than they had been. And sometimes it doesn't get better through a natural evolution of circumstances. Sometimes you have to make it better yourself. And I had. We had. She had.

- Jack

lyrics

Don't you want to know what my lips taste like
"Don't you want to know why I've been waiting outside?" she said
If you say it now I'm not sure I can take it
It's been four years of waiting on the other side of friends

Oh but I'm thinking don't you want to, don't you want to
get a little taste of me
I've been running circles backwards
Just trying to say your name
Don't you hear it, can't you feel it
The magic in the air, four years it's been there

[Chorus]
I want you to run to me, feel my name touch your mouth
whisper so sweetly that this becomes holy ground
I've been desperately trying to do without
But I want you, and I've wanted you since you were 17

You touch me and take me back to when we met again
Like the time capsule's between your fingertips
Whisper in my ear so sweetly at thirteen
Oh, I am falling for the ghost that nobody else can see

Oh but babe I want to, oh I want to
feel you in my veins
Getting closer, coming up on the cliff of 23
I've been fighting, staying alive and craving your ghostly sound
not sure if anyone hears it, but I understand it now

[Chorus]

We could make it better
If we could make it better
If we could just feel better
They all say it gets better

And it just got better for me

[Chorus]

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from Ghost Stories, released June 20, 2015

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SkyDive Irvine, California

We are SkyDive. We make indie synth pop/synth rock. We also make sandwiches but we don't sell those on Bandcamp.

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