Departure Gate (Variation)
Drift
The good kind of leaving. Upbeat vocals over propulsive rhythm, that airport feeling when the trip ahead is all possibility. Boarding passes and new cities and the world getting bigger.
Lyrics
Terminal lights at five AM
World reduced to gates and numbers
Coffee steam and rolling wheels
Everyone becoming somewhere else
The board keeps flipping destinations
Places I've never pronounced
Don't need to know where I'm landing
Just that I'm lifting off the ground
Passport photo looks like someone
I was trying hard to be
The person getting on this plane
Is just the one who showed up free
The board keeps flipping destinations
Places I've never pronounced
Don't need to know where I'm landing
Just that I'm lifting off the ground
Not escaping, not arriving
Not proving anything to anyone
Just the simple human pleasure
Of watching wheels leave the runway
Lifting off the ground
Lifting off
Variations
- Departure Gate 1:55
- Departure Gate (Variation) 1:48