Detour Up
Metric * Track #1 On Formentera II
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Detour Up Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Get half the way civilized, take a turn
Run naked through the hallways
Free your mind, people change
Start to lie like fur beside the fireplace
Soft and light, honest hands
Hard to say how I got here in the first place
Tell the wives we're running late
[Chorus]
I took a detour up, a detour up
It wasn't in my plans but nothing was
I took a detour up, a detour up
The map was in the hands of none of us
I took a detour up, a detour up
It wasn't in my plans, nothing was
I took a detour up, a detour up
I don't know where I am, do all I can
[Verse 2]
Take the rough terrain by candlelight
Purple haze, bedroom eyes
Spiral like a staircase endlessly
What's the use asking why
Leave mystery alone, don't analyze
Chalk it up to lust for life
[Interlude]
Dropped to the deepest strange unfamiliar place
But i can't imagine going any other way
[Chorus]
I took a detour up, a detour up
It wasn't in my plans but nothing was
I took a detour up, a detour up
The map was in the hands of none of us
I took a detour up, a detour up
It wasn't in my plans, nothing was
I took a detour up, a detour up
I don't know where I am, do all I can
(Detour up, Detour up)
(Detour up, Detour up)
Detour Up Q&A
Who wrote Detour Up's ?
Detour Up was written by Emily Haines & James Shaw.
What has the artist said about the song?
This was one of the first songs we wrote in the entire Formentera saga. In the summer of 2020, long before we knew how long the world would be locked down. There’s a pretty clear message here of taking a detour to who knows where, and that was definitely what we were feeling. The track has a bounce...