Drones is the second single from grandson’s second album I Love You, I’m Trying. The music video was filmed in Downtown Los Angeles, CA and features artists like Wafia, Royal & The Serpent, Maxwell Joseph from Mob Rich, No Love For The Middle Child, Beepus from Beauty School Dropout and some of...
[Verse 1]
Hopscotch on the sidewalk
Dodgin' landmines
Next to the zombie on the corner
Who got cast out, forgotten
Life is cruel and unforgiving
I swore to look out for
All the darkness inside me
I will not fall in, I'll
Close my eyes 'cause I know that
This won't end so I'll pretend that
[Chorus]
Drones up in the sky look like paper kites
Bombs light up the night, burn like fireflies
Tell me one good lie so I can sleep at night
Hurt me one more time, I wanna feel alive
Drones up in the sky look like paper kites
Bombs light up the night, burn like fireflies
Tell me one good lie so I can sleep at night
Hurt me one more time, I wanna feel alive
[Verse 2]
Tragedy, I'm caught up in a fantasy
Temptation wanna dance with me
The devil really wanna cancel me
I gotta be the man, you see
To take care of my family
I swear I never wanna
Let them down
People really wanna cut me out
I've come too far to give in now
And I don't wanna hit the ground
Imagination is all I got now
God, don't let me grow up quick
'Cause it's a trap, I know that shit
Yeah, I know that
This won't end so I'll pretend that
[Chorus]
Drones up in the sky look like paper kites
Bombs light up the night, burn like fireflies
Tell me one good lie so I can sleep at night
Hurt me one more time, I wanna feel alive
Drones up in the sky look like paper kites
Bombs light up the night, burn like fireflies
Tell me one good lie so I can sleep at night
Hurt me one more time, I wanna feel alive
[Outro]
I wanna feel a—
Drones up in the sky
Bombs light up the night
Tell me one good lie
Hurt me one more time, I wanna feel alive
Drones was written by grandson & Boonn & Geoff Warburton & Boon.
The line that sticks out in this song is ‘Just tell me one good lie.’ We have these secrets, and would you rather try and address them and then move through the world with this anxiety and unease? Or do you bury it and deal with those consequences somewhere down the line. ‘Drones’ is about that bomb...