White Lies
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Fifty On Our Foreheads is the fourth song on White Lies’s debut studio album, To Lose My Life…, released in January 2009. The song, which lead vocalist Harry McVeigh has described as “very (lyrically) strange”, is “about the sun dying and people on earth sending big groups of kids up in a spaceship...
[Verse 1]
On the cusp of vessel 18
A look of terror in our eyes
The moonlight licked the face of danger
Innocence made us like soldiers
Untouchable and golden
The quilt of darkness dotted with our teardrops
[Chorus 1]
I know you're sad I'm leaving
So, this may hurt a little
But, girl, look from your window late tonight
You think my heart is frozen
While yours is slowly grieving
You'll see the boy you loved start burning in the sky
[Verse 2]
We were a dozen to the project
With a galaxy of questions
And all we heard was lies about the truth
No choice but be obedient
Like prisoners of war
Caught on the wrong side of morality and youth
[Chorus 2]
We thought about our loved ones
Tallied fifty on our foreheads
With the pen your mother gave me in the spring
The sun beat at the windows
Within an hour, James had cracked
Left the ship and died, still clinging to the wings
[Outro]
Start burning in the sky
Start burning in the sky
Start burning in the sky
Start burning in the sky
Fifty on Our Foreheads was written by Jack Lawrence-Brown & Harry McVeigh & Charles Cave.
Fifty on Our Foreheads was produced by Max Dingel & Ed Buller.
White Lies released Fifty on Our Foreheads on Mon Jan 19 2009.