[Verse 1]
Who reigns in that silence
When you sleep in the afternoon
You reach out to emptiness
Until the reaching out feels empty too
We’ll come to my darling, yeah
Or we’ll wake up to someone new
Who makes up the fundamental, the fundamental you
[Chorus]
This was made for me
This is make believe
Like sleight of hand
And a custom vagrancy of mind
Well, I demand it
It’s just my agency
My flight of fancy
Flight of fancy
I demand it
[Verse 2]
You reach out to freedom
You reach out to be consumed
There’s a part of you starving
There’s a part of me that over blooms
The sun stains the ocean, yeah
The pink house returns to gloom
And becomes the fundamental
The elemental hue
[Chorus]
This was made for me
This is make believe
Like sleight of hand
And a custom vagrancy of mind
Well, I demand it
It’s just my agency
My flight of fancy
Flight of fancy
Flight of Fancy was written by Sam Fogarino & Daniel Kessler & Paul Banks.
Flight of Fancy was produced by Dave Fridmann.
Interpol released Flight of Fancy on Fri Aug 24 2018.
According to Paul Banks:
This song has a very strange chord progression from Daniel. I think in my mind it begins on the 5th chord of the melody and then plays out like: 5, 1, 2, 3, 4. But if you ask Daniel, the order of the chords is as you hear them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Basically I think he’s starting...