Vincent Neff of Django Django mentioned in an article in The Fader that: “The song’s about two people trying to suss where they are with each other and figuring what the future holds for them both.”
[Verse 1]
We move surface to air
Will you follow me anywhere?
Try to rise up, you lied up
Into the silence
If you know what I know
Maybe then someday you will go
Seize the night far below
Take my hand, shifting sand
Were we ever on solid ground?
Side by side, rising tides
Stay above together
Hit the ground, feel revived
Nowhere I'd rather be right now
Just in surface to air
[Chorus]
Open up every door
Was it the future that you saw?
Now it's more than, it's less than a truth we're telling
Step to the firing line, walk away and leave it
The clock is keeping time
Now you better hear it
Step to the firing line, I can almost feel it
Don't spend a half-lifetime
Thinking we're make-believing
[Verse 2]
We've been weightless too long
Over everything we have done
Never hide out, let's ride out
Above horizons
Light out, let it burn
Show me a way I can return
Just a surface to air
[Chorus]
Open up every door
Was it the future that you saw?
Now it's more than, it's less than a truth we're telling
Step to the firing line, walk away and leave it
The clock is keeping time
Now you better hear it
Step to the firing line, I can almost feel it
Don't spend a half-lifetime
Thinking we're make-believing
Step to the firing line, walk away and leave it
The clock is keeping time
Now you better hear it
Step to the firing line, I can almost feel it
Don't spend a half-lifetime
Thinking we're make-believing
Step to the firing line, walk away and leave it
The clock is keeping time
Now you better hear it
Step to the firing line, I can almost feel it
Don't spend a half-lifetime
Thinking we're make-believing
Surface to Air was written by Jim Dixon & Vincent Neff & Thomas Grace & David Maclean.
Surface to Air was produced by David Maclean.
Django Django released Surface to Air on Fri Jan 26 2018.