Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route) is off of “The Flying Cup Club” written in 2007. The title translates into “One Last Glass (For the Road)”. According to the program notes given out during Beirut’s performance at The Society for Ethical Culture in New York on September 24, 2007, each song on the alb...
[Verse 1]
Come sit at the table
Under October's able skies
[Verse 2]
Once we'd seen eye to eye
I'd known that I'd pass you by
And I tried
[Verse 3]
The bells chime
Seven times
Completed at nine
The world moves slower I find
[Verse 4]
No, but I
Learned of time
By your hands
[Verse 5]
And in shallow water's end
I learned not to swim
But to lie
I await for none
Ten or twenty to burn out
I insist on doubt
We're already laying on the glass
The glass
[Instrumental]
Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route) was written by Zach Condon.
Beirut released Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route) on Tue Oct 09 2007.