One More Time (For Tom Petty)
Nate Boots

Well, I started up this song on the day that you died
As the lyrics found the music I felt empty deep inside
Think I knew that something singular had come to an end
Got a feeling that I’d never feel high in the same way again

So shocked you could’ve knocked me to floor with a feather
And though try as best I might there’s no holding things together
I knew your heart’s so big that it could crush this town
Felt ironic that your heart was the thing that let you down

Now you’re flying, now you’re falling
Now you’re free, now you gone
One more time, give us time
One more time, one more show
But you’ve crossed the River Styx
You crossed the Great Divide
One more time, one more time
One more time, one more time

I can hear your bones dissolving from two thousand miles away
Oh so faintly but distinctly in my inner cochlea
Supersonic sound waves buzz from your dying siren song
I don’t know whether to listen or to harmonize along
Sure I want to live forever, want to finish out the fight
Kills me flowers we plant plastic, the dead call real at night
Even if the stars burn out and all the world goes dark
It’s my hope your voice still echoes like a guitar in my heart

Now you’re flying, now you’re falling…

One more time your vocal swells, when it stills, think I’ll fall
Hard to fathom that you’re gone—doesn’t feel real at all
I suppose you’d say it’s time to move on, to get goin’
But it’s harder now to keep on when you’ve left us here alone

Now you’re flying, now you’re falling…

One more time for all the ladies
One more time, now, girls and boys
One for silver, two for sorrow,
Three for gold, four for joy

Now you’re flying, now you’re falling…