The Boy Who Could Fly

The Boy Who Could Fly is the third song off of Pierce the Veil's second album Selfish Machines and it transitions from Southern Constellations.

Description
"The Boy Who Could Fly" showed off the band's punk roots that has a hastily played guitar "represent[ing] everything that we loved playing as kids." The lyrics are about a relationship reliant on the other person with "obsession and desperation, and the stupid things you do when you're in love." The track was "craziest, most intense song" that Fuentes has written.

Lyrics
Freeze!

It's time to take you home, it feels so early but I promised I would bring you to your door. Now our lips are numb As we walk, sharing warm alcohol That kiss tastes like summer.

I hope you like the stars I stole for you, One hundred million twinkle lights in neon blue. I'll be the brightest someday! I'll be the brightest someday! I'll be the brightest, you'll see!

Don't rain on my parade, it's gonna glow in the dark. I like it better when you can't keep warm. Don't ruin a perfect thing, a perfect thing. The boy on the blue moon dreams of sun.

Now as the rain falls like shattered pieces of glass from the sky, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">we bleed like water colors and drunken pastels down the stairways. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">And I ask myself, why do I still pray? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">When will it end? And who fucking cares?

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I swear to God I did what I could. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I practically begged you, I pretended everything was fine. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">A soul sacrifice, an American nightmare. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I'd rather be dead.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Don't rain on my parade, it's gonna glow in the dark. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I like it better when you can't keep warm. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Don't ruin a perfect thing, a perfect thing. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">The boy on the blue moon hears a nightmare in his head.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I'll bet you money as you're running to the bathroom, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">you barely started drinking but your beauty never stopped you. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">You died in California by the sulfur and the sea. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I guess I never should have loved you, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">but I do forever 'cause you loved me.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">And I break my glasses as I fall in the street! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">If you were gonna leave this world how could it be without me? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Now it's all over my tongue and still it has no taste, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'cause without you there is no me. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">There's no me at all. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Sometimes love dies like a dog.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">(Why don't we just let this one take care of itself?)

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Don't rain on my parade, it's gonna glow in the dark. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I like it better when you can't keep warm. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Don't ruin a perfect thing, a perfect thing. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">The boy on the blue moon dreams... <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Don't rain on my parade. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I'm losing a perfect thing, a perfect thing, a perfect thing.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Selfish Machines

 * 1) Besitos
 * 2) Southern Constellations
 * 3) The Boy Who Could Fly
 * 4) Caraphernelia
 * 5) Fast Times at Clairemont High
 * 6) The New National Anthem
 * 7) Bulletproof Love
 * 8) Stay Away from My Friends
 * 9) I Don't Care If You're Contagious
 * 10) Disasterology
 * 11) Million Dollar Houses (The Painter)
 * 12) The Sky Under the Sea