HI FLYER
we were so devastatingly
out of our heads
i tried for forty nights to leave,
not leave you for dead
my wrists had grown so tired from bleeding
and pleading again ...
look at me
put the gun away
look at me
and release me
look at me
put the gun away
put the gun away
put the gun away
would it be perfect if i said
what shouldn't be said?
i'll let you hold the reins
i'll even, even give you a leg up
to have just forty more, i'd bleed...
i'm pleading again
look at me
put the gun away
look at me
and release me
look at me
put the gun away
put the gun away
put the gun away
forty days and forty nights
that we could be breathing
we could be breathing again
forty days and forty nights
that we could be breathing
we could be breathing again
look at me
put the gun away
look at me
and release me
look at me
put the gun away
put the gun away
put the gun away
look at me
put the gun away
look at me
and release me
look at me
put the gun away
put the gun away
put the gun away
look at me
// ABOUT THIS SONG
"Hi Flyer" This one is for the one that got away. This is a slow one, but not really, its got kind of this dancing thing you can do in the middle if you want.- AECHO
Aimee usually dedicates this song to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, or to "the one that got away". Hi-Flyer was a kind of guitar Kurt used back in the Bleach days. Jamie also occasionally plays a few Hi-Flyer guitars. Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, then 27 years old, was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in his Seattle home on April 8, 1994, and his death was ruled a suicide by Seattle police after 40 days of investigation. - taken from tag, your it
"There are so many weird things that go into that one. The first time we covered "Breed" was on the Weezer tour. We all learned it because we're all Nirvana fans. This other band that was in direct support dropped off the bill, so it was us and Weezer for the rest of the tour. We needed to fill up our set list and we also wanted to connect with people who maybe didn't understand who we were and make them understand what we liked. And, a weird thing happened. I'm gonna go way back, it's a long story. I was practicing yoga and the last pose I do, its called Savasana and it's a corpse pose, and you lay there. I had this weird, weird feeling like somebody was in the room with me…this really bizarre feeling. I was like, I don’t know what to think about this. Oh wait, I have to go back. It’s so convoluted and strange. (Pause) I wrote this song and it was about Kurt Cobain. I was trying to name it and I wanted it to be an obtuse name so I was trying to think of something. He had that imaginary friend called Boda, so I was trying to get the correct spelling of it because I had seen it spelled three different ways and I wanted to know what was up. I went online and I got sucked into this Kurt Cobain, “Who killed Kurt?” vortex. And then I went through the morning and was practicing yoga and I got to the last pose and I felt like I wasn’t alone. I called my best friend and I said, “I know this is going to sound totally nuts, (starts laughing) but I think Kurt Cobain was hanging out in my house this afternoon while I was doing yoga.” It was really weird because the song had come up in the couple of the days before… like that day, and I had thought of it that night, and then I did the yoga and thought he was in the house. Then later that night I was watching the news and it was the anniversary of his death. I didn’t know. You know those times when you’re not even paying attention to what day it is? Especially when you’re a musician (laughing). So, I almost threw up, and I called her back and I said, “Hey listen, it’s the anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death today.” (Imitating friend on the phone and raising voice really high) And she said, “You’re crazy… I hate you… You’re a freak. I don’t wanna talk about this anymore. That’s scary” (starts laughing) and hung up on me… but that was a really true story. So…this year we’re on tour with The Used and we were talking…and one of the people who was filling in for our band didn’t like this particular song that we were playing and I said, “Fine, let’s pull that from the set. And I’ve got Breed.” They were like, “Okay, cool.” So we all decided we were going to play “Breed” that night and played the show. Got done playing the show and this person comes up and said, “I just got off the phone with my significant other, are you aware that today is the anniversary of Kurt’s death?” (Eyes get really wide as she pauses) Freaky right? And fantastic at the same time. I’m not saying that I’m blessed or that I speak to spirits or anything, but that’s weird. Isn’t that weird?" - AECHO
